Max Bretos should be MLS commentator!

THANK YOU, BayVol!!! I've said this sooooo many times. & finally, someone agrees. This is 1 of my favorite posts by far!

 

Re: Re: Max Bretos should be MLS commentator!

I think it should be his until they find someone even better.

 

Re: Granted....

Well, if your talkin' to me, yes. He has a sense of humor & passion that I feel jack & some others don't have.

 

Mr. Bretos

I liked the whole crew from Ticket to Asia during the World Cup (FSW), but my favorite was Max Bretos. I'd LOVE to see him. And leave behind VP.

 

Bretos is also prone to the occassional horrific match.

His call of the USA-Cuba match in the Gold Cup was worse than anything I have EVER heard Jack Edwards do. And I shake my head a minimum of 5 times when I hear Jack do a game.

That day, Max had obviously done little homework, and was even butchering the US players a bit, while still finding time to tell me about beaches in Cuba, and a few minute long diatribe about which Cuban track star won a gold medal at the Montreal Olympics.... 25 freaking years ago. Max is of Cuban heritage, but it was still awful.

I've heard Bretos do dozens of games on FSW, and have heard Jack do probably 50 or 60 games.

If you get Max, people will still come here and bitch and moan about him.

 

Ummm, really? I thought he was Italian.

 

Have you ever heard an Italian roll his "R's" like big Max?

It's Charro-Riffic!!


Lionel Bienvenue used to call him "my favorite Cuban-American" on the old Fox Sports EPL highlight show. I'm going on nothing more than that.

 

To suggest replacing Jack Edwards with Max Bretos is like suggesting replacing your Mercedes Benz with a Yugo. One is polished, sleek, and sporty, while the other is only chugging along until its owner can swallow his pride and take the bus. Jack Edwards provides unsurpassed insight, passion, and wit to televised sporting events.

If members of the pathetic mass would only stand up from their overpriced leather recliners, put down their half-empty Zimas, and forget about their self-esteem issues for just one brief moment, they would see that Jack Edwards provides play-by-play announcing unparalleled anywhere in the civilized world. To suggest his termination as lead play-by-play announcer is ludicrous and bordering on criminal.

 

I could not agree more. He calls a good game. I sent a tape of a game to a friend in England. Very complimentary of the announcers (Max). My wife who isn't huge into sports loves his call. He is entertaining and he should get the job.

 

I love listening to Bretos call a game. But he needs a straight man in the box with him.

 

Okay, he may not be quite as bad as a lot of people on here say, but this is getting a little ridiculous:

they would see that Jack Edwards provides play-by-play announcing unparalleled anywhere in the civilized world.

Let me guess, you think Alexi Lalas should still be starting for the nats, too, right?

 

This subject comes up all the time, but can somebody answer me whats so great about Bretos? That he screams every once in a while? That he uses English football words every once in a while? Peresonally I think the guy is a boob, I had on a game that he was commentating and a nonsoccer viewing froiend stopped by, I left on the game and he said Max was "annoying as hell" Many non-regular soccer fans are just gonna hear a guy shouting like this for no reason and think he's a complete boob. I'll take Jack and Ty over Max in a heartbeat, any day of the week, for any match.

 

Tommy Smyth is the man for the job. See the "SIGN UP THAT IRISH DUDE" thread for details.

 

Max is genuine, I think that's why I like him. He calls the game with energy and makes me laugh now and then...If Jack ever makes me laugh, it's more of a shameful laugh. Also, Jack's comments, that he obviously thinks up the night before, distract me from great moments...."Mine eyes have seen the glory", "Land of the Free, Home of the Brave"....a bit too contrived for my tastes.

 

Why couldn't he have a gay man with him?

 

Indeed.

Is Jim J Bullock available?

 

Coming from someone named Jackistheman,that's funny.You can't possibly believe any of that crap."Jack Edwards provides play-by-play announcing unparalleled anywhere in the civilized world". Sorry!That one still cracks me up!!

Now,before I get called a Max lover or the evil anti-Jack,please understand that I know that the things that Jack does that annoys the Hell out of me are why some people like him.Some of the things I love about Max are the things that piss off other people.

I would love to see Jack try to do more than one game(or league for that matter)
a week.Max does 5 or 6 matches a week sometimes more.I wonder if he could keep up with the "unparalleled" Jack Edwards if he only had one game to study and work on per week.

Let me put it this way.Could Max do Jack's job?Easily.Could Jack do Max's job?Hardly.I cringe thinking of Jack calling a game by himself.

And,USA1950,Probably the main reason Max had a bad game(USA-Cuba)is because he had called maybe 500 matches since the previous Gold Cup.None of those 500 or so matches were US Nats.And he wasn't at the stadium.He was calling the match from the studio.Jack has been at every match that I've seen him call.I'm assuming that it is much easier to be at the game.

And Max IS Cuban/American.I've heard him say it several times on the old EPL show.

 

I've been curious to finally hear him call an MLS game.

He isn't too bad, and I don't mind his little phrases that much (gives him a unique personality). I like how he allows for silent space during the match. And he isn't afraid to criticize.

But he knows very little about MLS. He comes off as kind of arrogant towards MLS, and that's annoying to hear from an American announcer. He needs to follow this league the way Jack and Ty do if he were to be a good MLS announcer.

This is the only part of his announcing that I think needs work in regards to doing MLS games.

- Paul