Would you be able to explain why, if possible? Not that I don't believe you - you've actually worked behind the scenes, and I'm interested.
From my perspective, there are multiple days between games. Why couldn't an announcer network with the media teams of who's playing, including their broadcasters, to learn of interesting storylines? I don't know what kind of prep goes into this, so maybe my expectations are unrealistic.
I think this has more to do with my feelings about "expertise" on any specific topic than it does someone's ability to consumer storylines.
It takes a lot of work paying attention to everything that happens with one team. Sure I could sit someone down and give them the broad strokes but that won't fill in the blanks, that won't give them a real sense of what the team is or who the player are.
I just think there's only so many hours in the day.
When I listen to a broadcast or a podcast or a TED Talk or whatever... I want an expert that knows their expertise isn't worth what other people think it is.
One of the reasons I really enjoy Bill Simmons is that I know nothing about basketball so the fact that he carries himself with supreme confidence allows me to pretend that he's an expert... when the reality is I don't believe that anybody can be as supremely knowledgable as he claims to be about basketball.
Same thing with PTI... I love Kornheiser and WIlbon but as soon as they start talking about hockey I realize
Oh.... they have no idea what they're talking about and it's probably true about every other sport I just happen to know in that case that they dont know what they're talking about.
When national platformers talk about the Kings I realize "oh... they don't know what they're talking about"
that was rambling. I hope that made any sense at all.
