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TMC · 11-22-2022, 03:25 AM

https://nypost.com/2022/11/21/fox-sp...up-dishonesty/

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By Andrew Marchand
November 21, 2022 6:50pm

What time do you want to meet for lunch? Be there at 1 p.m, but I’m not showing up until 2 p.m. to eat.

This is how Fox Sports dishonestly promotes the World Cup start times. It is disrespectful, though, not unexpected.

For Monday’s eight years in the waiting United States match against Wales, Fox’s graphics kept saying that “coverage begins at 1.”

One problem? Kickoff was at 2.

While others do this, too, it is particularly bad when the event is around the world in Qatar with a time difference that makes start times unusual for fans.

For Tuesday morning’s Argentina game, Fox Sports has promoted that coverage begins at 4 a.m., though the game’s kickoff is 5 a.m.

Who needs an hour extra of sleep? Plus, subjecting fans to Alexi Lalas in the pregame is cruel and unusual punishment at any hour.

In a peak of honesty on Monday morning, working England’s demolition of Iran, play-by-player Ian Darke, at 68 and with the chops to do what he wants, added the United States game will actually begin at 2 p.m. But that is not the norm. We heard no other Fox Sports announcer to do it in two days of coverage.

Of all the problems with the World Cup, this is not at the top of the list. Qatar bribed its way to host the event, which resulted in the games moving from the summer to the winter, the banning of beer being sold to fans in the stadium and, the latest, players being disallowed from wearing rainbow colored captain’s “OneLove” anti-discrimination armbands with a risk of being assessed a yellow card, if they do.

Like NBC and the Olympics, Fox did not choose the Cup host, but it dictates how to cover it. It is understood that they are there to showcase the games. But you need to be there before the fire starts so the issues surrounding these games need to be part of the coverage because eventually they may be a very big deal.

First, maybe Fox Sports can tell fans the right time to show up for lunch.

Yong Fang · 11-22-2022, 05:33 AM

I may have mentioned this before, but I dislike sports announcers either before or during the game itself. Just show the game. What is the hour (which is like thirty five minutes) after commercials, hence the deception, going to talk about? For me, I dont need a total breakdown of every player, every injury or any of that.

Just show the game.

There was a bar I patronized for many years. It was not a sports bar but for World Cup had a screen and a projector and all of that. When the game began, the music stopped and the sound was turned on. I went "Why turn off the music?" Them "So they can LISTEN to the game." Me thinking, Listen? They can SEE the game, why do they need two or three announcers telling the audience what they have already seen?

11-22-2022, 05:33 AM	#2
Yong Fang Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 04, 2009 Location: Memphis Tennessee Posts: 3,072	I may have mentioned this before, but I dislike sports announcers either before or during the game itself. Just show the game. What is the hour (which is like thirty five minutes) after commercials, hence the deception, going to talk about? For me, I dont need a total breakdown of every player, every injury or any of that. Just show the game. There was a bar I patronized for many years. It was not a sports bar but for World Cup had a screen and a projector and all of that. When the game began, the music stopped and the sound was turned on. I went "Why turn off the music?" Them "So they can LISTEN to the game." Me thinking, Listen? They can SEE the game, why do they need two or three announcers telling the audience what they have already seen?