Speaker 1: You know, it just works on so many levels. When
Speaker 1: you start listening to the lyrics, you know it just
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, it's one of the bits I
Speaker 1: can't quit.
Speaker 2: And you know the deal. When we play Limp Biscuit on.
Speaker 1: This radio show, it's signed to welcome in club legend
Speaker 1: future Hall of Famer Trey Fitzgerald.
Speaker 2: Who's the Hall of Fame? By the time you got
Speaker 2: the intro, right, who's the hall of Fame named after? Again?
Speaker 1: That you're going to be inducted to some NWSL like
Speaker 1: you told us this weekend. I better be there when
Speaker 1: you're inducted into the whatever hall of fame.
Speaker 2: Oh, there is a Colin Jose Media Award, okay at
Speaker 2: the National Soccer Hall of Fame, and Colin Jose was
Speaker 2: a NWSC. Now the archive is for the NASL, the
Speaker 2: league that form the foundation for the sport in this
Speaker 2: country over the last fifty years.
Speaker 1: How do how do we get you on the list
Speaker 1: for that award or do you actually have to work
Speaker 1: for it?
Speaker 2: Good question, just out of curiosity. Hello, Trey, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm great? How are you great? To see you live
Speaker 2: in studio.
Speaker 1: If you've ever wondered what Trey looks like and why
Speaker 1: the Olympus get music works so well, Uh, don't do that.
Speaker 1: Don't throw deuces up log on our YouTube channel. Trey
Speaker 1: is in studio. I always appreciate your time coming down.
Speaker 2: All right, let's just start.
Speaker 1: With some big picture stuff with the club, because it's
Speaker 1: been it's been a rough start and it's been a
Speaker 1: little chaotic behind the scenes with the ownership transition. The
Speaker 1: primary transfer window comes and goes with a couple of additions,
Speaker 1: but no additions that I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: were either hoping or expecting when it came to a DP.
Speaker 1: The Bosanique deal with the Portuguese club falls apart at
Speaker 1: last minute. So what's the past you know, a month,
Speaker 1: month and a half been like for you guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been I think energetic, it's been dynamic. I
Speaker 2: think in all ways it's been positive. Even the Bosenig
Speaker 2: deal falling apart, it was you know, that happened as
Speaker 2: a result of I think Kurt and company drawing a
Speaker 2: line in the sand and saying you're not gonna to
Speaker 2: change from euros or dollars to euros at the last
Speaker 2: minute and ask for a bunch more money. That was
Speaker 2: the deal and move the goalposts and change the terms.
Speaker 2: And you know, I think Kurt got to a point
Speaker 2: where he felt like if we met their demands, it
Speaker 2: would set a bad precedent and it would also kind
Speaker 2: of hamstring us a little bit in the summer. So
Speaker 2: the Agata trade was made with with Sporting Kansas City.
Speaker 2: We haven't really seen him much yet. He did play
Speaker 2: forty five at Vancouver, played what twenty two to twenty
Speaker 2: three at San Diego. Clearly he's a talented player. He
Speaker 2: scored two goals against US last year. You know, I
Speaker 2: guess in my mind maybe he ends up being over
Speaker 2: the longer term, more of the Anderson Julio replacement. And
Speaker 2: you know, Chicho was really good for San Jose the
Speaker 2: other night, and I think that'll be Kurt's focus in
Speaker 2: the summer. Is is a killer nine and you reference
Speaker 2: the ownership change. Every experiences I've had with anybody on
Speaker 2: the Miller side in the months leading up to the
Speaker 2: official public announcement has been nothing but amazingly positive. And
Speaker 2: you know, look, Spence, I never once thought that RSL
Speaker 2: would leave Utah or move from Utah. But you know,
Speaker 2: Commissioner Garber and others. They said, with the Miller family
Speaker 2: being the majority locally engaged owner, there's never a doubt.
Speaker 2: And you know, the Blitzer group is still very much involved,
Speaker 2: especially on the sporting side. We've got some young academy
Speaker 2: products that are over in Denmark with Bronby right now,
Speaker 2: and they're going to get some cups of coffee around
Speaker 2: some of the different teams in the continent there. That's
Speaker 2: exciting stuff for the development of a kid. It's not
Speaker 2: probably super exciting for our fans that are worried about
Speaker 2: first team performance over the first third of the season.
