Speaker 1: That's another go around here on a Friday, So we
Speaker 1: know what that means.
Speaker 2: On a Friday's where I turn the volume up and
Speaker 2: put my headphones down because it's time to get you
Speaker 2: ready for what's going on.
Speaker 3: Oh hmmm, come.
Speaker 1: On man, yeah, go for it, dude.
Speaker 4: It's Friday.
Speaker 5: Day.
Speaker 2: It is indeed a Friday, and so we get you
Speaker 2: ready for the weekend. Let you know what's going on,
Speaker 2: and we will drop it all here in the next
Speaker 2: couple of hours. So John, hear you there once again,
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming by as you always do, and it
Speaker 2: is gonna be a fun show. We're gonna get you
Speaker 2: ready for the weekend once again at Lanty and I
Speaker 2: did in their last preseason home game, and it's a
Speaker 2: preseason home game behind closed doors, but nevertheless it is
Speaker 2: a preseason home game. So all of y'all's once again,
Speaker 2: it's great to see you here today. So I didn't
Speaker 2: realize that I was Jason test for a second, So
Speaker 2: spot me a second and a half here, So there
Speaker 2: we go, all right. So there, I'm me, I'm i'm me,
Speaker 2: you're you all right, So here's the deal. We're gonna
Speaker 2: go over everything this weekend. I know that we kind
Speaker 2: of had on the table the breaking news that kind
Speaker 2: of broke yesterday involving the USL and what was going
Speaker 2: on there. We've got that to talk about and just
Speaker 2: kind of put a bow on it anything else and
Speaker 2: just kind of once again look through the whole thing.
Speaker 2: We did go into stadium sizes and things like that,
Speaker 2: and the economics of it all.
Speaker 1: Is it just me? And it's probably just this computer.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to take the I'm gonna have to
Speaker 2: take the laptop into the geek squad and figure it
Speaker 2: out because there's one particular app that is one particular
Speaker 2: website that is fritzing all over the place on the desktop.
Speaker 2: So anyway, all right, so I know that yesterday we
Speaker 2: talked about stadium sizes and things like that, I talked
Speaker 2: about travel. I mean, we probably can put a bow
Speaker 2: on it more than anything else. Right now, I'm intrigued
Speaker 2: with the next steps. I want to see if they're
Speaker 2: looking at different markets, if they're looking at the same markets,
Speaker 2: if they're looking at expansion. My biggest thing is the
Speaker 2: economics involved, both inbound and outbound. And I want to
Speaker 2: see who might be interested in something like that from
Speaker 2: a sponsor perspective, what's the TV package going to look like?
Speaker 1: Is it going to be the same thing that it's
Speaker 1: there now?
Speaker 2: So, like I said, twell to fourteen team league that
Speaker 2: we know, we yesterday went over the stadia and we'll
Speaker 2: go back over it again real quick for those that
Speaker 2: missed it yesterday as a part of the discussion, and
Speaker 2: we'll see what everybody else, you know, may think about
Speaker 2: all of all of that issue. So, like I said,
Speaker 2: we'll put it, we'll put a bow on it, and
Speaker 2: we'll see what's on everybody's mind involving that really quickly.
Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, we pretty much went through
Speaker 2: the release yesterday when Paul McDonough said what he said,
Speaker 2: and we'll uh and and uh, Nick Papadeka said what
Speaker 2: he said, the interview with the McDonagh with UH the
Speaker 2: Athletic and then the release that came out with Nick
Speaker 2: Papadeka saying the things that he said. We went through
Speaker 2: the Louisville version of it because lou said he was
Speaker 2: the first one that got into my inbox. So that's
Speaker 2: where that's where we are with all of that. So
Speaker 2: let's see So whatever whatever else is on your mind,
Speaker 2: we'll get into that this some stuff overseas to get into.
Speaker 2: We've got big matchups and things like that. We've got
Speaker 2: to get into the revisiting of the Premier League now
Speaker 2: that we're out of the FA window, all the big
Speaker 2: matchups that are coming up this weekend, and we may
Speaker 2: we may have another guest coming up at ten thirty
Speaker 2: to break everything down on your weekend and what we've
Speaker 2: seen so far. So Opening Kickoff rought to is buy
Speaker 2: our friends at Kickoff Coffee and Kickoff Coffeeco dot Com.
Speaker 2: I've still got to figure out when to make sure
Speaker 2: that I can grab the QR code and flash the
Speaker 2: QR code on the screen, so what blocks out my face?
Speaker 2: Oh and the other thing I know that we'll do
Speaker 2: as a part of Opening Kickoff as well.
Speaker 1: At your there's no piano here.
Speaker 2: For those of you that were here yesterday and you
Speaker 2: got to see the end of the show where Nico
Speaker 2: and I were discussing what we always discuss. You saw
Speaker 2: the piano movers, so it's it's odd not having an armrest,
Speaker 2: so it's just a it's an odd situation. But yeah,
Speaker 2: we're getting the new piano brought in fairly soon, so
Speaker 2: we'll see what's what what's on the mind up By
Speaker 2: the way, when they moved the piano yesterday, we all
Speaker 2: remember what happened over the last couple of days. But
Speaker 2: it was it was a mud bog in the backyard.
Speaker 2: It was a mud bog, a guarantee, so uh, it
Speaker 2: was it was an experience trying to get the trying
Speaker 2: to trying to get the how do we say this, uh,
Speaker 2: try to get the piano out of the out of
Speaker 2: the backyard. So that was that was very very interesting yesterday.
Speaker 2: I give the piano movers a great deal of credit
Speaker 2: for what they were able to pull off yesterday in
Speaker 2: removing the piano. In removing the piano yesterday, they get
Speaker 2: they get massive credit for what they were doing yesterday.
Speaker 2: So big ups to them as as we got a
Speaker 2: piano move. And it's only half the battle, so we'll
Speaker 2: see what's on. We'll see what happens there as well. Okay,
Speaker 2: opening kickoff brought to is by our friends at Kickoff
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Speaker 2: but but ert Ricky, I know that I don't necessarily
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Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: That was just the thing that was faster to get to.
Speaker 2: And we've got to bring I've got to bring her
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Speaker 2: into the computer. That's the word I'm looking for. We
Speaker 2: have to bring it into the computer and we can
Speaker 2: we can all sit there and enjoy. We can all
Speaker 2: enjoy Rebecca going forward. But okay, so I'm torn, I can.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go with the I'm gonna go with the promotional
Speaker 2: aspect of things. So I don't know if you've had
Speaker 2: the chance, with your busy lives to sit there and
Speaker 2: see what we've been able to do with the Creek Cup.
Speaker 2: And it's been really fun to be able to show
Speaker 2: what's going on with the Creek Cup and with some
Speaker 2: of the great talent here in the state of Georgia.
Speaker 2: So opening kickoff is gonna be the blatant promo. Last
Speaker 2: couple of days, we've been at Northview and we've been
Speaker 2: at Johns Creek, Jason's been at Johns Creek, and I've
Speaker 2: been at Northview. We're gonna be getting this is where
Speaker 2: the rubber meets the road because we have triple header.
Speaker 2: I have a triple header today. I think Jason has
Speaker 2: a doubleheader and it is Championship Saturday, where we each
Speaker 2: have four games going on at the same time. And
Speaker 2: you can catch up with us at soccer down here
Speaker 2: dot mixlore dot com. On the John's Creek side of
Speaker 2: things with Jason and the boys championships and the boys activity.
Speaker 2: You can catch up with me and SDH two literally
Speaker 2: soccer down here in the number two dot mixler dot com.
Speaker 2: So go to Mixler, download the app, find soccer down here,
Speaker 2: find soccer down here too. Follow both get your notifications
Speaker 2: for when we're on the air. So I had the
Speaker 2: one match yesterday and it was Walton and the home
Speaker 2: side Northview Walton. It was a tight game at the
Speaker 2: half it was one nil, then Walton put the pedal
Speaker 2: down in the second half. A lot of credit I
Speaker 2: give to Northview and a very very young team. They
Speaker 2: had as many as five ninth graders out there at
Speaker 2: any time. They were seven and nine last year, seven
Speaker 2: nine and one last year, and Walton made a deep
Speaker 2: run into the playoffs in seven A. So if you're
Speaker 2: big into high school soccer, and it's our first forays
Speaker 2: into that this year, this week has been the premier
Speaker 2: week for high school soccer, the premier week, first week,
Speaker 2: Premiere premier not premiere Premier week, opening week. How about
Speaker 2: that for high school soccer? And what you do is
Speaker 2: you can go to mixer SDH and SDH two John's
Speaker 2: Creek activity in the Creeks Cup. And thanks again to
Speaker 2: everybody at John's Creek and at Northview for being great
Speaker 2: partners with us, so we can broadcast the matches and
Speaker 2: everything and be there and lay them all out for you.
Speaker 1: And you've got activity today.
Speaker 2: I have a triple header at four, six and eight
Speaker 2: over at SDH two and then Jason has I believe
Speaker 2: two matches and his activity is Do.
Speaker 1: I have that written down? No, I have it written down.
Speaker 2: The other one it is going on later this afternoon
Speaker 2: when it comes to everything at John's Creek, And so
Speaker 2: John's Creek will be there and Jason had an exciting
Speaker 2: match with his six o'clock last night and so big
Speaker 2: win for North Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Max Roady.
Speaker 2: We got to see him for the second time in
Speaker 2: a week. And so John's Creek and what is going on.
Speaker 1: There with the.
Speaker 2: With all of the activity that's going on with a
Speaker 2: Creek Cup, A lot of games, two locations going on,
Speaker 2: all at the same time, and so it's two matches, yeah,
Speaker 2: two matches on the boy's side. Jason actually gets an
Speaker 2: all Alabama match up at six o'clock with Dothan and Tucker.
Speaker 2: I know that a lot of us here in city
Speaker 2: to Tucker. No, there's a Tucker Alabama. So Dothan and
Speaker 2: Tucker will play at six Johns Creek and Murray will
Speaker 2: play at eight. And so that's the cardinal bracket that's
Speaker 2: gonna determine champions for tomorrow. I have a tripleheader. We
Speaker 2: wrap up the Blue bracket at four North Atlanta for
Speaker 2: the second time in a week, plays Greenbrier and then
Speaker 2: the boys play immediately after that against Midtown So North Atlanta,
Speaker 2: Greenbrier Girls at four, Midtown Greenbrier Boys at six Northview,
Speaker 2: and Lagrange Boys at eight. That's on SDH two. Dothan
Speaker 2: and Tucker Alabama at six Johns Creek, and Murray in
Speaker 2: the cardinal bracket that's going to be on the SDH
Speaker 2: channel a SDH one on the Mixler app and you
Speaker 2: can catch all of those there all week. Let's see
Speaker 2: by the time we're done, so it's eight and thirteen, fourteen, sixteen,
Speaker 2: eighteen matches in a four day period on the SDH
Speaker 2: network to get us started, and then we get a
Speaker 2: little a couple of days off, and then we come
Speaker 2: back on Tuesday with McIntosh and Dalton three o'clock kick
Speaker 2: on the app because it's winter break so they can
Speaker 2: do those kinds of things with scheduling.
Speaker 1: So mc McIntosh and Dalton Boys at.
Speaker 2: Three and then at eight o'clock I will be with
Speaker 2: Maddie in the Cast of thousands up Appalachi for the
Speaker 2: varsity matchup between Seconder and Appalachi's Boys.
Speaker 1: So that's Tuesday, and that's the next thing in the run.
Speaker 2: So if you're a fan of high school soccer, Morning
Speaker 2: four Card, Morning Alex, and Morning Ricky obviously, but if
Speaker 2: you're a fan of high school soccer, it's a great
Speaker 2: way to kick things off and listen to the Creek
Speaker 2: Cup put together by our friends at Northview and John's Creek.
Speaker 2: We've been running strong with that. We're actually gonna have
Speaker 2: some reinforcements coming in and it was it's going to
Speaker 2: be John Morgo I think is going to be helping
Speaker 2: Jason out on Saturday and Drew Dickinson will be helping
Speaker 2: me out with the quadruple headers at both sites on Saturday.
Speaker 2: So very very cool stuff that our friends at the
Speaker 2: Creek Cup are doing. And it's a great kickoff for
Speaker 2: the high school season. So that is something of officially
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Speaker 2: those of you that may have seen Jason on Insta
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Speaker 2: You can get it in red, you can get it
Speaker 2: in black. Seriously, no, lie, it is one of the
Speaker 2: softest sweatshirts I own. The Boss has stolen the black one.
Speaker 2: I have to wear the red one. And well because
Speaker 2: she can't wear red in this house anyway. Oh, by
Speaker 2: the way, here is here's the boss. So there's the boss.
Speaker 2: And there's got to be a way that we could.
Speaker 2: We don't have to be like back here or something.
Speaker 2: We'll figure it out. But soccer is just better in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: When you purchase that, you can get a T shirt,
Speaker 2: you can get it sweatshirt, you can get it with
Speaker 2: our friends there at Grady Baby Co. Proceeds help out
Speaker 2: middle school soccer programs attached to the Atlanta Public school system.
Speaker 2: So very very cool stuff there from our friends at
Speaker 2: Grady Baby Co Olive in New York. You can get
Speaker 2: your first ever SDH jersey thanks to our friends at
Speaker 2: Kains of Permanente, thanks to our friends that Beyond Goals,
Speaker 2: thanks to Soccer for Good and that the proceeds from
Speaker 2: that will go to some of the programs that we've
Speaker 2: earmarked here in twenty twenty five as part of our
Speaker 2: Soccer for Good campaign. And you can get it in Navy.
Speaker 2: That Navy's the easy part. I don't personalize jerseys, but
Speaker 2: you can get it personalized if you want. Either in
Speaker 2: white letters and numerals or in the lighter blue the
Speaker 2: Carolina blue letters numerals.
Speaker 1: Morning Harry, and.
Speaker 2: You can wear the Olivi and York SDH jersey for
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Speaker 1: Don't forget you can once again.
Speaker 2: You can see how it looks on Maddie, Greg Garza
Speaker 2: and Sophia, the two, the four, and the seven all
Speaker 2: right there on our SDH model's Instagram account and on
Speaker 2: the SDH Instagram account as well. But our fashion our
Speaker 2: resident fashion model Greg Garza modeling his jersey and very
Speaker 2: very cool stuff that you can do there at Olivi
Speaker 2: and York.
Speaker 1: To get that jersey.
Speaker 2: Marshall Islands, you can get the Marshall Island scarfs to
Speaker 2: help them out.
Speaker 1: I have those.
Speaker 2: You get the bucket hats in the jerseys. You have
Speaker 2: to place the order with our friends overseas and then
Speaker 2: they ship it back. You want the scarf, you can
Speaker 2: come through me and I can either hand it to
Speaker 2: you or mail it to you. Send something to Canton
Speaker 2: last week, sending something to Fairfax, Virginia this week. I'm
Speaker 2: under twenty with the supply of those, So be sure
Speaker 2: to help out our friends at the Marshall Islands and
Speaker 2: you can do that as well. Go to the Marshall
Speaker 2: Islands Store and the Marshall Island Soccer Federation get the gear.
