USOC - April 14 - Westchester (Away)

I'm sorry. I've been resisting the urge to Ackshually this, but I can no longer hold out. I grew up less than a half mile from the Bronx-Westchester border, and nobody thinks of the Bronx River or the Parkway as the border between the City and Westchester. The parkway runs north south and for slightly more than a half mile does effectively separate the Bronx and Westchester with Westchester to the West and the Bronx to the East.

But overall, the border between the Bronx and Westchester is nearly 8 miles long, and almost entirely on an East West axis such that Westchester is non-controversially north of the city. Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Pelham and all other further cities, towns and villages in Westchester are all north of the city. The stadium in Mount Vernon is due north of the closest point to the Bronx. If you traveled due west from the stadium you would briefly cross into the Bronx but without crossing the river or parkway, and then if you did cross the Bronx River Parkway you would ironically end up back in Westchester. because the primary axis of the Bronx-Westchester border runs east to west and splits north from south.

Naming the game after a barely half-mile east-west division of a north-south border is not something that anyone who lives near that border in Yonkers, Riverdale, Edenwald, Pehham Park, Pelham, Mount Vernon, or Wakefield would ever do. Because Westchester is north of the Bronx, and the small bulge of the Wakefield section of the Bronx that pushes into Mount Vernon is an anomaly, where taxes, street names, governance, and even traffic rules such as right-on-red often change mid-block. It's the weird exception, not the norm.

With that out of my system: call it whatever you want and enjoy. I don't really care, but I feel better now having gotten that out. Names don't have to make sense.
That's all fair enough. I tried to think of a way to encapsulate the Bronx-Westchester border, but as you note, there is no natural feature that marks the boundary. So, I went with the river. That's both because it aligns with the Hudson River Derby and also because our respective home fields are on opposite sides - assuming our home field is Yankee Stadium.

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That's all fair enough. I tried to think of a way to encapsulate the Bronx-Westchester border, but as you note, there is no natural feature that marks the boundary. So, I went with the river. That's both because it aligns with the Hudson River Derby and also because our respective home fields are on opposite sides - assuming our home field is Yankee Stadium.

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Yeah, as I said in a later post, there's really no clear geographic reference that splits NYC from Westchester. Might as well go with your river-based parallelism with the HRD.
 
magno on the wing with reid as the #9? let's see if we can find 2022 magno. shocked that gray is getting the start again, but we simply don't have a backup for him at the moment with baiera out, do we?

I am just realizing I have no way to watch/stream this game. That's disappointing.

Damn Paramount+ for the usoc. That's disappointing. Not giving my money to Ellisions and their fascist propaganda crusade.
 
Damn Paramount+ for the usoc. That's disappointing. Not giving my money to Ellisions and their fascist propaganda crusade.

this nonsense of putting it behind a paywall is why the USOC is becoming less and less relevant as years go by. it should be on regular TV and youtube streams available to anyone and everyone.
 
It's a tad of a mess.

White markings: Football.
Yellow markings: Soccer.
Black markings: LaCrosse?
Orange: No idea. Rugby maybe?
 
Westchester knots it at 1-1 off a corner kick.
Another set piece where everyone was ball watching.

And of course "Cupset" mentioned again.
 
It's a tad of a mess.

White markings: Football.
Yellow markings: Soccer.
Black markings: LaCrosse?
Orange: No idea. Rugby maybe?
I have no idea where the 6 or 18 yard boxes are.
I’ve also no idea what those concentric half circles are near each goal.
Magno had to ask the ref where the PK spot is.
The football and soccer sidelines confuse me as they do at every stadium that has both marked.
 
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