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One thing the auditor must not do is interrupt the person while in the middle of this major win or during the laughter. Otherwise it will invalidate the win.
One thing the auditor must not do is interrupt the person while in the middle of this major win or during the laughter. Otherwise it will invalidate the win.
In my entire 38 years, I've never, ever seen anything so sadistic, vile, immoral and mean-spirited.
Big Bucks, No Whammies
Tuesday is Nick Green day at the Los Angeles Daily News. His current article is about the All-Star Game. He's agin it. He's a little unfair on one point - the Houston-DC game tonight wasn't technically scheduled for tonight - but it's hard to argue the merits of the game.
I enjoyed the early, silly All-Star Games when Tony Meola would be interviewed during the game before going in at forward. Okay, when Kurt Cobain sang "I wish I was like you - easily amused", he was singing about me, but still. It was fun and stupid. It even made a little bit of sense as the original plan went - going to places that didn't have MLS teams to see whether there was interest in the league. They happened to go to Orlando and San Diego, instead of Houston and Philadelphia, so that skewed things a little.
I also like the games against big-time, or at least interesting, foreign opponents. It's hard to argue against the appeal of Chivas, Celtic and Chelsea. Fulham made sense because of their captain, Brian something or other. Wham! UK falls somewhere in between. They've got a seriously impressive history and a reasonably impressive cult fanbase, but they haven't won anything since God was a boy, and while you can't call the current version starless, there is more than a little "Oh, THAT's where Ljungberg plays now!" going on.
(The part of the impressive cult fanbase that was born and raised in the United States, and puts on English accents for occasions such as this because they loved Elijah Wood in "Flipper" or "Everything Is Illuminated" or whatever that movie was, will hopefully be rounded up and harvested. Maybe you got a good laugh at the tattooed simpleton with the silly string tiara, but I just shook my head and thought "Perfectly good kidneys and corneas going to waste.")
It isn't like SUM has trouble getting teams to come here - witness Barcelona headlining yet another US tour like they were Judas Priest or something. So why settle for West Ham in the All-Star Game? It's possible that Barcelona is just that picky about the integrity of never playing an All-Star Game, but more likely it's because Barcelona wasn't needed. Green concludes that the game's exile from balmy weekends to Thursday nights means the game is losing what tiny appeal it had, but I'm not so sure. I'm convinced that, to paraphrase the late Troy McClure, the game will continue until it ceases to be profitable. In 2003, ChampionsWorld brought Manchester United to Los Angeles to play Club America. Guadalajara played the MLS All-Stars in the Home Depot Center. MLS is still in business, ChampionsWorld isn't. The marketplace has spoken.
Also in the Daily News today, Scott Wolf believes everything he reads.
Yes, this News of the World, the one that makes the Sun look like the Utne Reader. Link is probably Not Safe For Work, depending on how your boss feels about headlines such as "The Truth About My Lesbian Sex Tape" and "Boxer's Boys Turned Room Into 'Sex Den'".
I enjoyed the early, silly All-Star Games when Tony Meola would be interviewed during the game before going in at forward. Okay, when Kurt Cobain sang "I wish I was like you - easily amused", he was singing about me, but still. It was fun and stupid. It even made a little bit of sense as the original plan went - going to places that didn't have MLS teams to see whether there was interest in the league. They happened to go to Orlando and San Diego, instead of Houston and Philadelphia, so that skewed things a little.
I also like the games against big-time, or at least interesting, foreign opponents. It's hard to argue against the appeal of Chivas, Celtic and Chelsea. Fulham made sense because of their captain, Brian something or other. Wham! UK falls somewhere in between. They've got a seriously impressive history and a reasonably impressive cult fanbase, but they haven't won anything since God was a boy, and while you can't call the current version starless, there is more than a little "Oh, THAT's where Ljungberg plays now!" going on.
