Who's Watching the ManU/Real Madrid Match?

[Hap]

Not that I am. Because it's office hours. If I was watching, I'd let DS know that the match is being called on Fox Soccer by a certain Gus Johnson.

[Rockstar Aimz]

Is it on line anywhere? I love Gus Johnson, at least as a basketball announcer.

[Hap]

Don't know. If I was watching it on TV from a pub I'd be watching it on Fox Soccer. But I'm not doing that.

[Tuxedo T-shirt]

Not even Gus can make soccer fun to watch

[Hap]

Not even Gus can make soccer fun to watch

In Soviet Russia not even socc........etc.

On le For Real, I have come to love soccer b/c there are no commercials and b/c it's fluid - and vaguely, b/c of memories of a 12 year-old Hap who enjoyed running around on le Pitch. Aside from all the concussion stuff,I'm so tired of watching NFL games b/c of the commercials. I love baseball b/c timing is dictated by play. And I may never get back to liking tennis (although the sport is brilliant), but I like that it controls its own pace. All I want from professional sports these days is to relax and appreciate the athleticism. Oddly (and especially as a Philadelphian) I care less and less for the tribalism.

That said, why has no sports journalist written about PEDs in the country-club sports? Golf and tennis, I would bet, are rife with "let me get through this injury fast" drugs. Have I missed that journalism (and I very well may have)?

[BirdBrain]

I watched the game but on TV here. Did he drop in any US sport terminology that I can laugh at? I sometimes stream Fox Soccer for Premier League games that aren't televised here and the regular guy is decent. English commentators are starting to copy American commentators for MASSIVE SHOUTING DRAMA at the most innocuous action these days so I probably wont know the difference

[Hap]

I watched the game but on TV here. Did he drop in any US sport terminology that I can laugh at? I sometimes stream Fox Soccer for Premier League games that aren't televised here and the regular guy is decent. English commentators are starting to copy American commentators for MASSIVE SHOUTING DRAMA at the most innocuous action these days so I probably wont know the difference

If I was watching it, which I wasn't, it would have been muted and I wouldn''t have been paying much attention to the closed caption feed. He had an English guy doing color. I am sorry to hear that our shrillness is rubbing off. But I think if anyone is to be blamed for bombastic game-calling it must be the Latin Americans. I love listening to some of the Central American coverage.