News: 2018 Other Teams Discussion Thread (spoilers)

That Blanco goal was stunning.

 

Of the four conference finalists, who wouldn't fill a stadium? Jersey? Going back to the Quarterfinal round, I can only imagine Columbus not filling the venue and they're a league run team that wouldn't have been seeded high enough to host.

 

KC is mediocre to bad most of the time. Most of the bad markets didn’t make it to the end of the playoffs, you’re right, Portland vs. NY would have also been fine. We just need to avoid another Columbus/RSL style crap fest.

 

11:10 pm EST, Friday, 11/30:
ESPN is reporting* on its crawl under the heading "News" that the owner and founder of Louisville City has died in a plane crash.

RIP. Prayers forthcoming.

*We'll see if ESPN can somehow find the desire to cover this on their regular airtime. It's just soccer, after all.

 

George Bush was the first person I saw on the crawl.

 

I'm convinced you don't even watch MLS. You just complain about it.

 

The benefits of having your team a part of global soccer organization

https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/...yler-adams-from-new-york-red-bulls-509847.jsp

 

I’m talking about their viewership. I don’t give a crap about their turnout at their small stadium or quality of play.

It’s a small market and a crappy team to have in a cup relative to a number of others.

Now that I’ve clarified the point you can go back to being my miserable shadow again.

 

MLS cup KC vs RSL drew a metered rating of 0.5. A later Columbus involved cup was also 0.5. As the league grows having these small market, boring and unwatched cups doesn’t help. Atlanta vs. Portland will actually make the news.

 

Mostly the benefits of a strong youth development system.

 

Yeah, the guys from New York park the cars, walk the RB Salzburg dogs, pick up the RB Leipzig dry cleaning, useful stuff like that. Real team players.

 

Josh Sargent - Where is he now? - https://www.foxsports.com/soccer/video/1391803971719

 

Well, that was a meh MLS Cup. Atlanta kept Valeri contained. Portland has no offensive weapons other than him and Atlanta's overall quality just smothered the life out of Portland. If not for Diego Chara, the game probably would have been 5-0 Atlanta. IIRC, DCU was looking at Andy Polo a few years ago, but nothing worked out -- thankfully.

 

Atlanta is an organization that made Jeff Larentowicz look good, they are incredibly impressive top to bottom.

 

Maybe it's less relevant 22 years into MLS, but the game was good for the league even if it wasn't a good game. This is what many fans want to see - a dominent team strangling the life out of their opponent in front of 70K. Atlanta may not be Manchester City, but they are pretty good and represent the league well to the world.

On a different subject, I like that MLS plays their championship game on home fields. I know that from a strictly competitive standpoint it isn't fair. But it rewards the people who come to games. MLS is largely supported by game day attendance and sponsorships. So it's fitting that each season some team's supporters get to see their team compete for the Cup without having to travel hundreds or thousands of miles. I'll never forget the MLS Cup we won at RFK. This year the 50K Atlanta fans who came out all season got rewarded with the rare opportunity to see their team win a Cup. I'm okay with that.

 

Atlanta Portland had a metered rating of 1.2. This cup was good for MLS whereas other teams would have been bad for MLS.

 

Can someone tell me why 5 teams are exempt from the expansion draft please?

 

Because they had players taken in the last expansion draft, and normally expansion teams come in pairs, so it's a double jeopardy thing.

 

It's dumb as hell. I mean, I see what they're trying to do .... but then they made LAfc protect and expose players to the draft - if they had come in together, fcCincy could not have picked a player that LAfc had picked.

Just when they are mostly starting to be more transparent with their rules, MLS goes and does MLS

 

The LAFC thing is dumb. That's what they get for not sucking, I guess.

 

So Cheatin' Bob gets cheated. Sounds like a country song.

asitis

 

Part of a redemption tour

 

He'd lost his job, but not his car, girl or dog. So it's a pretty crappy song by country standards. "First World Problems"