Comments on: It’s (Not) All About The Benjamins

By: TrooperBari

TrooperBari — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:35:28 +0000

I would pay good money if Don Garber would, on the record, say, “Do you feel me?”

By: admin

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:11:07 +0000

Three new teams? (Portland, Vancouver, Montreal, I guess). Eventually there will need to be a fourth if there’s a third, 19 teams makes no sense.

And I don’t know what the usual annual bump in the salary budget has been. I haven’t seen a public list of the year-by-year budget.

But your point is well-taken. It’s like the story Jim Bouton tells in Ball Four where a young player was told by management that they were going to give him a raise…until the player realized that the new contract that had just gone into effect meant they HAD to give him that raise. So he was getting no amount of largesse at all.

See, THIS is why I say you don’t make public statements.

By: triplet1

triplet1 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:23:51 +0000

So, Abbott comes out and says publicly MLS is going to spend an additional $60 million on players in the next five years as evidence of their commitment, but it slips his mind that $35 million of that is because they have three more teams coming in? Or that the $25 million that’s left amounts to funding the same annual bump in the salary budget MLS has been making?

Not MLS HQ’s finest hour.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:19:45 +0000

I gotta think Abbott negotiated through the media with Garber’s enthusiastic approval, if not express orders.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:38:23 +0000

Did you even read the link?

By: Gazza

Gazza — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:18:57 +0000

How are van den Bergh and Hartman in limbo? No team in MLS wants them. If they did they would have contacted KC and Dallas by now. A 4th round or 50k in allocation should land either of them.