Soccer has arrived in America, so stop pretending it hasn't

That's okay, little league is more important than soccer anyways. and judging by the way people are arguing on this thread, I'm sure alot of them would agree with me. No wonder ref's seem to ignore obvious penalties when we treat this sport like crap.

Not to mention the new contract MLS/USMNT has with NBC. Starting next year NBC Sports Network (Versus) is going to show 38 matches, and the NBC network is going to show 2 regular season MLS matches, 2 playoffs, and 2 USMNT. This is a major coup for soccer in the United States.

Whoa. What did that dude do to get a red?

Besides attempt to hijack every thread you mean?

Didn't notice.

The fact that the US-Mexico game did better than the Yankee Red Sox Sunday Night Baseball game is noteworthy. I feel that new fans always come in like driftwood washing up on a beach. Every summer there is always some major soccer tournament going that acts as that wave. We have new fans come in after the World Cup, after the Women's Cup, and I expect more to come after both Euro and the Olympics.

The only people that watch yankees vs redsox games are fans of either team. It's hard enough watching 1 mlb team. How can you expect people to watch the 2 most disliked teams in baseball.

It's also possible that ESPN viewers are completely sick of the Red Sox/Yankee rivalry as played up by ESPN. Yes, it's there, and yes, it's huge, but if you don't live in...oh, let's say Bristol, Connecticut, then it's not that big of a deal. So it might be that baseball fans from around the country are sick of the hype.

Or soccer is about to arrive and render every other sport obsolete.

I'm excited about the US games on NBC and am hoping that a big friendly is going to be on the mother network and in primetime.

Maybe if they didn't play 18 times of year, with a wild card virtually guaranteeing they will both be in the playoffs short of an epic fail.