Pity Does Not A Hatred Make
My occasional accidental psychic powers are nothing compared to the editor of the All-American XI on bigsoccer.com (thanks to Joe at We Call It Soccer for the heads up on a great column over there this week).
The column is on how every group of fans in the league should learn to hate Los Angeles and MetroStars (much like in the NBA where everyone hates the Knicks and the Lakers - and in this scenario Chivas USA gets to play the role of the Clippers of the analogy which is actually quite fitting) for the good of the league.
Actually the columnist claims that the Galaxy are already the second most hated team in the league due to, as he describes it:
Now he's got a point on some of the players. No one likes Kirovski for example. But I think people feel more sorry for Steve Sampson than anything. France 1998 came apart for a ton of reasons that were out of everyone's control.
And who has anything against Cobi Jones? About the only thing I'm personally angry at Cobi Jones about is that I've seen that darn Adidas commercial with an out of shape, old man Cobi dancing around in his underwear so many times.
But again, I just feel sorry for Cobi about that one, not angry. :)
Back to the psychic ability. He stated that any team could be instantly made more hateable by picking up Ryan Suarez off waivers. And who should do it? The team that it has been said it's in the leagues best interest to make a powerhouse - MetroStars.
It's as if new General Manager Alexi Lalas reads Big Soccer and said to himself, "yeah, I can get the rest of the league to hate us if I pick up Suarez. It will be beautiful...muhhahahahahah."
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Realistically, the only team that hates the Galaxy with the vehemence assigned to the rest of the league is San Jose (is it just me or are the fans there really trying to make a statement to keep footcer in Silicon Valley?).
And with tonight's win over Colorado in the 88th minute, they find themselves in an interesting position - tied with their cross state rivals in fourth place in the league at 24 pts (and and also tied for the second playoff spot in the Western Conference since we're not living in my dream world - yet). And with the tie breaker of goal differential, they're actually ahead of Angelpool.
Puts a crimp in the Angelpool/Chicagton rivalry temporarily to have Middlejose (or Boljose?) meddling but that's besides the point.
The funny thing is that Kansas City, who had an identical record to San Jose going into tonight tied. Had San Jose matched with the 0-0 tie they had until late in the match, both teams would have been 5-3-7.
Now if you're looking for a nice rivalry, there you go. But it would take a single table to do it!
The column is on how every group of fans in the league should learn to hate Los Angeles and MetroStars (much like in the NBA where everyone hates the Knicks and the Lakers - and in this scenario Chivas USA gets to play the role of the Clippers of the analogy which is actually quite fitting) for the good of the league.
Actually the columnist claims that the Galaxy are already the second most hated team in the league due to, as he describes it:
"So no other team inspires hatred like the Galaxy. Kevin Hartman, Cobi Jones, Jovan Kirovski, Chris Albright, Steve Sampson and now the one and only Landon Donovan – it is quite a collection."
Now he's got a point on some of the players. No one likes Kirovski for example. But I think people feel more sorry for Steve Sampson than anything. France 1998 came apart for a ton of reasons that were out of everyone's control.
And who has anything against Cobi Jones? About the only thing I'm personally angry at Cobi Jones about is that I've seen that darn Adidas commercial with an out of shape, old man Cobi dancing around in his underwear so many times.
But again, I just feel sorry for Cobi about that one, not angry. :)
Back to the psychic ability. He stated that any team could be instantly made more hateable by picking up Ryan Suarez off waivers. And who should do it? The team that it has been said it's in the leagues best interest to make a powerhouse - MetroStars.
It's as if new General Manager Alexi Lalas reads Big Soccer and said to himself, "yeah, I can get the rest of the league to hate us if I pick up Suarez. It will be beautiful...muhhahahahahah."
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Realistically, the only team that hates the Galaxy with the vehemence assigned to the rest of the league is San Jose (is it just me or are the fans there really trying to make a statement to keep footcer in Silicon Valley?).
And with tonight's win over Colorado in the 88th minute, they find themselves in an interesting position - tied with their cross state rivals in fourth place in the league at 24 pts (and and also tied for the second playoff spot in the Western Conference since we're not living in my dream world - yet). And with the tie breaker of goal differential, they're actually ahead of Angelpool.
Puts a crimp in the Angelpool/Chicagton rivalry temporarily to have Middlejose (or Boljose?) meddling but that's besides the point.
The funny thing is that Kansas City, who had an identical record to San Jose going into tonight tied. Had San Jose matched with the 0-0 tie they had until late in the match, both teams would have been 5-3-7.
Now if you're looking for a nice rivalry, there you go. But it would take a single table to do it!
posted by incendiarymind at 9:40 PM
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