Athletic Shadenfreude

The Major League Soccer regular season wrapped up this weekend, with the MLS Cups set to kick off Thursday night. The final regular season game pitted the Chicago Fire against the LA Galaxy, for whom David Beckham had finally returned. Through a combination of MLS's lax playoff setup (8 of 13 teams is just too many) and an out of character late season run, the Galaxy were a win away from making it into the playoffs. They didn't get it, falling 1-0 to the Fire. As someone who got so so sick of all the Beckham hype and the accompanying propaganda (sorry, Lexi, the Galaxy are not the "gem of MLS"), that makes me just a little happy.

Oh yeah - DC United finished the season on top of the league, capturing their fourth Supporter's Shield and the top seed in the playoffs. Whoo-hoo!