Allocation Disorder: 2020 MLS playoffs preview and predictions
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🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
"It's my why." Paul and Sam spend a late Thursday evening discussing all-things MLS playoffs. How will teams deal with injuries and Coronavirus-related absences? Who could spring a surprise run? Who makes New England v Montreal sexier: Bruce Arena or Thierry Henry? All that and much much more! Also, at one point, Paul says "you're from Illinois" and it sounds angry and accusatory. Some time stamps for you:
14:00 - Eastern Conference bracket preview and match-up predictions
29:54 - Western Conference bracket preview and match-up predictions
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam Staskell, joined as always by my colleague from the athletic, Paul Tenorio. |
| 0:24.1 | Paul Tenorio, it is playoff time, my man, and these are playoffs, unlike any other in MLS history. |
| 0:31.0 | Not only is it a larger field, you have 10 teams from the east and eight teams from the west, but it is a field that is dealing with |
| 0:38.7 | the coronavirus, dealing with a litany of chartered flights for national team players, and will |
| 0:45.2 | they or will they not play in the first round, and all sorts of different stuff that's not |
| 0:51.8 | even really necessarily germane to the actual matchups themselves, |
| 0:55.3 | but that will certainly have an effect on them. |
| 0:58.1 | We're going to break it all down tonight. |
| 1:00.5 | We're going to make some predictions. |
| 1:02.6 | You're going to make some picks. |
| 1:04.3 | They're probably going to be wrong. |
| 1:06.1 | We're going to do it anyway. |
| 1:08.3 | But first, how are you doing? |
| 1:09.9 | Are you excited for the playoffs? |
| 1:11.2 | What's going on? |
| 1:11.8 | You know, I think we all can say that we went through this hellscape that is 20-20 for one reason only. |
| 1:21.4 | And that was for the payoff of the MLS Cup playoffs in November. |
| 1:26.0 | That's exactly right. |
| 1:27.3 | It's my reason for living. |
| 1:29.1 | It's like I wake up every day and I'm like, I need Montreal and New England on a Friday night at an empty, literally empty Gillette Stadium. |
| 1:39.8 | I need this. |
| 1:41.2 | This is why I get up in the morning. |
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