Comments on: Optimism, we hardly knew ye

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:33:46 +0000

Uhh, what bluemeanies said.

Chicago management has taken the position that they’re not willing to trade Conde, despite his wishes to the contrary. I’m not sure how a NYRB fan could consider this foul play, since the tort in this case seems to be the tampering of Osorio with players under contract to the Fire.

I’m sick of talking about Conde, frankly. My guess is that, given assurances they’ll accept reasonable offers in the August transfer window, Conde will play his butt off with quiet fury and leave before the stretch drive. Given my lifelong tendency to be mind-blowingly wrong about virtually everything, though, anything’s possible.

By: bluemeanies

bluemeanies — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:41:45 +0000

Camjam- the only person who’s said that is Ives. And we don’t know the team or the striker that was turned down. And Ives is well known to be partial to RBNY in his reporting, so using the ‘they didn’t agree to the trade because they were scared that he’d go to RBNY’ I wouldn’t believe til it was confirmed by a non-Ives reliable source.

And really- who is going to trade a proven forward at this point? Seally from KC- but KC could use Conde more than anyone that RBNY offers, and Seally isn’t really trade bait. Chivas got rid of Cunliffe (a not proven forward) for a defender/midfielder, so maybe the player in question was Eskandarian? Razov? Or maybe Mina, coming off injury, hasn’t settled his problems with Dallas yet. That might be stretching ‘proven’, but who else is available? There are reasons to reject Mina other than a possible secondary trade.

The point I’m making is that this rumor came from a source who has demonstrated NY bias in that past and hasn’t named the other party or player in the deal. Attributions of motives and how good the deal actually was can’t be determined unless we know more.

By: Camjam

Camjam — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:38:24 +0000

You can’t mention Conde’s behavior without mentioning how childish the management themselves are acting. Refusing to trade him to another team who offered a solid striker(which they did) because that team *may* then trade Conde to RBNY? talk about some sour grapes.

By: sal

sal — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:21:15 +0000

You totally jinxed us with the optimism article!

That said all this bad will is going to be completely erased come Saturday night after a 3-0 drubbing of RSL. No really, it will.

By: Dave Martinez

Dave Martinez — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:34:34 +0000

Big Zach stopped one hell of a penalty shot . . . and we have 4 keepers in our stable, including a great prospect in Danny Cepero.

Maybe we can reach a deal my friend. Ill have your people call my people.