Sez Me …

The Los Angeles Judases have betrayed us for 30 pieces of silver, but — hold on for dear life, sports fans! — Major League Soccer may be coming to San Diego.

Where do I sign up?

Maybe they’ll stick a 30,000-seat stadium in Mission Valley and the San Diego State football team can play there, too.


I can see that. Wouldn’t want the Aztecs ever to draw more for an event. Why don’t they just expand Viejas?

Is this what we’ve come to?

Small time. That’s still how we think? Why is it impossible for us to grow up? Just what was it that stunted our growth — the beaches, the weather, the short-order-cook city councils? We still have trouble seeing beyond our eyelashes.

For weeks, as talk of the Judases’ double-cross grew louder, I’ve been hearing that maybe now, blessedly, we can get an MLS team here. Now it’s blaring. Mayor Faulconer has met with MLS Commissioner Don Garber. He should be meeting with Roger Goodell.


Nothing against soccer, or the MLS. I’ve covered a lot of soccer. I don’t hate it. But soccer is never, ever going to be the answer. It’s soccer.

San Diego doesn’t need a venue quite as big as 70,000-seat Qualcomm Stadium, but it should think bigger than a 30,000-seat soccer arena. (Gregory Bull / AP )

To even begin to compare it with an NFL franchise would be ludicrous to an idiot. To even hint that an MLS franchise would whet our athletic appetite would be even more stupid.

What’s next, jai alai?


Look, I have no idea what city officials are going to do with the Mission Valley site. But I do know that, if they put a small stadium there, we are doomed to be a one-horse, one-team town forever.

Leases for SDSU and the local bowl games will expire after the 2018 season, and they’re going to need a place to play. But why must it be in a 30,000-seat stadium? The Holiday Bowl has been known to draw far more than that.

We are restricting ourselves needlessly. You want soccer? Try the Xolos.

There is no chance of ever pursuing another NFL franchise without the promise of a 60,000-seat stadium. It doesn’t have to be the Ritz. San Diego is attractive enough. Ask anyone who’s been around the NFL, and this city is going to be on their list of favorite places, as it is with baseball fans and Petco Park.


The All-Star Game provided the proof. It allowed many people around baseball who’d never been here to see Petco for the first time. Shortly after the game, it was voted the best ballpark.

But it seems we’ve learned no lessons from the Petco experience. The doubters soon discovered that it was a boon to downtown, it and surrounding (and ongoing) development putting millions of tax dollars into City Hall’s coffers.

Then, when it came time for the “convadium” ballot measure, just about every politician except Mayor Faulconer (who got in too late) panned it, although it wasn’t going to be paid for by city dwellers.

So what happened? The Judases absconded to L.A., the enemy. That’s all.


Now we can get down to the business of building something less than many Texas high school stadiums and wooing an MLS franchise.

Pardon me. I have to throw up. …

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Dean had a tin ear. Never could hear the music right.


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