narduch Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 (edited) I wish TFC would do this. But their management and social media hate the fans. Edited February 6, 2023 by narduch reggietfc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kacbru Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 Ok - hear me out. Play a 34 game regular season. All teams make the playoffs. Teams are seeded for one-game elimination, but if the higher seeded team loses, they have the option of using their TAM money to bid for a do-over game. In the next round, teams are seeded according to the amount of allocation money they have. The math doesn't work for a 29 team league - but I'm sure Garber can sort it out. narduch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearcatSA Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 13 hours ago, narduch said: Lol. Loser of the 8th/9th playoff gets a participation ribbon. kacbru and narduch 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 I'm a bit shocked they released the regular season schedule without even knowing the playoff format. 3 game series in soccer is just plain stupid. I guess Apple begged them for more content PastPros 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmen Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 12 hours ago, narduch said: 3 game series in soccer is just plain stupid. I guess Apple begged them for more content Agreed, especially when 2 games would achieve the same thing and align more with a lot of other soccer tournaments. narduch and Kingston 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Greg Sutton and Paul Dolan have been added to the MLS broadcast crew. Metro and Ruffian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 TSN will show all 3 Canadian teams on the opening match day. Ivan, Goal_Kick, Kingston and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red card Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 (edited) MLS announced the broadcast pairings. Looks like there is continuity for Caps as Price/Dolan are together. They should be primary for home matches at least. Likely Ed Cohen/Greg Sutton should be primary for CFM home matches in English. Cohen comes from MSG doing Knicks & Red Bull. In French, there should be continuity with Lord/Destouches being the primary duo. Cullen/Le Toux and Brett/Bernier will likely do TFC & Caps in French. I don't see an obvious pairing for TFC in English. Liam McHugh & Kaylyn Kyle will host the MLS 360 whip around show. Analysts will be Kljestan, Wright-Phillips with rules expert Christina Unkel. Pregame show is called MLS Countdown and postgame show is called MLS Wrap Up. They also listed which matches will be free on Apple for the first month. All are free in week 1. In week 2, of the Canadian teams, only SJ v Caps is free. In week 3, Nashville v CFM is free. In week 4, TFC v Miami and LAFC v Caps are free. I wonder if these free matches will also be the matches shown on TSN/RDS. For the whole league in the first month, there are 6 matches/week that are free via Apple. Fox is also showing a match/wk for the first 3 weeks. https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/apple-and-major-league-soccer-unveil-live-event-production-plan-and-talent-pairi Edited February 15, 2023 by red card Watchmen, Ruffian, narduch and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffian Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 41 minutes ago, red card said: MLS announced the broadcast pairings. Looks like there is continuity for Caps as Price/Dolan are together. They should be primary for home matches at least. Likely Ed Cohen/Greg Sutton should be primary for CFM home matches in English. Cohen comes from MSG doing Knicks & Red Bull. In French, there should be continuity with Lord/Destouches being the primary duo. Cullen/Le Toux and Brett/Bernier will likely do TFC & Caps in French. I don't see an obvious pairing for TFC in English. Liam McHugh & Kaylyn Kyle will host the MLS 360 whip around show. Analysts will be Kljestan, Wright-Phillips with rules expert Christina Unkel. Pregame show is called MLS Countdown and postgame show is called MLS Wrap Up. They also listed which matches will be free on Apple for the first month. All are free in week 1. In week 2, of the Canadian teams, only SJ v Caps is free. In week 3, Nashville v CFM is free. In week 4, TFC v Miami and LAFC v Caps are free. I wonder if these free matches will also be the matches shown on TSN/RDS. For the whole league in the first month, there are 6 matches/week that are free via Apple. Fox is also showing a match/wk for the first 3 weeks. https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/apple-and-major-league-soccer-unveil-live-event-production-plan-and-talent-pairi Great summary! I was also unsure who would do English TFC matches. Maybe there are others to join. Maybe shared broadcasters with TSN? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metro Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 1 hour ago, Ruffian said: Great summary! I was also unsure who would do English TFC matches. Maybe there are others to join. Maybe shared broadcasters with TSN? I'm wondering if there will be any permanent pairings for any team and that it'll be more like the NFL: Top play-by-play pairing calls the game of the week and down the list we go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red card Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 45 minutes ago, Metro said: I'm wondering if there will be any permanent pairings for any team and that it'll be more like the NFL: Top play-by-play pairing calls the game of the week and down the list we go. Yes, the view is that it will indeed be like the NFL at the very least for English broadcast of American teams. With Zivin/Twellman listed first, I'm going to assume they're the number one pair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red card Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 (edited) Angus Reid survey on fandom for sports leagues released last week covered the MLS. Ontario leads at 11% who follow very closely to closely. BC is at 9% and Quebec is at 8%. Nationally, 69% don't follow MLS at all. Demographics of those follow very closely to closely skews urban, male (by only 1%), 18-34, <$50k household income, <=high school education, English language, Indigenous/visible minority. https://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023.02.06_NFL-V-CFL-Press_release_tables.pdf Edited February 