Speaker 1: Pete Martinez listed is joining us this morning, so we'll
Speaker 1: hop into the morning show here and find out what's
Speaker 1: going on.
Speaker 2: Hey, what's up?
Speaker 1: Health? Martine is joining us? Where are you, by.
Speaker 2: The way, I am. I'm at the Weston in Saint Louis.
Speaker 3: I'm literally staring at Bush Stadium, which is where they
Speaker 3: put us up, but the hotel right across the street
Speaker 3: from from these damn cardinals who just terrorized my mets
Speaker 3: for for so many years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't take you anywhere. By the way, your
Speaker 1: time with river Plate second time has not worked very well.
Speaker 2: Unfortunate. Still, I still got a nasty left peg though,
Speaker 2: you can't take that away from it.
Speaker 1: Oh, that is absolutely true. Uh So what cup of
Speaker 1: coffee are you on, sir? By the way, Tyler Terren's
Speaker 1: joining For those just listening on the audio side, is
Speaker 1: what cup of coffee?
Speaker 3: I'm just an Americana. Just keep black Americano, keeping it
Speaker 3: simple this morning.
Speaker 1: Okay, is it your first one of your second?
Speaker 2: It's my first. My fiance actually decided to join me.
Speaker 3: She drove with the dog, she drove Nala, and we
Speaker 3: got some family here in Saint Louis. So took us
Speaker 3: at a walk with the pup. We're going to go
Speaker 3: to it's her gotcha day actually, so we're gonna take
Speaker 3: a walk to the to the arch, take a nice
Speaker 3: little picture with Nala at the at the Yeah.
Speaker 1: So how long a drive is it from from Covington,
Speaker 1: Kentucky to the Arch.
Speaker 3: It's about five and a half m. But you know
Speaker 3: I don't live down in Kentucky. You know that, John,
Speaker 3: don't don't don't put don't put that on me.
Speaker 1: You fly out, You fly out of there, fly out
Speaker 1: of CBG. You have to cross the river to leave Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: You're staring at Cincinnati as you're leaving and there's a
Speaker 1: river in between you and the two Nala's Gotcha day?
Speaker 1: How many years? Five? Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So all right, so go back five years with Nala
Speaker 1: and the Gotcha Day? What were you looking for at
Speaker 1: the time that? What was it? Did? Did Nala pick
Speaker 1: you five years ago?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 3: I actually, I actually wasn't part of the proceedings. I
Speaker 3: only met Shannon, my fiance, two and a half years ago.
Speaker 3: So she had gotten the dog in a previous life
Speaker 3: and she was worried that Nala was not going to
Speaker 3: be cute enough. They did not know that they were
Speaker 3: taking her home on the day of So basically I
Speaker 3: give Shannon crap for that every other day thinking that
Speaker 3: Nala was not cute enough to bring home. Obviously she
Speaker 3: was and continues to be. But yeah, very very glad
Speaker 3: Shannon decided to pick up Nala and keep her for
Speaker 3: that matter years ago.
Speaker 1: Yes, your your predecessor here an hour number two in
Speaker 1: the Hour of Chaos was Executive director of League's Cup,
Speaker 1: Tom Mayo, and we got to catch up with him
Speaker 1: about Phase one. Sir Kama, what did you think about
Speaker 1: Phase one of League's Cup?
Speaker 3: Question Mark, Oh boy, A lot of mixed emotions, similar
Speaker 3: to how I'm feeling about going into the Jet season again.
Speaker 3: I think that there was some really, really great and
Speaker 3: fun moments. I had fun on the call for the
Speaker 3: three games that I did during Phase one. All three
Speaker 3: games meant something. But I can't help but look at
Speaker 3: the last two days and how there were only a
Speaker 3: few games that mattered. And not only that, John, but
Speaker 3: like the LFCTS game, that is a game why you
Speaker 3: do leagues go? But you got wholesale rotation from Steve
Speaker 3: Tarundelo and company and it ended up being a decent
Speaker 3: game In the buzz because sun was being introduced, you know,
Speaker 3: that night or the day, the day after whatever, and
Speaker 3: thirty two to fifty two is putting on a show.
Speaker 2: But like you.
Speaker 3: Can't have your Pop one be Pop one matchups in
Speaker 3: the league, a Mechi's at MLS tournament not have any
Speaker 3: competitive meeting behind it. Now, I get that there's still
Speaker 3: this sort of like rivalry and dominance on the line
Speaker 3: and everything that is sort of going to be spoken
Speaker 3: to us in terms of marketing and everything like that.
