[washingtonismoney]

Expansion may be a short-term/long-term kind of a thing in that case. For example, it's hard to argue that the entrance of Atlanta -- which is filling the city's new NFL stadium -- has been a bad thing. Over the long run, creating passion and spending dollars on youth development -- as Atlanta surely is -- can hardly be bad. While Atlanta's the poster child for MLS expansion (it helps that they've put an ambitious, entertaining team on the field), I think even the more marginal additions have been positive.

Actually the real problems in MLS are some of the older teams whose owners have become inexplicably lazy. Some of these owners have subsidized the league for ages. Now that revenue is appreciably increasing -- the new Adidas deal was a threefold increase -- it strikes me as kind of weird that some of them are shrugging their shoulders and willingly being left behind.

[washingtonismoney]

Expansion may be a short-term/long-term kind of a thing in that case. For example, it's hard to argue that the entrance of Atlanta -- which is filling the city's new NFL stadium -- has been a bad thing. Over the long run, creating passion and spending dollars on youth development -- as Atlanta surely is -- can hardly be bad. While Atlanta's the poster child for MLS expansion (it helps that they've put an ambitious, entertaining team on the field), I think even the more marginal additions have been positive.

Actually the real problems in MLS are some of the older teams whose owners have become inexplicably lazy. Some of these owners have subsidized the league for ages. Now that revenue is appreciably increasing -- the new Adidas deal was a threefold increase -- it strikes me as kind of weird that some of them are shrugging their shoulders and willingly being left behind.