Hello,

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the total soccercer Show, a Tuesday edition of the Total Soccer

show, which means I am Taylor Rockwell doing the introduction, and I'm joined by Joe

Lowry to talk to Major League Soccer. Hello, Joe. It's me. I am here to talk about

major league soccer with you, Taylor. Hello. Nicely done. Good repetition. Joe, let's keep that happy camaraderie that we have to start the show as opposed to ending with a Carly's Hill, Zaviera, Adiaga, sort of blow up, dust up, screaming match, shoving match that then I saw a few New England supporters try to spin as, that's the passion you need when you're trying to put it all together. I'm not sure I agree so much with that sentiment, Joe. No, I usually leave those kinds of scuffles to Graham and Ryan as they argue about British things. Like, I don't know about which tennis line is the best line and whatever other ridiculous things. So we'll leave that to them. We'll have a nice harmonious episode today.

Unless, no, no, Caleb Porter's not joining the Zincaster, right?

He is decidedly not.

I don't think so.

He's got bigger fish to fry, potentially.

But what we do have, Joe, on this Zengaster chat, is 10 topics that I would like to pick your brain about.

No rankings or anything like that,

just an opportunity for Joe to not have to do rankings and to keep orders in his head. But just to

talk about the things that we want to talk about, two of which we talked about yesterday. And I want

to revisit. Let's start with the NYCFC. Support your local club TIFO for a moment. I think I was a little

bit cynical about this. Maybe Graham was too when we spoke about this yesterday, but I was listening to extra time. I enjoyed Matt Doyle's point about the importance of supporting your local clubs and that like seeing soccer in person is always the best. So the idea that everybody should be out supporting their local clubs, less so individual players coming to town

does resonate a little bit more. So Joe, with that in mind, where are you on that TIFO? Let's go

back. I love the TIFO from the start. I was the one who tossed it out and everybody just sort of

dunked on it. So the TIFO for folks who haven't seen it is like a Barbie themed TIFO.

And this was when Inter Miami and

Messi came to town to play NYCFC at Yankee Stadium which was a delightful spectacle in the

first place because Messi was playing on a baseball field only in America so good and the top line

in that Barbie font the classic one is don't be plastic and then there's like this little fake

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