Speaker 2: Helps them with all of their programs, helps them bring
Speaker 2: up the Marshal leaves involved that are here in the
Speaker 2: United States as they try to build their program a
Speaker 2: lot of footsal going on. Follow them on social media too,
Speaker 2: so you can sit there and see what the growth
Speaker 2: of it is with the Marshall Islands and see how
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Speaker 2: Other buddy Nino Torres, who was on the show yesterday,
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Speaker 2: a way to have a conversation with him while he's
Speaker 2: calling a match. You get to have conversations on live
Speaker 2: TV with a play by play guy. So there's all
Speaker 2: of that, all right. I think that's all the promos.
Speaker 2: What I also want to do in this show is
Speaker 2: once again I ask this going into the weekend. I
Speaker 2: will go into going into the weekend. Here it is
Speaker 2: the last preseason match for Atlanta United and it is
Speaker 2: FC Dallas. It's behind closed doors I think atoutd dot
Speaker 2: com slash Live from the Children's Healthcare of it in
Speaker 2: a training ground and it's FC Dallas. Don't know if
Speaker 2: Lucco Acosta is going to be here dressed Street closed,
Speaker 2: not here watching waiting. He might be you know the observation,
Speaker 2: you know the observation. Platform don't know, but you have
Speaker 2: all of that intrigue with Dallas. You have all the
Speaker 2: intrigue with Alanta United. What I want to know for
Speaker 2: this particular program today heading into this matchup with FC Dallas,
Speaker 2: because starting next week we're going to be getting into
Speaker 2: previews and catching up with all of our friends and
Speaker 2: finding out what's going on in and around Major League
Speaker 2: Soccer as we get ready for it going into this
Speaker 2: last weekend, I want to know what's on your mind
Speaker 2: with it Landy United, whether it is team related, personnel related,
Speaker 2: what you've seen, what you've liked, what are your concerns. Literally,
Speaker 2: I'm putting it all out there about it Land United
Speaker 2: for this last time as we get into the last
Speaker 2: preseason game. And we did find out that Emmanuel late
Speaker 2: Lot has his visa. There's a credit card joke in
Speaker 2: there that I'm going to leave alone. So he has
Speaker 2: his visa working out, So either Slam or the Four
Speaker 2: Horsemen or whatever you want to put it to, it
Speaker 2: looks like they're getting it pieced together. Late loth you
Speaker 2: know he's in Obviously he's in mid season shape and
Speaker 2: endurance from a championship perspective, We'll see how how his
Speaker 2: physicality is with Ronnie Dila now that he's going through drills.
Speaker 2: You watched on the instagram for SDH yesterday you kind
Speaker 2: of saw him going through some opening drills and things
Speaker 2: like that. So El has his visa, so Latte Lot
Speaker 2: has his visa. Slam or the four Horsemen or whatever
Speaker 2: you want to call him, they're all in house. Now,
Speaker 2: what what's on your mind as we get into this,
Speaker 2: as as Ricky says and Ben Alex is also pointing
Speaker 2: out this morning, and this is true, this is actually true.
Speaker 2: Alex has been hearing rumors that Atlanta United Football Club
Speaker 2: will be playing actual soccer that counts a mere eight
Speaker 2: days from now. And that's why, as we are getting
Speaker 2: eight days in under, that's why, as we're getting to
Speaker 2: that soccer that counts, I want to know where you stand.
Speaker 2: I want to know where I want to know what's
Speaker 2: on your mind, what your concerns are, what you've been
Speaker 2: looking at, what you've been impressed with, all those things.
Speaker 2: I want to know what's on your mind as we
Speaker 2: head toward FC Dallas on the flip side. Next week,
Speaker 2: it's going to be the preview from you nowhere, because
Speaker 2: it's going to end up being you're gonna have Bart
Speaker 2: talking about On Monday, it's going to be the national
Speaker 2: team in the U seventeens and she believes getting wound
Speaker 2: up from that, and you're going to have a previewing
Speaker 2: at Lanty United on Tuesday is when we start catching
Speaker 2: up with our friends. Well Logic, the play by play
Speaker 2: voice of Charlotte FC is going to be dropping by.
Speaker 2: I think he's at nine to fifteen on Tuesday. On Wednesday,
Speaker 2: in addition to all of that, Matt Cairns is going
Speaker 2: to be joining us from Huntsville City. He's going to
Speaker 2: be in the ten o'clock hour on Wednesday after Tyler
Speaker 2: joins us on Wednesday, And we are also efforting a
Speaker 2: lot of our other friends on Thursday and Friday to
Speaker 2: go with Nino and Nico in the preview and the
Speaker 2: Friday free for all that gets us into next week.
Speaker 2: You see, literally, we just broke down everything that's going
Speaker 2: to be happening next week in about thirty seconds because
Speaker 2: we're that close to the beginning of the regular season.
Speaker 2: But I believe Alex to be correct with his rumors.
Speaker 2: And then Ricky was also hearing rumors that they will
Speaker 2: be playing the actual soccer a mere eight days from
Speaker 2: now in a new kit, and it's being announced today.
Speaker 2: We've seen the teas videos out there, and at the
Speaker 2: end of the teas video in question, I believe for
Speaker 2: Ricky there was a two point one four point twenty
Speaker 2: five that is not two fourteen in a quarter. I
Speaker 2: believe that to be the date in question for said kit.
Speaker 2: So we'll have the new kit, we'll have all the
Speaker 2: new stuff, we will have the new players coming onto
Speaker 2: the field to see if Montreal coming to town, and
Speaker 2: the season will be on.
Speaker 1: In eight days.
Speaker 2: But you you sit there and I mean, we go
Speaker 2: back to all the conversations that we've had, all the
Speaker 2: conversations that we've had about seven weeks. Seven weeks, Oh no,
Speaker 2: you know seven weeks. What are you gonna do to
Speaker 2: talk about seven weeks?
Speaker 1: You want to know what?
Speaker 2: Seven weeks went by? Pretty quick? There was plenty to
Speaker 2: talk about. Playoff formats the same four card, so it
Speaker 2: is the the eight to nine play in, the eight
Speaker 2: nine play in, and then it goes to winner the
Speaker 2: eight nine taking on the one two, seven, three, six, four, five,
Speaker 2: et cetera. So that's, uh, that's where we are. Ropes
Speaker 2: excited to see all the folks at the tailgate a
Speaker 2: week from Saturday. Understandably, so I said it's gonna be
Speaker 2: it's gonna be good to get games at COUNT. Don't
Speaker 2: misunderstand me. It's been fun going to Birmingham and the
Speaker 2: Chattanoogaan too, seeing everything and IMG and all these pieces
Speaker 2: being put together. But yeah, you're gonna have games at
Speaker 2: COUNT next week. We're gonna be looking at all the teams,
Speaker 2: all the news, all the players that have been put
Speaker 2: into their new places and new positions, all that stuff.
Speaker 2: But yeah, a week from Saturday is your tailgating.
Speaker 1: Eight days.
Speaker 2: You are tailgating with your friends and your supporters groups
Speaker 2: getting ready for a night game with Atlanta United.
Speaker 1: And c F Montreal. That is only in eight days,
Speaker 1: only in eight days. So that's where that's where we are.
Speaker 2: We got we do have some news and some previews
Speaker 2: and things like that to get into and everything England
Speaker 2: and all the pieces in between. So that is going
Speaker 2: to be a part of the show today. That's going
Speaker 2: to be a part of the show today as well.
Speaker 2: Getting ready for the weekend and all those kinds of things.
Speaker 2: So all across the board, it's going to be a
Speaker 2: fun time as we get you ready for the weekend
Speaker 2: Creek Cup on SDH network all weekend long, well not
Speaker 2: all weekend, Friday and Saturday, and then Sunday you might
Speaker 2: hear a voice on ninety two nine that is here
Speaker 2: on the network. Then he's going to be filling in.
Speaker 2: I think Jason is going to be filling in on
Speaker 2: Sunday and Monday on ninety two nine. So busiest man
Speaker 2: in show business never stops being busy. But now this morning,
Speaker 2: what I want to know is what's on your mind
Speaker 2: with it landa United heading into the last preseason game,
Speaker 2: because it starts for real. Really, it starts, really, it
Speaker 2: starts for real, he said, speaking English very goodly. Really
Speaker 2: it starts for real on the flip side of that
Speaker 2: preseason match because the team is getting ready for games
Speaker 2: account last time I heard, so we're looking at eight days,
Speaker 2: guarantee you that the team is looking at now, and
Speaker 2: then they're looking at Saturday afternoon and then it's like okay,
Speaker 2: then you're off and running. Regular season starts then, and
Speaker 2: like I said, next week, what we're gonna try to
Speaker 2: do is catch up with as many of our friends
Speaker 2: as humanly possible, and what we'll do is find out
Speaker 2: what's going on in their cities. I'm gonna put out
Speaker 2: the bat signal for our friends like Glenn Davis and Houston,
Speaker 2: Lucas Panzica in Nashville. Like I said, we're gonna have
Speaker 2: Willie Peon on Tuesday morning to break everything down in
Speaker 2: Charlotte and all points in between, all the all of
Speaker 2: our friends that we can get in touch with and
Speaker 2: figure out how we can have them on the show.
Speaker 1: We'll have them on the show. I may I may even.
Speaker 2: Pull out a couple of try to pull a couple
Speaker 2: of aces out of my sleeve and bring in some
Speaker 2: folks getting ready for the season too. So should be
Speaker 2: a fun week getting ready for everything going on in
Speaker 2: Major League Soccer. Balance that out with our high school
Speaker 2: schedule where we're going to be next Wednesday in Gainesville.
Speaker 2: And then also yeah, so next week is after apple Achi.
Speaker 2: Get this, so next week after Appalachi and Macintosh and
Speaker 2: Dalton Wednesday, looking to go to Gainesville for North Gwenett
Speaker 2: and Gainesville.
Speaker 1: Then we have Moxie Midtown. Remember the twentieth.
Speaker 2: Moxie at Midtown another great sponsor with us here at
Speaker 2: SDH from like seven to eight thirty. Moxie Midtown is
Speaker 2: where we get our first Third Thursday, our first third
Speaker 2: Thursday event. I have to make sure that I have
Speaker 2: my beats in there, the first third Thursday event of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. And our friends at Moxie Midtown are
Speaker 2: being great hosts with us there this week and this season.
Speaker 2: So Moxie Midtown on the twentieth, and then Friday night
Speaker 2: Johnson Gainesville, Dalton back up there for that and then
Speaker 2: it's kickoff of the season. So when you thought it
Speaker 2: was busy, it is busy high school season for US
Speaker 2: Pro season for US Julige soccer kicking in. I know
Speaker 2: you guys are ready, So everybody's getting all antsy and everything.
Speaker 1: So that's where we are.
Speaker 2: But this morning, this morning, this morning, as we head
Speaker 2: into that last preseason game with FC Dallas, I want
Speaker 2: to know what's on your mind.
Speaker 1: I want to know what you've seen.
Speaker 2: I want to know what has happened and progressed over time,
Speaker 2: and I want to know what's on your mind when
Speaker 2: it comes to Atlanta United. Is we get ready for
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five season. My natural inclination, by the way,
Speaker 2: has been to call them the four Horsemen instead of
Speaker 2: Slam and then. But I do know that that would
Speaker 2: mean that we would probably have to play Onyx in
Speaker 2: Mercedes Been Stadium with one of them scored, so in
Speaker 2: addition to what we traditionally play, or at least you know, uh,
Speaker 2: maybe Mike makes a lyric drop or something.
Speaker 1: We'll see something like that.
Speaker 2: But once again, I want to know what's on your
Speaker 2: mind with it Landy United this morning, what's on your
Speaker 2: mind with the team going through all the other news
Speaker 2: and all the other things. So that's where that's where
Speaker 2: we are this morning, and we'll try and preview as
Speaker 2: many teams as we're out there.
Speaker 1: Harry, you have an excellent point.
Speaker 2: If you have it, well, actually I'll give you a
Speaker 2: contender in a second. Harry says he's not sure anyone
Speaker 2: is beating the RSL kit.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: It is without a doubt some some money that a
Speaker 2: lot of folks are gonna spend RSL is at a
Speaker 2: home run Seattle in the sale Ish s A Sea
Speaker 2: kit would be a second for me, all right, nine
Speaker 2: thirty Ish nine thirty or so, and we get to
Speaker 2: talk to our mogul in training and we get to
Speaker 2: find out what's going on as he's looking at multiple
Speaker 2: divisions and looking at multiple teams getting ready for the
Speaker 2: starts of their season. So what this means is we
Speaker 2: bring in the man himself, Michael Parkers parking up.
Speaker 3: What is happening John.
Speaker 2: You, sir, being a mogul in training as you are
Speaker 2: for season two of being a mogul in training? You
Speaker 2: get to and I mentioned it before you popped in,
Speaker 2: It's like you're looking at it from your your team
Speaker 2: perspective with Atlanta United, but then also the ownership perspective
Speaker 2: and overseer perspective at Rhode Island f C. What's it
Speaker 2: like handling all of these different personalities of yours heading
Speaker 2: into a season for a.
Speaker 3: Chain no different than last year? You know, I think that.
Speaker 2: What no, no, no comment about Well, expectations are higher
Speaker 2: on both sides considering what happened.
Speaker 1: Come on, where's my expectations or higher? SoundBite?
Speaker 3: I mean, naturally, expectations are higher year two than year one.
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean that we're going to go further. I
Speaker 3: mean we could only win one more game at the
Speaker 3: end of the season at least. But yeah, to be honest, John,
Speaker 3: all this d one talk is confusing to me. I
Speaker 3: don't US is in a good place right now. MLS
Speaker 3: is a behemoth compared to USL, and I'm not privy
Speaker 3: to all the information. I'm not on all these Board
Speaker 3: of Governor's calls with USL and owners calls, so I'm
Speaker 3: not sure what the thinking is, But i just don't
Speaker 3: think it makes sense to try and go up against MSS.
Speaker 3: MLS is buying and selling players intra league now for
Speaker 3: ten plus million dollars, and you know our budget for
Speaker 3: players is like one point five million, So yeah, we're
Speaker 3: on different levels. So you know, for me, it just
Speaker 3: doesn't make sense. That being said, if things do do
Speaker 3: do progress, Rhode Island will be in the top bracket
Speaker 3: of USL for sure.
Speaker 2: Okay, since you since you mentioned everything going on with
Speaker 2: Lanty United and getting ready for multiple seasons in multiple
Speaker 2: places as a player, how much did you look forward
Speaker 2: to the preseason in and of itself or did you
Speaker 2: just want to get out there and start knocking guys
Speaker 2: around and have things go on for real? What was
Speaker 2: your what was your thought about preseason and getting ready
Speaker 2: for the regular season.
Speaker 1: As a player, I.
Speaker 3: Enjoyed preseason for the most part. I think that there's
Speaker 3: obviously aspects of preseason that you don't look forward to,
Speaker 3: mostly the fitness, but I enjoyed it just because it
Speaker 3: was a time to get to know each other and
Speaker 3: set the foundation for the season. There was no you know,
Speaker 3: pressure yet as far as you know, games and seedings
Speaker 3: and all that stuff. So it was like, Okay, you know,
Speaker 3: this is a good time to just train. And I
Speaker 3: liked the process of training. I liked, you know, the
Speaker 3: the daily routine of it. So yeah, for me, I
Speaker 3: really enjoyed it. But yeah, I think that there comes
Speaker 3: a time in preseason, even though you're enjoying it, where
Speaker 3: you're ready to start the season. And I'm sure they've
Speaker 3: hit that point.