Speaker 2: But I guess the saving grace right now as I
Speaker 2: try to look at things glass half full, is we've
Speaker 2: got twenty five games left across all competitions, so there's
Speaker 2: plenty of time to kind of turn the ship around.
Speaker 2: Four wins, seven losses in MLS, we're only I think
Speaker 2: six points out of second place, which is amazing. Seven points.
Speaker 2: Maybe go to Dallas this weekend at the end of
Speaker 2: a three game road trip. Dallas just got smashed, so
Speaker 2: if we can get the three points there, take six
Speaker 2: out of nine. The Vancouver loss is disappointing, but they're
Speaker 2: the best team in the league. So for us to
Speaker 2: have kind of maybe not embarrassed ourselves against them is
Speaker 2: a moral victory, which obviously don't count for anything.
Speaker 1: Seven points out of second in fairness, two points out
Speaker 1: of fourteenth.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, tightly packed.
Speaker 1: But look, I bring it up for context because over
Speaker 1: the course of the twenty years now, which is still
Speaker 1: wild for me to think about, in the existence of
Speaker 1: the club, some of our best teams had horrible starts
Speaker 1: and some of our worst teams had awesome stus. This season,
Speaker 1: almost unlike any other, is an absolute marathon. It is
Speaker 1: not a sprint. So I'm not ready to anoint or dismiss,
Speaker 1: but I do think there is a faction of this
Speaker 1: fan base that looks at and I want you to
Speaker 1: walk us through this because you've been around the league
Speaker 1: forever and it is a single entity policy continuously. So
Speaker 1: you cannot draw a straight line by doing all of
Speaker 1: the math of every player you let go and saying,
Speaker 1: why don't we spend every one of those dollars on
Speaker 1: a player transfer.
Speaker 2: That's not how the business model works.
Speaker 1: However, it is I think understandable for a fan base
Speaker 1: it saw potentially fifteen to eighteen of the most exciting
Speaker 1: games that we've ever seen here last year with that
Speaker 1: group of attacking players be broken down brick by brick
Speaker 1: without adequate replacements.
Speaker 2: I think that's fair. True, Yeah, yeah, I think it
Speaker 2: is fair. The whiplash from a year ago to now
Speaker 2: is certainly I think exacerbating the situation because you do
Speaker 2: go fifteen games in the league unbeaten for the better
Speaker 2: part of March, April and May. You're in first place,
Speaker 2: You're in the supporter shield race. Chicho's got seventeen goals
Speaker 2: in seventeen games. I think at that point you sell Andres,
Speaker 2: Chicho scores one goal in his final what twenty games,
Speaker 2: let's say maybe a little less over the second half
Speaker 2: of the season, it was. It was a stumble to
Speaker 2: the finish after you sell Andres. Now it's not I
Speaker 2: think people forget that. Okay, you sell Andres for eleven million,
Speaker 2: it goes to thirteen with some bonuses. All that money
Speaker 2: isn't paid up front. You take five million of what
Speaker 2: you get from him and you buy Diogo, you buy
Speaker 2: Dominic MARCHUK, you buy Lachlan Brook, you sign Javane Brown
Speaker 2: off of waivers from Vancouver. So it's not like no
Speaker 2: resources were used and everything was pocketed. That's just not
Speaker 2: how it works. Because some of these dollars are real
Speaker 2: cash dollars, as you've heard Kurt explain. Some the gam
Speaker 2: is not real cash. It's fictional. Kind of capology, if
Speaker 2: you will. I think you know, the chi Cho move
Speaker 2: was calculated. The Matt Crooks move was maybe a little late,
Speaker 2: and it was right by him. He's doing very well
Speaker 2: in the in the championship over in England. But I
Speaker 2: think now through the first ten eleven games, we've realized
Speaker 2: how much work he did for everybody else and you're
Speaker 2: missing that. Now. What it's done is you're allowing Diego
Speaker 2: Luna to become the man. As Pablo said a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago, he's not on the assent anymore. This
Speaker 2: is his team. He's he's the man. Maybe that's a
Speaker 2: lot to put on a twenty one year old shoulders,
Speaker 2: you know. Maybe Dominic has not. He's been I think positive,
Speaker 2: but he hasn't been as consistent as he was in
Speaker 2: the final seven games last year. Arip Ol clearly learning
Speaker 2: on the job. Agata and Russell we've hardly seen box
Speaker 2: to box. I think everybody feels really good about the
Speaker 2: core of the team and Annelli and Ojeita and Glad
Speaker 2: and Vera and Junka and Katranas and you know, maybe
Speaker 2: right back, we've had a rotating cast of characters. Rafael
Speaker 2: Cabral has been phenomenal, but we don't have those difference
Speaker 2: makers the Chico and Andres that we had a year ago.
