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denime
03-18-2009, 06:48 AM
Mornin'


MLSE spies big BMO Field expansion :D
Making space for Argos not a real priority as TFC owner ponders addition of 8,000 seats
Daniel Girard

In news sure to bring smiles to thousands of people on Toronto FC's season-ticket waiting list, the club's owner is looking at an expansion of BMO Field.
"Everything you see right now says that there's a market for more than 20,000 seats," said Tom Anselmi, executive vice-president and chief operating officer with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment.

Read more (http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/603933)


Expansion on TFC's mind
But it's a possible enlargement of BMO Field that MLSEL likes
By LANCE HORNBY (lance.hornby@sunmedia.ca), SUN MEDIA

Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd. has a plan in its back pocket to expand BMO Field by 8,000 seats to ease the wait list of 14,000 for TFC season's tickets.
The first winning campaign by its soccer team and a playoff gate or two would be plenty of incentive to swing the hammer and add real grass, both which seem inevitable.
But while one need not be in place to follow the other, the opening of TFC's third MLS season this week puts it back on the local sports map, but under much closer scrutiny.

Read More (http://www.torontosun.com/sports/soccer/2009/03/18/8789656-sun.html)


One final kick for Dichio and it's time for a new life
By BILL LANKHOF (bill.lankhof@sunmedia.ca), TORONTO SUN

This is Danny Dichio's 19th spring with a professional soccer team and he has all the aches, bumps and bruises to prove it.
"This will be my final year," Dichio said yesterday, emerging from the trainers' room.
At 6-foot-5, Dichio is an imposing presence but he freely acknowledged that all the body parts don't move quite as well as they once did.
ACHES
"The ache seems to hang around a lot longer than it used to," he said, grinning.

Read More (http://www.torontosun.com/sports/columnists/bill_lankhof/2009/03/18/8789661-sun.html)


TFC announce radio partnership
The FAN 590 to broadcast every Reds game this season

Toronto FC announced Tuesday that the club has teamed up with Toronto's 24 hour sports radio station The FAN 590 to broadcast every game this season. With the team heading into their third season in Major League Soccer, this will mark the first time Toronto FC games will be broadcast on the radio in the team's history. The FAN 590 will broadcast all 30 games on the schedule. Fifteen games will be broadcast live in their entirety, with two to be joined in progress. The remaining thirteen games will air on The FAN's website www.fan590.com (http://www.fan590.com).

Read More (http://toronto.fc.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20090317&content_id=226768&vkey=pr_t280&fext=.jsp&team=t280)


CANADIAN DE ROSARIO READY TO STEP IN FOR TORONTO FC

Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Canadian international Dwayne De Rosario dreamed of playing for Toronto FC, and now the eight-year MLS veteran faces the biggest challenge of his career.
De Rosario, who was traded from Houston to Toronto in the offseason, has never missed the playoffs in his MLS career. He's won four MLS Cups titles - two with San Jose and two with Houston - and was named MVP in two of those finals.
Over the last two seasons in Houston, De Rosario helped the Dynamo to a 28-13-9 combined record. Two seasons ago, Houston won the second of back-to-back MLS Cups.

Read More (http://www.tsn.ca/soccer/story/?id=271581&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_soccer)



SUNSHINE (http://www.torontosun.com/sunshinegirl/)

COED (http://coedmagazine.com/category/girls/daily-snapshot-girls-2/)

DOMIN8R
03-18-2009, 06:51 AM
Thanks D.

News scrums always bring a flurry of TFC news. Looking forward to the reads.

Oblio2
03-18-2009, 06:58 AM
Nice read. thx.

Big expansion
Dichio's swansong

daner90
03-18-2009, 07:00 AM
morning all...

Great news about possible expansion and grass!

SSG is definitley worth a look she is actually hot!!

CoachGT
03-18-2009, 07:01 AM
Thanks D. Always good to come back and see some TFC news! I can't wait for the season to start!

ensco
03-18-2009, 07:08 AM
Anselmi now publicly "behind" move to grass, but I'm really doubtful that he's serious.

These weren't thoughtful responses. The Lakeshore/Kipling plan sounds designed to be rejected. The CFL at BMO, and installing grass, are incompatible.

