And, not discounting Midas' opinion know he's usually (always?) hella drunk (not that I'm judging, just saying.) Perhaps you are his Jari!
Well mate, You will probably think me a sycophant for thinking one can't blame the guy for making the people who gave him a contract, honor the contract. You also said earlier it was not good getting money for nothing. Well the fact that it is for nothing has to do with decisions made by the people who gave him the contract in the first place. From a NYCFC perspective it isn't good, but from a Diskerud perspective it sure beats having to file for unemployment. I get your contrarian schtick, but it really is tired and worn. Your recent comments on this particular matter attempting to place blame on Mix for expecting NYCFC to honor their contract with him and not willing to move from where he wants to be are way OTT. If the guy wants to take 1.5 million and build himself a life in a city he enjoys living in I can't really see anything "not good" with that at all. If this whole NYCFC and MLS ordeal wreck his career, I have a hard time calling making it cost them the 1.5 million they promised "not good."
I'm not being contrarian, I'm being honest. What happens is when you take a neutral stand in the middle of a war (and these forums are a war, between the pro-MLS group and the Eurosnobs --if you "defend" MLS once, you become the sworn enemy of the latter; if you criticize MLS, you become the sworn enemy of the former) everybody hates you. IMO, it's simply ridiculous trying to blame MLS for Mix's situation. It makes perfect sense to me, and those trying to blame the league for it are very, very biased. But that's my perception of the world. You may have a very diferent one, and that's fine, so far you don't go around insulting people online. That's petty. PS: If I were smart and posted for the reps, I'd be like a very loved guy here who was always praising Klinsmann when most were, but turned on him the moment most turned on him as well. That'd get me lots of thumbs up, but that's not me.
You are an inspiration. Stalwart in face of the great temptation of whoring for rep. How do you find the courage! (If you like my snark, rep it up friends, rep it up! I'm close to a free ticket!)
I'm like Iron Man on steroids, dude. When you sign a contract, you read it, right? So you know what the conditions, fair or unfair, are.
Exactly. And Mix is, it seems, adhering to the contract, it is NYFC/MLS that wants to break it. That's the whole point. Management loves contracts when they work for them. Not so fond when they don't. then you need to be a "team player." which means "get screwed."
A bit more: http://www.espnfc.com/story/3076647...-swedens-ifk-goteborg-after-nycfc-exit-source U.S. international Mix Diskerud is close to securing a loan to Swedish side IFK Goteborg, with a Major League Soccer source telling ESPN FC that the deal could be completed in the next 24-48 hours.
Generally, rep is given for insightful, interesting, or funny posts, regardless of which "side" a poster takes. You don't get rep'd much because your posts rarely meet this criteria.
Yeah, see, I was trying to mess around with that fact 'cause while he was in MLS we kept his thread in YA, so that now that he is really a YA again, well, it's kind of, I mean, if then we, you know, moved it where it really should have been but then, you know, it really shouldn't so it would be, kind of, you know... see, if the expectations are... Well, so, you see a player and then you think: "I know, his thread..." um. Never mind. Let's just keep it here. We're good. Go Mix.
his 750 K salary would probably have him among the highest paid in Sweden (if NYCFC didn't pay him at all)
...but ages and ages hence... wasn't that particular referenced journey spelled with two L's, and not your one? (I don't know - but would you check it for ... certainty)
I thought he wrote it while in England. Probably not, then? Did the smooth philosophical rugger watch soccer or football, or otherwise did he himself make plays? Now, in addition to confirm his ways be daring - tell us about your days with your grandfather before clouds and haze suffocate your mind and memories in hastily BS pace. Come on, give it some space? Please, Ace.
Oh Mix I don't have bars, But my G-Dad I call him Would talk about the stars Like Stan Musial and DiMaggio Listening to Babe Ruth play on the radio And attending Lou Gehrig's last game Now that his tea is nearly ready And the sun has left the sky I've got Barca on his tv Messi Iniesta Xavi What a time G-Dad! He's snoring. Ok fine. ........... As to Frost... In early 1915 with England at War, he returned to America and published Mountain Interval, "drawing on poems he had written in England and before," of which The Road Not Taken is a part, in 1916. I didn't know any of this... http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/life.htm
As completely insane as this discussion is, if you like poetry and baseball (and evocations of a warm summer night in a suburban garage listening to a ballgame on AM while rebuilding a carburetor on a homemade work bench...) try Fairchild's "Art of the Lathe" esp. Body and Soul although I'm partial to Machinists teaching Daughter to play Piano... Ok, back to your regularly scheduled soccer poems.