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I suppose this post is unavoidable. When 70,000 people show up and a significant number can see the
game on a widely available national TV outlet, a drubbing like the MLS All-Stars took last night at
the hands of Manchester United is bound to be a talking point. It certainly was during the game.
A mid-major power, the two biggest chokers without three lions on their shirts, and the Germans,
who will, like they always do, win with ruthless efficiency.
Uruguay are like the poor kids in an American sports movie. Forlan is the main character, the
talented kid surrounded by dweebs, and Suarez is the bad boy who joins up later just before the
dweebs discover that they are actually all fundamentally perfect, if unspectacular players
perfectly suited to showcase the talent of the other two.
A Futures Game would help grow the league's academies. (Photo via Houston Dynamo)
Around all the All-Star events there is something now missing for Major League Soccer's summer
showcase, a Futures Game.
Think about it, even with the league being as young as it is and the team's academies being even
younger the time is now to start showcasing those kids at least once a year outside of the SUM
Cup.
I am not agreeing with anything this anchor says because I do not believe that she is an accredited
member of any journalistic trade organizations.
I'm not against All Star Games as a general rule. Choosing the best players a league has to offer,
bringing them together, and holding an exhibition game is an American institution stretching back
to the birth of the baseball version in the 1930s. All of our major professional sports have such a
game, and it makes sense that Major League Soccer would have one of their own.
by Brian MechanickThe 2010 MLS All-Star Game roster has been named, and the league's fans are licking their chops at
the prospect of chopping down Manchester United. Complaints about the roster are valid, there is no
way Jaime Moreno deserved to make the All-Star team more than Real Salt Lake's Costa Rican
sensation Álvaro Saborío.
This summer has been without a doubt one of the most exciting for US soccer
fans. From all the World Cup actions, to having teams like l Madrid, Manchester City and
Totthenham Hotspurs playing against MLS teams, fans have a feast of football to watch. Well, this
week we get to see a cracker of a game when the MLS All-star team play against one
of the biggest clubs in the World Manchester United.
Can I tell you something? Bobby Boswell surprised the hell out of me. Dude's All Star party last
night at Venue was beyond funny, beyond great. The club was packed, the ladies were scandalously
hot and there where all manner of pro athletes there to buy them drinks.
As for the comedy, it was unexpectedly top notch and VERY NSFW.
Allow me to be a company man just this once and encourage you to participate in AT&T MLS All-Star
Game voting (because if you don't vote the terrorists have won). Obviously you can vote online but
if you are so inclined you can also vote by texting the player's last name or their team name to
"22442".
Yesterday, shortly before 4 PM Eastern Time, MLS named names.
11 of them.
A celebrated, honored collection of players, excellent footballers to a man, comprising the "First
XI" of the 2010 All-Star Game. But tragically absent from their number was an unassuming Frenchman
who has been in electric form this season.
...here's a random mixtape with what sound's like music from Dan Brown's iPod. Welcome.
...I'm at the airport on my way to SUM Cup and the All Star game. It is officially on.
Check out the tentative rosters for the celebrity game at the 2010 MLS All Star Jam. Phife Dawg
from A Tribe Called Quest be the best coach since ________.
Team 1
Head coach – Phife (Tribe Called Quest)
Assistant coach – Lovel Palmer (Houston Dynamo)
Players: Jeff Agoos (New York Red Bulls technical director; five-time MLS Cup champion; 1998, 2002
World Cups); Baby Bash (rapper); Chingo Bling (musical artist); Brandi Chastain (1991, 1999, 2003
Women's World Cups); Marcus Coleman (former Houston Texans defensive back); Misael Espinoza (1994
World Cup); Allen Hopkins (ESPN sideline reporter); Alexi Lalas (ESPN analyst; 1994, 1998 World
Cups); Bubba McDowell (former Houston Oilers defensive back); David Paul (KHOU Houston); Slim Thug
(rapper); Eric Wynalda (Fox Football Fone-In co-host; 1990, 1994, 1998 World Cups).
The ringer at last night's party at Venue in Houston aka Bobby Boswell's Def Comedy Soccer Jam was
Houston Texan David Anderson. Kid was a pro up there and could probably get paid a pretty penny to
take his show on the road.
Here's most of his set from last night including his NSFW takes on the University of Phoenix,
teammate Owen Daniels, fantasy football, the ease with which NFL and players attract the ladies.
BTW I hadn't forgot about y'all, just on that day job grind in Houston. If you are curious as to
what I have been up to I'll tell you: chasing the officiating controversy at the All Star celebrity
game, analyzing Slim Thug's goalkeeping debut, getting called fat by an NFL player, watching Bobby
Boswell call out commentators and catching up with the Five Foot Assassin.
