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Seems a bit odd to have the biggest series in baseball going on and no thread, so I'll start:
Watched Game 1 last night in Spanish. Since my Spanish is rudimentary at best, I looked at this as combining the fun of watching baseball with furthering my education.
The Spanish-speaking commentators were...different. Or maybe one just notices things more when one has to listen very, very hard . For instance, we got treated to several renditions of the Beach Boys' song "Kokomo," as an a capella duet by both announcers. Also, every time Johnny Lester was up pitching, we got to hear a solo announcer sing selected lines from "Johnny B. Goode."*
They dropped into English quite often for common phrases. This is something I never hear when watching the Tour de France in French, and I can't remember hearing it when watching football/soccer in Spanish. Maybe just a baseball thing? And also probably because the network (Fox Deportes) is based in the US, as compared to the soccer telecast originating in a Spanish-speaking country. Just a guess.
Oh, Boston won. By quite a bit .
*This made me wish I'd started watching baseball in Spanish earlier, so I could have heard their rendition of "Enter Sandman" when Mariano Rivera walked out to close .
Watched Game 1 last night in Spanish. Since my Spanish is rudimentary at best, I looked at this as combining the fun of watching baseball with furthering my education.
The Spanish-speaking commentators were...different. Or maybe one just notices things more when one has to listen very, very hard . For instance, we got treated to several renditions of the Beach Boys' song "Kokomo," as an a capella duet by both announcers. Also, every time Johnny Lester was up pitching, we got to hear a solo announcer sing selected lines from "Johnny B. Goode."*
They dropped into English quite often for common phrases. This is something I never hear when watching the Tour de France in French, and I can't remember hearing it when watching football/soccer in Spanish. Maybe just a baseball thing? And also probably because the network (Fox Deportes) is based in the US, as compared to the soccer telecast originating in a Spanish-speaking country. Just a guess.
Oh, Boston won. By quite a bit .
*This made me wish I'd started watching baseball in Spanish earlier, so I could have heard their rendition of "Enter Sandman" when Mariano Rivera walked out to close .
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