Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Loans and some cards

Last week it was announced that Stolica and Tim Murray would be loaned out to FC New York. Both players can be called back by the Revs at any time according to the team's press release. It's a good move for Murray as it will hopefully allow him to play in competitive games on a regular basis. Murray is also probably making near the bottom in regards to payroll, so it's not like he's a big cap hit. However, Stolica is a big cap hit if he's making anywhere close to what he was making last year. So to sign him and then loan him out so soon leaves me wondering what the Revs were thinking when they signed him to a new contract. We don't know how much he's making, perhaps he took a big pay cut to stay here. We'll know once the players union releases the 2011 salaries. I'm also not sure how these loans impact the team's salary cap. If they stay with FC New York the rest of the year do their salaries not count against the cap or they count against the cap regardless if they come back or not? Perhaps these would be good questions to ask.

I never finished my review of the 2010 MLS UD set. The 2011 UD set was released a couple weeks ago, I ordered a hobby box this week! I will finish my 2010 review and then do one for 2011. This will be done by the end of May! I just have a few things to take care of before then.

Oh yeah, the Revs played Chivas on Saturday. Yeah, lets not talk about that.

Colorado this weekend. One of the better games I went to last year, Colorado played quite well. Corey Gibbs could not contain Conor Casey during that game, especially in the first half, and after the game Gibbs talked about how Casey was a complete non factor. I'm still in a bit of disbelief over that one.

-Andrew

4 comments:

  1. I wish they sold soccer card packs at the drug store the same way they do with football and baseball cards. There used to be a hobby shop down the street from me that had an entire box of UD 1994 World Cup cards a couple of years ago. Now, granted, I could've bought the entire box (each pack was $1) and made it my bounty, but no, that wouldn't been as fun. So every Saturday for an entire summer, I stopped by and bought 2-3 packs until he ran out. Nostalgia, man...it plays funny tricks on you sometimes.

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  2. I wish you could buy cards at any gas station, convenience store, pharmacy around. Seems like these days you can't get cards anywhere besides a card shop (if you can even find one) or the internet.

    I know exactly what you're talking about. I used to buy those cards at the CVS up the street from me back in the day. Man, those were the days, going to the store and buying a pack of cards for 99 cents. I still have those cards in a shoe box.

    -Andrew

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