Welcome to the Scuffed Podcast Hey Greg, how you doing?

Good, I'm ready to react a little bit to the roster, feeling a little bit

cute.

Ooh, yeah.

Greg Ber Halter has called up 25 players

for World Cup qualifiers against Mexico and Jamaica

on November 12th and November 16th.

I'm going to just give some basic facts here

for those who aren't paying close attention,

which is basically none of you who are listening to this,

but the US sits currently second in the octagonal table.

As you know, the top three teams in that table automatically qualify for the

World Cup we have eight matches left to go out of 14. This upcoming

window is really big.

Mexico at home is always a big deal of course and then this Jamaica away matches a chance to rack up points on the road.

Can you can you talk a little bit Greg about how you,

the significance of these two matches in this whole 14 game tournament?

Sure, sure, you're talking about my like tipping point model.

Yeah, please.

So I was inspired by the,

as everyone who's followed national elections closely over the past decade or so it's probably seen the 538 tipping point graphic goes from dark blue to white light red to dark red of the most important

states for candidates to win to win the national election. And so I was just kind of

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