Speaker 1: Faces drop them Sdham for another week. John, hear you there. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: if you are here in our native footprint and studio space,
Speaker 1: you are staying as dry as possible, being careful on
Speaker 1: the roads, and just making sure that you can get
Speaker 1: from point A to point B to kick off your week.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's break down the week for you.
Speaker 1: Let you know what's going on. Remember, today is the
Speaker 1: beginning of the off season chaos involving Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that in just a second. So here's
Speaker 1: the rundown for the week. And the next two weeks
Speaker 1: get a little weird. And I mean that in just
Speaker 1: a scheduling sens as I sit here and turn around
Speaker 1: and grab schedule. Okay, So today is normal as you
Speaker 1: can tell since we're up and running already at nine
Speaker 1: oh whatever. And like I said, my apologies, I always
Speaker 1: forget that I've got to do certain things to get
Speaker 1: the show up and running at nine oh five. So
Speaker 1: morning is morning. It is time to get everybody what's
Speaker 1: on what's on everybody's mind? Morning, Harry. Harry's first in
Speaker 1: this morning. This is this is uncharacteristic. Traditionally it's Alex
Speaker 1: that's in early this morning. All right, so today normal,
Speaker 1: Tomorrow is gonna be a PM show after lunch. This
Speaker 1: is when I start getting ready for the high School
Speaker 1: Football Championships. And so there's a meeting tomorrow at Mercedes
Speaker 1: Been Stadium during the show that I have to be at.
Speaker 1: So it'll be an SDHPM. That'll help us out with
Speaker 1: the news of the day and get us ready for
Speaker 1: the afternoon. So time to be determined. Set your notifications
Speaker 1: as to the when, but it'll be an SDHPM, not
Speaker 1: an SDHAM. Then we're back to normal the Atlanta United
Speaker 1: Information Exchange Program with Tyler Pilgrim. He'll be at nine
Speaker 1: p fifteen. We'll see if Dylan Butler can join us
Speaker 1: to put a bowl on the end of the Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer season at ten, and then we'll get you
Speaker 1: through the rest of the day because we do have
Speaker 1: some college CAMPI I guess that's plural for campuses that
Speaker 1: are still active in their particular division of soccer tournament.
Speaker 1: We're trying to catch up with those coaches. Scad is
Speaker 1: continuing to advance, Dalton State continuing to advance, Columbus State
Speaker 1: continuing to advance, and so we're trying to catch up
Speaker 1: with them as we go this week as they get
Speaker 1: ready to travel to play next weekend. So Wednesday normal, Thursday,
Speaker 1: normal opening hours. What the opening hour is our number
Speaker 1: two is your power hour, you know? And Nico fully
Speaker 1: loaded at ten o'clock. In the last half hour, we'll
Speaker 1: catch up with Niko Moreno and catch up with what's
Speaker 1: on his mind when it comes to Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: Friday normal, see if we can catch up with our
Speaker 1: friends from beyond Goals entering and let and find out
Speaker 1: what it's been like for our resident mogul and training
Speaker 1: and his Eastern Conference Championship performance by his Rhode Island
Speaker 1: FC right right there, Rhode Island FC right there. So
Speaker 1: outside of tomorrow morning not being a morning show, it's
Speaker 1: a normal week. Next week is the week of chaos
Speaker 1: because I'm out. I have the High School Football Championships.
Speaker 1: I'm sequestered at Mercedes Benz Stadium. We're on the air
Speaker 1: at eleven o'clock every morning, so I've got to be
Speaker 1: in there probably by eight thirty and so that's when
Speaker 1: they start putting makeup on me, and it takes two
Speaker 1: and a half hours for me to get ready before
Speaker 1: the show starts. So we're trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: to do next week. I have asked folks if they
Speaker 1: can come in and see if they can host so
Speaker 1: we can keep everything rolling and get you ready for
Speaker 1: the Christmas season. So that is next week. This week,
Speaker 1: the only week, the only day that's different is tomorrow.
Speaker 1: It's an afternoon show. And I got to send an
Speaker 1: email to Kaylor Hodges and let him know, don't be
Speaker 1: don't expecting an email for what's going on because I
Speaker 1: won't be there tomorrow morning, be there tomorrow afternoon, won't
Speaker 1: be there tomorrow morning. So that's that's the rundown of
Speaker 1: this week and next with the high school football championships
Speaker 1: coming and eml's coming and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, night, Well he's early. Wow. I'm sitting looking
Speaker 1: down at looking down at the clock, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: he's early. All right, fine, he's early. He got all
Speaker 1: the green lights. So that means one thing. It's Monday,
Speaker 1: and that means it's Monday's with a Babe Gordon joining
Speaker 1: us from nineteen nine in the game. As I look
Speaker 1: at him in the green room, your headroom, sir, is fine.
Speaker 1: You are ready to go?
Speaker 2: How we doing good?
Speaker 1: Morning morning. It is the end of a regular season
Speaker 1: in Major League Soccer. Did you what would I imagine
Speaker 1: you were paying attention to the American college football this weekend?
Speaker 1: Pretty much?
Speaker 2: I was watching MLS Cup as well.
Speaker 3: I have multiple TV setups, so there were some on
Speaker 3: football and some on football, but we were all we
Speaker 3: were all covered.
Speaker 1: So now that I'll go ahead, this will be kind
Speaker 1: of an opening kickoffee kind of a thing. So the
Speaker 1: CFP did they get it right?
Speaker 2: I think?
Speaker 3: So, there's a couple of different things. There was no
Speaker 3: right or wrong. It was only preference right. So so
Speaker 3: let's start there. They went with a preference of not
Speaker 3: punishing conference title contestants. They didn't punish Texas via their seating,
Speaker 3: they didn't punish Penn State via their seeding, and they
Speaker 3: in turn also didn't punish SMU by by kicking them out.
Speaker 3: They also and you can make whatever arguments you want
Speaker 3: to make. If you want to look at quality wins,
Speaker 3: then sure, but I also think you have to pay
Speaker 3: attention to the losses. In my argument would be SMU's
Speaker 3: two losses are both better than the losses from Alabama.
Speaker 2: And you know, I just.
Speaker 3: Don't feel bad for a team that went and got
Speaker 3: boat raced to a sub five hundred squad in Oklahoma
Speaker 3: at the time. They became five hundred with that win.
Speaker 3: I just don't feel bad about that. So every team
Speaker 3: that's on the outside looking in no excuses, man, Like,
Speaker 3: you had your chance to play your way in and
Speaker 3: you didn't. If you're Old Miss, you can't go on
Speaker 3: the road and lose to a Florida team that Texas
Speaker 3: beat by thirty. If you're Miami, you blew a twenty
Speaker 3: one zhering lead against Syracuse. Like, all of these teams
Speaker 3: have their bumps and bruises, and no one's perfect, and
Speaker 3: so I think it came down to a matter of preference.
Speaker 3: I think it also came down to a matter of precedent,
Speaker 3: And I don't think in year one you wanted to
Speaker 3: set the precedent that we are going to punish teams
Speaker 3: for losing their conference championship games. And look, if this
Speaker 3: was SMU's third loss, it's a different discussion. Now we're
Speaker 3: on even footing. It's not it was to a top
Speaker 3: twenty team. I think they got it right. But again,
Speaker 3: it's really not a right or wrong. It's a matter
Speaker 3: of preference. A lot of people are sitting here, Well,
Speaker 3: if you lined a bump on the field, wouldn't you
Speaker 3: take Alabama to win?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I probably also took Alabama to beat Oklahoma, though, and
Speaker 3: they lost.
Speaker 2: By twenty points and scored three.
Speaker 3: I mean, so I just don't think you can do
Speaker 3: that sort of comparison as like sound reasoning. So I
Speaker 3: think it's I think it's fine. I didn't know if
Speaker 3: the committee would actually do it, but I think.
Speaker 2: It was the right call. But again, it's not right wrong,
Speaker 2: just preference.
Speaker 1: You want sound reasoning when it comes to college football
Speaker 1: and a college football playoffs? Sir, what is the matter
Speaker 1: with you?
Speaker 2: I just want people to be consistent.
Speaker 3: And that's what worries me with the committee is they
Speaker 3: just change their minds on what matters from week to week.
Speaker 3: And I would imagine in year one, as they've set
Speaker 3: this precedent of not penalizing teams that are lost in
Speaker 3: the conference title game, does that precedent remain next year
Speaker 3: or the year after as situations change and they may
Speaker 3: change other aspects of this. I know there's a big
Speaker 3: complaint about the path that Oregon may have to take
Speaker 3: versus the path that Boise State or Georgia has to
Speaker 3: take and the ones heed gets punished in the So
Speaker 3: they may, they may change some things around, but at
Speaker 3: no point should as MU be at risk when Alabama
Speaker 3: doesn't even play a game. That's just my opinion. If
Speaker 3: one team's at risk, they both need to be at risk.
Speaker 1: So yes, but you're logic and college football in the
Speaker 1: CFP twelve. That is something that we will see if
Speaker 1: it continues as we go forward. I am a master
Speaker 1: of the black helicopters, and I had firmly anticipated that
Speaker 1: the folks in Tuscal Lucia would get in as the
Speaker 1: twelve because this is, after all, a television mini series.
Speaker 1: What are you trying to get ratings in a television
Speaker 1: mini series? It is Who's Got Jr? It is at
Speaker 1: La Law where the Diana muldou character Rosalind Shase falls
Speaker 1: down an elevator shaft during sweeps. You know it's a
Speaker 1: death here there. Whatever your favorite television show is, whatever
Speaker 1: your cliffhanger is, I was firmly anticipating that I would
Speaker 1: open up the door to my hangar with my black
Speaker 1: helicopters and you would have Alabama in because they would
Speaker 1: make for better television as a twelve with a blue
Speaker 1: blood either hate watching or just watching watching, then watching
Speaker 1: an SMU team that took a little while to get
Speaker 1: started that then acquitted themselves very well in the a
Speaker 1: SEC Championship game.
Speaker 3: I don't necessarily disagree, but if that's the premise, then
Speaker 3: you should have had executives from ABC, CBS and Fox
Speaker 3: on the committee. I do think that while there is
Speaker 3: partly some of that, they had to keep it somewhat
Speaker 3: fair onto the football field.
Speaker 2: Or else.
Speaker 3: Why even why why even take any of the teams? Well,
Speaker 3: why take Boise State? Why take why take anyone? Just
Speaker 3: just just go back to the idea of the Big
Speaker 3: Tens top five and the SEC's top five and just
Speaker 3: those are your contestants.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, considering the two networks, we're getting to the
Speaker 1: point to where you have the Fox Conference and the
Speaker 1: Four Letter Conference, and so that's where we are. All right,
Speaker 1: that's opening kickoff. I'll run the promo with all the
Speaker 1: sponsors after you're gone. Uh So, MLS Cup with LA
Speaker 1: Galaxy and Red Bulls. Early on it legitimately looked like
Speaker 1: LAG was going to run Red Bulls out of the building.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was it was early and it was
Speaker 1: two goals on the board and you're sitting there, going, man,
Speaker 1: this field is tilted. And I don't know if the
Speaker 1: wake up call, I don't know if the alarm went
Speaker 1: off in the hotel for Red Bulls or what. But
Speaker 1: early on it looked like lag was just gonna sit
Speaker 1: there and just smash Red Bulls. They did. With two
Speaker 1: goals on the board early.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was two nothing fifteen minutes in
Speaker 2: and they were.
Speaker 3: Both very very odd goals, not in terms of the
Speaker 3: build up, but the final touch. I'll be honest, Cornell
Speaker 3: needs to save that first goal.
Speaker 2: It snuck under it.
Speaker 3: Now, it was a one on one with the keeper,
Speaker 3: but it was not well hit and that this shot
Speaker 3: was not something that should have beat him, and so.
Speaker 2: That kind of was an ashtist on his own. And
Speaker 2: then the second.
Speaker 3: Shot was off balance, cross footed, and he was just frozen.
Speaker 3: There was nothing he could do on that one. But
Speaker 3: defense in the mid was pathetic on that build up
Speaker 3: for Red Bulls, and it goes from a turnover to
Speaker 3: an attack immediately in your own half and it's too nothing.
Speaker 3: And then you got to a weird situation in the
Speaker 3: game where it was like what are Galaxy doing? Are
Speaker 3: they Are they just gonna sit on this lead, like
Speaker 3: we know the joke meme Moniker of a too nothing
Speaker 3: leaves the heart And I'm just sitting there watching it
Speaker 3: and I'm like, are they done pushing?
Speaker 2: Like what is going on here?
Speaker 3: Maybe you don't want to get so aggressive that you
Speaker 3: get countered, but it felt like Red Bulls got control
Speaker 3: of the game and even down to nothing, it felt
Speaker 3: like not that they were like confident necessarily, but they
Speaker 3: weren't panicking at that time, and so they finally fight.
Speaker 3: I mean, I hate to like just like dump on
Speaker 3: the MLS Cup champions, but like, what is that defense
Speaker 3: in the box?
Speaker 2: I mean, you got to clear that ball? You don't.
Speaker 2: Red Bulls pounces.
Speaker 3: They kind of get a goal that maybe maybe they
Speaker 3: didn't necessarily deserve, but that's the way the ball bounces
Speaker 3: in soccer for the best teams and the worst teams.
Speaker 3: And so it's two to one, you're desperate to get
Speaker 3: the halftime if you're the Galaxy. Because the mindset needed
Speaker 3: to be flipped. I think they needed to get back
Speaker 3: into it. I think they they got up to nothing,
Speaker 3: they're like, all right, we're gonna ride this out, and
Speaker 3: here we go ML's Cup champs, and they were put
Speaker 3: under pressure a little bit. And then the other disappointing
Speaker 3: thing for me was Red Bulls in the second half,
Speaker 3: specifically the back end of the second half.
Speaker 2: I just don't think they got desperate enough.
Speaker 3: They really waited until stoppage time to just start forcing
Speaker 3: everything up the field. And I'm like, yeah, I get
Speaker 3: why you didn't have to start doing it that at
Speaker 3: sixty minutes or even seventy five minutes, but like when
Speaker 3: you get to the eightieth minute, like you gotta get
Speaker 3: your goalie into the box on corners, I mean, just
Speaker 3: start start getting walky out there, get desperate.
Speaker 2: You've got to find a goal.
Speaker 3: This isn't you take your point and and you have
Speaker 3: hope in the return match or anything like, you got
Speaker 3: to extend this game. And so I just don't know
Speaker 3: why they waited until the last essentially four minutes of
Speaker 3: this game to really push everything.
Speaker 2: They had so very odd game. I mean, look, at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, the team.
