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#1 BenBurton

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Posted 21 November 2008 - 11:57 PM

Not sure if this was posted elsewhere but....

Elsewhere, each team will play a 30-game schedule in 2009. Each team will play every other team in a home-and-away format, with two extra games against close conference rivals. For the playoffs, the top two teams from each conference will qualify automatically, followed by four teams with the best records regardless of conference.


http://soccernet.esp...d...mp;&cc=5901

Any thoughts on who our 'close conference rivals' will be?

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Posted 22 November 2008 - 12:00 AM

Not sure if this was posted elsewhere but....



http://soccernet.esp...d...mp;&cc=5901

Any thoughts on who our 'close conference rivals' will be?



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Posted 22 November 2008 - 12:14 AM

I call

In the East
CHICAGO: KC and New England
COLUMBUS: KC and TFC
TORONTO: Columbus and NY
NEW ENGLAND: Chicago and DC
DC UNITED: NY and New England
NEW YORK: DC and TFC
KC: Chicago and Columbus

In the West
Los Angeles: Chivas USA and San Jose
Chivas USA: LA and Houston
San Jose: Seattle and LA
Seattle: San Jose and RSL
RSL: Colorado and Seattle
Colorado: RSL and FCD
FCD: Houston and Colorado
Houston: FCD and Chivas USA

Book it.

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Posted 22 November 2008 - 06:04 PM

I call

In the East
CHICAGO: KC and New England
COLUMBUS: KC and TFC
TORONTO: Columbus and NY
NEW ENGLAND: Chicago and DC
DC UNITED: NY and New England
NEW YORK: DC and TFC
KC: Chicago and Columbus

In the West
Los Angeles: Chivas USA and San Jose
Chivas USA: LA and Houston
San Jose: Seattle and LA
Seattle: San Jose and RSL
RSL: Colorado and Seattle
Colorado: RSL and FCD
FCD: Houston and Colorado
Houston: FCD and Chivas USA

Book it.


no way! cbus HAS to be one of ours... don't they?

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Posted 22 November 2008 - 06:23 PM

We'll either get Columbus and New England, or we'll get DC and New England.

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Posted 22 November 2008 - 06:23 PM

no way! cbus HAS to be one of ours... don't they?

In a perfect world, it would be. I'd love our rivalry games to be New England and Columbus, but looking at the league as a whole, if you keep things intra-conference for the rivalry games, look at things from KC's perspective.

If we don't play Kansas City in one of their two "rivalry" games, after Columbus the closest team for KC is Toronto. I see 3 games with KC next year as almost inevitable. More or less the cost of doing business. As a result, I guess we get two home games against KC (flip of this year).

Remember, we only played Columbus twice in the regular season this year as well, and that was with FOUR rivalry games.

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Posted 22 November 2008 - 06:26 PM

I took "close" to mean something more like "rival" and not "close in terms of distance"

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Posted 22 November 2008 - 06:33 PM

True, but that's the way it often lines up.

Look at Columbus and Toronto. They're rivals because they're close to each other and no one else wanted them as rivals.
Many other of the league's hottest rivalries are due primarily to proximity
San Jose-LA
LA-Chivas
Houston-Dallas
RSL-Colorado
New York-DC, etc.



I sprinkled in a couple of inter-sectional rivalries where a team isn't just playing the next city down the road.
ie: New England vs us and DC, but not against NY or TFC. Chivas against Houston, but not agianst San Jose because you need to free up a team for Seattle to play, etc.

Few teams are going to be perfectly happy with the schedule, and I'm sure we'll have our own batch of complaining about fixture congestion when the schedule gets released.

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Posted 22 November 2008 - 07:15 PM

I rather not have that extra game with Columbus.
I don't want to go there more than once a year, max. :ph34r:
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Posted 22 November 2008 - 07:20 PM

The bigger news perhaps is that the reserve division is being scrapped.

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Posted 22 November 2008 - 08:01 PM

We'll either get Columbus and New England, or we'll get DC and New England.


I think this is correct.

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Posted 22 November 2008 - 08:09 PM

The bigger news perhaps is that the reserve division is being scrapped.

Biggest and worst.
QUOTE (chicubfan @ May 29 2009, 03:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I interned in the FO for a little while and trust me they are so dumb had they payed off the refs they probably would have presented them one of those huge checks during halftime on the field.

QUOTE (joey @ Oct 8 2009, 07:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
halloween specific stadium.




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Posted 23 November 2008 - 12:07 AM

Biggest and worst.

Argue your point.

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Posted 23 November 2008 - 12:41 AM

Argue your point.

It's not the reserve division being scrapped so much as it's the reduction of roster sizes that caused it. The rosters of MLS clubs are already too small to handle a 30 game league schedule and either the Champions League or Superliga, and reducing them just exacerbates the problem. For this league to make an imprint on the football landscape of this hemisphere, it needs to make its clubs able to compete in continental competitions and not force them to look at them as annoying fixtures in which to field a reserve team. MLS is taking a serious step backwards away from that goal.

And the reserve division is necessary to keep young players playing regular competitive games.
QUOTE (chicubfan @ May 29 2009, 03:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I interned in the FO for a little while and trust me they are so dumb had they payed off the refs they probably would have presented them one of those huge checks during halftime on the field.

QUOTE (joey @ Oct 8 2009, 07:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
halloween specific stadium.




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Posted 23 November 2008 - 06:16 PM

Other details about 2009 season:

Opening weekend is March 21st.

Garber says the league is going to avoid more international FIFA dates. But then he said a group of owners will decide if they will either not play at all on two weekends or play a 'limited' number of games on four weekends.

One negative, apparently there will be more weekday games. :angry:




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