PBP: The Other MLS Teams' Paraphernalia Thread: Now Legal in Two States

Bill Archer · Feb 16, 2015

ThreeC said: ↑

That shit was so insane. I don't think most people know how much time and energy it takes to run an SG or put on an event for supporters. But this past USA v Mex was a bear. And we spent as much time on this capo bullshit as everything else combined. It was basically the local SGs and local AO chapter vs everyone else. It was unreal.

It would be like going to a friend's house for Christmas dinner. Then when you get there you tell him his grandmother's cooking sucks, he sucks because he likes granny's cooking, complaining that their table isn't big enough for all the other random people they invited that don't even normally celebrate Christmas, and try to get you to throw out your Christmas ham because at their house they have turkey for Christmas. And then going "I'm not trying to tell you what to do, and I know this is your grandmother's 82nd Christmas, I'm just trying to help you have a better Christmas... you know like my family has. OMG that reminds me, have you ever heard of these things called Christmas Carols people sing at Christmas? They're soooo fun. I'll teach you and your family about it."
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Nice analogy.

Some clown of a kid, who had been with USSF for 8 months had just been promoted from intern to, well, one step above an intern. They put him in charge of "liason" with AO because, well, it's unimportant. He and they cooked up this "take over Columbus" thing between themselves and as I put it to someone at Soccer House, "nobody thought it might be important to have a grownup in the room".

At that point USSF/Seattle/AO arrogance took over, and they wouldn't listen to anybody.

My favorite part was when someone at the fed bragged to me that AO had sold 7000 tickets and thus they had to let them run some things. I told him that if I started something called The Amazing Super Cool Soccer fan Guys Club and they gave me 7000 tickets to US/Mex that I could sell them just as quickly. It's called the internet.

I may have added that selling US/Mex tix was about as hard as selling beer and pussy on a troop ship.

west ham sandwich · Feb 16, 2015

Kayak said: ↑

This is the point LA is planing on streamlining their system from Academy to MLS. If others disagree with me that this is an advantage fine; I just don't see how improving the professional development from 18-22 years old won't be positive for LA. I'll be surprised if the rest of the teams with their own USL team don't follow suit; not immediately but in time. Having your own people work with the guys that have come out of your academy instead of a college coach that you can't guarantee the quality of is much different. I'm not saying it will ruin us or make them but it is a piece they have that we don't and this is the part we may very well need to be better at going forward.

http://www.lagconfidential.com/2015...-further-details-about-the-ryo-fujii-contract
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Oh, I largely agree. And I think this is the direction that the league is going to have to eventually move to. But it's probably another 10 years away before it's done on a mass scale.

KCbus · Feb 16, 2015

Bill Archer said: ↑

Nice analogy.

Some clown of a kid, who had been with USSF for 8 months had just been promoted from intern to, well, one step above an intern. They put him in charge of "liason" with AO because, well, it's unimportant. He and they cooked up this "take over Columbus" thing between themselves and as I put it to someone at Soccer House, "nobody thought it might be important to have a grownup in the room".

At that point USSF/Seattle/AO arrogance took over, and they wouldn't listen to anybody.

My favorite part was when someone at the fed bragged to me that AO had sold 7000 tickets and thus they had to let them run some things. I told him that if I started something called The Amazing Super Cool Soccer fan Guys Club and they gave me 7000 tickets to US/Mex that I could sell them just as quickly. It's called the internet.

I may have added that selling US/Mex tix was about as hard as selling beer and pussy on a troop ship.
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Precisely.

You could have given those 7000 tickets to any organization. The Republican national committee. Doctors Without Borders. The Red Cross. The Knights of Columbus. The local janitors' union. The PTA. Doesn't matter. Those tickets were going to sell themselves.

The only possible group that might have had trouble unloading those things would have been Chivas USA. I don't know if selling 7000 tickets was in their DNA.

WTAMUCrew · Feb 16, 2015

Ohhhhh come on KC you're better than that. Just pissing on a grave at this point. Still I laughed...

POdinCowtown · Feb 20, 2015

Philadelphia Union acquire Fernando Aristeguita from FC Nantes.

http://www.csnphilly.com/soccer-phi...quire-coveted-venezuelan-striker-aristeguieta

KCbus · Feb 20, 2015

Time to break this one off and start fresh.