Jamie Hill

The Market Basket in Waltham "opens" at 7am, but I've gotten there at 6:50 and seen people coming out with heavily laden carts. I think they unofficially open around 6.

A huge problem with the Apple deal is that the brand differention between Apple TV (an app) and Apple TV+ (a subscription service) is broadly confusing and misunderstood, and people don't realize that Apple TV+ and MLS Season Pass are completely separate services.

Outside of Paredes, DC has been committed to being as low on the manufacturing chain as possible.

Selling raw materials (Akinmboni) brings in a little cash, but the real money goes to whoever turns a raw 18 year old Matai into a highly effective 20 year old CB.

That one was one of the greats!

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Caleb Porter's coaching strategy (Akron, Portland, Columbus) of Have Darlington Nagbe is less effective when he does not actually have Darlington Nagbe.

Timetraveling to late 2023 and showing this quote to a Revs fan would be a very sad thing.

NYCFC has always been a chief offender in this department but it's amazing how many clubs can't post a simple roster, noting who is on a pro deal and who isn't.

Miami posted a garbled mess of a roster announcement this week, for example.

Finally, some good news for DC United fans

D1 label or no, USL will never be able to compete with MLS.

Expending resources on a quixotic mission instead of focusing on being the best 2nd and 3rd tier league you can be seems unwise.

Just ask the neo-NASL.

fact check: Carles Gil is leaning against a bunch of birch trees here

The implication here is that the $2m sale to Houston is a sale of Philly's 60% stake in McGlynn's rights, which means an offer from abroad would need to be $3.33m in order to match Houston's $2m offer in terms of Philly's share of the proceeds.

There's the internal CFG dynamic here, but in general MLS needs to move up the manufacturing value chain. Successfully developing a player from age 18-21 is a lot more lucrative than simply delivering the raw materials age 18 (see also: DC/Akinmboni)

This is a dynamic that I really did not anticipate occurring. Selling guys to big Latin American clubs for decent money opens a lot of opportunities for exporting certain types of players, given how reluctant big Euro clubs are to buying MLS guys older than 22 or so.

Thanks to the ETR crew for so many hours of great MLS chatter.

It's a real shame. How much can it cost to produce the show? Probably a lot less than one bad Georg Heitz TAM signing.

It's hard to see what the vision and strategy are here.

The end of Extratime really blows. In a sea of corporate talk, bro talk, and gambling ads, ETR was just a bunch of soccer dorks. Over the years the characters changed but they were almost always really genuine people who didn’t take themselves too seriously but gave great insight

Sure, Luca de la Torre is a hometown kid in San Diego, but does he even play the same sport as San Diego FC?

This guy was crushing UMass-Boston, Southern Maine, and Keene State in the Little East (D3) only five years ago.

Poch has already been fairly complimentary toward the MLS crew, but he's going to be declaring MLS the best league in the world after seeing Miljevic stacked up against these dudes.

Neymar is a pretty good player, but imagine how good he'll be after a few Gregg Berhalter powerpoint presentations.

Walking into a relegation bait situation will be hard, but I think it makes sense for Tolkin to shoot his shot here.

Some get to go straight to mid-table clubs. Tolkin's profile is a guy who is always going to have to run the gauntlet of playing for a bottom feeder to prove himself at that level.

FWIW, in my part of Boston there are a number of mid-sized developments that include plenty of two-bedrooms (of the three I just looked up, one is 100% two-bedrooms, one is half, and one is about 25%)

New 3+ bedroom units that aren't SFH are certainly hard to come by.

I don't know, maybe you should give some credence to the opinion of a guy who runs a website that has a tiered subscription model.

I'm pretty critical of a lot of US foreign policy over history, but I find the desire to exculpate Russia in order to maintain "US is always bad/wrong" purity to be very wrong-headed.

The "NATO Expansion" narrative also denies a whole lot of agency to Eastern Europeans.

I think there's a bizarro symmetry between neocon and leftist thought on foreign affairs where even when they reach wildly different conclusions, both groups make the US a main character in a conflict even when it's not.

I'm having a hard time getting past "Sheriff Gordon Ramsay"

Plus, a not-insignificant chunk of foreign recruits are not really displacing non-pro-track domestic NCAA players as much as they are replacing the elite pro-track American kids who are now bypassing college soccer entirely.