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A couple things...
First, I’ve decided (tentatively; always tentatively) to return to the Review/Preview formula I’ve used off and on since...2021(?). The broad concept is to very briefly review the action from the prior weekend – and that’s mostly because I’ll be posting on Wednesdays, i.e., well after the rest of you have already read and watched a whole bunch of other shit – and then look forward to the match-ups for the week ahead. The point of the exercise is less to tell you what’s what - I mean, I barely use analytics - than to talk about why this or that match up for the upcoming [MLS Week ___] looks like the bee’s sexy knees among a crowd of bee’s knees.
The review portion will be headlined by a Game of the Week and, if all goes right, that will be one of the games I noted in the prior week’s Review/Preview. And if that doesn’t make sense, it will soon, trust me, I swear to all the gods high, low and venal, etc.
Now, the bigger change.
People who find these posts via twitter already know that I didn't take MLS HQ’s nu, improved playoff format...well, and that included a brief panic over how I’d keep the love alive through 34 more or less meaningless games.
The good news: I came up with a coping mechanism!
The bad news: It will satisfy no one and nothing besides my yen to keep the viewing fresh.
The plan (so far): I’m going to watch and write about the first five games for the Portland Timbers (schedule) and FC Cincinnati (schedule), the two teams I always follow. That’ll change with the first match in April when I (tentatively) plan on watching every other Portland and Cincinnati game. I'll keep to that schedule until...call it August 30, for now, i.e., the end-run, i.e., my best guess at the time things will actually get interesting for both of them. On the weekends I’m not watching those two teams, I’ll be tuning in and writing about two games featuring entirely different teams. I’ll choose based on trends, curiosity about a player, or maybe something truly freakish like a Chicago Fire FC winning streak. I’ve spend more time on either teams for the past five, six years, so why not take advantage of the AppleTV thing and a six to seven months’ worth of meaningless games?
First, I’ve decided (tentatively; always tentatively) to return to the Review/Preview formula I’ve used off and on since...2021(?). The broad concept is to very briefly review the action from the prior weekend – and that’s mostly because I’ll be posting on Wednesdays, i.e., well after the rest of you have already read and watched a whole bunch of other shit – and then look forward to the match-ups for the week ahead. The point of the exercise is less to tell you what’s what - I mean, I barely use analytics - than to talk about why this or that match up for the upcoming [MLS Week ___] looks like the bee’s sexy knees among a crowd of bee’s knees.
The review portion will be headlined by a Game of the Week and, if all goes right, that will be one of the games I noted in the prior week’s Review/Preview. And if that doesn’t make sense, it will soon, trust me, I swear to all the gods high, low and venal, etc.
Now, the bigger change.
People who find these posts via twitter already know that I didn't take MLS HQ’s nu, improved playoff format...well, and that included a brief panic over how I’d keep the love alive through 34 more or less meaningless games.
The good news: I came up with a coping mechanism!
The bad news: It will satisfy no one and nothing besides my yen to keep the viewing fresh.
The plan (so far): I’m going to watch and write about the first five games for the Portland Timbers (schedule) and FC Cincinnati (schedule), the two teams I always follow. That’ll change with the first match in April when I (tentatively) plan on watching every other Portland and Cincinnati game. I'll keep to that schedule until...call it August 30, for now, i.e., the end-run, i.e., my best guess at the time things will actually get interesting for both of them. On the weekends I’m not watching those two teams, I’ll be tuning in and writing about two games featuring entirely different teams. I’ll choose based on trends, curiosity about a player, or maybe something truly freakish like a Chicago Fire FC winning streak. I’ve spend more time on either teams for the past five, six years, so why not take advantage of the AppleTV thing and a six to seven months’ worth of meaningless games?