Speaker 3: We all believe is the better team out of these
Speaker 3: two ended up winning MLS Cup, and they do so
Speaker 3: in their home home stadium. So a couple of moments
Speaker 3: that I thought were really special. After the second goal,
Speaker 3: they go and hold up the Pooch jersey. The Ricky
Speaker 3: poochs jersey obviously had to miss this game with the
Speaker 3: knee injury. I thought that was some really nice scenery.
Speaker 3: You know, once you go up to nothing, you're like,
Speaker 3: all right, we've won MLS Cup. Like here's here's a
Speaker 3: little love to our brother the not with us on
Speaker 3: the field today. So I thought that was a really
Speaker 3: nice scene. And then like college football comes into the
Speaker 3: world of the MLS. At the very end, they're like,
Speaker 3: fans are rushing the field, the teams are out there,
Speaker 3: the game's not over yet, We're like, all right, what
Speaker 3: are we doing here? It ultimately didn't change anything but
Speaker 3: a little bit of wonkiness at the end. It was
Speaker 3: an off sides call. They thought it was for final whistle.
Speaker 3: But look, I thought the best team in MLS, or
Speaker 3: at least the best team remaining, made their way. And
Speaker 3: for Red Bulls, I think they obviously handled their business
Speaker 3: in round one right. They took out the Columbus crew,
Speaker 3: but they didn't have to face Miami. They didn't have
Speaker 3: to face Cincinnati. And then for the LA Galaxy. They
Speaker 3: got the benefit of some of the other top teams
Speaker 3: in the Western Conference being knocked out early, so not
Speaker 3: the toughest path for either squad, but ultimately it did
Speaker 3: feel like Galaxy for I mean, at what point in
Speaker 3: this season where we like, Galaxy is one of the
Speaker 3: two or three best teams in the West. It was
Speaker 3: probably match day five or six. We're like, yeah, they're
Speaker 3: a problem. So it was at least nice to It
Speaker 3: would have felt a little fluky if it were Red Bulls.
Speaker 3: It doesn't feel like a fluke champion for the Galaxy.
Speaker 1: I guess this is where we open up the the
Speaker 1: yearbook and start looking at you know, it's when we're
Speaker 1: in high school. You know, you're with like a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks left in the school year. You sit there
Speaker 1: and you get your yearbook. You look at your yearbook photos,
Speaker 1: you go wandering around, folks try to sign it and
Speaker 1: like the end click looks at you like, okay, so
Speaker 1: you want me to sign this, Okay, I'll sign it.
Speaker 1: And then they come up with something that, you know,
Speaker 1: thanks for being a great student, you know, and the
Speaker 1: quarterback for the high school football team writes that in
Speaker 1: there and he writes some snide that's a double entoned
Speaker 1: or something like that, where he's smashing you and you
Speaker 1: don't really realize it until like twenty years later. You
Speaker 1: look at the yearbook for Major League Soccer this year,
Speaker 1: what sticks out in your mind? I guess senior superlatives
Speaker 1: when it comes to overrated, underrated, shocks, surprises, no surprises.
Speaker 1: What is in the Abe Gordon MLS yearbook for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm trying to think back through all the tournaments.
Speaker 3: I don't think anyone would have predicted and correct me
Speaker 3: if I'm wrong, John. Obviously they didn't win MLS Cup.
Speaker 3: Did Miami win anything this year? Supporter shield and single
Speaker 3: season record holder? But did they win an actual cup?
Speaker 3: Did they win?
Speaker 1: Who won leagues? As I said, I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: who won League's Cup?
Speaker 3: I mean, just as you look that up like that
Speaker 3: would be Obviously, the biggest surprise is that this is
Speaker 3: the team that this league is hoping to be boosted
Speaker 3: by in the very short present here. While they have
Speaker 3: a MESSI League MVP, single season, supporter, shield, record holder,
Speaker 3: all that stuff, but when all of a sudden done,
Speaker 3: they didn't win anything. I mean at least last year
Speaker 3: when Messi came in, they won one of those things
Speaker 3: something US Open Cup maybe last.
Speaker 1: Year, but yeah, crew won League Cup this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't think they won anything, and so
Speaker 3: that that would obviously be a little bit of surprising.
Speaker 2: And we see teams in other countries the treble or a.
Speaker 3: Double or whatever, like I don't know if there's a
Speaker 3: term for being the best team and winning nothing, but
Speaker 3: that's what Miami accomplished, the Goose thing. So so yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I think that certainly was was of interest.
Speaker 3: And then trying to get a feel for for Apple
Speaker 3: TV now as it continues, they need some adjustments to
Speaker 3: keep or get eyes on the MLS. And I understand
Speaker 3: the money flow and the cash that came in at
Speaker 3: the time. They have to have better viewing windows. They
Speaker 3: have to find ways to get it not competing with
Speaker 3: college and pro I mean, look, they're not the only
Speaker 3: sport that completely disappears when college and pro.
Speaker 2: Football come around.
Speaker 3: Nobody watches the last season of Major League Baseball. People
Speaker 3: barely tune in for the playoffs or the World Series,
Speaker 3: certainly on the weekends, right, I mean, going against the
Speaker 3: NFL Monday night Thursday night, Sunday night going against college Saturday, like,
Speaker 3: it just becomes invisible. And I'm not one of these
Speaker 3: people that's gonna rally and cry for like Friday nights
Speaker 3: for high school football, and I know you might be
Speaker 3: in that group, but hang on now, every once in
Speaker 3: a while they did Friday night games. I think they
Speaker 3: need to do a lot more of that. I think
Speaker 3: when you get to before Monday night football comes around,
Speaker 3: maybe even swing in a Monday night game to finish
Speaker 3: out the weekend. I know it's supposed to be Apple TV,
Speaker 3: find a way to simulcast these games on somewhere on
Speaker 3: television where people can watch. Just people are not going
Speaker 3: to Apple TV, even when it's a free pass for
Speaker 3: that game or that weekend, Like people aren't going to check.
Speaker 3: It's a shame because it's it's a pretty damn good
Speaker 3: league to watch. Look, I'm not saying it's the Premiership,
Speaker 3: but it is a fun league with compelling storylines and
Speaker 3: really good players and it's a good league to watch.
Speaker 3: It just gets completely buried with their packaging deal on
Speaker 3: Apple and so I wish there was a way for
Speaker 3: them to get more eyes on on the league, especially
Speaker 3: early you've just got to gain the momentum because again,
Speaker 3: once football season comes around, it's just so tough. Like
Speaker 3: you know, I work at the radio station. We have
Speaker 3: a team here in Atlanta, Like we talk about it
Speaker 3: for four months and then like the Falcons and Georgia
Speaker 3: kickoff and we're like, did did did you.
Speaker 2: United have a game today? Like I get asked that question,
Speaker 2: where was it home?
Speaker 3: Like, and I'm like, man, like you guys aren't paying
Speaker 3: attention at all, and I understand why.
Speaker 2: And these are not necessarily people who are like.
Speaker 3: Soccer lovers in general, but it's just so tough to
Speaker 3: hold any momentum for the league once football kicks off.
Speaker 2: So yeah, between those.
Speaker 1: Two, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't think we had any crazy, like defining storylines
Speaker 3: of the season outside of MESSI. Let me ask you,
Speaker 3: because I know there were some people heated. Do you
Speaker 3: think MESSI was league MVP?
Speaker 1: I would not have it, goes to my wording, And
Speaker 1: since you're reading my notes, I was going to ask
Speaker 1: you the question, since you beat me to it. I
Speaker 1: looked at I view the wording of most valuable player
Speaker 1: as if this individual was not a part of the lineup,
Speaker 1: would they have been ask So.
Speaker 3: Here's the problem though, And Messi is the best player
Speaker 3: in the league. I'm not countering or argue that his
Speaker 3: stats are wild in the team, but like he went
Speaker 3: down with injury and they went like eight zero and
Speaker 3: one or whatever the number, Like the they didn't miss
Speaker 3: a beat without him. I don't know how you quantify that,
Speaker 3: Like the team wasn't great, but like DC has zero
Speaker 3: scoring threats without Ben Tech.
Speaker 2: Kuco obviously is in this discussion as well, and it's
Speaker 2: just like.
Speaker 3: Are we just back are we gonna join every other sport?
Speaker 3: Like like is the MLS gonna join every other sport
Speaker 3: where it's just best player on best team or biggest
Speaker 3: statistical season versus true value. And it's just tough if
Speaker 3: we take this discussion real quick to to the NFL.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's gonna win the MVP or not,
Speaker 3: But if you take Josh Allen off of the Bills, like,
Speaker 3: what is that team, And with all respect to Saquon Barkley,
Speaker 3: who's having a huge season, that's a pretty good team
Speaker 3: without him. I mean, Josh Allen's worth six wins, Saquons
Speaker 3: maybe worth one and a half.
Speaker 2: You know what, I mean, like these.
Speaker 3: Are the comparisons, and then some people want to throw
Speaker 3: Lamar in there because of the offensive season he's having
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2: As well, Like it's like a four lost team. The
Speaker 2: Bengals have like six losses. Yeah, so it's just so.
Speaker 3: Tough to quantify best player versus value, and almost none
Speaker 3: of these leagues use the term value properly in I
Speaker 3: understand why MLS is probably heading that route. I also,
Speaker 3: voting systems are broken in every sport, Like players face
Speaker 3: a guy maybe twice a year, and you're supposed to
Speaker 3: glean value off of that. Some guys you didn't face
Speaker 3: the entire season. You never saw him. You don't know
Speaker 3: how difficult he is to defend that year. You're certainly
Speaker 3: not watching games because they're on the same time that
Speaker 3: you are in broadcasters, Like it's always tough to quantify
Speaker 3: who actually has watched enough to really glean that and not.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's a perfect solution, I MESSI you know,
Speaker 3: I had no problem with him winning MVP, But like,
Speaker 3: just like in every other sport, if we ever like
Speaker 3: actually to find what most valuable players supposed to be,
Speaker 3: I find it tough that he would have won just
Speaker 3: because of how good Miami was without.
Speaker 1: Him, right it was, I think you were right. It
Speaker 1: was eight wins out of nine in all comps, and
Speaker 1: I think they were I think they'd won three of
Speaker 1: the five in Major League Soccer during that time frame.
Speaker 1: So Messi number one for the players vote, number one
Speaker 1: in the media vote, number two in the club vote,
Speaker 1: had four point seven percent more over Couco Hernandez in
Speaker 1: the aggregate thirty eight point four to thirty three point seven.
Speaker 1: If vander was a distant third, Christian binech A a
Speaker 1: and even more distant fourth than Luis Suarez was fifth
Speaker 1: at two point one seven percent. But no, I would
Speaker 1: have gone I probably would have gone Cucho Hernandez over Messi.
Speaker 1: I'm not denying. I am not denying what Lionel Messi
Speaker 1: is for this league, not denying that under any circumstance whatsoever.
Speaker 1: But I would have gone Kucho. Considering if you had
Speaker 1: taken Messi out of Inter Miami and Messi and friends,
Speaker 1: you still would have had and friends, and you still
Speaker 1: would have been successful, and you still would have won
Speaker 1: the Captain America Pie played. I'm sure at the end
Speaker 1: of the season. So that's how I viewed the Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer MVP voting to your point about other nights
Speaker 1: of the week. Last week, in between visits of you,
Speaker 1: we actually tackled this and we suggested that Major League
Speaker 1: Soccer find a way to own Friday Night. Okay, you
Speaker 1: get the doubleheader, you start your programming at say six
Speaker 1: thirty or seven o'clock, you get to your East coast kickoff,
Speaker 1: then you have your Bridge programming and your ten o'clock kickoff,
Speaker 1: ten ten or whatever it is under Apple. Then ten ten,
Speaker 1: you have your West coast programming, and you own Friday Night.
Speaker 1: You turn it into an event.
Speaker 3: But there's one problem that doesn't happen if it's on Apple,
Speaker 3: Like you have to be partnered with TV, and I
Speaker 3: know Apple doesn't want to hear that. That's not why
Speaker 3: they signed the league. That's the reality of the situation.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna gain viewers by claiming Friday Night. If
Speaker 3: it's still on Apple TV, people aren't gonna go that
Speaker 3: far out of their way to watch soccer.
Speaker 2: They just aren't.
Speaker 1: So if you put it on FS one, say, or
Speaker 1: even Big Fox as your secondary carrier, who is already
Speaker 1: your secondary carrier in the league. Would you then check
Speaker 1: off on this idea if it was on either FS
Speaker 1: one or Big Fox in addition to Apple TV.
Speaker 3: Well, the other thing I would do is pair a
Speaker 3: West Coast Perry West Coast MLS game that kicks off
Speaker 3: maybe later than normal, maybe eleven o'clock Eastern, with your
Speaker 3: Friday night Fox game of college football. That's the other
Speaker 3: thing I would take a look at is once you
Speaker 3: are in college football and Fox is running that Friday
Speaker 3: night eight o'clock or seven thirty ki, I think it's
Speaker 3: normally eight o'clock kick. It's normally been a Big twelve
Speaker 3: or or a Big ten game whatever. Put an MLS
Speaker 3: game after that and see what you can do to
Speaker 3: hold the audience. And I know you get weird with like, well,
Speaker 3: what if a game goes in overtime and do you
Speaker 3: start the MLS game late?
Speaker 2: Do you just run it or whatever?
Speaker 3: Like figure that out fine, But like I would, if
Speaker 3: you're trying this Friday night thing and you can get
Speaker 3: it on TV somewhere even when you do get into
Speaker 3: football season, partner it up. Fox is gonna run an
Speaker 3: eight o'clock football game, run an eleven or eleven fifteen
Speaker 3: soccer game right after.
Speaker 1: And that's what FS one is for. So if you
Speaker 1: have overruns or you kick things off. So yea, So
Speaker 1: here's what I so along your lines, here's what we're
Speaker 1: work shopping here. So your Eastern game on Friday night
Speaker 1: football a f U TV starts off with an Apple.
Speaker 1: Apple runs their whole thing, they go from beginning to end.
Speaker 1: So FS one then kicks off with the East Coast
Speaker 1: game at seven or seven thirty whatever is in line
Speaker 1: with the all night product. Then when that is over
Speaker 1: or eight, then when that's over, hey switch over to
Speaker 1: Big Fox and you get the Western Conference game. You
Speaker 1: know that way, So you get your Eastern doubleheader on
Speaker 1: one part of the Fox network, and then after your
Speaker 1: college football game on Friday night, Friday night football continues
Speaker 1: in a different form and spelling with your Western Conference
Speaker 1: game on Big Fox late.
