I don't know what to say other than how many chances can you get without finishing one?  Seems to be the story of the year, RSL getting enough chances to win but not finishing any of them while the opponent does finish and wins.  Much as I don't like Blanco and, after last night, his fans, When you give a player of his caliber that much space to shoot, he's going to put it in.  Great move by the league to sign him really as we had an announced (I know that MLS fudges the numbers) attendance of over 18,000 and a good chunk of the increase was definately the Blanco fans. 

The reffing in the league really needs to improve.  It amazes me that guys you see reffing pub league games show up at RES and ref the MLS game.  And people wonder why the rest of the world looks at MLS as a glorified pub league.  Ref was again truly aweful.  That's not an excuse for RSL not finishing, but it just gets so frustrating as a former ref seeing these guys and seeing just how poor they are.  And to really make it worse, you turn on a game from anywhere else in the world and they have refs who actually do a good job.  Right now I'm watching Chel$ki-Liverpool and the ref is keeping good control of the match, letting the players play and only getting involved when he has to.  The same can be said of the Newcastle-Villa match I watched this morning.  Quality reffing is something that MLS needs to be taken seriously, they have the players and the quality teams (as Superliga has done a good job of showing). 

In other news David Beckham is starting to really turn it on.  I'm not a fan of Beckham's hype, but he truly is the most dangerous dead ball player (other than maybe Gerrard, his goal last week against Villa was truly amazing) in the world.  Now hopefully Beckham's MLS account is now open, we can get to watching football and not Beckham.  I really got sick of seeing Beckham scratching his foot while he sat on the bench while the game was going.  IF you listen to ESPN, there seems to be only one player on the pitch and that's a shame.  As for Beckham being made skipper of LA, all I can say is what took so long?  The rumors surrounding Landon Donovan's reaction cover the spectrum from it was Donovan's idea to he's completely upset and wants to be traded now.  Regardless of that, I don't think there's a manager anywhere in any league at any level who would not make Beckham captain over Donovan.  Let's see, Beckham has captained Manchester United toa Champion's League title.  He's captained England.  Donovan has captained the United States (which is nowhere near like captaining England) and LA to an MLS cup.  Not even something you can compare. 

And Paul, great talking to you, there is always an open invitation to talk to us and you, as well as anyone else are welcome to the RCB tailgate when you're in town.  Even cRapids fans are welcome to the tailgate.  By the way cRapids, thanks for Beckerman.

        

 

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