Steve Sax's Speech Analysis

On October 5, 2015, I was unfortunate enough to watch and listen to this man speak about his baseball career and about his foundation that he has created. I had many issues with his speech, however. Steve Sax talked about a lot of things in a short period of time and jumped around often. He wasn’t able to stay focused on one topic for long. Steve Sax. Steve’s delivery, organization, and content were all over the place. Steve spoke with a quiet voice that faster than he should have been and his articulation wasn’t great. He wasn’t able to maintain consistent eye contact and his facial expression didn’t appear to change much throughout his speech. He spoke with his hands and made constant gestures; however, he would pause for long periods of time and then he wouldn’t pause again for another 20 minutes. He couldn’t be followed and no one payed attention to him. He never really held anyone’s attention. …show more content…
He was all over the place and had little to no organization throughout his speech. He would jump from topic to topic never really finishing any discussion he would start before jumping to a new one. There were too many tangents he went off on. When he was explaining his story about how he became a baseball player and how he couldn’t throw he managed to say, “oh yeah, I forgot, back to what I was saying earlier,” many times and continued through his whole speech. I believe people started paying attention when he stated, “My dad was never a vulnerable man until the day he died when he told me he had gone through the same thing.” When he said that he had some emotion in his voice, sadness. He made everyone listen to what he had to say for a few minutes while he talked about his father. When he went on to talk about his foundation; however, people stopped paying attention