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There have been 30 goals scored for or against in Minnesota's 5 matches so far. The next highest is 18. I'm gonna watch all the Minnesota matches
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G-Hawk posted:There have been 30 goals scored for or against in Minnesota's 5 matches so far. It's loony, I tells ya!
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Apr 2, 2017 04:08
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Crazy Ted posted:Has any player had a smoother transition from US lower-tier soccer to MLS than Christian Ramirez? He is white-hot right now Alonso maybe?
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Apr 2, 2017 07:50
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Is Minnesota accepting applications for foreign plastics yet? I too love extremely proud-looking birds, snowstorms and implosion and feel this may be the secondary club for me
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Apr 2, 2017 12:32
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Arquebus posted:Is Minnesota accepting applications for foreign plastics yet? I too love extremely proud-looking birds, snowstorms and implosion and feel this may be the secondary club for me at least wait until next week when they go back to losing
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Apr 2, 2017 12:39
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Good point, I'll meet you back here when they let in seven
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Apr 2, 2017 12:41
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I was busy, so I didn't see any of the games yesterday and skipped watching the Minnesota replay. They won? 
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Apr 2, 2017 18:14
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Pinwiz11 posted:I was busy, so I didn't see any of the games yesterday and skipped watching the Minnesota replay. They beat RSL to be fair.
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Apr 2, 2017 21:05
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It's that new Petke bounce.
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Apr 2, 2017 21:39
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Petke didn't coach that game  Which dumb, stupid team is going to be the first to get shutout by Minnesota? Do we make fun of them more than RSL for being the first to lose to them?
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Apr 2, 2017 21:46
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whypick1 posted:Petke didn't coach that game Don't spit in the wind like this or it'll be the Sounders. That RSL keeper muff though, oh lord.
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Apr 3, 2017 03:51
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Cross St. Louis off the expansion shortlist, as voters rejected a measure to help fund a stadium.
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all-Rush mixtape posted:Cross St. Louis off the expansion shortlist, as voters rejected a measure to help fund a stadium. Cross them all off the list until Minneapolis and Chicago become real teams.
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Apr 8, 2017 00:00
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Would some scrub NASL team have a current World Cup-winning player on their team?  (We are expanding too fast for my liking though)
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all-Rush mixtape posted:Cross St. Louis off the expansion shortlist, as voters rejected a measure to help fund a stadium. I mean, they can get back on the list if they actually stump up an extra $60m for their own drat stadium, no? Also re "expanding too quickly" I've always thought that was BS and Atlanta just proves my point, the only thing stopping a new MLS team from not being terrible is their own bad judgment and cheap-assery. Dallan Invictus fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Apr 8, 2017 |
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Apr 8, 2017 00:06
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Dallan Invictus posted:I mean, they can get back on the list if they actually stump up an extra $60m for their own drat stadium, no? Atlanta is an exception
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Seriously. Going back to 2005 (Chivas/RSL), each expansion team's inaugural season: Chivas: 18 points out of 32 games, dead last RSL: Only 2 points better Toronto: 25 points out of 30 games, dead last SJ 2.0 (this counts, right?): 33 points, dead last Seattle: 47 points, #4 in the league, #3 West, top wild card seed Philly: 31 points, #14 out of 16 Portland: 42 points in 34 games, #12 out of 18 Vancouver, 28, dead last Montreal: 42 points, #12 out of 19 Orlando: 44 poiints, #13 out of 20 NYC: 37 points, #17 out of 20 11 teams, only 1 playoff spot (  )Atlanta certainly looks like the real deal, but definitely an aberration. Minnesota...well, they gave up less than 4 goals last week, so...progress? 
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Jermaine Dildoe posted:Atlanta is an exception I guess we'll see tomorrow now won't we? whypick1 posted:Seriously. Going back to 2005 (Chivas/RSL), each expansion team's inaugural season: In a league where player acquisition mechanisms change at least once every goddamn year, things might possibly have changed since 2005 to influence the situation. I mean, one could say that it's early (it is), or that they lucked out in that the international players and manager they picked out didn't flame out spectacularly, but there's nothing they they are doing that could not have been replicated by Mionnesota, or maybe NYCFC/Orlando (I'm not sure whether TAM was in place or at current levels at that time). The competitive argument against expanding too quickly is that it dilutes the domestic talent pool. This is true for the other American sports, but soccer is different (though yes, the US/Canadian talent pool is currently loving ankle deep) because: a) in the short run, there's an effectively limitless supply of international players capable of performing at MLS level, especially via pillaging Central and South American domestic leagues for their best non-Europe-bound players by offering More Regular Paychecks and Slightly Fewer Violent Crimes, and even without trading for slots you can build most of a starting 11 this way, which will generally be enough to Not Be Terrible if you do well at your scouting. (admittedly the Trump Administration may complicate this plan somewhat) b) in the long run, spreading the regional footprint of the league improves the talent pool. One of the biggest problems facing youth development in North America is i) not enough academies and youth teams finding players across our gigantic-rear end continent, and ii) most of those that exist are poorly funded (mainly because they have to rely on the players/their families for funding) and sharply limited in the players they can filter through (for the same reason). This means that they can't afford good facilities and good coaches to actually teach anything more than kick and chase, and they miss a lot of potentially good players who happen to have chosen the wrong parents or been born in the wrong part of the country. MLS academies address ii) relatively well (though it would also help if American academies could collect training compensation/solidarity from the good players they occasionally develop), and a side benefit of expansion is addressing i) (the actual motivation is, of course, hopes of improving the TV deal.) Dallan Invictus fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Jul 7, 2017 |
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Apr 8, 2017 01:10
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Dallan Invictus posted:I mean, they can get back on the list if they actually stump up an extra $60m for their own drat stadium, no? SC STL guy says the potential ownership group is dissolving, IIRC.
