At this moment right now, Christian Polisicic, let it be known throughout the world, is world class. I'm going to go and Oh, Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast.

We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white, and blue-colored glasses.

This show will be talking, what's a world-class player,

question mark?

The Menendez Brothers.

Evidently, Peps ruining the world of soccer,

and I'm ruining American soccer and Bopays out

MLS expansion, podcasting at two times speed, home team allegiance, personal

soccer trainers and so much more. But first joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding light,

David Mossy a soccer savant and a fox soccer research and writer

extraordinary!

Massey how you doing on this Wednesday September 25th in the year 2024.

I'm doing well, that was quite the intro.

We have a blockbuster show today.

Yeah, we got a lot of different stuff.

And actually, when I was thinking about the show yesterday

and today, I was worried that we didn't have enough to fill but we got plenty and so we're trying to make the shows

a little bit more compact and when it comes to timing and obviously keep it under an hour.

That's what the data says that we should do.

And I think we're getting better at it.

Sean had a meeting with the eggheads, namely Alyssa,

who is the big numbers cruncher around here, and he told me yesterday that the conversation went very well, they're happy with our numbers, so everything's going smoothly.

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