Reactions to Sounders' exit from Major League Soccer playoffs

November 8, 10:33 PMSeattle Soccer ExaminerDavid Falk

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Reactions to Sounders exit from MLS playoffs

Match coverage and my commentary HERE.

"You lose in the playoffs and there's no tomorrow, and unfortunately there's no tomorrow for us. But all credit to Houston, they kept battling, and Brian scored one of the best goals he's ever scored... It bounced kindly for him, Brian turned inside of it and put it right in the upper corner. You couldn't have asked for a better place for it. You've got to give Brian a ton of credit. It was a fantastic finish and a goal worthy of winning any game." ---Kasey Keller  Read more quotes over at the Times.

"I'm proud of what this team has done and what this organization has done in its first year,"Schmid said. "This isn't '98 when the league is in its infancy and you're an expansion team, so you're really not that far behind the curve. I think to have won an Open Cup, to have a winning record in the season, to have been two points away from the Supporters' Shield, and to have lost to a team that has been the dominant team in the playoffs is a pretty proud moment for a young expansion team." ---Sigi Schmid at Goal.com.

"We’re a team that knows what it takes to win," goal scoring hero Brian Ching said after the match. "Some people will write us off but in our own minds we always feel like we’re the best team." ---Brian Ching at Goal.com

Seattle Weekly: Just days after this blog leapt to defend Sounders F.C.--and soccer in general--from a know-nothing P-I sports columnist (who called the team's recent 0-0 playoff match "ninety minutes of nothing"), the Sounders delivered yet another scoreless 90 minutes of regulation play against the Houston Dynamo yesterday. But "nothing" would be a too-kind way to describe what went on at Major League Soccer's Western Conference Semi-Final.

After an hour and a half of botched passing, terrible shooting and wild, pointless kicking, the Dynamo finally scored during the first 15-minute overtime period, ending the Seattle expansion team's inaugural season, and sparing all lovers of the game another quarter-hour of misery. If this is how the Sounders are going to respond to the Daily Weekly's support, we're going to stay seated with our team scarf tied around our mouth.

Houston Dynamo's Geoff Cameron is upended by Seattle Sounder's Nate Jaqua during the second half of an MLS soccer match Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, in Houston. Houston won 1-0 in overtime. (AP Photo/Bob Levey)