Waking the Red's midweek call for your questions – Post-Orlando, Pre-Montreal Edition
There are a lot of cliches in sports coverage. That's the nature of the beast.
Some of them are terrible and should be avoided at every expense. Some are more slippery, such as the tendency to utilize the language of war. There is metaphor there no doubt, and it is useful, but in no way ideal.
A pair of personal favourites come to mind when assessing the play of Toronto FC over the past month: 'goals win games', and 'MLS is a grind'.
The first is a more universal statement, about the nature of a low-scoring game where good passages of play can be erased, as if they never happened in the first place, by a single goal.