I’m getting tired of hearing professional athletes saying they’re just “having fun” I just heard a baseball player say it again, 4-5 times in the same interview.
That’s all.
Peace,
mangeorge
Professional athletes are extensively coached in how to respond to the media, for the purposes of avoiding embarrassment to the organization, and this is one of the stock phrases.
I’m sure folks here can readily assemble a list of the others.
“I’d like to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and God.”
“It’s a game of two halves, and at the end of the day I think Rugby was the winner” is a perennial favourite cliche, too. 
Yeah, I just give it 110%, ya know. Cause you gots to give it 110%.
Whoa, what a coincidence. MY parents are Ayn Rand and God, too!
If I were making obscene amounts of money for playing a game, I might have some fun too.
If we can keep our focus, exploit the other team’s weaknesses, and get points on the board, I think we have a good chance of winning this one.
Well at least in Stiller Football we haven’t heard about much fun ------ at least on the field kind of fun. In college bars kind of fun is another story.
I am not a big sport fan, but whenever I see an interview with some player after a game (baseball, basketball, football, whatever) they usually sound like a semi-literate idiot: “We, uh, just, uh, moved the ball, and, uh, we played solid and, uh, the game and uh…”
I can only imagine their college English instructor trying to hide under the sofa when listening to them talk.
One of the first things I plan to do when I become a Media Mogul is ban post-match interviews with sporting people:
“Since they’ve got nothing intelligent to say and it’d be full of meaningless cliches anyway, here’s Tits McGee with tomorrow’s weather, followed by Top Gear and then Futurama.” 
At least they seem to have stopped going to Disneyland.
In some defense–try running a marathon, lifting weights, or any other stressful physical activity, then try to sound semi-coherent.
Come to think of it, I know a lot of professors who struggle to sound coherent when they’ve got a reporter in their face.
There should be a law against having fun and getting paid for it as well!
It may interest you to know that thanks to the providence of one Eugene Polley, we now have the capability to filter undesired audio content emanating from the televisor by a simple push of a button, and you would be advised to utilize this exciting new technology rather than ineffectually whine about one of the most trivial offenses in civilized culture.
Dissentience,
Stranger
Its a business doing pleasure with you … =)
I pushed a little button with an arrow pointing upward drawn on it next to the word “volume” and it only got louder. Any advice?
“…and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.”
Stranger
I mean, that’s a great team out there, and, I mean, we had to leave everything on the field. But coach got us in the right position, and, I mean, we did what we had to do. Now we’re, I mean, just going to focus on the next game.
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