Give Your Props to Arlo White

by Dizzo on Feb 25, 2011 2:13 PM PST in Life in the Sound

As you probably know the writers here at Sounder-at-Heart believe strongly in supporting soccer and soccer coverage in the local media. It's extremely important to have solid soccer announcers and analysis when you're trying to build a new audience for the sport.

Luckily for us the Front Office has been on the same page and brought in Arlo White to be the voice of Seattle Sounders. I personally love his play-by-play style and the way he's able to integrate color commentary seamlessly into the action. He's far and away the best of the local announcers in MLS. We can only hope to get more great announcers and analysts like Arlo.

Now, after the jump, there's an opportunity to show our support for Arlo and soccer in the Sound.

ESPN radio, specifically Brock and Salk, are holding a single elimination online bracket for the best sports announcers and analysts in Western Washington. You can go to the bracket by clicking here. In the first round Arlo is up against Jim Moore. Let's pile on the votes for Arlo and show our support for both him and soccer in the Sound. Hopefully our votes will help convince them to feature more good soccer analysis.

Also in the first round, Dave Clark endorses Robbie Tobeck over Mike Salk. That will help clear an easier path for Arlo in the next round. There's also Seattle Sonics announcing legend and former Sounders announcer Kevin Calabro up against Matt Pitman in the first round. I'm sure Calabro will clear the first round with ease, but it never hurts to throw some votes his way!

In the comments let us know who are some of your first round favorites are.

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I'll be honest Toebeck over Salk is about giving Arlo a stronger 2nd round

Recall, the radio station hosting this poll is “your official place to talk Sounders FC soccer”

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by Dave Clark on Feb 25, 2011 2:18 PM PST reply actions

I would also find it amusing to have one of the hosts exit in the first round

by Dizzo on Feb 25, 2011 2:24 PM PST up reply actions

It would be nice if the "official place to talk Sounders FC soccer" actually hired people who knew and liked soccer

But, I will take what I can get.

by Coug1990 on Feb 25, 2011 2:25 PM PST up reply actions

That's the real problem here

There should be at least one of the ESPN guys that is a lock for the soccer vote. Instead we only have Arlo to carry the flag. Maybe if he makes it through enough rounds it will convince them to hire someone who knows the game….

by Dizzo on Feb 25, 2011 2:31 PM PST up reply actions

I've edited the post to reflect the real reason behind the Toebeck vote

As I was putting the post together I was wondering why this guy was worthy of the SAH vote. I’d never heard of him before and Wikipedia was no help. You know you have legacy issues when this is a prominent part of your wikipedia page:

He is known for losing control of his bowels during a 2001 game against the Washington Redskins.

by Dizzo on Feb 25, 2011 2:40 PM PST up reply actions

He has a saturday morning fishing show before Clayton on ESPN 710 in Seattle

He played at Washington State and started at center in two Superbowls: one for the Falcons and one for Seattle. He was considered the glue behind the great Seahawks lines when Seattle was winning the division year after year. He is one funny dude and was considered the funniest guy on the Seahawks. One time during the team Halloween party, he came dressed up as Coach Holmgren.

by Coug1990 on Feb 25, 2011 3:35 PM PST up reply actions

Aww but I like Salk.

by Aaron Campeau on Feb 25, 2011 3:10 PM PST up reply actions

Can't stand him

He’s one of those classic soccer hating frat boy type guys who relishes the fact that he can’t pronounce CONCACAF. As if his ignorance makes him cool.

I don’t expect our two sports radio stations to cover soccer. But they could at least pretend it a legitimate sport and at least mention to their listeners that there is a game in town or that the Sounders are so many points out of the lead etc. They don’t.

by Jack Brando on Feb 25, 2011 5:14 PM PST up reply actions

Keep us up to date!

Please post a new article when the voting gets to each new bracket. Otherwise, I might forget and Arlo might miss out on my vote in the future!

by beowuff on Feb 25, 2011 2:50 PM PST reply actions

Sure, I think we can do that

I’ve also posted it in the comments sections of the other prominent Sounders blogs. Maybe when came blow out the first round. ;-)

by Dizzo on Feb 25, 2011 3:23 PM PST up reply actions

But a lousy columnist

Unless you’re fond of one sentence paragraphs.

by bauckus on Feb 25, 2011 6:48 PM PST up reply actions

I'd like to win this award

But I’m not deserving.

Fred gave up a kidney to save a man’s life.

He’s the real hero … not me.

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by Brian Floyd on Feb 25, 2011 6:50 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs

You do not survive at the largest paper in the Northwest for over twenty years by being lousy

You may not agree with him and he can be annoying and at times he can be a know-it-all, but we all know who he is. For a columnist, that is saying a lot.

by Coug1990 on Feb 25, 2011 6:58 PM PST up reply actions

Is he?

I can not tell from his articles which all to often seem like they were written the night before with just a couple details filled in during the game to make it legit.

by lysander on Feb 26, 2011 9:02 PM PST up reply actions

Brock and Salk…both douchebags. Met em.
Dislike.
Go Arlo.

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by iced on Feb 25, 2011 9:23 PM PST reply actions 1 recs

agreed.

by chrisperry1983 on Feb 26, 2011 11:37 AM PST up reply actions

Done

I’ve submitted my vote. You’ve got to remind us all when to vote in the second round. Arlo has to win this thing.

by K61 on Feb 25, 2011 10:42 PM PST reply actions

Putting Arlo up against Jim Moore

Is just plain mean to Coug/Sounder fans.

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by Grady Clapp on Feb 26, 2011 8:32 AM PST reply actions

Why we love Arlo

In case you’re relatively new to the site or just missed it, last year Arlo White was among the media personalities who regularly extolled the virtues of Sounder at Heart. He even sat down for a lengthy interview with us. Here’s part 1, part 2 is linked within in.

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by Jeremiah Oshan on Feb 26, 2011 9:01 AM PST reply actions 1 recs

He really seems like a genuine guy

We Sounder fans are lucky to have him to listen to during the season. It was nice that he took the time to come on over. On a related nice guy note, one of the former Mariner announcers that is going to help stand in for the late Dave Niehaus went over on his own and introduced himself on SBN sister blog Lookout Landing. Thought that was a cool thing.

Go Arlo!

by Coug1990 on Feb 26, 2011 10:03 AM PST up reply actions

FYI - You can vote a 2nd time today

If you voted yesterday for the first round you can vote again today. I just went back and voted again. :-)

by Dizzo on Feb 26, 2011 12:10 PM PST reply actions 1 recs

Arlo

Is truly the only announcer I have ever liked listening to for any sport. More often than not I just hate listening to them because all they say stupid things like, ‘In order for team X to win, they are just simply going to need to score more points’ followed witha response like, ‘well yes or they could limit the other team from scoring so often.’

by lysander on Feb 26, 2011 9:04 PM PST reply actions