Welcome, ussoccer.com “Best Of U.S. Soccer” visitors

Nice to have you along.

I’d offer you some iced tea but I’m afraid we’re fresh out. For goodness’ sake, you can’t pop in on a person like this and expect him to be prepared for a party.

If you’d like, you’re welcome to try on my collection of DaMarcus Beasley jerseys and the Sam’s Army hat. If you really want to class it up, I think we have some some Kraft Singles, saltine crackers, and a box of Cabernet in the fridge.

As long as you’re here, you might as well set a spell (subscribe, if you’d like). And feel free to poke around but be gentle; some of the stuff around here is mighty fragile. I recommend:

• How U.S. Soccer can use the blogosphere to increase brand awareness (Part I: Sharing Video)
• U.S. 2-1 Canada: a review in letters
• U.S. 1-0 Guatemala; I’ll write a real match report someday
• The entire “From the New York Times archives” series

For the rest of you chuckleheads who are already hooked, I’ll explain this whole thing later. No, I haven’t won anything and no, I don’t deserve to win anything. Can’t you people just let me have one moment’s peace?