Timbers Tid Bits: Post Cascadia Cup Edition
by Geoff Gibson on May 16, 2011 11:06 AM PDT
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PrintThis past weekend was huge for the Portland Timbers. Despite losing a reserve game, our primary team came away with a point on the road against an overtly hostile team and atmosphere. These puts as being tie, once again, with the Seattle Sounders with 14 points apiece. The Timbers do still have two games on Seattle however.
Anyway, today's news will be heavily focused on last Saturday's outcome, but there are some interesting league-wide articles to pay attention to as well. Enjoy!
Timbers Specific News
Portland Timbers’ Jewsbury: Seattle rivalry good for US soccer
Some quotes from Captain Jack and Troy Perkins regarding Saturday's atmosphere.
Sounders FC Top Timbers 3-2 In MLS Reserve League
Well Seattle won something this past weekend. Our reserves just weren't able to hold up, unfortunately.
Portland, Seattle kick off MLS rivalry with draw
Always fun to read what other cities' newspapers are saying about our "little" rivalry up here.
Game 9: Seattle 1 – Timbers 1 - The Offside
The first Cascadia Derby of the Major League Soccer era ended in a 1-1 draw as Portland Timbers
League News (after the jump)
Garber, MLS Showing More Interest In Las Vegas
People always wonder when Las Vegas will be home to a top flight professional sport team. The time will come before long I believe and Major League Soccer could be that first team to step foot in the Casino capital.
D.C. United's Dax McCarty Again Adjusts To Following A Legend
After being deemed expendable by Dallas last summer, Dax McCarty now has to follow a legend in Jaime Moreno. How's he doing? We check in with him 10 games into his D.C. United career.
MLS compensation declines due to addition of Reserve League
Some eyebrows were raised earlier this month when the average salaries of players in MLS dropped for the first time in a number of years. Here's an explanation.
Whitecaps look for silver lining
As points continue to elude the Vancouver Whitecaps in their first Major League Soccer season, the importance of winning the Canadian title increases.
Time for MLS owners to step up and protect their assets
An argument on why the continued long term injuries in MLS need to stop due to the competitive marketplace for players abroad.
Fan take: Why American soccer fans are the best fans in sports
There's little to no point in arguing which club, team or city has the"best" fans in sports. For starters, facts such as attendance figures and merchandise sales hardly determine the loyalty of a certain fan base.
CHIVAS USA: DaMarcus Beasley on the horizon?
Chivas USA might soon have another decision to make on a U.S. national-teamer. Winger DaMarcus Beasley is negotiating with Major League Soccer.
Major League Soccer to Minnesota? Probably, and Here’s Why
The ever excellent Minnesota-specific soccer blog explains the situation regarding the new NFL stadium and what it could mean for MLS in the Twin Cities.
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I'm going to try and get these links earlier in the day as I believe that will probably help discussion and interest.
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The PDX/SEA rivalry would be great for US soccer if anybody were able to watch it
I will never understand why the MLS equivalent of Yankees/Red Sox was scheduled for 11pm on the east coast. If you want to sell/grow/promote your league, the way to do it is to broadcast the best rivalry in the league at a time when people are available to watch it. It’s great that it was on in prime time on the west coast, but we were going to be watching anyway.
I agree...
Granted the competition was between two west coast teams. Still there were plenty of people who would have tuned into the game on the East coast were the broadcasting schedule a little more reasonable. Even a 7:00pm kick off time would have been far better.
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by Geoff Gibson on May 16, 2011 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions
MLS has said on many occasions that PDX/SEA is a marquee matchup
it should be treated as such. The SEA game here is at 2pm I think, and I believe is also on ESPN, so that’s good, but still – if you’re calling the game a marquee matchup, you should let as many people as possible see it all over the country. It should have been a 5pm KO in my opinion.
ESPN coverage of MLS
is only slightly better than Fox Soccer. They at least provide it in HD. Otherwise it is an after thought for them.
Scoreboards, not billboards.
Regular season, not pre-season.
I've read elsewhere that it's intentional.
At that time slot there’s no other sports competition and the new MLS target market—young males—are often awake and interested then.
