(Also, the format sucks and the surface is plastic fyi)

Maybe a month with the Spice Girls will help the ankle, nothing else has. Sorry about your dad’s injury JustJack, that’s exactly what the Galaxy physios should be worrying about.

OK I’m going back to work.

First, Tiffany nailed it. As soon as I read the first paragraph of Laurie’s post The Secret popped up in my mind. “We just need to act like we’re superstars and we’ll become superstars.” That’s classic Secret (a.k.a. mythic positivism) B.S. and remember this is LA afterall, land of positivism-on-crack. Reality check: if a body doesn’t work/train daily mimicking those that , luck is rendered worthless, any dreaming even more worthless. A case study is Rangers FC yank, Demarcus Beasley… Look at his earlier play compared to what he’s able to do now then imagine a Galaxy or any other MLS side’s yanks doing that even though they’re at home and not in a higher quality league. But such are my working class values, eh?

I’m with Alex in that the intnl exposure tourneys need to have quality rep from MLS, not just golden clubs or icons. While I’m a Galaxy fan, there’s a huge part of me that’s just shaking my head lately. We performed so poorly, we need to be resting (some players) and in training… hard core training designed to allow an explosion on the pitch come April–like playing in a meaningful way, becoming a goal-scoring force, not noodling across the globe stomping on opponents’ arms and doing things that guarantee expensive superstar injuries terminate their careers… I’m really concerned about Becks’ stumble in Syndey.. especially after having a father who was a promising Olympic hopeful back in the day who took one for the team (and had physios telling him, shrug it off, it’ll be fine, you wanna compete, go for it!) and not only missed on his chance at Olympic experience but it now saddles his old age with a shoulder that is completely destroyed and costs tens of thousands of dollars in continual therapy and treatment. Becks came here injured, Real Madrid ensured that by exploiting his need to play when they didn’t need him to win La Liga, screwing him over and, as a result the Galaxy and further, judging from even cheerleading FFF’s sourish moods of late on the Becks phenom thing, MLS and ‘Merkaan SAHkur on the whole.

In short, for a tourney with two spots a professional FA sends their cup contenders, not the second from the bottom of their table. I get what AEG is doing and I agree more sides’ owners should be doing it too, sort of, but my guts are screaming, generally speaking, MLS and AEG are screwing things up BIG time in the glaring absence of performance on the pitch. When you suck you don’t get wishful or go international, you train and train harder and more effectively.

There’s an argument further to be made that at some point, the legal and managerial structure of MLS will need to give birth to a professional FA structure with USL promoting top performers and MLS relegating poor performers… to that end LA ought to be adopting a “relegation” standpoint for itself, rebuild, heal and emerge in April as a profession futbol side and not Golden Balls and those other guys who suck. Anyone know where Ruud is on this stuff? Or is he still trying to figure out how to say SAHkur and stuff? I can deal with goofy celebrity BS as long as the play on the pitch is solid. When it’s not, this working class fan gets pissy.

Cheers

Cheers!!

Regular season 1-4 goes to CONCACAF CUP (Champion’s League)
Regular season 5-8 goes to Superliga (UEFA Cup)
Regular season 9-12 goes to PPC (InterTotoCup)

By doing this, we give a lot of teams the chance to compete within different formats instead of overloading the best 2-3 teams with additional competition.

It also gives meaning to the end of the season, because mid-table teams are fighting for a chance to go to Superliga instead of PPC or CONCACAF instead of Superliga.

If we want league play to improve, this is the format. Which makes much more sense than rewarding teams on a hot streak in an end of the year CUP Tournament.

1. Chanpions Cup
2. UEFA Cup
3. Inter-toto Cup

For us it could be;
1. Concacaf Champions Cup – 2 spots
2. Superliga – 4 spots
3. Pan-pac tournament – 2 spots

That would be sweet. Plus, aren’t you guys worried about Golden Balls health?