The Designated Players | An MLS Podcast

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back and this week it's the big MLS quiz of 2021!! The moment we have all been waiting for is here, and it is time for the second annual big MLS quiz. We're bringing all sorts of questions this year to recap the MLS season, with the categories being stats, awards, transfers, miscellaneous, and finally a question specifically...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back and this week they're giving their reactions to the MLS Cup Final between NYCFC and Portland, or if you ask Andrew, between NYCFC, Portland, and RBNY. Capping off the 2021 MLS season was NYCFC taking home the cup and being crowned as first time champions. Listen in to find out how a die-hard RBNY fan thinks of this occurrenc...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back and this week we continue on our trend of reacting to our preseason predictions! This week we are looking at our standings predictions and our top 5 players at each position going into the season. It is safe to say we clearly never get any predictions wrong and got 100% of our predictions right, and the only way to disprove this...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back and this week we are diving into the MLS end of season awards. As some of you may remember, we made predictions at the start of the year for who we believed would be the winners for each of the MLS awards, and now we are going to be reacting to our predictions. Since some of the awards have been officially announced already we wi...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back with part 2 of who stay, who goes! With the season wrapping up for many teams, roster decisions will be made very soon and we wanted to get in our predictions as to who stays on the team and who goes. We take a look at both players who are on loan at the team as well as players that are coming up on end of contract. We did our be...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back and this week they are beginning their discussion on the MLS offseason! With the season wrapping up for many teams, roster decisions will be made very soon and we wanted to get in our predictions as to who stays on the team and who goes. We take a look at both players who are on loan at the team as well as players that are coming...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back with a quick episode here to give you our predictions for the upcoming MLS Cup playoffs! We just had our longest livestream ever last Sunday to find out which teams would be participating in the playoffs this season and now we're here to tell you who we think will take home the cup. Will we have a first time champion? Will w...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back and this week we're talking HG players. As the league transitions to a new era of youth selling, the HG academy will become ever so important. Already it has shown the fruits of its labor in players like Jordan Morris and Alphonso Davies. While some teams thrive in the HG system, others don't seem like they know where t...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are finally back to a normal schedule... for now! This time we're back to playing predictor as we play out how the rest of the season will go. If you're a betting man takes notes, because as all 10's of our listeners know, we are never wrong. We take a look at the playoff chase for both the East and the West and breakdown t...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are finally back! This time we're bring you our take on the MLS 22 under 22... on episode 22, I swear you can't write this stuff. We each make up a list of our choice of the 22 best MLS players under the age of 22. After we go through all of our picks we compare with the list from MLS, as well as the list the other host has made...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back after a long hiatus to bring you some more MLS content! This week we talk about everybody's favorite soccer game, FIFA. Now FIFA is definitely not just everyone's favorite because it's the only option, but definitely a favorite for the riveting scripted gameplay, realistic physics, and spot on player ratings! Yeah...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back to discuss each MLS team's most impressive, least impressive, and best player (part 2). Since the league is a never ending expansion, this will be split into 2 parts as we do not want to subdue you to 3 straight hours of hearing us talk. We will be focusing solely on the player's performances thus far in the MLS season,...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back to discuss each MLS team's most impressive, least impressive, and best player. Since the league is a never ending expansion, this will be split into 2 parts as we do not want to subdue you to 3 straight hours of hearing us talk. We will be focusing solely on the player's performances thus far in the MLS season, and when...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back to discuss the MLS All-Star game and the recent flurry of MLS transfers before the close of the transfer window. We will be giving our player-by-player takes on who should be there, who was left out, and who is there only because there Dad is the coach. Then afterwards we will be going team by team and looking at all of the summe...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back to just chat, see what's going on in the world of US Soccer. We start off the conversation discussing Chris Mueller's move to Scotland, and also relationship with Scotland and MLS players. Next we bring back the always popular conversation on this podcast, pro/rel, but this time it's about USL and not MLS. To wrap...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back to perform the long awaited best xi tournament! Quick disclaimer before jumping into this episode, we had some technical difficulties while recording so we apologize if any of the audio came out weird, but we tried to clean it up as best as we could. The tournament of all tournaments to determine the best team of all time. We cou...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back to talk about gold ole US of A! We are going to do a recap of the recent group of games that the USMNT has played and give our reaction to the games, performances by individual players, and general outlook for the team. In addition, as everyone has been excitedly awaiting, we make our choices for who should/will make the Gold Cup...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back with part 4 of the best xi series!  We continue with the dynamic 2 as we're unfortunately missing ATamburello7 for this episode. That leaves Andrew and Connor to decide on the best xi for the first 6 teams in the Western Conference. This is going to be a mini series for us where we determine the best xi for each team (except...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back with part 3 of the best xi series!  We continue with the dynamic 2 as we're unfortunately missing ATamburello7 for this episode. That leaves Andrew and Connor to decide on the best xi for the first 6 teams in the Western Conference. This is going to be a mini series for use where we determine the best xi for each team (excep...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are back with part 2 of the best xi series!  We continue with the dynamic 2 as we're unfortunately missing ATamburello7 for this episode. That leaves Andrew and Connor to decide on the best xi for the last 6 teams in the Eastern Conference. This is going to be a mini series for use where we determine the best xi for each team (except...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are finally back! I know everyone must've been wondering where we went, don't lie we know you were thinking that, but we're glad to say after a week off we're back on schedule. Well 2 of us are at least back on schedule, as we're unfortunately missing ATamburello7 for this episode. That leaves Andrew and Connor to...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are channeling their inner bob the builder and building another team. As opposed to a draft like last time, the guys are building a team based on a random MLS team that is given to us. Our "lovely" host Andrew will be using a randomizer and giving us a random MLS team, to which we then choose a player from that team. Once a play...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys are looking to get yelled at by more fanbases! This time we're making a tier list and ranking each team based on their entire history. A few teams such as Inter Miami, Nashville, and Austin will not be ranked in this case as there is not enough time to judge the teams just yet. The rest of the teams however are fair game. This is a v...

And with the first pick, of the 2021 DP Pod MLS Fantasy Draft, Andrew Barnikel Jr selects... Well if you want to find out who was picked, then maybe you should listen to the episode. Yes you read that right we are doing an MLS Fantasy draft, but with a bit of a twist. We have determined a list of 15 criteria that must be met by the 15 players we are choosing, so one player per criterion. Then afte...

In this episode of the Designated Players Podcast, the guys (minus one host) get ready for week 1 of the MLS season! We're so glad we can say that MLS is going to be back that soon and no better way to start it off than with a quick preview of each week 1 game. The guys give their take on what they are most looking forward to seeing for each matchup in week 1. In addition, the guys are also m...