[Sweeper]

http://web.mlsnet.com/news/mls_news...._mls&fext=.jsp

Had no idea that Red Bull was so messed up by Mo and that Chivas USA was so vastly improved this year over last.

[JeremyEritrea]

Wait a second, Bob Bradley's brother is saying that Bob's former team became a mess after Bob left and that Bob's current team vastly improved after Bob's arrival???!?!??!!

Wow!!! I'm shocked that Bob's brother would sell him out like that!

[Chowda]

I'm missing something here, I think. Where did he say that Mo screwed up RBNY?

IMO, Alexi's tinkering had the most profound impact.

[Bonji]

Is Bradley the new Trecker? He certainly needs a better fact checker.

[MightyMouse]

I blame energy drinks!!!

[Sandon Mibut]

Originally Posted by Bonji

Is Bradley the new Trecker? He certainly needs a better fact checker.

But wait, there's more

8. Real Salt Lake have a little ground to make up on the field, or striker and MVP candidate Jeff Cunningham could become the first man to win the Golden Boot and not get a chance to participate in the postseason. While Cunningham surely wants to make the playoffs, we're going to point out that with 15 goals he is currently three goals short of the most goals ever scored by a player on a non-playoff team. That was Raul Diaz Arce, who scored 18 goals for the 1998 New England Revolution.

For a self-styled historian, he sure is loose with the facts.

Cunningham has 16 goals - easy to look up there on MLSnet - and is thus two short of RDA's mark for a non-playoff scorer.

I know it's not a huge mistake and the greater point is that a guy once scored 18 goals and his team missed the playoffs. I get that. But as we've learned with Trecker, you start consistently making niggling mistakes and suddenly your credibility is questioned. And Bradley is one of the better soccer writers out there, so that would be shame.

[Sweeper]

Originally Posted by Chowda

I'm missing something here, I think. Where did he say that Mo screwed up RBNY?

IMO, Alexi's tinkering had the most profound impact.

Take the mental leap.

[stucknutah]

Originally Posted by Sandon Mibut

But as we've learned with Trecker, you start consistently making niggling mistakes and suddenly your credibility is questioned. And Bradley is one of the better soccer writers out there, so that would be shame.

Frankly, Bradley has been mailing it in all season. I used to look forward to his insightful articles the last few years, but this year...well, he apparently has other interests, because it has been mostly recycled and boring crap. Too bad.

[Jasonma]

Horrible column. Half the items he lists aren't even "historical" because, as he states, they've happened before or they aren't going to happen this year because a prior team did worse. And saying they haven't happened in X years is somewhat meaningless when the league is only 10 years old. There are many posters here on BigSoccer than can do better.

And nice job on missing the Rapids '97 title. I expect if he mentions it in his next column that he'll say he meant "regular-season title".

[ThreeApples]

Originally Posted by Jasonma

And nice job on missing the Rapids '97 title. I expect if he mentions it in his next column that he'll say he meant "regular-season title".

It's obvious he meant regular-season title. He mentioned Tampa Bay in 1996, who won in the regular-season but not the playoffs, and Miami in 2001, who won in the regular season in a year when there were no playoff conference champions, and he implied that Columbus and the MetroStars won conference championships, which they have done in the season but not the playoffs.