Kartik had a pretty scary post on his blog last night. The basic statement in the post was that EPL broadcasts on ESPN the last couple of weeks have basically blown away anything MLS is doing. Worse, MLS ratings in 1996 were better than they are now…bad news potentially.
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I’m sorry, I’ve put up with this for years. However, this soccer related elitism our friends from Britain (or who want to be from Britain) want to impose on us “Yanks” has got to stop.
Ordinarily I won’t go near the topic of some type of promotion/relegation system in MLS. To be honest, I don’t think it’s needed. What will it really bring? For some reason there’s a romanticized notion that MLS will be better if the bottom club(s) were to drop to a lower level and the top teams from that level would replace them. Yeah, it’ll give those teams towards the bottom something extra to fight for but…well; RBNY would probably be already making plans for the lower level next season.
I love the sport and it’s the topic of my first blogs. It’s what I enjoy the most…besides my family.