Speaker 2: Nobody other than Diego's really stepped up in that category.
Speaker 1: Well, and we I think it might be time and
Speaker 1: maybe pastime to have a salient, honest conversation about Diogo,
Speaker 1: who has the same amount of goals as Sam Junka
Speaker 1: right now, right he has a goal and he has
Speaker 1: two assists in eleven games. And you know, last year
Speaker 1: he rolled into town with a lot of fanfare and
Speaker 1: was not productive.
Speaker 2: And the walking line was we need a preseason with him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's your only DP, and from my vantage point,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been good enough. So maybe you guys are
Speaker 1: seeing things in training or moments where you know he
Speaker 1: is providing the quality.
Speaker 2: That you want from that position.
Speaker 1: But at what point do we look at that and say,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, it's not a It hasn't worked
Speaker 1: right so far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think there's a couple of ways to
Speaker 2: look at it, And you know, talking to Pablo and
Speaker 2: Kurt Daily as I do, I think Pablo looks at
Speaker 2: Diogo and says, Okay, this is a guy who played
Speaker 2: thirty one Champions League games. Clearly there's quality and pedigree,
Speaker 2: different league, different style of play. He was not the
Speaker 2: man in any of those situations at Copenhagen or Benfica.
Speaker 2: He was the man behind the man, or the man
Speaker 2: behind the man behind the man. And the other thing
Speaker 2: that Pablo has said consistently in his Apple production calls
Speaker 2: is Diogo is a very smart technical player. He's an
Speaker 2: incredible finisher. When he's on the field, he's seeing the
Speaker 2: game in Pablo's estimation two three, four steps ahead, but
Speaker 2: nobody around him is seeing the game at the same
Speaker 2: cadence as he is, So there's a disconnect there. Right,
Speaker 2: He's surrounded by an awful lot of youth. And again
Speaker 2: these are all just making excuses for him, because if
Speaker 2: he didn't have those two DP initials next to his name,
Speaker 2: I think the perception of his contribution as performance would
Speaker 2: probably be very different. So I would expect in the
Speaker 2: summer you add a DP, maybe maybe that DP that
Speaker 2: presence of that other DP would hold him accountable in
Speaker 2: such a way. Maybe he leaves. I don't know. It
Speaker 2: could be one situation or another. His wife just announced
Speaker 2: on Instagram a week ago that they are expecting their
Speaker 2: first child graduate So you never know how some of
Speaker 2: these off field things are happening. Like you know, you've
Speaker 2: heard the guys talk about. You know, Dominic's kind of
Speaker 2: choppy start to the beginning of the season can be
Speaker 2: attributed as fact his dad has been very unhealthy and
Speaker 2: he's been five thousand miles away from that situation, and
Speaker 2: you know, Dunny's been talking about this for years. You
Speaker 2: just never know how guys. Some guys are very good
Speaker 2: at compartmenting the ninety minutes on the field and everything
Speaker 2: else off and the other guys it bleeds through and
Speaker 2: it affects them. So the good news is things haven't frayed, right, Like,
Speaker 2: guys haven't turned on each other, and all you can
Speaker 2: hope for is improvement day by day, hour by hour,
Speaker 2: and game by game.
Speaker 1: So the explanation for Diego is that he's too good,
Speaker 1: he's too smart, and it's too of all, it's just
Speaker 1: not on the same page. Okay, Well, he's got a
Speaker 1: kid next to him who clearly is seeing the game
Speaker 1: the way he supposedly is. But at least Diego is
Speaker 1: producing six goals, two assists, another goal over the weekend,
Speaker 1: a PK finish against Vancouver. You've had a front row
Speaker 1: seat to watch this kid develop. And I know that
Speaker 1: some RSL fans don't love that. I wax poetic and
Speaker 1: talk about some of our great superstars back in the day.
