Perhaps this should be filed under "statistically insignficant," but has anyone else notice that DC United players have dominated the MLS Goal of the Week honors this season? With Eskandarian likely to take the title again this week (it would be his 3rd Goal of the Week this season), DC United players will have been voted top goal six of the 14 weeks played thus far. Now I realize that these aren't scientific polls, especially since Internet polls can be easily influenced, but I do find it interesting nonetheless. If nothing else, United has been scoring some really pretty goals as of late. [Carl Spakler voice]So at least we got that going for us...which is nice.[/Carl Spakler voice]
Yeah, I noticed this two weeks ago when Esky was nominated twice and pretty much ran away with it (except for the hacked Fox vote). It was funny because we were 7th in the league in scoring per game. Part of it is obviously because of DC having the most rabbid fans in MLS (and the freebie on Adu's first goal). Whatever happens between now and October, we can at least claim to be the prettiest scorers. Last week's winner from Kirovski might get my vote for GOY, though.
It certainly gets my vote for best goal call of the year, by Rob Stone: "JOHNNY WALKER, YOU'VE JUST BEEN BURNED!!" Tim
I liked his call of the 5th goal, Esky's second - (describing the passing): "BOOM! BOOM! ..... GOOD NIGHT NEW YORK !!" That and the one TEConner mentions above made me grab a beer and drink half of it, it got me so excited. This Rob Stone fella may be an enabler ......