Marjor Kudos to WHDH

[DanTheMan]

Channel 7's sports LED with the Revs. Not only that, but they did locker room interviews.

Not only that, but they knew all the names of the players.

Lynch and Lobel suck ass, I'm staying with channel 7. I encourage everyone to email WHDH and thank them for their unbiased, free-of-holier-than-thou-wiseass marks coverage of soccer.

They did say the second goal was an OG by LLamosa. I still don't see it, but hey, everyone seemed to get this wrong.

[Mainer5]

MLSnet.com also lists the second goal for the crew as coming off of Llamosa.

[DanTheMan]

Scoring:
NE - Ralston (Cullen) 17
NE - Harris (Kamler) 47
CLB - McBride (Unassisted) 80
CLB - Washington (West, Martino) 85


The official scoring does not show it as an own goal. Granted, this does happen quite a bit as OG's are not always obvious (that Donovan goal in the first WC game comes to mind -- on the other hand that Agoos OG was an obvious OG )...

[Rodan]

The MLS scorekeepers were kind to Carlos. It was an own goal, and he actually maid some (apologetic) comments in the press to verify this.

[DanTheMan]

As everyone on the board as told me, I guess it was an own goal to everyone but the scorer.

My bad.

[sandman012]

Originally posted by DanTheMan
As everyone on the board as told me, I guess it was an own goal to everyone but the scorer.

My bad.

I can't remember in which paper I read it, but there was a blurb about it being scored as an own goal (which it obviously was) and then MLS called the scorer's booth and told them to change it to a goal for Washington (West, Martino).

[RevsGirl26]

I saw the interviews on WHDH, and I was saying the same things that some of you guys were saying: Well, at least someone showed interviews in the locker room. WHDH gets credit for that because I know no other channel will do it (maybe WB-56? Who knows?).

Let us win the Cup.

[DanTheMan]

Tonight's Sports Final had TT and Heaps on. Taylor does say a lot of things are 'big time', but at least they were on.

OTOH, the first part of the show was Smerlas, Lavanchy et al talkinga bout the Pats.

At the end , near the break, he asked them how the Revs would do -- the optimist would say 'cool, he asked them'...the pessimist would say 'look at his face, I think he's just kidding about asking them'
or something.

[melmax]

Jay and Taylor were making the rounds last night on the Sports shows on NBC and CBS. A lot of talk on both shows focused on 'how confusing' the post season structure is. Jay was especially articulate in both interviews. Taylor is like Tigger, just dying to say something. Both interviewers asked him about his injury and he gave the pat wait and see answer but you can see that he thinks he will be ready.

Gene Lavanchy on 7 was genuinely happy for them while Bob Lobel was more patronizing and talked about ad nasuem about how soccer will never be big in this country. Jay handled it well though and said he and Taylor would be happy to be old and on the coach watching it be huge if that is what it will take.

[DanTheMan]

After leaving a comment to Channel 7 about their Revs coverage, I received an email from Gene Lavanchy, 7 Sports director.

He was very polite and very gracious in his email. I was impressed with how seriously he took me as a soccer fan and seemed to be actually cheering on the team for the Cup.

I think those playoff questions do have to be answered -- I mean where else can you be 7 games under 500 and go to the championship--as well as draw two games and proceed on...I just don't think TT and Heaps were the guys to go to. Even if TT is big time. LOL

Anyway, I missed Lobel; no real surprise there. How come news is objective and sports is subjective, exactly?