Speaker 2: When it comes to your mentees these days, and this
Speaker 2: might even play into how you were when you were
Speaker 2: their age.
Speaker 1: There you go get ready.
Speaker 2: Literally, it's the flipping of the switch, like it wasn't
Speaker 2: over the top stallone, you get the hat on backwards,
Speaker 2: You're ready to go. H when you were of a
Speaker 2: young and impressionable age starting out in the game.
Speaker 1: So basically, last Tuesday, what did you.
Speaker 2: Think about all of the conditioning and the preseason and
Speaker 2: all of these things and getting acquainted with new teammates
Speaker 2: and everything. You know, do you find that your mentees
Speaker 2: understand the importance of a build up and a preseason
Speaker 2: and staying as ready as possible, or do you have
Speaker 2: to explain to them, Yeah, I know, you got you've
Speaker 2: got games. Those are important, but at the same time,
Speaker 2: you have to maintain the self going into those games.
Speaker 2: Do you have to have those kinds of conversations at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit, And for sure it changes throughout time, right,
Speaker 3: I mean as younger players, the preseason is more important.
Speaker 3: These these minutes that you get with the first team,
Speaker 3: and these games are super valuable and super important because
Speaker 3: you don't know how many opportunities you'll get sometimes right
Speaker 3: where for me as a veteran and later in my career,
Speaker 3: it was like health is the most important thing, Like, Okay,
Speaker 3: you know, I want to get going and I want
Speaker 3: to you know, get sharp and stuff, but like this
Speaker 3: preseason game, I don't really care about as long as
Speaker 3: I you know, feel good and stay fit and get
Speaker 3: healthy coming out of it all, like that was the
Speaker 3: most important. But I do remember being younger, it was like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, every time you're out there, it's like I
Speaker 3: got something to prove you, I got something to earn.
Speaker 3: So you know that that is definitely a different situation
Speaker 3: for younger guys versus some veteran players. And yeah, I
Speaker 3: think that it's important for the younger players to understand that.
Speaker 3: And it's it's different now where players come into camp
Speaker 3: ready to go, and it's so much different than when
Speaker 3: I first started. So in that regard, these younger players
Speaker 3: are in a much better place than I was probably
Speaker 3: when I was younger. But I think that they also
Speaker 3: sometimes put too much emphasis on one game, one play,
Speaker 3: where it's like, hey, that's the beauty of preseason, that's
Speaker 3: why we got six weeks together, right, especially if you're
Speaker 3: training with the first team the whole time, like you know,
Speaker 3: you can you can go out there and it's okay
Speaker 3: to have a stinker or have a bad training session.
Speaker 3: It's more important the response to it and getting back
Speaker 3: on the saddle.
Speaker 2: Well, and you you mentioned that it's okay to have
Speaker 2: a stinker. I would think that, I mean, is pressure
Speaker 2: that much different these days? Where because I remember Beckuld
Speaker 2: buy a day, you know when I actually had more hair.
Speaker 2: You had that pressure from the the generations inside your
Speaker 2: home that you know, like the scene in Breakfast Club
Speaker 2: at the end when they're having and Emilio Ostevez, you know,
Speaker 2: he has the big speech. We I'm sure that we
Speaker 2: either had parents like that, we had family members like that,
Speaker 2: or we knew folks that were like that, and you know,
Speaker 2: pressure was there and your attitude is for ish and
Speaker 2: I'm sure we experienced a lot of that growing up.
Speaker 2: How different is parental influence and family influence on players
Speaker 2: today and on your mentees than it was maybe when
Speaker 2: we were growing up. How different is it? Is it
Speaker 2: different much? I know I'm asking like a four part
Speaker 2: question here, but I guess it has to do with
Speaker 2: parental influence and pressure that's put on from the family.
Speaker 1: How different is it from your observation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's I feel like back in the day,
Speaker 3: it was more pressure of winning and just playing well,
Speaker 3: and now it's a different type of pressure where it's
Speaker 3: like pressure to play your best, be the best, make
Speaker 3: sure that you're in a good spot to get a
Speaker 3: scholarship or you know, played on your high school team,
Speaker 3: played in college, get a scholarship, you know, it's that
Speaker 3: type of pressure is much more we're back when we
Speaker 3: were growing up, it wasn't like I didn't have pressure
Speaker 3: to go play in college or anything. That was just
Speaker 3: like yeah, parents just freaking out trying to win each game, right,
Speaker 3: So I think it was just more short term pressure
Speaker 3: like game to game, where now I think it's like
Speaker 3: a sometimes it's an overarching pressure of like getting to
Speaker 3: a certain level or a certain place by a certain time,
Speaker 3: just because of year round the money that the parents
Speaker 3: are putting into sports, all the extra training, So the
Speaker 3: pressure is still there for sure. And I'm sure it
Speaker 3: was like this back in the day, Like not all
Speaker 3: parents are like that, but you do have some. And honestly,
Speaker 3: I've been pleasantly surprised. And maybe it's because that the
Speaker 3: families that come and work with Greg and I obviously
Speaker 3: have a an open mind frame of how we can
Speaker 3: help their athlete. But most of the families that we
Speaker 3: work with, the parents are hands off. They put the
Speaker 3: they set up the kid, and it's just us and
Speaker 3: the and the kid working together, which is awesome.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And every now and then we'll have the helicopter parent
Speaker 3: that's answering the questions and sitting right there and everything.
Speaker 3: But I'm honestly been pleasantly surprised in that regard.
Speaker 2: Well, and I know that we've talked about it in
Speaker 2: the past about the helicopter parent, and thank I'm thankful
Speaker 2: for you to you and for you for what you
Speaker 2: and Gregor are doing to where those instances seem to
Speaker 2: be few and far between, where the parents, even though
Speaker 2: they seem to be wanting to play this long game,
Speaker 2: however long it is about getting their their athlete to
Speaker 2: the next level and next levels whatever those are, that
Speaker 2: they seem to be laying off because I mean, once again,
Speaker 2: going back in mind, hey days of black and white television,
Speaker 2: you had the family members yelling at umps, you had
Speaker 2: them yelling at kids through dugouts, you had all these
Speaker 2: kinds of things. And you know, I'm glad that it seems,
Speaker 2: at least through your prism that for the most part,
Speaker 2: they're laying off. And I think that that speaks a
Speaker 2: lot too. I guess what the parents are looking for
Speaker 2: and what they hope to see out of their out
Speaker 2: of their kids.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, I do think it's good. And don't
Speaker 3: get me wrong, Hey, you go to any Saturday soccer
Speaker 3: youth tournament and go on a sideline You'll be like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, holy smokes, what is going on in society.
Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong, But it was like that back
Speaker 3: in the day too, and I so I do think
Speaker 3: that there's a lot of parents that have realized, and
Speaker 3: you know, I think social media can help in this
Speaker 3: regard where it's like you get called out a little
Speaker 3: bit and there's more information out there about like, hey,
Speaker 3: this is not good for our athletes and there's so
Speaker 3: many benefits from losing, so stop freaking out on the
Speaker 3: sideline after every game or during every game. So yeah,
Speaker 3: there's always going to be some that don't get the message,
Speaker 3: and you know, are living through their kids and it
Speaker 3: means more to them than their kids. But honestly, I
Speaker 3: think for the most part, it's getting a little bit.
Speaker 2: Better Michael Parkhurst than the Freddy Freekick, hanging out with us,
Speaker 2: answering all the questions about being an owner, being a player,
Speaker 2: getting ready for the season, being a mentor. But that
Speaker 2: is that's where our focus traditionally is here with what
Speaker 2: they're doing at beyond goals, mentoring at BEG, mentoring on
Speaker 2: the twitters, at beyond goals minoring dot com.
Speaker 1: When it comes to social media.
Speaker 2: Since you mentioned social media and how it can be
Speaker 2: a good influence, it can be a good it can
Speaker 2: be I was gonna sayhen is the reinforcement ever bad?
Speaker 2: It can be a reinforcement to activity and behaviors, or
Speaker 2: it can be an absolute negative And if you pay
Speaker 2: too much attention to the negative, then it could take
Speaker 2: everything and make it all haywire. Do you have conversations
Speaker 2: with your mentees about social media and how it can
Speaker 2: be that that double edged sword sometimes? Do you have
Speaker 2: those kinds of conversations with them about the power social media?
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, especially the players that are trying to
Speaker 3: play in college, because if I was an assistant coach,
Speaker 3: I would absolutely be checking out their social media to
Speaker 3: see what type of content are they putting out there,
Speaker 3: Who are they as a person, what are the people
Speaker 3: they hang with, what do they do off the field,
Speaker 3: like all that stuff. It's it's super important. So yeah,
Speaker 3: you want it to make sure that your social media
Speaker 3: is a good representative of who you are and know
Speaker 3: that nothing ever gets deleted, and it can cost you
Speaker 3: if you're not smart with it. It can cost you
Speaker 3: a place at a university. It can cost you a
Speaker 3: job in the future, right, And yes, people will give
Speaker 3: you a pass if you post something silly when you're
Speaker 3: fifteen or sixteen to a certain degree, but that doesn't
Speaker 3: mean it won't hurt you at some point along the road.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we absolutely talk about that and it can
Speaker 3: be a great tool as well. I've got a couple
Speaker 3: of kids that post all their highlights there, which is great.
Speaker 3: Right If a college coach is all of a sudden
Speaker 3: looking at their social media and see some of these
Speaker 3: highlights like fantastic, that's a great way to use it.
Speaker 3: And obviously you can make money off it if you
Speaker 3: get to a certain level, right. So yeah, of course
Speaker 3: social media is important. You know, nil deals in college
Speaker 3: and all that stuff. A lot of it is social
Speaker 3: media based. So yeah, there's such benefits to it, for
Speaker 3: sure if it's used the right way. But yeah, we
Speaker 3: definitely talk about what the negatives could be as well.
Speaker 2: Is it eye opening to a mentee when you talk
Speaker 2: about the negatives because they may just sit there and say, well,
Speaker 2: it's social media and I'm just putting things out there
Speaker 2: trying to be social. Do you and Greg ever sit
Speaker 2: there and have you know, call a time out when
Speaker 2: you see something on a social media platform that's attached
Speaker 2: to a mentee and sit there and go, okay, this
Speaker 2: you need to learn from that. You need to either
Speaker 2: take this down or learn from it, or say something.
Speaker 2: Do you do you have those warning conversations with mentees
Speaker 2: at all?
Speaker 3: We haven't had to yet. We haven't. I've never come
Speaker 3: across a mentee who's posted something where I thought, you know,
Speaker 3: that's crossing a line, or you gotta be careful here,
Speaker 3: or things, and so no, I haven't, which is great. Yes,
Speaker 3: will it happen, probably yes, but not yet.
Speaker 1: That's that's always a good thing.
Speaker 2: But the thing is, but but you acknowledge though you
Speaker 2: and Greg both acknowledge it hasn't happened, it's probably gonna happen.
Speaker 2: So at least there's that preparation level of Okay, at
Speaker 2: some point, this is coming, and we've got to be
Speaker 2: ready for it.
Speaker 1: We have to, meaning you and Greg have to be.
Speaker 2: BGM has to be, and you have to be prepared
Speaker 2: to say the right things to a men tee in
Speaker 2: a situation like that and sit there and go, Okay,
Speaker 2: you know, saw something the other day and whatever it
Speaker 2: was is whatever it was. But this is the kind
Speaker 2: of stuff that will come back and hurt you. And
Speaker 2: explain why it could come back and hurt you from
Speaker 2: that perspective, I'm not trying to jam on you, but
Speaker 2: I'm trying to give you advice as to why this
Speaker 2: can hurt you long term.
Speaker 3: M Yeah, no doubt about it. It's absolutely part of
Speaker 3: the journey. It's part of the pathway, and mistakes will
Speaker 3: be made. I mean, shoot, we've all made mistakes, so
Speaker 3: you know, it's more about the knowledge and growing from
Speaker 3: it and understanding it. Because I think that there's a
Speaker 3: false sense that you know, I'll just delete something, I'll
Speaker 3: just get rid of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, there's no such thing as fully deleted.
Speaker 2: If you were to tell a mentee how to set
Speaker 2: up a social media account. Because there are times on
Speaker 2: in other sports when I when I look at recruits
Speaker 2: and things like that, or high school student athletes trying
Speaker 2: to get to the next level, they will lay out
Speaker 2: all the information in their their bioblast like on the
Speaker 2: two hundred and eighty character app. It is literally like name, positions, year, GPA, email, contact.
Speaker 1: Info, all of these things.
Speaker 2: Is there such a thing as putting too much information,
Speaker 2: you know, at the front of some kind of identification
Speaker 2: for a coach or something like that. Or is this
Speaker 2: where we are right now, you think where I got
Speaker 2: to put all this information out there and make it
Speaker 2: just as easy for the next level to get in
Speaker 2: touch with me. Or do you still hold some information
Speaker 2: back just because of how social media can be these days.
Speaker 3: That's a good question. I definitely when we talk to
Speaker 3: mentees about creating videos to send to college coaches, we
Speaker 3: always say, either in the email or the front picture
Speaker 3: before your video starts, have some of this information because yes,
Speaker 3: GPA is super important. And a coach says sees that
Speaker 3: you've got a one point something, he's probably not even
Speaker 3: gonna watch the video. No, right, it's not waste my time.
Speaker 3: So you know that that is important. I don't think
Speaker 3: it needs to be front and center, like in your
Speaker 3: face all the time. So that's that can be a
Speaker 3: little bit information overload, because that's you don't want to
Speaker 3: do that either, right. I think we all OI all
Speaker 3: can be like, oh shoot it get bogged down. That's
Speaker 3: how I feel at the grocery store sometimes, especially coming
Speaker 3: back from Europe, where I was like I was in
Speaker 3: the Cereal Aisle. And you know, just after being in
Speaker 3: Europe for five years, it was like I came back
Speaker 3: and was like, oh my gosh, there's seven hundred cereals
Speaker 3: to choose from. I'm overloaded. That's also how I feel
Speaker 3: when I go to Golly it's the name of the restaurant.
Speaker 3: It's got a whole menu. It's like a book.
Speaker 1: I mean that I.
Speaker 3: Can't remember that. It's a huge chain.
Speaker 2: But if there's a restaurant that's got like seven hundred
Speaker 2: things and their menus like an inch and a half thick,
Speaker 2: you kind of get lost.
Speaker 6: It's like, that's what I'm saying, you get too many choices,
Speaker 6: too much information a shutdown. So that's that's what I'm
Speaker 6: saying too about information about you know, on the front
Speaker 6: right it's cheesecake factory, Thanks Ricky. Too much information right
Speaker 6: in your face right away.
Speaker 3: Can also be a shutdown, I think. So, yeah, there's
Speaker 3: a balance there, but I do think, you know, you
Speaker 3: do need to provide some information right of like yeah,
Speaker 3: GPA and contact info is probably about it.
