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smitty6000

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Posted Friday June 19, 2009, About: FIFA: MLS must adopt international calendar

The politics at the top of this sport are a joke... sure the politicians increased revenue but that doesn't make it right. Let's look at some of the recent news from the upper echelons of the politcal side of the sport (a) Blatter places bans on altitude that make some South American countries nearly unable to host their own WCQ matches (b) Asian confederation cheif thretens to cut off head of Korean FA (c) the entire Jack Warner reign in CONCACAF (d) Mexican FA cuts off any association with CONMEBOL

bottom line is that the politicians are self-serving clowns.

Posted Friday May 08, 2009, About: Name, logo leaked for Philly expansion team

needs a brighter shade of yellow and blue
and throw a rattle on that snake and your good.

Posted Friday April 24, 2009, About: Dynamo coach apologizes for D.C. United rip

A.) What's the big deal? He just expressed what he would have felt had he been in the situation.

B.) Is that why they changed the logo?! That's ludacris! Plus I liked the old one better.

Posted Friday April 10, 2009, About: Garber: D.C. may lose United

Garber smoking crack again.

Posted Friday January 16, 2009, About: Galaxy chasing Juventus star?

as the hova says: jigga please

Posted Tuesday December 30, 2008, About: Turkish club after Houston's Boswell

I love that someone here checked his facebook status, HA yay for the Interweb, (it's on computers now!)

Posted Tuesday December 23, 2008, About: MLS, Mainz fighting over Marshall

They should let him go, I'm all for paying to keep your talent but 150K to keep a defender is too much, MLS needs flashy goal-scorers to get more media attention.

Posted Friday December 19, 2008, About: Italian defender dreams of porn role

Best story ever

Posted Wednesday November 26, 2008, About: Empty seats for OU-OSU Bedlam?

A lot of schools do do this. Mostly to sell the tickets to the games no one wants to see. Not sure who OSU played in non-conference but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't sell as many seats to those games if they didn't have this policy. That doesn't mean it SHOULD be that way. It'd be ashame if they did have that many seats vacant. The policy is dumb.

Posted Wednesday November 26, 2008, About: Donovan pushing out Podolski?

it's ok Lukas, MLS hasn't heard anything about this, so it must not be true.

Posted Wednesday November 12, 2008, About: Dynamo's Ching linked to Seattle FC

It's true Wells had a crap season, but he was solid at back-up here in Houston and I think under Kinnear he can shine as a starter, after Onstad finally retires of course.

As far as LA... why do I have to believe in anything they do? They suck.

Seitz is good btw, he'd also be good.

Posted Wednesday November 12, 2008, About: Dynamo's Ching linked to Seattle FC

They won't get rid of Ching, but DeRo would make sense. The midfield depth of this team is redic and Holden, though not as good is much younger and is on the up slope not the plateu of DeRo. As for forwards I think Kamara's on contract for another year but he and Ching will be all they have after Jaqua leaves, Wondolowski had left me wanting several times.

They NEED to get a 'keeper to train under Onstad, Caig has to go. Getting Zach Wells back from DC wouldn't be too expensive.

Posted Friday November 07, 2008, About: Inside Portland's bid for MLS team

I think CU is wrong and an Atlanta team would so terribly, putting a stadium in the 'burbs is NOT a good idea no matter the market.
As far as Portland goes, good place for a team and they seem to have a good fan base, but as far as demanding the city/county/state to fork over cash to pay for your stadium based on some heckneyed idea that it is good for the economy is a good way to not get your stadium built. The reason the Dynamo STILL have no stadium is because they're relying on the county to fork over 10 mil. In reality the team owner is going to gain the majority of any profits so why shouldn't he incurr the cost of investment. Average citizens get nothing out of it.

Posted Friday October 31, 2008, About: Texas Tech's Leach looking to get out?

That'd be great to get him up there... and out of the big XII

Posted Thursday October 30, 2008, About: Seattle coaching candidates

I know he's gotta be first in line for the Colorado job but I'm surprised Dynamo assistant John Spencer isn't on the list.

Posted Thursday October 23, 2008, About: McCoy says he'll play for Texas in '09

that's easy to say now, wait until the NFL waves buckets of money in your face. Remember T.J. Ford was 110% sure he was coming back and I believe Vince had a similar comment. But then again maybe he just likes thanking God enough for the oppurtunity to be at Texas that he'll stay to do it for 12-14 more games next year.

Posted Tuesday September 09, 2008, About: Cup venue irks Fire's Blanco

Shouldn't their home stadium be any within Mexican borders? He's just saying that b/c he wants to be in D.F. to be celebrated by America fans.

Posted Wednesday August 13, 2008, About: Rapids to dump Coach Clavijo?

Not sure how they'll handle this because supposedly Dynamo assistant John Spencer wants the job but also probably wants to finish this season out in Houston.

Posted Friday August 08, 2008, About: Story behind missing U.S. crests

HA.

Posted Thursday July 31, 2008, About: Will MLS punish Fire's Blanco?

he's a star. it was in US open cup play not MLS. nothing will or should happen past what already has.

Posted Thursday July 24, 2008, About: Ottawa owner seeks MLS team

agreed. Though I doubt Ottawa will win a team before St.Louis, Vancouver, or New York2