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Thank you. Hello, hello, everybody, and welcome to the total soccer show. My name is Taylor Rockwell, and today we're talking a lot about MLS roster moves thus far, as well as moves that might happen and maybe moves that should happen to do so. I'm joined by a man who has not committed himself to growing a mullet in the new year. It's Joe Lowry. Hi, Joe. Congrats on the standard haircut. Thanks, man. It's really nice. I feel good about my flow. I feel good about it not changing anytime soon other than the occasional trim. I don't feel great about being number three on the facial hair power rankings for today's Tuesday show. Usually I feel like I'm at least level with Goss or I've got a little bit of an edge. Today I am down one slot in that power rankings, but the no-mullet thing does make me feel a lot better, Taylor, thank you. I'm glad. Joe, what is the silliest thing that you've committed to on social media that then came back to haunt you? Weirdly, I don't get into a lot of those tracks, you know? I think we'd be at one point committed to eating a literal hat if Austin F.C. did something. And we'll get into the next situation here in a moment. But no, I try to stay in a pretty comfortable spots online, and it's mostly working for me. It sounds like Werner Herzog vowing to eat a shoe. And then he did. Joining us this week is a gentleman, who I'm assuming also has no plan and isn't Twitter

committed to rocking an absurd hairstyle. It's Tom Boggart. Hi, Tom. What's going on, boys? I just want to get it out of the way here first. I think Joe would look excellent with a mullet. So Joe, do you want to join me. Tom's trying to transfer his mullet debt to me. I think not, man. No, not transfer. Just do it together. Misery love company. Oh, I see. You're looking for a merry band. Well,

often. Yeah, I've. Just do it together. Misery love something. Oh, I see. You're looking for a merry band. Well, often. Yeah, got to tell you, my fiancee isn't thrilled when she found out. Shocker, yeah. So for those who have not seen, Tom, how did this come to be? How did you find yourself in this predicament? I borderline don't know. Apparently two years ago, I replied to a tweet, joking that when Brian White gets called up, I'll gladly do a moot. I had no recollection of sending that tweet. It was a reply. It wasn't like, so like the views obviously on it were lower because you have to be looking at that conversation. And, um, you know, 25 minutes before the lineups came out, I got a text from Doyle sending me that tweet.

I was like, how the hell did you find this?

I'm like, stop searching my tweet, you dork.

Has he claimed?

Do you think he's kept that in the chamber this whole time?

Does he have a spreadsheet where he just tracks ridiculous Twitter promises?

He claims he was trying to Twitter search for one of his own Brian White U.S. national team takes and just happened to find this. I was like, that's suspect, man. I don't, I don't believe you. Well, so are you actually going to have to do it now? Are you growing up? I'm a man at my word. I will. I like, that's the thing. It's not like, I don't, I hope that people aren't expecting me to have it for two months yeah i i could do for a couple days and i feel a little stupid going into the barbershop twice i did actually find a tweet from you from four years ago that if you ever cut your hand in all that you would keep it that way for six months so i feel like you got i'm backtracking when you when you said i found another tweet of years from four years ago, I was like, oh no, what did I promise this time? Didn't think that I did much of this. People kept on trying to get me to, uh, wager my mustache on son. And I was just like, absolutely not, you clowns. Yeah, there is a line here. Never going on in respect. Yeah, give me a break. That's a piece of national security. That mustache must remain. Tom, we are going to talk a lot about MLS moves that have happened should happen, as I said, in the intro. Joe and I spent about 15 minutes yesterday on the weekend review talking about the USA's 1-0 loss to Slovenia, the U.S. DeF team, not really sure which one that was.

For you, a man who now has to grow a mullet because of that team, were there any sort of

takeaways for you, any things that you particularly enjoyed or thought were particularly

noteworthy?

I'll start negative first.

I really don't understand why this wasn't, like, at least eight players, Olympic age eligible.

I just don't really understand why that wasn't the emphasis.

Again, I know that a lot of players, like still 11 players made their senior debut,

so it was experimental, all of that stuff.

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