The Emerald City paper has said a lot of nice things about the first-place team in the Eastern Conference. Let's say some nice things about them.
If you're new to Hudson River Blue, I want to state something unequivocally, and in full voice:
We love it so much that we're willing to die on that hill.
Indeed, the Times has gone above and beyond the call this summer in its finely-crafted evaluations of New York City FC. The agility of coverage, the attention to detail, and the elegant, yet even-handed appraisals of Patrick Vieira's team across the pages of the famous paper are as welcome as they are unlikely.