Speaker 1: We welcome.
Speaker 2: We welcome for the first time someone who now gets
Speaker 2: to hang out and have the He's got the keys
Speaker 2: to the kingdom, he's got the garage door opener. He
Speaker 2: now knows how to enter into the hour of chaos
Speaker 2: on Friday if he so chooses. Max Anderson Radio play
Speaker 2: by play, Voice of the Chicago Fire, dropping in for our.
Speaker 1: OPO intel and our OPO research.
Speaker 3: What up, dude, John, Thanks for having me on. I
Speaker 3: appreciate and I want to make sure you can hear
Speaker 3: me all right.
Speaker 2: For you are okay, everything is fine, hey, and it
Speaker 2: is up and running and all right.
Speaker 1: So it's a chat.
Speaker 3: I see.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get rid of the lower third because
Speaker 2: it's like I was trying to promote something.
Speaker 1: Now people can see who we are, all right.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: The reason that we do we started.
Speaker 2: Doing this this year on the network is we wanted
Speaker 2: to have OPPO research and we want to kind of
Speaker 2: introduce everyone who follows at Land United since that's where
Speaker 2: we're based. We wanted to bring in folks from each
Speaker 2: individual market there and break it and sit there and
Speaker 2: find out what to expect when it comes to the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five MLS season.
Speaker 1: So I reached out. This is breaking the fourth wall.
Speaker 1: I reach out to Max and it's like literally, you know,
Speaker 1: I reach out.
Speaker 2: To Max and I'm like, okay, how about here? And
Speaker 2: I'm literally trying to figure out, Okay, how can I
Speaker 2: reach out to him? And it was through Instagram messaging
Speaker 2: that I got a hold of you. And you're probably
Speaker 2: sitting there going, uh oh, well now wondering.
Speaker 3: Where else you're trying to contact me, John, I feel bad.
Speaker 2: I was trying to do it on the twitters but
Speaker 2: like dming and it was like, yeah, I don't I
Speaker 2: didn't get the dming.
Speaker 4: I don't tweet much anymore. I've pretty much punted on
Speaker 4: Twitter in terms of tweeting. I think my last tweet
Speaker 4: was three years ago when I got this job. So yeah,
Speaker 4: Instagram is is definitely more where you.
Speaker 3: Can find me for sure.
Speaker 2: Right on and so as the play by play voice
Speaker 2: of the Fire, So first off, let me ask you
Speaker 2: what's it like to go from uh from you know,
Speaker 2: what you were doing with hockey and I know and
Speaker 2: being a hockey guy, I'm big into that too, So
Speaker 2: what's it like to be the voice of the Fire.
Speaker 4: You know, it surprised me. I'd spent a lot of
Speaker 4: years doing a lot of high school hockey in the area.
Speaker 4: I've done some college soccer, college baseball, college softball, and
Speaker 4: did all through college.
Speaker 3: You know, I worked professionally, but this I also do.
Speaker 4: And got the opportunity interview for the Chicago Fire job
Speaker 4: a friend of a friend in the broadcasting world. So, hey,
Speaker 4: we're looking for a new radio play by play, and
Speaker 4: I said I'd love to do it. It had been
Speaker 4: close ten years since I'd call it a soccer game.
Speaker 4: I didn't tell them that at the time, but I
Speaker 4: did the tryout.
Speaker 3: And I guess it went well enough.
Speaker 4: And the original hiring manager, Jamie Chen, who recently left
Speaker 4: the Fire is now with FIFA as part of their
Speaker 4: preparations leading up to the World Cup. Is an a
Speaker 4: one human being took a chance on a guy that
Speaker 4: you know, I have a lot of play by play experience,
Speaker 4: but not necessarily a lot in soccer.
Speaker 3: So it's been a great season three, it's been It's
Speaker 3: been awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Jamie is a friend of ours here at
Speaker 2: the network as well, So anytime we want to knock
Speaker 2: on a FIFA FIFA Ish door, Jamie is the guy
Speaker 2: that we talked to on a national scale coming into
Speaker 2: this season. Everybody was sitting there and looking at Greg
Speaker 2: Burhalter being the the Bill Parcells of Major League Soccer,
Speaker 2: getting both job titles. You know, you having the business
Speaker 2: card full on the front end the back. What was
Speaker 2: the buzz like when three GB wandered in the door
Speaker 2: and the expectations when the season started.
