My name is Sherlock Holmes.

It's an unusual name.

Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series.

What game are we playing today?

Discover the origins.

It's cleaving. Those days are surely behind me.

Of crime's most iconic mind.

There has been a break-in.

Astoned. You should be a detective.

Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth.

If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you.

Young Sherlock, new original series, watch now only on Prime Video.

It's all a bunch of bull-h-h-e.

I find a goal from a set piece as creative, as beautiful, as enjoyable, as emotional as any other goal that I see. You can bet if they were in your shoes, they would not be the romantic that they claim to be. I'm Alexi Lalas and welcome to the State of the Union podcast,

where 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, flow MVP, return of Jedi again, EPL over, question mark, set piece ridiculousness, open cup stories, best pure U.S. men's national team goal score, World Cup poster, Paul McCartney, drops of God, and so much more. But first, join me as always my friend, my colleague, my guiding lights, David Mossie, a soccer savant and a Fox Soccer researcher and writer extraordinaire. Mossie, how you doing on this? Oh, what are we looking at here? Wednesday, March 4th in the year 2026.

Doing well. Yesterday, I had a little blast from the past.

Ooh. I was eating ice cream at that Bacho di Late place in Brentwood, the same place where I ran into Steve Trundelow once.

Yep. Yep. And I get a tap on the shoulder. I look up and it's our former producer Alex Dowd. Alex Dowd. Yeah, the original producer of the State of the Union podcast back in 2018. We chatted for a few minutes. He seems to be doing well. He sends his regards to you. It was great to see him. I mean, you know, he did his time, as they say. That was wonderful. That's awesome. I'm glad that he is doing well.

By the way, for those that are watching, you can see I am wearing one of the power rankings,

when I did my power rankings of jerseys, this was Atlanta. They were in my top five.

This is the spirit of 96, referencing the 96 Olympics and an Olympics that I was in. So I had an affinity for it and they sent me one and I said, all right, I'm not always going to wear it. Just because you send me something doesn't mean I'm going to wear it. You'll never convince me that there wasn't some quid pro quo here because it seems like all the ones you put in your top five, those teams sent you them to wear on the podcast. In Atlanta's defense, it was after I had extolled the virtues of the jersey and they said,

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