Dan Loney
06 Feb 2007, 02:17 PM
Irony coming from someone like Conan O'Brien. Sadly accurate description of my priorities.
I need to make a big "DAVE'S NOT HERE, MAN" sign for a Galaxy home game early in the season. And don't tell me only four or five people will get the reference. Something like fifteen people in our section last year knew the tune to "Earache, My Eye" when we started a chant to that tune. No, we weren't stoned. I wasn't, anyway. I might have been dosed. But I'm not the one on trial here.
I'm going to go ahead and assume that David Beckham makes his Galaxy debut July 7 against Kansas City. The Wizards are ordinarily huge attendance-killers, despite Jimmy Conrad. Kansas City needs to start antagonizing home fans on the road, like Colorado did when they were trying to get anyone to care about them.
According to the LA home schedule, the Galaxy doesn't play at home again until the freaking end of August, against Chivas. I have to think Beckham doesn't make his debut on 8/23, though. And I can't picture the Galaxy having Beckham make his MLS debut on the road. Even at the All-Star Game.
It looks like Toronto got their Beckham game. Actually, it looks like everyone might have gotten their Beckham game. How is this possible? Try only four Galaxy road games from April to August, all against conference opponents. In August, Beckham makes the East Coast swing - Toronto, DC, New England and New York. The other three Eastern conference opponents, and the five Western conference teams, are mopped up from the end of August to mid-October.
I'm sure that was a minor scheduling miracle, especially dealing with NFL stadia in the fall, and I commend whoever came up with it. They didn't even need to resort to my fallback idea, which was to schedule all four Chivas USA games in April and May. The intracity rivalry usually comes close to selling out anyway, Chivas fans affect to disdain Beckham, and AEG isn't in any hurry to hand money to Vergara, so why not?
ESPN2 isn't gonna just GIVE Thursday night to NBC next fall. Five Thursday night Beckham games, by my quick count, including two Chivas-Galaxy games. Very clever. Those games usually sell out, or come close to it, so why not show them on TV during midweek? It's a hassle for fans, but from a business standpoint, I applaud the league inconveniencing me. I'd do it to them, if I could make a buck off it.
I need to make a big "DAVE'S NOT HERE, MAN" sign for a Galaxy home game early in the season. And don't tell me only four or five people will get the reference. Something like fifteen people in our section last year knew the tune to "Earache, My Eye" when we started a chant to that tune. No, we weren't stoned. I wasn't, anyway. I might have been dosed. But I'm not the one on trial here.
I'm going to go ahead and assume that David Beckham makes his Galaxy debut July 7 against Kansas City. The Wizards are ordinarily huge attendance-killers, despite Jimmy Conrad. Kansas City needs to start antagonizing home fans on the road, like Colorado did when they were trying to get anyone to care about them.
According to the LA home schedule, the Galaxy doesn't play at home again until the freaking end of August, against Chivas. I have to think Beckham doesn't make his debut on 8/23, though. And I can't picture the Galaxy having Beckham make his MLS debut on the road. Even at the All-Star Game.
It looks like Toronto got their Beckham game. Actually, it looks like everyone might have gotten their Beckham game. How is this possible? Try only four Galaxy road games from April to August, all against conference opponents. In August, Beckham makes the East Coast swing - Toronto, DC, New England and New York. The other three Eastern conference opponents, and the five Western conference teams, are mopped up from the end of August to mid-October.
I'm sure that was a minor scheduling miracle, especially dealing with NFL stadia in the fall, and I commend whoever came up with it. They didn't even need to resort to my fallback idea, which was to schedule all four Chivas USA games in April and May. The intracity rivalry usually comes close to selling out anyway, Chivas fans affect to disdain Beckham, and AEG isn't in any hurry to hand money to Vergara, so why not?
ESPN2 isn't gonna just GIVE Thursday night to NBC next fall. Five Thursday night Beckham games, by my quick count, including two Chivas-Galaxy games. Very clever. Those games usually sell out, or come close to it, so why not show them on TV during midweek? It's a hassle for fans, but from a business standpoint, I applaud the league inconveniencing me. I'd do it to them, if I could make a buck off it.