Comments on: You can take the MetroStars out of the Rotmasters, but you can’t take the RotMasters out of the Red Bulls http://brucesbelly.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/you-can-take-the-metrostars-out-of-the-rotmasters-but-you-cant-take-the-rotmasters-out-of-the-red-bulls/ That's the way the belly bounces. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:13:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: The Metrologist http://brucesbelly.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/you-can-take-the-metrostars-out-of-the-rotmasters-but-you-cant-take-the-rotmasters-out-of-the-red-bulls/#comment-135 Mon, 01 May 2006 18:17:38 +0100 http://brucesbelly.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/you-can-take-the-metrostars-out-of-the-rotmasters-but-you-cant-take-the-rotmasters-out-of-the-red-bulls/#comment-135 "You simply can’t build an MLS team around “star” players, you have to build it around guys like Brian Carroll. The MetroStars never understood this. That’s why they were always losing. Until the Red Bulls finally learn this lesson they too will always lose." Defensive, doomed, there's a whole lot of "D" words you can throw in there, and you'd be more or less correct. I agree completely with you when you write such things as above; of course long-time Metro fans know this quite well, and for that matter we had a coach who knew it too - he's gone to the red and white side of LA now. We've already taken the pain of rebuilding with some pretty decent young players (Gaven, Ward, Magee, Bradley, etc.) in recent years, only to have Alexi Lalas blow it all up and then skip town before the payoff even had a chance to, well, pay off. There's absolutely no reason to imagine Red Bull will be building with Brian Carrolls now, either. Thus we have what I think will prove a slowly unraveling nightmare/farce, with this season already teetering on the brink. And when this "new, improved" team slumps to an 8-16-8 record, how many more fans are going to get suckered in with concerts and rumors of "superstars" en route? Fun for you guys, funny for us, if only because finding something to laugh at is the only sane way to stay connected to this team. “You simply can’t build an MLS team around “star” players, you have to build it around guys like Brian Carroll. The MetroStars never understood this. That’s why they were always losing. Until the Red Bulls finally learn this lesson they too will always lose.”

Defensive, doomed, there’s a whole lot of “D” words you can throw in there, and you’d be more or less correct. I agree completely with you when you write such things as above; of course long-time Metro fans know this quite well, and for that matter we had a coach who knew it too - he’s gone to the red and white side of LA now. We’ve already taken the pain of rebuilding with some pretty decent young players (Gaven, Ward, Magee, Bradley, etc.) in recent years, only to have Alexi Lalas blow it all up and then skip town before the payoff even had a chance to, well, pay off. There’s absolutely no reason to imagine Red Bull will be building with Brian Carrolls now, either. Thus we have what I think will prove a slowly unraveling nightmare/farce, with this season already teetering on the brink. And when this “new, improved” team slumps to an 8-16-8 record, how many more fans are going to get suckered in with concerts and rumors of “superstars” en route?
Fun for you guys, funny for us, if only because finding something to laugh at is the only sane way to stay connected to this team.

]]> by: The Belly http://brucesbelly.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/you-can-take-the-metrostars-out-of-the-rotmasters-but-you-cant-take-the-rotmasters-out-of-the-red-bulls/#comment-128 Mon, 01 May 2006 10:38:00 +0100 http://brucesbelly.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/you-can-take-the-metrostars-out-of-the-rotmasters-but-you-cant-take-the-rotmasters-out-of-the-red-bulls/#comment-128 Somebody's a little defensive ... ;) Somebody’s a little defensive … ;)

