Hi, I'm Grant Wald, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast.

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Today, S.I. Brian Strauss joins me to talk about Toronto's

MLS Cup title, Brian's thoughts from being on the ground north of the border, the wild US soccer presidential

campaign, and which cities we think will get MLS expansion teams.

We also talk about staking out

MLS owners meetings and Phil Anschoots curing his own smoked meat.

Oddward!

Joining us now is Brian Strauss as promised from Washington DC

though he just got back from Toronto where he was covering the

MLS Cup final Brian welcome hey. Hey man. How are you?

I have a ridiculous migraine at the moment.

So that's how exciting Toronto was.

Sorry to hear that. So to our beloved listeners if I sound like I have

marbles in my mouth I do apologize but we are going to power through because I

enjoy talking with Grant about soccer. because I had

had my grains as a kid and I actually was told that I would

crawl across the carpet of our living room as a kid with my forehead on the floor

To try and deal with migraines until they finally went away, but it's no fun man sorry about that

appreciate my embarrassing my embarrassing coping mechanism which is why we don't do

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