Sounders FC taking on the city of Angels

No not Tri Cities, come on, that's the city of people who can only cut their hair into a mullet. Get it right.

The Sounders FC play an early game today, noon start time, against the L.A. Galaxy, which wont have star David Beckham at their disposal because he's playing for another club in Italy. Can you imagine if the NFL had stars that would leave their team midseason and play in Europe? Wow.

Since it is a home match, it's sure to be a tough environment for the Galaxy who only have one win on the season this year. One particularly interesting note about Qwest Field is that they might be removing the tarps on the upper part of the lower bowl of the stadium to allow for more room of "partial season ticket holders."

Great move, but let's hope they don't open to many seats so the stadium bowl looks 3/4 full. There's a theory behind this that the more the stadium "looks" sold out (even though the upper deck is tarped off), the more people will want tickets because they think they have to get them in advance and when you do that you're more likely to go to the game than walk-up to the ticket window because you have less time to think against it. The Portland Trailblazers used this to their advantage in their arena before they built the Rose Garden, so lets hope the Sounders FC keep it up as well.

So get your scarves ready, it's game time!