at Saturday, March 8, 7:00 pm EST RFK Stadium MLS Live It's time! Preseason has been fun, but now the real games begin. And who better to begin the season with than with our oldest enemies, DC United? Oduro is suspended due to a red card in the final game of 2013. Gonzalez and Francis will be playing for Costa Rica on Wednesday, but will rejoin the Crew on Thursday and should be ready for this game. It's a long season, and one game is just one game, but starting off with a positive result sure wouldn't be a bad thing. MLS regular season record at DC United: 7-18-3 MLS regular season record vs DC United: 23-25-8 overall record at RFK Stadium: 8-23-3 overall record at DC United: 8-24-3 overall record vs DC United: 26-32-8 W-L-T More than any other of our long-standing rivals, this series has been dominated by the home team. That record at RFK might look terrible to anyone who's relatively new to the Crew, but believe it or not, it used to be even worse. In our first 13 games at DC, we went 0-13.
We won preseason! We are scoring goals. Lots and lots of goals! Our defense has looked pretty good! Goalkeeper is an improvement! New Management! New Coach! Lose by 2.
Even if it was a preseason game, beating SKC means the Crew-laid is flowing. D.C. continues to be awful and Crew win by two.
Alas, that is not the type of Crew-laid that's happening. This is just a delicious beverage. Actually, it's beer. Kansas City beer.... WHAT HAVE I DONE?
So if no TV deal, where does one go to watch the game? Personally, I'm looking for good food, a place I can sit - not SRO, outstanding beer, and good TV setup. Any suggestions?
RFK Stadium--sadly (as DC has no TV contract either, apparently). But you will not get all you want. A seat and not SRO, yes....
I'm pretty sure MLS is the one who produces the feed and owns rights. The club just negotiates the broadcasting rights with regional TV partners. It will be on MLS live at least.
I know I always see the Lyon Video truck at Crew matches no matter who the broqdcast partner is, so perhaps the league does pay for the production costs and then sells the broadcast to the partners. It would be cost-excessive for companies to not use local video production companies in each city, so those companies are probably contracted with the leagues directly, and the networks perhaps supply a few hand-helds. It is obviously different for stuff with bigger production value like MLS cup, world cup, etc. But on a game by game basis, it is probably league contracted.
MLS Live and a VPN is what I'll be doing. That VPN is one of the best investments I've made this year