Wow, wow, wow. It's not official yet, but according to Tom Bogert in The Athletic, Metro has agreed to trade Tom Barlow to Chicago for an astonishing amount: 250K up-front and 150K in incentives. The trade cannot become official until the MLS roster freeze ends on December 11.

If this is the end of Metro's "Big, Strong, Fast" striker? If so, it's an end of an era. A very, very low-scoring era.

And, we ask, what was the point of "MLS savant" Denis Hamlett, who was finally fired two weeks ago?