RE: [nas] MLS Expansion - San Antonio - article and comments

What do the Metro players say about their turf?  I 
haven't heard anything pro-turf out of any of the 
three cities since play began this year....

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From: Jason Benfield <Jason.Benfield@genband.com>
To: "'KLINDSTR@flash.net'" <KLINDSTR@flash.net>, Burn 
List <burn-fans@topica.com>, NAS <nas@americakicks.com>
Subject: RE: [nas] MLS Expansion - San Antonio - 
article and comments

>The SA city council has been discussing the highest 
grade of turf to
>install.  It would be akin to what the metros play 
on, which plays well and
>looks nice.  Chicago and Dallas are different deals.  
Dallas is by far the
>worst.  But the Metro's stuff has a high blade, looks 
nice, and plays well,
>correct?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: KLINDSTR@flash.net [mailto:KLINDSTR@flash.net] 
>Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 10:25 AM
>To: Burn List; NAS
>Subject: [nas] MLS Expansion - San Antonio - article 
and comments
>
>
><<http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?
>xla=saen&xlb=200&xlc=1052738>>
>
>Good news - it probably would be a good market, and 
>the city is on board with making a big push.
>
>Bad news - they want to play indoors, on carpet, in 
>tha Alamodome.
>
>As much as I would love to see a team in San Antonio, 
>and while I am not going to walk a protest line if 
MLS 
>tries it, I really don't think playing on plastic is 
>the way to go.
>
>I mean, technically, the stuff in Chicago, the 
>Meadowlands and Dragon Stadium are supposed to be the 
>best stuff out there for soccer, and it is killing 
>those players.  Chicago and Metro are adapting well, 
>but it doens't change the fact that the field is hard 
>on the players.
>
>My opinion isn't based on pre-concieved notions of 
the 
>old turf - this is based on the results of the new 
>stuff, and they are not much better than the old 
stuff.
>
>Too bad this is the only apparent option in San 
>Antonio - as a Dallas fan, I would have loved to have 
>seen a team in San Antonio and Houston.
>
>Another negative - if San Antonio is trying to get in 
>via Chivas, they need to know that MLS has already 
>given Vergara a deadline and that is based on the San 
>Diego dead where they have already surveyed the 
>stadium.  In San Antonio, they haven't even met with 
>the guy.
>
>If San Antonio wants to have an MLS team, they need 
to 
>find an owner/investor, and they need to find a 
>facility that plays on the real stuff.
>
>
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