flipping seems weird. competition with more established sports + brutal winters. i think more pressing would be developing actual stakes for this stupid league.

promotion relegation, for example.

shield becoming the cup, playoffs for shield. hard to care about playoffs if we sucked all season.

mls already sets the bar so low. now this?

we weren’t expecting much but holy shit.

A system which demands, perhaps, increased athleticism + dogshit turf and inconsistent pitch quality is a combination bound to hurt us like this.

Every year we’ve had a season ending injury at various stages of the campaign.

no

wild we’d offload an energetic attacking threat when our attack is anemic against solid defense.

i have questions.

at some point one has to ask- how lany midfielders do we need?

would kill for a defender or attacker to replace the failed experiment of gazdag.

idk. CWC performance was good but Egyptian PL performance meh (goals to apps.) MLS a tougher league than Egypt.

at this point i’ll take any firepower we can get though. done watching Gazdag weakly fart toward goal.

i am… just… so happy

thanos for the heads up!

making room for de bruyne or some other aging euro star the league wants to feed them

of course they do.

same. so this seems a good time to thank you for the Dispatcher series. usually, i'm mistrustful of the things recommended to me by mega-corporations, but man am I glad i just went for it this time.

love how you handled Tony's Chicago-nativeness (maybe?) in particular. in general, excellent specfic