It was not especially pretty, but Dominic Kinnear had readied himself for that earlier in the day as he negotiated the notorious Bay Area traffic on his way to Avaya Stadium.
“I don’t want to get philosophical,” the Earthquakes coach said after the gritty 2-0 victory over New York Red Bulls, “but as I was driving to the game I was thinking that there’s no such thing as a bad win. There’s good wins and sometimes bad ties.”
It was a thought not lost on Chris Wondolowski, a fellow commuter from the East Bay, although his reflections came in a victorious post-game locker room, rather than in the front seat of his car.