While Crew SC's attentions have been turned to the playoff hunt, for the past couple weeks I've noticed something more ignominious. Columbus is within reaching distance of the worst record in team history. Crew SC needs to get to 36 points clear the bar set by the transitional 2006 team that Sigi Schmid was starting to build.
A word about those records, they aren't official. MLS had the shootout from 1996 to 1999. They then dropped the shootout, but added 10 minute overtime from 2000 to 2003. I retroactively changed the rules and reinstituted ties for those eight seasons.