Farewell to MLS Talk
As I lay awake in the early morning hours after a long transcontinental flight in a Los Angeles hotel room in May 2007, I had an idea. The previous night I had been on a six-hour flight from Fort Lauderdale to LAX, passing the time exclusively by listening to various podcasts about the Premier League, whose season had concluded the previous weekend. My favorite team Manchester City F.C. had just escaped relegation despite having the worst goal-scoring season at home in top-flight English football history. This fact was dissected over and over again and I asked myself, why we…