28, sooner or later

Dude, “a city on the rise” is what’s known as a cliché. Nobody owns a cliché. You can’t copyright any short phrase, but nobody is dumb enough to build their entire marketing campaign around a cliché. I think you need to stop digging.

 

Yeah it was a crappy cut and paste, sorry about that.

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Would they give an expansion team to someone other than Sacramento, Cincinnati, or Detroit before the beginning of the 2018 season? I consider Miami on it's own track, but I guess they could be included in the referenced four as well.

 

The tweets are probably a misquote though I admit.

 

"The league hopes to announce all four expansion teams prior to the 2018 season beginning in March"


Wait a minute..

Does that mean LAFC, Miami, Nashville, +1 ?

Or does that mean Nashville, +1, + 2 more??

Or does that mean LAFC, Nashville, +2 (not Miami)???

Is he talking about teams 23-26, or 25-28? And is Miami team 24 or not???? I'm so confused....

 

"Garber added that MLS hoped to establish a timeline for the evaluation and eventual entry of teams No. 27 and 28 before the start of the 2018 season. The league also will need to determine when Nashville will begin play."

https://www.si.com/soccer/2017/12/20/mls-nashville-expansion-team-don-garber-john-ingram

I think the reference to announcing all four is merely completing the timeline of entry for teams 22-26. Odd phrasing since LAFC is known.

 

I humbly suggest, for the sanity of the thread participants, that you not try to ruin Cincy Liverpuddle's (or whatever his name is) day by trying to use logic and factually-based arguments. He will make you regret it by being as irritating and troll-y as possible.

 

To me the SI article seemed pretty clear. I read the main points as:

1- Garber basically says there is a slim chance Nashville could start play in 2019, so most likely 2020.

2- It is ideal to have an even number of teams, and reading between the lines, it almost implies Miami/Nashville/Team26 will start in 2019. Given the point in number 1, and given that Miami still may not be ready by 2019, it most likely would be team26 who starts in 2019. That part is speculative on my part, but how I read it.

3- All four bids were solid, and MLS could have admitted all four but chose not to. The date for announcing team 26 will be revealed on 12/21.

4- A timeline for SELECTING teams 27 and 28 will be announced by March 2018. This doesn’t mean teams 27 and 28 will be announced, but rather announcing the Schedule and Process for when/how cities must submit bids for teams 27 and 28. So if you are city X, by March 2018 you will know the timeline for bidding on 27/28.

 

His points really arent that off base or illogical. Passionate yes, but he is not wrong. He has very valid reasons to be critical of MLS.

 

This is most definitely not why I posted what I did, though his Come to Jesus moment here is pretty disingenuous-seeming given historical postings elsewhere.

 

As a fellow Liverpool fan may I just say:
Feed The Troll.

 

City on the Rise: https://wetheeconomy.com/films/city-on-the-rise/

 

Wait until he finds out that Charlotte, North Carolina (in Mecklenberg County) (named for Charlotte of Mecklenberg) calls itself the "Queen City".

 

So Sacramento and Cincy fans get to be a marvelous wreck for awhile :/ , that blows

 

and here we go, lets see what Sacramento's newest Maloof brother has to say, 25 minutes til talk

 

Meg Whitman is out of the Sacramento ownership group.

Well, this changes everything. Now they certainly do need a new billionaire or two...

 

wow.........your move Cincinnati. Just, wow.

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now we know it literally was Nagle that scuttled this, that reporter was 100 percent correct.

What I don't understand is, why not just name Cincinnati now? barring a small end to tie off, theyre ready to go? it gives their city all the more encouragement to tie it off quickly and pass sacramento. The ball is unquestionably in Cincinnati's court now,

Cant be mad at MLS naming Nashville now, knowing what we know now, that was absolutely right of them to do given Nagle's dishonesty and lack of preparation

 

Obviously they just want to mess with Cincinnati fans.

 

FC Cincinnati lawyers working overtime to finalize agreement/contract with Major League Soccer. Only when it is done will league say whether the team gets into MLS. That won’t be until next year at the earliest.@WCPO

— Tom Mckee WCPO (@TMckeeWCPO) December 21, 2017

 

We already know. It's called the Queen City derby. Welcome to the usl

 

literally every major marketing campaign slogan is built around clichés. "Yes we can!" "Just do it" are both highly successful marketing campaign slogans. Both are clichés

 

...and the circular argument begins to round the 180 degree mark...

 

Cincinnati is a non-starter until the Columbus issue is resolved. Columbus moves to Austin, Cincinnati is in the game. Columbus stays in Columbus, Cincinnati is out. No point in having 3 teams in the small Nashville-Cincinnati-Columbus corridor.

 

I see no reason why they couldn't have all three. I still cannot fathom how theyre going to find a suitable place in downtown Austin, but I think they could still have all three regardless, just my two cents.