Waiting with bated breath
By: Johnathan | November 25th, 2008By tomorrow, we’ll know for certain whether or not the Fire organization has managed to give away another quality player in that oh-so-MLS institution that we all know and love, the Expansion Draft. If your eyes are rolling like mine are, you recall the loss of Honduran international Iván Guerrero to San Jose at the end of last season.
While Guerrero was getting up there in age and earning a lot of money against the cap ($147,000 qualifies as a lot of money in MLS), there is no such rationale that can excuse leaving Marco Pablo Pappa unprotected this time around. Though criminally underused by Denis Hamlett, the young Guatemalan midfielder has certainly done more than enough to prove his worth in his limited minutes this season. Certainly more than Justin Mapp and Dasan Robinson, anyway.
My only hope is that there exists some sort of clause in Big Pappa’s loan contract with CSD Municipal that will either prevent or discourage Seattle from selecting him. I’ve heard people say that Seattle having already signed three international players in Sanna Nyassi (brother of New England’s Sainey Nyassi), Sébastien Le Toux (2007’s USL-1 MVP and joint-leading scorer), and Freddie Ljungberg (Calvin Klein underwear model) could keep the Sounders from picking Marco, however the ever-changing MLS rulebook affords clubs seven international slots, so I don’t think Seattle would have to reconsider taking Pappa because of any roster congestion, especially considering he probably earns less money than the groundskeeper at Toyota Park.
I don’t know about you, but I’ll be crossing my fingers and hoping that Frank Klopas knows something that we don’t.
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Language lover says: Thank you, thank you, thank you for spelling “bated” correctly.
Also, alas, the draft isn’t till tomorrow, so we’re all going to have to guzzle Maalox for one more day.
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Wow, I feel so dumb.
Duly noted (and corrected).
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No!!!!!!!! I was congratulating you on getting it right!!!! “Bated” as you had/have it written, is absolutely correct.
(I’m not a grammar cop — I NEVER correct people, particularly people who volunteer their time for the greater good. Like, y’know, soccer bloggers. But it does give me a sweet little frisson of joy whenever I see difficult words handled correctly. I probably should have been an English teacher or something.)
Carry on.
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I meant I felt dumb because of my inability to read a calendar. :-p
I’m a bit of a grammar cop, myself. It’s ok, you can admit it.
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Oh. Right. Now I feel dumb.
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