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Re: “Rumors Of An MLS Players' Strike”
@TSW - I already mentioned one thing in passing that the entire thread now revolves around. The one thing in passing - that I'm currently poor - has garnered a heap of personal attacks and scorn. I'd be a complete idiot to reveal anything more about myself.
Re: “Rumors Of An MLS Players' Strike”
How come you're not advising soccer players to "suck it up and deal rather than take it out on people who have had a modicum of success?"
My mistake was to allow one personal detail slip out, which is about the only thing being discussed and it's attempted to be used as leverage to make me feel bad. But I don't feel bad, my position in life was always part of the plan. I won't be rich, but I'll be happy. Asking that soccer people do the same is, apparently, a heresy. I still don't give a shit about soccer, I still think it's fiscally dubious, but I sure as hell am understanding why people want it to fail so badly. You're emotional people trying to provoke a negative emotional reaction in me...and all that does is kind of make me want to watch all of you cry.
Re: “Rumors Of An MLS Players' Strike”
@TSW: Thanks, but there's not much to be done. I have a job that'll help set me up later. My career is a "spend most of your life becoming obscenely qualified; and after qualification, spend the rest of your life climbing to a place where you can apply said qualifications" kind of gig. I knew what it was going to be like that when I started...However, when I started years ago there was no way to know that finding a secondary job to supplement the career was going to be so rough. The bottom wrung of the career pays a pathetic amount and I have to hope that the big pay off is down the road.
Re: “Rumors Of An MLS Players' Strike”
@Graham: The MLS are the ones complaining about making $20k a year, not me. I'm just not going to cry for their hardship as they -unlike many- have jobs; have jobs playing a game; and they make more than many teachers in the state do when they start out. Added to it is the irony in that they were promoting the great jobs and big economic boost they were going to create by bringing soccer in to the city. Already the money pit is widening.
As for trying to provoke me with your ad homs, it's not going to work. Complaining about making that much money playing one of the least commercially viable sports in the country during a recession is simply pathetic. Attacking the messenger doesn't change that.
Re: “Rumors Of An MLS Players' Strike”
@Graham: I'm poor? Really? That would explain why I'm sleeping on the couches of friends and family while constantly looking for work beyond the piece of shit part time, non union, minimum wage seasonal gigs soccer promised to give us. Your solution, that the natives should be forced to leave to make room for chauvinistic European traditions, has been already done. Fuck soccer.
Re: “Rumors Of An MLS Players' Strike”
"Please, go on strike! Then the league can fold and we won't have to endure any more of this boring sport or its dumbass proponents" I'm giving Jesus Fucking Christ an amen on that!
I'm not shedding any tears for some asshats that came riding in to town and browbeat everyone to bend over backwards to accept them. Go to a town with jobs if you want to complain about your stupid fucking hobby only paying you four times the annual salary that I make at a real job when not begging for lodging. Boo-fucking-hoo. Why don't you apply for some of your piece of shit part time, non union, minimum wage, seasonal jobs at the stadium that you tried to drum up support with?
Seriously, fuck you.
Seriously.
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Danny Glover is a Portlander. How dare you slander your own!
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