Speaker 2: I'm and I'm all for it.
Speaker 3: Because I still saw some bite even from the teams
Speaker 3: that were eliminated. But the whole point of this is
Speaker 3: to have competitive matches between Major League Soccer and the
Speaker 3: get met these clubs, and there's given to take with
Speaker 3: any format that you're going to roll out in this competition,
Speaker 3: whether it be shutting down the league for a proper month. Okay,
Speaker 3: we're going to get rid of that. We're going to
Speaker 3: condense the tournament and we're only going to have three games. Okay, Well,
Speaker 3: now you're going to find yourself in a position where
Speaker 3: if you lose one game, you're basically knocked out from
Speaker 3: the possibility of qualifying and This is the take, right,
Speaker 3: is that you're going to potentially have some meaningless games,
Speaker 3: so it's not going to be perfect. I think that
Speaker 3: the concept of constantly rooting against MLS teams if you're
Speaker 3: a fan of Atlanta and rooting against everybody else in
Speaker 3: your own league is interesting.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 3: It was sort of an interesting supportive twist. But yeah,
Speaker 3: definitely some kinks to work out. But I think this
Speaker 3: is more of the right idea than I think the
Speaker 3: original format.
Speaker 1: Is my overall, you had your rounds of chaos, and
Speaker 1: there there were some very unentertaining kickabouts, especially late in
Speaker 1: that matches it didn't mean anything. You saw some triple
Speaker 1: digited numbers from legameicky sides, which for me is kind
Speaker 1: of the palace intrigue of it all when you have, Hey,
Speaker 1: you're starting two or three kids that are like one
Speaker 1: eighty nine, two twelve and one sixty four. You know,
Speaker 1: for me, I dig that. But I like the idea
Speaker 1: of the compress schedule where you're not having to wait,
Speaker 1: like if you don't make it out of group, you're
Speaker 1: just kind of sitting there and twiddling your thumbs for
Speaker 1: three weeks before the MLS schedule comes back and uh.
Speaker 1: In talking to Tom, I think it sounds like one
Speaker 1: of the things under advisement is the expansion of the
Speaker 1: the MLS CFP to six or eight as opposed to
Speaker 1: just four. Coming out to where and you know that
Speaker 1: folks are gonna come. What do you have a band now?
Speaker 1: Is there are a band around you that's charging?
Speaker 2: There's there's just well that's why I had to wait.
Speaker 3: I texted you and I said that I needed to
Speaker 3: wait to jump on because then to wait for my
Speaker 3: headphones to charge. But I guess they're still picking it up.
Speaker 3: I don't know what sort of nonsense they're playing, but
Speaker 3: certainly is not going to be playing at my at
Speaker 3: my wedding less than three months. But so so he
Speaker 3: said that there they're toilet with the concept of going
Speaker 3: six to eight in Yeah.
Speaker 1: You're looking at Yeah, they're looking at it. That'll be
Speaker 1: one of the things that they talk about at the
Speaker 1: end of this tournament, is the idea of maybe going
Speaker 1: to six on each side or something like that is
Speaker 1: one of the other topics on their list of things
Speaker 1: to talk about after this year's over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was my That was my first suggestion on
Speaker 3: a podcast that I went on like two days ago,
Speaker 3: was like, they're just it just it felt like we
Speaker 3: were right on the cusp of having a really interesting
Speaker 3: final day because it seems like the cutoff was six points.
Speaker 3: If you've got six points, you you weren't getting in.
