my 15 minutes with drew, and a few thoughts about last nights meeting

ok, i am back. sorry for the lack of blogging. if you want to know (and i know you don’t) i have been dealing with holes in my roof over the last 2 weeks due to a new roof being put on. As you also know, some dude named noah must be building something somewhere b/c it has be raining like a mother-father. to say i haven’t been sleeping would be an understatement. have you ever dealt with sleep deprivation. it is trippy stuff man. if you could can it up and sell on the street you would be rich.

SOOOOOOO. my desire to blog was curbed quite a bit. but with that, the roof is going to be completed today, i have been catching up on my sleep, and i was able to get 15 minutes 1×1 time with drew last night before the members meeting. so there is a lot to talk about. i mean a lot.

as the first, err and only, person of the membership council, i threw around my dictatorship and demanded a meeting with drew. or, i sent an email to bart asking if they could slot me in anywhere… 6 – 6:15 was my time.

i am not a reporter, i am a fan. so i didn’t have any questions prepared. i know i know. lame. but he asked me how i got voted in. and then i talked to him about an idea that i had for inaugural season ticket holders which he really liked. in fact he brought it up to bart at the end of our chat but bart mentioned they already have something planned. he hinted to what it was but i am under sworn secrecy.

i can tell you that my idea was for them to develop a patch that noted the inaugural season ticket holder, that the fan can get put on the sleeve of a new sounders jersey. i liked it b/c that patch is literally a bit of a badge of honor, and i thought the sounders would like it b/c well, it actually encourages shirt sales which easily pays for the patch cost itself. either way, they already have a plan so it won’t be that.

back to drew. he was a very nice guy, totally someone that you can have a beer with and not feel like you are sitting next to a celebrity. and i mean that as a compliment. he was interested in hearing my thoughts, and was really easy to talk to. i had actually seen this video earlier in the day yesterday and talked to him about it. i get 15 minutes with a minority owner of our sounders and i bring up the price is right. nice work.

as for the membership meeting last night, there wasn’t a heck of a lot of new info. a few things of note.
- FSN is doing some partnership thingy that sounds a bit fluffy to me. i think of it as the mariners all access equivalent. there will be some interesting things i guess but whatever.
- we have sold 18,000 tickets now. that number was stuck on 17,000 for quite a while so i guess we put that down to the freddie effect for the most part.
- there was a bit of a Q/A with Nyassi and Le Toux which provided for the most entertaining part of the night. Nyassi is still learning english although he does very well, but he is very careful when choosing his words b/c clearly he wants to say it correctly. this made for a perfect response when asked who he is most excited to play against. me paraphrasing here “i look forward to playing against beckham of course, but also my brother. I have already called him and told him that when he comes to seattle for him to be prepared for us to kick his ass”. brilliant. he also had another nice quote that went something like “i want to play good football so you will be happy”. good on you nyassi. i know you are lightning quick and i hope you can score as well. i am quite sure we are going to get a lot good quotes from this kid.

the other thing of note is that they are going to name the members association and name the band. they will do this with a vote similar to how they named the team.

the options you have, along with the write in vote, are:

Members Association:
- Sounders FC Union
- Sounders FC Membership Association
- Sounders FC Alliance

Band:
- Sound Wave
- Sounders FC Band
- Green Machine

i haven’t made my mind up on the members association, but i really like “sound wave” for the band so that will get my vote. also, the band played again last night, and they sound really tight. i hope it sounds that good in the open air as it does in a room, but either way, the band is a nice touch.

alright, so that should be enough to make up for lost time. with the expansion draft coming up, and the promised coach within a month, there will be plenty to talk about.

FRIDAY!!!!