Who is the Best Candidate to Write a Great Book About MLS' Early Years?

How 'bout Joe McGinniss ? he seemed to catch soccer fever about the time the league started...

 

The only question in my mind is who's going to ghost write Douglas Logan Mendoza's self-congratulatory "MLS: The Formative Years" when MLS is as big as the NFL?

Or perhaps we could get Quieroz to write a scathing expose on the incompetence in the Metros organization?

 

Maybe some of those other people are busy writing other books.

Withthe advent of print on deman companies like iUniverse, I bet a poster does a book before anyone else. In fact, a Crew fans did a diary of a season a couple of years back. The problem with the Bradleys and Connolly's of the world, in my opinion, is that their full time job hurts their time to write a book unless it's something they can get a deal for it beforehand. And I doubt MLS is a topic that will happen for.

 

What the hell. I'll do it.

But it will be part two of my trilogy on the history of US soccer, to be followed up by volume 3, tentatively called "World Domination."

 

Sunil Gulati.

 

Constantine Foley

 

Jim Rome

 

Hahaha.

I'm fairly certain that Connolly could single handedly affect the world price of recycled bits if he tried. He has the writing capacity of a thousand typewriter-wielding monkeys, and a literary genius comparable with Einstein's mathematical genius.

 

With a foreward by Doug Logan?

 

Garth Lagerwey

 

Thor Lee....

Seriously, if anyone were to write it, I think Jeff Bradley would do a fantastic job. He's honest enough that he won't pull punches and a great talent that provide us with a great chronicle of the league so far...

Cheers...

 

And a special shout out from Tab Ramos.

 

With a thesaurus included in the purchase.

Lagerway may coach DC's keepers this season. No word yet on whether they'll bring in an interpreter to help Rimando, like they brought in Stoichkov to help with Ivanov.

 

Oh yes, and a collectible box for the future volumes, and a Garth commemorative jersey stuffed into the box!

<foams at mouth />

 

Ian Bishop.

 

falcon6

 

Well, he does need a job.

 

NObody from Bigsoccer.com, please! All we need is a book about MLS early years written by somebody who is cynical about even the biggest MLS successes, doubts things that are historically true, and bashes all things non-American. Plus, an exciting chapter on how the decision to go with a two-legged quarterfinal playoff format brought about the 2003 downfall of MLS. And, of course, the introduction with a lengthy discourse on how DC united nothing.

Seriously, I think Bradley and Connolly would be very good choices. There's also a guy who writes in South Florida (his name, inexcusably, alludes me right now) who has done some excellent stuff.

But we ignore the obvious: Ty Keough. He has December to March off every year.

 

Jeff Rusnak.

"Dude, buy my book."

 

Yeah, and he's on vacation all season long.

 

Steve Jolley....Ron Newman....Alexi Lalas, of course.

Daniel Amokachi. "Chapter One - The Early Seconds of the Physical...."

Marcelo Vega. "Chapter Five - The Early Minutes of the Warm-Up in San Jose...."

Eddie Firmani. "Chapter One - The First Three Hundred Times I Said 'Cosmos' By Mistake...."

Foley's a great suggestion, but a better book would be his autobiography, since it would probably make Chuck Barris say, "Dude - not plausible."

Ooh! What happened to Alex Johnson, who used to do that neat column in the Washington Post?

 

Seriously, I've always wished John Feinstein would do one of his "season in the life of" type of books. I'd probably end up buying multiple copies of the MLS version of "A March to Madness" or "The Last Amatuers"

 

you beat me to it...so I'll have to say: subbuteo