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Speaker 3: Nico Moreno joining us for the handoff. As we've been
Speaker 3: discussing what's been going on with Cono ball qualifying? All right,
Speaker 3: so Nino, sir, I will let you have the question
Speaker 3: for the handoff and what is on your mind with
Speaker 3: Nico Moreno. Could be Conno Ball, could be Major League Soccer,
Speaker 3: could be messy and friends, what's on your mind as
Speaker 3: we hand off to Nico Moreno in the final half hour?
Speaker 5: Nico, your your team, your your Colombia and you beloved
Speaker 5: Colombia national team is one of the best teams in
Speaker 5: coming orl right now what what what are the chances
Speaker 5: coming into Montevideo to to play the mighty celestic?
Speaker 1: You know why, I think they're good.
Speaker 4: U Uruguay is definitely a top team and they have
Speaker 4: a lot of talent and they are very well managed.
Speaker 4: But Colombia coming from when they need it against Chile,
Speaker 4: that for zero win was important against the Chile team
Speaker 4: that obviously is just the shell of what it used
Speaker 4: to be years ago, uh and in no where, no
Speaker 4: shapeway or form. Am I saying that is a parameter
Speaker 4: for for Colombia. But they needed that boost because they
Speaker 4: did have a rather unpleasant reality check against Bolivia UH
Speaker 4: and they lost that game, and I feel like they
Speaker 4: needed to regain that confidence. So because of their inertia,
Speaker 4: there are a couple of new faces there for Colombia,
Speaker 4: but I feel like the starting eleven is going to
Speaker 4: be pretty much the same as it has been. I
Speaker 4: think that had to do anything great form. I think
Speaker 4: that is in great form.
Speaker 1: Uh. Therefore, I think Colombia will get a result.
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying they're gonna go out there and
Speaker 4: just dominate a very good Uruo White team. There's probably
Speaker 4: some revenge feelings from that Uru White team. After what
Speaker 4: happened in Copo America, some of those protagonists won't be
Speaker 4: part of this one, which is always nice. But I
Speaker 4: think Colombia will get a good result in Monteville.
Speaker 5: Give me numbers, Give me a prediction, brother, I want
Speaker 5: to hear some numbers.
Speaker 1: I want one one to you.
Speaker 4: Give me give me a number, brother, that's tough. I'll
Speaker 4: go ahead and say that Colombia gets it done. Uh,
Speaker 4: two to one out of the way.
Speaker 3: So so then this means that you are taking that
Speaker 3: plus fifty in the juice boxes outright?
Speaker 1: What the numbers are?
Speaker 3: Yeah, plus two fifty in the juice boxes for the
Speaker 3: Columbia win ninety minute draw plus two hundred Uruguay home
Speaker 3: favored at a plus one thirty one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I definitely put some money out there. Yeah
Speaker 1: why not? Why not? I feel like, again, what do
Speaker 1: I have a hard time against Equador?
Speaker 4: And you know, Ecuador also a very good defensive team.
Speaker 4: Uh in overall they have a lot of quality midfielders.
Speaker 4: I think Columbia can match that same intensity and I
Speaker 4: think that they can make it difficult for auduway.
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, I'm definitely confident on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: So Colombia also follows it up at a minus one
Speaker 3: sixty one as they take on Ecuador and host Ecuador
Speaker 3: on Tuesday. Uh, Nino, my friend is always great to
Speaker 3: see you, Great to hear your voice and find out
Speaker 3: what's going on, especially when you peel back the curtain
Speaker 3: and we get to do some solid journalism. Be safe,
Speaker 3: my friend in calling the Uruguayan matches this weekend on
Speaker 3: Goal TV. Be coming back and we'll talk about this
Speaker 3: next week and we will talk about whatever else is
Speaker 3: on your mind.
Speaker 2: Be safe, my friend. Good to see it.
Speaker 1: Well, Thank you guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Nino toatis as always, I love it.
Speaker 3: I love it when we can sit there and bring Atlanta,
Speaker 3: Peru and Seattle together.
