FSN will be showing Portland v Seattle

Now what  I don’t understand is why they can’t just cut to the game during commercial breaks during baseball games?  Sounds reasonable to me.  Would help promote soccer to non-soccer watchers as well.

This is great news. Kudos to FSN.

The REALLY important question, for those who don’t (or can’t) make this trip is; Who will be the broadcast crew? For the cinders matches that FSN usually show, they use pdx’s crew. These guys are two of the biggest homers around. Every pdx foul is a terrible call, and every foul on one of the scum is a carding offense. If these are the idiots that FSN choose to do the match, I pity the folks who have to watch this, at home. Hopefully, the SSFC crew will be down, doing a radio broadcast, so the folks at home can turn down the volume on the TV.

Mike Reply:
June 22nd, 2009 at 3:17 pm

There’s always the mute button!

No kudos to FSN dummies. The Timbers made it happen by swapping one of their TV dates. You are welcome.

Don,

don’t kid yourself man. if FSN didn’t want to do this, it wouldn’t happen.

what did the timbers have to do? oh, give up a poorly rated televised showing of them and some other poor team for a higher rated and higher revenue game? boy, the timbers are a bunch of F’ing hero’s. however can we repay them.

i used to give portland fans credit. i lived there for 2 years and like the city. but i have to be honest, every time one of their fans opens their mouth, it is pure drivel. complete horse shit.

icefunk Reply:
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:48 am

chasssss – go pound your head against a wall, you have no idea what you are blabbering about, loser.

SCUM THE SOUNDERS!!

TIMBERS 4 LYFE!

I bow down in awe of your power. 

laurie Reply:
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:46 am

Had I realized that people with IQs too low to understand humor would be reading this, I never would have said it in the first place.  Sorry!

I hope Tyrone Marshall is in the game.. we can count on him making some mistakes or an own goal.

Chasssss: Thanks for increasing the  average IQ  in both Portland and Seattle by moving to Seattle. Read the original post by yamsmos (I’m so in awe of a member of the membership council and his awesome power)and the sychophant follow-ups to get a flavor of  why Sounder fans are such a laughing stock around the league.

yamsmos Reply:
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:01 am

don, not once did i say or insinuate that my letter had anything to do with the matter. i merely stated that i wrote the letter, and got an immediate response. in fact, if you can read between the lines (do you know how to do that?) any reasonable person can deduce that a response from FSN 3 short minutes later would easily suggest they already had decided to air that show… and therefore, my letter had NOTHING to do with it.

if by me merely telling you how the facts of the day unfolded confused you in any way, i apologize.

Troll alert!
It’s nice to know you’re keeping tabs on us, scum-suckers. How’d that ‘Buy Two’ campaign go for you??? What a laughable attempt to keep us ‘fish’ out of your sh*t stadium. The money would’ve been better spent on your sh*t tifo.
We’re coming, make no mistake. We’re going to dance on the muddy banks of your polluted, backwater river while drinking Starbucks and using our handheld electronic devices to blog to our friends back home. Oh yes, we’re coming.

Shittle fvcking Flounders, bitches!

Do toothpick potheads have to tip the grease monkey for filling up their gas tank?

I’m just glad your team finally has some fans. Seeing less than 3k at your games was pretty sad

The only game your fans showed up for in 2008 was against the Portland Timbers… I guess the city of Seattle preferred our team over yours.

I don’t understand why this hasn’t sold out in Portland yet… it’s the biggest match in Timbers’ History.

for those confused…. “Mike” doesn’t have a dual personality… there are just two “Mikes” posting.

Good “mike” who was sent from heavan above and saves infant children from malaria at least three times a week, he also happens to be a sounders fan

and

Bad “mike” who trips little old ladies and steal tips at restaurants from the people that just left befor he sat down… he happens to be a timbers fan.

this is a classic case of good vs evil. don’t be fooled and confused

This game will sell out eventually. We get good crowds at PGE park, but to draw in about an extra 7,000 fans above our normal 8,000 will take some time.

People that haven’t attended a Timbers match won’t understand why this is such a big deal. The US open cup is a relatively unknown tournament as well. There will be a large number of people buying tickets the day of the match because that is what they have always done without fear of matches selling out.

