Contributors,

So a few weeks ago I turned my latest piece in to the editors at Soccernet -- a piece I considered to be a fun and friendly conversation-starter for our offseason party -- and I come back from a no-contact-with-the-outside-world vacation with my family to read that I have been both championed as the "savior" and vilified as the "antichrist" of soccer in the United States. I mean, I rarely drink, but are we serving beer at this party? I could use one.

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