The GOAT: Serena Williams

As a life long Tom Brady fan I really enjoyed this Podcast. A lot of this info I knew from reading books and watching other documentaries. But it was still a really interesting series. My only complaint would be the audio quality of some of the interviews was poor sometimes and a bit hard to hear.

Not always being a Tom Brady fan, but respecting his game and finding the story of his and the Patriots rise interesting, I decided to check this out. It started off really well, but over the last few episodes it’s starting to get a bit thin. These would be my chief complaints: 1. Others have mentioned it, but the audio on the earlier phone interviews was terrible. I felt like there was stuff I missed because of how unintelligible it was. 2. The episode on Peyton Manning came off like a hit piece. Gary tells the story of how he offended Peyton, then gave a fake apology to try to get in his good graces, then seemed upset that Peyton held it against him. It also seemed to cloud his judgment of the 2, rather than a presentation of the facts. He tried to downplay any stats that didn’t favor Brady, which seemed not genuine after showing his disdain for Manning. I wish this section had been a bit more unbiased as it’s a fascinating discussion. 3. How many more episodes does this have? I really thought it was winding down, especially after episodes dedicated to Spygate and Deflategate, yet here he is advertising another episode. At this point Gary should just wrap it up and put a conclusion on it.

Wow! I’m absolutely blown away at the content of episodes 1 & 2. To have each episode hosted by the spectacular, elegant, and legendary Chanda Rubin & Zina Garrison was flawless. Amazing delivery in bringing us listeners into a glimpse of The Goat: Serena Williams journey into greatness.

Really great production value. Awesome to listen to and better than watching something to a limited vision person like me. Thanks

While the content of the podcast has been pretty good it has been difficult to listen to many episodes due to the extremely poor quality of many of the interviews. It sounds like they were conducted in a tin can, in a submarine, millions of miles away. The quality of often so poor I have to fast forward the podcast. You would think with all the tech out there they could do a better job on getting quality audio for these interviews.

I’m a huge Serena and she has done a lot for female tennis players and the sport itself. To be honest I always look forward to follow her especially in grand slam tournaments but this podcast is just one big puff piece. I want to hear the good along with the bad. No athlete who reaches the top of their game gets there without being a jerk (PG rating) along the way. Tom Brady, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods…read their stories, they weren’t the nicest people to be around at times. One other thing, the authors of this podcast need to stop referring to other female tennis players as G.O.A.T.’s along with Serena. There can only be one G.O.A.T. which stands for Greatest Of All Time not Greatest Players Of All Time.