Speaker 3: Night and you and you still get potentially a decent
Speaker 3: holdover audience from from the college football game when you
Speaker 3: get to that part of the year. I mean, you
Speaker 3: got to do something. And again this there was always
Speaker 3: going to be this problem with the contract. I understand
Speaker 3: the cash flow, but the amount of eyes you were
Speaker 3: going to lose year over year, even with bringing MESSI
Speaker 3: in is a problem.
Speaker 2: You just got to find a way to get games
Speaker 2: on TV.
Speaker 3: And I don't know how much money that takes out
Speaker 3: of Apple's you know, pockets when you do that. But
Speaker 3: you're just not gonna get that win even on Friday
Speaker 3: nights or even on whatever night the game of the
Speaker 3: week or free a free Apple Pass for that game
Speaker 3: or that weekend. It's just not gonna happen if it's only.
Speaker 2: Via the app in.
Speaker 1: I just.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 3: It was a good idea and it's fine, But like
Speaker 3: if you didn't understand that the casual soccer viewers not
Speaker 3: going out of their way, I don't know what to
Speaker 3: tell you.
Speaker 2: I mean, I have Peacock now because I bought it
Speaker 2: during the Olympics.
Speaker 3: Yep, you know what I still don't do, like ever
Speaker 3: turn on Peacock to go out of my way and
Speaker 3: watch an EPL game.
Speaker 1: I watch Goal Rush, I'll.
Speaker 2: Watch whatever's on TV. It's on USA or if it's
Speaker 2: on Telemundo, I'll put it on. Like I just I
Speaker 2: just still.
Speaker 3: Just watch what's on TV unless I'm specifically, you know,
Speaker 3: going to watch my team. I still don't go out
Speaker 3: of my way. Yeah, and so that that's for the
Speaker 3: best soccer league in the world. You know, certainly people
Speaker 3: are going to be doing that for the MLS.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah. So, uh you see what you've done. You've
Speaker 1: opened up another door in time for another topic at
Speaker 1: the end of your segment. So you see how this works.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 1: What's going on with you in nineteen nine in the
Speaker 1: game before we catch up next week?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're heading towards the holidays here in a little bit.
Speaker 3: But uh uh, just we're talking football, the American version,
Speaker 3: some some good in college and some bad in the pros.
Speaker 3: And so it should be a fun week on the
Speaker 3: Midday Show. I'm gonna be hosting on Thursday and Friday
Speaker 3: on the Midday Show, So looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: Very nice. We'll catch up with you next week, my friend.
Speaker 1: Good to see you.
Speaker 2: You got it, Thanks John.
Speaker 1: All Right, that's Abe, and see Abe opens up like
Speaker 1: nineteen different windows and topics as the segment is ending,
Speaker 1: and it's like, ah, I need to continue to talk
Speaker 1: to him about these things. Uh okay. So Abe opened
Speaker 1: up a window involving our discussion last week about rights
Speaker 1: holders and contracts and Major League Soccer and how do
Speaker 1: we fix what's going on. He brings up a valid
Speaker 1: point about viewership and trying to draw more eyes. If
Speaker 1: you know, if we take the Friday night football product
Speaker 1: that we proposed last week, Bruce Buffer Eastern Conference game,
Speaker 1: it's time you know that and have your doubleheader and
Speaker 1: make an evening of it at Apple TV. Do you
Speaker 1: just keep it on Apple and try to draw folks
Speaker 1: in with the the you know, the subscription teas early
Speaker 1: in the season with Friday night football, or do you
Speaker 1: have that secondary carrier You're over the air carrier. Start
Speaker 1: your evening on FS one. Say then when Friday Night
Speaker 1: Football footba LLL is over, have your late night game
Speaker 1: on Big File. Your Western Conference game goes on Big
Speaker 1: Fox with your college football game being the early part
Speaker 1: of your Big Fox programming on Friday. See Abe open
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Speaker 1: cool on a Monday, all right. So I wanted to
Speaker 1: kind of get into before Bart joins us in fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: since we were fixing Major League Soccer and kind of
Speaker 1: got into MLS Cup. We'll get into refing down here
Speaker 1: in the US women's national team and all those kinds
Speaker 1: of things. The other news of the morning and by
Speaker 1: the way, by the way we have it is an
Speaker 1: important day morning, Abby, It is an important day in
Speaker 1: Major League Soccer because it is the beginning of the
Speaker 1: half day trade window, and so if anything is going
Speaker 1: on this morning, we will let you know and we
Speaker 1: will keep you up to date on anything and everything
Speaker 1: going on in Major League Soccer, because from forty five
Speaker 1: minutes ago it is the open of the half day
Speaker 1: trade window, so from nine until one, if anything happens,
Speaker 1: we'll let you know. And a couple of transactions that
Speaker 1: happened before the opening of the half day trade window.
Speaker 1: Minnesota United signed Tony Olawasse to a contract extension, and
Speaker 1: the transfer of Sante Sosa to Rossin Klube is official
Speaker 1: from Atlanta United. That's why you picked up the option.
Speaker 1: You pick up the option so that way someone's interested
Speaker 1: you get a transfer fee out of the deal. And
Speaker 1: we also mentioned last week about Edwin Musqueta and there
Speaker 1: are a couple of clubs interested in him. Manuel Vev
Speaker 1: yesterday mentioned that it appears and like I said, this
Speaker 1: is you know, it's kind of where we are right
Speaker 1: now in this particular time of the season. According to
Speaker 1: Manuel Vev, it looks like Atlanti United is interested in
Speaker 1: Drew Yearwood. Now, for those of you that I might remember,
Speaker 1: it's like Drew Yearwood. Who what, Yeah, that Drew Yearwood,
Speaker 1: the Drew Yearwood that you either saw in a Red
Speaker 1: Bull's uniform or you saw in a Nashville uniform. And
Speaker 1: it appears that Drew Yearwood might be chased after by
Speaker 1: Atlanta United when it came to availabilities and available players.
Speaker 1: So right now, and Beth has been active yesterday, last
Speaker 1: couple of days, so a couple of things that Veth
Speaker 1: has put out there, and the signing of Eric Maxim
Speaker 1: Chubomo ting is getting closer and closer to being official.
Speaker 1: Four Red Bulls by the way, so it appears a
Speaker 1: couple of notes from Veth from yesterday and unless Next
Speaker 1: pros a Golden Boot, Next Pro MVP and Golden Boot winter,
Speaker 1: David parab A signed a first team deal with Chicago Fire.
Speaker 1: That's the smart move by the Fire. Twenty one and
Speaker 1: six and thirty two games last year for Chicago Fire.
Speaker 1: Two Now the note on Drew Yearwood. According to Veth,
Speaker 1: sources say that Atlanta United are interested in signing the
Speaker 1: free agent center midfielder. Talk's early stages parties still far
Speaker 1: apart when it comes to salary, Atlanta would like to
Speaker 1: make it work. This is according to Manuel Veth. Other
Speaker 1: clubs also interested. Yarwood's contract set to expire New Year's Day,
Speaker 1: so Drew Yearwood, who is a sertifiable pain in the
Speaker 1: butt for both Nashville and Red Bulls was making and
Speaker 1: I had the number here, So Drew Yearwood last year
Speaker 1: for Nashville as a central midfielder. Base salary of five
Speaker 1: fifty guaranteed compensation just under just under six hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: So twenty four year old. But I know a lot
Speaker 1: of us may remember him from his time with Red
Speaker 1: Bulls before he moved from Red Bulls to Nashville. Just
Speaker 1: to give you some background, twenty five matches last year
Speaker 1: with Nashville, one goal to assist fifteen hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: eight minutes, one game in Huntsville, three games in Conky
Speaker 1: CAF champions Cup. Spent a lot of his time before
Speaker 1: then with Red Bulls. Before he came over, he was
Speaker 1: with South End United and had a cup of coffee
Speaker 1: with Brentford in the Championship in the nineteen twenty season
Speaker 1: before they were promoted to the Premier League. After that,
Speaker 1: twelve games in Major League Soccer with Red Bulls in
Speaker 1: twenty had one match in the playoffs, then played for
Speaker 1: Red Bulls two in the Championship in twenty one. Started
Speaker 1: getting a lot of productivity in a lot of minutes,
Speaker 1: starting up the twenty one season. Twenty nine matches played
Speaker 1: for Red bull In twenty one a goal and an
Speaker 1: assist in seventeen hundred minutes, one match in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: three in the Open Cup. Twenty two, played twenty five
Speaker 1: matches for Red Bulls, two goals and an assist in
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred and fifty minutes played. In twenty three, he
Speaker 1: played three matches for Red Bulls two, played two in
Speaker 1: the Open Cup, played four in League's Cup. Played twenty
Speaker 1: matches for Red Bulls in the twenty three season and
Speaker 1: then was then moved over to Nashville, where he played
Speaker 1: twenty five matches last year with a goal and two assists.
Speaker 1: Most of his time is spent in the central midfield.
Speaker 1: One hundred and two of his career matches have been
Speaker 1: in the central midfield. Three goals, eleven assists along the way,
Speaker 1: so steady presence in the midfield. Twenty four years old,
Speaker 1: central midfielder out of Harlow, England. Like I said, that's
Speaker 1: Manuel Veth, and that's just a name that Deth floated
Speaker 1: out there yesterday. So Atlanta, according to Veth, interested in
Speaker 1: signing Drew Yearwood. Also Rafael Spiegel cl very close to
Speaker 1: signing with the Oakland Roots. The tales being negotiated. Both
Speaker 1: parties want to make it work. He's a keeper last
Speaker 1: played for Laws On Sport in Switzerland, so keep an
Speaker 1: eye out on the Drew Yearwood idea. H Abby Abby
Speaker 1: says he was a pita as a Red Bull. Emelia
Speaker 1: wants to know if he can play in an upbeat system,
Speaker 1: million bober player. He might be more of a he
Speaker 1: might be more of a stay at home central midfielder
Speaker 1: or just so we'll see. But the the systems that
Speaker 1: he has been in, obviously with Red Bulls there you're
Speaker 1: used to to pressing and pushing forward, and in Nashal
Speaker 1: under Gary Smith, you're used to being very physical and
Speaker 1: really making sure that you don't have room to breathe.
Speaker 1: And this is to Abby's point about him being a
Speaker 1: pita as a Red Bull, and I don't mean that
Speaker 1: as something that you put Greek food in, and neither
Speaker 1: does Abby. Abby remembers him as a pita. I'll have
Speaker 1: to remember that acronym.
Speaker 4: By the way.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. So pain in the you know what,
Speaker 1: pain in the ass, Let's go ahead and say it.
Speaker 1: He was a peda. He's a pain in the ass.
Speaker 1: So yes, he was a pain in the ass as
Speaker 1: a red Bull, got a lot of minutes with Red Bulls,
Speaker 1: and then he moved over to Nashville and that's where
Speaker 1: he was, so all right, time to say hi to
Speaker 1: everybody once again. We got to Bart joining us in
Speaker 1: about eight minutes to kind of go through everything that's
Speaker 1: on his mind and go through that. There's one play
Speaker 1: I want to Here's what I want to break through
Speaker 1: with Bart this morning. Normally we do our reffing down
Speaker 1: here segment. There's one moment that I wanted to go
Speaker 1: over specifically with Bart involving refing down here. Yes, we'll
Speaker 1: go over all the other red cards and things like
Speaker 1: that and all the non calls last night. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw it in Lega Emma Echis, but
Speaker 1: over the weekend they were getting close to determining the
Speaker 1: aperture of finalists for the twenty four season. Montterday beat
Speaker 1: the breaks off of Lettinko San Luis and Johnny Vial
Speaker 1: and Jurgen dom So Month today advanced Saturday. The Sunday
Speaker 1: match was the second leg of Clubamedica and Cruse Assous.
Speaker 1: So in that particular match, it was crazy it was
Speaker 1: two nil and three to one, and then it was
Speaker 1: three to three, and then it ends up with a
Speaker 1: penalty call at ninety plus four that ends up giving
Speaker 1: the seventh goal of the match to Clubamedica. They beat
Speaker 1: CRUs Assoul for three. They advanced to play mom On
Speaker 1: today in the finals in Liga m Echis. In the
Speaker 1: APERTUREA I wanted, I wanted. I wanted Bart to go
Speaker 1: over the penalty call inside the eighteen. I wanted to
Speaker 1: basically get his thoughts on it. That's going to be
Speaker 1: one of the plays that we look at from this
Speaker 1: week when it comes to Lega m Echis and how
Speaker 1: we look at refing down here on a Monday. But
Speaker 1: I also wanted to discuss with Bart the heat in
Speaker 1: the room and how in a game that is as
Speaker 1: chaotic as that one was, once again you had a
Speaker 1: goal that made it if you had goals on the
Speaker 1: board that made it to nil, then it was three
Speaker 1: to one, there's two to one, three one, then three
Speaker 1: to three, then a penalty at ninety plus four where
Speaker 1: you had twelve minutes added. Then it's a goal that
Speaker 1: gets scored four to three. Final and Clubomedica advances and
Speaker 1: everybody talks about the Crusos Solea all over again. So
Speaker 1: that's where that's one of the plays that I wanted
Speaker 1: to bring to the table this morning with Bart in
Speaker 1: refing down here. But we're also going to talk about
Speaker 1: the women's national team, and we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: the goalkeeping situation, considering that they no longer will have
Speaker 1: a listen there as a part of the activity between
Speaker 1: the sticks. So we'll find out what he thinks about
Speaker 1: the keeping situation, what we may have learned from the
Speaker 1: window and reffing down here as we always do. And
Speaker 1: it's always good to have Bart who suffered through the
Speaker 1: Friday show where the internet provider here at Office HD
Speaker 1: decided to just kind of shut things down and turn
Speaker 1: things off. It literally, it was like somebody had a
Speaker 1: light switch and they're going off on four times. The
Speaker 1: show dumped, or at least it dumped on my end.
Speaker 1: Bart was in the room. Everybody else who were guests
Speaker 1: they stayed, bumped me out, and so that's why the
Speaker 1: show in its edited audio form only when an hour
Speaker 1: and forty five minutes, I shut her to think what
Speaker 1: it looked like on YouTube. So we'll see morning abel
Speaker 1: aables like no League MVP for Messy Morning, Harry Morning
Speaker 1: Alex and in our college football discussion pars is the
Speaker 1: Alabama of now is not the Alabama of saban That
Speaker 1: is true. And will SMU shouldn't be punished by losing
Speaker 1: an extra game. No, they shouldn't. They shouldn't. But I
Speaker 1: have always viewed, once again through the prism of it
Speaker 1: being a television show, first and foremost, do you want
Speaker 1: Who Shot Jr? You don't want Jennie Lee Harrison no
Speaker 1: offense to JANIEE. Harrison, But you don't want Chrissy Snow's sister,
Speaker 1: And you don't want Priscilla Barnes and Three's company. You
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Speaker 1: Suzanne Summers. You want Rosalind Chase falling down the elevator ship.
