i give Berman a lot of credit for the rise in popularity of espn. he was a key national figure for them and was very recognizable, by all accounts a good guy to have as the face of the network.
but in the last five plus years, he has become virtually unwatchable on anything other than football. his golf work is painful, and his work on the home run derby should be used as a training video for future broadcasters on what not to do. espn should remove him from those broadcasts, but i imagine some suit somewhere looks at it like "we owe chris for the work he did in making us such a huge network." i'm guessing we'll all just have to tolerate him until he decides to retire.
if i were him, i'd be greatly concerned about the growing number of stories about him being a giant dill wad to the public.