Burn Before Reading

1) Ole Ole Ole, And Other Corporate Cheers: So fellas, I have to say I am finally getting around to talking about my first experience at an EarthQuakes game. It was a clear afternoon with a bit of sun sitting atop the gorgeous little field known as Buck Shaw, and I had 3 tickets for my pops, my brother, and myself, to join the 1906 Ultras! By far, this is the greatest fan club to be a part of. No offense to the Casbah, I wish them success and happy, non-offensive cheers, but the Ultras aren't sick, they're ill. (Props to Lil Wayne). Also, watching that guy squirm in the DC United shirt was priceless. I will be back Ultras, I will be back!
2) Rant You: Please understand I don't really have a specific political team that I root for. I have made a choice on the upcoming presidential election, and I will choose to keep that to myself. But, have any of you logical, intelligent readers watched MSNBC recently? Good gawd, just five minutes will make you so angry you could squeeze Keith Olbermann's head off of his neck! I just hope he and his boyfriend Rachel Maddow get fired before someone has to remind MSNBC that they ought to be OBJECTIVE. Every segment of Olbermann's show should end with, paid for by Barack Obama for presidency in 2008. There's just a angry one sided argument cherry picking any story to propel his favorite candidate in to the presidency. It's disgusting. Thank Comedy Central for the Daily Show's Jon Stewart (a personal hero) setting them straight. Leave it to comedians for an objective look at what us public folks call "the news".
3) London Calling? No, Saudi Arabia? We have two issues to cover here in LCNSA this time. The first thing will be the quick success and excitement if former New York Red Bull and US International Jozy Altidore at Villareal. You can see his clips from his first league game here at youtube. He played the last 45 in his league debut, and even scored a hat trick in a friendly meeting against a semi pro team San Rafael. At just 18 years old, let's hope this kid produces like this for the USA, as soon as Mr. Magoo (bob bradley, hockey coach) is relieved of his duties as US Men's National Team Coach. Oh yeah, the second thing. It appears Landon Donovan is interested in having a superstar career again. Even though they don't have good night lights or Oreo cookies, Landon is considering a transfer to Germany in the Bundesliga. Sure, the superclub Bayern Munich may only be interested in him because Jurgen Klinnsman was singing his praises around the club's cubicles. But hey, if this makes Landon the player he SHOULD be, than I am all for it. Then Becks can be a one man road show for the Galaxy, that should end well, yeeks!
4) I Be DonG- State of The League: Wow, what a time to do this part of the blog! There is so much expansion news, you footy fans should be thanking your lucky stars. Don Garber announced a little while back that in addition to adding Seattle Sounders FC in 2009, and the MLS outfit in Philly in 2010, that there will be another two teams added to the league by 2011. With that in mind let me show you the list of serios contenders, the cities, the ownership groups, and the plans. The links provide so many interesting details. Check it out, this looks to be a dogfight.

1) New York City. Owners, The New York Mets, plans, build a stadium across from the Mets new stadium by 2011.
2) Miami. Owners, FC Barcelona, new stadium in Miami.
3) Montreal. Liverpool owner Tom Hicks / Montreal Impact.
4) Vancouver. Owners, Whitecaps FC/ Steve Nash.
5) Portland. Owners? DG has named Portland a contender, but it may take some public funds. PGE park to renovated.
6) Atlanta, Arthur Blankenship / Atlanta Falcons.
7) St. Louis, remember these guys, they wanted in like 3 years ago.
8) Ottawa, the newest one on the list. Pretty cool site. NHL Senators/ Melnyk.

So, here's the newest concept here, why not bring in 4 of these groups by 2011. With $40million expansion fees to get in to the club for each ownership group, this would be a huge addition to the league, and would bring in some awesome owners and fans to the league. My choices, in this order: Montreal, NYCFC, Portland, Vancouver. However, if FC Barcelona is serious about Miami, they would bump Portland from my list.
5) "I said Joe Montegna:" This blog entry was long. Apologies, but in the mean time, if you are unhappy just blame yourself. You read it all. Haha. Complaints to: YourSoccerBlogger@yahoo.com