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So I just got back form the game tonight. It was a good game and a really fun time. It was a bit of a media frenzy, but i'll post pictures when I get back from dinner.

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On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said:
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bunch of idiots hitting a ball with their heads that cant get a ball past one man guarding a goal the size of the width of a house, in...what? 60 minutes? or 90?

umm....... that's what she said?

I saw, I came, I left.

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Facts are facts. Sorry. In the words of the Dave Barry when describing Soccer... The home team, scoring at will, won 1-0.

Yep, 1-0 Soccer. I see what you're saying.

Hey if you guys like to watch Soccer more power to you. I won't say anymore about it.

They why go out of your way to bash the sport? Other than to look clueless, that is.

And speaking of clueless, your statement last night (that you edited out, for the record) that "99.4% of the rest of the country didn't care about" was just as dumb. I guess the .6% that cared managed to make the Galaxy-Chelsea match the far and away most-watched show on DirecTV last night (according to their mix station statistics). I'm still trying to figure out the math you used to get that .6%, but I'm confident I'll figure it out sooner or later.

Now if you don't mind I think I'll go watch the grass grow in my backyard...then again I could go watch an MLS game...the real question is how would I know the difference? (Sorry couldn't resist)

Well, you could always watch a baseball game. After taking an Australian friend of mine to a baseball game, I asked him what he thought of it. His response:

It's about as exciting as a Cricket Test Match. Too bad you can't drink yourself silly to wash away the boredom.

[Croatia National Team Manager Slavan] Bilic then went on to explain how Croatia's success can partially be put down to his progressive man-management techniques. "Sometimes I lie in the bed with my players. I go to the room of Vedran Corluka and Luka Modric when I see they have a problem and I lie in bed with them and we talk for 10 minutes." Maybe Capello could try getting through to his players this way too? Although how far he'd get with Joe Cole jumping up and down on the mattress and Rooney demanding to be read his favourite page from The Very Hungry Caterpillar is open to question. --The Guardian's Fiver, 08 September 2008

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And speaking of clueless, your statement last night (that you edited out, for the record) that "99.4% of the rest of the country didn't care about" was just as dumb. I guess the .6% that cared managed to make the Galaxy-Chelsea match the far and away most-watched show on DirecTV last night (according to their mix station statistics). I'm still trying to figure out the math you used to get that .6%, but I'm confident I'll figure it out sooner or later.

I will say one thing that I found interesting about yesterdays game. Everyone who purchased tickets got to see the full doubleheader. And while the Chelsea Galaxy game was picked to the brim, there were about four people in the stands for the first game which was Saewong vs Tigres, two of the top teams in their respective countries. I still can't figure out why people would spend that kinda money on a sporting event and not take in the full load. Maybe thats just me though.

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On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said:
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Yeah, if I can get a chance to see four top-rung soccer teams, then I'd definitely be all over that.

That being said, Beckham, in wrestling terms, is SUPER over. Never before have I heard a crowd go nuts reacting at a touch out-of-bounds.

 

 

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That's what happens when you reside in a country full of Xenophobes.

Baseball is more boring than soccer. Yet it still draws millions of people to watch it on every level.

Football is (sorry folks) more boring than soccer too. Honestly? There's more action in 90 minutes of a soccer match than in 60 minutes of football (which, if you cut out all the stops, really lasts about 20). Yet it still draws 60-80 thousand per game in the pro ranks, and college teams fill stadiums in excess of 100,000 seats to watch games (which, if you look at the realistic big picture, mean nothing more than winning conference championships amongst leagues of ten other teams).

Hockey is more exciting than Baseball and Football. But they run a distant fourth behind those two and Basketball.

Why?

Because THEY WEREN'T INVENTED HERE.

Soccer and hockey aren't American sports. Therefore, they're "strange" and "weird". "What? 90 minutes? no time-outs? One goal a game? Pffft. That's dumb".

Xenophobia. This country is full of it.

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Facts are facts. Sorry. In the words of the Dave Barry when describing Soccer... The home team, scoring at will, won 1-0.

Yep, 1-0 Soccer. I see what you're saying.

Hey if you guys like to watch Soccer more power to you. I won't say anymore about it.

They why go out of your way to bash the sport? Other than to look clueless, that is.

