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So OK, let's get this one out of the way up front:
Does Onstad throw his shoulder at Montero? Obviously yes.
Does Montero drop to the ground like he just took a .50 cal round to the head? Obviously yes.
Does Onstand then do the "I'm checking to see if my face is bleeding" act like he's Chuck Wepner or something? Sure looks like it.
Does any of this mean Onstad is a rat and Montero is a weasel? No, not really.
This concludes another edition of: "Oh Quit Bitching, it's a Soccer Game, Not a Quilting Bee."
As for this unfortunate situation:
I agree that in retrospect Salazar probably shouldn't have blown the whistle, but it's hard to call advantage way out at the halfway line.
In any case, he DID blow the whistle and unfortunately that means that no matter how many times you proceed to put the ball into the net, it's not going to count until he blows his whistle again.
Bottom line: let he who is without sin cast the first water bottle:
Maybe it's just me. but I'm mortally tired of hearing pronounciators telling me that this or that was "a professional foul" as if that made it better somehow than, I guess, "an amateur foul".
In this case what happens is that Evans is afraid Mullan might actually have a chance to score, God forbid THAT should happen, and so he cheats.
As for that imbecilic "Evans knew what he was doing there" comment, well Gosh, Mr. Soccer, thanks for sharing that expert-type insider info; we thought he was just running around the field looking for some random guy to knock down.
The topper though was delivered after the match by John Harkes, who unfortunately seems to have devolved from a promising color guy into a typical ex-player who thinks his job is to put every freakin call under a microscope for us. Look John, if I want to hear the officiating discussed I'll call up Esse Baharmast. Frankly, most retired players seem to have an appallingly limited knowledge of the rules anyway.
Harksie informed us that Seattle was really happy to get the draw because then they can go to Houston "and all the pressure will be on the Dynamo", a theory which I would have paid good money to see him try and float past Sigi Schmid last night.
Following up on yesterdays' USL/TOA post, Carolina Railhawks President Brian Wellman SAID LATE YESTERDAY that he and the other TOA guys were proceeding with filing the application to establish a new league "as early as (today)"
Furthermore, he suggested that the breakaway group has some prospects they're pursuing for some new teams. Frankly, a lot of people have always felt that the old "Pay Frank Marcos a big pile of money and then shut up" model was not appealing to anyone besides soccer=smitten rich guys who just wanted to run a team.
Real businessmen need not apply.
But with a true "league" structure, it's possible that they could indeed find a few more interested parties, which, in turn, makes this whole thing more appealing to USSF and MLS.
The real news though was that, according to Wellman, they would seriously consider going to a "European schedule" playing winter and spring split seasons.
I don't know whether they really mean it, but it's plenty smart to say so, I would think. USSF and FIFA would probably like to see it tried, if nothing else than to convince Sepp Blatter that they're working on it and, by the way, we're bidding on the World Cup doncha know.
Does Onstad throw his shoulder at Montero? Obviously yes.
Does Montero drop to the ground like he just took a .50 cal round to the head? Obviously yes.
Does Onstand then do the "I'm checking to see if my face is bleeding" act like he's Chuck Wepner or something? Sure looks like it.
Does any of this mean Onstad is a rat and Montero is a weasel? No, not really.
This concludes another edition of: "Oh Quit Bitching, it's a Soccer Game, Not a Quilting Bee."
As for this unfortunate situation:
I agree that in retrospect Salazar probably shouldn't have blown the whistle, but it's hard to call advantage way out at the halfway line.
In any case, he DID blow the whistle and unfortunately that means that no matter how many times you proceed to put the ball into the net, it's not going to count until he blows his whistle again.
Bottom line: let he who is without sin cast the first water bottle:
Maybe it's just me. but I'm mortally tired of hearing pronounciators telling me that this or that was "a professional foul" as if that made it better somehow than, I guess, "an amateur foul".
In this case what happens is that Evans is afraid Mullan might actually have a chance to score, God forbid THAT should happen, and so he cheats.
As for that imbecilic "Evans knew what he was doing there" comment, well Gosh, Mr. Soccer, thanks for sharing that expert-type insider info; we thought he was just running around the field looking for some random guy to knock down.
The topper though was delivered after the match by John Harkes, who unfortunately seems to have devolved from a promising color guy into a typical ex-player who thinks his job is to put every freakin call under a microscope for us. Look John, if I want to hear the officiating discussed I'll call up Esse Baharmast. Frankly, most retired players seem to have an appallingly limited knowledge of the rules anyway.
