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I haven't gotten to listen yet, but my first question for him would be who told him to announce Lampard as "Super Frank" when he came on at 5-0 down vs NYRB last year and did he feel moderately sheepish doing it.

I ended up buying a strip in Section 226 (good omen) row 13 on Stubhub. They were $37 plus all the fees. Nice midfield location. I think there are a few left in that row if anyone wants to join us...

Unfortunately it doesn't seem like we are getting to a critical mass. In addition, the prices would likely be a good bit higher than last time because I bought those well before the season started and therefore got a meaningful discount. I'm going to go, but will probably just look to...

Enjoying the selective memory of NYCFC.com: Where's the highlight of: (1) The poor PK call against us that nearly cost us that game in 2015 followed by the epic Frank Lampard dive that led to the make-up call that got us the Villa PK that they show in the attached as time ran out. If memory...

A few months ago, I coincidentally ended up on the flight back with the team. It was a relatively short flight, but they gave Eirik the one row that was empty to himself (watching him try to sit in the regular coach sit with someone next to him had been pretty amusing). Maybe they were cutting...

I am proud that I will forever be able to claim having seen KWS's lone NYCFC goal live! What a moment. That was also the game where Calle fell down in the box and played an Orlando player (Larin?) onside.

This post prompted me to start a "most maligned 11" in NYCFC history, evaluating each player based on a combination of how much he sucked and how much he played (e.g., my CB pairing was Jason Hernandez because he wasn't very good and played a ton (only Villa has logged more outfield minutes for...

Here's some more fun with numbers on a quiet day... Last year, our ten most used outfield players played a total of 21,749 minutes. This year, our top ten has played 12,243, which translates into 24,486 over a 34 match season. That's an extra 274 minutes per guy, or just over three matches...

I agree. This version probably requires pro-rel because you need to shorten the regular season and, without relegation, the teams playing in the lower group during the playoff phase are spending weeks/months playing for nothing. I just thought it was an interesting model when I stumbled upon...

I think there is actually a rational argument for single elimination producing a better result in MLS if the goal is to have playoff excitement but reward teams that had a good regular season. Home field advantage in so huge in MLS that it feels like the better regular season team should...

There are some leagues that toy with something like this, though I'm not sure if any go to both a group stage and then follow it with knock out rounds. Here's the summary from Wikipedia (standard disclaimers apply, though this squares with my memory) as to how Belgium works. They put the top 6...

Well played. Hopefully you weren't in the same parking lot as me!

On the other hand, here is Doyle giving us some love: "NYCFC are closest, in my estimation. They go out there every week and do their thing, and it's pretty tough to shake them out of their mindset/approach. RBNY killed them by pressing them last year, and Toronto FC did the same in the...

One final funny story from our forums outing. The RBA Securitas folks had been instructed to hold back the traveling support from exiting at the end of the match until the stadium had cleared out. This is standard fare, in my experience, in well managed European stadiums, so good for them for...

On the back of this past weekend's successful outing, I wanted to see if anyone is up for purchasing a block of tickets for the August 25th match in New Jersey. If we can get to 15, we would get a discount. If not, we can pay the jacked up prices that NYRB charge to make up for the fact that...

Since Pirlo has surfaced in this thread.... I was watching the subs warm up at the end of the pitch at RBA on Saturday and there was a point where Pirlo and Mikey were watching the match and appeared to be talking. I had to wonder if Pirlo's internal monologue was something like "it never...

Right, forgot about Venegas, thought the one on Costa Rica plays attacking-mid/upfront and hasn't been a consistent starter lately. In any event, I agree with your point that we should be able to score multiple goals against Minnesota no matter who is playing for them!

I was wondering about this. I'd rather have them just because I want to watch our best players play, but I'm sort of ambivalent I suppose because, if they are gone, it means Calvo is gone too which would make Minnesota's backline presumably even worse than it already is.

Here's how I see the East at this point. Pretty consistent with the group in the main. Top 3 have clearly separated. The optimistic case for catching Chicago would be based on the fact that their record is slightly better than one might expect based on expected goals while ours is notably...

I generally enjoy ETR. Sometimes they say things that I don't agree with and sometimes they are hyping a storyline because that's what the media (and particularly league-owned media) does. However, this was arguably the single stupidest thing they've said on the show. And they went back to...