MLS is NOT high-quality soccer - otherwise you'd see more transfers to the big leagues. But it's not bad quality either - except for the Rapids, the Red Bulls and few other basement dwellers.
So, your logic is: MLS would be a high-quality league if it gave away its high-quality players to other leagues? Thus, the Premier League would be the best league in the world if it gave away Ferdinand, Drogba and Gerrard to the Rapids?
That's a bad twist on his meaning - I get what he's saying. If MLS were top quality - the big teams would be chasing it's players. I'm willing to bet the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Bayer have chased those three players at some point. EPL is a top league who's players are chased by the major clubs world wide - and who also have the resources to ward off those teams from taking their best players in most cases.
Oh, I get what he's saying. But his logic is what's twisted, not my use of it. First, his logic roots in the supposed fact that something is only good if someone else wants it. The fact that the league wants itself to be good and that it is good (ie self-worth) isn't apparently enough. Relativist logic at its worst. Second, it's faulty based upon one word: the "to" in "more transfers to the big leagues." Wouldn't a stronger sign of MLS's supposed quality be that it is a league that goes out and buys the best players in the world from those big leagues, instead of having the best players it has to offer bought off it? This is self-defeating circular logic designed to ensure that MLS is never a good league in his estimation. If MLS is only good when it's selling its players off to the big leagues, it's never going to get better because it continues to lose its good players. And if it buys good players, they can't be good, because they're not at the supposed big leagues any longer.
In the context of the discussion it's a miss. The Mammoth are not playing in the EPL of Lacrosse. As of right now the EPL of Lacrosse is still the NCAA. What the Mammoth are is a quality side show, but it's not an advertisement for the quality of the game. If the Rapids attendance is a reflection of the quality of their play then looking at the Mammoth to solve that issue is a mistake. The Mammoth example would be to get better mascots, louder speakers, removing offsides rules, and encouraging hard tackles and elbows. It would be to take a sport and turn it into something that it's not, rather than improve the quality of the players.
Well yeah. Plus it’s always good to take a jab at the occasional gyro snob that comes in trying to inform us where the real major leagues are. News flash greenlightwilly, we already know, and it takes being a bigger / better sports fan to go beyond the beauty of a garden variety FCB beat down to see that football (as they might say) is a global sport. And as such it exists in your own home town.
Or at least the top quality players would be coming here to play in their prime, and not in their declining years.