Speaker 1: Welcome in to MLS six pack. Here on the SDH network,
Speaker 1: I'm Madison Cruz. We got a three way dance with
Speaker 1: all of us here today. We have Jason Longshore, one
Speaker 1: of the voices of it Landy United, and then we
Speaker 1: have Jared Smith joining us as well as we recap
Speaker 1: the absolute chaos that is Major League Soccer.
Speaker 2: What's up, guys.
Speaker 3: Jared Smith is also one of the voices of chaos, so.
Speaker 2: It fits also one of the voices chaos.
Speaker 4: If I can find it, I'm going to drag it,
Speaker 4: kicking at screaming.
Speaker 1: So yes, correct, all residents of chaos, we all enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Everything's phenomenal. But speaking of chaos, this week was a
Speaker 1: little chaotic in many different ways. Before we get into
Speaker 1: our thoughts on last weekend, I want to talk about
Speaker 1: a big piece of news that did drop this week.
Speaker 1: See if Montreal parted ways with Laurent Courtois after I
Speaker 1: believe six games on the road.
Speaker 3: Didn't even get the game six on the road. Montreal
Speaker 3: is drunk and stupid. I think it's a horrible decision
Speaker 3: because Laurent Courtois has not had the weapons to actually
Speaker 3: put up a good fight. Somehow, he did he got
Speaker 3: that team into the playoffs last year when they had
Speaker 3: no business being in the playoffs, and you're starting with
Speaker 3: six games on the road this season because the Big
Speaker 3: O is doing some renovations and statsuputo. I guess they
Speaker 3: were worried about it being frozen, although I think he
Speaker 3: probably could have played Montreal. I haven't checked the weather
Speaker 3: there these past couple of weeks, but I would think
Speaker 3: maybe you could have dealt with it. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Welcome to CF Montreal. It is always dumb, and it
Speaker 3: shouldn't be and it is, and it's really really frustrating
Speaker 3: because they've never gotten it right, except for like one
Speaker 3: year where they brought in Didier Drogma and he still
Speaker 3: had functioning knees and they had Nacho Piati, who's one
Speaker 3: of the best signings in league history, and it was
Speaker 3: a lot of fun. And it's been pretty much really crappy,
Speaker 3: too much gravy on the poutine ever since.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd never forget as well that one year they
Speaker 4: forgot how to measure an eighteen yard box.
Speaker 3: Oh there's that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Maddy, you seem surprised by this so quick story
Speaker 4: time the Eastern Conference Final that year was Toronto and Montreal,
Speaker 4: which was super important, super fun at the time because
Speaker 4: Toronto take away those couple of years where Toronto was
Speaker 4: competing for titles. Toronto has been kind of a failure
Speaker 4: pile and a sadness bowl their entire existence, and they
Speaker 4: put it together with Greg Nanny. But Montreal did as well.
Speaker 4: Eastern Conference Final was two legs. It was Montreal and Toronto.
Speaker 4: It was a blast. They played it in Olympic Stadium,
Speaker 4: which is where the Montreal Expos used to play. They
Speaker 4: drew the lines for the field and the eighteen yard
Speaker 4: box was not eighteen yards like it wasn't even close.
Speaker 4: They had to like delay the game to redraw the
Speaker 4: eighteen yard box because I don't know if they were
Speaker 4: measuring in cubits instead of feet. Man, I don't know.
Speaker 4: But that was also that entire tie, one hundred and
Speaker 4: eighty minutes of it. All of it was drunk and
Speaker 4: it was a really fun series.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's one go back and watch. I think
Speaker 3: they did a package on that Eastern Conference Final and
Speaker 3: it was incredible, maybe the best that the league's ever had.
Speaker 3: And that's the high water mark for CF Montreal when
Speaker 3: they shouldn't have even changed the name. It should be
Speaker 3: the Montreal Impact. Yeah, man, I'm mad about it.
