Hello,

Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and it's Tuesday, which means it's time to talk some Major League Soccer to do so.

As ever, I'm joined by two fine fellows, one of whom found out he will be here via email.

It's Joe Lowry.

Hello, Joe.

You know, it's great to get that email that tells you whether your hopes and dreams are going to be fulfilled or not you know i've just you should have seen it we should have live streamed this whole thing i was like behind my computer biting my nails down to the bed earlier today and finally when that hit my inbox taylor rockwell has messaged me t TSS, get there, be there.

I'm stoked, Taylor. This is an honor of a lifetime. I'm glad it's an honor of a lifetime. Thank you, Joe. That's high praise and not at all hyperbolic. Rounding out the crew is a man who also got an email. It's Jeff Ruter. Hello, Jeff. Do we think U.S. soccer emailed? Like, do they know the player emails? Do players check their emails with that level of regularity?

Was somebody else checking it for them?

I have so many questions. I have to think that there's some sort of agents provide your players email, or there's a special inbox that's only to be touched for this and not for their subscription services. Though, I would absolutely use my Federation issued to get as many free trials as possible as I'm trying to figure out whether or not it's actually worth paying for Disney Plus in 2026. So, you know, it's a nice built-in perk as long as you can swing it, right. I just keep picturing like West and McKinney, like casually chatting with Tyler Adams, like while playing FIFA or something. We're like, oh man, did you get your email? Like what? What? No? Like, and then having to like scroll through, figure out where they missed it, sign up for something accidentally. But then find out they did make the World Cup roster. We will be talking about that U.S. roster because Jeff and Pablo, the Guardian, did some reporting this past weekend, some scooping, if you will.

And we have a roster to be discussed.

But first, we have games from the weekend to be discussed.

And a new coaching vacancy comes into the fold.

Jeff Ruder, why don't you start us off with your game of the weekend?

I will preface this segment by saying we're only interested in your game if a team scored six goals. Correct. High bar, but reachable, clearly, as MLS teams are showing every weekend now,

it feels like. It's that proverbial, it's weird, I have two nickels sort of scenario here.

And let's start with the one that's Cincinnati 6, Orlando 2, because,

you know, look, teams are in very mixed states at this stage of the season, and they have

been throughout May. I think Matt Doyle referred to it as a month of the tactics free zone,

and I think that's entirely fair. Like, a lot of players are getting rested either for the

World Cup or because it's not worth rushing them back for two games before they would have six weeks off anyway. You have some suspensions.

You have players with international breaks. Cincinnati has certainly had to change a lot with

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