In Seattle. Stoner and Ty in the booth, Wynalda on the sideline. 3:55 start instead of 4:00. Interesting.
Wyndalda with two bits in the first 15 minutes. Already more relevant than Veronica. First: With Keller back, Arena's goaltending headaches return. There is no No. 1 Second: 442 against the Venezuelan system (with a 4-2-2-2-2, essentially) means O'brien is not going to have the kind of touches Arena would like. Gotta play the flanks.
Will Arena please take Klein off the pitch, along with kirvoski. Two players completely useless to this team. Stick Donovan and Buddle in there.
US analysis thread here https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=41296&perpage=15&pagenumber=2 This thread for the announcers and broadcast quality.
First half, 0-0. Wynalda providing more analysis in small bursts from the sideline than Ty is from the booth. Ty doing adding little more than captions to the action.
Uh, Rob.....it's pronounced "Lah-seh Fare" not "Lay-See Fare" JMM........Good call on Kirovski. How exactly is that guy in the Premier League?
Waldo better work on those quick Q&As at halftime. This isn't a discussion over beers with a buddy - you have 15 or 30 seconds to try and get something meaningful from someone involved in the game. Other than that, he's an improvement. I like how they just let him jump in instead of the "down to the field with Eric" intro.
For some reason, I really don't think Eric W does a good job as a sideline guy. Looks like he struggles with it a bit.
First two minutes of the second half, there was a general "um, is this mike on" kind of feel. That's the producers. Gotta have things ready to go. GREAT technical work on the offisdes no call on the U.S. goal. Very good work to get the replay up so quickly.
He's clearly not up to speed. Monster is exactly right about him not having TV timing yet. The content is there, though. I have hated Wynalda for years, personally. I think he's an arrogant jerk. But he clearly adds some substance to the telecasts.
The difference between Jack and Stoner right here: Beasley runs right by the defense and plays a ball straight to McBride in the box. Should have been a goal. Jack's response likely would have been: "McBride can't pull the trigger." Stoner's response: "And McBride makes a MESS of that one."
All in all a good performance from the ESPN guys. Technically it was excellent. Stoner and Ty felt pretty comfortable together. Gotta say that the sound guys made the crowd sound a lot louder than they looked. Wynalda is clearly a better analyst than Ty. Either they should go to a 3-man booth or boot Ty. Good enthusaism from Stoner, but not overboard. His humor came through, particularly when Venezuela used Rojas in goal instead of their backup. Stoner: "If I'm the backup keeper, I'm waving to the coach from the end of the bench -- 'Hey coach! I play this position professionally!'."
Horrible call by the official and even worse by the announcers when they can't even see a CLEAR offside call. When McBride heads the ball against the post, Bocanegra is a yard in front of him in an offside position (he was on when Stewart sent the free kick in but it doesn't matter after McBride's touch). As soon as Bocanegra headed the ball against the crossbar, the play should have been stopped due to his offside involvement. Kirovski's third chance would have never occurred.
Sorry, Rob's right. You've just heard your friends mispronouncing it for so long that you thought they were correct.