Welcome, everybody to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

And it's time to talk Major League Soccer again.

It's been a whole three days since last we spent some time discussing North America's greatest soccer league.

Don't fact check that.

We're back to do it again.

We've had a lot of offseason changes, some on the coaching side, some on the personnel side. We're going to get

many more. So it's sort of an offseason review and look ahead at the same time. Mark Joe

dos Santos, Joe Lowry, a combination of two names and a confusing introduction by me. How are you, my friend?

Yeah, I'm sure that makes a lot of sense to everybody listening along at home who doesn't see

that my name today on recording is Mark Joe Santos. I'm great, man. There's another high profile,

like, O sound name in MLS now, who's in like a real job of repute, which is great because

every week I come in with the different

MLS-themed O sort of name because it works with Joe. So I'm flying right now. The World Cup draw, old news. It was Mark Dos Santos getting that L-AFC job on Friday that I was paying attention to, and it definitely wasn't buried by LASC's cons team on the busiest newsday of the soccer year. so much so that when I saw the running order is the first time that I learned that L.A.F.C.

had made a higher.

Jeff Rooder.

That's some great work by you two today.

When did you first become aware that Mark DeSantos was in charge in L.A.?

Yeah, I think it was probably Sunday at some point. I thought you were going to say like, right as it happened. I saw it like everybody. I just didn't see it till late also. All three of us were in the same boat. Actually, it's like a weird Dick Cheney situation. He was coaching the whole time. Um, no, it'll be like, look, I think it was one of those that definitely slipped by. But I think it was also one that was very anticipated, so I kind of gave them an out. There were some other things that were announced in the middle of the FIFA World Cup draw. And I wish I had an example at the Hilt for you. But there were some of those press releases that I saw come out in the world of soccer, like right in the aftermath of that monstrosity. That I was just like, this is smart planning. This is the ultimate Friday afternoon news dump. And, yeah, good work.

Good work. that monstrosity that I was just like, this is smart planning. This is the ultimate Friday afternoon

news dump. And yeah, good work. To be fair, the draw lasted four times as long as it should

have, right? So if we want to give these comm teams the benefit of the doubt, they schedule it thinking,

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