today is the beginning of the end.
actually, that should read last saturday...i'm in the future baby! last weekend the english premier league started back up and dc united finally stopped their free-fall out of the playoff places.
did i mention that phish played what many of us feel is their worst show ever?
arsenal has raced into the season obliterating everton away 6-1, 2-0 @ celtic in the 1st leg of champions league qualifying and 4-1 to portsmouth. 12 goals in 3 games while allowing 2. i'll take these stats. normally i would wait to wax poetically on how arsenal will win it all this year until they have at least played one of the top teams and that will happen next weekend! i'm assuming we will beat celtic in leg 2 this week. the following 2 games will be at the manchester clubs. i'm hoping for at least 4 points.
over the last 6-8 weeks dc united has fallen down and skidded its knee. we have slipped from 1st in the division to 4th and barely clinging on to a playoff place. there are, what, 6-7 games left? we can't be playing with our points now... up tonight is la galaxy with a certain mister david beckham in tow. oh joy.
there are many ways to ruin a phish show. the two easiest ways are, in order, bad playing and bad song choices. i witnessed the most egregious offender of the latter last weekend at merriweather post pavillion. i can deal with a first full of new songs even if it includes what has to be one of their all time worst songs, time turns elastic. first sets are meant for the band to finish loosening up to unleash the nasty in set 2 and it appeared as if that is exactly what was going to happen when set 2 started off with tweezer. at around the 10th minute the jam started to turn the corner into what i can only hope most/all true phishheads are really there for. ten seconds later trey decided instead to stop and play taste. now, i am not a hater of taste and i find it perfectly acceptable in a set2 scenario if it is say between the biggies...kind of a breather. to purposefully kill a tweezer to start taste is just criminal. ok, trey must be saving energy for something else. next song = alaska. ok, this song is just pathetically boring. let me lie...now they are just being cruel and seriously starting to piss people off! 46 days was a rather uninspiring choice but at least it has potential for the jam and this one did. the jam out of 46 days was my one lone non-low point. i can't even call it a highpoint everything else was so low. going through the motion versions of oh sweet nothin and harry hood killed off the last remnants of a horrible set. the obligatory tweeprise didnt even have mike bombs...yeah, we're still laughing.
wtf?
roundup from yesterday.
arsenals pre-season match against barnet ended in a 2-2 draw. arshavin and barazite scored for the gunners while rosicky captained the squad in the first half. it was great to see rosicky out on the pitch for the first time in over 18 months following his knee injury and i hope to see him many more times!
adebayor finally completed his move to manchester city. personally, i dont think we need to buy a replacement striker...yet. with van persie, bendtner, eduardo, vela, and even arshavin and walcott i feel like we have enough. of course, you can never predict when the injury bug will hit, and it will - especially at arsenal! i hope we use the money to finally cement down a hard-nosed central midfielder. we were linked with felipe melo a few weeks ago before he sealed his move to juventus. available options: mamadou diarra, jeremy toulalan, lorik cana and miguel veloso.
dcunited won last night in a rather emphatic fashion after putting in a rather pedestrian effort in the first half and despite quite possibly one of the most outwardly appearing biased and unfair refereeing performances i have had the horror to see. i honestly believe that the only reason the ref gave us that penalty was that he thought that when his performance was reviewed later by mls they would have fired him for not giving the penalty - it was that blatant. the 3 goals we scored in quick succession in the first 15 minutes of the second half really knocked the wind out of colorados sails and they never recovered.
the players seemed especially grateful to the fans, more so than normal, and applauded us after the game.
colorado v dcunited tonight. excellent.
while it's a double header with the washington freedom, i just cant see myself going early to catch it. we need to win to keep us up at the top of division.
are you going?
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