Crew Season Preview, part 1

Take a look at Steve Davis of ESPN.com's Crew Season Preview

He makes the fairy obvious points about the Crew's newfound riches in the goalscoring department and the question mark in goal. A couple of early observations:

1) If talent didn't improve at all, you'd have to think the Crew will be better if only, let's say, 1/2 of the team suffers serious injury. Last year, they filmed an episode of Gray's Anatomy in the Crew locker room.

2) I'm surprised he didn't talk more about the central midfield situation. Though early signs are good, with Ned Grabavoy looking sharp and some really exciting performances from Stefan Miglioranzi, there's always a danger of trying to fix your goalscoring problems with finishers, only to find that your true deficiency was in service and control from your midfield players.

3) On a personal note only tangentially related to the story, Frankie Hejduk's return has a lot of people happy. However, while his experience in German and International football make him a competent MLS player, I'll go to my grave saying he's one of the most grossly overrated players ever to don the USMNT strip.

He's a phenomenal "effort" guy who made up for talent deficiencies with work rate and pace. Now that he's getting old (ouch --he's 4 months younger than me) the pace is fading and he'll be a cagey veteran with a 50/50 chance of putting a routine cross into the 6th row.