Hey, everybody on today's show, Daryl and I are going to be celebrating all things Bundesliga.

It's back and we're looking at things to be excited for from young Americans who might get minutes to young Americans who we think possibly definitely will get minutes, possibly definitely being key there.

We talk about some of the title challengers, some of the also-rans and some of the not-quite-yet runnings, but maybe they will. We shall see. Before we get to all that, I wanted to let you know that this episode of the Total Soccer show is brought to you by remarkably remote from Go to Meeting. It will help you succeed in today's new normal. In just three minutes or fewer, they will share simple but helpful tips to keep you on track from, say, managing your motivation workload and relationships

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My name is Daryl Grove and I'm joined by a man who's looking forward to the Geistaspieler. His name is Taylor Rockwell. Hello. There it is. Hello, buddy. I was surprised we didn't get a Guten Tag or something along those lines. You brought in the German at the end. I knew it would be there. It just wasn't sure where. Have you seen the phrase geistisbila floating around the internet? And do you know what it means? No and no. It means the ghost games, which is apparently how these behind

closed door Bundesliga games, that's how they're being referred to by German soccer.

I have seen them referred to as Ghost Games.

I had not heard the German terminology for that one.

Still seems a bit melodramatic for games that are going to be counted in league play

and will be televised to billions of people.

So for those who don't know, the Bundesliga is coming back.

We have live top-level soccer to look forward to starting Saturday, May 16th.

If you're on the U.S. East Coast... Shots fired to the Belarus League there, man.

I mean, they deserve it. If you are ready, Saturday, May 16th, 930 Eastern, the Bundesliga is back in action.

Fox Sports 1 and TUDN is where you can watch the Bundesliga

starting this Saturday. So today's total soccer show is essentially a Bundesliga catch-up and

preview. It's things to look out for as the Bundesliga comes back. And we're going to go back and

forth, Taylor. I have all kinds of notes in my Google Doc here. I got really excited and made loads

of notes. I got really excited as well. I want to get into some of the specifics, but I want to start off with a general one, which maybe isn't even a bullet pointer sort of thing, but I'm going with it anyway, which is just that it's nice to have to schedule things. Like I have already set my alarm for Saturday because my wife and I do not have children, so it's easy to sleep in. But now I have reason to wake up at 9 a.m. on a Saturday. And I'm kind of excited about that in a way that I would not normally be. Okay, first question then. This is the excitement of soccer coming back. You set your alarm 30 minutes before kickoff. Yes. What do you do with those 30 minutes? In actuality, that's my reminder.

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