My "local" MLS stadium is either in Frisco (362 miles) or Austin (364) miles. My "local" USLC stadium is in Albuquerque (324 miles), El Paso (346 miles), San Antonio (389 miles), or Weidner Field (475 miles). Oklahoma City's previous stadium was 350 miles. When Texoma joins USL1 next year and plays in Sherman, that will be 327 miles. Hopefully the local rumors are true about the Matadors building here in Lubbock in the next few years and either going USL1 or NISA.
That supposes a 1:1 ratio of existing jobs to new jobs and industries where automation won't cut into work. Boomers also worked at (mostly) the same job for a good portion of their working lives.
Whew. "Mostly". Otherwise I'm still an outlier: Farm Laborer Oil Rigger Maintenance man Summer Camp management Carpenter Security Guard Radio and TV production at stations Restaurant manager Video technician at a Vet school School teacher Law librarian Some of those multiple times and also overlapping. I feel like I'm missing a few. I have been a law librarian for the last 19+ years. That's why I get to retire.
This is screwy...and maybe suspect? The MLS tweet about 366,979 fans for the weekend? By my count on the 9 matches where attendances were known, the total was 244,811. This includes the 4 largest gatherings at Kansas City, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Vancouver. The remaining 5 unreported attendances, according to the MLS tweet, would have been 122,168. Breaking that down, Minnesota would have drawn a little over 19,000 against Houston. The most San Jose would have drawn in its match with Colorado was 18,000. RSL's home match with Columbus would have been in the neighborhood of 20,500 or a little higher than that (if you go on the high side of things). That leaves both New York teams with unknown attendances. If the Red Bulls sold out against Chicago, that's 25,000 fans, meaning that New York City would have drawn about 39,000 at Yankee Stadium against the Revolution. That doesn't seem very likely to me. Not that it's impossible, but I can't imagine attendance for NYCFC being that good unless it's against the Red Bulls or Inter Miami.
This could also serve as the title of a book about the history of Michigan politics over the last century.
USA is almost paying a WHOPPING $1 000 000 000 000 ($1 trillion dollars) on INTEREST every year its financial insanity, but the banks and loan companies love it cbsnews.com/news/federal-debt-interest-payments-defense-medicare-children/
Anyone have the attendance numbers for the San Jose and Red Bull games? They still are not posted on the MLS site, not sure whats the hold up this year.
With the 5 missing numbers from last weekend now known, the total attendance for Saturday and Sunday came to 336,979 which is 30,000 less than what MLS posted on its Twitter feed. That tells me the 366,979 tweet was a typo? Still, the weekend average was 24,070 which is very good.
2. BL 28,892 MLS 24,625 according to Transfermkt Liga MX Clausura 24,238 Ligue Un 23,677 MLS 23,675 according to Reddit Brasil Serie A 23,149 Championship 22,812 Chinese Super League 21.251
All that out rage on social media and numbers are still this poor? Viewership numbers are even worse! All that fake outrage was just one of many opportunities to shit on MLS from its haters. That's all. They never had any interest on the USOC.
Yeah I thought all those Eurosnobs were planning to protest by flocking to Open Cup matches this year.
They did have interest in seeing MLS teams play in the USOC, but the games that have been played so far didn't (and never would have in the past), involve MLS teams. Why would someone who is upset at first-tier teams pulling back from the USOC, express that by going to see a third-tier team play a fourth-tier team?
Because the magic of the cup is all about the lower division teams.......and MLS and more importantly GARBER HATES non-MLS US Soccer!!!!! So.... one would think the MLS haters would support the lower division teams regardless of round or opponent....
They are too busy spending Saturday mornings in a sports bar, drinking mimosas and eating raspberry scones, cheering for teams they will never see in person to worry about the local team down the street. they have a sad existence and I would pity them if they weren’t such insufferable pricks.
To me, the magic of the USOC isn't about the lower-division teams. It's about the fact that the USOC is one of the few links still remaining to the American soccer of a century ago. Back then, the best teams in American soccer played in the USOC, and I wish that were still true.