The coaches decided to give us a day off from practice today due to our hectic schedule approaching. We will play four games in 13 days between June 7th and June 19th. Three of those games won't be played at Toyota Park, so we will travel approximately 4,756 miles during that time period. Among our regularly scheduled games for this month, we've added a game on Tuesday the 10th of June for the U.S. Open Cup round of 16. We will match up against the Columbus Crew at a neutral site in Peoria, Illinois. Columbus has had a hot start to the season so this should be an exciting game amongst two of the top teams in MLS. We won this tournament two years ago by defeating the Los Angeles Galaxy in the final.

I have selfishly good news! I may have passed on the injury bug to my unsuspecting roommate. He was playing in a men's league game last night and was involved in a hard tackle with the goalie. The result, as we found out today, is the same ankle injury that I suffered last year in Toronto.

As most of you heard, the rumor is that Brian McBride could be coming back to play in the MLS. Apparently, Toronto has first dibs on him, but the Fire could look to make a deal to bring him back to Illinois. No one within the team has said much about this, yet.

Our latest signing, Lider Marmol, has torn meniscus in his knee during Monday's training. He had surgery to fix it yesterday. He will hopefully be back working out in three weeks.

I'm heading out to watch the U.S. vs. Spain game. Don't forget to vote for the MLS All-Stars that you want to see play at the end of July on MLSnet.com. And if anyone has any ideas for what I should do with my frequent flier miles courtesy of our schedule, let me know. I'm thinking of a warm beach city or maybe a ski trip in the mountains to give you something to start with...