Major League Soccer

cold light of day brings many conspiracy theories to light, it's akin to rubbernecking a bad traffic accident watching sounders fans deal with their first big loss in so public a manner across the breadth of the usa soccer interverse

not going to lie, after waking up in a bad, bad, BAD mood in seattle a year ago, schadenfreude is real

btw, still h8 KC, will be traveling there in a couple months to tell them so

any articles you recommend for laughs?

nah mostly twitter and msg board stuff, tho sigi has some good quotes in http://seattletimes.com/html/jerrybrewer/2018879038_brewer09.html and there some lol conspiracy bits in the comments too

my fave:

"It's difficult when you're playing against a team at home, so the crowd helps them, and then when you're playing against the referee as well, and he makes some absolutely, I thought, ridiculous calls,"

um yeah dude like the last two years eh

Thanks Dan! That whole article has some great laughs in it.

<3 rolfe

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8obzn7EUT1r1fq7do1_500.gif

http://lolmls.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/LOLMLS_321.jpg

Nice!

who is he?

Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath.

hilar pic from the league site

http://www.mlssoccer.com/sites/league/files/imagecache/620x350/image_nodes/2012/08/camara.jpg

Lots of shitty reffing over the weekend though, that DC/PHI game last night was especially lol.

http://www.thedrugisfootball.com/2012/08/mls-kraft-planning-to-sellrelocate.html

rumors of the Revs being sold/relocated

caleb porter to coach timbers?

spose it couldn't get much worse for them, still pissed we lost to that shitty team

You only lost because the ref let them kick the shit out of you.

fire vs dc last night

http://i.imgur.com/rEtvo.gif

ahaha

united really needed the points - i was scared of that game, but najar at RB was something else, as was saragosa of all fucking people

it was kinda weird being front and center in EVERY medium shot of barra all night (announced attendance was like 10k, which was very generous)

it was blatantly obvious how much logan pause was missed, the fire midfield looked totally disorganized. and don't even get me started on the dude we had playing rb on the night...

John Strong‏@StrongMLS

I'm told that no matter who Timbers hire as coach, decision was made earlier this summer to widen JWF to 74 yards (1/2)

carlos bocanegra to fire?

I got sort of awkwardly quoted in this excellent article about former Fire GM/President Peter Wilt:

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/35747/the-designated-player-the-curious-case-of-peter-wilt

and also bye bye marco pappa, transfer moved up.

making room for ol' charlie blackmouth, I suspect.

Nice article. Thanks.

Julian De Guzman is horrible.

That's all.

TOP 25-SELLING MLS JERSEYS

David Beckham, LAG
Thierry Henry, RBNY
Landon Donovan, LAG
Fredy Montero, SEA
Dwayne De Rosario, DCU
Chris Wondolowski, SJ
Tim Cahill, RBNY
Robbie Keane, LAG
Mauro Rosales, SEA
Brian Ching, HOU
Darlington Nagbe, POR
Chris Pontius, DCU
Osvaldo Alonso, SEA
Young-Pyo Lee, VAN
Kris Boyd, POR
Barry Robson, VAN
Eddie Gaven, CLB
Brad Davis, HOU
Roger Torres, PHI
Freddy Adu, PHI
Kei Kamara, SKC
Kyle Beckerman, RSL
Mike Magee, LAG
Saer Sene, NE
Arne Friedrich, CHI

I'm watching a replay of the other night's CHI v. TOR game and I don't think I'm going to make it to the half. Toronto is more than poor; they're atrocious. They had a little sign of life a month or so ago but are back to their early season abject state.

They were able to keep it somewhat interesting in the second half, I was really hoping for a demolition job from the Fire but it never materialized.

Made it to halftime. Called it good.

Getting a little sick of the hyping of Portland/Seattle today, tbqf. Why because Portland sucks and there are much more important playoff-implication matches happening too.

KC/Houston draw last night only made the Chicago/Montreal and New York/Columbus games more intense today. 5 points separating the top 4 in the East.

And don't overlook Dallas/Vancouver - if Dallas win they're within 1 point of Vancouver for the final playoff spot.

Excellent point. Dallas has really come on strong of late, they were pretty widely written off early in the year but have gotten healthy just in time.

Though I think the last home draw might have killed their shot.

After looking at the West standings, I'm surprised that 37pts is the current last spot. Everyone seemed to be predicting the West would be the stronger conference at the start of the season.

It is a bit surprising. I think if Dallas hadn't been so injury stricken they'd be comfortably over 40 points, but it wasn't to be. And Vancouver has been so disappointing since they became the West Scots team; they really should be comfortably out of reach by now.

Dallas closed within 1. Vancouver has a game in hand, but have looked so bad since they imported the Scots national team that I almost expect a full collapse.

AEG, who used to own more than half the league, is for sale:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/aeg-for-sale-anschutz-co-_n_1895548.html

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/37407/thierry-henrys-internal-monologue

^^^ MUST READ LOLZ

okay but we must respect Columbus — not literally, of course, but there is much to be learned from teams of their genre. and I leave him to mercies of the Australian, who is bounding round the middle at random, strewth-ing into things. are genius.

went to philly for the united game last night, my first time at ppl park - fun time, three much-needed points, and i totally enjoyed the stadium, but they certainly weren't kidding about those security guards

I watched most of that, looked like a bit of a hack-fest.

Gonna be a sell-out today at TP for Columbus, classic Chicago fans showing up now that playoffs are looking likely. Good thing it's for a must-win game.

http://i.imgur.com/nLA4t.gif

god you guys are playing your asses off right now

hoping we can sneak by a swooning RBNY into third tomorrow (which we will, on goal difference, with a win) - that last dcu/chicago game 10/27 could be very interesting seeding-wise

Fire looked really good yesterday.

Aside from the goal that SeanJohn just handed to them on a platter... smh.

Better he makes a flub like that now than in the playoffs. Watching it at home, the outcome never seemed in doubt. You guys were massively better.

Did anyone else catch the San Jose/Seattle game last night? Chippy and cheap, what with the Earthquakes built upon the rare breed of thuggish divers. San Jose one of the few teams in the league that make Seattle seem vaguely likable.

Didn't see that one, but I did see KC at Montreal earlier in the day. KC aren't divers as much as they swarm the ref looking for calls on seemingly every play, plus they hack and hit when they don't have the ball. Their draw means the Fire has a shot at first in the east on the road in KC on Friday, a game that I shall be attending. Only my second away day this year, shameful.

Best of luck in KC! Would love to see someone knock them off their perch.