If there's anything Don Garber seems to create, it's outrage among the hardcore American soccer fans, more eager than ever to Europeanize Major League Soccer.

This season Garber's been chewed out by the public for his reluctance and snarky statements regarding the "need" for conferences and the unwillingness to progress to a single table.

His latest decision is to increase the playoff pool from eight clubs to 10, a move Garber most likely hopes can garner money from fans in the "wild card" round and grab TV contracts.

The price he's paying is a field of less competitive teams (10 clubs qualify, eight don't), plus giving numerous markets the false hope they have a good soccer club so that they will give some interest. There's even more emphasis on playoff play, something that needs to be lightened—and eventually removed entirely.

However, Garber has done many great things for the league to progress in the right direction: He has found the right, medium-sized markets that have embraced their clubs, and he saved the league when it was at the cusp of bankruptcy (and learned Florida hates sports—period).

Although it's modest, over the past two or so years, he's begun to press for some minor interest in competitions including the U.S. Open Cup and the CONCACAF Champions League.

In a nutshell, he has made great progressive steps and has shed the horrid Americanizations originally plaguing the league. That does not mean it's done. It means there are new dynamic steps to take.

I'm not going to preach the need for a single table because the MLS Cup Playoffs have done all the talking about the need to dock the conferences, but adding more teams to a corny playoff system is not the way to cover up these flaws. It just further points it out.

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