Rest in Peace MLS
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 12:54
I had to drive up from Philadelphia this morning—and it's a good thing for all concerned.

The two and a half hours I spent watching asphalt roll under my butt gave me time to cool down a little after having read THIS PIECE OF DOG EXCREMENT just before hitting the road.

(See? Right there's an example; a couple of hours ago "excrement" would have been a whole other word.)

(I would dearly love to turn this piece over to MondayMorning10Shirt for the counterpoint it so richly deserves. I'd pay good money to read that one.)

I always catch grief when I link to some imbecile with goose crap for brains like this, and there's some justification; his employer will look at the hit numbers and send him a memo congratulating him on a fine, insightful piece of writing, when in fact he ought to be fired or at least tied up in the lunchroom so that people can throw food at him.

Although maybe they already do that.

Anyway, this imbecile—a man with enough juice that he has his own column in the Toronto Star—has taken a considered look at the whole Beckham-to-Milan kerfuffle and come to the conclusion that this means that MLS is as good as dead and that the only decent thing to do, apparently, would be to pull the plug and end the suffering.

I thought he started out well, even cleverly:

"David Beckham and Major League Soccer have taken a page out of Cher's playbook in their divorce negotiations. They will split after all, but not before the farewell tour".

Not quite Loney caliber, but it's decent.

Then he makes what I thought was a very valid point; in reference to the agreement between the three parties, he comments that while it has some sizeable holes in the good sense department,

"...it does have the enviable attribute of allowing everyone involved to claim they've won. "

Indeed so. Everybody gets to save face, and maybe in the end that's all anybody really wanted. Well, except Beckham Inc., who wanted their boy free of the contract they told him he should sign two years ago.

Then, in the midst of all this common sense, he lays this one on us:

"Only Beckham gets what he wants. MLS gets gut shot. This isn't just bad news for the league. It's a delayed death sentence. It may take years of decline

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