Hello,

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell and MLS is off and running.

It is very exciting times.

What an opening weekend it was.

Michael Bradley's squad of children completely took apart Orlando City.

D.C. United outfought the Philadelphia Union.

L.A.F.C. made Messi so angry, he pulled a miasga light, which is to say he did what Miyazga did, but won't get the five-game suspension. The Galaxy got off to a great start before a red card had a penalty brought them back to Earth. Paul Rothrock subbed on to the 8th minute, ran into the advertising boards in the 15th minute and then delivered an inch-perfect cross to give Seattle to their lead in in their two no win fun times all around Joe Lowry how was your start to the 2026 MLS campaign it was great man I love opening weekend of MLS there's still plenty of hope because even if your team had a bad showing it's well you know we have missing three guys to injury and then six guys to visa problems right so you can't really blame us for that we don their first choice back line. You know, we can't be judged off of one game. Oh, we're going to do some judgments today. Don't you worry about that? Maybe the best moment, truly, maybe not the best. The most surprising moment is Lina Messi has that moment that Taylor's talking about where he doesn't really pull a Miyazka. It is a Miyazga light because he's trying to go down the tunnel. And Luis Suarez, of all people, here's the shock.

Luis Suarez is of all people,

here's the shock. Louis Suarez is the one with a cooler head and he's the one pulling Messi sort of back out of that situation. And then Messi and Suarez emerge and everything is fine, supposedly. I mean, it seems like it's fine. Referees are saying it's fine. So who am I to judge? But Suarez, as a cooler head, I don't know, man.

I guess I'm worried about 2026.

That's a dangerous precedent to be setting. What a time to be alive. Joe, I will introduce our fellow co-host, but since you have gone down the path of rational explanation instead of reactionary headline talking, what is the difference between Miyiasga and Messi and what they did?

Yeah, so the Miaska thing, and Jeff might actually remember this detail better than I,

but I believe it was after the 20.

He has a minute, he made up to me.

I think it was the 2023, maybe it was 2024, playoff game for Cincinnati.

And the reporting was that he actually went into the locker room where the referees prepare before games and unprepared after games.

And so that is a big no-no.

I mean, you're not really supposed to be going into all these areas of the stadium anyway.

But Miazka actually breached the walls of the referee locker room, according to reporting.

Messi did not.

Like there's a giant tunnel that Messi was about to go down,

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