Speaker 1: And are you Are you excited, are you thrilled? Are
Speaker 1: you intrigued? Do you give an ish about the Club
Speaker 1: World Cup at all? Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, we we we uh we mentioned this last week.
Speaker 2: I intrigue is a good word for it.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: You know it's on home soil. It's and it's an
Speaker 2: expanded competition, you know. I feel like in the past
Speaker 2: that was like, you know, six teams, two of which
Speaker 2: you've never heard of, yes or Bailey have heard of,
Speaker 2: playing at you know, two in the morning in Japan,
Speaker 2: and you don't know know where to watch it. Like ah,
Speaker 2: it didn't appeal to me before, but you know, expand
Speaker 2: the competition meant to you know, model a little bit
Speaker 2: like the World Cup, you know in the stadiums that
Speaker 2: we know, uh, you know a lot of big teams,
Speaker 2: some some fun matchups.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, excited for sure. Okay, just checking.
Speaker 3: I mean because you know we were, like I said,
Speaker 3: we're going over ticket prices and how folks are learning
Speaker 3: about dynamic pricing and all that kind of stuff, where
Speaker 3: apparently Manchester City ticket prices are now officially plummeting or
Speaker 3: at least turning into something reasonable for their matchup against
Speaker 3: Alayen coming up in twenty eleven days time. Those kinds
Speaker 3: of things, so dynamic ticket prices, you gotta keep an
Speaker 3: eye on all those kinds of things. We did spend
Speaker 3: a lot of time in hour number one discussing what
Speaker 3: happened in Nashville last night?
Speaker 1: What happened in that film.
Speaker 3: The US and a lot of folks would be wondering
Speaker 3: themselves what happened in Nashville last night? Because apparently the
Speaker 3: US decided to allow four goals to Switzerland and come
Speaker 3: out of a friendly losing four nil. And now apparently
Speaker 3: the world is on fire. Everyone is raging and going
Speaker 3: that the US men's national team is just it's a
Speaker 3: car crash, and that everything is everything is over as
Speaker 3: we know it.
Speaker 2: And then you flip the like you split the screen
Speaker 2: and you show like the trophy presentation for the Canadian Shield.
Speaker 1: Yes, and Jesse Marsh and.
Speaker 2: Uh and and de Rouge, you know, winning a title
Speaker 2: after after a penalty kick lost to Ivory Coast quite
Speaker 2: the contrast.
Speaker 3: Yes, and so lot's a lot getting a lot of
Speaker 3: interest for converting his penalty from down here in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Uh so, yes, so, so apparently the world is falling
Speaker 3: down when it comes to the US men's national team
Speaker 3: into friendlies leading.
Speaker 1: Into the Gold Cup. What do you think is the
Speaker 1: world falling down? Delan Butler?
Speaker 2: Uh I will I will say, uh, there's nothing quite
Speaker 2: hotter than a US men's national team loss.
Speaker 1: Hot take. Yes that's true.
Speaker 2: But yeah it don't look good, right, you know, for
Speaker 2: whatever reason? Right, Like this is you know, like you
Speaker 2: look at it in two different ways, right, One, a
Speaker 2: Gold Cup an opportunity for Patchettino to look at players
Speaker 2: who could push their way into.
Speaker 1: The World Cup.
Speaker 2: Right, Like, let's see what especially a lot of young
Speaker 2: MLS players, Right, let's see what these guys can do
Speaker 2: in a in a high pressure tournament setting, because it's
Speaker 2: the last one that we'll have before the World Cup.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The other side of it is that also that means
Speaker 2: that your quote unquote star players will not have that
Speaker 2: final opportunity, right, Right, So their last one, I guess
Speaker 2: was technic was Copa America.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it sounds right, So that's not good.
Speaker 2: Like what's the press I mean, certainly they're playing high
Speaker 2: pressure matches for the club, But what's the last big
Speaker 2: pressure match for Polistic, for Weston McKinney for Tyler Adams,
Speaker 2: for any of those guys.
Speaker 1: League play chasing after domestic chair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Zach Seffen knee surgery.
