He's going to go 3-14 with these predictions, well maybe 4-13. D.C. will not beat Dallas. NE will not lose at home with JMM returning against San Jose. Col/NY and Clb/KC matches are up in the air. I can see the Clb win, but not by that much.
"I don't like: How it can be hard to follow such exploits around the box when watching a Dallas Burn home game. That blue/black/purple endzone is hideous." It makes you wonder if the Burn staff even bothered to check out Dragon Stadium prior to signing the lease. While the stadium itself is quite nice for a high school field, the field is the ugliest I've seen in the DFW area.
it occurs to me that we have some big time soccer columnists who aren't afriad to be criticle of the league. kudos to them and kudos to MLS for having them.
"I don't like: That D.C. United's top four rookies -- Alecko Eskandarian, David Stokes, Brian Carroll and Doug Warren -- have logged a combined total of 16 minutes. Remember, they were all taken in the first 14 picks of the draft." He should know where Ray came from rookies are not starters, but brought in gradualy into the first team. I do not watch baseball or other sports enough to be familiar with the players, but i will ask do the rookies in other sports become starters on the first game(s) of the season. ? "I don't like: Seeing Earnie Stewart moved around game-to-game" Well at least his consistent, doesn't like Ray's coaching practices
I don't like: Some of the attendance figures from last weekend, including the MetroStars-Crew match in Columbus. Are there that many NFL draftniks among us? Spring game, Marc, Spring game.
Basketball its pretty frequent, can be with football too, hockey slightly less so (i believe), baseball you'll see rookies start but most guys start in the minors even after playing college ball if they do.
Yeah, no kidding. The Yankees and Manchester United have each won a lot more than one league championship.
agreed, the league is wayyyy too young to have one particular team that is hated as much as people hate man u and yankees.
I agree with this. So far the free kicks I've seen taken have generally been somewhere between embarassing and an abomination. Which reminds me: why are Americans - to speak generally for a moment - such poor long range shooters? You'd think that'd be one thing you could learn and be taught in the youth ranks coming up through the system. It's not like you have to practice dribbling through the favelas of Brazil to be a great long range shooter. Do you? The only one who really stands out is Kreis. And maybe a little bit of Twellman, though he's better closer to the box. Just thinking off the top of my head.
Maybe, but LA ran a pretty close second to the Metro's on the "Most Hated" poll a month or so back. I don't understand the anger toward the Metros, but LA I detest. While they don't have the silverware the Yankees do, LA does have the same quality of being consistently good. They've played in 4 of the 7 MLS Cup Finals, and have yet to miss the playoffs altogether. DCU has played in and won 3 finals, but all were in the first 4 years and since then they've been downright bad, missing the playoffs altogether the last 2 years. Both Chicago and DCU have also had to go through some painful rebuilding while LA has, through skill or MLSHQ shenanigans, been able to retool while maintaining that high standard of play. It seems they are expected to be a contender every year, I don't think anyone else in the league has been able to do that. As for the ManU comparison, isn't the hatred of them a relatively new phenomenon, based primarily on their over-hyped bandwagon jumping fans? IIRC their success is a recent (last 10-15 years) thing.
You mean like trading away half the team for a worthless Mexican flop artist??? Props to Sigi for keeping the train on track during all the BS.