Galaxy Prepare for Insane Schedule

By: Laurie | June 29th, 2007

A question for your left-brained, engineering, statistics types: What’s the weekend game win-loss percentage for teams who’ve played ESPN’s Thursday night matchup a few days before? My brain works only anecdotally, not statistically, but it seems the loss percentage is a lot higher than 50%. Isn’t that how we beat Salt Lake, who were worn out from a game three days previous?

Maybe I’m wrong, but if I’m right… Well, be very afraid. Because our schedule in the next few months is just a little overbooked.

Let’s look just at the next week or two, shall we?

First up? Chicago on July 4. Two teams that currently suck, and we’ll have had a long break, AND Landon will be back. This is our best shot.

Next it’s the Kansas City Wizards who, while not having performed so well without Eddie Johnson, will be looking to make up for it now that he’s back. And they still have a whole bunch more tallies in their W column than we do.

And last but not least, we have a US Open Cup game against the Richmond Kickers. A game which, in theory, should be ours.

Three games in seven days. And then we have late July (and the Beckham arrival,) when they’ll be playing five games between the 17th and the 31st. (And, oh, yeah, the All-Star game. Think we have to worry about that?) Then six games in August, eight (8!!) games in September, and five in the first three weeks of October.

The Galaxy played thirteen games in the first three months and had injuries all over the place. In the last not-quite four months, they’ll be playing twenty-eight. And that’s just counting the one Open Cup game currently on the schedule.

And just out of curiosity, how many players do we now have who are over thirty? I’m counting seven — Beckham, Cannon, Jazic, Jones, Klein, Pavón, Xavier – and all of them (with the possible exception of Cobi) are expected to be regular starters.

Why am I not optimistic for this season?

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Diane

(I think I meant that for the hospital visit post, but it does have some relevance here...I guess).
Diane

Laurie, you've done it! I no longer care whether the boys look like they've never met before on the pitch, or that the club management is so focused on making the next buck that it may be shooting itself, its players, and all fans everywhere, in the foot (really what else is new?) YOU HAVE MADE ME A GALAXY FAN!!!!!!!!!!

I wouldn't worry about Abel, kids see straight to the heart and he's looks more cuddly lion-like than scary anyway.

So during these turbulent times, forget match clips, I'm all for charitable photo-ops (although not at the complete expense of player cuddles please, we appreciate how well you have stayed on top of those ;-) ).