Crew 1-2 Galaxy (and they continue to tease us with that P word. You know. Playoffs.)

By: Laurie | September 30th, 2007

You know what’s frustrating? Trying to figure out what’s going on in a broadband game when your internet connection isn’t working and all you’re getting is still shot followed by still shot followed by blank screen followed by “page reload” followed by…

It’s a little like trying to figure out those impressionist pointillist paintings made up entirely of little dots. You squint your eyes and step back twenty feet and try to figure out how this point connects to that point and how either of them connects to the big picture.

Point A, minute 2: Uh-oh. That looks like a Crew goal celebration. Check scoreline. Yup. 1-0 Crew. Could be a long game.

I shut down the desktop, try the laptop. It doesn’t help.

Point B, minute 13: Is that the Crew keeper, falling into his net with the ball? And is that defender TROY ROBERTS celebrating? Scoreline now reads 1-1. How the hell did Troy Roberts score a goal?

Point C, minute 19: Uh-oh again. Some guy in a white shirt being carried off the field. Can’t see the face, but he’s white and has beefy legs. That rules out Pete Vagenas and Kyle Martino and Landon Donovan. Ty Harden, maybe? I switch to Match Tracker and see that Alan Gordon’s been subbed out. Mystery solved. (Who knew Alan Gordon had beefy legs?)

And what the heck? The scoreline is now reading 2-1 Galaxy. How did that happen?

I give up on trying to watch the game and go to do other stuff. I come back in the 78th minute and the scoreline is the same. Guess I didn’t miss much. I kind of follow the rest of the game on MatchTracker. Nothing else happens. We had two shots on goal the entire game and somehow turned those into two goals, the second scored by Kyle Martino.

So, in conclusion, the game ends 2-1 Galaxy. All of the exciting action appears to have happened in the first twenty minutes. We have now eked out three wins in a row.

And yes, our playoff hopes are still alive. (Or at least not yet dead. Is that the same thing?)

Who woulda thought?