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This week, Landon and Jeremiah are joined by Adrian Healey and Michael Lahoud to answer listener questions, look back on 2023, and explore Austin FC's options in the offseason. Other topics and questions include: - Flat draw in San Jose - The Dani Pereira conundrum - Driussi and the weight of leadership - Listener Questions (40:40) - How to fix the defense - Position of most need - The guys reveal their wrestling personas - Austin FC II are MLS Next Pro champs! (1:25:20) - Free ti...

- 2022 COG T-SHIRTS! BUY NOW! http://www.cornerofthegalaxy.com/SHOP - SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST: http://cornerofthegalaxy.com/subscribe/ - COG LA GALAXY DISCORD: https://discord.gg/drr9HFZY2P COG STUDIOS, Calif. -- Do the LA Galaxy become the team that can't win the biggest of El Trafico's? Plus, how do you view the 2022 season? Hosts Josh Guesman and Kevin Baxter on today's show discuss the LA Galaxy's loss to LAFC in the second-ever playoff El Trafico. But beyond that, they try and figure out what this season has meant and what the biggest question marks are for the club heading into the offseason. The guys will start by looking back on a wildly entertaining El Trafico, but a game that the Galaxy came up short in because their best players didn't show up. Did LAFC push Riqui Puig to be outside his normal playing zone? Did they isolate Gaston Brugman? And did Douglas Costa show why the Galaxy can't trust him for the 2023 season? Plus, is Kevin Cabral on the trading block? Or will the Galaxy find a way to buy out his contract when push comes to shove? We've got a small primer on what to expect from the offseason and why things might not really take shape until after this winter World Cup. As always, thanks for joining us, and buckle up for another wild offseason! The Galaxy have flexibility, so how will they use it?

- SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST: http://cornerofthegalaxy.com/subscribe/ - COG LA GALAXY DISCORD: https://discord.gg/drr9HFZY2P - COG MERCHANDISE (SCARVES, T-SHIRTS, BUTTONS, COASTERS): http://www.cornerofthegalaxy.com/SHOP COG STUDIOS, Calif. -- The LA Galaxy got back to the training ground on Monday. But does it all feel anticlimactic? Is the team generating any buzz in a crucial offseason? On today's show, hosts Josh Guesman and Kevin Baxter discuss the team's current state and why this 2022 season has gotten off to a fizzle. Plus, are the Galaxy getting beat to the punch on players they wanted to add to the team? Has the appeal of the winningest franchise in MLS history slowly eroded? The guys discuss what they saw from the Galaxy's opening day at training and why there was a veteran and rookie who garnered the spotlight in the infamous beep test. Would you have guessed who came out on top? And what does that mean? The guys will also discuss the Galaxy's lack of movement this offseason on the player front and why there is some hope that Greg Vanney wants a big name that is a game-changer. But did the Galaxy need to reload their ideas when Acosta, Rusnak, and Sanchez all took paths around the Galaxy? Plus, is there any excuse for a lack of an organizational chart that is easily explained from this front office? Are Chris Klein and Dan Beckerman under ever-building pressure to fix the Galaxy? Will Vanney get the blame if it all goes sideways? And why is a Twitter account for the Galaxy's parent-company blocking Galaxy fans for a perfectly reasonable protest? We've got a full show with some lively debate that goes back to 2017 and beyond. What has happened to the mighty Galaxy? As always, thanks for the support, and enjoy the show!

- SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST: http://cornerofthegalaxy.com/subscribe/ - COG LA GALAXY DISCORD: https://discord.gg/drr9HFZY2P - COG MERCHANDISE (SCARVES, T-SHIRTS, BUTTONS, COASTERS): http://www.cornerofthegalaxy.com/SHOP COG STUDIOS, Calif. -- Welcome back, you turkeys! We hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving break, but we're ready to get back to LA Galaxy business. And there was a lot of business to decipher. On today's show, hosts Josh Guesman and Kevin Baxter (from Mexico) want to get you caught up on all the Galaxy news that dropped over the holiday weekend. An there's a surprising amount, even if the events themselves weren't unexpected. Josh and Kevin will start by discussing the departure of Dennis te Kloese to Feyenoord and why the Galaxy aren't blameless in his leaving. But will te Kloese have a legacy? And what would that legacy be? Plus, who will take over in the General Manager role, and why is a Technical Director different from a GM? Plus, the guys want to look at the announcement that Jonathan dos Santos won't be returning to the club in 2022. At 31-years-old is dos Santos a victim of poor systems or a body that couldn't keep up with MLS anymore. Josh and Kevin will then go over the roster decisions the club announced today and tell you why the Galaxy really didn't do much with their option declines and out-of-contract players. But shopping for a Designated Player has already started. Finally, the show will go over the offseason calendar that MLS released and tell you why the Galaxy get to take the 2022 Expansion Draft as a snow day. We've got a packed show that includes a wintery mix of Galaxy news and analysis. Are the Galaxy better off with te Kloese gone? Thanks for joining us!

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- SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST: http://cornerofthegalaxy.com/subscribe/ - COG LA GALAXY DISCORD: https://discord.gg/drr9HFZY2P - COG MERCHANDISE (SCARVES, T-SHIRTS, BUTTONS, COASTERS): http://www.cornerofthegalaxy.com/SHOP COG STUDIOS, Calif. -- It's your favorite time of year. That's right. It's when the LA Galaxy leave individual players unprotected for the expansion draft! Yay! But with the draft happening less than 24 hours from when we hit the record button, we're sure the entire MLS world has changed. Hosts Josh Guesman and Kevin Baxter discuss the entertaining but surprising MLS Cup win for the Columbus Crew and why that certainly hopes Seattle's chances of being considered in the same breath as the Galaxy's dynasty. And also why it shouldn't have surprised anyone with how poorly the Sounders have played in previous MLS Cups. But our real focus today will be mixing MLS's new rules with their old practices and trying to explain the expansion team process and why Cristian Pavon is going to be listed as eligible for the re-entry draft on December 17. And it probably means nothing... probably. Plus, Kevin will look back at some of the Galaxy names that have become successful head coaches and why he believes that the Galaxy have stopped their string of internal development when they can't get a consistent process on the field. It's a quick 60-minute look into the offseason Galaxy, and we're glad you could join us!

Happy Thanksgiving weekend everyone! You might not feel that there's been a lot to be thankful for this season if you're a Whitecaps fan, but at least it's all over now, so there's that. The Whitecaps offseason is officially underway, and while understandably it's not been action packed, head coach Marc Dos Santos made a lot of interesting comments this week about the way forward. We look at those and the other Whitecaps news, gossip, and general chatter of the week. Plus we start to delve into which MLS players we should maybe make a play for and who may be surplus to requirements where they currently are. We also look ahead to the MLS playoffs that get underway on Saturday and chat with Real Salt Lake veterans Nick Rimando and Kyle Beckerman. Plus we set up Canada's huge game with the US on Tuesday in the Nations League. Here's the rundown for the main segments from the episode:03.47: Whitecaps Chat of the Week as MDS indicates what may lie in store35.13: MLS players that might interest the 'Caps - part one Sporting KC48.41: MLS Eastern Conference playoff chat59.32: MLS Western Conference playoff chat63.50: Nick Rimando interview and discussion72.38: Kyle Beckerman interview and more playoff chat82.47: Canada v US chat99.33: Wavelength - Collapsed Lung - Eat My Goal103.20: BC Soccerweb headlines - news stories from around the world of football

The second of our Vancouver Whitecaps roundtables looks ahead to a busy offseason and what lies in store for next year.