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[argentine soccer fan]

Originally posted by FairWeatherFan
I've actually noticed that US commentators have trouble filling a lot of the "dead air time" during soccer matches.

Dead air time? That sounds funny to me. If you listen to a South American announcer, it sounds like they don't have enough time even to catch their breath as they describe everything that is going on during the match.

[RevdUp]

Originally posted by FairWeatherFan
I've also heard the theory that soccer doesn't catch on with as many American fans because it does not have the large amount of statistics that other sports have (example: baseball has batting average, hits, strike outs, slugging percentage, walks, etc.). Kids in the US grow up looking at individual stats, and soccer really doesn't have an over-abundance of those individual markings.

This of course could be a "chicken-or-the-egg-came-first" case; baseball is so slow; there is so much boring, time-wasting non-action during a game(for example, striked-out batter walking back to dugout and next batter walking out, batter preparing himself, players exchanging places on/off field every half innings, ...etc... etc...), that in order to keep fans interested in the game, officials had to come up with and emphasize an abundance of statistics.

I run a small business with a number of employees that are into baseball. Whenever a game is on TV here, they hardly watch it; but for some reason, they are googa-googa about whether the latest player's statistics record is going to be broken or not.

I try but fail to understand how in the world following a player's or the game's statistics would affect the player's game or the outcome of the game, or, make the game more interesting!!

[SoccerMavn]

Originally posted by tcmahoney
and one other English highlights show whose name escapes me at the moment

"All-Star Soccer"--Sundays at 5:30 on a Philadelphia-area public TV station. I remember being confused as a kid that one of the team's home fields was called the Baseball Grounds. :)