It should probably come as no surprise that the Galaxy have traded Donovan Ricketts to the Montreal Impact in exchange for allocation funds. Ricketts has statistically been the best keeper in the league. But when he went out with injury this season, Saunders took the starting role. Ricketts is older and costs more, so it isn't such a stretch to understand why Arena would part with him rather than Saunders.

Ever read those posts on SI.com, Fox Soccer, or ESPN.com with the "five thoughts about ..." and then, well, lo and behold, they offer you five random thoughts about a topic?

Yeah, I always thought they were mailing it in too, too rushed or whatever to come up with a lede, coherent structure for the column, etc.

I can't be the only one who still finds himself humming "This is LA...." every few minutes.

Sunday night was the most thrilling night I have ever spent at the HDC. I don't think I have ever heard the crowd louder. My favorite fans, pictured above, cheered their brains out, as it seems did 20,000 other fans.

Okay, so we didn't have proton packs. But But Bobby Brown's words otherwise ring true:

"So they packed up, regrouped, got a grip, camera quick.
Grabbed their proton packs on their backs and they split."

Maybe Thierry Henry is no Vigo, but there is something about our boys traveling to NY in 45 degree weather on a snow soaked field and bringing home a W that actually makes me want to sing Bobby Brown songs.

I couldn't watch the San Jose game until the last few minutes, so imagine my surprise when I turned it on to see this. Mike Magee can't pick up the ball! That's a handball!! Well, not that night.

Who would have thought that for a number of weeks keeper would be the most exciting position on the field for the Galaxy?

Take a gander at this highlight of the red card to LA's backup keeper Josh Saunders. It pretty much shows what an ass San Jose's Steven Lenhart is for trying to head the ball out of his hands. Saunders got a red on the play for swinging his arm up and Lenhart reacting with an Emmy performance of falling to the ground in pain (Lenhart probably did catch a little elbow on the play too).

All effort and no ball sums up the entire Galaxy-United match.

We always miss players when they are away, but we could have won the game at the end of the day. I don't think we didn't play well because of missing Landon. – David Beckham

The only one good thing about tonight is that we lost these games at home last year.

The Los Angeles Galaxy media team did a couple of videos while the players were in pre-season training in Arizona. In one they focus on some of the rookies and their new experience as professionals in their first weeks with the team. In another they focus on the 'keepers and on the long-time relationship between new Galaxy assistant coach Curt Onalfo and Head Coach Bruce Arena.