TDIF: MLS, Kraft Planning To Sell/Relocate Revolution after 2013?

if you are going to Revs games at Gillette in 5 years, then I'll be the one laughing at you.

 

Oh it will suck undoubtedly to be there, but I like watching soccer. Hell maybe by some miracle we get an SSS, but what I am saying is nothing will change.

 

well I do agree that if this team doesn't move to another city, it is never going to be in an SSS. So regardless, this team basically doesn't exist no matter what happens.

 

Well, you're right about one thing. The Revs will surely still be playing at Gillette in five years. But do you honestly consider that to be winning? Sounds awful to me.

 

Reality... no.

In terms of the argument of the likelihood of these claims...yes

 

As Bob always says...

 

The Revs register so low in the region's sports awareness that I doubt this sort of storyline would get much play. A non-soccer-fan friend of mine from Miami once asked me, "yeah, don't we have the Fusion?" when MLS came up. That was 2006. This would be a similar situation.

 

Ask pretty much any Raiders fan how effective that rule is in a court of law

 

Austin Cowan ‏@skobebro
A lot of talk today about #Revs relocating to Baltimore. Any base to that @RevsPrez ??

Brian Bilello ‏@RevsPrez
@skobebro None. If you are referring to the email that some have seen, it is a hoax.

https://twitter.com/RevsPrez/status/237593894974545920

 

Well, that wrapped that up in a neat little bow

 

That's just what "The Man" would want you to believe... man...

 

So we are now supposed to believe the lying liars? lmao

 

Yes, but as a big soccer fan I can tell you this. I don't give ten flying F's about AC Milan, and I am sick of the glorified exhibition matches, have found many of them to be extremely lacking, and this current crop of AC Milan had just lost arguably its best attraction in Ibra. Yes, the game still should have had at least 30K there. No one is making excuses for that (well, maybe the Revs front office is). But I can tell you that personally, I am much more interested in seeing a Euro giant play the Revs, or in two Euro giants - particularly two that I haven't seen before - play each other, than I am in going to see a game that was a bungled mess from the start.

 

Sure, you are sick of them....but you are one person.

 

Judging by the fact that only 17K showed up, I'd say I'm not the only one.

 

I'd hate to be the low man on the Tavolino Pizza Gourmet totem pole come Fall 2013.

 

As most have pointed out, and everyone else should have been able to see with two eyes, that entire event was botched from the very beginning. It says infinitely more about the incompetence of KSG, than it does of the markets willingness to consume international friendlies.

 

My eyes are wide open, as I said that I thought it was a bungled mess from the start.

 

The Bent Musket shares further email messages they had with the purported mole inside the Revolution organization http://www.thebentmusket.com/2012/8...mail-revolution-relocation-baltimore-mls-mole

 

Soooooo, exactly what is your point then?

 

Plausible and works for MLS, but I'm not seeing how it works for the Krafts. Why do the Krafts maintain a minority interest in Baltimore? Is this because the local ownership group can't bankroll independently? Why not sell the team 100%? The option would most likely not be exercised, I don't see that happening, so I agree this would mean a 10-year MLS layoff for Boston.

 

I don't have one.

 

Equation for that disappointment is simple enough: AC Milan team with zero starpower + non-MLS/Liga MX CONCACAF opponent + $40 parking = 17k fans.

Regarding the original topic - this definitely reads like one of those "medium" predictions where facts, reasonable conjecture and popular assumption can snowball into a credible rumor. It pretty much follows that template to the letter.

If the Revs ever move, I'll be sad for a wide variety of reasons, and despite all of the incredibly well-documented problems with the team, I still consider them a "signature" MLS franchise along with DCU and the Galaxy (for better or worse). I will be very, VERY curious however, if any notable FO names are sent packing following this season as this email is hinting. I think Heaps is safe if he wants to be, but like I said in the "Bust" thread I wouldn't be surprised if he just throws his hands up and quits.

 

this thread is still open?