I have no idea where this image came from. Ginge over at Ginge Talks The Footy found it off another site and where they found it I do not know. My guess it is a Facebook thing. Either way its funny nonetheless.

A few things to get into this morning.

Chivas USA keeper Brad Guzan, hot off a stellar performance against my beloved Sweden has left California and is in Scottland right now on a trail with Celtic. All signs are now pointing to a bid for his services from the Scottish champions and Champions League participants.

Celtic has kept an eye on Guzan even after re-signing Polish veteran goalkeeper Artur Boruc. At this point, Guzan’s trial is more of a formality as the Glasgow club and MLS settle on a transfer fee. Guzan must still apply for a work permit since he doesn’t qualify through normal means, but sources tell me they don’t believe the work permit issue will keep Guzan from joining Celtic.

The money will of cource be the factor in this as it is with every player going abroad. You almost have to expect the league to want no less than $2 or even $3 million for Guzan. And in all seriousness they should ask for more than that if they can.

If I am not mistaken, I believe when the league sold Tim Howard to Manchester United they got around $2 million for him so Guzan should get near if not a little more than that right now with the way he has played recently for the National team.

As for what his current club Chivas is going to do remains to be seen. They did get Jim Curtin yesterday but that really only adds depth to their backline and not their keeper situation. My guess is they are probably looking to trade for a keeper in the league who can fill in if Guzan does leave for Glasgow.

If that is the case the Goats will probably look no further to a team like FC Dallas for a trade. I figured when the Hoops drafted a keeper in the first round it meant they were getting some trade bait for the future. Plus they have a solid situation in goal between Dario Sala and Ray Burse Jr. Would the Hoops be a trading partner for the Goat if Guzan leaves? I don’t know but we will certainly see.

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Speaking of the Hoops, it appears they are trying to find a suitor for defender Chris Gbandi. The 26-year-old defender is set for a training stint with Norwegian club FK Haugesund and a team source says the Hoops are open to selling him if the Norwegian club makes an offer.

The potential deal makes total sense for a guy the Hoops have been trying to dump to a foreign club for a couple years. The 2002 number one pick never really lived up to what the Hoops hoped he’d be in my eyes. He did score a couple great goals from his defender position but he was more than a headache off the field.

I’d be surprised if the Hoops turned down a bid from the club if one is offered.

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I doubt we will see Benny Feilhaber anytime soon in the MLS. Derby and Feilhaber’s reps continue to shop him around Europe in hopes of getting a transfer fee of between $1.1 million and $2.1 million.

Those chances at a transfer to the MLS are quickly going out the window. But how come they won’t loan him out to a club here?

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I missed this last week, Chicago keeper Matt Pickens turned down an offer from the club. Pickens is not under contract with the Fire for next season and is currently on trial with Norwich City in England.

The Fire used one of their first round picks to select Tulsa goalkeeper Dominic Cervi at No. 12. That should tell you right there that Pickens will not be back in the MLS and will more than likely be gone.

No word yet on if Norwich has given him an offer yet or not.
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And finally what may be the best news of the day, week, month and season (yes I know I am a week late on this news), ESPN/ABC have done away with the Eric Wynalda and John O’Brien experiment. According to Soccer America and other media outlets, the media juggernaut will go with the duo of JP Dellacamera and John Harkes. Oh thank the lord some of my prayers have been answered!

JP and Harkes were regarded as the best duo during the 2006 World Cup and should have been the number one duo for the MLS games. Thankfully now we get a chance to listen to two people who actually know the game.

Not to say that Wynalda didn’t know the game, but the Red Card/Yellow Card segments will be gone forever!!

Of course some things are purely wants and desires that I would like to see happen and some are factual based predictions for next season. Its a fun thing, not meant to be too serious but I do reserve the right to brag and boast if I get things right in these predictions for next year. What can I say, I get ragged on when I get things wrong and never hear a pep when I get things right. So bragging will ensue if I am correct on any of these things.

Feel free to post your early predictions as well.

