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Re: World Cup '26 - in game discussion.
« Reply #175 on: June 26, 2026, 04:18:25 pm »
I am having a great time watching games on Telemundo. The "Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooal" call is like a lomg drawn out "See you later!" home run call. It was also a pleasure to watch a game in a MidTown bar with fans of Germany and Norway. The bar had the dismal Fox Sports video, with a couple of half-hearted English announcers who were not into the game. It is Telemundo for me, by necessity and by choice.Our son, Redskin_Dan_v.1978 had a great time in Kansas City with Dutch fans.
See still no one reporting any good times with French fans. 

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« Reply #176 on: June 26, 2026, 04:22:17 pm »
TV interviewers shy away from those engrossed in arguments about manichean ethics and semiotics
See still no one reporting any good times with French fans. 

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« Reply #177 on: June 26, 2026, 04:26:46 pm »
TV interviewers shy away from those engrossed in arguments about manichean ethics and semiotics
Oui.

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« Reply #178 on: June 26, 2026, 04:43:18 pm »
The discussion of the Spanish broadcast prompts me to think of something. Apple now advertises a feature with AirPods where they can give you a live translation when you listen to a foreign-language speaker. Has anyone ever tried that (in any setting, not necessarily watching sports on TV)? If so, how did it work? Part of what prompts the question is that the Spanish commentators talk so fast that I wonder whether the software could possibly keep up in anything remotely resembling real time.

But regarding the "Goooooooool" call, I remember back in 1994 when one of the local news broadcasts was showing soccer highlights that used the Spanish call. At the end of the segment, the sports anchor looked at the camera and said, in a very dry voice (almost like Al Gore), "I believe they may have scored a [pause] goal."

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« Reply #179 on: June 26, 2026, 05:13:09 pm »
Those sound cool.  Probably a high error rate with some of the more tonal languages (Cantonese, Vietnamese, etc) but I'm sure the improvement curve will have the usual AI steepness.

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Re: World Cup '26 - in game discussion.
« Reply #180 on: June 26, 2026, 05:29:47 pm »
Thew Telemundo announcers tell you who has the ball, and you can see what happens. No need for tactics and strategies and such. It is easy to follow your eyes. I usually got to the Guardian just before game time, and look at the lineups. That's enough. The Guardian has a minute-by-minute description of the game, and that is helpful, but only a little. You know what you saw. You know when a team is playing hard or slowing down. And it is amusing to hear Andres Cantor say, "Falta! No senior" when a player demands a foul to be called but the ref waves it off. And I remember tiny bits of my Spanish from 60 years ago, but, as you say, the announcers speak too fast

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« Reply #181 on: June 26, 2026, 08:44:17 pm »
I’m watching the Spain and Uruguay match on Fox. Announcer is fine. Fox has both games while Telemundo has only one of the games.  So can’t switch back and forth on Telemundo.  Think Univision has the other group last games.

Uruguay hanging in but the goalie missed an easy one  and now 1-0 Spain.

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« Reply #182 on: June 26, 2026, 10:12:11 pm »
I thought the ejected player for Uruguay was going to attack the ref.

On the postgame, Lalas said something in Spanish that cracked the others up. Anyone know what he said?

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« Reply #183 on: June 27, 2026, 05:54:37 am »
I hate Uruguay for a very DC reason. At one of my old jobs, we were on K Street and we shared an alley with the Embassy of Uruguay. It was an L-shaped alley and if a delivery truck wanted to get to our loading dock, it had to make a 90 degree turn. Most trucks couldn't make that turn. So most deliveries we got, the truck had to park in the long part of the "L", take the stuff out, and deliver it on hand trucks to our loading dock.

This was technically illegal. And everytime it happened, somebody at the Uruguayan embassy would immediately call the cops on us. They must have somebody whose entire job it was to look at the alley and be a parking Karen.

Ever since then, my favorite part of any World Cup has been the elimination of Uruguay. Love to see it, love especially that it comes as part of the amazing underdog story of Cape Verde!

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« Reply #184 on: June 27, 2026, 11:29:45 am »
Most people who dislike Uruguay do so because they are dismayed by Luis Suarez always being smeared with blood from having bitten into someone's jugular vein...or because both their wife and their daughter stripped naked and told Diego Forlan to "just take me"...so a novel response!

