Major League Soccer announced that it will blow by its previously stated goal of 28 teams and continue expanding to 30 teams.

Spoila alert, it won't stop there.

MLS will continue to expand well beyond the 30 teams.

There's plenty of talent, domestic and internationally to fill those rosters.

MLS's growth in the form of expansion is a cause for optimism, but cautious optimism.

Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union podcast,

where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field

through the lens of red white and blue colored glasses.

As you heard, we'll be talking about the

latest MLS expansion news. We'll have our Mossy Makes the Case segment.

Mossy is going to talk about the Iax effect. We'll be answering your questions in

our hashtag Ask Alexi segment which will include stuff

about Zlatan and some Alex Morgan and so much more but first as always joining me my friend, my

colleague my guiding light David Mossy a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

Mossy how are you this Monday morning I am good particularly after watching an excellent episode of game of

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For those that didn't listen last week,

I do not watch Game of Thrones.

I have never watched it, as we all know,

my hard steadfast rule is that I don't watch anything unless it is done it is

finite and then I can binge it from start to finish so at the end of this which is

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