Pep rally at Gallery Furniture tonight, 5:00 to 6:30. No players will be there (which begs the question: who will benefit from the peppiness?) but there will be free t-shirts.
USSoccerPlayers.com is doing a series on the MLS Cup. Yesterday it was Jaqua vs Heaps. Today it's Twellman vs Robinson. More to come, I presume.
Jaime Trecker, perennial critic of the MLS, has an article focusing on New England. He slips up a few times and reveals some compliments about Dynamo-Houston. He mentions that the Dynamo deserved last year's victory, notes that Houston is one of the teams with a large following, and says the Dynamo have "one of the most explosive attacks in American soccer." That is all effusive praise coming from the curmudgeonly Trecker.
The blog, Climbing the Ladder, has a pre-MLS Cup quiz where you get to voice your opinions.
Goal.com compares Boston and Houston. Boston (the city) edges Houston (the city), BTW.
Did you know that Nate Jaqua's dad played for the Washington Redskins in RFK, the site of this year's MLS Cup? I didn't.
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People don´t give Houston credit for all the great things the city has, and I blame Houstonians for it, they complain so much about their city that people from other cities tend to believe them.
I have live in Boston and in Houston, and since I´m not from any of those cities (or states from that matter) I may be somewhat impartial.
Boston has a much better climate in summer and fall, but those winters and their early spring is hell.
Yes, Boston has many amenities, but guess what, Houston has a lot of those too, Houstonians just don´t brag about them, Houston has lots of problems like every other big city, but guess what, Boston has a lot of those too, is just that Bostonians don´t complain about them.
But the big difference is that I will take a Houstonian over a Bostonite for a friend every day.
Yes they have the Pats and the Red Sox, but we have the Dynamo, MLS is ours for now, and hopefully for one more year, and the Dynamo has something the Rev doesn´t have, lots of fans.
El Jardin,
You are wise. I admit to being one of the ones guilty of not always seeing the good in Houston, or at least not appreciating it. Yet, while there are several cities that do rank higher than Houston on my list, Boston isn't one of them. It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. As for Houston, you could say it's a nice place to live (good urban amenities, proximity to a coast, good airport hub, etc.) but I wouldn't want to visit here (not much of a tourist town).
One thing that I definitely do like about Houston is the Dynamo. Could that change if the character of the team changed due to, say, a new coach or new ownership with a different philosophy? Sure, but that's true of anything I suppose.
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