MLS Discussion Thread

[southernmetalhead]

What an *** whooping Miami is giving Orlando.

[ProfessaPackMan]

Messi and Suarez on the same team…looking like them Barca days all over again.

[Dead2009]

This popped up in my news earlier

Maryland requests study of potential MLS Next Pro stadium sites in Baltimore
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.co...-womens-soccer

I wonder if this would lead to getting an actual MLS team too. Unless DC United wanted to move.

[bhurst99]

I don't remember the last time TFC had three consecutive clean sheets.

Great start to the year. Only had four wins last year; already got two wins this year. Similiar thing with Lorenzo Insigne -- had four goals last year, already has two this season.

[DrJones]

40,000 casuals paid $500 per ticket for this, LOL.

https://www.tsn.ca/soccer/no-lionel-...rday-1.2125421

[bhurst99]

Quote: Originally Posted by DrJones

40,000 casuals paid $500 per ticket for this, LOL. https://www.tsn.ca/soccer/no-lionel-...rday-1.2125421

I like how it's being made out to be a recent decision that they aren't going to play. I have little doubt the decision to not have them travel six hours to play on artificial turf would have been made shortly after the schedule came out. Messi is 36; he's simply not going to play every road game, especially with Copa America on the horizon.

Miami is scheduled to play in Toronto on Oct. 5. Argentina plays a World Cup qualifier the following week. Good luck if anyone plans to buy tickets for the Toronto match expecting Messi to play

[DrJones]

Quote: Originally Posted by bhurst99

I like how it's being made out to be a recent decision that they aren't going to play. I have little doubt the decision to not have them travel six hours to play on artificial turf would have been made shortly after the schedule came out. Messi is 36; he's simply not going to play every road game, especially with Copa America on the horizon. Miami is scheduled to play in Toronto on Oct. 5. Argentina plays a World Cup qualifier the following week. Good luck if anyone plans to buy tickets for the Toronto match expecting Messi to play

It's a tale as old as time: the sleazy taking advantage of the stupid. Take a look at Inter Miami's schedule, which was announced in December. Messi was never coming here; if Messi were 30 instead of 36, he's still skipping Vancouver given that ridiculous sched. Absolutely anyone paying the slightest bit of attention knew Messi was gonna be a no-show.

This includes the Whitecaps, of course, who nevertheless heavily promoted the Inter Miami game as if Messi & Suarez were coming, and raised the face value of their single game tickets by EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERCENT. Standard cheapo tickets go for $21 CAD; the Whitecaps set the cheapest single-game tickets for Inter Miami at $190 CAD. And then of course the scalpers took over.

So to summarize:

1. MLS completely screwed over Vancouver by releasing a schedule ensuring that Messi would never come here

2. The Whitecaps nevertheless decided to completely alienate casual fans by promoting Messi to the gills and raising prices through the roof

3. With the slightest bit of common sense, the casual fans would've realized the whole thing was a fraud, but they stupidly decided to fork out hundreds and thousands of dollars regardless

Nobody covered themselves in glory here.

[ImTellinTim]

I will say that if I held a Whitecaps season ticket, I would have 100% seen that and tried to get as much money for my ticket as possible. I’d have put it up on StubHub for the entire price of the season ticket at first just in case someone bites.