I have a great idea…we should settle this with a series of penalty kicks.. You name the time and place and I will bring my 1988 soccer cleats.

Only problem is with your soccer acumen, if you overlooked my aging middle aged body (not a pretty site), you may remember me from the days that I played. That could be very awkward and embarrasing.

Let’s just agree to disagree.

I didn’t say anything negative in the article about Cook at all. Not one word. I didn’t insult him, nor question his skill.

Your first contribution was to proclaim the article “disgraceful” saying “shame on us.” so right out of the gate you insult my work and question my ability to evaluate.
But did I insult you in return? No, I explained Cook had a bad game, and added my evaluation that I didn’t put in the article because he wasn’t very good that day.

You in return said our “credibility went down the tubes” again attacking my work, said “no more insults” when I didn’t insult him, and “makes me wonder how wrong you are about others” again insulting my work.

once again I didn’t insult you, instead I explained that Simmons was the UMass player worth looking at.

at which point you attack me for the 3rd time with “do you know anything about soccer at all?”

Once again I didn’t attack you, instaed I gave you some player quotes that back up my Simmons statement.

So after being attacked and insulted three separate times, I came back when Cook went undrafted to add a note to the thread as I proved to be right in my evaluation.

You proceed to tell me I know nothing (attacking me for the 4th time). You say you attacked me cause your kids like Cook, then proceed to attack me for the 5th time saying “Continuing to deposit slime upon one single college player to advance your own self serving cause for subjective credibility in a public forum is nauseating at best.” Not once have I piled slime on Cook, nor insulted him or you. Not one single time. Public forum? No one is reading this but you.

Which means in this thread you have insulted me and my work five separate times, while I have done nothing but given an evaluation of a player’s pro potential that turned out to be completely accurate. So that’s 5-0 from you on insults and attacks.

So by all means come back again. Insult my work again, insult me again. Tell me how great Cook is again. Continue to attack me all you wish. I will continue to defend myself and prove I am right.

So thanks again for reading the site.

Continuing to deposit slime upon one single college player to advance your own self serving cause for subjective credibility in a public forum is nauseating at best.
I questioned your evaluation based of my own two eyes and not solely because my kids like this particular player. All the players that were selected in the draft are also very very good players. They will be fun to watch and cheer for many seasons to come. I’m excited for the MLS because i think this years class will truly raise the standards of quality play.
If you want to continue this ridiculous argument, keep throwing out the bait. I think we both have better things to do with our time.

We don’t coddle kids here, we evaluate professional potential.

Your boy was in the College Cup, that’s the biggest stage in the college game. He played in front of every MLS coach; now every team, GM, and coach in the league has now officially agreed with me.

Feel free to come back and tell me again how I know nothing about the game. I’ll stick with the MLS coaches who have told me, again, that I was right on the money.

At this point all you’re doing is upping my traffic and making my points for me.

Casey Latchem: “Zack Simmons played outstanding. He really kept his team in it. He’s the heart and soul of that team today. It was amazing. He had incredible saves. We knew going into it that any time we put the ball in the box he was going to come out and get it.”

Thanks for reading 3rd Degree.