The Hello, and welcome back to full-time.

I am Tamara Griffin, and yes, this is not full-time review,

but it's time to sort of step back and reflect, we'll say.

Think of this as like full-time reflect,

because we are at the tail end of an international window that

saw the U.S. Women's National team play three games, the first of which opened with a loss,

not something that we experience often against Portugal, two to one. But they bounce back.

The next time they met that team, beat them three one, and and recently played New Zealand, Wopped them 6-0.

There were hat tricks in this window.

There were braces in this window.

There were continued questions about whether X-player might need to be on that 2027 World Cup roster.

And many, many more things. We're going to be talking about that today. And we're going to be on that 2027 World Cup roster. And many, many more things. We're going to be talking about

that today. And we're going to be discussing Meg's column about the NWSL's general eligibility policy

or lack thereof. Meg, welcome back to the show. How are you doing? How's your fall? How's your

October window? I have got an autumn spice latte for this show.

Tamara, are you a beverage drinker with the seasons? Are you a seasonal beverage drinker?

I'm definitely not a PSL girly. Just need to make that clear. But I am increasingly becoming a maple

gurly. Maple lattes are really doing it for me right now. And I will

never forget when you brought those maple candies to the New York Times office when we had

that summit and we dropped them in our coffee. I think about that often. So that's my,

that's my false tease. It's kind of going to stop there. I love a cozy sweater. But I just kind of keep it simple, because summer's my main season.

No, I, like, I feel like once it starts getting cold, right, my powers are just like, I mean, I will say we started having some snow on the mountains up here. So I feel like I'm ready. I'm ready. It's, I've got my

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