Tell that to Rochester. Yeah, I see your point, but the league has TWELVE TEAMS. Which is another way of saying that almost no cities have mustered the requisite stadium/investor combo that you claim to be such a low threshold for expansion.
And Lavern and Sherlie could sign the National Anthem...this is good news and very unexpected...at least to me. I would have never guess going to Milwaukee.
Rochester has either not been willing or not been able to pay the expansion fee to enter MLS. There's a great deal of doubt about if they actually have the financial cajones to come up with the $10 million or whatever it is now to join. And yes--all it takes is a viable investor group and a stadium commitment to have a team. Case in point--Salt Lake City went from nowhere to head of the list when they came up with the magic duo.
Oh shut your piehole and die in a fire. I could care less about your sentimentalities....this IS A GODDAMN SPORTS LEAGUE. If a huge-ass corporation like Televisa comes in with the package they're offering I want them in the league immediately! And I don't care if it's through expansion or re-location...this a freakin business, moron.
I want Kristen Johnson's boobs on the shirt. She's also an ex-Whitefish Bay resident. http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0145660/Ss/0145660/17?path=pgallery&path_key=Johnston,%20Kristen%20(I) Of course, so are the Zucker Brothers ... so we can call the team "Shirley".
Acutally, shouldn't any Milwaukee team be called the Beasts? The reserves could be the Beast Lights? Sachin
http://www.cityrating.com/citystats.asp?city=Milwaukee 6.5% Hispanic population. Not too bad, but this team is gonna really need to do some hardcore marketing off the starting line to attract these fans.
I was initially hesitant about the prospect of a Milwaukee MLS team, now however I am coming around to it. I thought Salt Lake was going to be a disaster and Chivas was going to be a blazing success. Boy was I wrong on both those fronts. Too bad I won't still be at Marquette by then and would be able to see my Men in Red come up to play Milwaukee. I'd like to see this team have either black, gold, and orange as their colors and be called the Milwaukee Riders, in homage to Harley-Davidson, or have their shirts be White or Navy with a carolina blue "LA Galaxy stripe" in homage to Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Thick irony there, considering the knee-jerk emotional reaction in support of 'unsentinmentality.' -- To the topic at hand, I've been pretty skeptical of Milwaukee as a market, and I haven't completely cast aside my questions, but one can't help but be impressed by the ownership/FO combo there. When the guy who literally wrote the book on the subject says "I'm gonna pay for a stadium, because it's economically viable for me to do so" you tend to believe him. And if he truly is, then the willingness to build the darn thing yourself will go a long way towards getting it done.
That's Milwaukee's plan, not MLS's necessarily, and it's for purely practical reasons--there's no place to play until then. The old County Stadium has been torn down, and the soccer park where the USL team plays is too small.
Hey, great there's a site. Still doesn't mean a lot of people know that, nor the connection to Happy Days/Fonzie shark jump. Later gator...
I doubt he'll pick it up until he hits a wall in England...I doubt MLS is going to pay defenders what they can get in England (nor should MLS......). Maybe in 2008- if Watford/Coca doesn't pan out. But right now, he's squarely in Watford's future..
This seems to be everything San Antonio was NOT- a well-thought out, detailed, deliberated plan, with serious (not just one guy) commitments from county/city....with strong private financing possiblitiies....with people involved who actually know what they are doing (sports/stadium biz). Also, $$ commitment in hiring Wilt. I don't see a lot of similarities with SA actually...this is more/much more serious
And to be honest, if either San Jose or Kansas City gets a Cleveland Browns deal (we'll take your team, but you get to expand when the stadium is built), 2008 is a more reasonable timeframe. Plus, it's a lot easier to push 2008 back to 2009 then to promise 2007 and end up with an expansion Southlake/Naperville situation.
Well I guess in today's MLS a SSS plan and an owner/investor means automatic expansion bid. I just think there are so many better cities, but the two guys backing this are great, so that makes up for it. Names I think are good: Wave, Cheeseheads, Beers, Mahn-ah-wauk, Germans, Cyclers, Riders. Yes, some I already saw mentioned and thought they were good.