Six Degrees: Very Good, Very Bad

Jeffrey Swinger-USA TODAY Sports Weird week, man. The first game gave us a beautiful evening at the park and a dominating win. Five days later, we got a completely impotent loss to a team everyone predicted would be at the bottom of the standings. As the great man once said, soccer is wild, y’all.

1) It’s hard for me to overstate how wonderful it was to be back at Providence Park last Tuesday for the Champions League game against CD Marathon. The weather was sublime, the sights and sounds were like old friends, and the soccer? The soccer was an utter delight. After a hit-or-miss first leg down in Honduras, in this second leg, the Timbers were all hits, no misses.

With his three goals, Yimmi…