I'm afraid grass is never going to happen.

Wagner
03-18-2009, 07:25 AM
SSG - Hobbies include being a butterface.

Eastend
03-18-2009, 07:27 AM
Why do I keep reading that the start time on Saturday is 9:30 when the schedule clearly says 8:30pm? Research people, do your research!!!

03/21 - Saturdayat Kansas City Wizards8:30 p.m. http://web.mlsnet.com/imgs/icons/tickets.gif (http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/06004246803C5008) http://web.mlsnet.com/imgs/icons/tickets_pack.gif (http://kc.wizards.mlsnet.com/t105/tickets/) DK

Eastend
03-18-2009, 07:28 AM
Also, the game is only being shown on GolTV? I have it but that sucks when you're trying to get this product out there....

TOBOR !
03-18-2009, 07:32 AM
^ hopefully it'll turn up on P2P somewhere...

let's make this a season to remember for Danny, eh ? Is it too early to start planning a party for 10/17 ?

Wagner
03-18-2009, 07:32 AM
Also, the game is only being shown on GolTV? I have it but that sucks when you're trying to get this product out there....

Come to Joe's.
King and Dufferin.
word.

Eastend
03-18-2009, 07:36 AM
I have GolTV so no issue for me, but kind of wierd that it is not on a regular, non-cable chanel....plus, I'd go to the Mansion in Pickering which is the RPB Durham home pub and shows all games.

renda-10
03-18-2009, 07:36 AM
how do you find out what waiting list your on? i got offerened half seasons this year and couldnt take them, so does that take me off the list all together?

GBV
03-18-2009, 07:39 AM
I have GolTV so no issue for me, but kind of wierd that it is not on a regular, non-cable chanel....plus, I'd go to the Mansion in Pickering which is the RPB Durham home pub and shows all games.

yeah not good for the exposure dep't.
nor is starting the season the same day as march madness.
but what do i know!?

olegunnar
03-18-2009, 07:44 AM
I wonder what cut the existing teams get of the expansion fee.
Maybe ones that money goes through we'll see some tangible movement on the expansion situation since it's (free) money.

ensco
03-18-2009, 07:44 AM
This Stephen Brunt column (page 1 of the Globe Sports) appears to be a rebuttal, and a pretty good one, to Cathal Kelly's piece last week

http://sports.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090317.w-brunt18/GSStory/GlobeSportsSoccer/home

Whitecaps expected to be announced today

http://sports.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090317.wsptvanmls117/GSStory/GlobeSportsSoccer/home

CoachGT
03-18-2009, 07:55 AM
Brunt's article is pretty good

scooter
03-18-2009, 07:58 AM
mornin d -- almost game time canny wait
dichio---nice to hear
coed--ooolaala
ssg---couldnt beleive they didnt say she was 19

Carts
03-18-2009, 08:00 AM
Mornin'
MLSE spies big BMO Field expansion :D
Making space for Argos not a real priority as TFC owner ponders addition of 8,000 seats
Daniel Girard
In news sure to bring smiles to thousands of people on Toronto FC's season-ticket waiting list, the club's owner is looking at an expansion of BMO Field.
"Everything you see right now says that there's a market for more than 20,000 seats," said Tom Anselmi, executive vice-president and chief operating officer with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment.
Read more (http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/603933)


Should this happen, I hope they give current season ticket holders the chance to relocate prior to selling new season tickets...

This is great news for people on the waiting list. It won't happen overnight, but its hope...

Carts...

scooter
03-18-2009, 08:02 AM
brunt's article is great its right on the money for my thoughts about the league and the expectation

Debacle
03-18-2009, 08:06 AM
how do you find out what waiting list your on? i got offerened half seasons this year and couldnt take them, so does that take me off the list all together?

You're off the list for sure now !

TFC Cityboy
03-18-2009, 08:08 AM
Should this happen, I hope they give current season ticket holders the chance to relocate prior to selling new season tickets...

This is great news for people on the waiting list. It won't happen overnight, but its hope...

Carts...
quite agree- good opportunity to further concentrate the support in certain areas of the ground.

