People in New York have been talking about building a Major League Soccer stadium in Queens. It?s apparently a controversial plan, and now the Mets are wading into the mess:
The Mets are ?very interested and fully capable? of bringing Major League Soccer to Citi Field, City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria) announced Thursday.?The move would boost the baseball team?s coffers and eliminate potential competition from a $300 million MLS soccer stadium proposed for Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
The Mets confirm that they?re on board with such a plan. Major League Soccer doesn?t like the idea, calling it a ?non-starter.?
And it?s pretty understandable why. They?ve spent the past 15 years moving teams from inappropriate and ill-fitting football stadiums and the like into soccer-specific stadiums which (a) are way, way better for players and fans in terms of functionality and aesthetics; and (b) are way better for the league and team owners financially.?Why, then, the league would want to put soccer in a baseball stadium with what one can only assume are the worst?sight lines imaginable is beyond me.
Building a soccer stadium may not be a fantastic idea in and of itself ? there is serious opposition to it there for a lot of understandable reasons ? but cramming a soccer team in a major league ballpark makes very little sense.
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