Several significant quotes from Don Garber today at the AP Sports Editors Conference

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  1. carnifex2005

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    #1 carnifex2005, Apr 21, 2016
    May as well create a new thread for this. Lots of info. Here it is collated from Reddit...

    https://www.reddit.com/r/MLS/comments/4ftpu5/several_significant_quotes_from_don_garber_today/

    Alexander Abnos has been tweeting out live updates from Don Garber's conference at the AP Sports Editors Conference today. I'll try to post the most remarkable quotes below as they come in.

    • Next set of MLS expansion decisions are "the last we'll have to make for about the next 10 years."

    • Garber says FC Cincinnati rep called yesterday asking about entry into MLS. Garber: "I said 'you'll have to wait a while.'"

    • Garber: MLS is spending more money producing our own content than our broadcast partners are spending on our behalf.

    • Garber on Miami: "It's gonna happen. If it doesn't happen, it would surprise us."

    • Garber says St. Louis & Sacramento are leading the pack for the next round of expansion. Says "Sacramento is MLS-ready."

    • Asked to give an expansion priority, Garber says: "Detroit, San Diego, San Antonio/Austin, and I'd be remiss to not point out Cincinnati."

    • Garber wants next round of expansion teams to start play in 2020.

    • Garber: "There isn't an update I can give you" on NYCFC stadium progress.

    • From Andrew Das: Garber says Boston is further along on stadium (than NYCFC), says Kraft agrees it's time. (But, again, no hole in ground, no stadium near.)

    • "I think you'll see half of our teams investing in women's teams." Also says there's no league-level incentive for clubs to do that.

    • Garber: MLS in negotiations with IFAB to test instant replay. Says a European league is also interested.

    • On WNT fight: "I'm confident we will do the right thing. We need to be on the right side of history here."
    Also some words from Deputy Comissioner Mark Abbott:

    • New league media policy is intended to bring MLS more in line w/ player access levels for "Big 4" leagues

    • LAFC stadium remains on-track, by LAFC's own timetable, to open in 2018.
     
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  2. Len

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    #2 Len, Apr 21, 2016
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    Perhaps I've not been following as closely as I thought, so I'd appreciate someone sorting this out for me:
    My understanding is that Miami has not officially been granted a team; the league is still waiting on the stadium situation to sort itself out.

    So, are St Louis, Sacramento, Detroit, SD, SA, and possible Cincinnati ahead of Miami? Or is the assumption Miami is already in and these cities are all competing to come in after them?
     
  3. sawillis

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    #3 sawillis, Apr 21, 2016
    Miami is 24
     
  4. Len

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    #4 Len, Apr 21, 2016
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    I know that's what the league would like, but can we assume this is a done deal? Becks is coming eeeeeeevvvvver so close to securing the needed land for a stadium, so is the league just penciling them in at 24? I honestly don't know; just asking.
     
  5. newtex

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    #5 newtex, Apr 21, 2016

    http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...ber-miami-mls-launch-2018-20160421-story.html

    Is Miami official? No. Is Miami ahead of the other cities mentioned by Garber? Yes.
     
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  6. Andy_B

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    #6 Andy_B, Apr 21, 2016
    I wonder if this was said to be a positive, showing how much MLS is doing, or a negative, complaining about ESPN and Fox?

    I am leaning towards the former since I think some of this stuff would be written into the TV contract and there should not be a lot of surprises about what the partners are doing.
     
  7. Lancaster FC

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    #7 Lancaster FC, Apr 21, 2016
    Kraft building a stadium is BS...
    All this says to me is that NYCFC stadium is DOA.
     
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  8. TheLostUniversity

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    #8 TheLostUniversity, Apr 21, 2016
    If you can't pass the Kraft Bar then you are DAPOO.
     
  9. bunge

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    #9 bunge, Apr 21, 2016
    Any news about Chicago getting an MLS caliber team?
     
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  10. Blong

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    #10 Blong, Apr 21, 2016
    My guess is that the stadium will get sorted out, but not before 2019. Sacramento is the wildcard that you hang onto until you must play it. But i suspect it will be played before Miami.

