Welcome to the Total Soccero and part four of five of our 2026 MLS season previews.

On this episode, we're looking at how the West might be won by going in depth on Houston, the galaxy, LFC, Minnesota, Portland and Real Salt Lake.

My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today for a little chat is Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Taylor. Hello, Ryan Bailey. I like the roll the R on Real Salt Lake. You gave them their proper billing, I think. Is that their proper billing? I'm never quite sure. Indeed. Makes it more royal if you roll it. It's true. Very royal over there. Now, Utah, famous for that kind of thing. Hello, Joe Larry. How are you? Hey, I am great. This is one of my favorite weeks of shows of the year. Let's crush this. Let's do good work. I don't know where I'm going with this, but let's get this thing on the roll, shall we? One of your favorite weeks you say yeah weeks do you like joe wow thank you for following up with that and not whatever

travesty that response was on my part i don't know where my head's at today um other favorite

weeks will cup preview week um the week after the world cup when i remember who i am again any of those

weeks probably one of those shark Shark week? I used to like

Shark Week, but it changed, man. It changed. Did they get different sharks? What, what happened? They're not even sharks anymore. They're paid actors. Yeah. Disappointing. Nothing's real anymore. Nothing's real. I'm an infrastructure week guy myself. Jeff Ruta, how are you? I'm good. My favorite week is the week, you guys let me do five shows. How do you do this every week? This is...

We do six. Jokes on you. Bless your souls. I know, Grand Muthin. How are you? Hello, I'm very well. I'm looking forward to previewing. I believe it's real Salt Lake because that Real Madrid affiliation never actually came through. So, you know, you were wrong to roll your R like that, Ryan Bailey. I'm sorry to tell you. Oh, my apologies. I always draw my rolling. We'll get to them later. And their fame for inventing the grid traffic system, my favorite fact about real. You're never going to let that go.

I will never let it go.

Sorry, you're going to make a shirt about it. I'm going to talk about it for the rest of days. Patreon.com slash total soccer show, by the way, is where you'll get our bonus content. You'll get bonus episodes, bonus video and access to our Discord server. All the cool kids are hanging out in there. many of those cool kids are now part of the TSS Scouting Network,

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We will see.

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All right.

You probably know the gist of this MLS episode so far.

We're going to cover what last season looked like for every team,

the 26 roster changes, manager and tactics, key players,

and our very specific predictions trademark.

We're going to start off with the Houston Dynamo.

Jeff Rood is going to tell them, tell us all about them, but not before, Jeff.

Fact.

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