The relegation race in MLS is heating up. D.C. are already on their way down, but Chicago are playing for their lives in an empty football stadium this weekend, while Chivas USA may be relegated, if they still exist next year. Nobody cares if either happens, so long as one does.
MLS 2013, Week 25 preview and fixtures: The relegation battle heats up
If only MLS had relegation...


Doesn’t MLS with relegation sound amazing?
Saturday, 7 p.m. ET - MLS Live
Relegate D.C.
Pick: Not D.C., 100-0.
Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET - MLS Live
If the Revolution make the playoffs, Jose Goncalves deserves a Mercedes. Bob Kraft will probably buy him a bike instead, but at least it's something.
Pick: New England, 1-0.
Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET - MLS Live
Why?
Pick: No.
Saturday, 8 p.m. ET - NBC Sports Network
Houston Dynamo vs. Seattle Sounders
Saturday, 9 p.m. ET - MLS Live
Clint Dempsey is likely to make his first start for the Sounders ... against Dominic Kinnear, the man who twice bested his Revolution teams in the MLS Cup final.
Pick: Draw, 1-1.
Colorado Rapids vs. Vancouver Whitecaps
Saturday, 9:30 p.m. ET - MLS Live
Consider where these two teams were last June and where they are now.
Pick: Colorado, 2-0.
Saturday, 10:30 p.m. ET - MLS Live
"Now that Omar Gonzalez is a Designated Player, he will step his game up," said no one ever. Alvaro Saborio can't wait to score his 80-something minute equalizer.
Pick: Salt Lake, 2-2.
Saturday, 11 p.m. ET - MLS Live
The battle to be America’s pre-eminent college coach.
Pick: Caleb Porter, 2-0.
Sunday, 10 p.m. ET - Univision Deportes
A year ago, we would be calling this a MLS Cup preview. Good job, good effort, Quakes.
Pick: Kansas City, 2-1.