Speaker 1: Uh. Now, Turner didn't look good.
Speaker 3: And he's getting and he's apparently getting dealt allegedly possibly
Speaker 3: probably to a team that was another team ullion dollars
Speaker 3: plus interest and they're going to fork over eight to
Speaker 3: bring Matt Turner over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so uh huh not mm hmmm, not looking good.
Speaker 1: I mean, And and this is the thing.
Speaker 3: It's like, one of the one of the things that
Speaker 3: we focused on is that you've got to have people
Speaker 3: who are starting, who are going to be in these positions.
Speaker 3: I went over the Gold Cup roster one through twenty
Speaker 3: six and you're you're sitting there and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I need dudes who are starting in these situations. So
Speaker 3: it's not just like trying to turn the engine over
Speaker 3: on a car and realizing that you might need to
Speaker 3: change the battery and you hope to god it's not
Speaker 3: the alternator, you know, I mean, that's that's kind of
Speaker 3: what you're staring at here.
Speaker 2: And yeah, and then you look at the look at
Speaker 2: the other side of it, right again, you know, comparing
Speaker 2: it with with Canada. Yeah, yes, they also have a
Speaker 2: lot of MLS players and they have, right, But Steven
Speaker 2: Astasio is part of that, right, he just had his
Speaker 2: fiftieth cap with Canada. Should should he have been healthy,
Speaker 2: Alfonso Davies would have been part of this team, right,
Speaker 2: like Jonathan David is part of this team. So it's
Speaker 2: still a big It's still your core guys who play
Speaker 2: in in in in Europe.
Speaker 1: But.
Speaker 2: You know, joining MLS players as well. So it's a
Speaker 2: calculated risk for sure that the US is making. If
Speaker 2: it was if it was that, if it was Pachettino's choice, right,
Speaker 2: like you know the whole Polisic Donovan saga going on
Speaker 2: through social.
Speaker 1: Media, you'll talk about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not good vibes.
Speaker 3: No, So speaking of not good vibes, So Jesse Marsh,
Speaker 3: you mentioned Jesse Marsh. Apparently he is he is of
Speaker 3: the mind in cutting a wrestling promo that apparently folks
Speaker 3: were out to get his national team players that were
Speaker 3: playing for Vancouver in the CONCACAFF final of the conka
Speaker 3: CAFF Hemispheric Extravaganza where they just got got absolutely destroyed
Speaker 3: by CRUs asoul So the white Caps, Crusasulaada and Cruise
Speaker 3: Osul ended up with a five mil win. Jesse Marsh
Speaker 3: comes out and says that yeah, they they they food
Speaker 3: poisoned my guys on purpose, and so Jesse cuts his promo.
Speaker 3: What have you thought about Jesse up North so far?
Speaker 2: I think he's hitting. Uh, he's done an incredible job.
Speaker 2: I think if you're a US national team fan and
Speaker 2: you're putting hashtags on the latest out, you know, I
Speaker 2: think you're like, why couldn't we have gotten Jesse Marsh?
Speaker 1: But do you want all of that chaos though? Do
Speaker 1: you want? All? Right?
Speaker 2: He thrives in it. I think I think it's another
Speaker 2: way to get his guys going as well, US against
Speaker 2: the world mentality, that whole kind of thing. He did it.
Speaker 2: He did it with Red Bulls as well, right, Like
Speaker 2: I remember one before one Hudson River Darby match, was
Speaker 2: complaining about how he hoped or you know, he hoped
Speaker 2: that NYCFC stars would stop getting preferential treatment like that,
Speaker 2: that the officials wouldn't give David Villa and those guys
Speaker 2: preferential treatment before the match, which led to Patrick Vieira
Speaker 2: in his post match quote talking about you know, he's
Speaker 2: tired of hearing Jesse Marsh cry and like it was great,
Speaker 2: like it it's a great drama, right, like you want
Speaker 2: that in Darby type situations.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: My question actually is is I thought about this because
Speaker 2: now this is the second year in a row where
Speaker 2: there's these allegations, right of food poisoning, right, yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: Why doesn't it happen with national.