Speaker 2: To me, that's.
Speaker 3: Literally it's like, oh wow, it's like Okay's dial up
Speaker 3: South America and we have.
Speaker 2: I love it. It's fantastic.
Speaker 3: I know that we got to talk about MLS postseason
Speaker 3: because the main topic this week here, By the way,
Speaker 3: what cup of coffee are you on?
Speaker 1: Number two?
Speaker 4: Halfway through number two has been a pretty moving type
Speaker 4: of morning. There is no soccer bar today, so I
Speaker 4: get a little bit of time off after your show.
Speaker 4: So I'm nice, chill, collected. So yeah, good Thursday.
Speaker 3: Okay, so Messy and Friends are no more the the
Speaker 3: the Gulf Stream Galacticos are out the door, and it's
Speaker 3: been the big topic obviously here on SDH most of
Speaker 3: the week, where Enter Miami got reinforced for being top heavy.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like you want you want to you
Speaker 3: want to be a team that launches all the threes
Speaker 3: and has all the offense. You know, when you're you're
Speaker 3: stepping back behind the twenty foot line, you're launching threes,
Speaker 3: that's great. But if you're not, you know, if you're
Speaker 3: not hitting your threes and the other team is being
Speaker 3: solid and hitting buckets and playing solid defense, in a
Speaker 3: best of three series, you get found out. And the
Speaker 3: Gulf Stream Galacticos got found out when you've got to
Speaker 3: line up, but then you got injuries and you got
Speaker 3: to figure out how you're gonna do things, playing dudes
Speaker 3: out of position, making sure that Okay, I've got eleven
Speaker 3: guys that can actually be out there, and they've got
Speaker 3: to do things that they may not be accustomed to doing.
Speaker 3: What did you think about the the intern Miami Atlanta
Speaker 3: United match Day number three?
Speaker 1: I thought it was a fantastic match. I thought that
Speaker 1: Tato Martino and in Miami sinned on over confidence and
Speaker 1: lack of adjustments to what they had done, if not wrong,
Speaker 1: the cracks in their game plan and game module going
Speaker 1: against this same Atlanta team. I thought that.
Speaker 4: Both at then I did a good job at minimizing
Speaker 4: and limiting Messy and Messi also did not have the
Speaker 4: best series. I thought he had one very good game
Speaker 4: that Gussan ended up stopping him everywhere. In the first one,
Speaker 4: I thought he was very poor and looked at a
Speaker 4: sink and was imprecise. In the second one, and then
Speaker 4: in the third one. It was a little bit between
Speaker 4: those two games, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: Atlanta wanted it more. Atlanta and Rob Valentino, credit to him,
Speaker 4: knew exactly how to expose.
Speaker 1: That in the Miami back line.
Speaker 4: You signed every single time that Atlanta would get on
Speaker 4: the ball and would either force a turnover or there
Speaker 4: was a mispass on Atlanta's side. On in the Miami side,
Speaker 4: they were immediately looking forward, looking to the long ball.
Speaker 4: Whether it was marn Chuk or Theoret or Saba, there
Speaker 4: was always someone running into space getting ready to go
Speaker 4: behind that back line, and Tata Martino was never able
Speaker 4: to figure out the solution, which was a liability on defense.
Speaker 4: All serious, Loan, you had a guy like Julian Gresseol
Speaker 4: that could have played that position. You could have done
Speaker 4: a variety of things to make sure that you were
Speaker 4: more poised and ready to stop counter moments, and he didn't.
Speaker 4: I thought that Busquetes was a huge miss and they
Speaker 4: needed to in some way replace what he did in
Speaker 4: distribution in game management, and I don't think that there
Speaker 4: was enough put on there by Tata Martine to figure
Speaker 4: that out.
Speaker 1: Dere Londo had a very average series.
Speaker 4: So all in all, I just give one hue hundred
Speaker 4: and ten percent of the credit to Robylan, you know,
Speaker 4: to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: And the way they approached the game.
