WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:03.600 And are you Are you excited, are you thrilled? Are 2 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:05.599 you intrigued? Do you give an ish about the Club 3 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:08.080 World Cup at all? Yeah? 4 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:11.759 No, we we we uh we mentioned this last week. 5 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:13.439 I intrigue is a good word for it. 6 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:13.960 I think. 7 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:19.359 You know it's on home soil. It's and it's an 8 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:22.760 expanded competition, you know. I feel like in the past 9 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:27.519 that was like, you know, six teams, two of which 10 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:30.640 you've never heard of, yes or Bailey have heard of, 11 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:35.079 playing at you know, two in the morning in Japan, 12 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:39.359 and you don't know know where to watch it. Like ah, 13 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:43.920 it didn't appeal to me before, but you know, expand 14 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:48.640 the competition meant to you know, model a little bit 15 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:51.920 like the World Cup, you know in the stadiums that 16 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:55.759 we know, uh, you know a lot of big teams, 17 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:57.079 some some fun matchups. 18 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:01.439 So yeah, you know, excited for sure. Okay, just checking. 19 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:02.920 I mean because you know we were, like I said, 20 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:07.480 we're going over ticket prices and how folks are learning 21 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:09.719 about dynamic pricing and all that kind of stuff, where 22 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:12.840 apparently Manchester City ticket prices are now officially plummeting or 23 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:15.920 at least turning into something reasonable for their matchup against 24 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.879 Alayen coming up in twenty eleven days time. Those kinds 25 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:24.400 of things, so dynamic ticket prices, you gotta keep an 26 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:27.079 eye on all those kinds of things. We did spend 27 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:29.040 a lot of time in hour number one discussing what 28 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:30.439 happened in Nashville last night? 29 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:32.239 What happened in that film. 30 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:35.879 The US and a lot of folks would be wondering 31 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:39.400 themselves what happened in Nashville last night? Because apparently the 32 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:44.599 US decided to allow four goals to Switzerland and come 33 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:46.959 out of a friendly losing four nil. And now apparently 34 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:51.040 the world is on fire. Everyone is raging and going 35 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:54.760 that the US men's national team is just it's a 36 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:58.079 car crash, and that everything is everything is over as 37 00:01:58.120 --> 00:01:58.760 we know it. 38 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:02.680 And then you flip the like you split the screen 39 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:07.920 and you show like the trophy presentation for the Canadian Shield. 40 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:11.120 Yes, and Jesse Marsh and. 41 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:14.680 Uh and and de Rouge, you know, winning a title 42 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:20.960 after after a penalty kick lost to Ivory Coast quite 43 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:21.639 the contrast. 44 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:25.879 Yes, and so lot's a lot getting a lot of 45 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:28.840 interest for converting his penalty from down here in Atlanta. 46 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:32.599 Uh so, yes, so, so apparently the world is falling 47 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:34.360 down when it comes to the US men's national team 48 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:35.439 into friendlies leading. 49 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:38.360 Into the Gold Cup. What do you think is the 50 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:39.960 world falling down? Delan Butler? 51 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:51.840 Uh I will I will say, uh, there's nothing quite 52 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:57.080 hotter than a US men's national team loss. 53 00:02:57.080 --> 00:02:59.360 Hot take. Yes that's true. 54 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:12.280 But yeah it don't look good, right, you know, for 55 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:17.240 whatever reason? Right, Like this is you know, like you 56 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:21.080 look at it in two different ways, right, One, a 57 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:25.759 Gold Cup an opportunity for Patchettino to look at players 58 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:30.319 who could push their way into. 59 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:31.639 The World Cup. 60 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:35.759 Right, Like, let's see what especially a lot of young 61 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:38.080 MLS players, Right, let's see what these guys can do 62 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:44.560 in a in a high pressure tournament setting, because it's 63 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:46.520 the last one that we'll have before the World Cup. 64 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:48.759 You know. 65 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:53.439 The other side of it is that also that means 66 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:58.879 that your quote unquote star players will not have that 67 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:02.280 final opportunity, right, Right, So their last one, I guess 68 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:05.319 was technic was Copa America. 