Speaker 3: Teams because they take their own chefs, they bring their
Speaker 3: own food.
Speaker 1: No, but so yes, yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 2: So why doesn't that happen with Vancouver after what happened
Speaker 2: with Columbus the year before?
Speaker 3: I mean, right, And this is the thing that, this
Speaker 3: is the thing that the current thing of one of
Speaker 3: the many things where look, if you are a if
Speaker 3: you're a domestic side, I would think that if this
Speaker 3: match meant to you, the last match of the Conka
Speaker 3: CAF hemispheric extravagance, if this match meant to you as
Speaker 3: much as you purport it to me, then you are
Speaker 3: going to take every eventuality. You are going to take
Speaker 3: every security element of this. You are going to double
Speaker 3: stack your travel party, you are going to have your
Speaker 3: own chefs brought down, You're gonna have your own medical
Speaker 3: personnel brought down. You're gonna have your own food imported
Speaker 3: on your charter plane. You're gonna make sure that everything
Speaker 3: works out the way that I mean literally, I want
Speaker 3: all of my food refrigerated.
Speaker 1: On my plane. I ain't, you know, getting it out
Speaker 1: to anybody.
Speaker 3: I'm taking every possible precaution known de mandkind and then
Speaker 3: second mankind's precautions to make sure that I'm not getting
Speaker 3: stuff like this happened to me.
Speaker 1: Why aren't domestic teams sitting there and taking.
Speaker 2: These and as I said, especially after that was the
Speaker 2: narrative after last year's final. Right, last year, you have
Speaker 2: an MLS team playing in a final in Mexico, claims
Speaker 2: of food poisoning. Fast forward, you have an MLS team
Speaker 2: playing in Mexico. Let's yes, let's sequester the team. We're
Speaker 2: in this hotel. We're in in uh floors ten and
Speaker 2: eleven or something.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: You know, we're eating here, We're not going anywhere else.
Speaker 2: We're in this conference room. We're boarding the bus, we're
Speaker 2: going to training, We're going to the press conference. We're
Speaker 2: going back to the hotel.
Speaker 1: Like it, just it.
Speaker 3: And then when you have you have a national team
Speaker 3: coach creating hemispheric moments of angst against other national teams. Yes,
Speaker 3: I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to
Speaker 3: gin up your own You're trying to gin up your guys.
Speaker 3: You're trying to sit there and go US against the world.
Speaker 3: But I mean, if you're the United States, and I
Speaker 3: know that a lot of folks would sit there and say, well,
Speaker 3: why don't we why didn't we get Jesse? Do you
Speaker 3: if you're the US national team, do you want that
Speaker 3: kind of a circus?
Speaker 1: Do you want that side show? Aren't you? Aren't you?
Speaker 2: I don't know if I I wonder if it's as
Speaker 2: much of a circus or a side show with the
Speaker 2: US as it would be with Canada, only because you
Speaker 2: know Canada is trying to escape this little brother type thing, right,
Speaker 2: But do.
Speaker 1: You do that by cutting wrestling promos?
Speaker 2: Though again, it's it's in his it's in his nature,
Speaker 2: Like he's also the same guy that took on took
Speaker 2: on Trump right on social media, so or in a
Speaker 2: press com I think it was a press conference.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's just.
Speaker 2: It goes hand in hands with Jesse Marsh. But I
Speaker 2: think if you pulled the US fans right now, I
Speaker 2: would can you know, after these results and the run
Speaker 2: of form and the vibes around both programs, I think
Speaker 2: you would get more who would vote for Jesse Marsh
Speaker 2: as the US men's national team coach than.
Speaker 3: Not well, And you know then I think that and
Speaker 3: we've been looking at two specific position groups. I think
Speaker 3: that this probably means that Matt Freese is going to
Speaker 3: be your guy starting in the Gold Cup because of
Speaker 3: what we've seen from Matt Turner, who hasn't been getting
Speaker 3: regular reps. And I think that Matt Freeze and I
Speaker 3: think it's Matt Freeze and Chris Brady before Matt Turner
Speaker 3: heading into the Gold Cup now because of what we've
Speaker 3: seen and what we haven't seen.
