Does Anyone Else Find Pam Shriver Annoying?
Man, I cannot stand Pam Shriver.
At every Grand Slam, ESPN tortures us with the ever annoying Pam Shriver. Why do they do this to us? Her voice is not great to listen to, of all the commentators, hers is the worst. Her biggest success was at the 1978 US Open. That’s it. Oh sure she did manage to win a bunch of Grand Slam doubles titles but who did she win them with? Martina Navratilova. That’s not saying much old Pammie. Martina could have played doubles with a lawn chair as a partner and used a rolled up newspaper as her racket and won as many Slams.
The worst thing about Shriver is that she just cannot relate to today’s game. She hasn’t played against any of these players and while not many commentators out there know what it’s like to face Sharapova’s serve, Shriver pulled out the worst comparison tonight after Fernando Gonzalez was upset. Gonzalez was the runner up last year and with his loss tonight he will now drop out of the top 20. Shriver dusted off the fact that she reached the finals of the US Open and lost to a qualifier in the first round the next year and dropped a lot of points (I can’t remember what her ranking was, I tend not to pay too much attention to her). And just what year did she reach the finals of the US Open? 1978. That’s 30 years people! Can’t they get someone who is a little more……recent?
If I can give Pam a little advice and not like she gives a crap what I think, but it’s this: talk a little less, talk a lot less about your career, don’t ever try and relate to today’s players considering they are less than half your age. Just stick to general questions and comments and we will all be better for it.