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First up, Glenn Davis:

DYNAMO team president OLIVER LUCK said during DYNAMO ALL ACCESS with GLENN DAVIS that they are working on a deal with NATE JACQUA potentially returning to the the Dynamo for the remainder of the season and then moving on to the SEATTLE SOUNDERS. JACQUA has a strong desire apparently to get back to the Northwest. The Dynamo would essentially be renting Jacqua. What do you think of this idea?

What do I think? I think it's unfortunate that someone who nominally covers a team in MLS doesn't know how to spell the name of that team's players. Hey, you asked.

On to Mike at Section 8's Backdraft:

I'm not an old-timer, not by a long shot. I have no claim on the title of grizzled old man who knows how things should really be around here, but its getting harder and harder to spot the people who were here before me. Have we merely diluted their voices or have they all been driven away? Its likely the former, but are we better for it?

This is probably going to get me in trouble, but for me, personally, it's the former, albeit for the opposite reason Mike posits in his lament. I think. On the day of the game, it's about volume. Period. It's not about who's the most dedicated fan -- and quite frankly, even making that distinction is a gigantic problem in and of itself that needs its own explanation at some later date.

So if that means you've got to swallow a little pride and follow the leader, cheering along with the tourists, then so be it. This has always been my point of view, and one of the reasons I'd always try to co-opt more current pop tunes up on the stand that the tough-guy, punk-rock wannabes would emphatically ignore with crossed arms.

On the other hand, I get his point about whomever he has a beef with on the podium simply dictating chants to the section. When I used to get up in front of everybody, I thought I tried to reflect more than conduct. Although I certainly did my share of driving, too. Some deference to the people willing to turn their backs on the game at hand to direct the wonderful instrument that is a fully operational Section 8 is, I think, required, and the lack thereof has always been part of the reason I escaped to higher ground.