Timewasting: MLS Connect 4

“I don’t understand how a heart is a spade,
But somehow the vital connection is made.”
Four seemingly unconnected things.

But that’s just it. They’re not.

Can you spot the connections??? [Answers below]

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(1) Sand
     Broken glass
     Dry toast
     Vancouver Whitecaps being a Top 25 Club in the World

(2) A dog
     An iron
     A top hat
     Kansas City coach Peter Vermes

(3) A Jimi Hendrix guitar pick
     A signed photo of Lindsay Lohan
     A new car
     New York Red Bulls’ Rafael Marquez

(4) The war in Afghanistan
     A London Underground Map
     Calculus
     Tommy Soehn still having a job with the Whitecaps

Answers:

(1) Things which are hard to swallow

(2) Things that at one time or other have ended up in jail

(3) Things which are worth less and less each year

(4) Things which become harder and harder to understand