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Posted Thursday July 17, 2008, About: Eto'o to play in Asian league
Ronaldinho's Dog: I think you may be right...this may be the equivalent of a personal loan to the club where he gets paid megabucks to be a ringer for them in the Asian's Champsions League. Except he gets the cash this time instead of his team. But if this comes to fruition, I think it flies in the face of all comments saying, "player X will never come to MLS until he's too old".
Posted Tuesday July 08, 2008, About: Adu linked to Monaco move
I think Adu will do well in either scenario (staying at Benefica or going to Monaco). Lets face it, despite all the cliche's that you need playing time to improve (which I agree with), there is a downside to a continuously changing environment and Freddy has clearly improved a great deal during his time at Benefica despite limited PT.

Some previous posts had it right, if he stays at Benefica, he will continue to develop and impress and get in the starting lineup sooner rather than later. There is no shame in earning your place in the starting lineup at a top club and if he continues to work hard, he will earn it. He is clearly in a good environment right now so I don't see any major reason to loan or sell him to another team to develop when it seems he is on the cusp of starting anyhow. If they do send him off though, Monaco is probably another good fit and certainly better than the scottish league for him.
Posted Tuesday July 08, 2008, About: Mastroeni wants Spain or Italy move
The only challenge he will get in La Liga everyday is in training. Adu will get more PT than him and he's on the bench 90% of the time. Delusional is definitely the right word for this one....
Posted Friday June 27, 2008, About: Reyna upsets Red Bulls fans
Not to sound like I'm defending reyna, because he has been an absolute waste of money for NY...but those people need to get real. This was a light-hearted game that he played to help him get match fit. Playing a goofy charity match with NBA players does not mean you are ready to play in a full MLS game.
Posted Sunday June 15, 2008, About: NFL meets on proposed LA stadium
Nobody is denying what Georgia said in 1994 and nobody is even denying that the attendance/support was not great. If you guys actually read my post, you would see that I was saying the REASON support was bad was because of terrible ownership. And its not a simple case of being frontrunners....

I live in baltimore now and its a great sports city and people here absolutely love the O's but attendance and support have been terrible the last few years. Fans are absolutely fed up with Angelos and have no faith in him as an owner being able to field a competitive team. Poor ownership trumps almost everything. And Al Davis and Georgia made an absolute mockery of those teams when they were in LA.

I will give you that LA is slightly harder because there are more options there so if you are terrible, they will occupy themselves with something else as opposed to buffalo or green bay, where, with all due respect, there is not nearly as much to keep you busy.

But I can pretty much guarantee you that the LA, OC and inland empire area that are all within 25 miles of the proposed stadium have more football fans (mostly because there are more people) than any other stadium in the country.

But really, all you guys have no idea what SoCal is like but you all talk like experts because you saw newspaper clippings from an owner angling to get a stadium deal....brilliant.
Posted Saturday June 14, 2008, About: NFL meets on proposed LA stadium
All this talk about LA not supporting an NFL team is pure BS. The fact is, in virtually every market (yes, there are clear exceptions) fans do not have continued support for bad owners comfortable with mediocrity. I lived in socal during the days of the rams/raiders and I can tell you georgia and Al lost all credibility and there was no hope the teams would ever rise to the top. Without any potential, the fan base just stops caring.
Perfect example is the Angels... back in those days, they rarely could be described as true contenders and the sentiment was they would always just be slightly above average. They also had a VERY poor fan base....and all the talk and excuses was "people in the OC don't support sports, blah, blah, blah". Well, once the ownership changed and they showed determination to compete year in/out, the fan base became incredible and tix have been hard to come by. This proposed NFL stadium btw, is about 10-15 miles from where the angels play.
Bottom line is, if they have an ownership that the fans believe in, the fan base will be there without a doubt. There are few places that bad owners and consistently bad teams will have a fan base that comes out no matter what.
Posted Tuesday May 27, 2008, About: Cold shoulder for U.S. goalie
Lehman made comments much worse than she did repeatedly at Arsenal this year, and after his worst blowup, he still played the following week and you never heard any significant drama about it from his teammates. The women's team has lost all credibility in my eyes as a 'professional' group when they act like a bunch of junior high kids. Grow up! Are you a freaking sorority or a professional team? IMO, Hope's teammates need to grow up and move on. What a joke. How exactly is this going to help people want to watch them play?
Posted Tuesday April 29, 2008, About: Amateurish Galaxy irks Gullit
Whether he was aware of this behavior before getting there is irrelevant. I'm glad he's complaining about these things, and thats why he was brought in. Not just to increase the level of professionalism of the players, but the team as a whole. And the Galaxy and the league should be listening to his criticisms and take them seriously. Now Gullit does blow a lot of smoke, so you don't take all his opinions to the bank, but he has some very high standards that the Galaxy players, management and MLS should aspire to.
Posted Friday April 25, 2008, About: Rams owner denies LA move
LA doesn't want the Rams back.... there was a reason they didn't treat his mother well, she didn't do anything to earn their respect. The Rams were mired in mediocrity for years and there were no significant investments to change that. She did nothing to make the fans believe she was concerned with the team's performance. She very well may have cared, but that message never reached the fans. She didn't spend any money until she left for St Louis. Its likely moving to St Louis provided her the money to do better things with the team, but the LA fans were shafted for years by that ownership.
As a side note, I'm seeing a very similar behavior here in Baltimore with Angelos and the Orioles. Make no effort to be competitive for a decade and people start to dislike you, plain and simple.
Posted Friday April 25, 2008, About: Spanish midfielder eyes MLS gig
I actually saw him play in the 2001 CL Final against Bayern at the san siro and I can tell you, he lit up the field. He clearly stood out as one of the most talented players on the field that night. But that was 7 years ago when he was 27 and now injuries and age have taken its toll. I'm not sure what his level of play is now, but I'm not excited nor disappointed with this rumor. I give it the old "eh" with a shoulder shrug. Just don't pay him big money, thats all I ask. I could see him as a Denilson type deal where you give him 1 yr for 800K and if it backfires, its not the end of the world. We do not want a rep of overpaying bad players. We an overpay great players (ie. pay a 10% premium for Henry, etc) just not bad, over the hill ones.

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