Speaker 4: So, you know, personally, I found it really interesting. You know,
Speaker 4: obviously as a soccer fan, you follow the US men's
Speaker 4: national team. I follow a little bit of Europe. I
Speaker 4: say a broad in Barcelona, so so I've see Barcelona's
Speaker 4: my side. But you really got to know Greg through
Speaker 4: what felt like a pretty negative last year and a
Speaker 4: half of media attention, right you know, the net bo
Speaker 4: scandals that people claim that we're going on. I bring
Speaker 4: all that up to say I am convinced at this
Speaker 4: point that it was a media machine gone a buck
Speaker 4: because I've gotten the chance to watch Greg Burolter up
Speaker 4: close for you know, close to three months now, and
Speaker 4: I think he's a phenomenal coach, and I think the
Speaker 4: pulse that he has on his team is great. He's
Speaker 4: phenomenal with the media. He absolutely answers your questions. He
Speaker 4: you know, after the seventeen loss to Nashville, which was
Speaker 4: I don't even know how to analyze that one. He
Speaker 4: said what everybody saw, and I think that's what got
Speaker 4: firefans really frustrated the last few years, is you would
Speaker 4: get people talking about the club as if, well, we're
Speaker 4: making progress here in a four to one loss, and no,
Speaker 4: Greg Buralter made it clear that was unacceptable. We apologize
Speaker 4: to our fans. It's we're gonna be better. We're gonna
Speaker 4: answer to it. They're gonna be repercussions, and I think
Speaker 4: that's all fans really want. It's been a rough decade
Speaker 4: for Fire fans and there's been a lot of expectations.
Speaker 4: There's big, big names that have been brought in that
Speaker 4: haven't quite lived up, and so coming into the season
Speaker 4: there's a little bit of trepidation just because of I
Speaker 4: think the mental schema that at least I know I
Speaker 4: built up about Greg Burholter and his national team experience.
Speaker 4: It's done a point eighty for me. And even though
Speaker 4: the last few games have been have been kind of rough,
Speaker 4: and I'm sure we'll talk more about that, you still
Speaker 4: see a huge difference from what it looked like the
Speaker 4: last few seasons.
Speaker 2: And so how would you characterize what Chicago is going
Speaker 2: through in twenty twenty five. Everybody's saying, Okay, well it's
Speaker 2: a rebuild, it's this, it's that. How would you characterize
Speaker 2: what's going on?
Speaker 3: I wouldn't call it a rebuild.
Speaker 4: I'd call it a transitioneer And I know that can
Speaker 4: be a cop out a little bit in terms of,
Speaker 4: you know, not wanting to call it as bad, because
Speaker 4: I do think they reloaded in some really nice way.
Speaker 4: Filed Zychernogles come in and been a revelation. He's been
Speaker 4: phenomenal up the right wing. He's shown both great play
Speaker 4: on the ball, but great play in terms of finishing.
Speaker 4: You know, Jonathan Bamba hasn't quite tally the goals. I
Speaker 4: think the Fire fans and even Greg Burholter, who frankly
Speaker 4: has been pretty tough on Bomba expecting a lot out
Speaker 4: of him. He had two assistant his first match in
Speaker 4: the MLS and he said, where is the scoring?
Speaker 3: Again?
Speaker 4: Going back to Greg Burholter just being the goods. So,
Speaker 4: you know, I think those pieces up front. Kuiper's has
Speaker 4: been more dynamic than he was last season, even leading
Speaker 4: the team and goals last year. He's been much more
Speaker 4: creative this season, up to seven goals now, and he
Speaker 4: that top three have been really, really good.
Speaker 3: They're scoring a lot of goals. That has not been
Speaker 3: the problem. Problem has been on the other side.
Speaker 4: Problem has been on the back end, giving up a
Speaker 4: league leading MLS goals. The back line has been a mess.
Speaker 4: Jack Elliott stabilized it. I'd say, to start, you've started
Speaker 4: to see the inklings of a solid defensive core if
Speaker 4: Carlos Tehran could stay healthy. Of course, right as he
Speaker 4: found a rhythm, he got hurt again. And it sounds like,
Speaker 4: based on Greg Burholter's mens, he's gonna be out a while.
Speaker 4: He said, called it his pretty serious injury. So it
Speaker 4: sounds like he's gonna be out for.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 4: And if you were watching, you saw it was not
Speaker 4: not good to watch. And then you had the seven
Speaker 4: two debacle in Nashville. Now, part of the context you
Speaker 4: have to understand is the Fire earlier this season did
Speaker 4: something they haven't done in twenty years.
