This is spot on. They can't promote the hell out of it and put it on in primetime like the NFL or NBA draft because even the top 1% of MLS fans have no idea who any of these guys are. There are maybe 100 people in the country not being paid as part of their job who follow college soccer closely enough to have a inkling of insight into what the 100+ players available could offer. It never had any media significance and has now lost nearly all of it's significance in roster building. Why do it?
First order of business for new @ColumbusCrewSC coach Caleb Porter and president Tim Bezbatchenko?To ask the supporters for 2019 MLS #SuperDraft pick ideas pic.twitter.com/ZnCyjgCw3k— Emily Olsen (@EmilyTOlsen) January 11, 2019 Goddamn, I love Bez.
Andy's definitely been downgraded. It's curious how some figures who were taught to me as heroes are now villains in the same classroom a few decades later.
#Crew96 fans chant familiar "Guillermo" and GBS makes his way over to pay his respects prior to MLS draft, Chicago. It'll get underway in a couple minutes ... pic.twitter.com/IOp2PzcaPO— Michael Arace (@MichaelArace1) January 11, 2019
Sometimes. I can't imagine Mr Jackson has done anything in the past thirty years so it depends on what the teachers want to teach and what they want to ignore.
Andrew Jackson was a piece of shit and he needs to be dropped from the $20. Here's the crazy thing, though: He was a piece of shit EVEN BY THE MEAGER STANDARDS OF THE 1820s.
The one that gets me is the "ant and the grasshopper" fable, which is now taught 180 deg from how it was taught when I was a kid. But given the turn this is starting to make into politics (even 1820s politics), I'll refrain from replying further.
Should we do the "Guillermo" chant when we play the Gals this year, or nah? I vote yes. Maybe we only do it if he comes over to the Nordecke after the game.
Sounds like that fable has had alternate interpretations long before any of us were born. That grasshopper looks pretty hot though.
There's a certain geeky, wonkishness to this stuff (which I can't help but be drawn to), but the way I see it is that certainly this has to do with the ending average attendance number, but also the percentage of tickets sold and the fact that some teams manage 100+%. These numbers on Wikipedia haven't been updated for 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Soccer_attendance But if you look at the 2017 stats, and sort by Percent Capacity, you see: SJ in an 18K capacity stadium averaging 19,875 (110.4% capacity) KC in a 18,457 capacity stadium, averaging 19,537 (105.8% capacity) And, of course, these clubs exceed 100% capacity because (1) they have huge demand that's reflected in their season ticket sales and, (2) their stadiums are designed to accommodate standing room crowds. We know that Mapfre's capacity is 19,968, but our sell-outs end up being slightly over 20K. I honestly have no idea what the actual standing room capacity of Mapfre is. Does anyone in here? My guess is that Providence Park in Portland hasn't had the ability to take in standing room crowds, so the Timbers' attendance matches the max capacity of their stadium. That'll change this year when they open up those extra 4,000 seats. But even then, I wonder the extent to which such an old stadium on a small downtown site will be able to go beyond their new 25K capacity, regardless of demand. My point being, a modern stadium can be designed to comfortably accommodate more fans than its stated capacity might imply. I assume our new home will be designed to do this, as well. Personally,I don't want a 25-26K seat stadium that only occasionally sells out. I want a 20-22K stadium that routinely sells out, and where our Percent Capacity stat is 95+%. By the way, when we compare our season ticket totals to those of other teams, it's sobering to realize that Portland has had a 13,000 season ticket waiting list (on top of their 15,000 season ticket base); that SKC has a 14K season ticket base and a waiting list of 4,500. I don't have recent stats, but in 2016 SJ had 13,000 season ticket holders and a 2,000 wait list. Last April, Minnesota announced it had reached its max of 14,500 season tickets and was starting a wait list. We do have some work to do, my friends, to get into that neighborhood.
From a prospective of advancing American interest he was a hero. Like Alexander the Great for Greece, Khan for Mongolia, Cesar for Rome. By today's standards all of these men are war criminals. The simple fact is America would not be the global power it is today if we had not brutally taken land away. But that is true of all great world powers.
That entire article highlights the ambiguity of the fable across the centuries, so, your complaints are not very revealing.
I have lots of scarves from various soccer teams, etc., but this picture just makes the scarf thing... i don't even know what to call it, but it looks awful.
Weeeel, I think Wikipedia has been influenced to some extent by current thinking. The alternate interpretation is mostly from one French writer of the 17th century plus some current re-interpretations. But you wouldn't have seen that when I was a kid--just the one from Aesop (but there might have been a version on Rocky and Bullwinkle, which likely would have been on the subversive side). But I concur with your comment about the grasshopper....