Sound Off on Timbers Kit, SuperDraft Outcomes, Supplemental Draft Prospects
Seattle Weekly is knocking down the Timbers for the MLS expansion team's away jerseys, which are as green as the pine trees that make Seattle the Emerald City. Granted, Portland has these same damn trees—they're on the Oregon license plate, even—but apparently having an older MLS team (if not an older city, nor a city with a green flag) somehow makes us more entitled to the color. It is a fair point that a Seattle-based company (Alaska Airlines, which has some sweet fares to Mexico at the moment) has its logo splashed all over the Portland team's jersey, but that's not exactly the Timbers' fault, and what can you expect from a company that's not even located in its namesake state? Not every company-city combo can be as tight as Microsoft-Seattle...er, Redmond.
If people are truly disturbed by Portland's attempt to wrest the color green from Seattle, they might rest easier knowing that the team's alternate color is Rose City Red.
Getting irate about jerseys is an easy thing to do, but we'd perhaps do better to get a little uncomfortable about the Timbers' actual prospects in MLS this year. It's their first foray into the big leagues, but given the Sounders' success in 2009 we know how well that can go for a team. Today the Timbers prep for the MLS Supplemental Draft following some good acquisitions (including Darlington Nagbe at No. 2 overall) in the SuperDraft. The Sounders picked up Michael Tetteh with a pick swapped from Portland, so both teams have some big new names on their rosters.
Regardless of what happens in today's supplemental draft, the Seahawks have stumbled and we still lack an NBA team, so what other sports teams are you going to pay attention to?