Speaker 3: They won three straight road games. They were the talk
Speaker 3: of the MLS. Frankly after about match Day six.
Speaker 4: And injuries and national team duty, really ruined this team's rhythm.
Speaker 4: I know everyone has injuries, but it's been a revolving
Speaker 4: door of injuries to key players to the point where
Speaker 4: you know, they had four homegrown players starting a.
Speaker 3: Game that weren't on the roster a year and a.
Speaker 4: Half ago, so that it's it's been tough at times
Speaker 4: to really stabilize things on the back and en in
Speaker 4: the midfield. Caldacosta has been in and out of injury.
Speaker 4: Brian Gutierrez had a goal as first game, just like
Speaker 4: he did last year. Everybody's like, this is the year
Speaker 4: that Brian goodears. Then he goes national team duty, gets hurt,
Speaker 4: not playing with national team, miss is a couple more games,
Speaker 4: then gets a red card.
Speaker 3: That was a red card.
Speaker 4: I'll leave it at that, And so his season's kind
Speaker 4: of been, you know, not trying to find his footing too.
Speaker 4: So it's just been disjointed all together. In the middle
Speaker 4: of it, I think Gregorolter has done a great job
Speaker 4: trying to piece this thing together. But you know, now
Speaker 4: there's talk about, you know, Alex de Bruyna, is that
Speaker 4: as kept sorry Vin de Bruyna, is that is that
Speaker 4: a thing that might might come down the Pike. That
Speaker 4: would obviously be the summer, so this team still got
Speaker 4: a month or two of games before any meaningful reinforcements
Speaker 4: come their way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, last time out, you're starting eleven, started with with Brady.
Speaker 1: In that and then it didn't. Then we'll get into
Speaker 1: that in a second.
Speaker 2: Andrew Gutman, who is familiar to a lot of folks
Speaker 2: here in the Atlanta area with his time with it
Speaker 2: Landey United, Elliott Cups, and who we refer to as
Speaker 2: a little ball of hate. Johnny Dean from his time
Speaker 2: in Birmingham. We knew him from USL Championship underrated player
Speaker 2: Johnny Dean. Good to see him there, pineda goody eras
Speaker 2: or a hell Bamba Kuipers and Zincer Noaugle in a
Speaker 2: four to three three as it's listed. So now that
Speaker 2: Brady is not in that for the thirty sixth minute
Speaker 2: red card, who is it going to be in that
Speaker 2: this weekend? Up there going up against it Landy United.
Speaker 4: We haven't heard officially, it's not gonna be Jeff gall
Speaker 4: From what we understand, it sounds like it's gonna be
Speaker 4: Brian Dowd called back on an emergency hardship waiver, now
Speaker 4: I know MLS rules. This is one that kind of
Speaker 4: caught me that I had to read up on exactly
Speaker 4: how this emergency rule worked.
Speaker 3: But it does sound like.
Speaker 4: They can recall him from loan for one game.
Speaker 3: Again, I didn't know that was possible, but.
Speaker 4: I guess there is some hardship exception within the MLS.
Speaker 4: You know MLS rules. Cecos out there can can certainly
Speaker 4: chat me here and quote me on it. That is
Speaker 4: not nless I was familiar with. But you capable goalkeeper,
Speaker 4: He's not Chris Brady. Frankly, Chris Brady the last three
Speaker 4: seasons has had I think some national team cloud taken
Speaker 4: away from him just because of the performance of the team.
Speaker 4: I truly believe a solid run of team performance and
Speaker 4: he's in the running to be the US ben's.
Speaker 3: National team keeper within a year he has.
Speaker 4: He makes some saves that I don't see anybody else
Speaker 4: in this league making. He is dynamic, he's young, he's
Speaker 4: an incredible athlete and goal and he's really come along
Speaker 4: in the final tier of his game. First two years
Speaker 4: getting to call Chris Brady, the saves weren't the question.
Speaker 4: He was not very good playing the ball out of
Speaker 4: the back, and if you want to make that next
Speaker 4: step as a keeper in Europe, which I think eventually
Speaker 4: he will, you've got to be able to handle the
Speaker 4: ball out of the back. You've got to be able
Speaker 4: to place it where you need to within the thirty
Speaker 4: yards of the box. And he was not good at
Speaker 4: it the first couple of years. He's been much better
Speaker 4: at it this year. A lot of that having to
Speaker 4: do with Greg Parrohlters system and the importance of control
Speaker 4: out of the back, and so that's been I think
Speaker 4: the last frontier of his game. And like I said,
Speaker 4: I think he's in Europe and then not to just
Speaker 4: in future and potentially leading the ESPN's national team in
Speaker 4: the next.
