This is something that we've been talking about for some time now. We're seeing the number of viruses speeding up now as it gets closer to Y2K.

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.

We spend a lot of time talking to our tournaments about the need to upgrade what they do. Yet we're the marquee event, and if we're going to urge others to keep raising the standard, we have to show them what it is.

We were at an impasse and had been talking for an extended period of time.

I have a hard time talking about myself. It was much more than just an individual, ... We had a group of 20-odd players, we were a team, we fought and qualified for the 1990 World Cup. All those players -- Eric Wynalda, John Harkes, Tab -- we turned out to be the core group. We sacrificed a lot to make sure that soccer took off. We played in front of maybe 5,000 fans on a good night. But I enjoyed every minute. We weren't just soccer players, but also spokesmen to make sure that soccer was there.

We had been talking to the Cubs for a long time about doing this,