Having suffered watching many a homer biased MLS commentator - no thanks. SJE, LAG, Houston, Seattle, NYC & NER - all biased & not very good. BTW, most people in the US thinks TSN commentators are biased towards the Canadian teams.Originally Posted by Derko
There is a role for biased with a bite against your home team if they are crap - that's the Loons, Orlando, CBus, Atlanta, NYRB & Colorado.
Yes, through the dank vision of a 1980’s SPL defender. Every good attacking play is a result of someone’s mistake and every studs up tackle is just getting stuck in. Bit tiring.
Someone with actual insight would be an improvement. These guys rinse and repeat the same things over and over.
They call the game in the same mediocre fashion most modern NHL games are done. Foster Hewitt, and many EPL broadcasters understood, that the avid viewer wants the suspense, the excitement, the imagination , to be felt by the viewer. Instead of all the babble, a simple....Keon to Armstrong, back to Keon, to Ellis....score!....works because the viewer follows the play with his eyes and ears....we don’t need....Keon goes down low with the puck and is tripped, now he gets up, and passes to Armstrong who is in front of the net, and he backhands it to Keon, and with his stick passes the puck to Ellis who is driving towards net on the right side and he shoots, and scores!
The latter method adopted the radio format because the assumption was the listener needed a more visual account...yet this crap now permeates TV broadcasts, snd it sucks.
The TSN people are notorious for this, and must have instructed their soccer buddies.
A little commentary during quiet moments is good, but should never be part of the play by play
^It depends. I do think broadcasting is a lost art. But they weren't all minimalists.
Danny Gallivan, the guy I loved most of all, he of the Savardian spinorama (suspect 90% of people here have no clue what I am talking about).... Gallivan talked nonstop, but he was very, very good.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
The comparison now is to Jon Champion who is doing MLS on ESPN. He did the ATL DCU game - just doesn't talk that much, gives out player names with passes - simple nouns - when he does extemporate, its short & useful. TSN is all about the verbs & phrases.
I feel TSN has their page of talking points they are going to get through because that's what is on their page of tallking points.
Best ever Danny Gallivan performances:
1. Montreal Canadiens vs. Central Red Army (CSKA Moscow)
2. Raccoons vs. Bears
Perhaps you prefer this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOKhpg1PVwM
For sure. I think he does the casual/new fans a massive disservice by not recognizing how terrible some tackles etc. are. Bad education to provide those learning the game. I still can't forgive him for writing off the hit that ruptured Beita's spleen as barely a yellow when the guy charged half way across the field and rugby tackled him. Or when he chided Marky for playing up a studs up tackle that left 4 inch scrape lines up his calf muscle.
but hey, I'm not a hard nosed CB that played basic football at a high level.
[QUOTE=Mike_S;1891965]Best ever Danny Gallivan performances:
1. Montreal Canadiens vs. Central Red Army (CSKA Moscow)
that was the New Years eve 3-3 game that Montreal absolutely dominated? What a performance.
Haha, this takes the cake of things I thought I would never read posted here, 'savardian spinorama', lol ,I am one of the old, err, I mean, one with a clue as to what you are saying. I laughed.
Frankly, it is better
It would be nice if they took a breath once in a while. Watching the World Cup games, there were times where nothing was said for 5 to 10 seconds. That would send Caldwell into a frenzy. The two of them never stop talking.
[QUOTE=backbeat;1891996]I am older than most of you, and remember that game well, for two reasons. One, it was almost as exciting as the 72 series, and the girl that I liked went dancing with another dude.
This thread is turning into one of the all time rabbit holes.
I forgot got what you did during bye weeks when you get bounced from CCL.
Can we spend a few posts discussing Mel Allen's This Week in Baseball? Listening to that was heaven.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
I don't know who Mel Allen is, but I love listening to baseball.
Now there are some good announcers in that sport.
Some of my favourite memories are being put to sleep while listening to a Jays game in my dad's car.
Has anyone mentioned that TSN has some of the shittiest soccer announcers on the planet?
Cant disagree, funny you mention Ashton he’s lost in all this because he’s simply a humble gentleman .
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Mavinga got fined for a “hand to face, neck or head” violation
I didn’t know about this category of infractions
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
Did the guy who elbowed Bradley in the nose get a fine? You could see how swollen his nose was afterwards
Heres the notice on the MLS website with the video of the assault. Suprised FIFA isn't investigating this and putting a lifetime ban on Mavinga.
https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019/...-chris-mavinga
What a load of BS. They make an issue out of this? How about that brutal body check on Moore? That's something worth reviewing.
That is the worst thing about MLS. The rule is fine on it's own but the enforcement has to be equal across the board to every player on every infraction and that is where they fail. They can't just pick and choose when to use it. Stupid disciplinary committee has been doing this kind of crap for years.
A fine? I thought even jokingly putting your hands in the general direction of someone’s face, neck or head was an instant red and subsequent ban!
Hahahaha. That’s farcical. I hope the fine was 9.99
Wow, if they are going to fine that what aren’t they going to fine?
Seems completely random and arbitrary
Rub his hair with your hand - a fine.
Massage his face with your elbow - not even a foul.
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