Just a few thoughts, that I'm going to phrase as questions, rattling around the old noggin on a Monday:

Where are the tickets sales numbers for MLS? We know about Seattle and Toronto, and we know that FC Dallas draws worse that a steer carcass rotting in the desert, but what about everyone else? How's that "Defend the Fort" thing going up in New England for example?

Is there something fundamentally wrong with young American players who go to Europe? For every Michael Bradley, it seems there's another player who can't even make the bench at a mid-level (or worse) club to dampen the enthusiasm. I know we're never going to bat 1.000 (baseball metaphor in a soccer blog, sorry), but we shouldn't be waiting for our most impressive youngsters to come back to the U.S. before they get regular time.

It's three days until MLS First Kick on ESPN2, Sounders v. Red Bulls, in a city that has gone nuts for soccer (seemingly anyway-I'm not there, but that's the sense I get); why is there still nothing from ESPN? No profiles of the team, no focus on the supporters, not even a mention of what has turned into one of the greatest sports marketing triumphs of the last who-knows-how-many-years....Zip. Zilch. Nada. Why? Hell, we might expect a story by one of the news agencies across the pond before ESPN gets their act together. Do I need to mention again that the league is ON THEIR NETWORK!?!

Also,

Where are the pictures I was supposed to see?
Why is it every time I turn on the radio, I hear the same five songs every fifteen minutes?
Why ask why?
Where's the beef?
How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?

And finally,

How long until MLS starts?

Wow. Wacky mood after a Monday. I feel dirty.