Ugh. The Packers have reached a new low. You could feel the ship beginning to take on water a few years ago and now, since Mike Sherman didn’t do enough bailing, the thing is swamped and sinking. I couldn’t even bare to watch the entire game on Monday night, it was so bad. Mike McKenzie should be strung up by his toes and pelted with dead rodents for his selfishness–his holding out helped usher in the end of an era in G.B.

I watched the US get a deserved 2-0 win away from home against El Salvador over the weekend. I’m not going to bother writing a full match report but suffice it to say that, while being less than a complete performance by the US, a 2-0 victory in Central America is nothing to sniff at, no matter how bad El Salvador may be nowadays. The attack continues to sputter. Mathis brought some life to the game but faded quickly in the second half. McBride scored a beaut but wasn’t at his best. Could it be because of bad service? Donovan and Beasley had forgettable games except for their brilliant combination that set up Johnson for the tap-in goal to put the game on ice. Hejduk sucks.

The qualifying round could be potentially pretty tricky. Mexico looks to be in good form, pasting St Vincent and Grenadines 7-0. While St. V & G are no world beaters, I don’t think the US is capable of putting that many in the net right now. So it’ll probably be the US, Jamaica, Mexico, Trinidad & Tobago and who else? Of Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Honduras, two will go. It’d be sweet if Panama could snatch Jamaica’s spot but I’m not counting on it.

The real winner this weekend, however, was brother Troy for finishing the Chicago Marathon in under four hours. We cheered for him at mile ten and again at mile twenty-three. Looked like he was skating at mile ten and skating up hill at twenty-three. I have a new appreciation for marathon runners and a renewed disinterest in ever trying it myself. Remember what happened to the first guy to run a marathon?

That’s right, he fell over dead.