Speaker 1: Do you want Who Shot Jr? You want Goodbye Farewell
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Speaker 1: That's why I thought it legitimately, it was going to
Speaker 1: be an Alabama over an SMU, even as SMU acquitted
Speaker 1: themselves very very well. Like I said, I'm programming a
Speaker 1: television show I'm bringing in Alabama for hate watching or
Speaker 1: just watching in general, Pars, I'd love it if college
Speaker 1: football had promotion relegation. I would love it because then
Speaker 1: you'd have teams in the Missouri Valley. Then you'd have
Speaker 1: like North Dakota State, South Dakota State in the either
Speaker 1: in the probably in the Big Twelve because they need
Speaker 1: all the help they can get. Could you imagine promotion
Speaker 1: and relegation in college football? It would be so amazing.
Speaker 1: You'd have Montana coming in out west, and all these
Speaker 1: great powers that we see in Division I and Division two.
Speaker 1: I mean you probably would a couple of years from
Speaker 1: like Grand Valley State being promoted into the B one
Speaker 1: G those kinds of things. I think it'd be amazing.
Speaker 1: I think you need to have it. Will Alabama don't
Speaker 1: lose dog? Alabama once in don't lose Dog lumb By
Speaker 1: twenty one. Absolutely true. Also, week before I send you
Speaker 1: three spots above, BAMA being punished for losing an extra
Speaker 1: game is bogus. Absolutely true, and yes, Will, we are
Speaker 1: celebrating happy half day open trading window, so we are
Speaker 1: waiting for deals when they happen. We will let you
Speaker 1: know what is going on with the half day trade
Speaker 1: window if anything is going to go down at all,
Speaker 1: So we will see what's going on there. Pars said.
Speaker 1: He's been saying since Boyse beat George and the dum
Speaker 1: they should be able to be considered for better Bowl games.
Speaker 1: And yeah, oh, Alex, when I was talking about the yearbook,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was in the nerd click in high school.
Speaker 1: I know that surprises you then, so you had all
Speaker 1: the jocks who would sign things in the nerd books
Speaker 1: and then it would be just like, you know, great
Speaker 1: a plus in math. You know, then they're the ones
Speaker 1: that are sitting there getting c's and d's and they
Speaker 1: don't care. But because they're the quarterback. Those are the
Speaker 1: kinds of things that I got in my your books.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, no, Kucho mess MESSI wanted on name only.
Speaker 1: Well Messi's numbers were ridiculous. Will, But if you pull
Speaker 1: Messy out of the discussion and it's like okay, I said,
Speaker 1: it depends on how you gauge MVP. What your definition
Speaker 1: is for me with MESSI if you pull him out
Speaker 1: of the lineup, they still won eight of nine and
Speaker 1: I think we're one three. There were three to one
Speaker 1: and one in Major League Soccer. So uh no, his
Speaker 1: numbers are sick, that is without question. But I view
Speaker 1: MVP through that prism. So and well, the ultimate Baseball
Speaker 1: broken systems, the Baseball Hall of Fame missing on people's
Speaker 1: committee fixing or electing bad players. Harold Bines is not
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer on any planet, according to Will Happy,
Speaker 1: Definitely for Dave Parker and Dick Callen, absolutely true. Uh
Speaker 1: and Breezy Gaming, Uh, thanks for up and buy this morning,
Speaker 1: pretty off topic. Fulham fan went to the game yesterday,
Speaker 1: so jealous Jedi plays for the m and t Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, okay, cool, all right, good, Well this is
Speaker 1: where we'll bring Bart in as he's wearing his West
Speaker 1: Virginia gear today, so he's getting ready for a Bowl game.
Speaker 1: All right, So I'm gonna bring Bart in here to
Speaker 1: start things off since it is now officially ten o'clock.
Speaker 1: We have viewers from England, and I can't do it
Speaker 1: like Nick and Jason do it, So I'm thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: So breezy gaming is in this morning and he goes, hello,
Speaker 1: make pretty off topic here, but a Fulham fan who
Speaker 1: went to the match yesterday, I'm so jealous. Jedi plays
Speaker 1: for the M and T he would easily be England's
Speaker 1: first choice left back. Exceptional yesterday against Arsenal. What say you,
Speaker 1: Arsenal fan, Well, I'll.
Speaker 4: Just say that Jedi is always exceptional and he's a
Speaker 4: very reliable and dependable player, and I think that's been
Speaker 4: his greatest asset to the US men's national team is
Speaker 4: for the most part, he's been very healthy and you
Speaker 4: know what you're getting out of him. But he has
Speaker 4: also improved a lot since he started with US back
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty one. Fulham does have a great left
Speaker 4: back in Anthony Robinson, and I think, as you saw yesterday,
Speaker 4: captaining the team, being a leader for that team, he's
Speaker 4: a good guy. We are lucky to have him for
Speaker 4: the US national team and I think he chose wisely.
Speaker 1: He chose wise.
Speaker 4: Look, if you want to win games in the World Cup,
Speaker 4: you should play for the US, because England has never
Speaker 4: beaten the US in the World Cup ever, men's or women's.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, go ahead, start, just start. That fire already.
Speaker 4: These are just facts, John. I'm here to report facts.
Speaker 1: Well, I know you're here to report facts. That's why
Speaker 1: we bring you in.
Speaker 4: And another fact, Alabama didn't deserve to go to the
Speaker 4: College football Playoff.
Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely not. But once again deserve versus television programming.
Speaker 1: We always know that when there's an option available, that
Speaker 1: door might get open. Yeah, uh huh uh oh uh.
Speaker 1: Did you find out what bowl game your w b
Speaker 1: G v ors are going to this year?
Speaker 4: Yeah? At John? You ready for us? Sure? The Mountaineers
Speaker 4: are finishing up the season in a soccer stadium.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Oh there's coffee, here's coffee Frisco. Okay, Memphis, right, yes,
Speaker 1: against Memphis, Memphis and West Virginia. It at Frisco.
Speaker 4: Future Big twelve team probably not, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you guys, there's always auditions. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: to me. There's always places to audition in these kinds
Speaker 1: of things. Uh. I wanted to go over a couple
Speaker 1: of things with you this morning in the in the
Speaker 1: roffing down here purview, but since we're talking national team stuff,
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and go there.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: Uh. The part that I want wanted to discuss with you,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to steer folks over to episode CV
Speaker 1: of the Soccer for US po D. It's I think that's.
Speaker 4: One o five penned on my Twitter account. You can
Speaker 4: go to a Soccer for US pod on both Twitter
Speaker 4: and Blue Sky and find the link.
Speaker 1: There you go, So you you are a part of
Speaker 1: the the folks that are drifting over to Blue Sky
Speaker 1: like a lot of us right. Yes, the women's national
Speaker 1: team after these matches overseas that happened in I mean
Speaker 1: relative obscurity. I mean they were broadcast on television. But
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, and the listen there announced that she's
Speaker 1: done with the international It's like, but that seems to fit.
Speaker 1: It's just like, ye doesn't want to be doesn't want
Speaker 1: to make a big deal about it, doesn't want it
Speaker 1: to be about her. It's like, oh, yeah, oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, I'm done.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think that was kind of funny that she
Speaker 4: gets into camp and then is like, yeah, by the way,
Speaker 4: it's my last international camp done after this that seems
Speaker 4: very a listener, like you said, she doesn't want the fuss.
Speaker 4: I am ninety nine point seven percent positive she'll get
Speaker 4: some sort of send off recognition next year. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm actually I was actually expecting her to retire next
Speaker 4: year period and probably get a send off match in Chicago.
Speaker 4: But we'll see where she ends up getting one. I think,
Speaker 4: you know, a Listenaier has been the unsung hero for
Speaker 4: this team for so long, and in fact, I hate
Speaker 4: the fact that her most legendary performance was the twenty
Speaker 4: twenty three World Cup, and that's the one that you know,
Speaker 4: her teammates couldn't get the job done for her. You know,
Speaker 4: she even saved the final penalty kick despite what Vaer said,
Speaker 4: and she has two She's was the number one for
Speaker 4: two World Cups. She got one win. She obviously was
Speaker 4: the backup in twenty fifteen. She now has a gold medal,
Speaker 4: which is a pretty you know, nice thing to add
Speaker 4: to that. So for a listener to step aside while it,
Speaker 4: John may feel sad for a lot of people, and
Speaker 4: I get that she was obviously an integral part to
Speaker 4: this team for you know, more than almost a decade.
Speaker 4: It is good that she is stepping away before forcing
Speaker 4: the hand of him that hey is to make it
Speaker 4: a difficult decision because John, as you and I both know,
Speaker 4: she is on the wrong side of thirty and while
Speaker 4: goalkeepers can play long. We struggled with the Brad Guzan
Speaker 4: comments commentary recently because he was up and down. You know,
Speaker 4: he had a great end of the season, but he's
Speaker 4: been up and down throughout a lot of his past
Speaker 4: what two years. Even so, to not force a coach
Speaker 4: to say, hey, you're no longer the number one while
Speaker 4: she's still on the team, it's pretty respectful. I also
Speaker 4: think again that it's nice to see a player step
Speaker 4: aside while still acknowledging they can have a club career
Speaker 4: after the national team. I'm hoping we see more when
Speaker 4: the national team players do that. But Alyssa is vastly
Speaker 4: it was vastly important to this team. And now John
Speaker 4: we get a goalkeeper battle.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. So then who is? And this is very
Speaker 1: Jim Brownish, You're very very Sanders ish from a listener
Speaker 1: to go out where you are internationally and it's like, nope,
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm out.
Speaker 4: Its two fantastic games over the window.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you know you're just going to go
Speaker 1: back and be a Chicago Star. So it's for me,
Speaker 1: it's it's going to be interesting. Who By the way,
Speaker 1: it is going to be able to compete with moments
Speaker 1: like this.
Speaker 5: This could end it. Jesse Fleming, the Canada captain, taking
Speaker 5: on the responsibility of leading this new era in the
Speaker 5: women's national side, the game at her feet save for
Speaker 5: a third time by.
Speaker 6: Their She's saved three, she converted one, a lesson there
Speaker 6: has almost single handedly set the United States and of
Speaker 6: the Women's Goal Cup final.
Speaker 1: So you've got moments like that. Who can do that?
Speaker 1: And then who can, by the way, proceed that moment
Speaker 1: once again? Thanks to our friends at CBS and a
Speaker 1: concacap with a moment like this, And.
Speaker 5: Now she takes third. Still can't believe her tipping onto
Speaker 5: the posts in the World Cup knocked them out a
Speaker 5: chance for redemptionnaire into the bottom corner. This is the
Speaker 5: LISTENERI game.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, says.
Speaker 6: Two steps up, what second opens.
Speaker 5: Up their hands, slots it into.
Speaker 1: That far corner. What a penalty kick that is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Chris Whittingham and Laura lindsay in the Gold Cup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: watching probably one of the most certifiable badass performances. Yes,
Speaker 1: and that was only nine months ago.
Speaker 4: I know that was And she did it again, remember,
Speaker 4: and she believes Cup. You know, it cannot be understated
Speaker 4: how amazing her mentality is. And I think that's what
Speaker 4: I want people to take from her, is that is
Speaker 4: a way that you can go about being a star
Speaker 4: in the national team. You can show up, do your job,
Speaker 4: and be a badass.
Speaker 1: So then who who Comma bart Comma gets to be
Speaker 1: the next bad ass between the sticks?
Speaker 4: Legit, That's a good question because I don't know who
Speaker 4: that person is right now, and I don't think we
Speaker 4: have a clear picture on who the number one is now.
Speaker 4: If you were to ask me, if you were to
Speaker 4: ask me before October, I probably would have said Casey Murphy.
Speaker 4: She was the heir apparent. She got a lot of
Speaker 4: time in goal under Vlatko, which is something we didn't
Speaker 4: see a lot of. Alistenair didn't really start for the
Speaker 4: national team until she started for the national team. So
Speaker 4: Casey Murphy has had a lot of big game and
Speaker 4: a lot of international minutes. But I think it's very
Speaker 4: fair to say she has not grabbed that starting job
Speaker 4: the way that we expected her to. You saw someone
Speaker 4: called into camp this time around. She didn't get playing time.
Speaker 4: But Fallentelli's Joyce is one who is starting for Manchester
Speaker 4: United the best goalkeeper in the WSL. Right now. You
Speaker 4: also have Jane Campbell, who didn't feature in the fall
Speaker 4: friendlies because of an injury, but she's been around the
Speaker 4: Nation one team for a long time. She's obviously the
Speaker 4: pride of Marietta, so we hope she can another Marietta
Speaker 4: girl hoping she can stay on with the national team.
Speaker 4: You have some older ones like Kingsbury, but you know,
Speaker 4: it is an open battle in twenty twenty five and
Speaker 4: you have two years Emma Hayes does to figure it out.
Speaker 4: And luckily in twenty twenty five you don't have any
Speaker 4: real major tournaments. You can use she Believes Cup with
Speaker 4: all three of those friendlies to maybe try out three
Speaker 4: goalkeepers or at least rotate to see who gets, you know,
Speaker 4: the best looks in game. And you have a whole
Speaker 4: league of NWSL goalkeepers who I think a lot of
Speaker 4: them have proven they could be that player if given
Speaker 4: the opportunity.
Speaker 1: And that's you know. And it was in the broadcast
Speaker 1: from Luke Wilman and Julie Foudy last time out where
Speaker 1: this was part of their their running commentary and Julie
Speaker 1: Foudy mentioned, yes, she has two point five years to
Speaker 1: figure it out. She kind of has two and a half,
Speaker 1: but she really doesn't, because you've got to be ready
Speaker 1: by that event to you know, be to have everything
Speaker 1: locked into place.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 1: If your if if you looked at your paperwork, you
Speaker 1: you looked at your paperwork, you looked at your research,
Speaker 1: you looked at your your yearbook, and all of your
Speaker 1: thought pattern here, what does your gut tell you about
Speaker 1: who would be number one? All things being equal? What
Speaker 1: would you if you were stacking a roster if there
Speaker 1: was the the Bark Keeler Soccer for US POD Invitational
Speaker 1: that included the US Women's National team, and it was
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say like over Christmas holiday or anything,
Speaker 1: but let's just say, you know, Valentine's Day, it's the
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day Extravaganza for the soccer for US PO D Cup,
Speaker 1: and the us WNT is a part of it. Who
Speaker 1: would you stack your roster with when it comes to
Speaker 1: being between the sticks.
