sandysan
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So this thread is going to be the same as previous years I guess.
People come in and comment their displeasure or mock something Don says, and are simply told to turn it off if you don't like it.
While I agree that is a fair response in many cases when it comes to entertainment and television, this case is slightly different. For one, "Coaches Corner" is not the main attraction that people tune in for at approx. 8:00pm Eastern for. It is merely a small segment of the larger event know as "HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA", an institution in this country. If people are fans of the program as a whole, they are allowed to gripe about certain parts of it if they feel they are sub-par. For me, I wish the 1st intermission of the first primetime HNIC game was better spent. It is a chance for there to be quality analysis on not only the game being broadcast, but the stories of the night, the week, and the year. No more eyes are on the TV across the country all week than at this time. Let's make the best of it. And excuse me if I think if Coaches Corner could be improved on, with a different personality leading the way, one more in tough with the game today. I am entitles to that opinion, and am entitled to express such an opinion here.
if this were true, what is stopping them from moving it to the second intermission ? No one is forcing you to watch anything in the first intermission. Because you like HNIC doesnt mean you have to like EVERY FREAKING second of a HNIC broadcast.
And grapes IS making the best of it, people DO tune into coaches corner. If you have ever watched a game at a bar, it is not uncommon to kill the music and turn up the sound when he is talking. when he is done, the music comes back on.
if you think that coaches corner should be improved on, fine. But you can't separate it from the man himself, grapes IS coaches corner. If you are now feigning offense that cherry will NOT change the schtick that made him the most popular hockey opinionist on the planet to satisfy what you would like more, I have to ask not rhetorically, did you ever think that was a viable, even if completely remote, option ?
no one is saying you are not entitled to an opinion, additionally you are FREE to act on that opinion. what people are saying is that no matter how strong your convition about whether Cherry is making the best use of his time, you don't get to make that decision for ANYONE but yourself.
When people stop watching don, he will be off the air. but he's gonna die first so its kinda moot.