Yup, they aren't fooling anybody with their "Weighted" lottery, they're just going through the motions.
They get one more next year, Donovan. His grandfather clause contract will have to be covered somehow.
True that, the Galaxy has been crap for years now. Look at the NBA Lottery, The Celtics had the biggest chance, but PORTLAND and Seattle got the players. The NBA would have benefited more if BOSTON got it.
Did you completely ignore the fact that this isn't the first time they've done a weighted lottery and that the chances of the Galaxy winning were not unlikely.
I mean, might as well go off-topic, since the topic is a ridiculous conspiracy theory. 1.) Crap teams always win these lotteries 2.) LA is a crap team 3.) No one needs Sesay that badly anyway 4.) ...especially the Gals, who aren't exactly focused on bringing up youth through the ranks 5.) ...and Sesay isn't even good trade bait
At the rate we're getting injured, our back four by the end of the season will probably be something like: Randolph Gordon Friesz Sesay Yep, I think the only reason I'm still watching this injury trainwreck is out of morbid curiosity at how long it's going to be before we're starting one of our backup goalkeepers at center back.
1. I don't see a conspiracy here. I just don't see Sesay going to LAG (clearly a team in turmoil with a crap record of developing teenagers--anyone remember Memo Gonzalez? and no idea of who the coach and GM will be next year--heck, in a month) as a good thing for his development. And when we're talking teenagers not out of HS (ie: 14-15-16 year olds), the first and last consideration should be: what's best for their development. I get that there are rules, competitiveness issues, fairness, yada, yada. But these aren't 20 year olds with some life experience and even a hint of college or a complete HS diploma. If it had made more sense for Adu to start his career in Dallas or KC (b/c that is where is family lived) than I'd have lived with it. And as Goff pointed out, LAG had the second best chance of winning the lottery. My question is why they'd really enter unless you think they're going to try and deal Sesay. 2. No, the worst teams don't always win. Metros entered a lottery for DJ Countess with the express purpose of getting him so they'd have trade bait to get Diallo from TB. Metro at that point was a playoff team and there were a bunch of teams under them that year. 3. Maybe 4-5 years from now, none of this will matter. But Sesay has potential--he just won't contribute for a couple of years. He requires patiences, some good teachers (and please don't spread that crap about how Beckham, Donovan, Cannon will teach him--they were hired to win games not coach) and a long view. If you rate the MLS franchises right now for which teams are best positioned to grow 16 year-olds, I'd say that LAG is probably near the bottom (b/c of the likelihood of a roster makeover and chances with coaches and GM possibly before the year is out).
You can have Jim Curtin if you like. He's out the rest of the year, but you're welcome to him none-the-less.
This lottery was obviously not rigged for the Galaxy. Would MLS really want a talented young player going to a currently shitay team which cannot develop talented young players and trades its talented young players for old unskilled players?
Are you kidding me? With how horrible LAG attack is, It would be completely the opposite imo. They arent going to be in the playoffs so it wouldn't hurt them in the least bit to put the kid in and have beckham service him.. damn pedophiles... It keeps the galaxy, Beckham and MLS in the press, My vote says yes. Yeah Don Garber called me up and told me before the draft via secure phone connection that LAG were going to win the Lottery, that’s all the proof you should need. If it was rigged you think they would just openly flaunt that yeah, we rigged it so LAG would win please spread it through all the newspapers and television stations.. Make sure you hit up big soccer.
6 goals against Dallas. 4 against NY. 2 goals against DC. The remaining games have been the ones where the Galaxy has been most depleted by injuries. The problem doesn't lie in the attack. It lies in the back-line and the fact that none of the four starters (Albright -- Xavier -- Harden -- and Jazic) have been 100% healthy and played in all the games. (Albright has been out since the spring...) Plus the mid-field has been almost as effected. The problem is absolutely not the attack.
I saw the headline of Galaxy winning The Lottery and at first thought it was Alexi Lalas getting stoned to death. My mistake.