Hello Sunshine I'm Alexi Lollis, and welcome to the State of the Union podcast. We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of

red white and blue-colored glasses. This show will be talking Emma,

Pegita, Parallax, Indignant Coaches, England VAR again,

Portland, Christmas Decorations, soccer media veterans, SOTU weddings, and so much more. But first join me as always my friend my

colleague my guiding light David Mossy a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher

and writer extraordinary I'll see how you doing on this Monday, November 6th in the year

2023.

Doing well and we are in good hands today for a change because cat is stepping in

for the absent Sean Sullivan producing today's pod.

Yes, congratulations.

We'll talk a little bit more later on the pod about the weddings,

but for those that listen,

though, that Sean was off getting married.

So that happened evidently this weekend.

Big old gala affair.

But we are in good hands, as you said,

because there is always somebody else.

You know, we are, you know, we're like those teams

that there is always a next phase and somebody behind the

scenes that's not only there but is competent to not only fill in but provide

competition and that's what we like.

If cat were to outperform Sean and take his job what is the baseball reference we would

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