MLS - April 6 - Minnesota (YS)

On the plus side they gave out some decent hats.
Not even to the entire meager crowd. Would have show earlier had I known.
The last thing I need is another piece of merch but I’m convinced one of the reasons it was so empty was that they failed to promote this “promotion.”
 
I’m sure you’re right that Lee has some theory about the optimal time to sign players. In fact, every time he gives an interview, he seems to unveil some new grand idea about how the team is doing things differently than the rest of the league—always framed like he’s outsmarting everyone else.

Just off the top of my head, I can remember him talking about:
  1. How using a DP slot on Martins was smart because, supposedly, the market favors signing veteran defenders and young attackers.
  2. The shift to a development model instead of signing aging stars—completely ignoring that many MLS teams are finding success with mid-career players.
  3. His various theories about which transfer windows are more efficient for signing players.
Lee seems convinced he's reinventing the wheel, like some kind of soccer Billy Beane. But he’s so caught up in trying to prove he has a clever system that he can’t see that his ideas just aren’t working.
In his early season press junket, Brad talked glowingly (well, as much as Brad glows) about being sold on develop-and-sell by David. So, he's bought into the Clever Fellow scenario. You think he's bought into a mirage, eh?
 
camera angles at YS and Citi make it notoriously difficult to determine offsides, especially if they're close. gonna have to trust the linesman on this one. even if he's ahead of risa, he might still be even/behind the ball too.
I've been told that that side, AR2 at Yankee Stadium, is the hardest one to call.
 
Sure everything gets checked but this didn't go to video review.


On or offside debates aside, Rise needs to be hip to hip with the attacker not 4'+ to his left. Martins closed out the cross, there is no other attacker even in frame, that's Risa's guy and I suspect it was part of the calculus for benching him before half.
 
On or offside debates aside, Rise needs to be hip to hip with the attacker not 4'+ to his left. Martins closed out the cross, there is no other attacker even in frame, that's Risa's guy and I suspect it was part of the calculus for benching him before half.

Oh Risa.. the CB we didn't need and who has shown that he's an average CB at best. No speed, no natural defensive positioning talent, but hey, he can ping a ball with his left foot! We'll use that a lot or maybe not. definitely worth essentially forcing out chanot at the time, who was in the middle of his best season. i get it, he was getting older and needed to go at some point, but Risa wasn't it. Thanks David Lee!
 
Oh Risa.. the CB we didn't need and who has shown that he's an average CB at best. No speed, no natural defensive positioning talent, but hey, he can ping a ball with his left foot! We'll use that a lot or maybe not. definitely worth essentially forcing out chanot at the time, who was in the middle of his best season. i get it, he was getting older and needed to go at some point, but Risa wasn't it. Thanks David Lee!
Yeah, I'm still Team Maxime. I'd take him on this team rather than David Lee.
 
In his early season press junket, Brad talked glowingly (well, as much as Brad glows) about being sold on develop-and-sell by David. So, he's bought into the Clever Fellow scenario. You think he's bought into a mirage, eh?

Either that or they are both CFG stooges trying to put some positive spin on marching orders from the mother ship.

I still think the way Sims spun that by acting like it's old stars or this development BS with nothing in the middle was ridiculous.
 
Either that or they are both CFG stooges trying to put some positive spin on marching orders from the mother ship.

I still think the way Sims spun that by acting like it's old stars or this development BS with nothing in the middle was ridiculous.
Brad sits on the CFG board along with Marty. So, I don't think he's a stooge. He's in the room where it happens.

This interview is a great window into his mindset. And I like it. My big question is, how does it translate to the product on the field? Because no matter how much we do in all the other areas of franchise building, if we suck out there, it's just smoke.

 
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