I hate Uruguay for a very DC reason. At one of my old jobs, we were on K Street and we shared an alley with the Embassy of Uruguay. It was an L-shaped alley and if a delivery truck wanted to get to our loading dock, it had to make a 90 degree turn. Most trucks couldn't make that turn. So most deliveries we got, the truck had to park in the long part of the "L", take the stuff out, and deliver it on hand trucks to our loading dock.

This was technically illegal. And everytime it happened, somebody at the Uruguayan embassy would immediately call the cops on us. They must have somebody whose entire job it was to look at the alley and be a parking Karen.

Ever since then, my favorite part of any World Cup has been the elimination of Uruguay. Love to see it, love especially that it comes as part of the amazing underdog story of Cape Verde!

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Re: World Cup '26 - in game discussion.
« Reply #185 on: June 27, 2026, 05:02:23 pm »
FIFA does not want anyone to know, but the game is being played at MetLife Stadium in The Swamp. Thunderstorms off and on, about 70 degrees.

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Re: World Cup '26 - in game discussion.
« Reply #186 on: June 27, 2026, 05:44:29 pm »
Curious that Tuchel seems to be still experimenting with players - so far, it's another snoozefest. Need to get going - as it stands, the GP would be second in the group and face Portugal, in the 32, and Spain in the 16... :roll:

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« Reply #187 on: June 27, 2026, 05:47:46 pm »
Interesting scenario in the Algeria/Austria game tonight. Obviously there is bad blood going back to 1982 but at the end of the day Algeria won't want to face Spain and if it freaks over Iran, there's little love between Arabs and Persians. Austria breaking a 0-0 tie in the 93rd minute almost seems to be a foregone conclusion.

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Re: World Cup '26 - in game discussion.
« Reply #188 on: June 27, 2026, 06:02:00 pm »
Really needed that first half hydration break, what with all that rain pouring down... :hysterical: Complete nonsense - is this what the game has become?... :roll:

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Re: World Cup '26 - in game discussion.
« Reply #189 on: June 27, 2026, 06:16:39 pm »
Yellow card against Panama for a shirt-pull.

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Re: World Cup '26 - in game discussion.
« Reply #190 on: June 27, 2026, 06:16:52 pm »
Is it Darke and Donovan announcing in England or is that just The US feed?

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Re: World Cup '26 - in game discussion.
« Reply #191 on: June 27, 2026, 06:19:43 pm »
Harry Kane cannot have lost a step that he never had. But he still scores.

Camera spotted a man with Spurs hat and little boy. Raise them right, dad.

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Re: World Cup '26 - in game discussion.
« Reply #192 on: June 27, 2026, 06:22:29 pm »
Bellingham "Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooal". Inglaterra is justifiebly ahead. And congratulations EN!

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Re: World Cup '26 - in game discussion.
« Reply #193 on: June 27, 2026, 06:28:12 pm »
And there he is!!!!!!!! Kane "Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooal"

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Re: World Cup '26 - in game discussion.
« Reply #194 on: June 27, 2026, 06:42:29 pm »
Bellingham "Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooal". Inglaterra is justifiebly ahead. And congratulations EN!

Thanks Welch. Not the GP's finest hour, but winning the group means it's Senegal, in the 32. No pushovers - the GP will have to be better than this...

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« Reply #195 on: June 27, 2026, 06:47:46 pm »
Pennsylvania Croatians are many, and all there in the "other" game

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Re: World Cup '26 - in game discussion.
« Reply #196 on: June 27, 2026, 06:50:15 pm »
Modric is still playing?

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Re: World Cup '26 - in game discussion.
« Reply #197 on: June 27, 2026, 06:59:18 pm »
I have to check my neighborhood Indian restaurant, Kismat, at 187th and Ft Washington, to see if they offer vindaloo.


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Re: World Cup '26 - in game discussion.
« Reply #198 on: June 27, 2026, 07:01:03 pm »
Convenient timing of the end of both matches just before the Nats start

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« Reply #199 on: June 27, 2026, 07:46:34 pm »
Wait...baseball season started?
Convenient timing of the end of both matches just before the Nats start