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

My name is Taylor Rockwell and welcome to the Tuesday Hodgepodge.

We're talking expansion draft, off-season moves in Major League Soccer, front office shakeups,

franchises for sale, and Americans in Europe who could use a move in January,

so many things that I barely got through it. Here with me to break it all down is your friend and mine, a man who ruled himself out of the sporting director gig at Atlanta United so Chris Henderson could get it. It's Joe Lowry, Joe, very noble of you to give him that chance. Yeah, you know, I was flattered when the five strikes reached out. They just couldn't, it really wasn't me bowing out so much as them not meeting my contract demands.

Of course.

That's what the real story was.

You know, they don't want to tell you that.

Taylor, they're not reporting that. And by they, I mean, Tom and Paul and whoever else. That's a misstep on their part. But, you know, Chris Anderson seems like a very good hire. I'm sure he'll do a good job. and he'll do it for less than I would, you know?

So good for him.

Was it the custom pizza oven that put it over the top where you wanted, like, custom tiles and everything done exactly to your specifications? Is that would put it above the, the threshold? Weirdly, Arthur Blank will pay for Pitti Martinez and Ezekiel Barco, but not for my built-in pizza oven in my office that is also climate controlled and temperature adjusted such that I don't

burn along with the pizza. For some reason, that's where he decided like, hey, I'm not, I'm not spending on that. I'm glad that you set that up as a goal of not dying while making pizza. I was just thinking, like, oh, it'd be nice to have it, like, in the office, you know? It feels like That would be a cool thing.

But then I also just don't want to roast and have the office get up to like 90 degrees while the pizzas are in the oven.

So, I don't know. We're still working out the kinks here. Maybe I didn't come in with a good enough plan. Maybe my PowerPoint wasn't long enough for Garth Lagerway and Arthur Blank. And maybe it actually wasn't the contract demands. It was just that the pizza oven idea was no good. I think it's a great idea personally. I think the idea of like trying to figure out how to get more game and tam while also making a pizza at the same time. You know, you can micro-task. Think about like, think about like wooing agents and players. Like you, you know, the story last offseason was Miles Robinson got a tour around FC Cincinnati's training facility and stadium and they put a giant

picture of Miles Robinson up on the Jumbotron at a TQL. Like imagine doing that but not doing any of that

and instead just sitting down to like a wood-fired pizza in my office in Atlanta United's training

center and just tossing some slices out. I don't think the I don't think the team nutritionists

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