Dilbert

On 10/6/2023 at 1:03 PM, Dilbert said:

Minnesota has parted ways with Adrian Heath. Including interim coaches, its the 11th coaching change since the season began.

 

NYRB-Struber and CHI-Hendrickson (5/8, mutual agreement)

MIA-Neville (6/1, fired)

TOR-Bradley (6/26, fired)

MIA- Morales (6/28, end of interim period)

POR-Savarese (8/21, fired)

COL- Fraser (9/5, fired)

NE- Arena (9/9, resigned) and Williams (9/12, mutual agreement)

TOR-Dunfield (9/30, end of interim period)

MIN-Heath (10/6, fired)

 

add the four offseason changes before the 2023 season began:

CBS- Porter (10/8/22, fired)

HOU- Bundy (11/8/22, end of interim period)

MTL- Nancy (12/6/22, signed with CBS)

SJ- Covelo (1/3, end of interim period)

 

15 coaching changes by 12 teams in a year seems awfully high.

 

 

 

Add Wayne Rooney to the list now.  DC United and Rooney have mutually agreed to part ways. DC played their last game tonight and were eliminated. Rumors have Rooney going to Birmingham City

FCC rebounded tonight by eliminating Inter Fort Lauderdale (with some help from CF Montreal) winning 1-0 thanks to Barreal.  Messi made his return in the second half but was a bit rusty.  The whole game was about him. Every stoppage, Apple panned to him on the bench. Had Taylor Swift attended the game, we wouldnt have seen a game at all as all cameras would have been on him.

Speaking of cameras. The Minnesota United match could not air on Apple tonight, as the in house crew at Minnesota went on strike tonight. Out of six cameras for the game 4 remained stationary and only 2 were manned. They also found a truck operator early this afternoon.

Minnesota has parted ways with Adrian Heath. Including interim coaches, its the 11th coaching change since the season began.

And apparently these were leaked and since removed from the AFL website today. (Chicago Rush, Louisiana VooDoo, and Philadelphia Soul)

AFL originally announced , what 16 teams? Several more have now joined. Are they trying to be the ABA200 of indoor football? Also  the fact that the league isnt even on  Our Sports Central yet, tells me how much of a professional league this is.

1 hour ago, VancouverFan69 said:

San Diego Sockers SC.

As much as id love to see this the current San Diego Sockers would need to sell their name to them

I never know which one trys to make the game more about them than the other. Chris Penso or Ted Unkel?  Either way tonight was another horrible game of refball. At least we already clinched the Supporters shield.

“a source indicated that Lionel Messi sustained a 2 cm hamstring tear, confirmed via MRI, likely shutting him down for the remainder of the MLS season. The injury was picked up during Argentina’s WCQ match against Ecuador before being reaggravated against Toronto.” Via

FC Cincinnati are Supporters Shield winners! MLS Cup runs through The Tickle (except for one game, thanks to the stupid new playoff format).

Missed this earlier this month. The Toronto Rock of Hamilton,  will now play the full upcoming season in Hamilton at First Ontario Centre. The team was originally scheduled to start the season in Hamilton before shifting games to Mississauga for arena renovations.

First Ontario Centre renovations are now being delayed and the Rock will now play all of next season in Mississauga. At this point they either need to just stay in the Toronto area or rebrand to the Ontario Rock

https://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/toronto-rock-will-play-upcoming-season-in-hamilton-start-to-finish/n-6013752

10 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

Yet another team going with Oilers “inspired” uniforms. This time, it’s Rice with the “Luv Ya Owls” powder blue jerseys-

Texas Southern might as well join in. Seems everybody wants to be the Oilers these days.

Houston Dynamo are your US Open Cup Champions. They already clinced at Champions Cup spot by virtue of Miami winning the Leagues Cup

Its a bit minimalistic. Right now the logo looks like its for Seattle, but for what in Seattle? It could be for anything in Seattle. I think add the wordmark below the crest and it would be better. Otherwise its a much better rebrand than the previous MLS rebrands.

I love the secondary logos. I can understand that many wanted the orca in the primary. A majority of fans grew up with the orca logo

Again going on the seafoam color I mentioned, It looked like the Space Needle was covered in foam too.

Hear me out...... San Diego FC can stand for San Diego Futbol Chargers........... Ill see myself out.

Juding by the STH scarves earlier in the thread and this teaser video, im seeing some seafoam green.

What a win for Cincinnati tonight! Amazing goals from Barreal, Boupendza and Acosta (coming after his contract extension), plus a clean sheet from Celentano. FCC is 3 points away from doing what many fans have thought was impossible after their first three seasons in MLS.  A win in Toronto next Saturday and Cincinnati will collect their first MLS trophy, the Supporters Shield (Technically, if Orlando wins out and Cincinnati loses their final four games, we tie, but FCC holds the tiebreakers). We've come a long way from winning the Supporters Shield in the final season in USL in 2018, to three straight wooden spoons entering MLS.

3 hours ago, Digby said:

If that stadium was a bit older I could see them getting the Chicago or Columbus or even Chivas/LAFC treatment to a stadium that's better located and a soft (or even full) relaunch. The Bay really ought to be a top market for the league, there is simply too much cultural and monetary capital sitting there, and the Quakes have underperformed wildly both on and off the pitch for a decade or more. That said, it's brazen and a gross precedent, made worse by the league's San Jose history.

Didnt they have a hard time getting the stadium built in that location in the first place? Plus with a historic Earthquakes name, would they leave San Jose for San Francisco? Or could they move to Levis? They already play one game a year at Stanford and they've played a couple at Levis over the last couple years.

4 hours ago, GDAWG said:

 

0% chance he uses his own money to invest in renovations, which is on par for him.   Also, the MLS will want to keep the Bay Area, so they would block a move to Las Vegas, so he may end up getting the same treatment the frat boy in Austin got (a new expansion team in the city of his choosing while a group buys and keeps the Earthquakes).

MLS didnt mind abandoning the Bay Area when the Quakes went to Houston. Of course now they have a stadium in the Bay Area, however apparently it's already out of date so who knows.

Apparently the less than 10 years old PayPal Park in San Jose is already out of date according to owner John Fisher, who is trying to move his Oakland Athletics to Las Vegas. Las Vegas has been on the MLS radar. Could Fisher bring the Earthquakes to Las Vegas too?

14 hours ago, BBTV said:

Bad day for the Nashville Stars

They still have hope. Remember one of the Orioles owners wants to move them to Nashville

So Brewers stadium issue is resolved. The Rays stadium issue is resolved, and the owners are gonna vote on the A's relocation after the season. It's been 84 years but I think we are finally getting somewhere.

4 hours ago, TBGKon said:

While it may be a fixed roof, I believe they're going to have the Vikings type of ETFE roof, which is transparent, lightweight, and durable material. 

In 1965 at the new Astrodome, players complained of having issues seeing the ball and glare with the transparent roof, so they painted it, killing the grass and thus gave us astroturf. While the Rays wont have an issue with a dead playing surface, how are they gonna solve the glare issue?

Cincinnati falls to Miami (OH) for the first time since 2005, snapping the Bearcats 16 straight wins against the RedHawks. Its Miamis first win at Nippert since 2003, led by Ben Rothlisberger.

3 hours ago, Walk-Off said:

As soon as I saw that post announcing the launch of the Topeka Tropics

They've already been around for 2 seasons.