Written by Andy | 14 January 2011

Bags of chips and pretzels, several pounds of beef jerky and an entire keg were wasted Thursday when friends and co-workers failed to show up at the MLS Draft party thrown by Columbus, Ohio resident Matthew Wilsen.

"Who would pass up an opportunity to follow the MLS Draft?" asked Wilsen in his Columbus Crew home jersey. "There's all kinds of food, free beer, and the frenzy of activity as clubs attempt to move up in the draft to try to land midfielder Michael Nanchoff."

Alone, watching the live feed of the draft on the 13-inch screen on his Acer laptop with a second browser window open to look over the MLS SuperDraft Tracker, Wilsen "just knew" his buddies would regret skipping out on the draft that could shape the MLS for the next decade.

"That's it. I'm texting the guys right now. They're not going to believe Cole Grossman fell all the way to the Crew in the middle of the second round."

Friends of Wilsen say it will be difficult to come up with another excuse to blow him off if he decides to throw an MLS opening day party in March, July or October, or whenever the soccer season actually starts.

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