Speaker 1: But for me, Trey he has the ability to be
Speaker 1: better in all of them. Yeah, and I hope most
Speaker 1: of those years are here. I get the deal that
Speaker 1: that probably isn't the case. But what's it been like
Speaker 1: for you to watch this kid blow up and evolve
Speaker 1: in it's really a rising star in the ranks of
Speaker 1: soccer across the entire country.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing. I mean, Diego clearly came here as
Speaker 2: a as a as an older teen, and he's a
Speaker 2: man now, he's got a kid. He's very serious about
Speaker 2: his craft. He is. I think the biggest area of
Speaker 2: growth for him is maybe holding teammates accountable, whether it's
Speaker 2: in training sessions, it's in film sessions, it's in the
Speaker 2: middle of the game. Oh yeah, And though he will
Speaker 2: grab a guy by the collar like Jason Christ used
Speaker 2: to do, and say wake up, let's go what is
Speaker 2: wrong with you? Matt Banky. It was Luke krammel Meyer
Speaker 2: as the vivid one in my maybe Tino Nuniez as well,
Speaker 2: shout out, I can keep going, you know, I can
Speaker 2: play this game all Diego like Apple is asking him
Speaker 2: to be an ambassador. MLS wants to use him in everything.
Speaker 2: Landon Donovan and Tim Howard want them on their on
Speaker 2: their podcast. He's done. You know. He did the and
Speaker 2: or thing with the actor Diego Luna, Travis Scott had
Speaker 2: him out to Coachella. These are things that don't typically
Speaker 2: happen to a real Salt lakey no matter how many
Speaker 2: goals you have. And and the thing is is like
Speaker 2: Diego's matured, but he hasn't really changed. Like he's still
Speaker 2: a good guy that you can walk up to and
Speaker 2: and dap up and just have a good conversation with his.
Speaker 2: If I was twenty one and suddenly the world was
Speaker 2: acting like I was important, I would expect my ego
Speaker 2: to probably outgrow its efficiency, you know. And look, part
Speaker 2: of what's great about Diego is his belief in himself
Speaker 2: and you know that quiet confidence. But he really has
Speaker 2: put this team on his shoulders. He's got what two
Speaker 2: two goal games, He's made Team of the Week three times,
Speaker 2: So I think he's again. I don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: I expect him to be here for a year. I
Speaker 2: think that gives him the best chance to go to
Speaker 2: the Gold Cup here in a couple months under poach
Speaker 2: a team know then and then really give himself a
Speaker 2: chance to make that World Cup team a year from now.
Speaker 2: And the US soccer assistants that have been around clearly
Speaker 2: Pochattino loves him. They love his grit, his grind, his
Speaker 2: attitude on both sides of the ball, and he's not
Speaker 2: afraid to try stuff. And we saw it in the
Speaker 2: Nations League whatever semi final and final or third place
Speaker 2: game I should say, where the US lost to Panama
Speaker 2: in Canada. He was the lone bright spot. He was
Speaker 2: the only guy trying things. He was the only guy
Speaker 2: making things happen for himself and for others. So sky's
Speaker 2: a limit still for a twenty one year old Diego Luna.
Speaker 1: A bit of a non sequitur, but you're referenced Aarsaul
Speaker 1: players at Coachella, and so I've got to ask you
Speaker 1: about Nick Rimando being inducted in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Nick is a known music festival guy, absolutely, but you know,
Speaker 1: little history lesson. I can remember one of my wake
Speaker 1: up calls to Okay, professional soccer in America is much
Speaker 1: different than professional professional basketball, professional football, the sports I
Speaker 1: was raised around, when I found out that our starting
Speaker 1: keeper in two thousand and seven, Scott Garlic, had elected
Speaker 1: to retire because he had an opportunity in real estate.
Speaker 1: Good for Scott, apparently it's worked out for him, just fine,
Speaker 1: it seems like it. But ultimately I can remember thinking, like, wait,
Speaker 1: a athlete in his maybe later prime is retiring when
Speaker 1: he has a contract to keep playing to work in
Speaker 1: real estate. So we were scrambling to get a keeper
Speaker 1: and ultimately went and reacquired Nick Romando from d C
Speaker 1: New York where Bruce Arena correct. Okay, So we were
Speaker 1: able to acquire Romando in the deal that also brought
Speaker 1: us Freddy Freddy You Do, which did not work out
Speaker 1: as well as we were expecting. We did not know
Speaker 1: that the better piece of that deal was actually the
Speaker 1: keeper that we were receiving, who turned out to be
Speaker 1: one of the main conduits to lifting trophies and by
Speaker 1: most accounts, the greatest keeper this league has ever seen.
