Now that the season is nearly upon us, I'm really excited. There are 10 games this weekend, with all 20 teams in action, and I'm probably going to be watching 7 of them.
Tonight there's just the one, LA-Chicago. They finished near opposite ends of the league last year, but the Fire got a lot better this offseason while LA lost some pretty key pieces. This game is nationally televised on a channel I don't get, so I'm going to have to use my VPN to trick MLS Live into thinking I'm in Canada.
Saturday, the game I really want to see is Toronto-Vancouver. TFC went out and spent a ton of money this offseason, and between that and a now-healthy Michael Bradley I'm interested to see the team in motion. I'm also looking forward to seeing Houston-Columbus, with the Crew being my pick to win the East this year, as well as Portland taking on RSL.
Then Sunday I'll be there for all three games. The two expansion teams get their first real action in Orlando-NYC, then the other, original New York team takes on a Kansas City team hoping to bounce back from a disappointing finish to 2014. And then of course, saving the best for last, Seattle vs. New England, a matchup that was very nearly the MLS Cup final last year.
So basically, I intend to spend 14 of the next 40 hours watching soccer, and that's not even counting whatever English matches I may end up tuning in for.