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Celebrating all things Seattle Sounders FC! A place for fanatics... with Hot Chicks, Original Fan Photos, Existential and Sometimes Hilarious Commentary, and Links. Go Seattle! Go Sounders!

Friday, October 30, 2009 Seattle Sounders Semifinal Game 1 in Seattle

















Posted byDawnat9:31 PMNo comments: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 The Best of This Week's CommentaryESPN Soccernet

Start with the classic ESPN Soccernet format: who's who and why they're going to win and then why they're not. Which is kind of a pansy way to go about your predictions. Everyone wins and no one wins. But it will catch you up on the must know of the MLS playoff contenders:

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=689854sec=mlsroot=mlscc=5901

(LA is favored. The Sounders are the golden boys. Chivas will fold under post season pressure as history illustrates. Etc. Etc.)

Goal.com

A certain Mr. McCarthy over at Goal.com who likes to muse takes a more manly stance with his actual rankings of the playoff hopefuls. He places the Sounders at #2, right after LA (the Yankess of MLS - blech.). And he asks, astutely, "will the pressure of reaching a final on home turf make the task too difficult?"

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/1110/major-league-soccer/2009/10/28/1588779/mls-playoffs-mccarthys-musings-ranking-the-mls-cup

Then Allen Ramsey, also of Goal.com (fast becoming one of my favorite intelligent soccer websites, after Prost Amerika http://www.prostamerika.com/soundersfc/), really touches Soundersboard existential heart with the following "one's to watch" shortlist of unsung potential heros.

Heros. Intensity. Drama. America. Ramsay's speaking my language (well, up 'till the America part, but thanks to MLS in Seattle, I'm beginning to feel better about that too - and also that 4 part series on NPR "Europe and Us" that was on the other week... solar power, bicycles, high speed trains, a package of steaks that comes with a bovine bio...)

Seattle's rising star? None other than Stevie "Jets" Zakuani:
http://goal.com/en-us/news/1110/major-league-soccer/2009/10/28/1590487/mls-playoffs-the-short-list-making-a-name
It's gonna be a great (rainy) night tomorrow night. Posted byDawnat8:48 PMNo comments: Sunday, October 25, 2009 Looking Back on Saturday NightYou dont need to come here to find out that Houston beat Chivas 3-2 today, which means that Seattle will host Houston at home in the first round of the playoffs. You can go to http://www.prostamerika.com/soundersfc/2009/10/25/houston-lead-chivas-2-0/ to find that out.

You came here to be reminded how much fun it was to see the Sounders win in their final regular season game last night.

How the fans were out in full force in their green and blue on a beautifully cool October night, a night for keeping warm with whiskey, with their number nines and smiles.

And how good it felt to come from behind and score two goals after waiting for oh so long...

Ahh... what a night.

Posted byDawnat2:53 PMNo comments: Friday, October 23, 2009 Black and White, and OrangeWas there something a little incongruous about seeing Freddie walking through Home Depot up on North Aurora in the recent video on the Sounders FC homepage? (It's so worth watching - sorry, unembeddable - just be sure to tune out when Matt Gasch starts talking to some kids waiting in the dull line.) Walking down those orange warehouse rows in a svelte white shirt rolled up to the elbows and a very finely fitted black vest? Kasey Keller was a little more incognito in his baseball hat and neutral tones. But Freddie stood out in his black and white style in the place where just last weekend I schelpped in with muddy jeans holes in the knees and dirty fingernails.

Yes, there was, and it was great actually. A perfect juxtaposition. The working mans world in black and white class. And I love me a working man. But I also love me some class. You can have it all.

Dont forget folks, its good to dress up for an occasion! Make it an occasion!

Freddies raising the game in so many ways. The more we see of him the better. He looks great. He talks great. Hes complimentary. Hes humble. He has incredible style. Hes a new kind of very embraceable standard for Seattle, for the U.S. Work hard. Look good. Be kind.