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Reading the tea leaves: Remedial edition
By: Sean |
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So you wanna follow a soccer team, but there’s not much coverage other than official stuff. Who’s hurt? Who’s playing poorly? There’s no answers you can find anywhere?
Well then, friend, do what I do! I call it ‘reading the tea leaves,’ and it’s easy and fun!
“That sounds so interesting, Sean,” you’re saying - and who [...]
Thoughts on Opening Day 2008
By: Sean | 7 Comments
Disclaimer: I have not yet watched the Fire game, for reasons I make clear below. I have, due to a strange alignment of circumstance, seen the majority of every other MLS game.
First reaction: A LOT of quality on display today. Exciting games of every description. I am exhilarated by the growing beauty of the contests. [...]
Category: Team NewsGame 1: at Real Salt Lake (preview)
By: Sean | 4 Comments
There’s a certain amount of disingenuity in writing a game preview for two teams one hasn’t seen play. One of the advantages of blogs, though, is that I can just note it and then move on to purely subjective opining, without trying to pretend I’m all objective and remote like a journalist would. In other [...]
Category: Team NewsOptimism, we hardly knew ye
By: Sean | 5 Comments
So yesterday I had this burst of optimism about the Fire, and I didn’t just lie down until it went away. Now, I’m thinking maybe I should have, as normal offseason service has been restored.
Conde whining like spoiled child
Apparently, in Colombia, when you sign a contract it is understood to be valid so long as [...]
Category: Team NewsInexplicable optimism
By: Sean | 2 Comments
For the last couple of days, while doing my usual (and, as usual, mostly futile) combing of the intertubes for information on our Fire, I realized something strange: I’m not feeling dour about this team.
Whowhawhuh? This is not the way of things. I was raised in northern Indiana, where our local high school basketball team [...]
Category: Team NewsAttaboy, Matt
By: Sean | 1 Comment
Former Fire netminder Matt Pickens is now with Queens Park Rangers in England. He hasn’t gotten on the field yet for the first team, but if he keeps tearing it up in reserve games, that day is coming.
Way to go, Matt. You’d still look better in a Fire uniform, though, buddy. I’m just sayin’.
Category: Team NewsThese are the days of our offseason
By: Sean | 4 Comments
I’ve been away a bit on family business, so let’s get back up to speed, eh?
Hating New York: Back in style!
For years after 9/11, there was this respectful reserve toward New York. They’d suffered the tragedy so well, yada yada. Well, that was yesterday.
Today it’s a different story, thanks in no small part to the [...]
Category: Team NewsAre you ready for some fútbol?
By: Sean | 2 Comments
A couple of things before tonight’s REAL, HONEST-TO-GOD COMPETITIVE GAMES featuring MLS teams. Not that I’m geeked or anything.
- MFLS is the bee’s knees - the original MLS fantasy league, back before the league got hip to the whole idea. I’ve started a division over there - follow the link and signup if you’d like. [...]
Category: Team NewsHooray, defectors!
By: Sean | 5 Comments
In response to the news that five members of the Cuban U23 team have already vanished - meaning defected - after just the first game, all I have to say is: Dude, dibs on the ‘keeper.
Category: Team NewsReading the tea leaves, Part II: Mediocampistas
By: Sean | 4 Comments
Hello again and welcome! The tea leaves have acted strangely about the midfield. Twice in a row, I prepared a ritual cup, muttering the ancient and forbidden words, casting the fates upon the pure unmarked cloth … only to have them arrange themselves as a picture of a leg broken by Dema Kovalenko. Twice in [...]
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