Welcome to the total soccer show and the latest edition of Take It or Leave It. It's the show where you send us your soccer hot takes and we take them or leave them. It's that simple. My name's Ryan Bailey. Join him in today your friend and mine, Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Taylor. Hello, Ryan. How are you, my friend? I'm very good indeed. I can't help but notice. Listener won't be able to see this, but you're wearing a Roblo-style Major League Soccer Baseball cap today. I suppose I am, aren't I? Yes. MLS All-Star hat. I did. I usually wear my just generic MLS hat for when I record with Joe and we talk MLS. That's a hat I need to send his way. It feels more appropriately fitting for him. And honestly, both of you seem like you need generic MLS hats as well. I think the world does. That's what the world needs more. Certainly major league soccer baseball hats, which for a second, I thought that was one of the sports from Taylor's Quiz on the Patreon yesterday. Major League Soccer Baseball.

I mean, we'll see how desperate they both get as to whether or not we need some sort of weird interleague merger and inter-sport merger at that. I could see it. I could see it happening. Graham, Rob, from there on the feed, by the way. Hello, Graham. How are you? Hello, Brian. I'm very well. How are you today? Marvelous, thank you.

You mentioned our Patreon.

Thank you for getting part of the job done for me,

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and from sterling albion games and uh everything they're in fun stuff good stuff graham yeah another

season is upon us i'm sure it's going to go badly can't wait ryan bailey can't wait but they are

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our first hot take showy it's from david penberthy who sent us this on twitter tana testman

not johnny will take tyler adamspot as the number six for the twenty twenty six world

cup uh first of all taylor is tyler adam spot up for grabs in the 2026 World Cup?

That is partially why I'm leaving this.

I really love this question mostly because it made you and Graham have to think about

Tanner Tessman, Johnny, Tyler Adams, the number six spot for the United States,

all things that I know you specifically Ryan care deeply, deeply about.

Yes, I am leaving this because I still think it's Tyler Adams taking the Tyler Adam spot.

Maybe unless he has another season, this season like he did the last couple.

Well, that's the thing, right?

That's the thing that could knock him out of contention is the fact that Tyler Adams is a bit of a abstract concept at this moment.

It doesn't tend to play much soccer. But he does score that one goal and then I've a hurt back and now we don't really know what's going to happen. He might miss a good chunk of this season. And that does open the door maybe a little bit. I think the problem is that I'm not sure I have confidence in either Testman or Johnny to really do that role.

If you had asked me this after just the group stage of the Olympics, I might feel more positive about Tesman between his performances in the group stage

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