re: Help me pick an MLS team

Do like me and wait until the Atlanta club

I follow Seattle a bit, but I'm just buying time until Atlanta arrives. A chance I move to Dallas, so perhaps I should pay attention to them as well.

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New England is a young, fun team to watch but their owner doesn't give a shite about them and they play in Gillette.

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its in the very early stages but there seems to be a dialogue between the Krafts and Boston's mayor about potentially getting their own stadium within the city limits.

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Been trying to pick a team as well.

Think I'm gonna be a.............................SKC fan!

They have a few guys I know already from USMNT, and they seem to be a cool group of guys from their YouTube series.

They're just so... boring

Yup, don't follow MLS but the pickup of Kaka has me interested. Might become a fan of Orlando...

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• MLS
Clubs may protect 11 players between their Senior and their Developmental
Roster. If the Player’s contract expires at the end of 2010, he will
still be considered part of the Club’s Senior Roster.

• If
a Club protects a player, it is not obligated to exercise the player’s
option. It may renegotiate a new budget number for the player as in
previous years.

• If
a player retires, he will not be a part of the Senior Roster, but his Club will
lose its right of first refusal to him should he ultimately decide to play.

• Players
on a Club’s Developmental Roster, other than Generation adidas players who have
not been graduated at the end of the 2010 MLS Season or Home Grown Players on a
Club’s developmental roster, will be part of the expansion draft.

• Generation
adidas players who have not been graduated at the end of the 2010 MLS Season
and Home Grown Players on a Club’s developmental roster at the end of the 2010
MLS Season are automatically protected (Clubs do not have to use a protected
slot on them).

• If
Vancouver/Portland select a Developmental Player, it must offer him a Senior
Roster position and he must be on the Senior Roster as of Roster Compliance
Date.

• Clubs
are restricted in the number of international player(s) that they may make
available. Clubs may make available a number of international players
equal to their total number of international players minus three, provided that
if a Club has three or fewer international players it may make available not
more than one.

• For purposes of this expansion process,

For US-based Clubs --- any non-domestic US player (players that do not hold U.S. Citizenship or Residency) will count as an International


For Toronto FC --- any non-domestic US player or non-domestic Canadian players (players that do not hold Canadian OR U.S. Citizenship or Residency) will count as an International.

• Designated
players are NOT automatically protected (i.e., Clubs must choose whether to
protect such players and if such player is not protected, he will be available
for selection in the Expansion Draft). However, if the Designated Player has
a no-trade clause in his contract, then his MLS club must protect him and he
will count as one of the 11 players who may be protected.

• Maximum
Player Loss: Once two (2) players have been claimed from a Club’s
non-protected roster, that Club is eliminated from the expansion draft and may
not lose any further players. In addition, once a player has been claimed from
a Club’s non-protected roster, that Club may move a player from its
non-protected roster to its protected roster.

• Right
to Negotiate: Vancouver and Portland will have the right to renegotiate a
drafted player’s salary (either up or down) without having to place such player
on waivers or giving his previous Club a right of first refusal.

• Priority:
On the first day of the Discovery/Allocation Period, each of Vancouver and
Portland will have priority over players on its USL roster and one additional
player in the USL not on its roster, subject to another MLS Club’s right of
first refusal.

• Rounds:
The expansion draft will be 10 rounds.

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That was from the last expansion draft

I don't know if I'll be of any help, but here's my roller coaster.

Was on the MLS bandwagon from kick-off in San Jose in 1996. Being from New Orleans, naturally, I chose the closest team, and was a Dallas Burn fan from day 1. Reason? Closest team. Some TV, at that time, we had Home Sports Entertainment and Prime networks out of Texas.
2. Played in the Cotton Bowl where I'd been for 1994 World Cup Matches
3. Jason Kreis.

Early on, I also took to D.C. United....liked their soccer name, and had good players, and the most traditional kit and badge.

Saw both these teams in 1997-1998 play at Zephyr Field in U.S. Open Cup play and in exhibition play--saw Etcheverry, Roy Wegerle, Tony Sanneh for D.C.

Now? Still haven't been to an FC Dallas match but HAVE been to Dynamo, more of a Dynamo fan, now because THEY are closer.

Kind of like Chicago, as well, as my kids played at Lafreniere through U-8, but just before they became Chicago Fire Juniors.

You can follow several teams to start just to keep your interest. It's ok to have several teams that you like when you don't have a team. When Atlanta gets started, you should add them to your list. Nashville will have a team eventually also.

I really hope Nashville gets a team.