2023 MLS Western Conference Preview: Seattle, SKC and Portland look to rebound, LAFC aim to keep on winning, and Vancouver and San Jose will entertain
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🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 90 minutes
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It's Western Conference preview time! If you missed our Eastern Conference preview, it should be the next most recent episode in the feed. Today, we tackle the 14 teams out west, including who will rebound, who will fall off, and who can see the Northern Lights from their stadium.
1) Austin FC
2) Colorado Rapids
3) FC Dallas
4) Houston Dynamo
5) LA Galaxy
6) LAFC
7) Minnesota United
8) Portland Timbers
9) Real Salt Lake
10) San Jose Earthquakes
11) Seattle Sounders
12) Sporting KC
13) St. Louis City SC
14) Vancouver Whitecaps
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| 0:28.5 | Thank you. Hello, hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer show. |
| 0:56.8 | My name is Taylor Rockwell here with me today to preview the Western Conference of Major League Soccer are Mr. Graham Ruffin. |
| 1:03.6 | Hello, Graham. |
| 1:04.5 | Hello, Taylor. |
| 1:05.7 | And Mr. Joe Lowry. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello, Joe. |
| 1:08.0 | Hello, Taylor. |
| 1:09.7 | Gentlemen, it is lovely to speak with you. Yesterday's show went over an hour and a half. I think I took my time in the introductions with that one, so I'm thinking maybe we should get right to this one. Though, Joe, we do have one fewer team, so maybe we'll get through this in like an hour. Just kidding. It's going to be an hour and a half. |
| 1:23.3 | Yeah, maybe that gives us like five minutes of extra buffer. |
| 1:27.6 | We're probably still going to go long. |
| 1:29.1 | There's a lot of teams. |
| 1:30.0 | I thought our Eastern Conference preview was really good. |
| 1:32.1 | So folks haven't listened to that. |
| 1:33.6 | Go back and do that. |
| 1:34.8 | I think we all put a lot of research and thought into our teams. |
| 1:37.6 | And even though it was long, I felt like we moved through things that are relatively decent tempo. |
| 1:42.9 | So go listen to that. |
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