Onlookers could also tell the Ole Miss fan was drunk due to his repeated insistence that the Volunteer QB was the only ten he saw.

This may be a good place to note that neither Hinchey, MLSsoccer.com senior editor Nick Firchau, MLSsoccer.com editor-in-chief Greg Lalas, VP of MLS Digital Chris Schlosser, or MLS PR have anything to say about this subject. They've ignored all attempts to get their side of the story.

Did Hinchey seriously think he was making some kind of sick burn by bringing up the fact the fact that the team's beat reporter is a meteorologist who covers the team as a side gig? That's more embarrassing for the team than it is for the reporter.

someone should have pointed out to the owners that people in the 9th century ate at those stupid wooden tables and benches because they hadn't yet evolved to inventing comfortable chairs.

The USL Pro sides being established by a few MLS clubs are a step in the right direction: competitive minutes for players who previously would have been caught between the level of the academies and MLS, and gone to college.

The biggest problem with developing US Talent is college soccer programs. The NCAA puts limits on practice time and games that hamper development, so the average 22 year old US player is on the whole behind his equivalent in other countries.

This is a good and balanced article, unlike the usual hatchet-job MLS bashing garbage that Haisley posts. Well done.

Ha ha ha. What a bunch of dopes. The answer is actually 104.

Fortunately internet comment sections are famously forgiving. I think you guys are in the clear.

While drinking a Heineken.

You do have to give Garber credit for the 15 years he has been MLS commissioner. He has taken it from teetering on the edge of disaster to a fairly successful league, soon to be at 24 teams.

Yeah, I myself am a fan of MLS, but can completely understand why some people dislike it. I just can't understand why Deadspin seems to have some sort of unspoken agenda of only posting content that bashes or dismisses MLS.

I wish I could star this a thousand times. Haisley's incessant MLS bashing is getting old. Deadspin could at least find someone objective to counter this kind of stuff.

Nice piece.

I don't understand Deadspin's anti-mls agenda. While the article makes some relevant points, and Garber's comments certainly deserve scrutiny, every MLS article I have read on deadspin in the last 1-2 years features baseless and unnecessary jabs at MLS such as, "US's subpar domestic soccer".

You're not being entirely honest with the question: it's not play for Toronto or Roma, or play for Seattle or Tottenham, for both of those guys it was becoming closer to play in MLS or sit on the bench and be a rotation option in a European league. I'm not sure that's such a clear-cut decision.

The guy they quote here is in the Denver Post story saying this article did not quote him accurately and he remembered Gardner playing football.

Oh, but it gets worse. Who is Deadspin's expert on Gardner's football career (and pretty much their only source)? Why none other than the former Chair of the Colorado Democratic Party. You think that might have been pertinent information to share? Do you think he might have a motive in discrediting Gardner? It only…

You're all a bunch of barking seals.