MLS Cup review, plus which young U.S. player could break out in MLS next year, where Wondo fits best, and more listener questions w/Sam Stejskal
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🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Joe Lowery is joined by The Athletic's Sam Stejskal to review MLS Cup and answer some MLS-related listener questions! First, Joe and Sam talk all about the Columbus Crew's impressive victory over the Seattle Sounders in Saturday's MLS Cup, digging into Aidan Morris' breakout performance, Lucas Zelarayan's dominant display, Caleb Porter's tactics, and Brian Schmetzer's future in Seattle. Then, Joe and Sam tackle a handful of listener questions:
26:10 - Which player would you want a gigantic golden CGI statue of to embody quintessential MLS?
33:00 - Which MLS team is poised for a “worst to first” kind of year? And which team is going the other way?
45:03 - If Chris Wondolowski doesn't re-sign with the San Jose Earthquakes, what other team best suits him?
48:30 - Which young American will burst onto the scene in MLS next year like Brenden Aaronson did this past year?
51:32 - Who will be sold for the most amount of money between Caden Clark, Gianluca Busio, Mark McKenzie, Brian Reynolds, and Daryl Dike?
56:50 - What happened with Diego Alonso's pseudo-firing in Miami?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, everyone, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:25.7 | My name is Joe Lowry, and today I'm joined by the athletics and allocation disorders, Sam, StageSkull. |
| 0:31.7 | Sam, thanks for coming on the show. How are you? |
| 0:34.7 | Of course. Thank you for having me on, Joe. I am doing well, you know, recovering from post-MLS Cup week. Still a lot of news bouncing around. So, you know, not quite fully in recovery mode, I guess. We're still trucking. But yeah, I'm doing well. Thank you for having me on. Yeah, of course. I wanted to ask you about that, actually. We just saw the MLS season end on Saturday with the Columbus Cruise win in MLS Cup. For you, things don't |
| 0:59.9 | really drop. Do they, things pretty much are as busy now? I assume as they are during the season. Is that |
| 1:04.4 | about right? Usually the offseason is busier for me than the season, because there's so much |
| 1:10.1 | stuff happening and it's more |
| 1:12.2 | immediate and less, uh, planable, I guess, you know, during the season, you have a schedule, |
| 1:17.4 | you know, what's coming, you know, there's the summer transfer window, but you're less |
| 1:21.1 | surprised by news. Um, and in the off season, there's just a ton of moving parts, particularly |
| 1:27.0 | this off season, because we don't know when preseason or the off season, there's just a ton of moving parts, particularly this off season, |
| 1:28.0 | because we don't know when preseason or the 2021 regular season is going to start. |
| 1:34.0 | So there's just like a ton of stuff to work out and suss out and report. |
| 1:39.2 | So yeah, it's definitely a busy time. |
| 1:41.5 | I'm going to get away for a couple of weeks over the holidays and just throw my phone |
| 1:45.9 | into a lake, I think, for my own personal well-being. |
| 1:50.1 | But yeah, it'll be right back to the grind for the rest of this week and starting again in |
| 1:54.3 | January. |
| 1:55.0 | I mean, Sam, phones are kind of expensive. |
| 1:56.6 | I don't know that I'd recommend throwing it in the lake. |
| 1:58.4 | But, I mean, as far as getting away from work goes, I guess, that's a fine solution. Honestly, it might be worth the whatever hundred, a couple hundred bucks at this point. Well, before we let you off the hook for the holiday season, you and I are going to talk some major league soccer. The MLS season just ended, as I already said. And so on today's show, we're going to do a couple different things. We're going to sink our teeth into Saturday's MLS Cup, and then we're going to answer some MLS-themed listener questions. Sam, does that all sound good to you? Sounds great. Let's do it. Fantastic. So to close out the MLS Cup playoffs, Columbus and Seattle played in Columbus, Ohio, at Matt Frey Stadium, in MLS Cup, |
| 2:35.7 | and the crew won three to nothing. |
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