Kevin Egan is in his second full season as host of MLS 360 on Apple TV’s MLS Season Pass. It’s a five-and-a-half hour show on Saturday nights that drops in on each of the games being shown live at the time. 

Egan and his co-hosts start with the first game in the Eastern time zone and end it at 1:00 a.m. ET when the final West Coast games have been completed.

On Sunday nights he spends an hour with former MLS players Sasha Kljestan, Bradley Wright-Phillips and Dax McCarty, wrapping up the full weekend of MLS action. That show fittingly is titled MLS Wrap-Up. 

Kevin’s father Liam is a former Irish Gaelic football star, his mother Kathy is a Chicago native. He was raised in Ireland. He came to the U.S. at age 23 to try his hand at the sports broadcast business.  He has worked here since.

We talked with Kevin on the eve of a very busy summer of soccer.

SOCCER AMERICA: What is the approach to the Saturday night show on MLS Season Pass?

KEVIN EGAN: MLS 360 is light-hearted. I'm the traffic cop. We're bouncing from game to game. We bring real high-octane energy to the show. It's been so much fun.

Honestly, John, I go to work itching to get on the air with this show. I haven't felt the same way about any other show or broadcast that I’ve been part of in my life. 360 has just been a dream show for me because it is so much fun. You're on air for such a long period of time and we get to tell stories, we get to ensure that everybody watching has a really good sense of the stories in the 15 games. 

SA: You gave up play-by-play to do this show. Why?