Speaker 3: Year or so.
Speaker 1: Max Anderson played by play voices Chicago Fire.
Speaker 2: Dropping by for our oppo research segment that we have
Speaker 2: every week is at Lanty Night. It's getting ready for
Speaker 2: the Chicago Fire. I guess this is the match game
Speaker 2: portion of the program. For things to go well offensively
Speaker 2: for Chicago. Blank is happening on the field, and it
Speaker 2: can be people and interactions and formations and attack minded ideas.
Speaker 2: How if things are going well, what are folks seeing
Speaker 2: in the attack for Chicago.
Speaker 4: So for most of the season it's been because Andrew
Speaker 4: Gutman and Jonathan Bomba have been creating up the left side. Now,
Speaker 4: that wouldn't have been my answer to enter the season.
Speaker 4: It would have been because Brian Goodiers was dynamic in
Speaker 4: the midfield, but he just hasn't found his footing.
Speaker 3: So far this season.
Speaker 4: If he gets his footing in the midfield to set
Speaker 4: up guys like Bomba, guys like Zinkernagol, and guys like Kuipers,
Speaker 4: it can be a long game.
Speaker 3: They've scored a lot of goals this year.
Speaker 4: That has not been the problem scoring wise. You're going
Speaker 4: to see again the dynamic play on the left side
Speaker 4: between Bomba and Gutman. I don't have to educate your
Speaker 4: audience on what Gutman can bring and his attacking nature
Speaker 4: up that left side, but that seems to me when
Speaker 4: this team's going best, it's those two creating on the
Speaker 4: left side, and then Kuiper's really pushing the middle to
Speaker 4: create the space kind of at the edge of the eighteen.
Speaker 4: They've scored a lot of goals kind of in that
Speaker 4: six to eighteen range because they are able to push
Speaker 4: up into the box, get that kind of clear space,
Speaker 4: a little more in behind, and guys like Kuipers are
Speaker 4: finding the ball and finishing. Guys like you know, Bomba
Speaker 4: and Gutierres at times are also finishing.
Speaker 2: What's it been like to see Kuipers evolve over the
Speaker 2: last stand full of season.
Speaker 3: Well, last year he looked like a box poacher.
Speaker 4: I mean that's really all he looked like. And you
Speaker 4: didn't really see him create. You didn't see him work
Speaker 4: open spaces. You didn't see him create for others. You
Speaker 4: really just saw him kind of camp out in the
Speaker 4: box and wait for a cross to come in that
Speaker 4: he can either head in or after it bounces around
Speaker 4: he can kick it in. That's been different this year especially,
Speaker 4: you know, not as much last month slowed down as
Speaker 4: the entire team has, But on the whole he's playing
Speaker 4: more to space. He's again he's really doing a nice
Speaker 4: job of pressing defensive lines to create space between lines,
Speaker 4: which is where the Fire have had some success. So
Speaker 4: sometimes he's just using himself as a dummy in terms
Speaker 4: of clearing space and allowing guys to come in behind
Speaker 4: him with much better looks at goals. So he's obviously
Speaker 4: still doing the poaching. He's still doing the box poaching,
Speaker 4: but that's not his entire game. Maybe only half his goals.
Speaker 4: Three or four of his goals have been right place,
Speaker 4: right time. They've also been creating space. He's a key
Speaker 4: goal against.
Speaker 3: Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: They ended up losing the game, but it was a
Speaker 4: key goal in the game to get him back in.
Speaker 3: It was a force over.
Speaker 4: He turned, got it to bom Bomba, threaded it through
Speaker 4: to Gootman, and Gootman finished it. So even in the
Speaker 4: transition play, he's been able to create some chances and
Speaker 4: be more dynamic than just a box poacher.
Speaker 2: So is there And I don't know if this is
Speaker 2: a conventional wisdom or a fear from those who are
Speaker 2: watching outside of the field of play, but is the
Speaker 2: idea currently Okay, we know we have defensive defensive deficiencies
Speaker 2: from the department of redundancy department, But is the idea
Speaker 2: almost to outscore the opponent knowing that we're going to
Speaker 2: give some up, that we're putting that much more pressure
Speaker 2: on our offense because of the frailties at the back.