18, 2023 by red card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Observer Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 6 hours ago, red card said: Angus Reid survey on fandom for sports leagues released last week covered the MLS. Ontario leads at 11% who follow very closely to closely. BC is at 9% and Quebec is at 8%. Nationally, 69% don't follow MLS at all. Demographics of those follow closely to closely skews urban, male (by only 1%), 18-34, <$50k household income, <=high school education, English language, Indigenous/visible minority. https://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023.02.06_NFL-V-CFL-Press_release_tables.pdf Its quite interesting that the male / female split is fairly close. I thought it would be skewed more male so its nice to see it isn't. Also surprised that % wise there are more hardcore supportes in the Atlantic provinces than anywhere else (but also the highest (with the prairies) who don't give a shit). Urban / Rural split doesn't surprise me at all. And its reflected in where soccer players in the MLS (and national team come from) which is very different than the NHL for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red card Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 (edited) Here are the CFM matches that will be on RDS. Month of May has most at 4 while it is largely 1/month for the rest. One TFC match is part of the mix. Edited February 18, 2023 by red card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmen Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 17 hours ago, red card said: Here are the CFM matches that will be on RDS. Month of May has most at 4 while it is largely 1/month for the rest. One TFC match is part of the mix. Good to keep in mind that from late July to mid-August is the Leagues Cup, so the gap in the schedule isn't quite as bad as it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red card Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 (edited) Phil Neville is wondering about the playoffs: “We’re six days, seven days out from the first game of the season, we don’t know the playoff format. I think that’s poor,” Neville said. “When you’re talking about professionalism, and ‘elite,’ I think when you’re seven days out from the start of the season — we’ve had talks here, and one of our players asked one of the MLS guys the other day ‘what’s the playoff system’ and they were like, ‘We don’t know.’ And I’m like, ‘That’s not elite.’ You’re talking about differences between the U.K. and the U.S.? We talked about the intensity of the fans. (This is another) big difference.” He added that things like contracts, sponsorships and season tickets hinged on knowing the schedule, too.… My question is who is figuring it out? Is it Apple? Who is wagging the dog?” https://theathletic.com/4226091/2023/02/18/mls-playoff-format-phil-neville/?source=user_shared_article Edited February 19, 2023 by red card narduch and PastPros 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastPros Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 If I was interested in MLS, and I currently don't have a TSN sub (and not interested in other sports), is there any reason why I wouldn't get the Apple+ MLS season pass instead? Asking for a friend, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 Interesting how Girona is doing well with their transfers from NYCFC, Castellanos is their leading scorer, and transitioned very quickly. Now Alex Callens has transferred there and is showing well. Yangel Herrera was also at City and is there. Mind you, the latter two have European experience and have had loans in the City Group system, so they're not starting from nothing. The top level of MLS should be a natural step to a top league, mostly talking about modest clubs though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmen Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 11 hours ago, red card said: Phil Neville is wondering about the playoffs: “We’re six days, seven days out from the first game of the season, we don’t know the playoff format. I think that’s poor,” Neville said. “When you’re talking about professionalism, and ‘elite,’ I think when you’re seven days out from the start of the season — we’ve had talks here, and one of our players asked one of the MLS guys the other day ‘what’s the playoff system’ and they were like, ‘We don’t know.’ And I’m like, ‘That’s not elite.’ You’re talking about differences between the U.K. and the U.S.? We talked about the intensity of the fans. (This is another) big difference.” He added that things like contracts, sponsorships and season tickets hinged on knowing the schedule, too.… My question is who is figuring it out? Is it Apple? Who is wagging the dog?” https://theathletic.com/4226091/2023/02/18/mls-playoff-format-phil-neville/?source=user_shared_article I don't think Phil needs to worry about the playoffs. I don't think he'll be around by the time they start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmen Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 4 hours ago, Unnamed Trialist said: The top level of MLS should be a natural step to a top league, mostly talking about modest clubs though. I could start to see that. Right now, it's sort of the reverse - top clubs in more modest leagues. Nothing wrong with that either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 (edited) Kind of lame that there is no app for Apple TV if you are on Android. Have to run it in Chrome Edited February 21, 2023 by narduch toontownman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 The new playoff format is set to be confirmed this week. Top 9 in each conference make it. Play in game for 8 v 9. Best if 3 in 1st round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastPros Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 3 hours ago, narduch said: The new playoff format is set to be confirmed this week. Top 9 in each conference make it. Play in game for 8 v 9. Best if 3 in 1st round. Hate it. narduch, Olympique_de_Marseille and masster 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 (edited) 3 minutes ago, PastPros said: Hate it. The 3 game series thing is easily one of the dumbest ideas ever. I see a lot of people defending it saying it guarantees teams 1 playoff home game. But you can also achieve that with a 2-leg series. Edited February 21, 2023 by narduch Watchmen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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