Speaker 3: If you've got seven, then it's gonna come out to
Speaker 3: the tie breakers. I've never been someone who and I
Speaker 3: don't know people who do it. If you do, then
Speaker 3: you're a psychopath who like the concept that if you're
Speaker 3: being decided to get into the next phase of a
Speaker 3: tournament by gold differential, like it's a I don't I
Speaker 3: don't like that. But there's only so many teams and
Speaker 3: there's only so many games that you know, that's sort
Speaker 3: of where we where we fall in it. But yeah,
Speaker 3: like if you if you expanded by one or two
Speaker 3: or I guess it has to be two more teams
Speaker 3: at the bare minimum. I think that that creates enough
Speaker 3: jeopardy on the final day and keeps everybody in the mix,
Speaker 3: because if you lose your first game, you can still
Speaker 3: win your last two and find yourself with a chance
Speaker 3: at the bare minimum, right, or find a way to
Speaker 3: make the make each game me count towards something like
Speaker 3: you know, you know what I was thinking back on
Speaker 3: the twenty three and twenty four versions and like how
Speaker 3: everybody was upset that there were just random MLS v
Speaker 3: MLS games going on in this competition that was supposed
Speaker 3: to be MLS versus the MP's. Those MLS all MLS
Speaker 3: games should account it towards the regular season, similar to
Speaker 3: how MBA Cup does it, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 3: so just finding a different way that if you're not
Speaker 3: going to expand it to six or eight, then how
Speaker 3: do you make those games count towards something. I don't
Speaker 3: know exactly what that is, but I don't know that
Speaker 3: was That was an idea that I was stirring up
Speaker 3: while I was on a flight for Minneapolis to say.
Speaker 1: Then I went over I don't know if you heard
Speaker 1: me mention the domain tarn quote where he refers to
Speaker 1: it as a trap tournament gives you very little, takes
Speaker 1: a lot away. But I mean, yeah, you're defending, you're
Speaker 1: defending your honor. I mean, I get it. I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, dome trap tournament.
Speaker 2: I've heard of a trap game.
Speaker 1: Never the trap tournament gives you very little and takes
Speaker 1: a lot away takes away training time, takes away quality
Speaker 1: from what we're trying to build. He says that if
Speaker 1: you don't advance, they love to throw around the words
Speaker 1: like failure and make it seem like the world is ending.
Speaker 1: Managers have been punished, have even been punished for speaking
Speaker 1: their minds. But my opinion of the League's Cup is
Speaker 1: very clear. Winning the trophy wouldn't bring much prestige.
Speaker 3: I mean, what's more important prestige or qualifying for Cocker
Speaker 3: Cap Champions Cup? Like you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 3: I and this whole concept that like tournaments take away
Speaker 3: from training time and get away from what you're actually
Speaker 3: trying to do. Welcome to the world of tournament football
Speaker 3: Domit turn like like you don't like like, okay, does
Speaker 3: the World Cup have the highest quality football known to
Speaker 3: mankind or their beautiful patterns of play and clear identities
Speaker 3: from international teams. No, it's tournament football. Go out there,
Speaker 3: win your individual battles, and go win the game and
Speaker 3: try to progress. Like who said that this was supposed
Speaker 3: to be some grand opportunity for you to be able
Speaker 3: to work on your philosophies and you and sharpen up
Speaker 3: your game model. Dome, Like, come on, man, that's that's weak.
Speaker 3: That's weak sauce from a coach who clearly got well.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I know that you're defending your
Speaker 1: your your team's honor and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I get it. You're supposed to say those kinds of
Speaker 1: things to defend your league and defend your team and
Speaker 1: all that. I get it. It's coach speak to a
Speaker 1: certain degree. I don't know how much of it he
Speaker 1: actually does believe, but and how much of it is
Speaker 1: press conference domain or anything like that. But if he
Speaker 1: put that out there, and I'm like, okay, sure, fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The other element that I wanted to ask Tom about
Speaker 1: was who's in charge of the officiating cruise And he
Speaker 1: said that to say that is a Tonka Calf thing.
Speaker 1: But League Cup is consulted. They do have conversations back
Speaker 1: and forth. We had us some issues, man, we really did.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: I didn't catch any of your games on my list
Speaker 3: of on my list of teams to watch during Least Cup. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: Atlanta United were not towards the top. So I do apologize,
Speaker 3: don't don't don't serve me. Okay, you earned you earned
Speaker 3: the right to be in that list throughout throughout the
Speaker 3: course of the season. Tell me about these problems?
Speaker 1: Was it?
Speaker 3: I don't disagree with I think the comments came, I
Speaker 3: forget who they came from, but like that a Mexican
Speaker 3: rep should be refereeing a Mexican versus MLS game, Like
Speaker 3: I that, I don't agree.
