He wanted to have his cake and eat it too but was a little too much on the MLS side of the Save the Crew saga.
We disliked him strongly before that for being a league sycophant. But yeah, that brought more people on the bandwagon.
Remember, some have moved on from positions taken by figureheads during the Crew saga. Others of us have not. Emotions and resentments can run deep.
General irritation. When he started announcing he was one part Sika, one part Lalas Light. He has improved but I still want to give him a swirly.
It's taking a while but I finally understand that the popular thinking around here is that if there's an American soccer pundit on ESPN or FS1 they are - by default - a mouthpiece or shill for Don Garber and the league.
Personally, I have not seen any evidence to the contrary that suggests any of them to be independent thinkers willing to run contrary to mL$ talking points. Except Ale Moreno.
I believe Grant Wahl has admitted that criticism meant no access to MLS and USSF honchos. Burley has discussed this as well but it was years ago.
1) Your boy, Alexi Lalas, said on national TV that Crew fans should just accept the fact that the team was moving to Austin and to get over it. No exaggeration. Defend that. 2) Twellman, all he knows is MLS so he’s biased. Wish is fine, it’s natural. I don’t mind Twellman. He crucified the USSF after the T&T debacle, and has been on their ass ever since.
I'm not defending anything, I'm just not going to cancel every single thing the guy has ever or will ever say because he had one take that I disagreed with. But that's just me.
Don’t you understand? In order to be a real fan, you have to be deranged and delusional. There’s no time for rational thought.
Just one? I have a hard time finding anything Lalas has said hat I agree with. Quite honestly, I look at him as a self-promoting flamethrower, more interested in keeping his clicks and followers up than telling the truth. I'm not sorry I unfollowed him on all platforms.
I most intelligent people would have a hard time putting up a serious argument to this point, but that's his job: Create content that generates followers and, therefor, revenue. But you're intelligent, you know that, and you chose not to feed his revenue stream. That's your right. Hashtag America.
Well, it's well established that you love MLS (as do I) and will attack anyone that says anything negative about it (where we disagree). That's fine, that's your prerogative. Don't act like you are some unbiased observer sticking up for the innocent though. You defend MLS with little-to-no rationale, other than that it is MLS. I heard Lalas once on (IIRC) an MLS Extratime interview, where he basically said that he is a troll on purpose and is playing a character when doing media, just stirring the pot for the attention it brings him. Again, this is fine, but to act like some people won't like it, and that they are wrong for that opinion, is just plain silly. And just for the record: https://streamable.com/xxcnn Taking MLS and Precourt's side, while saying Columbus should take a USL expansion team and be happy with it. Unreal. Not even the league-paid guys on the MLS podcast said that, they were all for the team staying. Lalas is more of a company man than actual company men.
Guilty as charged and proud to serve the sentence. As for everything else you said: I don't know what point you're trying to make. Lalas' take on the Saga was dead wrong and we agree there. We also agree that Lalas plays a character and that getting upset at people for being upset with that character's takes is silly. As I said previously, I'm not judging, I just don't agree.
Well, one, but just one... soft, underperforming, tattooed millionaires... The only people that took exception to that rant were the ones called out in it, including 'wonder boy.'
Minnesota United tells employees to go file for unemployment and that Pepsi is hiring. Which gives the media another opportunity to mention that the owner is a greedy crook. https://sports.yahoo.com/minnesota-united-mls-coronavirus-crisis-pepsi-unemployment-210450799.html