It's over.
The long, frustrating, madding journey is complete. We all can nap now. The burden of our hopeless obsession is now on hold until next March.
It ended ok. Just ok, really, because a win over Montreal, while nice, hardly made up for the disaster we have watched for the last 18-months. A little context about that: Toronto just became the first MLS team of the so-called MLS 2.0 era (post-2005) to finish two consecutive seasons with less than 30 points.
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It's historic bad. It's driven a once vibrant supporters culture into the ground and has made people legitimately worry about the future of the club.
Many of us our numb. Anger is too engaged an emotion at this point. We listen to Tim Leiweke make noise about BIG.NAME.SIGNINGS. but it's just words. We've had words. We need action.
If you are one of the last true believers out there that finds hope in this mess then God Bless. This is the sixth time I've written a season ending post. I simply can't join you in that thinking.
I simply can't get excited by another meaningless late season win. It's better than a loss, but it's still two wins in two months and 29 freakin points.
The only joy I have today is that it's done. I suspect I'm not alone.
But, we will soldier on. As always, we will roll out our five part season ending review over the next five days. It will start later today with part I: What went right.
The rest is as follows:
Tuesday-- Part II - What went wrong
Wednesday -- Part III - What went really wrong
Thursday -- Part IV - Player report card
Friday -- Part V - The way forward
Onward, I guess.