The MLS Is....

I got a good laugh from this comment about the MLS.

Well Nicol's a Scot. Spencer's a Scot. Clarke was from N. Ireland, as is Morrow. MLS is turning into a barbarians league.

Saggy Cheeks Brain Has Checked Out

As you may know, for the last year or two there has been a series of investigations into allegations of what amounts to bribery going on in England. If I'm remembering right off the top of my head it was a year ago that a big list of managers, assistant managers who were being investigated for this came out. Harry Redknapp was one of them. So it shouldn't be surprising that he along with 5 others including ex-Portsmouth owner Milan Mandaric were arrested. The amazing thing is that somehow ol' 'Arry seems to think that if one has been arrested and charged with a crime that they can somehow say with a straight face "nothing to do with me whatsoever". WHY IS THE MEDIA NOT CALLING HIM OUT ON THIS BULLSHIT?!?!???

Now keep in mind that there is a difference between him being guilty and him claiming that he has nothing to do with things. I'm not saying he is guilty. I'll be more than happy to let the courts decide that issue. What is going on here is that he's claiming that England's legal system can just willy nilly arrest and charge anyone they'd like. Really? Does anyone believe that Arry was arrested and charged for a crime for absolutely no reason? That there is nothing out there that would lead anyone to think that he may be involved? None at all? Of course not, there is some level of evidence that has lead to this. It may not be enough to convict him but it is enough for him to be charged. If there wasn't enough for charges, his lawyer would be able to get those thrown out and he'd be a free man.

Harry Redknapp may not be guilty of anything at all. The same with Milan Mandaric and the others that were arrested. But they were arrested because there is at least enough evidence out there to not only suspect they did something wrong but charge him with a crime. Note to Arry ---> You don't deserve our sympathy; especially not when you're crying like a baby. Grow some balls and deal with it.

Hold On To Your Seats!

That's right, hold on tight otherwise you might just end up launching yourself into orbit from the excitement. Tomorrow, Thursday November 29th Major League Soccer (MLS) is holding their waiver draft. Wooo-hooooo!

.........ya, it's really not very exciting nor interesting. It's a chance for teams to pick up a mediocre player to address a roster need. Only that it's being held a couple weeks after the season is over and a few months before training camp for 2008 begins. So how are teams to know what needs they'll have?

Here is the draft order :
1. San Jose
2. Toronto
3. Salt Lake
4. Los Angeles
5. Colorado
6. Columbus
7. New York
8. Dallas
9. Chivas USA
10. DC United
11. Kansas City
12. Chicago
13. New England
14. Houston

Here's the list of players available according the MLS's web site
CHIVAS:
David Arvizu, Desmond Brooks, Carlos Llamosa, Rodrigo Lopez, Laurent Merlin, Justin Myers, Ramon Nunez, Orlando Perez, Eder Robles, Erasmo Solorzano
COLORADO:
Zach Thornton
COLUMBUS:
Ben Hunter
DALLAS:
Juan Botero
D.C. UNITED:
Shawn Crowe, Mira Mupier, Brad North, Kiki Willis,
HOUSTON:
Kenneth Hoerner, Jordan James
KANSAS CITY:
Edson Edcock, Aaron John Godbolt, Willy Guadarrama, Chris Konopka
LOS ANGELES:
Mike Caso, Lance Friesz, Carlos Pavon, Kyle Veris
NEW YORK:
Blake Camp
NEW ENGLAND:
Bryan Byrne, Miguel Gonzalez, Marshall Leonard, Chris Loftus
REAL SALT LAKE:
Chris Brown, Steven Curfman, Christian Jimenez, Jean-Martial Kipre, Jack Stewart
TORONTO FC:
Adam Braz, Maycoll Canizalez, Srdjan Djekanovic, David Guzman, Stephen Lumley, Cristian Nunez, Marco Reda

LA, Lalas, & LannyCakes

SF over at he The Offisde Rules has fun today mocking the Los Angeles Galaxy for strutting their stuff as though they were some super club. I love it. It's as though Lalas and the rest of the folks at AEG think they've turned the Los Angeles Galaxy into the new New York Cosmos. They got Beckahm and now Ruud Gullit so.....just a few more years of this and they'll be a mega club like Manchester United or AC Milan, right?

Bah! They'd be lucky if they're rivaling Padova in stature right now. I hope their 2008 season is as uninspiring as they were in 2007.

MLS Coaching Records

This was from earlier this year in July 2007. Anyone know of some updated stats for MLS Coaches all time records?

All time MLS Coaching Records

There aren't many that have been in the league that have done worse.

MLS Coach	Wins	Loses	Ties	%
Dominic Kinnear	38	22	34	63%
Bruce Arena	68	43	5	61%
Frank Yallop	50	32	23	61%
Peter Nowak	42	27	25	61%
Octavio Zambrano	79	55	8	59%
Bob Bradley	124	92	55	57%
Steve Nicol	61	47	39	56%
Sigi Schmid	87	68	41	56%
Dave Sarachan	51	44	29	54%
Greg Andrulis	49	43	32	53%
Ray Hudson	46	41	20	53%
Mike Jeffries	22	20	12	52%
Dave Dir	81	75	4	52%
Tom Fitzgerald	70	67	7	51%
Glenn Myernick	63	61	4	51%
Bob Gansler	90	89	57	50%
Ron Newman	50	50	0	50%
Tim Hankinson	78	83	34	48%
Alfonso Mondelo	17	19	1	47%
Brian Quinn	35	41	0	46%
Thomas Rongen	83	98	9	46%
Colin Clarke	45	55	24	45%
Fernando Clavijo	46	59	29	44%
Lothar Osiander	31	40	8	44%
John Kowalski	20	27	0	43%
Laurie Calloway	20	27	0	43%
Ivo Wortmann	21	29	4	42%
Steve Sampson	17	24	10	41%
John Ellinger	15	35	14	30%
Numbers current as of June 28th. Clavijo's stats are current as of 07/13/2007.