Admittedly, I know squat about soccer/football. No, I stand corrected. I know that David Beckham is really freaking hot & that soccer players are the new baseball players.

However, what I do know is this (at the certain risk of making this comment longer than your original post):

If you are aspiring to be a professional writer, spell checking your work prior to publishing it (on the web or otherwise), is probably a wise choice, ESPECIALLY if your work includes a rip (or two) on someone else's writing abilities. Now, I'm not a editor, proof-reader or even very good at writing myself (& I'm most likely going to make a few spelling/grammatical errors here), but a few things popped up. Allow me to grab my red pen (I'm just noting the glaringly obvious ones):

- "...Tagalog and..." = when listing prepositional phrases, it is customary to insert a comma before the AND. Granted, it's not an absolute NECESSITY, but it is standard practice.
- "...Bigsoccer.com, who..." = I'm assuming here that this website is not an actual person & indeed a website, in which case the identifying article should be "which," not "who."
- "...so, so, so sorry..." = Now these commas are unnecessary.
- "Today, I made a vow to get away from the website, the sooner the better." = Again with the commas.
- "...an arena that your average..." = Again, "which," not "that."
- "...take rips on my just for the joy..." = I believe "my" should read "me."
- "At least at this age I am at..." = Confusing with it being so wordy. Should be condensed to "At least at my age...."
- "...that I allowed it to..." - Omit the "it."
***at this point we pause to note this comment: "His work is haphazard and full of mistakes. For someone who wants to join the print trade someday, seeing someone continue to get paid for sub-standard fare is pretty frustrating."***
- The next paragraph is so riddled with mistakes in placement of prepositional phrases that I won't even go there.
- "He also is the biggest asshole you ever want to meet." = Insert "would" after "you" & this sentence makes a little more sense, although I agree, why would you WANT to meet an asshole?
***Hypocrite Alert: "(He also has a blog himself where he sounds so self important.)"***
***at this point, we pause to note this comment: "In reality, he is a failed rock drummer who plays in a couple of cover bands and he is a pretty bad writer to boot." Footnote the drummer comment.
- "...put myself in Kent’s shows." = I'm confused. Does Kent have shows or SHOES?
- "trying to be cool and elite ... just like this more proletarian nerd." = Again, I'm wearing my confused hat. Is Coz TRYING to be elite or is he ACTUALLY proletarian?
***We now pause to laugh with full bellies at this comment: "WOW, how's the view from your cross?"***

Footnote: If "failed" means playing out nearly every damn night, then Coz, I can only hope to fail at singing just as horribly as you've failed at being a drummer. If "failed" means that your band is not featured on TRL, then I sincerely think Mr. Bill needs to stick to opining about soccer & leave the music comments to those who know music.

Ok, I just tried to post an incredibly witty comment describing the various inconsistencies in Mr. Bill's post, including, but not limited to:

-grammatical, spelling, & punctuation misstakes (of which there are MANY, for someone who aspires to be a writer)
-flawed logic
-hypocritical commentary
-lack of understanding of the music "scene" (if "failed" means playing out nearly every night, then I hope I fail as a singer as badly as you've failed as a drummer)
-the inherent nature of egotism in blogs

However, I think I was timed out ... or perhaps there's a rule against posting a comment that is longer than the original post. Regardless, I find this particularly humorous, Coz. Keep up the disdainful superiority, you proletarian nerd trying to be cool & elite.

Asshole.

Ok. I have WAY too much time on my hands.
& I AM wicked jealous of that photo.

Yes, it seems you have a lot of time on your hands. However, you missed the sub-title of Bill's blog: "blogging against an oridnary (sic) world."

And were you being ironic when you misspelled 'mistake'?

And Coz, How happy am I to know that if I ever get google'd people will be led to your site?!

Heh. If you think that any future political ambitions might be hobbled by the revelation that you played "Freebird" in a band on purpose, let me know and I'll give you some cool pseudonym.