I miss the comments section of the Power Rankings on MLSsoccer.com
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I miss the comments section of the Power Rankings on MLSsoccer.com
That and the weekly comments on Instant Replay were a regular source of amusing harmless stupidity that I considered a guilty pleasure. The Power Rankings also for a while featured a weekly parody write-up that I never thought was quite as funny as its reputation, bit it still was pretty good. Someone else used to post his algorithm Power Rankings also that were interesting.
Fred Zilla forever
(and yeah, those power ranking comments were a guilty pleasure).
The writing in MLS Power Rankings this year continues to shine:
Power Rankings: Atlanta United make huge leap, Portland Timbers drop after Week 19 | MLSSoccer.com
What a week in MLS. LAFC lost on a preventable goal, Columbus lost, Austin got shut out, Josef Martinez scored and Nashville went down a goal early in a game at home. It was truly a week unlike any other.www.mlssoccer.com
Minnesota United FC: Sometimes you find a dollar on the ground. Sometimes you hit every red light. Sometimes you get bumped up two spots in the Power Rankings by a rotating cast of voters even after a home loss. Such is life, I guess.
There's at least 5-6 more that good or maybe better.
New York Red Bulls
The New York Red Bulls earned a draw against CF Montréhaahksaadfa...sorry let me try that again.
The New York Red Bulls earned a draw against CF Montréhaahksaadfa...sorry let me try that again.
The New York Red Bulls lost to CF Montréal.
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New England padding those 1-goal win stats by allowing a meaningless DC goal at 90+6 while leading by 2.
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Columbus hasn’t won a game since Porter whined about not getting respect in the power rankings, right?
Fans whining about not getting respect in power rankings is quite often cringe-worthy.
But a head coach doing it? That is just a whole 'nother level.
ETA: Wanted to clarify that I have no issue with fans debating power rankings, that's what they're there for and there's usually some good discussion there, even if it's all just about some list some dude made. But it's the "these guys doing the power rankings never give us respect" stuff and @'ing them on twitter saying that that I find cringe-worthy.
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Kind of mls discussion, kind of Jersey discussion. I watched the highlights from the LAG & SJ game and I really found the blue color of the quakes jersey to be very striking. It looked stunning under the bright lights in LA.
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Honestly I think this is a terrible idea. I like the idea of not having blackouts, but an American sports league that is on a streaming-only platform will be completely forgotten about by the general American sports fan. They need to be on local TV.
While I do agree with you that without a tv deal it makes the league seem less legit. But I am curious who MLS is trying to target as their audience. If they are going after the under 30 crowd it makes sense to move away from Cable TV. I genuinely can’t think of any under 30 friend who has a tv subscription and aren’t just piggy backing off their parent’s tv subscription. Streaming may be “the way to the future” but I really don’t know. I definitely see the optics that you’re laying out but maybe they will still save money as a league and find the audience they are looking for. I’m seeing many people on this forum bitch about lack of access to games, I doubt they are the only ones.
If the regional streaming-only deal can generate as much cash on average as the cable based regional contracts, I think it makes sense. Despite pockets of resistance, it's easier to get olds like me to sign up for streaming packages than the younger crowd to buy cable.
They should do both -- stream every game without blackouts on ESPN+ and give teams the option to have a local TV deal. You can either watch on ESPN+ or on YES -- or when games aren't live on YES, fans can watch them on the YES app or on ESPN+. Make it available to everyone.
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