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CortezFantastic posted:Thoughts on MLS Live? Is it like MLB.tv? My thoughts are that it is bad and not good. Sometimes you want to watch games, but you can't even though you gave them money to watch games.
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Feb 27, 2016 20:07
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It's good quality and works with Chromecast, but it's not quite on the level with MLB.tv
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Feb 27, 2016 20:08
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If I do anything I'm going to go with Direct Kick instead, it's slightly more but I don't have to rely on internet to watch and if I'm not home I wouldn't be watching anyway. e: Apparently it's the same price, but I'll want to check the channels that they're broadcast on for quality... stupid Comcast, I miss DirecTV. Pinwiz11 fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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Feb 27, 2016 22:13
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I feel like I should send a sympathy card to Zac MacMath right now.
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Feb 27, 2016 22:42
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With a VPN you can watch every single game on MLS live. It's fantastic.
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Feb 27, 2016 22:42
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camoseven posted:With a VPN you can watch every single game on MLS live. It's fantastic. Less talk more info. What's the deal with VPN and does it cost money?
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camoseven posted:With a VPN you can watch every single game on MLS live. It's fantastic. even the nationally blacked out ones? Tigren posted:Less talk more info. What's the deal with VPN and does it cost money? privateinternetaccess.com is $40/yr. if you follow kinja deals or other related sites they often sell two-year subscriptions to nordvpn (which is just as good as PIA) for significantly less.
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VPN = Virtual Private Network = Make your web traffic appear as though it's coming from a different location. For MLS Live, if you were to pick somewhere that's completely outside of any team's market (like Iowa) then you'll be able to watch any game that isn't nationally televised in the US (ESPN*, FS1, UniMas).be nice wicka posted:even the nationally blacked out ones? You used to be able to do this by connecting "from" Mexico, but now MLS Live is US/Canada only after the league's new Latin America TV contract. Price? You kinda get what you pay for. I know others on here have used Hola in the past, but AFAIK there's no way to specify where your traffic appears to be coming from (probably due to its P2P nature). I've used paid VPN services in the past to try (and more often than not as of late, fail) to get around the Great Firewall of China. The upside for these is that you can pick where you're connecting to and you have a connection to a server dedicated to VPN traffic, which should help with your bandwidth (good thing for streaming live video). The specific services I've tried are ExpressVPN and VyprVPN. They both come with 1 month free trials, but I'll admit they're a bit pricey; I needed all of the security and traffic obfuscation they provided to get around the GFW, you don't, so you can certainly go for a lower-frills service. whypick1 fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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Feb 27, 2016 23:00
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I found MLS Live to be super restricted because every game on any national tv network, even the spanish ones, was blacked out. I guess I should look into VPN but at this point I'm still irritated about it and I'll just use goatdee
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yeah, i strongly considered MLS live the last couple years, but i don't think it's worth paying for the service when i'd still be stuck with fox's garbage streaming for FS1 games and probably even worse streams for the unimas games.
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Feb 27, 2016 23:47
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Local blackouts vary by team--a lot of them are like NE and don't bother anymore. SEVEN DAYS 
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Feb 27, 2016 23:57
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Eating poutine, I'm in heaven.
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I have ESPN3/Comcast Online/MLS Live and live out of my favorite team's home market, so I'm pretty much set.
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Tigren posted:I have ESPN3/Comcast Online/MLS Live and live out of my favorite team's home market, so I'm pretty much set. What about Fox Sports Go?
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CaptainYesterday posted:What about Fox Sports Go? i assume by "comcast online" he means the xfinity thing where, if you log in with a cable account, you can stream a whole buttload of channels (FS1 included)
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ESPNfc saying Howard to Colorado is a done deal and will occur after the EPL season. $2M a year is the reported salary.
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Watching Fire/Timbers. Fire are good?
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Gilberto is good?
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Chicago out here with an astonishingly competent defense
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Portland are certainly asking questions here.
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Fire are good. 
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Concerning: No goals vs. MLS opponents in this preseason tournament, at home... The same problem every year: finishing.
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They're gonna win it all. Or at least make the playoffs. ed Chicago, not Portland paddyboat fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Feb 28, 2016 |
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Syrinxx posted:ESPNfc saying Howard to Colorado is a done deal and will occur after the EPL season. $2M a year is the reported salary. That's a better price. Colorado are still idiots for this unless they have a deal to ship MacMath for someone useful.
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Feb 28, 2016 04:10
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Your Boy Fancy posted:That's a better price. Colorado are still idiots for this unless they have a deal to ship MacMath for someone useful. Like they've thought that far ahead? MacMath will be selling beers in the concession stand at Dick's just to have something to do.
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Bio-Hazard posted:Concerning: No goals vs. MLS opponents in this preseason tournament, at home... The same problem every year: finishing.  the Championship shine has already worn off.T2 played against Vancouver. The only thing concerning about tonight is the knock Asprilla took.