Speaker 4: You'd see Greg Burhlter's head explode if you asked him
Speaker 4: that question. Yeah, the answer is absolutely non. He's not
Speaker 4: here to play you know, West Coast football. He's not
Speaker 4: here to play Golden State Warriors three point. He knows
Speaker 4: that things need to be cleaned up. And that's been
Speaker 4: the key, really is the mistakes. I mean it has been.
Speaker 4: You know, if I think of all the goals this season,
Speaker 4: less than half, maybe a quarter or off of just brilliant,
Speaker 4: really good solid soccer play right and build up, they're
Speaker 4: the mistakes in the back have been killing them. And
Speaker 4: they've been avoidable mistakes that frankly, that's what FC Cincinnati did.
Speaker 4: Fire worked so hard for their two goals. Cincinnati pounced
Speaker 4: on three mistakes and scored bing bang boom, one of
Speaker 4: those being really unfortunate. I'm not sure if anybody saw
Speaker 4: the clip, but Maricio Pineda just outside his own boxes
Speaker 4: tripped by the ref creates a four on three the
Speaker 4: other way, and since Ta gets to score again looked
Speaker 4: up that role. Would have thought there'd been a little
Speaker 4: bit more clear in the rule. That's a judgment call.
Speaker 4: I think that should probably operate like when the ball
Speaker 4: hits the referee, and if somebody in possession of the
Speaker 4: ball makes contact with the referee, I think that place
Speaker 4: should probably stop or be an advantage play at least
Speaker 4: for that player.
Speaker 3: But hey, again, I don't make the rules.
Speaker 4: So no, it's really been the mistakes out of the
Speaker 4: back specifically that have really hurt them.
Speaker 2: So then, is the Nashville game just one of those
Speaker 2: that you sit there and you take it and you
Speaker 2: put it in file thirteen, you throw it away, you
Speaker 2: flush the toilet, and it's just like, Okay, we learn
Speaker 2: from it, but we don't dwell on it kind of
Speaker 2: a thing.
Speaker 4: So that's the school I come from, and that's my take.
Speaker 4: And then when we heard Greg on the postgame podium,
Speaker 4: he said, no, we're not throwing that away. He said,
Speaker 4: there's going to be accountability. We're going to learn from it.
Speaker 4: And it would be one thing if they had a
Speaker 4: performance like that, and that was the first one, and
Speaker 4: obviously seven goals is way beyond, but it's the mistakes,
Speaker 4: and it's some of the same mistakes we've seen over
Speaker 4: and over this season that I think Greg's point was, well,
Speaker 4: we threw this out last time, and we're back here.
Speaker 4: We can't throw this out. We have to get better
Speaker 4: from this and we have to stop making some of
Speaker 4: these mistakes. I mean, the depth that was able to
Speaker 4: be played in behind their back line. Last game was unacceptable.
Speaker 4: You know, Jack Elliotts had a rough couple of games.
Speaker 4: As good as he was for the first postseason, he
Speaker 4: was not good the last couple of games. Missed a
Speaker 4: couple of markings, specifically in the Nashville game. We'll get
Speaker 4: to the Orlando City game, which which I know has
Speaker 4: some oddities to it too, and that really needs to
Speaker 4: be cleaned up. So no that I think we're at
Speaker 4: the point now in this run of five games without
Speaker 4: a win where Greg's like, we can't keep throwing away
Speaker 4: what we're doing. We have to figure out why we're
Speaker 4: doing it. We have to fix it. So that was
Speaker 4: more the attitude. And again to my opening comments by
Speaker 4: Greg Burhalter, his candor and you know, his openness with
Speaker 4: the media has been so refreshing, just getting up there
Speaker 4: and saying, fans, we apologize, unacceptable can't happen, and we're
Speaker 4: gonna fix it, and we're gonna be better next time.
Speaker 4: And with you know, ten men, and for sixty five minutes.
Speaker 2: They were so the Orlando match, if I just if
Speaker 2: I just use the if I go Larry King and
Speaker 2: go Orlando sticks in your head.
Speaker 4: I can't remember the last time I saw a goalie
Speaker 4: red card. That'd be the that'd be one thing. You know.
Speaker 3: I guess it was deserved.
