Major League Soccer

I looooove the raucous Portland fans

what a sick strike from jewsbury

i've hated the lakers, angels, raiders, rams, usc, and ucla for so long. but all i care about now is soccer. the galaxy fit.

nice night. 60k, 4-0, 80°. hell yes.

I hate the Anaheim Ducks.

Seattle was impressive last night, but man the one thing missing in the whole equation is GRASS.

The Fire newcomers Fernandez and MacDonald handled themselves well on Saturday, both had very good chances to score but couldn't quite put it away. TFC is SO BAD though, it's really incredible. Poor guys finished with 9 men on the field too.

I watched that Fire/TFC game on MLS Live last night and it was pretty brutal. As you said Dan, TFC is horrid, though I have to say Chicago still needs better finishing. Hell, the whole league needs better finishing. So much buildup petered out around the 18 yard box. I think MacDonald looked pretty good though, and as he rounds into shape and gains rapport with the midfield Chicago will be dangerous. Chance to make some noise in the East playoffs if they don't gift teams goals like that one the other night.

Sean Johnson is quickly becoming special - forcing that save onto the post was something. A little luck, but strong fingers nonetheless.

Watching last Friday's Houston - New York game. The new Houston stadium is nice! And close to downtown. FC Dallas has a nice home but it's over 30 miles from the city center, with zero mass transit infrastructure. Appalling.

Appalling. might as well be DFW's tagline

Hey! I'm finding a lot to like in Dallas. Though the car culture and dead downtown are disheartening.

sorry, obligated to hate Dallas as a rule. my wife is from dfw (euless) and its aight.

have you been out to frisco for a game?

meant to say, as a San Antonio native, obligated to hate....etc

btw, SA drew over 10000 last night in a loss to puerto rico
hope don garber watching this shit

Sadly, I haven't, though I hope to go this fall. Had tickets for a spring game but had to give them away when I had to travel out of town. Sure as hell won't be going out there in this heat. I haven't acclimated at all and I can't get used to it being 100 at 9pm.

I think the funniest thing I've found talking to people all over Texas is that no matter what one town thinks of another, everyone agrees Houston sucks.

fuck houston, bc 1000000% humidity is hell on earth, and also their horrible toll roads and also most of the big Texas oil money is there

See? Everyone hates Houston. I've never been, but I'm not dying to go. I do want to make it down to your neck of the woods sometime during my Dallas sojourn.

come to a scorpions game while you still can and while they are still playing on a high school football field

garber has got to be paying attention. 10k w/ no stars, HS field? that's close to competitive w/cbus & NE already

Pablo campos is a star! in my eyes. bc he's so tall and has scored 16 goals.

new stadium going up next year iirc, plans are expandable to 18500

http://sanantonioscorpions.com/stadium/stadium-plans

we v nearly had an MLS team in 2005 but the incoming mayor did not like MLS' plans bc iirc the city would make like zero dollars so he nixedit. that team became the dynamo.

afaik dallas makes a significant amount of money off of the surrounding soccer fields in the development where their stadium is, enough to stay afloat at least

USOC final tonight, first time the Sounders have had to play on the road in a minute. Predictions?

I think Sporting KC takes it.

i don't want to make a guess, but i'm feeling pretty good about tonight. going to a packed bar will make it more fun. hopefully.

i liked these:

-the sounders haven't lost in regulation in USOC since 2005
-Sounders riding a 7-game unbeaten streak vs. Sporting KC (6-0-1). They've scored the game-winner in the 89th minute or later 4 times

Has Tiffert officially signed with Seattle?

yeah, he made a cameo in their game against LA on Sunday

another sonarrileybroadcast! http://ustre.am/DEtU

@mcnarnia @McNarnia: This is a cup final. The cauldron is sitting down and getting pumped up by their dog mascot.

Clowns

this is too much

parke for hurtado plzzzzzzzzzz

p intense stuff man

going to pks, have to say kc has had the better of the run of play but I've only seen about 2/3 of the game

lol and my stream dies

mine too. bugger.

it's back!

tense.

Ooooh, might be some controversy, depending on how this ends up.

definitely gonna be some controversy. But congrats Sporting KC.

lolhnson

man jimmy neilsen was on some creepy shit with those faces he was making, was that a hannibal lecter impression?

I think he's just creepy.

ozzie tiffert ej all in a row wtf guys

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.

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