What's happening with Kaku, will Bobby Wood join RSL, and how will Covid effect future expansion? Answering your MLS-centric listener questions w/ Sam Stejskal
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🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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We kicked Paul out of the virtual studio for a podcast crossover of sorts! Taylor talks to Sam about covering the CBA negotiations, what the process is like when both sides want their messages out, and the normal process for reporting on stories. They (Sam) also answer your listener questions, including what happens if the Kaku transfer goes to court, which clubs are most likely to embrace the young money option, will Seattle continue to thrive even without Jordan Morris, how did MLS lose $1 billion, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:23.5 | My name is Taylor Rockwell and with me today to answer all of your many, many questions about Major League Soccer and allow me to just sit quietly while he does so. |
| 0:31.5 | It's Sam's day's goal. |
| 0:32.5 | Sam, thanks for recording with me today. |
| 0:34.5 | How has the week been? |
| 0:36.0 | Taylor, thanks for recording with me today. The week has been, it's been a week, you know? Here we are. February, it's the winter doldrums, but we're surviving. MLS is going to have a season. We learned that this week. It doesn't feel like it was this week, but we learned that this week. And yeah, here I am, ready to rock. So let's talk about that for a minute. Not so much |
| 0:56.4 | like the CBA itself, but about the work you and Paul and others have been doing. How stressful |
| 1:01.1 | has this offseason been for you compared to a normal one? How much busier have you been? |
| 1:08.4 | Interesting. I feel like I haven't been that much busier. |
| 1:12.1 | It's been busier like on certain days, you know, um, but every off season is pretty |
| 1:17.1 | active for me just in terms of transfers and coaching changes and all of that stuff. |
| 1:22.8 | Um, now it's busy of a different nature this time around because of the CBA, right? |
| 1:27.0 | And I was like very like one track mind CBA, CBA, CBA, CBA, CBA, as people who read my articles could probably tell. |
| 1:35.7 | So it was different in that sense. |
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