Welcome to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam Staskell, joined as always by Paul Tenorio.

Paul, you're in a bit of a different setup today.

You're currently sitting underneath a comforter.

Explain yourself.

I'm under a comforter.

I'm baking.

I think by the end of this, maybe I'll be five pounds lighter, which is a good thing,

especially around the holidays. But we're doing this on Tuesday afternoon. So for everyone listening to the show on Wednesday, you're not going to hear anything about Tuesday nights games. I'm sorry. We could just make up some stuff. Well, we can talk about some of the teams. I just wrote a story about two of them that you wrote three years ago.

So we have plenty of right. I think we talked about that a little last week. We will do an episode on that. I did get some interest on Twitter to write something. But I'm under this

comforter because my daughter is running around like a maniac in the house behind me. And so I'm

trying to keep this audio as clean as possible. These are the things I do for the show.

Your professionalism knows no bounds.

My dog will likely come charging into this house at some point and disrupt the entire podcast.

And here I am.

I'm not sitting under a comforter.

Anyway, we digress.

Like Paul said, we are recording on Tuesday.

There are three games tonight, Nashville against Toronto and Philadelphia against New England to close out the first round in the east.

And then the big one of this opening round, Seattle and L.A.F.C. out in the West, we will obviously not be talking about the things that happen in those games because they have not yet happened.

So apologies for that.

However, a lot happened over the weekend in MLS.

Seven games on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

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