One Game Over Two Days; LA vs Houston (and other points to ponder)

By: Jeremy | November 16th, 2009

david-vs-goliath Greetings, Dynamo fans. As we are all well aware, our beloved Orange fell short of the 2009 championship. It was a valiant effort against David Beckham and the LA Galaxy. Watching from Houston, the Dynamo played well on Friday night, but early Saturday was a different story.

As midnight passed, LA took advantage of two costly fouls by Ricardo Clark. These penalties weren’t the kind that we could accuse embellishment or anything of the like. They were straight up fouls with no other way to call them, which actually makes the loss easier to swallow. Congratulations to the Galaxy on a hard-fought victory.

Now, with David Beckham on the verge of becoming an MLS champion, do you think this truly benefits the league? It will definitely help from a TV ratings perspective. So on a national level, yes, David Beckham’s presence will benefit the league. But what about the global level? If Becks comes here and wins a championship, what does that say about MLS? Will the European clubs continue to look at it as an inferior league after the ease in which Beckham was able to win? Probably so. Or would Beckham not finding championship success ultimately cause foreign lands to reevaluate their thinking? If their best (arguably) couldn’t win here, how could our league be inferior to theirs? Wow, Jeremy, that’s an interesting point to ponder.

Galaxy vs. Real Salt Lake – It’s such an unlikely final. Two Western Conference teams this year and two Eastern Conference teams last year. It makes me wonder if the playoff format is the best way to go about it. This year, the Eastern Conference only managed to qualify 3 teams, so it would seem that their conference isn’t as strong as the Western Conference. With that in mind, RSL may have been “rewarded” by being removed from the dominant division. Not that I can think of another way to do it, because if you are the best team then you should beat whoever is put in front of you. My point is that the final matchup may not always be the two best teams remaining. Does anyone really think RSL is one of the top two teams in the league? I don’t think so. Did they have an easier route to the final? Maybe.

Here’s to hoping for a fantastic finish. I would like to see David’s RSL beat Goliath’s Galaxy, but my prediction is a 2-0 result going to LA.

FOREVER ORANGE

Dallas sucks.