According to the news on MFLS.com, Lee Morrison has been waived by the wizards as of yesterday. Guess with 6 defenders, we didn't need a seventh on the team.
Yet we traded a draft pick for him. That really shows how meaningless our draft is when teams constantly trade draft picks for players that get cut.
On March 3 I posted something about Lee - I talked to him on Mar 2nd and he told me that Gansler pulled him in that morning and said that it would be in Lee's best interest to look elsewhere. LM asked if he could at least go to Florida with the team and be looked at, but Gans said no. So, he packed his bags and made a flight for the following morning back to Dallas to get his things together and is hoping to go to New Zealand to check out prospects there with old mates from Stanford. No real reasons were given. Just seems like a waste for him to be traded and then just dropped and left with nothing. Don't take someone if you aren't going to use them - or else they become unemployed. Shameful. I don't know how good he was, or how much playing time he saw with Burn, but it's still and unfortunate incident.
I imagine the guys we picked up in the draft have been developing nicely, and their cheap, so the team keeps them over Morrison. Morrison probably wouldnt see much time, same with our draftees, so might as well take the ones who cost less. Just what I think happened...
Wow, I gotta admit I'm a little surprised. I liked Morrison's spirit and figured he'd be a good MLS player despite his lack of speed. With defenders like Lee Morrison and Danny Jackson (Colorado Rapids) being bubble players, it really underscores the advances that MLS had made in such a short period of time. I wonder if there's more to it or if the league just has too many stronger prospects to develop someone like Morrison? I wish Lee the best wherever he ends up. Guys like him should be able to find a spot to develop here in the US. Hopefully he'll catch on with an A-League team if he's unsuccessful in find what he wants overseas. -Tron