Speaker 4: Every single time that I saw in Miami lose a
Speaker 4: significant game this year, there's a level of and and
Speaker 4: don't get caught up on the word I'm talking about
Speaker 4: within the game of this respect towards Messi Suarez and
Speaker 4: all those guys, meaning not that you're going to be
Speaker 4: disrespectful to them.
Speaker 1: It's just that you're not allowing him to get away
Speaker 1: with it. Everything.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm not gonna shove Messy. I'm not gonna, you know,
Speaker 4: force him out. I'm not gonna pull his jersey. I'm
Speaker 4: not gonna get in his head. And I thought Dax McCarty,
Speaker 4: Uh Madumba and the rest of that midfield, they did
Speaker 4: that very well. Usan wasn't just great by stopping everything
Speaker 4: that went his way, but his attitude, the way he
Speaker 4: came up and approached He's getting in in Uh's face. Well,
Speaker 4: let me rephrase that. Suarez is getting in his face
Speaker 4: and he's laughing. He's, you know, this big, huge broad guy.
Speaker 4: Just man, I don't care what you're talking about. Get
Speaker 4: off my face. That type of mentality and character really
Speaker 4: affects that in a Miami team that a lot of
Speaker 4: times wants to win just because they are who they are.
Speaker 4: I am Messi, I am Jordi Alba, I am Busquets,
Speaker 4: I am Luis Suarez. Monterey did not care at all.
Speaker 4: They dominated that that series in Leak's Cup. In this one,
Speaker 4: I thought Atlanta was very very about It's about us.
Speaker 4: It's not about you guys. I don't care who you are.
Speaker 4: Tax McCarty and Leton know Messi. We're going at it
Speaker 4: the entire series. I think that's important and I think
Speaker 4: that they deserve that win, and credit to absolutely everybody
Speaker 4: in Atlanta were making it happen.
Speaker 1: I was happy. I was excited.
Speaker 4: I told you here, I put on that Atlanta United jersey.
Speaker 4: I thought it in Miami was gonna win, as I
Speaker 4: think most people did.
Speaker 1: But I was very happy, very excited in the manner
Speaker 1: that they handled that win.
Speaker 3: And I think that this is key and it doesn't
Speaker 3: happen a lot of the time when people are going
Speaker 3: up against Messi and friends. They get bogged down and
Speaker 3: looking at the name on the back of the jersey
Speaker 3: instead of focusing on the crest that's on the front
Speaker 3: of the jersey. And what you saw defensively from Atlanta
Speaker 3: United was they packed the middle and they also made
Speaker 3: sure that the cutback cross was not going to be
Speaker 3: part of that playbook that you always see where you
Speaker 3: see the deep run and then the cutback and then
Speaker 3: Messi gets the slam dunk or somebody gets the slam dunk,
Speaker 3: because the penalty spot isn't occupied with anything but space.
Speaker 3: And you saw it defensively, the back line step up
Speaker 3: to the penalty spot to take away that cutback cross.
Speaker 3: You saw the folks in the middle of the field
Speaker 3: sit there, and it's like, all right, if you're gonna
Speaker 3: beat us, you're gonna beat us out here, You're not
Speaker 3: gonna beat us in here. And we're gonna take everything
Speaker 3: from say the six to the top of the arc,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna lock that down. And good luck on
Speaker 3: you if you want to come into that space and
Speaker 3: try to challenge us there. And I think that I
Speaker 3: think that Atlanta United looked at that playbook and they
Speaker 3: locked it down. There were times in substitution patterns where
Speaker 3: it took a little bit of time to remind and adjust.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, yeah, I've got to do this, And
Speaker 3: then when everybody came back in under the same umbrella,
Speaker 3: everything was cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And look, credit to again, Rob, but credit to the players.
Speaker 4: I mean Saba play in a position that Heat had
Speaker 4: ever played, the sacrifice, the back and forth, everything he
Speaker 4: did on that right side.
Speaker 1: Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 4: But Ronald Hernandez and Louisa Brown were not necessarily starters
Speaker 4: this season, and they played great.
