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Welcome to the 28th season of Major League Soccer (kinda hard to bury the lede on this one) In a little over 24 hours NYCFC and Nashville will kick a ball in anger at GEODIS Park to officially start the 2023 MLS season, which means one thing: somehow the league managed to not go bankrupt for yet another year, bucking tradition from other American soccer leagues. Not only is the league solvent, but it also managed to One positive from the new deal: kickoff times are more or less standardized to be Saturdays and Wednesdays at 7:30PM local, so no more wondering just when the hell is soccer happening. One negative: the playoff format is changing yet a-goddamn-gain to expand the field and add a single best-of-3 round to add even more games for Apple to air. Ugh. We've also got new stuff outside of the Apple deal. The 28th season will see the addition of the 29th team, The St. Louis Generic Names (which would be a better name than what they actually went with, prove me wrong). With their addition we have 15 teams in the East and 14 in the West, keeping the 34 game unbalanced-as-hell regular season setup leading to the aforementioned terrible playoffs. And hey, let's cram some more games into this sonofabitch. During the August international window MLS and LigaMX will pause their regular seasons to compete in the revamped Leagues Cup, consisting of a 3 team group stage leading to a 32 team knockout bracket, with the two finalists earning CCL berths (with the winner going straight to the round of 16). A team could conceivably play 50+ games this calendar year between the 34 game regular season, playoffs, CCL, US Open Cup/Canadian Championship and Leagues Cup...fun. Quick recap of the past year:
And with all of that out of the way, there's only one thing left to say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV0UGXYwQh0
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Feb 24, 2023 17:25
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And they only got to play one game at the Club World Cup, losing 1-0 on a deflected goal. 
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I have tickets to the opening Austin match tomorrow. Should be fun as usual.
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Feb 24, 2023 17:34
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How do you actually watch the free games now? You go to appletv.com or mlssoccer.com or what?
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Feb 24, 2023 17:36
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:How do you actually watch the free games now? You go to appletv.com or mlssoccer.com or what? I think its tv.apple.com Edit: or an apple tv app. for MLB you had to create an account (not get a sub) to see the games they broadcast. probably the same here
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Feb 24, 2023 17:38
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Streamable has a list of what games will be free-free on AppleTV during the first 3 weeks.
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Feb 24, 2023 19:02
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Still no way to hide scores on either the tv.apple.com website or in the actual OSX Apple TV application.
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Feb 24, 2023 20:07
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Gonna freeze my rear end off at Minnesota’s home opener next weekend, hell yeah
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Feb 24, 2023 20:22
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538's opening odds to make fun of later this year
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Feb 24, 2023 20:31
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and we're off! https://twitter.com/ManuelVeth/status/1629199281851879424
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Feb 24, 2023 20:41
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two weather cancellations week 1 then like I know I shouldn't be SURPRISED, it's February in North America and this is why we play spring to fall to begin with, but it still feels surprising shame though, was legit looking forward to the LA game
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Feb 24, 2023 20:47
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At this rate the rate the only thing stopping him playing for every team is the league adding more teams faster than he move to: https://twitter.com/tombogert/status/1629198533919223808
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Feb 24, 2023 20:47
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God help me, I submitted a video game tifo idea to my local SG.
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Feb 24, 2023 21:40
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Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:Gonna freeze my rear end off at Minnesota’s home opener next weekend, hell yeah Me too! We got season tickets this year. I might have to show up in my ice fishing overalls.
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Feb 24, 2023 22:33
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Hekk posted:Me too! We got season tickets this year. I might have to show up in my ice fishing overalls. I still got a bunch of heavy-duty warming gear from the USA-Honduras game that we hosted last February, when it was so cold that people's beers were literally turning into slushies as they held them. Also, my partner just reminded me the home opener is actually two weekends away which bummed me out 
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Feb 24, 2023 23:08
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I have no idea what the gently caress the Red Bulls are going to be this year. Very possibly bad. Hopefully good!
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Feb 24, 2023 23:15
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The pitch at the Rose Bowl is apparently completely underwater. It's a dog poo poo stadium so I'm not surprised but drat I was looking forward to the match.
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Feb 25, 2023 00:28
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Looking forward to a million sick headers from this kid. https://twitter.com/tombogert/status/1629197156694298624?s=46&t=5gZOszCoBcvVshSLUVm9Tg
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Feb 25, 2023 03:59
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Zisky posted:The pitch at the Rose Bowl is apparently completely underwater. Hey, that’s the Grandaddy of them all to you, bub <  >I guess it’s only natural for Portland’s snowpocalypse to cause a delay for the home opener, but it still might look like Hoth by kickoff. As one of those rare things (an MLS fan living outside the US) I feel like I’m finally freed, plus the coverage starting from 7:30 pm ET means MLS Sunday mornings for me. Watched a bit today, no complaints so far.
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Feb 26, 2023 10:06
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As someone who used to switch between 5 different streams at once on the old mls live service looking for cool moments in games, I gotta say I love MLS 360. My only complaint is that there are too many ad breaks, but other than that I love it. Having a broadcast that immediately switches over to a game as soon as a goal is scored or something else noteworthy happens helps to bring into focus how much exciting stuff happens across an MLS match day. For example I think they had the late match goals from DC United to win 3–2 against Toronto immediately followed by Thiago Almada’s two stoppage time bangers to win it for Atlanta. That was then followed a bit later by that poor Austin center back doing the worst back pass in MLS history to give a goal to St Louis. And to top it all off the picture quality is light years better than anything that ESPN or Fox Sports produced when they were the broadcasters.