Speaker 1: So your thoughts on on NICKI getting inducted into the
Speaker 1: National Hall of Fame, the only RSL player to have this.
Speaker 1: I would imagine Kyle gets there at some point. I
Speaker 1: would hope Kyle can get in the next year or two.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Nick Romando inducted in the National Soccer Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame in Frisco, Texas this weekend. We will celebrate Nick
Speaker 2: on June fourteenth against DC United at America First Field
Speaker 2: in Sandy, and Nick will get his name put up
Speaker 2: in the Ring of Honor next to Jason christ and
Speaker 2: Javier Morales and clearly the three of them were teammates
Speaker 2: together on that MLS Cup two thousand and nine championship team.
Speaker 2: Nick Rimando was named the MasterCard Most Valuable Player.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: They were then up in Seattle against Galaxy and Nicky's
Speaker 2: just been for a guy that never won the Goalkeeper
Speaker 2: of the award, which is insane. He should have wanted
Speaker 2: the following year in twenty ten, when RSL only allowed,
Speaker 2: I want to say, in thirty four games and the
Speaker 2: reason Nick didn't win that year. I was told was
Speaker 2: because Borcher's and Lave were ahead of him and they
Speaker 2: both made Best eleven, but Nick didn't. Whatever. It was
Speaker 2: very silly, but anyway, you know Nick. Nick's second act
Speaker 2: of his career was here, right. He won a Cup
Speaker 2: in DC, but he had suffered a knee injury and
Speaker 2: he was considered damage goods. And to your point, we
Speaker 2: traded for Freddy Adu from d C in like November.
Speaker 2: Nick Romondo was a throw in in that deal. I
Speaker 2: think we sent j Nalli and a draft pick the
Speaker 2: other way, and then Nick ended up moving to We
Speaker 2: traded him to New York because he wanted to play
Speaker 2: for Arena again and we wanted Garlic, and then well
Speaker 2: we had Garlic from the first couple of years. And
Speaker 2: then Garlic retires two weeks before the season, and Bruce
Speaker 2: Arene told John Ellinger and I don't know, March of seven,
Speaker 2: who do you want. You can have Nick back, or
Speaker 2: you can have John Conway, who was a decent keeper
Speaker 2: at the time. And Ellinger goes, I guess we'll take Nick.
Speaker 2: And then Nick plays for us for another fourteen seasons.
Speaker 2: Leeds MLS all time in minutes played, games played, games started, saves, wins,
Speaker 2: all the important goalkeeping categories, and some of these record
Speaker 2: spans are most likely untouchable because Kyle Nick others were
Speaker 2: kind of a rare breed Pablo that played their entire
Speaker 2: fourteen fifteen years professionally in MLS, and some of them
Speaker 2: have played the majority of those years for one team.
Speaker 2: We're seeing it now, Diego Sharra up in Portland has
Speaker 2: played his entire career with the Timbers. So there's a
Speaker 2: few examples here and there, but we're so glad that
Speaker 2: Nick made a home here. He operates businesses here, he's
Speaker 2: the goalkeeper coach for the Monarch, spends a lot of
Speaker 2: time with our academy kids as well, and you know,
Speaker 2: I think Gavin Beaver's and every other young keeper that's
Speaker 2: come through our club would would credit Nick with some
Speaker 2: of their development.
Speaker 1: So moving back over to here and now, because there
Speaker 1: are some bright spots other than Diego, and I talked
Speaker 1: to Pablo about this last week because, as you know,
Speaker 1: I was on the road with the club in San Diego.
Speaker 1: You're like, good, look, I mean, folks are saying that.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, but folks are saying that you
Speaker 1: elected to ditch me on the trip, which is fine.
Speaker 2: The trip worked out just fine for your boy. We'll
Speaker 2: leave that off there.
