Drew Carey: I'm gay for Becks

If you missed Monday night's "Late Show With David Letterman," when comedian Drew Carey appeared to announce that he'd just accepted the new host role for "The Price is Right" -- sorry, Dan Patrick -- Letterman got into Carey's new-found passion for the Galaxy and why he considers himself a huge kickball fan all of the sudden.
And if there was anyone in the MLS marketing deparment looking for a celebrity spokesman for the sport and helping it come mainstream, the Drewmeister may be just as valuable as Beckham.
You may recall Carey was one of the celebs that Bonnie Bernstein tried to interview during Saturday's ESPN telecast of the Galaxy-Chelsea contest at Home Depot Center, and Carey was plenty distracted while trying to accomodate her inane questions as the game was going on because he was afraid he'd miss a goal -- something Bernstein didn't have such a problem with when talking to Jennifer Love Hewitt or Arnold Schwarzenegger, who were more interested in sucking the air out of the telecast.
Maybe this won't be the tagline the MLS would like to use if employing Carey and his new "Power of 10" TV cred, but consider when Letterman asked about the arrival of David Beckham, Carey responded: "Beckham is great. He's good looking. I'm gay for him. Yeah.
"He put his foot into his shoe to lace it up and the crowd went crazy. I'm wondering, 'Are they watching the same game?' I look up at the screen and he's stretching and bending over and the women behind him are all, 'Wooooo.'
"David Beckham is going to be good for soccer. Once you see a live game at that level, you're going to be hooked."
Can you see the promos now:
ADMIT IT: YOU'RE GAY FOR BECKS? IT'S OK. WE ALL ARE.
Carey's passion for the sport really came thought, as he talked about how he became a soccer fan, especially with the Galaxy, where he's been a season-seat holder for four years:"I'm from Cleveland and I can't root for other teams in L.A. I can't root for the Lakers, I can't root for the Dodgers ... I could, I guess, but I just wouldn't. If you're from Cleveland, you don't want to root for any other team. That'd be the day I be caught dead with a Lakers jersey going 'Whooooo!' They would crucify me back home.
"I missed going to sporting events (while living in L.A.) and Cleveland didn't have a soccer team, so I went to the Home Depot Center to see a Galaxy game and had such a good time, it was so fun live. Soccer's almost like my favorite sport right now. ...
"If you just watch your kids playing soccer, or high school or whatever you've seen growing up, you really haven't seen a game. When I saw live my first MLS game, and then my first international game, if you're from Cleveland, you have to have some action and you can't believe how violetn and rough and tumble professional soccer is. I mean, these guys really go at each other. Ninety percent of the time when you see these guys lying on the ground holding their knee, they're really holding their knee. Only about 10 percent of the time are they taking a dive."
Carey talked about seeing the World Cup in Germany last year, along with matches in Scotland and Latin America.
And talking about the World Cup:
"It's like we've been lied to about the Super Bowl being a big game once you've been to a World Cup. It's like three Super Bowls a day for two weeks, then ona day until the thing ends."
And about why some are turned off by soccer because of low scoring:
"But you can have a 2-0 baseball game and it's exciting, or a 14-0 football game and it's exciting ... that's two times a team scores. It's about the 'almosts.' How they almost scored. Once you get to know the game and rules and se ehow close they get and the near misses, you're on the edge of your seat all the time. In soccer, because there's no stops and you can't get up to go get a hot dog or go to the bathroom, the first year I was watching a game, I'd get up to get a Coke or hot dog and I'd miss a goal. When I got back from the World Cup and watched an NFL preseason game, I was bored to tears. And if Michael Vick is quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons this fall, I'm not watching any NFL."
The later statement drew a large applause, by the way (note to Roger Goodell).