[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'168231\' date=\'Oct 30 2007, 12:36 AM\']
[quote name=\'BMaurice06\' post=\'168070\' date=\'Oct 27 2007, 07:45 PM\']I know it's a shameless plug, but he happens to be my favorite TV analyst.[/quote]Why's this? Your opinion is not widely held around here, and I'm curious to know why the people who like him, like him, or those who can tolerate him can do so.
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Oh, I think you'll find more than a few people around here who can tolerate him — certainly I'd put myself in that category. Perhaps my experience has been colored from having seen far worse, but for all his offenses to basic standards of journalism and his stunts like deliberately hiding his role in a WWTBAM contestant's loss (for those who weren't in ATGS at the time, Steve discussed the loss in one of his columns and deliberately omitted his own role as the Phone-a-Friend who provided the wrong answer), he's not exactly evil, he does want to see game shows succeed and he is knowledgeable -- not to the extent that he seems to think he is, to be sure (see: Dick Clark and WWTBAM), but knowledgeable nonetheless.
All that said, the "our own favorite" thing is, of course, laughable. Either Mr. Hayes (aka BMaurice06) really does think that Steve has been widely lauded on this board — in which case Mr. Hayes is too busy worshipping Todd Newton to pay attention to what really goes on here — or he's insisting that everyone should share his opinion and considering it a personal affront that they don't, in which case Mr. Hayes has a severe case of Gsnboarditis.