I liked him fine the other day and even better tonight (he repeated himself much less frequently this game). The other refreshing thing is that he isn't a homer in the slightest (which may change over the course of a season covering the same team), a pleasant surprise from a team-specific broadcast duo.
for the game to be good at the end, kc had to score a goal in the second half. the best chance was the one lopez shot low to the near post with a diving reflex save by reis. but i've seen lopez not put away chances like that before. it's not that he muffs it badly, but he manages not to score. the game in any case wasn't bad, although the two goal gap made it peter out at the end. good running and some quick ball movement. joseph is an mvp, which you really notice without twellman and ralston. smith is a clod. the field is tiny at kc and on the tv shots there's almost no trace of a stadium, which looks kinda weird. you also notice how close to the action the cameras are, which is good, although they're a little low. the place seems done up about as well as could be. i agree with the comments on arena. he spoke a lot but wasn't irritating. i also liked some personal feeling he seemed to have for the players, as when franchino checked into the game. he also loves parkhurst.
The field is bigger than Arrowhead....it's mainly the camera angle that makes it look small. Also, in case it wasn't mentioned during the broadcast, it started raining shortly after kickoff, and many fans who were there went up to the concourse to stay dry. It was still a small crowd (the Cauldron wasn't packed as usual). It was typical for a Wednesday night game in KC, plus the Yankees were in town to play the Royals as well. There were many reasons for a lot of empty seats last night. Fortunately, we only have one more mid-week home game this season. I would expect the stadium to be packed on Saturday for Houston (our last home game until mid-June), and I expect a much better performance from KC as well.
Not just raining, but driving cold rain. Up on the concourse at half time it was packed under the roof up there. Awful defensive display by my team though. Leathers has to go to the bench on Saturday, he is a liability. Shalrie was a monster and we had no answer to him. We were out gunned by their midfield wth a rather lightweight Jewsbury, Morsink, and Marinelli.
In general I think the ex-coaches tend to make better analysts than the ex-players. Maybe because they're used to looking at the game from more of an analyst's perspective.
So, how am I supposed to watch six games at once at around 6:15 PDT tonight? We need people assigned to every game and ready to report on everything herein. Organization, people!
Should be pretty high. http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/soccer_redcard/2008/04/game-day-fire-e.html
17000 tickets sold as of yesterday, according to John Doyle. Walk-up sales should put attendance over 20,000.
[BigSoccer retard] MLS shouldn't be putting its games in suburban stadiums in places like Carson and Frisco and Bridgeview and Oakland. Real soccer fans only live in urban areas and don't drive, at least not more than five minutes. [/BigSoccer retard]
* 1 - Jon Busch (GK) * 4 - Bakary Soumare * 6 - Brandon Prideaux * 7 - Logan Pause * 9 - Tomasz Frankowski * 10 - Cuauhtemoc Blanco * 19 - Chad Barrett * 21 - Justin Mapp * 22 - Wilman Conde * 25 - Gonzalo Segares * 33 - Stephen King Substitutes * 28 - Nick Noble (GK) * 3 - Calen Carr * 11 - John Thorrington * 20 - Mike Banner * 24 - Daniel Woolard * 26 - Andy Herron * 32 - Dasan Robinson * 1 - Joe Cannon (GK) * 3 - Nick Garcia * 4 - James Riley * 5 - Ryan Cochrane * 7 - Ronnie O'Brien * 9 - Gavin Glinton * 11 - Ned Grabavoy * 12 - Ramiro Corrales * 16 - Kei Kamara * 21 - Jason Hernandez * 23 - Ivan Guerrero Substitutes * 22 - Preston Burpo (GK) * 2 - Eric Denton * 6 - Joe Vide * 8 - Adam Smarte * 15 - Shea Salinas * 19 - Ryan Johnson * 20 - John Cunliffe
I'd just like to point out that it's the hottest day of year up here by a longshot. Nice choice on the black shirts, San Jose. Bwaaah Haaa haaaa..
I think Chicago is a good team this year and may become very good, but all of this talk about them being the best team in MLS right now seems to forget how much they struggled just two weeks ago against RSL.
from a Quake fan exiled on the East Coast who's bar, backup bar, and back up back up bar ended up not shoing thw game and is now sitting in front of matchtracker cursing at the top of his lungs . . . . UPDATES PEOPLE UPDATES!!!! . . . . . . . . . . please?
Kai Kamara just turned a half-inch into a very nice shot from the right edge of the area -- off a typically nice pass from O'brien. Well saved low. That was better than anything I saw from him against LA.
Pretty even so far. San Jose looks like a real team. Someone (Guerrero?) almost caught Busch napping and hit the outside of the post.
Also Hernandez totally botched a decent heading opportunity earlier. Very poor technique when he had a lot of space at the far the post.
thanks, but I had to come back to a computer at work and I'm sure as hell not throwing on an illegal site . . . . thanks though