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Author: Travis McTravelFace

Travis McTravelface is the False Nine’s road correspondent. He pretty much lives on the road collecting way too many airline and hotel points supporting the Verde in todas partes.

Magic Number Update 9-(9/15)

Posted on September 15, 2022September 15, 2022 by Travis McTravelFace

Wow! Honestly, I had expected to clinch a playoff spot earlier, but I’ll more than gladly take a Djitte substitute hat trick to get us over the top! It felt like all of Central Texas exhaled all at once as Djitte took over this match. With last night’s win, Austin eliminated Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake,…

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Magic Number Update from over the Rockies 8-(9/11)

Posted on September 11, 2022 by Travis McTravelFace

Well despite being our compound’s resident traveler, I should have known better than to fly out to Seattle to assume that we could get a result in Cascadia. Hopefully, we can get a win in Vancouver in a few weeks because I would really like to get the road win in Cascadia monkey off our…

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Magic Number Update 7-(9/5)

Posted on September 5, 2022 by Travis McTravelFace

Well once again, our boys in Verde did not get the job done and failed to clinch a playoff berth by losing 3-0 in Nashville. Coming off a late loss against Portland on Wednesday, my expectations were not high for this match, and we met them with a sloppy loss, as we were clearly exhausted…

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Magic Number Update 6-(9/1)

Posted on September 1, 2022August 31, 2022 by Travis McTravelFace

Normally, I prewrite this column before the matchday with a few blanks since I have a rough idea of what I am going to cover. With the potential of clinching a playoff berth last night, I decided to just let everything flow out after returning from McKalla, and I sure didn’t expect to stay up…

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Magic Number Update 5 (8/29)

Posted on August 29, 2022October 25, 2022 by Travis McTravelFace

Since, some of you have started following this series after the first post, there were multiple requests to explain what a magic number is, so I’ll kick into that before gushing about our 4-1 thrashing of LAFC. The magic number is the number of points we need to gain to be one point higher than…

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Magic Number Update 4

Posted on August 22, 2022August 21, 2022 by Travis McTravelFace

Well, Austin FC picked up its first road loss in nearly three months on Saturday night in Minnesota. If you had told us at the beginning of the season that a road run to Montreal, Charlotte, Colorado, Atlanta, Frisco, and Kansas City would have led to 16 points in 18, we would have all thought…

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Magic Number Update 3

Posted on August 18, 2022 by Travis McTravelFace

Well DC United tried their hardest to stay competitive with LAFC on Tuesday night, it simply wasn’t enough for Wayne Rooney’s men, especially once they were down to 10 men. At this point, LAFC is 9 points above us, and they only need 19 more points to eliminate us and clinch home field advantage. Even…

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Magic Number Update 2

Posted on August 15, 2022 by Travis McTravelFace

Well, the Verde and Black somehow pulled out a win on Saturday night with the second best comeback of the season, and officially eliminated Sporting Kansas City from finishing above Austin FC. We have avoided ending up with the Anthony J. Precourt Memorial Wooden Spoon (yes, that’s its real name) for another season! I still…

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Magic Number Watch-Edition 1

Posted on August 7, 2022August 6, 2022 by Travis McTravelFace

Welcome to the latest feature here on the False 9, Magic Number Watch! Since many of us here are also baseball fans, we wanted to apply a baseball concept to MLS, known as the magic number. Around this time of year, baseball fans start looking towards the magic number to know how many games their…

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The Chickens are onto Kansas City, Kansas

Posted on July 29, 2022July 28, 2022 by Travis McTravelFace

Well, that was a match last week against the Red Bulls. Sadly, chickens can’t predict COVID cases, because they would have predicted a different result without Brad Stuver. Thankfully, we have seen Stuver in training this week, so we don’t need to make dual predictions. After our triumph in Frisco, I was supposed to take…

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