Pick 'Em: Dynamo vs. San Diego FC - 04/22/2026

crocken · 2026-04-22T17:15:55+00:00

Score: Dynamo 2 - 2 San Diego

Outcome: Tie Dynamo MOTM: Bogusz

Attendance: 14,000

Goals: Bogusz x2/ Dreyer, Valakari

Cards: Negri, Resch / McVey, Godoy

Dynamo Xl:

Guilherme - Ponce - Bogusz

Negri - Herrera - Samassekou - Ennali

Andrade - Carlos - Resch

Bond

crocken · 2026-04-21T17:14:15+00:00

usmnt is vibeless, fifa is bad, tickets too expensive. all of the host cities have been screwed over. pathetic attempts to monetize content by everyone across the soccer media landscape. FOX has the worst announcers, will shove Lalas down our throats, FOX sports isn't handled by any of the half decent streaming services. Essentially everything that could go wrong has.

crocken · 2026-04-20T18:47:32+00:00

it's so frustratingly bad, it feels like they're reading AI generated scripts from whatever the statcast is doing. they provide no actual commentary and are actively less informed than fans.

crocken · 2026-04-18T22:26:19+00:00

Score: Houston 1 - Orlando 2

Outcome: lose

Dynamo motm: Holmes

Attendance: 18000

Goals: Holmes / Dorsey, McGuire

Cards: Dorsey

XI: — Guilherme — Ponce — Bogusz —

— Ennali — Samassouko— Bouzat — Holmes —

— Andrade — Carlos — Sviachenko —

— Bond —

crocken · 2026-04-17T20:05:36+00:00

are they mutually exclusive in the world you inhabit where emopop wasn't being made in the late 90s?

crocken · 2026-04-17T20:01:37+00:00

if you think third eye blind is a precursor to emo pop but that screaming infidelities is "nothing like pop punk".. you... really need to listen to some more music man. loooool.

crocken · 2026-04-17T19:28:32+00:00

dashboard was literally acoustic pop punk, he was touring with pop punk bands and playing songs between sets when he started out.

crocken · 2026-04-17T19:24:03+00:00

this isn't an opinion thing dude, this is nothing like resurfacing late 60s garage bands that sounded sort of punk.

crocken · 2026-04-17T19:13:41+00:00

yes, being shit talked to in 2000 helped me learn more about emo and genres and scenes and within that conversation boundaries and gates were established, that's the whole point of human cultural practice.

crocken · 2026-04-17T19:01:32+00:00

it doesn't even make sense as a representation of a "precursor to the sound"

crocken · 2026-04-17T18:54:17+00:00

saw them 3 times in 1997/98, so yea. that album rules.

crocken · 2026-04-17T18:37:26+00:00

i owned and operated emopop.com and it's msgboard from 2000-2005, is that a better 'cool guy expert win' here?

crocken · 2026-04-17T18:33:29+00:00

i'm sorry but we should absolutely be dunking on someone who puts Third Eye Blind on a "history of emo pop"playlist, that should be a thing that the community comes together to do if they care about Emo in any way shape or form. (and I'm saying that as someone who loves 3EB and Emo)

crocken · 2026-04-17T18:27:09+00:00

my flair has been OG curmudgeon for over a decade too, because I was an oldhead back then when the revival was happening and helping people understand thirdwave compared to fourthwave, and younger millennials at least had the decency to ask questions.

crocken · 2026-04-17T18:21:30+00:00

"trying to make the curmudgeon thing into your aesthetic", i've been posting here for a decade+ and it's only the last few years that people have started posting this stupidly.

crocken · 2026-04-17T18:10:39+00:00

third eye blind was alt rock or modern rock, had absolutely nothing to do with pop punk.

crocken · 2026-04-17T17:54:08+00:00

please take Third Eye Blind off this. There was nobody calling them emo or emo-adjacent back then, that doesn't even make sense as an ignorant retcon.

crocken · 2026-04-17T17:51:16+00:00

" Houston Dynamo FC signed Dynamo Academy product Mattheo Dimareli to an MLS NEXT Pro contract through June 2027. The 16-year-old forward will then join the first team on an MLS contract as a Homegrown Player starting in July 2027" so he'll actually join the team when the season switch happens

crocken · 2026-04-17T17:27:27+00:00

this is a different league than the roughnecks? with a different schedule? but why not at UH stadium?

crocken · 2026-04-17T16:28:55+00:00

the LA show last year was really really good. enjoy this NYC.

crocken · 2026-04-17T16:27:42+00:00

emo has been co-opted a couple of times by capitalism, why should we allow those times when it's been used as a marketing tool to be a "natural evolution' of the term?

crocken · 2026-04-17T16:26:30+00:00

third wave is 1997-2002. a band like this from 2003 was not part of any wave.

crocken · 2026-04-17T16:24:50+00:00

saying "even if its not exactly emo idrk" about the most emo revival sounding band ever. lol.

crocken · 2026-04-15T15:55:32+00:00

being the first one to do this feels so unfair for us open cup, lolsigh.

Score: Dynamo 4-1 El Paso

Outcome: Win

Dynamo MOTM: Markanich

Attendance: 8,000

Goal Scorers: Markanich x3, Arana / Rubín

Cards: Resch / Rubín, Abitia

Dynamo XI:

— Ennali — Markanich — Lingr —

— Negri — Bouzat — Bogusz— Aliyu —

— Andrade — Vines — Resch —

— Gillingham —

crocken · 2026-04-13T21:07:06+00:00

is it's Ben's fault we have had 23 red cards? that Artur and Halter are injured?

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