Speaker 1: They played like protagonists. They did not miss a beat.
Speaker 4: They were great in the three man back line, and
Speaker 4: on the other side, Amador such.
Speaker 1: A good player defensively but also offensively, mainly offensively.
Speaker 4: Forresis in the four last games, he was unbelievable. This
Speaker 4: goes back to the guy I always give credit to
Speaker 4: and is. These are the type of Garth Lagerway's signings,
Speaker 4: right Sava Sandy, who was also important in this series.
Speaker 1: Amador. These are guys that are in that age group
Speaker 1: that is not the.
Speaker 4: Young guy, not the guy that we're gonna maybe worry
Speaker 4: about selling later or whatever. Was the prior thought process
Speaker 4: and getting players like Amada and getting players that you
Speaker 4: might be able to resell. So these these players that
Speaker 4: are coming ready to get off the plane and make
Speaker 4: a difference. That's the guard logger with type of players
Speaker 4: that made a.
Speaker 1: Difference in these games.
Speaker 4: So credit to him as well, because it was that
Speaker 4: defensive composure and that collective play that ultimately hit into
Speaker 4: Miami on top of the head and they were unable
Speaker 4: to get it right because even in the moment when
Speaker 4: it would break down and Messi would put a beautiful
Speaker 4: ball into Jordie Alva and Jordia Alba hit it right
Speaker 4: in the middle. And Guzan was the big monster with
Speaker 4: the huge pause getting those balls away from his goal.
Speaker 4: The team would never lose composure, The team would never
Speaker 4: lose that that character, that intensity, and they did it
Speaker 4: throughout the whole game. Whether in Miami would punch you
Speaker 4: right back because they did that. Atlanta United always had
Speaker 4: that resiliency to stay in the game. And they earned it.
Speaker 4: They earned it, and that's what really broke down a
Speaker 4: lot of those big time players. They're not huston you
Speaker 4: pushing back and forth in MLS. They think you're gonna
Speaker 4: settle down, You're gonna just be done.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: That was a fantastic play. Uh messy, just court on
Speaker 4: us again. We're we're gonna be fine. No, no, no, Atlanta
Speaker 4: United never lost a beat.
Speaker 3: And by that win, the one, the two, and the
Speaker 3: three in the East are out the door. So the
Speaker 3: East has embraced the chaos. The West is more chalky.
Speaker 3: It's I think one two four in Minnesota when you
Speaker 3: look at the East. Now, you've got Hudson River coming
Speaker 3: up in a week and a half, and we'll talk
Speaker 3: about it again as we get closer. But from thirty
Speaker 3: thousand feet you've got a rivalry in one, you've got
Speaker 3: a rivalry in another, and then coming out the other side,
Speaker 3: you've got LAFC taking care of business. Vancouver is always
Speaker 3: going to be a pain in the butt, but unfortunately
Speaker 3: match number three was on the road.
Speaker 2: Lag put up big numbers and they were waiting.
Speaker 3: Everybody else was waiting for LAFC and Vancouver to figure
Speaker 3: it out.
Speaker 2: The West has just been kind of chilling, man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the West has been a little bit more predictable,
Speaker 4: if you will, in a certain sense. With the exception
Speaker 4: of those who thought that RSL were going to come
Speaker 4: out of that matchup against Minnesota, I here told you
Speaker 4: guys that I really believe that Minnesota was in great form,
Speaker 4: that they were compact him, they were going to make
Speaker 4: it difficult. So, yeah, the West has been a little
Speaker 4: bit more predictable in certain sense. I think you get
Speaker 4: some really good matchups. They still consider LAFC and Seattle game.
Speaker 4: So I think that three out of the four matchups
Speaker 4: that we have for the semi finals, if you will,
Speaker 4: of each conference, you do get some pretty good rivalry games. Right, So,
Speaker 4: speaking of the West, per se Seattle makes that will
Speaker 4: make the trip to l a f C. L AFC
Speaker 4: has bid them four times this season. L a C
Speaker 4: has outscored Seattle nine goals to one. They completely shut
Speaker 4: down this Sounders thing that has had issues scoring goals
Speaker 4: all season, but specifically against l a f C. Jordan
Speaker 4: Morris has been put on a box, put on a
Speaker 4: jail cell in between those three monsters in the back, Murdo,
Speaker 4: Chau and Aaron Long.
