“Santa Clara County leaders skeptical of Earthquakes deal” (San José Spotlight - Friday, 11/8/24) This digital rendering shows what an eight-field soccer complex could look like when complete at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds. Image courtesy of San Jose Earthquakes. GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
That's great!! Clearly a Minnesota fan, and close to my view of the league, but swap SJ for Minnesota. Also, the tweet looks great! Go Quakesfans!!
Where the hell is Minnesota, anyway? Can’t get anything by us @buffalobills...We actually play in the other Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/zjSxrFyqot— Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) September 22, 2018
"a small team" could never do this: The Galaxy supporters protested their own team until they front office (all the way up to team president Chris Klein) was finally cleaned out and replaced by competent people (like GM Will Kuntz who the Quakes didn't hire, choosing to promote Chris Leitch from within their own incompetent setup) who took the team to MLS Cup for the first time in a decade in their first season.... meanwhile the Quakes have the current North American professional sports record across all leagues for longest streak of winless seasons. Who deserves credit for the @LAGalaxy's return to the top of @MLS?Yes, @RiquiPuig and this squad. Yes, Will Kuntz who built it on short notice. Yes, Greg Vanney who shaped it.But this #MLSCup? You can thank the SUPPORTERS and their demand for more from the club for that! pic.twitter.com/pQUkLa9QVv— Andrew Wiebe (@andrew_wiebe) December 2, 2024
Most consecutive winless seasons in all of North American professional sports leagues is pretty bad, you still all in on season tickets?
If you pay for me to move next to some other first division men's pro soccer team I'll get tickets for them instead, but there is only currently one within traveling distance for me
That’s still not answering the question (and it’s fine of course if you don’t want to), will you be a 2025 STH or will you be going to single games here and there, at your convenience?
Quit deflecting, the real question is when are you leaving this site for the entirety of the 2025 season as promised?
Show me where I promised any such thing. That’s nonsense. So you’re not a season ticket holder? Were you last year? My own feeling on the matter, Fisher should have to earn fans continued loyalty by trying harder.
You have to admire their willingness to stand up for their team. Makes me wonder what would happen if Quakes fans stood up and protested. * That wasn't a hard question btw... - yes, I'm a season ticket holder - no, I'm not Simpleton stuff.
I guess the Viqueens are flying out of Madison! It's all bullshit anyway - the 'queens play in a dome at home...
We have people here to say that the Quakes don't need to spend more money because spending negatively correlates to winning in MLS, but also say that we don't know that the Quakes would have been better off hiring Will Kuntz as GM because Kuntz got to spend lots of money building the now MLS Cup winning LA Galaxy team and would not have been allowed to spend with the Quakes... Will Kuntz is the best executive in MLS.— MLS Moves (@MLSMoves) December 7, 2024 ALSO, spending does help you win! Look at what the Galaxy did—they spent more than anyone else this past offseason in MLS:•$12M on Gabriel Pec 🇧🇷•$10M on Joseph Paintsil 🇬🇭You have to spend to win in modern MLS. You can’t be cheap and expect to win anymore.— MLS Moves (@MLSMoves) December 7, 2024
Pretty sure that no one here ever said that "spending negatively correlates to winning in MLS". I certainly never said that. The fact is that there has never been shown to be a correlation between spending and points in MLS. Haven't seen the data for this year, but it's never been the case over many years. "No correlation" doesn't mean "negative correlation". That's a ludricrous strawman. Not sure how many times we've had to go thru this. Kuntz didn't really increase spending much for the Gals if at all. They had tons of dead weight $ coming off the books for Chicharito, Costa, etc. He made good choices with the $ he had to spend, but he also made good choices with his smaller $ signings. I think he could have had some success here if he could make those smaller budget signings work (and maybe he could have used the $6M transfer we paid to better use - though I think Hernán is pretty good) Bottom line: the reason Kuntz succeeded in LA is not because spending increased a bunch. It's because he made smarter choices than had been made in the past. And so we're back to where it always ends up. In the end, it's the smarts, it's the smarts, it's the smarts.
I've mentioned more than once that the last team to win with a cheap team was sporting KC over a decade ago. Every team since has has spent good money on DPs. Yes the other side of the coin is that spending doesn't automatically win you a MLS cup. Although it'll definitely give you an upper hand if done correctly.
OTOH Columbus, which is I think a bottom 1/3 club in spending won Leagues Cup and made CONCACAF Champions final. NER 2021 set an MLS points record, etc.