Expansion Draft tonight at 10:30 pm ET Californians who live near San Diego, will you support your new MLS team?

Buzz Rules · Apr 28, 2023

https://www.espn.com/soccer/mls/sto...-san-diego-has-momentum-to-become-club-no-30?

Thoughts? :confused3

longboard55 · Apr 28, 2023

I am kinda near San Diego, Soccer is very popular with the 20-40 age group. More popular than baseball.

Buzz Rules · Apr 28, 2023

longboard55 said:
I am kinda near San Diego, Soccer is very popular with the 20-40 age group. More popular than baseball.

Would you attend a match?

longboard55 · Apr 29, 2023

I am over 40, but do go the bars at gaslamp, and they seem to love soccer. I believe we will win. LA has 2 teams that do well. As they say its trending with age group.

Buzz Rules · Apr 29, 2023

longboard55 said:
I am over 40, but do go the bars at gaslamp, and they seem to love soccer. I believe we will win. LA has 2 teams that do well. As they say its trending with age group.

MLS usually looks for big companies to add to it’s sponsorship profile (ex. STL SC has Enterprise and Purina for sponsorships). I’m curious what big companies are based in San Diego?

tvguy · Apr 29, 2023

Well, my view of ALL Professional Sports continues to sour with each passing year. They rip off cities left and right.
So my answer would be, whatever city where the ownership and the league pays 100% of the cost.
I'm and Oakland A's fan and they allegedly have bought land for a stadium in Las Vegas but Vegas needs to kick in some cash very shortly to make it work. And it looks like Las Vegas is balking at that.
I'm in Sacramento, and we gave the then Oakland Raiders $10 million in public money for them to " consider" moving here and got nothing.
We have discussed Sacramento and soccer. MLS wants way way way too much money IMHO for a franchise, and allegedly the ownership was going to cover costs, but the city has laid out $35 million for a deal that has now collapsed. And again, Sacramento has a long history of profitable professional soccer teams that were in leagues that went belly up.

Buzz Rules · Apr 29, 2023

tvguy said:
Well, my view of ALL Professional Sports continues to sour with each passing year. They rip off cities left and right.
So my answer would be, whatever city where the ownership and the league pays 100% of the cost.
I'm and Oakland A's fan and they allegedly have bought land for a stadium in Las Vegas but Vegas needs to kick in some cash very shortly to make it work. And it looks like Las Vegas is balking at that.
I'm in Sacramento, and we gave the then Oakland Raiders $10 million in public money for them to " consider" moving here and got nothing.
We have discussed Sacramento and soccer. MLS wants way way way too much money IMHO for a franchise, and allegedly the ownership was going to cover costs, but the city has laid out $35 million for a deal that has now collapsed. And again, Sacramento has a long history of profitable professional soccer teams that were in leagues that went belly up.

Sacramento’s ownership downed their bid for MLS. MLS expansion fees are expensive but their evaluations on their worth seems fair to me.

tvguy · Apr 29, 2023

Buzz Rules said:
Sacramento’s ownership downed their bid for MLS. MLS expansion fees are expensive but their evaluations on their worth seems fair to me.

Well, as long as the ownership pays 100%, I have no issue. But I have a hard time agreeing on the worth.

Buzz Rules · May 14, 2023

longboard55 said:
I am over 40, but do go the bars at gaslamp, and they seem to love soccer. I believe we will win. LA has 2 teams that do well. As they say its trending with age group.