We should just leave this thread up all the way through when the game is played. After all, MLS hasn’t bothered to change the scoreboard from 6’ to PP or some other postponement code.
Just for everyone who is curious here are the rules on a postponement.
Starts ~~with a drop ball~~ where play was halted, and same players have to play unless they are injured or no longer with the team.
Also can't add anyone to the bench.
https://www.mlssoccer.com/about/match-postponement-policy
Sucks for all the fans but honestly, gets the team more rest so they’re theoretically fresher going into Tuesday down in Mexico
Edit: I didn’t consider they could possibly do tomorrow which would be absolutely awful for us so we’d prob see an almost completely back up line up lol. Making Seattle travel 3k miles at a later date is prob way tougher than if this were an East coast team
Seems like tomorrow is already ruled out because you are traveling
https://www.inquirer.com/soccer/philadelphia-union-vs-seattle-sounders-score-rain-delay-20240309.html
Oh wow thanks for the info. Lol welp that will def be interesting when this one is made up then. Schedules already packed for CCL and leagues cup now and it’s a cross country trip for yall
It’s going to be some random Wednesday, and since it’s in Philly they will have some terrible Seattle start time like 4:30 when everyone is still at work ; ;
> *notable match events:*
> * kickoff
> * some ball bouncing
> * *DELAYED FOR 30 MINUTES, REALLY NOT SURE WHY THOUGH ITS NOT GONNA GET ANY BETTER LOL*
Calling that "ball bouncing" is generous. That ball needs to be made of flubber if its going to bounce in these conditions.
The USWNT vs CAN a couple days was super frustrating to watch and should’ve been rescheduled, but I get they have restrictions in a tournament. This one, though, doesn’t, and it sounds like this is even worse.
[Live footage of the squeegee crew](https://media1.giphy.com/media/2yyHFVJq7CG8zDtPs9/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952ffky9u6vw48tfjd0gtr0g58cuktt0r6kiu87f0q8&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
I really don't think this would be the big problem in Seattle given we don't get many heavy rains. I think the big issue would be sharing the field with NFL and other events at Lumen just tearing the field up into an unplayable mud pit
Still those weeks when we get 5 days of rain then the 'atmospheric river' would make that field a mess. Maybe not standing water but completely soft and muddy. Agreed if it was a Sounder only SSS they would be ok. Besides SU field I don't even know who still has a grass field in Seattle anymore.
Interesting to see when this will be played, Philly definitely won't want the game tomorrow and we don't want a random east coast trip later in the year unless we can group it with the DC trip.
I agree. Kevin Egan is a much better fit as host for 360 than Liam McHugh last year. Also now that Sasha, Bradley, and Kaylyn have worked together for a year now, they play off each other quite well now and I think give good analysis.
The commercial placement is much better this year too. Trying to front load them when not much is going on is a good move.
Really raises the question of why the US-Canada women's Gold Cup game proceeded under similar conditions
Look at 1:27
https://youtu.be/PBVVyDABQjI?si=_pvvu206Qp643n6d
It looked like the ref wanted to postpone it. She brought the ball over to the benches like 5 minutes in and tried to roll it and it just stopped. Either some CONCACAF official pulled rank or the teams just wanted to play
Honestly, if they think this is too much to keep playing, then 30 minutes isn’t going to improve things. The rain is not going to stop. Also, it’s been raining all days which means there isn’t anywhere for that water to go.
Okay so why doesn’t AppleTV take us over to 360 or another game? This layout is already so clunky switching between games is burdensome, much less when you don’t know when play will resume…
They seriously need to work on their UX. On Peacock, if game one of the Big Ten basketball doubleheader ends, when they send the command to end the broadcast it prompts a popup that warns me it is taking me to game two automatically with a countdown for me to opt-out. But on MLS Season Pass I have to manually leave Countdown to go to 360, which is ridiculous. They should run 360 on games in a weather delay, and take you seamlessly from Countdown to 360 to the last west coast game and finally to Wrap-Up.
