Hello and welcome to the total soccer show.

My name is Daryl Grove and I'm joined by a man who watched most of the MLS playups. His name is Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Taylor.

Hello, I'm not going to say which ones. We'll see if it becomes evidence.

Luckily, we're also joined by a man who watched all of the MLS playoffs. His name is Joe Larry. Joe, welcome to the show. Hello.

Thanks, guys, so much for having me on. It's great to be here. It's great. We're even happier

that you're here. We certainly are. We are going to do a deep dive MLS review with you. We know,

we trust you to have watched all these games at least 10 times each and to really know what happened in every MLS game this weekend.

And if not, then we just expect you to be really good at faking it. One of the other, Joe. One of the other. So first question, did you. We'll see if you guys can tell. Did you actually watch all six games? I did, yeah, I watched a lot of soccer this weekend.

I think my eyes were bleeding a little bit at the end of Saturday.

Sunday was nice, it was only two games, so that was fine.

But I made it through all six, so we're good to go. So with that in mind, actually, first question, an easy question, hopefully. Was there one that was your favorite, for whatever reason? Like, was it the very last one that kept hope alive? Or was it the very first one? Yeah, where was

the least bleeding? Yeah. I think the least bleeding was at the beginning. Um, on Saturday,

the Atlanta, New England game in the morning, my time was, it was a fun way to spend my early

Saturday morning. But I think my favorite game was probably that Seattle, Dallas game on a little

later on Saturday.

That one was absolutely fantastic, just high energy going back and forth. It was a really fun one to watch. Drama, drama, drama. All right, but Joe is starting chronologically, which is very helpful for us, because that's how we were going to approach it. It is. But before we do that, we should probably talk about another reason why we're talking to Joe today. The future of the Total Soccer Show includes a spin-off show hosted by Mr. Joe Lowry.

We've sort of, we'll be talking to Joe behind the scenes, and we're planning for Joe to host his own Major League Soccer Show as part of the Total Soccer Show network.

Joe, did you know about this?

I did. Yeah, no. I was fully aware of this. Thankfully, you guys didn't just bring it on me like this.

Yeah, no, I'm fully on top of what's going on here, thankfully. That's good. That's good. So I've been texting the right person. And the idea that'd be awkward otherwise if you were texting Don Garber.

But yes, the idea is to have Joe do a sort of tactics heavy show, but with sort of player analysis, team analysis, news updates, all that good stuff.

But a lot of the kind of tactical elements that we've come to expect from Joe's writing and from Joe's appearances on this show.

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