The fact that you don't think that he's succeeded tells me that you don't have access to the Super Secret Moderators Star Chamber forum. For many moderators he's been Public Enemy #1 for four years now. Frankly, the only reason why he's still around is because he amuses the management. Huss is one of Segroves' biggest fans.
Yeah, and it really pisses me off. They used to post "How come Segroves and Archer get away with this crap?" and then argue for 50 posts. But nobody complains much about me any more. I'm pretty put out about it. Maybe I'll pull a "Cikowski" - (verb: Polish; "to provoke or campaign for ejection" - "I'm going to do a Cikowski on BigSoccer"
Is there some other place Ted posts while he's in exile? And what's the deal with all of the yellow cards I'm seeing? Is Dark Knight flexing his muscles? Have they decided on what grounds that Ted was evicted and started applying them to everyone?
http://newsservice.blogspot.com/ by the way, does anyone take el jefe or gringotex seriously? other than the oral they give to each of segroves posts, what purpose do they serve? el jefe thinks he knows what's best for MLS and rips anyone who disagrees.....that includes writers at mlsnet.com and MLS players themselves. This guy, along with Kenntomasch, monster and andy mead think they run the mls forums and everyone who says something they don't like is wasting their time. gringtotex proffesses to like 'real movies' and rips movies like se7en, yet his musical tastes is a comedy of errors....even liking se7enish bands like Wilco and the Smiths. I've got news for you gringo, when you talk about music you sound like the people who talk about Armageddon being one of the best movies they've ever seen. Who else you like? Moby and Tim Buckley?
Well, that's very harsh. Gringotex has clearly jumped the Shark a la Mssr. Loney. It used to be that, disagree or not, they were both entwrtaining guys who felt the need to actually work at making a case for whatever their screed du jour happened to be. Now, both of them are so puffed up with some peculiar sense of self-importance that they apparently believe that if they say it then everyone should believe it and if they don't then it's a sign of mental defect. You can almost see the oozing sense of godhood seeping off the screen. It's made both of them, previously among the not-to-be-missed posters, tiresome and irrelevant. Sad really. Newbies of 2004 will never know either of them from 2001 or 2002. The real question is: Who will replace these men. El Jefe is another case. His intellect seems to be intact, but you look in vain for the heart and the wit that once were his trademarks. He knows all the words and he sings all the notes but he never quite nails the song anymore. It's a little like Britney Spears: you just know that she's about three years from appearing on Cops standing outside with a Marlboro Light 100 in her hand screaming at the police as they stuff her husband into a squad car. Once the slide starts, you just can't stop it. And you're just wrong about Tomasch, Monster and Mead, "The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse". They don't think they run the MLS Forums - they think they run (or ought to run) MLS itself. All three of them have their brishes with MLS luminaries ("so as I was saying to Lamar Hunt on the elevator at the All Star game...") which they think translates into real inside knowledge. Personally, I bet most MLS "execs" (if you can use that word to describe guys whose entire life consists of getting first crack at the box of freebies Nike sends over, expense account trips to bad soccer games and long afternoons polishing up their resumes for the Miami Dolphins) avoid these guys like a good case of Ebola. But to each other they have credentials, which allows them to pontificate on any and all subjects related to the league and dismiss the comments of those who don't get to chow down on the media center hot dogs as clearly beneath contempt.
I think with Gringotex, it's quitting smoking. Kind of like Guns'n'Roses quitting heroin after their first CD, they started putting out stupid ballads. Since I really don't care much about MLS, I don't have much of an opinion of the Chief's prescriptions for it. I've yet to develop a loyalty to a team. I keep trying to like DC United, but then I tune into one of their games and I see a sloppy game of kickaround at midfield.
What can I say? Marriage has mellowed me out. However, I would've preferred a Rolling Stones comparison, since they're my examples in the fine art of "mailing it in."
And your situation reminds me of Phil Spector. I really don't want to go into the analogy here- I just hope we don't wake up one day and read in the papers that Eric B's corpse has been discovered with a meat thermometer through the neck.
See, this is just what I'm talking about. You toss together a bunch of dreck, post it under "GringTex" and people are supposed to instantly recognize the pure genius of it because, well because you wrote it. Jesus, you need serious help. And for the record, unless Eric B has a second career as a topless Warrior Princess B movie actress, then neither Phil nor I are likely to be doing the perp walk while wiping gunshot residue off our thumbs anytime soon.
Ok I am back, with my original username. Let me say that Dark Knight is a good, reasonable person, to whom I negotiated with.
WOW!! Talk about having some serious street cred - little green boxes don't mean dick next to a 1999 signup date. I've been through a few ID's, but my original was February 2001. Practically a newbie.
Actually, poor Lana "Barbarian Queen" Clarkson was working as a hostess at a Hard Rock Cafe or something when she got picked up by Phil "Wall of Sound" Spector and ended up a couple hours later in a pool of blood in his house. I'm not sure but it would seem the market for pendulous-titted Amazon Warrior movies dried up on her. I heard though that Tom Byron is retiring (and made some pretty nasty and completely uncalled-for comments about Ron Jeremy needing to do the same thing) so maybe there are some openings there. Do you have any experience boning coked out biker chicks while 20 or 30 people stand around watching?
I wish! I've worked in television for a dozen years, which often involved the same acts as in porn...