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Quick recap of the season, for those of you just joining us/having spent the past 8 months in a coma: Supporters Shield winner: FC Dallas (17-8-9, 60 points) MLS Cup winner: Seattle Sounders (  )CONCACAF Champion's League spots: FC Dallas (US Open Cup winner) Colorado Rapids (Western Conference winner spot from Dallas as #2 on the full table) New York Red Bulls (Eastern Conference winner) Seattle Sounders (MLS Cup winner) Toronto FC (Canadian Championship winner) Most Valuable Player: David Villa (23 goals, 4 assists, dragged Man City B's shambling corpse to the #2 seed and capitalized on the votes being split between the two NYRB players) Defender of the Year: Matt Hedges (beat out Van Damme and Sjoberg) Goalkeeper of the Year: Andre Blake (stats were nothing to write home about, but the other finalists were Howard [only half a season] and Robles [who sucks but no one will admit it], so  )Coach of the Year : Oscar Pareja (SS and USOC wins with the youngest roster in the league) Rookie of the Year: Jordan Morris (12 goals, 4 assists) Newcomer of the Year: Nicolás Lodeiro (4 goals, 8 assists in just 1170 minutes) Comeback Player of the Year: Chris Pontius (12 goals, 6 assists) Golden Boot: Bradley Wright-Phillips (24 goals, 5 assists) Fair Play Player Award: Keegan Rosenberry (no cards, only 13 fouls committed while playing every minute of the season) Fair Play Team Award: Columbus Crew SC (fewest fouls committed by a healthy margin) Humanitarian of the Year: Matt Lampson Referee of the Year: Alan Kelly (who did such a stellar job in the final  )Assistant Referee of the Year: Frank Anderson Goal of the Year: Shkëlzen Gashi Save of the Year: Joe Bendik
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Full list of protected/unprotected players for the Expansion Draft Not really surprised at Seattle's choices. whypick1 fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Dec 12, 2016 |
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Re-entry draft/free transfers
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Dec 12, 2016 20:09
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highme posted:There's a limit (like 1 or 2) to the amount of players that can be selected from a team. It's 1 period. So only half of the current teams will lose a player (each team gets 5 picks).
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Simone Poodoin posted:it's a bit overcomplicated system... mls.txt Simone Poodoin posted:...but makes sense. not_mls.txt
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Dallan Invictus posted:I hope someone picks Tornaghi...he's too good to be stuck on the bench behind Ousted at this point is his career. Are we talking about the same dude? All I've seen of Tornaghi was "Rais M'Bolhi in Philly" levels of terrible.
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Expansion Draft Picks Atlanta Donny Toia (MTL) Zach Lloyd (DAL) Clint Irwin (TOR) Mikey Ambrose (ORL) Alec Kann (SKC) Minnesota Chris Duvall (NYRB) Collen Warner (HOU) Mohammed Saeid (CLB) Jeff Attinella (RSL) Femi Hollinger-Janzen (NE) whypick1 fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Dec 13, 2016 |
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Dec 13, 2016 20:15
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https://twitter.com/LAGalaxy/status/808818847616671744 Wasn't part of LA's problems was that GDS was a "does whatever he wants" kind of player and JJJ is the exact same thing? Seems unwise to put them together.
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Dec 14, 2016 00:44
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Wasn't there another draft about t- https://twitter.com/MLS/status/809493392912764928 Oh
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Star Man posted:Despite the Colorado Rapids not repeating the 2014 and 2015 seasons, I still want Tim Hinchey and Pablo Mastroeni shot in the loving head. About that... https://twitter.com/ColoradoRapids/status/809520228187144192
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So you're saying people who bought in originally are getting their money back by other people coming in and buying in for more. man, that sure sounds like some kind of...plan? Program? Arrangement? Can't quite think of a word, I bet some Italian dude can come up with something.
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Yet another draft today, this time Re-Entry. Round 1 Houston - Dylan Remick (SEA) Orlando - Patrick McClain (ORL) Seattle - Brian Meredith (SJ)
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https://twitter.com/MNUFC/status/811268645611520000 Gleeson gone?
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Amazingly, this will be the first time ever Seattle has opened the year on the road.Azerban posted:this is the worst league At least you'll be watch that game on not-UniMás. vvv I don't think that's ever been a thing. Apparently we're on the road for good reason: whypick1 fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Dec 21, 2016 |
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Dec 21, 2016 19:07
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We had yet another goddamn draft today: https://twitter.com/MLS/status/812030446062239746
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Dec 22, 2016 21:27
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Sounders also picked up Will Briun from Houston for TAM/GAM. Did not see that one coming either.
