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Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium I'm no relationship expert or psychologist, but it sounds like you've got a lot of other issues going on in your life. Personally, I'd try changing your delivery, or making new friends, but passive-aggressive forum posts featuring you projecting your anger at...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium The front office would never get away with even half of the things it currently does if Boston wasn't a bad market. That's my point. The fans don't hold the team accountable, the media doesn't hold the team accountable, the politicians are all too willing to let...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium I am going to respond to the rest of your post later, but the actual stadium site in the Jewelry District would probably be here: A ten to twelve minute walk away.

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium And I believe that if Gillette was falling apart and we were going through the exact same thing in 2007 as we did in the 90s, the Patriots would be holding training camp in Hartford right now. Times change, circumstances change, and I truly believe that the...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium I answered it on the very same page:

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium Agreed. But there's plenty that they could be doing long before an actual stadium move and they've done none of the other things either - as evidenced by lackluster media coverage, poor advertising of the team, lackluster community engagement (other than the World...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium I never said that the MLS team was the most popular in any of the cities where MLS exists. I said all of those cities have embraced their MLS teams, which is a different metric. Places like Seattle, Portland, Houston, Dallas, and other MLS cities actually engage...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium Welcome! You've got nothing to be ashamed of. That's an enormous difference in international soccer interest, to be sure. The question is, why hasn't any of this interest in international soccer translated into MLS interest? The market share for the Revs in...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium You can come at me all you like, but guess what? They're just as capable of making money in Providence no matter how much you and everyone else want to bitch about how much Rhode Island sucks and how you'd all abandon the team if it moved. When was the last time...

I hate the fact that the clock runs constantly and runs up instead of down, I hate that the amount of stoppage time is a big mystery until the clock hits 90 minutes, I hate that stoppage time ends whenever the ref feels like ending it, I hate that stoppage during stoppage time doesn't result in...

Okay, I've owned up to it before and I'll own up to it again. I don't really like soccer. Having said that, I tried to get into soccer by watching the USA/Portugal game and... ...ugh. What an awful result. We're basically eliminated now, right? We would need to beat Germany or draw them to...

Re: South Station Tower Someone else can come in here and tell me if I'm reading those numbers wrong but office space in downtown Boston appears to be outperforming the national market and that 2.7% vacancy at South Station would appear to make new office construction a pretty safe bet even...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium I'm not claiming anything, that's all Forbes. But you misinterpreted the point. The point was that the Bills out-earn the Jets and Giants combined per fan - but overall value wise, the Bills are a little better than half the value of either "NY" team. The obvious...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium Gosh, fattony, you're absolutely right! Providence isn't an urban location at all! It's secretly actually a suburb with no mass transit to speak of! Gosh, all my life I've been living a lie! How could I have been so blind?

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium Absolutely, I did, and I do still live in RI. Even if I get down on the state sometimes, it's a nice place and it will always be my home. But you can also assume that I don't even like soccer and have no real dog in this fight, except for wanting stronger ties...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium How is this even comparable? College sports and the NCAA racket are a completely different animal to any major league organization, and is one more obstacle in a minefield of legal agreements and broadcasting rights. I don't think we can say for certain whether or...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium Except it doesn't. They're conflated in the same way that Baltimore-Washington have a conflated media market. I keep asking people in this thread how and why they can assert that moving to Providence means "losing" a Boston media market that is already incredibly...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium Here's one: Boston doesn't need the additional venue space. That's a single compelling reason against locating it in Boston, or Somerville, or Charlestown or Quincy or anywhere else inside of 128. Gosh, you're so right, it hurts. That's why literally nobody ever...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium Why can't Providence support a major league sports team, again? Less than an hour from Boston, has its own fair share of universities (and youth), and its bus network is no worse off than Hartford's (actually, RIPTA probably beats every CTTransit district other...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium 17 home games, 17 away games, for a 34 game season. If you make it into the postseason you could potentially have 4 postseason home games for a total of 21. But MLB (spring-fall) and the FIFA-standard league scheduling paradigms (fall-spring) do not overlap; NFL...