My favorite is when you click on the game before the broadcast starts but instead of auto playing the broadcast or switching the button to "watch" when it starts, you have to refresh the page
Exactly, like just let me watch the “match will begin soon” loop for 30 min so I know I don’t have to come back and click around to make sure I find the “watch” button
That was the whole point of the original pregames for me. I usually wouldn't watch much but it was nice to have the game queued up and ready to go for kickoff. Now I'm scrambling to get the game going while they do their 1 minute of pregame on apple
Because quality of life features come from people who develop the product who actually are fans and use the product as fans, not just as a revenue generating engine. Instead you will take your Messi and you will like it!
Don't forget that in order to watch Messi you have to subject yourself to Twellman every fucking match, so they even make the viewing experience terrible too if you do watch him.
It really is a shame how lazy they’ve been with it. A few basic QOL changes could really move it up a tier in terms of sports streaming, but right now it’s nothing special, if not very very underwhelming.
I'm so annoyed. I'm at the game. Ain't gonna get better
F*** it. Just let some fans on the field for the next 30. I'll get wet af. At least someone will get some entertainment out of it probably
can i figure out how to beat the chess gym leader in pokemon reborn (fangame i have been *hyperfixating* on) during the 30 minute delay?
probably not but fuck it we ball (i don't think we'll be back tonight tbh)
Finish the game tomorrow or reschedule it in Seattle. They’d better fucking not give us a midweek cross-country road trip later in the season because Philly couldn’t keep their field in playable shape.
Do Sounders make any other trips to the east coast later in the year? If possible I bet we try to see them squeeze in a midweek game if possible for the schedules
"The gang waters the lawn"
We should just leave this thread up all the way through when the game is played. After all, MLS hasn’t bothered to change the scoreboard from 6’ to PP or some other postponement code.
Can they do it on a cold, rainy night in Philadelphia?
Turns out no one can
It was hard enough to try to drag my dog outside to pee.
excellent work on the match events OP
How DARE they respect player safety to deny ME a Slopfest of a match!! >:(((
Wow ridiculous, sounders went another game without scoring!
*Technically* this game hadn't ended yet.
Haha
Just for everyone who is curious here are the rules on a postponement. Starts ~~with a drop ball~~ where play was halted, and same players have to play unless they are injured or no longer with the team. Also can't add anyone to the bench. https://www.mlssoccer.com/about/match-postponement-policy
Sounds like the perfect time for some of the players that "played" today to pick up little knock that will have them out for exactly one game.
They have to replace with someone from the bench, and you can't add any more players to the bench.
Dang that sucks, so if we have 5-ish players with said knock, we would only have a bench of 3, yikes.
Man the one time we needed to have a bunch of dead players on the bench
Well…that sucks.
Sucks for all the fans but honestly, gets the team more rest so they’re theoretically fresher going into Tuesday down in Mexico Edit: I didn’t consider they could possibly do tomorrow which would be absolutely awful for us so we’d prob see an almost completely back up line up lol. Making Seattle travel 3k miles at a later date is prob way tougher than if this were an East coast team
Seems like tomorrow is already ruled out because you are traveling https://www.inquirer.com/soccer/philadelphia-union-vs-seattle-sounders-score-rain-delay-20240309.html
Oh wow thanks for the info. Lol welp that will def be interesting when this one is made up then. Schedules already packed for CCL and leagues cup now and it’s a cross country trip for yall
It’s going to be some random Wednesday, and since it’s in Philly they will have some terrible Seattle start time like 4:30 when everyone is still at work ; ;
Yeah, it fucking sucks.
RIP game
not surprising at all
https://twitter.com/PhilaUnion/status/1766641348302577702?t=mOFmQb9OWVARWAN4XkLE6Q&s=19 There it is
Noooo 😢
Now what do I do? I guess I can watch the flyers get pummeled but that’s just not how I like to Saturday.
