The day after 12 cities submitted expansion bids for future rounds of MLS expansion, the league's president and deputy commissioner, Mark Abbott, fielded questions from reporters via teleconference call.
Highlights of Wednesday's hourlong session follow below:
On meeting with the Nashville ownership group and mayor Megan Barry:
“With respect to yesterday's meeting, it was the first time that I had had a chance to meet with John [Ingram, of the Nashville MLS Organizing Committee]. I'd met with Bill [Hagerty, also of the Nashville MLS Organizing Committee] previously and had never met the mayor, although I'd spoken to the mayor on the phone last summer.