The Designated Players | An MLS Podcast

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we are making our 2023 playoff predictions, and this week we are making our predictions for MLS Cup Final! Before we do that, we recap the wild Conference Finals games played last weekend. Let us know what you think of our picks and let us know what your picks are! Recorded on: 12/4/2023    Let us know your thoughts and if we got it right or right...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we continue our series covering all things top 10, and as you know, there is nothing we like more than yelling at each other and being yelled at by you, so what better way to entice that then by rating top 10s. This week, we will be giving our picks for the top 10 MLS Cup Finals, from arguably the greatest MLS match of all time to the amazing come...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we are making our 2023 playoff predictions, and this week we are making our predictions for the conference finals. Before we do that, we talk about if the playoff format works and recap the first round games. Let us know what you think of our picks and let us know what your picks are! Recorded on: 11/28/2023    Let us know your thoughts and if we...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we are back and this week continue the series where we talk about what went wrong for teams that have been eliminated from the playoffs. This week we are focusing on the Western Conference teams eliminated on the final day, that being Minnesota United and the Portland Timbers. We are going to come up with about 3 points we think drove the team to...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we are back and this week continue the series where we talk about what went wrong for teams that have been eliminated from the playoffs. This week we are focusing on the Eastern Conference teams eliminated on the final day, that being CF Montreal, NYCFC, and Chicago Fire. We are going to come up with about 3 points we think drove the team to a lac...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we are making our 2023 playoff predictions, and this week we are making our predictions for the conference semi-finals. Before we do that, we talk about if the playoff format works and recap the first round games. Let us know what you think of our picks and let us know what your picks are! Recorded on: 11/14/2023    Let us know your thoughts and i...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we continue our series where we retell the stories of MLS history. We've gone through all the team's subreddits and asked for different stories they remember about their teams, and we've got a list of almost all of them. We are going to do our research and then come together to retell everyone about those stories and give them the s...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we are back with another reaction episode. This time we're reacting to our top 5 players at each position ahead of the 2023 season, except we did it draft style. We took turns picking our top 5 players at each position, with no repeat picks. There are some really good picks, and there are some really really bad picks in this list, so definite...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back and this week we're reacting to our beginning of the season awards predictions, bold predictions, and standings predictions! If you haven't checked out our predictions, no worries, we go over our picks here, but if you want to hear more of our thought process, we suggest you take a listen to our earlier episodes on this...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we are making our 2023 playoff predictions, and this week we are starting with the first round and play in games for the 8 and 9 seeds. The playoff format is brand new this year, will it have an impact on who advances? Let us know what you think of our picks and let us know what your picks are! Recorded on: 10/23/2023    Let us know your thoughts...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we are doing our version of the MLS 22 under 22 after MLS released their list recently. There are some big snubs from MLS' list and there are some guys a bit overrated, so we want to fix the list in each of our opinions. Let us know what you think, and let us know what your 22 under 22 list would look like! Recorded on: 10/18/2023    Let us k...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we get inspired by the great Tommy Scoops's (Tom Bogert) idea to include multiple Best XI teams for MLS, similar to the NBA's All-NBA teams. So we've gone ahead with the idea and have made our list of our first, second, and third MLS Best XI teams, recognizing some of the best from the 2023 season. We back up each our picks with ton...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we are back and this week continue the series where we talk about what went wrong for teams that have been eliminated from the playoffs. This week we are focusing on the Western Conference teams eliminated by gameweek 32, that being Colorado Rapids, LA Galaxy, and Austin FC. We are going to come up with about 3 points we think drove the team to a...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we are back and this week we're starting up a new series where we talk about what went wrong for teams that have been eliminated from the playoffs. This week we are focusing on the Eastern Conference teams eliminated by gameweek 32, that being Toronto FC, Inter Miami, and DC United. We are going to come up with about 3 points we think drove t...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we are back and this week, with only a couple games left in the season, we're discussing who will make the MLS playoffs. We are going to go team by team and look at their remaining schedule to determine if they can either hold their position in a playoff spot, or will someone come and take their spot. This episode we are focusing on the Weste...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we are back and this week, with only a couple games left in the season, we're discussing who will make the MLS playoffs. We are going to go team by team and look at their remaining schedule to determine if they can either hold their position in a playoff spot, or will someone come and take their spot. This episode we are focusing on the Easte...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we continue our series covering all things top 10. We'll just be honest with you here, this episode is a mess. Lists are wrong, data is wrong, but hopefully the humor in it all is right. And as you know, there is nothing we like more than yelling at each other and being yelled at by you, so what better way to entice that then by rating top 10...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we continue our series where we retell the stories of MLS history. We've gone through all the team's subreddits and asked for different stories they remember about their teams, and we've got a list of almost all of them. We are going to do our research and then come together to retell everyone about those stories and give them the s...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we continue our series where we retell the stories of MLS history. We've gone through all the team's subreddits and asked for different stories they remember about their teams, and we've got a list of almost all of them. We are going to do our research and then come together to retell everyone about those stories and give them the s...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we continue our series where we retell the stories of MLS history. We've gone through all the team's subreddits and asked for different stories they remember about their teams, and we've got a list of almost all of them. We are going to do our research and then come together to retell everyone about those stories and give them the s...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we're recapping the Leo Messi Cup... sorry I mean League's Cup! This tournament was extremely exciting and brought memorable moment after memorable moment, and we want to try and cover it all. We talk about the most surprising team, most disappointing team, what can be improved for next year, and we talk about whether League's Cup w...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we continue our series where we retell the stories of MLS history. We've gone through all the team's subreddits and asked for different stories they remember about their teams, and we've got a list of almost all of them. We are going to do our research and then come together to retell everyone about those stories and give them the s...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back and this week we're diving into the silliest of summer seasons! Yes, it's the 2023 MLS summer transfer window and we're diving into all of the confirmed trades and transfers from this window. There are some really awesome names on this list, aka this Messi guy, and we are super excited to talk about it. As there ar...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back and this week we're diving into the silliest of summer seasons! Yes, it's the 2023 MLS summer transfer window and we're diving into all of the confirmed trades and transfers from this window. There are some really awesome names on this list, aka this Messi guy, and we are super excited to talk about it. As there ar...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, we continue our series where we retell the stories of MLS history. We've gone through all the team's subreddits and asked for different stories they remember about their teams, and we've got a list of almost all of them. We are going to do our research and then come together to retell everyone about those stories and give them the s...