With LA hosting Manchester United...and us not being in CCL. Should RSL try to schedule a friendly with a top tier Liga MX side? Those games were fun in the past. You'd fill the stadium for sure - and for less than the EPL extortion prices. Does anyone know the team's plans for this sort of scheduling, or is it silly with the World Cup? Maybe you do it DURING world cup to get reserves time and stay fresh.
Truthfully, RSL is banking on another crazy USOC schedule with their ticket package right now. We have 3 games that are "extras". One will most likely be used for the July 25th reserve game against Pittsburgh. Outside that, though, it's hard to see where RSL fills these other 2 games in. I would be in favor of a friendly during the world cup break. I don't think EPL teams can ask as much as they normally would with it being a World Cup year and missing players - so maybe we could justify one? Though, if they got an EPL team, I have a real hard time believing they would let the nearly 12K season ticket holders get in on the price of "free". Go find a central american team. Remember those bitch sharks? yeah, those guys.
Learned a new term last week: http://www.wired.com/2011/06/bronies-my-little-ponys/ Probably old news to all you BS pop culture gurus. Especially interesting when he uses the term "fans for life".
More info on Atlanta's expansion bid, as well as some posturing on conference realignment. http://soccer.si.com/2014/04/09/mls-expansion-atlanta-minneapolis-realignment-miami/ Grammar note: Straus correctly used the phrase "deep seated". Either he caught it, or his editor knew that "deep seeded" was incorrect.
Interesting to note that "playing at altitude" (along with playing on artificial surfaces) was a consideration of conference/division alignments and not wanting to stick other teams with such a disadvantage.
Another grammar note: "pay an expansion fee somewhere in between the $70 million charged to Orlando City and the $100 million spent by" Ugh… I hate that construction, it is redundant. Just write, "…somewhere between the $70…)
This might be the complaint that breaks up the grammar bitchfest. At some point, and I think "in between" vs "between" is as fine a place as any, we have to recognize that language evolves, and if this is the way people speak, it's probably just going to have to be okay.
Yeah, but sometimes the evolution of language is a result of people being lazy. There are all kinds of Spanish words that are used in Mexico purely from the influence of English speaking tourists. Things that just make you shake your head, like the verb "parquear" (created from the word park, as in parking your car). The proper verb is estacionar, but parquear became so commonly used that is was adopted and added to the dictionary.
I don't think it's the influence of English-speaking tourists. It's the influence of English in general as the universal language (thanks to the US television/film/music industries) and the general laziness of Americans (and English speakers in general) to learn a foreign language. No need to learn another language when everyone learns your language.
So that convention that my son said he went to here in SLC last year was an excuse to do something else nefarious. I knew it! He is so grounded!!!!
I bet the "cool kids" on Twitter don't have such varied and interesting conversations. Not when you're limited to 27 characters. Or whatever it is.
I had an non-native speaking bishop on my mission say this exact thing when introducing a female speaker. He meant to say she was embarrassed to speak in public, but he ended up saying she was pregnant. Awkward...
SKC's Ike Opara undergoes surgery for an ankle injury sustained in their game against Colorado. Potentially out for the season. http://www.sportingkc.com/news/2014...rgo-surgery-severe-season-ending-ankle-injury