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The future is open. Hello, hello, and welcome to the Total Soccer show.

It is a Tuesday, which means it's time to talk Major League Soccer.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

We've got good teams getting better and bad teams.

Staying bad, getting worse, marginally improving, we'll find out.

Here with me to do so are two lovely friends up first, a man who who knows that modeling things after europe is a slippery slope to bicycles and baguettes and a uniform system of weights and

measures it's joe no european calendar for me lowry hi joe hey taylor um yeah i'm gonna have a hard

time yes anding that because all the things you mentioned are great and i've been painted as a

hater of all of those things um i'm disappointed in my newfound hatred for baguettes and that's all I have to say. There we go. All right. Thank you for rolling with it. Joe, rounding out the crew is our man in Minnesota, a fellow who knows that winters up north are totally fine and a February game in Minneapolis, St. Paul is basically the same as Miami in September. It's Jeff Ruter.

Hi, Jeff.

Orange ball soccer just hits different. Like, never ever discount. Like, just the visceral thrill as you see the orange balls get rolled out and you're just like, they shouldn't be playing this game, but they will. And that's what we've been deprived. Go ahead, Jeff. Yeah. I was wondering, Jeff, do people, do Minnesota United fans still think about it and are they still

scarred by that? What was that like a 5-1, 6-1 loss to Atlanta with the Orange Ball? Way back in 2017 or whatever year that was. Does that still stick in the minds of Minnesota fans? It sticks in, but it's more fond. It's actually become something where it's just like it was our rubbish debut, but it was our rubbish debut.

Right.

Okay.

And I think. but it's more fond. It's actually become something where it's just like it was our rubbish debut, but it was our rubbish debut.

Right.

Okay.

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