Hello, everyone.

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

My name is Joe Lowry, no British accent, so I'm not Ryan Bailey.

No long, eloquent introduction, so I'm not Taylor Rockwell.

Graham never does the intro, so I'm not Graham.

I am Joe Lowry, and today I'm joined by a man who will be at bar trivia 30 years from now, anticipating the long-awaited question of who scored the first Club Roll Cup goal of any team in MLS history, and I'll answer triumphantly. Christian rolled on. It is Jeff Ruder. Jeff, how are you? I'm doing great, and I'm appreciating the like kind of workman like introduction that you gave too.

There's no hands up in the air in jubilation. There's no throw of the voice. This is like a working man, fullback, hard-nosed midfield. They're just here to put in a shift. And Joe, that's why we all love you. So thanks for keeping me around. It's great. We're thrilled to have you, Jeff, and that's not just because no one else could show up today.

We really are thrilled to have you.

I'd like to think of myself... So thanks for keeping me around. It's great. We're thrilled to have you, Jeff, and that's not just because no one else could show up today.

We really are thrilled to have you.

I'd like to think of myself as sort of the Christian rolled on to this show.

That's, Graham, it's not me.

Let's move on swiftly from all of that.

Before we get to today's show and the real meat of it, where we're going to talk about the three MLS teams in their opening club role cup games. We're going to take a look around the regular season and the big news and stories coming out of Major League Soccer proper as well. Patreon.com slash Total Soccer Show. You can come hang out with us, bonus stuff over there. You can hop in our Discord where I've heard all the cool kids are hanging out. And I know that's true, Jeff, or it will be once listener comes and hangs out with us, because you're in the Discord. And if you want hang out and chat with Jeff and me, if you like, go check out patreon.com slash total soccer show. Jeff, let's get to the meet of today's episode, which is your trip to Seattle. No, this is not quite the meet. But we are going to talk about Jeff's trip to Seattle. I've got my slideshow ready to go. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Please click through. I want to see every picture, every beach picture.

I'm assuming you saw whales, all that good stuff.

Jeff, you were in Seattle for the, uh, for the Seattle Sanders two one lost to

Botafogo in their opener of the club world cup group stage.

I'm curious.

I've never been to a club world cup game before because this tournament in its current

nobody had. Nobody had. What was the experience like?

Did it feel like a normal going to a normal MLS game in Seattle?

Like what was this like for you?

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