The "Thoughts That Don't Require Their Own Thread" Thread XIII

I don’t come here much any more since I got fed up with the Krafts and got a new team with its own stadium issues. But I wanted to dip in and comment on how happy it made made me to see Laro and (especially) Parky lift the Cup yesterday. I’ve always thought Parkhurst was underrated by the USMNT and should have been a Revs pillar for his whole career.

 

It's amazing to me that anyone associated with the Revs could watch last night's game and not want to move Heaven and Earth to make that happen here.

And yeah, Atlanta has some advantages that the Revs can't do anything about, but there's so much they could be doing... but just aren't, for whatever reason.

 

Doubt that anyone associated with the Revs even bothered to watch the game.

 

To paraphrase Dickens, with Atlanta being the first reference and New England the second, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, well other than saying 'we tried,' and we were this close to making the playoffs..."

 

LOL! Why should we watch the game if our team isn't playing in it? To quote their former media relations person, "soccer is too boring."

 

I didn't watch it either!

 

Well, how many people who own an NFL team would pass on watching the Super Bowl? I bet all of them have their own suites at the game. Likewise for the owners of any team in any sport. Even with the World Series/Stanley Cup/NBA Finals, which stretches over several games, every team has a presence.

I dunno if the Krafts were at the game (I'd think they might be, and then take a quick flight to Miami the next day) or even watched it on TV, but I certainly hope they'd care enough about the league that they have invested countless $$ over nearly 25 years that they'd want to be involved in the league's showcase event.

But then again, there are a lot of things we might think would be the case with this team but aren't

 

From the article above:

So now we know who one of the "20 South Americans" was! Sand is still playing at age 38, and he had a cap for Argentina in 2008, so he must have been in pretty good form at the time we were supposedly in the running to sign him. He had scored 10 goals in 33 games for his Argentine club in the 2005-06 season.

 

Sand would have been the Twellman replacement. Instead we got Psycho Lekic.

 

But he thought he was joining a club as big as Borussia Dortmund once he saw the stadium all decked out in the team colors!

When a guy's nickname is "Psycho," it usually isn't a great indicator of a stable presence or a calming leader

 

He would have been signed to play with Twellman, not replace him, given the timing mentioned in the article. Maybe he would have helped push us over the line to win a Cup or two.

 

But the Krafts said no.

 

I wonder if this guy is a REVs fan?

https://www.wimp.com/guy-makes-instruments-from-root-vegetables-plays-africa-by-toto/

 

OK, Micheal, you asked, so we will!

 

Better spell his name right, though.

 

The @NERevolution schedule is out and I’m excited. I need y’all to hold me accountable: this year, my soccer knowledge and commitment must improve.

— Michael Holley (@MichaelSHolley) January 7, 2019

Well, Michael, if the release of the New England Revolution's 2019 schedule has you feeling "excited", that's clearly a sign that your "soccer knowledge and commitment must improve".

 

Matt Turner picks up the charity mantle from Kelyn Rowe.

Turning over the Torch: Turner begins a new era in 2019 with "Matt's NEGU Crew"
January 24, 2019, 12:06PM EST
Elizabeth Pehota

 

Yeah, the whole "negativity" thing is something that has been tossed at me from time to time. I think I can speak for others who share this view, but the motivation is not to be snarky and clever, it's just that we care about the team and want it to be as good as it possibly can. Five times we went into a Cup Final and came out empty each time. That gnaws at me. Especially if you consider how "equal" the Revs would have been to the other teams in town during the same time frame. The Pats and Sox have won multiple titles and the Celtics and Bruins one each.If we had won even one of those 5 Cups, every team in town would have at least one championship in recent years, which is really an amazing feat. No other city has that.

I am not content with the status quo. I don't expect us to spend ridiculous money, but I do expect us to not be sluggards and slackers who are just going through the motions. I am optimistic that they signed Carles Gil and the Other Caicedo, and hopefully they will be at the level Penilla gave us last year. But Friedel has made lots of calls that seem like poor judgment, but I'm willing to give him another shot to see what he can do this year with "his" team.

At the end of the day, the opposite of "I love the Revs, right or wrong" is not "I hate the Revs," it's more like, "The Revs? Are they still playing down in Foxboro? Oh yeah, I guess their season will be starting soon...I used to care about them, but now, I don't even know who's on the team any more..."