Not much to say today after that embarassment. Here's the blog post I talked about at Booked For Dissent.

Post-game quotes from Soehn, Dyachenko and Payne.

No pun or pop culture reference in the title of today's episode. That's right, today I'm going for sleek, German efficiency as a welcoming tribute to our new corporate overlords.

If you've ever been in the VIP (now Volkswagen) Lounge for a function or an equipment sale, you would be shocked at how it looks.  A complete paint job in white, with the exposed celing in black, with a nice image of Jaime silk-screened on one wall, and some comfortable chairs and couches. It looks fantastic and actually fitting for VIPs now.  There was also a big VW logo above the bar. I asked Fred Matthes when it got renovated and he said, "In the past 72 hours. It felt like one of those HGTV shows."

Walking down to the press conference, I saw Dave Johnson, who, despite his schedule, always has time for a chat. We talked about Gordon Bradley and I complimented him on the beautiful tribute he wrote about him on Behind The Badge. 

Yes, I am channeling a hip-hop album, and we shook our collective thangs all over the pitch.   I think the move to the 3-5-2 will help Gallardo because it will push him higher. That's something that gets talked about a bit in Soehn's press conference.

Post-game quotes from Soehn, Wells, Burch, Quaranta, Simms and Moreno.

Usually I aim to get these podcasts up within 24 hours of the final whistle.  But by about the 75th minute, I wanted to get far away from this game as quickly as possible.  I figure many of you feel the same.   It didn't help that, when I got back to the press box after the locker room, I had two e-mails telling me about the death of E Street Band keyboardist Danny Federici, which put me in an even worse mood. 

Post-game quotes from Soehn, Wells, and Gallardo.

As with the Harbour View game, it’s hard to judge how good we are because our opponents were so bad.  And with Salt Lake coming up, it might still be a while before we can get a sense of the team.  This game should have been at least 3-0 without the red card, so there was good (the fourth goal) and bad (not getting the clean sheet) to take from this. 

But, as good as Gallardo has been, I think the most important signing we made in the off-season will be Peralta.  He may even, dare I say it, be better than Ryan Nelsen.

Post-game quotes from Soehn, Wells, Moreno and Quaranta.

Rather than doing show notes as I have in the past, my match report can be found here.

Here's the audio from the two press conferences held on Monday and Tuesday, and here they are.  In between is Ben Olsen talking about everything, and some of those quotes made their way into my MLSNet piece about the new signings.

While it's tough to see another team win on our turf, and also have to give up sole ownership of one of our most cherished milestones, the Dynamo deserved their victory.   Like with 2001, they didn't give up when they went down early, and then DeRosario took over.  As for the Revs, well, we have a lovely parting gift for you.

Well, that's it.  Another season ended due to a predictable offense.   Moreno and Emilio at 100% would not have made a difference.  We kept everything in front of the Fire's defense and the one time we didn't have a laughable attempt from distance, Simms scored.  And to have 13 corners and not put any of them on frame is inexcusable.  But then, that's been the case with us ever since Eddie Pope went north. 

I don’t know about you, but I didn't have a good feeling going into this game – we've seen it play out like this the last two seasons and there was nothing in the past few weeks to suggest this year was going to be different. But, as you can hear, Soehn says that we'll have Emilio and Moreno available, and he's usually not one to give out information like that, so that does give me some hope for Thursday.