I think that the roster restrictions limiting international players should just go away altogether.

If an MLS team and the owner truly believe that their business and product is better by fielding a team of completely

international imported talent, then go for it.

MLS is a business. I've never believed that it had any inherent responsibility

to the domestic player or the national team.

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 will be talking about the new Major League soccer season, which is upon us.

We will have our Mossy Makes the Case segment, and we will be answering your questions in our Ask Alexi segment.

Oh, also, we have a brand new segment called the World Cup update.

We are 108 days or so out from the Men's World Cup happening in Russia this summer.

And we will be talking about so much more. But as always, joining me is my friend, my

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

Mossy how are you doing my friend?

I am good I am rocking a Byron Munich jersey today and sitting in a new chair

as you know there's been a lot of criticism of my posture on this

podcast so this is an effort to try to improve that. It has been criticism from

outside but also from inside. You self-examining and saying I don't like the way that I look and inevitably people have

their different takes and what came out after the first couple of weeks was that your

posture was not great and then we said well maybe it's not

David Mossy maybe we're blaming it on the wrong thing and so we have gotten you a new

chair which is designed to help your posture so hopefully for those that can see what we are doing here as you see he's wearing your

...