MLS!!!!

I look forward to watching the MLS Timbers play the Earthquakes down here in the Bay Area (assuming I’m still down here when Portland gets a team).

why anyone at City Hall thinks this is a good idea. I mean, isn’t MLS tanking in the US? Maybe it’s doing better than I thought. If Portlanders actually fill PGE park during every home game then it might be worth having an MLS team. I’m really on the fence about it, even though I am a soccer fan and will probably go to the games when the team kicks off their first season in 2011.

We won’t be a one pro sport town anymore though. Seriously though, I love soccer and will follow this new team with passion.

Proof:

This town is passionate because it is a one sport town.

This town will not be a one sport town now.

Therefore the fans will not be passionate.

A passionate home arena = lots of wins.

We won’t have a passionate home arena.

Therefore we won’t have lots of wins.

If you don’t have lots of wins, you end up in the draft lottery.

We won’t have lots of wins.

Therefore, we will be in the draft lottery next year.

Stupid MLS.

I could recommend some washed up European players ;-)

I can’t wait to check out some games.

but given our economic climate…it is pretty irresponsible for us to be loaning money to paulson to build these stadiums when we cant even fund basic core services (police, fire, teachers).

We’ll see.

I would actually rather have baseball, but I don’t think it would ever happen. Its okay though…we still have our blazers!

Soccer is so much fun and I think Portland could really get behind a team and create and great atmosphere, like the Rose Garden. We can only hope all the haters our there give it at least on chance, you never know you might like it. Ask Drew Carry.

Another case of Portland chasing minor league teams. If you like minor league stuff, especially soccer, this is your lucky day.

Maybe they can both pull Bo Jackson’s…..or maybe, when there isn’t a place for Sergio on the Blazers, Blazer management working to keep the “Spanish Armada” together in Ptown will cut a deal with Timber Management to swap their mascot for Sergio…
Can you imagine how awesome it would be to have Mr. Lumberjack w/ a chainsaw sawing off pieces of log after every slam dunk???
Awesome!

The MLS league kicks off – pun intended – tonight, and – including the playoffs – runs until late October and November. The Blazers are only just tipping off as the MLS year ends, and – assuming our boys make playoff runs on the regular – there’s still four or five months where the MLS-ified Portland Timbers would be the only pro team active in the city.

This won’t take away from the Blazers – unless you thought the Mariners and Seahawks took away from the Sonics. This deal, money-wise, makes sense. It looks like the two teams to be added will be Portland and Vancouver, which – along with the Sounders – make up what’s already a pretty crazy northwest rivalry.

Soccer is a great sport to watch in person. Go out to a Timbers game this summer – even when it’s not Thirsty Thursday – and just follow along. And then take a gaze over at the Timbers Army, and realize that’s what the crazies in Section 300 of the Rose Garden hope they could be all the time.

Give the sport a chance. It will be good to have two big-league teams in Portland. I’m going to hop on the season-ticket preorder list as soon as I can and it becomes open.

I think soccer could catch on here, and since they are going to use an existing field (PGE park) I don’t see any negatives.

WHEN I ROOT, I ROOT FOR THE TIMBERS!!!!

I’ve never been a big soccer fan, but I can get into just about anything if I have a team to root for. I really think MLS is about to blow up big.

You hippies. This is America.

It is another PRO-sports team, we no longer will be a one team town. We will have a sports team to go see when the NBA is not in season.

Portland will never ever ever get an MLB team. It is not going to happen. It is not even close to happening. The Mariners have a lock on this market, there are many other cities where MLB is more favorable, and there is no way the city is even coming close to being able to put the money together to build a stadium. Not going to happen. Ever.

We have the largest fan crowds in the USL for the Timbers by a large margin. This will translate to the next level, just as the sounders have. The sounders have already sold out for this season, with there first game being played today. That is how big MLS is.

