Well, considering I just proposed that we end the season in the summer, I guess you don't actually disagree with anything I wrote.
The JD isn't juris doctorate, huh?
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The JD isn't juris doctorate, huh?
Not particularly, but I think there are other tweaks to the schedule possible without that drastic of a change. I'd be fine if they aligned more with the seasons of other leagues around the world (ending in summer as you said), but I don't think it's necessarily needed. And the JD probably stands for something, though I don't feel particularly interested in informing you one way or the other.
Well, goldilocks, go ahead and share your porridge recipe, at least First, you don't want to end the season in the cold. Now, it's too drastic to end it in late spring or summer. So please explain how you'll accomplish this. Because I think it's not possible unless we start bending space-time.
You're a real fun person to talk to. I enjoy coming on these forums and shooting the shit with most people on here, but when personal attacks are made and people are just generally jerks, it stops being fun. I could respond to your substantive points but generally don't feel like continuing any sort of conversation with you. Have a good one.
I am sorry if you took that as a personal attack. I didn't intend that. Just busting your balls while first pointing out that you didn't actually disagree with my post and then pointing out the huge flaw in your logic.
So, sorry again. I will try to word replies to you more kindly in the future. You might also consider blocking me, though.
Nah, I probably misinterpreted your intent. I'm in a piss mood due to other things this morning, so took it a bit too sensitively. No hard feelings. Ball busting is welcome.
I don't think it's that my logic has a flaw, I think I'm just open to different options with regard to fixing scheduling issues. I don't think there's necessarily one change that'll fix everything, but I'm open minded. Regardless of its merits, though, I think the Don's and owners' opinion on changing the schedule to have the season ending in summer is likely the same as their opinion on pro/rel (e.g., not in the next 30 years at least...). But who knows. I was glad to see that at least they surveyed a portion of fans about the possible playoff changes.
Fair enough and certainly no hard feelings. Definitely recommend not taking my statements personally, as they probably read more harshly than intended 90% of the time.
Always willing to take shit in return, though. Just be witty and a little original with it, please, so we can all get a good laugh.
Hope your day gets better. Even if I did take it personally that you ruined my Goldilocks zinger, which I thought was really well above average for pre-8am ball-busting.
(ETA: winky face. Damnit. Always forget that. Add that, and you can get away with saying anything, right?)
One thing that can add to calendar flexibility is adding more teams in warm weather states, which covers most of the stronger expansion candidates.
Once the league has at least half its teams in places where it rarely snows, they can schedule a full slate of games on one or more winter weekends. This could be used to expand the season by a few weeks - back into February for example - or in an extreme example, flip to the global calendar.
It's worth pointing out that most teams in the league take 4-1/2 months off between the end of the regular season and the start of the next. The league as a whole takes 3 months after the MLS Cup. There is room for growth for sure.
Once the league has at least half its teams in places where it rarely snows, they can schedule a full slate of games on one or more winter weekends. This could be used to expand the season by a few weeks - back into February for example - or in an extreme example, flip to the global calendar.
It's worth pointing out that most teams in the league take 4-1/2 months off between the end of the regular season and the start of the next. The league as a whole takes 3 months after the MLS Cup. There is room for growth for sure.
I wouldn't call it the global calendar. A lot more countries use a ~March to ~October schedule than you might think:
Ireland
Norway
Sweden
Kenya
Brazil
USA
Canada
China
Japan
Korea
Laos
Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Vietnam
Indonesia
Some major countries in bold.
Unrelated but trying to figure out what your major country criteria is.
indonesia 250 million people, philippines 100 million :: ireland 6 million, norway 5 million
Norway 87 ranked in world, Canada 109 :: Kenya 74
I didn't put much thought into it, tbh.
Frankly, my preferred approach - at least as a first step - would be to start the season a month earlier and only do warm weather (or indoor) venues the first 5-6 weeks. Then, make that up in the summer by keeping things up north when it is hotter down south.
I would use the extra time for a few more regular season games, but also for more scheduling flexibility around mid-week games and international dates. Finally, I would try to end the playoffs a week earlier and try to improve how the international dates break up the flow of the post-season.
I would use the extra time for a few more regular season games, but also for more scheduling flexibility around mid-week games and international dates. Finally, I would try to end the playoffs a week earlier and try to improve how the international dates break up the flow of the post-season.
Just stop playing through the damn things, please. The same thing happens with the big Euro leagues. PL kicks off, plays a match or two then goes on 2 week break. Annoying as hell. But the Euro clubs all schedule friendlies for those breaks, which we should do, too, especially NYC since we don't get our squad players any minutes elsewhere.
It just makes too much sense to keep ignoring it. I find it absurd that a first division schedule just ignores FIFA recognized international dates.
Our lack of friendlies in NYC is a slap in the face. We should be getting 2-3 a year, free to STH with the assumption the revenues come in from merchandise and concessions. I guarantee there will be more STH sales if that's a perk.
To be fair to MLS, they do a reduced schedule, at most, on international dates. The bigger issue is the summer tournaments. Hard to take a full 3-4 weeks off for those.
Harder to justify teams playing through a 1o% of their schedule at less than full strength.
All of this goes to my original point: fix the damn schedule.
To be clear, I wasn't saying they didn't need to do more, only that they are at least doing something.
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