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Snorky's Shame
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Pa-choke-ca. Way to defend the long ball. That looked like a FIFA goal.
74 year old Conejo Perez got nutmegged.
Montreal to the semi-finals.
74 year old Conejo Perez got nutmegged.
Montreal to the semi-finals.
NML
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Haha that was awful defending. Grats to Montreal doe. Montreal played well for the first 50 minutes and the last 5. They were the worst team for the 130 or so in between. Still, they had a good showing in Mexico which is tough to do.
Can't see DC overturning the deficit unless Hamid plays, but still it will be fun to watch. Either way, I think it'll be a Montreal/America final. Which I don't think would be close.
Can't see DC overturning the deficit unless Hamid plays, but still it will be fun to watch. Either way, I think it'll be a Montreal/America final. Which I don't think would be close.
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Team: New England
Best Case Scenario: Agudelo syncs back up instantly, the offense is the best in the league, Farrell and JoGo are studs at CB, and the Revs win the Supporters Shield and MLS Cup.
Worst Case Scenario: Agudelo gets hurt, Davies can't re-find his MLS Cup run form, and Heaps over-thinks on moving people around. The team never gels, Jones wants to play CB instead, and they allow some cheap goals. They make the playoffs but are bounced in the first round.
Fan Favorite: Could be a ton of different guys - but probably Lee Nyguen.
Young Player To Look Out For On Your Team: Steve Neumann. Mullins got most of the attention last season as an impact rookie, but Neumann was actually drafted before Mullins. It didn't happen last year, but hopefully he finds his form this season.
Player You Would Like To Drive To Another Club: Jerry Bengston, although he is out on loan.
Opposition Player You Secretly Admire: Robbie Keane. Sans Donovan, probably the best player I've ever seen in MLS.
Opposition Player You Openly Despise: Lampard? I don't know, Blas Perez seems like kind of a dick.
Opposing MLS Team You Respect: Houston. Besides Ching, they've never had any stars and yet they always seem to make the playoffs.
Opposing MLS Team You Despise: Toronto FC. I can appreciate that they are trying to spend the money, but cot damn realize that the supporting players need to improve. Wasting Bradley and Jozy's best years.
Do You Have The Right Owner: No. The Kraft's have gotten extremely lucky the past three seasons (this one included) that studs fell into their lap. Agudelo for peanuts from Chivas, Jermaine Jones "blind draw," and Agudelo again. The youth system isn't good either. Revs are typically one of the worst MLS teams in USSDA.
Do You Have The Right Manager: Yep, Heaps is a bauce.
What Advice Do You Have For The Manager: Andy Dorman isn't any good.
What Is The One Thing You Would Change At Your Club: Front office staff.
What Is The One Thing You Would Change In MLS: The minimum salary is getting increased, but still probably not enough. Not MLS, but I wish the Champions League format would change. It actually covers three seasons - the one that you qualify from, the fall of year two, and the knockout rounds in the spring of year three.
Where Will You Finish: 1st, in the East and overall.
Who Wins MLS Cup: Revs
Will An MLS Team Win The CONCACAF Champions League: Montreal gets to the final, but no.
How Far Will The United States Go At The Women's World Cup: Not far, they've looked shitty the last few times I saw them.
Will The United States Win The Gold Cup: Yes!!
Best Case Scenario: Agudelo syncs back up instantly, the offense is the best in the league, Farrell and JoGo are studs at CB, and the Revs win the Supporters Shield and MLS Cup.
Worst Case Scenario: Agudelo gets hurt, Davies can't re-find his MLS Cup run form, and Heaps over-thinks on moving people around. The team never gels, Jones wants to play CB instead, and they allow some cheap goals. They make the playoffs but are bounced in the first round.
Fan Favorite: Could be a ton of different guys - but probably Lee Nyguen.
Young Player To Look Out For On Your Team: Steve Neumann. Mullins got most of the attention last season as an impact rookie, but Neumann was actually drafted before Mullins. It didn't happen last year, but hopefully he finds his form this season.
Player You Would Like To Drive To Another Club: Jerry Bengston, although he is out on loan.
Opposition Player You Secretly Admire: Robbie Keane. Sans Donovan, probably the best player I've ever seen in MLS.
Opposition Player You Openly Despise: Lampard? I don't know, Blas Perez seems like kind of a dick.
Opposing MLS Team You Respect: Houston. Besides Ching, they've never had any stars and yet they always seem to make the playoffs.
Opposing MLS Team You Despise: Toronto FC. I can appreciate that they are trying to spend the money, but cot damn realize that the supporting players need to improve. Wasting Bradley and Jozy's best years.
Do You Have The Right Owner: No. The Kraft's have gotten extremely lucky the past three seasons (this one included) that studs fell into their lap. Agudelo for peanuts from Chivas, Jermaine Jones "blind draw," and Agudelo again. The youth system isn't good either. Revs are typically one of the worst MLS teams in USSDA.
Do You Have The Right Manager: Yep, Heaps is a bauce.
