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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
But how marketable are those hypothetical games?
Regular season MLS averaged around 334,000 TV audience per game this year (a noticeable improvement, and the best in 15 years).
That's 60% of the audience that AEW gets for Rampage on Friday nights. And it's -with- games on ABC proper included in the average.
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I honestly don't know. I know I would be much more likely to watch Inter Miami travel to Portland to play the Timbers in that atmosphere or to L.A. play the Galaxy than I am to watch a dead rubber third group stage match where they face FC Cincinnati for at least the third time that season.
This is what frustrates me with MLS. They make a big deal about being a North America sports league and how the way we do things here involve playoffs. no relegation, etc. Cool, I may not like it but I can support what they are saying. All of a sudden we are introducing a group stage? A group stage grouped by conference? When did we start doing group stages in North America professional sports? Hell, if you just want to have more games, make each playoff series two out of three until MLS Cup. I am not a big fan of that either but at least that is something that is normal for North American sports.
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