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Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 6:38 pm
by warwickland
chingon wrote: Fri Aug 16, 2019 1:50 pm
warwickland wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:42 am *new player enters room*

sporting kansas city has a new old rival.
Shit club. No history.
this is going to be good!

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Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2019 6:03 pm
by gfisch95
chaglang wrote: Fri Aug 16, 2019 3:47 pm When is MLS going to put a team in Denver?
The Rapids are a charter member of MLS, unless I'm just totally missing sarcasm.

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:22 am
by chaglang
gfisch95 wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2019 6:03 pm
chaglang wrote: Fri Aug 16, 2019 3:47 pm When is MLS going to put a team in Denver?
The Rapids are a charter member of MLS, unless I'm just totally missing sarcasm.
You are.

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 12:37 pm
by swid
warwickland wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:42 am *new player enters room*

sporting kansas city has a new old rival.
It's official - starting in 2022.

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 11:48 am
by StL_Dan
swid wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2019 12:37 pm
warwickland wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:42 am *new player enters room*

sporting kansas city has a new old rival.
It's official - starting in 2022.
I've been following StL's efforts to get an MLS expansion team since the MLS2StL days culminating with the MLS4TheLou effort.

Does the MLS put StL in the West with SKC and/or create two divisions in the East and West and put Minny, SKC, StL and Chicago (among a couple others) into the same division? I know that is a very "American" sports thing to do and soccer is decidedly Euro-driven/influenced thing.

What are your thoughts?

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 12:12 pm
by swid
MLS scheduling is going to become...interesting as the league marches towards 28 teams. The easiest way out in a 28-team league would be four 7-team divisions: 2 games against the other six teams in the division + 1 game against the remaining 21 teams = 33 games. This scenario also makes adopting an East, Midwest, South, and West divisional layout and abandoning the conferences entirely easy to imagine.

Or 28 teams is the impetus for instating two 14-team leagues with promotion/relegation between them (as has been rumored). Who knows? :-)

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 12:40 pm
by StL_Dan
swid wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2019 12:12 pm
Or 28 teams is the impetus for instating two 14-team leagues with promotion/relegation between them (as has been rumored). Who knows? :-)
Ooooooooo.....interesting.

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 1:17 pm
by beautyfromashes
St Louis will try to claim Chicago or NY as their rival. They’ll both roll their eyes at the new kid. Best to just not care about this new state team, from a SKC POV.

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 1:36 pm
by StL_Dan
I think it's something SKC should embrace. If for no other reason, it will resurrect some of the Missouri /Kansas borderline rivalry which the Cards / Royals doesn't satisfy.

I'm sure StL will embrace a 3-city rivarly. Chicago and KC will be natural, and more and more, Trashville is becoming a heated rival because the Blues and Preds play in the same NHL division and consistently vie for the top of their division.

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 3:45 pm
by warwickland
StL_Dan wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2019 1:36 pm I think it's something SKC should embrace. If for no other reason, it will resurrect some of the Missouri /Kansas borderline rivalry which the Cards / Royals doesn't satisfy.

I'm sure StL will embrace a 3-city rivarly. Chicago and KC will be natural, and more and more, Trashville is becoming a heated rival because the Blues and Preds play in the same NHL division and consistently vie for the top of their division.
there's kind of a weird what are you looking at thing with nashville brewing. i think for the purposes of MLS, however, KC should/will be the big rival for STL. SKC would be foolish not to embrace this.

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 4:37 pm
by beautyfromashes
If, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” holds true, does this make us in an alliance with Chicago? &

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 4:46 pm
by WSPanic
beautyfromashes wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2019 4:37 pm If, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” holds true, does this make us in an alliance with Chicago? &
I have no problem disliking both the Cubs and Cardinals, so I like to think I can adapt and still dislike the Fire quite a bit.

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 11:45 pm
by beautyfromashes
WSPanic wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2019 4:46 pm I have no problem disliking both the Cubs and Cardinals, so I like to think I can adapt and still dislike the Fire quite a bit.
I just want Indianapolis to get a team so I can let my full hatred rage.

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 9:53 am
by chingon
WSPanic wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2019 4:46 pm
beautyfromashes wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2019 4:37 pm If, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” holds true, does this make us in an alliance with Chicago? &
I have no problem disliking both the Cubs and Cardinals, so I like to think I can adapt and still dislike the Fire quite a bit.
Hear fucking hear.

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 11:16 am
by warwickland
beautyfromashes wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2019 11:45 pm
WSPanic wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2019 4:46 pm I have no problem disliking both the Cubs and Cardinals, so I like to think I can adapt and still dislike the Fire quite a bit.
I just want Indianapolis to get a team so I can let my full hatred rage.
why is that, because they are sort of the closest analog to kc i guess? indianapolis is closer (and easier to drive to) to st. louis than even kc is and it's almost invisible to me for whatever reason. i've spent exactly one night in indianapolis ever.

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:06 pm
by StL_Dan
Man, this thread got weird.

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:18 pm
by beautyfromashes
StL_Dan wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:06 pm Man, this thread got weird.
Quit your drivel. Next you’ll be talking about the St. Louis Steamers and “soccer USA” and how it’s the center of the soccer universe but are just now back peddling into an MLS team when the league has been around for decades. Enjoy your Expansion team.

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 8:03 am
by StL_Dan
beautyfromashes wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:18 pm
StL_Dan wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:06 pm Man, this thread got weird.
Quit your drivel. Next you’ll be talking about the St. Louis Steamers and “soccer USA” and how it’s the center of the soccer universe but are just now back peddling into an MLS team when the league has been around for decades. Enjoy your Expansion team.
Roar

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 9:26 am
by warwickland
beautyfromashes wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:18 pm
StL_Dan wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:06 pm Man, this thread got weird.
Quit your drivel. Next you’ll be talking about the St. Louis Steamers and “soccer USA” and how it’s the center of the soccer universe but are just now back peddling into an MLS team when the league has been around for decades. Enjoy your Expansion team.
the blues are an Expansion team i'll take it. :D

(just realized that the blues are older than the royals which is weird to think about)

Re: Sporting Kansas City

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 11:06 am
by StL_Dan
warwickland wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2019 9:26 am
beautyfromashes wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:18 pm
StL_Dan wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:06 pm Man, this thread got weird.
Quit your drivel. Next you’ll be talking about the St. Louis Steamers and “soccer USA” and how it’s the center of the soccer universe but are just now back peddling into an MLS team when the league has been around for decades. Enjoy your Expansion team.
the blues are an Expansion team i'll take it. :D

(just realized that the blues are older than the royals which is weird to think about)
Yep! The Blues (1967) are, indeed, older than the expansion Royals (1969). The Chiefs, however, are not an original. They relocated from Texas.

StL will will have 3 original franchises to KC's 1 after the MLS StL franchise begins play.

:P