Saturday, August 16, 2008

ESPN Can't Speak Spanish

Watching Sports Center this morning (big mistake), I caught ESPN's recap of last night's Astros game. In it, they mispronounced Q's name: instead of "um-bear-toh keen-ter-oh" it becomes "hum-ber-toh kwin-ter-oh."

I realize that Bristol is a long way from the border, and that Houston is just some sleepy ghost town to those Yankee fucks, but one would think that enough Hispanic athletes have passed through American sports since Roberto Clemente that ESPN could bother to pronounce their fucking names correctly.

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