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National track suit day bitchez.... you best reprazent.... Snoop D-O-Double G style... ya heard?  Oh Snoop is down with the Darkside....

TDIF Band Of The Week-The Larkin Brigade

Ah yes one of our favorite bands will be making their first appearance in a long time, and a very overdue one at that, this weekend... And with that we launch the TDIF Band Of The Week.

For those of you in the Boston area The Larkin Brigade will be playing at The Midway Cafe in JP at 8:00pm on Saturday Nov. 20. This show is bound to be jam packed so get their early. The bill also features Ska-Prest and Gone To Seed with tunes from DJ Ford E. Buxworth.

Also of note for that day is West Ham takes on Liverpool, we will watching it at the Phoenix Landing in Cambridge and messing with the LFC Boston people because it's fun.

Maybe That Dempsey Money Will Payoff After All

So we actually have some new in the Revs world this morning, the Revolution have signed their first ever homegrown player from the youth system, Diego Fagundez.

Fagundez is a 15 year old midfielder/striker who has been playing with the Revs Under-16 squad scored 20 goals in the 2009/2010 season.  He is originally from Montevideo, Uruguay and currently residing in Leominster, Ma.

So let's see if that elusive Dempsey money that went to the academy will actually payoff, hopefully this won't be Freddie Adu 2.0.  With the expanded rosters this season Fagundez most likely will not see much first team action but will likely be playing on the resurrected reserve squad.

I Bless the Rains Down in Africa...

...Gonna take some time to do the things we never have...

Like find a good player from one of Steve Nicol's African scouting trips... Assengue, Niouky, whoever else... Fail. Despite freeing up over a half a million in cap space and being told that the Revolution will be actively pursuing a Designated Player this off season our illustrious gaffer is off in Africa looking for another cheap diamond in the rough.

Let us know when that coal turns into a diamond Stevie...

Shoes for your ear-holes

Adidas and Sennhieser have released their latest colaboration on headphones...

"The link between music culture and the history of adidas Originals is well documented and what better way is there to represent that then through a set of world-class, three-striped headphones. Last season we introduced our initial headphone collaboration with Sennheiser, the Originals HD 25, and now we’re delivering 2... new models: the Sennheiser HD 220 by adidas Originals and the Sennheiser CX 310 by adidas Originals."

So they have these guys right here (HD 220) and they also have a earbud version as well (CX 310).  They are supposedly available at Adidas Originals stores and at shopadidas.com although the later does not have them on the site yet. Last year's models are going for 250 bucks which is kind of steep for headphones but if they sound like angels doing the nasty then maybe they are worth it, survey says probably not.  If anyone at Adidas wants to send me some to test and review I would be more than happy to however... again, survey says probably not...

Twellman Retirement Official, Trialists Already In the Revolution Camp

Taylor Twellman offically retired this week ending 2 long years of speculation over his future.  Now with over 400k in cap space freed up and another 250k freed up by the release of Edgaras Jankauskus the Revolution will not be able to use the injury excuse as to why they cannot sign addtional players or improve the squad.

Enough has been written about Twellman this week and he's been all over the news, plus I'm lazy so if you want to read more go here.

Speaking of improving the squad the Revs currently have Filip Krstic on trial and joining them in some post season training sessions. Kristic has a strong pedigree and is young which counters previous trialists and signings, possibly the Revs have learned that no name Africans generally don't cut it in the MLS and way past their prime aging Europeans will just get broken.  Krstic is a 22 year old German born Serb (Serbs seem to work for us, we'll just ignore the war crimes) and is a left/center defender.  Krstic's youth career starts at SpVgg Unterhaching, with stints at Bayern Munich, Hertha BSC and Valencia.  He's represented Serbia at both the U-17 and U-19 level with a total 28 appearances and 5 goals.  His professional career includes time at Livorno (2008), Arminia Bielefeld II (2009) and is currently at the German third division club SV Babelsberg 03.

T-N-T Press conference

Well Mr Taylor "I scored 101 goals and am too sexy for my shirt" Twellman is set o have a press conference tomorrow at 1:30pm streamed live on revolutionsoccer.net.  All signs point to him announcing his retirement due to his multiple concussions.  We'll follow this up more tomorrow.