And the rest of my family, and that's you guys, that's the fans, my adopted family, especially my fans from San Diego.

I was 20 years and we had a blast. I had a blast. I truly enjoyed it.

But it wouldn't have been nearly as much fun if you hadn't been as supportive as you were. So I say thank you.

Good morning and welcome to episode 472 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball perspective presented by the play index at baseballreference.com.

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Munberg, Ben Hower you?

All right.

I'm always interested in whether other sports broadcasters are better or worse than baseball broadcasters.

And I think baseball broadcasters have gotten better, but we still have in mind a lot of the ways in which they're quite poor and not all of them.

Of course some of them are great, some of my love, but some of them aren't.

And generally it seems to me that football broadcasters are worse with the exception of al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth.

And that basketball broadcasters are generally better in my estimation. They seem to be better.

So soccer today, now I get to hear soccer. And I didn't see the TV broadcast. The TV broadcast that I was watching was in Spanish.

I can't speak to them, but I did listen to some of the English on the radio. And there was one point where the guy who was doing the color commentary, who had an accent.

Well, that's it, right? The soccer has a reputation, I feel like, for having entertaining broadcast, but I feel like 70% of it is the accent.

Yeah, so I was at first charmed by this man's, I believe Irish, Irish accent, I think.

But then I started to notice that the accent, it was basically perfume on an unshoured body.

And it really peaked, I would say, when the US was winning one in nothing in minute 81 or so, 80, 81.

And the broadcasters said in the most sort of profound, satisfied tone possible. Like it was as though he were announcing, you know, the victory of US forces in World War II or something.

He says in this really profound way that the clock is the US's best friend right now, and it is Ghana's worst enemy.

And I mean, that's true in every single game. Like there's nothing unique about the situation. Like one team is trailing as the clock winds down.

And so it was a low point from that point on. He had completely lost me and I realized that soccer radio announcers at least are quite poor.

I don't think I'm qualified to judge the, at least the level of analysis on a broadcast of any other sport.

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