Welcome back to another episode of Allocation disorder.

I am Sam's Tastaskel of The Athletic, joined, as always, by Paul Tenorio, also of the athletic.

Paul, how are you tonight, man?

I'm doing well.

Just, you know, we're all pushing through right now, doing our part to flatten the curve,

staying home, staying inside, and trying to look at the positives that we can

pull out of a situation that's not so positive. So I try to look at the good things and, you know,

I'm grateful for extra time with my little one and that's what I'm going to hold on to. And I'm,

and I'm happy that we can still record a podcast remotely. That makes it really easy.

Yeah. No, it's the wonders of modern day technology, huh? Buy your Zoom stock now. Be like our

friendly senators from Georgia. Well, sorry, too far. Anyway, getting into the topics at hand, it is Thursday night as we are recording.

Thursday night, April 2nd, Major League Soccer just announced earlier this evening that they have extended their league training moratorium through April 24th, so three weeks from tomorrow on Friday, depending on when you're listening

to this. No surprise there, of course. We keep saying this, Paul. I keep saying it anyway in

conversations and, you know, being in New York City, you know, kind of the epicenter of the world

right now. We're going to be here for a while.

And I've had a lot of conversations with people around MLS this week. I know you have too.

But the more I think about it, the longer it feels like it's going to take for the league to come back if it even comes back at all this year.

So I do want to talk about that, though, because I don't think there's been enough attention

paid to it, just kind of how the schedule might, not even the schedule, the resumption

might play out.

And obviously, we don't know anything here, but I do think it's something worth kind of

highlighting. And I think you agree with me there. So what do you think? And I know everyone's

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