It’s unfair to ask Alexi Lalas to be the Charles Barkley of soccer

Alexi Lalas has not made any new fans during this World Cup. On a desk with Rebecca Lowe, Thierry Henry, and Zlatan Ibrahimović, he seems wildly out of place. Despite Lowe’s insistence to the contrary, it’s hard to believe that those three like the former USMNT center back all that much. Count me amongst Lalas’s…