 |
| Honestly, the only real cyborg we know. |
“Lamah Over Ledesma Should Not Be Automatic,” came very
close to being the name for this post. It didn’t work when the line between
them blurred.
Earlier tonight, FC Cincinnati topped the Charleston Battery2-1 down in Charleston. It was a good win, not a great one, and, as a game,
definitely not one for the ages. I’m glad Cincinnati won, if only because MLS
being better than USL is the structural order of things, but it felt more like
a battle of capacities – by which I mean, Cincinnati had a means to win this
game in the form of higher end players at their top-end - while Charleston did not. FC Cincy fans should feel cheered by how
quickly their team reversed
Charleston’s equalizer (and how much sustained pressure they piled on), but there’s nothing particularly interesting about a
team with MLS resources and reputation beating a team with USL resources and
reputation. In other words, Cincinnati did win….but am I alone in wishing the win
looked either better or more explicable?
I’m going to set this up in the spirit of a geometry
equation – i.e., start with a set of “givens” and see where I can go from
there. (Also, I never made better than a “C” in Geometry, probably because my
teachers failed me, not the other way around. Monsters, but I digress.) Here
are the givens:
1) The line-up Alan Koch trotted out was a plausible
starting eleven for FC Cincinnati;
2) There are players on FC Cincinnati’s roster outside those
11 players who can help build a different starting eleven for FC Cincinnati;
3) That win did not send the right kind of chills down your
spine; and
4) That’s OK. We’re all OK.
