Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Bad Programming

The US plays Mexico in a World Cup Qualifying Match tomorrow. Exciting!

More...The US is coming off the second greatest run in US Soccer history at the Confederation Cup. While the the stars of the first team took advantage of this run and signed several big time contracts in Europe, the JV Team got their butts handed to them by the Mexicans 5-0 in the Gold Cup Final. Now comes the showdown, live from Estadio Azteca, the biggest home field advantage in all of sports! Will the Gooch beat a Mexican senseless (Yes!), can Mexico play with a US squad at full strength(no), will Mexico's head coach kick another opposing player in the crotch (ABSOLUTELY!). Will Jozey finally step up? (maybe). Clearly, I'm excited. I'm also vexed - 2 reasons:
The match is at 3pm EST.
It will only be carried on Univision (Spanish) and MUN2(Spanglish).

ESPN can't carry the game because they only have rights to US home games, and Univision has the US rights to all Mexican National Team game. Meanwhile the Mexican Futbol Federation put the match on at 3pm EST to make sure the American would play in altitude, with smog and heat, a potentially dangerous conversation. How are we supposed to become the world's biggest consumer of Soccer with all this randomness. Why can't I be going through some funemployment. Why? Why?