Speaker 1: That that was It was literally the matchup again, it
Speaker 1: was the second matchup in group stage, the Kaylor Novice
Speaker 1: red card that happened, and you had a you had
Speaker 1: a Costa Rican, you had a center ref who has
Speaker 1: been cutting his teeth mainly in the Costa Rican, Promeira,
Speaker 1: who has Gold Cup and Concacaffean experience, treating Kaylor Novice
Speaker 1: with far too much rope after he'd been given a
Speaker 1: red and it was just completely and totally out of control. Look,
Speaker 1: here's when you have time do this. There were eleven
Speaker 1: instances on Monday when we had our reffing down here
Speaker 1: segment that literally we're discussing this crew this match. And
Speaker 1: then what happened at the the Musofsky foul with Seattle,
Speaker 1: in Santos Laguna and in Orlando and atlast which was
Speaker 1: completely and totally out of control, but the Atlanta Pumas
Speaker 1: had probably nine or ten instances of soft cards pks
Speaker 1: that were called, and the final ninety plus where Taylor
Speaker 1: Novice gets a red loiters on the field. I mean literally,
Speaker 1: this was people who were spitting mad. Taylor Novice gets
Speaker 1: a red and he's basically trying to take somebody with him.
Speaker 1: He's hanging out on the field. They're trying to put
Speaker 1: a jersey on Angulo, who's they're out of sub position
Speaker 1: player goes in and Gulo is having to take his
Speaker 1: time and figure out how to put on gloves in
Speaker 1: a soccer a keeper jersey. I mean it is loitering
Speaker 1: of the I ish housing degree. And then Novice isn't
Speaker 1: kicked off the field. He's basically bringing in planes with
Speaker 1: Angulo telling him how to line up a free kick
Speaker 1: at nineteen yards out and he's not being kicked off
Speaker 1: the field or being lushed up by security. It was
Speaker 1: chaos of the highest order. Just go to the end
Speaker 1: of match day two and watch that. It was nothing.
Speaker 1: It was crazy that, kaylor.
Speaker 3: But what you what you're saying to me is just
Speaker 3: another is another conca cap officiated game, Like what are we?
Speaker 3: What are we really talking about here. None of this
Speaker 3: is fascinating, no little.
Speaker 1: Bit, but it came. But I wanted to ask Tom
Speaker 1: about the review process of selecting officials. We did get
Speaker 1: our full view of Ocehane Nation, as we do in
Speaker 1: these Concacaffeine tournaments as well. But yeah, match day two
Speaker 1: for at Lanty United, just go to like the eighty
Speaker 1: ninth minute and when Jamal gets wiped out by Kaylor
Speaker 1: Novice and just watch the end from that moment there
Speaker 1: going forward. That's your homework.
Speaker 2: You guys played the kids in your win.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: You guys had an interesting starting.
Speaker 1: And for those of us that have seen the kids
Speaker 1: and seen the twos and cover the twos. And by
Speaker 1: the way, Lanty United two in Toronto FC two is
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Speaker 1: com with Uh, somebody at the end of an index
Speaker 1: finger calling that man. Yeah, I mean it was Will
Speaker 1: Riley came in to ga she with the twos. Uh.
Speaker 1: You got to see will nix Cssick come in. Who's
Speaker 1: was brought in by Chris Henderson from MESSI and Friends too,
Speaker 1: and that connection with them.
Speaker 3: I like, I like Nicksick. I called the game of
Speaker 3: his while he was playing for for Indiana UH Many
Speaker 3: the same the same year that I called Patrick Agumon
Speaker 3: against Andrew Privett while you of R while your I
Speaker 3: was playing Penn State. And then I'm and now I'm
Speaker 3: seeing Sam Sarver and killing it for uh for Dallas
Speaker 3: out Indiana. Man, they just they just pump out professional
Speaker 3: soccer players who are making the you know, the bare minimum,
Speaker 3: but but somehow contributing.
Speaker 1: And finally Jadan Hibbert started in net and they got
Speaker 1: the full Jade and Hibbert experience. You got Nick Sussex starting,
Speaker 1: You had Will Riley starting, Luke Brennan, you had Nick
Speaker 1: Cssick come in, you had Toga she come in, salmas
Speaker 1: A Faro came in, Laioa Fonso got a cup of coffee.
Speaker 1: Cooper Sanchez, who's got a homegrown deal in the week,
Speaker 1: got a cup of How was how was? I mean?
Speaker 1: It was early returns. But obviously when Chris Henderson sees
Speaker 1: something in an unused asset down in Fort Lauderdale and
Speaker 1: you basically get him at inter Miami had to spend
Speaker 1: money and an international slot to eventually have to get
Speaker 1: rid of laioe a Fonso basically for a song and
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee to Chris Henderson fifteen minutes, had
Speaker 1: a couple of touches. I think he was just trying
Speaker 1: to get integrated into what's going on out once one
Speaker 1: for two on his duels. So I mean I liked it.
