Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lallis and welcome to the State of the New

Podcast. We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of

red, white, blue-colored glasses. This is a special live pod as we react to the just completed Grenada versus USA Nations League game,

which ended, I lost track. What are we at?

Green at 1 and US, eh, round 7. Let's ballpark at around 7.

Obviously a easy night for the US and you know you don't want to put too much stock in a game like this but you know this is the first

competitive game that we have seen this team play since the World Cup in Qatar and for the most part it was

some of the usual suspects and some new things plenty of things to talk about if you do want to

talk please just raise your hand there and we will do this one at a time. We will be civil and orderly and respectful in the way that we do it. But you can talk about this game, your reactions, you can talk about this game your reactions you can talk about bigger picture stuff when it comes to the team or soccer or life or anything else

out there and you know hopefully we'll have some fun here and who knows, maybe we won't solve the problems of the world when it comes to either this team or other problems out there.

If you do raise your hand, a little blue light shows up that says you're requesting to speak.

I will bring you up, as I said before, please try to be interesting and entertaining and efficient

with your question

we can get as many people in as possible.

Overall thoughts before I start bringing people in here look this is it's better to win than lose in my expert opinion and we are in this kind of

stasis position and mode when it comes to the US men's national team without any

real leadership.

And you know, that's no fault of the players

and it's no fault of the current interim coach in Anthony Hudson

and they're going about their job and certainly this is a nice

result to have and it also means that in this next game against El Salvador in

the nation's league if the US just gets a point they continue on through and

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