It pains me to see the Whitecaps fourth from the bottom in attendance. I watch the games on TV now (I no longer have my tickets because I moved),...
I have toes and fingers crossed that Vancouver can turn this ship around. The fans are passionate, but I'm not convinced they are as durable as...
I’m old. What does that mean?
Nice view of the stadium. Also a great illustration of Michael Bradley’s defensive desire. He looks over his shoulder at two open players...
You are absolutely right. However, the owner economics do not flow that way. Coming into the league means the current owners split 100M+ every...
I would not underestimate your hypothesis. I offer a grand sample size of n=1, so it has to be true, since I feel the same way and voted with my...
Well done Cincinnati with 20K STH accomplishment.
My beer just went all up my nose. That has to be one of the funniest lines I’ve ever read on Big Soccer.
MLS has sought investors and continues to do so. My speculation is that Garber realized that people with Billions rarely spend 10s to 100s of...
For sure. TV money is what will drive the league. Gate is very nice and a necessary revenue stream, but it won’t drive enough revenue to make MLS...
A lot of logistical issues to consider among travel, fixture congestion, incongruence of seasons... if there’s enough money involved, I guess...
You don’t want to watch games with assistant coaches filling in spots to make sure they have 11-a-side?
You are my favorite type of soccer fan. I'm old enough to have seen the game fail multiple times here. The fact that people who discovered it as...
I guess you forgot about the hockey riots the last two times the Canucks made the Stanley Cup Finals? Three days of mayhem, property damage, and...
I still get annoyed with the positioning in a blog like the one about the stadium in Nashville. Ideally there would be no taxpayer money, zero....
Now that I read what I wrote... football is king at Vanderbilt. That would pass as good comedy.
And Portland is further north than Toronto... don’t know why your TN post made me think of that weird tidbit. I’ve driven corner to corner across...
Vanderbilt dropping soccer was a too bad. (I went to grad school there so I followed what happened). Football is king and soccer was viewed as...
I think it’s 9.9 for men’s soccer.
Parker. He is rock solid. He has no senior international experience, but I remember watching him play against Colombia in U-23 the play-in game....
RING RING!!! Hello, who’s calling It’s 1995. We want our Americans-want-more-scoring rant back.
For me a pivotal event was Toronto’s entry into the league. People looked like they were genuinely having fun in big numbers in a city where thee...
This is what Bradley does. He ball watches and ball chases. Sometimes it works, most of the time it doesn’t. Against a midfield with quick,...
I thought that was a quote from Jessie Marsch
People always compare leagues and it’s hard. I generally view it through the lense of economics. The simple thesis is that the higher paying...