Hey, everybody. This is Richard Ditch, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.

Three guests this week for one conversation. I really enjoyed this. This was really interesting.

And I'm right on the news. We have Apple and Major League Soccer Match analyst Marcelo Boboa, Daniel Slate, and Taylor Twelman.

And they will be talking about what is a pretty bold new experiment in sports media circle.

Starting February 25th, MLS season pass, will be home to all MLS and league cup matches, MLS Next Pro and MLS Next

games. You've probably read about this, but everything is under the Apple roof at the moment.

And it, yeah, it's sort of like a sort of, one is sort of a revolutionary concept.

And two, their plans for just all sorts of shoulder programming and how they're going to do the game will really be watched by other places to see how a, you know, how a league does with its main media rights partner, a streamer. And we got into a lot of,

a lot of the questions that I imagine you might have for them in terms of why they decided

to pursue it, what they feel are the biggest challenges and opportunities, got into the

idea of like what happens if other places like ESPN don't start mentioning MLS because they

don't have the rights anymore. So we got into that, talked about how independent they can be

in terms of what they can't say about the league. And then we finished up with the prospect of

Leo Messi coming to Inter Miami and what that would mean. And I think everybody on the podcast,

including the host, we all agree it would be game changing. We're talking about, I think,

the most famous athlete in the world. If he's not the most famous, you know, he's in the top

three. And so it would be, it would be incredible, basically, Pelae 2.0. So Marcelo Balboa, Daniel Slate, and Taylor Twelman coming up on the sports media podcast.

All right, as I said at the top, I'm really excited to have these three guests.

For starters, the fact that logistically it worked out was phenomenal.

They have a very, very busy couple weeks ahead of them.

And so to get their time altogether in one place is very cool.

And I think certainly those of you who are fans of soccer are going to find this interesting.

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