Speaker 4: Well, let's just look at a real tournament we have.
Speaker 4: She believes Cup coming up next winter fall, whatever season
Speaker 4: that is at that point in time. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 4: that's winter. I would I would have Casey Murphy as
Speaker 4: my number one. I would have Jane Campbell as the two,
Speaker 4: and I would have Foulon talis choice as the three.
Speaker 4: But I also really would like to see Katie Lund
Speaker 4: from Louisville. I think she's the one that I've been
Speaker 4: championing for a while. I do think she needs to
Speaker 4: be on a better soccer team, but I think Katie
Speaker 4: could be a very interesting choice. She's very tall, like
Speaker 4: Casey Murphy and and very very good shot stopper. I
Speaker 4: don't really think there's anyone else. And again, like Mandy
Speaker 4: how it's a good shout of a player who could
Speaker 4: get an opportunity. I just don't know who. How much
Speaker 4: you want to experiment, right, there's there's a difference between
Speaker 4: bringing players in to have them prove in person, which
Speaker 4: you've seen on tape, or you know, maybe at a game,
Speaker 4: right because Emma's not at training sessions. But then there's
Speaker 4: a difference between that and while it is a tryout
Speaker 4: that the field is very selected, right, it's curated. So
Speaker 4: I do think that you've seen kind of the players
Speaker 4: that Ema ha Is maybe is already considering, and they
Speaker 4: are Casey, Jane Fallen and probably Mandy how it wouldn't
Speaker 4: surprise me if there are some other interiviuusal keepers coming in.
Speaker 4: But yeah, those are the ones that I think are
Speaker 4: most likely to be battling out for the number one spot.
Speaker 1: It sounds like there's thirty eight keepers that could possibly.
Speaker 4: I mean, there really are, John and I think that's
Speaker 4: the difference between now and in twenty sixteen when we
Speaker 4: moved on from Hope Solo or Hope Solo decided to
Speaker 4: move on from the US women's national team is it
Speaker 4: was a very much a well it's now listen there,
Speaker 4: and we were a little uns and part of that
Speaker 4: was again because naire hadn't been given a lot of
Speaker 4: national team playing time. Whereas now we've seen some goalkeepers.
Speaker 4: Right in October we saw Casey and Mandy right, that's
Speaker 4: good again and she believes cup it when it surprised
Speaker 4: me if we see at least two goalkeepers played, maybe
Speaker 4: three again in twenty twenty five. We don't have any
Speaker 4: real tournaments coming up, right, we don't have to worry
Speaker 4: for on the women's side to worry about like, oh,
Speaker 4: we gotta go win a trophy. Obviously you want to win.
Speaker 4: She believes Cup. I understand it's a tournament, it's a
Speaker 4: bunch of friendlies, so you have time to go explore,
Speaker 4: you have time to test players out in a real time.
Speaker 4: But again, you're not holding an open, open tryout. You're
Speaker 4: carefully selecting who you're bringing in to make sure that
Speaker 4: they are up for it. And this is where Emma's
Speaker 4: going to be really tested. There's some other position battles
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty five that we did talk about on
Speaker 4: the podcast, and we will probably talk about it a
Speaker 4: lot coming up in twenty twenty five. We have that
Speaker 4: futures camp in January, which is Emma hay is taking
Speaker 4: the January camp from the men's side and actually framing
Speaker 4: it correctly, and we'll see if anything comes from that.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it will. Teagan Why is the
Speaker 4: youth national team goalkeeper that I think a lot of
Speaker 4: people are high on, but she's still I don't think
Speaker 4: she's even twenty one yet, So we'll see. John, But
Speaker 4: I'm glad that Emma is having tryouts but being very
Speaker 4: selective about who's being brought in.
Speaker 1: Okay, help like kind of sort of involving soccer for USPOD.
Speaker 1: Christian Polisic a torn muscle in his right calf, ac
Speaker 1: Milan said on Monday, following an MRI could be out
Speaker 1: until January. During the first half of Milan's loss at
Speaker 1: Atalanta on Friday, Milan said he would undergo another MRI
Speaker 1: in a week. One of the top players this season
Speaker 1: five goals for assistances in Syria, three goals in Champions League.
Speaker 1: The men's national team does not play an official match
Speaker 1: until facing Panama in concor CAB Nations League semifinals in March.
Speaker 1: Polsit could return according to the four letter and wire
Speaker 1: service reports for the Italian Super Copa semifinal matches against
Speaker 1: Juve in Saudi Arabia on jan three.
Speaker 4: There's another piece of breaking nudes that relates to Atlanta United.
Speaker 4: There John, if you want to hit that? So the chat.
Speaker 1: So the the high performance note, Yeah, did we get
Speaker 1: that already there? So you gotta I boosted the I
Speaker 1: boosted the the note briefly. So there is a new
Speaker 1: individual in the elevation of the sports science department. David
Speaker 1: Tenney is now in as director of High Performance for
Speaker 1: Atlanta United, MLS, NBA, NCAA Sports Performance vet. David Tenney
Speaker 1: as quote, their director of high Performance end quote twenty
Speaker 1: years of sports science expertise, most recently four years with
Speaker 1: Austin before that, three years with the Orlando Magic, eight
Speaker 1: years with Seattle there's your tie, and a couple of
Speaker 1: years with Sporting Kansas City, replacing Head of Sports Science
Speaker 1: Ryan Alexander, quoting Garth excited to welcome David to the
Speaker 1: club's director of high Performance. Considered a leader in our industry,
Speaker 1: David brings twenty years of experience and elite sports performance,
Speaker 1: during which he worked for multiple MLS teams across multiple
Speaker 1: different sports, overseeing the club's performance department that includes first
Speaker 1: team Atlanta United two and the club's academy. So Director
Speaker 1: of High Performance David Tenney is now in led the
Speaker 1: sports performance department with Seattle for nine years oh nine
Speaker 1: to seventeen, ultimately promoted his high Performance director for the
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen season with the Sounders, two MLS Cups, four
Speaker 1: Open Cups, made MLS Playoffs in all nine years, Tenny
Speaker 1: created the Sounders Sports Science Summit Say that ten times Fast,
Speaker 1: which became a leading sports science conference. Goes into his career,
Speaker 1: but a director of High Performance now for Atlanta United,
Speaker 1: David Tenney it's being brought in from Austin.
Speaker 4: FC, so that is clearly a Milan needed him to
Speaker 4: keep Poliitic healthy.
Speaker 1: Ah, there's there's the first singer of the one there
Speaker 1: it is Bangs.
Speaker 4: Such for Pulisic, he's had a fantastic season. Hopefully this can't.
Speaker 4: I mean he's legitimately had player of the Year type
Speaker 4: performances for Milan this year. So I think Milan will
Speaker 4: miss him a lot. But hate that for Pulisic.
Speaker 1: Yes, so you know he's he's been been on a heater,
Speaker 1: as they say in the casino, and and he is
Speaker 1: going to be on the shelf for a little bit
Speaker 1: obviously going to be monitored by anyone and everyone that
Speaker 1: is attached to the men's national team program. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: that time for reffing down here. And there was the
Speaker 1: one play that I wanted you to look at specifically
Speaker 1: before we go into the activity in the Premier League,
Speaker 1: and Tom wanted to go back to an Evertonian call
Speaker 1: from the midweek as well, so that was actually requested
Speaker 1: that we look at this long ever the Evertonian call
Speaker 1: from the midweek, but the penalty call at three to
Speaker 1: three for Khrusasul and Klubamedica last night. You have a
Speaker 1: penalty call in the box at ninety plus four, and
Speaker 1: it kind of looked like either one of two things.
Speaker 1: It looked like dude was trying to take a summersault
Speaker 1: over the opposing player or it was a hip toss
Speaker 1: that was being made inside the eighteen. But in either case,
Speaker 1: you don't want to give the man in the middle
Speaker 1: something that he's got to think about at ninety plus
Speaker 1: four in a tie game that's going to decide a
Speaker 1: semi final, that's going to get the winning club to
Speaker 1: a final.
Speaker 4: Correct, That's gonna be the problem here for this particular
Speaker 4: moment is when you're making any sort of challenge in
Speaker 4: the box, you have to be you have to be
Speaker 4: very careful because and a pivotal juncture like that one,
Speaker 4: I will say, referees don't want to have to make
Speaker 4: a call here, right, This is not the type of
Speaker 4: game deciding decision you want to have to make.
Speaker 1: But but however.
Speaker 4: We're also very much in the heightened sense of awareness
Speaker 4: of what's going on because everything else is very very tensions,
Speaker 4: very intentious. There are going to be people who are
Speaker 4: gonna get mad no matter what this decision would have been. So, Yeah,
Speaker 4: the defender made I think, made a mistake by making
Speaker 4: such a I don't want to say careless challenge, but
Speaker 4: that's by definition what a foull is. Yes, just not
Speaker 4: not sticking through their technique. Let's put it that way, right.
Speaker 1: So, and the point that I wanted to go in
Speaker 1: sideways here and discuss with the idea of a center
Speaker 1: f navigating a moment like this and trying to determine internally, Okay,
Speaker 1: I've got a tie game, it's ninety plus four. Do
Speaker 1: I let it go? Or do I at ninety plus
Speaker 1: four in a three to three game that decides a
Speaker 1: semi final in a second leg to determine who's going
Speaker 1: to play for the Aperture Championship. Right, that whole notion
Speaker 1: of okay, do I let it play out? Is it
Speaker 1: too harsh? There's that there's that line that you've got
Speaker 1: to navigate late in a match with everything that's important
Speaker 1: and everything attached to the top of it. That's kind
Speaker 1: of what I wanted to gauge your opinion on here,
Speaker 1: all of these different things that you have to navigate
Speaker 1: as a center f y late in the match, with
Speaker 1: all of this that that is important as important as
Speaker 1: it is well.
Speaker 4: And that's that's kind of the question you have that
Speaker 4: I I the way you framed it, I don't love
Speaker 4: do I just let it go? And again I think
Speaker 4: I've talked about this. I don't like the itic the
Speaker 4: term of oh, just let them play or let it go.
Speaker 4: Let it you know, that to me indicates that you're
Speaker 4: too scared to make a call. And in this type
Speaker 4: of moment, you have to have the testicular fortitude there
Speaker 4: you go to. You have to have that that courage
Speaker 4: to know that you can and should make a call, right,
Speaker 4: because you have to keep your threshold of is it
Speaker 4: a foul the same right. Just because it's the ninety
Speaker 4: plus what four fifth now doesn't mean that it's any
Speaker 4: less a foul than if it happens in the fourth
Speaker 4: minute or the forty fourth minute or the sixty fourth minute.
Speaker 4: You know, you have to have the courage to believe
Speaker 4: in yourself to make that call.
Speaker 1: And that was kind of what how many how many
Speaker 1: times do you see outside and I guessaid, we can
Speaker 1: be talking about various and sundry levels of the sport.
Speaker 1: How many times have you noticed that either as just
Speaker 1: as as an observer of a match where the line
Speaker 1: shifts late because of all of those.
Speaker 4: External well, I think with var John we have been
Speaker 4: able to keep our lines a little more consistent throughout
Speaker 4: the game because in the past I definitely believe that
Speaker 4: there have been referees who wouldn't have called something like
Speaker 4: this because you don't want to be the person who
Speaker 4: impacts the outcome of a match like that. Right now, personally, again,
Speaker 4: if it's a fouls, falon needs to be called. That's
Speaker 4: that's my personal view on things. You know, I don't
Speaker 4: think that the stage of the match is that shouldn't
Speaker 4: bear much on that. But you also have to take
Speaker 4: an account the You do have to take an account
Speaker 4: the temperature of the match, the stakes in the match.
Speaker 4: But again, if it's a foul, it's a foul and
Speaker 4: it should be called. That's just where it is. But
Speaker 4: I think now with var John, a lot of referees
Speaker 4: feel confident in making calls because it can be reviewed
Speaker 4: and you can overturn it. But on the flip side,
Speaker 4: if you if you were to say no, I don't
Speaker 4: I don't think that was a penalty kick, and then
Speaker 4: you have the opportunity to take a second look at
Speaker 4: it through VAR that could also help you again then
Speaker 4: make that call. And I think that's just where we
Speaker 4: the benefit of VAR is being able to actually corroborate
Speaker 4: get second opinions. Maybe it's your own second opinion, but
Speaker 4: you're still getting a second look at things. I still
Speaker 4: would prefer the referee make this call if they feel
Speaker 4: it's a foul. Don't get wrapped up in the the time,
Speaker 4: the stakes, the you know all that.
Speaker 1: But that's got to be a difficult thing though. It is.
Speaker 4: It absolutely is, John, It absolutely is, and especially in
Speaker 4: a country like Mexico where they are not particularly friendly
Speaker 4: to referees and you know they throw things on a
Speaker 4: good day. But that's my slight up Mexico for this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean it, It is scary to make
Speaker 4: that call because of course you're going to make a
Speaker 4: call like that, right, And what's going to happen to me,
Speaker 4: to be after every player on that team, plus the bench,
Speaker 4: plus the coaches, plus their brother in law plus their
Speaker 4: sisters brother in law are all coming in to tell
Speaker 4: you how wrong you are, right, and you know, while
Speaker 4: they're not supposed to be talking to the referees like that,
Speaker 4: they will and that can be You know that that
Speaker 4: type of stuff is scary. Again, the last thing you
Speaker 4: want to do is wrongly impact the outcome of a game.
Speaker 4: But you know we always say, oh well, we want
Speaker 4: to let the players decide, right, That's what all the
Speaker 4: commentators will say. We want the players to side. Making
Speaker 4: a foul is a decision. I'm sorry, you don't just
Speaker 4: make a You don't just foul someone without action and decision.
Speaker 4: So them committing that action that resulted in the foul
Speaker 4: is the players deciding the game.
Speaker 1: Absolutely true. We've got a bookmark the fifth Pro World
Speaker 1: eleven on the men's side that has been announced this
Speaker 1: morning as of about but twenty minutes ago. Real surprises
Speaker 1: across the board except for me. Actually, Messi is not
Speaker 1: in the FIEFT Pro World.
Speaker 4: Eleven, but he is the MLS MVP John That is true.
