Can't believe our soccor team lost....whaaaaaaaaa

It's not even a sport. A bunch of whiners, running around in a box.... hoping for tie (might as well give them a yellow participation ribbon.) Would be better to have a bunch of judges lined up on the sidelines to raise scorecards on the quality of the "flop". At the end of the day, just add up the scores and give someone the win.

due to a stupid MLS rule.

How dumb is it to have the better regular season record team start on the road! And then the team with more goals, not wins in a series, wins the series by aggregate.

Stupid,stupid, stupid!!!!!

Why is it so hard for the MLS to figure out a best of 3 makes more sense? Second year in a row the Sounders lose to such a stupid rule.

STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!!!!!!

No... second year in a row that the Sounders lost... because they failed to do their job! Plain and simple!

But this is exactly why this sport will NEVER amount to nothing in my world. I have played sports all my life through youth leagues to high school and college. I cannot fathom in my little brain ANY game that ends in a tie or your lose a series when you actually won one and lost one. I cannot fathom that in baseball, football, or basketball. I cannot imagine playing a best of seven in basketball and you win 4 out of 7 and still lose because some chump team ran up the score in one game. Just doesnt compute to me. ONE GAME ONE WINNER! Nothing personal soccer fans. I am glad we have a great team and facility to play in a root for. I just dont understand the tie thing and aggragate total thing. Doesnt make one lick of sense to me.

Happened to flip to ESPN during a timeout of Sunday Night Football (love the Steelers Hooped jerseys, by the way). Saw the last minute of stoppage time and the utter classlessness of the soccer player and soccer fan in the diatribe after the game. I've been to a couple of Sounders games and from what I can tell, the games are no more than a reason to get blistered drunk and then sing for 2 hours and jump up and down. They have a diagnosis for that. It's called insanity. What a complete bunch of losers. Oh and I agree with others. Two games and aggregate score? Really? what the flip (since I can't use W-T-F) is that?

All the negative comments on here because you guys can't "fathom" why anyone, including the majority of the world, loves this sport??? You don't get aggregate style playoffs? Do we need to dumb it down for you??? It's as balanced of a playoff system as they come. You think it is stupid? How about our beloved Seahawks hosting a playoff game at 7-9 against a 10 win team. Yeah... that's not stupid. How about a World Series Home-Away split that is completely decided upon an All Star Game's winner. Not stupid at all. Or a playoff system that is only really interesting in a Game 7, IF the game is close in the final minutes.

The format of MLS soccer is consistent with the rest of the world, and the rest of the world is NOT consistent with the idiocies of American sports.

If you guys want to bash the sport, fine... but don't act like your beloved "big three" in this country are perfect and without flaws. In baseball and basketball, the big markets get to decide pretty much everything while the smaller markets, like Seattle, end up being the bottom feeders for the majority of the existence of the sport. In football, the Commissioner is slowing turning it into Flag Football by trying to prevent injuries. Freaking ridiculous to try and prevent all injuries in a sport where guys crash into each other for 4 straight quarters. And you don't like the flopping of soccer... well it is happening in football too. Guys grabbing their hamstrings to stop the no-huddle offense is becoming a regular practice. Football fans don't like it, soccer fans don't like it, but it is simply a strategic point... nothing less.

You don't like soccer... big freaking woop. No surprise here. Flipper, you said: "I've been to a couple of Sounders games and from what I can tell, the games are no more than a reason to get blistered drunk and then sing for 2 hours and jump up and down. They have a diagnosis for that. It's called insanity. What a complete bunch of losers..." But they definitely don't serve alcohol during football games, AND BY NO WAY do guys get blistering drunk there either! The fact that you "flipped to the last minute of stoppage" shows you didn't have a bloody clue as to what had transcended during the game. No clue that the referee completely screwed the sounders on some Pivotally blown calls! You call what the soccer player was doing classless, I call it passion and frustration. What... you've never seen an angry sports player? Just because they play in the "big three" they get a pass??? Hypocritically ignorant idiots love to bash one sport for something that happens all over the sporting world. You don't understand soccer... no one asked you to. It apparently is much too fast of a game without all the stopping for huddles, and timeouts, and in between innings for you to compute what you are watching.

So continue to enjoy watching sports completely controlled by the American Pop Culture and being diluted that you're the best in the world. The world laughs at this country, and all we do is stand their looking at ourselves and posing in the mirror, gloating of our own idiocy.

Settle down man, it's not that big of a deal. Soccer does suck though!!!!

Who gives a rats A55 about what the rest of this stinking world likes. WE LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. As Americans we are lucky to have multiple sports to play as we grow up.

Soccer is all the rest of the world has. I would like to think we are not as narrow minded as others in the world.

as for you Seahawks 7-9 playoff team. LAME ARGUMENT! That was the first time that ever has happened.

As far as Major League Baseball all star game determining the home field advantage. I dont like it. Id rather have the best record host the series. ANOTHER LAME ARGUMENT.

your comment "The format of MLS soccer is consistent with the rest of the world, and the rest of the world is NOT consistent with the idiocies of American sports." WHO GIVE A FLYING ....! WE LIVE IN AMERICA. I could careless what the other idiots in the rest of the world are doing. DONT CARE DONT LIVE THERE! The rest of the world are morons for not having options.

One last thing Ravensdad tell me when the last time an american athlete was Kidnapped or MURDERED because someone other athlete made a goal against them. TELL ME RAVENSDAD WHEN? When was the last time during a football game the fans from the other team rioted and killed 10-20 innocent fans? OVER A STUPID A55 game. SOCCER FANS DO THAT ALL OVER YOUR GREAT WORLD! Sorry man you can have that lame A55 lets play for a tie game and all their lame hooligan fans in the rest of the world.

NOTE: American soccer fans dont riot and kidnap and murder their athletes BUT THE REST OF THE WORLD DOES. GREAT SPORT!

I for one am a soccer fan and am not complaining about the sport as much as the retarded format.

And it is retarded, by any standard.....