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Reactions from Mexico's upset of Brazil: (1) Yeah! CONCACAF pride, expressed when convenient,
especially when a Brazil stomping would have been received with as much if not greater joy by US
fans! WOOO! (2) Uh, I think this Nery kid might be good. (3) Yeah! Hugo keeps his job! If Mexico's
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If you look at Chicago last year and you look at them now, the only difference was me. Well, let's
do look at Chicago last year. They had Andy Herron and Nate Jaqua (who I don't remember being
totally horrifying in Chicago the way he's been so far in Los Angeles). Also, Justin [...]
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Chivas USA is giving tryouts to the latest two Cuban defectors. Best of luck to them. This is a
compliment to Chivas USA for their quick action in recognizing potential talent, not for their
stance against oppression. A real humanitarian effort would be if they gave jobs to Cubans who
weren't good at soccer. [...]
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Well, I suppose I could have just read the Associated Press report of the Gold Cup Final - they
confirmed that the US had never come back in a game against Mexico before this past Sunday. I'm
sure glad I didn't know that in the first half. I'm not sure Bradley or the [...]
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There's actually a point to this week's Power Rankings. Independently of each other, as far as I
can tell, one of the more intellectual Riot Squad board posters and Matrim of the BigSoccer blog
started talking about whether college was good for MLS players, even in limited doses. If you've
been around the [...]
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West Bromwich Babylon: It was going so well there for a minute or two. Hartman; Robinson,
Harrington, Gbandi; Cooke, Grabavoy, Fred, Victorine; Emilio, Fred, Cristman. Sure, I had Brad
Davis, and Chivas of Nazareth still lost ground. But at least I didn't have Davis as captain and
still lost ground - [...]
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Want my opinion on Andrea Canales v. Marcos Gonzalez and Unnamed Crew Idiots? No? This might not be
the post for you.
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Were they just holding back all this time, waiting until the final game to give full effort? Or was
it just coaching decisions finally paying off? Because if the US and Mexico had played like that
the whole tournament, there wouldn't have been any doubt, controversy, or suspense about who was
going to [...]
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Man, my butt is killing me. I woke up this morning, and I gotta tell you, I'm in agony down there.
I can't imagine how.... Oh, wait, I remember. We were raped by Columbus last night.
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Maybe it's just that I'm a man in my mid-to-late thirties. Maybe I'm just grateful that MLS lasted
long enough to have alumni games. But every year about this time I get irretrievably psyched for
the grudge match between ex-Galaxy players and, for the second straight year, Hollywood United
featuring the Sex Pistols' [...]
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Alex might be on to something as he links us to this explanation Anschlusstreffer concept. Like
with "blitzkrieg" and "schadenfreude," this could easily be another example where German gives a
word to English that answers a crying need. We do need a way to say "the goal that cuts the lead to
one." Until [...]
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This could have been the Metrostars, had Red Bull not stepped in. Of course, they might not have
gotten the stadium built after all. What would you rather have, a team with a crappy name, or a
team with a cool logo moving to St. Louis or wherever? Still, I believe that good team names, as
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Remember that Slate US uniform retrospective from a few days ago? Sure you do. What about the
women? I didn't ask, but I guess I could have. Actually, it would have been sorta dull. White with
either white or navy shorts at home, red with navy shorts on the road, since [...]
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I never understood why people thought 2-0 was "the most dangerous lead in soccer." I mean, by that
logic, 4-0 should be TWICE as dangerous. Someday, someone with some free time besides me should
crunch the numbers and see how often 1-0 leads hold up against 2-0 leads. But I was sure proven
wrong [...]
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From Billy Witz's Daily News article, we learn that Galaxy players are nervous about their job
security. "All the guys around here are talking about it," said midfielder Santino Quaranta.
"Things are going to be changing. People can feel it coming." Just to recap. Quaranta, member of a
team who missed the playoffs last year, [...]
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Learned through Kenn that the Fire have finally accepted the obvious, and let Dave Sarachan go.
Denis Hamlett is indeed the interim coach. We would also have accepted Chris Armas as player-coach.
We would have preferred Cuauhtemoc Blanco as player-coach, though, for comedy purposes. Some guys
just lose their teams. It happens [...]
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Well, I nearly made it through June before giving up hope entirely on my fantasy teams, which is
pretty good by my standards. I deserved what West Bromwich Babylon got, leaving in Mehdi Ballouchy
and keeping Cobi on the bench. My reasoning was that Salt Lake wasn't that bad at home, the Galaxy
were kinda [...]
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Several Galaxy fans have written Alexi Lalas asking if Landon Donovan is being traded. The answer
is no. So pipe down, Messing. You know what? If you made it up, come clean. If you didn't make it
up, burn the guy who did. Because he made you look like a freaking idiot. (If you're going on [...]
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