Pablo Maurer and Sam Stejskal discuss the political contributions of MLS owners, as well as their own frenemy relationship

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🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Taylor is joined by Pablo Maurer and Sam Stejskal of The Athletic to discuss their recent article "Disconnect: as MLS teams back social causes, owners' money often fights them." It's an excellent article that I'd encourage everyone to read, and they go over the basic findings of their research and the more interesting bits and pieces they uncovered. There's also some interesting insight into the process of creating such a highly-detailed, collaborative effort, the reaction to MLS PR when the initial calls are made, and their favorite phrase ever said to them by an MLS employee. Sponsors! SoFi! Download the SoFi daily podcast to get the right information to help you gain financial independence. Vuori! Get 20% off and free shipping on your first order when you go to vuoriclothing.com/TSS Credible! Visit Credible.com/TSS and get a $200 gift card when you refinance your student loans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.
0:24.5	My name is Taylor Rockwell.
0:25.7	I am your host for today.
0:27.6	I am going to be joined in just a moment by Pablo Marra and Sam Staschko from the athletic.
0:32.8	They are here to discuss one of their two wonderful pieces.
0:35.6	The second one I have now read when we recorded this interview I had not yet had the time
0:39.6	to read their Chivas USA piece.
0:41.1	I have since.
0:42.3	It's amazing.
0:43.3	So too is their article about MLS owners and their financial contributions to political campaigns.
0:49.3	I struggled to say the name of the article.
0:51.2	I think three different times in this interview.
0:53.3	But it's disconnect as MLS teams back social causes owners money often fights them.
0:59.3	It is a great piece if you haven't had a chance to read it.
1:02.4	If you don't feel like reading it you can hear Pablo and Sam give you their sort of distillation
1:07.5	of what it is in this episode and we talk about the kind of research went into it, how
1:11.5	awkward it could be asking some of these questions as well as sort of what the line is between
1:16.2	what an owner does and what the team does and how you sort of marry those two things when
1:20.6	they stand at odds.
1:22.0	I really enjoyed this.
1:23.0	There's also some goofiness in there because it's Pablo and Sam that's inevitable.
1:27.0	But the reason why I'm giving you this preamble is supposed to just getting right to them
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