Draft Dodge

Regarding Seattle's pick of Khano Smith from the New England Revolution, Ives Galarcep wonders aloud:

How Seattle passed on Pat Phelan, a young, inexpensive and versatile central defender/defensive midfielder is truly perplexing.

If only he had read what some young Internet upstart named, well, Ives Galarcep had written several paragraphs earlier, about Fire midfielder Stephen King:

Whether he is trade bait or someone Seattle plans to use as a defensive midfielder, King is another young and versatile central player who has a low salary and good upside. Some folks would have preferred Marco Pappa off the Fire list but the Guatemalan winger would have required a high salary in order to keep him from returning to Central America.

The main reason I can think that Ives heavily discounts one young, inexpensive, versatile defensive midfielder and extols another is that he drank the Marco Pappa Kool-Aid, and didn't expect Seattle to pick someone like King, who he doesn't know enough about to realize he could become a starting defensive midfielder in the Chris Armas mode pretty quickly. So he dismisses King as trade bait and tries to figure out why Seattle didn't agree with him.

As for the bit about Pappa, I'm wondering if this "poison pill" story is legit or not. It smells kind of funny to me.