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Since this is my newest sports obsession with only one NBA game a day (if we’re lucky) and the dog days of baseball almost here, I’m going to give everyone a rundown on the week’s action.

Thursday

CHI 0 – 3 RBNY – Red Bull New York is the best team in the league hands down. Jozy Altidore is a star in training who will be playing in the highest leagues of European soccer before all is said and done. Juan Pablo Angel is the best player to come over to MLS, at least until Beckham, and will probably still have the biggest impact on his team. Clint Mathis is having a career resurgence under Bruce Arena, where everyone thought that the two of them together would lead to nothing but frustration. And this latest run is all with a backup goalie who’s posted two consecutive clean sheets.

Saturday

TFC 2 – 2 CLB – Toronto got their first road point against a not good Columbus Crew team. I thought TFC might be able to pull off a win with their now potent attack and Crew’s bad offense, but Andy “Elbows” Herron’s return meant that Crew could score again. He scored two goals in 36 minutes of play before going out with a groin strain and Crew was lifeless without him. Dichio got another goal that was assisted by new pick up Cunningham (who also knocked a winning attempt off the post). Jim Brennan’s tying goal off a set piece was a great strike from about 25 yards out.

KC 4 – 3 NE – Eddie Johnson heard all of the criticism of him before the season and blew up. Nice hat-trick kid. Huge huge huge win for KC who just validated their season, which had been full of wins over bad teams. This game was a ton of fun to watch, and I’ll skip the commentary to just post the scoring:
NE — Steve Ralston 2 (unassisted) 11
NE — Taylor Twellman 7 (unassisted) 23
KC — Davy Arnaud 2 (Sasha Victorine 2) 25
KC — Eddie Johnson 4 (Jack Jewsbury 1) 26
KC — Eddie Johnson 5 (Davy Arnaud 3) 38
NE — Shalrie Joseph 3 (penalty kick) 69
KC — Eddie Johnson 6 (Carlos Marinelli 1) 82

HOU 1 – 2 DCU – I didn’t watch this, but this was a rematch of the Cup Finals last year. I will say that it’s good to see DC picking up steam again since they’re the team that represents MLS most often in international competitions. I think they were really tired to start the season right after the CCC and it’s taken them a while to hit their stride. As for Houston, while it’s good to see De Rosario score again, they are still struggling mightily. Again DC proves it’s one of the best markets as over 18,000 people show up for the match.

LA 0 – 1 COL – I didn’t watch any of this game either outside of the highlights. Galaxy continue to be awful and Donovan continues to struggle. I really hope he doesn’t play forward over Twellmen or Johnson in the Gold Cup, but I know he will. Blech. Colorado basically controlled the game and should’ve won by a lot more after LA went down a man in the 25th minute. Hercules Gomez missed two wide open header chances before burying the third, but it was enough.

FCD 0 – 2 CHV – Chivas USA is not good, their fans are not good, but they managed to pull off a win against a Dallas team that should’ve handled them. Maybe if the Mexican team sent some players to the US team they would see a better turnout and better results, but whatever. It’s a shame they’re having so much trouble in the front third because Ante Razov and Maykel Galindo could put up some serious numbers if they were ever able to get a decent cross.

Sunday

CHI 0 – 0 RSL – Yawn. Actually, the game did have a lot of chances, with Chicago getting the vast majority, but neither were able to capitalize. Shocking since neither of these teams are very good. Also, Adu was taken off for the first time this year after 57 minutes. Welcome to Bust-ville, population Adu. If he really wanted to play in Europe you’d expect him to show up at least once in 7 games of MLS action so far.