Allocation Disorder: Seattle and Columbus deep dives before MLS Cup, Garber's State of the League address, and Paul McDonough out in Miami
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🗓️ 11 December 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
With MLS Cup coming up on Saturday, Paul and Sam talk about some of the pieces and strategies that have helped the Seattle Sounders and the Columbus Crew advance to the final. Then, they hit the highlights from Don Garber's State of the League address that happened earlier this week, and discuss some big Inter Miami news.
2:00 - General managers Garth Lagerwey (Seattle Sounders) and Tim Bezbatchenko (Columbus Crew) deserve a lot of credit for helping their respective teams get to MLS Cup
12:50 - An analysis of Sounders manager Brian Schmetzer and Crew manager Caleb Porter
20:08 - Shouldn't more MLS teams be investing in analytics?
27:`10 - Digging into some of Seattle's and Columbus's smartest signings and roster building strategies
42:49 - Highlights of MLS Commissioner Don Garber's State of the League address:
- The CBA and the force majeure clause
- MLS potentially looking for outside investors
- Are we going to see more MLS teams sold in the near future?
53:15 - Paul McDonough steps down as Inter Miami's COO and sporting director
1:03:08 - MLS Cup predictions!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam Staskel, joined as always by my athletic colleague Paul Tenorio. Paul MLS Cup is approaching. |
| 0:28.7 | We are recording on Thursday morning for a change. It's not a late night or usual time. We're recording on Thursday morning. |
| 0:35.2 | MLS Cup is on Saturday between the Columbus crew who will be hosting the Seattle Sounders at Mofre Stadium, 8 p.m. Eastern Time. |
| 0:43.7 | I don't know if that's kickoff. |
| 0:45.1 | I don't think it is. |
| 0:46.4 | But start of the broadcast on Fox, Big Fox, I'm excited for this game. |
| 0:52.3 | I think it should be a really good game. |
| 0:54.4 | It's obviously the headline news in MLS this week, although there are some other secondary |
| 1:00.2 | headlines that are pretty important, and we're going to get to those. |
| 1:03.6 | Don Garber's State of the League address, a big change in Miami. |
| 1:07.5 | So we'll get to those later in the show, but we are going to start with some MLS Cup talk, some roster talk about Seattle and |
| 1:14.6 | Columbus, and just kind of a breakdown of some of the positive moves that these teams have |
| 1:18.7 | made over the years and some of the qualities of their coaches, of their executives that |
| 1:24.6 | have made them so successful in recent seasons in MLS. |
| 1:29.7 | So I think we can start there, Paul. |
| 1:31.4 | You know, we talk a lot about GMs on this show, right? |
| 1:36.5 | Seattle's Garth Lagerway, this is his fourth final in five years. |
| 1:40.3 | Same for Brian Schmetzer, same for the club. |
| 1:43.3 | Columbus, GM and presidents in Besbichenko. This is his third final in five years. Same for Brian Schmetzer. Same for the club. Columbus, GM and president in Bezbochenko, |
| 1:46.0 | this is his third final in five years. He obviously coming to Columbus before the start of the |
| 1:52.1 | 2019 season from Toronto, where he faced the Sounders in MLS Cup in 2016 and 2017. Caleb Porter, |
| 2:03.8 | an MLS Cup champion himself, head coach of the crew. |
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