Big Apple Soccer has a pretty good write up on the situation with the NY Mets Fred Wilpon and the status of the New York City expansion as well as why no bid was submitted. Here's an excerpt.
More over there at BigAppleSoccer.com
The Mets have decided to wait 'til the 2012 MLS season at the earliest to own a soccer team because there are no "concrete" plans for a stadium as of yet.
The Mets, who have expressed interest in owning a pro soccer team, did not submit a bid by Wednesday's 5 p.m. deadline. Seven prospective ownership groups did
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After this disaster, now the 2012 is a moral duty for Wilpon !!!!!!
Fabio from Italy
NY2 is coming! We all know it - one way or another - the league will get a team there!
Why didn't RBNY move into the city? If everyone wanted a team in the city that would have made the most sense.
I'd say if the New York fans won't make it across the border to NJ then screw them... you don't deserve a second team.
Toronto fans drive 7 hours to see their team. Are you really going to let Canadians show themselves to be bigger fans then you?
Shut up
Toronto fans drive seven hours to watch a game because their city is about as culturally rich as loading dock in an industrial park with easy access to a circumfrential highway. Counting pigeons at an abandoned textile mill in Eastern Pennsylvania while you wait for the bank to open so that you can cash your unemployment check is infinitely more interesting than a weekend in Toronto. The place is infested by indolent asylum seekers,emaciated and wrinkly Canuck trash and annoying urban intellectuals. It's no wonder that its professional pot-bellied gypsies hop on a bus to escape the place every two weeks.
If canadians are so much bigger as you are claiming sir - why cant they muster support for their own league?
Oh you are right about how wonderfull NY is. There is now a moral duty! The city of NY is so culturally rich that they are intitled to a second MLS team. How could the league even be recongised as Major without two teams in the NY area? The Burough Boys are currently petitioning to change the league name to LS.
"I'd say if the New York fans won't make it across the border to NJ then screw them... you don't deserve a second team."
Amen.
that arguement makes no sense....
If we all went across to Jersey...
none of us would WANT a second team.
We have a population of 18 million people in the metro area...
like it or not, NY's don't want to support RB for multiple reasons.
And if a team is place in the City, it will be the most well supported team in the league...
end of story...
Would the bickering girlies on this thread please get a room together.
I look forward to a team in Queens who, after the initial rush, will only draw the league average because those "diehard NYC soccer fans" we hear about constantly won't drive from Manhattan or the Bronx to see them because it's "too far."