The Earthquakes went on the road to a very difficult place
to play (very large field in Carson) – against a very good team that has been
playing very good soccer. Adding to
their challenge was that Los Angeles’ best player (in fact best U.S. Player to
ever play) – Landon Donovan – just announced that this season would be his last
season as a player. The Earthquakes are
suffering from injuries and still trying to claw their way back into relevancy
in Major League Soccer.
So this past Friday night seemed like it might be better to
be an Oakland Raiders fan as they started their newest rebirth in their first
pre-season game at Minnesota a couple of hours before the Earthquakes
game. But those who picked Raiders … had
a rougher road.
How did the Earthquakes tie the Galaxy on Friday night in
Carson, California? I don’t really
know. Unofficial recollection of the
game statistics had the Galaxy with 273,564 shots and the Earthquakes with 3. Fortunately for the Earthquakes, while they
converted 67% of their shots into goals – the Galaxy converted 0.000001% of
their shots into goals. Also fortunately
for the Earthquakes – the Galaxy decided to shoot about 273,562 of their shots
not directly at the goal and hope for the best.
Last night was like the old Star Wars movies … where the
Empire Soldiers … all decked out in their white armor and great weapons – went into
battle stations by the hundreds against the rag-tag group of Rebels (who
numbered 2 guys, 1 girl, 1 wookie with a speech impediment, and 1 pessimistic
android). While the Empire Storm Troopers
fired thousands of lethal rounds from their state-of-the-art weapons … the
Rebels fired about 3 shots and ended up killing 10,000 Empire Storm Troopers
with those 3 shots.
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