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Learn more at vertexinck.com. Hello, hello, everyone, and welcome to the Total Soccer show.

My name is Joe Lowry, and on today's episode, we're talking all about the wild world of Major League Soccer.

On today's show, we'll discuss a host of topics from MLS Week 10, where Gioce's

Portland Timbers won yet again. The New England

Revolution in FC Cincinnati went toe to toe, but the revs could be looking at the rest of the year without Dylan Barrero. Nashville took down Atlanta United in the game that revealed it just might be time for Garth Lagerway to bring in a new midfield. All right, that's, I'm not doing any more rhyming. That was too hard. I didn't like it. I didn't wake up early enough to do all of my intro in rhyming

fashion. Ryan Bailey, that's, I'm not doing any more rhyming. That was too hard. I didn't like it.

I didn't wake up early enough to do all of my intro in rhyming fashion. Ryan Bailey,

don't, don't be disappointed in me. I hope you're proud of me. I did some rhymes, Ryan, be proud. We're also going to hand out some awards after 10 weeks of the MLS season and preview the second leg of the CCL semi-final between LAFC and the Philadelphia Union that will take place later on

tonight. To help me do all of that, I am joined by the one, the only David Goss. Goss, this is the part where I step aside and you do your 20-second soccer rhyme. So whenever you're ready, you can just go ahead and take it away. I'll sit back and listen. Well, it was interesting because when you started, I was like, well, this is a Tuesday show that Taylor normally hosts. So you had an

out to not

even go for the rhyming angle. And then when you started, I was actually genuinely impressed,

like, okay, Joe picked the hardest path on this. That's where you get greatness, right? As Ray Allen

just told me this morning, there's no losing.

There's only learning in life, but that's for elite people. So, yeah, I was surprised you went for that. And you know what? I was impressed. Thank you. Thank you, guys. So I woke up 10 minutes before my alarm was supposed to go off. And what did I decide to do with my 10 minutes? It's not take a walk outside, not like do something other than work.

I decided to spend with my 10 minutes? Not take a walk outside, not like do something other than work.

I decided to spend 10 minutes on rhymezone.com and come up with some MLS poetry before this started.

I'm sorry.

I assume you didn't have like a personal conversation with Ray Allen.

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