I wasn't referring to the thread at all; I was speaking in general. KitanaPrime was responding to the thread.
What you fail to acknowledge is that people who are watching baseball on TV are most likely doing so voluntarily, and understand the game to a point where they can drown out the commentary with their own visual interpretation. Fighting game streams are completely different. There's a percentage of people who are there for the game being featured, there are people waiting for other games, and there are people watching because it's a Major. I have enough experience watching streams and reading chats in the last 3 years to know what people like and dislike in commentary. When they don't play a game or understand it much, speaking in monotone is a huge turn off, especially if something amazing just happened. It is up to the commentator to emphasize the importance of what just occurred on the screen so the new viewer can share the same appreciation as those who actually play the game. Hell, I play almost every game I watch on stream and boring commentators are still off putting to me because I feel they aren't truly conveying the intricacies of the matches.