Wednesday 9 Oct 2019

Miami, Washington or Chicago! How about that? Nice to see they are broadening their horizons!

 

Revolution Launch USL League One Team to Begin Play in 2020
https://www.revolutionsoccer.net/po...on-launch-usl-league-one-team-begin-play-2020

 

Definitely a good move for the Revs. I've seen far too many young players--guys who had potential, but weren't quite ready to get significant minutes with the first team--whither on the vine Training is all well and good, but there is no substitute for actual competitive games.

 

Agreed, my only complaint is the lame name and playing at Gillette Stadium (if you think it's cavernous NOW just you wait...); definitely a win for developing their players though.

 

Semi soccer related, anyone remember the controversies in 2007 when the Chinese National Team toured the U.S. playing MLS/USL teams and demanded fans remove banners and get kicked out? Now the NBA is feeling the same pain.

Basketball fans are being kicked out of games for pro-Hong Kong signs IN AMERICA. https://t.co/9FAnf0FoMP

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) October 9, 2019

 

The Chinese government are such candy-asses when it comes to this stuff. As anyone who has been a fan (never mind a player) in a hostile crowd, people want to see you lose! Suck it up and deal with it! Let the haters hate, and shut them up by beating their team.

 

Delicious story about Coleen Rooney.

Read it.

You will not be disappointed.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/10/9/20906753/rebekah-vardy-coleen-rooney-instagram-feud

 

It is funny that those woke coaches that are social justice warriors and speak freely about Donald Trump and how he is bad for America, swallow their voice on social justice for money from the government of China. Yet Trump is the one fundamentally changing the United States? Can't even support people in Hong Kong that mach for democracy waving an American flag. Hippocrates!

 

Um, okay, but what does the "father of modern medicine" have to do with all of this?

 

In my view, you're mostly right. However, if I may put forth a mild defense of them, there's a difference between speaking out about America, and speaking out about another country. Further, it's easier for someone like Steve Kerr to be informed about, for example, the Muslim ban, than to be informed about the genesis of the Hong Kong protests.

But that's a mild defense; after all, how hard could it be to say something like, I don't know enough to have an opinion of the demands of the protestors, but the right to protest is a universal, human right?

I read an interesting blog post making the argument that rather than the Western world importing pluralistic, small d democratic values into China, China is exporting authoritarian values to the West. (At least the US.) Hard to disagree....

 

I'm not quite following your point - maybe others are....?

 

Piatti angry that Impact triggered club option. Of note, many players and agents believe MLS club options are not legally binding and would not be upheld if challenged at CAS.

MLS has never allowed the contracts to be challenged. They will blink if Piatti forces issue. https://t.co/zvaJAoRNO3

— Duane Rollins (@24thminute) October 9, 2019

 

Which one?

Edit: @Gotberg

 

Repped!
[although I think poor ol' Hippocrates wonders what does a doc have to do get respect around here on BS ]

 

Here's the Hong Kong national flag. If the Iron Front flag is okay as a non-political symbol of human rights acceptable for waving at MLS games, than so, too, is this one.

 

As the Tibetan flag should be as well. But MLS already has a history on that front.

 

Nope. Same here.

All I see is some rationalizations to fit a narrative.

 

MLS has also gotten paid every time this has come up, tho. It's more of a "cost of doing business" thing for MLS at this point. Every few years someone will make a stink about team options and make comments about wanting to move on. After a few weeks of "OMG, is this the end of team options!?!?" the league transfers the player, the uproar dies out, and MLS continues to exercise team options and include them in new contracts like nothing happened.

 

Couldn't one just get clever and hold up an NBA Filtered sign of FREE KONG HONG. Then when the usher arrives tell them that it is a demand to the coach for more playing time for the new guy on the bench in preseason.

 

Oh man, there's a league blast from the past right there...

 

I see we are back to the whole idea that the Court of Arbitration for Sport can somehow get involved with a legally binding collective bargaining agreement. Particularly since that CBA already has an option for these grievances to be heard. The CAS can only get involved if the parties agree to abritration or mediation. From their website: "These Procedural Rules apply whenever the parties have agreed to refer a sports-related dispute to CAS. Such reference may arise out of an arbitration clause contained in a contract or regulations or by reason of a later arbitration agreement (ordinary arbitration proceedings) or may involve an appeal against a decision rendered by a federation, association or sports-related body where the statutes or regulations of such bodies, or a specific agreement provide for an appeal to CAS (appeal arbitration proceedings)." However, the CBA cover all of that.