Monday, October 24, 2005

Playoffs: Conference Semis - Game 1

It's sad when Brian Hall wants the glory of deciding a game through a phantom call.

For anyone who caught the playoff match last night Chad Barrett of Chicago looked to put the Reds up on a pretty header through traffic with only minutes left to play. But, Hall had just enough time to put the crack pipe down to make some kind of call to disallow the goal.

The DC homer announcers couldn't see it, I didn't see it, did you? maybe one of you who had the game on a real tv could shed some light on this.

But, to go off of what Prime said in another thread, it was a fun game to watch. Free flowing crisp passes through mutch of the game. There were lots of chances on goal. Watching the playoffs makes you feel good as to where MLS is going with the quality of play on the field.

Now if teams could only play like that all season long...

Followers of soccer know that the MLS playoff format is severly flawed. As it looks right now, the two best teams in MLS will not play each other in the final. If everything were to go through as it currently stands it would be the Gals and probably DC. Clearly, San Jose and New England should be in the finals. Let's hope for the unattached fan that's the case.

The problem is that there are no realistic alternatives. A single table system needs a punishment for the losing teams. I'm not Dave Checketts, but I can imagine he wouldn't be all that excited about investing all his capital into a team and stadium only to have the nicest grounds in the USL First Division.

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