The MLS season is built around the playoffs. The goal of every team, as they slog their way through a summer season full of long plane rides and physically demanding games, is to end up on the right side of that thin red line that demarcates the sixth place from the seventh place team in each conference. Teams above the line battle it out for the title; teams below go home.
Minnesota United is currently on the wrong side of that line, and likely to remain there, bouncing around with the other also-rans through the end of the season.