The Return of the Tampa Bay Rowdies

This was announced last week, June 19th: there is a new ownership group which has acquired the rights to the Rowdies name from the former owners, they will play in USL Division 1 in 2010, and plan to build a 7,000 seat SSS (soccer specific stadium) and create a youth academy between now and when they kick off in April, 2010.

Anyone interested in supporting the Rowdies should sign up here:

http://www.tbrowdies.com/

See my Twitter posts for other links, or do a Google search.

This is fantastic news for a lot of reasons. If you don't know why, you may have a gap in your knowledge about the history of North American soccer, and/or you didn't grow up in the Tampa Bay area in the late 1970's.

The Rowdies might be one of those very rare North American soccer clubs (along with the Cosmos and Galaxy) that is just as well known worldwide (at least amongst older fans) as it is here in the USA. Some anti-Glazer Manchester United fans have started to refer to their club as the MU Rowdies.

That's unfair to the Tampa Bay Rowdies since the Glazers never had anything to do with the Rowdies, old or new, and the Glazers are a big reason why there is no MLS club in Tampa Bay currently. But that's a story for another day.

Venture Brothers titles, cont.

Venture Brothers title adjustment:

http://mantiseye.com/?item=271

Names Are Changing(10:25pm EST)

posted by Mike

As may be the case, the AS Schedule seems to have changed the name of next week's episode, formerly Billy Quizboy and the Invisible Hand to Invisible Hand of Fate. It's also possible the episode was swapped for another but given the similarity of the titles I would imagine that Billy Quizboy and the Invisible Hand was a working title that was changed because it, perhaps, gives away something about the plot. I'm just making guesses here though. Either way you have been informed.

Venture Brothers episode titles

Upcoming episode titles:

http://mantiseye.com/?item=266

Third Episode(7:44pm EST)

posted by Mike

I know Shadowman 9 hasn't even aired yet, but the third episode of the season (after The Doctor is Sin) will be called 'Billy Quizboy and the Invisible Hand'. You may begin speculating on what will happen in that episode... now! Also don't forget the Shadowman 9 discussion thread right below here. Enjoy!

Edit (11:33pm): Thanks to Kuiosikle in the comments for mentioning this thread on PRoV which has some more episode names:

* My Dinner With Hatred - June 22, 2008
* Enter the Bad Seed - June 29, 2008
* Dr. Guymn, Medicine Woman - July 6, 2008

Sadly no source for these yet, but I'll totally add them when I find a source. The lack of pre-knowing all the episodes titles this season is kind of a bummer.

Update #2: (1:55am) - Nais over on the VB Wiki was nice enough to post his source, so I'm pretty confident these are accurate. Awesome sleuthing!

Venture Brothers reviews

Nice review of The Doctor is Sin episode here:

http://www.noisetosignal.org/tv/2008/06/the-venture-bros-the-doctor-is-sin.php

Also review of last week's episode:

http://www.noisetosignal.org/tv/2008/05/the-venture-bros-shadowman-9-in-the-cradle-of-destiny.php

The Doctor is Sin

Second episode of The Venture Brothers Season Three, "The Doctor is Sin" is up on Adult Swim Fix:

http://www.adultswim.com/adultswimfix/

...and will debut tonight, Sunday, 11:30pm on Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network.