I will be watching the Crew vs Seattle on espn+ tonight! Already watched NYC vs Toronto earlier. Fcc and Atlanta is being broadcast on a local over the air station in the Cincinnati area. I have to give them and the local station credit for that!
I tried to turn it on but they were showing a Bundesliga rerun. Then I remembered Nashville SC exists and that 45 minutes south of Nashville probably isn't Atlanta's territory anymore. Oops.
I wasn’t blacked out up in Powell either. Burned up some phone battery hoping to see a Jahn goal vs the fusslads.
It was sort of an inside joke for/at Chelsey. There was a time we were playing very horribly. I believe it was during the "SmithDrulis" era. She went on a trip to Chicago and displayed a banner with exactly that message.
Who knows. A lot of kinks to work out or clarification of policies to be made, that's for sure. I bet things are different in a month.
Maybe, maybe not. What would be the reason behind blacking out a Cincy/ATL game in Columbus in the first place? From what I have been reading about random blackouts in other areas it seems like there is no real plan, it's totally random, making my hope that it gets cleared up somewhat pipedream-ish.
The randomness of it is actually what gives me hope. They have no idea what they're doing and it's trial-and-error, so they'll eventually get the mix right. Or they'll just do the most logical thing and remove the blackout rules from all MLS games on ESPN+. That would be idea.
Atlanta United is going to probably go out and get a DP Striker on loan from a big club i mean their FO is the real deal they aren’t going to go with Jahn and JJ all year.
Perhaps the thought here is they get a DP quality player, but as a loan from another team which is currently not using the player. Surplus to requirements if you will. So maybe they don’t actually pay a DP level salary but use whatever space they have left and any salary relief they get under the rules. Is this what you were meaning?
That’s a possibility but I believe by rule they can get another one just like Pipa’s salary didn’t count against us while injured. TrueCrew May have also mentioned this before I’m not sure exactly on the rules
Somewhere around $600k won’t count against the cap but the DP slot is still not available, limiting on the type of player they could sign.
Pipa's salary did count against the roster cap. Martinez's will, too. Placing a player on the season ending injury list gets you roster relief, not salary cap relief.
Depends on what they decide to do with his status. Maybe they think he can be back in time for the playoffs a d so they just wait it out. They're surely good enough to get there. If not, they'll probably put him on injured reserve which as noted will give them roster relief but not a new DP slot. However, dont forget that they're sitting on the biggest pile of Garberbucks in history. A million from DC for Gressel, another million from the Crew for Nagbe. So while they cant convert that to a DP salary they can surely swing a deal for a non-DP MLS player. They also got a big transfer fee for Vilalba, a million bucks of which can be converted to GAM, apparently. So we needn't weep for them; they're in a spot but are not without some wiggle room. I think. And if you can't pay someone at a DP level, then bringing someone in from overseas cant happen. So you have to overpay - probably grossly - and use a huge pile of those GarberBux to buy a non-DP currently in MLS whose 2020 contract is under the market, meaning probably a youngster waiting out his contract. The exact kind of guy nobody wants to trade, unless they figure hes headed overseas, in which case a big payoff now and a large slice of his eventual transfer fee MIGHT make sense to somebody. Risky and crazy expensive, but when the alternative is a Cup run with JJ wWilliams and Adam Jahn, two career USL juourneymen, leading the way, you're in deep shit. The Adi deal just looks better all the time.