]]> by: The Metrologist http://brucesbelly.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/you-can-take-the-metrostars-out-of-the-rotmasters-but-you-cant-take-the-rotmasters-out-of-the-red-bulls/#comment-127 Mon, 01 May 2006 10:34:33 +0100 http://brucesbelly.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/you-can-take-the-metrostars-out-of-the-rotmasters-but-you-cant-take-the-rotmasters-out-of-the-red-bulls/#comment-127 "Teams have meltdowns. Los Angeles appears to be melting down. Lots of teams implode and fall apart. But most of the time they do OK. Not so with CFKA MetroStars. They seem to make this an annual practice; for them it’s the exceptional year when they’re not completely humiliated." Yeah well, that's just completely inaccurate. They've had one all-time awful season (and given the way things are going now, I think another 1999 isn't out of the question this time around), a few bad ones (but not so much worse than the rest of the league through its first 5 years, which had 4 or 5 perennial pity-cases) and a few where they've bobbed around the line of mediocrity - no different than Columbus, Colorado, or even New England, which only has managed to get hot at the right time once or twice. We're not talking about a Clippers situation here, but god only knows what happens now with RB in charge. “Teams have meltdowns. Los Angeles appears to be melting down. Lots of teams implode and fall apart. But most of the time they do OK. Not so with CFKA MetroStars. They seem to make this an annual practice; for them it’s the exceptional year when they’re not completely humiliated.”

Yeah well, that’s just completely inaccurate. They’ve had one all-time awful season (and given the way things are going now, I think another 1999 isn’t out of the question this time around), a few bad ones (but not so much worse than the rest of the league through its first 5 years, which had 4 or 5 perennial pity-cases) and a few where they’ve bobbed around the line of mediocrity - no different than Columbus, Colorado, or even New England, which only has managed to get hot at the right time once or twice. We’re not talking about a Clippers situation here, but god only knows what happens now with RB in charge.

]]> by: Matt W http://brucesbelly.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/you-can-take-the-metrostars-out-of-the-rotmasters-but-you-cant-take-the-rotmasters-out-of-the-red-bulls/#comment-123 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:04:46 +0100 http://brucesbelly.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/you-can-take-the-metrostars-out-of-the-rotmasters-but-you-cant-take-the-rotmasters-out-of-the-red-bulls/#comment-123 Sell Bowery Drunk Burly World Knees We Lurked Born Sly By Nerds We Roll UK This is fun. Sell Bowery Drunk
Burly World Knees
We Lurked Born Sly
By Nerds We Roll UK

This is fun.

]]> by: Eric http://brucesbelly.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/you-can-take-the-metrostars-out-of-the-rotmasters-but-you-cant-take-the-rotmasters-out-of-the-red-bulls/#comment-122 Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:58:53 +0100 http://brucesbelly.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/you-can-take-the-metrostars-out-of-the-rotmasters-but-you-cant-take-the-rotmasters-out-of-the-red-bulls/#comment-122 Another few: "Slunk. Worry. Bleed." "Burrwell Donkeys" Another few:

“Slunk. Worry. Bleed.”
“Burrwell Donkeys”

]]> by: Eric http://brucesbelly.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/you-can-take-the-metrostars-out-of-the-rotmasters-but-you-cant-take-the-rotmasters-out-of-the-red-bulls/#comment-121 Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:51:21 +0100 http://brucesbelly.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/you-can-take-the-metrostars-out-of-the-rotmasters-but-you-cant-take-the-rotmasters-out-of-the-red-bulls/#comment-121 Anagram for New York Red Bulls "Drunk Yellow Serb" Anagram for New York Red Bulls

“Drunk Yellow Serb”

]]> by: Artie Adams http://brucesbelly.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/you-can-take-the-metrostars-out-of-the-rotmasters-but-you-cant-take-the-rotmasters-out-of-the-red-bulls/#comment-120 Sun, 23 Apr 2006 04:47:02 +0100 http://brucesbelly.blogsome.com/2006/04/22/you-can-take-the-metrostars-out-of-the-rotmasters-but-you-cant-take-the-rotmasters-out-of-the-red-bulls/#comment-120 Anagrams for "New York Red Bulls": Drunkly blew sore Elderly bunk rows We lend sorry bulk Anagrams for “New York Red Bulls”:

Drunkly blew sore
Elderly bunk rows
We lend sorry bulk

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