Major League Soccer

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i’ve got season opener for san antonio fc tomorrow, ready 2 raise hell babyyy

― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Friday, March 8, 2024 12:59 PM bookmarkflaglink

fuck yeah! give em hell, bring home 3!

the broadcasting teams are indeed bad and they are rotated, so you wind up having broadcasters that don't know the teams they're announcing as well, and if you find a pairing you like, it might be three or more matches before you get it again.

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

In completely ideal conditions it's at least an hour drive for me to go to Fire games now, and though I made that kind of drive all the time when I lived in the city and the stadium was in the suburbs, with the games happening at Solider Field it's an absolute shitshow getting in and out. The fact that it's an NFL stadium right in the middle of downtown makes it a target, so security is nuts. Despite being right in the middle of everything, public transit, especially the train, doesn't stop at the stadium, you're looking at a 20-30 minute walk to get to the nearest stop. It's also huge, mostly empty, expensive (parking is ridiculous) and did I mention security is nuts? Like, big-dudes-with-guns-roid-raging-at-tailgaters nuts? The fun, quasi-DIY atmosphere of their old stadium is pretty much gone.

A lot of my friends have stopped going for these reasons, if not the fact that the team has been mostly garbage for more than a decade. Also I guess we got old, can't day drink at the tailgate and sing the whole game before riding a bar-sponsored bus back to the city any more, lolz.

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.