Hey, folks, before we get to today's lovely, lovely show featuring the wonderful, wonderful Joe Lowry of MLS Assist, talking all things major league soccer, specifically the MLS's back tournament and everything that has happened.

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You've got the article that Joe Will mentioned later on, this is in the future, by Jeff Ruter and

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Hello everybody and welcome to The Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

Daryl Grove is not with me today, but that's okay because we haven't talked about MLS's back very much on the show, mostly because two other podcasts have been doing it so very well.

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