When will MLS resume the season ?

It was 1845 but Houston demanded they change it.

 

So with a 5% false positive rate that would generate more than 90 per day and almost 5 of them would also false positive the "confirmation" test. The false negative numbers would depend on what % of people in the bubble are actually infected.

 

So on the poll, does our game qualify as watching an actual MLS match if the opponent looked more like a bad college team?

 

The guys at The Athletic jjst reported that this mornings DC/TFC game was postponed because one DC player tested positive and one TFC player had an "inconclusive result"

Both were retested immediately and the lab reports both came back negative.

 

I must be missing something on the MLS "bubble" concept. The MLS contingent is staying at 2 Disney hotels, right? Isn't there food service, housekeeping, janitorial, maintenance, and administrative hotel staff, that live in the Orlando/Orange County area, coming in and out of there on a daily basis? Orange County had 1,300 new coronavirus cases today. Not sure why this is being called a "bubble", or if it's safe for our club to be living in it.

 

I think everyone shares your frustration but we have to recognize that in the real world, PCR tests, like most other tes of the kind, are not perfect for a number of reasons, most of them having to do with human error.

Its just how this shit is, whether youre testing for TB or pneumonia or anything else. Until someone comes up with a Star Trek sort of all-encompasing scanner, it is what it is.

 

Even the TB test isn't perfect. Had to have one once as there was a scare in the North American elephant population and Mrs KG and I had had a fair bit of contact with elephants at that point in our lives. Now we didn't get a bad test or anything--but were told that false positives happened.

 

Anyone who works in the medical field will tell you the same thing. It's not the machine, it's the people.

Once you get a sample into the machine, you're almost always good. Sample collection, storage, transport, handling and a host of other stuff creeps in. That's why whenever a Physician gets a positive result on something really serious the first thing they do is retest, and why much of the time they take an A and a B sample up front.

 

You’ve shared quite a bit about your personal life over the years but this is the first I’m hearing about elephants.

 

Mrs KG is known as the elephant woman in our circle of friends--started when she inherited a collection of elephant knickknacks from her grandmother and then we decided to learn about the real thing. But unfortunately, given the way some animal rights people tend to act and the "cancel culture" currently in vogue, I don't feel comfortable saying anything more, except to note that we have had the chance to personally meet some of the major elephant researchers like Ian Douglas-Hamilton and Cynthia Moss. We'd really like to go to a range country some day and see them in the wild.

 

I'm not sure why I'm surprised by the Mickey Mouse stuff (maybe that's why they chose Disney) that MLS has on their website.

These are the current standings in group B:



Those translate into these Wild Card Standings:



And if we make it to the knockout round, who knows who will play when because they still haven't adjusted for the withdrawal of two teams. The July 27 game below still has 4A as a choice.

 

For those keeping tabs at home, TUDN has English SAP for the match on right now.

Why does this matter? When our game vs Atlanta was originally announced as a TUDN exclusive, it was announced as English commentary being on the Twitter feed.

They could have probably just mentioned "English SAP" instead of making us think we'd all need a workaround via an app and some sort of TV dongle.

 

You're assuming we all get the channel.

We don't. We'll watch on Twitter, or - more likely - not at all.

 

I watched last night and frankly enjoyed the soccer while barely understanding anything the commentators where saying. I basically tuned them out and just watched the game. It was quite refreshing not having to listen to some of those "look at me I know everything about soccer because I played for national team & I was better than all these ankle biters running around out there tonight"" dopes they stick in the booth these days.

But that stupid crowd noise sounded like my kids were playing in the room next to me and the dogs were whining simultaneously ad nauseam. I kept turning down the volume to make sure my kids were in fact sleeping and that the dogs weren't about to piss on the floor by the back door.

 

Watched the Miami versus Union highlights and Trapp got torched for both goals. He got beaten by speed on the first one, then made an aggressive defensive move that failed and allowed the Union to break 3 on 2 for the game winner.

 

He had a nice assist on a goal that was called back due to offside. I think it was his only forward pass of the night.

 

honestly that was always going to be his pitfall. Extremely technically gifted player, just didn't have the quickness nor speed to be what so many wanted him to be.

 

I'd really, vehemently, strenuously and vociferously argue the "extremely technically gifted" moniker you bestowed on Trapp. Pulling out my @Timon19 card, you'd really have to define that term for me. As I tend to think the term, it means a player with quick feet, dribbling skill and comfortable on the ball under pressure. I don't think Trapp is even MLS average at any of those things and never was. He has demonstrated an MLS proficient level of long passing and made his career of doing that when under next to no pressure at all, between 2 center backs and picking out high FB and wingers. Tasked with moving the ball forward, dealing with a modicum of pressure in the middle third of the field he's been found to be a near disaster. For us, the USMNT and now Miami. And he's not much of a defender either.

Ugh, so glad we're rid of him. Nice guy, not a good MLS #6.

 

Why tag?

 

I regret it, sorry. Defining terms in an argument made me think of you.

 

Tuesday's game seems to be picked up by ESPN. So we won't have to figure out the twitter/TUDN thing it seems.

ESPN adds MLS matches:

Monday: PHI v ORL will now air on TUDN and ESPN

Tuesday: ATL v CLB will now air on TUDN and ESPN2

Tuesday: MTL v DCU will now air on TUDN and ESPN2

— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) July 19, 2020

 

Massive.

 

That's good because it looks like U-verse just dropped TUDN from their main lineup. Wasn't there this morning.

Might be because MLS is getting decent ratings--for a change.

 

Trapp's pitfall was staying in MLS too long. He hit the wall his first year and Ggg's system didn't improve him at all.