The Surge

It isn't polite to brag, but that obviously isn't stopping us.  From a deep-in-the-cellar total of a little over a thousand votes in our World Cup Soccer petition, Baltimore has zoomed past DC and is now in the middle of the pack (read: top 18) cities contending to be included in the USA Bid with well over 4,000 signatures.

Astonishing thing is that the surge occurred over a mere three days.  We mentioned some of the sources Terry tapped for support earlier, but we want to give a shout out to Mike Libber and our friends in Elite Soccer (they of the premier youth  tournaments) who contacted their list of 47,000 to encourage support, and Stan "The Fan" Charles, who pushed our cause on his Press Box website.

We've learned the announcement won't be made until after the holidays-- probably very early January -- so we can continue to garner support and keep moving up the ranks.

Thanks so much to all of you who have signed and passed the message along to your friends.  If Baltimore makes the list of 18 and gets included in the Bid, it will be a major coup for the city and state.  (Remember -- we're cheering for FedEx, too.)