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For reasons of sanity, I’ve decided to cut the “2 Games”
piece out of these weekly round-ups of Major League Soccer. “10 Things” are all
I have in me…and this is how it begins. (No, no, darling Barbara. I love you. I
would never leave…).
That doesn’t mean I didn’t watch the mandatory number of
games (I mean, someone’s watching, and failure to comply will result in a
report to proper authorities…right?) - I watched Columbus Crew SC draw 2-2 to
the visiting New England Revolution and the Los Angeles Galaxy coughing up two
goals and all three points at home against Atlanta United FC - but giving featured
games the paragraph or two I’ve given them eats a lot of time and, swear to
god, I think it chases traffic away. I mean, if somebody keeps telling me
something they wrote fts. two teams I don’t give a shit about, I’m not gonna read it.
I learned a thing or two, of course, and formed opinions,
even if not closely held ones - e.g., I rate New England the better team, especially
when both teams are gunning, and head coach Brad Friedel looks to have a good
head for subs (and good subs to use); Atlanta never once left the driver’s
seat, and a ton of that was down to Miguel Almiron (again), but I still somehow
got it in my head that the Galaxy will end 2018 in the Top 3 in the Western
Conference.
There’s more, lots more, pages upon pages of notes made on
highlights, boxscores, and even a couple from the comments to the recaps (a
guy posting as “Morningside Park” had some solid notes on New York v. Chicago.
I don’t touch on everything down below, and can’t, really, but these are 10 comments
on sights and sounds from MLS Week 8.
