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John, how you doing? I'm good. It's, look, I get excited about the worst of Kincacaf games, so when you have the best of Kincacaf games ahead of you, it's pretty tough not to be pretty happy so I am happy I'm excited

and looking forward to this weekend in this qualifying window and then just from like a

personal perspective it's also going to be a little less work this time around, which look, you know, I think newsletter subscribers will say I put out a good amount of content, but anytime you can do less work, it's not unwelcome.

So I'm looking forward to the window and then looking forward to it ending

because there's no MLS to get back to for FC Dallas.

So I'll be able to take a few naps which will be exciting to but

but games first game first yeah so Mexico has both the US and Canada on the

road in this window.

And, but at the same time, they're on,

they're on 14 points in the Ocho totally in command.

Is Tata getting love letters from the Mexican press right now?

Yeah, not really. I think that it's tough to get

love letters from the Mexican press in general and you know there's been some sort of

frustration about squad selection and tactics and just kind of the usual, right?

I think that Mexico, the fans and the media kind of understand that they're sitting pretty and feel like it's going well, which it is, right?

Like they're undoubtedly in a really good position to qualify for the World Cup and to top the group.

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