Maybe it is an unknown tourney in Portland due to the Timbers not having been very successful, while in Seattle there have been at least one matches that drew over 10,000k for the Open Cup, and we didn’t need a larger close city to get us past that mark.

And Portland fans, your attendance is about to get [assed by a WPS team.

Funny how you speak about attendance now…

Before you made it to MLS you were one of the worst in the USL despite your teams success on the pitch.

Sure our team wasn’t very successful last year.. but our fans showed up and supported the team regardless, setting a new record average attendance.

USL sounders attendance was pretty much down to location. and i am not kidding about this. much of seattles success this year is b/c of the location of the stadium. it is central to all (most). everyone has a bus that goes there and it is set up to handle a lot of people with bars restaurants and roads…

have you ever been to tukwilla? it is only 15/20 miles south of seattle, but it makes all the difference in the world in the amount of time and effort it takes. if you want to say that makes seattle too soft… well just go ahead. we have heard all the bleating before.

pge park has amazing location and there is no doubt that helps a lot with attendance. you stick that thing in troutdale or west linn, your attendance drops in half instantly.

you can’t pretend that location isn’t a huge factor… ask dallas and houston fans if you want to dispute that.

yamsmos. You make a valid point.. but you seem to forget that your little team up there played in the brand new Qwest Field full time from 2003-2007. As well as the home opener in 2008.

A quick search of your attendance in 2007 shows that you averaged 3,325 per game which oddly enough is less than you did in your far off distant Starfire Complex in 2008. hmmmm Qwest is in a premium location isnt it…

Location or not, those fans didn’t exist until this year. Are you saying that you guys had thousands upon thousands of fans following the Shittle sounders USL, not likely.

Drew Carey and his fair weather fans. I hope you guys bring the marching band and color guard down with you. Our band is an acapella group called the Timbers Army.

We were here way before you and we will be here long after your gone. I look forward to embarrassing all 500 of you next week.

Lets go Timbers!

screw attendence factors, what else is there to do in Portland?
-how are those Beavers treating you? no MLB team?
-how about that pro NFL team, with overlapping schedules?
-how about that Pac-10 football team in Portland?

you got shit else to cheer about in PDX,

34yfa, and if you try and retroactively claim a western division title before they awarded the Supporter’s shield, you are just reaching.  First game in Qwest for the USL Sounders had 25k+ in attendence, but when Starfire tops at 4k and we average 3.3k we are only short 700 people, you do the math. 

Location vs the fact that USL is fine and dandy minor league, but when you are competing against major league sports, you have to be a major league team. the scum have no local competition, get a real baseball team and watch your USL number stay the same, it ain’t happening.

the whole “you guys aren’t real fans b/c your attendance wasn’t real good for a different team and different division” argument is flawed and getting old.

i know you want to hold onto it and have a 5th grade pissing contest for the rest of your life… but if you can’t see the flaws in trying to equate that argument into one where you are saying our current fan base is fake? well that is just sad. even if half of our fans now are new? SO WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHO CARES?  nobody has been a fan their whole life. everyone has to “see the light” at some point whether that is when you are 5, 15 or 50. 

i am glad that portland is getting an MLS team (maybe) b/c the rivalry is fun. but grow the F up and quit worrying about what the hell our USL attendance records were.

and if you still think it matters, well i’m rubber and you’re glue, my dad can beat up your dad, neener neener neener…  sorry to stoop to your level, but i thought that would be the only part you understand.

whoa yamsmos calm down calm down. I was only bringing up those figures because one of your buddies tried to take a shot at our attendance being passed by a WPS team when he clearly didn’t realize how dire things were for the Sounders a year ago.

A Portlander says of the TA, and I quote: “They do not give one ounce of thought for what is right for the people of Portland. They only care about overcoming their sense of low self-esteem through their chest-beating and derogatory methods, and this attitude comes straight from the top.”

You can say what you want about our support, attendance or whatever, but at least we’re not loathed in our own city!

The man you quotes is simply against financing the renovation of our park for MLS. He has spent the past months complaining constantly about the city making use of tax dollars for sporting venues. He wrote this piece as a last ditch effort to try and derail the plan as the city council voted yesterday 4-1 in favor of separating the MLS deal from the beavers baseball stadium. While we may lose the baseball team, MLS looks secure and that is why he all of a sudden decided to bash the Portland fans as an attempt to cause some problems.