Seattle Sounders FC dominating all star voting

posted by kidpurple May 20, 2009

Fan voting is under way for this years MLS All Star Game.  Just like with other all star games sometimes the fans of one team can dominate the voting.  Luckily for everyone that is not on the Seattle Sounders FC roster the fans vote only count 25% of the final tally to determine the starting 11.  If that were not the case – as of today the All Star starting 11 would be made up of 8 Seattle Sounders FC players.

Kasey Keller, Freddie Ljungberg, Fredy Montero, Osvaldo Alonso, Tyrone Marshall, Steve Zakuani and Jhon Kennedy Hurtado are the top 7 in the voting right now, while James Riley comes in at the 9th highest voting total.  Non-Seattle players currently in the top 11 are Columbus Crew defender Frankie Hejduk, TFC’s Dwayne De Rosario and LA Galaxy’s Landon Donovan.

How would that be for a starting lineup?

The team that is 8 points ahead of anyone else in the league (Chivas USA) would not even be represented.  Certainly someone there must be worthy?  Would Brian McBride not make the starting 11?  How about Josh Wolff?

Maybe Seattle will get into gear and get a starting 11 fully represented by Seattle Sounders FC players.  That would be swell.  Would MLS realize then that fan voting for all stars is a bad idea?

What do you think?  Should fans still be able to get 25% of decision of who starts the all star game?

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Get free Red Bulls tickets

posted by kidpurple May 18, 2009

The Red Bull Reader has an interesting contest to give away tickets to this weekend’s game when the Chicago Fire come to town. They have apparently gotten into Facebook and are asking that you change your profile image to the Red Bull crest. Then some user that has has the Red Bull crest as their profile image will randomly be picked and given tickets. Sounds pretty easy.

Go check out the official Red Bull Reader post about the contest – and enjoy the game!

Red Bull New York

Red Bull New York

If you don’t win those tickets you can always pick em up from Barry’s Tickets for any game.

Good luck with the ticket contest. If I was about 1000 miles closer I’d certainly change my Facebook profile image.

PS – Note to Red Bull Reader: please fix the title of your blog in your RSS feed.

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Who is the man?

posted by kidpurple May 16, 2009

These guys are on fire right now. Sorry if you think I’m excluding someone more deserving.

Josh Wolff

Josh Wolff

This 32 year old striker for the Kansas City Wizards struck Real Salt Lake for 2 goals today. This has Wolff right up near the top of the season scoring leaders.
Zach Thornton

Zach Thornton

Thornton started out as a backup keeper for Chivas USA. Just earlier tonight he beat Brad Guzan’s Chivas USA record for most consecutive shutout minutes – and he is still adding to it.

Both of these guys left Major League Soccer and eventually came back. Neither were too successful in Europe but they both seem to have a bright future in MLS.

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Start voting for your MLS All Stars

posted by kidpurple May 15, 2009

The MLS All Star voting is underway. This year Everton FC from England’s top league is coming over to get beat up on by our MLS All Stars! The MLS All Stars have historically done very well in these all star games vs European teams. This time they will likely have to face former MLS goalkeeper Tim Howard. Howard has had a pretty successful run at Everton this year.

People are worried that fan voting is going to fill a team full of Seattle Sounders FC and Toronto FC players. I guess just that idea should be enough to tip some people off that fan voting is not such a good idea. The NHL All Star game has only 4 teams represented in the starting lineups this year. How fun would that be to have 2 teams represented in the starting lineup? Go and get voting.

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New team will be called Philadelphia Union

posted by kidpurple May 11, 2009

Philadelphia will start play in MLS in just about 11 months and they today named their team for the first time. The 16th team to join Major League Soccer will be known as Philadelphia Union. The blue and gold colors represent the colors of the American Revolutionary Army. Check out the new Philadelphia Union logo below.

Philadelphia Union Logo

Philadelphia Union Logo

Check out the official Philadelphia Union website: http://www.philadelphiaunion.com/

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