Speaker 2: I liked him. I think he could be a He
Speaker 2: could be a nice piece.
Speaker 1: So you know, with the help needed on the left
Speaker 1: hand side, you have a guy like Laoa Fonso being
Speaker 1: brought in. But yeah, it was a lot of the
Speaker 1: kids and it was, uh, it was a fun one
Speaker 1: to see. So you, sir, are in Saint Louis and
Speaker 1: you have a matchup where All Caps have not had
Speaker 1: the best season, and uh, it's uh yeah, yeah, because
Speaker 1: we always feel like we have to reference them as
Speaker 1: Saint Louis City SC because that's in All Caps, you know,
Speaker 1: you have to reference it as such. Nashville coming to
Speaker 1: town at a plus one oh eight, no real surprise.
Speaker 1: All Caps are a plus two twenty three and your
Speaker 1: draws a plus two sixty nine. What's homework been like
Speaker 1: for you on this one.
Speaker 3: Homework is that Saint Louis are a bad soccer team, unfortunately.
Speaker 3: And you know, I I I really like Nashville, like
Speaker 3: to the point where I'm starting to believe they're legitimate.
Speaker 1: You like like Nashville.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I know it's borderline love. I'm I'm about
Speaker 3: to say something something stupid to Nashville, probably on like
Speaker 3: the sixth or seventh date. I I adore their style
Speaker 3: of play, which is a hybrid. I love coaches who
Speaker 3: are not overly rigid and who are willing to sort
Speaker 3: of say, we can play direct, but we can also
Speaker 3: carve you up and we're just gonna simply play to
Speaker 3: our strengths. And BJ Callahan, you know, looking back on
Speaker 3: it now, I think BJ would have been a really
Speaker 3: good option instead of Greg's second stint to just sort
Speaker 3: of give him the reins. Now, we didn't know this
Speaker 3: right because he didn't really have any head coaching experience
Speaker 3: other than that one opportunity he got to the US
Speaker 3: men's national team and what was a Gold Cup or
Speaker 3: leaguees Cupp or whichever one. And watching them now, I'm like,
Speaker 3: this dude knows how to get knows how to get
Speaker 3: a group to buy in and Sam Surge and Hanni
Speaker 3: Muktar are probably the best one to two punch in
Speaker 3: MLS at the moment, and that includes Leonel Messi and
Speaker 3: Suarez just because of the lack of production we've gotten
Speaker 3: from Suarez outside of the penalty.
Speaker 1: Spot and wearing a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: And wearing straw hats, which yeah, that didn't It's just
Speaker 3: not for him. That's some people just need to sort
Speaker 3: of take a look in the mirror and be like,
Speaker 3: there are certain things I can and can't pull off.
Speaker 2: Saint Louis, you know.
Speaker 3: The the thing for me that continues to just eat
Speaker 3: me away is like the loots von and steel fingerprints
Speaker 3: all over the fall from Grace that was twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: Every single decision that he has made has been the
Speaker 3: wrong one, and it was such a reactive and borderline
Speaker 3: like I don't want to say immature for lack of
Speaker 3: like I don't want to insult the guy, but it
Speaker 3: just felt so just felt like somebody was playing a
Speaker 3: game of like football manager and was just strewn around
Speaker 3: to see what would happen if, you know, because the
Speaker 3: results weren't going your way. After a really good season
Speaker 3: and It's really unfortunate because that city as just the
Speaker 3: way that you guys did embrace that team from the
Speaker 3: moment that Don Garber said go. And he has made
Speaker 3: every single wrong move, whether it was you know, disrespecting
Speaker 3: Tim Parker and the money that he offered him after
Speaker 3: coming off an MLS All Star season, whether it was
Speaker 3: you know, sort of blaming Bradley Carnell for the for
Speaker 3: the slew of injuries, and for Edward Leuvin going through,
Speaker 3: you know, dealing with his wife having staged four brain
Speaker 3: cancer and not being part of the twenty two or
Speaker 3: four season for the most part, and only having ten
Speaker 3: appearances this year. Like and now I look at the
Speaker 3: roster and I just like I kind of shrugged my
Speaker 3: shoulders and I'm like, eh, this they haven't gotten any better.
