HBO Analysts are finally ALL starting to piss me off...

[Kev]

I don't really get why people get worked up by commentators.

It's not their job to make you agree with everything they are just to provide commentary and a feeling that aren't watching it alone.

I enjoy it when I disagree with them, it makes it more fun and involving.

I don't see the problem in them questioning Martinez as an opponent either. It's Pavlik's management team job to put guys in front of him who he can look good against and win, they clearly got that wrong so it's a legitimate call.

Plus if they sound a bit biased towards Pavlik so what, he's the American fighter, Martinez is an Argentine.

HBO is by the FAR the least patriotically biased network in the world, every other network around the world is openly and unashamedly partisan.

HBO (and to an extent other American networks) are far more balanced than any other networks in the world.

If Pavlik were British our British telecastors would be openly rooting for him, as they would in Canada, as they will for Kessler in Denmark.

And as for hating on Larry Merchant, he's damn near 80 years old, he's supposed to be a doddery old whiny coot! He's like the loveable grandad sitting in his chair swigging brandies and telling everyone who listens how it was better in his day. He's an institution! HBO are the premier commentating team in the world imo. Their flaws are what make them human, I don't want to listen to a bunch of automatons, designed to say only the right thing. I want to listen to real people, with silly opinions and strong feelings towards certain fighters.

[djcione]

There's no more Don Dunphy's anymore-wish there were