Parkhurst and Torres Speak

Jose Francisco Torres and Michael Parkhurst, two young American stars who are not in the January camp, took some time to talk to the media recently. Parkhurst speaks to Andrew Hush over at ESPN and Torres chats with Jack Bell of The New York Times. Although I am not totally sold on either player yet (Parkhurst because of lack of physical gifts and Torres because I just haven't seen him enough), I think both have a solid future with the Senior team, Torres especially. Anybody who is consistently starting for Pachuca in big games at age 21 is fine with me.

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Well That Didn't Take Long

Sigi's gone (well at least off to Seattle), Parkhurst is gone, and so are Davino and Marinelli (probably not in the way that they had hoped). The annual exodus of players from MLS has begun and is certainly not done. Some players like Alejandro Bedoya, may even skip MLS and go straight to Europe. But do not fret my friends, with the transfer window opening at the beginning of the New Year, and the 2009 Superdraft coming up we are sure to get a new influx of talent in our favorite domestic league.

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Marshall, Parkhurst, and the Ghostbusters

This was intended to be a post about the MLS' potential loss of two promising, young American center backs, in Michael Parkhurst and Chad Marshall. But, Steven Goff and Ives Galarcep beat me to it. Why you might ask? Well to make a long story short, they are very good reporters, while I am a guy who loves soccer that has a lot of time on his hands. As I concede to their superiority, check out their posts' about Parkhurst and Marshall; and then check the video above for a preview of the upcoming Ghostbuster Video game featuring all the voices of the original Ghostbusters (Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis). As I recently purchased an XBOX360 and was all about these guys as a kid, I am pretty excited.

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