Tell that to Taylor Twellman. The look he gave Robert Kraft last night was about as dagger-filled as the looks my ex-girlfriend would give me when she was PMSing.

Did you also notice how the Revs donned Dynamo jerseys after the game in a show of unity, or how fast Steve Ralston got off the podium after collecting the trophy? This next CBA negotiation is already turning ugly, and if I keep repeating why, it’s because people need to be reminded — and because it gives me another outlet for schadenfreude beyond the Baltimore Ravens. I don’t think MLS cares about staying competitive as much as they care about selling you a David Beckham jersey.

Oh, and lest we forget, FC Dallas 1-3 Charleston Battery. Don’t discount the USL side yet.

First of all, complete rubbish about your Edson Buddle comment. If anyone could legitimately move across the pond, THEY WOULD. Nothing is stopping them. I realize you are joking, but please.

Charleston Battery isn’t winning the US Open Cup. If they do it’s because either DC or NE isn’t trying to win it. Unfortunately no one really cares about the US Open Cup - and yet a non-MLS team has not won it since 1999.

All your comments about the salary cap and roster size and developmental players are well known by everyone interested in MLS and we’ve been talking about this for YEARS. You aren’t telling us anything we don’t already know.

If MLS was going to stay cheap and marginalize itself, there would never have been a Beckham rule in the first place. The fact is, MLS owners have already lost a few hundred million dollars, at the very least, over the past dozen years or so. You’re going to tell them how to spend their own money? We are ONLY NOW just beginning to get a very few MLS clubs breaking even - the vast majority still lose money, although not as much money as they were losing a few years ago.

The next CBA will see raises in the salary cap, justified by the improved economics of MLS over the past few years. This will happen. It won’t happen because the Charleston Battery are/aren’t in the CONCACAF Champions League. MLS owners aren’t stupid, they know perfectly well what they have to do to stay competitive.

I’ve been following the North American soccer scene for over thirty years. How long have you been following soccer? Things are improving; MLS isn’t stuck in its current state forever; the situation is dynamic and things are changing constantly - mostly for the better. Stop acting like an impatient five year old child. Sheesh!

Pay close attention to the Open Cup. The last thing MLS will want to see is the Charleston Battery in the CONCACAF Champions League. If that happens, they’ll start considering raising the salary cap, increasing roster sizes and paying developmental players a living wage. When you think about it, those are pretty small things to ask here, and they’ll go a long way toward improving the quality of play in the league without bankrupting it.

Bite your tongue, Dave. I’m older than you. I went through the NASL collapse. It was f_cking painful. We are not going to put American soccer through that EVER again.

MLS is set up the way it is for a reason. I want to see MLS players make more money, but it can only happen slowly as MLS itself makes more money. We’re headed in the right direction but these things will take time.

As for a mass exodus to Europe, this cannot happen and you damn well know it. Only a select few are going to make the move across the pond. Sometimes in your enthusiasm you write the most utter rubbish.