69 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:09.680 Right, Yeah, it sounds right, So that's not good. 70 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:12.479 Like what's the press I mean, certainly they're playing high 71 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:16.319 pressure matches for the club, But what's the last big 72 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:21.439 pressure match for Polistic, for Weston McKinney for Tyler Adams, 73 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:22.759 for any of those guys. 74 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:27.680 League play chasing after domestic chair. 75 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:30.839 Yeah, I mean Zach Seffen knee surgery. 76 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:34.720 Uh. Now, Turner didn't look good. 77 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:38.720 And he's getting and he's apparently getting dealt allegedly possibly 78 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:42.360 probably to a team that was another team ullion dollars 79 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:44.600 plus interest and they're going to fork over eight to 80 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:45.560 bring Matt Turner over. 81 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:52.000 Yeah, so uh huh not mm hmmm, not looking good. 82 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:53.759 I mean, And and this is the thing. 83 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:56.360 It's like, one of the one of the things that 84 00:04:56.360 --> 00:05:00.319 we focused on is that you've got to have people 85 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:04.399 who are starting, who are going to be in these positions. 86 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:06.759 I went over the Gold Cup roster one through twenty 87 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:09.199 six and you're you're sitting there and it's like, Okay, 88 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:12.240 I need dudes who are starting in these situations. So 89 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.319 it's not just like trying to turn the engine over 90 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:17.120 on a car and realizing that you might need to 91 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:18.680 change the battery and you hope to god it's not 92 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:21.519 the alternator, you know, I mean, that's that's kind of 93 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:22.639 what you're staring at here. 94 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:25.360 And yeah, and then you look at the look at 95 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:28.920 the other side of it, right again, you know, comparing 96 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:32.439 it with with Canada. Yeah, yes, they also have a 97 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:37.120 lot of MLS players and they have, right, But Steven 98 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:39.319 Astasio is part of that, right, he just had his 99 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:44.639 fiftieth cap with Canada. Should should he have been healthy, 100 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:47.079 Alfonso Davies would have been part of this team, right, 101 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:50.759 like Jonathan David is part of this team. So it's 102 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:54.920 still a big It's still your core guys who play 103 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:57.839 in in in in Europe. 104 00:05:57.639 --> 00:05:57.800 But. 105 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:03.160 You know, joining MLS players as well. So it's a 106 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:09.079 calculated risk for sure that the US is making. If 107 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:14.399 it was if it was that, if it was Pachettino's choice, right, 108 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:20.120 like you know the whole Polisic Donovan saga going on 109 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:21.399 through social. 110 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:22.759 Media, you'll talk about that. 111 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:27.120 Yeah, yeah, not good vibes. 112 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:30.839 No, So speaking of not good vibes, So Jesse Marsh, 113 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:35.000 you mentioned Jesse Marsh. Apparently he is he is of 114 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:41.519 the mind in cutting a wrestling promo that apparently folks 115 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:44.319 were out to get his national team players that were 116 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:48.800 playing for Vancouver in the CONCACAFF final of the conka 117 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:52.319 CAFF Hemispheric Extravaganza where they just got got absolutely destroyed 118 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:56.000 by CRUs asoul So the white Caps, Crusasulaada and Cruise 119 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:58.480 Osul ended up with a five mil win. Jesse Marsh 120 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:02.319 comes out and says that yeah, they they they food 121 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:06.600 poisoned my guys on purpose, and so Jesse cuts his promo. 122 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:08.639 What have you thought about Jesse up North so far? 123 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:14.920 I think he's hitting. Uh, he's done an incredible job. 124 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:20.199 I think if you're a US national team fan and 125 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:25.879 you're putting hashtags on the latest out, you know, I 126 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:28.680 think you're like, why couldn't we have gotten Jesse Marsh? 127 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.399 But do you want all of that chaos though? Do 128 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:32.160 you want? All? Right? 