Speaker 1: He is absolutely an MLSM Wow and Bofe Holland, Venetius
Speaker 1: junior midfield, de Bruna, Rodrick Kross, Bellingham back three, Carve Hall,
Speaker 1: Rudigert van Dyke and Ederson in Net. That is the
Speaker 1: men's team fief Pro World eleven.
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't have a hot take about that. John.
Speaker 4: It sounds right.
Speaker 1: Was chosen by twenty one two and sixty six players
Speaker 1: the world eleven, So that was that was the best
Speaker 1: in the world our PFA members, So that is that
Speaker 1: came out. Everybody wants to know, Hey, what's your what's
Speaker 1: your take on the world. It's like, yeah, okay, looks good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's okay, cool. You had twenty one thousand vote, no
Speaker 1: real surprize. So yeah, they broke that out this morning
Speaker 1: starting at ten o'clock. And apparently Lucy Brons has now
Speaker 1: matched Wendy Renard's record of seven appearances in the fief
Speaker 1: Pro Women's Good.
Speaker 4: For her, I mean, we talked about her last week.
Speaker 4: She's a class player and continues to prove why.
Speaker 1: Okay, fift pro ward eleven on the women's side looks
Speaker 1: like it is a three three three one. Barbara Banda
Speaker 1: up top behind Cacedo Marta and James behind bon Natti,
Speaker 1: Walsh and Potaeus or tell Us as anglicized Lucy Brons,
Speaker 1: Greenwood and Carmona, and in that it is Mary ERPs.
Speaker 1: So that is your fief Pro Women's World eleven. Yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: that seemed to be rather resgnated.
Speaker 4: Uh, let me.
Speaker 1: Mary or so it's Marta, Laura and James lind the
Speaker 1: Caceado Barbara Bonda, so basically four forwards.
Speaker 4: Yea, Lauren James is really only good at stomping on people,
Speaker 4: so I'm not I just don't understand the love with
Speaker 4: Lauren James. But that's that's also me being an arsenal hater. Yes, uh,
Speaker 4: midfield healthy hater as an arsenal fan.
Speaker 1: Kira Wallsha, lets you to tell us Monty you're back
Speaker 1: three defensively, Lucy Browns, I.
Speaker 4: Don't think Petelias deserves it. I gotta be real, honest,
Speaker 4: she's she's at this point, she's just writing on name recognition.
Speaker 4: That's just where she is. I'm sorry she hasn't been
Speaker 4: that elite for a while, and I would like to
Speaker 4: say that again. We have n WSL bias because you're
Speaker 4: telling me not a triple Espresso the group that won
Speaker 4: a gold medal. No name me, Germa. But hey, they
Speaker 4: plan they play in Europe, so that means they must
Speaker 4: be the best player who's ever existed.
Speaker 1: Right, wait, so what country are they playing now?
Speaker 4: Well, so we have Caados in Spain.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, I was going for the effect.
Speaker 4: I was going for the well, couple of them playing
Speaker 4: eng but most of them is playing yeah up, yeah,
Speaker 4: and you know you see now you're going to differentiate
Speaker 4: from now going forward?
Speaker 1: Yeah you got yees see back three Lucy bronze log
Speaker 1: of Carmel and Alex Greenwood Mary ers in net. So
Speaker 1: you have your Your one complaint is Alex superto you
Speaker 1: got a.
Speaker 4: Lot of English players. Ain't one deadly squat since twenty
Speaker 4: twenty two.
Speaker 1: But okay, fine, five of the eleven are are are English.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's not shocking because now I will say the
Speaker 4: WSL Okay John Power Rankings of Women's Sport of Soccer
Speaker 4: leagues is you still have NWSL at number one, despite
Speaker 4: what anyone else wants to say. Y'all come over here
Speaker 4: and try to win in this sleep. It ain't that
Speaker 4: easy and your body is going to be hurting afterwards.
Speaker 4: That's number one. English Women's Super League number two. Right,
Speaker 4: you have most actual talent top to bottom in that
Speaker 4: league compared to other leagues. Right, Spain is like number seven.
Speaker 4: You've got Barcelona, Barcelona. None of the other teams are that good. Right,
Speaker 4: and Frank got two teams maybe three? Yeah, yeah, Leon PSG.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Germany's getting better. You got Wolfsburg, you got Byron.
Speaker 4: But telling you man like European leagues are there, they're
Speaker 4: all just very concentrated m and they all have you know,
Speaker 4: they have two teams maybe in each league that has
Speaker 4: all the good players, right mm hmm, okay, good.
Speaker 1: Then there's an imbalance I believe as well.
Speaker 4: Massive imbalance and talent and and that that's why I
Speaker 4: just I'm sorry. I don't buy into the European hype
Speaker 4: the way that a lot of people do. There's there's
Speaker 4: a lot of euro snobbery coming from the women's side
Speaker 4: because you know, oh, well they play pretty soccer. Yeah,
Speaker 4: well watches Trinity Rodman and mouse wantson just run past
Speaker 4: them and blast the ball into the back of the net.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you want to talk about imbalance, go to
Speaker 1: Scotland and look at their league. That that is about
Speaker 1: as imbalanced. A yeah. Uh var reviews for down here
Speaker 1: this week. I know that Tom wanted to go over
Speaker 1: an incident in the midweek at Everton. So one of
Speaker 1: the incidents I wanted to discuss has to do with
Speaker 1: elbow up and it's the Koulishevsky elbow on Romeo Lavia,
Speaker 1: Tottenham and Chelsea. The seven goal craziness that was there.
Speaker 1: Laviya knocked to the ground first half stoppage, Koulishewsky elbow up,
Speaker 1: Anthony Taylor gave the free kick, took no disciplinary action.
Speaker 1: Should and the question is should the VAAR have advised
Speaker 1: a red Koulashevski catching Lava on the back of the
Speaker 1: head with the elbow. No reblem was given.
Speaker 4: I think, you know, just because something looks bad doesn't
Speaker 4: mean it's done with excessive force. Right again, our our
Speaker 4: our standards careless, reckless, excessive force. Right, So you a
Speaker 4: red card for either serious foul play or violent conduct.
Speaker 4: And the question is did that meet either one? It
Speaker 4: looks bad, it's a foul for sure, it could have
Speaker 4: been a yellow card. I think that's probably a safe
Speaker 4: a safe bit of discipline there to say that was
Speaker 4: a very reckless thing you just did with your elbow.
Speaker 4: But to me this like, is it a normal challenge
Speaker 4: in the scheme of the game that can be considered reckless,
Speaker 4: where yes, you might be going up with your elbow,
Speaker 4: but most of the time something like that when you're
Speaker 4: in the grand scheme of actually playing soccer is not
Speaker 4: going to be given a red card like that. Right,
Speaker 4: it looks bad, I know, but there's a lot of
Speaker 4: things that look bad that are just unfortunately still part
Speaker 4: of soccer.
Speaker 1: Question says it could have been violent conduct for the
Speaker 1: use of the elbow, serious foul play, for challenging for
Speaker 1: the ball in a way which endangered the safety of
Speaker 1: possible I mean, and so in the the arm that
Speaker 1: had elbow up obviously that you're looking, Kulashevsky had a
Speaker 1: closed fist. I mean that that traditionally, when you're when
Speaker 1: you're you know, challenging for someone you're trying to clear out,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be with an open hand. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of a natural it's almost a red herring
Speaker 1: for me with a closed hand in the situation. Yes,
Speaker 1: because tradition, you know, when I it's like when I'm
Speaker 1: when I'm running, I'm running closed handed, even if my
Speaker 1: elbows at ninety degrees, I'm not running, you know, like
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be a windmill or something like that.
Speaker 4: So yeah, again, I think this is one of those
Speaker 4: where it didn't look and you cannot judge this necessarily,
Speaker 4: but This is the benefit of VR is it didn't
Speaker 4: even look premeditated, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, it
Speaker 4: just looked like two people challenging for the ball. One's
Speaker 4: elbow got higher than the other. I personally think the
Speaker 4: yellow card could have been a very appropriate course of
Speaker 4: action here, but I do not think that.
Speaker 1: John.
Speaker 4: We always talk, but we don't want VR to re
Speaker 4: referee no right, and I don't think there's any reason
Speaker 4: for VIR to intervene for something like this.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then let's go to the Casado Sar incident.
Speaker 1: Oh so, Sar and Casato challenge in the thirty three
Speaker 1: Anthony Taylor gives a free kick to Spurs. No disciplinary
Speaker 1: action taken. Also checked for a possible red for serious
Speaker 1: foul play. No red was given as Casado is past
Speaker 1: the point of the ball and Sar is caught on
Speaker 1: the shin by ca Stato as he has gone past,
Speaker 1: and once again it gets into context about the same
Speaker 1: level of force to go to a review.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do think this one probably looks a little
Speaker 4: worse than the elbow. I think this is one that
Speaker 4: maybe possibly could have been a red card. Sure, but
Speaker 4: I do I kind of understand what the reasoning of
Speaker 4: this was at the very end of his follow through,
Speaker 4: it was very obvious that the attempt was still to
Speaker 4: play the ball right Again, is this serious foul play
Speaker 4: or violent conduct? That's the level we have to kind of,
Speaker 4: that is the level we're trying to hold it to.
Speaker 4: And I don't think this necessarily is serious foul play,
Speaker 4: but I can see why, you know, I could definitely
Speaker 4: see why this could have been given a red card.
Speaker 4: But again, is it serious foul play?
Speaker 1: That's the question, yes, And that's what we're staring at here. Okay,
Speaker 1: So while I'm going back into the archive to go
Speaker 1: over and find the Everton moment. Question from David who
Speaker 1: was in Raleigh this past weekend, daughter went to Waken Stanford.
Speaker 1: Who do you like in the Wake North Carolina Final?
Speaker 4: Well, I work with a woman who played at Wake,
Speaker 4: so I'm going to support her. U and C has
Speaker 4: all has enough titles they don't even know one even
Speaker 4: with a with an interim coach as someone who did
Speaker 4: go to college in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Yes, ABC, Aha, yes, anybody, but.
Speaker 4: But I do think I do think Carolina will want it.
Speaker 1: But ABC, Yeah, I see, I see, I see you
Speaker 1: working here. Uh like I said, I love how computers.
Speaker 1: You sit there and it's like, look, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: find I'm trying to find the moment with this Everton
Speaker 1: call and Tom, if you've got it ahead of us,
Speaker 1: then that we can get into your wake. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: wake would be nice to see the w So crap,
Speaker 1: I can't find it like in a time.
Speaker 4: If it's the off side, I think we talked about
Speaker 4: it already, and I think we did an offside. He
Speaker 4: was offside, like it was he he committed.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 4: I think we talked. It may not have been a foul,
Speaker 4: but it's offside.
Speaker 1: Okay, So there we go.
Speaker 4: I think that's what if that's the one we're talking
Speaker 4: about that that we covered that, right.
Speaker 1: I think we came on.
Speaker 4: That's a full on OPI pick, you know, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I think we did talk about it, memory serves.
Speaker 1: I think we did talk about it when you came
Speaker 1: on late last week. So Tom, go back. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the short version. It was an OPI pick, all right,
Speaker 1: So what else is going on in the soccer for
Speaker 1: us Pod Planet that folks need to know about other
Speaker 1: than going back and listening to episode one oh five?
Speaker 4: Yeah, go listen to that determining when we're recording this
Speaker 4: week because I have three soccer games to play this
Speaker 4: week plus a weekend full of referee coming up. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so we'll see. We're going to try to record something
Speaker 4: before Christmas to kind of wrap up twenty twenty four,
Speaker 4: and then we'll lead the year with as we did
Speaker 4: last year, our resolutions for the US Soccer program and teens. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's what's coming up.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, Well be good, my friend, it's great
Speaker 1: to see you. Like I said, since I've got championships
Speaker 1: next week, I don't know what the next week, what
Speaker 1: next week's GrITT is, So I'm trying to get I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get substitute hosts to come in and make
Speaker 1: it and see what's going on. So we'll see who.
Speaker 1: We'll see who's gonna be host?
Speaker 4: Who could do that?
Speaker 1: Well, not an intern anymore? Yeah, a full on we've
Speaker 1: got a full we got a full on sicko.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So to add to the full on sickos.
Speaker 4: And what's Chason doing anymore? The season's done, he doesn't
Speaker 4: have a job.
Speaker 1: We will discuss, my friend, that man is busier than
Speaker 1: as my dad would say, he's busier than a one
Speaker 1: armed paper hanger.
Speaker 4: So you ain't as are you?
Speaker 1: You ain't kidding, brother, We will see you soon, my friend.
Speaker 4: Be well, y'all have fun, and yes, make sure you
Speaker 4: check out the Women's College Cup final tonight.
Speaker 1: Go watch that, yes ABC, as Bart says, So there
Speaker 1: goes Bart. All right, so now we've got stuff to
Speaker 1: get into. We talked about Christian Polisic and the torn
Speaker 1: calf muscle, and uh, Cocaine has agreed to a new
Speaker 1: Barsad deal, so there's also that. That's a part of
Speaker 1: the morning for Kart. Now I've got to go back
Speaker 1: and see who I missed more morning Abby. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: Tom h Apparently a UCL injury for Carson Beck and
Speaker 1: he's gonna miss the h He's gonna miss the sugar
Speaker 1: Bowl or wherever they're going to be. Uh. So let's
Speaker 1: see that is a it is. I think it's like
Speaker 1: both a replacement and a new position Emilio for the
Speaker 1: director of High Performance. I think that's like taking over
Speaker 1: duties and then adding on other duties. So uh, morning Rich. Uh,
Speaker 1: Michael's like, let's not talk about the U A T.
Speaker 1: And so let's see morning Martin. Good to see you.
Speaker 1: I think this is Martin's first visit. Martin get a
Speaker 1: hate that good morning, and so uh yeah, Tom, I
Speaker 1: believe we did discuss, but yes it was. It was
Speaker 1: an o PI pick. When Bart came on late last week,
Speaker 1: I think we did talk about it then. So uh,
Speaker 1: let's see Morning Emilia, Morning Abbey, and that's our Drew
Speaker 1: year with discussion. Oh, getting into the other colleges. I know,
Speaker 1: we've got to get into the Ashworth dismissal firing walking
Speaker 1: away at Manchester United. We got to get into that,
Speaker 1: and also the Don Garberer State of the Union. We
Speaker 1: got to get into that before we get out of
Speaker 1: here with Gossipermrian and you window what to watch, where
Speaker 1: to watch it, how to watch it? Okay, So in
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournaments, it's very very busy time, very very
Speaker 1: busy time. So all right, so women's soccer, we click
Speaker 1: on that and we go into Division two and then
Speaker 1: we look at the brackets and once again remember it
Speaker 1: is we get to click. So it looks like with
Speaker 1: the receding the seed list Columbus State, cal Poly, Pomona, Franklin,
Speaker 1: Pierce in Minnesota State so and so it will be
Speaker 1: so the seed listing so here it is Columbus State
Speaker 1: and Minnesota State Saturday in in North Carolina. So Saturday,
Speaker 1: December thirteenth, three o'clock Columbus State Minnesota State followed by
Speaker 1: cal Poly Pomona and Franklin Pierce. Cal Poly Pomona Columbus
Speaker 1: State were the two number ones that made it through.
