We had a relaxing weekend for a change with no Orlando City match to cause us stress, but that’s about to change. The Lions are heading into Big D to take on FC Dallas. You’ll get our key match-ups and score predictions, plus our conversation with Ben Lyon of SB Nation’s Dallas blog, Big D Soccer.

We discuss the recent Orlando Pride roster announcement, and talk about which players the team should try hardest to re-sign this off-season, and the important pieces that the club is bringing back by exercising their contract options.

A super-sized mailbag featured mostly soccer questions but there were a couple that went in other directions. We also discussed the USWNT’s upcoming Concacaf Championship run as the Yanks try to qualify for the 2019 World Cup.

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Here’s how show No. 144 went:

0:12 - The Lions haven’t scored a goal in three games and have never scored a goal against FC Dallas. Can you guess what we predicted would happen?

24:54 - Ben Lyon jumps on with us to give us the Dallas perspective and once again an opposing team’s blogger talks about Orlando City’s talent.

49:30 - Lots of mail, the USWNT, and the USMNT fills up our final segment. Dave will be seeing Venom before I will, no doubt.

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