Crew SC spent its first bye week of the season in last place in Major League Soccer’s Eastern Conference, 0-2-1 after three games.
It had plenty of company.
Entering the weekend, the defending conference champion was one of four East teams without a win. Three of them were playoff qualifiers last season. Overall, six of the eight teams below the playoff bar reached the postseason last year.
So down is up and up is down and the mad scientists who oversee the convoluted, single-entity system in MLS are toasting with test tubes and tossing allocation money in the air.