Whicker: LAFC shows how it’s sometimes better to boot than re-boot

LOS ANGELES >> The grass is dying, the paint is flaking, the kids are being wheeled into surgery for a headphone-ectomy.
Doesn’t the magic slate look good right now? Wouldn’t it be nice to flip the sheet, go back to the empty frame? Life does not have expansion teams. Sports do. And the Los Angeles Football Club, in Year Two, is playing for the MLS Western Conference championship Tuesday night at Banc of Caiifornia Stadium, after it was the league’s runaway leader in