129 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:34.079 He thrives in it. I think I think it's another 130 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:36.360 way to get his guys going as well, US against 131 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:38.839 the world mentality, that whole kind of thing. He did it. 132 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:41.600 He did it with Red Bulls as well, right, Like 133 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:47.040 I remember one before one Hudson River Darby match, was 134 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:55.680 complaining about how he hoped or you know, he hoped 135 00:07:55.720 --> 00:08:00.519 that NYCFC stars would stop getting preferential treatment like that, 136 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:03.920 that the officials wouldn't give David Villa and those guys 137 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:08.560 preferential treatment before the match, which led to Patrick Vieira 138 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:13.279 in his post match quote talking about you know, he's 139 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:16.079 tired of hearing Jesse Marsh cry and like it was great, 140 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:17.920 like it it's a great drama, right, like you want 141 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:19.600 that in Darby type situations. 142 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:20.040 Yeah. 143 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:24.800 My question actually is is I thought about this because 144 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:27.040 now this is the second year in a row where 145 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:30.720 there's these allegations, right of food poisoning, right, yeah, sure, 146 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:36.360 Why doesn't it happen with national. 147 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:38.919 Teams because they take their own chefs, they bring their 148 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:39.960 own food. 149 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:43.000 No, but so yes, yeah, exactly right. 150 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:50.080 So why doesn't that happen with Vancouver after what happened 151 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:51.159 with Columbus the year before? 152 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:56.000 I mean, right, And this is the thing that, this 153 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.399 is the thing that the current thing of one of 154 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:03.960 the many things where look, if you are a if 155 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.960 you're a domestic side, I would think that if this 156 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.639 match meant to you, the last match of the Conka 157 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:14.000 CAF hemispheric extravagance, if this match meant to you as 158 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:17.159 much as you purport it to me, then you are 159 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:20.799 going to take every eventuality. You are going to take 160 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:25.039 every security element of this. You are going to double 161 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:27.919 stack your travel party, you are going to have your 162 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:30.440 own chefs brought down, You're gonna have your own medical 163 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:34.799 personnel brought down. You're gonna have your own food imported 164 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:38.720 on your charter plane. You're gonna make sure that everything 165 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:41.840 works out the way that I mean literally, I want 166 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:44.120 all of my food refrigerated. 167 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:45.600 On my plane. I ain't, you know, getting it out 168 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:46.240 to anybody. 169 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:51.679 I'm taking every possible precaution known de mandkind and then 170 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:56.480 second mankind's precautions to make sure that I'm not getting 171 00:09:56.519 --> 00:09:57.679 stuff like this happened to me. 172 00:09:57.679 --> 00:09:59.919 Why aren't domestic teams sitting there and taking. 173 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:05.639 These and as I said, especially after that was the 174 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:10.399 narrative after last year's final. Right, last year, you have 175 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:15.080 an MLS team playing in a final in Mexico, claims 176 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.799 of food poisoning. Fast forward, you have an MLS team 177 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:26.000 playing in Mexico. Let's yes, let's sequester the team. We're 178 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:30.879 in this hotel. We're in in uh floors ten and 179 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:31.919 eleven or something. 180 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:32.720 That's it. 181 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:36.159 You know, we're eating here, We're not going anywhere else. 182 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:40.279 We're in this conference room. We're boarding the bus, we're 183 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:42.360 going to training, We're going to the press conference. We're 184 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:43.440 going back to the hotel. 185 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:48.960 Like it, just it. 186 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:53.120 And then when you have you have a national team 187 00:10:53.159 --> 00:11:02.120 coach creating hemispheric moments of angst against other national teams. Yes, 188 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:04.039 I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to 189 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:06.360 gin up your own You're trying to gin up your guys. 190 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:08.320 You're trying to sit there and go US against the world. 191 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:11.879 But I mean, if you're the United States, and I 192 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:13.480 know that a lot of folks would sit there and say, well, 193 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:15.240 why don't we why didn't we get Jesse? Do you 194 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:17.679 if you're the US national team, do you want that 195 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:18.720 kind of a circus? 196 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:21.080 Do you want that side show? Aren't you? Aren't you? 197 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:25.440 I don't know if I I wonder if it's as 198 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:29.720 much of a circus or a side show with the 199 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:34.440 US as it would be with Canada, only because you 200 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:41.120 know Canada is trying to escape this little brother type thing, right, 201 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:41.759 But do. 202 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:43.559 You do that by cutting wrestling promos? 