I struggled to come up with much to write about this morning’s announcement that Diego Valeri had been named MVP. The press conference was a formality more than anything; we all knew ahead of time what it was about, who was going to be there, what was going to be said. Valeri, looking a little nervous, thanked everyone involved with the Timbers, his family, God. “Every individual award in our game,” he said, “is a collective achievement.” A packed press scrum mostly yielded pleasantries about what a great honor this was, how he never could have imagined it as a kid.
Diego Valeri, Our Guy
