They were talking about Richie Williams basically mugging a Fire player and Ston & Keough were syaing how he was tuggin on his jersey, shoving, and clipping his ankles. And then Waldo chimes in with "He bit his ankle to" Thats tatamount to a shout out to BigSoccer
I thought the same exact thing. I busted out when i heard that... Seriously...you know you spend WAY too much time on this site, when an announcer's comment makes you think of BigSoccer
i figure it's only a matter of time before somebody posts a poll that lines up 8 BS suspects asking 'who's waldo?' when he said it, my first thought was: did he really just say that?
Waldo, Please ask the ESPN2 guys to put a better mike on you. I have a hard time understanding you sometimes.
eric's easily the most entertaining and knowledgable commentator in the espn broadcasts. i wouldn't mind a stoner, smyth, or jp/wynalda booth. ty's a good guy and he knows the game, but he is a little too dry to be a "color" commentator and definately does not have the voice required to call a game. up the waldo!
you know it's interesting you say this. I don't think it's the equipment, but two factors. First, down on the field, the noise level is higher and so clouds out his speech. Second, the timbre of Eric's voice is not ideal for broadcasting. Most professional announcers have a pretty precisely calibrated registers -- many are tenor voices (JP, Smyth, Cantor, Costas), a few are a baritones (like Gary Thorne or Red Barber) and you do have an occasional bass voice (the late Jack Buck). Waldo is a tweener -- not quite tenor, not quite baritone. This is OK in a studio, when you can see his face, and follow along, but in a voice over, it does get tough to pick out what he says. He should probably spend a little dough on a voice coach to improve his enunciation and inflection a bit. But he is indeed fun to listen to, and always has something interesting to say.
Karl, Can they alter his voice electronically so that he is no longer a tweener? Very often, he does have something interesting to say. Unfortunately, too much of it was incomprehensible to me.