Michael DiStazio

@shanelpratap MLS clubs have sold very quickly and have had no need to move but almost 2 years later and they still can’t find a buyer that won’t move them. They have had a lot of tire kickers who have access to their books and they have all not been interested. Makes sense they are losing $

From the LATimes "The #Whitecaps have reportedly lost more than $300 million since joining MLS 15 years ago and they are forecast to lose as much as $45 million this season." 45. Mill. Dang.

@FiversOmg @nd_winencheese @IrishYankee2199 lol you think it’s going to be 40 at night? Oh and wait until find out about the wind off Lake Michigan, dress warn.

@nd_winencheese @IrishYankee2199 40 ain’t even cold 😭

Message to warm climate fans going to cold climate games this year: Jeans do nothing to keep you warm below 40 degrees. Wind cuts right through them You have been warned! ☘️

@casualclubguy They should host it at Chicago Golf Club, they recently hosted the Walker Cup ‘05 and US Senior Women’s ‘18 it’s a true gem.

Golf has a major championship venue problem. We keep rotating the same clubs. These are 5 courses I’d love to see host a modern major ⛳️ Must be realistic from a setup + logistics standpoint: The Creek Moraine Milwaukee CC Peachtree The Country Club (OH) Which one has the best chance?

@lbk_enjoyer Wait until these students complaining get a real job and have to work on hard deadline projects, the meltdown will be amazing.

Fuck you dude

@alex_westry Better yet they should just play the season and forget about all these stupid tourneys they are all meaningless. The only goal any team should have is to win the MLS Cup.

Until MLS proves that it can consistently win Concacaf Champions Cup the league needs to put all of its eligible teams back into the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup (Canadian MLS teams are not eligible for Open Cup). No MLS teams will be in the Concacaf Champions Cup Final.

@Mark_CPFC You are using worldwide viewership for soccer vs domestic for the Super Bowl. When you add in international viewership the real Super Bowl number is 200 million which is pretty impressive for sport only played in the USA.

The Super Bowl got 137m people viewing it, whereas the second leg of a semi final in football gets 920m+ Never say American football is a bigger sport than actual football ever again

@RomZZ08 @awfulannouncing Draymond was the basketball version of Ringo in the Beatles.

@awfulannouncing Chuck drove the bus. Draymond rides it. They not the same

Things got a little tense on the 'Inside the NBA set when Draymond took a shot at Chuck's final years in Houston 😬

@catchthe_wave3 @BBGreatMoments My very first thought, I was sure he was going to be an all time great after his rookie year

@BBGreatMoments Jerome Walton

Name a Rookie of the Year whose career never matched the rookie year.

@soccerreform European soccer is dominated by a few club in each league and everyone else has no shot of winning. Show me one league the as many differnt champions as any closed American league? You can’t because teams from the bottom stay on the bottom and results prove this.

*ignoring the fact that only a handful of MLS teams can win D1 - while hundreds of other US clubs aren’t even permitted to compete for that honor - makes all pronouncements about competition pretty loopy. MLS is defined by anticompetitive behavior, not competitive behavior. #ProRelForUSA

@soccerreform Great point since the EPL was formed in 1992 a total of 7 differnt teams have won the league. Since that date 15 MLS teams have won titles, 16 NHL, 16 NFL, 16 MLB and 14 NBA teams. Closed league with shared renevue are more competitive. Prove me wrong.

There are many ways for clubs to win in an open system. That’s borne out by the fact that the vast majority of the EPL have won silverware of some kind over the last 30 years, while half of MLS hasn’t won anything. You need Americans to be too stupid to grasp anything but a myopic league trophy in order to justify the MLS cartel. That’s your cultural prerogative. Fortunately, they’re smarter than that. #ProRelForUSA

@frenchjraff The USA has a stranglehold on all the most successful sport leagues in the world and they all use the closed system. MLS is already a top 10-13 league after only 35 years when other leagues have been around a 100 years, they will a top 5 league in 25 years, the system works.

