All we can do is educate, but in the end, a large part of society will never change. It doesn't help that she's a rookie again, making rookie mistakes. Tonight's game will be just her 15th behind the microphone. Every word she utters is dissected under a microscope. Every blunder is met by taunts.
Every stutter is criticized.
Admittedly, she doesn't know the league as well as she should, but only because she has spent most of the past 22 years playing instead of watching. Her league knowledge, she said, will come with time. And, yes, she admits, she makes mistakes. She's not used to jamming a minute's worth of thought into an insightful 10-second spot. Plus, once a mistake is out there, it's out there forever.