Two Days of Previews Coming

By: Jeff | March 19th, 2008

It has been said that the first day of any league’s season feels like Christmas Day. If that hasn’t been said, well, I’m saying it here (and elsewhere…using almost exactly the same language…slacker). The thing is, this cuts both ways: much like with Christmas, you find an avalanche of obligations on top of you before you know it, never mind being prepared.

I seriously need to write team-specific previews for both the Colorado Rapids (here) and the Columbus Crew (there) before the season starts. But I’ve got a couple big items I promised myself I’d do prior to the start of the season as well. But because I take the verb “need” seriously, I’ll be cranking out the Rapids and Crew previews over the next two days.

By way of format, I’ll break down each team in the two vaguest possible ways: defense and offense. And I think that’s appropriate: midfield complicates position-by-position reviews because what is a midfielder but a forward playing farther from goal or a defender pushing the bubble of safety further upfield? Don’t answer that, by the way. It’s just rhetorical justification.

So, look for previews of both team’s defenses tomorrow and for both team’s offenses on Friday. The Big Picture stuff, conference previews and the ever-dodgy preseason power rankings, come before Thursday next week. Odds are, that Big Picture stuff will go up on Center Holds It, but I’ll get links set up here…as well as following all the Rapids news with which The Official Organ decides to shower us. (Sorry…just…sorry.)