Kick This!: Here We Go Impossible Again

Here We Go Impossible Again

The 2010 campaign kicks off and I am underwhelmed. Look elsewhere to find tense expectancy or predictions of great days and nights to come.

Why?

Because I fear that this season represents a holding pattern, in which the team's brain trust treads water to put out a barely adequate product while figuring out where to move the team. As fans, we talk about and obsess over players and performances on the field. As businesspeople, the guys in suits obsess about the bottom line. And I don't want to feel like a sucker this year.

They chose mediocrity with the pick of Onalfo, committed a major purge of high salary players, and, aside from bringing back the hero Perkins, have added some players that do not exactly make pulses race and eyelashes flutter.

In the lead up to the new season, ideally there should be enough potential on your team to trigger grossly overinflated and grandiose hopes that get knocked down a bit after real games are played and you realize that the players are only human after all. Not this year. On paper, and especially with an easier schedule due to lack of success last year, United should be good enough to make the playoffs, which, in the MLS, is exactly as difficult as buying stamps.

Let's get on with it, then.

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Good to see you back, I was getting worried.

Oh and I've got your grossly overinflated and grandiose hopes right here. While DC didn't bring in much new talent besides Perkins and Castillo, you've also got to remember that our rookies from last year are one year older and playing in their correct positions. Actually, the formation change in itself should do us a lot of good. And I expect our defense to be much better than the previous two years, thanks largely to Perkins and Pena, but also to Jakovic now having more freedom with better players surrounding him.

Posted by: Shatz | March 27, 2010 at 01:13 PM

Apparently my link didn't work. I've got your grossly overinflated and grandiose hopes right HERE:
http://www.blackandredunited.com/2010/3/27/1392418/2010-predictions-for-the-mls-cup

Posted by: Shatz | March 27, 2010 at 01:14 PM