The All Star Game Poll: Will You Indulge?

By: Laurie | July 29th, 2009

Will You Be Watching the All Star Game?(survey software)

All Star Game is tonight in Salt Lake City Sandy, Utah. Four of our players — Keller, Ljungberg, Hurtado, Montero — are on the team. Will you be watching?

I will, definitely. Partly because my TV is in my basement, where it stays relatively cool. (Seriously, what is up with this heat? It was 77 degrees out at 7:30 this morning! I’ve been having to drag my 80-lb. lab outside by the collar, with him all stiff-legged and digging his claws into the ground and telegraphing, “HELL no! It’s HOT out there! If it’s all the same to you, I’ll just pee inside.”)

But heat aside, I’d be watching anyway. Up till last year I thought that the All Star game was just silly — a way for MLS to say to the world, “Hey! Look! Our best of the best CAN beat a preseason midtable European squad!”

And, okay, yeah, it is that. But when I watched for the first time I also discovered that it’s really fun to see the league’s best players playing together, connecting on the field. They’re actually really good, despite not having taken the field together except for a few days.

Kind of a preview of what could be coming in a few years, when every franchise is run like Seattle…

(Just stuck that bit in for you ACES types, because I like to see your eyes bulge out.)

(Oh, also because it’s true.)

So yes, I will definitely be watching. Will you?

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Tags: Freddie Ljungberg, Fredy Montero, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, Kasey Keller, MLS All Star game, Seattle Team News

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• CarlosT |  July 29th, 2009 at 1:47 pm

  
  
  

  No. For me it’s a friendly between two teams I have no affiliation with. I’m just hoping none of our guys gets hurt. Other than that, there’s zero attraction for this game to me.

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• Johonna |  July 29th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

  
  
  

  AWWWWW. Did you see this:
  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sounders/2009555061_sounders29.html

  Montero and Hurtado – bff!

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• DaveS |  July 29th, 2009 at 4:31 pm

  
  
  

  And Freddie in the NYT:
  http://tinyurl.com/nl98k4

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• laurie |  July 29th, 2009 at 4:35 pm

  
  
  

  Funny, I had just read both of those this morning and was thinking I’m going to have to start doing links posts again. Also, Kasey flew with the Blue Angels:

  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/soundersfcblog/2009560124_kasey_keller_in_a_blue_angels.html

  I want to amass enough good karma in this life to come back as Kasey Keller.

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• johonna |  July 30th, 2009 at 1:36 am

  
  
  

  Dave, that is a great read. Thanks for posting the link. I was especially touched by the comments. I guess I really didn’t know how good I had it.

  Yay us!

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• Kristi |  July 30th, 2009 at 1:56 am

  
  
  

  Romero (Seattle Times) just tweeted that Freddie has been taken to a local hospital with migraines again. This is awful for him, feel better soon Freddie!

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• Laurie |  July 30th, 2009 at 2:28 am

  
  
  

  I just saw that too. I wondered what was up. He didn’t want to take a penalty and was sitting on the sidelines with a towel pulled over his head after regulation time. Then they had to go to a sixth penalty taker and he had to do it anyway — and missed.

  Montero was down on the field for a short while, but it looked like he just messed up his ankle tape. Better than Zach Thornton, who looked like he actually got injured.

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• soccer goals |  July 31st, 2009 at 2:05 pm

  
  
  

  Great game. The keepers played well.

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