Why MLS needs to give up its TV dreams

Let the people have soccer

San Diego FC’s first game in franchise history, in Los Angeles against LA Galaxy, was starting in thirty minutes. One hundred-and-twenty miles south, in downtown San Diego, I couldn’t find a place to watch it. 

“What channel?” the bartender at an Irish pub asked me, after I had asked him to put the game on.

“It’s not on any channel,” I said. How was I to …