Galaxy, Out.

The LA Galaxy's season came to a skidding halt on Sunday night as they lost to the Chicago Fire. At least the embarrassing display did not cow the Galaxy's ticket office who called me on Monday to ask if I was going to renew my season tickets. That's balls! If only they knew how to put those balls - in the back of the net!

Is the Galaxy that shitty a team that they did not deserve one of the 3 Western conference playoff spots? No. This whole season was jimmy-jacked to have the Galaxy on the road with the Beckham show. The idea was to get Beckham out to all the stadia (plural of stadium) and to draw in record crowds while attracting huge media/fan interest.

It all went according to plan until Becks' injury, but all of the teams playing the Galaxy experienced record attendance.

Also, the international call-up took away our "best" goalscorer, Landon Donovan, for a crucial period. How crucial? One goal in any of the several matches he missed would have earned us the 3 points and gotten us into the playoffs. That's pretty fucking crucial!

It wasn't just his absence. We've been without our star defender Chris Albright all season to injury, and then other new signings like Abel Xavier had to miss matches.

It also does not help that the Galaxy sold or traded about 9 players from the beginning of the season until the end. There is no transfer window, like in European leagues, so if you showed up for a match in June, there were 6 different starters in the side by October. That makes it more than a little difficult for a team to gel and to trust each other.

Oh well, fuck it. The bright news is that most fans barely saw Beckham. Next season, it's going to be another circus because he will be reintroduced, and all the media hoopla that should have played out at the end of this year, will be able to start fresh next season.