Mute button is wearing out

Our national pastime, hockey, its players and fans, are being hijacked more frequently by certain game announcers, and especially colour commentators, who endlessly second guess and over analyze every moment of the game. How many times have you watched a game where the play is totally disregarded because these guys are chatting? My mute button is wearing out!

It is disrespectful to hockey players and their fans to have a broadcast become a nauseating theatre of who can talk the most. Rogers ignores my inquiries. Perhaps more fans could speak up. Wayne McGrath, Port Elgin During this disappointing year of watching the Blue Jays, one thing became more and more apparent as time wore on. Colour commentator Pat Tabler just won’t shut up. He talks endlessly — and mostly about nothing other than providing lame excuses for the constant failure of these multimillion-dollar athletes. Is he getting paid by the word, or what? Toward the end I was hitting the mute button every time he talked.

He should take his cue from the recently retired broadcast giant Vin Scully who responded to the famous 1988 Kirk Gibson home run with a minute of silence. Chris James, Ajax