Major League Soccer

Dan kind of sold me on Emerald City FC, I don't think it got a fair chance...but good for them, anyway. Nice work chucking the proverbial monkey wrench in the league's plans.

Although I did read a decent rejoinder from a Seattle fan somewhere who said they were happy that E.C.F.C. didn't get picked b/c they'd be spared all the teasing and the stupid jokes (especially when KC came to town).

even though i voted for just seattle fc, i'm happy with the name.

pretty uncringeworthy as far as u.s. professional soccer team names go, historically speaking, anyhow

Didn't Chicago almost get called something really lame?

Oh god, I'm not sure since I haven't followed the team for that long, but I remember reading a reference somewhere online to calling the team the "Rhythm"? GAG

YES, that's what I was thinking of. Can you imagine? SO MANY JOEKS, I CANNOT DECIDE

The K.C. Wiz has to be stupidest ever, even taking the NASL into account.

Dallas Burn & Tampa Bay Mutiny pretty close behind

still, i don't sneeze at their rhythm method-inspired offsides trap

all football strategies should take cues from dodgy birth control methods

like the d.c. united 7-up douche corner kick formation

worst logo
http://web.mlsnet.com/imgs/logos/t102_md.gif
it looks like the label on some weird 90s era mirco brewed soda.

DC are douches, that is for sure.

i first read that as "micc10 brewed soda"

step away from computer, dell

but yeah, that's a fitting description

either that, or the failed irish-amer hip hop band that lost it to house of pain

best NASL team logo

ESPN talking heads going off on streamers being tossed at games:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8pgexephJM&eurl=http://theoffsiderules.blogspot.com/

i was watching that game on the telly. i thought the streamers fiasco was pretty funny. Actually it was a pretty decent game, although I'm perfectly aware that the "open" style of play was down to no defending on either side whatsoever.

Whoever the guy in that video was ranting is a total fuckwit.

My girlfriend and I were thinking about going to a Revolution match this season. Any suggestions on which? Neither of us follow the MLS closely. LA is out as its sold out.

HAI GUISE I M GOING TO DC TOMORROW. Wish ush luck.

LOL:

In a pair of sweeping changes brought about by a Major League Soccer season in meltdown, the Los Angeles Galaxy today removed Alexi Lalas as team president and general manager and Ruud Gullit as coach.

In its official statement on the changes, AEG, which owns the team, said that Gullit had resigned "for personal reasons" and that Lalas' contract was up at the end of the year and that the team decided to part company now rather than wait.

that's what you get for spending all your salary cap (plus some lol) on three players

I'm so happy, really. They deserved the boot.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
LOVE YOU
WE LOVE YOU
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AND WHERE YOU PLAY WE'LL FOLLOW
WE'LL FOLLOW
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Congrats to NY for completely stuffing DC yesterday and making a lot of people very happy.

Lalas is such a tool, really. I remember hearing him say, in all earnestness, that the Gals would be the first MLS "superclub".

unrelated but lolzy imo

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3280/2747960611_1768d99d5e.jpg

Ned we've got the Gals on Thursday night next week, should be a good one.

unrelated but lolzy imo

Hahah.

I remember hearing him say, in all earnestness, that the Gals would be the first MLS "superclub".

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Please, by all means, do what needs doing next Thursday.

Do you follow the league, Ned? That brings us to what, 3-4 ilxor MLS fans? 5 next year when jergins has a team to cheer for in Seattle!

Lalas has been a tool since at least 1998, when he was briefly a MetroStar. Then he came back nearly a decade later to sell us out to Red Bull, uh I mean, help the team "transition".

Lalas has been a tool since at least 1998

Oh I'd take it back four years. I remember when I first saw him I was all "Who IS this Spin Doctors-looking MFer?" (Hardly an original sentiment, of course.)

The B|gS0cc3r dorks have been speculating that Gullit, at least, was going to leave since he put his house up for sale a couple of weeks ago. Really, though, it's not his fault. Lalas spent stupidly, and even though the league looks the other way at their salary cap issues, they still can't defend worth a shit (in a league known for lousy D to begin with).

major, major Beckham/LA lolz to be had here

And I'm going to say the same thing: the only flaw in this glorious quilt of hilarity is that Hitler is obviously a DC United fan.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand we're back! With a surprise goal...FROM OUR KEEPER.

keeper goals are teh best :)

he actually scored in his first match ever haha wow.

Yeah, Cepero was the hero of the day even though honestly that's a pretty ungraceful goal compared to, say, any of JPA's.

I watched the youtube of that last night, pretty amazing. Who says playing on turf over concrete doesn't pay off once in a while?

I'm dragging ass after a weekend of MLSing myself after traveling to Toronto with Chicago supporters this weekend. Despite only spending about 24hrs there, it's a nice city and has a notch higher intensity atmosphere at game time than what I'm used to. Pretty amazing swing on the extremes of behavior there, from being presented with a banner by a TFC fan group to having small objects thrown at us from outside the stadium.

Also some people decided taunting us by chanting "we have healthcare" would be pretty funny.

In their defense, that is actually pretty funny.

See you on Thursday! Not really. But y'know metaphorically.

