Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lolles and welcome the State of the Union podcast.

Where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white, and blue-colored

glasses. This week we'll be talking about the demise of the Development Academy. We'll be doing a global player draft.

We'll be talking about Pro Rail. Yeah, we're going to go there. Pro Rail as it pertains to League of MX.

We'll be doing a compare and contrast between

Peli and Senna, and who's more important there in Brazil, and so much more.

But first, joining me, as always, friend my colleague my guiding light David

Mossy a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

Mossy how are you on this Monday morning as opposed to Sunday morning and I will get to that in a second.

How are you, my friend?

I am good. I had a quiet weekend, but it sounds like the same can't be said for you. I did not have a quiet weekend, you know, life and real life intrudes. We apologize that we are coming to you 24 hours late in terms of the schedule that we've had for the last couple of months

here, recording on a Sunday and out on a Monday morning.

This is obviously going to be out on a Tuesday morning.

There is good reason. The last place in the world right now,

Massey, that anybody wants to be, and let's be honest, even in normal times,

let's say, last place anybody wants to be is at a hospital, right? So I remember a couple of weeks ago I was

ranting and raving about some of the moronic behavior of human beings out there in this time.

And I brought up the point that you're going to overflow

and cause problems in the emergency rooms

and in the hospitals and somebody who needs help, not even necessarily help relative to the virus, but could be a kid, you know, having an appendectady or something like that.

Well, you know, I spent the last, uh,'s see, 24 36 hours at a hospital with one of my children,

because, you know, that's the way it works, works right we had appendicitis we had an

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