[El_Chino]

I ask all soccer fans in the USA to join me in a hunger strike. We will vow not to eat solid food until:

1) FSN fires Max Bretos and Allen Hopkins;
2) fires the men who hired these two;
3) fires the men who hired those men;
4) fires everyone at FSN who refused to mutilate themselves in protest over the hiring of Bretos and Hopkins;
5) hires some foreign announcers.

Yes, I know Bretos and Hopkins work for minimum wage, and that this allows us to enjoy commercial free programming. But I am prepared to pay any price in order to enjoy La Liga, Bundesliga ,et. al., free from the braying of these two jackasses, who seem to want nothing more than to regale us with their wacky accentuated pronunciations of foreign names and bore us with their third grade attempts at wit.

Going from the BBC calls of EPL matches to the shrill, awkward iterations of Bretos and Hopkins is a frightening shock to the system. Even if their style and presentation were fit for human consumption the utter poverty of their soccer knowledge and sense of the game would still make them objectionable to the extreme. They each routinely blabber right over and through important developments on the field, all the while trumpeting some inconsequential play as if it was the second coming of Pele.

I can't take it anymore. Toby Charles, were are you?

[Dr. Wankler]

I think you should continue eating. You cannot afford to diminish your mental capacity the slightest amount.

[QPR Kevin H]

Yes - out with Bretos and in with Jack Edwards. Nevermind Max's actual knowledge of the Argentine League. I need to hear how River are the New York Yankees of Argentine soccer.

[Theo]

Let's just be thankful that we can see soccer from around the world and enjoy it

please...

[superdave]

Originally posted by Dr. Wankler
I think you should continue eating. You cannot afford to diminish your mental capacity the slightest amount.

I disagree. Go on strike. (BTW, it's "hunger striker," not "hungry strike.")

The Darwin Awards always need good candidates.

[kingwho]

Originally posted by El_Chino
I ask all soccer fans in the USA to join me in a hunger strike.

dude
just start by changing your diet
no need to strike
maybe all fiber to get you nice and cleaned out
after that you could always spend a month at a "home" to soothe your nerves
then some "pills" to help you make it through each day after that
hiring a "nurse" could be of some use if those things dont quite fix the "problems" entirely for you

[FootyMundo]

I for one appreciate their efforts and I say bunko to all you critics. I'm offer to enjoy a nice steak lunch.

[Dr. Wankler]

Originally posted by superdave

I disagree. Go on strike.

The Darwin Awards always need good candidates.

Point taken.

[QPR Kevin H]

Originally posted by El_Chino
5) hires some foreign announcers.

Going from the BBC calls of EPL

btw - you wont find any BBC calls of "EPL" matches. We get announcers hired directly by the Premier League on Fox Sports World. In fact, the BBC dont even cover the Premiership in England! If you're gonna be an Anglophile or Eurosnob - sort your facts out. And its Premiership - not EPL.

[chayes]

Whatever happened to the rule where you can't start a new thread until you had a certain number of posts?

I ask the mods to please reinstitute it, so we can keep crap like this from cluttering the boards. Especially from a person from whom it is his first post.