Speaker 2: Though, when it comes to mentees trying to get in
Speaker 2: touch with coaches or whomever at the next level, have
Speaker 2: you had the chants to help them navigate those kinds
Speaker 2: of things. It's like, okay, initial conversation, it's like what
Speaker 2: they see in a relationship or a business relationship. Don't
Speaker 2: call on Monday, don't call on Friday. Best business is
Speaker 2: always done on Tuesday. Have you gone through those steps
Speaker 2: in trying to help your your mentees and the families
Speaker 2: navigate Okay, if you're going to reach out, reach out
Speaker 2: in this way to this person at this time to
Speaker 2: do these things, or is it just kind of like,
Speaker 2: all right, we'll just put the information out there and
Speaker 2: then let the contacted individual come back to me. It's
Speaker 2: like I want the coach to talk to me. Here's
Speaker 2: my first piece of info. I'm going to leave it alone.
Speaker 2: Or do you encourage mentees after that first contact? Hey,
Speaker 2: did you get my tape? How long do you wait
Speaker 2: before you get my tape? Those kinds of things Navigating
Speaker 2: the next level, I guess is where I'm trying to
Speaker 2: get at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're actually putting together in the very early process,
Speaker 3: John putting together a whole playbook for such things.
Speaker 1: I interviewed the size of the cheesecake factory.
Speaker 3: A menu, I hope not. I hope we can dissect
Speaker 3: it a little bit and get down to what's most important.
Speaker 3: But I interviewed a D one assistant coach yesterday actually,
Speaker 3: and so it's part of the process of like helping
Speaker 3: out with what information is important, when to contact, who
Speaker 3: to contact, and you know, how to get in touch
Speaker 3: with some coaches with the benefit of going to id camps.
Speaker 3: You know, this type of information that I think a
Speaker 3: lot of people are are looking for and could use.
Speaker 3: So that is definitely one of our goals probably for
Speaker 3: the first half of this year, is to try and
Speaker 3: get more of that information out there. I mean, yes,
Speaker 3: we do it right now on a one on one basis,
Speaker 3: but to have this information available for those that you know,
Speaker 3: we're not meant during full time or something like that,
Speaker 3: I think is valuable.
Speaker 2: The BGM Handbook for contacting I get it, and I
Speaker 2: mean that's a valuable piece of information that folks can have.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, not all coaches like to be contacted
Speaker 2: by email. They like to you know, they like carrier pigeon,
Speaker 2: they like to have things in a PDF, they like
Speaker 2: to have things mailed, and literally you're having to navigate
Speaker 2: individuals who have complete and totally different character traits about contact,
Speaker 2: and it's got to be something that you know, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
Speaker 2: eighteen year old athletes they got to know and it
Speaker 2: has to be a case by case basis, because you
Speaker 2: can't just blanket assume that everybody wants to be contacted
Speaker 2: the same way at the same time. Because you get
Speaker 2: you get a coach at the wrong day, at the
Speaker 2: wrong time. He might have been interested in you as
Speaker 2: a talent, but because you took that misstep, that might
Speaker 2: be something that pulls them back from any kind of
Speaker 2: further contact or interest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, absolutely, And there's still so many college
Speaker 3: coaches that have been around for a really long time
Speaker 3: that they see things differently than possibly a college coach
Speaker 3: who's in his thirties or forties. Right, So, yeah, it's
Speaker 3: dealing with these different coaches. It's not all it's not
Speaker 3: all the same.
Speaker 2: No, before we get you out of here, it is
Speaker 2: the last week of the preseason, and I know that
Speaker 2: folks just want to get out there and then have
Speaker 2: games for real.
Speaker 1: They want it.
Speaker 2: It's like, look, man, they can see they can see
Speaker 2: this first finish line. They're like, can we go ahead
Speaker 2: and just get games to play in whatever tournament you're
Speaker 2: talking about, are multiple things. When you're getting close to
Speaker 2: that finish line and you're getting ready for games for real,
Speaker 2: what was the anticipation level like for.
Speaker 3: You, Yeah, really excited, but also like, hey, a little
Speaker 3: bit more serious and a little bit more okay, this
Speaker 3: is crunch time. This is real, Like these points are
Speaker 3: just as valuable as points and set so you want
Speaker 3: to start off well and be prepared. And you know,
Speaker 3: so much of the focus the whole preseason was just
Speaker 3: US US US US, and and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you know, leading soon leading up to week one, you
Speaker 3: have a little bit of focus on the other team
Speaker 3: and how are we going to play against this specific
Speaker 3: team rather than just us working on our own thing.
Speaker 3: So it changes a little bit, but I think it's
Speaker 3: it's it's awesome that change and change into the routine
Speaker 3: of like, okay, now we're prepping for a game, a
Speaker 3: real game that matters, is really cool.
Speaker 2: I know that before the next time that we talked
Speaker 2: to you, there will have been a home opener down
Speaker 2: here in a Jersey that you previewed a while back.
Speaker 2: The anticipation for an opening night and a crowd that
Speaker 2: you know, that is as ravenous as the seventeens are
Speaker 2: look looking forward to a season in general, regardless of
Speaker 2: what you were talking about, But what was it like
Speaker 2: for you on an opening day and an opening night?
Speaker 2: Knowing that the anticipation is there, Knowing that the what
Speaker 2: the fans are looking for is they're knowing.
Speaker 1: What the players are looking for.
Speaker 2: What is opening night like for someone who's never experienced it, Yeah.
Speaker 3: You're nervous, you get the goosebumps, you you know, tough
Speaker 3: to sleep the night before, Like all that stuff is
Speaker 3: normal no matter what age you are. I think that
Speaker 3: you really look forward to that first one just because
Speaker 3: it's that unknown, right, the anticipation of like, you know,
Speaker 3: is it going to be a full house? Is it
Speaker 3: going to be so loud? You know? Are we prepared?
Speaker 1: Are we ready to go?
Speaker 3: You know, there's just so much unknown, and so I
Speaker 3: think that brings a little bit of extra nerves. I
Speaker 3: think that just those that have played in front of
Speaker 3: the crowd before know what it's going to be like,
Speaker 3: could be, like, will be like. So they want to
Speaker 3: feel that energy, right. That's one of the best parts
Speaker 3: of being a professional is playing in front of that
Speaker 3: environment and having the people cheer for you, and it's
Speaker 3: just amazing. So I think that everybody will be really
Speaker 3: looking forward to that. The nerves will be a little
Speaker 3: bit high, but that'll be a fun night for sure
Speaker 3: for all.
Speaker 2: Are you the kind of guy that you know once
Speaker 2: the whistle goes you're locked in or is it that
Speaker 2: first tackle that you create a moment going the other way?
Speaker 1: What kind of a.
Speaker 2: Player were you when it came to Day one and
Speaker 2: whistles and getting into that zone?
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, whistle, whistle blow, because for me, I think
Speaker 3: that was important because you don't know that first touch,
Speaker 3: the first tackle, the first moment that you're involved could
Speaker 3: be super important. So they have to wait for that
Speaker 3: moment to then get into the zone. It could be
Speaker 3: too late. So you know, for me, it was the whistle,
Speaker 3: and it was like, you know, you hear the noise,
Speaker 3: and you hear the the horn, and then you know
Speaker 3: you got the whistle and then it's like, okay, I
Speaker 3: don't hear anything anymore. I just hear like I just
Speaker 3: hear noise or just a background noise. So yeah, opening whistle.
Speaker 2: I was going to ask, it's like, once that whistle goes,
Speaker 2: do you know, like Costner said, and for love of
Speaker 2: the game, you know, it was it released the mechanism
Speaker 2: and then you just heard yourself and then everything else
Speaker 2: was in the background. Was so that was It was
Speaker 2: that way for you, literally whistle and then like white
Speaker 2: noise and focusing on the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, I didn't know how certain athletes go certain ways,
Speaker 2: but for you it's just whistle goes white noise, locked
Speaker 2: into everything. Are you coming down in eight days or
Speaker 2: are you going to stay up there? What's your plans?
Speaker 3: I'm not getting down for the opener, but I definitely
Speaker 3: will be down to catch a couple of.
Speaker 2: Games because I know you gotta go to the games
Speaker 2: in Rhode Island also in early March, and I know
Speaker 2: you got to.
Speaker 1: Sit there and balance. I know, I know how this goes.
Speaker 3: Uh well, Rhode Island doesn't even have how many home
Speaker 3: games until May.
Speaker 1: So because of like weather and things.
Speaker 3: It's because of the stadium and the state.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, Oh that's right, Tidewater Landing, Yes, yes, yes, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so you're on the road and then okay, so you're
Speaker 2: stockpiling all of the home games. So when Tidewater Landing
Speaker 2: is open, and so you're on the road forever, correct, Okay,
Speaker 2: So all right, so now that's got.
Speaker 3: A couple of buys in the first eight weeks or
Speaker 3: six weeks or something, and then yeah, six six away
Speaker 3: games like two buys and then we're home.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So so basically what you're seeing is we need to
Speaker 2: road trip up there for like the home opener or
Speaker 2: something and the unveiling of the stadium.
Speaker 3: Probably should Okay, just check.
Speaker 1: Uh, be well, my friend.
Speaker 2: As always, it's great to catch up with you on
Speaker 2: what you and Gregor are doing and applying it to
Speaker 2: uh the every day and helping spread the messages across
Speaker 2: the board. As always, my friend, have a great weekend.
Speaker 2: When's your next golf game?
Speaker 3: May God, I haven't swung a club since before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: It's been way too long, John.
Speaker 2: Right there with you, brother, all right, So just be safe,
Speaker 2: have a great weekend, stay warm. Okayon there it goes Parky,
Speaker 2: and it's always fun. He puts up on my crap
Speaker 2: like nobody's business. Everybody on the show puts up with
Speaker 2: my crap like nobody's business. So at BG Mentoring at
Speaker 2: MF Parkerston the two hundred and eighty character app and
Speaker 2: all of the all the things that they're doing. They've
Speaker 2: started at Beyond Goals Mentoring TV. They're doing video stuff now,
Speaker 2: so Beyond goalsmenoring dot com and at bg Mintoring on
Speaker 2: the twitters and you can sit there and find out
Speaker 2: what Greg and Parky are doing on a daily basis,
Speaker 2: helping out the next generation of athletes and getting them
Speaker 2: on the path to success whatever that whatever that word
Speaker 2: entails next level, next levels and next level of play,
Speaker 2: next level of activity, being more secure in themselves when
Speaker 2: it comes to their everyday life and how it can
Speaker 2: apply to their everyday lives going forward. So great stuff
Speaker 2: from Greg and Cap and they put up with my
Speaker 2: questions like you know what, So all right our number
Speaker 2: two and this is where I get to say, hide
Speaker 2: everybody and get back into the debate of the Jersey
Speaker 2: releases and Atlanta United. I know that some of you
Speaker 2: put in your thoughts about it at Lanty United and
Speaker 2: what you're anticipating for and what you'd like to see
Speaker 2: coming out of this other than everybody healthy and a
Speaker 2: big win against Dallas. But what you've seen so far
Speaker 2: with Atlanta United to this point and or your favorite team,
Speaker 2: since I saw that Rich was in the timeline too,
Speaker 2: So I want to know what you've seen from your
Speaker 2: club so far. I want to know what's on your
Speaker 2: mind about your club. Thoughts, concerns, positive suggestions, all those
Speaker 2: kinds of things. I want to know about your club.
Speaker 2: I want to know about what you've seen. I want
Speaker 2: to know about what you're looking for in this last weekend,
Speaker 2: because next week it's on getting ready for the Sprint
Speaker 2: with multiple competitions, the Triple C for those who are
Speaker 2: in it MLS regular season, League's Cup, which will be
Speaker 2: concurrent with what's going on in the regular season. It's
Speaker 2: not just going to be that gap in the schedule
Speaker 2: where it's an hour of nothingness a month of nothingness.
Speaker 2: So everything's concurrent games in the middle of the week
Speaker 2: and we'll see what goes on from there. Okay, now,
Speaker 2: time to say hi to everybody who is in this morning,
Speaker 2: and let's see. So we got to let's see Alex
Speaker 2: and Ricky and four card ropes. Let's see. Okay, so
Speaker 2: Ricky with his thoughts. Ricky thinks that sleash is the
Speaker 2: lynch pin to the team if you can hold it
Speaker 2: down in the middle, especially in transition from defense to
Speaker 2: offense vice versa. Going to see something special. This year,
Speaker 2: we caught up with Kevin Egan. Kevin Egan crashed the
Speaker 2: party yesterday before rehearsals up at the Old up at
Speaker 2: the Old Haunt for him where they're now in Stanford, Connecticut,
Speaker 2: at the w at the WWE studios for this season
Speaker 2: for MLS three sixty and all of the Apple TV programming.
Speaker 2: But the six was where Kevin was looking. And you
Speaker 2: can catch that in our shorts on all of our
Speaker 2: social media. But Kevin Egan was saying the six, and
Speaker 2: so Ricky's saying it's Bartik Sleish and so that's what, Uh,
Speaker 2: that's what everybody's hanging out, Yeah, with the kit with
Speaker 2: the Kit release today, David, take the little one and
Speaker 2: hang out of Atlantic Station for the KIT drop. You know,
Speaker 2: getting first in line wouldn't be a bad idea. Uh,
Speaker 2: maybe you can go to publics and get some shopping done.
Speaker 2: There are some pretty cool restaurants. Uh, there is some space,
Speaker 2: you know, team storage where you can kind of hang out.
Speaker 2: But it literally it just depends on how cold you
Speaker 2: want to get. So uh, that for me is the
Speaker 2: big thing I would be, you know, in in that
Speaker 2: particular vein. I don't know, but the thing and this
Speaker 2: was the thing for me. And I learned this the
Speaker 2: hard way.
Speaker 1: Uh. I picked up and I had and.
Speaker 2: I've got to get I have to get the the
Speaker 2: Miguel almeroon T shirt because I bought that, but I'd
Speaker 2: also bought the Fea before the season was over.
Speaker 1: And I learned that at the store.
Speaker 2: And you can't just uh, and this is something, this
Speaker 2: is a public service announcement for everybody that goes to
Speaker 2: the store. You can't just if you're gonna go pick
Speaker 2: something up at the store, have your transaction number ready
Speaker 2: with the with the store. And it's like traditionally is
Speaker 2: like a four to four number transaction I went with.
Speaker 2: I went in the first time and I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: it's me and here's my idea. And they're like, well,
Speaker 2: what's your what's your transaction number? Look, I don't know, Okay,
Speaker 2: we need that. We don't do it with names, we
Speaker 2: do it with transaction numbers. So take your transaction number
Speaker 2: with you in these situations. Took me two months literally
Speaker 2: to find my transaction number to get my FEA T shirts,
Speaker 2: which I now finally have and now that I know
Speaker 2: how the system is, and I still don't get the
Speaker 2: return email.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's probably a glitch in the system too.
Speaker 2: They tell you when your item is in, and I've
Speaker 2: not gotten those emails in the path. But if you're
Speaker 2: going to get something at the store, take your transaction
Speaker 2: number with you so you're not just freezing and standing
Speaker 2: waiting for a pickup. Transaction number, transaction number, transaction number, take.
Speaker 1: Those with you.
