Portland announced tomorrow

[RicoSuave44]

Fan 590 reporting rumor that Portland will be announced tomorrow as 18th MLS franchise.

sorry mods if this is elsewhere

[nascarguy]

nope it is only posted on gotfc forum

[nascarguy]

News out of Portland stated that MLS and the Portland Timbers group looking at 2011 expansion have set a Friday morning news conference at the Portland Hilton (9:30am PT)
Portland Business Journal: http://portland.bizjournals.com/port...6/daily28.html
MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29758866/
The Oregonian: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index...soccer_te.html
Looks like we have our answer. Maybe.

......this is great news

[Brooker]

8 in the east
10 in the west.

i'm confused.

[scut farkus]

8 in the east
10 in the west.

i'm confused.

Miami and Montreal in 2012...?

[graeme117]

Miami and Montreal in 2012...?

or NY2 and st. louis, i think they've set up a really good 4-way race for the next round of expansion

[Redpunkfiddle]

Conferance balance is not an issue. MLS will choose new teams based on their interests, and they'll shuffle things to fit.

Houston, Dallas are east enough, etc.

[rocker]

ya MLS shifts stuff around every year. Remember that even now we don't have a balanced schedule... and before TFC they had 32 game schedules.

they'll figure something out... given that Garber said he'd like 2 more teams in 2012, that's only 1 season with the imbalance between divisions.

I can't see any more West expansion anyways. All potential future markets are in the East.

[RealG-TFC]

LOL "Portland Announced Tomorrow"

any grammar Nazis around?

[Kooper]

8 in the east
10 in the west.

i'm confused.

Or they ditch the two divisions.

Or Houston joins the east.

I think they will go for the first option because they will play 34 games if they play home and away.

[Shway]

yea its official Garber said it on the ESPN interview, thats hes going to Portland to announce the 18th MLS team, hes like i cant say anything more then that....

[drewski]

seems there's something at, its just protected right now

http://www.portlandmls2011.com/

whereas combo's for ottawa and st. louis theortical website are non-existent

[rocker]

yea its official Garber said it on the ESPN interview, thats hes going to Portland to announce the 18th MLS team, hes like i cant say anything more then that....

that interview on ESPN was hilarious... all that "wink wink, nudge nudge" stuff... portland is in.. he just wants to save the official "Portland will be the 18th MLS team" statement for his press conference today.

I guess that vote they had last week was a very certain thing for him to come out and announce it, even though I thought they tok 15 million off the gov deal. Perhaps Garber gave Portland the same $5mil discount Vancouver got, and Paulson came up with the 10 mil. anyone know the details?

[Canuck82]

I get a gut feeling that since the MLS has gone to a three conference format before - instead of an 8-10 set-up they will go to a 6-6-6 setup with the following:

West: Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Chivas USA, Los Angeles and San Jose
Central: Colorado, Real Salt Lake, Dallas, Houston, Chicago and Kansas City
East: Toronto, New York, New England, Columbus, DC United and Philadelphia

Don't even begin to ask me how the schedule for this one would be set up!!

[denime]

I get a gut feeling that since the MLS has gone to a three conference format before - instead of an 8-10 set-up they will go to a 6-6-6 setup with the following:

West: Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Chivas USA, Los Angeles and San Jose
Central: Colorado, Real Salt Lake, Dallas, Houston, Chicago and Kansas City
East: Toronto, New York, New England, Columbus, DC United and Philadelphia

Don't even begin to ask me how the schedule for this one would be set up!!

Fuck that:west,central,east.

Make one table league and that's it.
Keep it simple.

[Calvin]

LOL "Portland Announced Tomorrow"

any grammar Nazis around?

Portland (to be) Announced Tomorow

[Redcoe15]

I get a gut feeling that since the MLS has gone to a three conference format before - instead of an 8-10 set-up they will go to a 6-6-6 setup with the following:

West: Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Chivas USA, Los Angeles and San Jose
Central: Colorado, Real Salt Lake, Dallas, Houston, Chicago and Kansas City
East: Toronto, New York, New England, Columbus, DC United and Philadelphia

Don't even begin to ask me how the schedule for this one would be set up!!

Fuck that:west,central,east.

Make one table league and that's it.
Keep it simple.

It'll never happen. The three division setup seems more than likely with the teams that are coming in.