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What would you get your MLS team for Christmas?

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With Christmas just two days away it might be a little late to do much Christmas shopping, but that doesn't mean you can't think about what you would give friends and family as presents if you could give them anything you want.

You could also think about what gift you would give your favorite MLS team if you had Santa's ear. Would you wish for Marcelo Gallardo's contract to be torn up if you were a D.C. fan? Would you ask Santa for some salary cap relief if you were an LA fan? What about the Columbus Crew? What do you give the team that has everything (Supporter's Shield, MLS Cup and the USA-Mexico qualifier at Crew Stadium). Looks like the folks in Columbus can get fruit cake.

Think about it. What one thing would you give your favorite MLS club for Christmas if you could give anything you want? Let's hear some gift ideas.

Fire away.

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  1. Ives- Merry Christmas, thanks a million for the site and all your hard work.

    MLS-

    1. SSS for every team that doesn’t have one and grass for all stadiums.

    2. Mouth Muzzles for all players wasting all that energy on refs (play the game)

    3. All players get some work ethic

    4. Houston is excleded from all this, they are all hacks so they get nothing but coal.

    FSC- new commentators for games

    MNT- BB to become an intern for Man U, at least something to put on his resume.

    US- a soccer for dummies book & a ticket to any major soccer game to understand why the world loves this game

    SBI Mafia- May all these gifts become true and all the best in the new year.

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  2. Jloome-suck it hater. Our avg attendance was middle of the pack in MLS, not under 10k. It was between 14k and 15k. MLS Cup champs!

    Columbus gift wish list
    1.Chad Marshall comes back
    2. Local Owners
    3. Roof
    4. Paved lot

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  3. for MLS:

    Every team to have a SSS, and to never have to play on gridiron lines again.

    For LAG:

    to get Beckham back in time for the season and suck just as bad again in 2009

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  4. For DC:

    (1) – a healthy Benny with new ankles

    (2) – a new stadium

    (3) – the return of Ryan Nelson (or at least Bobby Boswell!)

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  5. Christmas has come early for the Galaxy. They just hired a Jamaican Keeper, Donovan Rickets, who appears to be legit.

    Maybe the front office will also be able to claim that “Donovan” is still on the team in an effort retain season ticket holders.

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  6. More $$$ for salary cap to the teams! Some of the players on these squads should be playing men’s league soccer on sundays, not MLS!!

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  7. Two things for RSL:
    A striker who can finish
    New jerseys (preferably the special Green color ones we used earlier this year!)

    For MLS:
    Send Becks to AC

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  8. I want Seattle fans to look at the track record of MLS expansion teams and stop thinking that they are Seattle and that means they are going to win it all within a season or two.

    Signed- San Jose, Toronto, RSL, Chivas, ETC ETC.

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  9. For Columbus: An MLS-2, since the city is either too small or not soccer-supporting. How else do you explain season averages of less than 10,000 per game, as reported in the Columbus Dispatch.

    For New England: A soccer specific stadium, if it can provide proof that it’s really drawing 17,000 a game.

    Anyone who saw fewer than 5,000 fans sitting in that immense, line-strewn monstrosity of as stadium during the playoffs knows the real answer is….MLS-2. No team around as long as this one, with a history and squad equal to this one, draws 5,000 if it’s going to succeed. Ever. Move it, move it down, or lose it.

    New York – I hate New York. They’re already getting the shiny stadium, and if I HAD to wish them something else, it would be a decent midfield playmaker and holder.

    Chicago – I hate Chicago. And they’re deep, so I hate them even more for making it tough to pick a gift. How about 17,000 season ticket holders?

    DC United – A way out of the Gallardo and Luciano Emilio DP deals, plus Peralta actually playing like he cares or gonzo, one or t’other. What were they smoking, anyway?

    Toronto – Grass, and a striker who breaks Lassiter’s goal record (and before some lifelong MLS devotee chimes in that it’ll “never happen”, pray that Theirry Henry doesn’t sign before age 36, as he could pot 40 in this league. Hell, if they play Huckerby upfront, he’ll probably break it.)

    Los Angeles – Hahahah. Where do you start? A defense. A defensive playmaker. Another striker. A top goaltender. Managemetn that knows something about football, not just ‘marketing 101.’

    San Jose – I hate San Jose, because they stole Huckerby from Toronto. Having said that, it’ll be a miracle in this economy if its stadium goes ahead by 2011, so let’s wish for that plan to stick.

    KC – A magical pass to help every KC fan see past the delusion that just because Lamar Hunt owned it, Kansas City must be a soccer town. They’ve had two decent attendance seasons, everything else has been in the 8,000 – 11,000 range. Again, why anyone thinks this makes sense, when the team was obviously fudging the numbers, is beyond me. This is not a major league town, unless they were to….I dunno,….create an MLS 2. Move it, move it down or move it out.

    Chivas USA – Do us all a favour and move it to San Diego or St. Louis now, instead of after five years of breast-beating and gnashing of teeth.

    Houston — A soccer specific stadium and more national tv exposure. What else should I wish them, a championship? Meh! They keep winning the damn things.

    Dallas – A bucketload of cash to keep Kenny cooper, a certain Mexican striker, and for a truck to hit Jeff Cunningham, so that the rest of us never have to fear from this egomaniacal cancer of a player again.

    Seattle – A healthy Freddy Ljunberg. HAHAHAHA!

    Merry Christmas. Bah Humbug.

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  10. A reasonable salary cap, at least double, and better marketing and TV deals for the whole league. Basically I want a better quality of product for the loyal MLS fans and more exposure to the beautiful game in the United States.

    For RSL: a young and exciting forward for a DP like Reinaldo, who MLS lost to the A-League. Dammit you cheap MLS bastards! And a right winger would be good too.

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  11. I would give MLS a marketing team and budget. If it wasn’t for the Beckham signing, people wouldn’t know we have a league…

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  12. For the Chicago Fire:

    Under Study for Blanco
    Rolfe to play Forward
    A new coach and Front Office
    Orange Line Extension to Toyota Park

    oh and for Twellman to break his leg

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  13. For the Rapids: A front office that actually knows what they are doing. It would also be nice if Santa brought us an owner that cares more about the team that he fully owns, not a team in London that he has a 12% stake in.

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  14. For the H:

    Simple… A stadium,the Cougar stadium can barely hold us anymore, and hasn’t for a while. A keeper with promise and a speedy defender, Santa can choose but along these lines and it would be great…

    Merry X-mas Ives and everyone that forms part of this mob… Let’s bring out the egg nogg…

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  15. @B.A., you said it, a healthy Benny for DC would be the merriest of presents! I’d take a stadium on the Metro and another Jamie Moreno season-after-bad-injuries-comeback-at-MVP-form-and-lead-us-to-the-cup season.

    But I’m not greedy.

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  16. Yea I’m going to have to go with a Soccer Stadium in DC. If Gallardo is healthy he is pretty nasty. As a result, I am going to be overly optimistic and say that he is going to shake his injury problems in ’09.

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  17. What I would get my team, the Chicago Fire, for Christmas? A stud replacement for Wilman Conde (who I’m sure is gone), and if that replacement happens to come from in-house like CJ Brown or Lidier Marmol, then I hope they bring “it” like Conde did last year. Also, keep them free of the injury bug as well.

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