1. DC United will not repeat as Supporter’s Shield winners – Yeah we got over the so-called jinx with DC this year as they repeated as Supporter’s Shield winners in the regular season but they still faltered in the playoffs. I just don’t see it going back-to-back-to-back here though. Someone else will step in and get the regular season crown…
2. New England will win the Supporter’s Shield – a random feeling really. I went back and forth with this pick and I think New England for the main reason of the fact that they will go out and get a difference maker this off season. I think they know they lack one more piece to the puzzle and they will fill that hole and it will help out in the regular season.
3. There will be two DP signings before or during the season – That is not including the potential Juan Sebastian Veron deal with DC. I see Dallas signing a DP (due to Denilson not getting his option picked up and I highly doubt he will stay on for a cheap amount) and I see New England making a splash for a player-maker.
4. St. Louis will be named the 16th club in the MLS – I say this because I just see law-makers in Pennsylvania holding up the Philly stadium deal. St. Louis just needs to go ahead to start building and I think Jeff Cooper will get some more people behind him to be able to fund this club.
5. Philly will be the 17th club – I think even with the political crap in the way they still will get in the league and be ready to go by 2011. An announcement will be made sometime in the season and the Sons of Ben along with the owners will sell around at least 8000 season tickets in the first couple months.
6. Eddie Johnson will play in Europe in 2008 – I think someone will finally pick him up and sign him this off-season. I am hearing right now that Reading has put some interest in EJ but I think he will not end up in the EPL but probably somewhere like the Scottish league or Portuguese league.
7. Six clubs will sign one or two South American players before next season – We all know that a few coaches from around the league made their way down to Argentina to scout some players. I see Dallas, RSL, DC, New England, Chivas, and Chicago getting some South American flavor this off-season. Though Chicago’s pick-up could be Mexican as Blanco wants some buddies of his to come play with him.
8. Preki will coach the Red Bulls in 2008 – As much as I think Juan Carlos Osorio will coach New York I kinda see Preki end up with the gig. I hear that there was some locker-room issues with Chivas last year with Preki and that he could be on his way out on his own terms anyways.
9. A MLS Club will win SuperLiga – Yeah I think the MLS will do better this time around. I am calling for a surprise with Chivas winning it.
10. Dark Horse Picks -  I said Chivas and Colorado last year, this year I am going to go with Columbus and Dallas. I say Columbus because I think they could make a splash if they really wanted to in the east. They can beat the top clubs but if they can just find a way to be successful against the lesser clubs then they will be fine. Dallas on the other hand is a pure hope for me as a Hoops fan. I think this will be a very telling off-season in Dallas on what they do with Ruiz and Denilson along with who they pick up in the draft and from South America. Plus a potential formation change could prove to be a big deal for 2008.
11. Teams reaching the playoffs will be – In the east DC, New England and Chicago will get the automatic bids, in the west Houston, Dallas, and LA will get the automatic bids and the two wild-cards will be Chivas and Columbus. I am calling for it again (probably until I get it right) that Columbus comes in late and gets the final playoff spot at the end of the year and knocks the Red Bulls out of the playoffs because of it. Thus pissing most of the league off in the process.
12. Houston will become the first back-to-back-to-back MLS Cup winner – Until something tells me other wise I think anyone would be stupid to pick against Houston in 2008. So far they haven’t lost a whole lot and they will continue to pick well in the SuperDraft. Dominic Kinnear is a mastermind and getting the best out of the average player. I do see Houston facing Chicago in the Cup final though.

So that is my 12 predictions or so. Again, some of these will be apart of my full 2008 season predictions. Some things may change though between now and then. I do reserve the right to change predictions once facts change and all. Never know what will happen in the next four months or so.

Hope you all enjoy.

I urge you all to post your thoughts with this as well. Again, these are just things I would like the league to improve on. Some are realistic and some are just purely thoughts coming out of my head this morning.

Its kind of a long post but let me know what you all think.

1. The logo. – Okay let’s be honest, do any of us really like the MLS logo? I think the perception of the league abroad is somewhat low because of the cheesy looking logo that the league has. Maybe a good idea would be to get a league sponsor like what most major leagues have around the world. A new logo and maybe a sponsor would be a step in the right direction.

Along with a logo change I’d like to see the MLS finally buy ‘MLS.COM’ and get away from MLSnet.com. One problem I always hear from radio colleagues of mine is that when they want to do background info on the MLS that they go to the web and type in ‘mls.com’ and they get some real estate site and not the soccer site. The website itself is fine to a degree but they need to get the domain from that real estate company.

