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WC 2006: Slate's contrarian view on the World Cup announcers
2006-07-07 19:54
by Bob Timmermann

As is its wont, Slate thinks that ESPN's announcers for the World Cup aren't as bad as we think they are. And the writer, Robert Weintraub, also thinks that Univision's announcers aren't all that good either.

Well, the Univision announcers aren't anything special, but they are actually better now than they were with Andres Cantor, who really never had anything to say except "Goooooooooooooooooooooollllllllll!"

But Slate also has written that diving is good.

They even think The Searchers is a woefully overrated film.

Maybe I should ask Slate if they want to run my piece on why Jae Seo should get a save for his pitching on June 23.

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2006-07-07 22:11:34
1.   Jon Weisman
I think The Searchers is overrated, too. Give me Stagecoach any day.
2006-07-07 22:19:20
2.   Bob Timmermann
Yeah, but the film guy had this passage:

Though visually magnificent, the movie is otherwise off-putting to the contemporary sensibility, what with its when men were men, and women were hysterics mythos and an acting style that often appears frozen in tintype.

So he wouldn't like "Stagecoach" either.

2006-07-07 22:25:14
3.   grandcosmo
2. >>>and an acting style that often appears frozen in tintype.

I don't know how that happened. The last thing John Ford would say to The Duke before the cameras rolled was "Act like its 2006!"

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