Speaker 1: In the quarterfinals, cal Poly Pomona beat Colorado School of
Speaker 1: Mines two nil, Columbus State one in PKS with staves
Speaker 1: from Heidi Harris in frames four and five to advance
Speaker 1: after a goalles one hundred and ten minutes against the
Speaker 1: University of West Florida. So Columbus State takes on Minnesota State.
Speaker 1: Minnesota State as a two seed beat Grand Valley in
Speaker 1: PKS five to four, and Franklin Pierce the two seed,
Speaker 1: upset Shepherd two to one. So you have your two
Speaker 1: number ones cal Poly Pomona and Columbus State taking on
Speaker 1: the two number twos Minnesota State and Franklin Piers. So
Speaker 1: that is Semifinals D two's sports Plexit. Matthews is where
Speaker 1: it is. It's not in the Kerry, but the sports
Speaker 1: Plex at Matthews. Friday and Sunday or Saturday and then
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday, So everybody's up at the sportsplex at Matthews.
Speaker 1: If you're anywhere close, go see Columbus State as they
Speaker 1: chase after a national championship. Columbus State, Minnesota State, cal
Speaker 1: Poly Pomona, and Franklin Pierce. So that is Division two
Speaker 1: Division three women's soccer. Wash You won the Division three
Speaker 1: women's soccer tournament and they won. They defeated William Smith
Speaker 1: in the championship. It is washu's second D three national
Speaker 1: championship in school history. It was where am I going here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Wash you beat William Smith by the final of three nil.
Speaker 1: In the semifinals, Wash You beat Christopher Newport three nil
Speaker 1: in Vegas. William Smith shut up Emory two nil. Great
Speaker 1: season for the Emery Eagles and head coach Sue Patberg.
Speaker 1: So semifinals Wash you one. William Smith won. Wash You
Speaker 1: won the title in Vegas, and so your Division three
Speaker 1: women's champ is wash You out of Saint Louis. And
Speaker 1: so then on the men's side, when it comes to soccer,
Speaker 1: we were discussing what was going on in the other
Speaker 1: division's Division two on the men's side, with the bracket
Speaker 1: going on right now for ads pop up on trying
Speaker 1: to be Crazy. The semifinals on Thursday this upcoming Thursday,
Speaker 1: Charleston of West Virginia taking on co Issue Pueblo and
Speaker 1: Lynn taking on McKendree. Lynn knocked out Clayton State with
Speaker 1: a golden goal in the first minute of the first
Speaker 1: overtime at Lynn this past weekend. So Lynn beat Clayton
Speaker 1: State two to one in like the ninety four in
Speaker 1: the ninety first minute of play. It was the first
Speaker 1: minute of the first overtime period in a golden goal setup.
Speaker 1: So the two ones Charleston and CSU Pueblo, and the
Speaker 1: two two's Lynn and McKendree. So it's Charleston, CSU Pueblo,
Speaker 1: Lynn and McKendree Thursday, December the twelfth, and that is
Speaker 1: your Division two championship. On the Division three side, we'll
Speaker 1: get into the NAIA here and just a bit. Amherst
Speaker 1: won the Division three Soccer tournament, beating College by the
Speaker 1: final of four to three in penalties to win their
Speaker 1: first championship since the twenty fifteen season. The Amherst Mammoths,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're woolly or not, but nevertheless,
Speaker 1: so semifinals, Amherst beat Middlebury two one, Connecticut College beat
Speaker 1: Washington and Lee and Amherst wins in penalties. Now and
Speaker 1: the NAIA in INNAIA action scads still has a run going.
Speaker 1: Dalton State still has a run going. So on the
Speaker 1: men's side, William Penn has advanced to the title match
Speaker 1: against Dalton State. William Penn down a goal twice, they
Speaker 1: win it in the ninety third minute, and then Dalton State,
Speaker 1: with a win, advanced to their first ever semi Now
Speaker 1: they've advanced to their first ever final, beating Cumberland's four
Speaker 1: nil in Wichita, Kansas. Seventeenth shutout by the Roadrunners this
Speaker 1: year Nicholas lete with the shutout, so Dalton State voted
Speaker 1: as the top team during the regular season. Once again.
Speaker 1: It's at Skiel Striker in Wichita, Kansas, So if you
Speaker 1: are there and want to check out the championship please
Speaker 1: go to Wichitak, Kansas and check it out. So it
Speaker 1: is the road Runners of Dalton State. They are in
Speaker 1: the championship game against William Penn of Iowa on the
Speaker 1: men's side. On the women's side, there is a now well.
Speaker 1: The championship game set for two o'clock this afternoon with
Speaker 1: SCAD and Kaiser number nine versus Number three. Kickoff is
Speaker 1: set for fifteen minutes from now because it's in Pensacola, Florida,
Speaker 1: So it has been moved up because of the weather
Speaker 1: that is heading into the Panhandle later today. Was supposed
Speaker 1: to be kicked off at two o'clock this afternoon, it
Speaker 1: has now been moved up literally to thirteen minutes from now.
Speaker 1: And so you can go to the NAIA website and
Speaker 1: go to I'm gonna give you the link here to
Speaker 1: the article. It's on the Urban Edge Network and the
Speaker 1: NAIA network out of Pensacola, Florida, So go here to
Speaker 1: read about it. But SCAD is going to be playing
Speaker 1: in fifteen minutes and they are going to be literally
Speaker 1: at what time did they change the time? At what time?
Speaker 1: Let's see, So let me check the time of the release.
Speaker 1: It says yesterday. So it was yesterday was when they
Speaker 1: announced the time change. Taking the field for warmups, Oh oh,
Speaker 1: Central time, My bad? Okay, So it is noon eastern
Speaker 1: eleventh Central, so taking warm ups at twenty five minutes
Speaker 1: after the hour Central time, well twenty five minutes after
Speaker 1: the hour period taking the field eleven twenty five eastern
Speaker 1: for warmups noon eastern kick. Scad the number nine seed,
Speaker 1: Kaiser the number three seed, and that's at the Ashton
Speaker 1: Brosenham Soccer Complex in Pensacola, Florida. So Scad Kaiser noon
Speaker 1: eastern kick. And you can click on the link because
Speaker 1: it's got the article to the Urban Edge network and
Speaker 1: to the NAI network. So go there watch Scad take
Speaker 1: on Kaiser in the championship game noon eastern time. So
Speaker 1: in an hour and eleven minutes you can you can
Speaker 1: go catch Scat as they've made their way through as
Speaker 1: a nine seed. So David wants to know, David says,
Speaker 1: when I say school of mines, he just hears school
Speaker 1: of mimes and envisioning a soccer match that side. That's
Speaker 1: I'm being marked. I'm being marked. I feel like Marcel Marshall.
Speaker 1: I'm being marked. I can't leave this space. I see,
Speaker 1: I see how David is. Definitely the trade window for
Speaker 1: card is ongoing as we speak. Literally, it is ongoing
Speaker 1: as we speak. It is the half day trade window.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to trades, it seems to be
Speaker 1: fairly quiet right now. To be perfectly honest, have not
Speaker 1: seen anything involving a trade in Major League Soccer. So
Speaker 1: let's see. I'm trying. I'm what I'm literally trying to
Speaker 1: do is see if there is anything going on and
Speaker 1: it sets up one again. You're setting up rosters before
Speaker 1: the expansion draft list is released tomorrow afternoons. So UH
Speaker 1: trying to check and see if anything has happened so
Speaker 1: far here in the half day trade window this morning, UH,
Speaker 1: saysar Luis Merlow is reporting this morning that Marcela that
Speaker 1: Marcello Wagant has renewed his contract for one more year
Speaker 1: with Messi and Friends. So Messi and Friends keep cell
Speaker 1: Awagant for another year. Announcement expected in the coming day's
Speaker 1: extension given after the UH. This is once again quoting
Speaker 1: says or Luis Merrilow directly. This is direct translate given
Speaker 1: the after the objectives said in the bond we're met.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that there were either minutes or matches or
Speaker 1: certain metrics that were met and it was an option pickup,
Speaker 1: and so cell Awagant met those metrics and Messi and
Speaker 1: Friends picked up the option. So cell Awagan is staying
Speaker 1: for me and Friends for another year with the renewal
Speaker 1: of his contract. So that looks like legitimately the only
Speaker 1: thing that's happened so far is the renewal of the
Speaker 1: Chellawagant contract involving Messi and friends for twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 1: All right, so let's see morning Abby, Morning Tom, Morning Unk.
Speaker 1: Let's see morning Will, morning Rich. Let's say morning Michael. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're caught up on folks and me saying hi
Speaker 1: to everybody. Abby only a few hours different pulling for
Speaker 1: Skeed just like Kaiser very much. Coming from a former
Speaker 1: nai A parent, Amelia wants to know you gotta hire him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta hire a TD and a manager. Don't want
Speaker 1: to late arrival for an excuse to be integration issues
Speaker 1: in a slow start. Now, it's I think that that's
Speaker 1: that's not what you want heading into the twenty five
Speaker 1: season with all of the positive all the positives that
Speaker 1: you found at the end of the twenty four season.
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued and I can't wait to see who the
Speaker 1: individuals are. And alas said, I have no I have
Speaker 1: no knowledge as to whom those two positions could be.
Speaker 1: We have supposed, and we have presupposed, and we have
Speaker 1: tried to add, you know, A plus B and came
Speaker 1: up with Chris Henderson as the logical thought for technical director,
Speaker 1: but head coach. I mean, we've seen the names that
Speaker 1: have been bounced around out there. Don't know where the
Speaker 1: process is, don't know where the progress is, don't know
Speaker 1: how close they are to signing an individual. So we'll
Speaker 1: see what We'll see what the situation is there. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's what I wanted to get into because the comments
Speaker 1: were starting to come out out of Toronto involving the
Speaker 1: John Herdman resignation and I'm trying to see if I
Speaker 1: can find yes. So here's according to the Canadian Press,
Speaker 1: and this is I'm gonna read the article as is
Speaker 1: John Herdman's decision to step down as Toronto FC coach
Speaker 1: is quote an unfortunate situation. According to Jonathan Assorio, Herdman
Speaker 1: resigned saying it was the right time for me to
Speaker 1: step away from the club as the organization defines its
Speaker 1: vision for the future end quote. Departure linked by many
Speaker 1: to the Canada Soccer investigation into the drone spying scandal
Speaker 1: at the Paris Olympics that cost Bev priestman Jasmine Mandarin
Speaker 1: and Joey Lombardi their jobs at Canada Soccer. All three
Speaker 1: are currently serving one year suspensions from FIFA, with Lombardi
Speaker 1: having resigned his Canada Soccer position soon after the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Quoting Asrio, I know John was excited about taking the
Speaker 1: job in his first year. He really enjoyed being at Toronto.
Speaker 1: I'm sure this decision was not an easy one for him,
Speaker 1: but I can imagine with the situation and everything surrounding it, it
Speaker 1: made it tough, and you know, he felt like he
Speaker 1: had to do something that was best for him and
Speaker 1: maybe also thinking about what's best for the club as well.
Speaker 1: Just all in all, an unfortunate situation. Assorio spoke after
Speaker 1: appearing at a PlayStation event that saw the Canadian international
Speaker 1: midfielder and fans try their luck at kicking balls at
Speaker 1: targets in the form of the PlayStation controller buttons on
Speaker 1: a goal in front of the Prince's Gate. Event was
Speaker 1: part of PlayStations Play has No Limits campaign. So the
Speaker 1: FIFA Appeals Committee ruling the summer put Herdman at ground
Speaker 1: zero with the Canada Soccer situation and the investigation there.
Speaker 1: Once again, Herdman has said little did not cooperate with
Speaker 1: the investigation from Canada Soccer, despite being asked a handful
Speaker 1: of times said it was scheduling issues that was the problem.
Speaker 1: Severely doubt that, but okay, Assorio is a longtime gamer,
Speaker 1: says he still plays, especially when it comes to EA
Speaker 1: Sports FC soccer franchise formerly his EA Sports FIFA and
Speaker 1: so Neil m David Neil Davidson. It the Canadian Press
Speaker 1: chased after Jonathan Massorio and got that comment from him
Speaker 1: about the whole thing Melia is saying a source saying
Speaker 1: curtain to n y C. Okay, I'm intrigued n y C.
Speaker 1: Will they will City Football Group see now? And for me,
Speaker 1: City Football Group, will they invest in n my CFC?
Speaker 1: And this is just in general. It doesn't matter who
Speaker 1: specifically we're talking about here would be the new head coach?
Speaker 1: Would City Football Group invest period in ny CFC or
Speaker 1: they would Would they just continue to use ny CFC
Speaker 1: to flip players out? Oh no, John John Herdman has
Speaker 1: too many. Uh yeah, John Herdman to anywhere right now,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what franchise you're talking about, John Herdman to
Speaker 1: anywhere right now for that particular franchise. If any franchise
Speaker 1: took a leap on John Herdman right now, I don't
Speaker 1: know if there would be any goodwill left in whatever
Speaker 1: market that was if somebody said, you know, I'm interested
Speaker 1: in John Herdman, and you signed John Herdman with all
Speaker 1: of the black clouds hanging over him right now, I'm
Speaker 1: of a mind to think to think that Toronto FC
Speaker 1: had a feeling or has a feeling something's going to
Speaker 1: come down hard quick on Herdman, and that John Herdman, Yes,
Speaker 1: for card Herdman is radioactive in the US. But the
Speaker 1: question is for NYCFC, for whoever that new head coach is.
