Upper 90 Archives for April 2007
Will Toronto ever score? Obviously they will, but even despite putting together some solid
stretches of soccer, they never really threatened on goal. And this is with Kevin Hartman in
goal. Anyone could notch one against him. Eddie's goal was weak. Greg Sutton is just not an MLS
caliber keeper, there's no reason to get beat [...]
No real reason for this. I'm watching Dallas and New York and they get a close up on Reyna. Perhaps
I'm alone, but does anyone else think he looks like American Idol winner Taylor Hicks? Maybe if you
gray'd up Reyna's hair a lot… I dunno, just spit-balling.
The Wiz and Toronto are playing in a massive rainstorm in Kansas City, and around 300 people look
to have shown up. It will be interesting to see what spin MLS puts on the attendance numbers,
because the seats behind the goal are literally bare. All the fans are scrunched around midfield
in the first [...]
So I sit here going through some stats through 3 weeks of the season, since only 1 game was
actually available on MLS.tv this weekend (and that one started showing in the 25th minute). Home
teams have 10 wins, 6 ties and 2 losses. That's a 72% winning percentage. That's the highest
percentage since the first [...]
That's a story, kind of, that Columbus scored a goal. But the Revs are taking the game 2-1, with
goals by Twellman and Dorman. The emerging story right now is that things could get a little
violent in the second half after a vicious Andy Herron elbow to the nose of Jay Heaps. [...]
The Crew battled back from a 2-1 halftime deficit on Kei Kamara goal from Frankie Hejduk to salvage
a home 2-2 draw. The Crew kind of floated along for a good 70 minutes, bookending two Revolution
goals in the process. For long spells, Ned Grabavoy, Eddie Gaven and Frankie Hejduk disappeared.
When they resurfaced, the [...]
Well, Colorado starts off their match in a hole after 5 minutes, with striker Roberto Brown getting
red carded on a high challenge on CJ Brown. Bit of a weak red card, but it can be argued the ref
made the right call. So its 10 v 11 as the Rapids attempt to hold off [...]
Houston scored on a Brian Ching header (of course) in the 64th minute off a free kick to take out
Chivas USA 1-0. This wasn't really one of those boring low scoring games (see Columbus earlier),
with both teams pushing it end to end in what was both a technical yet physical game. Neither
team [...]
Although neither game is technically over, I think its safe to say that Toronto and DC are both set
to lose their matches. In Foxboro, the Revolution led throughout, with Toronto never really able to
mount a serious challenge to the goal. The Revs took the game 4-0 with Taylor Twellman starting
the scoring with two [...]
An uneventful match yields a boring nil-nil draw. The Crew had 2 real chances, 1 on a needle
threading pass from Ned Grabavoy that Jason Garey couldn't finagle into goal. The second was a
rocket from the foot of Eddie Gaven from 25 yards out that forced Nick Rimando into a sprawling
save. Salt Lake never [...]
No, not that Deuce (well, maybe the one on the left)… Taylor Twellman has quickly hit up the
suspect Toronto back line with two quick goals in 18 minutes. As I type this, he misses the 19th
minute hat trick by about 2 feet. He slotted home a nice near post shot after the [...]
That's who I keep picturing providing the color on the Columbus-RSL game. If its not "The Body",
then its got to be one of the guys from "Da Bears" skit on SNL. He sounds like he's 1 braut away
from a heart attack. And please, let him know that gutteral utterances such as "mmmhmm" really
[...]
So I thought I'd try this thing again, at least for a while. I'm going to start it back up by
talking about the most important part of the MLS season, hair. I bring this up because as I watch
Dallas and LA, I note the immaculateness that is Toja's Def Leppard hair. That coif is [...]