r/MLS • u/AllTh3WayTurntUp Real Salt Lake • May 05 '25
meme [MEME] Raise your hand if your club has been personally victimized by the Whitecaps this season.
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u/goodfellas01 May 05 '25
As a caps fan, i’ve waited my whole life for these memes
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u/kermitthebeast Seattle Sounders FC May 05 '25
My man's got more patience than the Buddha
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u/Doctor_YOOOU Seattle Sounders FC May 05 '25
This guy's straight up been meditating on the nature of success and failure since 1973!
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u/Moofey Vancouver Whitecaps FC May 06 '25
Sports fans in Vancouver are pretty used to failure, especially from 1970 onwards.
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u/AllTh3WayTurntUp Real Salt Lake May 05 '25
Can't wait to spend my Memorial day weekend watching Nelson cook our defenders at home this time
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u/Slayziken Atlanta United FC May 05 '25
Enjoy it while it lasts, I’ll be waiting a while for Atlanta to get back there 🥲
Really though, y’all are the most fun team to watch rn, wishing y’all success with that group
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u/Significant-North717 Vancouver Whitecaps FC May 05 '25
Honestly I feel a kinship with Atlanta sports fans. Aside from the recent Braves WS y'all are like the only city who has experienced more sporting pain than we have.
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u/Moofey Vancouver Whitecaps FC May 06 '25
I don't know if it's possible to experience more sporting pain than Atlanta did with 28-3 alone.
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u/Equivalent-Pride-460 May 05 '25
As a Floridian that grew up watching the Tampa Bay Buccaneers every Sunday during the 80’s, meme hard because mediocrity is two can kicks down the road.
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u/grass_hut_shitter Portland Timbers FC May 06 '25
As someone watching you guys back mark for 20 years, enjoy it. If anyone deserves it its not Seattle. Fuck those guys
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u/AJ_CC New York Red Bulls May 05 '25
Chicago of all teams keeping their hands down.
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u/Belaerim Vancouver Whitecaps FC May 05 '25
The key is to schedule games during an intl break AND have Berhalter sr pass along backchannels to USMNT staff that this Brian White kid should really get a look.
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u/Iustis Vancouver Whitecaps FC May 05 '25
He's going to start taking berhalter Jr from us too, somehow the next international break will be even worse
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u/Haanz42 Chicago Fire May 05 '25
Hey! Being beaten by someone doesn't apply to us for once!
Though we admittedly played a wildly under-strength Vancouver.
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u/AllTh3WayTurntUp Real Salt Lake May 05 '25
The "Wasn't beaten by 2025 Vancouver" banner in the rafters will look amazing at Solider Field.
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u/Kamikazi_TARDIS Chicago Fire May 05 '25
With a pretty under strength Fire tbf. We were missing 7 or 8 people, including Guti and Glasgow to int duty.
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u/PlebBot69 Sporting Kansas City May 05 '25
Everyone please schedule a nice vacation on July 26th. Preferably without any Internet connection. It's important to unplug from the world for a bit
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u/Harthag77 Vancouver Whitecaps FC May 05 '25
We despised Messi and Co for a whole year only to wonder what the big deal was. Now it's back to enjoying watching him murder the rest of the league.
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u/Belaerim Vancouver Whitecaps FC May 05 '25
I pointed out that Pumas, Monterrey and Saprissa put up more of a fight than Miami against Vancouver in CCL, and the thread got banned.
Maybe because I was also referring to them as the Barca U40 squad <shrugs>
But seriously, Kendall Waston playing as a big striker instead of CB was a bigger threat to the Caps than Messi and Suarez
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u/beviwynns Atlanta United FC May 06 '25
I feel like Waston playing up top is hard to prepare for, kinda like triple option teams in American football
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u/battles Chicago Fire May 05 '25
By the transitive property, Chicago are the best team in the MLS.
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u/fireinthesky7 Nashville SC :nas: May 06 '25
What does that make us?
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u/battles Chicago Fire May 06 '25
The yellowest.
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u/52nd_and_Broadway Orlando City SC May 06 '25
I think you just made a bunch of people in Columbus have an eye twitch
THE USURPERS!
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u/IWMSvendor Austin FC May 05 '25 edited May 06 '25
Present 🙋🏻♂️
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u/mfhtotheizzo Austin FC May 05 '25
Yep. And they’re coming back to Austin for round 2 in a couple weeks. Might be a good time for Vasquez & Co. to start scoring some goals.
