Thursday, November 5, 2015

Scorpions Sell Toyota Field

The owner of the San Antonio Scorpions has sold Toyota Field to Boxer County and the City of San Antonio. He issued a statement claiming that he sold the field because the city was looking for an MLS bid. To think that a city does not have the gall to support what they have now is incontrovertible. The city should be ashamed for selling the Scorpions down the river in favor of a "franchise" that is probably not going to happen anytime soon... unless the Spurs get involved, which it looks like they will play in USL next year, according to the same statement.

In that regard, this is business as usual in American soccer, and it's long been time for a change. And shame on the owner for selling out to the city because the city rejected what they built in San Antonio. I'm not saying that the fans rejected them, I'm saying that the official people in the city rejected them, as can be evidenced by the purchase of the stadium and the marketing that they just got a brand new soccer facility. I think that the Scorpions' SGs should rise up in defiance of this USL team ad continue to support the Scorpions, should they play next season.

In other news, Bill Peterson is announcing another expansion side next week. Hopefully this is more like Indy and Ottawa and not like OKC and NoVA.

[UPDATE: The scheduled announcement has been called off.]

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