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The elusive sublime, the ubiquitous mundane
By: Sean |
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First half thoughts: There’s just this hair’s breadth between Chivas and Chicago right now, despite the 2-0 scoreline.
The Fire are identifiable as the team that won routinely a month ago - calm in possession, organized, with an extra gear when they burst out of deep midfield - but they’re just … missing … that cutting [...]
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Now, where were we?
By: Sean | 1 Comment
Funny thing about cable providers - if you don’t pay them, they will shut the thing off. Wild. Who knew?
So, err … where were we? Oh yes - we were letting Emilio run at us in injury time to win it for DC. And then we staggered around creating nothing much at all in Dallas. [...]
Category: Team NewsEnter the contrarian
By: Sean | 5 Comments
Oh, sure, it’s easy to write the lads sonnets when the wins are coming. I mean, who didn’t want to write a few lines after hanging five goals on Juan Carlos and the Toros Rojo?
Today, though. Today. Losing at home to those guys in black, losing at home in front of a full house on [...]
Category: Team NewsYes, Jeff, it was that bad
By: Sean | 2 Comments
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
By: Sean | 1 Comment
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
By: Sean | No Comments
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 NewsNFR: 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 …
By: Sean | No Comments
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 [...]
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