Speaker 1: How do they try to figure that out? I asked Jordan.
Speaker 4: He said, I gotta start generating more space for those
Speaker 4: around me.
Speaker 1: I think Jordan is very.
Speaker 4: He understands and he's very aware of how inefficient he's
Speaker 4: been against LAFC.
Speaker 1: So I do expect Seattle to.
Speaker 4: Use a little bit of that blueprint that Vancouver left you.
Speaker 4: They were using the inside channels. They were playing from
Speaker 4: the outside in FAFA Picoke, cutting from the outside in
Speaker 4: the way that you were connecting with Brian White the
Speaker 4: moments you were finding him. I feel a lot of
Speaker 4: it was centralizing your gains and not necessarily you do
Speaker 4: get him wide right, but you come back inside against
Speaker 4: this LAFC team, and I think that Seattle could do
Speaker 4: that if their players play.
Speaker 1: The their max potential. I want to see Pedro de
Speaker 1: la Vega.
Speaker 4: I would like to see him on the left wing,
Speaker 4: so he can come inside and use that right foot
Speaker 4: to maybe get.
Speaker 1: You some balls in. Be a little bit more dangerous, be.
Speaker 4: A little bit more comfortable on the left side, and
Speaker 4: maybe you leave Paul Rothrock on the right side to
Speaker 4: give you two things. Right, is that ability to maybe
Speaker 4: get behind on that end, but specifically that back and
Speaker 4: forth against Dinny Buwanga against Hall. Instead, LAFC likes to
Speaker 4: attack on the left side. So I think if Seattle
Speaker 4: can make some adjustments, they can give LAFC some issues.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, I really don't
Speaker 4: think that Seattle matches up well and I think that
Speaker 4: they will play their hearts out, but they won't get
Speaker 4: the results. I just think the LAFC has a little
Speaker 4: bit too much talent. I feel like Steve Cherundolo got
Speaker 4: a whole series of games against Vancouver to mess up
Speaker 4: his lineup in game two and in Game three, and
Speaker 4: then he finally adjusted back to that four to three
Speaker 4: to three and put it Ilia Sanchez in.
Speaker 1: So I think that he made the mistakes he was
Speaker 1: going to make in the.
Speaker 4: Previous series and now he's going to come in completely
Speaker 4: clicked in and ready to give Seattle a tough matchup
Speaker 4: in Antenna, they'll win it at home.
Speaker 3: What I want to do now is I want to
Speaker 3: ask you about Garth Loggerway, the executive, because of what
Speaker 3: has been going on.
Speaker 2: Here with Atlanta United, and.
Speaker 3: There's been some discussions about this particular Atlanta United side
Speaker 3: and what they have gone through this season and the
Speaker 3: head coaching situation and the parallels where Brian Schmetzer was
Speaker 3: named to replace Siggy Schmidt when you had the run
Speaker 3: that Seattle was on, and there are some parallels here.
Speaker 2: But I also wanted.
Speaker 3: To see if you could let us in on the
Speaker 3: individual that you know as Garth Loggerway. And there was
Speaker 3: an interview that Garth did on local radio on the
Speaker 3: flagship station for Atlanta United, and he was asked about
Speaker 3: everything that had gone on this year, and here's what
Speaker 3: he said. And I wanted to get your feedback on
Speaker 3: the Garth loger Way that you know and the Garth
Speaker 3: Locker way that we're.
Speaker 2: Seeing here in Atlanta United. So here's the quote.
Speaker 3: Look, we were not going to win anything with that group,
Speaker 3: with the personalities in that locker room and the mentality
Speaker 3: that we had, we were not going to win any titles.
