The Battle of Texas kicks off tonight as the first-place Houston Dynamo take on FC Dallas at Pizza Hut Park.
FC Dallas is coming off a 6-0 thumping of the Kansas City Wizards, but must now face a Dynamo team that has welcomed back Brian Ching and Stuart Holden from national team duty. Can Geoff Cameron contain Jeff Cunningham, who scored four goals last week? Can the FCD back-line deal with the Ching-Holden tandem, which combined for three goals last week?
If you will be watching tonight's match please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action.
aristotle,
What part of what James said wasn’t racist? The part where he said the only reason Houston has better attendance than Dallas is due to the presence of illegal aliens, or the part where he claimed Houston changed their planned name due to the fears of offending illegal aliens? In case you can’t figure it out, James is saying that all Mexican-Americans who might’ve been offended by the name Houston 1836 are illegal aliens. Anyone who claims that all people of Mexican descent are illegal aliens is pretty racist in my book.
By the way, to what “straw man arguments” do you refer? My points 1-3 referenced the point that James made explicitly–that Dynamo attendance is boosted by illegal aliens while FCD’s isn’t. Point 4 noted that another team which one might expect to appeal to illegal aliens has had attendance woes, and point 5 refers to other reasons Dallas might have trouble drawing fans. Where did I use false logic or not address the issues James raised?
silent e:
Your post is FAR more offensive than anything in the post by James!
I read his post carefully. It consists of two short sentences. There is NOTHING in either sentence that is racist. You could certainly argue that it doesn’t make any sense, but no racism.
Apart from falsely accusing someone of being racist, most of the information you posted in response is a straw man argument.
People like you who try to make everyone a racist the moment they even mention race are the ones who should be banished from stadiums.
James, the number of ways in which you are an ass may be more numerous than the illegal aliens in this country. I’ll rattle off just a few:
1. I am a Dynamo season ticket holder. This despite the fact that I am an American citizen.
2. Dallas and Houston both are sanctuary cities. As are many other MLS cities.
3. I didn’t realize Dallas has no illegal immigrants.
4. The team (Chivas USA) with the strongest ties to recent Mexican immigrants (legal or illegal) has had attendance struggles.
5. The FC Dallas organization has a history of terrible decisions such as the firing of Dir, playing at Dragon stadium, building a stadium in Frisco, and allowing racist buffoons such as yourself into the stadium.
Maybe its like an elevator: If I keep pounding the refresh button, Assorio will get fired quicker …
Casey C, My point is it is not centrally located or even close. Sorry if my examples weren’t perfect for you.
Look at geographic mean of population in the DFW and they are NOT anywhere CLOSE to Frisco.
Worried about losing FCD if they didnt move to Frisco? well guess what, Dallas did lose the team, to Frisco, Oklahoma.
Mikemike: I keep hitting refresh like a monkey hoping for another banana …
Since someone else has already used the bottom of these comments for a suggestion, I’m eagerly awaiting the article about the EPL coming to ESPN2! Hull City v. Chelsea! Jozy’s (hopefully) EPL debut, on the Worldwide Leader! (according to EPLTalk).
Good Morning, Ives!
I am eagerly awaiting the “Osorio Fired” post. Please post it asap!
-Mike
It wasn’t Cooper as far as problems. Shell-us has shown little ability to bring in decent defensive talent and scheme while having mediocre attacking options (Rocha, Guarda to name but two). Two games ago FCD lost a 2-0 half time lead and finished the loss 2-4!
I am happy the boys got two nice wins from their last two, but they will have to show me more before I get excited. Sad realy as my family are pretty big fans, but have only made one game this season for various reasons.
Someone please tell James to go back into his cave.
Not the sort of posts we need here.