This week I had the distinct pleasure of joining Scott, Sarah, and Brian Zygo on this week's
Winning Ugly Radio Episode 52: "Bluth's Frozen Banana Stand @ St. James' Park" It's a soccer show,
with comedy. It's a comedy show about soccer. Do check it out, won't you?
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I'm fortunate enough to join The MLS Show once again to wrap up the Red Bulls' 5-0 season ending
victory over Toronto FC. Give us a listen, won't you?
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The 2009 New York Red Bulls season, and the team's 14-year stay at Giants Stadium, will end just
after 9:30pm ET tomorrow night. It's fitting that tomorrow's match, versus playoff hopeful Toronto
FC, will be played on a wet, slick, artificial surface covered with football lines.
While Giants Stadium has hosted plenty of meaningful soccer matches in its day, the third-class
treatment that the NJ Stadium and Entertainment Authority has shown the MetroStars/Red Bulls since
1996 will be encapsulated in Saturday's 90 minutes.
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Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of contributing to Jason Davis' excellent MatchfitUSA
podcast, as well as the SoccerLens podcast. Tonight I join The MLS Show as the Red Bull New York
correspondent. I'll post a link to the lucky 13th episode of this terrific series when it goes
live.
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Whatever honeymoon the US Men's National Team was enjoying after clinching it's sixth-straight
World Cup Finals appearance has ended abruptly.
Last night at 3:15am, forward Charlie Davies was in a car that crashed on the George Washington
Parkway in DC. A 22-year old woman in the car was killed in the accident.
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There are only twenty days remaining in the 2009 MLS Regular Season, and after this weekend's
results, there are only five playoff spots up for grabs. MLS Cup and Supporters' Shield holder
Columbus have locked up a return trip to post-season, as has '06 & 07 Cup champ Houston Dynamo and
the resurgent Los Angeles Galaxy, returning to the playoffs for the first time in four years.
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So much for a slow summer Friday.
Earlier today, New York Red Bulls Head Coach Juan Carlos Osorio quit the team with eight matches
remaining in the MLS season. Osorio, who joined the club in 2007, took New York to its highest
point, the 2008 MLS Cup Final, and it's lowest, a current 16-match winless streak across all
competitions.
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I've have the honor of guest blogging Brucio's wonderful Du Nord today. Check it out for coverage
of yesterday's US loss at Mexico, a look at the remaining Hexagonal games, and this weekend's MLS
sked as well. Enjoy!
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For the past two days, The Kin of Fish has recounted this Summer of Soccer, the greatest, most
visible season the beautiful game has had in the US, perhaps ever. This week, we've looked at the
US Confederations Cup run, and the buzz around David Beckham's return to MLS. Today, with just
hours to go before the US Men's National Team tries to get its first win ever at Mexico's Azteca
Stadium, we look at the amazing support of Euro Club friendies that ended just last week.
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In a three-day series ahead of Wednesday's US-Mexico tilt, The Kin of Fish is looking back at this
amazing Summer of Soccer. Yesterday we reviewed the US Men's National Team's run to the
Confederations Cup Final. Today we look at the biggest story in American Soccer in July... the
return of David Beckham to the LA Galaxy.
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By any standards, the Summer of 2009 will go down as one of the most memorable seasons in American
Soccer history. Between the US Men's National Team's improbable run to the Confederations' Cup
Final, the release of Grant Wahl's The Beckham Experiment" and the re-entry of David Beckham to the
LA Galaxy, The Gold Cup, and the massive crowds that have attended top-notch Euro club friendlies,
there was more buzz, more visibilty, and more soccer in America in the last few months than any
other time is recent memory.
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It's come to this. With last night's humiliating 2-1 home loss to Trinidadian club W Connection,
the New York Red Bulls have shot the rest of this horrible 2009 season to smithereens. With nine
meaningless league matches to play, the worst season in MLS history will come to a merciful end on
Saturday, October 24th against visiting Toronto FC.
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One of the challenges of following the Red Bulls in New York is the mainstream sports media's lack
of team coverage. In a down year like this one, compounded with shrinking staffs at the city's
daily papers, regular news about NYRB is scarce, and getting scarcer. The New York Times has
stopped sending reporters to home matches years ago, choosing to pick up wire reports instead.
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The fantastic folks at SoccerLens invited me to take part in their weekly podcast. Click here to
listen to me ramble with host Stephen Darwin on the differences (and they are many) between MLS and
the EPL, soccer media in the US and future of the US game...
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