Check it Out!

Brant Parsons of the Orlando Sentinel and "The Other Football" podcast fame has an outstanding post on his Soccer blog today. As a Beatles fanatic I truly appreciate it. Check it out: http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_soccerblog/2007/05/todays_top_ten_.html#comments

MLS Power Poll

1. New England (11)
2. Kansas City
3. Red Bull NY (1)
4. FC Dallas
5. Houston
6. Colorado
7. Chicago
8. DC United
9. LA Galaxy
10. Chivas USA
11. Columbus
12. Toronto FC
13. Real Salt Lake

MLS Power Poll

1. Kansas City (8)
2. Red Bull NY (7)
3. New England
4. Chicago
5. Houston (1)
6. Dallas
7. LA Galaxy
8. Colorado
9. Chivas USA
10. DC United (Thanks, Sams Army.....you're last place for DC moved them down from 7th to 10th.....please don't abuse your voting privilege in the future)
11. Columbus
12. Real Salt Lake
13. Toronto

MLS Power Rankings Week 5

We lost several voters this week and gained a few new ones. Anyway that may account for the shake up in the rankings, or perhaps two teams are now clearly better than the rest of the league.

1. CHICAGO (5)
2. RED BULL NEW YORK (4)
3. KANSAS CITY
4. FC DALLAS
5. CHIVAS USA
6. COLORADO
7. NEW ENGLAND
8. LA GALAXY
9. COLUMBUS
10. HOUSTON
11. DC UNITED
12. RSL
13. TORONTO

MLS Power Rankings Changes

Due to numerous requests the deadline for all future power poll rankings will be extended until Tuesday at Midnight PST. (Wednesday morning on the east coast.) I had initially anticipated only a handful of people voting but because of the Beckham affect or perhaps because of the lack of available MLS oriented websites, this power poll has been very popular. In this day and age of Tivo, many of us do not complete watching the weekends games until midweek so this change will allow the best possible analysis of the matches prior to ESPN's Thursday prime time match.

MLS Power Poll Week 3

Last week Houston got all ten first place votes. This week we had nine voters, and five different first place teams on ballots. An interesting shake up in the poll finds Red Bull New York closing in on the top. Quite honestly if it were not for two voters (one was yours truly) Red Bull would be ahead of Chivas and Houston in second. I remain unconvinced that RBNY can play well away from home. I still believe by year's end FC Dallas will be the best team. They are very young and have some adjusting to do with Steve Morrow's new attacking system, but they got a nice win yesterday. Chivas USA is an unspectacular but extremely solid team, that I expect to be near the top of this poll every week. They were my first place choice this week.

1- Chicago (3)
2- Houston (1)
3- Chivas USA (2)
4- Red Bull New York (2)
5- FC Dallas (1)
6- Colorado
7- DC United
8- New England
9- Kansas City
10- Columbus
11- LA Galaxy
12- Real Salt Lake
13- Toronto

MLS Power Poll Week 2

1- Houston (8)
2- Chicago
3- Kansas City (2)
4- Colorado
5- Chivas LA
6- FC Dallas
7- New England
8- DC United
9- Red Bull New York
10- LA Galaxy
11- Real Salt Lake
12- Columbus
13- Toronto FC

Vote in our weekly MLS Power Rankings Poll

If you'd like to vote in our weekly MLS power poll, please email me kkfla737@yahoo.com. Please have a filled out ballot with teams ranked 1 thru 13 to me by Monday at Noon each week. Thank You!