Speaker 4: You know, you watch it in slow enough times you
Speaker 4: could convince yourself otherwise. But you understand why the red
Speaker 4: card was given. Fortunate that it ended up being an
Speaker 4: inch three inches whatever outside the box so that they
Speaker 4: didn't have to have the PK for it.
Speaker 3: That was a break.
Speaker 4: I think the really my biggest takeaway from that game
Speaker 4: was a young man named Chris Cups and a sixteen
Speaker 4: year old that stepped in after a team that gave
Speaker 4: up seven goals the game before in Nashville, down ten
Speaker 4: men for sixty five minutes, played center back and played
Speaker 4: as you know what off and that really caught Greg
Speaker 4: Burholter's attention to I think we got to five questions
Speaker 4: in the postgame media. He goes, how is nobody asked
Speaker 4: me about Chris Cups yet? Like a sixteen year old
Speaker 4: in his MLS debut making a start ends up having
Speaker 4: ten You know, he was like, he could not say
Speaker 4: enough good things. He didn't start in the MLS Cup
Speaker 4: game yesterday. I would assume that he will on Saturday.
Speaker 4: I don't know how he couldn't after the struggles that
Speaker 4: Sam Rodgers has had and Carlos Tehran being hurt. Omer
Speaker 4: Gonzalez is a fill in at this point. He's not
Speaker 4: an answer in terms of any significant amount of time.
Speaker 4: So I think we're gonna see the sixteen year old again.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm trying to think of that, and I'm
Speaker 2: and I'm trying to buzz through everything in my head here. Okay,
Speaker 2: So what would you anticipate the starting eleven looking like
Speaker 2: going into this matchup with at Lamb.
Speaker 4: It's a hard one because you can't really take much
Speaker 4: from the US Open Cup game yesterday.
Speaker 3: They basically went starters.
Speaker 4: They needed a win, they and they won for nothing
Speaker 4: and it went well for the most part. You know,
Speaker 4: I think that, you know, you're you're gonna see the
Speaker 4: I think the big three, although I thought Marin hyglis
Speaker 4: Selass looked good yesterday. You know, he's kind of been
Speaker 4: relegated to bench duty after being two years of a
Speaker 4: starter for the fire. I think there's a chance maybe
Speaker 4: for a little bit more dynamic play up and down
Speaker 4: the right side.
Speaker 3: You see him as a starter.
Speaker 4: But Zigradog has been really good, so I don't see
Speaker 4: a reason to necessarily place him. It'll be Jack Elliott
Speaker 4: on the back. I think it'll be Cups on the back,
Speaker 4: you know. I think it'll be probably Jonathan Dean in
Speaker 4: the back. He looked better, So you're gonna get see
Speaker 4: your buddy there. Uh and you'll obviously see Gootman in
Speaker 4: the back midfield wise, you're gonna see Gutierrez. Will you
Speaker 4: see or heel? Is that somewhere where there's rotation? Maybe
Speaker 4: how this Selassie comes in, I don't know. That seems
Speaker 4: very offensive focus for a team that struggled on the
Speaker 4: back end and highley. Selassi doesn't necessarily bring you extra possession.
Speaker 4: He brings you extra kind of dynamicism up and down
Speaker 4: the right side. And so we'll see on that. I
Speaker 4: think I think we're gonna see a lineup we haven't
Speaker 4: necessarily seen a lot of, though I think it will
Speaker 4: look different. I think Greg's serious when he talks about
Speaker 4: changes in making changes right now, the questions where is
Speaker 4: Kellen Acosta fit in all this? That's the one name
Speaker 4: I haven't really said that.
Speaker 3: He hasn't had a great year.
Speaker 4: He really at time MS has struggled finding his rhythm.
Speaker 4: Do we see you know, another youth movement there? Or
Speaker 4: does he come back in the starting lineup because he
Speaker 4: hasn't been as much in the lineup. There's a lot
Speaker 4: of questions right now, and I don't know that anything
Speaker 4: was answered yesterday with the US Open lineup.
Speaker 2: And my last question for you, are we going to
Speaker 2: talk about inter and Barsa in seventh?
Speaker 4: Well, it's funny. I had the first half of that
Speaker 4: game on and then I had to do something with
Speaker 4: some more calls.
Speaker 3: I had to take care of some work things.