Plus, soccer fans don't care what time it is
They’ll watch a Euro match at 3am if they really want to
Blazers win!
Soccer fans are not who ESPN should be targeting
ESPN should be targeting people who might be somewhat interested but have never watched a game.
by pdb on May 16, 2011 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
11 PM turned out to be great
I was really bummed about the start time, but in the end it worked out really well. My wife and I live in Manhattan and have opted to not get cable to save some money. So, we were going to have to find a bar to watch the game. The Red Sox and Yankees and the NHL Bruins and Lightning games started at 7/7:30, so there would have been little chance of us getting the match on TV. But, since the game didn’t start until 11, all of the other games were over and the bartender happily tuned to ESPN2 for us. Plus, my 8.9 month pregnant wife impressed all of our friends by staying up and cheering loudly at Futty’s header.
Anyway, the 11 PM start timecan be a little rough, but at least here in NYC it makes watching easier.
Awesome!
If you don’t mind me asking, what makes a couple New Yorkers fans of the Timbers? Portland local?
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by Geoff Gibson on May 16, 2011 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Corvallis local
My family moved to Corvallis when I was one (don’t tell the locals, they think I’m a native) and was there through college. My wife (Boulder, CO native) is just generally awesome so naturally she’s a Timbers fan. We hope to make it back to PDX once we’re done with school.
I'm interested in the Las Vegas article,
there’s no other sports to compete with (except UNLV) but could it compete with the strip? probably, I don’t know how popular soccer as a sport is in Las Vegas. Anybody? I still think though, that for the MLS to be a top tier sports league in the U.S. it needs a presence in the south east, but who knows if that will happen.
Mike Rice: "Camby nearly rejected that with his Armpit!"
Mike Barrett: "Now that would be a fragrant foul."
I don't know about Vegas...
I have family from there and they’re not soccer fans at all (anecdotal I know).
Still it seems like Las Vegas has far too much of a transient population (tourists) to really support a major league team, especially a soccer team which is still struggling in many areas of the US.
I think were Las Vegas given an expansion team it would be a flop.
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by Geoff Gibson on May 16, 2011 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
away travel
I bet they would end up with the largest average away supporters attendance.
Don't pee on that
by ShiverMeTimbers on May 16, 2011 5:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Sounders reserves
That term is used loosely. They had 4 guests players because they could not field a full team with reserves, too many played on Saturday! :)
Scoreboards, not billboards.
Regular season, not pre-season.
I hope they know what they're doing with the aggressive expansion.
It does worry me a little.
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MLS has shown that they know how to grow a league slowly though
They are doing it right this time, unlike in the NASL days.
Also, there are still single seats available to the Sounders game in July
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No, that game and the home opener were the first 2 to sell out, in like 20 minutes.
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Incorrect sir!
I just logged on to Ticketmaster and found one seat in 119. I would not be at all surprised to find single seats available throughout the stadium – not many, but still.
wow
I was wrong. I seriously thought they were all gone….
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I bought one last Friday.
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by almost awesome on May 16, 2011 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
They are "sold out"
if you want unobstructed viewing.
Meaning, the least desirable seats are available.
THE FOLLOWING GAMES HAVE ONLY OBSTRUCTED VIEW SEATS REMAINING:
FC Dallas – Apr. 17 @ JELD-WEN Field
New York Red Bulls – June 19 @ JELD-WEN Field
Seattle Sounders FC – July 10 @ JELD-WEN Field
L.A. Galaxy – Aug. 3 @ JELD-WEN Field
Vancouver Whitecaps FC- Aug. 20 @ JELD-WEN Field
http://www.portlandtimbers.com/tickets/single-game-tickets
Jag kom, jag såg, erövrade jag.
Considering that FC Dallas is still listed, I would believe that list hasn't been updated.
Jag kom, jag såg, erövrade jag.
I think Ticketmaster would have to tell me the tickets are obstructed view
and they didn’t. (although don’t put just missing that information past me). Or maybe they don’t.
But even obstructed view, I want to be there.
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You can just turn around and be a capo!
Scoreboards, not billboards.
Regular season, not pre-season.
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