2. Broadcast Changes – One of my biggest problems with the MLS is who they have broadcasting their games. I don’t have a problem with the way they have ESPN and other media outlets paying for rights to have the games but I am more annoyed with who the MLS lets broadcast the game itself.

The Rob Stones and the morons at FSC constantly annoy the crap about of me when I watch/listen to a game. No wonder most Americans can’t take the game seriously; it is because they can’t stand to listen to whiny guys call a game. The color commentators aren’t anything great either but at least some like Wynalda aren’t too terrible unless he puts his foot into his mouth.

Lastly, if I were the Colorado Rapids I would get a new broadcast group, those two are the worst the league has. Sorry to single you out Rapids fans but those guys are terrible.

3. New Playoff Format – Most of you know I hate the current playoff format. Even having 8 teams in a 16 or 20 team league is too much in my book to make a playoff.
The league continues to try and make minor changes at the system. Next year it’s the top three from each conference and then two wild cards.

Still, I think the league is better served putting six in and giving the conference champions a real advantage for their hard work in the season, unlike what they do now.

This whole put in two-thirds of the league stuff just makes the league look pathetic sometimes to other people. The playoff games typically look lack-luster and aren’t offering good enough match-ups to make the league look legitimate to others.

4. Promoting SuperLiga – I said it last winter and I will say it again now. I like SuperLiga. And after going to a game this summer it made me like the tournament even more. The league did a pretty good job promoting it but I think we could use more. This is suppose to be a Champions League type of tournament (smaller scale of course) in the minds of SUM, USSF, and the MLS; so why not promote it like that.

5. Increase In Minimum Salary – This is something that has to happen and will happen before long. The days of $12,000 salary for development guys should be over before long. Even if these some of these kids fail to pan out, none of them should be paid what they are getting now days. The league minimum should at least be $35,000 if not a little more than that. I think the MLS is losing valuable guys out of college to the USL and other minor leagues around the globe because of this.

6. Better Player Development – This sort of goes with a salary increase for the development players but I really hope to see each club get to the point where they have youth academies, and they are all raising and fostering young talent of their own.

7. Slowly Phasing Out Drafts – I think once a good youth system is in place the MLS will have to phase out parts of their drafting process. The only time they will need a draft is for the college kids. I don’t think getting rid of the draft all together is a smart idea but slowly getting rid of Supplemental drafts should be a good start once each club has a solid youth system in place where they can sign their own kids.

8. Conference Format Improvement – For a while I was a guy that wanted single table in the MLS. I still do to a degree but more and more I believe the two-conference alignment is what the MLS needs to continue to do.

The US is too large to do a legitimate single table format just yet. Maybe once the league expands enough to have clubs in all major parts of the country (and Canada), and then this will be something that can be addressed in better detail. For now we just need to back off of it and embrace the current two-conference alignment. I just hope as the league expands that they don’t even go back to a stupid three-conference or division format.

9. Retro Days – With the originals at least and even down the road for some of the newer clubs. I would love nothing more than to have a retro day at the park between clubs like Dallas and LA or San Jose. Wouldn’t it be kind of fun to see those old ugly uniforms once and a while on the guys? Its always fun to look back on those days and I think the league is getting to be old enough to do a throw-back uniform day at the parks.

10. Expansion – Okay, here is the deal, I think the MLS will get to 18 clubs and stop expanding for at least six to eight years. I say that because they will want to see how the league grows in that time and if they can expand further in the US and Canada and not miss a beat. I really believe that before long the MLS will have at least 24 to 28 clubs in it (with no promotion/relegation format either).
I say that because I know this country is too large to have multiple divisions like England, Germany, Italy, Spain and the rest of them. Those countries have more divisions because of the size of their country, in other words they can get away with more in less space than the US can with more space.

Some of you will say that FIFA wants restrictions on how many teams are in a first division, but I doubt they will enforce that once the MLS grows in popularity. Let’s be realistic here, there will never be a promotion/regulation system in US soccer. That’s just now how professional sports are set up in the US to work. Most of us want it but it will never happen because of money.

You can’t tell me that promoting a club from USL-1 like a Richmond in-place of a last place club like New York (say they come in last place next year and Richmond wins the USL-1); you can’t tell me that people in New York would be happy that their club is playing in a league that has no media coverage (beside FSC and small market stations), while a small market club like Richmond gets promoted in their place. The money just wouldn’t make sense unless USL-1 clubs were on-par in the bank department as the MLS clubs were.