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I hope DC sign JJ Koval.
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highme posted:
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Bio-Hazard posted:Concerning: No goals vs. MLS opponents in this preseason tournament, at home... The same problem every year: finishing. yeah but hey no injuries! Zemanski survived! and it feels comforting to watch the Timbers not excel so I mean... phew!
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Tigren posted:Less talk more info. What's the deal with VPN and does it cost money? So last year i got MLS Live for free with my season ticket so I said screw it and paid for a year of Hola VPN for like $35 or whatever it cost. I'd say on the whole it was worth it. I wouldn't pay for both VPN and MLS Live though.
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Your Boy Fancy posted:That's a better price. Colorado are still idiots for this unless they have a deal to ship MacMath for someone useful. I think the idea is MacMath is it until Howard arrives and is it when/if Howard is away for the national team. I think. I still think it's a stupid deal meant to fix a self-inflicted problem and wholly designed to put butts in the seats, but $2 mil a year is less stupid than $5. I hope it works out of course but it's still stupid. There's some behind the scenes rumbling that Irwin wasn't well liked by his teammates and blah blah blah locker room issues blah blah blah, but without any proof I'll just judge it by what I can see. Edit: the guy to feel sorry for is Johnathan Berner, the current #2 keeper and eventually #3. He's not a bad keeper in my opinion, just needs time to get up to speed. But now he's got Howard and MacMath in front of him. He's never making the big squad again unless there's some serious injuries. Hopefully he enjoys Carolina. TheBoyBlunder fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Feb 28, 2016 |
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And MacMath is there when Howard lets in as many goals as Irwin did and gets benched for half a season like Irwin did because you can have the best goddamn keeper in the world but when the rest of your team can't get their act together it doesn't matter. Burgundy Wave had an interview with the Everton SG about why Howard is riding the bench there and they were like 'oh, he was fine but our defense got a bunch of injuries and with a constantly rotating back line there were communication errors and he's now fallen out of favor' WHERE HAVE I HEARD THAT BEFORE HMMMMMMM... And Berner is there when the same goddamn thing happens to MacMath. Because Mastro is like 'I AM PLAYING FIVE DEFENSIVE MIDS OUT THERE HOW COME YOU KEEP LETTING GOALS IN???'
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He never realizes that the reason we leak goals is that theres no risk of our guys getting forward so they can just be in our area all game. We play so far back other teams can take risks and not get punished.
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Speaking of the Rapids, I have been in Denver for the past 4 days and have seen exactly one Rapids logo. It was a faded and peeling car magnet. I tried to buy a tshirt or something at a few sporting goods stores downtown, but the clerks told me the Rapids don't have any merch distributors in the area so they can't stock anything. I get that they have been going up against the Super Bowl win and the NHL stadium series, which is a tough ask for any MLS team. But the season starts in 7 days, and I have seen literally no promotion of it. Maybe Tim Howard will get butts in seats this summer, but jesus christ this is gonna be a bad team with dismal attendance til then.
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There's Rapids stuff around, but it's not made visible. The Sports Authority that I worked at had a few shirts (most of them with the MLS All-Stars logo), some hats, and some soccer balls with the logo on it. It was tucked away with the rest of the soccer stuff while the Broncos, Rockies, Avalanche, CSU Rams, and CU Buffalos all got a big corner of the store. The last time I went to the Dick's Sporting Goods at the mall in Littleton, I only found a few hats. I'll chalk up the invisibility to the huge dearth of Super Bowl 50 stuff at the time, but it's really telling when the company that has the naming rights to the loving stadium doesn't have much for Rapids stuff in the Metro Denver area.
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The Rapids are a terribly run team that will never get out of the shadow of the Broncos and the Avs and, hell, the Nuggets or Rockies for that matter.
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I mean, I'm okay with the fact that there are other sports that will be more popular than soccer in the US for the foreseeable future. But like I said, I have trouble finding Rapids merchandise in the sporting goods store that has the naming rights of the stadium they play in. It's that bad.
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It's interesting because my complaint for a long time has been about merchandising plans. I actually attended a dinner with big wigs from MLS, various MLS owners etc. and I asked about why teams don't sell their merchandise in stores like Target or Five Below. Basically anywhere kids can afford to buy stuff. Their answer is they want to remain 'premium' and that they want 'more money' for their products they sell. Soccer in the US isn't really a premium, upperclass sport. People pay on average 30 a ticket and spend less on merchandise on average than any sport in the US. If you want an elitist sport, try football where tickets can cost up to 4,000 dollars or hockey where the average ticket price is about 90-100. Basically the league makes a lot of poor decisions and suffers for it in continued low ratings and attendance, despite all of their bluster that the league is growing in popularity (when it isn't in the way it should be).
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They want more money for poo poo that no one buys because none of that poo poo is available for people to buy. How has this league even survived this long?
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