Ugh. I truly hate writing about Little Brother Orange these days, largely because they are committed to not giving me so much free material.

Oh, wait, you can totally count out the New York Red Bulls when it’s playoff time.

You, gentle reader, are quite likely an FCD fan and you, like me, might be tenting your fingers and thinking to yourself, “Hey, I wouldn’t mind Óscar’s triumphant return to Frisco.”

This is really the play-in round, but MLS calls it the “Wild Card” round, so sure, I’ll call it that. If the NCAA and their band of lawyers, who can only really enforce trademarks and screw college kids, didn’t exist, we could call it the “First Four,” but alas.

Thanks to Carlos Ruiz’s only 2016 goal in his only 2016 action for FCD the previous week against Seattle, FCD went into the final game of the season needing only not to lose and for the Rapids not to win in order to capture the Supporters Shield.

By the way, I do plan on visiting La Mestalla while I’m here in Valencia and if you don’t mind, Nico, I’m gonna drop your name frequently as a close personal friend.

Friends, you have no idea how hard I struggled to not make this game the Sickos Game of the Week.

What am I talking about? What I am talking about is something like what the Burn did in 2003 when they, in the midst of one of the worst seasons in the history of Major League Soccer, panicked…

On August 1, a press release emanated from Major League Soccer, announcing that New England Revolution Head Coach, Sporting Director, and Official Smartest Guy in the Room Bruce Arena had been placed on administrative leave for “inappropriate and insensitive remarks” and that the matter was under investigation.