No. Fuck no. Are you kidding me? Fucking stop already, Adrian Hanauer, you are drunk with fucking power, and you, my friend, must be stopped.
What you ask? Oh, you haven't seen these?
For fuck's . . . look folks, let me tell you something. This rave green thing?

I've been a bit facepalm since I read the NASL press release stating they hired "renowned soccer journalist and blogger" Kartik Krishnaiyer to be their director of communications. My first reaction was, man, I hope he stops blogging and podcasting, and thankfully, that appears to be the case.
Personally, I've read very little of his work, but I wasn't all that impressed with what I did read.

Can you believe we're already back at it? For a 30 game season, two months off seems like entirely too short a break. But, whatever, they want us to do the preseason thing for two full months before we play a real game, that's fine with me. Gives Tyson Wahl something to do besides stare at the wall.

So now that the 2010 live data appears to be populating on MLSsoccer, I'd like to touch on an issue that I almost completely glossed over in my first two posts on the new MLS website: the visual design. Ratty style sheets aren't the whole issue here, and there's a raft of design decisions that shouldn't have been implemented as they were.

So Jason Davis over at Matchfit USA is running through the basics of the collective bargaining situation, and doing a pretty good job (in addition to generously linking to yours truly). Check out his latest when you get a chance.
Also on the cut over there is our old friend Duane. So I sauntered over to 24th Minute to see what was up and saw this:

As someone that believes in the strength of the sport right now and in the importance of being aggressive in expanding the MLS brand, I fall on the side of the players.

And people think MLS players have a glamorous off season:

Serving was stressful because the computer system is really intense -- so many buttons. It didn't help that my teammates showed up and booed me when I forgot their drinks. I was definitely most at home at the hostess stand and making mojitos behind the bar.

So I'm guessing you've all seen the numbers. We have 32,000 season ticket holders. And we could have more, but we capped it.
Now, I know that I've busted hard on no less than Creepy Jose for talking attendance smack, but you know what? Fuck it. I'm so drunk on power and money right now that I don't care.

Via relampago:
Sort of like me and Bob Bradley. No, I'm not necessarily the narwhal.
-FS

Think they want Marta? Both players Athletica traded, Kia McNeill and Angie Kerr, played significant minutes for the team last year, so this deal has some risk to it. However, they already picked up Lindsay Tarpley, and plugged some holes (in theory) with their draft pics.
Pending the dispersal picks, Althletica have the potential to be really fricking good this year.

Chris Schlosser needs to be removed from his position as Director of Digital Strategy for MLS. That's the first, and most important, head that should roll based on the disastrous launch of the new MLS web site last week. But I'm not sure MLS should stop there. The failure of the web site project exudes mistakes at every step of the process and every level of the organization, and belies a complete lack of understanding of the digital medium.

While trolling through some old BigSoccer threads, I lucked into a total gem of an article. From July, 06 2003:

After three-and-a-half years and 53 games at the helm of the US Men's National Team, head coach Bob Bradley has selected the 23 players who will represent the United States at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

when you see yourself in a crowded room
do your fingers itch are you pistol whipped?
will you step in line or release the glitch?
can you fall asleep with a panic switch?
-Silversun Pickups
Don Garber graced Grant Wahl with an interview last week and the story ran a couple days ago.

Early this morning I'm sitting in the Sigi-bunker watching FC Dallas footage, doing my thing, working on the world domination bit, and Joe Roth comes in. Which is mostly normal, no big deal. And he's fiddling around with stuff, and he's humming some weird thing, and he's messing around with stuff, and doing this thing where he holds up his hands like he's framing shots.

So right. We give up a penalty kick in stoppage time. A potentially non-existant PK.
All I'm saying is that when the most compelling weekly content on MLSsoccer.com is how the officials have horribly mangled the outcome of games, the situation is not good.
Honestly, a point is good.

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So right. We give up a penalty kick in stoppage time. A potentially non-existant PK.
All I'm saying is that when the most compelling weekly content on MLSsoccer.com is how the officials have horribly mangled the outcome of games, the situation is not good.
Honestly, a point is good.

Early this morning I'm sitting in the Sigi-bunker watching FC Dallas footage, doing my thing, working on the world domination bit, and Joe Roth comes in. Which is mostly normal, no big deal. And he's fiddling around with stuff, and he's humming some weird thing, and he's messing around with stuff, and doing this thing where he holds up his hands like he's framing shots.

No. Fuck no. Are you kidding me? Fucking stop already, Adrian Hanauer, you are drunk with fucking power, and you, my friend, must be stopped.
What you ask? Oh, you haven't seen these?
For fuck's . . . look folks, let me tell you something. This rave green thing?

Vanity Fair looks really bad when it accompanies pictures of naked soccer players with a statement like "Don't you dare call it soccer," by restaurant critic A.A Gill. Dan Loney after reading that Gill once shot a baboon so he could get a sense of what it was like to kill someone (the Unforgiven reference in the title is amazing):

This is what you are these days, England?

Who would want to blog about New York's MLS team when these are the expectations?

We're not expecting you to be cracker-jack investigative reporters or expert soccer analysts. We're looking for fans to be fans and to write about the experience of rooting for [New York's MLS team].