Andre, Andre, Andre your last day of tennis is a sad day for you. I understand that. Twenty One years of bashing a ball over a net again and again and again and again (oops sorry that was how I saw it) has to be memorable.
You have decided your career is over. I can accept that. I know you have made more money in your lifetime of bashing-balls-over-nets (tennis) then most people hope to make in several life times doing actual jobs.
But JEEZ man could you be less histrionic?? The tears? The “I know you love me” and “I love you” stuff? You are/were a tennis player…that’s it. Some people like tennis, some people love tennis, MANY people care not a TEENY TINY SHIT about tennis.
You played for 21 yrs and made shitloads of money doing something you loved and were good at. I applaud you for that. The weepy goodbye made you look silly.
In retrospect I pit the “news” for playing and replaying the weepy goodbye. He is a bloke who hit balls over nets and now he has quit…he’s not dead he just quit.
Apparently you do. If it hurts your eyes so badly don’t look at it.
Some folks enjoy sporting competitions. They are the target audience of sports broadcasts. Other folks find sporting competitions to be silly. They should probably avoid watching such broadcasts.
He was speaking to the audience of the U.S. Open. One must assume that they at least care about tennis just a little bit… just as one must assume that at least a certain amount of them cared somewhat about one of tennis’s biggest stars.
Er, but he was addressing a crowd of 23,000 people who very plainly really really like tennis, had paid a large amount of money to see him for the last time and had been cheering every move he made all match. Maybe he was talking to them, and the people who’d cheered him through his long and excellent career, rather than worrying about irritating a grumpy kiwi.
EXACTLY! Between waking up this morning (going to work for eight hours) and watching evening tv, I have either seen or heard Andre blubber at least 5 times.
What is with the media? He played tennis. Yes I get that all those court side were deeply moved. He weeped …they weeped! I get it! BUT WHY IS IT PLAYED OVER AND OVER on the NEWS? It isn’t news. It is a guy retiring.
HERE IS THE EVENING NEWS
A guy got too old to make millions from holding a tennis raquet. Somebody died in Iraq.
Hmmmmmmmmm yes weepy Agassi is news.
I have nothing against Agassi I just can’t see why his retiring is NEWS…weepy news at that.
I have no problem with him ignoring grumpy kiwi’s (much of the world does :D) I just wanted let him know this grumpy kiwi thinks he needs to suck it up. I’m sure he will wake up tomorrow and look at his bank balance and feel very happy.
When you have earned MILLIONS bashing a little ball you don’t get to bawl.
That is not broadcasting sports. That is reporting sports news. Not the same thing at all.
Sometimes I have the TV on while I work at my computer. All sorts of stuff gets played over and over. My pet peeve is entertainment news. Who gives a shit what Kirstie Alley is doing? The magical mute button is your friend.
It’s sports news. The networks slot a certain amount of time each hour for sports, then report on what is deemed to be most newsworthy. You know what? The Crocodile Hunter just died. I have seen it 5 times in the last hour. How important was he in the grand scheme of things?
Many sportspeople have used their fame and money for good. I agree Agassi is one.
I just think that sportspeople are credited with a status (equal or seconded by actors) that they don’t deserve.
Athletes take a natural born talent and they train and train and train. Why? So we can watch them?
Why do we watch them? Who knows! Is it to satisfy the nned for war in us? I don’t know.
But I do know that Andre Agassi has earned obscene amounts of money for hitting a ball (his career total is probably the GDP of several small countries).
He is probably is a good guy, he had a good career, does he need to weep like a baby to finish the deal? Could he just not stop playing?
Probably he saw Wimbledon too many times. I haven’t seen it at all, but I saw the trailer, in which the aging tennis star (Paul Bettany) is announcing his retirement, or at any rate talking to the press, and suddenly all the attention turns from him and towards the rising tennis star (Kirsten Dunst) who has just walked into the room. So Agassi deliberately put on a performance that was sure to be played humpty-million times on TV.
Anyway, if you think sports get too much TV time, don’t ever go to Pittsburgh. Ben Roethlisberger just had an emergency appendectomy, which means he’ll miss the season opener :smack: and this was posted as “Breaking News” on the P’bg Post-Gazette website. I can’t adequately describe the importance of the Steelers, Penguins and Pirates in the Burgh.
That said, I agree with you that Steve Irwin’s demise is newsworthy, both for who he was and how it happened.
The question was not whether he was more important than Agasssi. The question was how important was he in the grand scheme of things. Important enough for 5 mentions an hour? 6? 16? 2?
I get that you think tennis is stupid. Bully for you. There are millions of tennis fans all over the world. To them, Agassis’s retirement is a Very Big Deal. The network coverage of that reflects how popular he is to them, and important it is to tennis.
Hey I don’t have to go to Pittsburgh, you can’t turn around in NZ without hearing about the All Blacks. It seems the country revolves around them!
“Stevo” would be a much greater loss then Agassi even if he had just retired. He actually helped the planet (even if he talked too much and was a bit of a doofus…he worked to make people aware of the creatures they share the planet with). Agassi hit a ball.
Now you are just being dishonest. Or is the $60 million raised by his foundation to benefit children just ‘hitting a ball?’
I only mentioned Irwin to point out that other news items get repetitive play. You can stop with the false comparisons any time.
And by the way, you are deluding yourself if you think that the Crocodile Hunter did not parlay his fame into a nice little lifestyle for him and his family. He was quite good at self-promotion.
Come on calm kiwi you’re letting the fact that you hold tennis in low regard colour your reaction. Andre is just a crier, he has cried before and I bet he will cry again. I’m sure that if he were leaving Borders after 21 years at the same store it would be a weep-fest.
And don’t complain about how much coverage sport receives - it is way better than real life.
Are you upset that he cried, or that they showed it several times in one day? If you weren’t glued to the TV you’d have only seen it once. And I think when someone retires from a job that they’ve loved, a little emotion isn’t a bad thing…even if they’e chosen that retirement…even if it’s just a game. At least he was doing something he loved.
