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Sadly, Ream would fit right in with Arsenal's current defense

I didn't see CTL, so what was alluded to that makes people think Aramis is gone?

lol sportswriters dont have wives Touche, good sir. Touche.

F it, Kenney can be our version of Lucchino for all I care if we win 90+ per year.

Did this guy bang every sportwriter's wife?

England and Dallas have a couple things in common-partially enclosed stadia and an underachieving, overrated collection of dreck.

Wow, United melting down completely. 0-3 to City, at Old Trafford.

-As Trey's (informal) agent, I request that payment of $500 USD be made to his paypal within 24 hrs. -This thread needs to be stickied so that it never, ever suffers the same fate as the Nomar trade thread. Glorious work by Treymon. Glorious.

he doesn't say "well i think most hispanic guys are lazy and don't care" since he'd obviously get fired, but curiously his whipping boys all happen to be latin american and he seems to criticize all of them for lack of hustle, leadership and effort. Seems like a pretty racist observation on your part. Your telling me Kaplan has never criticized a "white player"? I don't remember him liking Todd Hundley very much. He didn't give Prior any grief for being injured all of the time? Kaplan's complaints about hustle, leadership, and effort are pretty much echoed by all of the media. Kaplan's comments about Aramis Ramirez and Starlin Castro are evidence enough that he's a raging racist rectum.

Wasn't there a blurb posted earlier where the Ricketts' credited Kenney with helping the negotiations along?

This means nothing good for soccer in the US. ESPN went all in in 2010 and the production was fantastic. Their marketing and the weight that their brand carries helped propel viewership. I have real questions about Fox's ability to match it, not to mention what happens to the visibility of MLS on ESPN, and the USMNT as well.

If you guys think Soldier Field's turf sucks, wait til everyone looks like they're on ice Sunday. Wembley's field blows.

Oh, Rex

Everyone who thinks that Crane Kenney is a horrible human needs to look at Lucchino and see just how benign our guy is.

KARMA

As the world turns, I spread like germs Bless the globe with the pestilence, the hard-headed never learn It's my testament to those burned Play my position in the game of life, standin firm

I give a order to my peeps across the water To go and snatch up props all around the border

Dolla dolla billz ya'll

I'd withhold the hearty handshake

Larry Lucchino is probably calling the shots over there. Larry Lucchino is a lunatic imbecile. Again, I highly doubt they give a crap about pissing off Theo and Cherington. This is the front office that accused their manager of having a drug problem.

seriously, this is what i plan on doing tomorrow night and it better not get messed up Uh.....Orange Fanta? Purple that [expletive] up, pronto! i know, that was as far as i was willing to take it, grape is not good Vodka and orange soda is the ish

The Red Sox front office/ownership is too busy napalming everyone in their organization to give a crap about one more PR nightmare.

I don't know, Wolf. I see what you're saying, but the "glass half empty" version of this is that Klinsmann doesn't know what he's doing and that these 5 friendlies we've spent pissing away with Orozco and Castillo and Rogers and Edu and Beasley we should have been spending on Gonzalez, John, Cameron, Gatt, et al. Bradley may have been-during the games themselves-tactically limited, but the guy looked at everyone in the pool and usually had everyone in the right spot at kickoff. Adjustments? Yeah, usually nonexistent or too late, but his prep work was top notch. He trotted out a 4-6-0 in a cup final and had it working until he shot himself in the foot by not adjusting (meme). He rebuilt our midfield from scratch in a year while beating everyone we played. I feel as though he would have certainly done the same job with our CB's, and that's the big thing that is gonna bite us in the ass if it's not addressed now. It's hard for me to give Klinsmann credit for doing anything similar right now. I think Shea was finna break out no matter what, and Chandler was already in the pool playing LB. What has he done that wouldn't have been done under Bob? EDIT: Not advocating that Bob wasn't deservedly let go, but I'm saying that the grass may not have been as green as we had hoped on the other side of this fence.

Things we learned: -Brek Shea is going to be a force. A force. Locked down the LM spot. -Clint *should* be the #10. Klinsmann needs to recognize this instead of trying to shoehorn LD into that spot. LD should be on the right in place of Williams, who has no left foot and doesn't look dangerous in the final third. Clint is miles, miles ahead of our other attacking players. He's our best player ever. I'm not even going to consider the LD v CD argument anymore. Clint's a better soccer player. LD is a better athlete. The second half tonight was basically 4 Ecuadorians around Clint while everyone else sucks. -Tim Ream=not ready even a little. No more callups until he actually learns to defend. That was atrocious marking for a CB. Speaking of CB...nice to see Gooch playing well tonight. Not surprising to see Boca be useless starting attacks from the back -Dolo looked old tonight. We need Lichaj healthy. -Edu is effing bad. He's not good. He might look good against whatever nonsense plays in the SPL, but he's bad. He makes me want Rico Clark back. Beckerman is better than he is, and Beckerman has a limited ceiling. Michael Bradley continues to be our best available CM, since Holden apparently is JOB. All the meatballs that wanted anyone playing but Bradley have seen just how mediocre everyone else is now. Torres doesn't have the lungs or strength to be a pivot at the international level. He's a good guy to have in the right situation. Edu isn't very good. Beckerman is better than Edu in my opinion (can't believe that I'm saying that) but limited. Jones needs time at the club level. Holden is made of glass and sticks. Mix is apparently not going to play until the Olympics. Who else is there? -Our forward depth blows. Agudelo needs minutes at the club level. Thank god Jozy is starting to look the part, because after him comes a bunch of meh right now. -We still

When he was on youth MNT squads, people thought he was soft and not wired competitively to be a really good player. Whoops