United States - The Monday MLS Breakdown: Orange Crushed

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Frankly Enjoying The Hell Out Of It News
Published 3/31/2008 by brucio at du Nord
... Davis at Soccernet has "10 Things" from Week 1. Excellent observations. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Paul Gardner at Soccer America's Soccer Talk blog gives us his thoughts on the first weekend of games. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Michael Lewis of Big Apple Soccer with his Week 1 recap. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Jen Chang at Soccernet gives us his impressions from Week 1. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Kyle McCarthy at Goal.com with is roundup of Week 1 matches. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Grahame Jones of the LA ...

Crew v. Rapids*: Comparison After Week 1 (Plus, thoughts on the Crew’s win and word of a signing)
Published 3/31/2008 by Jeff at Center Holds It
... a drunk the night before - all y’all know how this works).  And that’s the weird thing - and “the weird” extends to the commentary several of this week’s games: yeah, the Crew won their opener - which seems a rare event, even if may not be (I don’t know) - but keeping the clean sheet required no mean exertion from Will Hesmer.  What I’m getting at, here, is that this was a nice win, but nothing more - so when I see something like where Goal.com placed the Crew in their power rankings, I wonder how I saw so much less than they did. ...

MLS Week 1 Power Rankings - HA! (+ do post your own rankings)
Published 4/1/2008 by Jeff at Center Holds It
... ) make me think the Galaxy deserve the slightest benefit of the doubt. If they lose to the new boys on Thursday, however, I’m prepared to drop them to #-friggin’-16. Losing Ruiz can’t possibly help. ...

MLS Week 1 Collective Power Rankings: One for the Circular File
Published 4/3/2008 by Jeff at Center Holds It
... as it is to throw the results into the circular file, let’s just dub the mess itself an accurate reflection of where things are after Week 1 of MLS’s 2008 season. In other words, no one knows what’s going on and there’s nothing wrong with that. It just means I have eleven sets of data for this week’s survey and they all tell me different things. Let me list those before moving on (and, again, if you see rankings out there that don’t appear down here, due point them out to me): Center Holds It (me) Goal.com (Kyle McCarthy) Orlando ...