All Rise:

Here’s three links for Thursday:

*Wonder how big a difference owning a stadium makes for an MLS team? Chivas USA fans can get an idea of what awaits their club if it ever stops becoming a renter at Home Depot Center here.

*It may be early in the season, but the defending MLS champion Galaxy is falling ever further behind rivals Real Salt Lake.

*After the experience of first Seattle and now Toronto, given the Galaxy’s current form maybe it’s just as well they didn’t face a Mexican club in the CONCACAF Champions League, huh?