And speaking of clueless, your statement last night (that you edited out, for the record) that "99.4% of the rest of the country didn't care about" was just as dumb. I guess the .6% that cared managed to make the Galaxy-Chelsea match the far and away most-watched show on DirecTV last night (according to their mix station statistics). I'm still trying to figure out the math you used to get that .6%, but I'm confident I'll figure it out sooner or later.

Now if you don't mind I think I'll go watch the grass grow in my backyard...then again I could go watch an MLS game...the real question is how would I know the difference? (Sorry couldn't resist)

Well, you could always watch a baseball game. After taking an Australian friend of mine to a baseball game, I asked him what he thought of it. His response:

It's about as exciting as a Cricket Test Match. Too bad you can't drink yourself silly to wash away the boredom.

First, I posted in this thread because of the swooning you boys are doing over Beckham not because I just wanted to bash soccer. But since you asked, I bash the sport because it sucks. Plain and simple. If that makes me clueless when it comes to soccer then I am in the overwhelming majority of Americans and I am glad to be there. So there were scores that were 2-1 or whatever. That doesn't take away the fact that the game sucks.

I didn't just decide that I didn't like soccer. I've watched it in person and as a camera man more times than I care to mention. I've seen enough games to "give it a chance." I went into it with an open mind and after all that I came to the same conclusion... Yup this game truly does suck. Sorry if my "clueless" opinion on the game bothers you so but it's an opinion that was formed out of actually giving the game a chance. It's boring, people try to kill each other over it, and 11 guys can't manage to kick a ball past one guy into an opening the size of a double garage door.

I'm a sports fan so I am not going to just dismiss the "most popular sport in the world" out of hand. Soccer may be popular worldwide but the reality in America is that people enjoy watching rednecks pummel each other in the UFC, watching bad actors in tights pretend to wrestle, watching cars turn left for three hours, as well as the Big 4 in American sports, more than they like soccer. Twas ever thus...Deal with it.

Second, I edited that 99.4% line because I had put the word F*%K in the post and it wasn't censored so I thought I'd error on the side of caution and dropped the line. That and I felt there was no need to start a pissing match with a bunch of soccer fans. For the record I pulled the 99.4% number out of thin air. It's called sarcasm. So if you figure out how I came to that number you'll have put more thought into it than I did when I wrote it. Good luck with it and I am glad to see your confident in reaching the conclusion that anyone else would have reached the first time they read the post.

Finally, yeah all Australians hate baseball. It must be why they play the game there and there are Australians in the major leagues. Oh and for the record, you can in fact drink yourself silly at a baseball game. You should try it sometime...just remember your not at a soccer game so don't start chucking bags of urine and trying to start a riot because your team didn't accidentally score a goal and win the game. :D

 

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and 11 guys can't manage to kick a ball past one guy into an opening the size of a double garage door.

Well, other than ignoring the fact that there are 11 people doing anything in their power to make sure the other 11 doesn't kick said ball into said large opening (which is a novel concept that I like to call "defense"), you have a point.

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and 11 guys can't manage to kick a ball past one guy into an opening the size of a double garage door.

Well, other than ignoring the fact that there are 11 people doing anything in their power to make sure the other 11 doesn't kick said ball into said large opening (which is a novel concept that I like to call "defense"), you have a point.

Fair enough. B)

 

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Well, you could always watch a baseball game. After taking an Australian friend of mine to a baseball game, I asked him what he thought of it. His response:

It's about as exciting as a Cricket Test Match. Too bad you can't drink yourself silly to wash away the boredom.

"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." -- Red Barber :D

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Bah, wrong button.

[Croatia National Team Manager Slavan] Bilic then went on to explain how Croatia's success can partially be put down to his progressive man-management techniques. "Sometimes I lie in the bed with my players. I go to the room of Vedran Corluka and Luka Modric when I see they have a problem and I lie in bed with them and we talk for 10 minutes." Maybe Capello could try getting through to his players this way too? Although how far he'd get with Joe Cole jumping up and down on the mattress and Rooney demanding to be read his favourite page from The Very Hungry Caterpillar is open to question. --The Guardian's Fiver, 08 September 2008

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Ok, so FINALLY, here are the pics I took. I wasn't able to get a whole lot because my camera started to die, but I got a coupla interesting shots.

