The The All right, everybody, welcome into a special bonus MLS Cup playoff episode of Sam's Army.

No, I am not the typical host, Samuel Army. He is away with Mrs. Army right now. No, I'm kidding.

He's elsewhere. I don't know where. My name's Tyler. I'm going to be hosting this podcast. I'm trying this hosting thing out for the first time in my career. We'll see how it goes. And who better to discuss the MLS Cup playoffs than with two guys who are not in the MLS Cup playoffs. and it worked out really nicely because they're going to be able to give their non-biased opinions.

Tim Parker and Alex Bono join the showLS Cup playoffs. And it worked out really nicely because they're going to be able to give their non-biased opinions.

Tim Parker and Alex Bono joined the show to elite members of Sam, obviously cardholding members for several years now. We welcome them on to the show. We'll start with the traditional Sam. I'm going to ask you an intro question. Let's start with Tim Parker, who as Alex Bono, talked about before we started recording, is quote unquote a big deal in the tri-state area. And Tim, I hear that you officially might be a

New Jersey guy despite your Long Island upbringing. Those are just rumors. It's hearsay,

thoughts, concerns, and comments on that. Man, I love growing up in Long Island and I love Long Island, but I went to Long Island

yesterday and I don't think I could ever live there again because the traffic is just so bad

and I have no problem saying that and I think everyone else from Long Island knows that.

So yeah, I'm a Jersey guy now and that's just where I'm going to live. But Long Island will have my roots, but I just could not move back there, never. Wow. Heard it here first. Bagels in Jersey or Long Island, what do we prefer? You're going to try to shout out the bagel chateau here because that's your... Absolutely. Unofficial, official sponsor. That is the home spot. Timmy and I ran into each other at the Bagel Chateau here because that's your absolutely unofficial official sponsor that is the

home spot timmy and i ran into each other at the bagel chateau and in beautiful westfield new jersey for a

solid 20 minutes uh but where where do we prefer our bagels oh i'm i'm a long island bagel guy still

that's fine that's fine if it's still as long as you're paying jersey taxes you're a jersey

guy to me speaking speaking of taxes um and the can form, or not the Canadian form, as he's going to head back to his misses back in Toronto in a couple of days' time and is packing up his life. Alex Bono of the New England Revolution also joins us. Bones, what are we excited for this offseason besides spending time with the wifu you are separated by the northern

border yeah i thought you were going to say mLS playoffs but yeah um that too yeah that too looking

forward to spend some time with the family um it's nice to have some downtime a little bit reset the gears

and and kind of uh get the hunger back going in for next season so uh you know for me a lot of working off

us working out us goalkeepers don't get the chance to stay as fit as we'd like to during

the season, which is not our forte anyways. So a lot of that, a lot of downtime hanging out with

the family and recharge it for next year. Love it. All right, so let's get down to business.

A lot of stuff that happened on Decision Day. Obviously, both of you guys were in the middle of that. Timmy was on the unfortunate side of a 3-1 loss against the Columbus crew, a beaten-up Columbus crew side. I'm not taking shots here. I'm just simply, if you were on a different team, I would just give, you're looking at me as if, like, I should be saying anything different than what happened we were both eliminated like two weeks ago so we're kind of you were in the

middle of decision you're in the middle of decision day and and your game didn't matter a ton

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