What “Team Rule” did Mike Randolph Break?

By: Laurie | October 12th, 2007

On Sunday, when I heard that Mike Randolph had violated some vague and undefined “team rule,” thus getting himself bumped from the starting lineup in the ultra-important Houston game?

Well, I was heartened. At last, I thought, our boys are starting to compete with the Europeans! Our MLS guys are beginning to hold their own in the naughty behavior department!

No more MLS choirboys, so broke and exhausted from working their second and third jobs that they don’t have the energy to get up to no good! Can porn investments and prostitution scandals be far behind?

Alas, my hope was misplaced. What did our Mikey actually do?

He overslept and arrived ten minutes late to practice.

Sigh.

Oh, well, Mike. I guess we have to take this in tiny, incremental steps. Today, the oversleeping. But tomorrow?

Strip scrabble.

Truly, Mike. You can do it. Aim high next time. Make us proud.

(Thanks to Shenn for the link.)

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Diane

I have been SO restrained, scroll back, you'll find narry a murmur about a single off-the-pitch-from-the-gutter-why-is-this-here post relating to any Beckham aged 2 to whenever. But I'm calling foul on using the scrabble legend here. Link to the Sunderland Sex Tapes (or any number of witnessed, plausible, or at least not paid for stories). This one hits two sore spots,

1) Beckham takes mentoring younger players really seriously, much more than would be considered simply sporting,and he's really, really generous about it. Same with setting an example for kids. He's known everywhere outside of the U.S. (just because that's where he's known, not because we're dim) for showing up early and staying late.

2) When that particular Beckham strays story came out, the guy's wife was pregnant with his first kid and he was still getting death threats following the '98 world cup. The scrabble part was worth a laugh if it wasn't so cruelly timed. The fact that it was disproved doesn't mean anything, people believe what they will. But for lots of us who followed the UK press at the time (to say nothing of the Beckhams) it's probably the one story we least enjoy seeing dragged out. And there's such a rich vein of similar material to choose from...!

OK, I'm going back to read about Hope Solo again now.