For all of its existence, MLS has stood fast in its belief that the World Cup does not warrant a pause in league play. The joke was always that there wouldn't be any MLS players in the World Cup so what's the big deal? Well, it appears that someone at MLS HQ has convinced the bigwigs that the World Cup is, indeed, a legitimate soccer tournament worthy of league stoppage. This represents an enormous sea change in MLS ideology and may signal that the people running MLS have actually started watching soccer.