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I'm more partial to this moment: https://twitter.com/whoisjoserivera/status/659587236602613761
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Dallan Invictus posted:A DP defender? Is that legal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f20D9HRiDE vvv It wasn't the game-winning goal 
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Jan 3, 2017 18:45
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Your Boy Fancy posted:Why didn't they just call Minnesota the loving Loons. Because people are stupid and apparently we can't have nice things. Is anyone here actually going to call Minnesota/Atlanta "United"? Loons/Shermans is way better.
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Jan 3, 2017 22:57
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Jan 5, 2017 01:15
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quote:The press release: Manneh (Vancouver Whitecaps FC) and Frei (Seattle Sounders FC) are both in the process of completing their eligibility requirements to represent the United States. While that process is ongoing, they are clear to participate in the training camp.
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wicka posted:The Riverhounds have signed a former "MLS League Pool goalkeeper." Can someone explain what those words in that order mean? If you suddenly find yourself down to having only 1 keeper on your roster you can sign those guys short-term. Otherwise they're not attached to any roster.
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BTW, full schedule release is tomorrow.
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Games at the StubHub are probably going to be a shitshow for a while: https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/819567744333058048 https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/819568188564312064
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whypick1 posted:BTW, full schedule release is tomorrow. http://www.mlssoccer.com/schedule/2017/announcement?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=News&utm_campaign=Unpaid
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^^^ Lovely. Other things to note: *17 home, 17 away. 1 game vs. out-of-conference foes, home-and-away vs. in-conference foes with 1 additional game vs. 3 in-conference foes (for example, Seattle makes extra trips to LA and Vancouver while hosting Portland again). *Rivalry Week(s) are no longer in the beginning of the goddamn season. *League-wide hiatus for Gold Cup group stage (July 7-17) *End-of-season scheduling (penultimate week has simultaneous kickoffs for the two conferences, final week simultaneous kickoff for everyone) continues *UniMas is now airing games on Saturday alongside LigaMX games. Friday games continue, but they'll mostly be on regular broadcast setups instead of UniMas (yay) *FOX is airing 4 games: LA@ORL, POR@SEA, NYC@NYR, ORL@ATL (Orlando twice?  )*First match: MIN@POR (3/3, 6:30PST) *MLS Live is still not dead yet whypick1 fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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James Riley was also on 7 teams (NE, SJ, SEA, CHV, DC, LA, COL).
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all-Rush mixtape posted:I just discovered that this is a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_FC_0%E2%80%937_New_York_Red_Bulls Man City B getting poo poo on in their own stadium by the not-actually New York team in their own stadium deserves its own page. (How the gently caress did the rest of the East let them get to #2?) ((Yes, I know Seattle lost to them, shut up))
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12 cities have submitted bids for the 4 expansion team slots: Charlotte Cincinatti - Promoting USL side Cincinatti FC Detroit - Ownership group includes the owners of the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Detroit Pistons. Indianapolis - Promoting NASL side Indy Eleven Nashville Phoenix - Promoting USL side Phoenix Rising FC (currently coached by Frank Yallop  )Raleigh-Durham - Promoting USL side  )Sacramento - Part of the investor group is Jed York, who is probably the worst team owner on this continent, if not hemisphere. St. Louis - No, their plan does not involve using the now-abandoned stadium the Rams used to play in San Antonio - Promoting USL side San Antonio FC Tampa Bay - Promoting NASL side Tampa Bay Rowdies If it were up to me, Cincy/Raleigh/San Antonio would be rejected until they got actual team names and Sacramento would be kicked out on the basis of Jed York being a giant fuckboi who I don't making GBS threads up another sports league I care about.
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Do over Ham posted:<pointing out all the times messed up which league a team was in> This all would've been easier had the USSF just killed NASL
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ShutteredIn posted:Meg Whitman getting involved in anything is basically a death knell. She was better than our last 3 CEOs  Crazy Ted posted:Well I think you can cross Sacramento off the list: Still more likely to get a team than Miami.
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Do over Ham posted:Damning with faint praise. Uh, Whitman was the last CEO before the split and is still the CEO of HPE (which is not the one I work for). Did you confuse her with Fiorina (who definitely tanked the company)? Do over Ham posted:As it so happens the Tampa Bay Rowdies owner and some Rowdies fans have already been thinking along these lines: Split the difference and put the team in Cape Coral 
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WhyteRyce posted:Apparently the two sides met with the Sacramento mayor today and made good progress in coming together to an agreement. For all the outrage against Nagle, I'm wondering if Smith was being too stubborn during negotiations and Nagle primed the self-destruct button in order to get Smith to back down a bit. Looks like it worked
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Meanwhile, the Whitecaps are going to trot this out: That is just....no.
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Dallan Invictus posted:Yeah, we've had a bunch of really awesome thirds the past couple of years and this...isn't one of them. Even for their stated theme there are probably better ways they could have pulled it off. Rogers or Shaw?
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https://twitter.com/HoustonDynamo/status/829843590528585730 Sure is orange
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