2008 Other Team's News, Thread IV [R]

Sacha on trial at Celtic.

 

It's starting to look like a buyers market. The CRapids want to unload him and teams are showing they can wait and wait and wait till the price falls to what their willing to pay. I think it likely he will be traded---but to who and when???Good game of "Chicken" going on. I wonder how many teams are still interested? Did the Revs reluctance to draft a forward with a high pick mean they feel they have the inside track to land him?

 

There will still be Thursday night games. It's just no longer "MLS Primetime Thursday."

From Ives:

"ESPN will still air MLS matches every week, but now only 10 out of 27 weeks will feature Thursday night matches, with matches now being shown on Saturday (eight matches), Wednesday (six matches) and Friday (three matches)."
http://www.soccerbyives.net/soccer_...metime-thursday-is-gone-good-news-or-bad.html

 

Wonder how many Wednesday night games we'll get stuck with this season.

 

A team can have two "emergency dates" (don't remember the official title) where they can choose to not have a game on a certain day and it gets pushed to an open slot. The week-night issue could be solved with this, but we'll see if the team uses it or not.

Oh, and the good news is we now have Saturday games on ESPN2!!!

 

ESPN sucks.

 

yea, nationally televised games are for suckers.

 

who knows. less than 60 days and the league hasn't finished the schedule yet

 

agreed

 

It's all part of a diabolical plan... Y'see, we make sure our attendance on weeknights tanks and has no atmosphere, so then ESPN would rather show a "lively" crowd like Cow-lumbus or Canuckistan. Meanwhile, we get all our home games on weekends.... MUUUUUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!

 

My rep told me in the beginning of Feb.

I totally agree. My rep has also reassured me there will be less midweek games then last season.

 

I think she was referring to the entire seasons, as she mention last season was 8 or 9 midweek games (which had to include Superliga, regular season, playoffs, and Champions League).

 

I didn't say nationally televised games sucked I said ESPN's coverage sucks. I hate their split screen, put commercials on in the middle of the action crap. Sorry if that offends you.

 

ESPN > nothing

 

Look at it this way, now we won't have the Thursday excuse in the playoffs.

 

fyp

 

ESPN hasn't used the side by side commercial scheme since they did Soccer Saturday. If you ask me, ESPN's coverage was much improved during MLS Primetime Thursdays, and was even better for recent USMNT WCQ's. Kudos to ESPN for sticking with us even through low ratings and giving us the opportunity to one day succeed.

 

I've no idea what you watched, but the games I watched last season were interrupted all the time for late breaking updates on the Sox, or the state of Brady's knee. Things which I'm sure weren't going to change before halftime.