Markham_RPB
03-18-2009, 08:09 AM
Finally a radio deal boys !
15 live
2 joined in progress
and 13 on fan590 website .

I love this news

Carter
03-18-2009, 08:13 AM
morning all...

Great news about possible expansion and grass!

SSG is definitley worth a look she is actually hot!!

We really have different tastes in women, the only thing hot on that thing is her body.... :rolleyes:

Debacle
03-18-2009, 08:15 AM
Finally a radio deal boys !
15 live
2 joined in progress
and 13 on fan590 website .

I love this news

I your face Bob McCown !

Carter
03-18-2009, 08:15 AM
how do you find out what waiting list your on? i got offerened half seasons this year and couldnt take them, so does that take me off the list all together?

You are on the red waiting list

drewski
03-18-2009, 08:17 AM
brunt hit the nail on the head

BuSaPuNk
03-18-2009, 08:23 AM
Brunt's article was really good. Wonder if this was a shout out to BoBo McClown?
"But the reason MLS is growing while just about everything else is shrinking isn't one guy or one team. Lots of people don't get that and never will – and the beauty of it is, that really doesn't matter."

Sad to hear about Dichio even though we all pretty much new it was at the end of last season. True class and legend don't sum it all up enough.

Billy the kid
03-18-2009, 08:26 AM
Puerto Rico still chugging along in champions league. They beat Cruz Azul 2-0 nothing in semi final opening leg.

http://www.concacaf.com/view_article.aspx?id=4669

boban
03-18-2009, 08:27 AM
Nice read. thx.

Big expansion
Dichio's swansong
Big Expansion, but little at the same time.
Seems they are intent on keeping the beer garden intact, and for $15 mil don't look like a roof is coming anytime soon - full or partial.

Wagner
03-18-2009, 08:32 AM
Big Expansion, but little at the same time.
Seems they are intent on keeping the beer garden intact, and for $15 mil don't look like a roof is coming anytime soon - full or partial.

Scrap the current beer garden...why not put a beer terrace at the top of a section that mirrors the south end...make it a bigger platform.

keem-o-sabi
03-18-2009, 08:48 AM
ssg, just get a flag, put it over her face and do it for your country. Nice body on her :)

Great soccer news everywhere. Hope to have the official announcement today on the expansion! We need good soccer markets, it seems that Vancouver and Portland have shown this.

PR, man 2-nil to Cruz Azul...interesting, wonder what Puerto Rico MLS would be like....

Markham_RPB
03-18-2009, 08:50 AM
ssg, just get a flag, put it over her face and do it for your country. Nice body on her :)

Great soccer news everywhere. Hope to have the official announcement today on the expansion! We need good soccer markets, it seems that Vancouver and Portland have shown this.

PR, man 2-nil to Cruz Azul...interesting, wonder what Puerto Rico MLS would be like....


Reported that there will be a Press Conference today in the afternoon regarding the expansion of Vancouver in 2011.

Great soccer news all around though !

Wagner
03-18-2009, 08:51 AM
ssg, just get a flag, put it over her face and do it for your country. Nice body on her :)

Great soccer news everywhere. Hope to have the official announcement today on the expansion! We need good soccer markets, it seems that Vancouver and Portland have shown this.

PR, man 2-nil to Cruz Azul...interesting, wonder what Puerto Rico MLS would be like....

That's an intriguing idea.

gtaguy
03-18-2009, 09:26 AM
Finally a radio deal boys !
15 live
2 joined in progress
and 13 on fan590 website .

I love this news


I think this is awsome but if im forced to listen to the fan online i rather pickup the tv signal via p2p then to have to actually listen...

Still good though glad to see media is finally acknowleging tfc

keem-o-sabi
03-18-2009, 09:35 AM
Scarf Seattle (http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Alternative_media_43/Draping_a_city_in_scarves_for_a_new_team.asp), thought this was a good marketing campaign

TOBOR !
03-18-2009, 09:35 AM
how do you find out what waiting list your on? i got offerened half seasons this year and couldnt take them, so does that take me off the list all together?

non-sequitir answer - you'd be on the red list, and no.

TFC07
03-18-2009, 10:11 AM
Why just 8,000? Why not 10,000 or 15,000 seats?

