Welcome friends to the 2007 Indoor Soccer awards............ Starting off tonight we have the Bin Laden Award - awarded to the person or team who goes about life in this great game in the most stealthy, secrative and 'under the radar' way possible, you have to look pretty hard to figure the winner out or even where they are. This years recipient............the NJ Ironmen!!! If we had any information we'd post it here. The Joe Hammes Award - awarded to the person or team who's planning, careful leadership and superb execution of half time no game related entertainment. This years recipient.......... Katie from Cedarburg!!! Unfortunately neither Joe to present the award of Katie to receive the award can be with us today, but joining us live from Orlando................. The Justin Timberlake "what goes around" Award - Tired of the same old song? Well this award merely rubs salt in the wound. This years recipient..........the Massachusetts Twisters. AISL champions have pulled it out in 2007. Ny had a 2-1 record, Cinncinati and Rockford had a 5-2 record and Mass with a 5-1 record have won the AISL title. The Weapons of Mass Destruction Award This award goes to the person or team who notwithstanding any imperical evidence still believes that something exists that clearly doesn't. This years recipient..........why its the MISL WEBMASTER who still thinks the St. Louis Steamers are part of the league. Well Done!! The Ed Hale wouldn't do that Award - This is a special award voted on and created by the BS posters in the greater Baltimore Metro area who all think that Ed Hale is incapable of commiting an erro. (spelling mistake is a pun and intended) This years recipient..........MISL WEBMASTER AGAIN!!!!!!!! two awards in a row. Wow. The Ed Hale award is for creating a tab that reads TICKETS and is the only tab that doesn't work. Now Ed Hale wouldn't do that. The "if its Tuesday, we must be in Belgium" Award goes to the team that travels in the most unique way. Previous award winners include the Edmonton Drillers who once drove to Buffalo in a van and SUV only to have the vehicles impounded at the border and ended up taking the train home and the infamous Detroit Safari player who was travelling solo to play San Jose and booked on a flight from Detroit to LA, change planes and then to Oakland, awaking in a fog upon landing he found the stewardess saying all passengers continuing to Oakland stay on board. So he did. Little did he know she said continuing to Auckland as in New Zealand and for one reason or another missed the San Jose Grizzlies game. This years recipient.......... goes to Steve "FRESH MONEY" Ryan who's one man odyssey included stops in all 6 MISL cities, Mexico and an infamous night in the Hartford airport as the company credit card was maxed out. The Earthday Recycling Award this award goes to a person or people who recycle the names of former indoor soccer teams. This years recipient..........The San Francisco Fog. Yes the San Francisco Fog moniker is now being used by a gay mens rugby team in SF The Soviet Union Rules Award is awarded to the one person or team that continually believes their way is the only way, that they have all the answers, that everything they do is good, and everything someone else does is bad. This years recipient..........Chicago Storm posters on BS. Yes despite seeing the Storm leaving town in a crowded bus , despite all the financial setbacks, the Storm posters have forever fallen under the delusion that everything the Storm does is right. Always. Everytime. and our final award of the night................. The Joe Newman Award Joe puts the word MINOR to new heights in Minor League. His interesting business model, his unique business practices and Joes own Minor League troubles are wll documented. Previous winners of the Joe Newman award include Carolyn Shiver of the NIFL and our own Fresh Money. This years recipient..........Fox Soccer Channel. FSC while a proponent of the "beautiful game" tried to screw over MISL and to his credit Fresh Money has been snookered so many times before he saw it coming!! Ya despite FSC's demands for cash up front to broadcast one game of MISL our man Money went and got the VS deal.
