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How bad did it get for the Earthquakes? Real bad

SAN JOSE — The Earthquakes made a strong case Saturday night for the title of Major League Soccer’s most aggravating team.

OK, let’s just be blunt: the league’s worst team.

The promise of a new era of younger and better fell as flat as a tortilla in an embarrassing 3-1 home defeat to lowly D.C. United at Avaya Stadium.

It’s fortunate so many blue seats sat empty because the announced crowd of 17,644 tortured fans who witnessed a first-half debacle showered their team with boos. Had there actually been 17,000-plus fans in attendance those jeers would have reverberated throughout Avaya.