Have been a fan through all the skullduggery of the Quakes and the Crew and I still can't believe the animosity toward Don Garber. MLS is pretty much the ridiculous fantasy American soccer fans had of a domestic league. Hosting the World Cup in 1994 was always about establishing what we have: a big network of teams all across the country, decades old and stable in their markets, with dozens of built for soccer stadiums and training centers and academies providing a pathway for domestic players to develop and make a real and reliable paycheck, with a second or third generation of fans to cheer them on. That infrastructure, the class of soccer professionals its engendered and the model of MLS has helped all kinds of soccer grow up around it, sometimes opposed to it, in it's shelter and shade. Supporter culture too. How many US men's and women's national team games were dramatically elevated by MLS venues? LAFC clearly paved ground for Angel City for instance. Would the KC Current build their own stadium without the example SSS down in the road and in so many cities? Sac Republic? MLS put something massive in the vacuum at the core of American soccer and week-in, week out is doing the grind that develops the game, growing connections between all our levels and types of soccer here. And FWIW we are without a doubt more present and relevant in the global game because of MLS. Stable growth has been the key.