Mac named all-star due to "Portland Connection"!

Prinz is busy in playing in Germany. She wasn't going to be there anyway.

 

I think some of them are thinking that Fotop should rest her injured foot or leg or whatever ailment she has now. The south coaches probably would have picked Fotop if she was 100% healthy. No need to further aggravate her injury in a meaningless match.

And where the ************ are my damn Gala tix?!!? I need to do some stalking next Thursday!!

 

The way that Mac was put into the starting lineup totally sucks. The process is bogus.

The starters were selected by voting. If one of them can't play, they should be replaced by the player with the next highest number of votes. To have the replacement selected by the coaches and friggin' Tony DiCicco is a bunch of crap. The league is so transparent sometimes it isn't even funny.

Of course Mac was selected for the "Portland connection" - on merit, there's no way she belongs in the starting line-up. In terms of marketing the game, she definately belongs in the starting line-up.

So, in a way I agree with you; in a way I don't.

I could be pissed about Fotop getting the shaft, but I'm not. Yea, Fotop had better numbers than Mac, but Mac can sell a lot more tickets in Portland than Fotop can.

If the league wants to rig the AllStar starting line-up, I can live with that.

What's hard for me to deal with is the fact that the Beat players and Courage players are on the same team. That just isn't right. We were just starting to get a good rivalry going and they put us on the same team. Idiots!!!

The league just doesn't understand rivalry.

I hope, some day, that the WUSA figures it out.

It's the only way the league will survive.

 

I think you're overreacting. Just look at other leagues:

In the NFL, Cowboys and Redskins players end up on the same all-star ("Pro Bowl") teams.

In baseball, Orioles and Red Sox players end up on the same team with Yankees players.

There's only so much you can do.

Besides, isn't there a delicious irony to putting Charmaine Hooper in the position of accepting passes from Hege Riise?

 

A few years ago the Phoenix Mercury's Brandy Reed was added to the roster after the fans in Phx swore to wear all black, (in front of the cameras) when no one from the Mercury was chosen for the team and the game was being played in Phx.

The fans banding together to protest, that's like voting with your clothes, better than voting with their feet and not showing up. That's not to say that Portland would or should have protested in black or in attendance, but I think it was a reasonable decision to include Mac in spite of her rather lackluster year.

Also, in golf tournament qualifiers, they always leave a roster spot open for a local qual, to help with the crowd draw. What the WUSA did isn't that uncommon. Besides, Mac is a big name with a lot of PTH followers, it's not like it's some unknown no talent.

 

Paul

 

Well, isn't a good part of any All Star game based on "favorites", not necessarily "best"?

Certainly anyone chosen should be good. Really good. "Stellar" even. However, it's an exhibition and should have as many players as the majority of people want to see, regardless of whether or not their season was spectacular.

We all know that when Mac's game is on, she is pretty exciting to watch. A lot of what makes a game exciting to be at is when the crowd gets behind a player and starts screaming and cheering them on. Having Mac play on her home turf will certainly turn up the energy in the crowd.

All of the players will have their own set of cheerleaders, so to speak and should make for a very entertaining, if meaningless, game. I think the South will win bragging rights with this one though.

I sure as hell wish I was going to this one.

Norma