That annoying comment: "for our international audience only"

You are not alone.

I wish I was international audience.

 

Yes, ESPN really pisses me off aswell. "Hey all you Americans watching this American company film this program in America - only people living outside America can watch it". I hate that Irish commentator aswell, he always says the most obvious things over and over again. How many times did he say Depor were missing Valeron last night. 20? 30? Max from FSW is better but I really miss Jonathan Pearce from the UK, he's a living legend. Infact we should do a poll for best commentator. Who is the Mexican/Brasilian commentator who shouts "goooaaaal" for 10 miutes at a time?

 

Kerpow, you are so right.

Tommy Smyth is the worst announcer ever. I think ESPN has him for his accent alone. He know nothing about soccer.

 

Those are annoying words, to be sure. But even more annoying is when they forget them, and then there are two or three threads on bigsoccer announcing "ESPN is showing two matches on Wednesday." It hasn't happened yet, but I'll bet you it does at some point.

 

ESPN Deportes in 2003

 

Let's hope it's what we expect it to be.

 

Is ESPN Deportes entirely in Spanish?

Not that it matters, I mean, even if I don't understand it, the announcing is still probably better!!

I watched all of the World Cup on Univision.

 

Yes.

 

International Audience

Oh why oh why do they torment me so?

 

Wednesdays CL Coverage

What I wouldn’t pay to hear Tommy utter that annoying phrase today.

 

Re: Wednesdays CL Coverage

You are just making it worse.

 

The lead Champion's League Spanish voice for ESPN International is Omar Tapia,who you surely saw some on Univision. He's pretty good, no?

 

Yeah, he was really good and announced it like he actually gave a damn what was going on on the pitch. Also, the Univision broadcast had better picture quality.

 

what can one get from univision.

can one get champions league matches on univision. what about spanish la liga matches and italian serie a matches.

fox sports world brings some la liga matches, and rai tv some serie a matches, but is thier any other source were some one in the USA can watch italian serie a and la liga matches?

 

The thing is, given the choice, no-one would watch ESPN abroad as American commentators suck. The CL in Britain is on ITV, which is bad enough, but it would be a lot better than ESPN.

This situation also presumes that football/soccer is an 'outsider' sport that no decent American wants to get in the way of baseball.

 

... you're kidding right ?

 

Whats wrong with Tommy Smyth? I don't see anything wrong with his commentating. Oh, and ESPN are stupid bastards. Damn those redneck sports.

 

That would be Andreas Cantor. He is Argentine. He's under contract with Telemundo not Univision and that's why he did the soccer play by play for NBC during the Olympics -- in English. He also wrote a book on the history of the World Cup through 1994 entitled GOOOOOLLLLL! and is available in both original Spanish and translated English. Eventually, I'll make it through my Spanish copy.

Yeah, I agree with the thread starter. That is unfair teasing to the American audience.

 

A word about ESPN Deportes:

A little bit behind jumping on the bandwagon, arent' they?

Besides, it just shows that had Uncle Phil not thrown big bucks (worthless Qwest stock) at Disney, there would be NO soccer on ESPN or ESPN2 for their domestic viewers only.

 

the thing is, we don't know if espn will still have the
rights to cl and la liga
next year. because if they
don't, then espn deportes
will be worthless.

 

i'm studying abroad right now in Ghana and so i watch four cl games a week. but only because i don't really feel like sticking around for the games in russia, or else i'd watch 6. everybody here thinks seamus malin is a fool. man, it's nice to be part of the international audience.

 

I get a kick out of Mike Hill and Tommy Smyth only cause they are polar opposites of eachother. I dont count on Tommy Smyth to provide insightful color commentary so maybe that is why i can not only tolerate him but enjoy him.

 

He is absolutely useless. I used to work on ESPN's SportsCenter International programme and the guy is a complete idiot. He consistently talks absolute crap and makes bad calls about what has happened on the pitch, refusing to acknowledge his mistakes even when slow-mo replays show him up to be the ignoramus that he is. He also uses the phrase "Dere's de ball in de old onion bag" far too often.