Hello, hello, and welcome to the Total Soccer show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell and I am excited to be with you to talk Major League Soccer

or more likely listen to other people talk about Major League Soccer here with me to do so.

Mr. Nice Guy himself, the man who grades on a curve and then adds some extra credit. It It's Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. You know, tell you think that everybody would be just showering me with praise and, oh, we're so grateful that you gave our team a better grade than we deserved. And yet, really, all I've got is revs fans cooking me. So, you know, you win some, you lose some. Do we all lose last week? I think it's possible.

Wait, what was your ribbed grade? I don't remember. But really what they're cooking me for is that I wrote about them for back yield and kind of just said a lot of the same things that I said on the show last week. And then when that was in written form that's screenshotable, I find that that's when people really pounce. And I felt pounced upon. But I can take it. I'm ready for it. Bring it on. More pouncing.

Oh, yeah. You give them a B. Your All-Star was Matt Turner. You said the major knock against them to keep in mind is that though they are second in the east, they would be seventh in the west. And so you dinged them accordingly because they're not in the Western Conference, essentially.

Still, progress for the Revs, undoubtedly.

But am I a skeptic?

Maybe we'll even talk about the Revs more in like four minutes.

Who knows?

We probably will.

Here with us to potentially talk about the Revs in potentially four minutes.

Following in the wake of the Beckham Experiment and the Messsey Effect, he's the future author of the Hama's hypothesis. It's Jeff Ruter. Hello, Jeff. It's more of a novella, really, in the style of Hemingway. It's like just a nice 60 page. You can read it at the airport while you're waiting, and you can honestly leave it in the seat back for the next passenger. It's really nice. Look forward to it. We are going to spend some time discussing Hamas' long and storied career in Minnesota. It's been an interesting one to see the way it has

been reported upon where a lot of the headlines were him prematurely leaving, he's dipping,

he's disrespecting, and then the MLS soccer one was you know hames it like calls time on

successful stint in major league soccer and i and i do think minnesota supporters have been

largely more positive about his time there so we will talk about that but it's an interesting

story for sure.

It's not been maybe the season I expected from Hames, but it does seem like it's the season that

many others did expect, Jeff. Yeah, and maybe the season that Minnesota at least projected was

realistic. We'll get into it. We'll get into it. For now, let's talk about our favorite games of the weekend. Joe Lowry, why don't you get us started? Yeah, we've pumped a lot of gasoline onto the RSL fire this year. So it does sort of feel right that when they get shalacked, we should flip the sucker around and heap some praise on the team that did the shalacking and that was f c dallas i really

enjoyed fc dallas's three one win over real salt lake we're now entering the part of the season guys

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