One has grown used, over the years, to the Alexi Lalas personality. I did not particularly like it at first — all that dopy long-hair and “Hey, man …” stuff.  But things change– I’ve changed, and so has Alexi – to the point where, particularly during last year’s World Cup, during that impenetrable Brit fog that ESPN landed on us, I found Lalas about the onlyguy worth listening to.

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