Beckham Great. Attendance, Not So Much
David Beckham had his first start for the Galaxy on Wednesday night, and everyone got a glimpse at how much better he was than everyone else on the field. In just 63 minutes of playing time, Beckham notched a goal and an assist. The dozens of Galaxy fans in attendance rejoiced.

The Beckham sideshow has been going on for about a month now, and nobody seems to be able to figure out yet whether he'll do anything for soccer in this country. The Galaxy have been selling out on the road, yet in just the second home game in which Becks played, they couldn't even draw 10,000 to the Home Depot Center. As of now, it looks like the novelty will wear off sooner rather than later.

Beckham's brilliant play in Wednesday's Superliga match can be construed both ways. Sure, it looks like the Galaxy are going to get a huge return for their money on the pitch. But if Becks can dominate the game like he did going just 70%, perhaps it confirms the fact that the MLS is nothing more than soccer's AAA. People in America will not watch anything other than the best in the world. That's why the USFL, XFL, ABA, and CBA all failed. That, combined with the fact that soccer makes Vince Young's Wonderlic results seem high scoring, means that this sport will never catch on in the United States.

And what's with the whole Superliga thing, anyway? It's all too complicated. There's MLS, Superliga, Copa de Americas, and all this other crap in soccer, which makes it just too hard to follow for the average American fan. In the NFL, you're in one league: The National Football League. That's it. Same in baseball. You're either in the American League, or the National League. You don't see the Dodgers playing the Padres in the NL West one day, then playing the Nippon Ham Fighters of the NPB the next, then playing Curacao in the WBC the next. It'd be too much. Soccer need to learn to keep things simple with the leagues.

So Beckham will continue to be great on the pitch. He'll appear in commercials and on magazine covers. He'll be photographed wearing ridiculous clothing walking around with his ridiculous wife. Women will continue to swoon. But will anyone actually care more about the game? Fat chance.

Holy Shit! The Dodgers Have Won 4 Straight!
Don't look now, but those boys in blue are makin' a mini-run, just like I said they'd have to in order to get back into the race. They're just 2.5 games back in the Wild Card, and let's be honest. That's all they can hope for at this point.

This is reminiscent of last year, when after losing 13 of 14 coming out of the All-Star break, they won 17 of their next 18 to catapult themselves back into contention. Although last year at this point in the season they were 7 games above .500. This year they're only 4 games above .500. It will probably take a similar miracle run to nag that last playoff spot.

Of course, now that I've proposed it, chances are the team will go into a nosedive and the Dodgers will be scheduling tee times come October.