Comments on: Shut Up, Dave O'Brien http://www.yvonnekao.com/blog/sports/daveobrien/ I blog, therefore I am. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:09:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Yvonne http://www.yvonnekao.com/blog/sports/daveobrien/#comment-21 Yvonne Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:29:58 +0000 http://www.thoughtbubbles.org/sports/daveobrien/#comment-21 Oh god. I missed the "Michael Beckham" moment. Balboa's commentary is no prize, but I'm still inclined to like him better. Hopefully he'll get better with a little training. There's no training O'Brien's obvious distaste for the Beautiful Game. Oh god. I missed the “Michael Beckham” moment.

Balboa’s commentary is no prize, but I’m still inclined to like him better. Hopefully he’ll get better with a little training.

There’s no training O’Brien’s obvious distaste for the Beautiful Game.

]]> By: truth http://www.yvonnekao.com/blog/sports/daveobrien/#comment-20 truth Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:49:08 +0000 http://www.thoughtbubbles.org/sports/daveobrien/#comment-20 Great post title. Seriously, someone please shut him up. How could have he have known he was announcing the World Cup final since January, and apparently not watch any soccer until now? I'm just a soccer fan and I know which club teams most players play for, and I know how to pronounce the names of the world's great players. Michael Beckham. He actually said that! ESPN hates soccer. That's why they foisted this blowhard on us. And Balboa is worse, he uses twice as many words to say less than anyone else on TV. A guy on bigsoccer posted this: I have to credit Celo with adding a bit of new luster to the everyday mundane life I normally live. I've been able to take from his clue, a style of commentary on anything my family members decide to do... e.g.: (said at a faster than normal clip, knowing I have about 10 seconds to say the whole thing before the director's voice in my ear tells me to shut-up): "...you see, that's much better, she (my wife) reads the weather report on the weather channel and sees its going to be hot with a 90% chance of showers, so she makes the decision to not go to the beach. That's a good job. She needs to be doing that more, because when you go to the beach, you don't want to get rained on, you want the sun to be shining and she's starting to do that. Again, that's much better....that's a good job." http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=367408&page=47 Great post title. Seriously, someone please shut him up. How could have he have known he was announcing the World Cup final since January, and apparently not watch any soccer until now? I’m just a soccer fan and I know which club teams most players play for, and I know how to pronounce the names of the world’s great players. Michael Beckham. He actually said that!

ESPN hates soccer. That’s why they foisted this blowhard on us. And Balboa is worse, he uses twice as many words to say less than anyone else on TV.

A guy on bigsoccer posted this:

I have to credit Celo with adding a bit of new luster to the everyday mundane life I normally live. I’ve been able to take from his clue, a style of commentary on anything my family members decide to do… e.g.:
(said at a faster than normal clip, knowing I have about 10 seconds to say the whole thing before the director’s voice in my ear tells me to shut-up):
“…you see, that’s much better, she (my wife) reads the weather report on the weather channel and sees its going to be hot with a 90% chance of showers, so she makes the decision to not go to the beach. That’s a good job. She needs to be doing that more, because when you go to the beach, you don’t want to get rained on, you want the sun to be shining and she’s starting to do that. Again, that’s much better….that’s a good job.”

http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=367408&page=47

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