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I love coaching the Seattle Sounders. We have so much money. Did you catch what MLSNet said about the sweet benefits expansion teams get?

Fortunately for Seattle, they still have plenty of financial flexibility to make this happen. In a bid to make expansion sides more competitive from the get-go, MLS grants the debutantes an additional $1 million in allocation money to either acquire players or pare down the salary cap.

If you live in Chicago, Alyse LaHue is looking to expand housing options for Red Stars players:

Some nice things (aka requirements) are to have a room all for the player to have to herself. Preferably her own bathroom, or at least multiples for one family. A separate entrance is a magic perk.

Is when you get a letter like this from one of your players.

This letter made my day yesterday! Thank you Rieleah!

Keep Believing in it and continue to work hard at your game and you have a great shot at accomplishing your dreams in soccer and in life!

JM

Brand new long-awaited mixtape from Wale. Download it HERE.

I'm Fake Sigi, and I approve this message:

"It's a huge honor but also a really nice surprise to be voted the female athlete of the year for U.S. Soccer," said Solo. "I especially want to thank everyone for voting for a goalkeeper, as well as our goalkeeper coach Paul Rogers for helping me think about the position in a more sophisticated way, both technically and tactically.

Got my relocation guide in the mail the other day. Cant wait........its the only redeeming part to this woeful season so far.

I may be pretty young but I definitely still remember the Atari Lynx and this game. One thing I did forget though was how freaking big the Atari Lynx was. It was like playing video games on a boulder.......portable, but not really.

Awesome.

Awesome.

I may be pretty young but I definitely still remember the Atari Lynx and this game. One thing I did forget though was how freaking big the Atari Lynx was. It was like playing video games on a boulder.......portable, but not really.

Got my relocation guide in the mail the other day. Cant wait........its the only redeeming part to this woeful season so far.

Some of you may have noticed that there's a new ad on the left sidebar. It's for a book called The Light In Darkness by my good friend Lawrence Kirsch. Longtime listeners of the podcast will remember when he appeared on the show to talk about his first book, For You, and when we paid tribute to the memory of E Street Band organist Danny Federici.

Earlier today, me, narcissistically posting in Pitch Invasion's Sweeper, which was awesome enough to link to me three times, and oh, yeah, had a bit about the depressing match fixing revelations coming out of Europe:

Anyway, Declan Hill is working on his "told you so" blog entry right now.

So long, jackass. It's about time.
Much love to Ives for the image.
I told you all the 2010 MLS season would be awesome. Between Heaps and Olsen hanging up their petulant (and in regards to the former, dirty, cheating) cleats, next year got a whole lot better.

Damn it feels good to be a gangster. I just realized I never properly reflected on my pure and total awesomeness - what better time to do it now than the cold months of winter? Pull up a chair and be warmed by the size of my indomitable ego. I mean, yeah, I played it cool leading up to the record:

"It just means I've been around for a while and that I'm older," Schmid said, not trying to call much attention to the milestone.

Is surprisingly gender neutral:

FIFA announced the [World Player of the Year] finalists earlier today.
Three of the five women finalists play in MLS - the others are Kelly Smith (Boston Breakers) and Cristiane (Chicago Red Stars).

Thanks to Dan Loney for making me go back and reread that post.

Per Sean Michelle. I guess Clark Hunt found some extra change in his sofa. Even Will Hesmer gets a raise:

The Crew is close to finalizing new deals with Jed Zayner and Jason Garey, two of the three players who are out of contract at the end of the month. Guillermo Barros Schelotto is the other, and a new agreement with "The Little Guy," as Alejandro Moreno calls him, is hoped to be reached before the holidays.