Articles tagged with "mls-money-matters"
Season Ticket Holder Ranting
By NathanHJ | September 10th, 2008The Galaxy has recently reorganized their customer service teams to create a new team dedicated just to serving season ticket holders, of which I am ...
That SuperLiga "Bonus," Or When Is $1 Million not $1 Million?
By Laurie | July 14th, 2008When is $1 million not $1 million? When you're dealing with MLS of course! Quick background: SuperLiga is the tournament that was ...
MLS Incoming? The Sagas of Pat Noonan, Brian McBride and Nate Jaqua
By Laurie | July 8th, 2008Yesterday we talked about a couple of US Players moving around in Europe. Today let's look at players who may have decided there's no ...
MLS Says They're Aiming for "Transparency." Whatever That Means
By Laurie | April 24th, 2008It can sometimes be embarrassing to be an LA Galaxy fan. And I'm not talking here about play on the field. (No. Really. ...
When Branding Runs Amok. OR: You, too, can own your own David Beckham Wastebasket!!
By Laurie | April 14th, 2008I don't know why I've never visited the "Home and Office" section of the MLS Gear store. But once I received the email with ...
Updated Galaxy Salaries. And Who the Heck are Scott Bolkan and Vito Higgins?
By Laurie | April 12th, 2008The updated salary list is out. It includes salaries for Alvaro Pires, Josh Tudela, Josh Wicks and Bryan Jordan. And...um...Scott Bolkan? And Vito ...
Global Brand My @#$
By Laurie | April 12th, 2008So this is my first full weekend back. What does this mean? It means I get to pick up my favorite pastime of last year, ...
Of Millionaires and Minimum Wagers: Galaxy 2008 Salaries Revealed
By Laurie | April 7th, 2008One of the things that happened while I was gone was the release of the 2008 salaries, courtesy of the MLS Players Union. Daryl ...
Reason #5327 to Hate Galaxy Management
By Laurie | February 13th, 2008According to a recent Andrea Canales article on USSoccerplayers.com, here's a bit more on the Chris Albright deal: After five years as a key player with ...
Eddie Pope Faces Challenges With the Players Union
By Laurie | January 15th, 2008If you were following MLS news last week, you saw that longtime player Eddie Pope has signed on with the Players Union as Director of ...
Donovan Won't Count as DP for 2008
By Laurie | November 17th, 2007I know I said I was taking the weekend off, but... Well, dammit, it's an addiction. The MLS Board of Governors met yesterday and decided ...
Landon Donovan and that Elusive, (Illusive?) Second DP Slot
By Laurie | September 27th, 2007There is some interesting debate going on in the media lately about the possibility of gifting teams with a second Designated Player (DP) slot. ...
Galaxy Kind of Won't Raise Ticket Prices (Immediately)
By Laurie | September 22nd, 2007Guess what? Apparently the Galaxy is NOT raising ticket prices. Kind of. IF you're a current season ticket holder, and IF you renew by ...
Verify (or Rebut) a Galaxy Rumor for Me
By Laurie | September 2nd, 2007I was just reading a comment in another blog that said that not only are the Galaxy raising ticket prices next year, they're also going ...
So What's Wrong With the Galaxy? Here's One Possibility
By Laurie | August 24th, 2007After watching our makeshift backline turned into swiss cheese in the second half last night, I got to thinking about the salary cap and its ...
Beckham Was Pimped, Dallas Is Screwed
By Laurie | July 31st, 2007The quick and dirty news: David Beckham is not going to Dallas due to that nagging ankle injury. And yes, this is the ...
Ty Harden: International Poster Child for the Underpaid MLS Player
By Laurie | May 25th, 2007I saw Galaxy defender Ty Harden play a couple of times when he was at the University of Washington, and I noticed him for ...
Putting the Pay Scale in Perspective
By Laurie | May 6th, 2007From the LA Times: At his current salary, it would take Galaxy rookie Ty Harden, who has played every minute of every game this season, 367 ...
2007 Galaxy Salaries Revealed
By Laurie | May 4th, 2007The 2007 MLS salary schedule has been released, and it's again not pretty. (Just be glad you're not trying to make a living as a ...
The Thing That Scares Me About Money and MLS
By Laurie | April 12th, 2007MLS and money. A combination of topics that fascinates me. I have an MBA in finance and accounting. (Which, by the ...
Yes, It's Herbalife for the Galaxy. Yes, I'm (Sadly) Serious
By Laurie | March 23rd, 2007Take a look at this logo, ladies and gentlemen. Is anybody else imagining surfers and skateboarders and snowboarders buying our Galaxy jerseys, maybe ...
So Where Do Actual MLS Games Fit Into The Galaxy's Plans?
By Laurie | March 13th, 2007For those of you who are looking for some serious, Galaxy-related meat and veggies to get the cotton candy taste of Brand Beckham out of ...
Galaxy Roster Update
By Laurie | February 28th, 2007I don't actually have an LA Galaxy roster update, because the LA Galaxy website doesn't think we need to know these things. And while ...
Galaxy Salaries for 2006 (Or: $$$, Part I)
By Laurie | February 26th, 2007I'm in the process of researching Galaxy salaries and how they'll be affected by Beckham's arrival (and how much this will affect the decision as ...
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