Re: [nas] My First Taste of Multi-Point Scoring (R, implied)

["Kevin Lindstrom" <klindstr@flash.net>]

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From: Alan Balthrop <alan@kicksfan.com>


> Although I am glad that indoor soccer finally has one united league for
> the first time since 1989 (when the AISA abandoned it's "developmental
> league" role and began active competition with the original MISL and
> it's successors), I find myself disturbed by just how much MPS changes
> the game.
>
> I tell people to try indoor soccer once. People who do have one of two
> reactions: they love it and come back, or hate it and never return. I
> have tried a game played under MPS. I dislike it with a renewed passion
> now that I realize that it changes the game down to the core.
>
>
> The players are the same, and the game play was mostly the same (and,
> thanks to the Owners betrayal, played under mostly CISL/WISL rules
> except for the scoring system). It is only now when reading the box
> score that I see just how huge the differences are. I hope that next
> season the owners will see reason and get rid of this abomination for
> good, so that the 2002-03 season can be an *- in the all-time history of
> the sport.
>

Well, I think it isn't an unreasonable position to say that this is a year
of progress for indoor soccer simply for two reasons -- it continues to
exist, and it does so in more harmony and less aggrivation with its outdoor
cousin.  As such, this is good for the sport of soccer in general and
hopefully for indoor soccer as well.

And you know how I am about supporting soccer in all forms.  %-)

Sure, the MPS is a bit difficult to swallow.  But if it is that or nothing,
I'll take the MPS.

And maybe with some time, the owners can be taught that it doesn't have to
have all the bells and whistles to be successful -- that the game itself is
reason enough to go to the game.



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