203 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:48.639 Though again, it's it's in his it's in his nature, 204 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:51.000 Like he's also the same guy that took on took 205 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:56.759 on Trump right on social media, so or in a 206 00:11:56.759 --> 00:11:58.120 press com I think it was a press conference. 207 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:00.039 Yeah, So it's just. 208 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:05.559 It goes hand in hands with Jesse Marsh. But I 209 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:07.720 think if you pulled the US fans right now, I 210 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:12.159 would can you know, after these results and the run 211 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:18.759 of form and the vibes around both programs, I think 212 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:24.240 you would get more who would vote for Jesse Marsh 213 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:27.240 as the US men's national team coach than. 214 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:31.240 Not well, And you know then I think that and 215 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:35.440 we've been looking at two specific position groups. I think 216 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:38.440 that this probably means that Matt Freese is going to 217 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:41.399 be your guy starting in the Gold Cup because of 218 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:44.159 what we've seen from Matt Turner, who hasn't been getting 219 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:47.200 regular reps. And I think that Matt Freeze and I 220 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:49.799 think it's Matt Freeze and Chris Brady before Matt Turner 221 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:52.000 heading into the Gold Cup now because of what we've 222 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:53.159 seen and what we haven't seen. 223 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:54.919 And that's the other thing too, right, Like it's always 224 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:58.399 been and that's another big problem that the US has 225 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.840 had in recent years. 226 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:03.639 The goalkeeper. 227 00:13:04.759 --> 00:13:09.480 Of the day that you have, right, he needs regular reps. Right, 228 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:13.759 we did have that with Brad Friel, We did have 229 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:18.600 that with Tim Howard, Right, we haven't had that in 230 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:24.159 recent years. So like if like it's not if Matt 231 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:25.120 Turner's not getting. 232 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:27.840 Regular reps, yeah, if. 233 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:32.480 You know, like and Zach Stephan wasn't, so he made 234 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:35.200 he and his agent whatever his team, they made a 235 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:39.200 good decision to come back. Maybe now he'll get regular reps. 236 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:42.919 Unfortunately now he's injured. But yeah, I don't think you 237 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:45.360 go for the goalkeeper just because he plays in Europe 238 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:48.080 like that. That guy's got to get regular time. So 239 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:52.159 if he's not, you know, he can't be your regular 240 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:54.240 starter for the US men's national team. 241 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:58.360 Is that the position that you have the most concern 242 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:00.759 right now when it comes to the national team between 243 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:01.240 the sticks? 244 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:04.039 Or is it up top for you? Or is it 245 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:05.279 a cause and effect? Almost? 246 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:06.080 Uh? 247 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:08.240 Yeah, I mean I. 248 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.240 Guess if you can't score, then you've got to defend. 249 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:14.759 But defend, you know, you got to score. 250 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:20.720 Yeah, I mean both. It's it's you thought you had 251 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:23.879 a lockdown in in goal, right, like turn to look 252 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:27.440 like he was going to be the guy. After it 253 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:33.679 looked like Stephan wasn't going to be the guy. And 254 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:36.559 there's still that rotation up top, right, They're still looking 255 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:43.879 for the answers, you know again, you know they we 256 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:47.080 thought probably a year ago that that was a position 257 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:51.440 that maybe we have figured out. We we we don't. 258 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:51.879 We don't. 259 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:54.720 It's not figured out so yeah, I mean I think both. 260 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:59.440 I think it's exciting times. If you're a Brian White, right, 261 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:03.320 you're in a were on a form, you you have 262 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:09.720 a chance to and again the last tournament pre World 263 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:13.279 Cup to open up eyes. You know, maybe maybe you 264 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:17.159 score six goals in this tournament and all of a sudden, 265 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:19.399 you know you could be the guy starting. 266 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:22.120 In the first World Cup match. 