There isn't even 1 example in the world of sport where promotion and relegation hasn't worked. It literally has a 100% success rate, but somehow America will be the 1 place it doesn't work #ProRelForUSA

@TimBrando @awfulannouncing @slmandel @finebaum The SEC fans prefer a smaller playoff since they get over represented in the field and have a better chance to win. More teams requires winning it on the field and limits the influence of ESPN in promoting and selecting the teams in the field.

Foolish statement by another media member that fails to understand the stakes in place for a sport that (yes)makes a lotta money but still hemorrhages far more 🏦 in the end. He’s not alone, however my friend @Finebaum spins this same yarn daily for a couple of key reasons. 1)To deliver content to the @SEC sycophants that devour their opportunities to have a voice, and it works for Paul and the Southern fans brilliantly. 2)To maintain the “it just means more” narrative the SEC cornered the market on and allows those bloggers & writers the chance to drive home the propaganda the good ole boy network that’s always run CFB to thrive! Here’s the problem, despite the power @GregSankey wields the circumstances CFB faces now means it’s gonna take more. Lots MORE. To that end in time his Presidents & Chancellors are gonna recognize expansion beyond 12 to 16 and yes even 24 is what makes what now looks unsustainable! Sustainable. Period end of story. Each time they tell us we’ll ruin the regular season, the opposite is TRUE!

"I think that college football should be run by people who like college football. And every decision, every idea I've seen about playoff expansion seems like it's come from people who don't like college football, don't know why we like it... A 24-team playoff would be a disgrace." - Kevin Clark

@markbgger @chrisorzy You either have the physical tools or you don’t, you can be the hardest worker but to move on you have to be bigger, faster stronger.

@MichaelDistazio @chrisorzy I disagree about the “either D1 or not“. I played against so many guys who rode the bench in rec ball and played D1 baseball and getting drafted because they work their ass off and other guys who are four year varsity players we never played pass high school.

Most of the “travel sports bad” discourse is just sour grapes

@markbgger @chrisorzy Travel sports should really be for the top tier, everyone else is getting fleeced. You are either D1 athlete or you aren’t and all reps in the world won’t change that.

@chrisorzy Travel 25 years ago was the all stars amongst all stars. Travel today is anyone with a check book. It’s not the same and it isn’t more competitive than Rec of the past. It’s unfortunately ruined baseball. They cram 6 games into 5 hours. How many reps are you getting anyway?

@cptdankkk If they are throwing out $500k right before launch it means they think they have a hit and are trying to save money long term, he was smart.

Tony Hawk reveals turning down $500,000 from Activision was the best financial decision of his life "When they were close to launching the game, they started to sense that there was buzz about it. It was already getting good reviews from previews and they felt this surge of interest" "They offered me a buyout of future royalties right before the game launched. They offered me half a million dollars. They said you get that right now and then no money going forward" "No one had ever spoken those types of numbers to me before, but I felt like I was in a pretty good place. I was doing well in other ways. I was still skating a lot, doing events, I had good endorsements, and I thought I'm gonna take a risk and I don't need that money right now"

@bwfast The 10th tier in the USA would look like a youth soccer game with maybe a 100 people at it, the pro/rel crowd are morons.

This is what the 10th tier of USA soccer will look like under the future USA soccer promotion/relegation system. Imagine this across hundreds of U.S. cities. #ProRelforUSA

@soccerreform It has 35,000 more people than Greenbay

There are over 150 US cities with more residents than Ipswich. #ProRelForUSA

@frenchjraff @USL_HQ This post has to be a troll

With MLS at a crossroads, history has shown that @USL_HQ is ready to take the mantle from MLS who took it from NASL. For me the question is not if but when a MLS team requests to join the new USL model of promotion and relegation #ProRelForUSA

@JohnJoh53849444 @ClennellPeter No the City of Chicago on the Southside is the Stateline, the Indiana location is closer to the city than other possible location in Illinois which is in the NW Suburbs

@MichaelDistazio @ClennellPeter But still in Illinois?

A formal offer has been submitted to the MLS regarding relocating the Vancouver Whitecaps to Las Vegas. This is how American owners perceive football Clubs over there - just a franchise.

@JohnJoh53849444 @ClennellPeter The stadium will be a mile from the Chicago city limits

@ClennellPeter Chicago Bears are potentially building their stadium in another state!