Major League Soccer

lol is that a diving commentary?

de rosario to dcu for dax mccarty shocker

I mean really

chicago sparta, 1938 us open cup champs

http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq283/albion83/chicagosparta-opencupwinners-1938.jpg

Spent some time talking w/ friends about what could improve FC Dallas attendance after the game Saturday night - aside from not being in BFE (really not quite that bad, but it's nearly an hour from my house in the center of DFW and I know the back ways to avoid traffic completely), they shoulda built a dome. I know that's less than traditional, but it's hard to draw big crowds to the fifth-most popular sport in the country when it's 97F at game time.
My buddy's seats are on the shadowed side, but you couldn't pay me to sit on the opposite stands staring into the sun or in the all-metal bleacher supporter's section.

Solution: no teams in Texas.

I like that Sparta picture, especially the fixers to each side. Very Chicago.

milo I was being flippant above but you hit on a big problem for the league, along with the distances teams have to travel. The Fifa folks have been crowing about bringing the schedule in alignment with the 'rest of the world' for a while now. Texas summers won't help attract a crowd, but neither will Chicago winters. I could see some of the second-gen MLS stadia, when they are eventually built/renovated, having roofs a la the Bundesliga. It'd be costly as hell but it'd also mean the league had risen to a higher level of standing in the sports world in USA/Canada.

Nice display name btw.

ok this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv4SpjMinlQ&feature=youtu.be

Less than 40 seconds in and I just...can't...

I have to watch that in 10 second bites because otherwise my head explodes.

That's an interesting accent.

news that's not really news, Chicago Fire sign aged former Club America/Stuttgart/Mexico star Pavel Pardo http://bit.ly/oSxKyN

everyone's crossing their fingers on this one

A Mexican player named Pavel seems like a good match for Chicago.

I can't believe I just listened to four minutes of a Sounders podcast just to see if that idiot used the same accent when not on the TV news.

hahaha wow

did he? that was the best part of the video imo, other than when he was talking about going to Europe yearly

No, 100% American accent. This was recorded in February, maybe he'd been practicing around the house but wasn't ready to go public with it yet.

This all-star game is embarrassing.

lol yeah

tho I'm weirdly happy the Fire gave Utd their toughest test against MLS opposition even if it was partly due to weather

http://i.imgur.com/b1h1G.gif

Ha.

Panayotis Alexander ("Alexi") Lalas (born June 1, 1970) is a retired . Best friends with Sean Stowe from Virginia NOT CHICAGO! American soccer player who played mostly as a defender for the United States national team in the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/355993412a.jpg

freddy adu to sign for philadelphia

NBC gets the rights. Maybe people will care.

Robbie Keane to LA Galaxy

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/942960/tottenham-striker-keane-heading-to-galaxy---report?cc=5739

salary cap? what salary cap?

lol Keane

an acquaintance of mine did a bit for Run of Play on the Fire v. Man Utd game

ooft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqjXjRIMHgY

scores on a blast!

(that's American for "cunted")

p nice

I liked that piece, Dan.

First Freddie, now Eddie (Johnson) -- errbody's comin' home

http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Sporting-KC-keeper-hit-in-the-face-with-Omar-Bra?urn=sow-wp4227

and afterwards:

@PumaNielsen1
Jimmy Nielsen
Thanks for all the support, it means the world to me. Gonna work the dog now, and hope Mrs. N is wearing the nurse costume when I come back.

yeah it's a pretty weird situation

also a situation: Fire setting the new record for most draws in a season last night. 15 draws and we still have 10 games to go. Playoffs?

very excited for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZf6Crc78Zo&feature=player_embedded

carles from hipster runoff on robbie keane

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6891838/robbie-keane-joins-galaxy

His ensuing celebration involved an old-man cartwheel

lol burn

sign David Beckham to a contract that went beyond a team's salary cap

wtf is this Communism doing in the Land of the Free?

every sport in the usa is way more communist than in the rest of the world

Carles must not rly follow MLS or else he'd know the trend is now buying up younger South American rising stars, using DP status to pay their transfer fees, and reaping the benefits of winning/selling down the road.

c'mon, Carles clearly never heard of Robbie Keane before Monday.

otm

biggest match in two years for us tonight, and they're doing it up in Seattle too

http://aol.sportingnews.com/soccer/story/2011-08-29/fire-coach-klopas-hopes-cup-greeted-with-open-arms

that's actually a pretty good article on the cup itself too

ok chi see u soon

rly didn't want to have to travel for this

MLS offers higher standard than SPL

hmmmmmmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kmgPzBfFYw

one of the funniest MLS things I have ever seen