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2739923, I had to find a BBC stream. Couldn't deal.
Posted by Buck, Fri Jun-11-21 02:43 PM
I think it's an American broadcasting thing, that whoever's in charge thinks that sporting events have to have somebody talking every second, or the audience will freak out at the silence or something.

Didn't use to be that way though. Noticed it the last 20 years especially in baseball. Used to be one, maybe two guys to remind you of the count, announce subs, have some casual conversation. Now it's three guys filling every moment with jabber. But it's baseball, and not much happens, and not very fast, and that must scare TV execs, so it's talk talk talk.

So maybe they think the same thing about soccer, so they get Twellman and pay him by the word, because he just can't bring himself to STFU for even a second.