Coming to Terms With the Ruiz Deal
By: Laurie | January 16th, 2008I spent yesterday evening absorbing your collective wisdom, reflecting on this turn of events as I consoled myself with a lovely Syrah, sipped from my favorite Mickey Mouse wine glass.
And I kept coming back to this comment from my brother-in-blog Christian over at the River Plate blog:
“Ruiz dives. [But] if he can score goals and help the Galaxy get to the playoffs, it will have been a great move.”
I found myself thinking: Yes, but he dives! Am I really willing to whore out my values just to see goals scored?
And my answer, of course was:
Well…um… It depends. Exactly how many goals are we talking about?
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Woah woah woah - what kind of syrah are we talking about here??
As for Ruiz, I’ll say it again: yeah, he dives and whines, but he has a track record of scoring goals and was a major factor in getting the Galaxy an MLS Cup title, so I guess you take the bad with the good.
As for your comment about “whoring” out your values, I guess if you feel that way then you feel that way, and yes, as a fellow “chapin” I find his antics deplorable. Then again, if you look at some of the behavior of other footballers around the world (asssault, alleged rape, Drogba), some guy falling on the pitch and pointing at a non-existent mark on his shin doesn’t seem so bad.
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Hey, HEY, watch the Drogba dissing… I mean lumping him into such a list… oy.
I have the same final reaction as Laurie (oh that siren can make me laugh!)… because the final analysis says, if we are too whorish (for goals) we might as well just quit and leave the beautiful game to the level of ‘Merkaan gridiron (which, as we all well know, is a “sport” devoid of anything meaningful or artful… just a bunch of fat, steroidally ballooned, mindless crashing about in between long bouts of standing around while adverts make insane amounts of money and “fans” jabber statistics between mouthfuls of beernuts and crushed aluminum cans emptied of malted slog). Which reminds me of that MISL phenom… kinda perverse to mingle football with hockey like that–”just say no” has new meaning there. But anyway, the values of the beautiful game have real meaning so if we whore them for results, we must do so with deliberate and sober consideration.
OTOH, can Ruiz be disciplined into staying focused on his gifts with some well placed boo-ing should he decide to perpetuate his diving practices? Perhaps. ‘Merkaan fans could take lesons from the Brits who have rendered mercilessness to a high art (or a deplorable low, depending… watching Franky getting booed at the Bridge was appalling, wasn’t his fault England lost, he scored f-ing goals for frack’s sakes). If a crybaby gets booed every time he touches the ball, on his home ground after an Oscar performance, perhaps he’ll get the message and focus on footy rather than acting. Maybe?
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So Christian, what you’re saying is, if we’re whoring, at least diving is better than other antics.
I know there’s a “well, at least it’s just a little bit of prostitution” joke in there somewhere, but I’m too hung over to figure it out.
(That’s the problem with good wine. It goes down so easy.)
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And Jack, you’re right. He’s our player now, for better for worse, like an arranged marriage. But he damn well better deliver.
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All I can say is: Cuauhtémoc Blanco. That right there is a DIVING FLOOPING WHINY GASBAG. But they love him in Chicago. You take the bad with the good.
Try the Coppola syrah. Good times with that bottle.
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Cuauhtémoc Blanco and Carlos Ruiz are both divers/whiners, but Ruiz takes it a step further with cheap shots and that’s why I despise him. At times I think he’s almost an embarrassment to the league with his play/antics.
I just hope he comes onto the team with a good attitude/gets into shape and wants to excel here. He’ll never get a better chance than this to look good.
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Hey!(great Blog by the way!)(Christiano) Ronaldo is a big *** Diver and I cannot STAND him…never will… although unfortunately he’s one of the ‘best (Footballers) in the world’ so i guess i’d just ’suck it up’ & smile if LaLa signed him for LAG! Yea well that ain’t even a dream.. just an example! The other Ronaldo i love… but Italy got there first:
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