Speaker 1: Are they just going to continue to kind of invest
Speaker 1: in NYC and take players that they have and then
Speaker 1: flip them like they did Tati Castillanos, Or is it
Speaker 1: a situation where they will invest knowing that they've got
Speaker 1: Dylan Butler or States with broken ground and they've got
Speaker 1: to get ready for that moment of when it opens
Speaker 1: and they're trying to find the right guy to be
Speaker 1: on the touch line before Pep Guardiola comes in. And
Speaker 1: I say that half firmly, a tongue half planted in cheek, Toronto,
Speaker 1: You know, we'll spend money. So Jim Curtin, if he's
Speaker 1: doing the car wash right now and catching up with folks,
Speaker 1: does Jim Curtin at whatever gig he's at, does he
Speaker 1: try to go to the Bill Parcells card? Is he
Speaker 1: the one that wants to buy the groceries and cook
Speaker 1: the meal at whatever his next step is? By the way,
Speaker 1: San Jose apparently is interested in an Open Cup hero
Speaker 1: Brandon Basquez. Remember they made the deal to get some
Speaker 1: players come over from New England for half a million
Speaker 1: dollars in am So Bruce Arena, getting some familiar faces
Speaker 1: including Ian Harks to start things up in San Jose.
Speaker 1: Interest in Open Cup hero Brandon Vasquez at Mont today?
Speaker 1: Does that happen? But anyone who is abby, thank you?
Speaker 1: The question is who goes to invest who's going to
Speaker 1: invest in these That's the larger question here. You know
Speaker 1: that they're gonna spend money. Ah, So we the Union
Speaker 1: is the one that is saying, and once again, we
Speaker 1: the Union is probably well known more by a lot
Speaker 1: of other folks. A content creator, and once again this
Speaker 1: time of year, once again, just look at your number
Speaker 1: of followers. The fact that the search engines are out
Speaker 1: there we the union with two ends with one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty nine followers on the two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: character app got to keep an eye on that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: four card Garth should be interested in Open Cup hero
Speaker 1: Brandon Masquez zero reliable according to Rich Ransom. Okay, but
Speaker 1: you know, whomever wherever Jim Curtin goes, does he want
Speaker 1: to be the one to buy the groceries and cook
Speaker 1: the meal? I would imagine, So after all of his
Speaker 1: time in Philadelphia Toronto, we'll spend money on bringing in
Speaker 1: a coach. They'll pay handsomely and they'll also bring in players,
Speaker 1: so you know, so we'll see what happens with Curtin
Speaker 1: and his next stop Toronto and their next choice Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia had been linked to a European coach and the
Speaker 1: negotiations had been ongoing, I believe was how it was phrased.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what it looks like there. So yeah,
Speaker 1: today is the half day trade window until one o'clock
Speaker 1: to set up the expansion draft rosters. The expansion draft,
Speaker 1: by the way, is Wednesday. Tuesday is when you announce
Speaker 1: who you're holding who you're not. Just that sets up
Speaker 1: your roster for those for San Diego to figure out
Speaker 1: what they want to do. Today is also the beginning
Speaker 1: of the three day College Showcase, so Major League Soccer
Speaker 1: clubs can sit there and look at folks and go ooh.
Speaker 1: We'll see if so and so is going to get
Speaker 1: drafted or if I'm going to have a UDFA opportunity
Speaker 1: and sign somebody to a deal to one of the
Speaker 1: one of the other places. So we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: with the College Showcase and the half day trade window.
Speaker 1: We have not gotten into the Jim Ratcliffe comments and
Speaker 1: Dan Ashworth after being done after five months at Manchester United.
Speaker 1: Keep an ear out for a three where Drew Dickinson
Speaker 1: will give his thoughts on that. We'll get into that tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Remember tomorrow is a power hour ish or an afternoon show.
Speaker 1: I don't know what time, probably after lunch, but once
Speaker 1: again after lunch, we'll keep an eye on that stuff. Thursday,
Speaker 1: free agency opens up at one o'clock. Ind of your
Speaker 1: waivers is at five. Friday re entry Stage one is
Speaker 1: at one o'clock. So that is your MLS timeline for
Speaker 1: the week. But we still got to go over Don
Speaker 1: Garber's comments from the State of the Union and the
Speaker 1: other material involving Liverpool, Josie Mourinho, Jim Ratcliffe and apparently
Speaker 1: Black Knight Holdings, the Bill Foley group that owns Vegas,
Speaker 1: Golden Knights, Bournemouth, etc. They might be chasing after Shamrock rovers.
Speaker 1: For me, most likely for Curtin would be Toronto, because
Speaker 1: I think that he would want the opportunity after what
Speaker 1: happened in Philly to be buyer and chef. I said,
Speaker 1: I think his next gig. I think he wants to
Speaker 1: have that kind of power, all right. So yeah, Alex
Speaker 1: hiring herdman, that's a ten foot pole hire. You ain't kidding.
Speaker 1: And like I said, four Card says radioactive in the
Speaker 1: United States on multiple fronts. What surprised me if he
Speaker 1: went back to like New Zealand or something and tried
Speaker 1: to coach or just had to lay low for a
Speaker 1: couple of years, gossip Bruman and Nuindo. Like I said, tomorrow,
Speaker 1: we'll get into State of the Union from Don Garber
Speaker 1: any of the other half day stuff that happens after
Speaker 1: we go off the air, which means it's all going
Speaker 1: to happen after we go off the air, and then
Speaker 1: we'll get into state of the Union from Garber, the
Speaker 1: Dan Ashwood situation, the Ratcliffe comments, all those kinds of things.
Speaker 1: So looking at the gossip of the day before, what
Speaker 1: to watch, where to watch it, how to watch it? Arsenal,
Speaker 1: Chelsea and Manchester United remain interested in Dollhovitch Juve considering
Speaker 1: selling the Serbian striker unless he agrees to a new deal.
Speaker 1: Liverpool had made an opening contract offer to most Salah.
Speaker 1: Liverpool also looking to tie up Virgil van Dyk and
Speaker 1: Trent Alexander Arnold to new deals. Manchester City could swoop
Speaker 1: to blow Liverpool away and a deal to sign Martin
Speaker 1: Zubamindi from Real Sociodet. Former Manchester United sporting director Dan
Speaker 1: Ashworth was not in favor of appointing Rubin a Marim
Speaker 1: as the club's new manager, instead recommending a move for
Speaker 1: Gareth Southgate. Graham Potter was also on that list as well.
Speaker 1: The short version for Ashworth was that he felt that
Speaker 1: he was being left out of a lot of the
Speaker 1: decision making and he wanted to go in a different
Speaker 1: direction involving the coaching search, and they went and got
Speaker 1: Ruben a Marim and Ashworth wanted to stick with an
Speaker 1: English coach, Crystal Palace's bid and other things like I said,
Speaker 1: we'll get into it tomorrow afternoon. Crystal Palace has bid
Speaker 1: to sign Leon winger Ryan Cherkey has been hit by
Speaker 1: PSG in Dortmund joining the race. Three letter Paper Villa
Speaker 1: one of four Premier League clubs interested in US nineteen
Speaker 1: year old winger a Keenan Yildiz, whose club could seek
Speaker 1: a fee of about sixty six million pounds. Ac Milon
Speaker 1: Keen on a loan with an option to buy for
Speaker 1: Chelsea's Carnichukomeca, who's also attracting interest from Celtic Interesting. Real
Speaker 1: Madrid's forward Endrick has decided he will not go on
Speaker 1: loan in January continue to fight for a sparing starting spot.
Speaker 1: Georgian winger Kevichka Kvard Skellia close to signing a contract
Speaker 1: extension with Nopoly until twenty twenty nine. Remember, contracts of
Speaker 1: length mean all you do is control the asset. It
Speaker 1: does not necessarily mean that you want the asset for
Speaker 1: the link the deal. West Ham also considered Max Allegri
Speaker 1: as a successor to Jewel low Pteggy, but the cost
Speaker 1: involved makes it a probable non starter. So what to
Speaker 1: watch or to watch it, how to watch it before
Speaker 1: we get out of here. And once again this comes
Speaker 1: from our friends at Soccer America and let's see if
Speaker 1: there is anything going on today. Yeah, west Ham and
Speaker 1: Wolves is at three that's on you, I say, and
Speaker 1: at nbcsports dot Com, at TAFE and Espaniel's an ESPN
Speaker 1: Deportees and on ESPN Plus. Paramount Plus has Northampton Town
Speaker 1: in Peterborough United out of League One at three o'clock
Speaker 1: and Siria at two forty five, Monza and Esse at
Speaker 1: two forty five on Paramount Plus. Remember tomorrow's Champions League
Speaker 1: and all of that. So just so we know, it's
Speaker 1: our weekly table check. Uh oh okay, So let's then
Speaker 1: we got to hit the breaker for this. Definitely have
Speaker 1: to hit the breaker for this. So let me cueue
Speaker 1: up the music, leg go. The PGMOL has sacked referee
Speaker 1: David coot dismissed statement from the PGMOL reads following the
Speaker 1: conclusion of a thorough investigation into Coote's conduct. Is employed
Speaker 1: with PGMOL has been terminated today with immediate effect. Coote's
Speaker 1: actions were found to be in serious breach of the
Speaker 1: provisions of his employment contract with his positions deemed with
Speaker 1: his position deemed untenable, supporting Coot continues to be important
Speaker 1: to us and we remain committed to his welfare. Coot
Speaker 1: has a right to appeal the decision to terminate his employment.
Speaker 1: So David Coot out no longer a part of the PGMOL.
Speaker 1: He has been sacked by the PGMOL. So we'll keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that. Will he continue to ask for
Speaker 1: help or or what? But what I wanted to do
Speaker 1: was look at the tables since we were discussing what
Speaker 1: was going on involving the lower divisions and the Ryan
Speaker 1: Reynolds extravaganza known as Wrexham. Wrexham scored a goal on
Speaker 1: an Olympic co a win Olympico, they wind aided Olympico
Speaker 1: and four card quoting Rick James this morning. All right,
Speaker 1: so quickly getting into the tables that I wanted to
Speaker 1: get into. Yeah, if you if you haven't seen it
Speaker 1: as a tremendous Olympico by the way, and Wrexham right
Speaker 1: now is tied, but they have played one more match
Speaker 1: than Wickham Wanderers. Birmingham City has two matches in hand
Speaker 1: on Wrexham. Wrexham right now nineteen matches played and forty
Speaker 1: points in their one goal behind Wickham in goal difference,
Speaker 1: but right now with a little bit of activity going on,
Speaker 1: So about the halfway point of the season, forty six
Speaker 1: matches and they played either seventeen eighteen or nineteen. Wrexham
Speaker 1: right now in the second automatic promotion spot to the
Speaker 1: Skybet Championship behind Wickham Wanderers by one goal in goal difference.
Speaker 1: So that's that's where we are. So we come back tomorrow,
Speaker 1: we will go through all the other things up. Do
Speaker 1: we have a move? Do we have a move? Do
Speaker 1: we actually do we have? Do we have we have
Speaker 1: a move? From Tom Bogert Okay, RSL have agreed to
Speaker 1: a deal to acquire Tyler Wolf for fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: in GAM from Atlanta United. Tyler Wolf sixty one appearances
Speaker 1: with Atlanta after signing a homegrown deal five plus one
Speaker 1: and six hundred and forty two minutes in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: So RSL have agreed to a deal to acquire Tyler
Speaker 1: Wolf from Atlanta United for fifty thousand dollars in GAM.
Speaker 1: So this is why you guys. You guys are on
Speaker 1: top of it, absolutely absolutely on top of it. So
Speaker 1: you guys are a lot faster on the draw than me.
Speaker 1: So uh so Tom Bogert Tyler Wolf to RSL for
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars in gam So there you go, sixty
Speaker 1: one appearances with Atlanta after signing a homegrown deal. So
Speaker 1: thank you Alex for the siren. And we'll be back
Speaker 1: at again tomorrow morning at nine oh five where we
Speaker 1: will discuss things. So we've got the Don Garber State
Speaker 1: of the Union. We've got to get into stuff from
Speaker 1: the Independent, Jim Ratcliffe ishing on Manchester United saying that
Speaker 1: they're mediocre and not elite, the whole Dan Ashwood situation.
Speaker 1: Find out what else happens in the half day trade window,
Speaker 1: which has an hour and fifty one minutes left in it,
Speaker 1: and we'll find out what else is going on as
Speaker 1: we go. See here's my list, and that's what we're
Speaker 1: going to be doing this week. But once again, remember
Speaker 1: tomorrow is not live. It is going to be not
Speaker 1: live in the morning, live in the afternoon because I've
Speaker 1: got to be at the Georgia twow. I just dated
Speaker 1: myself there Mercedes Been Stadium for meet and greet, getting
Speaker 1: ready for the High School Football Championship. So it'll be
Speaker 1: an SDH after lunch and we'll see what has yielded
Speaker 1: with the morning has yielded tomorrow as we get you ready.
Speaker 1: But yet, it'll be after lunch tomorrow and we will
Speaker 1: get into the action on your Tuesday. No doubt, no doubt,
Speaker 1: Fast draw Alex absolutely true four card. So that is
Speaker 1: another go round here at SDH. Thanks to Bart, thanks
Speaker 1: to AB and thanks to y'all. And actually, no, I'm
Speaker 1: driving for the championship, so I'm gonna be in the
Speaker 1: parking deck because i gotta be there for like fifteen
Speaker 1: hours and I'm actually staying at a hotel downtown. I'm
Speaker 1: not driving back home after each day because I need
Speaker 1: to get a place to be settled and crash practically
Speaker 1: immediately and then get up and then go back into
Speaker 1: the dome and get back to NBS and do all that.
Speaker 1: But no, drive it in tomorrow and then for the
Speaker 1: Championships Monday Tuesday Wednesday, And like I said, we're working
Speaker 1: on the host thing for next week to try to
Speaker 1: figure out who can host and who can hang out
Speaker 1: and all those kinds of things, because I'll be at
Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz Monday Tuesday Wednesday, and then the boss has
Speaker 1: called a road trip for her company Christmas party, so
Speaker 1: we're flying to Chicago and that takes me out of
Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday because of playing of it ability. So
Speaker 1: next week we'll be guest hosts and we'll see what
Speaker 1: can go. We'll see what goes next week with the
Speaker 1: High School FOOTBA Championships with me. I'll be listening. I'll
Speaker 1: be watching like the rest of you and boosting all
Speaker 1: of our numbers. So back at it again tomorrow afternoon
Speaker 1: and we'll break everything down. But the big news that
Speaker 1: just broke, Thank you Alex Tyler Wolf heading to RSL
Speaker 1: in the half day trade window, setting up spots so
Speaker 1: mucha ploty all played safe, everybody, since it is the
Speaker 1: end of the show that means I get to do this.
Speaker 1: We'll be back at it again at some point tomorrow afternoon,
Speaker 1: probably after launch or something, and we'll bust it and
Speaker 1: we'll see what else is going on. So once again,
Speaker 1: out the door, which plot all played safe. Love you
Speaker 1: all very much, We'll see you later.