Did anyone catch the following gem on http://www.mlsnet.com/content/03/la0218lamanga.html: Simon Elliott posted a hat-trick with a three-assist performance. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Oh my. Perhaps they should have had added "of sorts' to hat-trick. It wasn't such a glaring error considering a hat-trick is three. Now, considering MLS is probably the only league that credits assists, it is probably a moot point to most soccer fans.
How about instead we express our support for one of our fellow MLS teams as they shread European competion instead of bashing mlsnet writers. Good job LA, keep kick'in asses... until you come home. TS.
I hope someone from this russian team breaks Cobi and Hong Myung BoDiddely's legs and sends them home in the Intercontinental MedEvac.
Half of them work for the mafi...uh government, I am sure they could be solicited to do such a thing if LA were indeed a threat to the credibility of Russian football.
i can't go that far... but i can ask for a pulled hammie, that will linger for the length of the season... heal over the winter, and act up again next year
I don't know what the Russians would charge for that, leg breaks are routine in Russian politics and treaty discussion. Anything less than an, uh, 'clean break' is simply seen as girly.
Oh, PLEEEAZZe! MLSNET happens to be a pretty darn good website. So a writer makes a slight error. It aint worthy of a three "dumb" rating, maybe just an "oops".
Beanie Trick I coined the term "beanie trick" for three assists while on my high school team. You know, the hat with the spinning propeller? Maybe that term will take its place in the modern soccer lexicon.
Don't blame MLSnet, blame the Galaxy. The league just puts up the releases as the teams give them. Sure, editing is a black hole - I had to e-mail them to correct a date in the Wizards' release about the Oklahoma exhibition games - but they have made a conscious choice to let the teams handle traditional press releases so they can concentrate more on the big picture communications wise. http://www.lagalaxy.com/r20030218.html is the original release on the team site.
In hockey, they used to call a three-assist game a "play-maker." I don't think this is what MLS should called a three assist performance. Just pointing it out.
Re: Beanie Trick It will in mine! Simon Elliott posted a "beanie-trick" with a three-assist performance. Simon is now the front runner for the tournament's Golden Beanie Award. Awarded to the tournament player with the most beanie-tricks.
Monster, no question that an LAG writer did the text. And I don't want to argue about whether use of "hat Trick" here is appropriate or merely "creative." But (and I may be a bit old fashioned about this) if MLS puts something out as its own and does not credit LAG, than MLS should stand by it and edit it as MLS thinks appropriate. If you are going to pass off stuff as your own (even with permission) you get no immunity from criticism by saying "someone else wrote this."