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Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. The blog of the same name began in 2007. A native of England, he began writing about soccer in the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat in the stands for one in the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook and follow him on Twitter.
Now this is a bit much isn't it? Beckham neither offered the Galaxy for hire during off-season nor counseled this town to do so. Galaxy greed is still reverberating in quite a few places.
Galaxy greed is still reverberating in quite a few places.
Bella, nobody could have said it any better. We here in Los Angeles have had to put up with Anschutz's and Leiweke's greed and arrogance in various ways: gouging fans for parking and concessions, refusing to take responsibility for mistakes, refusing to listen to fans when they're right in front of you, engaging in obsessive control and spin-doctoring with the media that would have shamed the Soviet Union, making decisions on player personnel that have destroyed team chemistry the past three seasons (and I don't include Beckham here), throwing the entire team under the bus (including Beckham) publicly.
engaging in obsessive control and spin-doctoring with the media that would have shamed the Soviet Union
Don't you mean....engaging in obsessive control and spin-doctoring with the media that would have shamed the Bush administration....a much better and up-to-date example of sheer incompetence and spin!
Tim Leiweke certainly deserves to be raked over the coals for his mismanagement of the team and all things related to the Galaxy. I just hope that things will turn around after Spice Boy leaves.
Tim Leiweke certainly deserves to be raked over the coals for his mismanagement of the team and all things related to the Galaxy. I just hope that things will turn around after Spice Boy leaves.
Frank, that will only happen if Leiweke is cashiered. The only reason he hasn't been so far is 1)he has incriminating info on Anschutz that he would reveal if he ever left 2)his behavior reflects the fundamental business values under which AEG operates 3)his ability to make money for AEG in entertainment and revenue management outstrips his colossal incompetence when it comes to operating pro sports teams. I'd bet on 2) and 3) -- though 1), as far-feched as it sounds, might not be so far-fetched. Leiweke has done enough things to warrant be fired by any other professional organization.
I meant "venue management," not "revenue management."