Speaker 2: And that's the other thing too, right, Like it's always
Speaker 2: been and that's another big problem that the US has
Speaker 2: had in recent years.
Speaker 1: The goalkeeper.
Speaker 2: Of the day that you have, right, he needs regular reps. Right,
Speaker 2: we did have that with Brad Friel, We did have
Speaker 2: that with Tim Howard, Right, we haven't had that in
Speaker 2: recent years. So like if like it's not if Matt
Speaker 2: Turner's not getting.
Speaker 1: Regular reps, yeah, if.
Speaker 2: You know, like and Zach Stephan wasn't, so he made
Speaker 2: he and his agent whatever his team, they made a
Speaker 2: good decision to come back. Maybe now he'll get regular reps.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately now he's injured. But yeah, I don't think you
Speaker 2: go for the goalkeeper just because he plays in Europe
Speaker 2: like that. That guy's got to get regular time. So
Speaker 2: if he's not, you know, he can't be your regular
Speaker 2: starter for the US men's national team.
Speaker 3: Is that the position that you have the most concern
Speaker 3: right now when it comes to the national team between
Speaker 3: the sticks?
Speaker 1: Or is it up top for you? Or is it
Speaker 1: a cause and effect? Almost?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 3: Guess if you can't score, then you've got to defend.
Speaker 3: But defend, you know, you got to score.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean both. It's it's you thought you had
Speaker 2: a lockdown in in goal, right, like turn to look
Speaker 2: like he was going to be the guy. After it
Speaker 2: looked like Stephan wasn't going to be the guy. And
Speaker 2: there's still that rotation up top, right, They're still looking
Speaker 2: for the answers, you know again, you know they we
Speaker 2: thought probably a year ago that that was a position
Speaker 2: that maybe we have figured out. We we we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't.
Speaker 2: It's not figured out so yeah, I mean I think both.
Speaker 2: I think it's exciting times. If you're a Brian White, right,
Speaker 2: you're in a were on a form, you you have
Speaker 2: a chance to and again the last tournament pre World
Speaker 2: Cup to open up eyes. You know, maybe maybe you
Speaker 2: score six goals in this tournament and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: you know you could be the guy starting.
Speaker 1: In the first World Cup match.
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Speaker 1: Everything's archived, right, all your matchups yep, yep. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You can catch up with Dylan.
Speaker 3: Who had like thirty eight lacrosse matches in the three
Speaker 3: day period that he navigated through the other day it
Speaker 3: was eleven.
Speaker 2: I think my total count for this spring was it
Speaker 2: was thirty, which is wild and you think it was
Speaker 2: like eleven in the final week.
Speaker 3: But I know that's yeah. Championships will do that for
Speaker 3: you across the board. This weekend. It is a matchup
Speaker 3: on Thursday for Atlanta United in NYC. You get to
Speaker 3: be the only game in town and it's I'm just
Speaker 3: still after you will have Glenn Crooks on to talk
Speaker 3: about NYC.
Speaker 1: But you got that to start things off.
Speaker 3: Then you've got Friday night football, which is something that
Speaker 3: I have mandated and maintained that Major League Soccer needs
Speaker 3: to have and you need to own Friday nights. You've
Speaker 3: got Friday night football with Portland and San Jose. Do
Speaker 3: any of the matchups here coming up on Saturday or
Speaker 3: starting Thursday have any kind of Dylan Butler level intrigue
Speaker 3: other than you having to sit there and be on
Speaker 3: the desk to follow them on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Who is intriguing to you coming up this week?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm on the desk on Thursday as well, so
Speaker 2: I will be I'm manning the ship.
Speaker 1: Solo on Thursday.
Speaker 2: So that.
Speaker 1: Because of that intrigues me.
Speaker 3: Okay, so let's stop there. No one is coming back
Speaker 3: to be ready for NYC because of travel and such.
Speaker 3: So it looks like it's gonna be Thomas Romero and
Speaker 3: net for NYC and Buchrar starting in the attack for NYC.
