Now, CommunityAmerica is also the home to our minor league professional baseball team. The Wizards essentially retrofit a soccer field inside the friendly confines. Yes, the width is a little tight, but it's serviceable -- even for one of Beckham's patented "Bend it" kicks.

But what difference does it make whether Beckham was playing at CommunityAmerica or the Rose Bowl? He's being paid to pay. Period. Make that, being paid very well to play.

The Star's Dollars and Sense blog defends the CAB. I'm not sure as a fan who attends every home game I agree that the stadium is "serviceable." I might opt for a different work. Like, I don't know, "better than playing in a cement pond on the edge of town with football lines on it." Yeah, that works so much better.

He takes the money and the contract, then goes on to denigrate U.S. soccer,” Szajnuk said. “He’ll have a bunch of chants coming. We don’t drop f-bombs and we won’t direct anything at his family, but he’ll know we’re there.

Terez Paylor at The Star takes a bigger look than The Star usually does about how Goldenballs' visit to Kansas City might play out this weekend. The only thing I have to say though, is that I believe the chant: "Posh goes down like a Tijuana whore" probably goes against this guy's quote.

I'm in Chicago, trying to figure out how this happened to me, and in doing so, I feel a little like Dr. Richard Kimble from "The Fugitive

Just don't go jumping off any moving trains, please.

Wahl gives a view into not just the LA Galaxy front office, but gives a great look into MLS as a whole in the book. The best part about the league as a whole was the look into the lives of the players on the other end of the pay scale, mainly told through Alan Gordon. Unlike Beckham, Gordon played on a non guaranteed contract, lived in an apartment with 2 other players, and eventually borrowed money from his girlfriend so that he could move into a different apartment. Wahl does a great job of showing the contrasts between the life of Beckham and the lives of most of the rest of his teammates. He regularly throws out the paltry developmental player salary that players make and how those players are working extra jobs just so that they can make rent payments.

Great book review. And, I absolutely wanted the Wizards to sign Alan Gordon five minutes after finishing the first section about him.

Good stuff will come from this blog. I guarantee it.

JC.Com Staff Bulletin: Water Can Be Frozen Into Cubes and Used To Keep Drinks Cold. Thanks, Jimmy

No, Becks. We're just not that into you.

America's least-favorite columnist and world-class douche nozzle Jay Mariotti has decided to weigh in on the David Beckham Experiment. His conclusion? America doesn't need David Beckham.

I'm in the middle of Grant Wahl's book and I haven't really fully formed my opinion on this, but I will say: American soccer still needs Beckham to succeed. That much is obvious based solely on the fact that MLS wasn't relevant to the American media UNTIL ol' Goldenballs returned. That much is painfully clear only 200 pages into the book.

This is how it works Jay:

Beckham is the shark, the cognitive sporting world is the ocean and the MLS is the remora fish.

Your junk is never safe...