Comments on: ESPN – PLEASE Show Dave O’Brien A Red Card!

By: Soccer Dad

Soccer Dad — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:42:07 +0000

Bow wow – Do you really think the high ratings were BECAUSE of Dave O’Brien? Instead of, you know, the match itself, it being the World Cup?

I don’t think anyone faulted his style (well maybe he could act a LITTLE more excited when someone scores) Read the articles out there. People were upset that he GOT thrown into this and when he did, he clearly wasn’t prepared. Had he cut his teeth in the MLS for a year, I think he probably COULD have been a decent World Cup announcer. But would you take an announcer from, say, hockey and have them be the top announcer for the World Series? Would fans approve? I thought not.

Oh and just a hint – I don’t know for sure if you did, but it seems likely you took the same comment and pasted it into a few different blogs. When you do that, the spam networks flag it as spam. When it got here, it was immediately flagged as spam by the system we use (Akismet), so you might consider posting different comments at each. I had to ‘rescue’ your comment from my spam filter (Spam Karma 2 – rocks!). Just a thought.

By: Bow wow

Bow wow — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:13:31 +0000

O MY GOD!! these people are crazy THESE WERE THE HIGHEST RATINGS EVER!!! Dave O’Brien did a tremendous jod considering he just got thrown in there!! his style of comentating gets so many more viewers

By: Thought Bubbles

Thought Bubbles — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:31:32 +0000

Shut Up, Dave O’Brien…

I don’t think I can say it any better than this petition to ESPN programming:
As a sports leader and the largest cable sports network it would make sense that the company would want to have the best coverage of the event possible. Putting someone…

By: ThroughBall.com » Dave O’Brien should be going, going, gone.

ThroughBall.com » Dave O’Brien should be going, going, gone. — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:51:09 +0000

[...] It seems that we were not alone in questioning O’Brien’s credentials. Check out Mike’s rundown of the MSM and Soccersphere’s reaction to Dave O’Brien as ESPN’s #1 during the World Cup. [...]