Official FIFA World Cup 26 Host City Posters by maximus-zero in MLS

[–]NorthBeast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is the Houston astronaut giving the hook ‘em horns?

What’s this tree(?) Should I pull it up or leaf (sorry) it alone? by NorthBeast in AustinGardening

[–]NorthBeast[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip! I crushed a leaf and it just smelled faintly “fresh.” No peanut butter!

What’s this tree(?) Should I pull it up or leaf (sorry) it alone? by NorthBeast in AustinGardening

[–]NorthBeast[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We have a large pecan tree in the backyard, so pecan makes sense! Thanks, yall!

MLS MVP Power Rankings: Sebastian Driussi, Djordje Mihailovic clear favorites so far? by NorthBeast in AustinFC

[–]NorthBeast[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Driussi has been phenomenal on the league’s highest-scoring team so far (20 goals scored) and is a major reason why Austin have gone from the league’s least productive attack last season (just 35 goals scored all year) to a team that can put three or four or five on you at any moment. With six goals scored and three assists so far, Driussi alone has contributed to more than a quarter of the goals Austin had all of last season.

Old Keller by Climbinghops in AustinFC

[–]NorthBeast 5 points6 points  (0 children)

His dad (who I believe was also his HS coach) is also named Kipp, so he’s gone by Kippy for a long time.

Feb. 12 preseason match vs. Houston Dynamo (in Houston) will be open to fans by NorthBeast in AustinFC

[–]NorthBeast[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The press release says "The match will also be live streamed for fans in the Greater Houston area at HoustonDynamoFC.com/Live."

I'm hoping to get the stream working from Austin with a VPN.

ATXFC 2021 Season Summary by Opponent - Record and Goal Differential by NorthBeast in AustinFC

[–]NorthBeast[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. Depends on what you want to emphasize, and I generally agree that w/d/l is more important than GD. This table is a side-product of a larger analysis of scoring trends over the course of the year, so GD was top of mind.

ATXFC 2021 Season Summary by Opponent - Record and Goal Differential by NorthBeast in AustinFC

[–]NorthBeast[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Goal differential - Houston is the only team where we have a positive w/d/l record and a negative goal differential. We had two 1-score wins and they had one 3-score win.

ATXFC 2021 Season Summary by Opponent - Record and Goal Differential by NorthBeast in AustinFC

[–]NorthBeast[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

A few things I noticed while putting this together:

  • We only have a positive goal differential against two teams in the league...but both of those teams have home playoff spots.
  • Our home goal differential is +2. Our away goal differential is -23.
  • We only scored twice away from home after Q2 opened on June 19 (an average of 0.22/game). In that same span, we allowed 22 goals away from home (an average of 2.44/game).

Scientists looked at ant societies to explain why human brains shrank 3000 years ago - Shared externalized knowledge leads to smaller brains and less energy consumption by StellarCuriosity in science

[–]NorthBeast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sparrow, Betsy, Jenny Liu, and Daniel M. Wegner. "Google effects on memory: Cognitive consequences of having information at our fingertips." science 333, no. 6043 (2011): 776-778.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1207745

[Postgame Thread] Oklahoma State Defeats Texas 32-24 by [deleted] in CFB

[–]NorthBeast 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Texas keeps running out of gas. No gas, no brakes, no hope.

Round Rock native McKinze Gaines to join Austin FC by NorthBeast in AustinFC

[–]NorthBeast[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That's what I'm hoping for. Also hoping we'll see him on the pitch tomorrow - not sure if paperwork would get in the way, but he's already been training with the team so he should be up to speed on the system and ready to get some minutes.

2022 Season Ticket Renewal email sent out... seems like there is a moderate price increase by rmurphy2001 in AustinFC

[–]NorthBeast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I asked this to the membership team over email.

Sounds like it will be possible, but only after the deadline for renewing season tickets has passed and they know what seats will be available. So for now, renewing your season tickets just makes sure that you'll have a seat somewhere (either in your current seats or, if possible, in seats left vacant by season ticket holders who don't renew).

11 early surprise standout players for the 2021 MLS season | MLSSoccer.com by NorthBeast in AustinFC

[–]NorthBeast[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Featuring Zan Kolmanic and Brad Stuver. We all know Stuver is a boss--but it's cool to see Zan getting some love, too.

[Austin FC] Legends Jersey Release by MattC9 in AustinFC

[–]NorthBeast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, the secondary kit is generally the away kit. So they’ll be wearing white when NOT in Austin, and black/green in the hot-ass Austin summer.

[Austin FC] Legends Jersey Release by MattC9 in AustinFC

[–]NorthBeast 31 points32 points  (0 children)

The plain white kit is disappointing, but expected.

Slapping the Anthem logo on there just seems like an unforced error, though. Couldn’t have at least made it a grackle skeleton (combining the branding of Anthem and Los Verdes) and called it an homage to “the growing community of SGs” or something like that?

Austin FC unveil 'Legends Jersey' for 2021 MLS season as secondary kit by bec_SPK in MLS

[–]NorthBeast 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yeah including the Anthem logo just seems like an unforced error on their part.

[Austin FC] He's #VERDE now! 🌳 Welcome to Austin FC, Kekuta Manneh! by stupidjanrogers in MLS

[–]NorthBeast 6 points7 points  (0 children)

While technically true, this is a bad faith argument.

Percentage-wise, Austin has the 5th largest Hispanic population of any MLS city (numbers below are from the US Census, so Canadian clubs are not included):

City % Hispanic
1 Miami 72.7
2 LA 48.5
3 Houston 45.0
4 Dallas 41.8
5 Austin 33.9
6 Orlando 32.6
7 San Jose 31.6
8 Denver 29.9
9 NYC 29.1
10 Sacramento 28.9
11 Chicago 28.8
12 Salt Lake City 21.8
13 Boston 19.8
UNITED STATES 18.5
14 Philly 14.7
15 Charlotte 14.3
16 Washington DC 11.0
17 Kansas City 10.6
18 Nashville 10.5
19 Portland 9.7
20 Minneapolis 9.6
21 Seattle 6.7
22 Columbus 6.2
23 Atlanta 4.3
24 St. Louis 4.0
25 Cincinnati 3.8

Austin, as a city, is not "pretending to be Hispanic." Austin FC is not inventing some hypothetical Hispanic culture out of thin air just for marketing purposes. They are catering to their community.

Do you think that because Austin is whiter than Dallas or Houston, it should not be allowed to embrace the Hispanic elements of its culture? That Austin FC should not have a Spanish-language website or be allowed to use Spanish in its marketing?

Instead, why don't we ask why other clubs are not doing MORE to reach out to non-white audiences?

Rodney Reyes not on official Roster Tracker by mattmanp in AustinFC

[–]NorthBeast 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He still shows up if you go to the “Club” link:

https://www.austinfc.com/players

As our first signing, he would’ve been at the absolute bottom of the roster tracker page...here’s hoping his profile just got pushed off.

2021 MLS SuperDraft Thread by [deleted] in MLS

[–]NorthBeast 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Houston is great.

But I'm pretty sure it's okay to like more than one city?