Articles tagged with "seattle-team-news"
Some Days I am Dismayed at My Own Immaturity
By Laurie | October 31st, 2009This is a screenshot from the MLSnet site. The heading should NOT have made me laugh. But it did. MLSnet, you really need to ...
The Highlight Video, and Some Things You May Want to Pay Attention To
By Laurie | October 31st, 2009Highlight video, with some things you may want to look at: 1:00 -- Damn, we got lucky here. 1:22 -- ditto, but I think Keller would ...
My Utterly Unofficial Awards for the Western Conference Semifinal, First Leg
By Laurie | October 30th, 2009Let's start with the "MOST RIDICULOUS NAME EVER" award to: The "Eastern/Western Conference Semifinals." With 50% of the spots awarded to wild cards, let's just ...
"Light Rain," Male Bonding, Ricardo Salazar and Other Rave Green Thoughts That Kept Me Awake Last Night
By Laurie | October 29th, 2009The early morning thoughts of a sleepless fan on a pregame night: So why did I print my playoff tickets out as soon as I ...
Go Vote! Show Ives Who's REALLY Gonna Win the Cup
By Laurie | October 28th, 2009A couple of opportunities for you to engage your rave green voting fingers. (I hear there's a pill to fix that. But you ...
Vote: What's the Key to Shutting Down Houston?
By Laurie | October 27th, 2009Email exchange between me and David Falk, the Seattle Soccer Examiner, about his new poll: David Falk to me Vote: What's the biggest key to beating ...
The Galaxy FO Shows Us How Seattle Could Have Hosed the Fans for Playoff Tickets
By Laurie | October 27th, 2009With all our talk about ticket prices, and about teams valuing the fans, I thought you'd appreciate this comment left on our Galaxy blog. What's happened ...
A Cute Fan Video
By Laurie | October 26th, 2009Fun video for those wanting to relive the Sounders-Dallas game -- it manages to catch all the high points, with a few fun kid shots ...
The Playoff Picture, Vote for Brad and/or Nate, and other Rave Green Random Thoughts
By Laurie | October 26th, 2009First item of business: We finished third in the West, which makes our home game this Thursday. I'm hearing an ESPN kickoff time ...
Life is Really, Really Good
By Laurie | October 25th, 2009The only thing that would make this weekend better will be if Houston and Chivas tie tomorrow, leaving us #2 in the West. (LA ...
Beat Dallas. Save Jeff Cunningham's Immortal Soul.
By Laurie | October 23rd, 2009So. FC Dallas player Jeff Cunningham is on a killer scoring streak. How hot is the guy? He's so hot that it ...
Want to See How the MFP (Most Favorite Player) Poll is Coming?
By Laurie | October 22nd, 2009Remember my MFP (Most Favorite Player) poll? It started out kind of like a nice, itty bitty little plant. I took the seed, ...
Rave Green Odds and Ends
By Laurie | October 22nd, 2009I'm having a hard time getting focused on the Dallas game. Which is probably okay, given that I had a hard time focusing before ...
Are you a Season Ticket Holder? You May be Missing out on Extra Playoff Tickets
By Laurie | October 21st, 2009In what seems to be one of the first miscalculations by the Sounders ticket office, it looks like partial season ticket holders and people who ...
Awww. ACES Loves Us SO MUCH!
By Laurie | October 20th, 2009So I was going to the Sounders FC site to check to be sure I ordered my playoff tickets and absent-mindedly typed in "Seattlesoundersfc.com" ...
Vote for Nate, and other Rave Green Randoms
By Laurie | October 19th, 2009First thing: It is your job to go and vote for Nate Jaqua, who is again up for Goal of the Week. You ...
The Utterly Unofficial Awards from KC-Seattle
By Laurie | October 18th, 2009The, "ACTUALLY, THE GRASS IS GREENER ON THIS SIDE" award to: Seattle Sounders for making the playoffs with a game to spare. Did anybody else ...
My Favorite Moment from Last Night's Game
By Laurie | October 18th, 2009I'll be back later with my Utterly Unofficial Awards for KC-Seattle. But for now I just wanted to share a screenshot of my ...
WooHOO!! We're Going to the Playoffs!!!!!!
By Laurie | October 17th, 2009UPDATE from Seattle Times: Sounders FC, I am told, is scheduled to arrive at SeaTac Airport at 11:35 a.m. Sunday. I believe its Midwest ...
Oh, Yeah, We're Playing KC Tonight
By Laurie | October 17th, 2009Oh, that's right. We're playing KC in about half an hour. My stomach hurts. This game could be everything. Three points and we're in the ...
Soccer Econ 101 (Part 3): Does Toronto Show Us What to Expect in Future Ticket Prices? (UPDATED)
By Laurie | October 17th, 2009(This is part 3b of my Soccer Econ 101 Series. Go here for parts 1, 2 and 3a.) Somewhat disturbing comment on ...
Is Your MFP (Most Favorite Player) Pick Different from Your MVP?
By Laurie | October 16th, 2009Who's Your MFP (Most Favorite Player)?(survey) With the regular season drawing to a close, there's a lot of talk right now about MVPs. (Seattle Soccer ...
Soccer Econ 101 pre-post: 2010 Seating Changes
By Laurie | October 15th, 2009Note: This is background info for my next Soccer Econ 101 post (part 1 here, part 2 here), which will be on whether or ...
Prost Amerika's Argument for Picking Playoff Opponents, and More Rave Green Links
By Laurie | October 15th, 2009(What do you mean, what is the photo? It's obviously the Rave Green Links of a bicycle chain. You mean you don't ...
Season Ticket Poll: Are You Renewing? Adding? Dropping?
By Laurie | October 14th, 2009So I've been swapping emails with Seattle Soccer Examiner's David Falk, aka Mr. Goal Seattle, with our thoughts on season ticket prices. And we've ...
Soccer Econ 101 (Part 2): Grey Market Values and the Ticket Resale Market
By Laurie | October 13th, 2009This is Part 2 in my Soccer Econ 101 Series. Part 1 is here. I'm pretty sure I was going to write something ...
Just for Fun: FIFA 10, Galaxy vs. Sounders FC
By Laurie | October 13th, 2009This would be what is known as a "lazy post." You know. Where I shamelessly borrow what others have provided and post it ...
Soccer Econ 101: Price Increases, OR: What Do Teams Owe Their Most Loyal Fans? (Part 1)
By Laurie | October 12th, 2009(I got started writing this and realized that there are a LOT of directions this discussion could take. To include them all in one ...
Seattle Loves Cornell Glen, OR: What the Weekend Games Did for Our Playoff Hopes
By Laurie | October 11th, 2009Okay, boys and girls, I think we should all reach into our wallets and send San Jose's Cornell Glen a fruit basket. Or a ...
Divotgate. The Aftermath. In Photos.
By Laurie | October 10th, 2009Got these from Chris in Tacoma, who graciously agreed to allow me to post them. I believe they depict Divotgate's logical aftermath. ...
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