    The only problem that I see with Sacramento and LA entering in the same year is that their names are not both United.
     
  11. Boloni86

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    #11 Boloni86, Apr 22, 2016
    But, but, but ... what about pro/rel?

    ;):whistling:
     
  12. flippin269

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    #12 flippin269, Apr 22, 2016
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  13. flippin269

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    #13 flippin269, Apr 22, 2016
    So if the Revolution have 0% chance of getting a stadium announcement this year, how far down in negative numbers do we have to go to reach the percentage for NYCFC?
     
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  15. Fiosfan

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    #15 Fiosfan, Apr 22, 2016
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  16. Bluecat82

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    #16 Bluecat82, Apr 22, 2016
    For ever, ever, ever, ever, ever infinity...ever.
     
  17. GHjelm

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    #17 GHjelm, Apr 22, 2016
    Don Garber said:

    "It will happen. We're just prioritizing getting to the magic number of 64 teams in the league, working on pro/reg, getting rid of the single entity structure and signing some big names like Landon Donovan IV and Global King Apple North Pilot Inspektor Ibrahimovic first"
     
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  18. sitruc

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    #18 sitruc, Apr 22, 2016
    How is The Don's health now?
     
  19. Len

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    #19 Len, Apr 22, 2016
    I was going to make some lame joke about Chicago getting one next week; it was going to be their next opponent (Get it? An MLS caliber team..........in Chicago?) but it turns out their next opponent is DC United, so I guess you'll have to wait a bit longer.
     
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  20. edwardgr

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    #20 edwardgr, Apr 22, 2016
    I read it as both.
     
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    #21 edwardgr, Apr 22, 2016

    So here is how I read this. If they are deciding the round of 25-28 now, and they think it will be 10 years before the next round of decisions, we are really looking at 2028 for teams 29-? Which is really not that far off in the grand scheme of things. It is slower than today for sure but assume 25 and 26 are in 2020, and 27-28 come a year or two later. It is then really only 7 years at most between team 28 and 29. By far the longest stint since MLS started expanding with RSL and Chivas, but when compared to the current big 4 not that long at all.

    NFL 2002 Houston Texans
    NBA* 2002 New Orleans Pelicans or 2004 Charlotte Bobcats/Hornets
    NHL 2000 Minnesota Wild and Columbus Bluejackets
    MLB 1998 Tampa Bay Rays and Arizona Diamondbacks

    The NBA officially recognizes the Pelicans as a 2002 expansion team, with the Hornets reclaiming the full team history, the Bobcats expansion in 2004 is now officially just the restarting of the Hornets after a 2 year hiatus. Of those only the NHL seems likely to expand again in the next decade.
     
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  22. El Naranja

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    #22 El Naranja, Apr 22, 2016
    So youre saying Peter Wilt will get one up and running before the Fire do?
     
  23. Sachsen

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    #23 Sachsen, Apr 22, 2016
     
  24. eddygee

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    #24 eddygee, Apr 23, 2016
    If the Sheik emirates group involved with NYCFC can't figure out an imminent long term stadium solution, they made need to reexamine the stadium/field configuration of Yankee Stadium to make the game flow more playable. Looking at games at Yankee stadium there looks to be areas where they can widen the field to about a yard and a half. For starters the bench side can be moved back at least a yard back without making the corners on that side of the field too tight. Sure it will be a tighter corner configuration than normal but it would be playable.

    Secondly that side of the field can be moved over at least half a yard without impeding the covered tarp mound. These changes would greatly help with the flow of the games at Yankee stadium. I'm not just making a claim, I've watched video and freezed games at the stadium and it appears when it comes down to it this could be done.
     
  25. Bill Archer

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    #25 Bill Archer, Apr 23, 2016
    As Jeff "Which way did the ambulance go" Kessler said the other day, it's apples and beach balls.

    The other cities still have to get approval as league investors.

    Beckham already has contractually guaranteed approval as a league investor.

    So it's hard to compare the situations. As always, Beckham is unique.

    As it is, the day he has a building is the day he gets a team. No other city can say that.
     
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