RIVER or LIFE: Goalkeepers
As voting on the DC United defenders draws to a close, we seem to have finally found the most polarizing player on the United roster. No one should be surprised that that player would be Marc Burch, who is currently sitting at exactly 50% River and 50%...
Philadelphia Union 2009 Expansion Mock Draft
If I was Piotr Nowak and was selecting from the list of unprotected players available for the Union, I would select as many players with a connection to Philadelphia as possible. Wait, no I wouldn't, because I don't care about that, and neither should...
Why not Emilio?
After the expansion draft protection lists were revealed yesterday, I wrote on Twitter that DC United is probably the first team in the history of sports to leave two former league MVPs unprotected in an expansion draft. If anyone cares to research the...
Guest Blog: AMT’s Post About Nothing
First off, thanks to Shatz for asking me to fill in for a minute around these parts, and thanks to Twitter (Follow me @the_amt!) for bringing fans and bloggers together. Cue the cheesy wink. Since Shatz asked me to guest-blog last week, I’ve be...
RIVER OR LIFE: Defensive Midfielders
The voting for attacking midfielders has gone pretty much as anticipated so far, with heavy support for three fan favorites in Quaranta, Pontius, and Barklage, and an obvious dissatisfaction with Fred and Allen. The only moderate surprise to me has bee...
Past, present, and future
I've always intended for DCUMD to be more of a community for United fans than just a guy writing a blog. We've seen this space morph from a blog that was supposed to cover the connection between DCU and UMD into a blog that is pretty much exclu...
Remembering Tom Soehn
I've been a little bit surprised by some of the fan reactions we've seen over the past few days since the announced departure of Tom Soehn as head coach of DC United. The most common sentiment has been "Thanks for your service", which...
RIVER OR LIFE: The forwards
The first round of River or Life with the DC United front office has gone pretty much as expected so far, with Tom Soehn just 0% Life, Dave Kasper over 50% but not convincingly, and Kevin Payne somewhere between 50 and 100. Now let's see where the forw...
