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

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

It's Tuesday and I just punched a wall while doing the introduction.

My elbow hurts.

I am excited to be back in talking MLS.

We're getting into Indra Miami's new home being off to a start.

Red cards on red cards on red cards in a certain game.

Diego Luna loving puppies.

I love his introductions and interviews.

And Son Hungman getting a ham bone of assists.

That one's for Rob Stone.

Here with me to break it all down.

A man who knows the best way to look functional and put together is to play Orlando each

week. It's Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. That's the simple hack. This one trick will change your entire MLS season. I can see the clickbait title now. What's this handbone business, Taylor? I'm not familiar. I believe when Rob Stone called bowling, if you got three strikes in a row, it's a turkey, and then if you get four strikes in a row, he needed a term, so he came up with hambone.

So that's a ham, and then if you get four strikes in a row,

he needed a term, so he came up with handbone. So it's a handbone when you get four strikes, a handbone of assists. Wow. I'm saying it's four assists. That's absolutely fascinating. Okay, I've learned one thing there. I didn't see the Diego Luna thing either. I thought when you mentioned Puppy, you were going to reference Preston Judd. I don't know if you guys saw this.

Preston Judd scored a goal against San Diego FC

and then proceeds to mime as if he's peeing on the corner flag like a dog. And everyone was sort of confused because Preston Judd, I don't if you guys have ever seen any of his tweets. He's like active on social. Like he's responding to fans a little bit here and there and is not afraid to get down and dirty in the mentions a little bit, which I love. I love Preston Judd. I'm glad he's having an amazing season. But apparently this was not him trying to take a shot at San Diego. This was him trying to raise money for like a dog foundation that he wants to start. That wasn't the vibe that I got from the Selly. That feels. I think so. I'll be honest. the details are still a little bit murky, but I don't think it was him

just peeing on the city of San Diego. I do still have additional questions, though, for sure. Yeah, that feels maybe potentially revisionist. Like, oh, no, no, I'm a dog shelter. I'm going to start a dog shelter. Don't worry about it. The Luna thing, I saw a post-match interview with him where he was just talking about, like, basically the question was like, how good does it feel to score? How good does it feel to be back and kind of starting? And his response was like, oh, it feels so good. You know, we're out here, we're scoring goals. We're playing well. Like, little kids are out. Fans are up for it. Puppies are around. Like, I think they were like puppies as part of the pregame ceremony, but just hearing him just mention that puppies makes the world good. Like that's what it's all about. I just love me some Diego Luna. I love me some R.S.L. We'll talk about them later on because before we can do that, we have to introduce a man who is ready and willing to organize a candlelight vigil to restore Hamas Rodriguez's vitality and spirit. It's Jeff Ruter. Hello, Jeff. The Colombians in the great state of Minnesota are having a time right now. All seven of them. That is not what they expected. That is actually something that happened to me over the weekend, running into someone whose family was doing so with the candlelit vigil in Columbia. So good work, Taylor. I didn't know if you were at the Molf America this weekend. That's crazy. I didn't know that is um of America this weekend that's crazy I

didn't see you that is something else like can you explain the consternation for me because it's not

as though he was playing every single game in league I meckies and every single game for

Columbia and now he's here not playing like hasn't he been pretty limited in his performances in minutes? If Gareth Bale hadn't been able to make it to Qatar in 2022, the entire nation of Wales would have, like, self-combusted, right? There's just, like, certain players you don't want to enter tournaments without, like, imagine if in the early 2010s, let's say maybe like just before 2014, the U.S. men's national team entered a World Cup without Landon Donovan. You would just feel like a little bit less confident in the ability of that U.S. men's national team with the squad drops, wouldn't you? You would. But I also feel less confident about the U.S.M&T on a regular basis. So here we are. Let's not talk about them. Let's talk about the MLS weekend that was Joe. Can you tell me your favorite game of the weekend, if you would? I really enjoyed this weekend pretty much all the way across the board, but I will take us to New York, Red Bull, New York, still getting used to that, for FC Cincinnati. The Red Bulls is of New York's. That sounds right, actually. Yep. That, yeah, that makes sense. This was, in my mind, the game where I realized that Julian Hall is going to be a problem for MLS teams. It's gone under the radar because Adjimmeddi has been such a revelation and somebody that we hadn't seen before at this level. But the other Red Bull Youngster, the really high, high profile one, this is no disrespect to Maddie Dos Santos. But Hall has sort of been the other one this year. He was the one that we already knew a little bit about. We remember when he wasn't able to play games past 7 p.m. because of New Jersey child labor laws. And now he's got five goals and six games. And I knew that deep, deep down. But when I saw him score that goal against Cincinnati where he makes this direct run that just sends Matt Miao's into a tizzy, basically. When he makes that run and puts the ball in the back of the net. And I realized it was his fifth goal. That still somehow shocked me. And Hall has been so good, and he's somehow done it in such an un...

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