Bitter Cold, Hartman Walls and Unlikely Finalists

We have a final. It's not the one any reasonable observer expected, not does it have much of a glamorous sheen. But this is what playoffs give us; even an adjustment to the structure to give higher seeds more of an advantage in the first round could have given us this result.

Win your home games, and you have a pretty damn good shot at playing at a neutral site for MLS Cup.