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Seltzer posted:"You dudes". I've watched 3 MLS games this year. I guess that's how much of an MLS fan I am cause I thought it was accessible. NYRB games seem to always be on as well as bigger games like Seattle Portland. It can be really awful sometimes. DC United games for example where on a random rear end Comcast Sports channel that regularly showed Girls High School Volleyball and the like. It was not good. If you also pay money for their streaming option MLS Live You still don't get to see some games, because the individual teams and their "broadcast partners" set blackouts. So there where times when I, a person who payed MLS 50 dollars to watch MLS games, couldn't despite paying for that specific purpose. Its a mess and really bad, especially compared to say, EPL on NBC. Azerban posted:the most important thing about watching your local league is to not have to leave your house or go outside for any reason lol, you will literally defend any criticism of your league no matter how valid won't you? Ciprian Maricon fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Jul 19, 2014 |
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No more Jozy thread but this feels important and bad
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Cox in OKC listed a Revolution vs someone match the other day on one of the Public Access channels, but they were showing old Billy Mays type ads instead. I was a bit upset, until I realized that Billy Mays trust probably paid more for the timeslot rights than MLS owners were willing to pay to show their team in OKC. That's my post about the last time I tried to watch MLS in Oklahoma City.
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TheBigAristotle posted:No more Jozy thread but this feels important and bad Oh good, it's Jozy Altidore Day. Now I have an excuse for doing nothing but sitting around eating junk.
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Ciprian Maricon posted:lol, you will literally defend any criticism of your league no matter how valid won't you? nah, I hate the league much more than you do, it's just you have dumb and simple reasons for doing so
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Pointing out that MLS has poor TV and Stream offerings isn't dumb or simple and I'm hardly alone.guppy posted:So I have MLS Live and there's a DirectKick preview anyway and it didn't matter, but no local station carried DC's match last night, and despite the home game the feed was from Columbus. Does this mean DCU hosed up the TV deal, again? Great Lakes Log posted:You'll be blacked out, and there are no feed options on MLS Live. You only ever get the home broadcast team, except for some teams (like DC at the moment) who don't have a broadcast deal and just show an away broadcast. Hoover Dam posted:Sadly, I missed the first half of the game, because MLS Live was having a lot of problems with the SJ-NE stream last night. As such, I missed the Revs' first goal of the season, scored by last year's DCU standout Owen Goal. siggy2021 posted:Can someone explain to me why the Columbus Crew game is blacked out on MLS live? Did they suddenly change their blackout rules? XyrlocShammypants posted:I have faster internet and better computers than 99.9% of the country and yet I still get stutters on MLS live sometimes. Incredibly stupid. This year seems a bit worse than last year. Ho Chi Meeeeee posted:It is incredibly hard to find MLS games on TV where I live. I fear the MLS experiment may end before it even started. :/ Like pretty much any negative thing I've ever said about MLS, its nothing others haven't said before and you only care because someone outside your little hug box thread dared speak ill of MLS. Ciprian Maricon fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Jul 20, 2014 |
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Brony Car posted:The Germany World Cup players are a joke I love this one
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Brony Car posted:The Germany World Cup players are a joke I think all the German team are handsome and cool
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TelekineticBear! posted:I think all the German team are handsome and cool LMS theory is legit
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My 9-year-old daughter and I were lucky enough to get tickets to the Sounders-Timbers game at CenturyLink Field. Our tickets were beside the Portland Army, which beat a drum without end. The vitriol and immaturity, lack of respect, language, police presence, abuse and ceaseless noise made our experience a long, expensive nightmare. They sang song after song. It was a drunken kindergarten. One song included the repeated chorus: “I hate Seattle!” Another song’s verse included: (bleep) Seattle!” and “(bleep) you!” Several kids around us were flipping off the Portland fans, and the naked anger was overwhelming. Ultimately we had to leave our seats. The rabble seems fueled by a history of I-5 visits from both fan groups. I’m sure Sounders bozos have embarrassed my town and me as much as the Timbers’ circus. The real fans, who like watching soccer, should step up and put pressure on the Sounders and Timbers organizations to take a role in civilizing fan behavior. It is an incendiary environment, and it will blow up despite beefed-up police presence and vigilant security. We need to do this not only for our spectator experience but to prevent a violent incident. — Timothy Scollard, Edmonds
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ephex posted:My 9-year-old daughter and I were lucky enough to get tickets to the Sounders-Timbers game at CenturyLink Field. Our tickets were beside the Portland Army, which beat a drum without end. The vitriol and immaturity, lack of respect, language, police presence, abuse and ceaseless noise made our experience a long, expensive nightmare. They sang song after song. It was a drunken kindergarten. One song included the repeated chorus: “I hate Seattle!” Another song’s verse included: (bleep) Seattle!” and “(bleep) you!” lmao good find m8
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I saw the MLS culture infecting the England Fans at the world cup - "We're here, we're queer, we're gonna bite off yer ear!!"