11. Give teams in the CONCACAF Champions Cup a break – Every year the MLS gets a team or two in the CCC and every year they have the same problem, they are only in their second or third week of training camp when they have to go play teams in the middle of their season. If the idea is to use this tournament to show how much the league has improved, then why tie their arms behind their backs? These two teams should be allowed by the league to start their training camps early to get in game shape. It should be an additional reward for doing so well in the previous season. This may also help the dead period those clubs have to go through at the start of the MLS season (ie see Houston and DC’s start in 2007).

12. Increased Salary Cap – We know the cap next season is going up by 4 percent or something around that number but think of the league was able to have each club spend $40 or $50 million as a cap. What made me think of this was seeing an article the other day about how the NHL was increasing their salary cap to nearly $50 million next year. Wouldn’t that be amazing to see the MLS at that level? I think there are owners with deep enough pockets to do that but it will be a while before we are at that level of spending.

13. Writing Rules in Ink not Pencil – Seriously, the MLS needs to stop dancing around certain rules and allowing some clubs like LA to get away with things from year to year. The constant change in rules needs to stop for people to take the league serious. Also, the MLS needs to stop bending over backwards for top players; you don’t see other leagues do that so why should the MLS make exceptions for players like Landon Donovan.

14. Marketing – The league has gotten better with this but some clubs still haven’t grasped the aspect of promoting their own club. More marketing and promotion only means more viewers on Thursday/Saturday and more butts in the seats.

15. Better Refs – One thing that drove me up a wall this past season was the quality of officiating in the MLS. Too many stupid yellow cards for dumb things.

I saw a few red cards for what was “abusive language” when nothing came about it in the play. Meaning, usually when there is “abusive language” there is probably a fight of some sort on the field; both times I saw this in the past season there was no fight. Just a random break in place and a red card to a player that seemingly did nothing. Sure he may have yelled out a bad word or two but was it enough to break up the play and card him? No.

The league needs to address their refs this off-season and improve them as much as possible. Lots of games too many cards as well that hurts a team more than anything else. Plus the playoffs were terribly officiated.

Maybe firing a guy like Brian Hall would be a start too.

16. Raise Awareness for the US Open Cup – Most teams packed it in for this tournament this year and that was sad. The US Open Cup should be something clubs want to do well in. New England and Dallas were the only was that showed up to play in it this past year and they were rewarded for it. Other clubs got embarrassed by USL clubs; something that shouldn’t happen at all in my book.

17. Let Clubs Travel Alone – I mean this in terms of chartering flights. If a club can afford it then let them do it. I think it is sort of dumb for a club to have to go through an airport when common Joe’s and all. Not that I don’t mind running into a guy from FC Dallas in DFW but I think it would raise the level of awareness that this is a professional league to players in the league. I think some right now feel they aren’t even in a top-flight league since they are treated like they are in college.

Hell, a lot of colleges charter flights to games. I know my school did because I flew with them to broadcast their games.

18. All-Star Game Format – I get annoyed from year to year that the MLS all-stars play some European club in pre-season form at the All-Star game. Sure it’s nice to beat a Chelsea but it doesn’t do anything for the MLS in my opinion. Either go back to an East-versus-West format or phase it out completely. I know it’s a very American thing to do but it’s not a soccer thing in my mind.

19. Odd Scheduling Days- I really think the league needs to address this soon, and it will happen more when clubs play in their own stadiums but I have never liked Monday, Tuesday, or Friday games. I can stand Wednesday games if there aren’t too many of them too. Also, in the playoffs I thought it was dumb how they scheduled things having games on a Friday night (even though Houston sold-out that game) and putting the eastern games on Thursday night. It looked stupid and came across like the MLS didn’t really care when the games were on.

20. Future Clubs – This goes with expansion but I figure I better throw out my list of future MLS cities, especially since I am calling for a league of 24 to 28 clubs in the future. Let’s see….along with Seattle in 2009 will be St. Louis. That brings the league to 16 by 2010 that they wanted. By 2012, Philadelphia and another New York will join the MLS and that is the 18 they wanted by then. By 2020, Portland, Vancouver, rebirth in Miami, Atlanta, Phoenix, and for fun Las Vegas. There is at least 24 there.

The MLS will then have two conferences with two divisions in each, still east and west. I thought about keeping it two conferences but after thinking about it, splitting them up seeings logical at that point and more than likely we will have to see it happen.

