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Oh. I guess the A-League game that I was planning on watching tonight is on delay from last night. And now I know the score. For some reason I thought those games were live. "with a stated goal of matching the MLS best season-ticket total of last year -- established by the Crew -- of 7,316. As of Wednesday, the Wizards had sold 6,329 season tickets." Not bad.
From that one: You'd think the Seattle Times, which supposedly was told by someone with big bucks that they should help out and show MLS what kind of coverage a Seattle MLS team would get, would get a stringer who can write a little better than that, and an editor who would catch that you don't make a frigging plural with an apostrophe. Northside, the game you'll see tonight will be live, it will be the return match of the home-and-home. Unlike the MISL, the USL matches aren't usually tape-delayed on FSW.
Must be an "An Officer and a Gentleman" reference per the Commander in Chief taking the controls of the Navy jet for 5 minutes yesterday, right? "I wanna fly jets." "My Grandmother wants to fly jets!" Good Ol' Bud Poliquin is a longtime fixture in the Syracuse sports media. He brings up a good point about the clutter of sports teams in the area that have already laid claim to the the hearts of local fans: The Salty Dogs' better not suck, otherwise their attendance may really suffer.
Re: Re: 5/2/03: Mayonaise Thanks. That's why I was caught by surprise.. What do they do - play two games in two days?
"Because of the kind of league it is, Major League Soccer is always finding teenage talents to push into key positions." From the Magee article in the Daily Herald. Other than this hurting my feelings a little bit, this made me wonder: how many ways can we finish the sentence "Because of the kind of league it is, Major League Soccer ..." Insert "Match Game" music, and discuss.
Re: Re: Re: 5/2/03: Mayonaise i am surpised by that too. i thought mabye they would being doing that to save on travel expenses but whats the distance, a couple of hours?
Re: Re: Re: 5/2/03: Mayonaise Welcome to the A-League. Back-to-backs are a way of life. Not always with the same two teams, but you'll often play two games in a weekend because most A-League teams can't draw flies when it's not the weekend (though they had a good crowd by A-League standards in Portland, apparently).
Yea. Considering where they came from, an amazing effort really. Anshutz gets most of the hoopla around here, but the Hunts sure have put their heart and soul into MLS and American soccer. It's too bad St. Phil doesn't take a bit more of a public stance on MLS to draw a bit more attention to the league. Though with his recent financial associations (for lack of a better word), maybe it's better he didn't.
Last night's Timbers-Sounders match recap. From the Oregonian. http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/sports/1051876520142830.xml BTW, why are these teams playing on consecutive nights at this point in the season? Oh, never mind.
Re: from the Boston Herald re: Arena Be fair - that's not the entire quote: "That's like with any team". Nothing wrong that. Bruce likes people if they impress him. TT will get some more shots - but as friendlies go, this is a pretty big one and worth going for the win, in which case you go for experience.
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Re: Re: from the Boston Herald re: Arena Its just the type of comment that reminds me of the bitching that Kreis does. As people are already starting to draw comparissons to the two of the, i just hope that TnT doesn't develop any attitude like Kreis has about not getting more calls up with the national team. With that said you're probably right that he's just tryign to be pragmatic.
Is it me or is Thursday night the wrong time for Hankinson to be wringing his hands over who should be starting? It seems to me that two days before a match the only uncertainty should be with the injured players, and even then I would think you'd have a good idea who the replacement would be. I guess spending a half hour the night before a game, creating the line-up for my U-10 team, is the way it's done professionally too?
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No, this is Hankinson's commitment to his "Total Soccer" philosophy. Since nobody knows who's starting where, all the players have to be prepared to place any position, even keeper! In other words, yeah, Hankinson is out of touch.
My personal favorite on that show was Charles Nelson Riley. Before there was Harvey Firestein(sp), there was good old Chuck. He had this most obnoxious laugh while puffing a pipe(talk about double entendres) and wearing silk floral shirts with a silk scarves. I always got a kick out of him. He really was so gay like Rip Taylor and you just had to like him. Anyway, I will go back to drinking.