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MLSNet.comAs some people who are out of touch with the sport in this country (Just who or what is a Couch Slouch? come on!), drone on and on about how MLS hasn't peaked their interest (and somehow get syndicated in a bunch of major newspapers). We at MLSR just received yet another celebrity MLS fan sighting.
More proof that the dead tree media just doesn't get it and it is unlikely that it ever will before it goes the way of the dinosaur in the not to distant future.
Special thanks to one of our readers and a big fan of the Celebrity MLS Fan Gallery for this photo he snapped of his TV during the Houston Dynamo vs Red Bull NY game.
He said that the Spanish language channel he was watching on interviewed Abreau about the game and his fandom.
More than enough to land him in, you guessed it, the Celebrity MLS Fan Gallery. A place the "Couch Slouch" would be wise to spend a little time perusing before he writes another article about MLS.
Too bad he is a Yankee lol
abreu plays for the yankees
MLB Rumors is reporting a potential winter transfer to the METS for Abreu
Hahaha! Good one.
We put him in the Gallery as a Yankee but in this story he became a Met.
The correction has been made.
I don't know if we should be linking to terrible-rant-lackluster-Sports-fan blogs aka Clouch Slouch.
Anybody else want to fight that writer from Cleveland?
ABREU WAS AT THE GAME TO SUPPORT HIS FELLOW COUNTRY MAN & GOOD FRIEND JORGE ROJAS !!!
The funny thing is, he very well may become a Met. MLSR would pat their own backs raw for "calling" it before it happened...
"Anybody else want to fight that writer from Cleveland?"
He is from L.A., hence why he is writing about Beckham. If you're going to let one free lance writer get to you, then there isn't much hope.
Will you guys ever correct the Fan Gallery?
Eva Longoria is a Galaxy fan. Go here to see her sitting in the Beckham suite with Becks son.
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/75588662.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF193F59B4249CE5E7FC76C2B92C982CC1A8A284831B75F48EF45
Cleveland is conquering the soccer world. What other club in North America is expanding into Africa?
http://usl2.uslsoccer.com/home/285535.html
The only championships in the last 40 years in Cleveland have come from soccer. MISL (Cleveland Force) and the USL D2 champs last season. If you throw the contributions of Drew Carey in the mix, Cleveland is a soccer mecca.
abreu was on during red bulls' clash with the crew i believe. they interviewed him in the background during play. this is old news seeing that abreu and rojas were introduced by their teams' PR due to their nationality. i wouldn't call him a fan just yet. Rojas has a yankee jersey, Abreu has a Red Bull jersey. that's about it
"Cleveland is conquering the soccer world. What other club in North America is expanding into Africa?
http://usl2.uslsoccer.com/home/285535.html
The only championships in the last 40 years in Cleveland have come from soccer. MISL (Cleveland Force) and the USL D2 champs last season. If you throw the contributions of Drew Carey in the mix, Cleveland is a soccer mecca."
As a Cleveland fan (and member of the mighty GREEN ARMY), barely anyone in the city knows about the City Stars. We get almost no press coverage. Almost every soccer fan in the city doesn't even know that we've got a pro team.
I'll be one happy moterscooter when that fat fuck Norman Chad dies of shock when the MLS takes over one of the other "major " sports in this country.....you guys obviously read his crap today, I thought it was interesting that he gave the World Cup credit before bashing our league....he usually just shits on the sport in general. Nevertheless I hope he chokes on his PBR and wets himself in front of of his 12th wife.
Ironic that Norman Chad is also a TV analyst for Poker and its rapidly disappearing popularity
Anonymous at 8:52,
Stay strong my Green Army Friend. Be proud of the soccer glory the Stars brought to the city no matter how small and enjoy the moment because the sports championships don't come along often in Cleveland. I spent much of my young life wallowing in the sorrows of Cleveland sport. Thankfully I was able to escape but part of me will always be a Cleveland sports fan and I will always remember the double digit scores of indoor soccer the Cleveland Force provided that introduced me to the sport, or something that kind of resembled the sport the rest of the world knew.
As a Cleveland sports fan you must Always remember "don't let the sorrow of defeat drag you down, remember the glory of the battle and the hope the next battle will bring before it is lost also..."
"Anonymous Anonymous said...
I don't know if we should be linking to terrible-rant-lackluster-Sports-fan blogs aka Clouch Slouch."
You have a point. However when such a terrible rant-lackluster Sports-fan blog is being nationally syndicated on a number of large newspaper sites then thats a problem.
A problem that only some responses from the intelligent crew that hangs out here can solve as evidenced in some of your responses to the Seattle reprint of the "Slouch" as shown here.
Which was the whole point. Nothing like a little blog war with a soccer basher.
PS: To the Green Army supporter above. We agree, you guys deserve better. We also would like to apologize for not being fully up to speed with your teams roster during this past year's US Open Cup. Here's hoping you make a good run for it again in 2009.
The Slouch has now come to Houston.
If he wanted to pick a fight with us, its on mang!
With ratings like those listed below soccer is still an easy target for ridicule and hard to logically defend its prominence when not amongst soccer blog buddies. There is a reason that the MLS cap is stuck at $2.1 Million. We can keep saying we are getting as big as the NHL but there cap is $40 to $56 Million this year.
http://www.nhlscap.com/
http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/60481
"The league’s mixed results at the gate were mirrored in its performance on TV. MLS games on ESPN2 averaged a 0.2 cable rating for the third consecutive year, but total average viewers per game fell to 253,000 — down from 289,000 viewers in 2007 and 263,000 in 2006.
ESPN also began simulcasting games on ESPN Deportes this year, which attracted an average of 40,000 viewers per broadcast.
On Fox Soccer Channel, which just began getting ratings in October, MLS averaged a 0.1 cable rating and 30,000 viewers over four games. The last game of the season on the network between the Dynamo and Chivas USA delivered a 0.0 cable rating and 24,000 viewers."
From the minimal information I could find it looks like Poker gets significantly higher television ratings than soccer.