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**Frank Cunha** · 22-04-2008, 02:11 AM

The Commissioner means business, he did it to San Jose and that's the reason you got a stadium, so beware

from the Commissioner blog

I just received a research report on last weekend’s top 50 sports programs among Hispanic men. You might be interested to know that the TeleFutura MLS game was more popular than the Lakers/Spurs NBA game, the Yankees/Red Sox game on ESPN and the Masters on CBS.
As you can imagine, I was very surprised that Mayor White in Houston released to the media a letter I sent to the Dynamo ownership group. The letter stated my concerns with the lack of progress with the team’s discussion with the city regarding a stadium partnership. And anyone who read the letter knows, I was not threatening the Mayor in any way.

The Dynamo, no different than the Texans, Rockets and Astros, need a stadium of their own, and have offered to provide far more private capital to the deal than was required by the owners of the city’s other sports teams. Team President Oliver Luck has been working with the city to creatively construct an agreement that does not in any way take funding away from any key city services.

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Frank Cunha Super Moderator Favourite Team: SL BENFICA -BEIRA-MAR Frank Cunha is Offline Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: UNION, NJ. USA Posts: 92,828 vCash: 3081 Rep: Rep Points: 5666 Country:	Beware no stadium no team The Commissioner means business, he did it to San Jose and that's the reason you got a stadium, so beware from the Commissioner blog I just received a research report on last weekend’s top 50 sports programs among Hispanic men. You might be interested to know that the TeleFutura MLS game was more popular than the Lakers/Spurs NBA game, the Yankees/Red Sox game on ESPN and the Masters on CBS. As you can imagine, I was very surprised that Mayor White in Houston released to the media a letter I sent to the Dynamo ownership group. The letter stated my concerns with the lack of progress with the team’s discussion with the city regarding a stadium partnership. And anyone who read the letter knows, I was not threatening the Mayor in any way. The Dynamo, no different than the Texans, Rockets and Astros, need a stadium of their own, and have offered to provide far more private capital to the deal than was required by the owners of the city’s other sports teams. Team President Oliver Luck has been working with the city to creatively construct an agreement that does not in any way take funding away from any key city services. __________________