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The future is open. Hello, hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and we've got our 2024 MLS Cup finalists set.

The dogs in the background are barking because they are excited, certainly not because there's the person out front.

With the LA Galaxy hosting the New York, New Jersey Metro Stars, aka the New York Red Bulls, Joe Lowry, pretty much exactly how we drew it up in our playoff preview. Yeah, no, everybody predicted this? Oh, wait, no, no, that's the complete opposite. Nobody would have predicted this. Maybe the Western Conference was a bit more predictable for the New York Red Bulls to become Eastern Conference champions for the first time. I do believe that the Red Bulls have been Western Conference Champions before. Don't ask me how that happened. I wasn't watching at the time. For them to be Eastern Conference champs for the first time is an incredible story. For them to go on the road in every single round of the playoffs, it's great stuff from them. I got nothing but love for the Red Bulls right now. From memory, that was when you had the like unbalanced schedule, right, where you had too many teams in one conference. So like the last place team in one would go play the playoffs and the other conference, I think. So the Red Bull somehow ended up in the West. Maybe the crew did that as well. I feel like a couple times the East has done well in the West. I just sort of thought I was being gaslit the entire time when I was reading about this on social media.

Apparently the Colorado rack. like a couple times the east has done well in the west i just sort of thought i was being gaslit the entire time when i was reading about this uh on social media apparently the colorado rapids have also

won both um mLS is a special special place that is believe it or not despite all the weird

idiosyncrasies we talk about now it is more normal now than it used to be and the red bulls

actually winning their conference and having that conference being the Eastern Conference is a good example of that.

There we go.

It is a bit more normal.

There has been some abnormal moments of late.

We've had two managers depart their gigs for different reasons, is how I'll phrase that one.

We'll talk about that one later on.

Joe, right now, let's get in to the games themselves.

Let's start in the East with the Red Bulls getting the 1-0 win on the road at Orlando

City.

From broad strokes perspective, did this game play out the way you expected it to?

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