Speaker 1: But watching the win against San Diego and a mecha
Speaker 1: has been good for a while.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 1: He controlled the entire flow of the game. And I
Speaker 1: talked to Pablo about this. And you remember this funny
Speaker 1: anecdote that I always share about Kyle, about Kyle Beckerman
Speaker 1: because I can remember. This was two thousands seven. Jay
Speaker 1: took the head coaching job in Okay, so he had
Speaker 1: Kyle at holding mid, which is Kyle's, you know, the
Speaker 1: position that he became a legend of the club. And
Speaker 1: of course me still learning the game of soccer, Kyle
Speaker 1: scores one of his Becker bombs. We used to call
Speaker 1: him this thirty yard blast, and we were having trouble scoring.
Speaker 2: So on the.
Speaker 1: Postgame show, I say to Jason, Hey, dude, I've got
Speaker 1: a great idea for you, buddy, Kyle needs to be
Speaker 1: playing up top. He needs to be playing striker or
Speaker 1: central attacking mid. And Jason gave him this look like
Speaker 1: I will strangle you right now. But I'll never forget
Speaker 1: what he said to me because it turned out to
Speaker 1: be prophetic. He said, if Kyle embraces this position and
Speaker 1: what I'm asking him to do in this diamond formation,
Speaker 1: he will play in a World Cup, which he did.
Speaker 1: And so after that conversation with Jason, I watched Kyle
Speaker 1: in a different way than I had prior to, because
Speaker 1: you know, let people focus on the ball. They focus
Speaker 1: on the touchdown, pass, the dunk, unless it's Jokic, it's
Speaker 1: a layup because you can't dunk, or in soccer it's
Speaker 1: the goals. You focus on the moments, right, So, after
Speaker 1: watching Kyle just dominate the way that he did at
Speaker 1: that position, it gives me a different set of eyes
Speaker 1: to watch a mecca evolve the way he's And there's
Speaker 1: a little Kyle in a mecca, I thought. So as
Speaker 1: far as bright spots that we're going to go there,
Speaker 1: I think a mecca continues to evolve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And what Pablo consistently praises a mecca for is
Speaker 2: his brain, his intelligence, his ability to process information. And
Speaker 2: you know, a mecca has the fortune of playing the
Speaker 2: same position that Pablo and Kyle played for fifteen years
Speaker 2: at a very very high level in this league and
Speaker 2: in this country. And a mecca is constantly taking what
Speaker 2: Pablo is teaching him, whether it's in film sessions, training sessions,
Speaker 2: or just grabbing him during the game and say, hey,
Speaker 2: when you're in this situation, check over your left shoulder
Speaker 2: because that's where they're going to try and whatever. And know,
Speaker 2: a Mecca twenty five years old in the national team mix,
Speaker 2: I think he's played the second most minutes for the
Speaker 2: field players for US this year. Clearly, our leader, Johnny
Speaker 2: Russell's presence now is going to I think help a
Speaker 2: Mecca accelerate his leadership side of his game and his captaincy.
Speaker 2: But you know, we wouldn't We wouldn't even be in
Speaker 2: the middle of the pack in the West without a
Speaker 2: Mecca Ojeda, which I think are one of the better
Speaker 2: midfield tandems in the league.
Speaker 1: And finally, another bright spot I do think has been
Speaker 1: cabral I. Do you know the keeper that Kurt decided
Speaker 1: to bring in. It was It was just difficult last
Speaker 1: year watching Zach, who at times I think stepped in
Speaker 1: here as a veteran and played some really really good soccer,
Speaker 1: looked like it was orange slices and juice boxes. Like
Speaker 1: these mistakes that he was making were just wild and
Speaker 1: I think most people believe gav is going to be
Speaker 1: great once it's fully cooked and he's fully developed. I
Speaker 1: was glad you guys addressed because you needed too. So
Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about this new keeper and
Speaker 1: we'll finish it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Raphael Cabral is a little older before
Speaker 2: we got Johnny Russell. I think he's our only player
Speaker 2: over the age of thirty. With Zach on the shelf
Speaker 2: rehabbing his shoulder. Cabral won a Copa Bertadores when he
Speaker 2: was young, very prestigious South American competition, won titles with
Speaker 2: Napoli in Italy, played in England at a high level,
Speaker 2: and then played in his home country in Brazil the
Speaker 2: last couple of years at a very high level. He
Speaker 2: is a consummate leader. He is not a perfectionist, because
Speaker 2: when he is trying to teach people how to learn
Speaker 2: from their mistakes, he's very cognizant about acknowledging his own
Speaker 2: or that he will make some that he's not perfect.
