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Category Archives: Open Cup

Footcon Level Four

Monday, January 28, 2008

Fixture congestion for above-average MLS clubs is going to get worse before it gets better, thanks to CONCACAF’s response to the successes of Ligas Super y Inter.  The CONCACAF Champions Cup is now the CONCACAF Champions League.  More teams, more games, more decisions.

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That was me a year ago, more or less, only with no mohawk

Monday, October 8, 2007

DJ Walker on the Open Cup from the Honorable Mention point of view.

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New England finally shuts me up

Thursday, October 4, 2007

So one of the monkeys finally cleared off the Revolution’s back. Congratulations! What is it about Pizza Hut Park that all of a sudden has made it a defense-free zone? It’s about time the Open Cup made it back to New England – somewhere Billy Gonsalves is smiling.

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Ten years after

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Someone brought a camera to the 1997 Open Cup Final! It’s like someone discovered footage of Bigfoot kidnapping the Lindbergh baby. You know what I love most about this highlight package? EVERYTHING! The neutral site chosen apparently at random! Diablo’s mega-mullet! Dallas’ Garanimals uniforms, complete with jail-striped socks! The enormous fire-breathing (-puking?) horse with lightning [...]

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Hey, it ain’t the Robert Kraft US Open Cup

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

That, home field advantage, and my desperation to have a preseason prediction actually come true are about the only reasons I’m still on the FC Dallas Open Cup bandwagon. Well, that, and there’s PLENTY OF LEGROOM. Not a CROWDED bandwagon at this point, if you get me. Whoever said no one remembers the bad predictions? [...]

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New England wins Battle of New Britain (R)

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Man, wish I could have seen this peach. From Josh: Scoring Summary CAR – Anthony Maher (Johnny Steele) – 6th minute NE – Jeff Larentowicz (Adam Cristman) – 47th+ minute NE – Pat Noonan (Adam Cristman) – 94th minute Booking Summary NE – Avery John – 41st minute (Yellow) CAR – David Stokes – 41st [...]

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FC Dallas is a big, fat fraud.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Boy, would I love to be able to jump off their Open Cup bandwagon right about now. They got shelled at home, they’re going to visit perhaps the best team in the USL, and Seattle’s assistant coach is Darren “Tarzan” “My Little Pony” Sawatzky. (He’s cut the hair that made him famous, though.) The Sounders [...]

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Seattle, Carolina, Dallas advance in LHUSOC (R)

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Seattle 5, Colorado 0. Admit it. You’re not surprised. In fact, you’re wondering why Seattle took it easy on ‘em. They will play FC Dallas in the semifinals, and I think the winner of that is your 2007 Hunt Cup winner. Okay, yeah, New England. Obviously, I was at least a year off in predicting [...]

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Oh, yeah, the US Open Cup

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Josh has it all here, but tape your head to prevent it from exploding. Yeah, Chicago has been horrifying, and yeah, Chivas USA is probably the worst Cup team in American history, but I didn’t see them both crashing out. I thought the USL fulfilled its upset quota and then some with Richmond and Harrisburg. [...]

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DC United wins MLS Cup

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Maybe I should have ranked embarrassing Open Cup losses after this round, instead of before? Nah. At least DC United can fall back on history – they always win MLS Cup when they lose to lower division opponents in the Open Cup. However, they’ve only previously lost to A-League (USL-1 equivalent these days, blah blah, [...]

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Aggravated assault

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

The Charleston Battery strike again. I had my usually so-so prognostications going (dead right on the Galaxy, near miss on New England, punted on Colorado), but my stone cold lock went seriously nipples-north.

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MLS Power Rankings Week 15

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

In order of most embarrassing Open Cup exit. 1. Chivas USA, 5-4 in penalties to FC Roma, 2006 (ironically, the only one on this list that isn’t technically a loss) 2. Dallas, 3-2 to Seattle Sounders Select (that’s right, the junior team), 2001 3. Colorado, 2-1 to Chicago Stingers, 1997 4. New England, 1-0 to [...]

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Open Cup starts again

Monday, July 9, 2007

At least, from my MLS-centric point of view. USL fans who’d like to wipe that smug look of superiority of my fat gob can cheer on the Silverbacks tonight against FC Dallas, which starts momentarily, and . MLS has a Matchtracker that tells me Dallas is playing nearly all of its starters, even Carlos Ruiz. [...]

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Hat Stats

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Mulling over MLS hat tricks, courtesy of the Ladder. The Miami Fusion scored a hat trick more recently than DC United. That can’t be right. DC beat the Mutiny by nearly two months, though – if you count the Open Cup. DC’s last hat trick came on the same day as Tampa Bay’s hat trick [...]

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Humbert Humbert

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Wow. The magic of the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup. The magic of the pre-Open Cup, even. There’s no reason on earth you should trust what I have to say about last night’s game, really. I’m pretty much Nabokov’s unreliable narrator, except without all that awkwardness with a grade school girl. So far as you [...]

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Open Cup Play-In Championship

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Well, my predictions have been kinda iffy recently. Over the weekend, I predicted that a horse would win the Kentucky Derby. But I also predicted that the Mayweather-De La Hoya fight would end with both men renouncing violence and talking through their differences like adults. So I’m at .500 for the month right now. I’m [...]

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Galaxy make strange decision to win

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Well, congratulations to the Galaxy on showing the pride and fortitude necessary to win a game that, in all frankness, they were just as well off losing. I never thought for a minute that Frank Yallop, whose commitment to the Open Cup has historically been, well, questionable, would inspire his team to win on the [...]

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