Media Day... It's Really Happening...

This is the first of several posts that will be made from LIVESTRONG Sporting Park. I'm here for Media Day and now, I think, it's starting to feel real. This stadium really does belong to us. It truly is the palace that this sport generally, and this team specifically, deserves. There's room for 18,467 soccer fans to make this stadium the best place in MLS to watch a game. There are 300 HDTV screens around the stadium, even in the bathrooms, so you don't have to miss a second. And there will be mobile apps that will connect fans to the game in ways they've probably never even imagined before.

Now, to the photos...

One of the largest HD video boards in the US on the south end of the stadium...

The LIVESTRONG Seat just outside the owner's suite. It will be used like the Buck O'Neil Legacy Seat at Kauffman Stadium to honor cancer survivors and activists who do a lot to raise awareness and/or money for research...

With a great stadium you need to have good food to go along with it. This is the Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog. If you don't like this, you don't like food...

The Sporting KC locker room is pretty sweet. The chairs have USB connections so they can charge their iPod, iPad or iPhone and there are two power outlets in the floor by each chair. Figureas manufactured the chairs in Spain at a cost of approximately $5k each.

A closeup of Teal Bunbury's locker. No, Teal did not put the magazine there for the photo. He hadn't seen his locker yet when we walked in.

That's it for now. See you soon.