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Welcome to Tuesday! I’m assuming, anyway, that this is the first thing you’re encountering on your Tuesday, which is almost certainly not the case, but I don’t know how your mornings go, or if you’re not getting to this until the afternoon, or really much of anything. What I do know: we’ve got a D.C. United move to talk about, a pretty cool Washington Spirit event, and some other news.
Rather than me trying to guess the daily habits of the entire readership, it’s probably best for everyone that we move into the meat of the post:
Drafting players from the ACC, Maryland, or Stanford is generally speaking a good idea for a team, as United has often shown, and that’s how yesterday played out. Steve Goff’s got quotes from Dave Kasper here, so it’s good context on why they did what they did.
Travis Clark seems to think United is doing some big-time gambling with their picks, though he did think getting Logan Panchot in the second round was tidy business.
Meanwhile, the MLS labor talks are continuing to play out in public, an unusual situation given that the league has almost always kept the contentious stuff restricted to the conference call with players.