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ephex posted:My 9-year-old daughter and I were lucky enough to get tickets to the Sounders-Timbers game at CenturyLink Field. Our tickets were beside the Portland Army, which beat a drum without end. The vitriol and immaturity, lack of respect, language, police presence, abuse and ceaseless noise made our experience a long, expensive nightmare. They sang song after song. It was a drunken kindergarten. One song included the repeated chorus: “I hate Seattle!” Another song’s verse included: (bleep) Seattle!” and “(bleep) you!”  Send him to boca - river plate
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The best part is that if that dad challenged a typical portland fan to a fight about the portland fan would immediately pee [possessive pronoun] pants and not in an empowering type of way either. This is according to my buddy stateside who keeps me up on all this kind of stuff
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Earthy Ape Unit posted:The best part is that if that dad challenged a typical portland fan to a fight about the portland fan would immediately pee [possessive pronoun] pants and not in an empowering type of way either. Pants? More like unisex kilt
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African AIDS cum posted:Pants? More like unisex kilt I was gonna say "[bottom covering]" but I didn't want to offend any tops or even really imply there's a binary.
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These are some advanced stats:quote:"To get a feel for the data let’s have a look at the players in the Premier League that had more than 20 kicked shots (with an assisting pass) as an attacker last season, sorted by median Pre-Shot Dribble Distance:
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I can't get enough of are Dan
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Jose posted:Its amazing how quickly it becomes clear they've never watched a game of football ever I think that's the idea behind advanced stats crew, not having to watch a single game but being able to talk sports like if they were jocks because they have the numbers.
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Jozy's Pre-Lunch Dribble Distance is off the charts.
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It's from http://www.statsbomb.com/2014/07/what-type-of-striker-do-you-want-pre-shot-dribble-distance-metric-can-help/ I actually like "advanced stats" and this stuff is generally not bad, but... I think Jozy doesn't dribble as much as dawdle. Those 4 meters are just the space he needs after his first touch.
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Messyass posted:These are some advanced stats: Holy poo poo. This is amazing. Being mobile obviously must mean being black (or Rooney) because I don't see how else Jozy makes that list.
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Messyass posted:It's from http://www.statsbomb.com/2014/07/what-type-of-striker-do-you-want-pre-shot-dribble-distance-metric-can-help/ He wrote that whole article as a result of this comment: quote:If you fully wanted to investigate the value-for-money on this deal, I think you also need to look at how often does he actually work himself into positions that are good scoring positions Without even considering the fact that "working yourself into positions" more often than not means off the ball rather than on it, for strikers. Who are these people. Jesus.
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That StatsBomb guy was on Twitter the other day suggesting that Marco Motta would be one of the best RB pickups for any club in Europe, based on 2010-11 cross attempts per 90 or something along those lines. StatsBomb guy rules
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Gravity Daemon, please rename me to "hear the accents"
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Messyass posted:These are some advanced stats: When I think of mobile, pacy strikers the first two names on my lips are Jozy Altidore and Shola Ameobi. Thanks, advanced stats!
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More fieldtime for Big Jozy and Big Shola would have improved the WC 100% imo. The stats they do not lie.
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vyelkin posted:When I think of mobile, pacy strikers the first two names on my lips are Jozy Altidore and Shola Ameobi. Thanks, advanced stats! They're both athletic as heck
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Problem: Soccer games end 0-0 way too much not because of good defense but because of the offside trap. Imagine offsides in a game like Basketball "oh no the team was too lazy to defend therefore that sick nasty slam dunk doesn't count" Solution: get rid of offsides
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quote:So, as USA fans watch the yanks’ matches and root for our team against some of the world’s best as the World Cup draws to a close in the next few weeks, here are some simple requests that I have for you so that you’ll be more respected internationally (because we’re all trying to be global citizens, right??): Also http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/14/world-cup-soccer-hockey-opinions-columnists-richard-epstein.html Ewar Woowar fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Jul 24, 2014 |
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