I've said it before in the Ragamuffin Diaries- I'm a bootstraps guy. Just a blue collar, bleed for the company, haven't taken a sick day in years, kind of Sporting Chic employee with one goal: to give the people what they want.

So here I am, kicking off 2017 with what has become the undying request of our readers for reasons I'm struggling to understand- make Emily Sonnett a woman crush.

I saw Emily most recently when she came to Boston to visit Sam, Kristie, and I for the weekend. She also is hot off of a trip to Miami where she provided us with an SI Swimsuit/Cosmopolitan-worthy spread of just tantalizing, I-can't-believe-she's-real photos. While I have known Emmy for five years and have boatloads of material to choose from proving why she's the most eligible southern belle in the NWSL, I don't think we need to look much further than the evidence Emily has provided us with in these two instances.

So here we go... Why @emilysonnet is our crush, your crush, everyone's crush.

1) She is both funny and talented on social media

Emily recently graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in humorous photoshop. Her ability to recreate action shots with drawings/clipart stickers into popular Instagrams/Tweets is second to none in the women's professional game. Looking for a girl who can shut-down-defend and then add a pizza to the picture of herself doing it later? Look no further than Sonnett, who was recently honored for her work on a plumber's crack tweet in Rio by The Daily Mail.