The telecast is lifeless because the announcers arent there. They sound like CNN anchors translating an al-queda video. The camera angles are always late or doing close ups of players while the ball is in play. They free kick Angel took was totally botched as the camera arrived late. It has all the quality of acable access program. Terrible.
Yeah its been awful the past couple of times. I had made a thread about the Toronto game(seagullC) Angel's free kick was botched last week as well, and that time he scored. Dissapointing really. I usually don't mind JP and Shep, better than ESPN and FSC lately but they've been pissing me off too.
I bitched heavily about this too when we found out that MSG would not be sending the announcers to the away games to cover them live...It is beyond bad... as I wrote months ago... I love JPdelaCamera but he is going blind and can't call the game of of monitors... The announcers need to be there so they can see what is not on the screen to let us know what is going on...ie..they didn't even know Sinisa had been subbed in towards the end of the game till minutes after he came on... It is certainly better than nothing but MSG and RBNY should do the right thing and spend the $ on sending JP and Shep to the away games...
There's nothing to blame MSG on this. Blame deGrandpre and the entire Red Bull organization on what should have been the easiest television negotation ever. Instead, they wound up settling on a deal only two weeks before the season opener. MSG no longer shows baseball and is desperate to show something. This never should have been an issue. Only deGrandpre and the Red Bulls could f@ck up this thing.
I think the tv feed might be coming from the host team, and the MSG announcers are back in a NYC studio at MSG.
what sucks about it is that I think JPD and SM are great announceres for MLS but they are handcffed by the crap budget of RBNY. JPD is my pavorite soccer announcer in this country and I feel like he can't do his thing. Deiterich, come on. You paid for JPA and Claudio at least pay for some respectable broadcasting.
I'm not so sure the feed comes from the host team...cause telemundo had this one and the cameras seemed different to me and i watched both broadcasts. I could be wrong...either way, you're right they are just sitting in the MSG studio watching the game just like anybody else on tvs.
And f@*k it up they did. Last season, MSG had a pre-game show, post-game interviews and a weekly recap on the team. All of that is gone. Many claimed that we had the most professional cable broadcast going out of all the MLS clubs. I just hope that this deal was only for one year. As it stands, NLL and Arena Football (no, not Kenny's dad) could outshine RBNY broadcast-wise.