Major League Soccer

Red Bulls are starting to get scary good.

nice goal by marquez

god I fucking hate Brian Ching

looks like the chicago keeper is a more worthy recipient of your hate

It wasn't his best night, but he's a rookie and it was only his 4th league appearance. Trust me, if it was the guy they started the season with it'd have been like 6-3 instead of 4-3.

i dreamt landon donovan checked groceries at my local qfc, what does this confusing dream mean

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/weezer/waterfront/23.jpg

Makin my morning, thanks dude!

I mean I don't know who that is or anything, but the Metros are giving me a contented glow in general this seas.

Rivers Cuomo of popular rock combo Weezer iirc

I wondered why there were so many awful sunglasses & gay haircuts in that crowd, decided it couldn't possibly be at a pre-game because o_O

CONCACAF Champions League play last night had some incredibly lolzy refereeing, including a Cbus goal being called back because a player was wearing a jersey w/ no number after going off for treatment for a bloody cut on his head.

From the official MLS blog:

MLS teams are now 0-19-2 in competitive matches in Mexico.

Good thing I hate Cbus.

"Travesty"

http://blog.dispatch.com/crew/2010/08/travesty.shtml

lol, imo

Hey, just wanted to ask this -- the $40 buck premium internet all-access pass thing for MLS seems like an awesome deal. Anyone else have this thing and is it, indeed, awesome? (Well, as awesome as MLS can get, at least...)

I've purchased it when they drop the price mid-year. It worked pretty well the past couple of seasons, but if I understand right it's gotten better this year, more of an ESPN3-style service with borderline-if-not-HD picture quality, etc. Plus you can watch archived games. The one drawback is that anything on a national broadcast, i.e. games on FSC, Telefutura, or ESPN, are not broadcast live. I think they are in the archive, though.

Well they don't show a lot of Toronto FC games on TV so I think I might get it then... Plus I'd get that mid-season price drop! Cool!

hi, here is the first--and it's gonna be the most indepth, how could it not be--rundown of the 2011 expansion draft, who might be available, protected, and exempt for portland and vancouver:

http://usasoccer.blogspot.com/2010/08/2010-mls-expansion-draft-preview.html

so are the playoffs over 2 legs or at a neutral venue?

i notice steve nicol is managing the revs

playoffs are 2 legs for the first round, one game each round after (yes, it's stupid)

wow, had no idea the pay in the mls was that lousy. can you even live in new york on a 40k salary?

suburban NJ maybe? still...

and yeah, the mls final is
in a neutral venue,toronto this year iirc. there's been talk of changing it to the home field
of the team with the best regular season record (or something)

The salaries are public record, fyi. Not sure of the url but they put them on teh internets every so often. And the lowness of salaries is what results in players being roommates in deeply unimpressive apartments in New Jersey, or living in the basements of other, more successful/"big name" players.

You can totally live in NYC on a 40k salary but it would be an underwhelming life in which you had lots of roommates and/or didn't go out. Tights budgets are one thing, but when yr teammates are making more and can do shit, and your lifestyle is basically that of an under-paid editorial assistant, you have to wonder why yr training your ass off and going on national tv every week.

hey now many of us are/were living in nyc at around or below 40k and are whelmed constantly

Totally true. Have done, for many years.

iirc a lot of the players coach youth teams to make extra $

ps I fucking hate Fredy Montero this week

he is the man tbh, stoppage time whuut

macinerney w/a quality chip this weekend, check it out, composed & a tite angle

i wonder what the avg. salary of NY Cosmos players was back in the heyday and what that would be in 2010 $$$

Jack Mac's goal was nice, hope he can do that for the nats. What really amazed me from that game is Justin Mapp's play, he looked 10 times more involved than he ever did for the Fire this year.

And yeah, Montero is clutch. I can't believe he's still in the league and not gone to Spain/Germany/Italy or something. I wish he would. Also I wish the Fire's back line wasn't cobbled together from rookies and out-of-position players. :(

http://imgur.com/ZWuW8.jpg
l-r: t. henry, random rbny fan, r. marquez
on a train to the match
what a country

I mean f redbull and all but where else could this happen?

<3 Henry!

Not only is that guy an RB fan, he's an ESC member! Don't know him, it's the scarf.

So this is kind of huge, adidas has re-upped with the league until 2018 for an assload of money. Sure, each team will continue to be in somewhat boring kits, but the return of the reserve league is huuuuuge.

http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/66565

HUGE, I tell you.

CHICAGO, IL (Sept. 3, 2010) – Chicago Fire forward and U.S. Soccer star Brian McBride will announce today at noon CT at TOYOTA PARK, that he is retiring after the conclusion of the 2010 MLS season.

The MLS All-Time Best XI forward and three-time U.S. World Cup star will end his illustrious 17-year playing career following the Fire’s 2010 season. McBride, the number one selection in the 1996 MLS inaugural player draft, has appeared in 211 games, scoring 78 goals and adding 51 assists over the course of his 11-year MLS career with the Chicago Fire and Columbus Crew. One of the most decorated players in United States soccer history, the renowned striker appeared in three FIFA World Cups, scoring 30 goals in 95 appearances for the U.S. Men’s National Team from 1993-2006.

:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq4vKQWCWeY

Legend.

http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Philly-fans-mock-coach-s-DUI-with-99-Bottles-of?urn=sow-267985

Philadelphia sports fans have long been known as some of the harshest in the U.S. From throwing ice balls at a drunk Santa Claus to booing anything that moves, they can rarely be mistaken for library patrons and now, they're sharing their charms with MLS.

When the Kansas City Wizards visited the Union last Saturday, their coach, Peter Vermes, should have expected to hear a shout or two from the crowd about his recent drunk-driving arrest. The Union's Sons of Ben supporters club went a little beyond that, however, and sang "99 Bottles of Beer." The. Whole. Song.

From The 700 Level:

This consumed much of the first half, though there were interruptions for other game-action chants and one celebration. Then, right back to the bottles of beer. About midway through, some fans started holding up their keys, and soon everyone was doing it.

As you can hear in the video above, they modified the song to include the phrase "Peter Vermes, give us your keys" and ended with a chant of the popular billboard slogan "over the limit, under arrest."

Good thing their fans are entertaining b/c the team is dogshit.

Sweet, Bob Bradley will be at the Fire game tonight.

This is interesting -- A FIFA-sponsored study on the development (or non-development) of the game in the USA

http://www.examiner.com/pro-soccer-in-boston/fifa-sponsored-scholar-researches-the-history-of-soccer-massachusetts

okay now it's on. just down the street from qwest field, in seattle:

http://i54.tinypic.com/2gucbjo.jpg

I loled.

Good thing their fans are entertaining b/c the team is dogshit.

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Philadelphia Union 1 - 0 Chicago
36' Sébastien Le Toux 1 - 0

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Nice to see Richards growing up in his play. Also, the Henry-to-Lindpere-to-Henry play was a ballet.

xp I never said the Fire weren't dogshit, that game was so so painful :(

watching the highlights now confirms a pretty clear handball led to Philly's goal too, oh well