Recently, Playtherapy (in between his rounds of Football Manager 2010) and I have been having a
conversation on the state of the league and the future. Here is that conversation, which hopefully
can bring some more comments and additions from everyone else. The conversation began with
Playtherapy talking about the fantasy financial restrictions in Football Manager and bringing up
the larger topic.
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So Dynamo have begun looking to build a stadium on the city's near West side.
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If you've not seen this yet, you should. Landon Donovan starring in a Mexican Lottery commercial.
They loves our Landycakes south of the border something fierce! I am rolling over this.
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Soccer by Ives correspondent Franco Panizo is reporting that MLS has offered our man Stuart a big
contract to keep him from moving to Europe, reportedly "ten times his current salary."
Check out the story here:
http://www.soccerbyives.net/soccer_by_ives/2009/12/holden-offered-big-mls-contract.
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Time to break out the haiku-ometer
Back in the 5-0
B'Belo Horizonte
1 to nil, you lose
Twas a cock you say
As Gaetjens had no passport,
But still, the goal stands.
Revenge on the veldt,
As Three Lions surround US,
No hope for escape.
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After a couple of weeks off to R&R and get this holiday madness under way, I am back on the
blogging scene.
I thoroughly enjoyed the World Cup draw last week, and for once as a US supporter, I can finally
say, "Hey, at least we're not in that group over there."
And by "that group" I mean Group G, as in Golgotha.
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Congrats to RSL and Nick Rimando, one of my favorite players in MLS, for reasons that I have never
been able to articulate. I just like the guy. And big props to Cletus on winning his one and only
MLS ring. Who would have thought that 10 years ago? And also big props to Jason Kreis.
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OK, after taking this week off to mostly just troll other blogs and not comment too much on MLS or
soccer in general after letting last week's loss sink in, I do have some thoughts on a rash of
topics:
(But before I begin, I have to tell you my favorite lines from anyone about events so far this
week.
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Regardless of this result, regardless of any strange non-goal goals, regardless of anything, I
remain
Absent the Hainault goal, the result was a well-fought one and deserved, just really, really not
what I wanted.
More to be written on this at another date. For now, I sleep late tomorrow and the offseason
begins.
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I was starting to write a long piece on magical thinking and sending orange-colored positive waves
westward for tonight's game. Then I read the stories in the Chron today (listing of the stories and
Bernardo's blog post here) about how the entire world seems aligned against Dynamo in favor of the
Galaxy, including Alexi Lalas (which actually fills me with something like relief.
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Check this out from Freddy Ljungberg's blog people:
THE BRAWL IN HOUSTONI'm sorry that it has taken quite some time after the game to post something, but I have
actually been quit pissed off and in a bad mood after the game and wanted to think things through
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It happened right in front of me, and by the lack of reaction on Keller's face it took me a sec to
even realize what had happened!
If you check the highlights page on the Dynamo site, you get the Telefutura call ("QUE GOLAZO!!")
and then the Dynamo radio call, with James Clarkson yelling so loud I think it knocked them off the
air for a second or two.
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I was kind of hoping for a Dynamo/Columbus final to have the last three champs facing off But
wouldn't you know it, the Crew pulled an epic fail, losing a one goal advantage.
At home.
To the worst road team in the league.
Worse than NYRB.
Let THAT sink in.
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So again, we take a look at the Orange Crystal Ball moving from the unidextrous to bidextrous
results.
The first weekend, I have to say, was more than a little strange. From the sublime of the
Dynamo/Seattle match to the ridiculous of Warzycha sitting Moreno AND Schelotto to the utterly
predictable of a Steve Nicol-team being Lucy to the Chicago Fire's Charlie Brown to the completely
surreal of the HDClasico draw.
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1. Not technically in Seattle, but you don't have to cast a wide net to get this one:
2. Check out these crowds below. Here's a team made mostly famous from Jim Bouton's stories of
drugs and debauchery in
Ball Four:
3. This courtesy of James Cooke:
4.
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