I have been encouraged by The Oregonian's coverage of the many unfolding facets of the Portland Timbers' nascent season in MLS. But there are still occasional bumps in the road, needless bumps. The Timbers played a round robin tournament this past weekend--everyone knows that I imagine. The teams included the Timbers' archrivals, the Whitecaps and the Sounders. Our crew stunned the Seattleites Friday night with a 2-0 loss. And on Saturday, tied the Caps in a game that was described in the paper as 'lackluster' at times. Not to quibble, that was still not bad news. But the round robin didn't end there. It finished with the Caps playing the Sounders on Sunday. With a win and a tie, the Timbers would be the winners of the tournament or at least tie for the lead. And the close of the story would say something about the directions and relative readiness of the these three fierce competitors.
So it was that I looked through the Monday morning sports section to find out what had happened. As far as I could tell, not even the Sunday result was listed. Maybe I'm an oddity but I suspect there were other people looking for a story on the close that round robin. But I guess it wasn't considered worth covering since the Timbers weren't actually playing. Which leads me to think that our local press still doesn't quite get how saturating the interest in all things Timber related can be, even the outcomes of matches they don't play in.
If you click on the subject line for this post, you can find out what happened at that Sunday game. As reported in the Winnipeg press. Ironic.
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