Hope Moyes wins as many trophies as he did at the Bitters- OTT 24 [R]

Looking forward to booing Fernando Torres in Indianapolis this evening.

 

They are a testament to what savy, stable club management can do. They are also several years ahead of us under their current management structure. Trouble with Spurs is their ceiling is lower than ours, so while they are currently maximizing their resources, its going to be a pretty heavy lift for them to truly compete at the very top of the league. They have yet to finish have CL football for consecutive seasons.

LFC on the other hand is still very much in the transition to maximizing our resources, and while we appear to have stabilized and seem to be moving in the right direction, we aren't there just yet. If we can get CL football, our revenues will be pretty close to par with pretty much everyone, except ManU, which therefore will allow us to truly compete at the top of the league.

 

One of my favorite football moments was when Chelski playedDCU at FedEx and Lampard looked up to see my son flick him off after my son had yelled ******** You Fat Frank. Lampard looked completely dumbfounded. How did this Yank kid know all that? LB2 was about 13 at the time.

 

Your son knows the deal. You taught him well!

 

Add an occasional insult into the mix. When there is a moment of silence.....Twat.....Fool....(Note that I used words that bigsoccer might not censor). Get creative.

 

Insane.

 

your hyperbole is a bit silly. if Bale is worth 100M, which he isn't, then Ronaldo is worth 150 and Messi 200, maybe.

but the really bad thing about this is that it's an A-Rod moment. when Alex Rodriguez was signed by the Texas Rangers for 260M for 10 years, it put baseball salaries into a tailspin from which they have never recovered. the idea that Ryan Zimmerman, 3rd base for Washington Nats makes 14,000,000 a year is obscene. that's over 86K per game. (based on 162 games per season)

it's not that Zimmerman is a bad player. it's that 86K per game is more than the average for a certified Nurse Midwife for a year in the USA.

and Ryan Zimmerman uniform shirts aren't paying his salary. he's not in the top 25.

 

Well it goes without saying that 40,000 people don't buy tickets and overpay for beer to watch a team of 9 midwives deliver babies 162 times per year. This is the age old question, when a sport or league starts maximizing its profits where should the money go? Personally I'd rather have the money go to the product on the field rather than the businessmen in charge... but I can think that and still agree with you that it's a slippery slope.

 

if tickets to sporting events were not a business expense, the cost of tickets would be reasonable and the salaries of athletes would be a small percentage of what they are now. i agree that the money should be spread more among the talent rather than the owners, but "the money" need not be the result of the average ticket price's being over 100 bucks.

i had a single season seat for the LA Kings from '81 to '84, including prepaid parking, for 45 games, 41 home games and 4 pre-season games. the cost was about 1000 bucks, and i split the season with a guy i knew, so i was able to see 23 games for about 500 dollars, or 18 bucks plus 3 for parking. my seat was in Row L, on the blue line. now that seat as part of a season seat package is around $240, per game. at the time, the 500 bucks was 40% of a month's salary. now, the cost of a season seat for the year would be about 150% of my salary for a month.

 

Citeh still can't defend

 

Total waste of a sound waves if you ask me.

 

Nah, it was worth it.

 

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Torres now always has his knees braced and wrapped - sad to see players decline due to injuries. Makes those who can still play at a high level into their 30's - like our captain - all that more remarkable given the wear and tear on the body.

 

Suarez's value measured by market exchange is tremendous, yet the actual use-value in Luis' (a worker specializing in dribbling a speckled ball and scoring goals) is minimal when recognized in consumptive gain. I.e. when Suarez stays, and LFC win the treble next year, you and I gain nothing, but LFC may move up the Forbes list.*

In contrast, the exchange-value of a school teacher on the open market is minimal (40k/year), whereas a teacher's use-value measured by consumptive gain, is near unlimited and impossible to quantify.

*Summer long euphoria, and a drunken haze were not considered consumptive gain by Marx. Clearly, He was a buzz kill and a Bitter fan.

 

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