Back to Back!

Although it was a little easier to hate The Sounders back when Freddie “Skid-mark” Ilungberg was pissing and moaning about every single call he didn’t get, and Fredy Montero had the Back Street Boys hair-do going, I still don’t like them.

I think it started when the management headed up by Sigi “we don’t like to play in the rain” Schimd, and the front of office of the Seattle Chicken Hawks started whining about losing the bid to host the Open Cup final. They actually had the audacity to rip on the United fans saying there wouldn’t be enough of a crowd. Indecently they lost the bid because the only time they could have the game was a Wednesday afternoon. The 17,000 strong had RFK rocking that Wednesday night at the Open Cup final. Damn you Josh Wicks and your caveman temper! Did you really think you would get away with stomping on him? That game was the beginning of the end of DCU. My gut says it hit the bottom a couple weeks ago in LA, and we are on the way back.

What is a Sounder anyway? One who lives on the sound maybe? Apparently they don’t even know. Who names their Supporters group after a city from the Wizard of OZ? Maybe Dorthy can ask the wizard to stop the rain in Seattle to better suit your game Sigi. It looks like an ad for a rave or a Misfits show or a Grateful Dead show or maybe all three. I’d rather risk being hit by falling concrete in DC’s raccoon and lead paint infested caldron, then suffer through a sea of glow worm green at the Century Quest plastic factory any day.

36,000 and growing… Yeah, yeah, yeah good for you and for the league. Call me in twenty years after all the pudgy little hipster kids have grown up, shaved their beards off, and had a few kids. It’s great that all these folks show up to the games out there. I would love it if R.F.K was packed every week… but nobody likes a show off, nobody. You’ve been in the league for 3 years and already Casey Keller is saying on the Capital Soccer Show, that Seattle is ” the Big Boy, the Yankees of MLS, (they) have set a standard in MLS.” He went on to compare the Sounders to Real Madrid and Barcelona. Come on really? 3 Open Cup titles, and your already comparing yourself to Barcelona? He says if it weren’t for the salary cap, they would be the “big fish in the pond.” I know it’s been a while but … (click here). Don’t get to big for your britches.

It would be a beautiful thing for DC United to end it’s drought of back to back wins against Flounder FC this coming Saturday.

So… VAMOS UNITED!