Speaker 3: And for Atlanta, it's gonna be a couple of races
Speaker 3: against time. But I think we put a piece together.
Speaker 3: What it's gonna look like Latte Lot flies over from Toronto,
Speaker 3: he's gonna probably be up top. Uh, can you give
Speaker 3: me sixty something like that? So intrigue for NYC and
Speaker 3: Atlanta United for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think just a lot of what
Speaker 2: you said, it's it's it's you know, not dissimilar to
Speaker 2: what we just said with the US national team, right,
Speaker 2: like an opportunity for other guys to step up and
Speaker 2: and to uh, you know, proof that they maybe earn
Speaker 2: some extra minutes. I think Portland San Jose because it
Speaker 2: is San Jose.
Speaker 1: Always take me over.
Speaker 2: Yes, intrigue And then you look at the uh, you
Speaker 2: look at the weekend slate. You know, probably like Minnesota
Speaker 2: San Diego. That's an interesting one, right, even though obviously
Speaker 2: they're not full squads, but at least not Minnesota's full squad.
Speaker 2: I think Columbus Vancouver again, if you have your full
Speaker 2: allotment of players, right, Uh, is an intriguing one. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's tough. It's tough when it's when it's you know,
Speaker 2: a lot of Eyes obviously had Club World Cup on
Speaker 2: the on the Gold Cup as well.
Speaker 3: So I mean you look at Vancouver at a Koubi, Ali,
Speaker 3: Achmed Berhalter, Bobolina Kubas, Tate Johnson with the U twenties,
Speaker 3: Jaden Nelson, Pedro Vite, Brian White. Uh yeah, yes, they.
Speaker 2: Still got a result too, right, Like they had that
Speaker 2: they had about seventeen guys questionable with illness and yeah,
Speaker 2: you know they they they went to their homegrowns and
Speaker 2: their academy kids and you know, they get a goal
Speaker 2: there and it was a good result for them on
Speaker 2: this past weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's me. That's it.
Speaker 3: But once again, you know we always talk about second
Speaker 3: teams and MLS, Next Pro and stuff like that, and
Speaker 3: and the benefits pop up in situations.
Speaker 2: Like that are our inboxes will be busy with short
Speaker 2: term signing emails.
Speaker 1: But and this is a thing that gets me is that.
Speaker 3: I think that I legitimately think that you should take
Speaker 3: the short term signings and turn it into like the NBA,
Speaker 3: because I think that putting a limit on more term signings,
Speaker 3: I think it's it's detrimental to the process. And then
Speaker 3: you're sitting there and you're having to navigate them. But
Speaker 3: it's like you can call them up, but you can't
Speaker 3: play them, or you can't play them every time you
Speaker 3: call them up. You can only play them like two
Speaker 3: or three times if you call them up for six.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just it seems like it's a that
Speaker 3: to me, is something that you've got to adjust, Like
Speaker 3: if you call them up, call them up, give him
Speaker 3: the fourteen day contract and have them be there for
Speaker 3: two matches or three matches or whatever, and not have
Speaker 3: it counteract everything that we traditionally would see in a
Speaker 3: situation like that instead of oh, short term call up,
Speaker 3: he's got one more short term call up. You know,
Speaker 3: he's got one more in You have to navigate that,
Speaker 3: and you've got to sit there and figure out, Okay,
Speaker 3: do I burn a short term call up on a guy?
Speaker 3: And you've got to think about it too hard when
Speaker 3: it really should just be just like the NBA, call
Speaker 3: him up, I need him, I need him for two weeks.
Speaker 3: I got a ten day deal or a fourteen day contract.
Speaker 3: It should be that simple. But it's no.
Speaker 2: I agree. I agree, especially if you're not going to
Speaker 2: expand the roster or the salary cap. Or you know,
Speaker 2: you need to figure out a different mechanism to have
Speaker 2: additional players play.
Speaker 1: So, yes, I'm in one hundred percent agreement with.
Speaker 2: You on that.
