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On another note - viewership numbers

https://twitter.com/tutulismyname/status/1289338469181992962

Couple that with a lot of players finding their voice on social media (and not just the liberal ones) and you have a recipe for a lot of sturm. I just don't know if the guys running NFL ultimately...

NFL is on equal par with College Football in the US for religious status, with the added bonus of being less potential bozo eruption points - 30 odd teams compared to 500 or so.

If anybody is...

Bubble seems to be working - no positive tests since the Nashville & Dallas Bozzo eruptions.

Every team in this league at some point has to have a player who is somewhat of an existential threat to score.

Montreal has not replaced Piatti and thus have no such threat.


We have 2 in...

In theory, the games moving forward should be better. 3 games in a couple of weeks so the rust should be lessened. The cruddy teams are mostly gone. The "we are OK with a draw" factor is over - its...

The Athletic article about all this leans heavily on the players but does discuss how the assistants didn't show up to some practices when De Boer was away - players on their own.

Sound...

Oh, look, they fired DeBoer.

I forgot - that was their 4th failure - hiring a first coach who couldn't be replicated without blowing up the team

Teams who are hot messes remain hot messes and some teams who are just bad are figuring out how to win through adversity.

Weird


Seattle now set to either play Portland or LAFC - SPICYYY

Just to clarify - we can only play a team from Groups A B or F

Atlanta has serious issues with recruitment & balance but more importantly, a flawed philosophy

They were built to buy medium & sell high but failed that in 3 ways

a) they had one success -...

Atlanta never really figured out a long term plan beyond "buy big, sell bigger". Serious midfield issues and no real plan with the ball.

Yeah, me bad on the Fire thing

The MLS website indicates the 3rd place teams picked for certain games have to come from certain groups.

C1 is playing ABF - A to me is unlikely as NYC is sitting...

Hmm...Seattle's win sets up that if we win this group, we are likely to play them in the next round (assuming Chicago beats the Fire)

Just tried to watch SJE v Chicago

I lasted 4 minutes

Some of the games are vaguely interesting for about 20 minutes but nothing is sustained. The quality is so lacking due to the time off and...

So things settled down a bit after last night as to whom we are likely to play but the opponents for the next round are still unclear

We can fiinish

3rd
a loss & DCU win

or 2nd

a draw...

Watching Houston vs Portland & Houston looking more & more like the team we might face in the round of 16.

Not as pace packed a team as they used to be but still faster then Gonzalez or Ciman or...

Its not the Ontario people I'm worried about its all the people coming up from Florida & other US parts

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the Jays going in and out of various cities including Florida.


Jays can isolate...

EDIT

Not so fast

https://twitter.com/lauraarmy/status/1283858770175696897


Provincial approval but not city or federal yet

On another note:

Atlanta imploding playing Cinci and losing after down to 10 within 26 minutes and then another straight red in extra time.


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The Leafs will be playing in a bubble situation here in Toronto.

The Jays are not cleared to play home games here yet - there is serious talk they will be playing home games in Buffalo.

The unstated but discussed reason for this current tournament is a sop to ESPN that will hopefully get a larger TV contract. The new CBA gives players a cut of the TV - that's why the buy in from...

Now this is a mighty fine goal

https://twitter.com/SoccerByIves/status/1283204624342822913

ATL vs NYRB so far the best game among a lot of not very good stuff

If MLS was hoping to show the world a good product, they underestimated how long it takes for teams to work out the kinks -...

On the one hand, it will likely be the one time you get to hear the way the team communicates (well, we might if Luke Wileman shuts it for a bit). Like how much does Vanney actually talk? Or...