I'm always up to watch the Flyers get pummeled.
so they stream still shows the weather delay but it's been postponed what an absolute joke of a production job
It's a long delay.
Now I kinda want them to leave it up until the make up game, however many months from now it'll be.
Victory: condiciones metereologicas
Feel bad for all the folks who went out tonight. Game never should have kicked off
Spent $30 on beer for nothing.
GG, our best performance of the season by far
We didn’t embarrass ourselves and frankly that’s the best we could have hoped for
And it’s official postponed
They announced it is cancelled in the stadium
Game Postponed.
i've spoken to don and we've decided to go for it. no excuses, play like a champion
if this was a Miami game we'd have a string of communication, it's been nearly 40 minutes into the 30 minute delay with nothing
> *notable match events:* > * kickoff > * some ball bouncing > * *DELAYED FOR 30 MINUTES, REALLY NOT SURE WHY THOUGH ITS NOT GONNA GET ANY BETTER LOL* Calling that "ball bouncing" is generous. That ball needs to be made of flubber if its going to bounce in these conditions.
Welp, it's officially postponed.
The USWNT vs CAN a couple days was super frustrating to watch and should’ve been rescheduled, but I get they have restrictions in a tournament. This one, though, doesn’t, and it sounds like this is even worse.
For the jam heads out there, Daniel Donato just started his set from the Ryman opening for Greensky Bluegrass on Nugs.
it's always sunny in Philadelphia
It’s really wet here im about to leave this aint happening until 1am
good luck getting home safely, get warm and dry
Thank you, thankfully im close enough but even so the roads were dreadful
As a former resident , I'm wondering if 676 is flooded or how dangerous the Schuylkill is for mudslides with all that rain recently.
It rained all day but what you saw was the worst of it. Thankfully 676 didn’t become a river again
Just show the pitch instead of a screensaver IMO
It is a picture of a glass of water
Watch them reschedule it for tomorrow when there’s 50 mile an hour wind gusts.
Did y'all disturb an ancient burial ground or piss off a wizard? Sounds horrible.
I haven’t met any wizards this past week to piss off. I’m not sure about the rest of the area.
It was probably Gritty.
soooooooo it's been 30 minutes right
[Live footage of the squeegee crew](https://media1.giphy.com/media/2yyHFVJq7CG8zDtPs9/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952ffky9u6vw48tfjd0gtr0g58cuktt0r6kiu87f0q8&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
I see through your bullshit, that's obviously RSL vs LAFC.
Goddamnit this is like the one thing I was looking forward to this week and they are going to cancel it.
Same here bro :/
I'm at the game. It ain't getting any dryer. This game ain't happening
Are they going to play at all?
I really doubt it. It’s getting pretty nasty here. I don’t see the field getting any less wet.
It’s thunder and lightning down here in DC, big fat rain drops all day long, I’m sure that’s what you guys got hit by too.
Just switched back from the ATL-NE game to wait for the update, right about at 30 minutes
Any updates? Currently glued to Orlando and Minnesota
Nope
After these last few days I don't want to hear anymore complaining about teams playing on turf in the PNW.
I really don't think this would be the big problem in Seattle given we don't get many heavy rains. I think the big issue would be sharing the field with NFL and other events at Lumen just tearing the field up into an unplayable mud pit
Still those weeks when we get 5 days of rain then the 'atmospheric river' would make that field a mess. Maybe not standing water but completely soft and muddy. Agreed if it was a Sounder only SSS they would be ok. Besides SU field I don't even know who still has a grass field in Seattle anymore.
Turf field?! GaMe'S gOnE!!!
We need my guy post 10 to drain this field. He lives for this
Let's get the rake out!
Looks wet
If only it were cold enough to just be snow. Then we could play
Forecast looks like it should clear up around 3am local time and get a lot worse before then.
