Galaxy-Toronto Game Moves to ESPN2

By: Laurie | July 31st, 2007

According to MLS Underground, Sunday night’s Galaxy game against Toronto, which may or may not be David Beckham’s first league game, will now be broadcast on ESPN2.

They have, shockingly, decided to preempt the World Series of Poker. I kid you not.

What a sad world we live in when soccer can preempt a true sport like poker on a sports channel.

And now, since actual TV revenues are involved, I’m betting we will see Beckham play. Injury or no injury. Actually, I’m wondering if we will see a trend. In every nationally televised game, he will limp onto the field in approximately the 78th minute, take a tackle to the ankles, and limp off reinjured until the next nationally televised game. What do you think?

Category: 2007 Games, Team News

Tags: 2007 Games, Beckham, David Beckham, LA Galaxy, Team News

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• boca juniors!!! |  July 31st, 2007 at 8:31 am

  
  
  

  does anyone know the severity of the injury? i really think that they will pretty much televise every game of the galaxy until he starts.

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• Laurie |  July 31st, 2007 at 8:36 am

  
  
  

  From what I’ve read (and unfortunately I didn’t bookmark the source so I could go back to it) the actual ankle injury is essentially healed but he’s still troubled by pain from the scar tissue. Your guess is as good as mine how long that will take to heal.

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• Sam |  July 31st, 2007 at 2:20 pm

  
  
  

  Don’t matter what it’s broadcast on, we’re still gonna owwwwwwwwwwwwwn you.

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• Diane |  August 1st, 2007 at 4:52 am

  
  
  

  Hey y’all. Just back from three weeks out in The World with no internet (YES). Quite the interesting viewpoint from combo of press and tangible humans on Galaxy doings. Here was my glimpse of the view (through some shaky translation and/or late night blur, but…).

  First came: this Lalas really needs to stop speaking altogether before he alienates entire football playing world and gets new signing murdered by teammates.

  Then: no need for murder by teammates, management and sponsors will do fine all by themselves [set me firmly in agreement with your play-em-injured-for-the-cash trend assessment, Laurie, but really how new is that].

  Followed closely by: international jaw-drop at absurdity of fielding obviously injured–and not quite as keen as claimed–player in friendly (consensus was that what took golden balls was agreeing to display what had no chance of being more than a weak performance for scrutiny of whatever dozens of cameras, “but the lad’s a good sport that way.”)

  Which brought us to: (maybe Lalas was brilliant) insulted U.K. tucks wandering (only-to-be-unabused-at-home) son deeply under wing and sets out to scrutinize every moment of his adventures and treatment abroad.

  Ensuing Brit pundit coverage of MLS complete with standard (just as if they’d been done them all along) match reports has been hilarious, but FANTASTIC FOR KIDS ON GALAXY who are getting a true look in by the football viewing world, through eyes of analysts who know what they are talking about and have not been unkind. AND the Galaxy seem to have inherited Beckham’s real football fans. Those parts were nice to see.

  Less nice parts well covered well, hope boys come out on top in balance. Agree with all hopes that $ guys don’t wreck team and league first.

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• Diane |  August 1st, 2007 at 5:18 am

  
  
  

  oops meant to say only to be abused (not unabused) in UK…

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