Less about the actual soccer, more about being a Portland Timbers fan.
The original Seattle Sounders poster on the left advertising the match with the Timbers showed up on my timeline again after the Timbers won. I thought I’d fix it for them to reflect the outcome. A little prophetic to choose Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots for the illustration, considering the antics on the field, especially post-match.
Continue reading “Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, Before and After”
I’m involved in Zarek Valentin’s project to raise money for Pride Month. Profits from the RibbonZ patches are going to New Avenues for Youth and the Q Center. Find out about the project here. In stadium sales are over, but you still have a chance to buy some online.
We’re halfway thought he 2019 regular season, and we’re 9th in the conference, 15th in the Supporters Shield race. At 23 points were’s averaging 1.35 points per game. We’re 4 points below the playoff line but still have at two games in hand over almost everyone ahead of us, except 7th place Houston which has only played more match than we have, and has 27 points. In our next 17 games, we only have 3 away matches! I love our current run of form, and that includes the loss to Montreal with a rotated lineup. MLS Power Rankings have us at #3 (!) which seems very generous to me. What do you. think? Check out the slightly interactive version of the graph above on this page.
Not to be outdone by Merritt Paulson, Diego Valeri was recently spotted tooling around Portland on one of those rentable electric scooters. This new version has a seat. I guess that makes it a bike, no?
– Thanks to Andrew Buswell for the pic.