Just before the second game, Cobi Jones. Interestingly enough, his jersey read Cobi 13, rather than the typical Jones 13

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The first appearence of Beckham

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Just after he entered the game

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So just as the second game started a bunch of people started turning around and looking behind me. I looked back and at first didnt notice anything really that impressive. There was a strikingly beautiful lady just behind me with a kid that looked familiar, but nothing too noteworthy. Then it hit me about half way through the game just who it was......

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Seriously, thats at least a $100 photo to the Enquirer :P

Beckham's wife, Victoria, was sitting just next to her as well.

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One thing that was kinda weird though, nobody really seemed to be paying attention to anything but Beckham. And any time the dude did anything peope went nuts. Like Flame said earlier, a ball went outta bounds and he kicked it back in bounds while on the sidelines and the stadium went CRAZY!!!! It was so damn loud when he made his entrance. Dude coulda cut a loud fart and people woulda cheered, than woulda tried to jar it and sell it on E Bay. It was definately a fun night.

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On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said:
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Oh, and heres a pic from the first game,

The first game, Suwong vs Tigres

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On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said:
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One thing that was kinda weird though, nobody really seemed to be paying attention to anything but Beckham. And any time the dude did anything peope went nuts. Like Flame said earlier, a ball went outta bounds and he kicked it back in bounds while on the sidelines and the stadium went CRAZY!!!! It was so damn loud when he made his entrance. Dude coulda cut a loud fart and people woulda cheered, than woulda tried to jar it and sell it on E Bay. It was definately a fun night.

So are you saying that the majority of the fans had no earthly idea what was going on? Gosh I would have expected more out of a stadium filled with educated soccer fans. They are after all so much more refined than baseball or football fans. It couldn't be that the hype surrounding Beckham is what they were there for could it? Nah it had to be that Soccer is so :censored:ing exciting in the first place. Beckham was just an added bonus.

Imagine the disappointment of the fans when they were informed that they had cheered for the equivalent of an incomplete pass. "Manning throws one out of bounds! Dwight Freeney walks over and picks up the ball. Freeney tosses the ball back to the ref and the crowd is going wild!" Can't say I've ever seen a football crowd do that.

What was that you were saying about being clueless again Freddie T? :D

It's all in good fun my man. Nothing personal.

Gotta go. There's rednecks pummeling each other on Spike!

 

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One thing that was kinda weird though, nobody really seemed to be paying attention to anything but Beckham. And any time the dude did anything peope went nuts. Like Flame said earlier, a ball went outta bounds and he kicked it back in bounds while on the sidelines and the stadium went CRAZY!!!! It was so damn loud when he made his entrance. Dude coulda cut a loud fart and people woulda cheered, than woulda tried to jar it and sell it on E Bay. It was definately a fun night.

So are you saying that the majority of the fans had no earthly idea what was going on? Gosh I would have expected more out of a stadium filled with educated soccer fans. They are after all so much more refined than baseball or football fans. It couldn't be that the hype surrounding Beckham is what they were there for could it? Nah it had to be that Soccer is so :censored:ing exciting in the first place. Beckham was just an added bonus.

Imagine the disappointment of the fans when they were informed that they had cheered for the equivalent of an incomplete pass. "Manning throws one out of bounds! Dwight Freeney walks over and picks up the ball. Freeney tosses the ball back to the ref and the crowd is going wild!" Can't say I've ever seen a football crowd do that.

What was that you were saying about being clueless again Freddie T? :D

It's all in good fun my man. Nothing personal.

Gotta go. There's rednecks pummeling each other on Spike!

Hey, this is what I say. Whatever it takes to fill a stadium is fine by me. If it takes some over the top gimmicks to fill the stands at first, so what? People may come to just see Beckham, but maybe a few will take a genuine interest in the game itself. Thats what happened to me (Of course I went into it with a very open mind, and just looking for any excuse I could find to sway me into being a soccer fan :P ). IMO thats quite a brilliant marketing scheme if it actually works. Risky, but brilliant. Soccer has a lot of disadvantages in this country and it needs to be pretty creative if it wants to survive let alone become one of the top US sports. You can't really blame them, what else are they gonna do?

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On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said:
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The amount of attention he's drawn is pretty much worth the value of his contract already.

Is it wrong of me to think that I like the Galaxy warmup shirts better than their game shirts?

Buy some t-shirts and stuff at KJ Shop!

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When it comes to style, ya'll really should listen to Kev.

