Bend it like Cobi

The best football, er, soccer team in the world, Real Madrid, featuring David Beckham and Ronaldo, is coming to Los Angeles to play the LA Galaxy. The game is just 10 days away, and for some reason there are still tickets available. The Home Depot Center, the Galaxy's home venue, seats 27000 people. I find this hard to believe, even for $50 a seat. Don't people realize what they're missing? This is a cultural opportunity here.

Now I'm not a basketball fan, but if Michael Jordan were to make an appearance playing at the arena down the street and there were tickets available, I would consider ponying up 5o bucks to see him play, just to be able to say that I did.

Of course the Galaxy do not make it easy for casual observers like myself. In order to get tickets, you must also purchase at least as many tickets to their match against Chivas USA, the new LA-based expansion team languishing in last place. And the cheapest seats for that is also $50. Now I understand a bit more.

I'm not much of a soccer fan either, but I would definitely want to see this team play. Unfortunately, I have alternate commitments that preclude my attending this event, but hearing that tickets were still available gives me reason to pause.

Hey, wait a minute. Doesn't this annoy YOU? Here I am going on about how people are nuts NOT to go see this match, and yet I beg off because of a vague claim about somewhere else I have to be doing something else I have to do. It would annoy me. So I must invoke blogger's privelege here, and complain about that which I do myself.

Such is the duality of being the complex and mysterious enigma that is Tad.