(Get) A Sporting Life

Watching DC United get hammered at RFK tonight is thoroughly depressing. (As I write this it is 4-0 Houston going into injury time. I'm praying for the final whistle.) The team will soon be 1-8-1 for the season and it doesn't seem likely to get any better. Indeed, there seems to be a singular lack of effort being put forward by the organization. I'm not saying the players are not trying, they very obviously are. You could see it tonight as United came out in the second half and dominated play for 20+ minutes, racking up shots and corner kicks but not goals. As always happens when teams are going bad, Houston got their first chance of the half and buried it. No, the problem comes from an organization that seems a little disinterested in the quality of the on-field product. It seems most of their effort is going into getting a new stadium for the team, which is all well and good as far as that goes. However, the team has been left to wither on the vine. It has also becom...

Uh oh.  This ain't good : Magpies chairman Ray Trew has said the budget will be cut by 30% next season, but Kiwomya was not fazed by that. "I have no problem with that," Kiwomya said. "The budget is what it is It makes a little bit difficult but I still think I can make us competitive in this league. My glass is always half full." Well, it isn't exactly "League 2 here we come" time, but I think we can forget about a Championship challenge anytime soon. Damn.

This just may be the worst DC United team in the history of the franchise. I take that back. This IS the worst team in the history of the franchise. In fact, it may be one of the worst non-expansion teams in league history. The worst thing? Its still only freakin' April. We have months more of this crap to watch.

Just imagine what could have been had the Cards not decided to celebrate Halloween a week or so early. Look, I know it was a hell of a season, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah... I'mjust not the type to take these things well, and I sure as hell am not going to start now. Here is the rub.... the Cards have blown FOUR 3-1 leads in best of seven series in their history which stretches back to the 19th century. I've lived through three of them (1985 World Series, 1996 & 2012 NLCS.) Actually I was alive for the fourth one as well (the 1968 World Series) though I was one-month old at the time. Oh I'm sure I cried when it happened, just not because it happened. On the other side of the coin, the Cards have never come back from being down 3-1. Not once. Its enough to make a fan want to chew out his own intestines. Or maybe I should just leave that for the Cardinals. After all, they are dressed for the part.