No choking in MLS this week
Posted on September 23, 2009 2:30 am
Here in Los Angeles, there’s a minimum level of fame you must have in order to get away with a serious crime. We call it the Phil Spector Scale. It’s sort of like the Mendoza Line, but for murderers.
Well, MLS apparently has a similar line, and at least a couple of Galaxy players are well above it.
We all remember Landon and David going street justice on Daniel Hernandez, but let’s have a link anyway. Need to find a respectable site, though….ah, here we go.
David Beckham Gets Angry Before Going Shirtless
Well, if there’s anything we know about Major League Soccer, it’s the slow, meticulous way they go about – whoops, this just came in over the wire.
…all righty then. Clearly Beckham and Donovan were falsely accused. What I want to know is, where are the apologies? Huh? Bill, you posted that lying picture, how about you correct the record? And what about you, Dallas fans? Hernandez viciously attacked Donovan, then got his neck juice all over Beckham’s porcelain hands! Well, if this is what they teach at Southern Methodist, clearly there is no God. (Or at least, He prefers Baylor.)
I’m astounded at the power of the memory hole on this one – Dan Patrick said the Monday after what a bad incident it was, and this was after week freaking one of the freaking NFL. You know, MLS should have suspended the two just for publicity. (It wasn’t as if having Donovan and Beckham around helped sell out the Home Depot Center, just saying.)
I’m sure it’s been said a million times – strangling Daniel Hernandez is a victimless crime. Except for one thing….
Oh, nice. By refusing to fine Donovan and Beckham, not only were Toronto FC screwed out of three road points, but MLS took money away from poor kids.
Speaking of empty seats – congratulations, Houston, but was it the rain that kept fans away, or the quality of opponent?
This is still an experiment in progress, I suppose – if Houston or DC or Columbus somehow win this tournament, then it will be interesting to see if those teams get the bounce that eluded DC in 1999 and LA in 2000.
Presumably, Cruz Azul, Toluca, Pumas and Pachuca entertain similar dreams. Because I see even less advantage for those teams otherwise. Where MLS fans look at the groups and see two dog teams no one cares about, FMF teams look at the groups and see three. Who’s making money off this?
Well, let me rephrase. Are Caribbean teams on Jack Warner’s teat making enough money to justify the bloat? Or is it literally just CONCACAF having a Champions League because UEFA has one?
…yeah, that one
Jack Warner’s ego needs to be assuaged. Oh, and he didn’t like the Superliga stealing his thunder. No teams actually make money playing games in this thing. The only money is the $1M from going to the Club World Cup. . . .but that would have been available under the old CONCACAF Cup system anyway. The CCL is a joke and people who support it have a thing for authority.
“Where MLS fans look at the groups and see two dog teams no one cares about, FMF teams look at the groups and see three. Who’s making money off this?…Or is it literally just CONCACAF having a Champions League because UEFA has one?”
First off, FMF teams probably don’t even “see” the teams at all. They just look at this tournament, turn around and look at envy at the other side of the fence where River, Boca, Colo Colo and Brazilian teams frolick and play, sigh and just repeat in their heads: “there’s the Club World Cup at the end of this…there’s the Club World Cup at the end of this…”
And for everyone else, it has a couple of advantages from a sporting perspective (being more inclusive, having home-and-away games, and teaching us such things as that no MLS team should talk trash on those in FMF until they can actually win in Mexico…oh, and that the Red Bulls would be hard-pressed to compete in the T&T Pro League).
But just wondering, Dan: did you actually prefer the previous format to this one?
Uncle Jack aside (…unfortunately, any conversation about what to do with CONCACAF begins with “Whereas Mr. Austin Jack Warner will preside over this confederation until God calls him to judgement…”), I’d argue that people who support the CCL do so because they like having an honest tournament. True, it doesn’t make money, but the biennial Gold Cup should provide more than enough money to cover it until it gets more popular (rose-colored argument, I know). And really, what other format (other than what Africa uses, I guess) is going to cover the oddity of the region, that has a bunch of below-mediocre leagues punctuated by superclubs (e.g. Costa Rica, Honduras, the Caribbean as a whole), an ok one who couldn’t be bothered with international tournaments outside of showing up Mexico (USA), one that doesn’t have a “top” league at all (Canada), and a league that in every way towers over the rest (Mexico)?
And for Superliga, make it a home-and-away tournament and I doubt you’d see it do much better than the CCL is now.
9 pm start on a weeknight.
To me it didn’t even seem like Daniel Hernandez felt Beckham grabbing him by the neck. It didn’t seem like Beckham was trying to harm him and this has been overblown just like every other story including the LA Galaxy, Landon, or Becks. Its just sad this story is sitting on the Bigsoccer front page.
I don’t like it that they announce the amount of the fines. With $500 or $1000, it makes the league look small or inferior in a way. I understand the financial differences between MLS and other american sports leagues but couldn’t they have fined them without releasing the amount they were fined? I mean like someone in the NBA who violates the dress code is fined something like $10,000.(might be off on that, but you get my point)
Well, I do find it interesting that the league releases the amount of fines but when it comes to signings, in every MLS press release we are told that “per league policy, terms of the salary were not disclosed,” or something like that.
Or is it literally just CONCACAF having a Champions League because UEFA has one?
…yeah, that one
Posted Today at 05:11 AM by Perugina
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…and because AFC has one too.
…and CAF.
If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it to?
I think I may have just gotten fired for opening that link about Beckham. Thanks Dan! Coulda at least warned me that it would appear as if I was playing for the other team by clicking on that link. Oh wait, nevermind, I’m in the theater business. Everybody else who I work with who doesn’t give a crap about soccer is suddenly flipping up their laptops. Hmmm….well, at least I’m still working.
For Jack Warner the answer is…if I get to jump into a pile of cash at the bottom of the cliff, why then yes. And if any white person jumps into that stash that I am now claiming is mine, that man must be a racist.
Want Neck Juice? Just Give a Squeeze
It goes down easier than Herbalife™
Or Carlos Ruiz
I think the plans for the CCL began after the first Superliga seemed financially successful. FIFA doesn’t want anyone but FIFA profiting off of fans.
I must have the most unpopular opinion on the matter as I absolutely love the CCL and have been waiting for it for years. The only problem I have, much like Ollie’s unpopular opinion on the UEFA CL, is that it consists of non-champions, like the Red Bulls.
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