Its morning and already I am seeing a flood of stuff to discuss today. I know I missed posting my week 16 player of the week and goal of the week, that will come later on today if time allows me to. I mainly wanted to get a couple things out of the way that I got this morning.

First up some All-Star news, we all know who the first XI are for Major League Soccer in this month’s game against West Ham United. But now we are hearing a couple more names that will be added by All-Star coach and New England boss Steve Nicol.

Soccer America is reporting on it’s website this morning that New York’s Juan Pablo Angel, Houston keeper Pat Onstad and Rev’s midfielder Steve Ralston will get all-star calls from Nicol. Onstad and Ralston are not surprises but Angel’s inclusion is a bit of a surprise considering Angel has only recently returned from a hamstring injury. Maybe Nicol is giving the 2007 All-Star MVP the benefit of the doubt on a season filled with injuries. Still, its a shock and hopefully not true as I can think of about three or four strikers that would be more worthy based on this season alone than Angel.

The way this all works from my understanding Nicol gets a few picks of his own to round out the roster and MLS Commissioner Don Garber gets one or two “Commissioner Picks” to finish up the team. No word yet on who Garber is going to select.

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For some reason San Jose and Kansas City seem to be nice trading partners. They did it a while back before the SuperDraft when the Quakes sent their number one pick for veteran defender Nick Garcia. Now the two clubs are at it again, this time KC is sending forward Scott Sealy to the Bay for some good ol’ allocation money.

Sealy scored 28 goals in 88 games (65 starts) over the last four seasons for the Wizards. Probably a nice upgrade for the Quakes compared to what they currently have. He may be a good partner for Darren Huckerby, who is set to join the club tomorrow.

Does the addition of Sealy improve San Jose’s offense a lot? Not really, he comes from a club that isn’t scoring in bunches to play for a club that isn’t scoring much at all. You do the math about which is better. Still, both sides got a fairly good deal out of this.

My bet KC is making room for the return of Josh Wolff to their roster. Getting some allocation money will allow them to remain under the cap and get Wolff at a good price.

What do you all think of this deal?