Quote ="the hedonic calculator"I think that supporters of many teams feel that Eddie and Stevo are in some way biased against their team, or are saying certain things just to aggrovate them due to this percieved bias. I'm not convinced that it is really the case, though. Given that when watching games on TV, emotions are running high and people are perhaps a little quicker to take offence when matters pertaining to their beloved team are at stake, coupled with the fact that television commentary is probably quite a difficult thing to do. Of course commentators will have their own personal preferences re teams and outcomes, but [uI think that Eddie has always shown real professionalism[/u. It must be a bit like being a referee - so many people assume that a personal preference will over ride the striving for professionalism that is always going to be there. We do not generally blame the players in our own teams who grew up supporting different teams for the losses that those teams inflict on our teams with the same loaded language. Yet it is the same basic premise.
[uEddie does a good job and always seems to be impartial[/u. This is not to say I don't disagree with him sometimes, or that he doesn't make me wince sometimes, but I do not think that he really has some secret agenda against any one particular team. I just think people read more into his comments than is really there.'"
And do you know ... I've often thought that Ivan the Terrible was probably an okay guy in normal life, and that Vlad the Impaler's penchant for 'steaks' meant the sort you eat rather than the sort you shove up through people's rectums.