Speaker 2: If you're going to go and put do anything at
Speaker 2: the Atlanta United Store Atlantic station. So David, if you're going,
Speaker 2: take the handwarmers and just be warm. And Ricky absolutely
Speaker 2: is jacked up about seeing everybody. And that's the other
Speaker 2: part too, And that was one of the things that
Speaker 2: with this club, and frankly with what we've been doing
Speaker 2: here at the network, going and seeing the seventeens, going
Speaker 2: to see each and every one of you, going out
Speaker 2: into the community, seeing each and everyone again, saying hi,
Speaker 2: not just during the season, but when you out casually
Speaker 2: and you run into somebody, when we go to other
Speaker 2: towns and we have the events there, and they are
Speaker 2: thankful that you know that you come and see them
Speaker 2: when you go to a high school game, and you
Speaker 2: go to a town outside the Atlanta area and you
Speaker 2: come and you visit and you say hi, and everyone's
Speaker 2: great with conversation, happy to see.
Speaker 1: Those kinds of things are really cool.
Speaker 2: Along that point to what Ricky is saying, that it's
Speaker 2: just really cool to see everybody, and for me, it
Speaker 2: is evolved into something that's twelve months out of the year.
Speaker 2: Run into somebody at the store, high you talk Atlanta,
Speaker 2: knighted for a while, run into you know, somebody you
Speaker 2: know at a random concert or something like that, and
Speaker 2: then you'll sit there and they'll get way.
Speaker 1: You're walking one way there, walking the other. You wave.
Speaker 2: You know, those kinds of things. The interaction that starts
Speaker 2: during soccer season, that evolves over twelve months, that to
Speaker 2: me has been the cool part of all of this
Speaker 2: since we were getting close to your number eight for
Speaker 2: the State Network. So just the interaction that has started
Speaker 2: with soccer season and evolved over a twelve month period,
Speaker 2: that's been cool. Ropes is saying, put Mickey on your
Speaker 2: fantasy team. Nico said, Pedro de la Vega be an
Speaker 2: interesting midfield for fantasy, and we got to figure out
Speaker 2: if in fact, there is going to be a fantasy
Speaker 2: team this year, if anybody has gotten a note from
Speaker 2: Jason Right and the Jason Right Agency about fantasy or
Speaker 2: if we have to figure out how to start it ourselves,
Speaker 2: because remember we're eight days away. So Jason Right and
Speaker 2: the Jason Wright Agency have done really cool work with
Speaker 2: us in the past about the fantasy league here at SDH.
Speaker 2: We got to figure out if we're doing one because
Speaker 2: we only got a week that kind of thing. So Rich,
Speaker 2: Happy parade day, even though it's very cold out, so
Speaker 2: he's going to go watch on his television, Absolutely true.
Speaker 2: May your parade be safe, May everybody stay warm. What
Speaker 2: day is prediction Day? Aren't they all prediction days?
Speaker 1: Ricky? They are all prediction days. I think with.
Speaker 2: Everybody that I'm aiming to have on the show next week,
Speaker 2: it might end up just being a week of addressing
Speaker 2: predictions as folks drop by. So that might be the
Speaker 2: way that it goes with predictions, and such might be
Speaker 2: just it might be prediction week, might be prediction week.
Speaker 1: So we'll keep an eye on all of that.
Speaker 2: Ricky digs the Galaxy kit as the ones that are
Speaker 2: being released. Ricky had does admit However, Seattle and RSL
Speaker 2: are very strong. I don't know Ricky was talking about
Speaker 2: Parky and what Parky was talking about with the USL,
Speaker 2: and so it's gonna be something over the next couple
Speaker 2: of years. And like I said, we probably once we
Speaker 2: say hi to everybody and get into the rhythm, we'll
Speaker 2: go back over who's in the championship and what the
Speaker 2: capacities are, and who has to do some building, and
Speaker 2: who would have to be prepared and who might have
Speaker 2: to move those kinds of things. Harry admitted yesterday in
Speaker 2: the twitch pitch the DAYA San Antonio would have to
Speaker 2: either expand it would have to expand their building at
Speaker 2: Toyota as we know at Toyota, or they might have
Speaker 2: to move intoors of the Alamodome. So I mean that
Speaker 2: that's these are things that are going to have to
Speaker 2: be considered by this league going forward, Stadium capacities, possible
Speaker 2: expansions and where you're play, adding to the infrastructure questions
Speaker 2: of the capacities that you have. Now actually, shoot, since
Speaker 2: we're here, hang on, let me get into the let
Speaker 2: me get go back to the stadium capacities. And this
Speaker 2: is another thing, uh that you have to consider about
Speaker 2: all of these venues and the capital outlay that would
Speaker 2: have to be there just to become compliant with Division
Speaker 2: one standards. You're talking fifteen thousand and so right now,
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna go to our friends at transfer Market
Speaker 2: and we'll see if they have the intel in one place. Yes,
Speaker 2: except and continue. It's like my computer rebooted overnight. Uh okay,
Speaker 2: Protective in. Protective is in obviously with a capacity of
Speaker 2: forty seven to one. If the MIAMIFC continues as a franchise,
Speaker 2: I have no information to say otherwise, but they're not drawn,
Speaker 2: and they've played games on the campus of FIU at
Speaker 2: the FIU Soccer Stadium and not at Ricard what used
Speaker 2: to be Ricardo Silva the football stadium.
Speaker 1: They would work. It's twenty thousand.
Speaker 2: Lynn Family has seating at eleven seven, but a capacity
Speaker 2: of over fifteen, so they could add seats if they wanted.
Speaker 2: To the coliseum for Oakland Roots, You're fine, And I
Speaker 2: personally hope that the Roots sell out every game that
Speaker 2: they have there because of how but they've got to
Speaker 2: take care of the raccoons at the coliseum. But I
Speaker 2: love the idea of the Oakland Coliseum still being a
Speaker 2: part of the fabric of sports there in the Bay.
Speaker 2: Isotopes Park needs some extra seats, but they're only at
Speaker 2: thirteen to five. They can make it to fifteen easy
Speaker 2: cash men seats ninety three capacity twelve five, so they
Speaker 2: have standing room. That gets them there. They might have
Speaker 2: to add something. And this is where from here down
Speaker 2: folks are going to have to add seats. Indianapolis just
Speaker 2: over twelve, Sacramento eleven and a half, Phoenix Rising, and
Speaker 2: of WAKEMD, they're at ten. El Paso ninety five hundred.
Speaker 2: That's with standing room. Toyto Toyota Field, Harry, you had
Speaker 2: it yesterday, eighty three, eighty two ninety six, Colorado Springs
Speaker 2: Widenerfields at eight. They'd have to double their size if
Speaker 2: they were interested. Keyworth seventy nine thirty three. But you
Speaker 2: know that they are looking to build a new stadium
Speaker 2: on the old hospital property, so they probably could make
Speaker 2: it fifteen and may be fine. One ok is halfway
Speaker 2: there at seventy eight hundred, lex SC seventy five hundred.
Speaker 2: They'd have to double capacity. Al Lang seventy two twenty seven.
Speaker 2: They'd have to double Cardinal at at you see Monterey
Speaker 2: Bay six thousand. You're playing on a college campus, you're
Speaker 2: probably gonna have to find your own facility. Burn right
Speaker 2: now at fifty two to fifty two, but Tidewater Landing
Speaker 2: is on its way, and I think it is slightly
Speaker 2: more than that. Patriots point five thousand, high Mark listed
Speaker 2: at five, Irvines listed at five, Segra's listed at five.
Speaker 1: So even if those and.
Speaker 2: That's if those clubs were interested, if any of those
Speaker 2: clubs were interested, half of that run, you'd have to
Speaker 2: either expand your building, tripling your capacity, or find another venue.
Speaker 1: So there's capital outlay in that.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of things that folks have to consider
Speaker 2: when it comes to this idea that the USL has
Speaker 2: announced yesterday through Paul McDonough's interview in Nick Papadekus's press release, it's,
Speaker 2: like I said, it's all of these things that we've
Speaker 2: seen right now in the USLLL announced what they announced yesterday,
Speaker 2: even looking at it from a capital outlay perspective, for
Speaker 2: the teams that are currently USL Championship, if they want
Speaker 2: to take that step to Division one, that's what they'd
Speaker 2: have to do. Just from a stadium perspective, and we
Speaker 2: know how stadiums ain't cheap.
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued.
Speaker 2: They said a twelve to fourteen team league, twenty six
Speaker 2: seve twenty seven to twenty eight I think was what
Speaker 2: was said in the release.
Speaker 1: So we'll see.
Speaker 2: But there's a lot of there's a lot of money
Speaker 2: that has to be found trying I'm trying to figure
Speaker 2: out the right way to say it. To expand your footprint,
Speaker 2: it's going to have to be a lot of capital
Speaker 2: outlay if you're going to have any of those teams
Speaker 2: that we talked about in the lower half of the
Speaker 2: capacity table, if they were interested.
Speaker 1: In going into the new D one League.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of thought that's going to have to
Speaker 2: go into this by the USL, by its franchises. What
Speaker 2: do they want to do and do they how do
Speaker 2: they want to be, how do they want to be
Speaker 2: in that Division one. So, once again, like I said,
Speaker 2: I'm intrigued. I want to see the next steps. They've
Speaker 2: got a runway. But you know me, I always sit there.
Speaker 2: My first thought is, okay, I look at the investments
Speaker 2: and what you have to do to invest into something
Speaker 2: to get it, to get it to an endpoint, and
Speaker 2: even just from getting people to sit down. We just
Speaker 2: went through the challenges of the current USL Championship rosters
Speaker 2: and positions, and maybe Memphis comes back in if they
Speaker 2: want to go back and play at AutoZone. If Santa
Speaker 2: Barbara was engaged, they could be because they're playing I
Speaker 2: think at a twenty seven thousand seat stadium. So there's
Speaker 2: a lot to think about here and I want to
Speaker 2: see how the USL proceeds.
Speaker 1: So that's basically it.
Speaker 2: Like I said the McDonough interview with Tenorio yesterday in
Speaker 2: The Athletic, plus the press release that was put out,
Speaker 2: So your favorite club in USL Championship, I'm sure has
Speaker 2: put out a version of that press release. And we
Speaker 2: know where the USL wants to go. So we'll see
Speaker 2: what the USL has in mind over the next couple
Speaker 2: of years.
Speaker 1: Harry, Oh, actually, wait a second.
Speaker 2: Alex says that Seattle's Salish Sea kit number one underline
Speaker 2: three times RSL is at number two. So we're going
Speaker 2: to be going back and forth. What's on your mind
Speaker 2: with Atlanty and ied are your favorite club hanging into
Speaker 2: the last preseason game. What's going on in your mind period?
Speaker 2: And obviously Jerseys concerns for your club, what you've seen
Speaker 2: from your club, what you're anticipating from your club, what
Speaker 2: you look forward to here in this last weekend. Everything's
Speaker 2: on the table here on a Friday. And speaking of
Speaker 2: everything being here on the table, we welcome in Jared Smith. Jared,
Speaker 2: it's a Friday, so that means that absolutely everything is
Speaker 2: on everyone's mind and we're going everywhere from the USL
Speaker 2: announcement yesterday to the Jersey releases and now we're debating
Speaker 2: whether it's Seattle who had the best one, LAG who
Speaker 2: had the best one, RSL who had the best one,
Speaker 2: and Atlanta United heading into this last weekend. So where
Speaker 2: do you want to start, sir?
Speaker 5: What were you talking about most recently? We just started there.
Speaker 5: I'm very flexible in this. I have my opinions on
Speaker 5: the shirts, so.
Speaker 2: Sure, Okay, Well, I was just discussing briefly yesterday the
Speaker 2: announcement from USL about wanting to start and go Division one,
Speaker 2: and basically I was looking at it strictly from a
Speaker 2: financial standpoint and a stadium standpoint, because half of the
Speaker 2: clubs would have to get to fifteen thousand in their
Speaker 2: current points. Half of the clubs would have to expand
Speaker 2: their capacities to literally twice the size of what their
Speaker 2: stadiums are, if not three times, just to get to
Speaker 2: that fifteen thousand markers. So me intrigued by the economics
Speaker 2: of it all. I want to see where it goes.
Speaker 1: I do too.
Speaker 5: It's a noble idea, being like being a division one
Speaker 5: doesn't doesn't change anything for me. Like I think it's cool,
Speaker 5: but it's not like it's not the bollendo, right, this
Speaker 5: shouldn't be like this isn't a you made it game
Speaker 5: that you have won the game, you know, please play
Speaker 5: on new game. Plus, Yes, there's layers to it, man, Like,
Speaker 5: how are like can the stadium? Can you get the
Speaker 5: stadiums to that level?
Speaker 4: Can?
Speaker 5: Is the funding going to be there? Is the support
Speaker 5: going to consistently be there? And I don't mean just
Speaker 5: the very loud people who d e t as we
Speaker 5: spell his name backwards as not as to not beetlejuice
Speaker 5: his existence.
Speaker 1: Warning, not like the very.
Speaker 5: Loud people who want to yell about pro rail and
Speaker 5: anti melas like I'm all for competition on this as
Speaker 5: long as you're going to be able to do it sustainably.
Speaker 5: And that's always been the problem is sustainability. Like it
Speaker 5: took MLS a long time to get where it is
Speaker 5: right now. It's not perfect, but any stretch of the
Speaker 5: imagination and I'm sure USL won't be either. Like I
Speaker 5: think Louisville is the easy like layup here like that
Speaker 5: can be one of your crown jewels easily. I think
Speaker 5: Oaklham would be an interesting one. Can you get the
Speaker 5: funding in place? Can you get disability in place? Can
Speaker 5: you get this this, the not this that? Can you
Speaker 5: get the facilities in place? And go back to apparently
Speaker 5: the other day, uh the Dex McCarty was sitting at
Speaker 5: an airport and decided to do an anima.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, Kevin was right next to him. Yeah, yes
Speaker 1: he was.
Speaker 5: And one of the things he talks about is facilities.
Speaker 5: And when we're talking about facilities, we're talking about training,
Speaker 5: we're talking about recovery, we're talking about the building.
Speaker 1: Basically, infrastructure.
Speaker 5: Is your infrastructure going to be good enough?
Speaker 1: I don't know, mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Is your infrastructure gonna be good enough to lure people?
Speaker 5: Are you going to be paying guys enough to lure
Speaker 5: people and to keep them? And do you have the
Speaker 5: structures in place to continue in again, lovels the outlier
Speaker 5: here levels, but a machine to continue to develop players.
Speaker 5: That is that is That is where my brain is
Speaker 5: at with this, because there's there's layers to it. Can
Speaker 5: they do it at Absolutely? They make it work. Absolutely,
Speaker 5: It'll be tricky, Yeah, it will be. That's okay. Again,
Speaker 5: they're gonna go through growing pains, and as they go
Speaker 5: through growing pains, I don't think that we should damn
Speaker 5: them for going through growing pains. When they get things
Speaker 5: wrong or where they get things right, it doesn't mean
Speaker 5: everyone else sucks and they're great. And when they get
Speaker 5: things wrong, it doesn't mean that everyone else is great
Speaker 5: and they suck. It will be La, there's gonna be
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a grind man. That's all I got
Speaker 5: for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, next thing on the board, we'll build to Atlanta
Speaker 2: United for the rest of the program. Jerseys, And we
Speaker 2: seem to have a debate among RSL L A G.
Speaker 2: Seattle and anybody else that's out there. Atlanta's because yeah,
Speaker 2: I like the Sailors Sea kid and we do have
Speaker 2: some Salis sea gear here in the house. So it's
Speaker 2: RSL It's Seattle L A G. Atlanta said at the
Speaker 2: end of their promotional video two dot one four two five.
