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FIFARay007
19 Jun 2007, 11:22 AM
Not really United related, but EPL related, so I thought I'd share. It's comments like this that saw that Alexi is just slightly delusional. He's also commented, a few years back, how the LA Galaxy is one of the top clubs in the world.
Now I'm a MLS fan too, but you gotta keep a hold on reality.
http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/6937946
The Los Angeles Galaxy president, who scored when the United States beat England 2-0 in a friendly in 1993, told British newspapers that Major League Soccer is on a par with the Premier League.
Motterman
19 Jun 2007, 11:23 AM
I don't know, he's got a point.
NOT!
FIFARay007
19 Jun 2007, 11:26 AM
I don't know, he's got a point.
NOT!
Motterman smokes the kind bud with Alexi ;)
The Double
19 Jun 2007, 11:26 AM
Did it get people talking about his comments? Did it make the front page of ESPN? I think thats what he was going for, and it worked. Stir up interest before Beckham gets here. He doesn't even believe what he said.
FIFARay007
19 Jun 2007, 11:29 AM
Well in all seriousness, he makes some good points, such as US players doing well in England. But as far as talking up Beckham... is that even really necessary? The guy transcends super-stardom.
EDIT : Didn't even see that it made front page of ESPN. Wow.
Achtung
19 Jun 2007, 11:37 AM
Even though he actually makes a couple of valid points in the interview (about the haves and have-nots over there), he's still going to piss people off with his rhetoric. Maybe that was his point though.
Either way, I'm still glad we yelled "Superclub!" when he walked by us at halftime of the US Open Cup Final last year. :D
Now quickly, someone find a picture of Lalas with long hair, Photoshop him smoking a joint and saying, "You ever watched MLS... ON WEED!" ;)
Achtung
19 Jun 2007, 11:37 AM
Motterman smokes the kind bud with Alexi ;)
Highlight the rest of Motter's post. ;)
sdotsom
19 Jun 2007, 11:44 AM
He's an idiot. There aren't any Americans in the top 4 teams, and even going down the ranks you see guys like Dempsey and McBride playing for teams near relegation. Guys like Convey and DeMerit played relatively well too. But saying the MLS is on par with EPL is just insane.
FIFARay007
19 Jun 2007, 11:50 AM
Highlight the rest of Motter's post. ;)
My bad...... but I stand by my post. :)
He's an idiot. There aren't any Americans in the top 4 teams, and even going down the ranks you see guys like Dempsey and McBride playing for teams near relegation. Guys like Convey and DeMerit played relatively well too. But saying the MLS is on par with EPL is just insane.
Hey, we got Rossi!
Achtung
19 Jun 2007, 11:59 AM
Oh yeah, and then there's this:
"We have a lot of work to do," Lalas said. "We need to strive to become the first superclub to emerge from MLS. The race is on for that distinction, but I'll be damned if I'll let the poseurs in L.A. beat us to the punch." --Alexi Lalas, on being named president and GM of the then-Metrostars in 2005
This stuff writes itself. :D
mhtwins113
19 Jun 2007, 02:52 PM
Stupid, stupid, stupid. I know he's trying to defend the "honor" of MLS like it's some sort of damsel in distress, but seriously Alexi, hyperbole much?
Although Alexi does make some salient points, too many players of solid European pedigree have come over here and expected to sleepwalk into semi-retirement and have had another thing coming to them *cough*Matthaus*cough* to call this league Mickey Mouse-ish. It's just about at the level you'd expect of any 11-year-old league emerging in a country where soccer isn't the top sport.
benni...
19 Jun 2007, 03:32 PM
I thought this thread was about marijuana. :|
sdotsom
19 Jun 2007, 03:57 PM
http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/mailbagESPN?event_id=16270
This is the message board ESPN put up for people to talk about Lalas' comments. I should have put it in the "More Funny Stuff" thread, especially considering that there are people on this board who think that Chelsea's 1-0 preseason win over DC United is a sign that the EPL is the same as MLS.
JC7rox
19 Jun 2007, 04:06 PM
http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/mailbagESPN?event_id=16270
This is the message board ESPN put up for people to talk about Lalas' comments. I should have put it in the "More Funny Stuff" thread, especially considering that there are people on this board who think that Chelsea's 1-0 preseason win over DC United is a sign that the EPL is the same as MLS.
My favorite is the one that says that Michael Jordan has won da da da, and Tiger Woods has won da da da, and then it finishes by saying that Beckham is just married to a Spice Girl. All those Premier League, FA Cup, the Champion's League, La Liga, all those things he has won. Surely it could never compare to the NBA title?
sdotsom
19 Jun 2007, 04:17 PM
My favorite is the one that says that Michael Jordan has won da da da, and Tiger Woods has won da da da, and then it finishes by saying that Beckham is just married to a Spice Girl. All those Premier League, FA Cup, the Champion's League, La Liga, all those things he has won. Surely it could never compare to the NBA title?
Yah, I saw that post. I guess La Liga, CL, Prems, and FA Cups are nothing compared to the Lamar Hunt Trophy or the PGA Open. Jeezus, there are some real idiots out there.
