Airheadedness Gets You a TV Job

I know it's not always the thing to do to criticize the hometown announcers, but sometimes I am astonished by the airheaded questions Tina Cervasio asks Red Sox players on NESN. And she gets paid to do this? Ok, maybe few of you actually watch NESN. Let me give you an example. After a recent Sox win, a question she asked Kevin Youkilis: "So, what do you think about Jon Lester's 7 inning shutout performance?" Duh. Is there any answer but to praise such a performance? Why ask a question if you already know the answer? The utter inanity of it all!

I wonder if TV interviewers for other home teams ask as stupid and airheaded questions? Probably. I guess they have to sometimes, because when you interview a player after every game some games may not have any exciting things to discuss. But that was not the case with this game. A more interesting question of Youkilis might have been something like "If a full fledged brawl had broken out after Cabrera beaned Pedroia, which Oriole would you have targeted and taken down first? Tejada? Or would you have targeted someone scrawnier, like maybe Brian Roberts? Who do you think Big Papi would have gone after? Would anyone have dared to take him on?" Now those kinds of questions would be worth tuning in to hear the answers to!

Any NESN viewers out there have similar thoughts on this? I get tired of drivel sometimes...