Jerk-asses on ESPN debating whether Messi is making The MLS look bad.
I contend that he is not, I mean, not all by his lonesome. He gets a lot of help, from the rest of The MLS League.
“Emperor and his clothes” kind of thing.
Anywho, Leagues Cup Final, with the WORST team in The MLS and Liga MX in it. On Univision.
He’s still one of the best players in the world. He often made other La Liga teams look bad. Just enjoy the show IMO.
I got an email saying the game time for MIA @ATL was moved to 5PM. Not sure why, but am guessing TV slots. The email also said the game will be played on artificial turf. I wonder if that will mean Messi is not playing.
It’s MIA at Nashville.
This should answer your wonderings:
Another revelation from Messi – and one there had been plenty of speculation about – was that he will be fine playing on artificial turf once MLS play resumes later this month. Miami is scheduled to play on two turf fields – at Atlanta United FC and Charlotte FC – in its remaining regular-season league games.
“I spent my youth on artificial turf, my whole life was on that pitch,” Messi said. “It’s been a while since I’ve played on an artificial turf, but I have no problem adapting myself again.”
I’d interpret that as, “I’ll run on it and see.” And after he does so, I’m guessing he’ll be a 60th/90th-minute sub.
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Thanks. That rumor that Messi wouldn’t play on turf got repeated so often by many that everyone assumed it was true.
Surprise: worst team in the MLS Soccer League wins the Leagues Cup!
Congrats to Inter Miami, the franchise gifted to a good but wildly overhyped player who came over to MLS and was a slightly above average but not great player (and certainly not as good as he had been in the EPL), which was given numerous opportunities to get its shit together despite continued problems getting underway (which it finally did 5 1/2 years later), which spent its first 3 1/2 years being a lousy to barely average franchise, which on the 2nd attempt managed to successfully buy a handful of players to get around the league’s salary cap, on its first-ever trophy.
It took a lot of help work, but they managed to pull it off.
Part of his salary when he agreed to play down in the MLS Soccer League.
Not sure how many matches are left, but can Messi overtake the goal scoring leader by the end of the season? 13 by the Nashville guy.
From ESPN:
What’s to come next is this semifinal against an FC Cincinnati team that lost 3-0 to Columbus Crew on Saturday but is in the middle of their best MLS season since making the jump from the second-tier USL Championship in 2019.
Um, they didn’t “make a jump,” which, to me and anyone who follows real soccer, implies a promotion. They paid to get into The MLS Soccer League.
Telemundo tonight for US Open Cup semifinals: Messi vs MLS top Eastern Conference team. 33 points separate them in The MLS.
What is this utter crap?
There is a big demand for tickets: oh, bad look.
There is a little demand for tickets: oh, bad look.
And, again with the misure of the term “Pay-to-Play”
Although the World Cup winner’s appearance in the game is expected to drive up prices, they are too high. Pricing out the fans in Nashville continues the ‘pay-to-play’ nature that has plagued American soccer.
NO! That is not what that means! “This is Pay-To-Watch”!
Also, this is the first time people have watched a true, best-ever soccer player in the USA in a real competition (friendlies don’t count).
And, if you don’t want to pay, then you can watch on TV or in a bar. same as every other event in the whole world.
Later on, the article thinks that it’s OK for scalpers to charge that much, but not the teams or the league or whoever first sells the ticket. notes that the lowest cost seats at the UEFA Champions League Final sold at $75, but scalpers profited by selling them as high as the Leagues Cup Final.
The coup-de-grace:
The worst part about the Nashville game against Inter Miami is that there is an abundance of tickets still available.
Oh? I guess people can still buy tickets, which is a helluvalot better (IMO) than not being able to buy a ticket. OPrices are still too high, but that is merely an issue with the sticky-prices market AND the inability of people to offer a lower price than what is shown. The ticket system needs to be fixed so people can counter-offer, as you would on the street with a scalper.
That the prices are too high and are still available tells me that they are not priced to the market. Maybe they were, once. But markets change with the times.
I’ve seen a number of articles listing “highest price currently listed” which is a bit silly as people throw out some crazy listing prices that they will never get. It’s click bait as people are shocked that someone is asking 5k/ticket. Prices on tickets recently sold or lowest prices offered in a given area/section are the relevant data.
Is this publicly available?
I don’t think so. Would be helpful.
Stubhub used to provide this, but stopped during the pandemic and isn’t doing it anymore. AFAIK ticketmaster doesn’t show it publicly
A google tells me that there is a for fee service that does this that I think some ticket brokers may use.
Information inequality. Nice.
US Open Cup match was pretty exciting. MIA down by two, score, then score seven minutes into stoppage time. Tied after 90, then each score a goal in Extra Time. MIA pulls out the penalty shootout (as it is now called).
That Luciano Acosta is quite small. About four inches shorter than Messi. Makes up for it in a number of ways, though.
Plays only 30 minutes, still beats NYRB, climb out of the cellar, now the third-worst MLS team.
John Herdman, previously the Canadian national women’s and then the men’s soccer coach, is leaving the men’s national team to become Toronto FC coach. Tempting to blame the mess that is Canada Soccer for his departure.