Speaker 3: And we knew it, and so we wanted to maximize
Speaker 3: the resources that we could take out of that group,
Speaker 3: and that's when we moved on from some players.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, we got in.
Speaker 3: We have a chance, and now we're taking advantage of
Speaker 3: it with a group that believes in itself and is
Speaker 3: much better put together. And that's a real credit to
Speaker 3: Rob Valentino and his staff and the players. Paragraph We
Speaker 3: had some folks who weren't committed to being in Atlanta
Speaker 3: long term. It's as simple as that, and they were
Speaker 3: looking for their next move and there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 3: That's part of pro sports. There's no emotion behind that.
Speaker 3: But they didn't want to be here long term. So
Speaker 3: we needed to get guys here who were committed.
Speaker 2: And so, okay, that.
Speaker 4: Is the guard loggoay that I knew the guard laggerway,
Speaker 4: and I did speak to him briefly. Obviously he had
Speaker 4: a lot more things to do, but I just spoke
Speaker 4: to him briefly, and as always, he gave nothing but
Speaker 4: all of the credit to the group around him and
Speaker 4: the coaching staff and the players and the team and
Speaker 4: how they bought in into what the organization had played
Speaker 4: out and put out and what Rob had done. But
Speaker 4: with that quote, it basically highlights what I think is,
Speaker 4: in my opinion, the best attribute that Guard Laggerway has
Speaker 4: as a JAM CEO front office manager.
Speaker 1: I mean, the.
Speaker 4: Understand people and understand that beyond your talent, that intangibles
Speaker 4: are so important, and tangibles is a word that gets
Speaker 4: It's very underrated. Sometimes it uses a cliche, but if
Speaker 4: you find a way to really understand what it means,
Speaker 4: it provides you with a whole different perspective. And that's
Speaker 4: what when you heard me talk about all the fat
Speaker 4: that god Lacker was shedding as soon as he got.
Speaker 1: The Atlanta United, that's what that was.
Speaker 4: Getting rid of people that don't believe getting people, getting
Speaker 4: rid of people that are not going to be committed
Speaker 4: to the overall sense of unity and the united objective
Speaker 4: of getting together. And it might sound, I don't know,
Speaker 4: too romantic, and you know that that's not what Sucker
Speaker 4: is about, but it's a reality and between not just
Speaker 4: getting rid of people that maybe we're not going to
Speaker 4: be part of that project, but with his experience and
Speaker 4: understanding of what certain players can provide you, I think
Speaker 4: that Guard Laggerway, in a sense understand people better than.
Speaker 1: Most and.
Speaker 4: When you combine that with a huge and high soccer IQ,
Speaker 4: you get a guy that's going to provide you with
Speaker 4: a foundation to a great club. And that's what that
Speaker 4: quote tells me, that that's the Guard logger Way that
Speaker 4: I know. And regardless of all his accolades as a manager,
Speaker 4: the person who is Guard Laggerway is what really to
Speaker 4: me makes him the best asset for any club in MLS.
Speaker 3: Then it was a discussion about back in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 3: Seattle was in ninth place, they part ways with Siggi Schmidt.
Speaker 3: Brian Schmittzer, who is the interim back in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 3: leads them to a run to MLS Cup. Named manager
Speaker 3: during the Western Conference semifinals. Garth once again was asked
Speaker 3: about this on ninety two nine in the game and
Speaker 3: he mentioned it, I've been in this position before, so
Speaker 3: Rob is very much a candidate. He and I just
Speaker 3: chatted about this yesterday, basically two days ago. He's certainly
Speaker 3: a very strong candidate based on what he's been But
Speaker 3: right now we have a process and we're going to
Speaker 3: keep going with that process. Unfortunately, not just with the
Speaker 3: head coach, but with the GM, and we're going to
Speaker 3: put together the best team. We really want to get
Speaker 3: a GM and a coach who will work well together,
Speaker 3: and we're going to land on those and those decisions
Speaker 3: get pushed out so long as we keep winning, and
Speaker 3: that increases everybody's chances of sticking around. Rob's done an
Speaker 3: awesome job at creating a sense of belief and we're
Speaker 3: really proud of what he's done.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 3: That was the same interview from ninety two nine in
Speaker 3: the game two days ago.
