Give me all the first posts today! :-) I'd hate to see them fail out... so many cities to choose from... but Vancouver, Portland and St Louis seem to be the most promising places. It's going to be too bad that some of these places are going to get overlooked for Miami Redux. Oh well.

LOL, this is one funny story...

should truly have NOTHING to do with their MLS bid... unless the mayor is personally funding it.... but assuming he merely OK'ed it with some of the tax payers money, i dont see how him being dragged off to jail has anything to do with the final bid process...

I don't see the connection either, other than a credibility one. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't know how Portland can build an SSS with taxpayers money in the current economy (I think that was the deal, the city builds the soccer and baseball stadiums and Paulson puts teams there).

Ludicrous.

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Originally posted 08:53 AM ET  01.26 by Red Devils99

I don't see the connection either, other than a credibility one. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't know how Portland can build an SSS with taxpayers money in the current economy (I think that was the deal, the city builds the soccer and baseball stadiums and Paulson puts teams there).

Buffalo had a dirty mayor that promised the city an MLB team for the funding to build a baseball stadium. It's actually the first "city-scape" stadium built, Camden is modeled after it. Anyway.... the team lost in the Expansion Derby to Colorado.... the rest is history. Regardless, what I'm getting at is that Mayor's sell teams to the public and the league.... and ours had gotten a stadium built off of the notion that the team would be able to compete to join the National League, which it did, but failed in the semi-finals.

as of now they are saying the kid was 18 when the relationship took place. people are mad because he lied about it.

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Originally posted 08:53 AM ET  01.26 by Red Devils99

I don't see the connection either, other than a credibility one. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't know how Portland can build an SSS with taxpayers money in the current economy (I think that was the deal, the city builds the soccer and baseball stadiums and Paulson puts teams there).

they arent building a SSS, they are expanding their already established stadium, and kicking out the AAA baseball team....

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Originally posted 08:58 AM ET  01.26 by kopper

Ludicrous.

...is a fine damn hip-hopping fool.

Well, the guy should have kept his pistol in his holster. The next thing we'll find out is that monies were also exchanged. Now, was this a relationship or a fling? Was this a one night stand? And, oh yes, of course he was 18 and it was consentual. Of course. Yeah right. That's the ticket.

Either way, looks like another liar has been elected. So sad.

LOL...wow...kind of speechless really...in a way, it almost sounds made up.
The kid's name is Beau Breedlove? It sounds like a writer wasn't even trying.

Google - an amazing tool to read the stories that are the background for FanNation T&Rs.

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Originally posted 11:10 AM ET  01.26 by 718

That could be a porn name right there.

Heck, you should see the 18 yr old kids name if you think that's funny: Harry Paratestis.

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Originally posted 11:10 AM ET  01.26 by 718

Beau Breedlove?Damn. That could be a porn name right there.

Also, isn't it sort of a porn name now? Gay porn? Who's to say if there were cameras involved or not?

Beau Breedlove could be the greatest porn name bestowed on an actual person since Dick Smothers, Jr. tried to get into the business with his birth name. No need to have the Dirk Diggler moment of inspiration there.

I'll back up a couple of other posters. One thing shouldn't have anything to do with the other. Then again, it's Portland, and they're notoriously weird about everything, so all bets are off.

In a perfect world, PDX and Vancouver would get the teams, if only to continue the Cascadia Cup derbies at the highest level. Too bad the world is far from perfect.

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Originally posted 12:46 PM ET  01.26 by 718

Nah, that's really dude's name.You can tell I didn't read this story because I didn't even know it was a guy the mayor slept with. I thought it was a teenage female.Oh well, I still think the scandal should be independent of the bid.

No, no, no.... But that would be funny if it were--no, I think the kids name was Ben Dover.....
Lol... Well, JHOVA I'm just joshing....
You know, its in the silliness realm of Amanda Hugginkiss, Haywood Jablomey, Jack Meeov etc....

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Originally posted 02:13 PM ET  01.26 by TLVG: Free Diego!!!

Beau Breedlove could be the greatest porn name bestowed on an actual person since Dick Smothers, Jr. tried to get into the business with his birth name. No need to have the Dirk Diggler moment of inspiration there.I'll back up a couple of other posters. One thing shouldn't have anything to do with the other. Then again, it's Portland, and they're notoriously weird about everything, so all bets are off.In a perfect world, PDX and Vancouver would get the teams, if only to continue the Cascadia Cup derbies at the highest level. Too bad the world is far from perfect.

Remember Dick Trickle. I also knew a guy once named Richard Frost--but her preferred to be called Dick. And he had his doctorate, so he was called Dr Dick Frost. His name always sent a chill down my spine... Parents can be so cruel.

True story: I had a history teacher and coach in high school named Richard Stumph. The "H" is silent, and he went by a nickname for Richard. I'll let you figure it out.

Sorry...I know I was the cause of the way the T&R went but the power of Google also helped to not truly read the article I read about the whole scandal.

Oh well, I know I laughed quite a bit with the comments that followed.