So, I've only lived in Portland a few months. Can someone please explain the "feral cats" joke to me. :o
Most of the problem of "meaningless" games in a group stage come when the group is double round-robin. That isn't what MLS Cup group stage...
Oops. Have to correct myself. A St. Louis team has actually won the Open Cup 10 times, most recently in 1988 and 1986. A St. Louis team has...
Ok, so history is history. What's past is past. I get it. You don't care about St. Louis' profound historical role in the development of...
I hope I'm posting this in the right forum. Anyway, I'm a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer currently serving in South Africa. Me and a number of my...
I don't think desolation was the right word, but he was probably trying to point out that, in addition to being much smaller than the US:...
The ESPN Zone at the NY-NY will show soccer games for you (or at least, they have in the past when me and my friends have asked them; even giving...
Wow; just, wow. Sportsfan, you're amazing; and I don't mean that in a positive way. Anybody who knows anything at all about television ratings...
This is exactly how I imagine this working out. MLS/FMF teams will likely get buys into the Group Stage - probably made up of 16 teams, divided...
Don't worry about a bus. Just get off the train at Union Station and walk a few blocks south to the Capital South Metro Station. It's a very...
Yeah, but have a look at the tables. They may have finished 4th in 04-05, but they collected 62 points with a +39 GD. Those 62 points would...
I don't follow Dutch football very closely, but I don't really understand how people can say this. He may not have been a superior coach, but it...
No, it doesn't. The league has said so itself, many times. In a country with over 300 million people, with the largest economy (by far) on...
But Americans would get more excited about winning the regular season if it meant qualification for some other important event/tournament/etc....
Note to MattBurlew: when February rolls around and DC United is playing in the Champions Cup, come on back to these boards and explain to us how...
1. A rose by any other name... 2. A Group Stage in the playoffs has been discussed over and over and over again. The search function is your...
Sportsfan, don't listen to all these people who think they are smarter than you. You know the truth, man. I mean, you properly understand how...
What are the GPG during each season? Higher or lower than the GPG in the playoffs? That might help with the debate over whether or not their...
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No, we couldn't. I'm a supporter of Group Stages, but you lose some of the biggest advantages of that format if you cram it into only two weeks....
Because your entire post-season would only be 7 games total and 3 weeks long (making it the smallest/shortest post-season in all of American...
No, don't get me wrong, I am (and always have been, and always will be) a huge supporter of Conferences. But I am also a supporter of the "wild...
Onion, I wasn't taking a swipe at you with my quip about the data. It was a swipe at both sides. I realize, after re-reading it, that it looked...
Actually, I see your point, and I think you're probably right. If you look at the 13 possible point scenarios after Matchday 2, the worst...
No. What's been proven is that people will use the scant evidence provided by a tiny sample size when it supports their perspective. And they'll...