How to grade MLS Season Pass: Roaring success or messy failure?

With MLS Season Pass, Major League Soccer and Apple have created a streaming service ahead of its time. No other soccer league worldwide has a deal that’s as revolutionary. The 10-year partnership, unheard of in soccer circles, ensures anyone can sign up and pay to watch games on a single platform. No blackouts. No headaches. Hundreds of soccer games every season until the end of 2032. Given its promising start as a service, how do we grade MLS Season Pass thus far?

MLS has invested enormous amounts of money into producing games on MLS Season Pass. It has arguably created the best soccer whip-around show, MLS 360. Plus it invested in production facilities, talent, and improving the visuals and audio of all of its games. On top of that, last year, it hired approximately 90 commentators and co-commentators to call games on-site at every stadium.

Here are the pros and cons of MLS Season Pass for 2024:

Where Apple TV’s MLS Season Pass passes the grade

1) MLS 360 – New host Kevin Egan has made the show so much better with his honesty and enthusiasm. The chemistry between Sacha Kljestan, Bradley Wright-Phillips, Kaylyn Kyle, and Egan is much better than last season under previous host Liam McHugh. Sure, there are a lot of commercial breaks, but MLS 360 is now the best part of MLS Season Pass, which is an incredible achievement in such a short amount of time.

2) MLS Countdown – Major League Soccer’s pre-game show on MLS Season Pass is much improved this season too. Host Liam McHugh, along with his guests, provides a really good preview of what games and storylines to watch out for every Saturday night.

3) It looks and sounds fantastic. Production of games, both in visuals and audio, is much improved compared to pre-MLS Season Pass. The picture quality is outstanding across the league.

4) Star power – Knowing that Messi and/or Suarez are playing most weekends is a major plus for neutrals wanting a reason to tune into watching a game on MLS…

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Author : Christopher Harris

Publish date : 2024-04-17 16:00:00

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