Monthly Archives: October 2007

First of the year end awards - I’m 2 for 2

Goalkeeper of the year and MLS fair play award were just awarded and my predictions for both of them were right on.
Brad Guzan from Chivas USA took the Goalkeeper of the year award.  Micheal Parkhurst and his 4 fouls all year won the MLS fair play award.
Congrats to both of them, and I guess to [...]

2007 MLS awards finalists announced

The finalists for the 2007 player awards have been announced. Here they are along with my choices for the winners.
Panasonic Goalkeeper of the Year Finalists
Brad Guzan - Chivas USA
Pat Onstad - Houston Dynamo
Matt Reis - New England Revolution
I don’t think many people give Matt Reis much of a chance of winning this one.  I [...]

Hollywood United

As the top ~61% of the teams in MLS have just finished the first legs of the first round of the playoffs the LA Galaxy have a match scheduled against Hollywood United a week from today.
The first I heard about this I thought it was The Onion-ish style news.  Hollywood United - sounds like a [...]

MLS expansion predictions

A couple of days ago I wrote about the possibility of Philadelphia becoming the home to an MLS expansion team within the next 3 years.  Rob GZ pointed out how much of a stupid ass I am for saying that and not saying that St. Louis will have a new team in 2 years.
So I [...]

Playoffs are on

Just as the Fire and DC United have kicked off this 2007 playoffs I found this interesting article from a Chicago sports writer.  Kinda funny and I felt kinda the same when I was thinking about who was going to win this series.  Not at all that anyone cares who I pick, just that I [...]

Kansascity.com predicts the Wizards to beat Chivas USA

Kansascity.com’s sports section has a bit of a preview of the playoffs along with their predictions.  They have picked the Wizards to take a 4-3 victory this weekend over Chivas USA.  I thought I was the only one that was going to pick the 5th place team from the east to beat the west champions.
The [...]

MLS trading cards challenge

I read this evening on the Sports Card Forum that Upper Deck is going to be producing a 100 card set representing the 2007 MLS season.  Sounds cool but why only 100 cards in the set.  Assuming each and every team had only 11 players that ever played, 13 teams in the leage, works out [...]

Signs that Philly will be the next MLS expansion

2008 - San Jose
2009 - Seattle
2010 - Philadelphia?
Some people think it will be Philly and aparently there are some plans to raise money for a 20,000 seat soccer stadium that will have some other uses other than just soccer.
I guess if I had to bet on who would get the team in 2010 I’d have [...]

MLS 2008 Playoff Schedule and Predictions

Well the Galaxy run came to an end and the Wizards didn’t drop out of the playoffs on their last game day like expected. Here is a look at the upcoming playoff schedule. I’m glad to see they are still going to have Thursday nite games on ESPN2! All times CST.
Thurday, October [...]

Thierry Henry to New York Red Bulls?

Well we’ve heard it before, but when Ives Galarcep writes about something, people take notice.  Now he is talking about the possibility of Thierry Henry coming to MLS and playing for the New York Red Bulls.
There was a ton of doubt that Beckham would make the move to MLS but those turned out to be [...]