Dear Mr. Muk, Please don't let these naysayers bring you down. I'm an "attorney" and I'd love to take your case. I think it could really makes some waves over at ESPN. Please send me a PM and we can talk. Sincerely, Lionel Hutz
If they thought it was worth their money - they would put highlights on. But their "numbers" have shown them otherwise. It's all about cash...viewership=cash. They have mathematically cut their losses with our viewership in the interest of their dollar. That's the way it works with all programming. It has never been about being fair.
Re: Re: Re: IDIOTS... However, you're trying to get those fans who might like soccer a little to come to the games. Showing MLS highlights on a major sports network helps legitimize MLS, and helps the product as a whole. You talk about marketing. Well, highlights are basically an advertisement for the product, and they don't cost the MLS anything additional.
Re: Re: Re: Re: IDIOTS... Sometimes it feels like soccer used up its media honeymoon in America with the NASL in the 70s and this time around the mainstream sports media are resistant to taking a U.S. professional soccer league seriously. I do think more coverage in the sports news would help MLS, but it looks like the league will have to earn it every step of the way. I hope that at some point a virtuous circle will kick in where more fans leads to more coverage which leads to more fans and makes some players stars leading to more coverage and fans etc..
correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't mls attendence up like 25% approx. since the WC? (i read it on BigSoccer) so isn't soccer getting more fans now? so why try to sue to get publicity? I think that Espn saw that there are people interested in soccer in this country. i don't think it's the best idea, but you guys really nailed this guy :|
On a slightly related topic, I have seen more commercials for the All-star game then in previous editions. I believe I saw two commercials for it within a half-hour last night. I don't know if this is because I live in the DC area, but the commercial looked like it was part of the national broadcast.
hmmm... more frivolous lawsuits to tie up the legal system... My, we live in a litigious society! You know, there are far worse things in the world than inadequate soccer coverage. Halliburton has a contract to build additional cells at Guantanamo (gov't really is a tool of big business), Superfund sites aren't going to be cleaned up anytime soon (see how great MLS attendance is when MetroStars' fans are all dying of blacklung), we STILL haven't found Osama bin Laden, and so on. Let's find more constructive uses for our time and money, like perhaps spending it on MLS tickets, okay?
Yeah, and I'm going to sue the fast food places because they didn't tell me fast food was bad for me....Oh, wait somebody already did that. Never mind.
Oh ya, that would be great. Who cares. We're already 50% socialist, why not just go all the way and completely ignore people's right to private property. Let's just nationalize all the channels & make sure that mini-golf, hurling, curling, and sopccer, and bowling all get as much air time as football, basketball, baseball, and hockey. Really, this is important. We can't surivive without it.
What is your source of reference???????? if not, you are just talking sh.it my friend. Bandit bastard
A class-action lawsuit against ESPN by soccer fans... insert dream sequence here "This is... Sportscenter... at the top of our show, a lawsuit against the only network that ACTUALLY SHOWS MLS... and now to coddle litigous soccer fans, roll the tape ***5 mins of balls being passed back to the goalkeeper*** "had enough, yet?" quips Dan Patrick. "I was actually just starting to like soccer... NOW THIS!" says an indignant Tony Kornheiser on PTI. "Now my own kids want to SUE ME!" --Mike Lupica "This just goes to show the litigous soccer-Mom left-wing conspiracy that goes unchecked on a daily basis in this country by the liberal media that shouldn't be showing soccer in the first place." --Rush Limbaugh "WEALTHY PUBLISHING MAGNATE WITHDRAWS SUPPORT OF OKC BID FOR MLS TEAM"-- Headline seen in Daily Oklahoman "Question 4: Are soccer fans geeks or just idiots?" --John McLaughlin on 'McLaughlin Group' "LEGISLATURES IN 17 STATES PASS BILLS DECLARING SOCCER 'ILLEGAL'"-- AP HEADLINE "Was it worth it?-- Popular backlash against the sport of soccer..." -- Cover story, Time Magazine "To protest the litigation pending against ESPN, I rescend my congratulations made to the US national team" --JC Watts "FBI/CIA release reports detailing soccer activities of purported terrorists before 9/11" --Washington Post "Listen, youth soccer has been circumventing our children's moral compass for years..." --William Bennett on NBC's 'Meet the Press' "Men's soccer declared 'un-American' by House/Senate in unanimous voice-vote" (Reuters)-- Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, pressured by women's groups, succeeded in getting WUSA exempted from the declaration, stating, "Let's be reasonable. Women are not the terrorists here." Although the White House was not directly involved in the declaration, Pres. Bush took the opportunity to applaud congress's bi-partisanship on the issue. "Our children's future is now safe for baseball," he said. "ESPN SETTLES LAWSUIT OUT OF COURT-- LITIGANTS GIVEN SETTLEMENT OF $4 MILLION--say they will use money to start MLD... Major League Dodgeball" (AP)-- Happy now?...
This is almost as funny as the wheelchair-bound guy suing the strip club because he couldn't get to the lapdance rooms.
Dude, that's a totally cool lawsuit. Almost as good as the guy suing because a stripper's knockers whacked him upside the head.
I hate to get us off the strippers tangent which got us off the original idea, which was to bash MukMuk or whatever his name is, but I'd love to see the "demonstrably" part of this.
Dear Mr. Muk, Count me in!! Sue the bastards, SUE SUE SUE. I'll be happy to testify on your behalf. Sincerely.....Ken Horowitz