Man, what a great day. Soccer by Ives just wrote the sweetest 4 words I have ever read: RBNY “waived goalkeeper Jon Conway”. I am BEYOND ecstatic that this happened at all; that it took this long is scary, but with with “Duckman’s” departure last week, as long as we don’t spend cash on any major, overpriced acquisitions (read: Khano/Rojas), we are finally headed in the correct direction. The last two-three seasons have been very difficult for this RBNY/Metro fan as my (now-)wife and I made the season ticket splurge two years ago and got to witness not only last season’s amazing playoff run, but this year’s epic collapse as well.

Yes, the chips seem down, don’t they? Who cares? 9 months ago when we launched, most people told me I was just bitter and crazy and that no one would EVER agree with me. Well, RBNY let the bum go and I kinda proved that I was right all along. While I don’t welcome the bad karma of wishing another man out of a job, I have a feeling he’ll probably con his way into another gig soon enough (and if the NJ-area player ends up in Philly and plays a role in hurting us, I will FREAK). He wasn’t the team’s only problem, but he was a big one.

I heart you, RBNY. Agoos is next.

Right now on Soccer By Ives, there is a great post up about the upcoming National Soccer Hall of Fame class and a poll asking each of us who we’d put in. Of course, RBNY Sporting Director Jeff Agoos made the list (he’s won 5 MLS Cups, the only player to do so) but there are a great number of players on the list that are well worth your vote.

The list is comprised of 19 former Major League Soccer stars, four standouts from the U.S. women’s national team and two former NASL/indoor all-stars. Select members of the media, Hall of Famers, U.S. national team coaches past and present, select MLS coaches and administators from MLS, WPS and U.S. soccer get to vote, but being in the democratic society that we live in, we at SBI are offering you, the fans, a chance to voice your opinion.

[Soccer by Ives]

There are a lot of names that jump out at you (Preki, Carlos Valderrama, Peter Vermes, Peter Nowak, Joe-Max Moore) that cut their team on the national team during our “formative” years (see: Dooley, Thomas, so I want to see them all go in. Yup, all of them, even if that is not possible.

What do you think? Comment below.

(Editor’s Note: I don’t want to talk about last Saturday at all. I almost got in two fights in the parking lot and we tied on a bad defense clearance, so I have been in hiding, so to speak.)