Speaker 2: So I imagine that that is when the release date is
Speaker 2: going to be for theirs for this year.
Speaker 1: Happy Jersey Release Day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Happy Jersey Release Day. Let's see what it looks like.
Speaker 5: We have a general idea. I'm a firm believer that
Speaker 5: you know, like I'm a firm believer that you have
Speaker 5: your home kit that is generally tried and true. Your
Speaker 5: road kit is where you get a little you played
Speaker 5: with it, you color within the lines, but maybe you
Speaker 5: are changing a couple of colors up here. The third
Speaker 5: kit is where you have taken all of the old
Speaker 5: records off the shelf, you have broken them, covered them
Speaker 5: in gorilla glue, and molded them into some sort of
Speaker 5: like Lovecraftian monstrosity that you slap on everything. Commit Well,
Speaker 5: that's how we end up with the Foal four kit.
Speaker 5: And it was beautiful, and the Foal four kit grew
Speaker 5: on everybody as it damn well should have. Its great
Speaker 5: But that is what the third kid is for.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 5: So let's see what it looks like for Atlanta in
Speaker 5: the finished product, like the details of it. As my
Speaker 5: wife would always say, Uh, the sports is just like
Speaker 5: so many of what we do in sports is just fashion.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 5: And and and you all be a lot happier if
Speaker 5: you'll just admit that it's just fashion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, considering all of my all of the things that
Speaker 1: I buy, You ain't kidding, brother, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So yeah, that's I. I liked the R S
Speaker 5: L one just because there was a cool little First
Speaker 5: of all, not enough people do the checkerboard, and the
Speaker 5: checker boards are risky thing to do, but to do
Speaker 5: the checkerboard there is interesting because if we don't know
Speaker 5: salt the and go find go find the old episode
Speaker 5: of ninety percent of Visible where they talk about the
Speaker 5: layout of Salt Lake that it was designed with unique dimensions.
Speaker 5: So like your city blocks are huge, so you have
Speaker 5: these big checkerboards that kind of represent the weird city
Speaker 5: blocks that they have in the grid in the downtown area.
Speaker 5: So it's it's kind of a cool. It's cool somebody
Speaker 5: in an integrated checkerboard because we need more checkerboard, just
Speaker 5: like we need more sashes. Demark Crawlock should have gotten
Speaker 5: a chance with that. You need more checkerboards the same
Speaker 5: we need more sashes. And it works for them because
Speaker 5: they have a unique checkerboard layout as a city in
Speaker 5: and of itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
Speaker 2: I am intrigued, and I will probably end up buying
Speaker 2: something and the boss will probably wear it long before
Speaker 2: I do or anything like that. So, uh, I'm now
Speaker 2: officially clicking on the Okay, so five stripes, one kit.
Speaker 2: We have people running around and people cheering and looking.
Speaker 2: I'd love to know where they shot this as I
Speaker 2: sit here and look at it for the first time
Speaker 2: that extra little session. And by the way, Emory Healthcare
Speaker 2: was named as a founding partner for a MBS and
Speaker 2: they it looks like they're going to be on a shoulder,
Speaker 2: so we'll see what it looks like there.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of a lot of folks.
Speaker 2: What I wanted to do going into the last exhibition,
Speaker 2: last exhibition plus preseason game of the year. I wanted
Speaker 2: to just kind of gauge where folks were and what
Speaker 2: they've seen and what they're looking forward to in this
Speaker 2: match outside of everybody getting out healthy with FC Dallas,
Speaker 2: what they've seen, what it has impressed them, what still
Speaker 2: concerns them, all these kinds of things. So Ricky says,
Speaker 2: I don't want to get caught up in thinking that
Speaker 2: just because past Atlanta teams had some level of hype
Speaker 2: and didn't mean it, I should temper my expectations and
Speaker 2: excitement or whatever.
Speaker 1: But this year just seems different. I really think something good.
Speaker 2: What's the What has been from your interactions, not necessarily
Speaker 2: from yourself, Jared, but have you been able to gauge
Speaker 2: the excitement level for folks coming into this last weekend
Speaker 2: heading into the regular seas?
Speaker 5: It seems like people are excited and I'm glad. I'm
Speaker 5: not trying to temper excitement personally. By philosophy on this
Speaker 5: is that enjoy things. Life is too short and too chaotic, Uh,
Speaker 5: not to enjoy things. There's already enough negativity in the
Speaker 5: world without bringing it into sport. And the beauty of
Speaker 5: sport is uncertainty, always is, always has been, always will be.
Speaker 5: Like you don't get the storybook Juggernaut, Uh, you know
Speaker 5: goes undefeated all the way through. We just don't see that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's okay to be I think it's okay
Speaker 5: to be nervous, but it's also okay to be excited
Speaker 5: by things. And I'm like, I'm excited about it, about
Speaker 5: this season just because you have you you have the
Speaker 5: heartwarming story of the gael Haman on back, you have
Speaker 5: lot of lots coming in, you have core pieces in place.
Speaker 5: This really, for me, is the the the attempt for
Speaker 5: Garth especially to for it to for him to put
Speaker 5: this is a new passport, trying to find the right
Speaker 5: metaphor for this, this is a new passport. He was
Speaker 5: putting his stamp in other past, in a past passport,
Speaker 5: so that when he was putting stamps in making changes.
Speaker 5: There's a book that had other stamps in it, obviously
Speaker 5: from Carls spokenager, from Daniels. As of the end of
Speaker 5: the season, he got a new book in the mail.
Speaker 5: Everything that's going in this book right now is on him.
Speaker 5: This is his and this is not a this isn't
Speaker 5: I don't mean that in a you know, he better
Speaker 5: watch out because of everything's on him and he's going
Speaker 5: to be to blame for everything. No, I mean that
Speaker 5: in that because of the changes they've made. This is
Speaker 5: his club.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: These are all of his finger princesses, his rash passport
Speaker 5: book and all the stamps are going to be from
Speaker 5: his hand. And as it stands right now, everything going
Speaker 5: forward it's going to be his stamps, and that's that's
Speaker 5: part of what he's trying to build.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 5: You know he did it out West, two different clubs.
Speaker 5: You we'll see what it We'll see what it ultimately
Speaker 5: what it ultimately looks like this year, and there's going
Speaker 5: to be there with every team. Man, there's going to
Speaker 5: be those good days and bad days again, no one year.
Speaker 5: I don't know, you're I would be willing to. I
Speaker 5: would be willing to bet a fair number juice boxes.
Speaker 5: You'll never get an invisible team. And MLSS is too hard,
Speaker 5: too much travel, there's too much parody of the wage structured.
Speaker 5: You can't super team your way.
Speaker 1: Through it, especially under a salary cap.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean. Like, yeah, you can't.
Speaker 5: You can't power through this. There's too much going on. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Like it's so you're gonna have good times have bad times.
Speaker 5: He's gotta you gotta hang on and enjoy the good.
Speaker 1: Times I've had when they're not good.
Speaker 5: Uh, the Florida State fandos as well as anybody, Well
Speaker 5: though you have had good times like that. You you
Speaker 5: had your youth, it was a good time.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was how long ago that was but.
Speaker 5: But you have but sorry, Ricky, uh, you have title
Speaker 5: that the crab man brought you and Calvin Benjamin high
Speaker 5: point the ball.
Speaker 1: Like you put.
Speaker 5: Hey man, I know how you feel about him, I
Speaker 5: how you feel about the coach. Yeah, but but but
Speaker 5: but but quitter but quitter banners always fly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I can hang on to this. I still
Speaker 1: reserve the right to hate my coach. Now you can't.
Speaker 5: If if Brian Kelly wins a national title, he won't
Speaker 5: at LSU. Yeah, I'm still gonna want to kick him
Speaker 5: in the shins. Yeah, I still have more than highlights voluntarily,
Speaker 5: Nor should you look that Auburn team was I wish
Speaker 5: I had been able to watch that game with with
Speaker 5: John and Patty because of the dual allegiances in that game,
Speaker 5: that Auburn team was still a team of destiny because
Speaker 5: not only is that not only is that the year
Speaker 5: of the kick six, that's also the year of the
Speaker 5: prayer Jurdnaire where Nick Marshall go back and watch that
Speaker 5: throw because on the Prayer to Jurdnaire is the most
Speaker 5: effortless looking fifty yard nuke first seen where he just
Speaker 5: snapped his wrist and that ball with fifty yards it
Speaker 5: was like, this isn't the one to one. It was
Speaker 5: kind of like when Mike Vick used to throw the ball,
Speaker 5: where it's like he wasn't throwing his whole body into it.
Speaker 5: He just kind of snapped over his wrist off.
Speaker 1: And the thing is is that we knew.
Speaker 2: That Nick Marshall could throw that ball because our household.
Speaker 5: One in Georgia knew that, yeah, cruisy.
Speaker 2: Everyone who saw Nick Marshall played for a championship in
Speaker 2: high school football.
Speaker 1: On television knew that that ball was possible.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I'm like when he when he threw that, when
Speaker 2: he threw that ball, every time you look at you said, yep,
Speaker 2: yeah I've seen that, and everybody seemed shocked.
Speaker 1: But once again outside.
Speaker 5: The same effortless fifty I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and too and too and to Ricky Horn.
Speaker 5: So cardl Lewis who brought that down.
Speaker 1: I think I think it was because I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeat was a throw.
Speaker 5: Also also Ricky. I turned down tickets to the kick
Speaker 5: six game. I had to go to a thing for
Speaker 5: my mother that night. Anyway, it was like I think
Speaker 5: it was like the Georgia country music thing, and I
Speaker 5: ended up going to that and it was during this
Speaker 5: there was this weird period where like they had a
Speaker 5: bunch of acts performing and there's one guy, one infamous guy,
Speaker 5: who firmly believed that a pedal steel should be cranked
Speaker 5: up to fifteen on a scale one to ten. And
Speaker 5: so we just stepped down the lobby because I didn't
Speaker 5: want to listen to a pedal steel at fifteen. And
Speaker 5: like I stepped out there as the Kicksticks is about
Speaker 5: to happen, like they're reviewing, and I'm like, oh, this
Speaker 5: is this is gonna be scandalous. And then we watched
Speaker 5: the kick six ear your. My wife had to go
Speaker 5: to a separate wedding that day for a friend of hers,
Speaker 5: but we had had been asked if we wanted to
Speaker 5: go to that game or likenh we got other things
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 3: Mm hm oh.
Speaker 2: God, a decision, yeah, I mean a full disclosure. We'll
Speaker 2: go backward. That championship game was just shy of the
Speaker 2: bosses and my first anniversary. So our common opinion is
Speaker 2: that if our marriage could survive that game, and for
Speaker 2: some strange reason, the tickets ended up in the Auburn section.
Speaker 2: I don't know how this happened, but if our marriage
Speaker 2: could survive that national title game, then I think our
Speaker 2: marriage could pretty much survive everything, and and it pretty
Speaker 2: much has to this point, I continued to tell her
Speaker 2: after that long pass down the sideline that created the
Speaker 2: first and goal, I'm like, look, just keep pi in
Speaker 2: and knocking time off the clab Just literally, what are
Speaker 2: they going to do? Move the ball forward like two inches.
Speaker 2: You've been stopping the run all day. Just keep pieing
Speaker 2: and inch the ball forward, eat time off the clock.
Speaker 2: There is a picture that I have here in office
Speaker 2: HD and the boss will probably know where to find
Speaker 2: it faster.
Speaker 1: Than I will. Of the two of us.
Speaker 2: After that game, and because I was wearing a garnet
Speaker 2: golf shirt, I had to wear something different and I
Speaker 2: had a miserable look on my face and I was like,
Speaker 2: get me the blank out of here.
Speaker 1: And so Jason is.
Speaker 2: Here, what in the blue hell are you talking about?
Speaker 5: We ended up so all the crux of this was
Speaker 5: I mentioned, you know, enjoying the good times in terms
Speaker 5: of the vibes leading up to the seats. I said,
Speaker 5: you enjoy the good times, and I brought up in
Speaker 5: Florida State, you had good times, Yeah, like your coach,
Speaker 5: but you got a title, and then we spiraled off
Speaker 5: into like the Auburn Florida State national title game, and
Speaker 5: how that Auburn team had a horseshoe up its asshole
Speaker 5: a year and it was beautiful to watch.
Speaker 7: Did you remind John to enjoy the good times when
Speaker 7: he was wanting his coach to be fired here recently?
Speaker 7: Who actually had a really good season last year until
Speaker 7: they d a little bit shorter ago two years ago.
Speaker 7: It all runs together at this point, come.
Speaker 2: On, because they had more inches of snow on campus
Speaker 2: than they did wins in.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but you didn't like the guy before when they
Speaker 7: were actually good, so you missed the good times because
Speaker 7: you were complaining about Norvelle before and then when he
Speaker 7: got bad, you tried to justify your complaining, but he
Speaker 7: had been good before that. No, you have to put
Speaker 7: your hands down and you have to listen to Jarrett
Speaker 7: for once and enjoy the good times when you have
Speaker 7: the good times, because you never know when you're gonna
Speaker 7: have more snow than wins in your season. You never
Speaker 7: know what's gonna happen. You complain and you whine and
Speaker 7: you cry about not getting into the national championship situation,
Speaker 7: which probably should happen anyway, and then you got blown
Speaker 7: out by Georgia and it broke your club's whole everything,
Speaker 7: everything was broken.
Speaker 1: Man. So anyway, that's my rant for today.
Speaker 5: Anyway, my whole point was to enjoy the good time.
Speaker 1: So enjoy the good times exactly. John enjoyed the good times.
Speaker 5: And this is this is about like this season of
Speaker 5: like most people, I talked to her side and that's good. Yes,
Speaker 5: And I also said, you know you're you're you're never
Speaker 5: gonna have an an indentible team in MLS. It's it's
Speaker 5: it's not happening.
Speaker 7: There's too much in MLS. Absolutely, it's it's even more difficult.
Speaker 7: But yes, you don't have it anywhere.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you're like, enjoy the arsenal. What what
Speaker 5: it was that one magical time? You're not like man like.
Speaker 5: Look Celtic and Rangers. Celtic did once. Even though this
Speaker 5: only happened. I think Rangers did in League a couple
Speaker 5: of years ago because Neil Lennon was like huffing paint
Speaker 5: for half a year.
Speaker 1: That's like the usual m upen Anyway.
Speaker 5: Yeah, future empty coach, I'll see it, boy, was that you.
Speaker 1: Haven't stop turn no no at all.
Speaker 5: But you're not gonna get that. So, yeah, you have
Speaker 5: good times, you go on bad times, and so it's okay,
Speaker 5: we'll work through it.
Speaker 7: When it's good, enjoy it. Don't constantly wait for the
Speaker 7: other shoe to drop, and when it's bad, want it
Speaker 7: to be good rather than I hate everything. I'm never
Speaker 7: supporting this again, I'm never coming back open. And then
Speaker 7: you come back and oh, magically appeared. Crazy how that happens.
Speaker 7: Enjoy and that's Look, this is something that you want
Speaker 7: to get really deep. This is something that we talk
Speaker 7: about a lot in this game because I feel like
Speaker 7: it's super easy in this country especially, and look, maybe
Speaker 7: it's because of the way that England covers the game
Speaker 7: and there's a healthy dose of cynicism on a regular basis.
