MLS 2022/23 Season: Part 2

A front-row seat for the champions 🙏

It honestly feels like Biscan went all in on trying to rehab Bock's coaching style—like, he’s out here constantly praising him in interviews and giving him every possible chance to succeed—and now look, we’re stuck with him in the starting lineup. And don't even get me started on Pero showing up to preseason training looking like he put on an extra 20 pounds... 😁

Roger Parker5 said:If scoring three points by chucking chunks of raw concrete toward the Northeast is what passes for passion—mostly just casual fans, I suppose—then you might as well just hand out three points in an Armadillo trailer instead...

Honestly, what’s better than taking those pieces of concrete and sinking them off the coast of San Diego? It's like they blessed one old stadium using parts from another...
It’s conceptual art, people. But I guess you all just see it as an attack.

If they can't pull it off at Yankee Stadium, they haven't actually done anything.☕

We’ll start talking trash once we actually have something worth bragging about. ☕️

The massive turnout for Funcut at the stadium ☕

Demons > Funcut

It truly warms my heart—honestly, it really does—to see people celebrating other places too.

First number is movement up or down from last season, second is points +/- change, and the last one in parentheses is the goal difference shift compared to last year.

1. Dinamo 0, +2 (+7)
2. Hajduk 0, -1, (-9)
3. Osijek 0, -19 (-15)
4. Rijeka 0, -16 (-20)
5. Istra +4, +15 (+23)
6. Varaždin -, - (-)
7. Lokomotiva -2, -6 (-10)
8. Slaven -1, +7 (0)
9. Gorica -3, -13 (-7)
10. Šibenik -2, -5 (-3)

Only Dinamo and Istra show green across the board compared to last season. Gorica dropped three spots, while Istra jumped up four. Osijek lost 19 points since last year, though they somehow managed to stay in the same spot.

If this was just some amateur league average...

What’s the actual capacity for the West and North stands at Maximira?
I just hope the new stadium features some sensible entry points; I passed by earlier and saw what looked like a thousand people still stuck in line with only five minutes left before kickoff.

Jonathan Barnes5 said:What’s the actual capacity for the West and North stands at Maximira?
I just hope the new stadium features some sensible entry points; I passed by earlier and saw what looked like a thousand people still stuck in line with only five minutes left before kickoff.

And honestly, a huge chunk of those numbers are probably just people cutting it close and waiting until the absolute last second to show up anyway.
Gates opened before 6:00, so they'd been at it for almost an hour and a half, and the security check was over way too fast...

ruggedowl13 said:If this was just some amateur league average...

There is absolutely no way that was the full crowd at the stadium today... if those numbers are even remotely accurate, we could easily squeeze in another 15,000 people, and honestly, I haven't the slightest clue where on earth we would put them all. It just feels fundamentally off, almost surreal, you know?

Samuel Lopez9 said:And honestly, a huge chunk of those numbers are probably just people cutting it close and waiting until the absolute last second to show up anyway.
Gates opened before 6:00, so they'd been at it for almost an hour and a half, and the security check was over way too fast...

That’s the truth.

It’s verified—some folks didn't even have their tickets printed until thirty minutes before kickoff; you can't act surprised when there's a delay.
Honestly, you have to wonder why these people even bother showing up if they can't manage basic organization—sorting out the most fundamental requirement to enter the stadium at the final moment?
Some people would be better off staying home.

Jonathan Smith12 said:There is absolutely no way that was the full crowd at the stadium today... if those numbers are even remotely accurate, we could easily squeeze in another 15,000 people, and honestly, I haven't the slightest clue where on earth we would put them all. It just feels fundamentally off, almost surreal, you know?

That was an official post from the club. You really think this is some massive conspiracy by the US Soccer Federation?

Jonathan Smith12 said:There is absolutely no way that was the full crowd at the stadium today... if those numbers are even remotely accurate, we could easily squeeze in another 15,000 people, and honestly, I haven't the slightest clue where on earth we would put them all. It just feels fundamentally off, almost surreal, you know?

Think about the West side of the stadium—including the away section, the northwest stands, and even those edge parts of the east side...

Ran into this article today and honestly, it actually put a smile on my face. Let’s just keep it this way so everyone stays happy:

Whoa, a full house 👍 Congrats!

I'd like to offer my congratulations to Ivy and Robert as well. They’ve managed to bridge the gap between the Pacific Northwest and the Gulf Coast, finally bringing those two distant corners together.👍

Nicole Jackson3 said:Whoa, a full house 👍 Congrats!

I just hope we all get to retire with that kind of 🤣 luck.

If you're still following the balloon, man—I mean, seriously—you'd realize it’s been well over 18 years since then. 😉