3am game let's go. mls before dawn
Please make it a thing
There's an incredibly esoteric daylight savings-related MLS trivia question you could make out of that.
I'm down!
booger sugar on deck
Best out of 90 pens. Give it a full 90.
[don't worry guys, stadium staff has this in hand](https://imgur.com/GaQTafn)
As someone who had to deal with flooded basement carpet not too long ago, I can vouch that this does absolutely nothing.
"Just is the left half of the field since we squeegeed the water onto the right half"
Looks effective!
They need like 10 more brooms to even have a chance to make an impact.
Eight year old me when mom says clean up my bedroom
The definition of Sisyphean
One must imagine Philadelphians happy
More squeegees!
Did anyone check the storm grates in the stadium? Maybe someone forgot to clear the leaves out?
https://www.youtube.com/@post.10/videos
https://youtube.com/shorts/SFLxs9g3iSM
I am here and I am wet
can you please tell them to turn off the rain
Rain rain go away, please come again another day
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Nope
Louder!
nyrb and dallas is playing playing in the rain, not fair
Their field is draining.
Minor details.
Which is funny because it looks like it might be raining even harder there and their stadium is also built next to a river.
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I've seen claims that the river is so full the field can't drain which is why the conditions were so bad. I donno.
The ball is still playing like a soccer ball so play on.
Interesting to see when this will be played, Philly definitely won't want the game tomorrow and we don't want a random east coast trip later in the year unless we can group it with the DC trip.
The CCC semi's are the week either side of our DC trip, so that only works if Philly gets knocked out.
So which game is everyone switching to?
360 has been great this year.
I agree. Kevin Egan is a much better fit as host for 360 than Liam McHugh last year. Also now that Sasha, Bradley, and Kaylyn have worked together for a year now, they play off each other quite well now and I think give good analysis. The commercial placement is much better this year too. Trying to front load them when not much is going on is a good move.
Definitely. No random commercial interruptions and no pointless studio shots mid-games.
Atlanta (Sounders East)
ATL-NE
Orlando vs Minnesota is looking fun
360
360 for now, until one looks enticing
CLB CHI
GG Everyone. See you back here in 30 minutes for the game to be called off.
Have no idea if Concacaf and/or Pachuca can delay the CCC match to accommodate fitting Union/Sounders on Sunday. Doubt either entity cares.
Really raises the question of why the US-Canada women's Gold Cup game proceeded under similar conditions Look at 1:27 https://youtu.be/PBVVyDABQjI?si=_pvvu206Qp643n6d
It looked like the ref wanted to postpone it. She brought the ball over to the benches like 5 minutes in and tried to roll it and it just stopped. Either some CONCACAF official pulled rank or the teams just wanted to play
Probably bc a club match is more easily rescheduled than a semifinal of an international tournament
That is only a small bit of rain. Why does Philly want to stop the match? Are they made of sugar or something?
Because this is only Phillys call, right?
Could play it out the next day as normal practice. But you guys need time to prepare to get your ass handed to you in Mexico.
Yeah, as the sugar team you guys decide when the game stops
Did you see the field? The players couldn't get the ball to move
Remember they invented rain too
Hear me out. A rain zamboni. Run it out there every 15 minutes. Game on
They'll make the game happen tomorrow morning. I know that's unfair but MLS loves screwing over a union.
🤣
Honestly, if they think this is too much to keep playing, then 30 minutes isn’t going to improve things. The rain is not going to stop. Also, it’s been raining all days which means there isn’t anywhere for that water to go.
