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Ever since 2021 Philadelphia Union fans have complained about NYCFC's Championship run.  This past week in Queens Pascal Jansen lead the boys in blue past the Union on a cold rainy night in Queens.  The game was also a celebration of Keaton Parks's 200th performance in all competitions.  This week the guys give their thoughts about Keaton, NYCFC wonder kid, Johnny Shore, and the release of the fir...

One of the most famous names in baseball is Wally Pipp.  Ask a true baseball fan and they'll tell you the story not of Pipp's success as a player and World Series Champion as a New York Yankee, but about his headache that kept him out of a game on June 2, 1925. In NYCFC lore there are a few memorable substitutions of note for both good and bad reasons.  One of the most negative of those occurred S...

NYCFC lost on Saturday in Atlanta.  That's not breaking news to anyone who follows the team, but the collapse from the club is indicative of a much bigger issue.  David Lee has not given head coach, Pascal Jansen, enough resources to make tactical adjustments necessary to win games.  It is that simple.   This week Mike Anderer, J.R. diBart and Mike Allen are back to dive deep into what is happenin...

Blame it on the injuries.  Blame it on the playing during a FIFA window.  Blame it on David Lee for not signing any players to replace James Sands, Santi Rodriguez or Jovan Mijatovic.   NYCFC crawled into Lower.com Field on Saturday night to face the Columbus Crew and it was not a prototypical NYCFC game.  The team was outshot 24-4 and only had 40% of the ball. The bright spot of the game was seei...

Ten year's to the day from NYCFC's historic home-opening game at Yankee Stadium the club welcomed back to the house that Jeter built for another match.  New England limped into this game missing their newest signing and star striker, Leo Campana.  The Revs also have lost the first three games of the 2025 campaign to build upon the streak of losing the last four of 2024. It would be New England tha...

It's an anniversary moment ten years in the making.  NYCFC versus Orlando, but this time the Boys In Blue were the home team and the victors on the day. Pascal Jansen took his "Team First" mentality and pushed the squad to raise their intensity and two second half goals were the difference in NYCFC's eleventh home-opener and the penultimate event at Yankee Stadium. This week Mike Anderer, J.R. diB...

There was an excitement about NYCFC under Pascal Jansen after last week's game in Miami.  The team played with intensity and was clinical in their finishing.   This past weekend in California the Boys In Blue look to have regressed to resemble their weakest moments under Nick Cushing.  There were long stretches of possession that did not result in chances.  There were players out of position and a...

NYCFC went into Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale with zero designated players available for their season opener against Inter Miami FC.  Just hours before kick-off on Saturday night the team officially announced the departure of midfielder Santi Rodriguez and captain, Thiago Martins, was still recovering from a preseason injury.  Even without the presence of those key players, the Boys in Blue wer...

As the days remaining to NYCFC's first game of the season tick away, the squad is getting younger on average thanks to a little addition by subtraction.  The pending loss of Santi Rodriguez means an already young team will be even younger with the departure of the veteran midfielder. This week Mike Anderer and Mike Allen look at the impact that Santi's departure will have on the decisions Pascal J...

It has been just over a month with new head coach, Pascal Jansen, in charge of the club and already some keywords are already starting to permeate the preseason camp.  Top among them is "bullet-proof mindset". This week Mike Anderer and J.R. diBart are joined by Adam and Justin from Post 90 Podcast to dive into the preseason mindset of the Boys in Blue.  J.R. traveled out to the Coachella Invitati...

NYCFC enter the Coachella Valley Invitational looking to put a bow on their post season but also to answer a lot of preseason questions.   Who will replace James Sands in the midfield? How many minutes can Maxi play? Will Martinez be the leading goal scorer in 2025? Mike Anderer, J.R. diBart and Mike Allen take a look at some of the recent changes for the club as they continue their preseason.

NYCFC landed in Santa Barbara to begin their preseason but they are missing a few key pieces.  Matt Freese is with the USMNT in Florida.  Jovan Mijatovic is still in Europe on a "training stint".  Christian McFarlane did not travel because of a possible transfer and then there's the lack of information about NYCFC's newest head coach, Pascal Jansen. This week Mike Anderer, J.R. diBart and Mike All...

2025 is upon us.  With that brings new changes for NYCFC and those changes are happening already.  The preseason starts in a week, preseason friendlies start in two weeks.  Regular season games are only 45 days away.   Mike Anderer, J.R. diBart and Mike Allen gather around the mics again to give their brief cursory thoughts on the big topics happening around the club during the off-season.

The final Blue City Radio episode of 2024 is here.  There's schedule talk, MLS Superdraft talk, and Ronny Delia to Atlanta talk.   We want to also take a moment to thank the listeners.  Whether you tune in every week or once a season or even once every three years when your team faces NYCFC, your time to tune in is very much appreciated. Until 2025... the story of Blue City Radio continues.

There really is never a good time to try and take a break when you are covering a sports team.  Even though a season might come to an end and some decisions are pending, there is no way to know when those choices will be made and communicated.   This week Mike Anderer, J.R. diBart and Mike Allen return after a week's hiatus to find a full plate of topics to discuss.  The amount of NYCFC news was s...

It is hard to imagine a worse ending to the season than losing at home to your cross-river rival and not really make the game look close. CitiField only had a capacity of 25,000 on a cold windy Saturday night in late November.  As the game wore on the Red Bull fans that were speckled throughout the sea of blue started to gain in confidence and in voice and by the 85th minute they were in control o...

This week the guys bring you a special preview episode because on Saturday NYCFC hosts Red Bull in what is their most important MLS matchup to date and most important derby game since Thiago Andrade lost his temper in the 2022 US Open Cup Quarterfinals.   Mike Anderer, J.R. diBart and Mike Allen welcome former MLS player and current MLS Season Pass color commentator, Calen Carr, to the show in the...

NYCFC traveled to Cincinnati for game three of the opening round of MLS Cup Playoffs and kept the number three seed in the east to a nil-nil draw.  The game was decided by penalty kicks and Matt Freese proved to be just as important in the moment as he has been all season long.   This week Mike Anderer, J.R. diBart and Mike Allen look back at round one of the playoffs and look ahead at an all-impo...