Hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

I'm Taylor Rockwell and tonight I'm going to be joined by Paul Tenerio of the Athletic.

He's on the line to help me make sense of the USA's one-one draw with Uruguay.

Was it good?

Was it bad?

Did the opposite of well, does any of it even matter?

All that plus a dual national conversation that I found particularly interesting, as well

as Paul making sense of Burhalter's Mexico press conference, which is useful because

Paul was there and also appears to have been the one or one of the ones who asked the question

that annoyed Greg Burhalter.

So I appreciate his perspective on that one.

As you have no doubt already noticed, Daro Grove is not with me in studio.

He is not just being extra quiet, though I sort of wish that were the case.

Basically, and don't worry, things are okay.

But Daro is in the hospital.

It's not directly related to his treatment or the cancer itself, but it was an unexpected

hospitalization, which is why you haven't heard as much from him this week.

Normally, he tries to keep everybody updated with what's going on, give Lister's advanced

notice, and this case, he wasn't able to do so.

To his credit, I think he absolutely would record remotely through a fair amount of pain

from his hospital bed.

But that seemed slightly unnecessary, and also I felt like maybe I could just talk to Paul

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