these players have to prove to us that they are worthy of our time and our heart and our emotion

and all of our belief. And they certainly didn't do it in these last two games. This summer,

in the goal cup, I hope Pochitino says, you know what? All of the accolades and all of the cachet and all of the resume that we have is all fine and well.

But I need some down and dirty bastards out there. Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexi Lalas, 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, well, a U.S. men's national team final window roundup,

the diabolical Jesse Marsh, paddle or Paddle or whatever the hell you want to call it,

an American soccer legend, Brazil is awful, bastardized pro rel, messy versus Ronaldo,

but an interesting take on that.

Burrhalter's back, the historic Rose Bowl, earbuds, 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 Research and Rider Extra-Arennery.

Mossy, how you doing on this Wednesday, March 26th in the year 2025?

I'm doing well. We were back in the studio today. I do want to say something. I meant to do this at the end of our Sunday show at SoFi, and I didn't. I want to thank people by name who contributed so much to those shows.

Because, you know, you and I started doing this podcast in 2018 out of a closet

in Playa Vista. It's grown so much since. We're now in this beautiful studio. But I felt like

those two shows at SoFi were another milestone for us. So I want to shout out Sean Sullivan,

John Marcus, John Hill, Josh, Carla, who were there with us, and the people back here like Kyla and Gabe,

who contributed as well. It was a fun couple days. Yeah, that's on me. I probably should have done

that when we were doing the live show. We had a lot of stuff going on. But I echo what you are saying

and times 100, the incredible men and women that we have that, let's be honest, make us look good.

And in that case, you know, took us to a whole other level.

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