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vipnerd
21 Jun 2007, 11:59 AM
Where to start. Perhaps in a saying that has echoed in my brain since a very young age when my dad would repeat the phrase on my brothers and I often enuff to never forget: The habitat absorbs, corrupts and destroys.

What happened to the uruguayan that narrated games at Telemundo with pasion and objectivity? Even thou he had a clown as commentator? Is the "need" to satisfy the biggest segment of latins in the US so overwhelming to lose touch with reality?

I welcomed the inclusion of Jorge Ramos and Hernan Pereyra to the FSE crew. Indeed, the crew that the channel has used for almost a decade has been in the most part absolutely lame. That Samuel Jacobo has no place in TV broadcasting ... unless it is for a reality show. His notion of football, its rules, knowledge of players and the significance of the games is non-existant.

But coming back to Mr Ramos, there is a constant decline in the quality of his narrating and commentary. Despite the "expansion" of his appearances on the screen with his show. The incorporation of "mexican kid" phrases to season his narrating has been lame for a while. The constant confusion of players names is increscendo. Little does it help that he is sitting in a room with a flat screen. But it is the loss of touch, or perhaps the magnification, with the positioning of the players and/or their physical appearance, that makes his narrating a downhill trend.

Where is the common sense in FSE's programmers? Don't they know they have the EXCLUSIVE rights for the most important club competition in the continent? Where on earth did they conclude that having a narrator sitting inside a room can, objectively, be in the best interest of the viewer, as oppossed to having a complete broadcasting crew inside the stadium? An extremely talented crew that covers the entire continent? I can take it when it involves Mexican clubs ... perhaps the main reason why I do cheer for Mexican teams to be eliminated from the competition.

Indeed, it is a disgrace that we have come down to this. And now we have to add that starting next semester, FSE will have the exclusive rights to Italian football. And here we need to add that the few Serie A games this past season where all cut to 70 minutes. Because we all know that the Argentine league ends at 5:20 pm, not 5 pm as their programmers want to believe. Common people. Don't underestimate your viewership. Take a bus or a subway once in a while. Stay in touch with the masses.

FSE needs to start addressing this issues. They have the product. They have an audience. There is no need to supply subpar broadcasting.

For those who agree with this views, say so. We can certainly prepare a letter than can be e-mailed by each and everyone that feels the need to raise their voice. Mediocrity has no place in these days of global communications.


Vip


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elciclon
21 Jun 2007, 12:52 PM
he was horrible last night like i said i only got to watch first half and he confused everyones name, when cardozo had the ball he would name palacio, and then he would be like thats a yeloow when there wasnt even contact. my personal favorite of last night was when palermo lets a ball go past him so that riquelme can take it for an attack, and ramos says what a brillance by riquelme letting the ball go thru like that, when it was clearly palermo.

terrywilson
21 Jun 2007, 01:27 PM
he was horrible last night like i said i only got to watch first half and he confused everyones name, when cardozo had the ball he would name palacio, and then he would be like thats a yeloow when there wasnt even contact. my personal favorite of last night was when palermo lets a ball go past him so that riquelme can take it for an attack, and ramos says what a brillance by riquelme letting the ball go thru like that, when it was clearly palermo.


Definatley was the low point of my night...

El Mandrake
21 Jun 2007, 01:30 PM
You know I have been saying this for a while.....non-mexican latinos....yes they exist....complain to me about this all the time. How its Rafa this and that, stuttgart now this and that.....Now are the mexican futebol viewing public so hateful towards non-mexican relatores that they have to have their own mexican staff there in order to have a remote intrest in watching games?
Then like I have noticed before, these people are not really into futebol at all?
I mean do they say, "Eso piche argentinos, odio como hablan, no voy a ver el partido." Alluding to niembro and close. I admit, close does sound funny. But they are objective, and they know their shite. And not talking about everything but the game with that forced enthusiasm that belongs on children's tv not in live futbol broadcasting. God help us during the copa america. Aguante lantinos.

bustos21
21 Jun 2007, 01:36 PM
i often wonder about the same thing and many people are asking the same questions.
jorge ramos was great on telemundo and even the radio station we have up here, but he lost that edge. i was very dissapointed when i found out he was going to be the commentator for the game yesterday. even though the game was a bit boring he used to have the ability to make the game more exciting than it actually was.

wwshr
21 Jun 2007, 03:44 PM
Right after the game yesterday I sent an e-mail to Fox Sports about the same issue being addresed here. Jorge Ramos was just awaful in my opinion, but what I really dont understand is why if Niembro and Closs are on the stadium, why would they have Ramos narrating watching the game on TV. It does not make any sense to me.:confused: