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It's a name, get over it. Red Bulls isn't exactly a wonderful name either.
Red Bulls has a sponsor. Don't know what everyone else's excuse is.
It's a name, get over it. Red Bulls isn't exactly a wonderful name either.
It's a name, get over it. Red Bulls isn't exactly a wonderful name either.
Going to drop into the single digits with the windchill on Saturday.
Perhaps this will be the match where MLS decides to not have the season end in friggin December
Rowdies is awesome. Heck of a lot better than any of the FC/SC names.
Those are just boring, but they're not silly and goofy sounding. With a name like Rowdies, they should call their stadium "The Romper Room."
You'd think they could have come up with a better schedule there toward the end rather than taking weeks and weeks to complete the last couple of games.
40 teams? Holy crap.
40 teams could work if you had relegation/promotion.
40 teams in a single league would be stupid.
Crew looking into a new Defender
I like the Rowdies name...not something I'd usually get behind, but it's the right level of weird 70s name to me, and it means something to the local market...plus when compared to Mutiny it's the best damn name ever.
I still wouldn't put Tampa in the league unless we're intent on pushing it to 40 and either splitting the East/West leagues until the playoffs or doing a limited promotion/relegation system, but I think we're heading that way one way or another.
40 teams could work if you had relegation/promotion.
40 teams in a single league would be stupid.
40 teams could work if you had relegation/promotion.
40 teams in a single league would be stupid.
Get rid of two legged playof series. Problem solved.
The two-legged series are awesome though. Toronto-Monteal was epic. I'd have to look at the schedule again, but I don't see why they had to wait so long between the legs. Why not do them within three days? (If there was an international date in between there, then okay.)
They are awesome rarely. Toronto/Montreal was nice, but that is the exception, not the rule.
There's so many issues that the MLS has that are just simply unique in the soccer world - this is a league that stretches from Los Angeles to Montreal (~2,500 miles) and Seattle to Orlando (~2,500+ miles). Russia could match that, but presently doesn't (and even when it does it's usually one team on an island, not half of the league being on disparate coasts). These types of distances don't just make travel rough, they make weather an issue in many of the markets for much of the year...ideally I'd prefer the Fall-Spring schedule, but have fun playing in Colorado in February. There are 68 cities between the US & Canada that top 1 million in metropolitan population, compared to 13 in England.
You could put 40 teams in the MLS tomorrow and argue that each new market deserves a team just as much as the ones that exist, so long as you keep Miami out...but a 40 team soccer league sucks. That's 39 teams who don't win each year and half of the league that goes into any season, even with a salary cap in place, knowing that they're not going to win...I don't think that's how you grow the sport here. Unfortunately promotion/relegation is a better thought experiment than feasible possibility because you're going to be asking people who bought MLS franchises and cities/owners who built them stadiums to agree to drop down to another league to let more new teams in...that's asking a lot out of them to give them nothing that will directly help them. Realistically the only way to accommodate those markets that rightfully want a team without watering things down too much is to effectively separate the conferences until a championship game without it...but then you still have the 1 true winner out of 40 because you're not going to be able to pitch a conference championship as being worth as much as an actual championship to an American or Canadian fan. Either way I think this is what we're heading to regardless.
You either do promotion/relegation from infancy or you don't do it...and promotion/relegation simply wasn't a feasible option when the MLS was created and 20+ years out that sucks...but the MLS wouldn't have survived infancy if it started out with franchises in New England and New York/New Jersey being relegated early on. I want promotion/relegation, I just don't see how it's remotely feasible to do at this point. You're simply not going to be able to convince billionaire owners to potentially devalue their investment.