Speaker 3: Vancouver is a plus two to ninety on the road
Speaker 3: at Columbus of a minus one twenty three. NYC is
Speaker 3: a minus one ten in the Bronx taking on at
Speaker 3: Land United, who's a plus two eighty two. You mentioned
Speaker 3: Portland and San Jose. Portland is a minus one one.
Speaker 3: San Jose is north of plus three hundred and uh,
Speaker 3: as we look at I think.
Speaker 2: We both need to somehow find a way to work
Speaker 2: for Phil Nevill.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: Then you like he like he would be like, well, well,
Speaker 2: I mean, look, John Nelson is the best radio guy
Speaker 2: in the in the in the in the league.
Speaker 1: There's no we don't have a question about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I love you for that. That's fantastic, Uh
Speaker 3: from your lips outbound. But as long as I get
Speaker 3: to still do everything here and then we'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Like David Ayala's the best midfielder, Anthony should be the
Speaker 2: MVP or then there's no question, like it's great, Like
Speaker 2: I'm sure he rips his guys and inside the locker room,
Speaker 2: but outside right, nothing but praise everything.
Speaker 1: So four and a half, by the way is a
Speaker 1: plus two forty five.
Speaker 3: So it turns at three and a half. Portland and
Speaker 3: San Jose's over underturns it three and a half, by
Speaker 3: the way, from a minus to a plus and uh,
Speaker 3: it goes to plus one four three and a half.
Speaker 3: Plus four and a half is a plus two forty five.
Speaker 3: And if you're really ambitious, plus five and a half
Speaker 3: is a plus five eleven. So that's that's what you're
Speaker 3: staring at with Portland and San Jose. I like, I
Speaker 3: like the four and a half of a plus two
Speaker 3: forty five. I think that you can see chaos and
Speaker 3: have it and have it rage supreme with your chaos
Speaker 3: there with that one.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's it.
Speaker 2: It's it's Portland and San Jose. It's after dark.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a there's a high degree of likelihood of chaos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And and it's its own match, and so it's
Speaker 3: it's its own spotlight. So you've got that going lag.
Speaker 3: They finally won, but they're a plus two to fifty
Speaker 3: dog taking on all caps in Saint Louis revs. And
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Philadelphia, Charlotte, Austin hosting Red Bulls. Uh, this is
Speaker 3: going to be a challenge for a lot of folks,
Speaker 3: especially with their fantasy rosters. Yeah, you know, me being
Speaker 3: me and everything, it's like you're NAVI getting your fantasy
Speaker 3: roster to make sure that you captain the right guy
Speaker 3: and that so and so isn't on any kind of
Speaker 3: international duty.
Speaker 1: But I'm trying to see it.
Speaker 3: Looks like for the most part, well, I was gonna say,
Speaker 3: for the most part, it looks like the home the
Speaker 3: home folks are the favorites, But it almost looks like
Speaker 3: it's a fifty to fifty proposition, especially on the.
Speaker 2: New England Cincinnati could be interesting as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean New England Cincinnati. Both of them are
Speaker 3: on the plus side. Austin's on the plus side as
Speaker 3: a favorite, Chicago on the plus side going up against Nashville.
Speaker 3: The the the Greg Burhalter bj Callahan subtext of that one,
Speaker 3: I mean, I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that one. That one's gonna be a fun one.
Speaker 3: At eight forty Eastern Minnesota United on the plus side,
Speaker 3: favored because of their absences. Just so folks know, for Minnesota,
Speaker 3: set your fantasy teams appropriately it is Boxall, Harvey lud
Speaker 3: Olawaisse Rosales and Dane Saint Clair. So oh, Jesse marsh
Speaker 3: is hanging on to Dane Saint Clair and Tony Olawa
Speaker 3: say uh, then we'll see if they race back or
Speaker 3: if they're going to be stuck getting ready for Gold Cup.
Speaker 3: But you know, so I am intrigued when it comes
Speaker 3: to how things are going to look this weekend when
Speaker 3: you look. So this is what we're gonna put the
Speaker 3: time capsule. My last question for you. The teams that
Speaker 3: are north of the playoff bar right now, in the
Speaker 3: East and the West, do they stay the way they are?