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Dallan Invictus posted:lots of stuff I'm against expanding so quickly looking at just the league itself, but you make some good points in regards to how it can help US/Canada soccer as a whole and how player acquisition mechanisms have changed in the past decade+. TAM/GAM was the year after Orlando/NYC joined though.
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Dallan Invictus posted:I mean, they can get back on the list if they actually stump up an extra $60m for their own drat stadium, no?
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Crazy Ted posted:I believe the commissioner, who is a fuckass, explicitly said in a presser, "No public funding, no accepted bid". Like...the group putting up all the money for the stadium themselves isn't good enough because it would set a precedent and we can't have that! Huh. That's weird, Orlando paid for theirs themselves and Minnesota just got some tax breaks IIRC, so if he was afraid of setting a precedent that train has already left.. Garber has his delusions but I don't think "MLS has more leverage than the NFL" is one of them.
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Apr 8, 2017 16:59
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MLS 20XX: the commissioner, who is a fuckass.
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Dallan Invictus posted:I guess we'll see tomorrow now won't we? "For the 2017 season through April 3, which totals 15 games, MLS is averaging 261,667 viewers compared to 284,842 after 11 games during the same time period at the beginning of the 2016 season." As soon as the kilt wearing freak fans find a new hobby this league is in serious trouble.
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Apr 9, 2017 09:19
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Don't forget the comical lack of press coverage in most market. In the Washington Post today I had to scroll past articles for the Caps, Wizards, Nationals, and Orioles, then past all the national sports news, then past more articles for the big 3 DC teams again before finally finding a write up about DC United's win.
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Apr 9, 2017 14:35
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I'm just going to pretend this is the only thing that happened in last night's game and be much happier. https://streamable.com/613zm
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Apr 9, 2017 16:47
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Dallan Invictus posted:I'm just going to pretend this is the only thing that happened in last night's game and be much happier. Wasn't Toledo reffing that match? I'm shocked he didn't give a red for that
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camoseven posted:Wasn't Toledo reffing that match? I'm shocked he didn't give a red for that He probably didn't see it, which means there's the slimmest possibility of the DisCo issuing a retroactive red for throwing a snowball at a defender behind the play, which would be so hilarious that I'm praying it happens.
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That snowball must make a league highlight clip somewhere. If we were serious... Throwing a snowball and hitting the ball would be a handball and possible yellow for Deliberate Handling. Throwing a snowball and hitting a player like that would probably only earn a yellow for Unsporting Behavior because of the comedy factor... And therefore isn't a DisCo issue. Hitting a player with a snowball in the face, or out of anger, is Violent Conduct for Striking. You'd need to meet the DisCo standard for retroactive reds, don't see that happening.
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Dan Kennedy is finally free https://twitter.com/LAGalaxy/status/851871812564668416
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Which needs-to-be-emancipated keeper will take his place? MacMath?
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threeagainstfour posted:Dan Kennedy is finally free This kinda looks sarcastic Like, THANKS DAN for dumping coffee grounds in the loving FOOD DISPOSAL that was so nice of you
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shirts and skins posted:This kinda looks sarcastic You're not supposed to do that? Uh oh...
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https://twitter.com/TheTorontoSun/status/852500387328348162 Lol
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I'm pretty sure it was more the caption than the actual picture that led to the suspension.
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Dallan Invictus posted:Huh. That's weird, Orlando paid for theirs themselves and Minnesota just got some tax breaks IIRC, so if he was afraid of setting a precedent that train has already left.. Garber has his delusions but I don't think "MLS has more leverage than the NFL" is one of them. When Orlando won their bid the plan was for the city to pay for some of the stadium. It wasn't until much later (I think after the first season had already started) that the team announced that the city was taking too long and they would just pay for it themselves.
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So does this mean he's going to drop a hat trick during WCQ in 6 months? https://twitter.com/TorontoFCMR/status/852888203476570112
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Breaking news we have discovered irregular heart problems are contagious, patient zero Eddie Johnson has been taken into custody by the CDC. Seriously though Dempsey, Wynne and now Moor all within a year seems high?
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Apr 14, 2017 19:16
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it's the american food
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Jack2142 posted:Breaking news we have discovered irregular heart problems are contagious, patient zero Eddie Johnson has been taken into custody by the CDC. Chemtrails!! But it's most probably totally statistically normal. About 1% of Americans are diagnosed with irregular heart beat every year. That would be about 6 MLS players every year. IANAD, but if you have a predisposition to heart arrhythmia, pushing your body to its cardiovascular extreme for 10+ years is probably a good way to get those symptoms to expose themselves. I have to imagine medical screening and reporting is getting better too. Tigren fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Apr 14, 2017 |
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