The east will have: DC, Philly, New York Red Bulls, New York (2), New England, and Toronto in one division; in the other would be with Columbus, St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, Miami and Atlanta.

The west would have in one division: Colorado, Salt Lake, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, and Las Vegas; the other LA Galaxy, Chivas USA, Seattle, Portland, San Jose, and Vancouver.

Sure this is all hypothetical and for fun but you can bet on St. Louis, Philly, another New York and maybe even Portland or Vancouver joining the leaguer sooner rather than later. I honestly don’t know about the MLS in Miami again or even in Atlanta at all but for this purpose I will include them in the future. They are large markets that will want teams down the road anyways I bet.

Again, somethings on here are realistic and some are not. Feel free to post anything that you can think of for the MLS to improve on.

During the game, ESPN2 cameras panned to the Chicago Fire supporter’s group Section 8 with about 15 minutes left in the match, fans in the section set off flares that gave off a red, fire-like glare, which is what flares do. Wynalda responded to this image by saying, “Looks like California,” a flippant reference to the wildfires currently plaguing Southern California. The awkward silence that followed after the comment leads me to believe Wynalda realized the mistake he just made.

I have to say, even if Wynalda does make a home in California (which I believe he still does, he does have ties in San Diego), that kind of comment is one of those moments that you need to not open up your mouth and say what first comes to mind. We know Wynalda all too well to do these types of things. Of course we remember the beginning of the season that started with Wynalda telling ESPN’s Jim Rome to…well I am sure you remember.

Most people thought the comments towards Rome were comical and it didn’t cause a lot of outcry as Wynalda got a one game suspension from ESPN. Last night’s comments on the other hand were a little bit worse given the situation in California.

At times I love listening to Wynalda in a telecast, mostly because he drowns out the annoyance of Rob Stone or Dave O’Brien. But when he has these foot-in-mouth comments, I begin to wonder if he is really the type of analyst that soccer needs leading the way to get more people interested in soccer. I’m not calling for his job or anything, because he will get a job anywhere in soccer in this country doing commentary if he wants to. I just think that too many comments like this will catch up to him before long.

There have been strong rumors for a while now that Wynalda was already on the way out after this season, with recently retired Galaxy midfielder Cobi Jones and Galaxy GM Alexi Lalas (if he is fired or ‘resigns’) among the candidates to replace him. There are just three more MLS games for Wynalda to do (DC-Chicago Game two, the Eastern Conference Final and MLS Cup on ABC) so you wonder if ESPN will sit Wynalda the rest of the way and fill the spots with Tommy Smythe or Julie Foudy. I bet ESPN will try to just hide this story and hope it doesn’t get picked up anywhere.

So what should come of Wynalda? Keep him or let him go elsewhere. Now I do think Cobi Jones would be a solid replacement and I honestly wouldn’t mind seeing him on the telly right now (Cobi is very outspoken and would be good for this role).

I believed it a bit earlier in the week but I am looking more into it now that the club they face on Sunday dropped a game against a club they should have easily handled. Will the same fate happen to the Dynamo tonight against a hot Chivas club? It is possible.

Houston will still be without some of their main guns but that shouldn’t matter a whole lot since they have been winning without the likes of Dewayne De Rosario and Brian Ching. Chivas will miss a couple players but it won’t make that much of a difference because they are on a nice roll of their own.

Some how the Dynamo have been unstoppable against the western clubs this season, going 4-0-1 in that span. One of those games saw Houston blank Chivas in a fairly even game 1-0 back on April 14.

A lot has changed for both clubs since that last meeting. Chivas saw Amado Guevara part ways and a young Cuban striker take form in Maykel Galindo, who leads the club in goals. Houston has seen a couple moves that have paid off for them as well by bring in Joseph Ngwenya from the Columbus Crew.

What will come of tonight’s game in Houston? I do expect another fairly even contest, possibly even another 1-0 game. I think Chivas is on a nice roll and looks to be in good form to continue their way up the western standings. I think Galindo’s speed will be a tough thing to overcome for Houston as they may be looking to Sunday’s showdown in Kansas City with the Wizards.

