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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mar 11, 2023 02:07
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https://twitter.com/tombogert/status/1635126923100823552
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Mar 13, 2023 16:49
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Don't worry OP, the only thing dumb about your question is Apple's UI. What Hekk said is correct, but I'll add this: It's pretty much impossible to get to the full game replay and avoid any sort of spoilers, between scores being listed for each game (which can be turned off, but is an independent setting for each device and not at all possible if you're using a browser) and having to scroll past the list of highlights to get to it. Did I mention Apple's UI is loving dumb?
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Mar 19, 2023 22:12
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Happy 27th anniversary everyone https://twitter.com/SJEarthquakes/status/1644036493881769984
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Apr 6, 2023 20:11
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US Open Cup round of 32 draw where most of the MLS teams enter. Please let Sporting KC lose to an amateur team at home 
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Apr 7, 2023 03:24
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https://twitter.com/MattDoyle76/status/1644884650962108416
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Apr 9, 2023 05:15
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One of these statements is not like the other... https://twitter.com/tombogert/status/1645573009439182848?s=20 whypick1 fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Apr 11, 2023 |
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Apr 11, 2023 03:38
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Just watching your team lose a Cup to an OG in ET would be enough to warrant a lifetime of pessimism, nevermind all of Dallas' other lowlights and choke jobs.
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Apr 11, 2023 19:11
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Heads up: this weekend is when teams will be wearing the recycled plastic kits with terrible color schemes. Vancouver are the lucky team to avoid wearing them.
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Apr 20, 2023 00:54
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I can't answer your question, but have some funny photos instead: https://twitter.com/morgantencza/status/1653061143265460224
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May 1, 2023 19:41
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Edward Mass posted:Can anyone find a full list of free matches for the next month? The Mothership only lists two matches that aren't behind they paywall, both this weekend. The site's viewing roundup for the weekend only lists 2 free games (and boy they look like some real winners), so maybe the free-ish ride is over now that we're two months in.
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May 5, 2023 23:44
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The first axe has been swung: Chicago Fire part ways with Ezra Hendrickson edit: We got a two-fer, as The Red Bulls also axed Gerhard Struber this morning whypick1 fucked around with this message at 16:44 on May 8, 2023 |
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May 8, 2023 16:30
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MLSPA have update the salary guide for the start of the season How the hell is Jozy still making $2+ million? 
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May 16, 2023 19:47
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You'll fit right in then.
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May 17, 2023 00:07
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I'm sure it will be exactly like how Charlotte did it and they'll choose "San Diego SC" (I can already hear the "SD. SC." chant) and I will give them poo poo for it at every opportunity for picking such a  name.
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May 18, 2023 20:28
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Someone good at art combine  and  tia
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May 27, 2023 03:47
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There will probably be an expansion draft. Here's the rules for the one St. Louis did last year. That's only 5 players though, the rest is up to the GM to scout for talent in lower leagues/overseas and make deals with other MLS squads for players. One thing that helped St. Louis is that they fielded an MLS Next Pro (3rd tier) team a year prior to joining MLS, so they had a sizable number of players they could bring into the organization and get familiar with the system and staff prior to playing in the big leagues.
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May 30, 2023 22:05
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Pigma_Micron posted:Please, for the love of god, hire a replacement who wants to actually run a sports team and not a brand. *monkey paw curls, Galaxy re-hire Alexi Lalas*
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May 31, 2023 01:38
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I don't think that will be quite enough to lure him... ...player-manager-governor on the other hand...
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Jun 2, 2023 04:51
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My normal stance of "don't believe any news about a signing until they kick a ball on the pitch while wearing the jersey" seems *incredibly* prudent right now.
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Jun 7, 2023 16:28
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Another Bill posted:The Messi sweepstakes are over, but the Ronaldo sweepstakes have just begun! I think it's going to be neck and neck between Ely State and High Desert State, but I'd be fine with him going to either. Azerban posted:fabrizio said here we go I will continue to remain skeptical since this deal getting reneged at the last minute would be incredibly on brand for MLS.
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Jun 7, 2023 17:44
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Crazy Ted posted:What city could he put a team in that would offer Messi the largest variety of trains? Looks like we're getting a third 2-team city quote:Chicago is North America's largest rail hub, and remains unsurpassed in the total number of passenger and freight trains that converge on any city on the continent. Chicago is a major hub for Amtrak, with 15 different lines terminating at the city's Union Station.
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Jun 7, 2023 18:27
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In non-Messi news,  Galaxy: https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/la-galaxy-striker-chicharito-suffers-knee-injury-in-us-open-cup-defeatReminder that they can't bring in anyone from overseas this summer due to league sanctions because their former GM was The loving Worst.
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Jun 9, 2023 20:00
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God drat there was some bangers this past weekend...and absolutely zero need to have a poll because the winner is so blindingly obvious: https://twitter.com/MLS/status/1668292041598435329
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Jun 12, 2023 19:32
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barnold posted:36k at Gillette on saturday 👀 not sure if there was some kind of promotion going on Yes, I believe the promotion was "Have Possibly the Greatest Soccer Player Ever Announce He's Intends to Play for Your Opponent Starting Next Month at the Earliest, If the Deal Actually Goes Through". Really a masterstroke by the Revs.
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Jun 12, 2023 21:53
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Congratulations Jozy Altidore for a historical 2023 season, becoming (I think) the first player to have their contract bought out twice.
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Jun 15, 2023 16:21
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I'm watching the MLS Next Pro match between Seattle and KC right now (yeah yeah, sicko, etc.; it kills time before US-Mexico) and the AppleTV announcer pronouncing KC coach Benny Feilhaber's name as "File-hay-ber" is driving me up the goddamn well. Dude played for the US in the World Cup ffs. e: And somehow SKC2's keeper John Pulskamp saved a great opportunity from SKC2's Cam Duke while sitting in Tacoma's box and wearing a Tacoma jersey 
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Jun 16, 2023 01:25
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Rumors going around that Tata Martino will be Miami's new coach but I'd have to think after yesterday's performance FMF is furiously trying to get him to come back to Mexico. And if I were Tata I'd run as fast as possible in the opposite direction of that shitshow.
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Jun 16, 2023 17:37
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G-Hawk posted:https://twitter.com/MLS/status/1667722740001026048?t=zChHoEcO0nZg1M5D4Rfe1Q&s=19 ...about that... https://twitter.com/MLS/status/1670226056870260742
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Jun 18, 2023 01:28
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I think Mukhtar has a future in this league...
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Jun 18, 2023 03:20
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Bye bye Bob e: I would not have guessed his tenure was (relatively) that high, goddamn: https://twitter.com/MattDoyle76/status/1673331484726312960 whypick1 fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Jun 26, 2023 |
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Jun 26, 2023 17:07
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Oh yeah, there's an All-Star Game happening somewhat soon and I guess we need some players to actually play in it. Garber showed amazing constraint in not using one of his two picks on Messi.
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