Allocation Disorder: "This thing is happening" MLS is Back remains on schedule, despite COVID concerns
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🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Paul and Sam discuss the latest news regarding the MLS is Back Tournament, including the situation with FC Dallas, the increasing number of positive tests, and the challenges of getting all the teams to Orlando as safely as possible.
Around 25:44, the guys move on to a discussion/explanation of why exactly the tournament is happening, as well as the decision making process that has led to the league reopening.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam Staskell, joined as always by Paul Tenorio. And as always, |
| 0:22.5 | it feels like anyway, we're going to talk more about MLS's back and COVID-19 and everything |
| 0:29.0 | going on in Orlando, in the bubble, outside the bubble, all of this mess. It's a developing story. |
| 0:36.4 | It's a developing situation. |
| 0:37.7 | A lot of stuff is changing every single day. |
| 0:40.3 | It feels like every single hour, Paul. |
| 0:42.8 | We've been writing a lot about it. |
| 0:44.4 | We've been talking to lots of people about it. |
| 0:47.3 | We are now, what, as we sit here recording on Thursday night, we are allegedly six days |
| 0:54.0 | out from when this thing is going to kick |
| 0:55.6 | off with Inner Miami in Orlando City on Wednesday, July 8th at 8 p.m. Eastern time on ESPN. Nashville and |
| 1:05.5 | Chicago are supposed to follow that game up on Wednesday night. Nashville is still not even in |
| 1:10.4 | Orlando. |
| 1:12.4 | They were supposed to get there two days ago. |
| 1:14.0 | They're having some complications. |
| 1:15.7 | We can get into that later. |
| 1:18.5 | First off, let me back up a second. |
| 1:19.6 | How are you doing, Paul? |
| 1:23.4 | Well, I had a joke all lined up, and then you just started talking. |
| 1:31.1 | You know, I was just going to say, Sam, that I hope that our listeners can't tell how sick of each other we are at this point. |
| 1:33.5 | I mean, how many hours of the day today do you think we spent on the phone with each other? |
| 1:39.7 | Significantly more than I spent talking to my wife, that's for sure, like, by like a factor of five or six, I would say. I mean, we were probably on the phone. I would say a solid six hours today, minimum. Oh, yeah. Is that fair? That's fair. And that's not even counting right now. We've got another hour to go. It's not. But you know what? We're going to bring it. We're going to bring it for the listeners. We love, we love talking to each other, Sam. And we've got so much to talk about that we didn't spend all day writing about and bing our heads of the task about. We do. So let's just lay it out for everyone. The latest, the latest update. As we sit here on Thursday evening, FC Dallas, I think it's fair to say is in a bit of a |
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