Speaker 3: They've significantly gotten worse. And Nashville coming off of that
Speaker 3: one loss against San Diego, which I'm sure is still
Speaker 3: looming large by the way, Andy Naharr top five MLS player.
Speaker 1: All wow, yeah, wow.
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, wasted years of his life in d C.
Speaker 3: Now I get it. He's in Alexander. He's a BMV kid,
Speaker 3: and that's his club. But like when we take a
Speaker 3: look at what DC has or more importantly, has not
Speaker 3: accomplished over the past six years. He could have been
Speaker 3: He could have been winning MLS Cups or winning trophies
Speaker 3: with another club. He is phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Love the guy.
Speaker 1: So basically what you're saying is that the the fun
Speaker 1: and steel Welschmeiers is very very heavy there in Saint
Speaker 1: loui Us Saint Louis. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2: St.
Speaker 1: Louis, World pain, welch Schmers, the world, world, world welt Schmers.
Speaker 2: I still don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Well, the angst, the angst in Saint Louis, there's more
Speaker 1: than a yeah, yes, it is world pain, it is
Speaker 1: velt Schmers, it has gone world pain.
Speaker 3: I thought you were saying world paints and I was like,
Speaker 3: is there is there an artist that I'm missing here
Speaker 3: because art just doesn't do it for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, world pain velt Schmers, So it does. Faun and
Speaker 1: deel Weltschmers is what they're experiencing.
Speaker 2: The looks more than more than that. Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: just yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: It's it's fun And I was gonna say it's it's angston.
Speaker 1: Let's that's the term yes, yes, yeah, So Rodrigo de
Speaker 1: Paul has made it to MESSI and Friends with a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks left in the window, and uh uh yeah,
Speaker 1: and Thomas Mueller to Vancouver and some guy named you
Speaker 1: On Monson to LAFC. There's some heavyweights being tossed around here, sir.
Speaker 3: There are Rodrigo de Paul by far as the most
Speaker 3: most attractive and most like holy crap signing. I think
Speaker 3: out of the three, for sure, the sunny one. I
Speaker 3: don't know how you feel about it, John, but it listen,
Speaker 3: the twenty six million that they spent, they're going to
Speaker 3: recoup that in Jersey sales within three weeks. Like if
Speaker 3: they haven't already recouped half, I'd be shocked.
Speaker 2: However, isn't this just a.
Speaker 3: Little curious given the Olivier Roux experiment that they just
Speaker 3: went through for the past years. Yeah, isn't it just
Speaker 3: a little perplexing? And I get it that as an
Speaker 3: owner of a Los Angeles sports franchise, you have an
Speaker 3: obligation to a tracked names to your stadium that otherwise
Speaker 3: wouldn't come and by, and and the way to do
Speaker 3: that is to attract people to your club that have
Speaker 3: big names and obviously the Korean population in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: You can't, you can't not mention it, but I just wonder.
Speaker 3: I just wonder if they if they've done it again
Speaker 3: in getting so obsessed with a name that you're forgetting
Speaker 3: that this group operates. Now, Steve Taruntlo will make this work.
Speaker 1: For the Conglu's problem.
Speaker 3: You think, no, no, no, you don't actually believe that.
Speaker 3: You think that after winning a Europa League title that
Speaker 3: he's gonna cut that he's gonna come.
Speaker 1: Black helicopters here in the office.
Speaker 3: Oh, Jonathan, I would love to know the odds on
Speaker 3: Anti Pasta Coagulo to be the next La SC coach
Speaker 3: because I will not be putting.
Speaker 1: Any checks down on it. But do you do feel
Speaker 1: the same way that like, I'm trying to do a
Speaker 1: make good for the mess up, and so they decide
Speaker 1: to go and get Sonny for twenty six. I just
Speaker 1: wonder how that you're gonna integrate, how it's gonna how
Speaker 1: it's gonna work.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be the nine. I don't you're not moving
Speaker 3: Bolonga at this point in time?
Speaker 1: Are there? Are there gonna be enough soccer balls to
Speaker 1: go around?
Speaker 3: Well, the good news is that Sonny doesn't have an
Speaker 3: ego and like he's not a problem child, and I
Speaker 3: think that he'll fit into the system however he needs to.
Speaker 2: My question is just the legs.
Speaker 3: I mean, you just paid twenty six million for a
Speaker 3: guy who quite literally was told over the past few
Speaker 3: weeks under Thomas Frank you're not part of the plans.
