Michael Arace commentary | Good knight! Crew might still have a chance

Enlarge Image Request to buy this photoCrew SC this summer has played the part of the Black Knight from the epic film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Call them the Black & Gold Knights.

Cut off an arm and they say, “Tis but a scratch.” Cut off the other arm they say, “Just a flesh wound.” Hack off a leg and they say, “I’m invincible.” Hack off the other and they say, “All right, we’ll call it a draw.”

Think the job is finished and they say, “I’ll bite your legs off.”

Here they are, in late August, ready to bite the legs off the rest of MLS. And you know what? They have a chance because they are the luckiest team in the world.

On May 28, the Crew defeated Real Salt Lake 4-3 at Mapfre Stadium.…