Death, Taxes and Beating Columbus

I need to go back and watch the tape, but that seemed like the scrappiest, nastiest 90 minutes of soccer I can recall since Portugal-Netherlands in the World Cup last year. Do the Crew have someone on payroll whose job it is to sharpen every player's elbows? After last week's display, RSL should trade Atiba Harris to Columbus, just on principle.

Over/under on the number of times Willian Oliveira's name is spelled wrong in media reports is 5, and the AP report only counts once regardless of how many outlets pick it up. I'm taking the over.

Odds of Luis Arroyave comparing Columbus to that one girl you can always count on to put out when you're down on your luck, and then making some reference to crappy pop music, are even. Bonus points if he starts referring to Oliveira as will.i.an.

And admit it, you thought Chad Barrett was going to blow the 60-yard breakaway. A friend said he thought calling for a sub right after was in poor taste, but knowing how often I do that when I play, I thought it was hilarious. Although I also usually call for oxygen.

The defense still worries the heck out of me, and we started off once again not getting numbers forward in support of the attack, although we got better at that as the game went on. Bakary Soumare is a talent, but clearly a raw talent. But a win is a win, and the hot seat may be at least slightly less hot.