“Taylor has the potential to offer an insider’s look at the league, from the standpoint of a former player as well as Apple’s shining gem game commentator. Twellmanately, Mr. Twellman fails to make use of his insider status to help grow MLS and instead chooses to focus on a singular player, letting the rising tide of MLS’s popularity lift a single ship.
It’s understandable that the spotlight should be shone on one of the greatest soccer players; however, the focus shouldn’t be so singular as to completely ignore the league he plays in. Even on a week when the prodigal soccer son doesn’t play (and his team loses a final), he is still somehow the main topic of conversation.
Listeners are given just a glimpse of how great this podcast could be by a previous episode featuring Wilfried Nancy, Columbus Crew FC head coach, offering a valuable look at the league from a rarely heard point of view. Regrettably that type of interview and access appears to be an outlier as the following week Taylor’s focus is to interview a sportswriter and former radio host based out of… Miami with the topic of discussion being solely focused on Messi in-between putting down the sport with talking points sounding as if they were from your average non-soccer fan who thinks Pulisic still plays for Dortmund.
Rather than focusing on the goal of the league, Taylor leans back to look at the soccer Son and misses the goal. So close.”
TheWrightMatt via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/28/23