Major League Soccer

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2014/03/25/bob-kraft-worst-owner-new-england-revolution/

shots fired (get it?)

salaries are out http://t.co/rPHDEpdLgt

http://havethetimberswonamatchyet.com/

Atlanta 2017 huh

I guess so
Orlando makes enough sense but the rest are feeling forced. and this one's another turf stadium, what shit.

I was under the impression down south they couldnt give a flying one about soccer

New York Cosmos (7): 6859
San Antonio Scorpions (7): 6763
Carolina Railhawks (7): 4708
Atlanta Silverbacks (7): 4364
Fort Lauderdale Strikers (7): 4224
Tampa Bay Rowdies (7): 4051
Minnesota United FC (7): 3679
FC Edmonton (7): 2760

avg attendance fall 2013 NASL

go scorpions

btw we have a real grass SSS that can be expanded to 18000+ fuck atlanta and their football stadium

I've heard Atlanta isn't gonna be the silverbacks.

And I think the prevailing wisdom is the south is shaky ground for soccer. MLS has already failed in Florida before, and the growing expansion fees are starting to be compared to the growth of the original NASL. But, if you've got established rich ppl tossing down money, as an existing league investor-operator (which is what all the "owners" really are)... Gotta be hard to say no to lining your pockets.

Btw Indy Eleven had 11k plus for their first match and have 7k season ticket holders, they're potentially going to be huge in NASL. I have two friends in the front office and with Peter Wilt at the helm there's not really a limit what they could become.

nasl getting some legit action now

Also NYCFC are gonna be playing at Yankee stadium which IMO is bigger bullshit than a 70-80k football stadium.

hahaha fuck the yankees forever

also im starting to realize the thing i like most abt sports is hating other places

p much what it's all about yeah

I mean, seconds after the Atlanta announcement, some dippy Crew blog posted this & it went viral

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlWwP2GCEAI01PP.jpg

yankees stadium is some bullsh
indy and SA seem to me from the outside so much more organic, but i don't trust nasl not to f it up.

sa tryina get into mls tho

MPLS is considered the front runner for the last slot I think

http://soccer.si.com/2014/04/16/mls-expansion-criteria-atlanta/

Very roughly estimated, the combined contributions of NYCFC, Miami, Orlando and Atlanta come to a total somewhere near $280 million. Each MLS club will pocket some $14 million.

xp
yeah but fuck that shit, i need some real ass teams when the spurs are in the offseason

lols http://www.lagalaxy.com/video/2014/04/24/alexi-lalas-runs-hill-during-2011-lamar-hunt-us-open-cup-0

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2014/05/major-league-soccer-money-problems.html

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2014/05/12/Media/MLS-TV.aspx

New TV deal, $75 mil/year, all streaming moves to ESPN/Fox platforms. End of Direct Kick, possibly?

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2014/05/12/Media/ESPN-MLS-out-of-market.aspx

ESPN dealing with the streaming side of things, thankfully

(out of market, that is)

If they lock it to Watch ESPN I'm done. Not getting tv to follow the games. Happy with the online pass as it is.

Howie ‏@Howie_OT 3m

36 year-old Lampard passing to 33 year-old David Villa in a baseball stadium will exorcise the NASL demons from MLS once and for all.

new nycfc sg, can't tell if srs but still laughing

https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t1.0-9/10433902_10200864844662262_8823603754387136065_n.jpg

hahaha

i hope nycfc sucks as much as the knicks do

ugh fuck the fire so much

years of non-investment, purposeful agitation of fans, and general mismanagement are sinking the club, it's so fucking frustrating, I almost wish there was relegation here to permanently fuck over the idiots who are in charge

don't know anything about the Fire other than the Sounders-Fire cup game I saw last night but that was brutal

that was just the latest straw

Lalas just said New England are getting Jermaine Jones

Revs announced it on twitter.

Somebody sent me email about JJJ deal gone astray a few days ago.

Here was earlier story: http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/66/united-states/2014/08/21/5049423/sources-jermaine-jones-deal-with-mls-hits-snag?ICID=HP_HN_1

Okay, I see

All reports indicate the league decided this by flipping a coin

god i love mls

on a serious note it really sucks that this of all seasons is the year it's been mostly impossible for me to go to dcu games - they've been incredible (and there's something deeply funny about eddie johnson sort of being a liability to that)

yeah they got chris rolfe from chicago and he's been his same old self again, must have just needed a change of scenery (I heard he wanted out pretty badly + the fire wanted to dump salary)

kudos to dc for sticking with ben olsen long enough for his plan to come together, it's too bad the fire didn't keep frank klopas around long enough for him to get there

rolfe broke his arm, probably out for a month or so :(

(or maybe he can use the cast as a weapon a la "cowboy" bob orton)

dang, that sucks, but that's the other side of rolfe -- he's good for at least one month+ injury break every year

haha:
During pregame tifo setup, the capos on the stand started jawing at the New York players as is the norm for any team coming through the tunnel. One of the capos started calling Thierry Henry "Captain Handball", and he and Henry "chirped back and forth for like a minute" according to the capo. Apparently Petke came back up the tunnel and started screaming "Hey! Hey! F**K YOU!" while pointing at the capo. Petke continued his tantrum by saying "You're all scumbags! You'll never amount to anything!" before going back down the tunnel to the locker rooms.

lol petke

the comments on that post imply that petke might have been pissed off about the water on the field - i was watching the game saturday and it was hard for me not to think of that 2012 playoff game against dc, when nyrb famously did the bare minimum to get the snow cleared off the field before kickoff. if they don't get angrier about field conditions than every other mls team combined, they certainly don't do anything to dispel that reputation.

usoc woo btw

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