Hello, hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

I am your host for today.

I am going to be joined in just a moment by Pablo Mara and Sam Staschol from The Athletic.

They are here to discuss one of their two wonderful pieces.

The second one I have now read when we recorded this interview I had not yet had the time to read their Chevas USA piece.

I have since.

It's amazing.

So, too, is their article about MLS owners and their financial contributions to political campaigns.

I struggled to say the name of the article, I think three different times in this interview.

But it's disconnect as MLS teams back back social causes. Owners' money often fights them. It is a great

piece if you haven't had a chance to read it. If you don't feel like reading it, you can hear

Pablo and Sam give you their sort of distillation of what it is in this episode, and we talk

about the kind of research went into it, how awkward it could be asking some of these questions, as well as sort of what the line is between what an owner does and what the team does and how you sort of marry those two things when they stand at odds. I really enjoyed this. There's also some goofiness in there because it's Pablo and Sam, that's inevitable. But the reason why I'm

giving you this preamble as opposed to just getting right to them is because I also wanted to give

everybody sort of an update about the schedule for the week. I am feeling slightly worn down.

It's been obviously an emotional time at the Total Soccer Show and for me personally. So my

plan is to put out the allocation disorder episode that was supposed to

drop last Friday. I'm going to put that out tomorrow. I think it is fairly evergreen.

There may be some stuff that's a little bit dated, but I think Paul is discussing a topic

that he was writing about that I believe was published today. So hopefully still some relevance

there. Then there will be two more episodes of Soccer 101 this week, one done by myself, one by Joe Lowry.

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