It stands for Daylight Savings Time, and it's happening this Sunday, early morning. Move your clocks forward an hour; you don't want to be late to the game and miss us scoring 3 on the Team Formerly Known as the Metros. (sorry for the thread title; couldn't resist...)
DST is the downfall of MLS! The changing of the clocks one week later than Europe means that we have fallen behind them. The Europeans certainly sneer at us and our feeble attempts to save daylight one week later than them. They know that their daylight is more precious and so need to save it earlier than our American daylight which is chock full of Red Bullsh*t! Argh, why won't MLS change earlier to comply with the European way of doing things!!!
<resisting urge to hijack and turn this into a Freddy post> Must... be... strong... <uuugh> Do... it... for.. the Kittens... Little "Mittens" in particular. Yes...! I did it. No mention of Freddy''s effect on Daylight err dammit. Sorry Mittens
I love DST. In fact, I wish there was a way they could change it so there would be 24 hours of daylight. Wait. Is that even possible? What if they made the sun rise in the West? Anyway, I'm going to go to bed an hour earlier and wake up an hour later to avoid jet lag on Sunday. Wouldn't want to nod off during the game!
My friend, there is a place for you, and it is called Alaska. (Just make sure you visit in the summertime...)
My question is: if there's 24 hours of Daylight, when would the freaks come out? Everyone knows the freaks come out at night...but if there's no night, when do the freaks come out?! DEAR GOD! When would the freaks come out!?!?!?!?
If Bruce Arena didn't hate DC United, there would probably be 24 hours of daylight every day. OK, maybe 20.
Well having lived in Alaska for a time, I can say they come out in Winter. All Winter all the time darkness. So they have three months of Freakiness built up and then nine months to let it all out... I blame Freddy not passing the ball to Bruce Arena on this phenomena!
It's a Government plot to get the Barra in on time for the start of the game. They tried it last year and it didn't work. Doubt it'll work this year too.
DST is corporate bull-shit designed to make you work harder (and longer). Parts of Indiana and Arizona have it right and I stand behind their effort to fight The Man by ignoring DST. It's gonna suck to have to leave the house at what should be 10:00am to get to Lot 8 in time to get the tailgate started ......
I remember in early 74 when Nixon made the time change in early February I think in order to save on oil during that energy crisis. I was living in Columbia and I walked through this wooded park to get a ride to get to my high school in Baltimore (Poly). It was very cool to be out in pitch blackness going to school. Carry on.