They better not be, I'm looking forward to the rivalry. Just wish these fools would stop their chest-thumping and get their house in order. Constantly yapping about their farm to table craps and home breweries and their Bay-reject hipsters LOL Freakin minor leaguer owners and minor leaguer fans. Only sings when they winning, guess they've stopped since yesterday *smirk*
Grant Wahl’s podcast with Brian Strauss this week talked a little about the MLS expansion criteria to have billionaires on the ownership team. Strauss felt that was why it was really important for Sac to keep Meg Whitman onboard. And it was a big stumbling block for Beckham United, that they didn’t have a billionaire until the guy they just announced recently. If billionaire-on-board is a requirement now, I guess there is no way promotion-relegation will ever be instituted at 1st division level in the USA.
http://www.espn.com/soccer/major-le...nd-sacramento-forced-to-wait-for-mls-decision http://www.sacrepublicfc.com/news_article/show/869043
You thought Pro/Rel actually had a shot of being initiated? As for the Republic, it seems from the presser today that Whitman was never on board, and neither are the Yorks. Meaning they still have to entice the former, and the latter are out completely (if they were ever in to begin with). Sure looks like a cluster up in Sac in terms of never having had the financials they were going to need.
Yeah, the lack of deep pockets is probably what killed their bid, that and claiming backers they didn't have. Kinda sketchy that. - M
According to this article Meg was in and then out and then back in again as of a few weeks ago. Maybe MLS wasn't buying that she wouldn't back out again? Weird. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bi...ommits-to-joining-republic-ownership.amp.html I mean is she is or is she ain't their baby?
Apparently Meg is back out yet again. Meg Whitman leaves Sacramento's MLS bid 3 weeks after joining, showing how quickly things can change behind the scenes in MLS expansion. https://t.co/iB7V1oXLag— Caitlin Murray (@caitlinmurr) December 21, 2017 This has gotta be really embarrassing for Sac Republic. Almost as bad as having Precourt run your club.
Hey you, been quiet on these forum lately haven't ya? Done thumping chests cheering for that waste-of-time team of yours? LOL QuakesForever? I still see him/her posting on Twitter about Quakes and academy stuffs. Same as usual. Good luck man, we need you in the league, can't wait to see all the Bay Area rejects at your stadium AHAHAAHHAHA
York is involved with building the stadium, not so much investing in the team. Thank goodness, I don’t want him touching another sports team after what he’s done to the 49ers.
49ers are on the up and up. Lost cause this year but got the good stuffs in place for next. At the end of the day, York did successfully built a $1.3B stadium in the Bay Area.
At the end of the day he successfully built a $1.3 billion dollar soulless concrete edifice that receives much more criticism for its aesthetics and fan experience than praise.
But he built it, didn't he? And once they start winning again the fans will be back in no time, no big deal. And having been to the stadium, it is an improvement over Candlestick in every ways and forms. The haters are just the fcukers from SF who complains about having to drive down to the South Bay for football, meanwhile ignoring the fact that South Bay folks (whose STH outnumbers that of the SF and upper peninsula folks) had to make that trip to the dump that is Candlestick for over 50 years.
Doesn't change the fact that it has to be one of the most architecturally boring stadiums to be built in the last 10 years. What is unique or interesting about it? He built a boring concrete bowl and then slapped an apartment complex on to one side of it. Fans sit there and roast in the sun of Sunday afternoons. Brilliant!
That and the fact that York didn't build it, but instead duped (and bribed) Santa Clara into doing it for him. That's not an accomplishment in any sense of the word, just a failing of taxpayers to have any sense of judgement on how to spend public money where it is best put to use.
SF losing the 49ers was literally the best case scenario for them. It was the worst case scenario for Santa Clara. California would be better off without the NFL in any of its cities.
It's amazing how quickly this went from a sure thing ("when not if", Operation Turnkey) to a complete clusterf*ck... and of course the whole thing could just as quickly be saved if some billionaire steps up.
That statement makes no sense. If she was fine as an investor, she would have put her money in and committed to it. That's not who Meg Whitman is, though, so she was a very poor choice for Sac Republic to try to court as an investor in the first place.
The rumor is that Nagle's "ego" is the problem. Maybe he said or did something that Whitman didn't like.
It makes total sense. Whether one agrees with her politics or not, what's wrong with Meg Whitman? Let's see, Princeton and Harvard Business School graduate, took eBay from a $4 million company to an $8 billion dollar company, ran for CA governor, committing a good deal of her own money to her campaign, CEO of HP for 6 years, and did a credible job of navigating an old dinosaur company through the new, rapidly changing tech landscape, etc., philanthropy work in environmental and education causes, etc. I don't know the story behind her going in and then out on Sac, but there have been rumblings about Kevin Nagle being difficult to work with. I don't know if that is true or not, but the point is that Meg Whitman does not have a history of being "flaky", and is one of the most successful businesswomen in U.S. history.
Meh, it's not better in terms of aesthetics, character, setting. Sure it's newer, bigger, has more amenities. But it's a brutal monolith void of any charm or character.
The story is that MLS wanted Whitman to be more of a lead role as "the" main owner, but she didn't want to do that. So, I guess Republic are currently shopping around for a billionaire that does.