I’m sorry, I’ve put up with this for years.  However, this soccer related elitism our friends from Britain (or who want to be from Britain) want to impose on us “Yanks” has got to stop.

Kartik had a pretty scary post on his blog last night.  The basic statement in the post was that EPL broadcasts on ESPN the last couple of weeks have basically blown away anything MLS is doing.  Worse, MLS ratings in 1996 were better than they are now…bad news potentially.

Ordinarily I won’t go near the topic of some type of promotion/relegation system in MLS.  To be honest, I don’t think it’s needed.  What will it really bring?  For some reason there’s a romanticized notion that MLS will be better if the bottom club(s) were to drop to a lower level and the top teams from that level would replace them.  Yeah, it’ll give those teams towards the bottom something extra to fight for but…well; RBNY would probably be already making plans for the lower level next season.

I don’t know if it’s just soccer fans or Americans in general these days but, well, these knee jerk hysterics depending on the latest result has got to end. Sorry but, yeah losing at the Azteca was a disappointment. But ya know what? We’ve never won there. Not once.

Like most other soccer fans in this country, there’s really only one thing on my mind today—the match at the Azteca this afternoon. I decided to watch ESPN last night just to see if there was anything and, as I figured it would be ignored, I could get my mind off the match and probably be put to sleep by endless Baseball and NFL training camp news. (I didn’t expect Rick Pitino to be the main event)

My eyes started to water the second I read about the passing of Sir Bobby Robson this morning. Yeah, I got to shake his hand once when he was handing out medals and awards at a tournament I played in. Not sure if he actually saw me play. However, even without that moment, I’m sure I would have reacted the same way.

Don’t you love a happy ending?  Here we were (well, I was) all worked up about potentially not being able to watch the US play their World Cup Qualifier at the Azteca.   I’d even called DirecTV to see what it would cost to get one (or both) of the channels just for the day–actually, I still haven’t heard back yet on my last email.  Oh well.

Don’t get me wrong, losing yesterday to Mexico in the final of the Gold Cup hurt.  We should not ever lose a match that bad to anyone…especially not to our neighbors.

I wasn’t always an LA Galaxy fans, but I became one long before Beckham arrived and I’ll be one long after he’s gone.

You ever hear someone say something, but what they do say the exact opposite?  Yeah, as a parent, I get called on that one all the time.  The actions of David Beckham sure don’t mirror what he keeps trying to convince us is true.