Yes to "Interliga"...

...or whatever the they will one day call "the Champions-League-style tournament" between Mexico's top league and Major League Soccer. So long as they don't call it the "Champions-League-style tournament," they can call it whatever the hell they want. However they make it work, I love the idea - and hat-tip to Andrea Canales for fleshing out where things are over on ESPN's site.

One particularly encouraging piece of information comes here:

"'We're trying to do a tournament next year,' [Chivas USA co-owner Antonio] Cue said. 'We should be announcing it in the months to come. If it's not 2007, then 2008, but I'm looking very optimistically at 2007.'"

Yes, bring it on. The sooner the better. And I'm not all that bothered about whether we win or lose those early encounters - frankly, I'm expecting losses. A secondary - and MAJOR - question surrounds the scheduling. Will MLS try to wrap the tournament around the off-season to sync up with Mexico's schedule? Put another way, with the schedules not overlapping neatly, who gets left holding the short stick on this thing?

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