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Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

Allocation Disorder: MLS is back! Analysis, excitement... and a little confusion

Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

TSS

Sports, News, Sports News, Soccer

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Sam and Matt provide some necessary updates regarding the 2020 MLS Is Back tournament. Who went into what group and how will it all be structured? Plus, which teams should be nervous, who should be the most pleased, the absurdity of a Zoom draw, and the overall schedule of the tournament... which will have many, many people losing sleep, for a variety of reasons.

Quick TSS scheduling note: the next International Champions' Champion Cup of History episode will be recorded this Sunday and will be out that evening.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, don't hit skip.

0:06.1

This is Taylor from The Total Soccer Show.

0:07.7

I need to let you know two things.

0:09.0

The first is that we have a bit of a scheduling change over at the Total Soccer Show.

0:13.0

Daryl and I were going to record the next installment of the International Champions Cup of History,

0:17.4

sponsored by Bill and Ted, face the music.

0:20.0

It's a mouthful.

0:20.8

It's getting longer.

0:44.3

But we're going to push that back to Sunday, so that will be out Sunday, probably late afternoon, early evening. Then we'll get back to our regular schedule on the week, including a weekend review with Ryan Bailey on Monday. But for now, we're going to do allocation disorder, and then we'll be back Sunday night. Until then, I also wanted to let you know that in a world of uncertainty, one thing is for sure, cancer does not stop during a global crisis.

0:47.2

On Saturday, June 13th, that would be tomorrow.

0:52.8

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0:54.9

It will be to support their investment in groundbreaking research to advance blood cancer cures and its first in-class patient education

1:00.0

and services, including financial support and clinical trial navigation. I understood most

1:05.4

of those words. Step up to take cancer down by climbing 61 floors or 1,762 steps, inside or outside, on stairs, on the road, or your treadmill, climb your way. Anywhere you can walk, that counts as a step. Join us for an opening ceremony, then take on your climb with their heart pumping playlist. You can join them on June 13th. As I said, that's tomorrow if you're listening to this the day it comes out from coast to coast as we come together to climb, conquer, and cure.

1:30.2

Register at lLS.org slash big climb one more time. That's lLS.org slash big climb. Welcome to Allocation Disorder.

1:49.1

I am your host, Sam Staskel, joined this time not by Paul Tenoria, who is on vacation,

1:53.6

but by a very gracious Matt Pence, athletic soccer writer.

1:57.4

Of course, you know him, you love him.

1:59.2

He's out there in Seattle, doing great work

2:01.3

on the Sounders and a bunch of other things around the American Soccer universe. Matt, how's it

2:05.3

going tonight, man? Doing well. The sun is shining here in the northwest still. We're

2:10.4

according what, it's probably nighttime over there in New York. It is. It's almost night. I'm about

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