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#451 |
For The Glory Of The City
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Kansas City
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This Malte Amundsen pass was perfect.
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#452 |
Supporter
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Liberty
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#453 |
For The Glory Of The City
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Kansas City
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#454 |
Inmem 2.0
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: My house
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The currents new stadium looks very cool with the skyline in the background
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#455 |
For The Glory Of The City
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Kansas City
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#456 |
Inmem 2.0
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: My house
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It's amazing how the soccer teams are able to pull off things like this while the baseball team sputters. I totally expect SKC to put an impressive stadium downtown in about a decade
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For The Glory Of The City
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Kansas City
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It is a little easier when you are a smaller and more nimble club or league but yea its been fun to watch the sports grow and how exciting it is. Then you look at the Royals and its like....**** this shit. |
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#458 |
For The Glory Of The City
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Kansas City
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Meanwhile in theLiga MX Apertura final.
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#459 |
MVP
Join Date: Aug 2017
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From a tweet by Yahoo! Sports... and counting only nationally televised games. The Yahoo! tweet only counts the Big Four plus MLS. But we know that the XFL and USFL both averaged 600,000 viewers each. For comparison:
NFL: 9.2 million NBA: 711,000 NHL: 398,000 MLB: 378,000 MLS: 113,000 Spring football is more popular than the MLS. |
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Sleeping on the blacktop
Join Date: Nov 2013
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For The Glory Of The City
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Kansas City
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SKC for example played just shy of 40 games across all competitions. The numbers have been just fine and are growing by every metric. It is even growing in the metric of insecure constantly disappearing football league fans begging soccer fans for validation for some reason. ![]() |
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#462 |
For The Glory Of The City
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Kansas City
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#463 |
The talking stonehead
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Blue Springs, MO
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It’s definitely time to push Garber out. Such a critical time for the league. You have a small window with the biggest star in the game and you still put limits on the spending. Let the owners compete or get pushed out at this point. It’s a joke. Garber’s a joke. This sums up the current state of the league quite nicely.
“Let’s summarize the state of the league after the news yesterday.. I’ve been following MLS for about 15 years. For 90% of that time, I’ve been defensive of the methods that the league has employed because I understood their necessity. Low salary caps, tight spending.. it all made sense 10-15 years ago. Teams were on the verge of collapse still. Chivas USA wasnt that long ago. But right now, here is where we stand.. • Soccer is popular. More people watch soccer (Liga MX & Premier League) than hockey. MLS is no longer existing in an America that hates soccer, quite the opposite. • We have 30 very stable clubs. The expansion era is mostly behind us. “Growth” in that respect is nearing its limit. • Most every club has their own stadium and training facilities. The biggest expenditures are behind the league. • MLS has one of the richest collection of owners on the planet. Most every owner is worth billions • MLS is partnered with the most innovative and powerful tech company in the history of planet earth • The greatest player in the history of the sport chose to come play here and has brought more attention to the league than ever • We are about to have 3 straight summers of massive international (club and country) soccer tournaments played in the USA And yet, MLS refuses to allow clubs to increase spending in the slightest. We get Premier League season ticket prices while watching squads built on a League One budget. We will still be performing miracles if we can wil Champions Cup, despite having 10 teams in the tournament, but that’s okay because we’ll have another gimmick Leagues Cup tournament where we pull Mexican clubs out of their country for a month and treat Club America and Chivas like the Harlem Globetrotters. The fact that MLS has refused to budge even in the slightest in a time as ripe as this is incredibly demoralizing. Maybe the changes in 2025 will be more in the direction of what we’re looking for, but honestly, what reason has the league given anyone to think that will happen?” |
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#464 |
MVP
Join Date: Aug 2017
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Premier League is amazing soccer.
The MLS is crap. |
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#465 |
I'm with the Banned
Join Date: Feb 2009
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