Hello and welcome to the total sucker show. My name is Daryl Grove and I'm joined by a man who loves roster release day. His name is Taylor Rockwell. Hello. Hello. I love it, especially when I didn't see it coming and didn't really know it was coming. And then suddenly it was and it was here and the roster was released. We didn't get a lot of notice, did we? We've got an email yesterday saying, oh, by the way, Greg Bellhalter teleconference tomorrow to talk about his roster, which will be named in the morning. Can you ask you, what time did you start checking either the US soccer website or Twitter for the US men's national team roster? I checked before I took the dogs out for a walk, so like around 9 a.m.

And I think I didn't see anything, or maybe I just missed it.

And then I failed to check it again until I was like on the way here. And I was like, oh, I bet it's been released. So I pulled over and checked, and it had indeed been released. And then I saw a no surging your desk. And I cried for a while. and then I parked the car and came into the office to listen to the conference call.

Oh.

Dry your eyes, Taylor.

Dry your eyes, Taylor. I mean, they're dry now.

They weren't then. So Berthelter gave some answers about, you know, player inclusions and absences, but he mostly, I think, did a good, like, politiciany type job of just talking around some stuff. Is that, is that a fair analysis?

You know, Daryl, I think the important thing here today is that we're having a conversation. And when you have a conversation, you're able to get to the heart of the matter. And when you truly find the heart of the matter on an issue like we're talking about today, then you really have some clarity and you're able to move forward. And I think that's what this is all about. Next question. All right. So this 26-man roster, which means essentially three spares, right? It's for the

Conquer Calf Nations League. You know, I'm a big Nations League fan, for the games against Cuba in

D.C. and then Canada in Toronto. That first game against Cuba is Friday, October the 11th at Audi Field.

We are going to go through the roster, position by position, talk about the various inclusions

and absences and what we read from these tea leaves that have been thrown at us.

We are.

Are you ready to start with goalkeepers?

Yeah.

I mean, it's about as we expected there.

Three goalkeepers, Zach Stephan, Sean Johnson, Brad Guzan.

Not necessarily in that order, but maybe probably in that order.

So yeah, it's interesting, right?

Gazan is the senior keeper, but I would still expect to see Stefan start essentially both of these

games. I would agree for two reasons. The first is the show we did this past weekend. When I looked at

Stefan, when I looked at his distribution with Dusseldorf and everything he was offering there,

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