On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> It finally clicked with me the connection reminds me of: Pam Shriver's > incident with James Blake at Wimbledon this year. > > For those who didn't see it (and I can't remember if it was discussed > in this forum), Shriver was overlooking a court in which Blake was > playing and made a comment on Blake returning from injury and that > he's not 100% back: just some pretty good analysis. Unfortunately, she > was loud enough that Blake heard her and yelled back "Amazing you used > to play tennis. I can still hear you." > > At which point Shriver started getting on Blake at the same volume and > all but taunted him. Blake then called Shriver an ass during the next > break in play. > > This is exactly what happened with Gray. The first question was within > bounds. Rose deflected it pretty nicely. But then Gray decided to > press in a situation where there was clearly nothing to gain. And Rose > started calling him out on it, at which point it became a battle of > who has the bigger phallus. You can blame them both for the ending, > but at the end of the day, it's the responsibility of the "reporter" > to understand the bigger picture. > The two incidents have almost nothing in common. Blake was actually playing the game - Rose was not. Blake didn't do anything wrong. Rose did. Blake didn't lie about it; Rose did. I don't think the incident with Rose ended badly at all - except for him, as it was yet another public and high profile reiteration of a lie that was transparent at the time, and which he is still trying to walk himself back from. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
