Am I the only one who sees this correlation with Tony Beltran? He's useless offensively. We use the left because it has better offensive options at the outside back position. Tony is a great defender, but absolutely useless offensively. It has killed us for years.
Oh that we could all be so unfortunate: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...record-low-temps-and-snow-20150228-story.html
It occurs to me that if the players and owners don't come to an agreement soon, this thread could go on...indefinitely.
You're right, to a point. Everything I've read/heard says that owners don't want free agency because it will open MLS up to another anti-trust suit. As much as a certain tinfoil clad dude on twitter and his merry cadre of pro-rel misfits might like that, I can't see it happening. If free agency led MLS to being more like the NBA or NFL, those have survived. The thing that bothers me most is that several MLS owners probably would be okay with free agency but some like DLH are the ones holding it back, I assume.
You're not wrong, but from what we've seen in preseason he is freeing up space for Jaime to get some crosses in. Phillips will provide great service on the left side but I think with the new formation the right side won't be a dead end like it was in year's past.
I wouldn't say useless, but limited. Looking back to the DDC Championship, he was one of the players who combined beautifully on the right side to set up Gil for the assist on the first goal RSLSoapBox has been giving Tony a lot of love lately. I think they named him man of the match. He's a top Right Back in MLS defensively. http://www.rslsoapbox.com/2015/3/2/...nd-garcia-stand-out-in-the-desert-diamond-cup (Lots of server load on that site lately - it tips over pretty easily - if you're seeing errors try later) On the plus side, he (and the entire team) were great killing the game off down a man. On the down side, he featured once or twice in the clown shoes defense that led to Colorado's goal...first whiffing on Olave's sky ball instead of maybe playing it more conservatively (maybe that was his only choice - it was bending strangely and hard to read) and then not following either of the two runners who chased the shot Rimando parried. I will say he didn't have any awful give-aways on our side of the field that I can remember, which is more than one can say for the right side (which was, granted, under FAR more pressure and had the ball a lot more). Tony dealt with that pressure better per possession IMO than Mansally or Schuler. I think his National Team play helped him do better at protecting the ball and honestly - I think he still is improving in that way (which is awesome).
it's not in their financial interest to do free agency. As has been said by multiple people, I don't feel like this is the CBA to really pull for free agency to the point of striking. The revenue for the league isn't such that the players have much of a leg to stand on. Essentially what they're doing is asking the owners, already taking losses, to take on more losses in competing for their services. Never mind that they are, simultaneously, saying to pay them more with a cap/minimum increase. The anti-trust side of it is an interesting approach. I'm not up to grounds to which they're making that claim but it's a pretty serious thing to just throw out.
I will admit those shoulders are pretty sharp, hopefully next year's primary has them just like that. Although they look kinda weird in the long sleeve version If adidas doesn't have their intern's 4 year old child design our home jersey again I imagine it'd look something like this (lazy shop) Probably have changes to the shorts and socks and reveal it 3 minutes before the season starts
None of the MLS owners own their teams. They're all "investor/operators" in the MLS single entity. The poster triplet1 has a good history of the formation of the league in the CBA thread in the N&A forum, and that's where I'm getting this. But when Rothenberg first conceived the league, it was to have all the owners just as "investors," and each team would be run by the league. The potential owners hated that idea, and instead they came on as investor/operators -- they all own a slice of the league and individually own operating rights to their respective teams. It's easier to just call them owners, but you can probably forgive the league-owned website for using the correct term.
We've still got a couple of pre-season days left. What's ths rush? Wasn't the '09 jersey originally designed to have red sleeves but they scrapped it at the last minute? I like that design more than what they officially wore.
even lazier shop (at least I didn't use colorpicker for the yellow) I imagine the trim would be red but again, lazy I call it Mustard Gas
thank you! I would buy the hell outta that shirt! Like so many that when one wore out I'd have a spare, for the rest of my life.