Dynamo, Revs Lock Up Again

By: Jeremy | April 30th, 2009

Your Houston Dynamo and rival New England ~~Dance~~ Revolution are both trying to climb from the depths of their respective divisions. Last week, the Revs suffered a 6-0 drumming in Salt Lake while the Orange roughed up some kids from Laredo. Despite the positive outlook for the Dynamo given this recent history, there are other factors to consider.

The Dynamo are winless against New England in regular season matchups (0-3-3), although they have come closer to victory when on the road (0-1-2). They didn’t manage a goal in either match last season and have never scored a goal in the first half of any regular season match. However, you know the score when it comes to post-season contests. If you don’t, that’s 1-0-2 in favor of the good guys with each side split in the penalty shoot-out column. So, a narrow margin there but it equates to 2-1 in the trophy count.

The last time these two teams faced each other it was the Super Liga title match. Two goals were scored by the Dynamo during regulation, one from Nate Jaqua and the other from Kei Kamara. What a difference a season can make because I would be amazed if Kamara finds the net in this one. Actually, I’d be amazed if he he remains upright more often than not. And Jaqua might score this weekend but it won’t do us any good since he plays for Seattle now. So how about a little help from Ade Akinbiyi?

Akinbiyi has finalized his work visa and will be making his Dynamo debut this weekend. It’s a little ironic that he comes from England and his first match will be against a club from New England. Not that it’s really relevant, it’s just an observation.

My gut tells me the Dynamo will win this contest. But then I also tried squid at lunch so it could just be that talking. I don’t know why I tried that shit. I could have gone back to my desk and eaten my mouse pad instead. I’m guessing they taste about the same.

Here’s where I dispose of some useless mind clutter. Do with it what you want. I don’t want it anymore… Let’s look at the word ‘revolution’. Webster tells me it has several meanings; the time taken to complete one orbit, completion of a course, a single complete turn (as of a wheel or a phonograph record). So, by these meanings a revolution is a complete cycle ending where it began. The end result being the same as its beginning. But it also means “a basic change in government”. The former meanings are quite different than the latter. Will the “basic change in government” eventually revert back to its original state? Hence the term ‘revolution’? Maybe they should have called it a ‘rebellion’, or is that not as poetic? Am I right?

Although two goals will be tough to muster against the stellar Matt Reis, my prediction is a 2-1 victory for the Orange.