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First, I posted in this thread because of the swooning you boys are doing over Beckham not because I just wanted to bash soccer. But since you asked, I bash the sport because it sucks. Plain and simple. If that makes me clueless when it comes to soccer then I am in the overwhelming majority of Americans and I am glad to be there. So there were scores that were 2-1 or whatever. That doesn't take away the fact that the game sucks.

(1) Mind showing me where folks were "swooning" in this thread? After a cursory glance, the following sub-threads are at work in this thread:

(i) Discussion over whether Beckham was "washed-up" or not.

(ii) Discussion over the revival of the San Jose Earthquakes.

(iii) Discussion over whether the NASL was the greatest American soccer league in history.

(iv) Some bloke using big words like "hegemons" without anyone noticing.

(v) You bashing soccer.

Nope. No swooning here.

"2-1 or whatever?" Glad you looked at the links.

I didn't just decide that I didn't like soccer. I've watched it in person and as a camera man more times than I care to mention. I've seen enough games to "give it a chance." I went into it with an open mind and after all that I came to the same conclusion... Yup this game truly does suck. Sorry if my "clueless" opinion on the game bothers you so but it's an opinion that was formed out of actually giving the game a chance. It's boring, people try to kill each other over it, and 11 guys can't manage to kick a ball past one guy into an opening the size of a double garage door.

Why of course, what was I thinking? How better to weigh the merits of a sport than to do so whilst watching its minor leagues rather than the best the sport has to offer!

Of course, the classic "HO HO HO, THEY DON"T SCORE IN SOCK-ER! LOLZ!" argument is quite a riot, for various reasons.

(1) The Top 8 Leagues in Europe (England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Scotland, and Spain) all average out to around 2.55 goals per game, with Holland (2.99) and Germany (2.74) banging on the door of 3.00 goals per game quite hard. (In fact, the Dutch Eerste Divisie weighs in at 3.04 goals per game. Scoring droughts indeed.)

(2) With that said, it is quite rich for a baseball fan to criticize soccer for its lack of scoring when the Nirvana of baseball fans seems to be the 1968 season and accompanying obscenely small ERAs, not to mention the epileptic fits baseball fans go into to describe the joy of seeing a 1-0 baseball game or a No-hitter/ Perfect games, all of which are characterised by their lack of scoring. You can't have your Sugar Busters cookies and eat them too.

Finally, the fans killing each other part has only a minuscule part in the game itself. It has much more to do with the agitative forces of tribalism based on locality (Everton-Liverpool), economic class (AC Milan-Inter Milan), governmental support (Real Madrid-FC Barcelona), religious belief (Celtic-Rangers), or common sense and utter stupidity (The rest of Germany-Bayern Munich) that pervade European and Latin societies. I guess it's just easier to broad brush something rather than actually give a thought about the forces at work.

I'm a sports fan so I am not going to just dismiss the "most popular sport in the world" out of hand. Soccer may be popular worldwide but the reality in America is that people enjoy watching rednecks pummel each other in the UFC, watching bad actors in tights pretend to wrestle, watching cars turn left for three hours, as well as the Big 4 in American sports, more than they like soccer. Twas ever thus...Deal with it.

Getting defencive now aren't we? What, are you scared soccer may bully its way into the sports landscape despite your nebulous objections? As I've stated already in this thread, MLS is in prime position to barge into the American sports consciousness as it is already well-entrenched in the middle class, the portion of the American population professional sports are most concerned with. The Big Three-and-One-Half already know they have the working class pretty much sealed up, but discard them as they provide little financially in comparison to middle class folks, the ones most likely to buy season tickets (Joe Sixpack may go to 1-2 game a year on average), spend hundreds of dollars on fan gear yearly (Joe Sixpack buys a jersey once every 3-4 seasons on average according to sales research), buy premium sports programming (NFL Sunday Ticket subscriber's average salary, according to a 2005 survey? $53,000), and get their company to get the all-important luxury boxes (Something Joe Sixpack's boss only wishes he could afford) teams are looking for.

