Re: Fresno | Responses to Comments and Criticism

Earlier this week I wrote an article detailing some of my frustrations with the affiliate deal between the Vancouver Whitecaps and Fresno F.C. Now, normally articles about the Whitecaps’ development process don’t get all that much attention but this one did. It sparked a great deal of discussion, which is good, but due to my not expecting many people to read it I engaged in a great deal more hyperbole than I normally would. I suppose this is a lesson I can take under consideration moving forward. I do still stand by the central thesis of the piece. That the ‘Caps stand to gain very little from this affiliate deal and that Fresno has made that situation more frustrating by putting together what I consider to be a poor squad. But I think the tone that I struck may have caused some of those points to be obfuscated. Somebody posted the article to the USL subreddit where it was roundly criticized. Somebody suggested “Somebody should comment on the page with a link to this thread” which they did. What sort of internet hack would I be if I didn’t write almost 2000 words in response to a reddit post with 26 comments and 14 up votes? In all seriousness though I think some of the points raised are worth addressing, even though I don’t think that they really refuted any of the points that I brought up in my piece. So let’s go through some of the comments.

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