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Feb 26, 2023 17:44
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threeagainstfour posted:As someone who used to switch between 5 different streams at once on the old mls live service looking for cool moments in games, I gotta say I love MLS 360. I agree, way too many ad breaks. I know the hosts need breaks so they can rest for a bit during the broadcast, but they should just do more cuts to live games, which is what I expected them to do instead of commercials. The video quality was great, and made the games look like an actual professional league.
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Feb 26, 2023 18:24
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Does it only show games live or does a subscription include access to replays of games? Now that I'm a dirty furriner 7:30 kickoffs are a bit late, but if I could wake up the next morning and pop on last night's game I may sign on.
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Feb 27, 2023 08:42
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JohnCompany posted:Does it only show games live or does a subscription include access to replays of games? Now that I'm a dirty furriner 7:30 kickoffs are a bit late, but if I could wake up the next morning and pop on last night's game I may sign on. There are replays for all the matches except MLS 360, which is their whiparound show. However Apple has spoilers on by default which shows the score on the replay link. I believe you need an Apple device to turn off spoilers for your account. There are no options at the moment to turn off spoilers on browsers or Android. Also MLS/Apple has said that they plan to have some matches for free, just need to sign in with your Apple ID. The first week had all the matches free.
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Feb 27, 2023 09:03
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You can hide scores on Roku devices too
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Feb 27, 2023 12:57
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psyer posted:There are no options at the moment to turn off spoilers on browsers or Android. This and the fact that you can't watch multiple streams simultaneously via browser is completely and utterly baffling for a sports streaming service in TYOOL 2023.
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Feb 27, 2023 14:36
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You can’t watch full replays on the Roku app either. I have use Airplay from my MacBook or phone to get more than recaps for matches that have already ended.
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Feb 27, 2023 15:25
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Looks like we'll have our first Disciplinary Committee suspension of the season shortly: https://twitter.com/jimwilkie/status/1630066011067289600
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Feb 27, 2023 22:44
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hah loving quakes. lew wolff out.
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Feb 28, 2023 08:18
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I am so done with the Lalas Aboubakar Experience.
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Feb 28, 2023 22:06
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Until Apple gets their poo poo together, you can hide the scores in the browser with a bit of CSS and a plugin.
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Mar 2, 2023 01:32
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whypick1 posted:Until Apple gets their poo poo together, you can hide the scores in the browser with a bit of CSS and a plugin. loving hell thank you. Even with the scores blocked on Roku, it still shows them in the main headline. And then yesterday I spent like a solid 15 minutes trying to figure out where the gently caress the TFC-Atlanta game was, because it wasn't one of the headline games and I could only find the highlights, and then it turns it it's buried at the bottom of the page in a completely non-obvious header, which I still need to scroll past all the key goal highlights of the game to get to. Whoever designed this app either doesn't watch/understand sports, actively hates people who do, or both.
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Mar 7, 2023 02:29
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This stuff is really infuriating because there's no excuse of this being their first foray into streaming sports since they started airing Friday Night Baseball last year. It seems like they learned not a goddamn thing from that.
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Mar 7, 2023 02:56
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whypick1 posted:This stuff is really infuriating because there's no excuse of this being their first foray into streaming sports since they started airing Friday Night Baseball last year. It seems like they learned not a goddamn thing from that. I mean for all the faults with Apple streaming, it's light years ahead of having to subscribe to ESPN+ but stream it through the Hulu app to avoid local blackouts. I am not even sure I had access to past matches on there.
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Mar 7, 2023 03:47
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We now have a schedule (minus kickoff times) for Leagues Cup. Refresher on how it works
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Mar 9, 2023 23:49
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Heber is hurt and the Sounders are going to suck again now.
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Mar 10, 2023 05:01
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binge crotching posted:Heber is hurt and the Sounders are going to suck again now. we've all seen this movie before, you aren't fooling anyone
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Mar 10, 2023 17:10
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Dallan Invictus posted:we've all seen this movie before, you aren't fooling anyone it must be literally the first page of the mls thread, and no further
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Mar 10, 2023 18:52
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I know it's probably not the end of the world, but jesus there have been so many injuries the last couple of years. At least Morris looks good after coming back from his most recent injury, we'll see how Ruidiaz looks this weekend.
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Mar 11, 2023 01:19
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Minnesota United home opener is at 7:30pm tomorrow! Let's check in and see what the weather will be like... loving Minnesota bullshit.
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Mar 11, 2023 01:30
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whypick1 posted:We now have a schedule (minus kickoff times) for Leagues Cup. i love how technically correct the "leagues" cup is
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Hekk posted:Minnesota United home opener is at 7:30pm tomorrow! Let's check in and see what the weather will be like... And there are people who unironically think we should have an August-May calendar. Poonior Toilett posted:i love how technically correct the "leagues" cup is Don't worry, the winner will still be called "World Champion"
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