Speaker 7: There's a healthy dose of tabloidishness and always looking for
Speaker 7: controversy and all these sorts of things. Soccer in this
Speaker 7: country is by far, it's not even close. It's not
Speaker 7: even close. It's healthier than it's ever been, it's better
Speaker 7: than it's ever been, it's more sustainable than it's ever been.
Speaker 7: It's not perfect, because nothing is, but it's in such
Speaker 7: a good spot. And yeah, clubs come and go in
Speaker 7: terms of being contenders and not contenders, and you can
Speaker 7: never guarantee that, even if you outspend other people, you
Speaker 7: can't guarantee it. But the idea that we're constantly looking
Speaker 7: for negative right now when we talk soccer in the
Speaker 7: United States, whether we're talking lower divisions, mls, your club,
Speaker 7: national teams, whatever, the idea that we're constantly doing that
Speaker 7: is crazy because you are having to look for it.
Speaker 7: There are so many good things going on right now. Literally,
Speaker 7: just enjoy your time, because man, don't we need a
Speaker 7: break from real life. This can be that at this
Speaker 7: point and it's much needed.
Speaker 2: We were getting into we were getting into that, Oh
Speaker 2: the Jersey releases. That is uh too well.
Speaker 7: It sounds like you might need to uh, I think
Speaker 7: most of you've already seen it because our friend Michael
Speaker 7: Parkhurst might have accidentally on purpose spoiled it. Possibly you
Speaker 7: might want to keep your ears open and uh notifications
Speaker 7: on because there has been a teas at pretty specific teas,
Speaker 7: so you might want to be ready for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we we were looking at that on threads.
Speaker 5: Prepared to drop the minute.
Speaker 2: Why were you looking for it on threads John because
Speaker 2: Ricky posted that particular link and that's where it was.
Speaker 5: Because his live journal doesn't update yet.
Speaker 2: The Tumblr page is not updated yet. Yeah, well yeah,
Speaker 2: it's I mean, I guess a little bit. What corners
Speaker 2: is Tumblr alive in. I mean, I'm not, it's not dead.
Speaker 5: But where this among like the fantasy sci fi got
Speaker 5: it it is? It is there?
Speaker 1: Okay, good for good for Tumbler. I'm glad they found
Speaker 1: their niche.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very much.
Speaker 1: So maybe my space will one day too. Compu serve man,
Speaker 1: look man, Tom, nobody knows what compu serve is around here.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: Tom made a ton of money good my space and
Speaker 5: like just.
Speaker 1: Dipped and then want to be a photographer.
Speaker 5: And did not did not hang around long enough to
Speaker 5: become the villain.
Speaker 1: No, he just he did his thing.
Speaker 2: He gave people their ability to you know, break friendships
Speaker 2: and pick your best friends and put it on a page.
Speaker 5: And Tom basic html too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he lets you, you know, play music when you'd
Speaker 7: go to the page and it'd drive you crazy.
Speaker 1: But you know, he did lots of good things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he did the Randy Johnson thing. Randy
Speaker 5: Johnson also did that after he quit pitching. Randy Johnson
Speaker 5: like bought a bunch of cameras and he will pop
Speaker 5: up at Super Bowl. He gets he gets a photo credential,
Speaker 5: he goes games.
Speaker 1: Good on Tom.
Speaker 2: All right, so let me let me ask this because
Speaker 2: I was a part of this universe. What did what
Speaker 2: did Tumblr supposedly do? What was it? What is it?
Speaker 5: It's just like it's just like people post messages, and
Speaker 5: it is post memes, post messages, post stories.
Speaker 1: It's blog ish blog is yeah, and then what.
Speaker 5: You can do is you can kind of tailor your
Speaker 5: own feed.
Speaker 2: Okay, I knew it existed, but really didn't take part
Speaker 2: in it.
Speaker 1: I need you to be.
Speaker 5: Really careful about what you do going forward, because I
Speaker 5: can't protect you if you decide to go down that road.
Speaker 1: No, that's that's why I was asking.
Speaker 2: It's like I never went down that road, and so
Speaker 2: I was trying to find out what Tumblr actually does.
Speaker 7: John still shocked and freaks out anytime that somebody uses
Speaker 7: what's app to actually call him true, Absolutely true.
Speaker 5: I mean that's kind of become like my the ikey
Speaker 5: some chats because of my friends who have iPhones and
Speaker 5: like still, they'll have I messages, but I've poured a
Speaker 5: lot of what's happened?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it's it's chaos, John, I'll catch up at
Speaker 7: some point.
Speaker 2: Well, hey, I mean, look, if Apple TV can can
Speaker 2: give us a MLS for Android, and if I can
Speaker 2: figure out how to log in?
Speaker 1: Oh, you can't figure out how to log in? It's me.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like, how is it difficult? Well?
Speaker 2: I think I'd probably have to download an app first,
Speaker 2: or click a link or something.
Speaker 1: Do you what do you have the Apple TV app
Speaker 1: on Android?
Speaker 2: Not at the moment. I usually go through web and
Speaker 2: log I'll go no.
Speaker 1: No, So okay, let's go back to the beginning.
Speaker 7: You were very excited about having the Apple TV app
Speaker 7: on Android. Yeah, so yes, to use it, you would
Speaker 7: have to download it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I can't go on like the web and
Speaker 2: type in you know, Apple TV and then go in
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Jared, are you hearing this?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like broke? What happens?
Speaker 7: Like a I mean, you want to use the app,
Speaker 7: so you have to download the app. It's an app,
Speaker 7: all right, you don't use the browser. No, no, this
Speaker 7: this should not be difficult. This is really upsetting. This
Speaker 7: should be very simple. If you want to use the
Speaker 7: any app, you use the actual app, not the browser
Speaker 7: on your phone. You had to use the browser on
Speaker 7: your phone in the past because you didn't have an app.
Speaker 7: Now you can download an app. Okay, all right, does that
Speaker 7: make sense?
Speaker 1: It does? Does it? Look? When I when I want to,
Speaker 1: I'll do this.
Speaker 2: Do you know how to download an app? Let's start there. Well,
Speaker 2: that's what I was going to do. It's like, there's
Speaker 2: this thing called place, There's a thing.
Speaker 4: Called pl No.
Speaker 1: No, we know. You don't have to explain it that way.
Speaker 1: We know. We know.
Speaker 7: So what So what I will do and do it?
Speaker 7: Do it while we're sitting here. I need to.
Speaker 1: I need to make sure you can do.
Speaker 5: This because I'm not bad.
Speaker 1: I'm actually Okay.
Speaker 5: We know about Android phone.
Speaker 7: I know all about androidloading. Unfortunately, so does a sidewalk
Speaker 7: in Montreal.
Speaker 1: It's probably still smoking. Okay, so uh ooh okay.
Speaker 2: So Apple TV on Android right now is only grading
Speaker 2: at three point one stars with more than fifty million download.
Speaker 7: Okay, John, there's a bunch of Android people who hate Apple.
Speaker 7: I was one of those people in the past. I
Speaker 7: saw the light or joined the cult, whichever way you
Speaker 7: want to put it.
Speaker 5: You took you took a step into the walled garden.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Montreal tried to kill me and my phone tried
Speaker 1: to kill me as well, so I had to switch.
Speaker 7: So I'll worry about the reviews. John, Just download the app.
Speaker 7: It's new. I think I just did.
Speaker 5: There was If there was anything in Montreal that was
Speaker 5: going to kill you, I just assumed it would be
Speaker 5: the poutine.
Speaker 2: No, it's always now if you go to the right
Speaker 2: place in your poutine's okay. All right, So I've logged
Speaker 2: in through the boss's account and she's gonna look at
Speaker 2: it and go verification.
Speaker 1: What are you trying to do?
Speaker 7: So gonna leave all of that alone. But it was
Speaker 7: downloaded the app. That's step in the right direction.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 7: Good job. We got a whole bunch of high school
Speaker 7: games for calling tonight. John's calling games at Northview. He's
Speaker 7: got three of them. I've got to at John's Creek,
Speaker 7: John's Creek one of the Well, both of the hosts
Speaker 7: are playing tonight, which is good. In the eight o'clock games.
Speaker 7: We have it set up now you can listen on Mixler.
Speaker 7: That's another app, John, you have that one downloaded. Yes,
Speaker 7: yes to do okay, good, you can I check to
Speaker 7: make sure that I'm doing it right when we're doing broadcasts.
Speaker 1: That's good. You can listen on Mixler.
Speaker 7: Just search soccer down here or soccer down here too,
Speaker 7: because we have both channels up and run into this weekend.
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Speaker 7: You could even do this on your web browser on
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Speaker 7: to whichever game you want on SDH one or SDH
Speaker 7: two from Mixler right there on a on a web page,
Speaker 7: on a phone or a tablet or a computer or whatever.
Speaker 7: A carrier pigeon, we'll bring a widget to you.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That'd be for me. You had a Golosso match ender
Speaker 2: last night. Yeah, it was good games last night. Both
Speaker 2: were three two. The first one, Walton jumped out to
Speaker 2: a two zero lead. Sekoya came back with two from
Speaker 2: the penalty spot, both good penalties that they earned, and
Speaker 2: then a late scramble ends up in the back of
Speaker 2: the net. Walton gets the win. Their second game, more
Speaker 2: back and forth with North Atlanta and Campbell North Atlanta
Speaker 2: maybe was the better team in general, but Campbell scored
Speaker 2: two goals from long throw ins.
Speaker 1: They're right back.
Speaker 7: Had a throw where he could get it from and look,
Speaker 7: we're talking about high school fields, but he's getting it
Speaker 7: to the back post from even twenty yards away from
Speaker 7: the corner flag.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 7: The problem was he probably took about twelve throw ins
Speaker 7: as the night went on, and by the end he
Speaker 7: couldn't get it at the back post. He could get
Speaker 7: the near post, got two goals out of it. But
Speaker 7: the finale was a great ball over the top and
Speaker 7: Max Rody with really nice composure. It's a freshman goalkeeper
Speaker 7: for Campbell, and he was really good.
Speaker 1: But he was also I don't even know where to
Speaker 1: put him on the renee.
Speaker 7: He geat the scale pretty high. He dribbled past a
Speaker 7: couple of players. Wow, he juggled the ball at one point.
Speaker 7: But he also was very good coming out at the
Speaker 7: top of his eighteen. He made a couple of really
Speaker 7: big saves. This one he came out and Roady was
Speaker 7: able to keep his composure and kind of chip it
Speaker 7: around him. It wasn't like straight over him, a little
Speaker 7: more around him, and it was a really good goal
Speaker 7: second of the night for Roady and North Atlanta got
Speaker 7: the win. So they'll play Walton on Saturday. That's an
Speaker 7: eight o'clock game. The other two will play at four o'clock,
Speaker 7: and then tonight we'll decide who plays at six o'clock
Speaker 7: in the final. It's been a really fun tournament. You're
Speaker 7: gonna be very today with three games as Greenbrier comes
Speaker 7: over with their boys and their girls to play.
Speaker 2: YEP, that's gonna be fun. Green Brier was looking forward
Speaker 2: to being a part of this tournament. The coach is
Speaker 2: really excited and to be able to have teams. You've
Speaker 2: got two teams coming up from Alabama for you, Dothan
Speaker 2: and Tucker playing each other. And not Tucker Alabama, it's
Speaker 2: Tucker Georgia. Oh it is Tucker High School. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so I don't know if the Tucker Alabama. It's Tucker Georgia. Okay,
Speaker 2: so it's Tucker. So it's a Tucker.
Speaker 1: Tiger's playing. That was a typo.
Speaker 2: Then they're going against Dothans, So Dothan's making the four
Speaker 2: hour drive up. Greenbrier is making the probably three hour
Speaker 2: drive over from Columbia County, just north of Augusta and
Speaker 2: we're going to see them today and so it's fun
Speaker 2: to see all of these. Murray County is going to
Speaker 2: be a part of this as well, So seeing all
Speaker 2: of the the wide range of geography that's in play
Speaker 2: here in this tournament's been really cool to see. And
Speaker 2: it anticipated obviously with North Murray playing and Greenbrier playing twice,
Speaker 2: those kinds of things, in Dothan playing, it's going to
Speaker 2: be fun.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been really good college coaches out scouting as well.
Speaker 7: I'm getting messages from college coaches like, he know what
Speaker 7: you're saying, let me know who's who's shining, let me
Speaker 7: know what's what's good out there. So it's been really good,
Speaker 7: good celebration of the game, really fun tournament. Big thanks
Speaker 7: to John's Creek and Kelly Bowler for putting everything together
Speaker 7: and having us as part of it. It's been really
Speaker 7: a good time. And in Jared, we have a really
Speaker 7: interesting game that we're calling tomorrow. I've never called a
Speaker 7: game like this. I've never called a game that will
Speaker 7: be formatted this way or just the sheer run time.
Speaker 7: We are calling Atlanta United and FC Dallas from the
Speaker 7: Children's Health Care of Atlanta training Ground. Kickoff is at noon,
Speaker 7: and I didn't know it was possible to play three
Speaker 7: halves of anything, but they are going to play three halves.
Speaker 5: Okay three feel like in Brestlmania and split it into
Speaker 5: day one and day two.
Speaker 7: I feel like we're basically there. It's gonna be three
Speaker 7: forty five minute segment.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 7: This is gonna be broadcast on nineteen nine, the game
Speaker 7: and a stream, so it's gonna be really interesting. Jared like,
Speaker 7: we're calling a behind closed doors game for radio, So
Speaker 7: I mean you're gonna hear a lot of natural sound.
Speaker 7: You're not going to have a crowd to hear and
Speaker 7: bounce off of. We're gonna be pretty close to the action.
Speaker 7: It's gonna be a really interesting, long marathon of preseason soccer.
Speaker 5: Apologies in advance for anything you hear that is not
Speaker 5: radio friendly.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, there's a few guys.
Speaker 7: We're gonna want to try to find a dump button,
Speaker 7: but I don't know if we will.
Speaker 5: I I can go back to in my head, and
Speaker 5: I was telling the story the other day when we
Speaker 5: were playing pickup. Was the infamous twenty nineteen Open Cup
Speaker 5: game behind doors against the Battery where you could hear
Speaker 5: Brad we're Kennesaw. You could have heard Brad at the
Speaker 5: Big Chicken.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean that's and you could hear.
Speaker 5: You've never heard of talk. LGP had a very extinct,
Speaker 5: raspy voice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did.
Speaker 5: And you could hear everything. He was yelling in multiple.
Speaker 1: Languages, and it was probably foul in multiple languages.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, it was, it was. It was. He was
Speaker 5: working at profanities. Uh, the way an artist would work
Speaker 5: in Clay's or oils to jack a line from Christmas story. Yeah,
Speaker 5: there's a non zero chance you could sign that tomorrow.
Speaker 5: But yeah, man, three forty five minute halves should get
Speaker 5: a good look at a bunch of people. Thank god,
Speaker 5: it won't be hot, it'll be actually cold. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 5: see how they management. We'll see how guys push and
Speaker 5: are pushed.