Everyone who is thinking that the MLS is a struggling franchise, you are basing your opinion on old information.Teams are starting to turn a profit . Which is better than you can say for most NBA teams, including the Blazers despite the fact that we have sold out this entire year. Struggling, not the case.

MLS has the potential to be one of the best leagues in the world. Its much bigger and covers a much greater area and population than any other professional soccer league. With the expansions, and an increase in turnout, this league can become the best in the world, for the exact same reasons that the NBA is going to continue to be the best in the world.

We could actually have an international championship in Portland. And I am not talking about the fact that the NBA has a team in Toronto. Professional soccer teams have the opportunity to play in a lot of different leagues where we can see match-ups between our club and European and Mexican clubs. How freaking cool is that?

Beer and seats are cheaper at soccer events. You want to take your kids to a fun night watching a sporting event but you don’t feel like getting a nosebleed at the Rose Garden? Take the kids out to a soccer match. Conversely feel like drinking beer with your friends at game? Not feeling like paying 8 dollars for a miller? Go to a soccer game.

Profanity-laced-chants. The crowd at TImbers games are a ridiculous amount of fun. you learn fun chants, you get to yell and scream at refs. Much much more creative than the RG crowd. It really is a ton of fun, if you are talking trash and have never been to a game, then you have absolutely no grounds to say a game is boring or that the quality of play is not very good. Because you have never experienced it, and you have never seen it. Also there is a darn good chance Pele reincarnated could be playing in front of you and you would still be complaining about the level of play. Because you are completely basing this on your own preconceived notions, and have not given soccer a chance.

MLS to Portland is going to be awesome. I am pumped, and you all should come out to a game, when they get here. Or even go to a Timber’s game this year, to get a small taste of how awesome MLS in Portland is going to be. Learn the game and you will love it, I can guarantee you.

MLS has been successful here in the Bay area and there is no shortage of sports options here (2 NFL teams, 2 MLB teams, 1 NBA team, and 1 NHL team)

People love the games here and compared to Portland soccer doesn’t even seem very big around here. Soccer is huge in Oregon, every weekend you will driving around and every park is just FULL of kids playing soccer.

over at Loaded Orygun.

We talk more about financing, the tiff with the county and the Blazers—but also how the AAA park will influence the Rose Quarter and Allen’s ideas for a live entertainment district.

And still soccer is irrelevant. Soccer apologists have been saying for years, “When these kids who play youth soccer grow up, they will watch soccer.” For years they have said this and it has never come to pass. I’m glad Portland is getting some national rep as a sports town but soccer is not the answer here.

I love to play soccer. There are few things more fun to play than a good, hard hitting soccer game. Yet even so, there are few more boring things to watch than a soccer game. At least in hockey, they are skating and they fight sometimes. Soccer consists of pretty boy Euros flopping and feigning injury. Why isn’t Pau Gasol playing?

I’d rather watch paint dry than watch soccer. God knows I’ve tried watching soccer. Maybe if they’d get rid of that stupid off side rule and have an actual time clock so everyone would know when the game’s over it wouldn’t be such bore. But then, maybe it still would be.

That said, I’d be in favor of a pro hop scotch league coming to Portland as long as it doesn’t reduce our chances of getting another major sport team such as ML baseball, NFL football, or NHL hockey.

Portland was recently ranked almost dead last in manliness. Look at our mayor. Also, we love soccer more than real American sports like football or baseball.

How can there be anything manlier than being gay? That is the ultimate love of manness. And football and soccer have the same mother— they’re brothers. And since girls these can play both baseball and football, the manliness has been drained from both of those sports. (How manly can you really be in super tight pants, anyway?) And that manliness ranking? They clearly meant Red Neck Ranking. Not the same thing.

Steal away, sir!

And yes Major League Soccer is minor league.

MLB, even NHL I could support and maybe get interested in. This? Nah. Even the MLS’s ‘star’ won’t play in the at league full time.

is for euro-weenie losers who shave their legs, sit down to piss, and were not talented enough to play football, baseball, or basketball.