Road Trip Starts Galaxy '03 Season .c The Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - The Los Angeles Galaxy will play the first two months of the 2003 Major League Soccer season on the road before its new stadium opens in June, general manager Doug Hamilton said Friday. After playing in Pasadena's Rose Bowl since the team began in 1996, the Galaxy will be moving to a stadium currently under construction in Carson. The MLS season is expected to begin in April. The decision not to play any home games until the new stadium is completed was made because ``we want to play as many games as we can in that facility,'' Hamilton said. Despite the potential difficulties of playing so many road games to start the season, coach Sigi Schmid said the decision could ultimately prove beneficial. ``It's a reality of the situation that we have to deal with that, but it's also something that we're excited about because we know it means at the end of the day we're going to get to play a lot of games in an environment that's going to be very fan-friendly and great for our team and the organization,'' he said.
      If it's a case of their new stadium not being ready until June, then it's a very similar situation to what the Crew faced in 1999, having had to play the first two months or so on the road before Columbus Crew Stadium was ready (and there were no other places to play in Columbus at that point).       If that's not the case and the stadium will be ready by the start of the season, though, then hmm...       GO EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
What is this Galactovermin really trying to say? In human language terms, that is. "We want to play as many games in that facility as we can." Maybe I shouldn't even ask the question.
      But won't they be playing the same amount of games during the season in that facility regardless? Maybe he means "We want to play as many games as close together to each other as we can"?       GO EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
He means they want to play all of their home games in their new stadium. It won't be ready until June. So they will play the first two months of the season on the road, just like the 1999 Crew and 2002 Revs did. Why is this a big deal?
They will get the favorable home sked come the tail end of the season... Really a moot point, except they get the tough road games out of the way early... I'll be thinking the home opener would be against the Quakes, but that's just speculation right now... the 4th of July matches in LA are much better for both teams... 7/4 sells well down there, but not here...
That will really test the Galaxys character. Two months on the road is tough. I wonder how often they'll actually go back to LA during that period.
All right, I'll take the bait. What is it about "we want to play as many games as we can in that facility" that's so difficult to understand?
Rarely do I agree with a Galaxy fan, but some of you are pretty big idiots if you couldn't figure this out.
Sorry. I had just spent several days in the LA area and my brain had got contaminated. It's much better now that I'm back in the Bay Area. :raisedfinger:
Actually, the Revulsion started the first two months this year on the road and ended up in the MLS cup, so I don't believe that this will ultimately have any effect on the final outcome of the Lalaxy's season.