Allocation Disorder: how some MLS teams have embraced their local communities, and why others should follow suit
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🗓️ 18 September 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, the guys focus in on teams in the United States that have done a good job to embrace their environs and incorporate the communities in which they operate, and then take a slightly longer look at the teams that have done the opposite of that (looking strongly in your direction, DC United).
Why aren’t MLS teams better on that front, what have been some notable missteps, and why an organized supporters group can be so important in reflecting the values of individual cities? Paul and Sam have thoughts!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Allocation Disorder. |
| 0:17.8 | I am Sam Stakell, joined as always on this Thursday evening by Paul Tenorio. |
| 0:23.0 | Paul, how's it going tonight, man? |
| 0:24.6 | Good, man. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm ready to have a couple sips of bourbon on this episode and enjoy my time with my illustrious co-host. |
| 0:36.3 | Wow. |
| 0:37.4 | It's very nice of you. I'm blushing a little bit. illustrious co-host. Wow. |
| 0:38.6 | It's very nice of you. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm blushing a little bit. |
| 0:43.2 | Paul, I have a question for you. |
| 0:45.4 | It's pretty hackneyed and cliched, but I'm going to ask it anyway. |
| 0:49.2 | What does the beautiful game mean to you? |
| 0:51.1 | What does that phrase mean to you? |
| 0:55.3 | Well, I think if we're talking about what is, you know, to me it's about what is the most beautiful thing about the sport and the sport, the game is that it connects us. |
| 1:01.4 | You know, the coolest thing about my job and about being around the game is no matter where |
| 1:08.0 | I go in the world, I have something that I can talk to people |
| 1:11.8 | about, you know, and it's not just a professional sports writer, a soccer writer that does that. |
| 1:17.6 | Anyone who's a soccer fan can go anywhere in the world and connect with people based on soccer. |
| 1:25.2 | It doesn't matter where you're from, what neighborhood in that country, what language |
| 1:30.2 | you speak, you know, what team you like, you can connect about the sport. And that is the most |
| 1:36.2 | beautiful thing. It is a connector. And that's why it's the beautiful game. I shouldn't have asked |
| 1:42.7 | you that pre-show because you gave a much different answer when I asked you before we started recording. |
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