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Back when the Sounders schedule first came out, the first thing that jumped out was how front-loaded the home schedule was.
The assumption was that was because the soccer team shares Qwest Field with the NFL Seahawks, and they wanted to keep most autumn weekends clear for the NFL team.
The Seahawks schedule is out now, and well, mission accomplished.
There is only one weekend when the teams share the stadium: when the Sounders meet the Revolution on Aug. 20 and the Seahawks host the Broncos in a preseason game Aug. 22.
The Sounders have only three regular-season home games after that: Aug. 29 vs. Toronto, Sept. 19 vs. Chivas, and Oct. 24 vs. FC Dallas ... and the Seahawks are off or away each of those weeks.
The Seahawks also are out of town on Nov. 22, when Qwest hosts the MLS Cup. (However, the Seahawks have one home game -- Nov. 8 -- between the end of the MLS regular season and MLS Cup ... meaning while the MLS playoffs are going on.)
Actually, the idea of an expansion team dropping to third in a 15-team league isn't all that bad.
But while I can see moving Chivas to the top this week, I don't see how Chicago's 3-3 draw with San Jose is so much better than Seattle's one-man-down, top-keeper-out 1-0 loss to Kansas City.
In any case, I guess these rankings aren't anything but conversation staters. So, here's the link, and let the conversation begin.
The Sounders are off today. But I did have a Sounders update in the paper today, which might have been lost a bit amid the Fredy Montero news.
And even with no player or coach availabilities today, I will have more Sounders coverage in the paper today: taking a look at red cards, yellow cards and just soccer fouls in general.
And in doing that story, I took at look at the Sounders statistics on fouls committed and was surprised to see who is at the top.
So -- honor system, no checking -- what Sounder do you think has committed the most fouls so far this season? I'll add this: Even he was surprised when I told him.
Meanwhile, I thought the other interesting MLS news of the day was the topping off of the new soccer-specific stadium being built by the New York Red Bulls. Like it or not, fair or unfair, it simply helps a league to have a strong presence in New York, and the Red Bulls/Metrostars haven't provided much of that so far.
This stadium can only help, although at 25,000 seats, I guess they don't think even a new stadium will allow them to draw what the Sounders are drawing.
