Welcome back to Allocation Disorder Episode 2.

I am Sam Staskel in New York City.

And joining me, as always, is Paul Tenoria out there in Snowy Chicago.

Paul, how's it going today?

It's going well.

I'm glad that we're back.

I mean, we shortened our back-to-back episode time from, you know, about 12 months, 365 days to seven days. Yeah, we cut off 51, we cut off 51 weeks.

That's pretty good. Hopefully we can keep up that pace. Our efficiency is increasing. We don't want

to burn out. That'll be important to, you know, kind of maintain our fitness throughout the year.

We'll see how we handle it. But anyway, I mentioned you're in Snowy Chicago. I'm sitting here

in New York where it's gray and colds.

We're kind of trapped in the winter, or the last dregs of it anyway.

As we are trapped in that last bit of the cold weather season here in the States,

MLS eyes are firmly on Mexico.

Obviously, Kaka Kaff Champions League is coming up next week. Next Tuesday,

it begins. LAFC is going to be taking on a Mexican team in Leon. And then four other MLS teams,

Atlanta, Montreal, NYCFC in Seattle will be taking on Central American opponents. As that's happening, Paul, we have the Product Strategy

Committee, which for those who don't know, is probably the most important committee in terms of

MLS and how rules are designed and how the roster rules come about, all that stuff, committee of owners

and in certain cases presidents, they're meeting down in Cabo San Lucas in Baja, in Baja, California, in Mexico, where they're talking about some pretty important matters,

including this potential third designated player rule, changes to that rule that I reported on last month

and that were made a little bit more public as part of the CBA disclosure last week.

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