Entries for June 7, 2009

(UPDATE: The two Sunday "Toilet Bowls" now discussed at bottom.)

Welcome back to another week of highlight reviews; this combined with my write-up on Chivas v. Seattle constitutes my body of research for the week on MLS. Short and shallow, I know, but it’s what I can do on these international weekends. This will only be current as of Saturday’s games; expect to see Sunday’s results added in an update tomorrow morning. So, is there unifying theme to all this? Only one comes to me: reputations are starting...

Oddly, Seattle turned in their best performance in a while last night: the passing was a little shorter and sharper, as suits them, and they even managed a couple of those wonder-sequences in which they’re doing everything so fast that the opposition can only stand, watch, and hope for a shanked shot. Or an alert Zach Thornton. Going the other way, is there some kind of animal that plays dead only to suddenly bolt awake to take a big, lethal bite of your backside? I tried to capture that in the title, because that’s how Chivas played tonight....