Columbus 0-1 Seattle: Post Game

By: Chris | October 4th, 2009

Excuses, excuses.

We can talk about Robbie Rogers having a bad ankle.

We can talk about not having Chad Marshall or Frankie Hejduk.

We can talk about not having the right guys in the starting 11.

We can talk about the opposing team turning the penalty spot into a divot.

We can talk about bad officiating.

We can talk about a lot of things, but like my dad says: “Excuses are like assholes – everybody has one and they all stink.”

The simple truth tonight isn’t that we got outplayed or outworked or out-anything. It’s just that we lost a game. It happens to everyone, and there is nothing anyone can do to change it. No one goes undefeated.

Yeah, there were a lot of dark spots for Columbus as they lost last night to visiting Seattle, and I listed most of them already. You can add to that list that everyone on the team has forgotten how to finish, the tendency of our forwards to flop when the defense gets physical, the fact that our national team winger has no testicular fortitude this year, or that our MVP DP had a brain fart.

But even if you could somehow wave a magic wand to fix all of those issues and bring our guys back to full-fitness, we’re still going to lose a game every now and then. It’s just the way the world works. Sorry.

Yes, this loss hurts more than others. I would have loved to have seen our boys win 3-0 as if to say to former coach Sigi Schimd, “Hey look, we’re better than your new team.” I would have loved to have taken a six-point lead over Houston in the race for the Supporter’s Shield. I would have been ecstatic to extend our home-unbeaten streak to 25 games. It would have been great to see our new coach out-coach our old coach.

But alas, that’s just not the way the cookie crumbled.

I’m not going to get angry (I’m looking at the table and staying positive) because the kids over on BigSoccer are complaining enough, but I will say this: Christ on a bike why did we have to lose to them, at home? I know everyone loses but c’mon? To Sigi? At our place? I don’t think his ego can bigger, not unlike his belt. Ugh.

I hate losing.