MLS Draft 2006.

Amidst a swirl of trade rumours and a new van purchase, the 2006 SuperDraft was held. Seems many were delighted when KC actually made a pick instead of trading it away. In fact, the team made 6 picks and traded none away. I showed up with others at Hoopers on Friday afternoon to watch an hour of coverage on FSC. We missed the first pick and didn't even get to see the entire first round(I think we saw the 9th pick). KC chose Yura Movsisyan from a city college, 18 yrs old, and apparantly a damn good player. Since he's a forward I expect we'll see a lot of him during June when Josh and Scott are off playing in Germany. Anyway, there were trade rumours around Josh Wolff for Eddie Johnson. Also some about getting Joe Cannon from the cRapids(little c is intentional) for who knows what... maybe Shavar and an allocation or draftpicks. Obviously the trade for draftpicks didn't happen however KC did call a "timeout" before drafting Yura and we all wondered what the hell was going on. Nice though to see that a game without timeouts has them for the draft, good job MLS. So, once the coverage ended I was off to buy my van. Needed one since some jackass did a hit-n-run on the other. Ended up with another 99 white Dodge Grand Caravan. The wife just rolled her eyes when I put off the purchase to watch a Draft that I was already recording. I even got a call from the dealer asking where we were while I was watching the Draft.

So, no trades as of yet. I still hope we get Joe Cannon. We drafted a forward (Yura), 3 midfielders, a defender and keeper. Technically I suppose we addressed all 4 areas. Either way, new van will be out at Arrowhead to take me to see the new players, if they play, for the new 2006 season.