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Well, gee, they went to the trouble of playing the game. I guess I should say SOMETHING about it.
Um. Clint Dempsey? Stinking up Pizza Hut Park? How extremely surprising. I haven't seen that since
invariably. Well, if you are going to throw in a bunch of new guys in the back, have them [...]
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Following off Andrea Canales' article here. Wow, what a great site TopDrawerSoccer is. Everyone
should start their Internet day at TopDrawerSoccer. I hate when I defend someone against criticism,
especially popular criticism, only to discover that the criticism was highly warranted all along.
Central to my thinking of Sunil Gulati's thinking was that [.
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Answering critics who say that Los Angeles is concentrating too much on big-name friendlies at the
cost of the MLS season, the Galaxy have announced another big-name friendly. This time it's Rangers
on May 23. David Freaking Beckham won't be expected anywhere near that time, so one imagines Los
Gers are there for [...]
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Steve Davis on Soccernet picks the top ten best individual performances in US Men's National Team
history, and misses a couple of big ones. I should be above this sort of thing, slithering onto
someone else's discussion and ripping holes in it just to get myself over. I have no real beef with
this list, [...]
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Patrick Donnelly, Galaxy Communications Director, writes back. Q: I was wondering if the Galaxy had
an official comment on the fact that Herbalife is a direct competitor of one of the league's
investor-operators. Was there any difficulty with the league about that? A: There was no
difficulty. Okay, the league is fine with investor-operators messing [.
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Usually what I like to do after games is stroll around other blogs and boards, get a feel for
what's going on, read a few actual reports from actual reporters who were at the games, and then
adjust my opinions accordingly. Almost always without giving credit to who I was reading.* Heh heh.
That's [...]
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As a Builder. Duh. My reactions: (1) He wasn't in already? (2) Thank you, Mr. Rothenberg, for not
doing for American soccer what you did for the Los Angeles Clippers. (3) Gee, he's not exactly been
in the public eye recently. I guess either First Century Bank is taking up most of his time, or
he's [...]
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Chivas USA has no problem with Herbalife, since Omnilife is not an MLS sponsor. Near direct quote
from Keegan Pierce, Chivas USA's director of communications. That's the official word, so I'm left
with two conclusions. (1) I'm just imagining things. The ongoing relationship with Herbalife that
dated from a couple months into the 2005 season, the utterly [.
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So just now I did the reporter thing. I e-mailed the Galaxy, Chivas USA, and MLS to comment on one
of the league's teams advertising a competitor of one of the league's investor-operators. This
being Friday evening, I'm holding my breath for a response slightly less intensively than I would
otherwise. I'll [...]
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Might as well get this out of the way. Herbalife is a god-damned scam. Happy reading. I'm one of
those people who go out of their way to support sponsors and advertisers of American soccer. And
I've got a huge, huge tolerance for people willing to put money into MLS. But this is where [...]
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Because he has absolutely no compunction against going for cheap reactions. His current offering is
about how the new WUSA is bad for soccer. It was absolutely what I had in mind when I put him on
the blogroll. Trecker writes something like that, and fellow hacks get easy, easy blog posts, [...]
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First Jimmy Conrad, now Kevin Hartman. How exactly will us non-athletes have room to express our
uninformed opinions when MLS is turning out guys who can play AND write? I'm going to e-mail my
Congressman about this. I blame Eric Wynalda. EDIT - okay, so what song, if you had to pick, would
[...]
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