What Advice Do You Have For The Manager: Andy Dorman isn't any good.
What Is The One Thing You Would Change At Your Club: Front office staff.
What Is The One Thing You Would Change In MLS: The minimum salary is getting increased, but still probably not enough. Not MLS, but I wish the Champions League format would change. It actually covers three seasons - the one that you qualify from, the fall of year two, and the knockout rounds in the spring of year three.
Where Will You Finish: 1st, in the East and overall.
Who Wins MLS Cup: Revs
Will An MLS Team Win The CONCACAF Champions League: Montreal gets to the final, but no.
How Far Will The United States Go At The Women's World Cup: Not far, they've looked shitty the last few times I saw them.
Will The United States Win The Gold Cup: Yes!!
Team: LA Galaxy
Best Case Scenario: MLS Cup, again.
Worst Case Scenario: Early round playoff exit. I don't see this team missing the playoffs unless they get railroaded by a bunch of freak injuries or something.
Fan Favorite: It's gotta be Keane. DeLaGarza too, given his personal/family tragedy last year.
Young Player To Look Out For On Your Team: No idea. I nailed this last year with Zardes, but I don't think any of the n00bs with LA will make that kind of impact this year.
Player You Would Like To Drive To Another Club: There isn't anybody I really don't like. Penedo is feast or famine, so when he's having "one of those days," I want to drag him out back and shoot him.
Opposition Player You Secretly Admire: Lampard. Not a secret.
I also like Zusi, because fuck @Travis7401
Opposition Player You Openly Despise: Steven Lenhart. This answer won't change until he retires.
Opposing MLS Team You Respect: Seattle. Love the fan support, and despite being rivals to my local teams, I've always had a soft spot for Seattle sports -- M's, Sonics (RIP), Sounders, and obviously the Seahawks. That being said, I "hate" the Sounders when they're playing the Galaxy. And I never "hate" the M's when they're playing the Angels, or "hated" the Sonics when they played the Lakers.
Opposing MLS Team You Despise: [Seattle. If you have ever talked to a Sounders fan, you'll know why.] <--re: Snorky's answer. He's dead on regarding Sounders fans. I just said I admire their fan support as a whole, but a 1-on-1 soccer conversation with a Sounders fan can be torture.
Do You Have The Right Owner: Yep.
Do You Have The Right Manager: Yep.
What Advice Do You Have For The Manager: I hope there's a "backup" plan for the offense besides just Gerrard-to-Keane. They're old. Shit can tear, break, sprain, etc.
What Is The One Thing You Would Change At Your Club: The third kit. I know it's meant to honor to old uniforms, but it's still ugly.
What Is The One Thing You Would Change In MLS: Careful with the rapid expansion. This league is growing nicely, but it's still not the NFL or NBA. Don't deplete the talent too much by spreading it across 100 teams.
Where Will You Finish: Top 3 in the West.
Who Wins MLS Cup: I'll say L.A., without much conviction though. If you're forcing me to bet on "will LA win it?" I'd probably say no. But I don't know which other team I'd give better odds than LA.
Will An MLS Team Win The CONCACAF Champions League:
How Far Will The United States Go At The Women's World Cup: I have no idea. I pay attention to the Womens team during WC's only, honestly.
Will The United States Win The Gold Cup: Sure, why not. It's 50-50 between us and the Messicans, obviously.
Best Case Scenario: MLS Cup, again.
Worst Case Scenario: Early round playoff exit. I don't see this team missing the playoffs unless they get railroaded by a bunch of freak injuries or something.
Fan Favorite: It's gotta be Keane. DeLaGarza too, given his personal/family tragedy last year.
Young Player To Look Out For On Your Team: No idea. I nailed this last year with Zardes, but I don't think any of the n00bs with LA will make that kind of impact this year.
Player You Would Like To Drive To Another Club: There isn't anybody I really don't like. Penedo is feast or famine, so when he's having "one of those days," I want to drag him out back and shoot him.
Opposition Player You Secretly Admire: Lampard. Not a secret.
I also like Zusi, because fuck @Travis7401 Opposition Player You Openly Despise: Steven Lenhart. This answer won't change until he retires.
Opposing MLS Team You Respect: Seattle. Love the fan support, and despite being rivals to my local teams, I've always had a soft spot for Seattle sports -- M's, Sonics (RIP), Sounders, and obviously the Seahawks. That being said, I "hate" the Sounders when they're playing the Galaxy. And I never "hate" the M's when they're playing the Angels, or "hated" the Sonics when they played the Lakers.
Opposing MLS Team You Despise: [Seattle. If you have ever talked to a Sounders fan, you'll know why.] <--re: Snorky's answer. He's dead on regarding Sounders fans. I just said I admire their fan support as a whole, but a 1-on-1 soccer conversation with a Sounders fan can be torture.
Do You Have The Right Owner: Yep.
Do You Have The Right Manager: Yep.
What Advice Do You Have For The Manager: I hope there's a "backup" plan for the offense besides just Gerrard-to-Keane. They're old. Shit can tear, break, sprain, etc.
