(Get) A Sporting Life

This crap keeps getting worse: DC United may have to consider move Winner of MLS titles in 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2004, D.C. United has explored building a venue in Baltimore near Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium. For now, Garber said the team must have a lower rent next season. “If that means that they can’t get a new improved lease in D.C., they’ve got to move to another facility in the region. I will be supportive of that, and in fact will help them do that,” he said. “And if it means they can’t find a solution in Baltimore, then we’ll have to go through a process as we did with San Jose to think about potentially moving the team. I believe that we’ll have to go through that process, as well.” Unless someone wants to move them to the Twin Cities this will just suck. I will not support "Baltimore" United. Ever. Not that I'll even have reason to care as Garber seems intent in NBA-ing the hell out of MLS. Garber also said MLS will go to an unbalanced 34-game schedule ...

...Then I may have to re-evaluate if I want to be wasting my time and money on this product. It cannot be worth my time to watch this crap when it doesn't matter HOW WELL the players play the game on the field because the refs will simply undo everything to suit their personal whims. I really should demand a refund for the Direct Kick package. I was promised real soccer action, what I got was a seasons worth of referees jerking off in public. The hell with it.

Bill Hamid just got red carded on the worst call I've seen in years on a soccer field. A Toronto FC player lunged for a ball that as ultimately kicked into touch by a DC defender. The Toronto player, who never touched the ball, was subsequently run into by Hamid outside the area. This isn't a red card. Period. If you think it IS a red card you a retarded dumbfuck who ought to be raped by wild dogs. Why does MLS allow its product to be continually ruined in this manner? I waqs going to watch this game, but now? The hell with it. MLS has shown repeatedly they don't give a flying fuck for its fans. So why should I give a shit about any of it?

The worst official in American professional sports strikes again ...again! Baldomero Toledo single-handedly destroyed what was shaping up to be the most entertaining game in MLS this year. Missed call followed hard upon missed call. True the PK called on Hejduk was probably correct, but multiple hand balls were missed (both outside and inside the box) and all of the missed calls hurt Columbus resulting in officiating that was horribly one-sided. (It doesn't matter what Toledo's intent was, the one-sidedness was the result .) Now, Salt Lake may have won this game anyway, but I hate the fact we will never know for sure. This isn't a case of a tight game with a lot of close calls where the refs are always dancing on a knife's edge to keep in under control. No! The problem here is Toledo is always nowhere near the play. Obviously the game moves way too fast for him to keep up, and the result is missed call after missed call. The average fan is let praying that the poor off...

D.C. United president fined for critical comments : D.C. United president Kevin Payne was fined $5,000 by Major League Soccer, then apologized on Thursday for criticizing the league and three teams. The MLS said Payne was punished for "public comments deemed detrimental to the public image of the league" and pointed to an item posted on The Washington Post's Web site this week. Payne was critical of the conservative playing style of Colorado, New England and Real Salt Lake in quotes posted on the site. Payne said the tactics create "a lot of games in our league that I can't watch." Payne is right. Colorado and Real Salt Lake almost always play the most negative game imaginable, and have for years. New England, once upon a time, could play attractive attacking soccer. This season they have been damn near unwatchable. For example, look at last night's nil-nil draw between Houston and Seattle. Sure there were no goals, but there was plenty of action. Action...

Even the ESPN broadcast crew has had enough of Baldomero Toledo. He single handedly destroyed the quality of last night's Sounders v. Revolution match, unless, of course, 32,000 Seattle fans actually paid good money to watch Toledo looking befuddled. MLS needs to get rid of this fool. He is making a mockery of the league. This leads me to my new (very old) joke: Person 1: How do you save a drowning Baldomero Toledo? Person 2: I don't know. Person 1: Good.

Were there any justice in the world, this man would be fired from his job as an MLS ref, anally raped, and then shot. And I'm a DC United fan, not a Seattle fan. At least MLS should fine and suspend his amateur candy ass.

Oh wow I wish that was a rhetorical question! Unfortunately, I can tell you exactly how bad the refs in MLS are. In today's Galaxy/Earthquakes match I've seen... A) A ref give a card to a player for not setting the wall on a free kick the required 20 yards away. What's that? They are only supposed to set up 10 yards away? Someone better tell the ref as he's convinced its 20. B) I just saw an offsides call on a throw in. What's that? There can be no offsides on a throw?? Once again, that would come as news to MLS officiating.

Good fucking God almighty. I worried going into this season that referees might "magically" give a boat load of breaks to the Galaxy so that when Beckham returns he would be "playing for something." Look at this " penalty " and tell me what you think. DC was robbed pure and simple. So, was this a case of mind-blowing incompetence or a mandate from the league office? Time will tell. (Really that is the worst penalty call I've ever seen.)