Point. Counterpoint (of sorts).

At the risk of completely confirming what this guy says (prudes beware: After the jump is a lotta swearing) about sportwriters only yakking about and or to other sportswriters, two things struck me as kinda funny: The first was a comment on Ives' blog by a fool complaining he was "a mouthpiece for [the Red Bulls]." This is about as accurate as calling me a mouthpiece for U.S. Soccer, and it completely missed the point to boot. The second was that, if you really read closely what Luis writes, it's pretty clear the Fire organization has made his (and many other reporters' lives) rather miserable. Why? A good question seeing as the Fire are fifth in a four-sport town. (Of course, the Red Bulls are 20th in a four-sport town, but who's asking other than Fred Wilpon?)

Ironically, both organisations "canned" their respective lightning rods this week: John Guppy got defenestrated after a ringing vote of no-confidence from the team's new owners ("agreeed to part ways" is a euphemism for "fired," in case you don't understand sports-speak) and the Red Bulls "lost" Marc De Grandpre to an undisclosed "business opportunity." Sure. Maybe both now teams will kiss and make up.

While we're on the subject of euphemism, may I direct your attention to searing critique of linguistic b.s.?