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I don't think you can say Randy showed no class-- He could have gone PA on the kid and whined and got him removed and so on and so forth, but he just said "OK, I need you to stand there like a little statue, OK?"  

As for after the match-- I understand he threw a bad shot, and I'm not really in a position to say whether or not the "cough" or "shout" or whatever affected him, but I'll tell you something-- If I'm in Randy's situation, where I'm SO close to something that's SO important to him, and someone disrupts his motion even in the slightest bit, I'd be pretty aggravated too.  When someone sneezed during a golf tournament once, Tiger Woods had them removed from the gallery, and the announcers were going "Well, Tiger's a guy that needs perfect concentration to focus, he did what he had to do."  No double-standards please.  It's too bad if someone coughed by accident, it's too bad if they did it on purpose.  But I can't sit here and call Randy Peterson classless because he got caught up in one of the most emotional tournaments in his life.  I'm not going to ask every single bowler to walk back from the approach with a straight look on his face after every smash, tap, carry, or coversion, especially in big-time situations.  It's sports, they're human.  It's above all entertainment.

As for another person in the booth; Randy is very insightful, and there have even been some complaints about him coming too far over the top with the bowling jargon (not that I'm complaining).  I hate Ryan, he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about, and I don't think he gets "it".  The girl who does the interviews will never be in the booth, she's just doing PBA telecasts to move up the ranks to NFL or MLB someday.  We need someone else who knows bowling on the telecast.  Maybe open auditions from BR?  

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