Pachuco
03-18-2009, 10:15 AM
Why just 8,000? Why not 10,000 or 15,000 seats?

I would assume the stadium was built in a way that allows for expansion of up to 8,000 seats in a cost effective manner.

rocker
03-18-2009, 10:20 AM
i see conflicting reports from Anselmi today on expansion in different articles. In one, he's talking about waiting for the possibility of the Argos, then in another he wants to keep it for soccer (and intimate). Then he says that he wonders if the supporters will favour expansion of the south end since they've made it their corner. Come on! Of course the supporters want it. And if they populate it with people interested in being over in that section, it'll be even more welcome.

Then we hear on the grass issue Pantalone's complaints. geez.

p.s. the sunshine girl needs a face transplant.. but that body is smokin!

Toronto Ruffrider
03-18-2009, 10:48 AM
i see conflicting reports from Anselmi today on expansion in different articles. In one, he's talking about waiting for the possibility of the Argos, then in another he wants to keep it for soccer (and intimate). Then he says that he wonders if the supporters will favour expansion of the south end since they've made it their corner. Come on! Of course the supporters want it. And if they populate it with people interested in being over in that section, it'll be even more welcome.


Perhaps expansion is being conducted in such a way so as to not exclude the Argos outright. If a north stand was erected in place of the beer garden, for instance, that would seem to be the final nail in the coffin of CFL football at BMO.

Toronto Ruffrider
03-18-2009, 10:52 AM
Why just 8,000? Why not 10,000 or 15,000 seats?

According to Tom Anselmi, BMO can accommodate 8,000 seats "without having to tear things apart and start over again." In order to add more seats, I'm sure more permanent east and south stands would be required, similar to what we have with the west stand.

Steve
03-18-2009, 10:52 AM
Why just 8,000? Why not 10,000 or 15,000 seats?

8,000 is much better I think. 15,000 would be too much, we need to keep ticket scarcity for a little longer to drive up demand, and to keep people interested.

That said, I really wish they would get rid of that damned beer patio. Close in the lower bowl! It's so much more impossing to have the pitch surrounded.

Mrs. Workie
03-18-2009, 10:58 AM
One final kick for Dichio and it's time for a new life
By BILL LANKHOF (bill.lankhof@sunmedia.ca), TORONTO SUN

This is Danny Dichio's 19th spring with a professional soccer team and he has all the aches, bumps and bruises to prove it.
"This will be my final year," Dichio said yesterday, emerging from the trainers' room.
At 6-foot-5, Dichio is an imposing presence but he freely acknowledged that all the body parts don't move quite as well as they once did.
ACHES
"The ache seems to hang around a lot longer than it used to," he said, grinning.

Read More (http://www.torontosun.com/sports/columnists/bill_lankhof/2009/03/18/8789661-sun.html)



Sad, but not unexpected.

Glad to hear he'll be sticking around with the club when he's done playing.

Phil
03-18-2009, 11:01 AM
Preview article from Fox, this guy thinks we are shit, nice quote from Jack in there:


http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/9347140/MLS-Eastern-Conference-Preview

Markham_RPB
03-18-2009, 11:05 AM
" if the Dead Bulls can make the finals then anything's possible."

Quote of the year so far !

Unreal Jack

tfcleeds
03-18-2009, 11:05 AM
Hehe, way to go Jack!

gmacpheetfc
03-18-2009, 11:06 AM
^ What a moron

gmacpheetfc
03-18-2009, 11:07 AM
Not Jack the writter.......

rocker
03-18-2009, 11:07 AM
Preview article from Fox, this guy thinks we are shit, nice quote from Jack in there:


http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/9347140/MLS-Eastern-Conference-Preview

weird comment:

he can't succeed with Route One football on an artificial field ... but his side lacks technical skill in too many positions to play anything else.

Lacks technical skill in too many positions? how many positions is that? DeRosario, Barrett, Vitti, Ricketts, Guevara and Robinson all have good enough technical skill not to have to play route one football.

Markham_RPB
03-18-2009, 11:10 AM
This has to be of no suprise !

The fans say: Nothing. Columbus was the only one of the fan groups not to respond by press time.

tfcleeds
03-18-2009, 11:13 AM
Or, perhaps because they haven't got any fans...