What Is The One Thing You Would Change At Your Club: The third kit. I know it's meant to honor to old uniforms, but it's still ugly.
What Is The One Thing You Would Change In MLS: Careful with the rapid expansion. This league is growing nicely, but it's still not the NFL or NBA. Don't deplete the talent too much by spreading it across 100 teams.
Where Will You Finish: Top 3 in the West.
Who Wins MLS Cup: I'll say L.A., without much conviction though. If you're forcing me to bet on "will LA win it?" I'd probably say no. But I don't know which other team I'd give better odds than LA.
Will An MLS Team Win The CONCACAF Champions League:
How Far Will The United States Go At The Women's World Cup: I have no idea. I pay attention to the Womens team during WC's only, honestly.
Will The United States Win The Gold Cup: Sure, why not. It's 50-50 between us and the Messicans, obviously.
Team: Colorado Rapids
Everything else:
Seriously doe, I made it a goal to go to a game this year but my schedule is rapidly filling up with fishing related activities, so it might not happen.
Everything else:
Seriously doe, I made it a goal to go to a game this year but my schedule is rapidly filling up with fishing related activities, so it might not happen.
Threw TM a like on his post for being a seahawks fan that hates the sounders fans!
A lot of Seahawks fans are assholes, too. I think something about the PNW isolation makes people up there angry, and feel disrespected or something.
Snorky's Shame
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For anyone following the CBA, the Fire have just boarded a plane to Los Angeles. Not sure what that means in the grand scheme, but they could be close to a deal.
That said, the Fire are have rumored to have a flight back on Thursday if a strike is called.
That said, the Fire are have rumored to have a flight back on Thursday if a strike is called.
According to my DirecTV guide/search, this game doesn't exist. Any idea what channel it's on? (if it happens).
Snorky's Shame
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Unimas. Time Warner isn't broadcasting the game?
Time Warner was the first channel I checked, but it shows Lakers-Grizzlies.
Snorky's Shame
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Sounds like a deal has been reached.
The Fire can now commence being the Galaxy's bitch on Friday night. At least Magee isn't around to put 3 past the Fire this time around.
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The Fire can now commence being the Galaxy's bitch on Friday night. At least Magee isn't around to put 3 past the Fire this time around.
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BearDownUofA
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New CBA and I got my tickets to Fire/Galaxy. Bart Scott.
Snorky's Shame
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A little weird seeing Don Ovan and Marcelo Balboa converse in Spanish on Unimas.
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NML
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He played in Spain for a year, right? I'm sure being thrown into it helped.
It was just very slow and had the obvious English accent to it.
Is SAP working for you? Supposedly it's going to switch it to English. Maybe it won't kick in until kickoff, because I'm still all Spanish right now.
Snorky's Shame
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This game should be 3-0 Los Angeles right now. The Fire can't string three passes in the midfield to save their lives.
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What a bad goal to give up. Los Angeles attacking Jones' side a lot tonight.
Snorky's Shame
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It's sad when your best chance to score is arguably when Amarikwa blocked a clearance from Rowe in the first half.
I got 33 more games of this shit.
To make up for not creating anything with the long ball game, the Fire decide not to clear anything in the box either.
Sean Johnson going to need a psychiatrist by the time this season is over.
I got 33 more games of this shit.
To make up for not creating anything with the long ball game, the Fire decide not to clear anything in the box either.
Sean Johnson going to need a psychiatrist by the time this season is over.
bruin
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dos a cero @BearDownUofA
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It's only one game, and it's sad that we were louder than most of the LA fans for most of the game.
Snorky's Shame
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Josh Saunders just got crunched by the goalpost. Ouch.
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Worse. Orlando has been the better team so far.
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NML
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He's in midseason form with the non-topical soccer humor.
NML
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That may have been the greatest combination goal I've ever seen in MLS by Seattle.
I'm not too worried about the Revs. Before the third goal, they probably had the better of possession and arguably controlled the game. Seattle just has so much talent offensively, they capitalize on chances. I do worry about Agudelo - he was really bad, maybe the worst player on the field (until this Okoli fellow came on).
Of course, as I type this, Lallas says Agudelo was good. Why does he insist on being the Colin Cowherd of soccer? Literally everything he says, he's trying to be the quote from a newspaper article title.
I'm not too worried about the Revs. Before the third goal, they probably had the better of possession and arguably controlled the game. Seattle just has so much talent offensively, they capitalize on chances. I do worry about Agudelo - he was really bad, maybe the worst player on the field (until this Okoli fellow came on).
Of course, as I type this, Lallas says Agudelo was good. Why does he insist on being the Colin Cowherd of soccer? Literally everything he says, he's trying to be the quote from a newspaper article title.
NML
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Also not sure on this Farrell at CB thing. I knew Andrew in college, and he mostly played holding mid. He's such a freak athletically, but in two seasons at right back, he still never really understood his defensive responsibilities. I don't think the move to center back will help matters any.
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