Speaker 4: And to Jason's point, like at this point, like I
Speaker 4: know there were there were I think it was Matt
Speaker 4: Doyle dropped that there were rumors that there was a
Speaker 4: lot of friction in the locker room between laur Uncletois
Speaker 4: and players. But saying that after the fact is such
Speaker 4: an easy throwaway. Yeah, I think fired. But it's not
Speaker 4: even like a thing where like, well he's got rid
Speaker 4: of him for that reason, like Joey Supputo has has
Speaker 4: operated on a level that makes knee jerk reactions look
Speaker 4: well thought out for so long at this point that
Speaker 4: it's really hard to hold it against any Montreal fan
Speaker 4: who has zero faith in what's going on up there,
Speaker 4: because it's just been this constant. We got a manager,
Speaker 4: we have a roster. We made the playoffs. Oh that's fun, now, what, Well,
Speaker 4: we struggled on the road because we have to play
Speaker 4: our first few games on the road otherwise teams have
Speaker 4: to go through the Northwest Passage to get here and
Speaker 4: it's still frozen. We struggled on the road out of
Speaker 4: the gate. Well, it looks like we're firing the manager.
Speaker 4: It's not exactly what I want at this moment. Someone
Speaker 4: got it at some point has to take the control
Speaker 4: away from Joey Supputo as the problem is is he's
Speaker 4: in charge, so there is no one above him who
Speaker 4: can't take that controller away from him.
Speaker 3: I feel so bad for Montreal fans because I think
Speaker 3: in the times that we've been in Montreal for matches
Speaker 3: is the fan base is so intelligent.
Speaker 4: It's such a.
Speaker 3: Definitely my favorite away.
Speaker 5: Day as well.
Speaker 3: It's it's a wonderful little stadium that, yeah, they probably
Speaker 3: need to expand a little bit so they can make
Speaker 3: more money. Okay, work on that. I don't know. Firing
Speaker 3: managers on a regular basis, it's just frustrating because Montreal
Speaker 3: could be such a great club in this will be
Speaker 3: It's such a great soccer city and it just hasn't
Speaker 3: been served well. And it's very frustrating for me. It's
Speaker 3: just a fan of the league. I can't even imagine
Speaker 3: for a Montreal fan it should be better. They shouldn't
Speaker 3: have moved on for Courtois. I think when you got
Speaker 3: the anonymous survey of sporting directors around the league, and
Speaker 3: Courtois is one of the highest like most I think
Speaker 3: they said underrated managers in the league. He got as
Speaker 3: many votes as anybody. Uh, very well respected guy who
Speaker 3: I think did as much as he could with that group.
Speaker 3: And it's not on him. Whoever takes it permanently moving
Speaker 3: on is not gonna have it any better, and we're
Speaker 3: just gonna do the rents and repeat once again here
Speaker 3: at some point when Joey Saputo wakes up and decides
Speaker 3: to fire his manager again that day.
Speaker 1: For me, it's also too like even if Matt Doyle
Speaker 1: did say there was tension, I mean, God, always, there's
Speaker 1: always tension.
Speaker 4: I mean also to.
Speaker 1: Four games lost literally this is it. Lost to Atlanta
Speaker 1: three to two, Loston Minnesota one nil, lost a Vancouver
Speaker 1: two nil, tied DC United nil nil. Then you lost
Speaker 1: to Nashville three nil. Of course there's gonna be tension
Speaker 1: in the locker room, especially home not winning. You haven't
Speaker 1: been home either, like tensions are gonna rise. It might
Speaker 1: have been one game, maybe they just had like a moment.
Speaker 1: It happens like that. For me, I'm like, that's no
Speaker 1: reason to fire a coach that has gotten you to
Speaker 1: a wild card game and arguably has looked better than
Speaker 1: you guys have looked in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: I've said it before. I love the way that he
Speaker 1: develops talent. I mean, you look at what he did
Speaker 1: with Columbus Crew in MLS Next Pro and you look
Speaker 1: what he did there, you know, took him to a
Speaker 1: championship and then took them to the championship unless than
Speaker 1: they lost to Austin too, but went to back to
Speaker 1: back championships in MLS Next Pro. That's that's hard, like
Speaker 1: like for me, it's like and then coming into MLS
Speaker 1: and the first like year he's an MLS he takes
Speaker 1: them to a wild card game.
