Agreed. I do get the sense he's adapting. When the interviewer asked him the question about what he learned about MLS in his half-season, I was afraid we'd get more nonsense about odd schedules and the salary cap. Instead we heard what you just summarized. All to the good.
Cool. I do still stand by my theory.Fun fodder forFootyLovin's EASL language barrier theory.
First, DT clearly knows he's supposed to say "MLS" not "the MLS" because he does so roughly 20% of the time, often with a hesitation, but he can't help mostly saying "the MLS" because he's used to a language where nouns usually don't exist without an article.
Second, he says multiple times that the most important thing for a team in the MLS is a striker, which probably causes heads to explode because we're signing everything but strikers. But as he goes on it's clear that by "strikers" he means "players who score goals" and he says something like "strikers, wingers, forwards" at least once as part of the same topic.
And finally I take from this that he is suggesting another important scorer could be coming later, maybe summertime later.
I thought you were making good sense until then. Two more wins means the team improved 3 straight years. It means breaking 60 points for the first time. It also most likely means the team does not go more than 2 months (July 14 to Sept 26) without winning a home game, after winning 10 of the first 11. Those are all big deals, especially the latter for those of us who go to the home games. Attaining these secondary goals are exactly most important when you don't finish higher in the standings, or playoffs. I think it perfectly normal and rational that this changes how fans perceive the 2018 season and Dome.
All really fair points. I should have been more specific about no difference in where we finished in the conference and the playoffs. Feeling of progression vs last year, quality on the pitch and definitely CCL would all have been huge.
And likely Kaku, who pitched in 6 and 11 last year...
