I choose to believe that there is a method to what we perceive as the madness right now of Mauricio Poititina.

It's a national team. I'm not saying that you can't improve.

I'm not saying that you can't develop.

But this is not a developmental environment.

This is for finished products.

... This is for finished products.

Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexie Lalif and welcome.

State of the Union podcast.

If 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, ooh, poach criticism.

U.S. men's national team 2 versus 1 striker,

Michael Bradley, James Garfield, Nigeria dysfunction,

U.S. under 17's flying, Snow Games, Testman Roasted, MLS

Winter Schedule, Geo, Geo Fatigue, Jay Kelly, and so much more. But first joining me as

always my friend, my colleague, my guiding lights, David Mossy, a soccer savant and a Fox

soccer researcher and writer extraordinaire. Mossie, how you doing on this? What are we looking at here? Wednesday, November 12th in the year 2025. I'm doing well. On Monday, I made a point of telling everybody that I arrived early to the studio. Today, I was late. I apologize. I was at IT dealing with a computer issue. Did you scream and yell over there? And this was a, you know, you had to reboot something, or what did you have to do over there?

My computer needed an update. It took longer than anticipated, but we got it sorted out. Okay, good. What else? My friend, anything else interesting? You want to tell us? Red or saw, or you want to talk about here? I have something coming up tonight.

As soon as we're done taping,

I will head to Santa Monica

to the Arrow Theater

for a screening of this movie

James. out here? I have something coming up tonight. As soon as we're done taping, I will head to Santa

...