Speaker 2: That's unheard of like for me. For me, I think
Speaker 2: it's a stupid decision.
Speaker 1: I think it's really really dumb on Montreal's part, and
Speaker 1: I think it's really going to hurt them throughout the
Speaker 1: rest of the season, you know what, And you know
Speaker 1: they're playing Chicago. Maybe it's the new Hope coach head bump,
Speaker 1: like they'll go in Chicago, it's not.
Speaker 4: Fighting Halters.
Speaker 1: So I I think it's a stupid decision. I don't
Speaker 1: like it. It makes me mad because I really like
Speaker 1: Laurent Courtois and wherever he goes. I hope that he
Speaker 1: does so well and he just you know, shoves it
Speaker 1: in everyone's face because I really love him as a
Speaker 1: head coach.
Speaker 2: I really do.
Speaker 3: Laurent, Please don't go to the insanity, even more insanity
Speaker 3: that is a legua uh or the second division in France,
Speaker 3: Like stay away, because that's even more ridiculous than what
Speaker 3: you just dealt with. Wait and get a good opportunity,
Speaker 3: because he will get it and he will do well
Speaker 3: if he's backed by ownership with I don't know, some
Speaker 3: actual functioning rosters to work.
Speaker 4: With well and to build on that. I mean, the
Speaker 4: question is now, like, what does Montreal do next? Well,
Speaker 4: they put an interim in place, I'm like, good luck
Speaker 4: getting somebody, because Jos Aputo is operating on such a
Speaker 4: knee jerk level at this.
Speaker 3: Point, I think you've already went through pretty much every
Speaker 3: Montreal impact legend that you had that you could give
Speaker 3: it to. You've already burned Yellow, You've already burned DeSantis.
Speaker 3: I mean, everybody that was a star for that team,
Speaker 3: going back to the days when they're playing the Atlanta
Speaker 3: Ruckus at Adams Stadium, North drud Hills Drive here, you know,
Speaker 3: like there's nobody else, So you're gonna get somebody who
Speaker 3: is desperate, and it's going to be bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anybody who has like an idea and who has
Speaker 4: like plans, they're not going to be interested in this.
Speaker 4: They're not going to want to put up with Joey
Speaker 4: Saputo's bs. That's no problem. It's it's a it's a
Speaker 4: crappy situation for the fans that have to deal with.
Speaker 4: And Joey Sputo has kind of made his bed at
Speaker 4: this point, and there's so many needles in that bed.
Speaker 4: You're just kind of wondering why he doesn't sleep standing up.
Speaker 3: Well, you mentioned it, Maddie. They go to Chicago next,
Speaker 3: and I believe we have a little bit of intel
Speaker 3: on the Chicago fire.
Speaker 2: We do, in fact have a little bit of intel.
Speaker 1: It was really really fun yesterday I had the opportunity
Speaker 1: to catch up with Joe.
Speaker 2: Chats, he is of on Tap sports Net there in Chicago.
Speaker 1: We talked a little bit just about Chicago. We talked
Speaker 1: about them beating Vancouver, the top of the Western Conference,
Speaker 1: beating them three to one, and then now getting to
Speaker 1: go back home and face a very very depleted and
Speaker 1: kind of in a rut. CF Montreal. It was a
Speaker 1: really really fun conversation and you'll get to hear it,
Speaker 1: and then a couple of.
Speaker 3: Minutes, Faces drops on a new week of soccer down here.
Speaker 2: It would be amazing. I'm just saying, ninety minutes compelling content.
Speaker 2: It's it's non stop entertainment.
Speaker 3: Could I to Knakna?
Speaker 5: Want to say? Could I to Knaka?
