Angels Announcer is Victor Rojas

As i understand things having a “grasp of a language” is being able to cogently understand and respond (though maybe with an accent thus making it difficult to communicate)

Speaking clearly and concisely, on the other hand, as mentioned above, refers to the ability to communicate a language.

The first being the knowledge and understanding of a language, whereas the second being able to articulate that knowledge in a way that’s others can comprehend

for President!

What you say is so true.

The UC school system is suffering from an equally overblown reaction to a few isolated, racially-charged incidents. The more people overreact to things like this, the more attention is drawn to racist idiots and the differences between humans. We need to focus on the similarities.

The goal for humanity is to make race a non-issue. You can’t do that if you’re constantly calling attention to every stupid (and often harmless) comment.

Mota sucks because he’s an uninteresting, barely competent English-language announcer. Not because he’s Latin.

…so thought I’d stay anonymous but I agree.

I might not have taken such a hard-lined stance but the spirit of the message is true.

I’m not a fan of Mota by any stretch (very boring announcer despite his knowledge) and dislike him further because listening to him on the radio is painful. Am I racist for feeling that way?

I’ve not heard this new voice at all so I can’t comment and as I said below, I don’t think the choice is by mistake. It both targets a large demographic in LA which is important to Arte as is the national demographic. I don’t care, as long as I can’t tell when listening to him.

((mostly rec’d for the spirit of the statement but especially because of “…where the person on the other end speaks crisply and doesn’t roll every "r" seventeen times…”))

While i’m not particularly certain who you’re actually replying to since I certainly tried to distance myself from surfpunk’s ignorantly broad sweeping comments, I feel that some kind of response is necessary.

Honestly, the calling any opinion I don’t agree with “Un-American” schtick is kind of an old drum. It’s the old reliable ad hominen attack when the person refuses to engage in the substantive discourse or has no real answer to the argument put before them (and i’ll point out that if you chose to find out, there are some pretty damn good logical reasons why there’s the Warning: Hot label on your fucking coffee). While I disagree with any number of points in the rant (and agree with a few as well), what’s the point of bringing them up when the only response you expect back is to be called a douchebag and pussy.

That said, since this is a baseball blog (and we’ve clearly veered off that topic), i’m dropping this subject and if Phi wants to debate me in a more appropriate forum then i’m at his disposal.

But this whole accent stuff is nonsense. What the hell is an accent-free broadcast? Should the Angels never interview a broadcaster with a New York accent? Should the Yankees never hire a broadcaster from California? I’d hate to break this to you Phi, but YOU have an accent. If you have a problem with listening to someone who doesn’t talk exactly like you, you have issues dude.

I agree with you that broadcasting requires a clear conveyance of the situation and that having a strong grasp of English is an absolute necessity for an English-language broadcast (although it is not by itself sufficient). It is very possible, however, for one to have a strong grasp of the language, be a good broadcaster, and speak differently than PhiSlamma does.