OK, FESS UP. Which one of you . . .

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  1. Airblair

    Airblair Member

    Dec 8, 1999
    Redwood City
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Which one of you is the ESPN.com "buzzmaster" who screened all the questions for Landon Donovan during his online chat yesterday?

    I love picking on the guy, but some of the questions he had to answer were just excruciating. Like:

    Fiona: Round Rock, TX: What questions do you get more tired of answering: those about Adu or those about Leverkusen?

    Adam (San Francisco): "Landon Donovan"... are you a porn star?

    John (SF): Isn't "Galaxy" a pretty pansy name? You might as well be called the Unicorns.

    Joe (LA): Whats your favorite nickname? LD, Landycakes, or Lanny?

    Balding (Reno, NV): How concerned are you about losing your hairline- Zidane got away with it, do you think you can?

    Taco (LA): We all saw your house on Cribs. It's lovely. Has anyone toiletpapered it yet?



    Somehow, I don't think ESPN would have submitted questions like those to Mel Kiper.

    Full chat is here.
     
  2. JazzyJ

    JazzyJ BigSoccer Supporter

    Jun 25, 2003
    You missed this one.

    Chad (San Jose): Landon, would you play for the Earthquakes again if we got our team back?

    Landon Donovan: (5:33 PM ET ) I can't imagain that. I have nothing against them but I'm happy in L.A. now.
     
  3. bsman

    bsman Member+

    May 30, 2001
    MadCity
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes

    I hope the ****** gets traded to Kansas City!!!! :D
     
  4. markmcf8

    markmcf8 Member+

    Oct 18, 1999
    Vancouver, WA, USA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    On the one hand, I admire Landon for rolling with the punches in that interview. Some of the questioners were clearly trying to piss him off, and he just played along.

    On the other hand, some of his answers show what a shallow, self-centered, SoCal boy he is. I'm sure he's nice to his friends and family, but his comment "There's a reason everyone moves here," when he's talking about frigging El-Lay is revealing. Folks that like El-Lay are incapable of understanding why so many of us hate it. They actually like the bits that we hate.

    Whatever.

    Oh, what stunt did Aleko pull? I'm not watching MLS, MLSWrap, or reading much of MLSnet, so I missed it.

    QUAKES FOREVER!!
    GO SSV!!
    GO WOLFF!!
    fumls!
    fuaeg!

    - Mark
     
  5. ThreeApples

    ThreeApples Member+

    Jul 28, 1999
    Smurf Village
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    He scored a goal against Red Bull at Giants Stadium, ran to the DC bench, was handed a can of Red Bull by Jamil Walker, took a swig, and spat it out.
     
  6. Airblair

    Airblair Member

    Dec 8, 1999
    Redwood City
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The question he was asked was "Yo, Landon, is living in Cali all it is hyped up to be?"

    I took it to mean he was talking about California, and not just frigging El-Lay.
     
  7. bigdumbgod

    bigdumbgod Member+

    Jun 25, 2005
    San Jose, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    In SoCal, when they say things like "There's a reason everyone moves here", I can assure you (from growing up there) they're not including anything but SoCal in that reference, since they basically don't recognize the existence of any other place...anywhere. Kind of quaint when you're down there at length, but odd and fairly irritating when you're elsewhere.
    [not baiting uclacarlos here, so shhhhhhh]
     
  8. BluByU

    BluByU Member

    Aug 25, 2004
    San Jose
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Okay, I read the whole thing. He does seem to handle himself well with the baiting questions. Personally, Chad, I can't imagine him playing for the future Quakes either! My favorite nickname is still PrimaDonovan...
     
  9. TyffaneeSue

    TyffaneeSue moderator
    Staff Member

    Nov 15, 2003
    Upstairs
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    We owe Fiona in Round Rock. Thanks for passing along this gem, Airblair!
     
  10. markmcf8

    markmcf8 Member+

    Oct 18, 1999
    Vancouver, WA, USA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah, I think this is the case.

    I've spoken with plenty of folks from SoCal and even when I insult El-Lay, unless I'm really obvious and nasty about it, they something like: "Yeah, that's another thing I like about El-Lay!"

    Now it could be that Narcisus meant all of California when he responded to that question, but he referenced the taxi driver from Louisiana in him reply. I think he meant Smogvile.

    QUAKES FOREVER!!
    GO SSV!!
    GO WOLFF!!
    FU EL-LAY!!

    - Mark
     
  11. PsychedelicCeltic

    PsychedelicCeltic New Member

    Dec 10, 2003
    San Francisco/London
    "Landycakes, what did you feel when you skipped on back to America with your tail between your legs after being an abject failure in the Bundesliga?"
     
  12. bigdumbgod

    bigdumbgod Member+

    Jun 25, 2005
    San Jose, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    "I felt immediately drawn to L.A., my kind of peeps, yo."
     

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