For all of Major League Soccer's flaws, if you want to watch a league that's less predictable than Europe's big ones, there might be none better on that count.
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I routinely have said to my friends that MLS is the most entertaining league you can watch. Not the best, not the highest quality...the most entertaining.
The product is really fun and good! I’d say the same of a lot of Pan-American soccer at this point. We have a brand strategy issue, not a product strategy issue.
If you appreciate the game then the MLS is an objectively fun league since although you are obviously not going to fins the same quality as in Europe, it is still really fun and chaotic from a neutral perspective
Not true. ML$ is extra predictable.
One of a set of 30 teams will be champion. The exact same teams will play again next year. Most games have no value so anyone can win if they try. Profits will always be more important than sport. Billionaires will always be prized more than communities.
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You’re confusing pro/rel with a salary cap. You can have pro/rel and a cap on spending if that’s your big concern. Just for context, MLB lets the Yankees spend as much as they want. Americans seem fine with it.
It’s always amusing when some soccer fan moans and bitches about the same exact model the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL have used for decades, even more than a century in MLB’s case.
Spoiler alert: Seeing the same teams play is the point. Ever heard of Ohio State-Michigan? Alabama-Auburn?
Most of us soccer fans hate those models. That’s one reason why soccer is appealing…it’s not the same boring corporate mcsport that American sports are. We’ve been watching European soccer for decades. It’s better than American sports
Listen man, folks in America would *not* be against pro/rel happening here. But the vast majority of fans accept that there are a lot of hurdles for that working effectively and appreciate MLS, USL, etc for being around still and growing.
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One of a set of 30 teams will be champion. The exact same teams will play again next year. Most games have no value so anyone can win if they try. Profits will always be more important than sport. Billionaires will always be prized more than communities.
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"Anyone can win if they try"
This is not the case in pro/rel
It becomes
"Anyone can win if they spend"
If anyone idolizes billionaire owners, it's pro/rel fans, not MLS
Spoiler alert: Seeing the same teams play is the point. Ever heard of Ohio State-Michigan? Alabama-Auburn?