GOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLL!!!!

Stunning! Amazing! Apalling!

After xx number of years, I've finally found a soccer play-by-play announcer to listen to. His name is Phil Schoen. I'm not saying he's great, but I can actually listen to him. I've probably heard him before, but just didn't put it together. I listened to him do the US-Mexico match on Mun2 and he was actually cogent.

((( PLEASE NOTE: This post was started a long, long time ago and I had lots of thoughts at the time that I didn't get in here so I think it sucks but I decided to throw it up in mid-creation. Read/interpret at your own risk. Phil Schoen is apparently at BeIN now. OUT. )))

So, I've decided that going to the World Cup in South Africa would be very bad. Apparently the entire cast of Killer Bees (trailer) has descended upon the country and have evolved the ability to look like people!!! It's people!!
Just listen to their horrible screaming!
Of course, the flipside is that I'll have to listen to the monkey-sucking cheese doodles that they toss up onto the airwaves over at espn (at least, I assume they'll cover it).

Ray Hudson rocks:
http://hudsonia.blogspot.com/

I don't have a problem with "onion bag." It's better than "could this be the one that puts xxxxx in the win column" or whatever by Ian Darke. A bit apples-and-oranges, but still.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/apr/15/tommy-smyth-us-soccer-espn

A semi-anti-English take:
http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/accented-english-spoken-here/

Here's a current (7/13) note: I can't stand J.P. Dellacamera and I just saw his name in an above link and realized I haven't heard him for quite a while. He must have moved on or something. So I got that going for me.
Update 7/29: Speak of the Horrid, I think I heard him doing a Women's Euro game or something I was watching on ESPN a week or so ago. He's one of those word swallowers. That's mostly what bothers me about him.