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April 18th, 2008

Enter the New Guy

By: Kyle | Comments 1 Comment

I’m not making this up: I was going to use the Admiral Stockdale joke to introduce myself, too. Until I saw that Jeff already used it (But, I can link to the youtube clip. If you get through Quayle and Gore, Stockdale’s speech should give you a good belly laugh).
Hi. My name [...]



March 27th, 2008

The Rapids In Context*

By: Jeff | Comments No Comments

* And in another space. Center Holds It, to be precise.
I just posted a Major League Soccer 2008 Western Conference preview over on that site and that feels like plenty. See where I fit the Rapids into that grand scheme.
One last thing: the commenting robot can be, well, an a-hole here on The [...]

March 21st, 2008

The Rapids Attack! An Offensive Review

By: Jeff | Comments No Comments

…hmm, that title isn’t quite what I’m going for…and I can’t link to some of the statistical stuff cited below because MLSnet.com was gummed up and lame at time of typing.
Today, we get to the failing that doomed the Colorado Rapids’s 2007: namely, the ever-sputtering offense. If Toronto FC hadn’t suffered eternities of incompetence [...]

March 20th, 2008

Rapids Preview: Dynamite “D” in Denver

By: Jeff | Comments 2 Comments

I read somewhere that Colorado Rapids head coach Fernando Clavijo made building a solid defensive corps his top priority for 2007 (here? Yep; it’s toward the bottom). I’ll leave it to others to explain how taking care of half of the overall equation brought to fruition Clavijo’s “Three-Year Plan,” but the numbers argue [...]




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