Pre-match: MLS Cup 2012: Houston Dynamo @ LA Galaxy - Sat December 1st, 3:30pm CST

A heads up. Los Xolos of Tijauna are playing the second leg of the apetura final on Sunday the 2nd. Two finals one weekend 90 minutes apart. Life is good

 

Now Donovan is saying he might be hanging it up after this game:

Landon Donovan hints MLS Cup may be his last game with L.A. Galaxy

 

Maybe we'll get Lampard and Cole

 

Hopefully.

 

Bunch of drama queens.

 

God, THIS.

Whatever, we'll come in, smash and grab, and these two can go ******** off to England or Australia or wherever together.

 

Both Weather Underground and Intellicast have removed precipitation from Saturday's forcast. Plenty of time for it to return -- but it looks a lot better now than it did.

 

Not to get too hung up on the weather, but this morning on KTLA weather they had little rain icons for just about every day of the week except for Saturday. He even mentioned that Saturday would see drying, though Sunday the rain icon was back. He said it was a series of storms coming in, mostly farther north, but they would bring light rain and high surf most of the week.

Keep an eye on the MLS Kick Off column this week. Like last year, they stuff the column with Galaxy news and keep the Dynamo info to a minimum. Today the count is 7 articles on the Galaxy and 2 on the Dynamo. But again, that's the Dynamo style, nobody talks about them, they just win.

 

Am I the only person who is bemused whenever I listen to a podcast or read a match preview where people focus on the Dynamo by talking about "the loss of Geoff Cameron" as though that piece of information is the defining aspect of the 2012 Dynamo season?

 

The sooner we know the light bill has been paid off the better.

 

Hope its a distraction from LA, only negative from our persepective is how it affects the officiating. By that I mean, is there some sort of sympathy factor involved in what could possibly be the final game for Landon & Becks in terms of how he calls it? I know it shouldn't even be considered (and since LA tries to intimidate refs and Magee threw a ball at Petrescu it - and if I'm not mistaken Becks made public comments about the ref - it should actually go the other way), but what ref in the US would toss Becks in his final game? Just means maybe LA can be more aggressive.

As much as some hate Salazar, I think he was the guy who tossed Becks a few years back.

Last year during the game the scripted TV presentation and storyline implied that it was going to be some Buffalo Wild Wings commercial if the Dynamo somehow got the lead. Like to avoid that.

 

Realtime weather update from LBC without the drama of the "next-big star/actor-to-be-anchor" - it's cloudy this mid-morning after cloudy start. Just a typical fall day with some very sporadic slight drizzle ("SoCal rain"), as it's been the last few days and was before I went out of town for holiday, . Even the weather is a drama queen this week in sunny SoCal!

 

Because we are now playing the Galaxy attack with some combination of Donovan, Keane, Buddle, and Magee. They are the best team in MLS at speed. Chicago with Rolfe, Nyarko, and Oduro gave us fits when all three were on the field together. LA is better b/c Keane and Donovan are more efficient than Oduro and whomever. Kamara's speed caused problems, but KC and DC had no one else that really could attack our "weakness".

I get that Taylor has likely played CB better than Cameron from a purely CB perspective, but Cameron's pace would have helped tremendously this weekend as would his ability to pass out the back if we happen to get down a goal.

IMHO, we will miss Geoff Cameron this weekend and this might be the only weekend we miss Geoff Cameron. Not to say that we aren't a better team defensively this year (with Sarkodie in at RB) or with Ashe back at LB. Just that Cameron will be missed this weekend more than others.

 

I miss Geoff Cameron all the time.... :_(

 

It is an interesting thought. I agree, if we are down a goal, I think we miss his ability to press from the back and ESPECIALLY his ability to quickly switch the field. However, defensively I think we are better with Taylor. Not too mention, I do not concede in any way that Cameron was faster than Jermaine.

 

I agree that we're better in central defense with Taylor. We do lose a bit of contribution to the attack out of central defense. But I'll take the trade-off, given that we have at least 5, maybe 6, positional upgrades compared to last year's final, by my count (2 outside backs, 3 midfielders, plus a forward if you also believe we have an upgrade there).

 

Against the Galaxy I would start Taylor AND Cameron. LOL.

 

look with all this media sensationalism about Landycakes and Posh boy saying their goodbyes-it just means more photogs which means better pics out there of us celebrating-which is good news for me, I need new screensavers.

 

I would rather not give those guys the attention.

 

I wish Ching would formally decide if this is it or not solely so he can get an equivalent tribute.

 

Thing is he wouldn't from MLS. All the attention will be on Beckham and Galaxy. Hopefully the Houston FO do the right thing and give him a proper farewell.

 

If he drew that kind of attention to himself, he wouldn't be Brian Ching.

 

I see what you did there.

 

A Brian Ching testimonial game would be better.

 

This, and it would be well-deserved.