Houston is one of the lone clubs (Dallas being the other) to win back-to-back games in where they played a Thursday-Sunday double. I don’t see the Dynamo pulling off two straight against the likes of Chivas and Kansas City though. Not yet at least, though I wouldn’t be shocked at all if they make an ass out of me in the process and blow away the Goats tonight.

WVH Prediction: Chivas 1, Houston 0

However, I don’t know if it is more of a waste then the short-lived Red-Card/Yellow-Card segment that ESPN was giving Eric Wynalda.

I think the biggest reason why I see both of these segments or programs as a waste it because of the length each are given. Wynalda’s is a given that it was too short and it was mostly a 40 second segment to let Eric bitch and complain about someone he didn’t like or give a “game ball” to someone he thought was doing well. In all honesty it was a decent thought segment that really needed more to it to really get people interested.

As for the Extratime program on the league’s website, I think it has potential to do well. Like I said I like Lalas and Messing and they work alright together. In all honesty, the program is poorly edited and poorly produced. The content is usually alright but everything else is a little junior varsity to me. I say that in mean it just doesn’t seem like it should be something the league wants to show people to represent itself with.

I think adding more content to it would vastly do wonders for it. More segments on it and possibly a real host with Shep and Greg giving their insights. I think that would improve its over all content and value.

So I pose this to you all. Is this program a waste? Something the league’s site should just write off and not continue to do? Or is it something that is alright the way it is? Or does it need some tweaking to improve it and be the full product that it should be?

Wynalda stopped by the “Elliot in the Morning show” to talk soccer for the most part and to shed more light in the Rome story. He was making a point about how Rome hates soccer and that his alma mater (UCSB) won a National Championship in soccer last year. Wynalda had invited Rome to the game, but Jim had declined by saying, “I’m more proud of our school’s Water Polo Championship in 1978.” The host Elliot laughed, and Wynalda jumped in with the nickname….

(paraphrasing) “Yeah that’s why I call him Kim Rome now. He’d rather watch a bunch of guys in speedos.”

Rome caught wind of the news and said this:

“I have better things to concern myself with than what Eric Wynalda is doing or saying. I will say this, the guy came on my show, apologized to me personally, in front of a few million people and then issued a similar apology which was read on ESPN – and obviously didn’t mean a word of it. Soccer, as ridiculous as it ever was.”

Oh the war is far from over I can tell. I guess a red card will be issued to Jim Rome in the next halftime segment this Thursday. And by the way, that halftime segment is continuing to be more ridiculous each week.Believe me I hate listening to Jim Rome as much as the next guy but sometimes you have to face it and stop being an ass about things. Wynalda is always very outspoken but he is hurting the sports credibility with his antics time and time again. I really would like him to just go back to the color-commentator role that he originally started doing with ESPN and not this commentator on soccer, life, and everything else in the world that he is mad at.

ESPN needs to step in and talk to Wynalda about this issue before it gets even more out of hand.

In all honesty, I felt Julie Foudy was a very good substitute for Wynalda. I’m glad it was her on the broadcast, she is very personable and doesn’t get too whiny like Wynalda would have been. I wouldn’t have been surprised if we had heard more about his man-crushes on Ben Olsen or Bobby Bosewell if he had been on the broadcast. Not to mention his total dislike for players better than him.

Expect to see Wynalda return to the broadcasts on Thursday when FC Dallas hosts LA. Perfect time for Wynalda to step back into a broadcast so he can continue his current dislike for Landon Donovan and the LA Galaxy. Not to mention its a prime-time gig now for the MLS, and having someone who is stupid like Wynalda would help the ratings. Expect Jim Rome to blast soccer more with the MLS being on prime-time.

For those who didn’t read, I strongly urge you to take a gander and read the full article, on FulhamUSA, which had by the way, blown up and gotten tons of hits because of this.

Here are the comments that got Wynalda in “trouble”, though you have to feel that many at ESPN would have wanted to say the same exact thing.

“Jim Rome can suck — —-. And he should be very afraid, because I’m the kind of guy, if I get too many drinks in me, I will club his —.”

The issued apology reads:

“These remarks were not meant for public use, but that’s my mistake,” Wynalda said in a statement. “I totally regret this. I’m embarrassed by it. I have personally apologized to Jim Rome, to ESPN and to my family. I also apologize to others whom I have offended. This will never happen again.”

I think this calls for a celebrity death-match, only in real life. One of these two need to go out and in all honestly the world may be a better place for it.