‘Sheraton Penalty Box’ – Boston Globe
In a new book on the fancy boy’s first season with the Los Angeles Galaxy, the business-class hotel is derided as maybe ‘the worst Sheraton in America,’ its clientele dismissed as ‘cubicle-dwellers from Syracuse in dandruff-speckled sport coats.’
In ‘The Beckham Experiment,’ by Sports Illustrated writer Grant Wahl, the castle-like hotel near Interstate 93 is a ‘horror show’ that symbolizes the small-timeness of Major League Soccer: After all, the team that had drafted Becks in the hopes of attracting enough fans to launch American soccer into the zillion-dillion sports stratosphere was stuck at the Braintree hellhole. These pitiful hotel folk ever dared to serve Beckham and his teammates fried chicken!
The Galaxy is scheduled to play the New England Revolution here on August 8. Maybe this time, Beckham could spend some of his fortune putting his team up at a hotel better suited to his tastes.
I’m sure nobody in Braintree would mind.
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I love reading this article, a very informative one. Nice article, thank you.
Weak. I've complained about hotels, movie theaters, street corners and a hundred other things in my life. And so has everyone else. There's a Radisson in Bristol, CT that I felt like I needed to shower off when I left, and I said as much. Anyone in the world can sound like a douchebag if you want to pick out the right quotes.
I say this not as any particular defender of Beckham's. He might be the biggest jackass in the world for all I know or care. I just think these sorts of pile-ons are stupid . . where everyone wants someone to be a douchebag for extraneous reasons, and then they pick apart every little thing he says or does to prove it.
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