Dear Mr. Conrad,
I hope this messages finds you well, fit, and ready to earn a cap in the upcoming friendly vs. Honduras.
It is not my wish to vilify you as the antichrist of football, nor champion you as the savior of domestic football in America. In fact I wish you luck in this training camp and hope that you re-establish yourself in the picture for the USA World Cup Finals squad. It is my belief that you are a gritty competitor, and a fine footballer.
I wrote my point/counterpoint because you tempted us with your idea that the open-source model used to create Linux could be adapted to better the development of domestic football in this country.
Some of the ideas in your two blog pieces at Soccernet.com were things that I have wanted for years in our game. In respect to those issues, including but not limited to the MLS single-table we are in agreement.
What you wrote after the mention of the Linux book, was not in any way based on this open-source model. You did not use this book about Linux as a source to substantiate your ideas in any way, except as a loose metaphor (“creating a platform for the masses”). You suggested a great many things (such as competing football leagues in this country merging) that may charitably be described as highly unlikely. Your blog entry was long, unfocused, and under-researched.
It has taken hours and hours just to break down your two blog posts into the actual issues that you wanted to discuss. Each point or concept that you wished to discuss merited a separate blog entry of its own. It’s as if in your desire to discuss everything you wanted to, each point/concept was a thesis statement for a book.
I understand that you rarely drink, however I would be happy to buy you that pint of lager and discuss presenting these issues in a more focused and accessible way.
I wish you the best of luck in all that you do.
Sincerely,
Charles Therrell (a/k/a 51NC3P0NG)
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