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ShutteredIn posted:Meg Whitman getting involved in anything is basically a death knell. She was better than our last 3 CEOs  Crazy Ted posted:Well I think you can cross Sacramento off the list: Still more likely to get a team than Miami.
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whypick1 posted:Still more likely to get a team than Miami.
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Ciprian Maricon posted:There is no way they can keep expanding what the gently caress are they thinking It's insane. The league needs to split in to two if they're really adding four more teams.
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Apparently there was already friction between Nagle and the original founding owners before this happened. So either it was a completely toxic partnership that would have imploded anyway, or Nagle got drunk on his own hubris and completely misread the situation. I guess we'll never get an MLS team after this
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Hey quit searching my Redtube history. Oof this is brutal for Sacramento, sorry guys. Where does the team even go from here? The original owners should take this Nagle guy to the cleaners.
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Gigi Galli posted:It's insane. The league needs to split in to two if they're really adding four more teams. Five if Miami ever happens (it won't).
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Fat Lowtax posted:I hope Beckham just goes rogue and tries to plop a team down in Albuquerque or some poo poo. There has to be some random city government trying to talk to him Garber's testicles should just loving drop already so he can tell him to poo poo or get off the pot
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ShutteredIn posted:Meg Whitman getting involved in anything is basically a death knell. whypick1 posted:She was better than our last 3 CEOs Damning with faint praise. Gigi Galli posted:It's insane. The league needs to split in to two if they're really adding four more teams. Five more if you count Miami. My theory is that since traditional pro/rel won't happen, and MLS is Single Entity, best just to keep expanding MLS until it covers every viable market, and institute pseudo-pro/rel within the Single Entity MLS. Fat Lowtax posted:I hope Beckham just goes rogue and tries to plop a team down in Albuquerque or some poo poo. There has to be some random city government trying to talk to him Beckham and his partners (Miami Beckham United) apparently don't have the money to build a SSS, in a really bad location in Miami (Overtown), so he's not going to have the money to build a SSS anywhere else, either. He needs an additional billionaire investor. He's had three years trying in Miami, at four different locations. MBU has been trying to get it done at the fourth location in Overtown for over a year, and has tried at least three different potential new owners (that we know of, and no doubt many more that we don't know about) without success. I think it may be the Overtown location that is the deal killer. When MBU hit the 1,000 day anniversary late last year, Tim Leiweke came out with a statement that MBU would have a big announcement by the end of the year. November and December came and went without a peep. This past January Don Garber was saying that Miami was going to happen real soon now, but we've seen absolutely no signs of that yet. People point to Las Vegas as possibly David Beckham's backup plan, due to the Oakland Raiders wanting to build an NFL stadium in Las Vegas partly paid for by Sheldon Adelson. There are several problems with this theory: MLS said no to Las Vegas a few years ago; Las Vegas is a small market (40th TV market) with not terribly good demographics for MLS (ie, relative lack of soccer moms/dads and urban millennial hipster types; lower wage transitory population, etc.); and more particularly, no one bothered to submit an application for Las Vegas to MLS before the January 31st deadline. If the Raiders owners or Sheldon Adelson want an MLS team to share their NFL stadium with, they aren't doing any of the necessary legwork to make it happen. This will make it difficult for Beckham to pivot to Las Vegas at the last minute if/when he admits that Miami won't happen. If Beckham does go looking for a backup city to replace Miami, I think Garber would probably insist that he talk to one of the 12 current MLS expansion candidates. Since Beckham needs an additional billionaire owner, and a SSS, he isn't likely to find a candidate that isn't already one of these 12 MLS expansion candidates, in any case. Everyone who is serious about MLS has already put in their application for MLS expansion by the January 31st deadline. As it so happens the Tampa Bay Rowdies owner and some Rowdies fans have already been thinking along these lines: quote:Rowdies Contacted David Beckham About Possibly Partnering in Tampa Bay It's a very long shot but, but better to ask than not ask. Who knows what might happen. Rowdies do have the Florida, urban, downtown waterfront stadium that Beckham wanted in Miami, but could not get. He just needs to look 4 hours drive north of Miami. Do over Ham fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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Do over Ham posted:Damning with faint praise. Uh, Whitman was the last CEO before the split and is still the CEO of HPE (which is not the one I work for). Did you confuse her with Fiorina (who definitely tanked the company)? Do over Ham posted:As it so happens the Tampa Bay Rowdies owner and some Rowdies fans have already been thinking along these lines: Split the difference and put the team in Cape Coral 
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whypick1 posted:Uh, Whitman was the last CEO before the split and is still the CEO of HPE (which is not the one I work for). Did you confuse her with Fiorina (who definitely tanked the company)? Thanks I do get those two confused.
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This is now official, seems to be a loan with an option to make permanent https://mobile.twitter.com/ATLUTD/status/827196101014994944
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Apparently the two sides met with the Sacramento mayor today and made good progress in coming together to an agreement. For all the outrage against Nagle, I'm wondering if Smith was being too stubborn during negotiations and Nagle primed the self-destruct button in order to get Smith to back down a bit.
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So far this off season we have managed to turn rights for Mears, Blanco, Almiron and some lovely draft pick into 250K of GAM which we will probably end up using to bribe Houston or some poo poo so we can sign Montero.
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Onyewu got a red card in the first preseason game against DC. Anyone actually see it? Also, FOOTIE IS BACK BABAY.
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WhyteRyce posted:Apparently the two sides met with the Sacramento mayor today and made good progress in coming together to an agreement. For all the outrage against Nagle, I'm wondering if Smith was being too stubborn during negotiations and Nagle primed the self-destruct button in order to get Smith to back down a bit. Looks like it worked
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The only reason I would want to see a team in Miami is so we can have fun predicting whether it becomes financially underwater before becoming literally underwater.
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whypick1 posted:Dempsey is playing Freddy Adu is playing
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whypick1 posted:Dempsey is playing It's still going to be a few months before he's cleared to slap guys in the junk.
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Moktaro posted:The only reason I would want to see a team in Miami is so we can have fun predicting whether it becomes financially underwater before becoming literally underwater. Waterworld 2, starring David Beckham as The Mariner. Today, Feb. 5th, marks the 3rd year anniversary of David Beckham's Miami announcement. MLS front office still putting out lots of vague happytalk about Miami happening real soon, any day now.  I'll bet they do their best to ignore this particular anniversary.
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WangNV posted:Dax is going to look good in that. Well that's painful to learn. Dax always seems like the hardest working player on the field.
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whypick1 posted:Meanwhile, the Whitecaps are going to trot this out: The front looks like pajamas, or a tablecloth, or something.
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whypick1 posted:Meanwhile, the Whitecaps are going to trot this out: it stinks
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shirts and skins posted:The front looks like pajamas, or a tablecloth, or something. Pajamas is exactly what I was thinking
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Welcome to GBS posted:I don't think it's terrible, but it's absolutely a downgrade from what they did have. Yeah, we've had a bunch of really awesome thirds the past couple of years and this...isn't one of them. Even for their stated theme there are probably better ways they could have pulled it off. Oh, well, I don't buy our jerseys anyway (given my employment it may in fact be literally illegal for me to wear one) so not my problem.
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Dallan Invictus posted:Yeah, we've had a bunch of really awesome thirds the past couple of years and this...isn't one of them. Even for their stated theme there are probably better ways they could have pulled it off. Rogers or Shaw?
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whypick1 posted:Rogers or Shaw? Right idea, wrong side of the revolving door.
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Is it denim? I want too die 
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