Timo Baumgartl looks at the tattered remnants of the 2025 St. Louis City SC season and can say he’s seen worse. Not necessarily in performance, but definitely in terms of ramifications.

It was the 2015-16 season, and the City SC center back was in Germany, playing for VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga, and was on his way to finishing the season with nine wins, 19 losses and six ties, for 33 points. City SC goes into its game with Dallas on Saturday at Energizer Park with a record of 5-17-6, putting it second-to-last in Major League Soccer, two points ahead of the last-place Los Angeles Galaxy with the very real possibility of dropping into the bottom spot if City SC were to lose and the Galaxy were to win on Saturday.

The big difference is this: No matter what happens, City SC will be in M

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