The 2025 MLS TV Thread

Discussion in 'MLS: News & Analysis' started by SetPeace, Jan 22, 2025.

  1. owian

    owian Member+

    Liverpool FC, San Diego FC
    May 17, 2002
    San Diego
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The Premier League from Puny England as well. 2 million plus people for matches that are on at the same time as infomercials where not a single team has a home market in the US.
     
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  2. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    Most people can only watch the U20 team play in the QF of a world cup in Spanish on Peacock. This is... not great. (Game is on cable on Fox Sports Plus and Universo - not very common channels)

    Game IS on tape delay on FS1 - but if it goes to OT I am guessing they will cut it so they can go to baseball post game coverage. If you have to time shift I don't know if I recommend watching on FS1. You'll get an instant spoiler if they start the game from the 30th minute.
     
  3. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
    United States
    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Who watches cable? It's on foxsports.com.

    I've been watching the tournament on FIFA+. I'm not sure if that's available in the US.
     
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  4. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    #1379 crookeddy, Oct 10, 2025
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    I think its blacked out on FIFA+ because Fox has the rights. And also Foxsports.com does not have on demand streams for some reason - perhaps FIFA+ DOES have streaming rights?

    This gets tricky fast. I feel bad for old people that are used to just turning the TV on and everything would be on the few channels they had haha

    EDIT - confirmed that FIFA+ only broadcasts in countries without TV rights. USA is not one of those countries.

    SECOND EDIT - who are the psycopaths in the USA that watched Gibraltar vs New Caledonia friendly on Fox Sports?
     
  5. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    Please keep up. I said the QF. Yesterday's game had a similar problem but at least it was on FS2 and not FSP.
     
  6. JasonMa

    JasonMa Member+

    Mar 20, 2000
    Arvada, CO
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Had I not been at work I would have watched it.
     
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  7. ThreeApples

    ThreeApples Member+

    Jul 28, 1999
    Smurf Village
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yes, I realized my mistake within 30 seconds and immediately deleted.
     
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  8. rslfanboy

    rslfanboy Member+

    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
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  9. jimmyodonnell

    jimmyodonnell Member

    May 1, 2003

    I watched on Peacock with the sound turned down because I cannot understand Spanish well enough to follow the game commentary.
     
  10. jimmyodonnell

    jimmyodonnell Member

    May 1, 2003
    I just noticed something for the first time on Season Pass . . . when I page through the screens looking for which game I want to watch on replay or recap, I now notice there's a little blurb written there which basically gives away the result, something kinda like "The Galaxy pull of a dramatic victory to round out their home schedule" or some similar bullshit headline.

    They shouldn't have any indicator whatsoever about results -- especially when the user has disabled the scores being revealed. This thread sees LOT of criticism about the Apple broadcast, everyone knows the common ones about how they're so clueless about the use of replay and / or whether the broadcasters should be onsite etc etc . . . but this thing with the results is about as stupid a thing as I have ever seen. I don't know if these just came up recently, but I've never noticed them before today.

    I really think that the person who authorized the use of these little descriptions, which are probably generated from some AI bullshit anyway, has never been a sports fan, and that it simply doesn't occur to them whatsoever why revealing the result is a problem for the viewers.
     
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  11. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    The screaming is enough to add to the game. No need to understand lol
     
  12. jaykoz3

    jaykoz3 Member+

    Dec 25, 2010
    Conshohocken, PA
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Not TV (not yet anyways) but media related, have at it:

     
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  13. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    That idiot doesn't get it. "invaluable training" for what? AI will be doing EVERYTHING before 2030. There won't be any jobs to get training for.
     
  14. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
    United States
    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Hey, it's the future. :)
     
  15. JasonMa

    JasonMa Member+

    Mar 20, 2000
    Arvada, CO
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Well there's an idiot here that doesn't get it, but its not Tom Bogert.
     
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  16. Yoshou

    Yoshou Fan of the CCL Champ

    May 12, 2009
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Hopefully that was sarcasm, but what is sarcasm is my next comment.

    What Tom doesn't understand is that there is invaluable training going on.. for the AI that will be replacing all us meat bags of water.
     
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  17. JasonMa

    JasonMa Member+

    Mar 20, 2000
    Arvada, CO
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  18. NorthBank

    NorthBank Moderator
    Staff Member

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I agree that they don't get how spoilers are bad for a big portion of their user-base. What I've found most effective is just "blur" my vision and find the row that lists the teams, then scroll to my team and then usually the recap or full replay icons are the first/only thing I see... spoiler free.

    But they'll probably mess that up soon also.
     
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  19. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    As someone who gets lectured by higher ups to use more AI to do my work for me even though I already use tons of it - no sarcasm at all. None of us will have a job by 2030. There is nothing left to train for.
     
  20. Yoshou

    Yoshou Fan of the CCL Champ

    May 12, 2009
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The promise of AI is overrated. There are definitely use cases where AI can replace humans, but the promise of AI as the everything is not remotely close.
     
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  21. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    They don't care anymore whether it's good enough or not. It's going to happen. Too much invested. Too big to fail. Just look at Google's front page. It literally lies to you more often than not, but they aren't getting rid of it. They don't care. The powers that be decided that AI is taking over and so that's what is going to happen.
     
  22. Yoshou

    Yoshou Fan of the CCL Champ

    May 12, 2009
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Google's front page has been "AI" since it was created. The only difference now is that they've add a MLM summary. Google's main page also brings out an issue with AI.. Hallucinations. While hallucinations and bad info may pass on a summary of Google's search results where you have the links to the information to back up, but it is not going to fly in other areas where technical proficiency and accuracy are important.

    As an example, AI programming is dogsh*t on anything but the most basic of applications. If there is any level of difficulty (and talking beginner level complexity) it is more time consuming and expensive to use AI programming than it is to use human programming. For one, you need someone that is proficient in writing up the instructions in the AI and then, once the AI generates the code, you need someone to review the code to make sure it didn't hallucinate and/or actually did what you told it to do. In the end, it is better and less expensive to hire a junior programmer and train them to program for you application than it is to use AI.
     
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  23. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    Great example. It really is, and yet management is putting increasing pressure on us to stop writing manual code and just trust the AI "to speed things up". This tech is being shoved down everyone's throats.
     
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  24. Yoshou

    Yoshou Fan of the CCL Champ

    May 12, 2009
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Bad news. Your employer is about to crash and burn.
     
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  25. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
    Hearing the same thing from multiple acquaintances including ones working in large companies.
     
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