This comes to us courtesy of a loyal Chicagoland reader as well as Luis Arroyave. And given the personalities involved, locker-room cancer vs larger than life ego, who wouldn't have predicted this?


"Blanco and William Conde came to blows in the locker room on Friday.

It was stopped by team mates.

This is also reported in The Red Card blog, a Fire blog by Luis Arroyave from the Chicago Tribune

Indeed.

"the two players got into a "fist fight" and needed to be separated. There is no word on what caused the fight."


Fire fans, any guess as to what started the whole thing to flare up?

One thing is sure, Conde's days at the Fire appear to be numbered. And when coupled with this rumor we received by email:


"I have it on good authority that there is now a three way trade in the works involving Toronto, Chicago and a Californian team to get the McBride deal done."

So let's use our imaginations:


According to Steve Goff at the Washington Post, Carlos Ruiz is trade bait....So who could use a striker who actually scores goals......Hmmmmmm Toronto!

But what would LA Galaxy get? Well their defenders utter collapse at the hands of DC United on Sunday means they could certainly use a hard-nosed experienced defender like Conde.

And what would would Chicago get from Galaxy? Why Brian McBride's rights of course which would be traded to LA in exchange for Ruiz.

See, everybody is happy.