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Apr 26, 2012, 7:00 AM EDT

Bayern Munich's striker Mario Gomez cele

What we’re thinking, what we’re watching, what’s coming on the blog today and the RASNoD (Random American Soccer Name of the Day). Setting up your day in soccer …

Big Important story of the day: Coming out of Europe, the final Champions League semifinal leftovers will be cleared off the media table. And on our side of the Atlantic, Major League Soccer will (probably) hand out suspensions today.

What you should watch on TV: Not much out there today. Honestly, I don’t know about the rest of you, but with Champions League tenseness the last two days, and with a big mid-day match ahead on Monday from England, I could use the break.

Ahead on the blog today*: As its NFL Draft Day, college selections are on my mind. I’ll look back on which MLS clubs have done well for themselves at recent SuperDrafts.

RASNoD (Random American Soccer Name of the Day): Leo Cullen

Twitter dap: Jürgen Klinsmann ‏ (@J_Klinsmann): “It has been another great season of Champions League. Looking forward to the Final between Chelsea and Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena.”

PST background noise while blogging today: Jessica Lea Mayfield

We’ll leave you with this: I know a lot of people are upset about all the starters out for the Champions League final, and the issue of caution accumulation will be topical in days to come. The cry will rise to eliminate or curtail the practice cards carrying over from one round the next in a tournament. But there’s another way to look at it: Don’t get yellow cards!

*Always subject to change; you know how it is

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tylerbetts - Apr 26, 2012 at 9:29 AM

Disappointed in lack of coverage for CONCACAF Champions League Final.

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- Richard Farley - Apr 26, 2012 at 11:46 PM
  
  I’m not thrilled about it, either. Hopefully the Primera games I do on the weekend show we do give a hoot about the Mexican game here. Hopefully next year, we’ll do better, but as Steve says below, sometimes we have to make some choices between our favored children – never easy ones.
  
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footballer4ever - Apr 26, 2012 at 10:57 AM

Disappointed? Only if you allow it as you have other options , including paying for it, if you so much wanted it. Don’t expect ESPN to show two mexican teams playing a soccer game; maybe Univision or Telemundo, but we all know what goes on there.

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tylerbetts - Apr 26, 2012 at 11:13 AM

Believe me, I got my coverage. I watched the CONCACAF.com live stream last night.

Just, at the time of that comment being posted there was nothing on this blog about it, and it wasn’t mentioned in the above “ahead on the blog today”. Part of growing it is giving it coverage in media outlets where the new or mildly interested US/MLS Soccer fan will see it. I find it much more likely that they will come to an NBC site than to, say, SoccerByIves.

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- Steve Davis - Apr 26, 2012 at 11:20 AM
  
  That’s a fair criticism. It’s always a difficult question, one that every media outlet will always wrestle with, “Where to put resources”?” In the end, it’s always more art than science. (And feedback is always part of the equation, by the way … so keep it coming.)
  
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footballer4ever - Apr 26, 2012 at 11:24 AM

@ tylerbetts – i hear you. Realistically speaking, unless a MLS team is playing no one will care. Heck, i am a football aficionado, and not to be disrespectful, i give a hoot about Mexican football just as i’d imagine Mexicans care about US soccer.

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dws110 - Apr 26, 2012 at 2:24 PM

I saw Jessica Lea Mayfield open for the Avett Brothers…she had a good band backing her.

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chopxii - Apr 26, 2012 at 4:55 PM

Yellow card accumulation is ridiculous. I know they are trying to clean up the game, but as a defender, you have to be so careful, and with the way players go down on any little contact…to miss a Final because you got a yellow card from two different games must be heartbreaking.

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