Speaker 6: So, yeah, this is great because Hey, did I or
Speaker 6: did I not bring the exact sa A scenario to
Speaker 6: you before this series?
Speaker 1: I literally said it.
Speaker 4: If Rob Valentina does pull this miracle, does Atlanta United
Speaker 4: keep him? Because that is the position where Garth has
Speaker 4: been in the past, and.
Speaker 1: I think he is he wants this team to succeed.
Speaker 1: That you could see it.
Speaker 4: But he's probably telling himself, man, he's going to be
Speaker 4: difficult to figure out with all these great candidates that
Speaker 4: are out there out there, including Jim and all the
Speaker 4: other places where I'm sure that they're looking at Awbroad
Speaker 4: He's probably thinking, man, if Rob does get us to
Speaker 4: a final, if he does, you know, you know, how
Speaker 4: do I go to a coach that just took this
Speaker 4: Atlanta team to a final that I'm going to be
Speaker 4: replacing him with someone else.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a difficult decision.
Speaker 4: What I will say is that if I know something
Speaker 4: about Garth Lagaways, that he's not afraid of being the
Speaker 4: villain quote unquote, right, I mean of.
Speaker 1: Just being the guy that if let's say he does
Speaker 1: end up.
Speaker 4: Finding a better candidate, a better duo of GM and
Speaker 4: coaching staff in general, and he has to go to
Speaker 4: Rob Valentino and say, look, this is what's best for
Speaker 4: the club, He's gonna do it. And he did that
Speaker 4: in Seattle with a lot of players that maybe at
Speaker 4: the time were upset that they were being let.
Speaker 1: Go or that things didn't go their way.
Speaker 4: But ultimately, after I talked to them years later, he's like, man,
Speaker 4: I got nothing but respect for that Lagrary. So if
Speaker 4: he has to make that tough decision, he's gonna make it.
Speaker 4: He's not gonna think twice about him. He's gonna trust
Speaker 4: his gut, he's gonna trust his IQ what's best for
Speaker 4: the club, and he has to be the villain, and
Speaker 4: you know, maybe take a lot of heat from fans
Speaker 4: that maybe would like to keep a guy like Rob
Speaker 4: Valentino players general narrative of man.
Speaker 1: How do you do that to a coach and just
Speaker 1: took it to a final.
Speaker 4: He'll do it, but he'll think about it because once again,
Speaker 4: he's been in that position before. He made the right
Speaker 4: choice with Bryant's matter at the time, and I think
Speaker 4: it all goes back to him reading the situation and
Speaker 4: saying what's best for the club. So ultimately he's going
Speaker 4: to have the benefit of everybody in that organization. And
Speaker 4: that's exactly why I've been telling you guys that this
Speaker 4: team is in good hands as long as gard Laggerway
Speaker 4: is involved.
Speaker 3: Was it really a miracle that Atlanta United beat inter
Speaker 3: Miami considering the issues that Messi and friends were having
Speaker 3: on the field.
Speaker 1: I think it is simply because of the way he
Speaker 1: played out. I mean, everything was in Miami's and.
Speaker 4: Maybe miracles the wrong word, but it was surprising because
Speaker 4: everything kind of went their way.
Speaker 1: You go back home, you kind.
Speaker 4: Of gave some time for at Tata Martinez to figure
Speaker 4: out what he needed to do better against Atlanta United.
Speaker 1: There was no way that if you would.
Speaker 4: Have asked anyone that Messi was going to be a
Speaker 4: non factor essentially in three consecutive games, and in the
Speaker 4: same team that they were going to be like, man,
Speaker 4: you're crazy. And although he was good in that third
Speaker 4: game because he put some balls in, he got the score,
Speaker 4: he wasn't able to get that team over that hump.
