I might have been a little too negative yesterday with all the doom and gloom, so I would like to remind everyone some of the reason why we are here. Back in September, the Las Vegas Sun posted their odds on future MLS expansion.

Here are the results:
Seattle…………………. 3-2 (15th MLS franchise)
St. Louis………………. 4-1 (co-front runner for 16th MLS franchise)
Philadelphia…………. 6-1 (co-front runner for 16th MLS franchise)
New York…………….. 8-1
Las Vegas…………….. 10-1
Phoenix……………….. 20-1
Miami………………….. 35-1
Portland………………. 40-1
Cleveland…………….. 60-1
Vancouver…………… 70-1
Milwaukee ………….. 75-1
Atlanta………………… 100-1
San Diego…………….. 100-1

Yes, the information is a few months old. Yes, it is purely for entertainment. Yes, nothing is guaranteed. With all of that said, when the Sun made Seattle the odds-on favorite the rumors were that Portland was going to be the next MLS franchise in the West. Now we know that Seattle came out of nowhere and will start playing in 2009.

Don Garber, Major League Soccer Commissioner, has already said in his State of the League that Philly or St. Louis will be the next franchise. The Sun’s odds reflects this fact.

As long as we have Wilpon interested in being an owner of a New York FC, we have a shot. The Sun article even mentions this:

Fred Wilpon, an owner of the Mets, is exploring the venture. Might this be the second coming of the Cosmos, and might it be a New York football team that actually plays its home games in the Big Apple?

We are here because a New York FC is an attainable fantasy. Look at the odds. These odds were made with neither plans to construct a stadium nor with an ownership group. No other city on the list can say that.  We still do not have anything concrete, but we are New York City. That means something.

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