Speaker 4: So in back of my head, I'm like, wow here
Speaker 4: in terms of advancing right and about forty five minutes
Speaker 4: Layers was maybe about the eighty fifth minute I turn
Speaker 4: it back on, I'm like, what happened here? And then
Speaker 4: obviously the ending the extra time, So sad Barsa fan
Speaker 4: over here. It was. It was an all timer, There's
Speaker 4: no doubt about it. And I hope more people were
Speaker 4: watching it then I figured were. At least it was
Speaker 4: on CBS at two o'clock on a what was it Wednesday?
Speaker 3: What's day? Tuesday? I don't remember what day that was anymore?
Speaker 4: Sure, Uh, yeah, I hope people were watching it because
Speaker 4: I think it would have been a great advertisement for
Speaker 4: for soccer. And it was like kind of like watching
Speaker 4: a King's oilers series in hockey, if you're gonna get
Speaker 4: something to exactly. I think that was a job that
Speaker 4: was everyone's reaction to that series. It was Nascar on skates,
Speaker 4: So if there was a game to watch, it was
Speaker 4: that one.
Speaker 2: And and I feel similarly, Ah, you had to bring
Speaker 2: that up, man, I do.
Speaker 4: See real quick, John, if you don't mind, I see
Speaker 4: the non fire question. Yes, the report the Chicago So
Speaker 4: I don't follow the Red Stars very closely. My good
Speaker 4: buddy Joe Chats from on Tap Sports does. So that's always. Ah,
Speaker 4: that's always somebody you could you could throw on. And
Speaker 4: who's saying all right, p Catalonia, That's that's fighting words
Speaker 4: up there in the chat.
Speaker 2: Yeah we have a twitch pitch in Ketalucci is uh
Speaker 2: got it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So uh, I don't know as far as that, I
Speaker 4: will say. So I'm in Northwestern football season ticket, older
Speaker 4: have been my entire life. Grew up in Evanston, so
Speaker 4: that lake Front facility is awesome.
Speaker 1: Love that have you been, I have not been.
Speaker 4: Well, you should make an excuse, make an excuse this
Speaker 4: fall if you can. It's it's a really cool way
Speaker 4: to see.
Speaker 3: A football game.
Speaker 4: And as a lifelong Northwestern fan and talking to other.
Speaker 3: Northwestern fans, we all got there. We all kind of
Speaker 3: looked at each other like, is it too late to
Speaker 3: build the permanent thing here? Because this is really cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but now it's gonna get built on the old
Speaker 4: site and it's going to be great whatever they build new.
Speaker 4: But I I don't think it's a bad idea. I
Speaker 4: mean for a season, But I don't know. The Red
Speaker 4: Stars have a lot of issues right now in a
Speaker 4: lot of different fronts. Yeah, so yeah, I don't wait
Speaker 4: too deeply into the Red Stars.
Speaker 3: Like I said, my buddy Joe Chats can certainly lay
Speaker 3: in on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and calling themselves just the Stars, that's the first issue.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: See, that's razy. I need to follow closer for that
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: I'm dude, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 2: So hit the promo for me and everybody gets to
Speaker 2: follow along on the local radio option on the YA TVs.
Speaker 2: But go ahead and lay out the promo for broadcast
Speaker 2: plans coming up this weekend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, local radio, you can certainly trigger I'm sure as
Speaker 4: you all know on Apple TV that local radio option
Speaker 4: around WLS dot com. Here in Chicago on WLSAM eight ninety,
Speaker 4: we'll be at Soldier Field. It's gonna be a great
Speaker 4: night fire looking for the first home win of the season.
Speaker 4: Haven't won at home, so and Lanta's gonna be fighting
Speaker 4: that momentum for the Fire, hopefully getting their first home
Speaker 4: winning the season.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: So, as always, my friend, great to see you, thanks
Speaker 2: for breaking breaking the glass, and anytime Friday in the
Speaker 2: ten o'clock hour, more like ten thirty and beyond Eastern time,
Speaker 2: the hour of chaos. Basically, if we don't have a guest,
Speaker 2: we just lay it all out there and folks can
Speaker 2: parachute in, give me a two or three minute update
Speaker 2: and get out or hang out or do whatever. So
Speaker 2: you now have the garage door opener. Drop in anytime
Speaker 2: and you can let everybody know what's going on up
Speaker 2: there in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Anytime you need me to come on and talk Chicago specifically,
Speaker 4: just give me how we're.
Speaker 3: Happy to do it.
Speaker 1: We'll do Max. Thanks for dropping it.
Speaker 3: Have a coome one