"Maybe this was just a horrible idea" Matt Pentz and Pablo Maurer discuss their recent piece on the MLS is Back tournament
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🗓️ 15 November 2021
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The Athletic's Matt Pentz and Pablo Maurer discuss their recent piece on The MLS is Back tournament: how did the decision makers decide to hold the tournament, what were the other possible host locations, which teams enjoyed it the most and which ones liked it the least, the role it played in facilitating the Black Players for Change movement, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello everybody and welcome to the total soccer show. My name is Taylor Rockwell. And joining me today to talk a little MLS or more specifically, the MLS's back tournament, are two fellas who spent, I'm assuming, a lot of time talking to people about that strange tournament in Florida. From The Athletic, it's Matt Pence hi Matt how's it how's it going it's |
| 0:38.5 | going well man it's good to talk to you Matt out on the west coast and Pablo marr joining us from |
| 0:42.7 | somewhere I'm assuming hi Pablo hey how's it going you're you're you're you're in D.C. are you |
| 0:48.9 | East Coast yeah yeah Washington DC all right coast to coast today uh and we are here. You all are joining me to talk about the piece you all just wrote. As I said, I really, really enjoyed it. Pablo, before you got on the line, I was telling Matt, that it kind of was amazing to me that you all managed to come up with something that is both very entertaining and funny and simultaneously infuriating. So credit to you both for that. |
| 1:12.4 | Thank you. I don't know. Maybe my specialty is making people angry. |
| 1:18.5 | And does that mean that Matt's specialty is making people happy? |
| 1:22.2 | That's why it works out of gather. It's quite the balance. |
| 1:25.6 | Exactly. Good cop. Good cop, bad cop. |
| 1:29.0 | So, for MLS is back, I want to pause for a moment, Matt. |
| 1:32.3 | For listeners who are in a similar boat to me, |
| 1:35.4 | who kind of forgot that that tournament happened or so many things have happened |
| 1:39.1 | since it happened that it sort of has faded a little bit from memory, |
| 1:42.9 | can you give us a quick bit of background on the tournament itself, Matt? |
| 1:46.7 | Yeah, so this is basically, as we kind of like address at one point in the story, |
| 1:52.6 | it's kind of like dropping you back into that very strange point in time that no one really |
| 1:57.9 | feels like going back to when the pandemic really first kind of |
| 2:02.1 | took hold last March into kind of the early summer when everything was really meaningfully |
| 2:07.9 | on hold. |
| 2:08.6 | There weren't really any sporting events anywhere. |
| 2:12.0 | And so this was MLS's way to, at the time, they thought they were going to be the first |
| 2:17.2 | league back playing they kind of |
| 2:19.2 | came up with this plan to just try to strategically like find any way to do this even like pseudo |
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