Digby

That's sincerely hilarious. As it easy as it is to despise City Football Group for franchise-colonization of the world's leagues as sportswashing, it's even better that their "partners" in the Yankees seem to be trying their best to sabotage the entire operation. It's almost slapstick. CFG's just gotta buy them out when they finally have a stadium, right?

I just remembered Fox wanted to make Gus their soccer voice for the last World Cup but it prompted global protests.

Would’ve been a nice night for red shorts for RSL. Though, unlike the CCL game midweek with Pumas in town, this much snow wasn’t forecasted for today. Still sucks, gotta be hard when your own teammates are camouflaged.

Didn't we fight a war to avoid that nonsense (and brand multiple MLS clubs after the imagery of said war)?

Yeah, I know people who aren't into sports and pay like $20 a month for Philo and call it good. I will say that using Hulu with the live TV package plus Internet is still cheaper than the classic cable bundle, mostly because the price is the price. Not getting 15% in taxes and fees added onto the advertised price. But we'll see how long that lasts and how many more services I have to get. ESPN+ is included with Hulu and Peacock is the included with Xfinity internet, so I guess I'm getting lucky with getting these as extras.

I went to the game -- stood in the supporters section so as to let surrounding body heat keep me warm. (Tickets were going for $10 on the broker sites.) Fun to see a game in the snow, more fun to see the Revolution totally dominate over Liga MX opposition.

Beyond the obvious complaints about needing seven different streaming services -- this seems somewhat at odds with the business model of team-owned RSNs, doesn't it? I guess not everyone has their own RSN so maybe it's a wash for them.

Last year, the artists formerly known as Montreal Impact just had the BMO circle logo extra large on the front of their home shirts, right? This year, same shirt but the usual logo treatment as seen on all the other Montreal/Toronto shirts.

I didn't realize the Thorns ditched green and the monochrome crest is their primary look. I do like the idea of having some green in there as an alt look, like reverse Timbers.

I prefer Portland's white shorts with the home, but if it's going to be an all-green matchup, both teams going monochrome would be easier on the eyes.

Not sure about the way the crest is recolored on that Thorns away... just looks odd. Otherwise both the designs are fine, shame their sponsor has apparently rebranded to a Times New Roman generic wordmark.

Because otherwise it's just bog-standard tanking, which is nothing new but you can't build a brand around it.

The MBA-ization of baseball has literally killed the sport, so this is a wild take. Who cares? Business school is for people with no talent but lots of money and privilege.

That’s back-to-back wins for the Celtics over Memphis and Brooklyn, and Tatum is staking his claim to elite status… I’m not dwelling on their ugly games against like Washington in November. Celtics back, folks!

Suddenly haven't heard much from the "Ime Udoka is a quota hire" crowd!

For those with an Athletic sub, there's a fun read of an anonymous survey of MLS team GMs et al. https://theathletic.com/3162180/2022/03/03/2022-mls-team-executive-anonymous-survey-candid-views-on-owners-coaches-players-and-cheating-around-the-league/ Many good quotes but my favorite is:

This is a hilarious scandal. Very MLS-esque in that it excuses the richest men in the room from maintaining a professional standard for their labor under the guise of "sustainability".

Nashville was away and has a perfectly good dark purple kit that presumably exists for games like this. It's like somebody is in charge of the league selling secondary kits but nobody's in charge of stepping in and using them where they ought to be.

Seattle green vs. Nashville yellow was not an easy watch. This screencap is generous, parts of the movement and areas of the pitch made it look worse.

This is where I am with it. Love the concept, but the rose placement felt odd to me from the start, and in practice I thought the “rose” effect was somewhat lost and they just looked like giant maroon splotches on the shirt.

It is odd to me that we've got so many different names for different blues on these graphics (Zenith! Easy Blue!) but then Columbus and Nashville's different shades shirts are both simply "Yellow".

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I’ve never seen anyone but the diehards pay attention to CCL. Could be many reasons for that, but curious to see how the Leagues Cup will be different. Also, lol, NYCFC is playing their second-round home match in Hartford again.

My assumption on the keeper kit situation is that it has more to do with the World Cup being a half-year later than usual, and Adidas wanting to hold on rolling out its next line in closer conjunction to that. Can’t spoil it a full MLS season before.