Watercooler Chat: Beckham, Bonds and surprisingly no boos for the Phillies
Major League Soccer
Is anyone else as tired as I am of hearing the hype over David Beckham’s arrival in the US? The press conferences, magazine covers, newspaper reports of Beckham and Victoria’s big arrival in Los Angeles where he’ll play for the LA Galaxy, is just a bit overdone for a sport that will never pass football, baseball, basketball or golf as an American favorite. The Galaxy ponied up $250 million over 5 years to lure Beckham away from England. I think this will go down as one of the absolute worst sports franchise moves in history. I just can’t imagine how the Galaxy plans on recouping that kind of money in a sport that is just not “mainstream” here in the US. And, at some point (hopefully some point soon), the paparazzi will get tired of taking pictures of the robot-like Posh Spice. On that note, just once I’d love to see a picture of her actually smiling instead of her signature pout.
Baseball
Our Barry Bonds watch is still going strong. The San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds is still 5 home runs away from breaking Hank Aarons home run record. The question on everyone’s mind right now is not so much “if” he’ll hit more than 755 career home runs, but “when” and which pitcher (team) will go down in history in making it happen.
If you can’t beat em join em. The Philadelphia Phillies have the dubious distinction of losing their 10,000th game, the first time in history that a sports franchise has reached that landmark. The clincher was hearing the fans “cheer” while the Phillies reached this milestone.
Rumor Mill
This weekend a broadcaster fueled the LA Lakers’ Kobe Bryant trade rumor when he apparently slipped (unintentionally as he thought the mic was off) and said he had been told that Kobe would go to the Grizzlies.
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It's been said this broadcaster, laughing through it all, knew he was on the air and pretended he was off.
Like Kobe would ever allow that trade, with his no-trade clause. It's gotta be the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
I was at the phillies 10,000 loss and didnt hear many people cheering or booing. Fans just looked sad that it was another loss.
How about 250,000 Beckham Galaxy jerseys sold in 6 days.... $20M sales tag? Maybe Becks gets $10M or 50% of the sales... good start... now he's owed $240M - and he's not played a single match.
If only Galaxy can find a way to get the jerseys off to europe, asia and south america, they would've sold millions more..
Becks and Posh are idiots and the sooner we ship them both back to England, the better off we'll all be. Soccer is dead in this country (just like NFL Europa is dead over there). We have opposable thumbs for a reason, and only the Europeans can love a sport which donkeys (or, in other words... asses) are able to play just as well as humans. Other than the die hards who somehow find it cool to see adults kick a ball around for no apparent reason for hours and hours and hours will watch Becks on the field. Simply put, the same losers who love soccer now will love soccer five years from now. As for me? REAL FOOTBALL!!!!!!! Speaking of, Matt Leinart just sat down in the Starbucks I'm hanging out in. He's wearing board shorts, a T-shirt and he's totally HOTTTTTTTTTTT! Do I ask him for his autograph? Or should I just strip down and offer him my body and my grande non-fat chai latte? Too forward?
The money Beckham is being paid isn't coming soley from the Galaxy. They couldn't afford that (think about it).
Nice, Nancy, your xenophobia is showing.
did you see posh's show last night, i hate to say this, but i actually liked her!
did you see posh's show last night, i hate to say this, but i actually liked her!
wow ur the kewlest person in the world
wow ur the kewlest person in the world
Gandalf Mantooth, no offense, but you're a pretentious, know-nothing-at-all, wanna-be snob. I'm not afraid of foreigners, nor do I harbor any resentment toward them.
Simply put -- they're idiots... especially the French.
Love and kisses...
Oh, and I wasn't aware that Xenophobia is necessarily a bad thing.
Hello! Very interesting and professional site.
I love reading your site, and I love that women are becoming more interested in sports (at least it seems that way to me). Keep up the good work.