Speaker 3: And if they don't, who goes up and who goes down?
Speaker 1: In the playoffs?
Speaker 2: One second, we pull up my standings, ye pull up.
Speaker 3: Your sad So pull up your standings, and so do
Speaker 3: the Do the nine stay the nine in the east
Speaker 3: and the west?
Speaker 2: Just just in terms of above the line, you mean.
Speaker 3: Just above the line, So nine above the line gonna
Speaker 3: be the nine? Does someone come from below the line?
Speaker 3: And then who dumps out in the East and the west.
Speaker 3: That's that's the This is the the time capsule question
Speaker 3: that we open up in October and November.
Speaker 2: I would say the nine stay up in the East.
Speaker 2: I was hedging on Chicago because they haven't. They've been
Speaker 2: too inconsistent for me. But I think they're trending in
Speaker 2: the right direction, so I'll keep them above the line.
Speaker 2: I think Charlotte will figure out a way to stay there,
Speaker 2: and the teams above that as well, I mean New England, NY, CFC.
Speaker 2: If they do something in the summer, I think they
Speaker 2: could both make a push. I think it's a lot
Speaker 2: of a lot of points to make up for, like
Speaker 2: in Atlanta, right understood, So, but then again, it's a
Speaker 2: forgiving lee. So you know, if they finally put all
Speaker 2: those puzzle pieces together and play the way they should
Speaker 2: with you know, that multi million dollar lineup that that
Speaker 2: is there, I think, you know, they can make a
Speaker 2: run of it as well. But yeah, like the teams
Speaker 2: that are above, it's hard to it's hard to say,
Speaker 2: you know whom I who might go below that, Like
Speaker 2: Red Bulls haven't been great. They've been good, but like
Speaker 2: they they they don't until last year. I guess the
Speaker 2: thing is they don't do much in a playoffs where
Speaker 2: they make the playoffs. So so I'll say as of
Speaker 2: right now I'll say, yes, all those teams will stay above.
Speaker 3: Okay, just thought, just thought I would ask, So we
Speaker 3: will keep that in the time capsule and we will
Speaker 3: bring it out and we'll see how incredibly correct we
Speaker 3: all are when.
Speaker 4: It comes to yeah, looking at the west, Yes, hmm, it's.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a similar kind of thing, right you
Speaker 2: look at the last spot, like there's two points separating
Speaker 2: Colorado and Houston.
Speaker 1: And four with Dallas. If you want to go that far.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna go that far. Okay, I think, uh yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't think I will say that that again. It's
Speaker 2: not fun, I guess because it's it's going chalk. But
Speaker 2: I think I would say that those nine stay. My
Speaker 2: only caveat maybe being that nine ten spot with Houston Colorado.
Speaker 3: But and the future of Zach Stephan and Nett in
Speaker 3: Colorado for the next four Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you know, salt Lake with Luna,
Speaker 2: but I think Luna, if he keeps playing the way
Speaker 2: that he's playing, I don't think he'll be here past
Speaker 2: the summer, so understood. And that's the only guy. That's
Speaker 2: all they have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, salt Lake, So yes, sixteen goals seventeen matches and
Speaker 3: they've given up twenty five so they're at minus nine
Speaker 3: and they got some work to do, winning two on
Speaker 3: the road and at home so far. So you're on
Speaker 3: the desk. When are you on the desk this weekend?
Speaker 3: You're on the desk tomorrow there, Thursday, Saturday. Okay, So
Speaker 3: you get to enjoy MLS after dark on Friday, right, Yeah, unless,
Speaker 3: of course you're actually going to spend time with family
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, usually I'm up early on Saturday, so I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if I'm making the full two hours of MLS
Speaker 2: after dark on Friday night.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Well, as always, my friend, it's great
Speaker 3: to see you, great to get to all of your
Speaker 3: insights when it comes to everything going on in and
Speaker 3: around the league. We'll catch up with you on the
Speaker 3: flip side and you get to let us know what
Speaker 3: you think about it.
Speaker 1: Landy nighted then y C next week. Yeah, buddy,