Hello, and welcome back to full-time with Meg Linahan.

I am Tamara Griffin.

I am joined by my co-host, Meg Linahan.

And this week, we are talking about what else other than NWSL playoffs, 8 teams, four can't miss games.

And we're kind of gauging the chaos quotient heading into this one.

And to do that, we have enlisted the help of former player and broadcaster Lori Lindsay.

I mean, it does feel like we can't really start this episode without acknowledging the general mood of what's going on and in this space.

I think it is, you know, we want to talk about the soccer with you all just because there are still big important games it is playoff

time but i think it's also like fair to acknowledge that everybody's mood this weekend is going to be

very different than what i think a lot of people expected absolutely i mean i had the urge to ask you

how you're doing meg as i typically do when we open the show. And on days like this, that question is big and heavy and layered and sometimes anxiety-inducing. And I think that women's sports generally, I believe, has always been inherently political. So it would be a disservice.

It would be irresponsible for us as members of the media,

as storytellers, as journalists, to ignore that fact.

And that's why we have to acknowledge it

because this is so much bigger than soccer.

And we'll probably end up affecting women's soccer, right?

Yeah, I mean, I think that's kind of amongst many other first thoughts as last night,

or as Tuesday night turned into Wednesday of just, I think we can't even know yet how this

is going to impact the NWSaller or women's sports in general, long-term

women's sports have been a conversation in this election and usually not in a good faith

sort of way. And so I think there is this sense of there will be impacts. We don't know what that

will look like, but obviously there are teams and markets that I think are already having those

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