A simple question: Why wait?

For years, we have heard how the league is itching to call our soccer-rich community home. Finally, the perfect opportunity exists. It took an impressive display of leadership, cooperation and private investment to turn past failures into a chance that should be impossible to slow-play. The ownership group and lawmakers pressed hard to get ahead of the current competition. It worked. The league has granted expansion teams to cities that lack a pitch as appealing as this one. If this really is where MLS wants to be, and this is the deal it wanted, should the same urgency not be shown by the league?

It’s hard to imagine the pot getting sweeter than this. Certain wheels cannot turn until MLS plants its flag. Every day it doesn’t makes you wonder why it won’t.

Sharon Tyus, one of two dissenting votes Friday morning, spent a large chunk of time imploring aldermen to hammer down on the details of the stadium lease when — no, if — it comes time to turn the passed resolution into laws.