FanNation and SI reporting rumors: Headline: Blanco attacks D.C. United employee http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/57170
Truth and Rumors!?!?!?! Holy Shit. It references MLS Rumors, which references the threads we're talking in. How does that place have any credibility after trying to claim the whole C-Bus Crew fanbase were making racial slurs and monkey noises.
What if everyone involved is actually trying to figure out what happened and if there should be punishment before going off half-cocked and making a public statement? Radical thinking, I know...in the 24/7/366 media-cycle the fact that Garber has not yet repudiated Blanco must mean he condones everything and anything that was actually done... BTW - anyone else remember Eric Cantona?
Dear revelation: Yeah, those guys suck. We would never use unsourced information. Regards, D. Rather - CBS News
I did think it noteworthy that Jaime and Thorrington grinned and shook hands a few minutes after that vicious from-behind tackle. They even patted one another on the back! So I guess there are no hard feelings.
Wow, this is very... circular. Let's try this again and see how it goes: Donovan to Arsenal! Arshavin to Red Bull! Onyewu back "home" to DC United! C'mon guys, use your imagination. Just make it up, start talking about it, MLS rumors will run it, SI.com will cite them, we'll cite SI.com and - presto! - it's News AND Analysis.
Some of you need to slow down. First of all, this is not an MLS matter. It belongs to USSF as it is their competition. They will review it and take whatever appropriate action they deem necessary. If there are sanctions, it may only be at the US Open Cup level or it can go beyond, which may affect matches under MLS. I know there is a general dislike for Blanco among regulars here and that is understandable. But he is not going to make the FBI Top Ten list for his actions last night. And there will not be any rush to judgement in this matter.
I would be shocked as well, that if he actually took a swing at a cop, that he wouldn't be arrested Agreed. So the longer it goes on without a police report of the alleged "taking a swing at a cop", the likelihood that it actually happened the way that some fans think it did, is probably not the case
True enough, but Blanco is an MLS employee. I'm sure he has some sort of public behavior clause in his contract.
It's a USSF event but I would think MLS would get involved as it's an employee vs employee assault, no? K
I disagree that it's not an MLS matter. It's true, it wasn't an MLS match -- but he was playing for an MLS team, and (allegedly) assaulted an employee of another MLS team. If he had done the same thing while playing for the Mexican national team, I wouldn't care -- but last night, he was playing in a game for which he is paid as part of the contract that MLS owns. Assuming he did what people say he did, the league should punish him in some way.
Perhaps the most important thing to come out of all this, if newspapers, tv, the league, and everybody else really starts uncovering everything, is what happened to his neck? But seriously. There's no data entered into the MD judiciary case search system yet, so either no charges were brought, or they haven't hit the database yet. Sometimes it takes a day or so to catch up. I searched on Bravo and Blanco, with no matches for Cua*. Remember the woman dead on the waiting room floor? It happened weeks ago, but very few people knew about it until there was video. This is the nature of news in our time.
That was after Jaime got a yellow card for his retaliation on Thorington. Pay back first, then happy tappy.
It could be, but it probably won't, at least for this season. It's kind of hard to retroactively apply rules concerning suspensions between competitions. I doubt that FIFA would be too favorable of it as well. El Matador got a 5 game USOC suspension for actually assaulting a player (stomping on Nowak), so something like this probably isn't going to be worse than that, and Luis' suspension didn't affect his MLS games one bit. Truth is, the USOC needs MLS much more than MLS needs the USOC at this point. The USOC without MLS participation would go back to the sub-amateur competition it was before MLS and stop getting their cut of the gate that they get from MLS teams.
I'm sure it reads: "You will get bonus money for scoring goals. You will get bonus money for making assists. You will be fined for serious foul play. You will get bonus money for your team winning MLS Cup."