PBP: PBP: 2023 MLS Season Game Thread Week 4 March 18 [R]

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  1. jaykoz3

    jaykoz3 Member+

    Dec 25, 2010
    Conshohocken, PA
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The 2023 MLS Season rolls on into week 4! Week 3 saw St Louis win it's third straight to start their maiden MLS voyage, as they gave the Timbers no pity in a 2-1 comeback victory. Atlanta crowned Charlotte 2-0 to start the week off. Nashville tossed aside Club Foot 2-0 in music City. A feisty Chicago Fire brought the fight to Philly, but was too aggressive and ended the night with 9 men, and Philly eventually found a winner in an ugly game. FCC is for real! They beat the Sounders 1-0 despite going down a man. The champs rounded out the weekend by stomping down the Revolution 4-0.

    Week 4 has a lot of intriguing matchups on paper for our viewing pleasure. The Champs visit the Emerald City to take on the Sounders to get the week started. The Revs welcome Nashville to Foxboro, and Red Bull Arena will play host to the Red Bulls and Crew. St Louis sets out to make it 4 wins on the trot as the Quakes visit the Gateway City. Houston and Austin clash in a Texas tussel in Space City. The late game sees the Galaxy entertain the Whitecaps.

    As usual all game times are eastern. National broadcasts & Free games are listed. All games can be viewed using MLS Season Pass on Apple TV.

    MLS N&A play by play threads are neutral spaces. Keep all rivalry-esque banter out of these parts. Bullying. personal attacks and/or trolling will not be tolerated.

    Saturday, March 18

    SEA vs LAX 4:00PM Fox, FREE
    ATL vs POR 7:30PM
    MTL vs PHL 7:30PM
    NER vs NSH 7:30PM
    RNY vs CBS 7:30PM
    NYC vs DCU 7:30PM
    ORL vs CHA 7:30PM
    TFC vs MIA 7:30PM FREE
    CHI vs FCC 8:30PM
    FCD vs SKC 8:30PM FREE
    HOU vs ATX 8:30PM FREE
    STL vs SJE 8:30PM
    COL vs MNU 9:30PM FREE
    LAG vs VAN 10:30PM FREE
     
  2. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
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  3. SetPeace

    SetPeace Member+

    Jun 22, 2004
    SC Illinois
    Club:
    Torquay United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Montreal, Houston, and the LA Galaxy become the last MLS teams to play a home game this Saturday. Real Salt Lake is the team on the bye week.
     
  4. NFLPatriot

    NFLPatriot Member+

    Jun 25, 2002
    Foxboro, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Every MLS expansion team that has started 3-0-0 has gone on to make the playoffs in each of their first 13 seasons... ;)
     
  5. JayRockers!

    JayRockers! Member+

    Aug 4, 2001
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    Thx,

    Jay!
     
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  6. ArsenalMetro

    ArsenalMetro Member+

    United States
    Aug 5, 2008
    Chicago, IL
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    As annoying as length VAR reviews can be, at least it's not as bad as college basketball. The refs love to suck all the energy out of the game to see if a fingernail grazed a ball.

    End-game basketball is so stilted, drives me crazy.
     
  7. SetPeace

    SetPeace Member+

    Jun 22, 2004
    SC Illinois
    Club:
    Torquay United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    No kidding! I swear, the review toward the end of today's Maryland-West Virginia game was so tedious, I thought 3 games that started much later than this one were going to end before the Terps and Mountaineers did!
     
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  8. rslfanboy

    rslfanboy Member+

    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
    With the season being only 28games and the new playoff format, we’re looking at around 40pts, maybe as low as 37, to get in. That’s around 1.1-1.25pts/g from here on out, which is VERY doable.
     
  9. ArsenalMetro

    ArsenalMetro Member+

    United States
    Aug 5, 2008
    Chicago, IL
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    The season's still 34 games.
     
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  10. rslfanboy

    rslfanboy Member+

    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
    Ah! I see what I did! I thought less games because of Leagues Cup, and saw 28games, but that’s just intra-conference.

    Duh. I’ll go away now.
     
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  11. AlbertCamus

    AlbertCamus Member+

    Colorado Rapids
    Sep 2, 2005
    Colorado, USA
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Soccer administrators never reduce games to make way for something new, they just add it. See expanded Champions League and World Cup, new expanded club World Cup, for examples.
     
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  12. Chesco United

    Chesco United Member+

    DC United
    Jun 24, 2001
    Chester County, PA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    The North American Superliga was eliminated.
     
  13. ArsenalMetro

    ArsenalMetro Member+

    United States
    Aug 5, 2008
    Chicago, IL
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    For 13 years.
     
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  14. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    Second weekend in a row we can watch a Cascadia triple-header. I'm liking this! :thumbsup:
     
  15. asoc

    asoc Member+

    Sep 28, 2007
    Tacoma
    Picture quality seems off to me.

    Anyone else?
     
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  16. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    Seems ok to me, but I don't have the best TV
     
  17. Chesco United

    Chesco United Member+

    DC United
    Jun 24, 2001
    Chester County, PA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    What is Seattle's connection to Bruce Lee?
     
  18. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    The nice part of Fox being the worst broadcaster on Earth at starting games anywhere near the listed time is I got to watch the end of the Nascar Truck race and only miss 6 minutes of MLS game time.
     
  19. asoc

    asoc Member+

    Sep 28, 2007
    Tacoma
    He went to UW. Opened his first martial arts school here I believe. Is buried in Seattle. It was always considered a home by him.
     
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  20. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    Took about 30 seconds to switch from Fox to the Apple stream. The Fox feed has some of the worst pixelation and shadowing I've seen in a while. You could convince me it's a 480p broadcast that's being poorly upscaled.
     
  21. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    Also went to high school here.
     
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  22. KCbus

    KCbus Moderator
    Staff Member

    United States
    Nov 26, 2000
    Reynoldsburg, OH
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Why is RSL playing a home game in Seattle??!?
     
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  23. KCbus

    KCbus Moderator
    Staff Member

    United States
    Nov 26, 2000
    Reynoldsburg, OH
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Seattle should be ahead at this point.
     
  24. jaykoz3

    jaykoz3 Member+

    Dec 25, 2010
    Conshohocken, PA
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Are you watching on Fox or are you watching on MLS Season Pass?

    If your answer is Fox......that's why the picture quality is not as good. Fox only broadcasts iin 720P
     
  25. KCbus

    KCbus Moderator
    Staff Member

    United States
    Nov 26, 2000
    Reynoldsburg, OH
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Pistols at 10 paces!!!
     

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