Category Archives: Chicago Fire

Chicago to burn down RFK tonight

DC United will be playing in their fancy new VW jerseys tonight for the first time on ESPN2. Sounds good but things aren’t right in DC, and they are playing the Fire, the same team that knocked them out of the playoffs last year. Chicago is hot right now. The Fire are [...]

Do the DP’s have to be old timers?

In order for the LA Galaxy to bring David Beckham to Major League Soccer the rules had to change.  The salary cap was too small for Beckham to fit on any team by himself, so the league added DP’s which only count toward some of your salary cap.  After that the team can pay that [...]

Matt Pickens leaves Chicago for England’s second division

25 year old American goalkeeper Matt Pickens is on his way out of Major League Soccer.  The former Chicago Fire goalkeeper is headed to Queens Park Rangers for the rest of the English season - his contract is only good until June 2008.
Pickens played 40 games in 4 seasons during his Major League Soccer career [...]

Juan Carlos Osorio headed to New York

Juan Carlos Osorio will be replacing Bruce Area at New York Red Bulls this coming season. Osorio has been in NY before, both as a player and as an assistant coach. This past season he turned the Chicago Fire season which was a disaster before his arrival.
Osorio has spent time on the coaching [...]

Predictions typos

The sun was in my eyes before the game tonite when I predicted the Fire to win. It was really windy and my fingers were slipping all over the keyboard. That was an accident that I said I predicted the Fire to win.
How about that goal scored by TT, was that the goal [...]

Thursday playoff prediction

I’ve got 30 seconds tonite before the game.  I had a hard time picking this game, but I’m going with the Fire.  The Revolution are the best at losing the big game, but I think Chicago is going to get there instead.

Predicting the postseason

Well a weekend full of season ending games and a couple more end of the year awards have been finalized. How are my predictions going?
I correctly predicted that the 4th seed Chicago Fire took out overall league leaders DC United.
I also predicted that the 5th place (East) Kansas City Wizards would defeat 1st place [...]

Chicago Fire drop top seeded DC United out of the playoffs

After the Chicago Fire’s 1-0 win at their home in Toyota Park they had to go to DC, one of the toughest places to play in all of MLS.  Expectations were high for DC United even though they were coming into the game down by a goal.
Chad Barret and Chris Rolfe both scored for the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]