Speaker 4: So because of the talent and everything that basically gave
Speaker 4: in a dantageous situation to in Miami, to me, it
Speaker 4: was surprising an Atlanta team that was going on a
Speaker 4: lot of vibes and a lot of character, and they
Speaker 4: probably gave you their best soccer of the entire season
Speaker 4: in their last four games, including the decision day and
Speaker 4: the way they came into this playoff run. So maybe
Speaker 4: miracle might be the wrong world. At the time, he
Speaker 4: seemed pretty good. Maybe now just say surprising. But again,
Speaker 4: once you're going again the best team of the season,
Speaker 4: the Shield, the team that broke the record of coins
Speaker 4: all time for MLS, I think that it was very surprising.
Speaker 1: Again at the time, you de seml like a miracle.
Speaker 3: All right, So what's going on with you? Now that
Speaker 3: you get to enjoy your morning a little bit? What
Speaker 3: else is going on with the folks? You need to
Speaker 3: know about.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm hoping to just do a I haven't done
Speaker 4: an open mic in a long time. I like to
Speaker 4: hear from the fans, so I'm trying to set up
Speaker 4: with a couple of local analysts to do a.
Speaker 1: Open mic on X.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do just an open space where people can
Speaker 4: ask their questions. Obviously, I'll have a rundown that I'll
Speaker 4: go over and talk about Seattle, mainly what's coming up
Speaker 4: against LAFC. We'll probably get into the overall playoff picture,
Speaker 4: and then at the end I'll open it up for.
Speaker 1: Folks to ask whatever questions they want.
Speaker 4: Love to talk to people, especially with where we are
Speaker 4: right now in the season, So now that I don't
Speaker 4: have anything going on uh in soccer bar, I'll probably
Speaker 4: be able to set that up today, and whether it's
Speaker 4: later on today in the afternoon or tomorrow afternoon, I
Speaker 4: will have an open mic on El Rollo and W
Speaker 4: right there and then we'll collect that audio. We'll put
Speaker 4: it in our YouTube channel at Postal Sports, so folks
Speaker 4: can listen to that a little bit later. But it's
Speaker 4: interesting because we will be talking a little bit about
Speaker 4: that other match in the West that I think is
Speaker 4: going very interesting. I did some nevermind that's gonna sound weird,
Speaker 4: I was asking I was asking some questions just recently
Speaker 4: on another show, and one of those questions was, is
Speaker 4: the winner out of the LAFC Sounders matchup gonna end
Speaker 4: up winning the MLS Cup?
Speaker 1: And I said no, mainly because I do feel like.
Speaker 4: LA Galaxies run a form and the group of talent
Speaker 4: that they have to me are still the contender to
Speaker 4: come out of the West right now. So it's going
Speaker 4: to be interesting how that West that LA Galaxy Minnesota
Speaker 4: game plays out. Because Minnesota has been really good. I
Speaker 4: think that they could make Ricky struggle to get every
Speaker 4: single pass that he needs to get out. They're gonna
Speaker 4: be able to close down or try to minimize how
Speaker 4: good LA Galaxy are on the flanks, So it's gonna
Speaker 4: be a really good matchup. I still got LA Galaxy
Speaker 4: going through, but I think that was gonna be a
Speaker 4: good matchup.
Speaker 1: So we'll probably get into that.
Speaker 4: A little bit since we're on the West coast, So
Speaker 4: go ahead and check that out. I will put a
Speaker 4: tweet out of when I'm going to be doing that
Speaker 4: open mic. But if you got to have any questions
Speaker 4: about Atlanta or the East Coast. You got to certainly
Speaker 4: get on there as.
Speaker 3: Well, no doubt about it. As always, my friend, great
Speaker 3: to see you on Thursdays. Enjoy your second cup of coffee.
Speaker 3: We'll keep an eye out at l Rollo and W
Speaker 3: on the two hundred and eighty character app for your
Speaker 3: open space, and we will catch up with you again
Speaker 3: next week as we get ready for stuff.
Speaker 2: That's the official term. Thanks for dropping by my Thank you.
Speaker 1: My friend. Have a good one.