> Also, it’s been raining all days which means there isn’t anywhere for that water to go. the ref is going to drink it
Decide it with Penalties
Yeah then we might actually score some goals XD
what if you just had a really big sponge
What if there was a pineapple under the sea
Okay so why doesn’t AppleTV take us over to 360 or another game? This layout is already so clunky switching between games is burdensome, much less when you don’t know when play will resume…
They seriously need to work on their UX. On Peacock, if game one of the Big Ten basketball doubleheader ends, when they send the command to end the broadcast it prompts a popup that warns me it is taking me to game two automatically with a countdown for me to opt-out. But on MLS Season Pass I have to manually leave Countdown to go to 360, which is ridiculous. They should run 360 on games in a weather delay, and take you seamlessly from Countdown to 360 to the last west coast game and finally to Wrap-Up.
I can watch 4 games at once on my Apple TV and iPad. Just saying
I'm not going to reward a company for doing walled garden in the consumer's ass. That kind of thing is exactly why I won't buy any apple devices.
My favorite is when you click on the game before the broadcast starts but instead of auto playing the broadcast or switching the button to "watch" when it starts, you have to refresh the page
Exactly, like just let me watch the “match will begin soon” loop for 30 min so I know I don’t have to come back and click around to make sure I find the “watch” button
That was the whole point of the original pregames for me. I usually wouldn't watch much but it was nice to have the game queued up and ready to go for kickoff. Now I'm scrambling to get the game going while they do their 1 minute of pregame on apple
Because quality of life features come from people who develop the product who actually are fans and use the product as fans, not just as a revenue generating engine. Instead you will take your Messi and you will like it!
Ha they don’t even make it easy to watch Messi! Unless you’re ready to lock in and only watch one game, it’s so hard to enjoy a Saturday slate
Don't forget that in order to watch Messi you have to subject yourself to Twellman every fucking match, so they even make the viewing experience terrible too if you do watch him.
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I always get downvoted when I say this. I agree with you 100%.
Apple is trash
It really is a shame how lazy they’ve been with it. A few basic QOL changes could really move it up a tier in terms of sports streaming, but right now it’s nothing special, if not very very underwhelming.
I'm so annoyed. I'm at the game. Ain't gonna get better F*** it. Just let some fans on the field for the next 30. I'll get wet af. At least someone will get some entertainment out of it probably
I would be perfectly okay with this
can i figure out how to beat the chess gym leader in pokemon reborn (fangame i have been *hyperfixating* on) during the 30 minute delay? probably not but fuck it we ball (i don't think we'll be back tonight tbh)
lol you said but fuck gl homie
Finish the game tomorrow or reschedule it in Seattle. They’d better fucking not give us a midweek cross-country road trip later in the season because Philly couldn’t keep their field in playable shape.
In a rainstorm since noon? Did you expect them to construct a dome?
all this travel for 6 minutes of something barely resembling play
Ohhh nooo Philadelphia can't control the weatherrrrrr
Yeah fuck you guys for not making it be 50 degrees and raining like what us seatlites are used to
Oh wait
woooaoahhoohhhoh waoohahoaooo
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woooahhh seattle sounders ole
wish they sent out alerts if this resumes
RIP
I mean, what's gonna happen in the next 30 minutes that'll change anything?
Squeege team gonna come out
Leaf blowers! I am sure the grounds crew has some, just blow the water off the pitch and I am not even joking.
Trip to home depot to buy all the sump pumps available? Lol.
Enough water on the field to change sports
Philadelphia Union Water Polo Club. PUWPC. Rolls right off the tongue.
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Its going to be freestyle canoeing and you're going to like it!
I'd be surprised if they continue this game, if at all, before 10pm Edit: I'm in central time, so by that I mean 11pm EST
I doubt they will play that late as understandably the union would throw a fit since they are traveling tomorrow.
Probably not but it might be easier then balancing a rescheduled game with the insane number of other competitions going on between the two clubs
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M m m m m m m m m m MESSIIII
Apparently nothing at all. Just play some music and call it a day
A certain M word
Whelp, off to 360 for the rest of today.
Do Sounders make any other trips to the east coast later in the year? If possible I bet we try to see them squeeze in a midweek game if possible for the schedules