Absurdities, playoffs and bears, oh my!

First and foremost, apologies to anyone who has not been able to check out the podcast. I had been led to believe the link was live prior to yesterday but that had not been the case. Needless to say, I'm going to try to work around this kind of delay/lag or just find a faster way to get things posted.

At any rate, let's have a quick look around: the MLS playoff race is nearly done with the post-season just around the corner. At this moment, FCD, the Gals, TFC, and the Quakes are out. Ives has a great bit about this on his blog. I won't get too deep in repeating his points but I'd say pay special attention to what he had to say about TFC and the Quakes looking ahead to next year. I'll expound a little on this and the futures of the other teams who are soon to be knocked out of the race as well in the next show.

On the national team front, I'm keeping a close watch on any info that comes out about yet another potential MFL "defection" to MLS. I am also looking for info on the Cuban players who left their team in D.C. I'll have a look at how some guys are doing abroad and maybe talk a bit about guys on the fringe that should take action to get more PT either at their clubs or with El Bobbo's squad.

Now for West Ham, a crashing defeat at Hull on the weekend? Not so much. They're playing out of their minds right now. Still, not a good time to be coming up on a game against the Arse. Meanwhile, in Europe, there's another rumor flying about that Becks is off to Milan to play for AC. If this happens and I'm Phil Anschutz, Berlusconi is going to caugh up quite a bit of money to cover the wages doled out to the England midfielder.

At any rate, this is just a small look at some of the things I'm going to talk about in the next episode alongside some content on the USL and WPS. I promise!

Radio edit: From Goff's blog - "Oft-injured Ben Olsen looked good on the sideline as an assistant coach. Hmmm....." speaking on United's game against Cruz Azul this week. This is something I've been quietly contemplating for some time but now that Goff's put it out there I'll feel a little less "aluminum foil hat" about talking it up on the show.

in soccer,
Bill