267 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:26.120 Dylton butlerimosoccer dot Com dropping by for his Wednesday visit 268 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:29.120 when he is not out conquering high school athletics at 269 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:31.639 Varsity Media on the YouTube, so you can go back. 270 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:36.480 Everything's archived, right, all your matchups yep, yep. Yeah. 271 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:38.519 So if if you've missed anything from Dylan when it 272 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:42.799 comes to Tri State High School extravaganzas, you can go 273 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:44.080 back to Varsity Media on YouTube. 274 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:45.399 You can catch up with Dylan. 275 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:47.639 Who had like thirty eight lacrosse matches in the three 276 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:51.039 day period that he navigated through the other day it 277 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:52.519 was eleven. 278 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:56.200 I think my total count for this spring was it 279 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:57.799 was thirty, which is wild and you think it was 280 00:15:57.799 --> 00:15:59.200 like eleven in the final week. 281 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:01.200 But I know that's yeah. Championships will do that for 282 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:05.039 you across the board. This weekend. It is a matchup 283 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:08.919 on Thursday for Atlanta United in NYC. You get to 284 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:13.639 be the only game in town and it's I'm just 285 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:16.399 still after you will have Glenn Crooks on to talk 286 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:17.039 about NYC. 287 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:19.919 But you got that to start things off. 288 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:22.080 Then you've got Friday night football, which is something that 289 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:25.080 I have mandated and maintained that Major League Soccer needs 290 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:27.399 to have and you need to own Friday nights. You've 291 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:30.159 got Friday night football with Portland and San Jose. Do 292 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:33.799 any of the matchups here coming up on Saturday or 293 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:37.840 starting Thursday have any kind of Dylan Butler level intrigue 294 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:39.639 other than you having to sit there and be on 295 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:41.360 the desk to follow them on Saturday. 296 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:43.200 Who is intriguing to you coming up this week? 297 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:44.759 Well, I'm on the desk on Thursday as well, so 298 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.000 I will be I'm manning the ship. 299 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:50.399 Solo on Thursday. 300 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:52.120 So that. 301 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:54.879 Because of that intrigues me. 302 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:59.240 Okay, so let's stop there. No one is coming back 303 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:02.159 to be ready for NYC because of travel and such. 304 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:04.440 So it looks like it's gonna be Thomas Romero and 305 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:11.000 net for NYC and Buchrar starting in the attack for NYC. 306 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:13.759 And for Atlanta, it's gonna be a couple of races 307 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:15.880 against time. But I think we put a piece together. 308 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:18.559 What it's gonna look like Latte Lot flies over from Toronto, 309 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:21.720 he's gonna probably be up top. Uh, can you give 310 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:25.480 me sixty something like that? So intrigue for NYC and 311 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:26.599 Atlanta United for you? 312 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:30.759 Yeah, I mean I think just a lot of what 313 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:34.279 you said, it's it's it's you know, not dissimilar to 314 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:35.839 what we just said with the US national team, right, 315 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:39.119 like an opportunity for other guys to step up and 316 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:43.799 and to uh, you know, proof that they maybe earn 317 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:48.039 some extra minutes. I think Portland San Jose because it 318 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:49.279 is San Jose. 319 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:51.680 Always take me over. 320 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:58.039 Yes, intrigue And then you look at the uh, you 321 00:17:58.039 --> 00:18:02.839 look at the weekend slate. You know, probably like Minnesota 322 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:07.519 San Diego. That's an interesting one, right, even though obviously 323 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:13.559 they're not full squads, but at least not Minnesota's full squad. 324 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:19.559 I think Columbus Vancouver again, if you have your full 325 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:26.640 allotment of players, right, Uh, is an intriguing one. But yeah, 326 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:31.559 it's it's tough. It's tough when it's when it's you know, 327 00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:34.599 a lot of Eyes obviously had Club World Cup on 328 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:37.000 the on the Gold Cup as well. 329 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:40.759 So I mean you look at Vancouver at a Koubi, Ali, 330 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:45.359 Achmed Berhalter, Bobolina Kubas, Tate Johnson with the U twenties, 331 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:50.920 Jaden Nelson, Pedro Vite, Brian White. Uh yeah, yes, they. 332 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:52.599 Still got a result too, right, Like they had that 333 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:57.279 they had about seventeen guys questionable with illness and yeah, 334 00:18:58.240 --> 00:19:01.319 you know they they they went to their homegrowns and 335 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:03.960 their academy kids and you know, they get a goal 336 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:06.440 there and it was a good result for them on 337 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:07.440 this past weekend. 