Hihi. I am your Caitlin today. Caitlin is busy preparing for school abroad and gave up her day to Donald, and I offered to take it on now that I’m back in the land of the semi pseudo North. I’m home this week with my kid so Kicks are a little scatterbrained today:
New York City 1, Red Bulls 1 - as it happened! (Hudson River Blue): The short version: The New York Red Bulls couldn’t score multiple goals on a 9-man NYCFC team. That’s how I’ll look at it at least.
Maryland boy’s dream to become professional soccer player comes true thanks to DC United (Fox 5 DC): I always like these things, seems like they did this well.
Since we’re on the D.C. United topic, I have a couple of other things, the first is a note on a former DC homegrown:
I am hearing Portland Timbers midfielder and 2017 US U-20 midfielder Eryk Williamson will be going on loan to newly promoted Santa Clara of the Portuguese top flight. The club is based in the Azores
— Brian Sciaretta (@BrianSciaretta) August 22, 2018
And here is the second, with 538’s odds before the MLS season and now on playoff chances and whatnot:
Comparativa predicción de @FiveThirtyEight sobre #MLS (26 febr - 22 agosto)
— Sp_ | Major League Soccer (@Sp_MLS) August 22, 2018
⬇️ Toronto #TFC: único que superaba 90% de probabilidades de play-off. Ahora, 20%.
Brutal cambio positivo de #FCDallas (53% 99%) y #DCUnited (27% 55%).
✅ 7 de 12 harán play-off (casi) seguro. pic.twitter.com/PxpTCEeeXK
How Wayne Rooney has helped transform DC United’s fortunes in MLS (Sky): This wasn’t a terrible read...up to a point.
Oh hey, here’s the logo for the proposed MLS team in Austin:
Well, that’s a badge #MLS2ATX pic.twitter.com/9mMEc2ngXs
— Phil West ⚽️ (@philwest) August 23, 2018
And I guess Jason would fire me if I didn’t put the trailer for the new season of It’s Always Sunny in here: