MLS in winter? Yep ... that’ll work

Major League Soccer playing through the winter is a terrible idea. It is powerfully terrible. The worst idea, perhaps, since the Charlie Sheen Center for Peaceful and Sober Reflection.

I won’t even go into all the reasons why. I’ll just say that I’m thinking about it today as a Winter-Snowy-Armageddon has most of the country in a death vice, and as I contemplate a Saturday in which I’ll be lucky to get out of my damn driveway. (That Angelic looking fluffy stuff on the ground where I live is obscuring a Satanic and stealthy layer of pure ice from earlier in the week. It’s truly nasty stuff to drive on when a couple of hills are involved – even for someone like me, someone who does enjoy a good challenge.)

Don Garber should mention at his next press conference, sort of matter-of-factly, that this idea of studying a Fall-Winter-Spring progression of the league calendar has been scrapped. Just mention it almost in passing and keep going, as if the hair-brained, half-baked scheme never happened. (Besides, as I’ve said before, I believe it was always a false trail to appease FIFA in the run-up to World Cup selection. And we all know how that worked out for MLS and for the United States.)