Speaker 3: Cleans it up? Hey? Cold I to knock up? Says
Speaker 3: good night? Keep back to the left, keep back to
Speaker 3: the right, back to the left, cleanse it off, god
Speaker 3: able to slip it?
Speaker 6: Thrill is gonna.
Speaker 2: Driving a.
Speaker 4: Godar with the left, puts in the cross over the
Speaker 4: head of Carlson. It fall to him anyway, right but
Speaker 4: it shot, Go.
Speaker 7: Go go Atlanta United too and they take the four
Speaker 7: three lead.
Speaker 1: Alrighty everyone, I am joined with Joe chats of on
Speaker 1: Tap Sports Net.
Speaker 2: They're in Chicago. Joe, thank you so much for joining
Speaker 2: us here on MLS six pack.
Speaker 5: Oh, thank you so much for having me. I just
Speaker 5: need a six pack at this point.
Speaker 2: Listen, don't we all? Don't we all?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Maybe not from a car, but like other than that, yeah, yes.
Speaker 2: No, that'll be later when you get home then.
Speaker 8: Yes, of course, of course responsibly, everybody be responsible. Of course,
Speaker 8: this is how we should start everything. Yeah, just don't
Speaker 8: be an idiot.
Speaker 2: Guys, don't be an idiot. Don't be an idiot, go home,
Speaker 2: have a six pack, then watch MLS. That's what you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, great way to introduce myself to your audience.
Speaker 2: Hey, the beauty of it. It's the beauty of it,
Speaker 2: beauty of a whole.
Speaker 1: But one thing is for cool actually is you actually
Speaker 1: just got done chatting with Greg Burholter at Chicago in
Speaker 1: media today.
Speaker 2: What were the conversations like there today?
Speaker 5: Couple things.
Speaker 8: So, the big headliner of the day is that Brian
Speaker 8: Gudierrez is going to be out for their match against
Speaker 8: the CF Montreal.
Speaker 5: He suffered from muscular discomfort.
Speaker 8: Is how the usmn T described it, and so he
Speaker 8: missed out on that third place game against Canada.
Speaker 5: I guess that's kind of for the better, whatever you
Speaker 5: want to say.
Speaker 8: But so he's going to be out. So that was
Speaker 8: a big talking point. Kellen Acosta's availability. He suffered an
Speaker 8: injury in Dallas. We'll see. He seems like more of
Speaker 8: a bench option at this point. And then general talking points.
Speaker 8: You know, the team's been playing well, three straight wins
Speaker 8: on the road, but you're playing a CF Montreal side
Speaker 8: that just fired their coach because they're CF Montreal, not
Speaker 8: because they do things logically. Laurent Courtois is a great coach. Honestly,
Speaker 8: he's been of a yeller for me, but it's clear
Speaker 8: that they were a good team. So Greg definitely said
Speaker 8: some interesting things about that, and he told me personally
Speaker 8: the day before, like, I was surprised by this because
Speaker 8: the big fear for Chicago Fire fans this weekend is
Speaker 8: this just feels like such a trap game, and for
Speaker 8: a team that's trying to re establish an identity, is
Speaker 8: a real team in MLS, so not the team it's
Speaker 8: been recently. A result against Montreal at home would be
Speaker 8: massive for this size confidence, even though they have the
Speaker 8: expectation for three points.
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, I'm echoing your sentiment as well. I was
Speaker 1: very upset when I saw that Laurentourtois was fired because
Speaker 1: they were my dark horse the entire season. When I
Speaker 1: just he is such a phenomenal coach and I was
Speaker 1: really excited to see what they could do. I feel
Speaker 1: like it's a little bit of like too early to
Speaker 1: even think about it, like you had six games on
Speaker 1: the road.
Speaker 5: It's like, exactly, you sound like Greg, That's exactly what
Speaker 5: he said. It's just like, how are you going to
Speaker 5: judge this?
