News: MLS Suspends season due to Coronavirus

I am not talking about his work. I am talking about his personal Twitter. For example he said that anyone who cares about the Gold Cup final on the day of the women's world cup final can go jump in a lake, whatever the hell that means. Those are primarily the kinds of posts that have filled his timeline.

 

BTW I find his professional writing to be quite good actually.

 

Using the Dan Rydell method of naming soccer teams, I'm gonna say... Luxembourg?

 

Unless or until the coronavirus reasserts itself, if we humans haven't figured out how to deal with it yet.

 

I don't know if Levski Sofia and CSKA Sofia are still operational.

 

So your issue isn't that you don't trust him any more, the issue is that you disagree with him personally, but have no issues with his professional work.

 

Yeah, but USL doesn't have a Championship or League One team in Mississippi or South Dakota, where cases are on the rise, and especially in Mississippi's case.

 

Yeah, but USL doesn't have a Championship or League One team in Mississippi or South Dakota, where cases are on the rise, especially in Mississippi's case.

 

Levski's operations were never interrupted.

I was under the impression CSKA folded. Turns out the club was expelled from professional football, played in the (amateur) third division for a season, and went bankrupt, but a phoenix club then jumped straight into the first division under the CSKA name by buying and renaming Litex Lovech. (I remembered there being some shenanigans because Bjorn Maars Johnsen, who was still US eligible at the time, had been playing for Litex and was left without a club in the shuffle.)

BTW, the two clubs I would have named would have been Levski and Ludogorets.

 

Yeah but the Mississippi Governor isn't worried, He's got God on his side.

 

CSKA used to be the Red Army teams in eastern Europe.

 

And Dynamo were secret police teams.

 

Which spot is it replacing?

 

Home Depots here in Cleveland always have the longest lines of any store. Not sure if they're busier or just being held to lower maximum capacities than other similar-sized stores.

 

That explains why Houston fans are in hiding.

 

You realize that D2/D3 attendance has no relevance to future MLS attendance. Right? You remember the Toronto Lynx and Utah Blitzz - right?

I'm not a big fan of Charlotte (as I live in Raleigh-Durham - and trust me I realize it doesn't help the cause of getting a local team for me), but holy crap. Going after the Independence's attendance as the lede? Weak sauce.

Just straight up complain that Dave Tepper bought himself a golden ticket. Just do that. No stadium required, just a bigger check. Stick to that.

 

Guessing the USOC spot, since its not looking good that there will be a USOC competition this year.

 

And the Atlanta Silverbacks.

 

And to be fair to Charlotte, the only club soccer game I've ever attended there had over 20,000 fans in attendance (the Charlotte Lightnin''s 1981 ASL championship game)

 

And the slew of failed lower league NYC teams before NYCFC.

 

If I were a Red Bulls fan I'd be insulted, so obviously I'm delighted.

The Cosmos reported attendances at MCU Park were OK.

And the record attendance for any soccer game resided in New York from 1926 when the New York Giants played Hakoah of Vienna in front of 46,000 at the Polo Grounds, until the 1994 World Cup thanks to the real Cosmos.

I think Queensboro FC will do OK.

 

Tepper owns the Panthers and the Panthers control revenue at Bank of America Stadium. And, really, that is all anyone really cares about in business. We talk about "soccer specific stadiums" because back in the day none of the owners owned a stadium (except for Kraft) in the market that their team played in. So in order for those teams to actually make some money was to build stadiums.

St Louis and Sacramento both need to do so and their expansion fee plus the stadium costs put them at 400+ million in order to get into the league. Since Tepper doesn't need to he just paid more in straight up expansion fee. And considering he had 60 companies lined up to buy luxury boxes at 100k a year and they have already got 22k+ in season ticket deposits I'm not sure what we are complaining about. Or did people not learn their lesson from Atlanta that we shouldn't jump to conclusions and maybe the people that run these businesses might know more than us?

 

South Platte Tectonics SC

 

I think the better question is how will the other three or four (if you add the Canadian slot that would likely go to one of the Canadian MLS teams) be assigned. For all practical purposes, this will take the MLS Champions slot, that leaves the Supporters Shield, MLS Cup loser and USOC slots.