Articles tagged with "seattle-team-news"
Caveat Emptor (Or: What's Latin for "Blogger Beware of Google Image Searches"?)
By Laurie | March 12th, 2009The best moment in the book "Gone With the Wind" is when Scarlett is opening a store and can't decide what to name it. ...
DON'T PANIC About Fredy Montero
By Laurie | March 12th, 2009Ives over at Soccer by Ives is reporting that our ace in the hole, The Truly Adorable Fredy "How the Hell did we get him" ...
This Can Never Get Old: Award #3, and Quiz #4
By Laurie | March 12th, 2009So in the winning email, today's winner, Billy Bob, says to me: Stephen King, Jarrod Smith, Tyrone Marshall. If I win can I ...
MLS Cup 2009 is Heading to Seattle!!! (UPDATED)
By Laurie | March 11th, 2009UPDATE: According to my season ticket-holder email, tickets to the Cup are included as that Friendly Ticket C in our season ticket packet. ...
I Need Your Help!
By Laurie | March 11th, 2009So yesterday I came up with a fantastic idea about next Thursday's game with the Red Bulls, and then I went over to my buddy ...
The Second Award, Plus the Third Quiz! (All together now: Ooooooooh!)
By Laurie | March 11th, 2009This is a three-part post. First we have the awarding of the Offside Certificate of Merit to yesterday's winner Jordan. (Woohoo Jordan!) ...
Adorable Photo of the Day
By Laurie | March 10th, 2009Found this photo over on the Spanish-language site ElEspectador.com and just had to share. It is, of course, our fine Colombians, The Truly Adorable ...
Seattle Ins and Outs
By Laurie | March 10th, 2009(The photo to the left has nothing to do with the rest of the post. It's just a screen grab of some kind ...
please play.">Play Our Second "Know Your Sounders" Quiz. Please. Please, please play.
By Laurie | March 9th, 2009Second verse, same as the first. (Except that you can be certain that this group does not include the previously-shown Freddie, Taylor or Patrick.) Guess ...
The Completely Impressive and Utterly Amazing "Know Your Sounders" Award for Quiz #1
By Laurie | March 9th, 2009Okay, first thing? Congratulations to Kenneth, first (okay, technically only) one to guess our three Sounders. And I really apologize for ...
Best Sounders Video EVER (at least up to this point)
By Laurie | March 9th, 2009Hahahahahaha! This is amazing. A young (very young) lady sings an intentionally humorous song about Seattle's Evan Brown. Obvious best part ...
Get to Know Your Sounders Quiz #1
By Laurie | March 8th, 2009So I was sitting here yesterday thinking that I wouldn't recognize most of our players if I ran into them face to face. ...
Waiting for my Tickets (Oh, and Freddie's Back in Town)
By Laurie | March 7th, 2009So I was almost positive that my tickets were coming today. Johonna said in the comments that hers came yesterday via FedEx, and this ...
Vote for the Best Flag
By Laurie | March 6th, 2009The GOALSeattle people are having a flag vote. I missed the early part of the contest, but they've now narrowed it ...
Newest MLS Salary Figures Are In
By Laurie | March 6th, 2009The early data are in for the MLS 2009 salaries. 2009 MLS Player Salaries: March 2, 2009: By Club 2009 2009 Guaranteed I can never figure ...
Welcome the Sounders Home From Argentina! Meet them at the Airport!
By Laurie | March 5th, 2009Spotted the link to this over on the ever-excellent GOALSeattle blog. From the backside of another thread: "Welcome Sounders FC back to Seattle! Be among the ...
The Post in Which I Apologize to Pete Vagenas for Everything I Wrote When He Was 1500 Miles Away and I Didn't Face the Risk of Running Into Him at the Corner 7-11
By Laurie | March 5th, 2009Dear Pete, Can I call you Pete? After two years of blogging on the team you played for, the LA Galaxy, I almost feel I ...
Well. Wasn't Compliance Day Exciting?
By Laurie | March 5th, 2009So roster/salary compliance day came and went on Monday, and we discovered we were in compliance all along. So...yeah. That was thrilling and ...
We Need a WAG, Dammit!
By Laurie | March 4th, 2009You know what we need to get us through the off-season? A good ol' fashioned WAG. You know. WAG. Wife and/or ...
Seattle Offside's WTF Moment for the Week Year Millennium
By Laurie | March 3rd, 2009
Man, did I ever step in it with this post. (The one that linked to and quoted from another blog about how ...
Clueless on Compliance Day
By Laurie | March 2nd, 2009So I'm wandering around to all the other MLS blogs as they're making their guesses on the cuts that will be coming for Roster Compliance ...
Bring It On, Columbus!
By Laurie | March 1st, 2009Tomorrow is roster compliance day, meaning that we're going to be seeing some cuts. Will somebody please sneak into Sigi's room tonight and whisper, ...
I Love This Ad
By Laurie | February 27th, 2009I was over at the Seattle Times site tonight, and this ad was on the main page. In case anybody doesn't recognize our model ...
A Really Cool Photo
By Laurie | February 24th, 2009My sister-in-blog Johonna (a fellow Seattlite who writes the Inter blog) pointed out that even though the Seattle-Vancouver game was closed to the public, it ...
What Can We Learn as We Attempt to Apply the Transitive Property to the Preseason
By Laurie | February 24th, 2009Five games down in the preseason, our boys are 4-1, and my gut says Yessssss! Because wins are great, right? I mean, if we're winning ...
And Now, From the Backhanded Compliment Department...
By Laurie | February 23rd, 2009First, before you read this post, stop over at the MLS page. Dave is running a "Who will win the league" poll and I ...
Reality TV Crashes and Burns (Or: What the HELL was that?)
By Laurie | February 21st, 2009So a couple of years ago, I was watching the wonderful TV show "Whose Line is it Anyway?" If you're not familiar with it ...
Why Sober People Shouldn't be Allowed to Make Decisions
By Laurie | February 19th, 2009From the Official Blog: The Sounders FC opens its inaugural MLS season on March 19 against the New York Red Bulls in a nationally televised game ...
The Fine Colombians*
By Laurie | February 19th, 2009So I've been struggling in the preseason to find things to write about that don't involve giving names to chickens. (Meaning I don't want ...
Yes, It's Chelsea! July 18!!
By Laurie | February 18th, 2009A huge thanks to Steve over at ProstAmerika for emailing me with the big news.** (And this is really great, because I just spent ...
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