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Here’s the finished product on Allianz Field since I love stadium porn

MLS returns today with new clubs Nashvile SC and Inter Miami CF Also a new league anthem by Hans Zimmer:

Rumor is is that they’ve identified a location in the Bronx (near Yankee Stadium) for their own stadium. They are pitching the advantages to the area to the powers that be in the city this week. 2023 is the supposed opening date. Also, NYCFC’s maiden voyage into CCL shortly here.

FC Cincinnati Stadium (under construction)

Taking a look at some new and future MLS training facilities:

Almost had Cavani as well...

Alot of people to this day vastly prefer the shootout to the regular old PKs.... https://youtu.be/RRITqS6WEn0

Double post

Probably a fair assessment. I think there's little doubt it's a league with deeper depth technically. Guys like Giovinco, Ignacio Piatti, Josef Martinez, David Villa, Clint Dempsey, Gio Dos Santos, Cyle Larin, Miguel Almiron, Nicolas Lodeiro, Alessandrini, ect. alone afford us that. Is it slower? I don't know, could be? As for the old guys charge, we're definitely turning a corner there. Unless you are a David Villa, Ibra, Messi, Ronaldo-type star, we're not buying over 30 anymore. Lodeiro, Alessandrini, Gio Dos Santos, Giovinco, Josef Martinez, Miguel Almiron, Jonathan Mensah, David Accam, Hector Villalba, Bryan Rochez plus many more all brought in in their twenties.

Villa scoring some great goals this season: He had a great goal yesterday with a shot from seemingly an impossible angle. The curious case of David Villa. He just gets better with age.

This was a pretty strange and wild game. A fun comeback Atlanta continues to score

New season update: Atlanta United and Minnesota United join the league this year bringing us to 22 teams. Outside of their names, they couldn't be more different. Atlanta is on pace to be MLS's best expansion team and Minnesota is well on its way to being the worst. Highlights from some of the games this season. Atlanta's first game: NYCFC takes on their former coach to start the season in Orlando's new stadium; We lost Expansion teams duel in the Snow Bowl

Westworld ******SPOILERS BELOW***** I was a bit disappointed with episode 9, to be honest. You have to use the big reveal sparingly and spread-out. The enormous blitz of "A-ha! Its not what you thought it was!" moments back-to-back-to-back started to crossover from being cool to being like "Oh, ok, the horse is dead, stop beating it." That said I really liked episode 10. The reveal that the Man in Black was really William and that Delores and William's story was playing out over decades was one of the coolest reveals ever. I want to take credit that I predicted Ford would move the robots out into the real world by like episode 2 or 3. The guy has an absolute god complex and that tiny arena was never going to be enough to contain it. It's why he rebuilt his partner, Arnold, in a form he could control because he couldn't before. I will now predict, that since Ford let the robots go and gave them the ability to control one another, that what he's really done is moved his consciousness into a robot and that Arnold was the test run for this.

The slipped in "Black Hole Sun" before that, too. Both favorite songs of mine and then finished it off with "Ain't No Grave" by Johnny Cash. So good. Just binge watched the first 4 or 5 episodes of Westworld. My mind is blown. I love this series. I need to binge watch the rest tonight so I can look up all the theories.

So what are the chances that "best name to say" is one of the criteria? Got some winners here.

Now you know why their national anthem is called "O Canada...." It was an incredible series when they finally did play it. Orlando's new stadium going up. Lot's of stadium building going on in our league. Sadly, none by us. That Minnesota stadium I posted at the top of the page starts construction on Monday.

Hello expansion my constant companion. Any chance it's Toowoomba or Warrnambool? Those are just more fun to say.

Toronto's stadium renovations are nearly complete:

Highlights of every game: http://www.mlssoccer.com/videos Lots of good games, lots of goals, a record in fact for the opening week. Every game had goals.

Yep. USSF puts out definitions of what is required to be a 1st division league, 2nd division, ect. and the leagues determine their own fates. The definitions include things like # of teams, attendance #'s, and location of the teams.

There's several leagues but only 3 professional leagues. There's a 4th league, the NPSL, which is the NASL's partner league (but is semi-pro) like MLS-USL but yeah, they all run independently of each other for the most part. USSF is our country's federation.

Orlando City's first tifo when they made their MLS debut last season was a shot at their NASL rivals in Florida: Jacksonville, Tampa and Fort Lauderdale. Orlando City was a USL club before becoming an MLS club.

Not really. I mean, the reason I'm an MLS fan but pulling for the NASL to survive and thrive is because I believe MLS is too big to fail but they are by no means too big to be uncontested. The MLS TV deal is peanuts by American standards. Absolutely peanuts. The stars are usually pretty old, they can't even beat the Mexican league in Champions League. So it's not like MLS is this runaway juggernaut. We've had several leagues challenge the NFL. That's a much, much harder task than challenging MLS right now. In soccer, unlike American football, you can go play clubs from Mexico, South America, Asia, Australia, Europe....you can make TV deals with them all, too. So there's a lot more opportunities for a leage to generate money and to interest fans. We have 5 major college conferences (and dozens of smaller ones) the SEC, the highest paid conference, just for American football which only plays a 12 game season were taking in $35 million for each of it's 14 schools. That's over $400 million for 1 league. This year it's expected to climb to over $600 million. The second biggest league is pulling in over $400 million a year for its 14 schools, too. The NFL is pulling in $3.1 BILLION every single season. So MLS's <$100 million to be split amongst its 22+ clubs is nothing really. Switching gears, I find it ironic that it is obvious USSF doesn't want NASL to succeed in becoming a 1st division league. It's very obvious and yet, it's their tournament, the US Open Cup, that is the NASL's best life-line. Nothing excites the NASL fanbase like getting a crack at the MLS clubs. Even though the Cosmos only get one crack at NYC or RB a year, that game becomes so massive to them and it's no secret they build their team to beat MLS clubs.