#16
Posted 07 January 2019 - 11:44 PM
We are good enough to beat the best teams, and bad enough to lose to the worst teams.
#17
Posted 08 January 2019 - 01:10 AM
Love the schedule format change to playing conference teams 2 times, non-conference once. As balanced as a schedule as your gonna get in this league.
Notes
1) We have a very easy schedule to start . Also with the 2nd week bye, this will be very helpful for a CCL run
2) Only 2 home weekday games is good. They are against boring opponents anyway.
3) Last home game vs DC Scum should have a great atmosphere. As should the Galaxy game.
4) Playing at DC on a Wednesday again is outrageous. I wanted to make that trip this year. MLS needs to schedule these rivalries with traveling fans in mind.
#18
Posted 08 January 2019 - 02:24 AM
.Playing at DC on a Wednesday again is outrageous. I wanted to make that trip this year. MLS needs to schedule these rivalries with traveling fans in mind.
While MLS hypes rivalries, it does not give a damn about travelling away fans.
We are good enough to beat the best teams, and bad enough to lose to the worst teams.
#19
Posted 08 January 2019 - 09:41 AM
While MLS hypes rivalries, it does not give a damn about travelling away fans.
As cynical as it is, it makes sense; TV audience is more important to them in the long run than a couple of thousand traveling fans (that's league-wide). Easier to zoom in at fans in a stadium than move weekend TV schedules.
#20
Posted 08 January 2019 - 09:58 AM
@CurseofCaricola
#21
Posted 08 January 2019 - 10:11 AM
@CurseofCaricola
#22
Posted 08 January 2019 - 10:22 AM
I'm fully convinced the league is trying to ensure that our arch enemy is NYCFC rather than DC. This way they can try and pair off Philly with DC.
MLS's insistence on rivalries as a major marketing tool is so cringey. Since I started following the Red Bulls there have been no less than 6 teams that have either been labeled a rival by either MLS or broadcasters. Philly was called a rival before we even played a single game against them!
#23
Posted 08 January 2019 - 10:37 AM
I'm fully convinced the league is trying to ensure that our arch enemy is NYCFC rather than DC. This way they can try and pair off Philly with DC.
One does not have to be a conspiracy enthusiast to believe this.
We are good enough to beat the best teams, and bad enough to lose to the worst teams.
#24
Posted 08 January 2019 - 11:14 AM
According to Ben Baer, calculating home and away opponent's points in 2018, we have the easiest schedule in the league this year.
#25
Posted 08 January 2019 - 11:15 AM
MLS's insistence on rivalries as a major marketing tool is so cringey. Since I started following the Red Bulls there have been no less than 6 teams that have either been labeled a rival by either MLS or broadcasters. Philly was called a rival before we even played a single game against them!
One does not have to be a conspiracy enthusiast to believe this.
I don't even think there's any effort to pretend otherwise.
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." - Iron Mike
Bitch covered my plaid?
The sorrow inside me grows.
I need my plaid pitch.
"It goes without saying that when things don't go your way they just don't go your way. " - JCO
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#26
Posted 08 January 2019 - 11:23 AM
According to Ben Baer, calculating home and away opponent's points in 2018, we have the easiest schedule in the league this year.
Because we don't have to play ourselves. (As opposed to say Orlando, who doesn't have to play... Orlando.)
#27
Posted 08 January 2019 - 12:08 PM
Saturday March 30th Away at chicago at 1pm Est is awesome. SeatGeek stadium is only a few miles from Chicago MDW airport and they run game day buses from the Chicago MDW airport "Orange Line "L" train" stop. So basically a bus to and from the airport and I have points on southwest to easily cover the fare. The early start time will allow me to fly in, go to the match and fly home the same day.
#28
Posted 08 January 2019 - 12:31 PM
According to Ben Baer, calculating home and away opponent's points in 2018, we have the easiest schedule in the league this year.
???
If everyone in the East plays every Eastern team twice and every Western team once, doesn't everyone have the same schedule?
#29
Posted 08 January 2019 - 12:36 PM
???
If everyone in the East plays every Eastern team twice and every Western team once, doesn't everyone have the same schedule
East and West are different, and as MF pointed out, we don't have to play ourselves, and Orlando doesn't get to play themselves.
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." - Iron Mike
Bitch covered my plaid?
The sorrow inside me grows.
I need my plaid pitch.
"It goes without saying that when things don't go your way they just don't go your way. " - JCO
"He can't kick with his left foot, he can't tackle, he can't head the ball and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that, he's all right.”
George Best, on David Beckham
#30
Posted 08 January 2019 - 12:38 PM
Saturday March 30th Away at chicago at 1pm Est is awesome. SeatGeek stadium is only a few miles from Chicago MDW airport and they run game day buses from the Chicago MDW airport "Orange Line "L" train" stop. So basically a bus to and from the airport and I have points on southwest to easily cover the fare. The early start time will allow me to fly in, go to the match and fly home the same day.
Those buses can be really inconsistent. I waited an hour for one for the USWNT - Brazil match this summer and it never showed. I had checked the CTA website; they should have been running.
If you get there and the bus is not there, take an Uber and hop out when you can see a path to walk to the stadium. You might have to scoot down an embankment, but it's better than waiting 45 minutes in stadium traffic.
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