Speaker 2: He loves his family, he loves his faith, and he's
Speaker 2: really been extremely solid. We saw this weekend he's now
Speaker 2: saved two of the four penalty kicks he's faced this year,
Speaker 2: which is big when it seems like there's a game
Speaker 2: changing penalty or vaar call almost every week now, and
Speaker 2: I think we're lucky to have him. So if we
Speaker 2: get Brian Vera back, you have justin glad healthy. You know,
Speaker 2: that's a very good spine. When you can go cabral Vera,
Speaker 2: glad Oheita and Nellie and then Diego Luna at the
Speaker 2: central ten up top, you've got to build around it.
Speaker 2: We need guys to step up around it. Xaviergozo, eighteen
Speaker 2: year old homegrown from Eagle Mountain, is clearly rising to
Speaker 2: the occasion. Hopefully that lights a fire under dom he
Speaker 2: can get back out there. There's a lot of soccer left.
Speaker 2: I think everybody's together, everybody's optimistic. But we will see
Speaker 2: what moves Kurt and company make this summer port.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna be tuning in to the playoffs tonight,
Speaker 1: because here's where I'm at. I have so much respect
Speaker 1: for Jokic that I'll say, gentlemen, sweep, But do you
Speaker 1: think okay sweeps Denver.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's in five? I think this. I
Speaker 2: actually think this series or five games? It's five games? Okay?
Speaker 2: Five games? Hey, it's great, doesn't dunk it because he
Speaker 2: shares the ball with a g because it's as you know,
Speaker 2: assists makes two people happy. It's great to see you
Speaker 2: Nuggets and six stop it. See, this is why we
Speaker 2: can't You're going to get a split in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2: They're going to win the two at home, they lose
Speaker 2: one and then they win game.
Speaker 1: This is why we think. This is why we can't
Speaker 1: talk to NBA.
Speaker 2: Let's bet a Black Desert round on this. Seriously, Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's bet. Let's bet seventy seventy Let's bet one hundred.
Speaker 2: You're going to pay for all my golf for the
Speaker 2: rest of my life. Let's bet five million dollars right now. Okay,
Speaker 2: don't have access to that kind of fun.
Speaker 1: Don't either, But that's why I'm happy to go ahead
Speaker 1: and and lay it down. Look, I'm pulling for your
Speaker 1: guys because I know it makes you happy to see
Speaker 1: Denver win.
Speaker 2: Have you watched okay, so you get all this show. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they are impossible, impossible to watch with a shameless grifter
Speaker 2: Alexander shooting twenty five free throws a game or you
Speaker 2: see this, that's all gonna dry up in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: This is why we can't talk NBA when Trace here.
Speaker 2: He he has a small point about the the fact
Speaker 2: that the translation is harder in the playoffs to get
Speaker 2: to the free throw line that much to rely on
Speaker 2: it scratch. But is that gonna play into an account
Speaker 2: against this Denver team? Who do you who do you
Speaker 2: anxiety watch more than any other team? Anxiety watch? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Like when you're what is it RSL? Is it Denver?
Speaker 2: Like I'm actually I don't have a ton of anxiety
Speaker 2: because I know that Murray or Gordon are gonna you
Speaker 2: know why I done? Never mind, it's probably RSL okay
Speaker 2: still to this day and maybe the you know, there
Speaker 2: were a lot of rough Bronco watches over the last
Speaker 2: eight years. Yeah, yeah, I mean they finally got a quarterback.
Speaker 1: At least you have some Bob all right. So it's
Speaker 1: Dallas coming up this weekend. RSL has been on the road,
Speaker 1: but they will be back home for a Wednesday, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Wednesday the fourteenth, at home against Portland, and then we
Speaker 2: head off to Colorado, where I will be at baller,
Speaker 2: you know, for Game six as Denver clinches the series
Speaker 2: two nights before RSL.
Speaker 1: You turn, I'm trying to give you guys a little
Speaker 1: love here. Okay, you get back for four or five
Speaker 1: at home in June. Okay, I just feel like the
Speaker 1: club has been on the Road'll.
Speaker 2: Get back for actually, I think it's nine out of
Speaker 2: eleven at home after this long road stretch. Good to
Speaker 2: see you, Thanks for the time, Thanks for having me.