With regard to the copy, the bulk of it was directed toward something entirely expected 'round the middle of October: the MLS playoffs. I offered impressions, "playoff porn," I even undertook the last of my masochistic previews (and this project was a doozy) for the 2006 season. On a more personal level, I watched my New England Revolution charge into the playoffs -the first time they had actually charged in 2007.
Another item I did was remarkable only for being prescient. In reviewing ESPN's final "power ranking" for 2006, I wrote this:
"...there's something weird about putting FC Dallas over DC United; there's something weirder still about either of them topping the Houston Dynamo. And it's not that the latter is great, so much as the other two are stumbling into a chasm of indeterminate depth."
To fully understand why that makes me giddy, you've got to know my record for predictions.
And, naturally, it's not possible to discuss the MLS playoffs without complaining about the format...so I did.
The other stuff I like from those two weeks were a bit more random: I still think DC United's collapse (my word for it) constitutes one of the stories for 2006; as it turns out, I never bought into the Beckham rule - and, in spite of its adoption, will remain unreconciled pending evidence of success; I managed two posts (LINK and LINK) on the relationship between soccer and statistics that I really must parlay into something bigger; time was also set aside for my "tryst" with Real Salt Lake - I'm hoping for big things from that bunch next season and they'll remain my Western Conference team till we get something in the Pacific Northwest.
Speaking of which, I was particularly proud of my open letter to MLS Commissioner Don Garber as to why Portland, Oregon should get an MLS team before Seattle, Washington.
All righty...two more weeks down. Making time...
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