The Sounders

Rumor has it that our men's team plays the Seattle Sounders in February at home. Time will tell.

Cool. Where did you hear that rumor?

Heard it from one of the players.

Let me know if they set a date for that one; I'd enjoy going...

2/20

Thanks.

And from what I hear the Timbers will be playing the SJ Earthquakes the same day... The Sounders also have another friendly on July 18th: http://www.epltalk.com/chelsea-organizes-friendly-against-seattle-sounders/4157

Wow. Some EPL fans in Portland will have a tough time picking a team for that one.

I (gulp) gotta go with Seattle in this one. USA! USA!

I just checked the San Jose official site. According to their preseason schedule they are in Fresno February 20.
SJ schedule

Hmmmm, well it may not be on that day, but they will be playing an as yet unscheduled friendly at some point,

They can pick most any day and I would try to make it.

PurplePrideTrumpet wrote:Wow. Some EPL fans in Portland will have a tough time picking a team for that one.

I (gulp) gotta go with Seattle in this one. USA! USA!

I just checked the San Jose official site. According to their preseason schedule they are in Fresno February 20.
SJ schedule

Haha and those of us that are most definitely not Timbers fans and LOATHE the Blues have no problem what so ever.... Although I'm assuming your allegiances lie with a different London club if you are willing to support the Sounders on this one...

It's the one in North London that upgrades by signing schoolboys every summer. That will work well when they end up in the UEFA Cup/Europa League/NIT next year.

But I digress. These days there's plenty of loathing for Chelsea to go around the whole league.

Yeah... I wish nothing but the worst for Chelsea each and every year...

But hey, at least they aren't the ones plotting to sign away your best player and manager...

A date has been set for the match against Chelsea:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/soccer/400484_sounders18.html

The UP vs. Sounders FC game should be entertaining. Remember when Kasey Keller had long hair?

http://www.portlandpilots.com/index.aspx?path=msoc

He kind of underwent the Andre Agassi transition.

Well let's face it, I don't think The Skullet will ever be a good look....

Oh man. Good point there.

I'm just green with envy of people at the game right now. Well, green and purple both, I guess.

Sounders FC: 4 --- UP: 1

http://www.soundersfc.com/Social/Sounders-FC-Insider.aspx?plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&userid=133057d0-e5d9-4688-bf5e-269d98ae27f7&plckPostId=Blog%3a133057d0-e5d9-4688-bf5e-269d98ae27f7Post%3a4225ee30-0167-4cae-bfef-6a0f1b8960a5&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest

Well, that was an eventful day. I saw some baseball and soccer. Of course the Sounders were much better but I had a lot of fun.

The Seattle fans were easy to spot. They were the ones that lit flares. Public Safety was not impressed with their "ultra spirit."

PurplePrideTrumpet wrote:The Seattle fans were easy to spot. They were the ones that lit flares. Public Safety was not impressed with their "ultra spirit."

Hahaha oh man, talk about a bad idea... Let's hope students don't try and mimic that next year... But did they at least use a green flare??

No... they were red. They did get a bit of applause as they were escorted out though.

Dumb. I know green flares exist, I've seen The Rock ~57 times...

Haha, I wonder how long before they start posting the list of banned flammables/projectiles at the entrance to Merlo like they do in Europe....

List of Banned Projectiles
1. Pokies
2. .....

DaTruRochin wrote:Dumb. I know green flares exist, I've seen The Rock ~57 times...

Haha, I wonder how long before they start posting the list of banned flammables/projectiles at the entrance to Merlo like they do in Europe....

List of Banned Projectiles
1. Pokies
2. .....

We'll I'm guessing green flares are now on the list.

Video highlights: http://www.portlandpilots.com/custompages/Videos/022009mensweb.mov