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Feeling Some Noises News
Published 8/20/2008 by brucio (noreply@blogger.com) at du Nord
... Luis Arroyave of the Tribune rips MLS for scheduling the Fire V Galaxy game tomorrow night, knowing that many key players on both teams could be missing after international duty. Ivan Gazidis of League HQ has very lame excuses. It's a lot like the lame way the league continues to compare the money paid to players on MLS developmental rosters to player in the minor leagues of baseball. The key missing from their argument is that minor leaguers called up to the big leagues get a big big bump in pay, even if its only for a couple games. MLS pays not one penny extra to ...

The Thursday Night Hype: B Team Edition
Published 8/21/2008 by SF (noreply@blogger.com) at The Offside Rules
... Unfortunately tonight's match up between the two sides will be short on marquee participants. Becks (playing the role of 'soccer pope' in Beijing), Blanco (in Mexico for WCQ), Donovan (in Guatemala for WCQ), Carlos Ruiz (traded to Toronto a few days ago), Eddie Lewis (newly acquired by LA, got his grape busted open in Guatemala last night), Gonzalo Segares ( played for Costa Rica last night) and Marco Poppa (in Guatemala as well) are all expected to be absent tonight. But hey, McBride and Buddle are both capable of making it interesting so let's see what happens. ...

Thursday Galaxy Gameday
Published 8/21/2008 by Nick Green at 100 Percent Soccer
... York likely played a role in his firing from the Red Bulls. So it will be interesting to hear what former Arena favorite Claudio Reyna - one of the chief revolters, who publicly fell out with his former coach - has to say about him in the ESPN2 booth before tonight's game (live at 7 on ESPN2) against the Chicago Fire. The former U.S. National Team captain will make his ESPN studio debut as a guest analyst during the pregame show. It's a game notably short on star power, but Galaxy fans will be more concerned whether Arena can break the ...