Speaker 8: A little a little scary, and just you've got a
Speaker 8: guy who won with Crew two and then made Montreal relevant,
Speaker 8: which is all they can really be at this point
Speaker 8: until they actually develop an academy.
Speaker 5: So like I thought, he did a great job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Which, speaking of Greg, what did he say about Montreal,
Speaker 1: especially going into this match on Saturday. What were some
Speaker 1: of the things he's highlighted, especially with how they play
Speaker 1: and how Chicago can come out with the result.
Speaker 5: So basically, it was the idea of ignoring their goal total.
Speaker 8: If you go more to their goal chances, they've had
Speaker 8: a lot, it's just they've not been able to score.
Speaker 8: They've had to deal with the post, and they've been
Speaker 8: playing good teams and they've not really been at home,
Speaker 8: so there's a lot of reasons why they haven't scored yet.
Speaker 8: So that was a big talking point, is really understanding
Speaker 8: that defensive cohesion and this is going to be one
Speaker 8: of the first matches or first times where it's consecutive matches.
Speaker 8: It appears with the same back four. It looks like
Speaker 8: it'll be Leo Barrosso at right back, Jack Elliott and
Speaker 8: Sam Rodgers at center back, unless maybe Carlo Thron slides
Speaker 8: back in there and then Andrew Gutman at left back.
Speaker 8: So that's a massive thing for the Fire because they
Speaker 8: still don't have a clean sheet this year, so just
Speaker 8: to have that kind of cohesion was big. But also
Speaker 8: understanding that this is one of those games in MLS
Speaker 8: where you can't take your foot off the gas pedal
Speaker 8: at all or else you will end up losing three
Speaker 8: nothing at home and then you're embarrassed and understand you
Speaker 8: know everyone's going to say it the same old Chicago Fire.
Speaker 8: So this is kind of a litmus test this week
Speaker 8: for the entire club. That's what Greg said, and it's
Speaker 8: really they understand the quality in Montreal squad. They've got
Speaker 8: it all. I mean, the Fire beat them through, you know,
Speaker 8: the sheer help of God. Last year just still the
Speaker 8: funniest goal I've ever seen, Like it's I was watching
Speaker 8: the replays this week because they put it out in socials.
Speaker 5: And it remains the funniest thing.
Speaker 8: And Ariel last got traded to the team last year
Speaker 8: after being on the wrong side of that, and I
Speaker 8: talked to him, I think it was September and he
Speaker 8: was still.
Speaker 5: Mad about it.
Speaker 8: Just he's like, I don't think I'll ever get over
Speaker 8: that because it's so ridiculous. So there's going to be
Speaker 8: a lot of people in that Montreal side that are
Speaker 8: really going to want to get a result. And Fabby
Speaker 8: and herber is making his return to the Chicago Fire
Speaker 8: playing against Chicago Fire, Like, there's a lot of reasons
Speaker 8: why that team is going to want to get a
Speaker 8: result on the road. So the Fire, if they take
Speaker 8: their foot off the gas pedal, they'll be down three
Speaker 8: nothing and fifteen minutes agains.
Speaker 5: The Montreal side, you can't do that.
Speaker 1: The Montreal's dangerous and how they can just come out
Speaker 1: the way it happened to Atlanta.
Speaker 2: It happened in the first game of the season.
Speaker 1: You know, we had all the momentum going into halftime
Speaker 1: and then they came back in they were able to score.
Speaker 1: It's Montreal's a scary side, especially when you when you
Speaker 1: face them. But with all those storylines like intermidst it,
Speaker 1: what's like the vibe? What was the vibe of training, Like,
Speaker 1: what was the vibe seeing everyone there? Everyone excited, hyped
Speaker 1: up for this game, especially after beating the number one
Speaker 1: Western Conference in Vancouver white Caps.
Speaker 2: Yes last week.
Speaker 8: Yeah, this is I mean I've been covering the team.
