Comments on: The Latest (Non-)News on the New Galaxy Uniforms http://lagalaxy.theoffside.com/team-news/the-latest-non-news-on-the-new-galaxy-uniforms.html LA Galaxy Soccer Blog Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:02:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Diane http://lagalaxy.theoffside.com/team-news/the-latest-non-news-on-the-new-galaxy-uniforms.html#comment-1392 Diane Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:48:20 +0000 http://lagalaxy.theoffside.com/team-news/the-latest-non-news-on-the-new-galaxy-uniforms.html#comment-1392 Hmmm, call me cynical PLEASE call me cynical: let's see, Ramon Calderon (Real Madrid Pres.) visits U.S. and chats with L.A. Galaxy types. The same Ramon Calderon who has been staying up nights hiding under the covers with his calculator furiously adding up the hundreds and hundreds and oodles of millions of dollars (oops I think I was supposed to have said beloved player) he will be losing on 30 June, the same man who has been incensed since he realized, about 15 minutes after the Galaxy deal and dollars announcement, that he had taken his eye off the ball (while tying up the loose ends in his most recent RM election fraud efforts in all fairness) long enough to lose an asset that's still raking him in about $60 million a year in tangibles. I don't know about you, but at my house we can still hear him counting shirts through his grinding teeth during RM matches--about 2/3 of their approx 3 million sold per season being #23. Oh, THAT's where I was going...shirts. Ramon in a tizzy to make SOME shirt pennies off of Beckham's renewed renown which will be further boosted by Real Madrid’s sentimental marketing (oops I mean farewell) trip to the U.S. in June for a joint promo marathon (I mean series of farewell/welcome matches) with the Galaxy. I know, no one is doing ANY of this for business, but what's an extra couple of months without a new kit to the Galaxy in exchange for the added visibility and foot-in-Europe they'll get playing Real Madrid in their new spotlight? AND, until mid-summer, Ramon gets to sell Whites in the puffy new U.S. market while keeping a hand in the Becks pie around the world with a show of love and solidarity between old and new club. Given my feelings towards Calderon & Co, I kind of enjoyed the irony of the original figure attached to Beckham's Galaxy move being so close to his Real Madrid contract buy-out clause (about $240 million). But I’m thinking Ramon didn’t enjoy it as much as me, knowing that club mismanagement, player mishandling—and what, psychosis?—were forcing him to let the contract run out without making a dime on it. Oh, heck even if moral-free Ramon has a hand in, it probably is worth wearing green for however long it takes just to see Roberto Carlos play again before he’s off to who knows where…another Calderon casualty. Yuch!!! I really would need a shower now if I weren’t enough of a mush to join anyone else who isn’t in this for the money (we haven’t been offered any after all) and wants to share my box of hankies while we watch the show of love and solidarity between the boys. I’m NOT lying. Hmmm, call me cynical PLEASE call me cynical: let’s see, Ramon Calderon (Real Madrid Pres.) visits U.S. and chats with L.A. Galaxy types. The same Ramon Calderon who has been staying up nights hiding under the covers with his calculator furiously adding up the hundreds and hundreds and oodles of millions of dollars (oops I think I was supposed to have said beloved player) he will be losing on 30 June, the same man who has been incensed since he realized, about 15 minutes after the Galaxy deal and dollars announcement, that he had taken his eye off the ball (while tying up the loose ends in his most recent RM election fraud efforts in all fairness) long enough to lose an asset that’s still raking him in about $60 million a year in tangibles. I don’t know about you, but at my house we can still hear him counting shirts through his grinding teeth during RM matches–about 2/3 of their approx 3 million sold per season being #23.

Oh, THAT’s where I was going…shirts. Ramon in a tizzy to make SOME shirt pennies off of Beckham’s renewed renown which will be further boosted by Real Madrid’s sentimental marketing (oops I mean farewell) trip to the U.S. in June for a joint promo marathon (I mean series of farewell/welcome matches) with the Galaxy. I know, no one is doing ANY of this for business, but what’s an extra couple of months without a new kit to the Galaxy in exchange for the added visibility and foot-in-Europe they’ll get playing Real Madrid in their new spotlight? AND, until mid-summer, Ramon gets to sell Whites in the puffy new U.S. market while keeping a hand in the Becks pie around the world with a show of love and solidarity between old and new club.

Given my feelings towards Calderon & Co, I kind of enjoyed the irony of the original figure attached to Beckham’s Galaxy move being so close to his Real Madrid contract buy-out clause (about $240 million). But I’m thinking Ramon didn’t enjoy it as much as me, knowing that club mismanagement, player mishandling—and what, psychosis?—were forcing him to let the contract run out without making a dime on it. Oh, heck even if moral-free Ramon has a hand in, it probably is worth wearing green for however long it takes just to see Roberto Carlos play again before he’s off to who knows where…another Calderon casualty.

Yuch!!! I really would need a shower now if I weren’t enough of a mush to join anyone else who isn’t in this for the money (we haven’t been offered any after all) and wants to share my box of hankies while we watch the show of love and solidarity between the boys. I’m NOT lying.

]]> By: Laurie http://lagalaxy.theoffside.com/team-news/the-latest-non-news-on-the-new-galaxy-uniforms.html#comment-1336 Laurie Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:31:22 +0000 http://lagalaxy.theoffside.com/team-news/the-latest-non-news-on-the-new-galaxy-uniforms.html#comment-1336 What do you mean you're not changing my colors?!? Okay, fine. But when I have a college flashback from staring at this putrid gold-ish stuff day after day and end up in a bell tower with a semi-automatic... Well, I hope you'll at least have the decency to feel guilty. What do you mean you’re not changing my colors?!?

Okay, fine. But when I have a college flashback from staring at this putrid gold-ish stuff day after day and end up in a bell tower with a semi-automatic…

Well, I hope you’ll at least have the decency to feel guilty.

]]> By: Bob http://lagalaxy.theoffside.com/team-news/the-latest-non-news-on-the-new-galaxy-uniforms.html#comment-1332 Bob Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:19:31 +0000 http://lagalaxy.theoffside.com/team-news/the-latest-non-news-on-the-new-galaxy-uniforms.html#comment-1332 We're not changing the colors of this blog to match the new uniforms. Consider it retro cool. We’re not changing the colors of this blog to match the new uniforms. Consider it retro cool.

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