Hello,

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

It's a Tuesday edition, and it's the second edition of the Tuesday show because Joe Lowry's the internet cut out immediately after I began the introduction last time.

Joe, are you still with us this time?

I am.

I am still with us. And Taylor, I think we need to be looking at the bright side. You know, second edition of the Tuesday edition could mean we'd gotten through 45 minutes and had to restart. So really, I think you should be thanking me, honestly. I am thanking you because had your internet not have cut out, you would have known that in my first introduction, my voice cracked pretty hard. So that was not the way I wanted

to start my first show of the week. So we get a second chance, a second bite of the apple to do

the introduction and like a 40th bite of the apple to talk about some of the MLS teams we are going

to talk about today. But Joe, the first thing we have to talk about, do I see a sole patch?

Are you growing a soul patch? Let's talk about it for at least 45 minutes. No. Well, first of all, I'd like to think of that voice crack I didn't hear. Taylor is just a sign of your youthful exuberance coming in off of a long weekend. Of course. And it's most certainly not a sole patch. My facial hair is a bit longer than normal. We're probably two days past where it needed to go away. But these are the benefits of working from home and only

ever seeing you and Ryan and Graham on my computer screen. But that one patch of my beard just grows in

like more red and more visible than the rest of my facial hair. So it just pops up in random splotches.

It's weird and I have no explanation for it. He's growing us old patched listeners. Don't listen to

him. That's what I meant to sayatch listeners. Don't listen to him.

That's what I meant to say.

Joe, we are going to have the return of your enthusiasm index on this episode. I'm going to give Joe 10 things. I'm keeping it vague for now. He'll have to throw him into a random order of his enthusiasm. but it's a little bit of a kinder assignment, Joe, because I have a feeling our listeners,

or at least some of our listeners, that maybe not. enthusiasm. But it's a little bit of a kinder assignment, Joe, because I have a feeling

our listeners, or at least some of our listeners, have maybe not been paying as much attention

to major league soccer. There was the league's cup. There's the return to the regular season,

but we are gearing up for the playoffs. We are sort of figuring some teams out or putting some

finishing touches on some teams as we move towards

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