The MLS Stadium Thread

A casino is going to be built next to CitiField and Etihad Park:

BREAKING:

Steve Cohen and Hard Rock have officially been awarded a NY Casino license, per @MazzNYC

The $8 billion Metropolitan Park project next to Citi Field is projected to open in June of 2030. pic.twitter.com/UtBmnlWn35

— SleeperMets (@SleeperMets) December 1, 2025

 

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Hope it fares better than Tropicana in Tampa for the next hurricane.
Anyone know if this construction method or style is better?

 

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Anyone know how many jobs this casino would create vs. the soccer stadium?
I figure the casino is 24/7/365 so probably more over the course of the year.
Will pay be better also?
Besides housing and a I think a school, isn't a hotel in the works as well?

 

I thought that the lower picture, of the interior of the half-built stadium in Miami, looked familiar. Then I realized that it looks similar to the interior of what remains of the Coliseum in Rome.

 

"Lions v Christians will have em lining up from here to The Pantheon I tell ya Vespasian. And did I tell you about my stylish little two wheeled chariot? I'll name it right after you."

 

Trips to both stadiums should be fun when the whole Willets Points redevelopment is finished.

 

If you consider watching the Mets fun.

 

What’s not fun about watching them collapse late in the season?

 

Let's check in on the work being done to upgrade BMO Field for the World Cup:

Imagine looking at the World Cup stadium built with discarded shipping containers, and being jealous.

What an absolutely wasted opportunity this was for proper, permanent stadium upgrades. pic.twitter.com/JgUlBc51KN

— Martyn Bailey (@martyn_bailey) December 4, 2025

 

According to the tweets they're temporary seats because of a road but they don't look like they're over a road, they look like they're over parking spaces.

Canada could really do with a national soccer stadium. Montreal has the dome and Vancouver has BC Place, the ocean and the mountains.

 

There is a definitely a road in the picture. It is very close to the existing stadium. There is a strip of grass between it and the parking lot.

 

Oof. I understand and appreciate the concept and the nod to Birmingham's past, but I just can't get on board with the actual rendering. There's something cartoonish about it that makes it look like an AI-generated monstrosity.

 

NFL reportedly adopting standards for artificial surfaces. The tests described sound familiar with rotation, rebound, and player/surface interaction tests. Phase in over two years.

Might improve conditions in a few shared stadiums a bit. I think they've been lax on ongoing testing and maintenance.

 

That's not going to help Vancouver or Portland. Charlotte's turf is a couple of years old and Seattle have a deal to maintain and update their field for soccer.

Also we can't assume any changes NFL make will be good for soccer. Maybe they don't want ball to bounce. I guess in the longer term they stand to make money renting their stadiums out for soccer matches. Hybrid would be better for everyone.

 

For those that do not know, Scotts/Miracle Grow is based in Marysville, OH, which is about 30 min NE of the Columbus outer belt. And early Crew sponsor.

 

Don Garble does not sound optimistic on Vancouver, or else he is tryingcto leverage them.

Talk of "hard decisions" does not sound good.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/47206379/mls-don-garber-softens-pro-rel-never-say-never

 

I read it as going up to bat for the Whitecaps by trying to strong-arm the city/province, but I could be wrong.

 

For NFL, adopting new standards for artificial turf is not going to address the fact that it is scientifically proven to increase player injuries. They can all afford to at least have a natural grass field and most can install a hybrid grass field. As an example, unless they invent tear away blades/subsurface on the artificial grass, there isn't a way to improve the player/surface interaction in a way that would decrease player injuries

This is just the NFL trying to slap a bandaid on a problem and acting like it fixes the issue when it doesn't do anything.

Also, on a side note, the above comment about scientifically proven to increase player injuries is only for American football and not soccer. It has been a few years since I've looked into it, but last time I checked, there wasn't evidence that artificial turf increase player injuries. The injuries on turf were different than what was grass, but it didn't increase the overall injury rates, or games lost.

 

Seattle's deal is that the Seahawks will help pay to replace the FieldTurf once every 5 years and that the Sounders would be responsible to pay for any replacements outside of that timeframe unless the Seahawks agree. 5 years is WAY too long to wait to replace the FieldTurf as it tends to look and play horrible after 2-3 seasons depending on how often the field gets used for non-Seahawks/Sounders events.

 

Not so much more as more serious. 0.2 more total injuries per game in the 2021 & 2022 seasons in the NFL (718 total injuries - 386 turf, 332 grass). That's it.

The real difference is season ending injuries, the only area that had a statistically significant difference, where turf had a much higher incidence rate. The gigantic outlier was ACL injuries on turf compared to grass.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11363235/

 

That means more advertisements with a Scottish accent. Anything with a Scottish accent is awesome:

 

And in other news, the site the Whitecaps want has just been freed up from horse racing...

https://bsky.app/profile/jmcelroy.bsky.social/post/3m7bmiwtamk2p

 

Come on New York!

Wow. Garber speaks and BC cowers.

Just kidding. They had a 6 race race-day in October with just 3 horses per race. The kicker though was ending the tax substitutes gleaned from casino betting.

The casino has been acquired by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation.