Here are two shots of a model of BMO Field (home of Toronto FC) placed in the north end of the Starfire Sports complex. Assuming we can find some public funding for one of the cheaper recent MLS stadiums and put it among the largest soccer complexes in Puget Sound, building an MLS stadium sounds…
Month: June 2007
Why the Seattlest was wrong about the Seattle and the MLS
Don’t look too closely at initiative election results in Seattle. The light will blind you. This is going to sound a lot like the post below, but I don’t feel just like updating an old post. Back in November Dan at the Seattlest wrote “Why Major League Soccer Is Never Coming To Seattle,” which pretty…
Can we build a home for an MLS team? Yes we have the money
I recently bitched too early over at Washblog about losing the USL-1 Sounders to an MLS expansion team in a couple of years. Now I think its a pretty good idea, but there have been some concerns about whether its possible to build a new soccer specific stadium in Washington, or whether given the crash…
Thurston County Democrats: No longer elitist
I never actually believed that the Thurston County Democrats were ever elitist, but now even Particle Man (who does things that particles can) can agree that the above statement is true. After working since January to open our membership to non-Precinct Committee Officers, the central committee voted earlier tonight to give every member not only…
Suddenly I’m so into Soccer again
It all started with this book, but now I’m writing posts about the Sounders at Washblog, doing an open soccer league wiki and recording Gold Cup games on Univision. I played soccer until I moved back out to Washington. I tried pretty lamely to get plugged into the soccer scene here, but my team was…