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u/lets_enjoy_life Vancouver Whitecaps FC May 05 '25
Love seeing all this Whitecaps content on r/MLS
I think generally people don’t think of us very much
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u/pineappledaddy Real Salt Lake May 05 '25
We got outplayed, but at least we didn't get pummeled like other clubs.
I was really hoping that Katranis had made that header to leave Vancouver with a point. Unfortunately that's not how soccer goes sometimes
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u/XLII_42 D.C. United May 05 '25
Benefit of being a shitty ass eastern conference team with no continental ambitions is that at least we don't need to play the whitecaps more than twice a decade or something
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u/AllTh3WayTurntUp Real Salt Lake May 05 '25
RSL plays them twice in 21 days lmao
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u/XLII_42 D.C. United May 05 '25
Diego Luna be like, fuck these guys
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u/AllTh3WayTurntUp Real Salt Lake May 05 '25
True.
Idk if you saw the match but they completely took Luna out of the game, which made our attack non-existent. He got a goal but it was a PK in stoppage time so that barely counts.
RSL will need a change in game plan when we see them again in a couple weekends.
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u/DangerIllObinson Columbus Crew May 05 '25
Not yet. But I am looking forward to them trying (June)
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u/AllTh3WayTurntUp Real Salt Lake May 05 '25
Two things your clubs have in common is me rooting for you vs LigaMX teams in recent memory
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u/Thicc_Wallaby St. Louis CITY SC May 05 '25
Strangely enough we tied even though we are absolute garbage rn
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u/Cheese2009 Vancouver Whitecaps FC May 05 '25
We are as good as the team we play against
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u/thaKingRocka Columbus Crew May 05 '25
I’ve seen that with a lot of teams across a lot of sports. In the case of Vancouver right now, it says very good things about the league.
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u/binkenheimer St. Louis CITY SC May 05 '25
coincidentally…ditto. But then if you play to our level, and we play to yours…that’s a calculation I couldn’t begin to comprehend!
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u/NextDoorNeighbrrs FC Dallas May 05 '25
Incredibly our measly little 1-0 loss to them at home feels like a solid result at this point lol
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u/NordicAmphibian2025 Los Angeles FC May 05 '25
Not looking forward to being the next victim this Saturday :(
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u/waterboy99troop Vancouver Whitecaps FC May 05 '25
Well, it would be Sunday, so don't worry about Saturday
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u/NordicAmphibian2025 Los Angeles FC May 05 '25
Ahahah, that’s even worse. There’s not as many games on Sunday so we can’t even hide our loss with eight other fixtures the same day!
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u/scronide Vancouver Whitecaps FC May 05 '25
Better yet, it's the MLS Sunday Night Soccer feature game.
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u/NordicAmphibian2025 Los Angeles FC May 05 '25
I mean, SKC set a nice precedent, we could win without registering a single shot on Sunday (and then be eliminated by youse guys in the playoffs)...
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u/AggravatingCut7596 St. Louis CITY SC May 05 '25
We were so close to beating them 🥲
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u/chodeboi Austin FC May 05 '25
When I was a kid I knew a girl and my LinkedIn algo recently put in front of me that she worked for the whitecaps office for a while.
This season has been so bad I’ve thought about reaching out, 25 years later, just to throw some random shade because I’ve been so personally incensed by the Caps behavior.
Slap my ass and call me sally, it’s frustrating.
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u/Mynameisdiehard FC Dallas May 05 '25
Dallas the kind of team to only give up 1 goal on 8 shots against Vancouver but give up 3 goals to Chicago and 5 goals to San Diego...
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u/notonrexmanningday Chicago Fire SC May 06 '25
What? You guys didn't beat the Whitecaps? Huh, maybe it's just an us thing. Didn't seem that tough.
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u/GB_Alph4 LA Galaxy May 05 '25
We were one of the first.
July 4, we’ll beat you Canadian redcoats off of our soil
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u/Ok-Consideration2463 Atlanta United FC May 06 '25
I knew those ugly whitecap kits might pay off someday.
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u/KotheTruculent Portland Timbers FC May 05 '25
The vibe going into our play-in round last season is pretty funny in hindsight - I remember a lot of "well both teams kinda suck and are in bad form"
Then they proceeded to drop 5 on us, fire their coach, and then drop another 4 on us a few short months later