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World Soccer XXV - the run up to the World Cup

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Shirtless Guy said:
I don't get the reference? And I don't get why it matters? If the league is helping pay for Dempsey and Bradley, why do they get to decide who benefits from that extra money instead of letting it fall to the allocation system?
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Calvinball? From Calvin and Hobbes? You just make up rules as you go along.

Honestly it's a good question, AFAIK it's dependent on who does the bulk of the negotiating for the player. In the case of Dempsey and Bradley Seattle and Toronto did the work so they didn't go through allocation? I don't know, it's very confusing and there's not a clear explanation. MLS playing Calvinball, they just make it up as they go along.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
Calvinball? From Calvin and Hobbes? You just make up rules as you go along.

Honestly it's a good question, AFAIK it's dependent on who does the bulk of the negotiating for the player. In the case of Dempsey and Bradley Seattle and Toronto did the work so they didn't go through allocation? I don't know, it's very confusing and there's not a clear explanation. MLS playing Calvinball, they just make it up as they go along.
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Ah, yeah...sorry missed that. It sounds like some of it comes down to the fact that Beasley is a DP but he won't be getting millions. It still seems like a distinction without a difference.
 
Shirtless Guy said:
Ah, yeah...sorry missed that. It sounds like some of it comes down to the fact that Beasley is a DP but he won't be getting millions. It still seems like a distinction without a difference.
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Well, if anything, the Timbers Army will be riled up by this. So that's good. :)
 
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Red Bulls beat Arsenal. Somewhere in Brooklyn thousands of Europoser hipsters are wringing their hands...
 
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Jimjamesak said:
Red Bulls beat Arsenal. Somewhere in Brooklyn thousands of Europoser hipsters are wringing their hands...
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Those games are meaningless. I don't take any stock in them because RBNY is in mid-season form while Arsenal is experimenting with a new lineup.
 
MountieBoyOz said:
Those games are meaningless. I don't take any stock in them because RBNY is in mid-season form while Arsenal is experimenting with a new lineup.
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Jimjamesak said:
And speaking of SKC, I liked the * talking about them coming after Seattle in the standings. Good job guys, it's July, you're only 3 points back and Seattle has two games in hand. Now just shut up and wait until we * it away in September like usual.
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It's about a month early but I hate it when I'm right. Now I remember why I want Seattle to fire Schmid...
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
To be fair, there are many people (morons) who explicitly just watch espn and will simply claim that they have no idea how to find nbcsn, fs1, etc on their cable package.
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Not to mention we're talking about the local team in a major media market (RBNY) against a team with a huge international profile (Arsenal) against Nats-Reds and Indians-Royals.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
To be fair, there are many people (morons) who explicitly just watch espn and will simply claim that they have no idea how to find nbcsn, fs1, etc on their cable package.
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Yup, it can take awhile for a channel to get put into a rotation for some people.

MLS on ESPN beat out Man City/Milan on FS1. I would guess most of that is simply due to ESPN. Though it's good news for MLS as their numbers are now better than the WNBA's, which was not the case last year. It'll be interesting to see the numbers next season when there's no World Cup bump.
 
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