Does MLS still need the All-Star Game? Plus, Messi’s no-show and a potential schedule change
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🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
From Austin, Jeff and Joe dive into the biggest talking points from MLS’s All-Star break. Lionel Messi’s decision to skip the All-Star Game raises the question: does MLS still even need the game? We discuss that, the current All-Star format, the Skills Challenge, and the fresh rumblings about the league changing its schedule to mirror Europe’s biggest leagues. All that — and more — on the show.
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| 0:32.6 | Music Hello, hello, and welcome to the total soccer show. I am not Taylor Rockwell. I am not Ryan Bailey. I am Joe Lowry. |
| 1:01.4 | Joined live for us. Live for us. In Austin, Texas. Recorded for you. By Jeff Ruder. You know his voice. You know him well. You heard him yesterday, if you're a faithful listener to this show. |
| 1:16.3 | Jeff, how are you? And is this the most casually recorded podcast in terms of setting that you've ever experienced? |
| 1:06.6 | Yes, I am doing well, and part of it is because of how casual the setting is. |
| 1:10.5 | It's really funny because it's like, you know, we record this remote all the time, right? |
| 1:14.5 | So like you are waking up earlier than me. |
| 1:17.8 | I'm waking up earlier than Taylor when we do the MLS weekly on Tuesday. |
| 1:21.4 | The magic of thing. That's how time's working. It's a big country I've heard. But it's really cool. One, to actually do this in the same room. Two, we are in a literal studio. And I don't mean like we are in like an audio studio. I mean, whatever picture you think you had when Jeff said that, |
| 1:44.9 | because we're a podcast, |
| 1:46.4 | we're a podcast, we're to hear ourselves seriously. |
| 1:47.4 | Of course. |
| 1:55.3 | We are at a studio apartment. |
| 2:00.3 | Yes, we are at a studio apartment. Yes. We are picked some really good topics that I'm really excited to dig into. |
| 2:03.7 | Existential sort of stuff. |
| 2:04.6 | MLS, but also just kind of general state of American soccer sort of stuff. So yeah, it's going to be great. Yeah, existential dread. All the, all the big questions. Yeah, we're going to sink into all of that. I'm going to let listener you guess who's on the bed and who's on the couch. |
| 2:00.6 | I was going to say it, but I feel like the mystery is more fun. |
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