(The part of the impressive cult fanbase that was born and raised in the United States, and puts on English accents for occasions such as this because they loved Elijah Wood in "Flipper" or "Everything Is Illuminated" or whatever that movie was, will hopefully be rounded up and harvested. Maybe you got a good laugh at the tattooed simpleton with the silly string tiara, but I just shook my head and thought "Perfectly good kidneys and corneas going to waste.")
It isn't like SUM has trouble getting teams to come here - witness Barcelona headlining yet another US tour like they were Judas Priest or something. So why settle for West Ham in the All-Star Game? It's possible that Barcelona is just that picky about the integrity of never playing an All-Star Game, but more likely it's because Barcelona wasn't needed. Green concludes that the game's exile from balmy weekends to Thursday nights means the game is losing what tiny appeal it had, but I'm not so sure. I'm convinced that, to paraphrase the late Troy McClure, the game will continue until it ceases to be profitable. In 2003, ChampionsWorld brought Manchester United to Los Angeles to play Club America. Guadalajara played the MLS All-Stars in the Home Depot Center. MLS is still in business, ChampionsWorld isn't. The marketplace has spoken.
Also in the Daily News today, Scott Wolf believes everything he reads.
Quote:
"We've had a dialogue with Ruud Gullit about Nol and we're hoping his future will be tied up within a week," Solano's agent, Phil Smith, told the London-based News of the World. "Nolberto is open-minded about where he plays, and there is a genuine interest in him from L.A. Galaxy."
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Mid-season all-star games are the worst thing about MLS.I tell co-workers, friends and family not to watch. I report to Nielsen that I watched Lifetime instead of ESPN.Posted 22 Jul 2008 at 02:57 PM by jameseyla 
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I can't believe you just referenced the Utne Reader.
(I knew the publisher's son in college. The publisher's name is Erik, he named his son Leif. Work it out)Posted 22 Jul 2008 at 03:11 PM by Jasonma
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I'll either be reading and sipping beer on the back patio or watching a Law and Order mini-marathon. Dwayne DeRosario or Jerry Orbach? Come on.
Posted 22 Jul 2008 at 03:19 PM by studzup
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Troy McClure? I think I remember him from such films as "The Decapitation of Larry Leadfoot" and "Get Confident, Stupid!"
Posted 22 Jul 2008 at 04:01 PM by TomEaton
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Isn't it "Big Money, No Whammies!"Posted 22 Jul 2008 at 04:09 PM by Sachin
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Maybe if the DC power outage thing keeps going tomorrow they can cross program the Dynamo/DCU game opposite the All-Star thing. At least there'll be some soccer to watch that night if they do this!
Posted 22 Jul 2008 at 06:04 PM by Martek
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correct me if I am wrong but isnt thursday night the biggest night for television ratings. I know we expect sports to be played on the weekends but I cant see this game having a different appeal if it was saturday rather then thursday.
Posted 22 Jul 2008 at 06:36 PM by nthemsum
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I'll never understand all the hatred toward the All-Star Game. Seems kinda fun to me. Not too important, but so what? Nothing in professional sports is all that important compared to, well, important things.
Does everybody hate it because they believe deep down that it's the only thing keeping English fans from giving up the Prem and following MLS instead? Or do we all hate it now because the cool kids have totally hated it for, like, ever? (If so, could somebody tell me what brand of t-shirt I'm supposed to be wearing while I hate it?)Posted 22 Jul 2008 at 06:58 PM by Grumpy in LA
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Good post. Enjoyed it.
We talked about this a little in our podcast especially with the Guillermo snub while guys that haven't played all year like Bornstein get on the squad.
One of my co-hosts was like, really do you want to get worked up about that? We have a game on Sunday.
It's a good point. We care more about our players being healthy then playing in a meaningless game. They should have this in the off-season in a city that doesn't have a MLS team.Posted 22 Jul 2008 at 09:21 PM by crewfighter
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I will be watching it. There I said it. I will watch a monkey dance if the monkey is waring a MLS jersey.Posted 22 Jul 2008 at 10:06 PM by santeroatomico
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