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Thank you. Hello, hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and on today's episode, we're talking MLS playoffs.

We're talking U.S. men's national team.

Lots to be discussed, even maybe some Apple and MLS deal chat as well to do so.

I'm joined by a man who has gone too big time for the TSS Friday slot.

It's Sam Staskell of the Athletic and the Allocation Disorder podcast.

Sam, thank you for being here.

It's great to talk to you as opposed to reading your shade in the comment section of a Bobby Warshall live stream.

That was a fun comment section.

I'm too big time for Friday, TSS, but not too big time for the comments section of a watch

along with Bobby where eight people are on.

I kind of kept forgetting that there were only like seven or eight people on there as we

were having those conversations.

I really could have just taken it as an opportunity to just slam Bobby more regularly. Yeah. I try to keep a professional. And then you came in. Six of them were media members as well. Yeah. I did enjoy how often you, and I think Pablo, took the time to remind us that there was an actual game happening and goals were actually being scored because we were definitely having our own conversations at times. Yes. Well, you know, those were fun. And, you know, I will say, I was a lot looser with information and takes because there were only eight people on those things. So if you were one of the three non-media members on that show, you got, you were treated to something pretty special um you know now i'm trying to remember

yeah yeah bobby bobby did ask us for like our our biggest takes that we haven't like said

out loud but we mentioned in the group chat and i have very few such takes mine were all pretty

lukewarm i think it best that's what happens when you have a daily podcast, Taylor. You don't have ticks that you don't share.

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