Official 2022 Optimist Thread

I was thinking similar. Obviously there may some time needed for on field, in game chemistry to form, and it’s possible that not everyone will be 100% tonight as well, but I really hope to see the potential tonight as much as the results. I don’t expect it to take long for the group to gel, so hopefully two or three games from now they really start cooking and scoring some goals for us. I’m excited though.

 

I want to see Torres take over the game alongside Shaqiri. That is all.

 

Harrison is a suburb of Newark.

 

I am OPTIMISTIC that Torres will take over the game alongside Shaqiri.

 

Good thing this is 'murica and there is no relegation in MLS because right now we have no where to go but up...........I guess that's a good thing?

https://www.mlssoccer.com/standings/2022/supporters-shield#season=2022&live=true

 

And how many seasons over the past decade would we say that? Just about every year.

 

I think we'd be fighting for a top three spot in the Midwest Premier League by now

 

https://www.chicagofirefc.com/news/...to-represent-u-s-men-s-national-team-on-inter

So I guess Gaga won't be traveling to Poland after all.

 

Wow...what he said nearly moved me to tears.

 

I'm good with this.

 

I was cautiously optimistic once he said he was declaring since he hadn't yet been in the Polish camp to even try it out. Hopefully this (and possibly sorting out his transfer) gives the kid some piece of mind. When I was 18 I was freaking the hell out over just choosing a college. Forget doing it with the entire world speculating over my decision.

 

That's a bit of a stretch don't you think?

 

Weirdos on Transfermarkt on six continents at least.

 

The Fire are no longer last place in the league.

 

End the season now!

 

Not before Jiggles anoints Fabian Herbers as the most important player on the team this year.

 

Herbers isn't funny enough to make a big deal out of him.
Besides, I don't wanna talk about the person who is "the most statistically important" because there's some big discrepancies between the "quantitative results" and "qualitative results".

 

Intangibles!

 

Standing around during defensive situations is definitely a certain kind of "intangibles".

 

Football Manager needs an Aura rating just for Gaston.

 

Well that lasted less than 24 hours. At least we're back in pole position for the Memorial Andrew Hauptman Wooden Spoon.

 

The Fire are not in last place.

 

So we're looking at the wooden spork?

 

We've entered the portion of the season where the Fire pretend that they are a real soccer team. So we should enjoy it while it's here.

 

if we can get and stay relatively healthy and Ezra pulls his head out of his butt re: Kacper then we might win some more games