There have been some rumours on other threads that Clint B was signed by DC. Thr only thing I can find on the net is that the MFLS (Major Fantasy League Soccer) website is reporting that Baumstark was signed on Sunday, 10/5. Anyone else know anything about this?
well he did start against columbus, from the match report "The match was the MLS debut of Baumstark, a late call-up by United to replace Doug Warren, who returned home to attend to family matters. Baumstark will join the United States U-20 National Team, led by former D.C. Head Coach Thomas Rongen, in Los Angeles tomorrow in preparation for a friendly match against Japan."
He was signed by MLS a few months ago but never allocated to a team. His role is, more or less, emergency keeper for all the teams. The fear was, that with all the players leaving for international duty during the year, if a team needed a spare keeper to serve as cover, he could be called in. I would suspect that next season he would be with a team full time. Ah, the beauty of single entity.
I'd like to see MLS loan temp keepers to both teams. They could each play one half for each team. They wouldn't have to walk all the way to the other goalmouth at halftime and it would help even things out. Because parody is important in major league team sports.
Well, they trade Richie Williams back and forth every year to make sure ankles are fairly bitten throughout the east coast.
So then why ain't Rusty Pierce and Joey Franchino, and Jay Heaps moving from team to team? Seems like the Revs should be subjected to them too. Geez.
Considering his potential duties on the youth Mens Natl Team, it doesn't make much sense to sign him now - unless DC United wants to claim him now and wait til next year to really use him as THE back-up goalie. All in all, he did fairly well against Columbus - May have faced only one shot (from point-blank range), but he didn't flake out - Which young goalies can do - So he might be somebody worth while to hang onto for a while - How are former DC Goalies doing? - Garlick seems to have DC's number for key games - Is Presthus still playing?
Presthus was traded to C-bus and plays backup to Busch now. He played in our early season win over C-bus at RFK (the 3-0 before the 0-3)