About those Revolution stadium rumors...

The news, if it’s really news, broke late Monday night, then picked up speed as dawn broke Tuesday: in a rather bold slip of the tongue — or was it? — Miami MLS co-investor/operator Jorge Mas told the Miami Herald that Robert Kraft, investor/operator of the Revolution, is “building a facility, I think, right near or next to Boston Garden.”

While an email to the Revolution sent by BostonSportsJournal.com at 8:02 a.m. Tuesday has not yet been returned, MLSSoccer.com Revs’ beat writer Jonathan Sigal noted the club offered a polite “no comment” on the rumor when he contacted them in the minutes before.

What about the other entities who would be involved in something like this? BSJ reached out to them. Here's what we received back:

Samantha Ormsby of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s press office wrote in an email to BSJ, “Mayor Walsh has always said that he’s interested in building a soccer stadium in Boston, however, there is currently no proposal before the city.”

Phone calls to Cambridge Mayor Marc McGovern as well as the communications office for the City of Somerville were also given the same answer.

“Our office has not been contacted (by the Krafts),” said Will Durbin, the Chief of Staff to Mayor McGovern.

“No one here has heard anything,” said a Somerville city spokesperson a few minutes later.

A phone call to Cambridge City Manager Louis DePasquale’s communications office has not yet been returned.

The Revolution have, since 2006, attempted to identify and purchase land with the intentions of building a soccer-specific stadium -- an SSS, for you acronym-philes -- near the heart of Downtown Boston. Major League Soccer clubs have, for the most part, abandoned the NFL-sized stadiums it needed to use when the league started in 1996 in favor of smaller venues.

Along with the Revolution, Seattle Sounders FC and Atlanta United FC both share space with their city’s NFL franchise, but both CenturyLink Field and Mercedes-Benz Stadium were built with soccer in mind. In addition, New York City FC shares its home field with the New York Yankees, but reports have recently swirled about an SSS to the south of Yankee Stadium, right along the Harlem River.

Minnesota United FC, the Revolution’s next opponent, currently plays its home matches at the University of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium, home of the Golden Gophers football team, but the Loons are building an SSS of its own.

Most other teams play in their own venue.

BSJ will update this story as — and if — more facts come to light.

BSJ Analysis

Without a lot of hard facts to go with — and the fact the Revolution have not yet responded to our request for comment about Mas’ potential slip-up — it’s difficult to analyze this new set of circumstances regarding a soccer-only home for The Boys in Blue.

But we’ll try.

First, let’s take Mas’ comments.

The fact Mas, who threw in with David Beckham’s crew to bring football back to South Beach, told journalists about this supposed (alleged) stadium should not be overlooked. He’s an investor in the league, is supposedly more in-the-know than us, and for him to be so brazen about this to the Fourth Estate should give some semblance of weight to a potential stadium here in Beantown. Did MLS Commish Don Garber tell him that in confidence? Or was it a slip-up?

Of course, Mas could be completely wrong about this. He could be throwing pasta at the walls of the Miami Herald to convince my South Florida colleagues that yes, MLS is the future and that there are other teams building stadiums, so yes, we will build one and everything will be hunky dory. We don’t know that for sure.

The fact the Revs are currently silent on this issue — the no comment, Sigal noted, was not a firm denial and is interesting in and of itself — is somewhat perplexing, but not exactly surprising. While we’ve already noted the Kraft way of doing things — hellooooooooo, Dorchester and Bayside Expo! — in an earlier column, one would think that since this “news” has broken, the club would want to pull a Meg Ryan a la When Harry Met Sally … and come right out with the whole thing, that this is something to celebrate. Longtime supporters have waited 12 long years for something like this, and every time plans fall through for whatever reason, a little piece of them dies inside. True story.

Then there’s the comment from Ormsby that we received shortly before 1 p.m. I’m taking this with a grain of salt: near Boston Garden could mean across the River Charles. The phone calls I paid to Cambridge and Somerville — a place the Krafts have looked into before — were obviously fruitless. I still give hope that I’ll receive a call back from the Cambridge City Manager’s office; he was about to go into a meeting with the mayor’s office when I had called.

What to think about this? I think the wait goes on.