Image borrowed from Ohhhhh_Yeah808’s photostream. Thanks buddy! Well howdy folks! This past weekend the Portland Timbers played twice at PGE park against the Carolina Railhawks. Two games in one ‘weekend’ against the same team isn’t ideal, but it allowed the Timbers to experiment a little and get their legs under them. Both games were very […]
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PTFC2k9: back on the grind
The Portland Timbers started up their 2009 campaign on Saturday in Burnaby British Columbia, against The Whitecaps, a 0-1-2 team that had played a few games before the Timbers got a chance to launch their season: the pleasures of USL scheduling. As I covered in the pregame column, this Timbers team kept only a handful […]
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PTFC2K9: Cautious Optimism
The Portland Timbers Season kicks off with an away game against USL-1 regional rivals the Vancouver Whitecaps, this Saturday at 7pm up in that there Canader. I can’t help but be excited. So much has changed for the Timbers in the last two years, and may be the deepest, strongest, most talented squad we’ve ever […]
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PTFC2k9: The Season Cometh
The warm afterglow from the MLS2PDX announcement hasn’t worn off yet for me. Three years ago Timbers fans got themselves excited about the new season in any number of asinine ways, but back then, we knew nearly little about the future: the absentee owners, who likely thought hard about drowning the Timbers franchise like a […]
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MLS2PDX: this is it!
Early last year, some guy named Merritt Paulson showed up in town and bought the Portland Timbers and the Portland Beavers from a Sacramento Real Estate consortium. Not many people had an opinion of him, and the Timbers faithful quickly noticed that the company formed to take ownership was called Shortstop LLC. As a group […]
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MLS2PDX: 4,000 Scarves
Every Timbers fan in the world braces for Wednesday morning, when the city council will vote up or down the plan for the PGE Park renovation and the construction of a new baseball stadium suitable for AAA baseball. As Matt Davis has reported, the MLS/AAA stadium task force voted unanimously in favor of the stadium […]
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PTFC2K9: The (Pre)Season Cometh
Right about now is when you should get excited. It might not feel like spring, but the USL season is just over a month away. The squad is rounding into form, we have some real preseason games to watch, and great new ways to follow the Timbers on radio and TV! Fans of the Mighty […]
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PTFC2K9: the Tension is Building
For any dedicated sports fan, the off-season is hard. Many actually spend more time obsessing about their team during the off-season than during the season itself, for little or no time is spent with the holy trinity: pre-game drinking and singing, game time singing and drinking, and post-game drinking and drinking (and singing). For Timbers […]
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PTFC Bone Marrow Donor drive
Hi Folks. I have a huge report coming about the Portland Timbers pre-season excitement and MLS2PDX news, but I wanted to get the word out about this: Led by defender Cameron Knowles, the Portland Timbers are teaming up with DKMS, the largest bone-marrow donor center in the world, to host a bone-marrow donor drive on […]
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MLS2PDX: Everybody’s Fuckin’ it Up
Howdy crazy folks! I’m sure this post will fall on mostly deaf eyes, since everyone is concentrating on BeauGate, but there’s tons of news and happenings in the world of the Portland Timbers to report! Nevermind that I forgot I’m across the international dateline and woke up too early on the wrong day to watch […]
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MLS2PDX: Hellos and Goodbyes
Hey there lovely people! There’s another MLS2PDX task force meeting on Tuesday the 6th, but there’s enough Player news, MLS Expansion news and sundry items about the Timbers blogosphere for another roundup before the meeting.So watch out Chris Berman, I’m going to run roughshod over your career of nonsensical gesticulations and catch phrases, after the […]
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MLS2PDX: snow makes the turf grow
On the heels of last week’s Task Force meeting and a live blog where/when I tried my hand at actually being a reporter, got winked at by an important man in a nice suit, got called a homer and garnered the Mercury its first attention in the national soccer (blog) media (scroll down, it’s there. […]