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Shoulder-high we bring him home
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I had this lovely dream yesterday. In it, the most successful US striker ever decided that captaining and leading the line for a Premiership team was all well and good, but what he (and his family) really needed was ready access to Old Style brau and real deep-dish pizza.
In the dream, he joined a club [...]
Yes, Jeff, it was that bad
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So bigsoccer.com blogger Jeff Bull wants to know if yesterday’s Bulledamerung was as comprehensive and one-sided as the 1-5 scoreline indicates.
Yes. Yes, it was.
I’ll give New York [sic] credit: They brought it the last 15 minutes of the first half. I went into halftime worried that Red Bull were ascendant, that the Fire had expended [...]
Vengeance is best served on the road
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I don’t have a tremendous amount to add to the Fire’s complete and unassailable domination of the hapless Toros Rojos. Here’s how it looks from my end:
Category: Team NewsHalftime thoughts: Fire v. Toros Rojos
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Thanking God briefly for rojadirecta.com …
- Chad Barrett finished his first chance with the calm and touch of a real, honest-to-goodness forward. Given his already outstanding work rate and strength on the ball, is this the sign that Barrett is here to stay? I’m shocked and delighted.
- If you wagered anything on [...]
Category: Team NewsFire v. Evil: The emo preview
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So here it finally frickin’ is. A chance to snap a few (metaphorical and emotional! Ha! Haha! Heh. Eh…) tibias, a chance to show those febrile Dwellers in the Swamp that their man-parts are insufficient, etc. … and yet. And yet.
I hear rumblings that Wilman Conde is playing very well, and Lider Marmol will be [...]
Category: Team NewsI’m working on it! Damn.
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Here I was, plonking along, writing my preview for this year’s first meeting between the Forces of Truth and Light (a/k/a the Fire) and FC Rough Beast Slouching Toward Bethlehem (a/k/a the Red Bulls). And, lo, did a great light shine down, and a link did appear, and the words of Tommy-boy Dunsmore did speak [...]
Category: About Your BloggerNFR: It sure could be worse.
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So I’m working on a post about the down side of the Fire’s first quarter of the season, trying to think how to handle the fact that I’ve repeatedly called Chicago d-mid Wilman Conde a catamite, and now he might be here a while … well, what the hell. DC!! United!! There’s a Wednesday night [...]
Category: Team NewsFire at the quarter-pole
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…and into the first corner goes the pack … the Crew, yellow livery gleaming, a full length now on the Fire, who are nudged by the horse in orange and stumble slightly …
One-fourth of the season is in the can. The shape of the team has become much clearer, too. This is a hard-working team, [...]
Category: Team NewsSo, about those guys in orange …
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Welcome back, everyone. Since last we left our heroes, the Fire have risen in the MLS consciousness from ‘Blanco’s team’ to ‘Uh-oh.’ The defense looked impregnable, the midfield was working somehow, and going forward we’d create 6 to 8 fantastic chances a game.
Then came the Dyna-DynaDynamo-Dynamo, who administered a sharp lesson in championship grit: While [...]
Category: Team NewsI defeat Bret Michaels in the metaphor Olympiad
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Bret Michaels once noted that every rose has its thorn … and he’s gone on to note it every day since, several times. All it’s gotten him is millions of dollars and a show on MTV where hookers compete for his affection. Loser. I’m going to best Mr. Michaels by using this ‘every rose has [...]
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