Missing Out (Post 2010 Update)

What follows is a list of the men who have played the most games in the MLS regular season without playing in an MLS Cup, updated through the 2010 season. With Jeff Cunningham relinquishing the top spot this past weekend, Jason Kreis returns to the top of the list. Pablo Mastroeni also played in the MLS Cup and is out of the top five. #1 ranking history: Start End Mark Chung ??? 2006-07-04 Jason Kreis 2006-07-04 2009-08-01 Jeff Cunningham 2009-08-01 2010-11-21 Jason Kreis 2010-11-21 ??? Most Regular Season Games Played Without Playing in an MLS Cup (includes games through 2010 season) Games 2009 2008 1 Kreis, Jason 305 2 1 2 Chung, Mark 284 3 3 3 Kotschau, Ritchie 244 5 4 4 Clark, Mike 221 6 6 5 McBride, Brian 220 10 15 6 Rhine, Bobby 212 7 7 7 Pause, Logan 198 15 N/A 8 Brown, Chris 197 8 8 8 Denton, Eric 197 8 12 10 Pareja, Oscar 189 11 10 11 Clark, Ricardo 181 12 22 12 Valderrama, Carlos 175 13 13 13 McKinley, Ivan 174 14 14 14 Maisonneuve, Brian 172 15 15 15 Dunseth, Brian 171 17 17 16 Washington, Dante 170 18 18 17 Burns, Mike 169 19 19 18 Thomas, Shavar 167 N/A N/A 19 Alvarez, Arturo 166 N/A N/A 20 Busch, Jon 165 N/A N/A 21 Boswell, Bobby 164 N/A N/A 22 Lewis, Eddie 163 N/A N/A 23 Chronopoulos, Ted 162 20 20 24 Warzycha, Robert 160 21 21 25 Quaranta, Santino 159 N/A N/A Active MLS players in bold. Next to the number of games played is the rank on this list after previous seasons. An "N/A" means that player wasn't in the top 25 for that year. In addition to the two that fell off, we have six newcomers to the top 25. Quaranta was a part of the 2004 DC United championship team, but did not play in the final. Thomas could've also played for KC in that game, but didn't. Lewis has also sat the bench for the final. Falling off the list are last year's 22-25: Richard Farrer, Ted Eck, Jorge Rodriguez, and Mark Santel. All Dallas Burn players. It looks like Pause is the only hope for a new number one, but even if he plays every game, he's still not going to do it until 2014 at the earliest. It seems that Kreis will reign once again for quite some top into the future. Who else could make the top 25 in the coming years? Active MLS players Outside the Top 25 Parke, Jeff 152 Barrett, Chad 147 Convey, Bobby 143 Oughton, Duncan 136 Ballouchy, Mehdi 129 Hernandez, Jason 124 Sealy, Scott 117 Oduro, Dominic 116 Peterson, Jacob 116 Saragosa, Marcelo 116 Harrington, Michael 115 Kamara, Kei 115 Segares, Gonzalo 114 Gordon, Alan 108 Sala, Dario 100