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 got it right or right!    Send any emails with questions or comments to: thedppod@gmail.com Follow the Pod on Social Media!  Website: https://thedppod.buzzsprout.com/ Twitte ..read more

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 a lack of success this season and then expand on how it went wrong, and briefly what they can do to fix it. Let us know what you think went wrong, and how they can fix things for next season! We will ..read more

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 lack of success this season and then expand on how it went wrong, and briefly what they can do to fix it. Let us know what you think went wrong, and how they can fix things for next season! We will cover ..read more

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 if we got it right or right!    Send any emails with questions or comments to: thedppod@gmail.com Follow the Pod on Social Media!  Website: https://thedppod.buzzsprout.com/ T ..read more

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 spotlight they deserve. This week we're talking about Ben Olsen's first ever hattrick against the New York Red Bulls, followed by Ozzie Alonso's incredible journey from Cuba to MLS star! Recorded on: 9/29/2023   ..read more

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 definitely listen in and let us now how smart or dumb we are. Recorded on: 10/29/2023    Let us know your thoughts and if we got it right or right!    Send any emails with questions or comment ..read more

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 topic. We've just wrapped up the regular season, so we wanted to check in and see how our predictions panned out... some maybe we shouldn't have checked on. Additionally we talk through some teams in our stand ..read more

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 and if we got it right or right!    Send any emails with questions or comments to: thedppod@gmail.com Follow the Pod on Social Media!  Website: https://thedppod.buzzsprout.c ..read more

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 know your thoughts and if we got it right or right!    Send any emails with questions or comments to: thedppod@gmail.com Follow the Pod on Social Media!  Website: https://thedppod ..read more

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 tons of stats, and because of that, this is a looong episode, apologies from two stats nerds. Let us know what you think of our teams and also let us know who would be in your Best XI teams! Recorded on: 10/15/2023 &n ..read more