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By Randy Gardner

If you are a big soccer fan, I am sure that you were glued to the TV this past weekend as the Eastern and Western conference finals were held. In the Eastern side, the New York Red Bulls played the New England Revolution and the Revolution won the game.

Some may know that our own Taylor Twellman from St. Louis and the Jamestown Sports Complex here in North County was a superstar for that team for many years until concussions eventually knocked him out of the game.

In the Western division, the Los Angeles Galaxy played the Seattle Sounders in a rivalry for the ages.

The final game was played in front of 50,000 screaming fans in Seattle at the football stadium of the Seahawks. What an atmosphere, I would love to go to a game there.

In this series, the Galaxy behind Landon Donovan scored late to tie it up and eventually go on to win the aggregate series by one goal.

It is really weird how the MLS does the playoff system but it makes it even for both teams. Basically they play a home in home series and the total points of both games count towards the final outcome.

The final MLS cup will be on this Sunday and what a game it will be. I would love to see Landon Donovan, a great player that was snubbed by the National Team go out with a career ending Cup win. If you are a MLS follower, you will totally get what I am about to say,

I am so sick of complainers in the game like Clint Dempsey and the worst of all Robby Keane of the Galaxy. If I played against or with him, there would be a major issue. Just play the darn game and quit whining about everything.

Players like that on any one of my teams would be sitting on the bench. There has been so many times that he is crying to the ref and if he would have kept his head in the game he would have gotten the ball. It’s the players like Landon Donovan, that play the game at its highest level and understands that both positive and negative things happen throughout a game but they always even out, are players that I tell my kids to look up to.

Sometimes Doing Something Good Turns Bad

As we head into the holiday season, remember to do nice things for yourself and others. A quick story, my brother-in- law saw a coat that I had purchased the day before Thanksgiving, so when he was at my house for the holiday get together he said that he would love to have that same coat. Since he has done many nice things for me, I decided to leave the Thanksgiving dinner and run to the store to see if they had another. They didn’t and on the way back I hit a pothole, blew out the rear tire and bent the wheel rim and then when I pulled over to change it got chased back into my car by a pitbull. What a way to finish the scenario of trying to do something nice for someone else, huh?

It’s the thought that counts right. I hope that he knows that for Christmas he is getting a little white box with a receipt for the tire and rim repairs. With all of that, remember the Holiday season is about sharing joy and love with you and your loved ones. Happy Holidays.

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