CSA launching Canadian Premier League

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My girlfriend is from South Jersey, and when she explained Wawa to me, I was like, "So...they're sandwiches...from a gas station. Gross." Now I'm a card-carrying Wawa evangelical. Might as well be heaven when you're down the shore and drunk at 2 AM.

 

I walked into the middle of a Wawa, Sheetz, Roayal Farms argument at work on Thursday. There were no survivors.

Dunkin Donuts and Tim Hortons are both extremely overrated.

 

fixed

 

Starbucks isn't even rated anymore to be over-rated. At some point, and it must be several years ago now, they decided that the only thing they really cared about was how the store smelled. If they had to burn the coffee to get that smell, so be it.

 

SheetZ used to have food ordering screens outside next to the pumps. That was awesome. Now you have to go stand around inside waiting for your food. But they mostly still have beer caves.

DD and Hortons both sell inedible garbage. Krispy Creme is even worse.

I don't hate Starbucks as much as some people do particularly when I travel and the alternative is MickyD's. But I was sorely disappointed that no employee ever tried to engage me in dialogue on racism, as the company ordered them to.

Speaking of McD, I read that the all day breakfast is a disaster. Everybody is ordering low priced breakfast rather than high priced burgers and their average receipt is down 30 percent.

Love me some sausage biscuit with egg. Yum.

 

It's actually due to Quebec's language laws.

 

Thats because Ronald McDonald makes a shitty "hamburger".

 

way back when, mcdonald's and burger king had a hip factor. now they're the old geezers of the industry. it's tough to fight that.
although i don't like starbucks, it's not like they have strong competition. the local coffee shops i've seen aren't much different, coffee-wise. ok, the locals offer fewer schlucky drinks and don't have the annoying corporate look, but when you get down to the beans it's not like you're drinking espresso in italy.

 

Age always mattered there, though. The products have been pumped with cheap HFCS for a long time, catering to the sweeter tooth of younger customers. Much like Chef Boyardee or other processed food products aimed at kids, it's a taste you tend to outgrow.

The only difference is that starbucks often over roasts (ie burns) their coffee because the store smell is more important than the taste.

 

maybe someone should contact these guys about owning a club

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34632349

 

This thread!

 

so much for the soccer talk re: canadian professional soccer league- its all about the food

 

its a funny world when post 761 is bang on topic and then posts 762 and 763 take the thing off topic by talking about how off topic the thread has gotten....let's hope 764 can end that discussion

 

I think an independent league would be counterproductive. Especially if it comes at the expense of CCL spot for MLS sides as had been a possibility. The NASL could use the teams especially in the larger cities but the USL would be best with a larger league and more regional teams with MLS2 clubs.

 

I am not a fan of this at the MLS level...but can see merits around the financial stability it might provide in the lower leagues if the owner had other motives for owning.

Particularly in the context we are discussing here....a Canadian league as part of (or attached to) something like NASL......having a financial and strategic partnership with a bigger, foreign, club might make those teams more sustainable.

 

I'm good with the idea of satellite clubs, particularly at the lower level, if they're conditioned on the creation of an academy. Helps more if the team is located in a place not covered by the current professional teams in the US/Canada. Thinking of somewhere like Detroit, Nashville, New Orleans, Calgary, etc.

 

or Hamilton

 

When did Canada's CCL spot come in to play? The CSA isn't going to strong arm the three biggest markets in the country out of it.

 

why wouldn't they? particularly if they hoped to have teams in/near those markets (ie. suburban Toronto, Hamilton, suburban Vancouver) and needed something to attract investors to own/run those teams. The one carrot that they have for sure could be "and our champion gets Canada's Champions' League spot and gets to host some pretty big names"

 

Lawsuits and the associated costs would probably outweigh any benefits the league might get.

 

Until the CCL becomes some sort of money maker it really isn't an incentive. You might get one high grossing game against an MLS or Mexican team, but you need to pay for the trip down to Trinidad or Panama and deal with the fact that your home game against them will draw peanuts. Plus, you have to spend enough so that your team is good enough for those teams to send their pretty big names. If they can handle you with a reserve squad it is sort of counterproductive.

 

I think in a Canadian league...the high money draws would be...you know, the MLS teams from New York and LA ....and a wee bit of a bump when a Mexican side comes in.

 

Law suits? CSA owns the spot....it has, for the time being, created a cup competition between 5 canadian clubs to determine who they assign that spot to...they own that competition......well within their rights to say "we have disbanded that spot and now will assign it to the winner of this new competition we have created". I have no idea (seriously) how American courts work....but up here the courts have very little patience for frivolous lawsuits lacking in merit.