What a waste of money just to bring a boring "sissy game" to a few influential Portlanders. Real men play/watch baseball.
Coming from a place in which I loathed Soccer, I'm happy to say that I got over it, and I'm stoked to be a Timbers season tix holder. Spring/Summer, downtown Portland, beer, hooligans. I'm in. It's a no brainer. At some point, I bet I even fully understand why Soccer is such a wildly popular sport. The WC went a long way for me. I'm jacked. Can't wait. I will learn.
Baseball used to be my passion until the players started using steroids. That and how some players abuse free agency.
Don't bash baseball, guys. That is dumb. It doesn't have to be one or the other. And yes, I know, Maris started the argument. But I think it's obvious to look past the FACT that he's instigating. Baseball has some great aspects. It really does. Don't let Maris fuck it all up. Each sport can stand on it's own.
If the "Sissy" Beaver supporters got together, form a plan for a stadium or fund raiser they would have a stadium by now. So that didn't happen. At least the timber army made a fuss on the new logo, and had meetings with the owner, they had a voice and the Timber logo was changed again (for MLS). few influential Portlanders? Then what about the 11,000 season tickets that got sold for 2011. Or how about the 4 sold out USL-1 games in 2010. Beavers got one sell out. Sad. Things go in trends, and Soccer is in right now. Baseball has been hurt by steriods, Mark McGwire, Jose Canseco, etc. Soccer just has the age group of 12-35 year olds.
PGE Park gets #1 ranking in MLS Stadiums. http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2011...art-2-portland-timbers-come-out-on-top-of-our
i kind of disagree with the numbers. Heavily skewing towards a 2- to 9-year difference in "lifetime viability" vs, say, parking and location seems odd to me. Additionally, why are ticket prices a factor in the stadium ranking? Seattle's tickets are "519 for a mid-level season ticket". Since they've added 10k season tickets' worth of capacity in the last 2 years, I'd surmise that it's not a factor in "stadium situations"...or if it is, the fact that it's been sold out at 30k+ for 2 years is a benefit, not a limiter, of the "stadium situation".
Back in the 60s when men were men, you had two choices. Play baseball. Or claim to play something else. I never even had a basketball hoop at my school till 6th grade. Never bounced a basketball till then. But I'd already been in Little League a few years. 2nd place was football. A couple of times in junior high, we tried kickball. I never touched a soccer ball with the shiny smooth hexagons till I saw one in the store in my 20s. Baseball is old school. I almost put into the dentistry thread that my front tooth was knocked out by a baseball when I was 9. Then when I was 12 ANOTHER baseball got in the way of the same tooth and knocked out the white cap. Baseball is for my generation, and soccer is for my son when he's not playing video games. Maris is right.
Soccer brings families together in a different way than baseball does: [video=youtube;aq0wMxrwWII]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq0wMxrwWII&feature=channel[/video]
Who can respect a ball with shiny hexagons? If God had wanted us to play soccer, he'd have put hexagons on all spheres, like apples, oranges, and pineapples. Actually, maybe those weird shapes on pineapples are sharp hexagons. Different argument. If balls are supposed to have raised hexagons, why ...just a sec, the dog wants me. Okay, try this. If God had wanted us to play a sport that I can't figure out when it's going to end because the rules say no one knows, why would He have created the advertising agency? That would have been inconsiderate. How can they do their job, filming commercials, when they don't even know how long to make the actress demonstrate the product? Case closed.