In addition, whether you like it or not, more and more Americans are dragging themselves out of bed on weekend mornings to their couch or to the local British Isles-themed pub for Ale and Eggs and the Premiership match on Fox Soccer and Setanta than ever before. It's also squarely in ESPN's sights, even as far as broadcasting Euro 2008, putting out feelers for broadcasting the 2011 Copa America instead of GolTV, and the ever-present rumour of ESPN dropping a nearly 1-billion dollar bid for US broadcast rights for the English Premiership when they come up for bid in 2009 (as per rumour section in Sports Business Weekly in February 2007). Yeah, Americans don't like soccer. They're dealing with it as we can see. <_<

Second, I edited that 99.4% line because I had put the word F*%K in the post and it wasn't censored so I thought I'd error on the side of caution and dropped the line. That and I felt there was no need to start a pissing match with a bunch of soccer fans. For the record I pulled the 99.4% number out of thin air. It's called sarcasm. So if you figure out how I came to that number you'll have put more thought into it than I did when I wrote it. Good luck with it and I am glad to see your confident in reaching the conclusion that anyone else would have reached the first time they read the post.

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Gordon Bombay: Thought so.

Finally, yeah all Australians hate baseball. It must be why they play the game there and there are Australians in the major leagues.

Australian baseball players are generally pitchers because of the general similarity between bowling and pitching. However, they get into baseball after failing to be of any use in club-level cricket because of their poor bowling skills. Australian pitchers tend to be fast bowlers who could never get their placement down. Medium-pace bowlers generally do not have the speed to pitch in pro baseball, and don't have the mastery of off-speed pitches to compensate, and Spin bowlers simply lose their advantage in the fact that the ball does not strike the ground before reaching their target.

Oh and for the record, you can in fact drink yourself silly at a baseball game. You should try it sometime...just remember your not at a soccer game so don't start chucking bags of urine and trying to start a riot because your team didn't accidentally score a goal and win the game. :D

(1) I don't drink.

(2) Why would I spend hard-earned money to a sporting event, and then engage in a drinking binge in which the memory of attending said sporting event is fuzzy at best? If I was only so wealthy as to have money to do such things...

"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." -- Red Barber :D

Franklin [D. Roosevelt], I am still at a loss as to why you Americans are enthralled with this game named baseball. After all, it is only a several-hour long game of pitch and catch in which batsmen repeatedly fail to interrupt with their bats, much to the bemusement of the throngs of humanity packed in to witness the proceedings.-- Winston Churchill, 1940.

[Croatia National Team Manager Slavan] Bilic then went on to explain how Croatia's success can partially be put down to his progressive man-management techniques. "Sometimes I lie in the bed with my players. I go to the room of Vedran Corluka and Luka Modric when I see they have a problem and I lie in bed with them and we talk for 10 minutes." Maybe Capello could try getting through to his players this way too? Although how far he'd get with Joe Cole jumping up and down on the mattress and Rooney demanding to be read his favourite page from The Very Hungry Caterpillar is open to question. --The Guardian's Fiver, 08 September 2008

Attention: In order to obtain maximum enjoyment from your stay at the CCSLC, the reader is advised that the above post may contain large amounts of sarcasm, dry humour, or statements which should not be taken in any true sort of seriousness. As a result, the above poster absolves himself of any and all blame in the event that a forum user responds to the aforementioned post without taking the previous notice into account. Thank you for your cooperation, and enjoy your stay at the CCSLC.

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Is it wrong of me to think that I like the Galaxy warmup shirts better than their game shirts?

Not really, since I too feel that way.

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Fred can have his MLS, Infrared can have his MLB, and I'll take college football. Deal?

The NFL, NBA, NHL, college basketball, college baseball, Junior hockey, etc. are still available...

Hey buddy, I like my College Football too.

For the record, Florida's batting, what, .889 in the last 18 Cocktail Parties?* :)

*Also for the record, I put the Gators' chances of repeating at about -13%. Too many losses on the defencive side of the ball. And as long as they beat Tennessee, and most importantly, the Louisiana Agricultural Institute, I'll be just peachy.

[Croatia National Team Manager Slavan] Bilic then went on to explain how Croatia's success can partially be put down to his progressive man-management techniques. "Sometimes I lie in the bed with my players. I go to the room of Vedran Corluka and Luka Modric when I see they have a problem and I lie in bed with them and we talk for 10 minutes." Maybe Capello could try getting through to his players this way too? Although how far he'd get with Joe Cole jumping up and down on the mattress and Rooney demanding to be read his favourite page from The Very Hungry Caterpillar is open to question. --The Guardian's Fiver, 08 September 2008

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