The Galaxy/Timbers Dilemma
By: Bob Kellett | March 22nd, 2008There’s a part of me that watched the above video and thought it was pretty friggin’ fantastic to see Bryan Jordan taking part in Media Day for the LA Galaxy. The dude has to have made their team. Good for him. I feel like a proud papa even though my genitalia has never been near Mrs. Jordan’s.
There’s also a part of me that watched that video and wanted to wretch. Bryan Jordan is almost certainly not going to play for the Timbers. Even worse, he’s going to play for the LA Galaxy, Major League Soccer’s version of the Harlem Globetrotters.
For many years I have been the essence of neutral when it comes to MLS. I watch the league on occasion, I’ll root for certain players I like, but I rarely have felt any emotion one way or the other for the league’s teams. Like the video, the league has always come off as being too pre-packaged and the teams haven’t seemed authentic.
Enter the new era of the LA Galaxy with David Beckham, Landycakes, Alexi and a world of attention. Suddenly I have a team that does elicit emotion. They should be a natural team for me to despise. They are the most packaged of all the teams. They are the essence of what I don’t like about the modern sports era.
The problem is that they now have Mike Randolph. And Alan Gordon. And Bryan Jordan and Josh Wicks. All are guys who I enjoyed watching play for the Timbers and all are guys I would love to see succeed in MLS.
Anyone else feeling the same way? Is it really possible to root for a handful of players while also hoping their team gloriously stinks?
Category: Timbers Army and Fans
Tags: Alan Gordon, Bryan Jordan, Josh Wicks, LA Galaxy, Mike Randolph, Portland Timbers, Timbers Army and FansSubscribe
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I feel 99% the same way the only difference being that I find myself vocalizing my discontent for MLS a bit more liberally. It’s perfectly fine to root for your favorite American boys in MLS because if they do end up performing while they’re at a crappy MLS club chances are they’ll follow the trend of joining Fulham or Reading.
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Interesting we didnt see Wicks…my biggest beef is that Jordan will be at best 4th on the pecking order and get zero playing time.
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Better they go down to LA than get snapped up by the s–ttle MLS team next year.
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look again finn… josh wicks is included briefly in the video…
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