It took him a little while to find the words, but Dax McCarty has delivered a public statement about his trade from the New York Red Bulls to the Chicago Fire.
It is a statement that makes clear why he needed a little time to gather his thoughts:
I was blindsided. I have been in this league long enough to know how things work, yet somehow I was still surprised.
And if it was a surprise to Captain Dax, it was surely at least as great a shock to the woman who had only recently become Mrs.