Re: For you Johnny Miller haters........
- From: multi <multi@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:33:30 -0700
On 19 Jun 2006 04:48:25 -0700, lobshot694@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
He made the club selection call BEFORE Phil teed off. If you dont
understand the difference between that and the "talking heads" adding
their wisdom AFTER the fact, you dont understand golf.
What's that got to do with golf? Predicting the past is something
many experts specialize in. Any stockbroker or finance reporter in
the world can tell you exactly why the market went up or down
yesterday. None of them seems to be able to accurately tell you what
it will do tomorrow.
As for Miller specifically, he's a Hall of Fame golfer, so his
comments are obviously worth more than those of, say, Chris Berman or
Jimmy Roberts. That said, he has some drawbacks:
1) He's often right about obvious things, like not hitting driver when
par will win and you've only hit two fairways all day, but he's often
wrong about obvious things, too. On Saturday, they put up a graphic
that said the putts per GIR on a particular hole was 2.something. The
other commentators said how unusual that was. Miller jumped in and
said it was off the charts, because a lot of guys were missing the
green close, and so that stat included guys who had chipped their ball
close. All the while he was saying this, the graphic stayed up --
putts per GREEN IN REGULATION.
2) Every announcer has his trademark, and Miller seems to have chosen
being "brutally honest," i.e. critical, of other players. I like
honesty, but Miller seems to go out of his way to nitpick guys when
they are down.
3) The sound thing. I know that if I chunk it, the sound is
different. I can believe that if you are standing next to a guy on
the range and watch and listen to him hit a lot of balls, you can get
an idea of how cleanly he hit it from the sound. I can't believe that
if you are sitting in the booth, and the sound is coming through a
little speaker with a lot of background noise, and you've only seen
the guy hit a couple of shots, and those mostly drives and putts, that
you can tell whether he hit it 190 or just 180 from the sound, as
Miller claims to do with regularity. It's just another case of
predicting the past, because he can see where the shot went.
Reminds me of a Paul Harvey commercial for the Bose Wave Radio that he
constantly flogs. In one of his "true stories," Mabel was talking to
Myrtle on the phone. Mabel heard the most beautiful music, rich and
full, in the background, and she just had to know what kind of stereo
system Myrtle had. All I can say is she should have asked what kind
of phone she had, to transmit in full dynamic range and stereo.
.
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