Shut up, Donny!

If you are a soccer fan and you are a masochist, watch the video above. PTI discusses New York's 5-4 win over Beckham's Galaxy. Tony Kornheiser plays the part of Donny in The Big Lebowski. He's out of his element. He has no frame of reference. He's like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know what happened.

These are the same assholes telling us that a 1-0 baseball game is exciting. It's an old argument, but one that soccer bashers refuse to hear: If you understand and appreciate the skill it takes to play this game, you don't need more scoring to make it exciting. Look at the AFL...Not even ESPN would claim that the AFL is more exciting than the NFL and the AFL routinely averages well over a 100 points a game.

Ok, they are at least discussing MLS on PTI, so that's something, I guess. And maybe the rabid soccer fans are partly to blame for constantly trumpeting the rise of the soccer in this country. But Kornhole's refusal to acknowledge gains that the sport has made is just irrational and likely born out of the fear that he has finally become irrelevant. (News flash: that happened when you took the MNF job).

While Saturday's match was full of exciting goals, it was also full of lousy defense. MLS doesn't need more 5-4 matches; it needs fossils like Kornheiser to retire.