Harksie informed us that Seattle was really happy to get the draw because then they can go to Houston "and all the pressure will be on the Dynamo", a theory which I would have paid good money to see him try and float past Sigi Schmid last night.
Following up on yesterdays' USL/TOA post, Carolina Railhawks President Brian Wellman SAID LATE YESTERDAY that he and the other TOA guys were proceeding with filing the application to establish a new league "as early as (today)"
Furthermore, he suggested that the breakaway group has some prospects they're pursuing for some new teams. Frankly, a lot of people have always felt that the old "Pay Frank Marcos a big pile of money and then shut up" model was not appealing to anyone besides soccer=smitten rich guys who just wanted to run a team.
Real businessmen need not apply.
But with a true "league" structure, it's possible that they could indeed find a few more interested parties, which, in turn, makes this whole thing more appealing to USSF and MLS.
The real news though was that, according to Wellman, they would seriously consider going to a "European schedule" playing winter and spring split seasons.
I don't know whether they really mean it, but it's plenty smart to say so, I would think. USSF and FIFA would probably like to see it tried, if nothing else than to convince Sepp Blatter that they're working on it and, by the way, we're bidding on the World Cup doncha know.
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If Harkes would stop analyzing everything by comparison to everything that happen to him in his life of soccer, I might not have to turn the channel to ESPN Deportes.
We all know that you played the game, we all know that your trainer was an idiot and couldn't recognize that Angel had a concussion and that the incident probably cost you your job.
Get hip to the fact that the people actually watching these games are fairly intelligent to the game of soccer, and shut-up once and awhile; we can see what's happening, we have guys like Telsa to thank for that, if you want to talk all the time, get with Tim McCarver and have at it.Posted 30 Oct 2009 at 01:14 PM by oldguyfc 
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Harkes is a tool. I never understood why people thought so highly of him, unless it was a lesser of 10 evils sort of thing...Posted 30 Oct 2009 at 01:16 PM by tomwilhelm
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Go ahead pip on Harkes,.. You're no betterPosted 30 Oct 2009 at 01:21 PM by BROSUF 
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Everytime someone like Onstand or Montero pulls crap like that, one of my pointy-ball fanatic friends manages to see a clip of it and cites it as another example of why soccer is a sport for **************.
EDIT: What? I can't say ************** cats?Posted 30 Oct 2009 at 01:21 PM by Pablo Chicago
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Better then what?Quote:Originally Posted by BROSUF
Go ahead pip on Harkes,.. You're no better
Oh, you mean Eric Wynalda.Posted 30 Oct 2009 at 01:23 PM by oldguyfc
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Mullan was going so slowly, Evans could have circled around him and taken the ball off him clean.
Harkes has actually improved over the years, but it wasn't one for the vault last night. I was more annoyed at how everyone involved was checking out the Yankees and Phillies. I mean, presumably everyone who was going to prioritize the World Series had already turned over to Fox, or turned on their radios, and you were doing a damn crawl on the bottom of the screen anyway. If you're going to give us updates on what's happening on other channels, why not recap Dancing With The Stars, while you're at it?Posted 30 Oct 2009 at 01:24 PM by Dan Loney
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Onstad continues to show that even at 41, he's still the biggest tool in the league.Posted 30 Oct 2009 at 01:33 PM by SonicDeathMonkey
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So has my ex-wife, but I'm still not interested in her introspection on the nature of life.Quote:Originally Posted by Dan Loney
Harkes has actually improved over the years
Posted 30 Oct 2009 at 01:41 PM by oldguyfc
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I can't wait to see the attendance at some of the games between late November and mid March at Stade Saputo.
I'm not saying that as some sort of "Boy, it's gonna suck hahahahaha" kind of remark, BTW. I'm genuinely curious. I suspect that the usual weather at that time of year will have a negative impact, but I want to see what impact it will have. (No pun intended. Really.) After all, for years, we've heard how it's so horrible that leagues in this part of the world played in the summertime when the weather was so hot, and how it would be so much better if the schedule were more similar to most western European leagues' schedule. Of course, that idea, having not been tried and having not yet possibly failed, had the advantage of being automatically the best option in the minds of the people advocating for it, just as the backup striker is always better than the donkey putting sitter after sitter into Row Q.
So now, hopefully, we'll find out once and for all.Posted 30 Oct 2009 at 01:42 PM by ElJefe
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Forget Harkes. After he said "Welcome to the playoffs" during the scrum, Dellacamera wracked his brain for 7 full seconds before delivering a cringeworthy and abstract "Where the stakes are much higher." Wow is that guy terrible.
Posted 30 Oct 2009 at 02:01 PM by fakesigi
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