FIFARay007
19 Jun 2007, 04:17 PM
I thought this thread was about marijuana. :|
It is. Alexi smokes it. :p
My favorite is the one that says that Michael Jordan has won da da da, and Tiger Woods has won da da da, and then it finishes by saying that Beckham is just married to a Spice Girl. All those Premier League, FA Cup, the Champion's League, La Liga, all those things he has won. Surely it could never compare to the NBA title?
Tiger's the only one who could somewhat compare, since he's competed around the globe in a variety of tourneys. Jordan, while no one can doubt his god-like ability, really only had the US to prove his worth. Course, one can only imagine what kind of records he'd break in leagues around the world.
Soccer transcends most other sports. What other sport has the leagues and competitions that soccer has? Baseball plays exhibition games around the world, and of course there's the olympics, but I don't think there's another sport that's set up the way soccer is. Ah, it's such a beautiful game.
JC7rox
19 Jun 2007, 05:22 PM
The whole Jordan thing can open a new box of worms, so I won't go into it. I'd just like to add that the sporting accomplishment of Woods, mostly, shouldn't be compared to either Jordan or Beckham since he plays a sport (laugh) based on individuality, not dependent on anyone else around him. There is no physicality, not too much risk of injury, and thus he can basically play when he wants and is not bound to contracts and such. I didn't understand why anyone would bring up achievements anyways as the Becks/Jordan/Woods comparisons made by Lalas and others was based on commercial value, not sporting value.
Howard Zinn
19 Jun 2007, 06:31 PM
My favorite is the one that says that Michael Jordan has won da da da, and Tiger Woods has won da da da, and then it finishes by saying that Beckham is just married to a Spice Girl. All those Premier League, FA Cup, the Champion's League, La Liga, all those things he has won. Surely it could never compare to the NBA title?
I don't know what context your post is in, but surely you can't compare Beckham to Jordan and Tiger?
Jordan is undoubtedly the best basketball player ever and expanded the game to a global level that only soccer beats.
Tiger is undoubtedly the best golfer ever, regardless of what you may think of it as a sport (and I suggest you go try it if you think it deserves a laugh), and has expanded what was just a sport for upper class white folks to a bunch of new markets in America and around the globe.
Beckham was the 4th best midfielder in a 4-man midfield at the height of his power. At no point during his entire career could you really say he was a top-10 player, much less the best talent throughout the history of the sport. He was a very good/borderline great player at his height that took the world's most popular sport and might end up making it slightly more popular in a country, where it is already the most popular sport for youths to participate in, and sell some jerseys to some Asians.
Basically, Jordan and Tiger are known mainly for being the most dominant athletes their respective sports have ever seen. Beckham sells tickets and jerseys to some dopey Americans, Asians, and other folks around the world because he's good looking, ********s a Spice Girl, and hangs out with TomKat, while happening to be a pretty good player.
I love the sport of soccer, but I'm already so ********ing sick of Beckham coming here and all the blah blah blah about him... :mad:
holytoledo
19 Jun 2007, 06:39 PM
Buzzkill.
JC7rox
19 Jun 2007, 08:13 PM
I don't know what context your post is in, but surely you can't compare Beckham to Jordan and Tiger?
Jordan is undoubtedly the best basketball player ever and expanded the game to a global level that only soccer beats.
Tiger is undoubtedly the best golfer ever, regardless of what you may think of it as a sport (and I suggest you go try it if you think it deserves a laugh), and has expanded what was just a sport for upper class white folks to a bunch of new markets in America and around the globe.
Beckham was the 4th best midfielder in a 4-man midfield at the height of his power. At no point during his entire career could you really say he was a top-10 player, much less the best talent throughout the history of the sport. He was a very good/borderline great player at his height that took the world's most popular sport and might end up making it slightly more popular in a country, where it is already the most popular sport for youths to participate in, and sell some jerseys to some Asians.
Basically, Jordan and Tiger are known mainly for being the most dominant athletes their respective sports have ever seen. Beckham sells tickets and jerseys to some dopey Americans, Asians, and other folks around the world because he's good looking, ********s a Spice Girl, and hangs out with TomKat, while happening to be a pretty good player.
I love the sport of soccer, but I'm already so ********ing sick of Beckham coming here and all the blah blah blah about him... :mad:
I wrote in the exact same context as you read it. The comment was made along the lines of "Jordan has won x, y, and z. Tiger has won x, y, and z. All Beckham ever did was marry a Spice girl." That is bullshit. First of all, it denounces everything that most of us are passionate about in the Prem and FA Cup. It denounces the sport that many of us are passionate about. I don't see the difference between Jordan's rings and Beck's Premiership medals. Jordan may be "the best ever" (I'll pretend Magic Johnson didn't exist), but that does not make the things that he won more worthwhile than what Becks won, mostly at OT. That is regardless of what scale you rate Beckham. He has still won things, illustrious things, and he was more than a Pippen. Plus, you cannot dub anyone the best player in their sport seeing as how you've probably never seen all of Magic, Larry, Wilt, and so on, in their context. Jordan was a man that the league catered to because he was the most marketable thing since warm bread after the Great Depression. I don't want to get into the whole "Jordan was the best ever" bullshit because that gets stretched out, but whatever.
Before Becks married Posh, he was a very exciting up and coming talent. I know some of you weren't supporting before he was a global superstar, but at one point he was one of those players that we get excited about coming up through the youth system. Don't be a revisionist because you're sick of hearing about him.
Some of the things you say just go to show you've been caught up in the great American hype machine.