I know you saw the same thing as me. I know it hurt. It hurt bad.
Why did it hurt so bad?
Pre-season, did anyone really expect this? A run at Supporters Shield? A playoff-series win over the glamorous LA Galaxy? Coming up just short of going to the clubs third-ever MLS Cup? There wasn’t a single writer on this website that thought we’d be better than sixth. I thought we’d finish seventh. In January, before reeling in Jermaine Jones, Shkëlzen Gashi, and Tim Howard, our editor and most of the staff were exceedingly pessimistic about the teams fortunes.