Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollison, welcome to the State of the Union

podcast. We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of

red white and blue colored glasses. This week we'll be talking about

MLS Cup, well the upcoming Cup, um, L.S MLS Cup which is this Saturday because we finally

know exactly who was going to be there we'll have our European roundup we're talking about

coaches maybe even be talking about agents and obviously players,

Champions League, possibly American soccer's best day ever?

Question mark. We're talking about Manck and so much more. But first joining me as always is my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Massey, a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary.

Mossy, how are you on this Tuesday, December 8th?

We are recording 24 hours later.

We hope that you forgive us for that, but it's a good reason because I just landed

back at LAX and came right to my house and I'm recording this podcast after being on the road up there in Seattle for MLS so we delayed it for 24 hours

and I know there's still soccer going on right now.

Mossy how are you?

I'm doing well welcome back to Los Angeles.

As you know Alexi I lived in New York for many years I was a big

fan of the Mike and the Madog radio program and some of my favorite shows were

when they were on there during the NCAA basketball tournament and they'd be

doing a radio show but have like one eye on a

television with games going on and would be like half talking half calling the

games and it's going to be a little bit like that today because we are as you

mentioned we are taping this on Tuesday it's 1115

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