The Ed Hale wouldn't do that Award - This is a special award voted on and created by the BS posters in the greater Baltimore Metro area who all think that Ed Hale is incapable of commiting an erro. (spelling mistake is a pun and intended) This years recipient..........MISL WEBMASTER AGAIN!!!!!!!! two awards in a row. Wow. The Ed Hale award is for creating a tab that reads TICKETS and is the only tab that doesn't work. Now Ed Hale wouldn't do that. You know, at first glance I wasn't going to dignify this post with a response, but I felt that someone had to be the voice of honesty and respect. This continued vilification of the Honorable Mr. Edwin F Hale is old. It is stale. Trite. Played out. And just down right, not funny. Therefore the trashing of his name should cease immediately. Oh, how we soon forget that without Mr. Hale, there is no MISL There is no Versus. There is no professional indoor soccer. Here we have the only person making money in the business of indoor soccer and how do you show your respect?????????? You don't. Constant whinners like the Great Commissioner Steve Ryan is who a lot of the posters seem to admire. I guess this is the person that you think is better for the MISL. Well, you can have him and his one suit and his lies, and his lack of business smarts. There is NO SHAME in winning the Ed Hale award; because that means one is smart, successful, and a rich winner. SHAME
Soccer Man - I agree. But I'm not trashing Ed Hale, far from it. Although myself and one of his employees Drew used to butt heads a lot I admire Ed. The post isn't making fun of Ed Hale. The post is making fun of the people on the fringes who either think Ed Hale can walk on water or turning Ed Hale into a joke a'la a Chuck Norris type.............you know, things like, Ed Hale doesn't pay taxes, he sends the IRS a photo of him crouced and ready to attack so the IRS is scared. I like Ed Hale and wish we had more like him. But if you read the post you will see that it is directed more to the fringes than at Ed.
Maybe I don't have the roles and responsibilities down correctly, but if my reading of posts are correct, you just awarded two sarcastic awards for failure to do his job to a man who had been hospitalized with cancer for months and recently died. https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=527870 Again, if my understanding of the roles and responsibilities is correct, I think you can blame MISL for not having redunancy in duty coverage, but if you're gonna blame and mock the webmaster, who was hospitalized with cancer since February, for not having a laptop on his hospital tray...well, have fun in hell, Shelts...you just sealed your fate.
You are a creep General. Thats too low even for you. I realize that Ryan had passed away. Ask yourself this. If Ryan has passed away do you think he is still the webmaster? Rather than try and score points against me get a grip on reality and realize I wouldn't do that. You might not like me but don't take the low road here and assume. If you go to the 17th post here you will see that I'm well aware https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=359961&page=2 of the initial webmasters and Ryan. Jerk. Paul is out...................
Herr general... Ryan Waldheger was not the league's webmaster. They hire an outside group of ferns to do that. And, like a bad case of hemorroids, Soccer-man crawled back out of the toilet from which he lives and spawns.
Maybe FSC is the one who successfully avoided being snookered and was aware of FM's track record. I doubt if FSC is crying over spilled milk! In place of FSC, I'd like to nominate the sub-minor quasi-league in Canada that not only dared to call themselves major league, but also infringed on MISL's trademark. What was it? The CMISL? What did they accomplish? Two whole dates on the calendar that were Major flops. '
I got the impression that Ryan might have been more involved with the website content based on the obit post...like I said, I was making assumptions. But thanks for the clarification.
I thought that Jaye Cavallo and Ryan Waldheger maintained and updated the MISL site and therefore would be considered the "webmasters". In the case of most of the MISL team sites, the team's media relations person usually does the website (some of them even list web duties on the person's bios). So I'm not sure who Shelts is slamming. The way it was explained to me is that an outside firm developed the design of the sites (that's why they all look generally the same -- they use a template), but all of the MISL sites are maintained and updated internally, the league site being done by the league and the team sites by the individual teams. I would consider these people to be webmasters and the outside company to be web designers or software creators who developed a template and admin software so that non-web-savvy office staff could do the updates if that was the case. Now, I don't claim to have tons of inside info, just have talked to someone who worked in one of the team offices in the past, and this is how it was explained to me.
You think my status in life is so low that I need to hang out on a message board taking potshots at people to make myself feel better? And that makes me a jerk? Hey, jackass...who started A THREAD WHOSE SOLE PURPOSE WAS TO TAKE POTSHOTS AT PEOPLE? Even a delusional Storm fan can see what a hypocrite you are. The guy I owe an apology to is Syd...apparently it's Paul who lives in that glass house. Oh, and thanks for bringing Soccer-Man back into our life with your nice little thread. SHAME
You're correct on the level of at least one team, but not sure about the league...Rich seems pretty confident in what he's saying so I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt.
It's probably a similar situation to what I work with in the AISL. An outside company (Northern Logics) does the deisgn and "maintenance" work on our site (ie. adding pages, updating any graphics, updating statistics, etc.). All that I provide is the "content" (ie. press releases and any other text). I consider myself the "content manager" of the AISL.ORG site, and I consider our Northern Logics rep as the "webmaster".
Hey, it's one thing to win the championship. It's another to win it with class and style. And Ed Hale has a style all his own.