I think paying a good baseball player that you really want the salary he was always going to get is probably a good idea

Trying to understand what it means when a club trades $200k in GAM for an international roster spot and a 2nd round pick in the MLS SuperDraft

Pretty cool that 12.99 will now get you access to a mind bending drama based on highly structured and inscrutable rules with themes of identity and free will set to a backdrop of corporate desperation and overreach and also severance is on there I guess

In retrospect “I’m going to grow our league by charging 80 dollars to watch it” was a strange plan

i mean i was just thinking earlier today that it has been a few years since we've fundamentally changed how the league works

It took me like six years to get my dad to understand the away goals tiebreaker and then MLS just got rid of it and now I’m gonna have to explain that there are divisional champs who simultaneously are and are not champions but also the playoffs have a losers bracket and that’s just the apertura and

chuck schumer has been barred from formally observing this year's lexus december to remember sales event. they can't stop him from standing outside, but he will not be allowed into the showroom and he cannot directly behold the obelisk or participate in the thousand screams

Can’t wait for the Seahawks to break everybody’s heart in the playoffs

Yeah this almost ruined the show for me. If you wanted a not hot person for this role boy did you fail miserably but then the show wouldn’t be as good because it wouldn’t have Keri Russell

Well the soccer team I like did really bad in a very stupid and embarrassing way. Nothing to do but log off and take a walk or something. No fun to be had online right now. Yes the format is dumb, but it's the format and it was managed terribly by Seattle's players and staff over the last month.

I still think the format is aggressively stupid and no result would have changed that, but after that performance it would be difficult to argue that Seattle deserved anything other than what they got. Fair play Loons go beat San Diego or Portland.

Well. 100% self inflicted. Good work from Minnesota to take advantage of what they could control here. Seattle have earned this exit in the last half hour.

Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. So terrible.

maybe not the best time but I can't fault them for trying

I would sub Yeimar off personally. Don’t like how kinda fighty he’s been and he’s on a yellow and you dont want to give up that advantage.

So Seattle are obviously pretty well positioned here, but they are by NO MEANS home and dry. Ref could level this with a dodgy penalty or Nouhou could go full Nouhou. Need to get another goal before trying to see this one out.

If I were Eric Ramsay I would have very clearly instructed my players not to do red card stuff. It would have been in my team talk. This is what happens when you have a young, inexperienced manager.

well that's a plot twist. What a bummer for Minnesota who despite not ever really being in this series were/are actually STILL VERY MUCH IN IT

So now Minnesota is down one goal at home with an obvious advantage in penalties despite the fact the score is still 6 to 3 across the 220 minutes we've been doing this lol

we've played like 200+ minutes of this matchup and Seattle have scored six and conceded two. If Minnesota find two goals here they could win on penalties and go through despite never once leading or being very good. I think this format is stupid as hell man

Yeah if you just whiff a clearance that should reset the offside line

Danny Moose with another 0.8 xG goal. My xKing right here folks

Musovski extending his portfolio to xA

ok ok now let's not do the bit where we just sort of collapse for 20 minutes

Anyway boo loons yay sounders is my stance for the next couple of hours

It would be funny if all the other sports that do series style playoffs put a week or so between each game like MLS

One of my Snaves Faves. An excellent piece of soccer writing and a reasonably good speculative science fiction short story.

We decided to get our most famous owners and

Truth Social shit fit gonna be an all timer tonight

(nods approvingly)

joking aside both those dudes shoulders gonna be sore as hell tomorrow that was a clash

Ok ok good Rothrock got his shoulder so nothing that happens afterwards can be illegal

Hold on we need to check and see whose shoulders touched where in the buildup

Lmao I can’t be mad at this

I'm not sure that's a foul. I think their shoulders touched there for a second

I love the commentator trying to restate the stakes again. Here we are the Sounders season could come to an end here tonight or uh it will just be back to where we were last week more or less

What you have to understand is that this was a “shoulder to shoulder challenge” and after two players’ shoulders touch nothing that happens afterwards can be considered illegal

It was definitely shoulder to shoulder until he also stepped on his foot but ok I guess

2-0 is the most dangerous lead in soccer? Buddy that’s weak shit right there. 3-0? That’s when shit gets real dangerous

Lots of blame to go around here but Frei buddy… a good goalkeeper is off his line and smothering that

The scoreline makes it less of a thing but that was a pretty rough sequence there

It’s true and it’s odd because usually the person keeping off the field is a guy that nobody would ever want to bench for any reason (remembers like six years ago) I mean well maybe a couple

Danny Musovski with a 0.8ish xG goal. My liege

Danny Scoresovski is back. Much preferable to Danny Miss-sovski

That was excellent from Al

Well now a blunder as 2-0 is the most dangerous lead in soccer

Thank god we erased the first leg deficit and took back control of this ahhh yeah that’s right it might not even matter

That’s a good start according to most conventional soccer theory

East coast Sounders fan and what am I doing starting a soccer game at 11 pm

It's good we have so many teams in the playoffs and that this first round gets to have matchups like this as many times as possible. That's good stuff.