The "Thoughts That Don't Require Their Own Thread" Thread III

I love these. The only thing I don't like is Moreno.

 

Did I hear correctly? We are getting an extra hour of pregame tailgate?!!

 

Say no to the invasion of Green in our colors!

 

I have both!

 

I'll take that bet. Currently trying to get the gear to shoot a ton of HD b-roll of supporters on the away trip to Red Bull and I have access to Final Cut Pro at work. Shouldn't have a problem getting help with the production and editing so it's just really a question of coming up with some good concepts.

 

Latest commercial for NBC Sports, Shalrie Joseph spotted (8 secs in)!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX8ylq_zI9k&embedded=true]All Rise[/ame]

 

The company I work for recently became a sponsor of the Revs. In our cafeteria, they have a screen with a rotating slide show of company news.

The screen announcing our partnership with the Revs had a player in the picture. The player was not from the Revs, but Rosana from the Brazil WNT. Doh!

 

Waiting until he gets his ITC and visa, I presume (see: Luke Rogers).

 

Milton Caraglio has scored as many goals for his new team in Chile as the entire Revs team has scored in their first 5 games.

2011 castouts find their feet in South America
By Nicholas Rosano
9 Apr 2012

 

Milton is reason #1 in a size 80 font with big capital letters (along with the Jose Moreno saga as reason #1A) why no thread should ever be titled "In Praise of Mike Burns" (no offense). He would fit under the cap NOW, and if his "large transfer fee" was less than $1 million I can't believe they would lose him over it.

 

How do you know what his transfer fee was?

 

I don't know it. My point was I can see why a MLS FO would balk at a $1 million or greater transfer fee for a 22-year old player with an injury history; however I personally feel anything under that is well within reason based on potential and the flashes of great performance he showed. Plus, wouldn't that have been worth avoiding the Moreno headache? A Milton transfer fee probably still wouldn't even put the Revs in the top half of team spending. Also, if Milton did play well, you could probably sell him back to a European club in a couple years as he's entering his true prime and turn a profit on him.

 

For all we know, Milton's transfer clause could have been for $3 million. My issue isn't with the decision to not pay the transfer fee, my issue is with us signing a player on loan with what appears to be absolutely no intention of retaining the player after the short-term loan.

 

My sentiments exactly! And especially to tout the guy as "our new DP" when he would only be here for half a season. Total waste of time.

 

Make of this what you will:

The Revs are 3-14-9 in games Benny Feilhaber has played (including today's 2-1 loss to DC United). That works out to 18 points in 26 appearances.

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9JDJdaMs-Y"]Russian Prison System Documentary - YouTube[/ame]

Steve McCarthys evil twin @ 26 minute mark?

 

Ticketmaster is offering a 2-for-1 tickets deal for the Colorado game on Wednesday, May 2.

 

While I appreciate the promotional effort to try and build up the Wednesday game crowds, they're probably a lost cause due to rush hour traffic issues around Foxboro. They probably should have used this promotion to get more people out there on weekends. I'll be annoyed if this year's Groupon game is for midweek as well.

In fact, it wouldn't be a bad idea to sell a separate, midweek-games-excluded season ticket package at a discount. That way potential STHs wouldn't be stuck with tickets they probably couldn't use - they'd lose some revenue but might gain new STHs.

 

I welcome goal line technology. I just hope that there aren't any problems by making the change mid-season.

 

It will only be about 10 years to late to make good on Waldi Harris's Goal of the Decade bike that was almost a foot over the line but had so much power and spin off the bar it shot back out of the goal. Best goal I ever saw by far and it didn't count.