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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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]
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...
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
"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?"