Major League Soccer 2008 Season thread

[Chaplin]

I think MLS gives us a chance to see some of the younger American players develop..players like Marvell Wynne & Stuart Holden to name a couple. I'm sure there will be newcomers who develop and become part of the national team pool because of their MLS play.

MLS is in only its 10th year and will continue to be a developmental league for probably another 10 or so. The revenues streams are getting better and its gaining in popularity but the other leagues in the world are just too firmly established for MLS to even think of competing with them head to head anytime soon.

Well, the first step would be to adopt the same kind of structure as the big leagues--a single table based on the point structure. Right now, it's just another typical American-style league, with far lower talent level than the rest of the world.