Speaker 7: Yeah, my guess is guys play around sixty. I would
Speaker 7: think so, kind of in various permutations, Ronnie Diela spoke
Speaker 7: to the media yesterday and said that he hopes that
Speaker 7: Latte Laugh will be able to take part one. And
Speaker 7: I'll give you guys the behind the scenes here and
Speaker 7: everybody listening, we are going to go with lat lat
Speaker 7: and the last part is a little tricky. When we
Speaker 7: get into pronunciation, it's not exactly like it looks. It's
Speaker 7: more like lat, like a hard t than a th
Speaker 7: h at the end. It's a little tricky, so we're
Speaker 7: I'm working on getting that perfected.
Speaker 2: It will not be perfect straight away. We're getting there.
Speaker 2: But he will go by Latte Lat and not Latte
Speaker 2: as a first name.
Speaker 7: It's you don't call him late. That's not his first name.
Speaker 7: It is the combined name at all times. And the
Speaker 7: nickname because Immanuel is his first name. He's not choosing
Speaker 7: to go by that. His nickname is Manu like that's
Speaker 7: what you'll hear everybody calling him when players speak about him.
Speaker 7: When when Ronnie will speak about him, I'm sure they'll
Speaker 7: say Manu a lot. But yes, lat Lat, and he
Speaker 7: is expected to take part in some capacity tomorrow. Visa's good.
Speaker 7: Everything is good. He was training on the side yesterday.
Speaker 7: It was pretty much a side session for everybody. It
Speaker 7: was a regi in session as the team came back
Speaker 7: from Florida. So my guess is he will be taking
Speaker 7: part in training today and be ready to roll maybe thirty,
Speaker 7: maybe sixty tomorrow. My guess is nobody plays more than
Speaker 7: sixty and you'll see pretty much everybody that we've seen
Speaker 7: in preseason so far.
Speaker 5: Three minute halves. You might see everybody in the damp
Speaker 5: system tomorrow. Same with Dallas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could see.
Speaker 7: You could see a few players that we haven't seen
Speaker 7: in the preseason so far, like Javier Armas joined the
Speaker 7: group down in Florida, so you know, could he play
Speaker 7: thirty or sixty minutes?
Speaker 1: Sure? Other twos guys coffee you don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't anyway.
Speaker 7: Other Two's guys who have been around and have started training,
Speaker 7: you could see a few of them as needed. So yeah,
Speaker 7: I think it will be a very interesting cornucopia of
Speaker 7: preseason soccer tomorrow from Marietta and Jared and I will
Speaker 7: be at the Helm.
Speaker 1: So sorry in advance.
Speaker 2: Ohologies, no worries. So, Jason, as you've been keeping an
Speaker 2: eye on things from absolutely zero here in pre season,
Speaker 2: what has what has impressed you and what have you
Speaker 2: been looking forward to the most with this last preseason
Speaker 2: three haves making up one day to get us.
Speaker 1: To the regular season. What's impressed you so far?
Speaker 7: The progression? I mean, it's been better each time now.
Speaker 7: I didn't get to see anything from Wednesday against Cincinnati
Speaker 7: when they switched fields, so and it looked like just
Speaker 7: from the lineup, it was more of a second group
Speaker 7: and guys coming back from injury, like Steven Gregorson who
Speaker 7: played forty five. That's what he told us yesterday. But
Speaker 7: the progression generally has been really, really good, and that's
Speaker 7: what you want to see. I don't care about results.
Speaker 7: I'm not worried about the specifics in production. I'm more
Speaker 7: about how is the overall group looking. Are they getting
Speaker 7: comfortable with the way that Ronnie Dilo wants them to play?
Speaker 7: And I think we're seeing that. Defensively, they've gotten better
Speaker 7: and better and better, and that's gonna be the foundation
Speaker 7: of anything for this team. I know we're all gonna
Speaker 7: talk headlines, and we're all gonna talk highlights, and we're
Speaker 7: all gonna talk Miggy, and we're gonna talk Lat Da
Speaker 7: Lat and we're gonna talk Moranchuku, I think has been
Speaker 7: very good in preseason.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk Saba. That's where the headlines are gonna be.
Speaker 2: But this team has to be at a very good
Speaker 2: level defensively to do what they want to do this year,
Speaker 2: which is win trophies.
Speaker 1: They have to.
Speaker 7: You're not gonna be able to purely just go out
Speaker 7: and outscore teams. I think we saw Miami do that
Speaker 7: up to a point last year. But you've got to
Speaker 7: have defensive stability to win things. There's gonna be a
Speaker 7: game where you're just not firing and all cylinders offensively,
Speaker 7: or you know, the passing isn't isn't clicking, or you've
Speaker 7: got to manufacture your luck and you've got to go
Speaker 7: press and create a turnover and go win a game
Speaker 7: that way. You're going to have to have that defensive ability.
Speaker 7: And this team will be defined in twenty twenty five
Speaker 7: by how well they defend. It'll be talked about by
Speaker 7: how well they attack, but it will be truly defined.
Speaker 7: Success will be defined by how well they defend. And
Speaker 7: I like what I've seen so far in preseason on
Speaker 7: that department.
Speaker 2: What about the younger players. I know that there's a
Speaker 2: lot of confidence in a player like Noah Kabb, but
Speaker 2: we've also seen Evan Morales get minutes, Matthew Edwards get minutes,
Speaker 2: Dominic chong Qui has impressed since absolute zero, and you
Speaker 2: have to I believe say Dominic to Ronnie to Ronni Daila,
Speaker 2: because if you ask about Chanqui, it's like who, But
Speaker 2: it's Dominic to to Ronnie. But the younger players have
Speaker 2: shown up as well, especially.
Speaker 1: At the back.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they have. But here's the thing. I mean, as
Speaker 7: good as they've been, and they're gonna push for playing time,
Speaker 7: don't get me wrong, but they're going to have to
Speaker 7: stay motivated to support when needed. And that was something
Speaker 7: that that Ronnie mentioned yesterday. He's been very happy about
Speaker 7: the overall group. He feels like it's not eleven guys,
Speaker 7: it's twenty two to twenty five guys that are able
Speaker 7: to contribute and play at this level. But some are
Speaker 7: going to be asked to do more than others. And
Speaker 7: I think, you know, I went through it on Atlanta
Speaker 7: Soccer tonight on Tuesday night. I feel like we kind
Speaker 7: of know what the starting lineup is going to look like.
Speaker 7: There'll be some rotations. I think central midfield you'll see
Speaker 7: some rotations as the year goes on. But I think
Speaker 7: ideally you want to see Bartoschleish and Matteo's click together
Speaker 7: in that holding midfield behind Maranchuk. You know what the
Speaker 7: front four is going to be you know what the
Speaker 7: fullbacks are when they're healthy in Pedro, Amador and Brooks Lennon.
Speaker 7: I think a center back, you want to see Steian
Speaker 7: Gregorson and Derek Williams as you're starting center back duo.
Speaker 7: So the starting lineup in a way picks itself. That
Speaker 7: doesn't include Cobb, it doesn't include Morales, it doesn't include Chonkqui,
Speaker 7: who's on a tuesdaal this year. Remember that doesn't include Brennan.
Speaker 7: It doesn't include a lot of those young players. But
Speaker 7: there will be moments, whether it's from the bench or
Speaker 7: in a midweek game or when there's an injury, they
Speaker 7: will be called upon and it's going to be on them.
Speaker 1: And this is the hardest thing.
Speaker 7: You never know when that opportunity is going to come,
Speaker 7: but you have to be ready to take it with
Speaker 7: both hands. And I think we saw that last year
Speaker 7: with Jay Fortune when Tristan Mihambaal went down with an
Speaker 7: injury after not playing well, Jay Fortune kept him off
Speaker 7: the field after that. Now, I think Matayo's click comes
Speaker 7: in and he can make this team better in that midfield.
Speaker 7: But Fortune will be ready when that moment opens. Itself
Speaker 7: up again and he showed last year that he can
Speaker 7: handle that. Brennan has to be ready for that. I
Speaker 7: think Cobb showed that he can do that last year
Speaker 7: as well. He has to be ready again. Morales has
Speaker 7: to be ready and when he was called upon last year,
Speaker 7: he did well. But you're going to have to have
Speaker 7: those guys be ready in reserve roles, and whether it's
Speaker 7: ten minutes at the end of a game or it's
Speaker 7: a spot start, they have to make it count because
Speaker 7: this group has a different level of expectation than they
Speaker 7: did by the time you got to the middle of
Speaker 7: last season.
Speaker 1: It's different. This group's expected to win trophies.
Speaker 7: And if that means Luke Brennan plays in fifteen games
Speaker 7: and starts three and plays about three hundred minutes, those
Speaker 7: three hundred minutes need to be impactful. They have to
Speaker 7: be and that's going to be the trick for this
Speaker 7: coaching staff and for those young players to be constantly
Speaker 7: ready when their number gets called.
Speaker 2: Jared for Jason as we wrap up getting toward the preseason.
Speaker 7: Land, No, Jared, I'm not gonna let you ask me
Speaker 7: a question, because actually I have another call here in
Speaker 7: just a second, Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got. I'm going to talk to you enough tomorrow. Man,
Speaker 1: all right, so go that's fun.
Speaker 2: I mean we're doing one hundred and thirty five minutes
Speaker 2: of soccer tomorrow, Jared question.
Speaker 5: The only people mad about this, apparently is on mataflow.
Speaker 5: Because he's mad, I won't be in net.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to see that.
Speaker 5: You want to see that because it gives you for
Speaker 5: a year.
Speaker 1: No, you would get or you'd hurt yourself or no.
Speaker 5: Not against professionals. I'm talking about media game thing. The
Speaker 5: media game gives.
Speaker 1: You toe No media game of course. Yeah, yeah, of
Speaker 1: course I want you to make a fool of yourself.
Speaker 1: That's great. Yes, not in a game against Depsi Dallas
Speaker 1: nor would ruin your life.
Speaker 5: I would die.
Speaker 7: Luco would would run through your legs back in four
Speaker 7: three times and then nutmeg you again and score, you know.
Speaker 5: Like just does a little bridge over the guy ling
Speaker 5: on the ground of the engineces.
Speaker 2: Yeah that Luco would would jump over your giant Ostrich
Speaker 2: sized frame to begin with.
Speaker 1: He would just do it because he's Luco. I don't
Speaker 1: know if we'll see him tomorrow, that's a good question.
Speaker 7: Actually we'll see Dallas has got a bunch of good
Speaker 7: players that they've added a lot of new faces as
Speaker 7: you look at their roster, so should be a fun one.
Speaker 7: We'll be on the air on nineteen ninety game at
Speaker 7: eleven forty five, kick off at twelve for the first
Speaker 7: of three halves, a cordcopia of preseasons Tomorrow on nineteen
Speaker 7: nine the game, the Audisty app and atl utd dot
Speaker 7: com slash.
Speaker 2: Live, Yes and Ricky doing a stand up producer work
Speaker 2: has sent the link. The video is out the connector kit,
Speaker 2: so the.
Speaker 1: Connector kit is live.
Speaker 2: Enjoy Bye, gotta go Bye, I gotta go, all right,
Speaker 2: So he's got to go. I'm not too far behind him,
Speaker 2: so uh, I'm actually out all right. So then you're
Speaker 2: out all right, So get out of here, go on bye,
Speaker 2: all right. We'll see you on Monday and beyond.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: So Jared's gone and that's where we are, so all right.
Speaker 2: Obviously a very very packed weekend. Jason and I are
Speaker 2: going to be at separate locations. Jason will be on
Speaker 2: our on our primary Mixler channel doing the matchups from
Speaker 2: John's Creek for a Creek Cup. I will be doing
Speaker 2: the triple header today at Northview on the girls action
Speaker 2: and some boys action, so I'll have both boys and
Speaker 2: girls today. It's four six and eight. I'm on SDH two.
Speaker 2: Go to mixlore dot com and download download the app
Speaker 2: m I exl R Mixler and you can save and
Speaker 2: follow soccer down here in SDH two. Creek Cup is
Speaker 2: going to be there all weekend. It's well not Sunday,
Speaker 2: but Friday and Saturday. The games to determine who's going
Speaker 2: to be playing in the championships. All the championships and
Speaker 2: third place games and the brackets are going to be
Speaker 2: at the respective schools all Saturday. All the games are
Speaker 2: going to be on SDH and SDH two on the
Speaker 2: Mixler app. Once again, Jarrett and Jason are going to
Speaker 2: be doing Atlanta and Dallas where three halves make a hole,
Speaker 2: and that's going to start late in the morning. You
Speaker 2: can follow that ninety two nine the Game of the
Speaker 2: Odyssey app and you can get ready for everything there
Speaker 2: with Atlanta United FC Dallas on the flip side once again,
Speaker 2: going to be a very very busy week on the
Speaker 2: high school side with us on the other end of Saturday,
Speaker 2: because then games officially count and it's going to be
Speaker 2: fun to get into all of this, and the kid
Speaker 2: is out. So there's a minute and forty video that
Speaker 2: Ricky has posted the link to on the youtubees. It
Speaker 2: is the Connector Kit and enjoy it because obviously, well
Speaker 2: hang on just a second. So I flipped over to
Speaker 2: it and so went past. All right, so where is that?
Speaker 2: So no, I don't want YouTube TV, so uh, everybody
Speaker 2: with their videos, So walking forward in the final sixteen seconds,
Speaker 2: it is everybody with arms folded in unison and the
Speaker 2: Connector Kit is out. So there you go, Atlanta United
Speaker 2: in Adidas for the club Kit for twenty five twenty
Speaker 2: six minute forty video am fam and Atlanta United. It
Speaker 2: is there and it's been up for the sum total
Speaker 2: of four minutes four minutes. I say, so, there you go,
Speaker 2: unified by the colors, powered by the pattern repped the
Speaker 2: A and so there's a darker black accents apparently, so
Speaker 2: darker black up into the shoulders and it blends more.
Speaker 2: That's sharp. That is very very sharp, as always, very
Speaker 2: very sharp. So good stuff from Atlanta nighted. The Kid
Speaker 2: has out repped the A with the new home kit, So.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's been going on with the two
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty character app and my laptop this morning.
Speaker 2: It's just man, it's nuts, okay anyway, be safe, everybody,
Speaker 2: have a fantastic weekend. We'll be back at it again
Speaker 2: nine oh five Monday morning. We'll get everything square away,
Speaker 2: Abe Gordon bart Keeler gets you ready on the flip
Speaker 2: side from Messi Dallas in Atlanta, and the sprint to
Speaker 2: the regular season starts anew. So that means one thing
Speaker 2: here on a Friday, plate safe, everybody mucha Platyall that
Speaker 2: means we get to do this and we be back
Speaker 2: at it again nine oh five on Monday morning. Be good,
Speaker 2: everybody will see you over the weekend. Be safe, stay warm,
Speaker 2: back at it for real. A couple of days, the.
Speaker 4: Points sticking into our fingers started asking us questions, and
Speaker 4: our papers sent electric shocks just through our body, like
Speaker 4: a candle prod out in the warehouse. The trucks kept
Speaker 4: banging into the docks, not even thinking about stopping. Our
Speaker 4: frail bodies were strapped to the chairs, and our chairs
Speaker 4: were chained.
Speaker 1: To the desks.
Speaker 4: Our please for justice were ignored, and the end seemed near.
Speaker 4: But we busted our slave drivers little bitty balls.
Speaker 1: We've charged higher, break.
Speaker 4: Fortress, the streets, Our harsby guys, yets Friday Fridayday
Speaker 3: Religence,