Comments on: Now I Hate Baseball Even More

By: OrangeShorts

OrangeShorts — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:42:18 +0000

Waaal,

Here is a nice link regarding how well supported Chivas USA is:

http://themlszone.blogspot.com/2008/03/season-ticket-numbers-released.html

As for the rest of your post, I’ve read it all a million times before and I’m actually surprised you wasted the time it took to type it.

By: waaaaaaaaaaal

waaaaaaaaaaal — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:58:23 +0000

The first problem with football in the US is that there aren’t enough goals and it isn’t fast enough, meaning the average dipshit American will never understand the sheer joy one can experience from watching your team grind out a one-nil away from home against a better team. The second problem is you just don’t understand football culture, you don’t have the history to be passionate about your teams. Look at Chivas USA or whatever they are called. Best supported team in the country, because they are supported mainly by Mexicans, a nation who know football a hell of a lot more than Americans. Low media interest and poor support from the punters mean no funding. Stick to baseball or ‘gridiron’ or basketball eh?

By: Zzzzzzzz....

Zzzzzzzz.... — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:55:23 +0000

Wow, how’d we go from talking about playing on a baseball field to a completely boring, re-hashed cliche about about how our “best athletes” don’t grow up playing soccer?

If only a great athlete like Kevin Garnett played soccer!

By: OrangeShorts

OrangeShorts — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:33:52 +0000

JIM PLEASE… PLEASE GET FUCKING REAL LOLOLOL

Yeah I write a soccer blog and didn’t realize they had soccer in Europe. I thought it was an American fad! Sue me!

Unbelievable.

P.S. Are you telling me Landon Donovan isn’t the best player in the world? Because this I know to be false.

By: Steve-oh

Steve-oh — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:22:40 +0000

The problem with soccer in the U.S. is that it has too much competition from other sports for kids to be interested and develop to the level of players from around the world. There are other factors in the choice of sport among kids than popularity, and the biggest one in my opinion is economic. Soccer is by far the cheapest sport to pick up and play. All you need is a round object, a flat surface and 4 markers to determine goal posts. This means that any kid anywhere in the world, no matter how shitty his living environment is can find a way to play. In the U.S. however parents are willing to pay money to pick up equipment for their kids to play baseball, hockey, american football, and lacrosse. We even have a staggering number of charities that provide this equipment free to poorer families. This leeches our best athletes to these other sports leaving soccer in the shitter with our second tier athletes. The biggest problems for soccer in america is the fact that most families have enough money to pay for the equipment to play other sports, the popularity of a variety of other sports, and the fact that our best athletes leave to succeed in other sports. But let me say this. If athletes in the mold of say kobe bryant, lebron james, alex rodriguez, reggie bush, adrian peterson or tom brady had grown up kicking around a soccerball instead of passing around a football or basketball or hitting a baseball then the state of american soccer would be in a much better situation than it currently is, in fact, we could even be a world contender if we actually got our best atheltes into shape to play soccer on a worlds scale. Even as it is right now our second tier athletes are ranked 20something in the world in the FIFA rankings. Imagine what it would be like if the sport had no other competition in the U.S. and our most gifted athletes were playing the most beautiful sport in the world. It would almost be scary. Now im not saying that we could train the best current U.S. athletes to win at soccer. That would just be stupid. But imagine if they had the amount of experience that say a Ballack or a John Terry, or a C. Ronaldo, or a Kaka had playing the sport, growing up since pretty much birth with a soccerball at their feet. I bet they would be pretty damn good.

By: Captain Sarcasm

Captain Sarcasm — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:43:17 +0000

Joking?! Why would somebody joke about something so SERIOUS?

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:08:43 +0000

OrangeShorts – “I have heard before Europe has better soccer than America… I’ll have to check that out one day. Is it televised?”

Please…PLEASE tell me you are joking. Is European soccer televised? Of course it is! It is the best soccer (football to most of the world) you will ever see. Soccer in Europe is insanely popular around the world. You won’t have to “check it out one day”, just read the words I am typing: Europe has always been and will forever be better at soccer than America.

By: OrangeShorts

OrangeShorts — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:19:54 +0000

Brian: I didn’t say the size of a field didn’t affect the style of play. Style of play changes, but skill level requirements do not. I also said it doesn’t affect play in general, meaning, it’s still the same sport.

Grumpy: Thanks for the cliché, Captain Die Immediately

By: grumpy

grumpy — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:15:37 +0000

wow….a baseball stadium is not a soccer pitch. Thanks for the update Captain Obvious.

In other news, the MLS sucks and so do its fans.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:44:42 +0000

The size of the field does affect the style of play, Brazilians for example always use huge fields to exploit their speed and to give more room for their Nº 3 and 4 to attack. A small field is an advantage to the home team if they learn how to exploit it, long balls to the fowards and a compact deffense can be very hard to overcome in a small field if your team is not used to it. Also the deffense needs to be more focused, because the ball can go from one goal to the other in no time….