Them’s fightin’ words where I come from, son. From this point forward, my goal in life is to work vicariously through players I don’t know and will never meet to prove you entirely and totally wrong! Game on!

(And the fact that you may actually be right? Completely irrelevant.) ;-)

P.S. If we leave up comments questioning our knowledge, humor and parentage — and we do — we’re certainly not going to take down comments that are thoughtful and on topic. Stop by whenever you like to leave derogatory comments about my team. That’s what the blog is for. :-)

I got an auto alert on this post and since I like you so much I thought I’d reply.(Or maybe it’s the Bombay Sapphire. Who can say?)

If you don’t think it’s appropriate, take it down, I understand.

With all due respect, I don’t really think the reigning MLS Cup and Supporter’s Shield holders see Seattle as much of a problem.

Now Seattle seems to have a very touchy fan base that’s already freaking out over the stuff I’ve said, but I’m here to post what I think, not what they want to hear.

And, knowing each and every player Seattle has pretty well (their play I mean) I think Seattle will have a nice, but hardly world-beating, team. Some kind of “rivalry” is not even on the radar.

We hate DC with the heat of 1000 suns. We loath the Fire. We have a thing going on with Toronto.

Seattle has Sigi now and that’s fine, but so what? I was in LA for the Cup final a couple weeks ago and I’ll be damned if I saw Sigi out there running that show. It was Guillermo BS who was doing that.

And if someone wants to tell me that if GBS was not on the team that the Crew would have even been in that game, Sigi or no Sigi.

We love Sigi in CBus. Always will. But we’re not the least bit bitter about this. We understand that Seattle needs the PR buzz and so was willing to pay bazillions for the guy, and good for him.

We’ll do fine with Bob Rifle.

And – oh yes – MLS and Anshutz Cup MVP Guilllermo Barros Schelotto.

Love your work.

Bill Archer

The reason Sigi was so successful in Columbus is because he got his say completely with the team. With 4 other guys pulling strings in Seattle, it won’t be quite as effective. Also, the part about Sigi coveting the USMNT spot seems interesting as well.