MLS preseason is here! Teams are reporting for training and non-competitive games that will begin in the next week. SuperDraft selections and recent trade subjects will integrate into their clubs while we count down the days until the regular season reprieves us of the quiet and bizarre preseason.
If you tune into the online streams, you’ll see teams in practice uniforms, random trialists (last year it was Freddy Adu!) and some messy, low-quality soccer games. The broadcasts will be the among the worst you’ll ever see: commentators who mispronounce names, show little knowledge of what’s going on and generally are hard to listen to; the lighting is weirdly bad; and the camerawork is all over the place, occasionally sticking to a player for no apparent reason and missing an important play.