Markham_RPB
03-18-2009, 11:16 AM
Or, perhaps because they haven't got any fans...


I believe all 6 of their supporters do not have internet access !


This just showing everyone they continue to be a joke of supporters !

rocker
03-18-2009, 11:21 AM
i haven't seen this posted... DeRo's latest blog entry

http://www.dwaynederosario.com/derosario/blogDetail/1590

James17930
03-18-2009, 11:22 AM
Wow! What a news day.

Expansion! DD's last year!

Holy fuck. We gotta win this year, gotta win this year, gotta win this year

Technorgasm
03-18-2009, 11:37 AM
Expansion talk , coupled with Grass and a practice facility talk?

I like the chatter around the campfire today!

THANKS DENIME!

ALL TFC GAMES ON THE FAN!. . holy freakin shit balls!

this is a glorious off season day!

EVERYTHIGN IS BEAUTIFUL!

James17930
03-18-2009, 11:41 AM
Preview article from Fox, this guy thinks we are shit, nice quote from Jack in there:


http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/9347140/MLS-Eastern-Conference-Preview

Wow. That was written with absolutely no knowledge of fact whatsoever.

Marc"2L"
03-18-2009, 11:47 AM
Or we're just not willing to admit he might be right...

/just sayin'

StandUpIfYouHateChelsea
03-18-2009, 11:47 AM
it wont be enough 10-15 k would be bore like it , i hope the waiting list grows as we will win the cup this year , we get like 30 k on the waiting list they add 15k seats we still got a big ass waiting list :canada:

StandUpIfYouHateChelsea
03-18-2009, 11:50 AM
oh man hearing that about dichio is saddening , we need a HUGE THANK YOU BANNER! and a new goodbye chant for his last game ?? e

StandUpIfYouHateChelsea
03-18-2009, 11:55 AM
Scrap the current beer garden...why not put a beer terrace at the top of a section that mirrors the south end...make it a bigger platform.

or why not build over the beer garden , with the beer garden being on a small incline or on two or 3 levels? then have expansion over top:drinking::D

Stryker
03-18-2009, 12:07 PM
Red Bull Arena is wasted on the shite.
Imagine if we played in it located where BMO field is.
WOW.

massive_magpie
03-18-2009, 12:08 PM
Sucks about Danny :( Hope he stays in some capacity; even if it takes 10 years for us to win the league, it wouldn't feel right if he wasen't at the ceremony.

BuSaPuNk
03-18-2009, 12:09 PM
Nice comment by Jack in that peice....lol....can't take that peice seriously...DC best midfield in the leauge....hahahaha....stupid americans...

Debacle
03-18-2009, 12:20 PM
What's with the music on the live feed for Vancouver Press Conference...cheezy...

rocker
03-18-2009, 01:23 PM
i posted this elsewhere, but i figured it was news...

Garber just said on Team 1040 radio in Vancouver that Vancouver paid $35 million USD in cash upfront. So he took less than 40 million. No payment plan.

DOMIN8R
03-18-2009, 01:32 PM
Has anyone else begun looking for a pocket radio to listen to the play by play on game day?

Stryker
03-18-2009, 01:37 PM
Bunch of new media just went up on the TFC website.
Three videos and an article.

Nuvinho
03-18-2009, 02:00 PM
funny twitter:

Paulbeirne (http://twitter.com/Paulbeirne)3 years in to TFC...finally received a call from Ives Galarcep. I've arrived!

rocker
03-18-2009, 04:54 PM
good article with reference to the success of BMO Field as a stadium...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hjTRN24vOACyzk8tI-ZxZDTX1CkA

Browner
03-18-2009, 05:00 PM
Interesting interview of Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone by Doug Farraway of the Fan regarding BMO Field from the City's perspective.

http://www.fan590.com/media.jsp?content=20090318_140117_6624

Redcoe15
03-18-2009, 05:25 PM
Lotsa great news today. And two hotties to boot. This is a great thread!

boban
03-18-2009, 07:44 PM
[quote=rocker;421373]
p.s. the sunshine girl needs a face transplant.. but that body is smokin!/quote]
I take it you had yours?