Is JPA still running things? I love that guy

Playoffs start tonight! FUCK NEW ENGLAND

Chicago Fire best goals 2008

I can't bring myself to watch that. I'll be sitting in the cold on Saturday, though, to watch us get slaughtered by You're Just A Street in Manhattan.

Hey didn't NJRB beat them like 3-1 at home though? That turf's got to be good for something.

It's good for bad bounces, just ask Cepero!

No, okay, I'm just priming myself for the worst. It's not like I'm going to the next leg in TX, or probably even the resulting road trips if we go through.

woah, blanco scores some screamers there

Sounders sign Swedish star Ljungberg
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/soccer/385427_sounders29.html

people that know more than i can say whether this is a good or bad move, but i'm heartened to see them trying

Those blue and green uniforms are the colors of a Nerf toy.

XBOX yech

a cliche by now (you can do it in FIFA) but still my fave blanco moment

Seattle sounds like it's going to be for real next year, or at least the second coming of TFC in terms of popularity. They've already had like 16-some thousand season tickets sold, plus their own underwear model star player, plus Casey Keller in goal. Freddy Ljungberg could be a good thing, but they're playing on field turf at Quest, so his knees could take a beating.

xpost I saw him do the Cuauhtemina against Columbus, always a treat.

The best Blanco moments are all from the Mexican League. The greatest of all time is at 3:17 of this video, but they're all hilarious.

The other way I know I'm old is all the newjack supporters are annoying as hell.

I'm nearly certain they're calling the games remotely, at least some of the time if not all.

― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Friday, March 8, 2024 1:48 PM bookmarkflaglink

wouldn't surprise me, given how often I scream at the screen for something inaccurate they said that someone at the game couldn't possibly have been stupid enough to say.

my friend J0e can't go to the games as he lives too far away and he'll be in our group chat when we're at games, telling us what the broadcasters are saying, and we'll usually react - 'are they high?'

https://www.thenutmegnews.com/current/2024/3/14/after-successfully-running-two-mls-franchises-into-the-ground-nelson-hatchet-man-rodriguez-finds-his-zen-destroying-us-open-cup

So good. The man is a snake.

Excellent thread by my pal Karl, click through for the rest:

Love #cf97 and always will but, man, MLS is really making it hard to do so right now.

Part of what drew me to the Fire was the participatory nature of it. The DIY ethos I learned in punk/HC translated easily to soccer support. Be cool, learn songs, sing along.

— Area Man (@WB05Karl) March 15, 2024

Day-One, Done 😤 | #USOC2024 pic.twitter.com/ScEEKRPebB

— U.S. Open Cup (@opencup) March 20, 2024

lmao all the mls next pro teams lost to amateurs yesterday

i watched austin fc II (fuck austin btw) go up a goal in extra time after being up a man, only to allow the equalizer in stoppage time and then lose in pk's, incredible scenes

Yeah that Vermont win was something else

my friend went to an Open Cup match last night between Brave SC and the Savannah Clovers, had a good time.

really fucked what MLS tried to/is trying to do to this tournament

I'm really hoping that at Leagues Cup, Miami somehow gets eliminated in the group stage, that Mexico sends b-squads that still manage to beat several MLS teams, and that viewership is terrible.

San Francisco amateur soccer club El Farolito, which takes its name from a Mexican restaurant and has a fan group called Burrito Brava, defeated MLS Next Pro side Portland Timbers II in the US Open Cup first round! pic.twitter.com/444eFAjFvl

— James Nalton (@JDNalton) March 20, 2024

the beauty of the fuckin cup

Excellent insider account of the nonsense surrounding the Open Cup this season. (Archive.is version to subvert subscription requirements.)

https://archive.ph/7d2ny

Ah, the full post didn't seem to come through, sorry. I do have a PDF version if anyone really wants it.

LMAO. I sold my Orlando City - Inter Miami ticket for tomorrow for $275 (normally goes for $25). now reports coming in that neither Messi, Busquets, or Suarez are practicing today, and all are going to be evaluated/potential game day decisions. for the second year in a row, Messi might not play.

I am going to be afraid to go anywhere near downtown tomorrow if that happens lmao. might be a mini riot at the field.

i am genuinely curious what mls is going to do once messi retires bc it feels like theyre going to slide back to reality

I hope attendance plummets and Garber is fed to an alligator by the owners

ideal outcome

I have heard from reliable sources that Apple TV subs are nowhere near projections. Given that deal is basically Messi-driven that says a lot about the eventual backslide IMHO.

There's our $8m man

Will Shaq do this for Switzerland? pic.twitter.com/FV8P3T6DNb

— kornkid15 (@kornkid15) May 17, 2024

https://x.com/JDNalton/status/1793796346752680099

Lol & lmao, this is the same shit that happened in Chicago last year.

Duh, edited link:

Seems surreal for clubs to be releasing statements like this about opposition players, but when games are marketed in such a way, including much higher ticket prices, it becomes an issue when those players don't play. https://t.co/UEzUgFD9QM pic.twitter.com/Up4Qn8F01b

— James Nalton (@JDNalton) May 24, 2024

Anybody paying out the nose to see any of this aging clowns play after seeing how frequently they're held out of matches deserves to be parted with their money