338 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:08.880 Yeah, that's me. That's it. 339 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:11.200 But once again, you know we always talk about second 340 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.599 teams and MLS, Next Pro and stuff like that, and 341 00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:16.759 and the benefits pop up in situations. 342 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:21.839 Like that are our inboxes will be busy with short 343 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:25.000 term signing emails. 344 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:29.079 But and this is a thing that gets me is that. 345 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:33.839 I think that I legitimately think that you should take 346 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.119 the short term signings and turn it into like the NBA, 347 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:40.519 because I think that putting a limit on more term signings, 348 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:43.640 I think it's it's detrimental to the process. And then 349 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:45.519 you're sitting there and you're having to navigate them. But 350 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:46.960 it's like you can call them up, but you can't 351 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:49.319 play them, or you can't play them every time you 352 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:50.920 call them up. You can only play them like two 353 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:52.720 or three times if you call them up for six. 354 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:55.519 I mean, it's just it seems like it's a that 355 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:57.640 to me, is something that you've got to adjust, Like 356 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:00.319 if you call them up, call them up, give him 357 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:03.039 the fourteen day contract and have them be there for 358 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:05.319 two matches or three matches or whatever, and not have 359 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:08.839 it counteract everything that we traditionally would see in a 360 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:11.400 situation like that instead of oh, short term call up, 361 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:13.799 he's got one more short term call up. You know, 362 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:15.839 he's got one more in You have to navigate that, 363 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.119 and you've got to sit there and figure out, Okay, 364 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:20.440 do I burn a short term call up on a guy? 365 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:23.319 And you've got to think about it too hard when 366 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:25.559 it really should just be just like the NBA, call 367 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:27.359 him up, I need him, I need him for two weeks. 368 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:29.519 I got a ten day deal or a fourteen day contract. 369 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:31.440 It should be that simple. But it's no. 370 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:34.000 I agree. I agree, especially if you're not going to 371 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:38.119 expand the roster or the salary cap. Or you know, 372 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:42.279 you need to figure out a different mechanism to have 373 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:43.440 additional players play. 374 00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:45.799 So, yes, I'm in one hundred percent agreement with. 375 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:46.039 You on that. 376 00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:49.000 Vancouver is a plus two to ninety on the road 377 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:52.119 at Columbus of a minus one twenty three. NYC is 378 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:54.720 a minus one ten in the Bronx taking on at 379 00:20:54.759 --> 00:20:57.640 Land United, who's a plus two eighty two. You mentioned 380 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:00.160 Portland and San Jose. Portland is a minus one one. 381 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:07.079 San Jose is north of plus three hundred and uh, 382 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:09.799 as we look at I think. 383 00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:11.720 We both need to somehow find a way to work 384 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:12.440 for Phil Nevill. 385 00:21:13.400 --> 00:21:14.519 Well, yeah, I mean. 386 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:18.200 Then you like he like he would be like, well, well, 387 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:20.799 I mean, look, John Nelson is the best radio guy 388 00:21:20.839 --> 00:21:22.039 in the in the in the in the league. 389 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:23.799 There's no we don't have a question about it. 390 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:27.759 Yeah, well, I love you for that. That's fantastic, Uh 391 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:30.519 from your lips outbound. But as long as I get 392 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:32.720 to still do everything here and then we'll be fine. 393 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:38.240 Like David Ayala's the best midfielder, Anthony should be the 394 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:41.119 MVP or then there's no question, like it's great, Like 395 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:44.680 I'm sure he rips his guys and inside the locker room, 396 00:21:44.680 --> 00:21:47.000 but outside right, nothing but praise everything. 397 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:49.079 So four and a half, by the way is a 398 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:50.160 plus two forty five. 399 00:21:50.799 --> 00:21:53.720 So it turns at three and a half. Portland and 400 00:21:53.759 --> 00:21:56.240 San Jose's over underturns it three and a half, by 401 00:21:56.279 --> 00:21:59.200