View Full Version : Players Lash Out at Cardinal Stadium
HalaMadrid
03 Aug 2002, 02:56 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38458-2002Aug2.html
Marcelo Balboa: ...We have to get stadiums. You see what Columbus has done and see what [Chicago] has to play on. You can't play a professional game on what they have to play on. So for me the first thing is to try to get everybody stadiums because then you can control who plays, when you play. You don't have to worry about football. You don't have to worry about maintenance. You don't have to worry about anything...
[b]Carlos Bocanegra: Our stadium [stinks]. We play on AstroTurf and it just gets so hot out there. There's rubber underneath and the heat index on the field is terrible. In Europe they have little stadiums that hold 20,000 people. They sell it out and get it rocking in there. If people have fun in the stands they'll come back.
genpabloescobar
03 Aug 2002, 03:02 PM
OK, so where I don't disagree with what Boca is saying, I don't understand what one sentence in that paragraph has to do with the other. Is Cardinal Stadium not rocking because the players play on hot plastic?
genpabloescobar
03 Aug 2002, 03:07 PM
Originally posted by Fanaddict
Marceello balboa in response to how he felt about contraction said they should have moved one of those teams to chicago rather than contracting. What is he saying have two chicago teams and where would the other team play?
Northwestern? Hee, hee, just kidding.
Fanaddict
03 Aug 2002, 03:10 PM
I deleted my post because I read it wrong, he said before expanding they should have put a team in chicago whicjh still doesn't make any sense because the reason we didn't get a team when mls debuted was because we couldn't get a lease with SF signed.
HalaMadrid
03 Aug 2002, 06:11 PM
Now, further salt in the wound: Josh has blamed his injury keeping him out of the All-Star game on the Cardinal Stadium surface, in a TV interview.
jmeissen0
03 Aug 2002, 06:33 PM
can someone tell me what dema was doing taking beasely out from behind???
mactheknife
03 Aug 2002, 06:34 PM
ok, i know i defended naperville in a different topic, but i agree that our stadium is terrible. i would love to see more small-to-midsized stadiums built for MLS. i'm yet to go to columbus, but i've seen it from the road and it seems like that's what we need.
kebzach
03 Aug 2002, 06:38 PM
Originally posted by jmeissen0
can someone tell me what dema was doing taking beasely out from behind???
being an absolute idiot? showing exactly why people have said in the past that he doesn't have it upstairs enough to be a #10 player?
irishFS1921
04 Aug 2002, 01:41 AM
i definately heard about CJ Brown's shoes melting on the surface during a NY/NJ game. that's not so pleasing. i've never been a fan of astroturf. wouldn't it make more sense to hold the games at one of the soccer/football fields at one of the schools in the city? (a bigger school that is) or has that already been tried?
DeGregorus
04 Aug 2002, 12:48 PM
Players rip the Naperville turf. No surprise there. Nobody says a thing about playing 3pm ganes in July and August? Wtf. is with that?
Is it any worse to play a 3pm game in the Cotton Bowl in August than it is to play a 3pm July game on Naperville's SatanPlay surface?
jmeissen0
04 Aug 2002, 11:54 PM
crazy steve is back
:D
Iceblink
05 Aug 2002, 12:56 AM
Originally posted by Stevedm
WELL YOU CAN BLAME THE MORONS AT MLS AND FIRE FOR HAVING A GAME THERE AT 3 PM IN JULY.
I think it's more likely the morons at MLS and ESPN.
Steve, you're too high strung to be released yet. Calmly go back to your padded cell and take your medicine like a good boy.
If you're good, the orderly will let you watch Golden Girls tonight.
Chris M.
05 Aug 2002, 09:15 AM
Originally posted by Iceblink
If you're good, the orderly will let you watch Golden Girls tonight.
Why would he want to watch tapes of Galaxy games? :)
Iceblink
05 Aug 2002, 12:19 PM
Originally posted by Chris M.
Why would he want to watch tapes of Galaxy games? :)
This is funny but somewhat cruel and ironic.
See, Steve can't really follow plot for more than a couple seconds at a time... so he thinks the shows are the same.
The ironic thing is that he believes Alexi Lalas and Bea Arthur to be the same person, so it's funny you mention that.
JTorres
05 Aug 2002, 02:41 PM
Originally posted by Iceblink
The ironic thing is that he believes Alexi Lalas and Bea Arthur to be the same person, so it's funny you mention that.
They aren't?
Cougar Jim
05 Aug 2002, 03:55 PM
Originally posted by Iceblink
The ironic thing is that he believes Alexi Lalas and Bea Arthur to be the same person, so it's funny you mention that.
Not true! Bea Arthur's a MUCH better singer!
willydonc
05 Aug 2002, 05:15 PM
Originally posted by Cougar Jim
Not true! Bea Arthur's a MUCH better singer!
She's probably taller and more of a man too.
ElJefe
05 Aug 2002, 06:24 PM
Originally posted by DeGregorus
Is it any worse to play a 3pm game in the Cotton Bowl in August than it is to play a 3pm July game on Naperville's SatanPlay surface?
Well, on Saturday, the air temperature will be in the high 90s/low 100s. The grass will be more or less the same temperature. It won't be the 100,000 degrees that the Naperville plastic gets up to. Nobody's shoes are going to be melting.
It's more or less the difference between plastic and grass. Plastic holds heat much better than grass.
genpabloescobar
05 Aug 2002, 08:31 PM
With all the baseball and gridiorn that's been played on Astroturf, has anyone actually ever heard of other athlete's shoes melting?
Glenwood Lane United
05 Aug 2002, 09:24 PM
Originally posted by genpabloescobar
With all the baseball and gridiorn that's been played on Astroturf, has anyone actually ever heard of other athlete's shoes melting?
No, but I have heard that when Terry Pendleton was with the Cards (and they played on turf) he used to soak his socks between innings, and by the time the inning ended they'd be dry. Don't know if that's true or not.