Yeah, it's like saying "The pilot looked out the window of the 747 and noticed that the wing was on fire and one of the engines was out, and then manually landed on the nearest flat stretch of gravel." Michael Bradley's pass completion was an insane 93%. There's a reason he is the engine that drives our midfield. He…

Jozy Altidore looked at the scoreline at halftime and said, "Nope. Not today," and then proceeded to take the offense onto his shoulders and pretty much just wreck the place. At 23, he's already a complete class act. I think we can look forward to many years of Jozy being amazing.

Yeah, Altidore really does have the best first touch in all of football, combined with the worst second touch. Once he realized he only needs the one, he went from a scoring threat to a force of nature.

While yes, it's a mod, running a full-scale MMO is no small task. In that regard, 80,000 seems a little lowball, budget-wise. I hope for their sake that they have alternative funding sources already lined up.

Actually, the most Mariner of ways to lose is to get yourself a 10-0 lead and take it into the 9th inning. Then, you bring on your worst reliever. This is saying something, because you are the Mariners, and all of your relievers are bad. The reliever will then proceed to give up 20 unanswered runs on walks, hit…

Zuckercorn: TAKE TO THE SEA!

The other thing is that base rookie salary goes further in some locations than in others. A guy making 35k in, say, Columbus, Portland, Salt Lake City, or Kansas City can do a lot more with it than a guy in San Jose, or Seattle, LA, or New York. This isn't any judgment on any of the teams or the cities involved, but…

I don't think you will find much argument about EPL being a higher-quality league, but the fact is that at Spurs, Dempsey is not getting a whole lot of play-time outside of FA Cup matches, and the most important thing going into a World Cup year is getting playing time, because that helps you keep in form. Riding the…

There really have to be two sides to a story for there to be a controversy. I did not see anyone who is pro-moose punching. What's the story? Some dude punched a guy in a suit. End of story.

If we are talking present-day Dempsey vs. present-day Donovan, then yes, but if you are talking about over the course of their respective careers, I would probably go with Donovan, though I think Deuce still has a bit more left in the tank than Donovan.

No love for Vancouver's Daigo Kobayashi's insane midfield volley against Columbus back in week two? I'd say that one edges this out.

Well, if he keeps making shots like that, he might be in for a position change.

I don't expect the viewing public to understand the difference. I expect them to ask "Why is Uncle Sam wearing green and blue?" and then go to the internet and find out that these colors are part of the Pacific Northwest's soccer culture. The tifo is really more meant for the people in the stadium (who all know about…

You will note that the Uncle Sam is not in Portland Timbers colors, but Cascadia colors. The Cascadia clubs have a specific soccer heritage that goes back decades, and is a large part of why soccer has seen a resurgence in recent years in the US. It's a way to acknowledge that community as part of the larger US Soccer…

I should have known better than to trust their showboating Globetrotter mathematics!

KANG!

Plus, he has a certain plucky second-in-command to drink with all the time!

I always found that Dukat's redeeming qualities made his evil qualities that much more repulsive, because we could believe that he was within spitting distance of becoming a good guy.

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