Speaker 2: We'll move you.
Speaker 3: If you want to move, just tell us where you
Speaker 3: want to go, and we're gonna try to get Tom Dollar.
Speaker 3: And I think that for Spurs fans, of which I
Speaker 3: know many, this business that they just got done is incredible.
Speaker 3: Twenty six million for a player that literally was not
Speaker 3: going to play this year is phenomenal. Mozl pumped Daniel Levy,
Speaker 3: and that's not like, oh they'll appreciate.
Speaker 1: Me when I'm gone. Yeah, I would disagree, sir, Circle
Speaker 1: gets the square.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I don't know. John.
Speaker 3: I look at it and I'm just like, this is
Speaker 3: l e FC trying to, like you said, make good
Speaker 3: on the mess up. But yeah, and I Olivia Jruin
Speaker 3: Sonny at this point in time, very different stages of
Speaker 3: their careers, and I think that Sonny still has things
Speaker 3: to give whether or not he fits into the l
Speaker 3: a FC model, which I'm constantly told is based on
Speaker 3: on dyn dynamism, explosivity, legs, And I'm like, you just
Speaker 3: picked up a thirty three year old man, like what
Speaker 3: are we what are we talking about? And then you're
Speaker 3: gonna take this opportunity away from Nathan Ordaz who's played
Speaker 3: brilliantly this year.
Speaker 1: Yep, I don't know. Uh, do you wish to cut
Speaker 1: the promo for your matchup, sir? Since you're at the
Speaker 1: end of your cup of coffee?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's getting a little luke warm. Saint Louis City, Nashville, Downtown,
Speaker 3: Saint Louis. I think that with a ten day break
Speaker 3: and both of these teams not having played in League's Cup,
Speaker 3: I think there's going to be a real energy about
Speaker 3: Energizer Park, if I do say so myself, and if
Speaker 3: you're if you're an Atlanta United fan and you want
Speaker 3: a game to watch this weekend that's not your own
Speaker 3: and have it on the second screen, I do think
Speaker 3: that this is going to be interesting because if you're
Speaker 3: Saint Louis at this point in time, throw caution into
Speaker 3: the wing. You're twelve points off of a playoff spot.
Speaker 3: You've got nothing to lose, and Nashville are like a
Speaker 3: very very very fun team to watch. And I'm telling you, John,
Speaker 3: I'm telling you Eastern Conference Final, bare minimum, bare minimum.
Speaker 2: I'm willing to ride.
Speaker 3: I said Galaxy, We're gonna win La MLS Cup last year.
Speaker 3: At this at this juncture of the season, I'm willing
Speaker 3: to at least go to say that that Nashville are they're.
Speaker 2: Knocking on the door or something.
Speaker 1: So way it is, it is on the record, and
Speaker 1: it will probably be circled out to all of the
Speaker 1: social medias that we have. Thank you for crashing, Pete.
Speaker 1: We appreciate your left foot now and always, and thank
Speaker 1: you for answer the bat signal just to introduce yourself
Speaker 1: into the hour of chaos as you normally do.
Speaker 3: Hey, I love having the keys to the garage and
Speaker 3: I appreciate you keeping it open for me. And make
Speaker 3: sure those beers, yes, sir, anytime, See you soon, my friend.
Speaker 3: All right, that's Pitty Martinez joining us live from Saint Louis.
Speaker 3: Who knew Pitty Martinez would be joining us live from
Speaker 3: Saint Louis the way that he did? Tyler Terrence basically
Speaker 3: just parachuting in and that's kind of what we do.
Speaker 3: It's like literally, it's like, hey, you want to you
Speaker 3: want to come in, you want to come in and
Speaker 3: come on in, and so literally that's that's where we are.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he's uh, but Tyler was in Saint Louis
Speaker 3: in the lobby of the hotel. I was hoping that
Speaker 3: his laptop or whatever device he was on was not overheating.
Speaker 3: So that way, you know, I didn't want, you know,
Speaker 3: because I could tell when when I promoted that Tyler
Speaker 3: had parachuted in that I could tell that was when
Speaker 3: his signal kind of got interrupted, because if they're was
Speaker 3: at one point where you were where you were watching
Speaker 3: and you felt his signal kind of burp a little bit.
Speaker 3: That was when I'd mentioned Tyler on social media and
Speaker 3: it went out on his phone, and that was when
Speaker 3: his phone kind of went off a little bit.