MLS Pre-emption thread

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

I remark on this all the time. When I lived in the woods of southwestern Michigan I was able to watch lots of NFL games. I could pick up Michigan, Indiana, and occasionally Chicago tv stations with my antenna. I would always have a choice of games in the early time slot and often a choice in the late time slot.

Now that I live in the big city of Houston I get crap to watch. Typically, the Texans at noon with no other game on the other channel and then often a Cowboys game at 3:15 with maybe one other game on the other channel. And I usually have no interest in either game.

This Sunday we get the Texans at noon and then at 3:15 either the Cowboys or the Bears. I'll be at the bar.

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

There is WNBA game before the MLS game tonight. Beware.

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

Clearly, they knew Beckham would be involved in tonight's broadcast, so I'm gonna say...quadruple overtime, plus Detroit wins and has the lengthy championship celebration and post-game.

The broadcast starts in the middle of the second half.

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

Well, folks, it's 10:22 EDT and the 4th quarter just started and the game is close.

I'll bet the Posh Spice poster on my wall, that we aren't at the HDC at 11 EDT

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

Oh good, I was scared they'd have to preempt a game someone was watching.

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

Hopefully the WNBA game will be over before US-Sweden.

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

I'm guessing from the lack of comments here that the MLS broadcast started on time? (It's on my DVR -- no way I could stay up until 1 a.m. and then wake up four hours later for the women's game.)

I last peeked at the WNBA game around 10:20, and it was safely on its way to a tidy finish, barring overtime.

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

Because "ESPN doesn't hate soccer" will almost surely be seen as trolling.

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

The broadcast of RSL-Toronto on Direct Kick just cut off in the 87th minute.

Direct Kick hates soccer.

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

Only because they showed 87 minutes of those two teams......

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

Yes indeed.

And there were technical difficulties during the Michigan State-Pitt game. And two plays were obscured by the lineups. And the Florida State game wasn't broadcast until almost the second quarter because the Arkansas-Alabama game ran long. And they misspelled West Virginia's mascot name a week ago (Mountineers).

So ESPN hates college football too.

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

No, those 87 minutes were proof they hate us.

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

Maybe the MLS teams should be willing to delay the start for the broadcast. The Arkansas-Alabama game would have been a partial showing if they started on time. They actually waited until the Ohio State game was over to even run onto the field and do the coin toss. It started about 30 minutes late, but 100% broadcast (which, in turn, screwed the FSU fans).

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

They do, to a point, but eventually the show must go on.

 

Telefutura hates soccer! What was up with never coming back from the weather delay for the last 20 minutes? Was Geronimo THAT important to show?

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

Fair enough, but since you asked, here's the actual answer to the question:

Andy and I and some others have tried to police the place for years. I don't know why we continue to try when it's obvious that there are more of you than there are of us, but we admittedly have some strange compulsion to point out when people are wrong or when they're being stupid, whiny little bitches.

We decided long ago that being brusque and, basically, jerks was preferable to being stupid, whiny little bitches, as many of you are. It's the same stuff every single time and we're as amazed that you haven't gotten tired of foaming at the mouth every time something runs over into an ESPN MLS broadcast as you are that we continue to come to these threads without guns pointed to our heads to point out how whiny and immature most of you are being.

It's not about being ESPN apologists or media apologists or whatever. It's about realizing how the world actually works. You all might as well bitch that every time you drop your keys, they fall on the floor instead of just hanging there in the air so they're easier for you to recover.

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

I don't think I've ever advocated that. Brian is even worse than me when it comes to pointing that stuff out, but I don't believe you can realistically lump me into the letters-to-the-editor brigade.

I'm sure it's not just soccer fans. I'm sure all fans hate it.

Because most fans in every sport are stupid and have their own agendas that they want satisfied and don't care about reality.

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

and yet it is worth reading again and again. there are some gems in there, like:

"We decided long ago that being brusque and, basically, jerks was preferable"



internet police are awesome.

and more importantly, they're always right.


Homer: So I said to him, "Look, buddy, your car was upside down when we got here. And as for your Grandma, she shouldn't have mouthed off like that!"

Lisa: Dad, don't you see you're abusing your power like all vigilantes?
I mean, if you're the police, who will police the police?

Homer: I dunno. Coast Guard?

 

Re: Word of warning for the game tonight (R if you watch College football)

And when it becomes obvious that all fans hate it(which makes it bad for business), it happens less often, hence we have not had an NFL Heidi game in 30years.

Perhaps someday, we won't get an MLS "WNBA game".

Because it becomes in the best interest of the network to plan better....

 

Is that Louisville game over yet?