THE MATCHUP: Get Deuce to it

That face just screams "used to it"

TORONTO VS. SEATTLE

 

BMO FIELD - SATURDAY 7PM ET
TV: SPORTSNET 360

THE KICKABOUT:

It would be hard to find two clubs more polar opposite in MLS at the moment than Toronto and Seattle.

Sounders, a club that has never known any long-term adversity in their MLS incarnation seems to go from strength-to-strength. The perennial title challengers have just added the biggest name in the league in Clint Dempsey; they have attendance that is bursting at the seams; and, their management strives to foster actual relations with their long-time supporters going as far as implementing a (albeit plastic-y version) club member program where input on the front office is invited.

TFC, a club that has never known any long-term success in any incarnation who seem to bumble from drama-to-drama. The perennial basement dwellers have spent months promising supporters that a "frightening" array of talent is on the way but have yet to materialize; they have attendance which has had the spirit sucked out of it and is a shadow of its former glorious self; and, their management has created a relationship with its longest suffering supporters something akin to a gnat buzzing around a horse's ass. Very used to it.

We were called Seattle's MLS blueprint once.

MANUFACTURED DERBY NAME:

"The Deuce Dropper" (TENTATIVE)

PLAYERS TO WATCH:

TORONTO: Joe Bendik, Steven Caldwell, Matias Laba,

SEATTLE: Clint Dempsey (TBD), Obafemi Martins, Mauro Rosales

THE ODDS:

- "Dealing with it": 5-1

- "Getting used to it" :2-1

- "Taking it or leaving it": EVENS

WHO ARE YA?

Shocked by the internet meme success of Kevin Payne's accidental comedy gold "Get used to it", the club has decided to move forward their latest corporate promo. TFC's green-kitted goalkeeper Joe Bendik will now be referred to in all press releases as Joe "Super Pickle" Bendik in conjunction with the good people at Bick's Pickles. Highlighting his pickle-green clothes and his crunching collisions with defenders, fans and team officials will be prompted to yell "DILL WITH IT" at every goalkeeping occasion. No gherkin, this is set to be Bendik's Bread 'N Butter.

POST-MATCH HEADLINE: "WE'RE USED TO IT"

BONUS: CHANTS ON GOAL:
"We Need to Sing About Kevin"

"Let's Get Used To It" (to Olivia Newton John's "Physical")

　

Let's get used to it, used to it
We need to get used to it

Let's get really used to it

Sick of hearing Kevin talk, Kevin talk

Sick of hearing Kevin talk