Category Archives: Crap that has nothing to do with anything
A few really disturbing stories caught my eye yesterday. Maybe each of them separately don’t matter, but the three of them together paint a very, very troubling picture. It tells me that Don Garber has lost control of the league, and it’s time for a serious housecleaning. Kei Kamara isn’t …
Like you, I saw the empty seats. And like you, I was disturbed. We were told things were going to get better and better. But still, expectations aren’t being met. This can’t happen in one of the league’s flagship cities. We need answers. We need change. I can’t in good …
I don’t know if I’ve told you guys this, but I have an Antimuse. It’s much more useful than a Muse, I think. Whenever I sit down to write about Chivas USA going full Aztlan, or Robbie Rogers simultaneously going out and coming out, my Antimuse appears before me in shimmering …
TOPIC ONE: In which fan bases who are so prone to rectoencephaly that they would dare to compare their region to Catalonia, Tibet and Palestine are completely on the side of truth and right So, who owns your supporters club? The answer to that used to be “Who cares, it’s …
“Navel-gazing ripples” was what Black and Red United called the aftermath of Chris Klein firing up a Galaxy pep rally crowd on Monday, and he/she/they/it are right. This is where people like Colin Jose and Roger Allaway get to take more deserved bows. Even ten years ago or so, the …
Abandon Hope: Excerpts from the First Draft
“It was the wrong decision. And I think anybody that knows anything about the game knows that. There’s no doubt in my mind I would have made those saves. And the fact of the matter is, it’s not 2004 anymore. And it’s 2007, and I think you have to live …
I’m so bored with the “YSA” – but what can I do?
Last week Commissioner Garber sat down with Brian Straus of the Sporting News. Well, maybe he stood. I wasn’t there. By the way, I’m so old, I was all, the Sporting News is covering soccer these days? They didn’ t used to. The backdrop of the American societal zeitgeist towards …
Morally straight (NSFW) (But unfortunately not the good kind of NSFW, the boring kind)
Back in 2005, I was a religious bigot in public. A new team from Salt Lake City with a hideously stupid name – I forget what it was, but man, it was complete unironic self-parody – came to Los Angeles, and I thought it would be hilarious if I yelled …
(I don’t care HOW old this makes me look. I’m doing this. Blame the MLS Facebook caption contest.) This is my stop Have to get off I might go pop Excuse me. EXCUSE ME! I’ve got to be direct If I’m wrong please correct You’re standing on my neck You’re …
And here we are forty years later. If it weren’t for Title IX, as every schoolchild knows, we wouldn’t have a WPS, and the US wouldn’t be Women’s World Cup champions. Oh. Awkward. The time has clearly come for someone to cut through the haze of gender politics, fan wankery, …
