Post-match: InvasionoftheSwampCreatures -MLS MATCHDAY 7 CREW VS WOKE CITY SATURDAY APRIL 16TH 730PM (ORLANDO FC)

I saw Alton Brown do a Dr. Pepper ham and have wanted to try it, but my wife and kids aren't big on ham. I've done leg of lamb when my English mother in law has been in town.

 

You say that and with your history of predicting firings, @Ch(Elsey) may not need to run to Kinko's for pink paper.

 

Fully aware and have been for years - but that is easily my favorite beer and with most being around the 9% ABV it's quite easy to get fuzzy. Thankfully, I know when to say when.

 

Yes, yes, and yes.

Knoxville knows how to make Zone 14 touches matter.

 

It's that last sentence... I still think Caleb is a good coach but even good to exceptional coaches get to a point with a club where a change is needed and either a trade up or trade down with a partial rebuild is needed to move beyond or around what the rest of the league is doing.

 

In my experience, the quality of ham is more important than anything you do with it.

 

Dying to know whether Stanger's soccer expert friends enjoyed the match.

 

I'm not sure that's true.

Last year there were all those injuries and there was a limit to how much you could reasonably ask. This year so far there are zero injuries aside from Molino, who might as well be a ghost, and Diaz, a bench player.

And if anything the team is worse.

What's more they look worse with each passing game while the coach seems shockingly detached and unconcerned.

Week after week he's getting publicly pantsed and seems OK with it. It's almost creepy.

I think the team has tuned him out. They are just going through the motions. It's very sad.

This cannot be allowed to continue and expect that the fans will keep coming.

Canning Porter would show that somebody is paying attention.

 

This.

Plus, I think spiral sliced hams are terrible.

 

It's almost as if giving a five year contract to a manager who burned every bridge in Portland, where near nobody was sad to see him leave was a bad idea.

I keep on hearing over and over that the ownership that has been afforded such generous breaks from the city for the stadium will make the decisions needed to better the team. That money is no object.

Yet, players like Molino and Kitchen who should have been bought out are still here. Yet Porter is still here.

You are right. They aren't paying attention. They don't care. They never did.

This was only ever a vanity project for ownership. They were heralded as heroes. They got their stadium. They'll reap the benefits. And we'll have a shit team with absentee ownership for the foreseeable future.

But the STC Cult will continue to worship them for "saving" the team for another half dozen years or so before anyone comes to their senses.

 

Got home, fixed myself a White Russian. Feeling much better now.

 

Alas, I did not. @Big J 0526 was distracting me.

 

Upper Terrace, I see. Very nice, good choice.

 

You promised not to tell!

 

My first time up there, and it was empty. It's awesome. A little blustery tonight, but I'll definitely try to get back up there again.

 

Says the guy who basically shoved a sausage down my throat at Hofbrau!

 

Also, the game was not great.

 

The Moment of the Match was the youth soccer player with the pregame kick.

It's awesome she's doing stuff for cancer research, but isn't such a "moment of the match" supposed to be a player scoring a goal, finishing a hat trick or maybe even an awesome save?

They had to cut their postgame show short due to having to go to CBJ pregame (apparently the "plus" situation wasn't an option)...maybe that was a blessing as we couldn't see whatever Caleb said to the media.

 

Just pitiful.

 

I do not want to know what this means.