They did fix the long break in the middle of it. That was key. Just adding another team was fixing what ain’t broke.

Real Sociedade. Real Betis. Real Madrid. Real Garcilaso (Peru). Real Cartagena. Real Santader (Colombia). Real Potosi (Bolivia). Real Salt Lake.

You forgot that their hated rivals in their own city, which, in past decades, they absolutely owned, won the Premier League last year, and is very much on track to do the exact same this year.

Slow clap.

Wait . . . Chargers fan? What the? There are Chargers fans?

I am not allowed to enjoy this due to MLS Sucks.

I agree, to a certain extent, that this will be a totally different type of Clasico. lI hate both teams so . . . hopefully it’s a good match?

If you tell people the corporate elite pull all the strings and rig the vote every time, why would they vote at all?

Yeah. But you also know that time moves forward in one direction, and that trying to create a modern sports culture out of nothing, is quite different than having one slowly built up for you over the course of a dozen decades, right? Do you think that when Real Salt Lake won it all in’09 that the fans were complaining…

Ha ha, this is indeed funny. IDK. A lot of Euro-phile soccer fans in the US want MLS to, above all, “be more European.” But no, not the team names, I guess. I’m not some huge fan of having three Uniteds in the league plus a Real, but it never seems to be an issue in England (Manchester, Newcastle, West Ham, Sheffield) …

I can admit that I definitely did not see this coming. I’m happy for Columbus fans, although as one of the approximately two dozen remaining Chicago Fire fans I must also include the obligatory “Fuck the Yellows.” Columbus is for punching.

It’s all so simple. The “solution” is for an American Premier League with promotion and relegation, with quality and history on par with EPL, or Spain’s La Liga, to emerge out of Haisley’s fingertips, as a finished product, tomorrow. Nevermind the massive difference is sports cultures. Nevermind England and Spain’s…

I can’t help but wonder if Haisley really cares whether he’s going to take a shit on American soccer in Columbus, or take a shit on American soccer in Austin. That said I have to agree that this is incredibly dispiriting U.S. who WANT to see MLS do well, and want it to do the right thing. More depressing news that its…

I should feel sorry for Mets fans. But I have this weird mental block, in which, if I can remember the team winning it all, I can’t pity the team or its fans. Since I watched the Mets win the ‘85 World Series against Bill Buckner’s inability to field a ground ball, I can’t feel bad for the Mets. Eff those NYC…

Obviously Mexico played brilliantly against Germany, but the Sweden and (to a lesser extent . . . I mean they’re Brazil) Round of 16 matches showed, El Tri just didn’t have an answer sometimes. Considering they’ve gone out in the Round of 16 in seven straight World Cups stretching back to 1986, I think you CAN use the…

Living in my predominantly Mexican neighborhood in Chicago, I long-ago gave up on feeling bad for cheering for El-Tri. Another great-looking win today.

It’s like Messi’s very conscience is speaking to us!  How did they get the Messi-whisperer on staff?

Using the Galaxy’s D as indicative of “the overall state of the quality MLS” would be no more fair that using this article as indicative of “the overall state of the quality of Deadspin.”

My wife is Brazilian, so “Vai Brasil!”

I feel like the unspoken backdrop to this whole character sketch is cocaine.