Another Million Miles

Ok, so this fucker signed with some team here in the states. Is this significant? From my understanding, he's a mediocre prettyboy. Is this like when we got Pele, or is this actually something I should care about?

I guess half of me should not care and the other half should think soccer is for fags. Anyway, speaking of gay, this looks hilarious.

The new Will Ferrell ice skating movie

He's not at all mediocre though certainly past his best. Last season he was one of te standout players for Real Madrid and was awarded their midfielder of the season award for Primera Liga, which is along with the premiership one of the two best leagues in the world. He's been made a scapegoat at Real Madrid by Capello and their current President Felipe Calderón and has played very few games. He could walk into the majority of the best club teams in the world still and that's no mean feat.

Beckham's biggest problem is that he's become more concerned with the brand that is Beckham as opposed to himself. I've seen him play, twice and he is easily one of the best passers and dead ball specialists that I have ever seen and he'll be bringing some outlandish quality to the MLS as well as an incredible amount of money, much of which he'll be pocketing himself if projections are accurate ($250 over 5 years). The interest that surrounds this guy is incredible. Go to the far east and it's really quite amazing the marketabilty of the man. I once saw a skyscraper in Malaysia that had the entire front face of the building covered with a Beckham billboard. A picture of a man a quarter of a mile high. All of this is huge for the MLS, for the short term at the very least.

Many say he's pussywhipped and that has had a direct and negative effect on his football. I don't think so. I just feel that his heart was and always will be with Manchester United and if he can't play for them and Real have not awarded him with the loyalty he deserves after a relatively stellar season last season he thinks that he may as well exploit brand Beckham to the maximum while he can and what better place to do that than in the states even if he's taking a horrible step down in quality. I'd be very surprised were he not looking to move into the sphere of movies with his mucker Tom Cruise pimping him out to every fucker that'll take notice. 

 

That's a better analysis than I've read anywhere online. And anywhere meaning the two sports sites that I go to. If he's got to go someplace, he might as well go to the marketing overexposure cradle of the galaxy LA. If he could legitimize the sport over here it would be huge. The occasional  MLS game that ESPN runs shows these poor fuckers playing to empty stadiums, and they seem decent enough in comparison to the half dozen World Cup matches I watched last summer. There seems to be more interest in the sport over here from a female audience, so a guy that is in the tabloids coming to a town near them can only help. The problem the MLS has now is to use Beckham's star to get exposure for the league's other stars, if there even are any, without him becoming an overpowering presence.

I honestly would watch more of the sport if I could, but most of the games that are shown over here are on some of the British channels late at night, and I can't really get into or follow a team that way. With the rah-rah patriotism orgasm that's been prevalent over here for the last half decade, I don't think that people can get into a non-American team, regardless of whether or not there are Americans are on the team. Even if all of the players on the LA team are not American, just the fact that they might be able to get some kind of a regular regional TV schedule would be a great benefit, but they need to be enough of a draw so that the entire region around the city gets the coverage. I think some cities do get it on basic cable, but outside of that city no one gets the coverage. If it had some sort of a regular national TV schedule to get people hooked on it, that would help. Plus, their season runs over the summer, so they would have to give people incentive to watch that over, or in addition to, baseball.

As far as the Tom Cruise thing, I'm guessing Beckham is also in the tax shelter Scientology club. He would need to be in a movie that made him seem tough. Soccer players are generally looked at as the kids that were too pussy to play football, and somebody is going to have to change that attitude at some point. If they could bring that head-butting French guy over and have him be a crazy asshole villain type player, that might do it otherwise, too. 

It's not been reported that Becks is a scientologist. I wouldn't be surprised given enough time were he to 'convert' or whatever.

The only way the MLS is going to take off to any degree is if Beckham starts a snowballing effect where more top players follow suit. Ronaldo maybe for a start. He's good friends to Beckham and is still a great player regardless of being overweight. That would draw interest from South America as they too have trouble watching northern european matches due to the time difference.

It'll never be the same as in the rest of the world though. Football's ingrained here and elsewhere in europe. This attitude regarding football being a girls sport and soccer moms etc. that's purely born out of spite. I've often theorized that that attitude was instigated by some form of board of american sporting interest and patriotism. Subverting 'soccer' into some lefty female-centric unamerican sport played by little girls and communists. This can be used to mask american inadequacies at the sport and protect their belief of absolute sporting dominance.

Baseball in britain is called rounders and is played by nobody other than children up to the ages of 11 and it was from that sport that Baseball developed. You get my drift. 

 

The attitude towards it isn't nearly as bad as it was when I was younger. The girls doing well in the women's World Cup have helped it tremendously. Personally, I think if they made the women on those teams wear tennis skirts and little bra type tops, we would have a legitimate women's pro sport and men's pro soccer could slide in on its coattails. They would just need a few busty girls having he occasional uniform malfunction.

Honestly, the issue with soccer is that it is always going to compete over here with football. High schools schedule their men's soccer at the same time as the football season, and very few schools let their kids compete in two sports simultaneously. That sucks any young talent pool we might have away from soccer towards the sport that has the perceived glory and big pro payday. Beckham may at least change the monetary perception. It is the most played youth sport here, and has been for a long time. Just from the numbers, I can't imagine that there isn't a large amount of talent that just never gets to fully develop because of that competition for participation. Football is always going to have more support because that and basketball are pretty much the only sports they can make money on. Baseball too, depending on the region. So we have a problem with conflicting scheduling at one of the fundamental youth levels, which is where the men's talent is going. The girls only have what the rest of the world calls football, so they have the talent pool that does get to progress to  and continue to make that next step, and look where the program is.

I can understand people not liking baseball. It does take a fucking eternity some times. But no other sport provides for the drama that baseball does on a regular basis. And I don't mean drama in the homo figure skating artistic expression sense.

I would probably like Baseball if it was broadcast over here at any other time than (I think) the early hours of the morning. I was purely drawing a parallell between the perception of very few brits regarding baseball and that of very many americans regarding the beautiful game.

So it looks like Zidane might bring his mighty forehead to Chicago. Is he any good, or is he too past his best days?

Really??? He's class. End of. You saw what he could do with his feet (still) at the world cup. He's always been mental but the cunt can still play some sweet football.

 

Another reason why I along with many others will be watching MSL next season.

 

Killer, what's the score with uploading music to the site at the mo'?

Really? Maybe I'll actually watch MLS this season then.

 

Uploading has been good to go for a while. Have you tried it? It will probably only allow a track at a time, as the fucker times out after 10 minutes. You won't get any fancy status bar, it will just sit there, and once it's done the screen will change. Give it a shot.

Mate, I'll be watching MLS next season and I live in a country where I can watch spanish, english and italian football at a decent time of day. It could be fascinating, even if it'll be be on at a stupid time of day.

 

The upload has occurred to me actually. I've felt it could be a handy resource. Just had fuck all to upload in a while.