Comments on: Luis Bueno Gives His MLS Preseason Rankings

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:48:18 +0000

Travis, relative to the comment I just deleted (after fixing the previous one. And none of this will make any sense to anyone else.) You’ll have your own editing privileges as soon as we get you access to post on this page.

By: travis

travis — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:12:10 +0000

Rapids at 5? Chivas at 1?

I think the Red Bull are too low. Oh and the Wizards will surprise people.

Be sure to check out my preseason rankings soon at the KC blog. (shameless plug for my expertise, and by expertise I mean wild guesses)

By: Dave Martinez

Dave Martinez — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:52:07 +0000

Its still to early for any of this. At least for my Bulls. Ill wait till we are into March, past the 3rd.

By: Fitz

Fitz — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:03:07 +0000

I can only say as an unabashed homer that RSL is too low. They’re a possible playoff team. Their opening day lineup could have nine players who weren’t there on opening day last year. Quite the overhaul.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:44:57 +0000

Since we are playing the ranking game…

1. Chivas- Besides being the best, we lost no important players, just gained a few good ones. PS. Big plans for the team if Brad leaves.
2. Houston- lost three key players
3. DC- too much transition
4. NE- they’re good
5. NY- Hopefully they will score more than they concede.
6. CHI- Hopefully Blanco’s talent is contagious.
7. FCD- Don’t know why
8. KC- EJ left… net benefit
9. Crew- The Argentine.
10. Colorado- see number 7
11. RSL- It’s their turn to not be last.
12. Toronto- Canada…soccer?
13. SJ- The band is getting back together.
14. LA- too many eggs in three baskets. (two very old and fragile baskets and one basket that is tired of carrying the team)

By: Jeff Bull

Jeff Bull — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:18:35 +0000

I was feeling very saucy after reading the comments here…then I sat down and tried to compile power rankings of my own…only to chicken out.

It’s too early. And, no, I don’t think TFC is going to be better than 11th. I think they’ll be lucky to be better than the Crew.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:29:26 +0000

New England will be near the top no matter what. Nicol is too good a coach to let the team just fall apart. With a few more depth players, maybe a DP and we’re sitting pretty.

TFC has a nice looking team, they deserve to be flip=flopped with LA at the least, Colorado at the most.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:25:16 +0000

Chivas dumped a lot of dev players who didn’t play a lot (I believe thhats what happened). Well, besides whatshisface from Dallas – yup, forgot his name already. Not sure the motivation for the total clean sweep but may be related to the fact that Chivas are one of the few teams allowed to grab players from their youth leagues? I honeslty haven’t been following their roster changes too closely. Either way, their off-season aquisitions looked wierd at the beginning but seem to be making more sense now. I’d say it may be their year this year. Don’t want to jynx it tho and Guzan single-handedly kept them in games last year (if you looked at the stats). Yup, sunno what will happen when they lose El Guzano.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:15:53 +0000

My big question mark about Chivas is that they dumped half their team in the off-season. I’m curious to see if they replaced them with better quality, or if the lack of cohesiveness that comes from adding so many new players in such a short time will hurt them in the long run.

(LA Galaxy fan speaking from experience here on that whole “lack of cohesiveness” thing.)

By: Dave Martinez

Dave Martinez — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:02:08 +0000

San Jose has a D enough to gain a few wins and give teams like LA, RSL and Colorado a run for their money.

Chivas is another class. As is Houston. Dallas may be as well this year.