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blumenfeuer in nach_spielzeit

Pimp My League: MLS

Aug 01, 2007 21:55

MLS is my local league. I like it, even though sometimes it's retarded (oh hai guys did you know that BECKHAM IS COMING OMFG LOL?!?). The level of play is decent, and the teams are pretty even - no La Liga "oh will Real Madrid or Barcelona win this year" or EPL "which of these four teams will will" or Ligue 1 "how long has Lyon been winning" ( Read more... )

activity: pimp my league, theme: other leagues, country: united states

Comments 6

wispykitty August 2 2007, 13:31:45 UTC

You pimped the MLS! Yay for you. <3 I wish people would give it more respect because as you stated, it's really not that bad. However I do wish they'd get rid of the whole playoff thing (way too North American for me) and the conferences. Conferences in this sport, it just doesn't work. But I'm still happy we have a league. :D

blumenfeuer August 2 2007, 16:56:15 UTC

I went to a USL-2 game a few days ago and I had pretty low expectations, but it really wasn't that bad. A lot of people who dig on MLS haven't watched more than one game, if that. :/

The conferences are just unnecessary. I can see for baseball and American football and basketball and hockey since those leagues have 30+ teams each, but for a league with 13? Having it set up like that isn't going to draw anyone in from other leagues.

Me too. :)

wispykitty August 2 2007, 17:33:58 UTC

I think our other Toronto team, the Lynx, are a USL-2 team as well. But they're pretty bad, so say some of the guys here who supported them. They'll probably be disbanded due to the TFC support. They barely get anyone at their games, poor guys.

But a friend of mine who's in Ottawa has gone to a few games for their team in the USL, the Ottawa Fury, and she quite enjoys them. So yeah, it's definitely not as bad as everyone thinks. I wonder if they'll ever start doing the promotion/relegation thing? I don't know if the sport has caught on quite that well here for them to consider that, though it would be cool. Especially for teams that don't draw a lot of fans to begin with, I don't know how they'd cope with the idea of promotion/relegation between divisions.

Which MLS team do you support, by the way?

blumenfeuer August 2 2007, 19:08:45 UTC

Aw, Poor Lynx. Hopefully the players will find another team.

I went to a Cleveland City Stars/Columbus Crew (it was mostly their fringe/younger guys playing) exhibition the other day, they announced there were about 2000 there, which looked about capacity. I don't think they'll ever have promotion/relegation here. One, because a lot of people I know are too retarded to understand the concept ("So it's like AAA baseball? Are they farm clubs?") and two, the investors aren't going to want to lose the money by going down. Maybe in a few decades, if USL and USL-2 become somewhat profitable.

The Crew. Same state, probably going to college near Columbus, so it's sort of a proximity thing, ha. I like Chivas, too.

Is that you in your icon? It's cute.

txorakeriak August 4 2007, 12:49:45 UTC

Wow! Thanks for all this information! I really appreciate it, because before I started reading wispykitty's LJ, I didn't even know the US had a league ( ... )

blumenfeuer August 4 2007, 14:55:18 UTC

Well, we did have the NASL years back ('68 - '84) and my dad remembers going to a lot of those games. It folded though, since they overspent and there were only so many players ( ... )