
Hey everyone,
No doubt, many of you are busy watching the Fifa World Cup this summer, and it’s been quite exciting, especially for Americans, as USA managed to make it to the knockout round with solid plays and some pretty heart stopping moments filled with victory. Before I mention my opinions about USA’s somewhat abysmal ending in the World Cup, I’d do like to take a moment to clarify to everyone that there will be a delay of orders. Since Brennon has to leave for personal purposes for a month and all of our products/kits are all hand wrapped by us to check for quality service, BW Science Labs will undergo a delay. So again, to clarify, order shipments will be delayed for one month effective immediately. That way, we’d love to avoid the angry plethora of emails that we would receive to report shipments that have not been received yet. We apologize profusely for this sudden and unexpected change, but as soon as we return, we will go back to sending out our shipments at full speed in order to make up for that. So again, order shipments will be delayed for one month effective immediately.
Now, second order of business: the website. Brennon and I are currently undergoing several “meetings” every week to discuss the remodeling/reconstruction of our website. Our intention is to shift our website and upgrade it to a much more professional looking website. In that sense, the reason why we are spending so much time on our website and taking longer than what both Brennon and I anticipated, is because we are actually considering some significant and major remodels. Not just simple theme changes, but an actual change of our host, from WordPress’s service to Drupal. The format will remain the same, but there’s a lot of what one could call “smoke and mirrors”, or what I personally refer to as “technical nuisances” that hinder us from going ahead. We’re still spending a lot of time on the plans themselves, working with our contractors, but hopefully, the website plans will be done by the end of summer. One of the biggest changes that comes with our remodeling of our website is the new online store with shopping carts, accounts, ratings, consumer reviews, and consumer credit/rewards program. (The way the consumer credit rewards program works is actually very simple, if you’ve been a consumer with us before our remodeling/having purchased our products before we’ve launched the new store, you’ll have some form of credit/reward. That reward translates into several different things: it could be a discount, depending on how long of a consumer you’ve been with us, a free product with our compliments, some kind of Hall of Fame, etc. This is just a taste of what you guys can expect from our website after its done remodeling, and we are just as excited as you guys for this.)
Now, final two cents. America’s abysmal, awful, god awful performance in Ghana in the knockout round. Absolutley awful. And trust me, I’ve been a supporter of Team USA in World Cup for years, and this was the one year America could have really stepped up, considering their top players, Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey were in the best moments of their career. Landon and Clint’s teamwork to establish USA as the “comeback king.” But honestly, the reason of why we lost to Ghana so poorly was because of Bob Bradley, the head coach. He was also the coach in Fifa in Germany, and we also lost to Ghana there. When a coach chooses his favorites to play key positions like midfielder, AKA Ricardo Clark, or Jozy Altidore as the striker who is supposed to put pressure on the goal and score, instead of the players who really have proven themselves over and over again in MLS. For example, Ricardo Clark’s god awful performance against England where he played midfield, and allowed an early goal and let England score in the early game. The guy just can’t defend, and considering his Fifa ranking, 5.5/10, there’s no way he should be playing anywhere near in a World Cup team ever. Jozy Altidore is no different, he’s been set up several golden opportunities to score in all of the games where he’s played the striker, and he always misses. We could have gotten somwhere, but when the coach is the source…it’s impossible.
Have a great summer,
BW Science Labs