The "Let's All Laugh at aust!n" Thread

I've always believed that in fact Greeley getting the job with S********F********Mc*********M******** was 100% Garber's doing. It's not like they ran into each other in an airport toilet or whatever that cock-and-bull story about him and Berhalter's brother we were supposed to believe. Oh yes, Grandpa, read us another! Please!

But how else would a putz like Greeley, working out of his basement in Chicago, get hooked up with that San Francisco slimebucket?

Garber put this whole deal together, starting with the secret phone call to Austin's mayor in 2012, the ludicrous charade of hiring an obscure law firm in Cleveland with literally no sports investment connections to supposedly look for investors in a town they knew nothing about and miraculously tripping over some execrable piece of filth in California.

Garber then engineered the sale contract which, just for fun apparently, included the option to move to Austin Texas.

(And no one had better try and tell me that that lousy pile of warm dog diarrhea Clark Hunt didn't know all about every bit of this, cause it's ridiculous. Hunt is a bigshot in MLS and Garber wouldn't have dared pull this shit with Lamar's pet team without Clarkie Boy knowing all about it.)

He then connected him up with Greeley, who had been the disastrous President of the F*re who drove down attendance by 3000 a game in just three years and who the fans were getting ready to lynch.

None of this happens without Garber's guiding hand.

And now he wants to come to CBus and make nice, and say he hopes we can all have a beer together one day?

Not in this F******* lifetime, asshole. Die screaming.

 

Never say never. I received a blast email from Jim Smith the other day and recognized that he has made nice and we could sit down and have a beer together one day -- as long as either he or KyleCrew is buying.

 

Area codes are basically a fossil record of where everyone lived in 2003.

 

...except for landlines (yes, I still have one--mostly for 911, if needed (hopefully not, but...))

 

I would love to know how the current ownership group feels about him and what that power dynamic is like. To be a fly on the wall at a league meeting when Two Chins and Dee are in the same room.

 

So do I. Frankly, I don't know why. Except that it is handy as a robocall absorption device...

 

Oh, I agree they're functionally useless. But from a business and marketing perspective, it sends a message. A dumb, contradictory message. He should have invested in an Austin number just to make things look more legit.

I mean, is this his personal cell phone? Doesn't Team Orbis have a dedicated Austin phone number he could have listed? Actually, no it does not; it's that same "Chicago" number on the website. I guess what this really equates to is the same amateur hour bullshit that's so pervasive as regards anything associated with Precourt. Team Orbis is, of course, just Dave Greeley working out of his home (in Austin or Chicago, presumably), just like PSV was just Precourt and temp office space in the Bay Area.

 

Did the trolls get banned?

 

That's why MLS was eager to avoid discovery in the Modell law suit.

 

Yep, I moved my old landline number to MagicJack so I don't have to give people my cell number. Unfortunately it's been distributed somehow so I get marketing calls on my cell now.

 

Hey gang. It’s been one year since Garber came to town and made Austin FC official. Let’s party.

 

And Greeley is a member of the chamber of Commerce? Well slap my ass and call me Sally. Every nail salon operator and car wash owner, every Swatch Watch kiosk franchisee is too.

It mostly involves mailing in due's once a year, attendance at the monthly lunch at Carl's House of Grease is optional.

 

Member and board member are not the same thing.

 

Oh, a BOARD member.

Which means the lunch isnt optional.

Idiot.

 

As someone who has served in a Chamber of Commerce Board I will say it wouldn’t have felt relevant 40 years ago but not in today’s world.

 

Greeley is one of 36 members on the board of the Austin Chamber:

https://www.austinchamber.com/about/team/board-2

There's an additional 20 member Executive Committee that he's not on.

 

Hey, those Happy Hour Networking events at Coughlin Brothers Mortuary aren't going to schedule themselves...

 

My EXACT thoughts! If I ever get within a foot of Garber, I will be sure to call him out on it. I will tell him to look me in the eye and tell me he didn't orchestrate it from the start. Guarantee he won't do it. He'll squirm, mumble and storm off. F that dude for eternity!

 

Lies!

 

Google Voice gives out numbers for free. You can even do a visual voice mail, set it so that calls come from either the Google number or the "real" number, etc.

 

And we're bored members...bored of dealing with Austin trollbots.

 

Some day when you put together your greatest hits album I hope this makes it in.

 

He got a three finger...I mean year...deal.