The Supporters Shield standings at the end of the night. As important, here are the maximum points each team can reach by winning out: Union 69 Cincinnati 67 San Diego 63 Vancouver 66 NYCFC 62 Inter Miami 68

At the moment, with San Jose leading San Diego, 1-0, (and holding on for dear life) things are going suspiciously well for the Union

Why what did Robbie Keane ever do to the Union? 😉

One of several reasons why the Shield feels like a trophy the Union *have* to win

Start of the fourth quarter and Penn State ain't even beating the Union yet

Current Shield standings San Diego hosts San Jose at 10:30 (that feels like 3 points) Vancouver visits Seattle at 10:30 Orlando at Cincinnati tomorrow

Is it bad to concede 58 goals in 19 games to the same opponent

NYC heads to Subaru Park next week

Human victory cigar

Union fans, as @baileyannej.bsky.social noticed first, are progressively losing their shirts and slapping their shoes together to chant. No one's having a better time than these folks.

If (eye roll) the Union finish off this win, they will be 7-0-2 in the last 9 vs. D.C. Outscored them 35-3 in those games. 35!

I would argue that Bradley Carnell was wrong not to start Mikael Uhre. It doesn't matter, but I would still argue it

You could make a convincing argument - if it ends this way - that Milan Iloski going from San Diego to the Union could literally make the difference in the Shield race

Once again - and I can't quite believe we're here - but the guy just outworks people

Least deserving 3-0 lead I've ever seen

The Union have the least deserving 2-0 lead in history and no one cares

This Union game - and I'm typing this before Stroud hit the post - is an example of the Union lacking game control, which has been rare this year. Very helter skelter through 25 minutes

For what it's worth, Mikael Uhre has now 5 goals/3 assists in 420ish minutes against D.C. United. Yes, Julian Carranza and Daniel Gazdag ... but he's built to play teams like DC

Bit of mini news: I'll be contributing some Union coverage to the good folks over at On Pattison. First up: What does success look like for the Union in 2025, given where they came from? I suspect controlling their own destiny again might move the goal posts (again) onpattison.com/news/2025/se...

An interesting commentary on Mikael Uhre right now. I also think Markus Anderson and Sal Olivas playing for Union II last night was a mistake because you have 1.5 reserve strikers on the bench and if you have a problem with that I will gif Chris Donovan's breakaway last week

Ernst Tanner sending a fruit basket to Djordje Mihailovic

Edmundo Sosa has as many home runs this season as Alec Bohm, as we all predicted

No one has yet expressed any pissed off-edness at the footsketball-ish yet

And ... that's 3

We're most of the way to a rule of 3s media day headline: Disneyland, toe yoga and 1 more

David Robertson is one behind Tug McGraw for 69th all-time in MLB saves

76ers optimism, somehow, lasted minus-1 days

The playwright is the favorite to be D.C. United's new head coach, I'm told

I've been critical of Indiana Vassilev at times this year. But on Saturday, his directness was exactly what the Union needed to banish a nightmare week www.delcotimes.com/2025/09/21/i...

I was led to believe the Eagles season was canceled at halftime?

Hi, hey, hello, D.C. United. See that guy inside the circle. That's Lionel Messi. If you defend him like this, then ... /Inigo Montoya voice/ "humiliations galore"

Primed to be turned into a novel, you might say? Because I know a guy ...

If Lionel Messi is on your team ... and he lets you take a penalty ... you'd better damn sure not miss it like that

If your league's fines are mid-level moving violations, you probably should be paying your players more

If you're a Union fan thinking Atlanta might help today, then you've missed how shit they've been every step of the way this year

FT: Union 1, New England 0. Union will remain atop the Shield standings again this week. And many people (👋) will remain unconvinced they will stay there.

Andrew Farrell is in the game in the 92nd minute, perhaps because he's stuck in some type of Sisyphean eternal spiral with the Revolution from which he can't be delivered

Chris Donovan just messed up a 1-v-0 in a way that lets Andrew Wenger off the hook forever, and Andre Blake forced into a save to keep it 1-0

Quinn Sullivan reached for a ball and nearly did a split. Oh to be 21 again

7 minutes of stoppage time here. I'm not fully sure why

Milan Iloski has been on the field 30 minutes and is the Union's third-highest rated player today, per FotMob

Nate Harriel just passed a all straight to Matt Polster -- he's had his hand up apologizing for 10 seconds -- and it took Jeremy Rafanello tackling the ball away from Gil on the edge of the box to save him Never going to be easy with the Union

Jeremy Rafanello, the human victory cigar, about to come into the game. Ditto Chris Donovan, who there isn't a tobacco product in existence I'd liken him to

Do you guys want to know that the Union are minus-1 (0 goals scored, 1 allowed) in 122 minutes up a man this year? No? Cool keeping it to myself

Peyton Miller a straight red while on a yellow for throwing the ball off Baribo's head. Even for a 17 year old, that's dumb

Bruno Damiani, of course, scores, buying you 3 more weeks of this frustration. Union 1-0 in the 70th (I half thought Iloski was off, but we'll see)

Damiani's afternoon should end. But like much else in this game, it was sloppy and ill-thought-out but not decisively a foul

It's Danley Jean Jacques for Milan Iloski. Looks like Vassilev will drop back into the 4-2-2-2 with Iloski as a 10

The Union's sub was telegraphed enough that Bradley Carnell didn't send someone to the reserves, he just waved. Milan Iloski is about to enter. 0-0 in the 58th