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Yeah I'm feeling Sulley-ish right now. Not optimistic. They look too tired to mount any sort of credible offensive threat.
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Were there any numbers thrown around last offseason for a transfer fee? Cesc was absolutely useless this year, though, so whatever it was, cut it in half, and that's even assuming Barca will want him.
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Whichever Blackhawk that was on the ground ended up being the one knocking it away from Kane
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The 'Hawks look gassed
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Neither are soccer penalty shots. Ask Ghana. FROLIK! Eff Ghana. Love seeing Luongo in there...
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Too bad this isn't soccer. Hockey penalty shots aren't gimmies.
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Sell Cesc, buy defenders and keeper. And maybe a D-mid. It's not hard, Arsene.
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Baseball needs more players trolling other cities. Love it.
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You cherrypicked one metric. MLS has a "national" TV contract with Fox Soccer Channel, which is a pay channel in a bonus tier on most cable systems, for 31 matches over the course of the entire season. ESPN will show usually 1 game a week as well. Nationally, that's basically it unless you live in Canada, where TSN or Radgers carries Toronto FC and Vancouver FC games. Essentially you get like 15 ESPN games and that's your national coverage unless you pay for FSN. MLS clubs have deals with local carriers-for example, Philly usually gets a 2.8 on the local Comcast Sports Net affiliate, Seattle have a deal with KING & KONG to broadcast locally there (they pull a decent number locally as well), the Fire have a deal with CSN and WCIU, etc. There's been a lot of talk about MLS partnering with whatever Versus turns into post merger which would be a really big deal. That would instantly get MLS in a ton more homes on basic cable tiers and improve the exposure of the league. Anyway, this is getting way off topic-my point was that American sports fans wouldn't necessarily be clueless when it came to an arrangement like TT's. Plenty of people follow UEFA Champions league as well as the various Euro domestic leagues as welll, FWIW.
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Apparently Americans would rather watch sports that really aren't sports than soccer. Yes, let's compare the TV contracts of sports that have all been around for years and years to a league that's been around for 16 years, which makes even more since if you consider that MLS doesn't really have a national TV contract that's comparable, and this you have to look market by market. Ooooo, wait, I can cherrypick stats too: Seattle Sounders attendance, week 4: 36,223 Seattle Mariners attendance, same day: 13,056 Vancouver Whitecaps attendance, week 5: 20,809 Vancouver Canucks attendance, Game 2 Stanley Cup Playoffs: 18,660 MLS: More popular than hockey in Canada and baseball in the PacNW.
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Wow, that's just flat out wrong. Stunning coming from you. MLS' median attendance right now is over 18k per night, and that;s 6 weeks into a season which has had nothing but crap weather, AND with a built in drag on the numbers in the form of San Jose's "stadium" only seating around 8k. The average is over 17k, and Kansas City hasn't opened their new park yet. Last year MLS averaged over 17k per night. It's grown steadily over the past 4 years. And that's just our little domestic league. The national team moves the needle both in friendlies, WCQ's and the World Cup itself. The US is becoming more Hispanic every year, and there are a crapton of soccer fans in this country that *only* follow the Euro leagues. If you want to hitch your argument to the whole "American sports fans hate soccer" bandwagon, knock yourself out, and have fun getting dragged down with it. It's a losing argument and will do nothing except become even more of an embarrassing argument as time goes on.
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There are multiple examples in the post you quoted. You didn't give one example of an American sport that crowns multiple champions. The NCAA men's basketball champion is Connecticut. Period. The BCS champion is Auburn. Period. And on and on for every sport. MLS has the US Open Cup, Supporters Shield (best overall record), and MLS Cup champion, and sends each winner plus one other team into the CONCACAF Champions League. One is an open tourney with all divisions of USSF represented, one represents the best team over the course of the season, and one is the playoff tournament. College basketball has regular season conference championships, tournament championships, and the NIT and NCAA tournaments.
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BWAHAHAHAHA
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-Joel Lindpere is a really good player. -Despite DCU getting worked like the stripper at the bachelor party, I rate Perry Kitchen quite highly -Chuck D played poorly
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The 2nd half was everything one could expect from an MLS side away in Mexico...getting worked most of the time, having a player grabbed by the throat with only a yellow called, having your captain pick up a weak yellow to rule him out of the 2nd leg... And the Javi Morales scores an 88th minute equalizer way against the run of play. 2-2 right now. RSL looking gooood
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RSL 1-1 right now away to Monterrey. The away goal is massive. This team is legitimate.
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There's such a dramatic drop off between the Hawks' 1st and 2nd lines, and the dropoff between 2nd and 3rd/4th might as well be the Grand Canyon.
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I think he's going to end up with the Revs, which is about the most depressing place to play in the league. Too bad, as Chivas, Philly or Seattle could really use him. Benny in front of Alonso in Qwest? Damn...
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2011 Chicago Bulls Playoff Thread (5/26 7:30pm CST - TNT)
USSoccer replied to chuckywang's topic in Other Sports
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Holy balls, despite that field being Spartan Stadium-style narrow, I love Jeld-Wen and the crowd. Jeld-Wen has a really old school feel to it, right downtown and intimidatingly intimate. The crowd is frighteningly loud. It's like a Bundesliga crowd. Kenny Cooper is killing it tonight..
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Reason# 22323249358754 to love the PACNW. Timbers Army. Awesome.
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Damn him.
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Sedin dove like an Italian striker...
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Kane should have shot that
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This ish isn't going to go well.