Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[Adder]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
As a measure of soccer talent, the money is silly, but Beckham might be worth it for the attention he'll draw to himself and the league.

Do you think so? I mean, he will be big among existing soccer fans who already know him, but do you think he will be a big draw for people who are not already intersted in soccer?

I'm not so sure England's golden couple means much in the U.S. these days, but maybe I am wrong.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I don't understand what's going on. When did this feud begin and why? And what does "Paris/Britney/whatever" mean? I am feeling notBob-ish all of a sudden.

For the record, for clarity's sake, etc... I don't really understand it either. I've never had any interation with Fringey which I can recall which would lead to her despising me. I've always known I annoyed her some, but I never suspected the depths of her dislike.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Great. Now I'm envisioning his avatar Boogie-Nights style. Thanks Ty.

You make fun of someone else's use of language and then you post this?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by ironweed
Is this the nicoderm that makes quitting ppnyc possible? Or is it more like methadone?

It's somethin'. It's no dtb v. rp, but it will have to do.

That said, I wish I could quit you.

TM

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Becks signs a 5 year, $250 million deal to play for the LA Galaxy.

Hey, cool!


ETA: Pele to Cosmos redux, maybe. Still, who cares? It'll be a good reason to go watch more than the random Galaxy game for a while.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
As a measure of soccer talent, the money is silly, but Beckham might be worth it for the attention he'll draw to himself and the league.

2.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ironweed
Is this the nicoderm that makes quitting ppnyc possible? Or is it more like methadone?

quitting PPNYc is more like remembering not to step on the bag of dog shit some kid lit on your porch.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
For the record, for clarity's sake, etc... I don't really understand it either. I've never had any interation with Fringey which I can recall which would lead to her despising me. I've always known I annoyed her some, but I never suspected the depths of her dislike.

That's not true. You guessed that she despised you on the first try!

TM

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
2.

It will be interesting to see how the guys making $90k a year react to the $25 million man.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Adder
Do you think so? I mean, he will be big among existing soccer fans who already know him, but do you think he will be a big draw for people who are not already intersted in soccer?

I'm not so sure England's golden couple means much in the U.S. these days, but maybe I am wrong.

You are wrong.

Originally posted by Adder
Do you think so? I mean, he will be big among existing soccer fans who already know him, but do you think he will be a big draw for people who are not already intersted in soccer?

I'm not so sure England's golden couple means much in the U.S. these days, but maybe I am wrong.

He is one of the few names that people who have never watched a soccer match in their lives probably know (and certainly the biggest in the English-speaking world). If MLS can get just half the number of people who have seen "Bend It Like Beckham" in stadium seats for an MLS game it will have been well worth it.

ETA: The glaring difference between my helpful and generous nature and Flower's wanton cruelty is evident in these last two posts. But he is right.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by ironweed
This is the Pele to New York Cosmos saga redux. Paying silly money for a player on the downslope of his career -- but with huge name recognition -- in the hope that Americans will start taking American soccer a bit more seriously.

Then again, the MLS has seemed fairly realistic about growing a league over the last 10 years or so and it won't all just disappear when Beckham retires.

LA has been that couple's spiritual home for years anyway.

True -- but I don't think Beckham is quite as over-the-hill as Pele, Beckebauer, and Chinaglia were back in their Cosmos days. He probably could've stayed at Real Madrid or returned to the Premier League; I don't think Pele at 40, or however old he was when he joined the Cosmos, had those options.

On the other hand, US soccer is not quite the joke it was back then. Almost, but not quite.

If there were a team in the Bay Area, I'd go to games. But, alas, no more.

[robustpuppy]

Unless Tim Gunn has a doppelganger of equally impeccable grooming, I just backed up my car to make room for him to get out of the parking garage. (I really hope it was him, because I gave him a very goofy "hey, I recognize you from TV" grin.)

Had he been driving a Saturn, I would be sure, but he was in a black Mercedes SUV.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
It will be interesting to see how the guys making $90k a year react to the $25 million man.

Jesus, that's right. I was thinking of this in the context of other sports deals, where Beckham's $50MM a year (?) is obscene and ridiculous, but not by orders of magnitude.

But in soccer? He's probably getting paid what the entire league gets paid now.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by ironweed
He is one of the few names that people who have never watched a soccer match in their lives probably know (and certainly the biggest in the English-speaking world). If MLS can get just half the number of people who have seen "Bend It Like Beckham" in stadium seats for an MLS game it will have been well worth it.

ETA: The glaring difference between my helpful and generous nature and Flower's wanton cruelty is evident in these last two posts. But he is right.

2. But they might get more of the movie audience if they paid Keira to come run around in short shorts and a clingy t-shirt.