Speaker 8: This is going to be my third full season. Last
Speaker 8: two were not pleasant. So like, they've never been this
Speaker 8: confidence since I've been doing it. And it's only five
Speaker 8: games in, right, so there is a real shift in
Speaker 8: the building. But the expectation is, you know, another win.
Speaker 8: They want to win, they want to consistently win, and
Speaker 8: they understand that. It's like you look at the attacking room, right,
Speaker 8: You've got Hugo Kuiper's starting off wonderfully. He has been
Speaker 8: what the Fire needed him to be when he's their
Speaker 8: club record signing, understanding that he needs to get those
Speaker 8: chances in front of goal, right, Like if you look
Speaker 8: at his numbers, I think he's five goals and it's
Speaker 8: four point eight or four point nine expected goals this year.
Speaker 8: So the understanding is that, Okay, he's lifted off. So
Speaker 8: Jonathan Bombo is the other guy. Joe Bamba, I guess
Speaker 8: is the other guy who did press today and he
Speaker 8: was also saying, you know, I want to get to
Speaker 8: that level. We're seeing that success on the field, but
Speaker 8: now I want to get to that personal level of successes. Well,
Speaker 8: Philip Zinkernagel got a goal in this last week. He
Speaker 8: really that was a big thing for him. Get on
Speaker 8: the score sheet. You can see the confidence level rising.
Speaker 8: So it's another reason why everyone is kind of saying
Speaker 8: you cannot let your foot off the gas pedal against
Speaker 8: this Montreal side because there's been so much positive momentum
Speaker 8: built that they don't want to lose it.
Speaker 5: But there is still that understanding that this is not
Speaker 5: a joke of a game.
Speaker 8: And I feel like a lot of people on the
Speaker 8: outside just don't unders understand how good this Montreal team is.
Speaker 5: And it seems like the Fire due as you look.
Speaker 1: At it too, especially with them firing their head coach.
Speaker 1: Now people are like, ah, you know, like, well here
Speaker 1: it is. The foundations still there, especially the room coming
Speaker 1: in like it's all still there.
Speaker 2: So they're still very, very dangerous in what they want
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: But I want to talk about Halter, especially with him
Speaker 1: coming in new head coach for the Fire, how have
Speaker 1: you seen the players buy in to what Gregor Halter
Speaker 1: wants to do with this squad.
Speaker 8: And with this team, there wasn't really a choice, right
Speaker 8: you had to buy in or you're going to get
Speaker 8: shipped out.
Speaker 5: It's as simple as that.
Speaker 8: There was going to be a shift when you get
Speaker 8: the head coach also as the director of football, it's
Speaker 8: going to go to a different level. Frank Lopas, one
Speaker 8: of my favorite people, was not.
Speaker 5: Fit for the role by the end of it. It
Speaker 5: just didn't work with him as fire coach.
Speaker 8: He's got a new role in the organization where I
Speaker 8: think he'll thrive and he had success in his own
Speaker 8: right in Montreal, but just at this time with the
Speaker 8: fire didn't work out. So it is a very serious
Speaker 8: building when you're in there. People are there to work
Speaker 8: at the training center, people are there to be there
Speaker 8: to be serious. We are there to work, enjoy and
Speaker 8: get better every day. There is a level of heightened pressure, yes,
Speaker 8: but it's also your professional athletes, right, you kind of
Speaker 8: have to do these things. And there's a couple guys
Speaker 8: who are in contract years. Theres are a couple of
Speaker 8: guys who have been rumored to be moved for multiple windows.
Speaker 8: So it's a matter of can you prove yourselves that
Speaker 8: One of the biggest stories in the early part of
Speaker 8: the season has been the emergence of Sergio Orhell Junior.
Speaker 8: He was a homegrown guy who made his debut and
Speaker 8: I believe twenty twenty two doesn't make an appearance in
Speaker 8: MLS the last two years, and he had a slow
Speaker 8: start in the season opener against Columbus. On the road
Speaker 8: against Columbus, it's a pretty hard place to start your
Speaker 8: MLS career or revamp your MLS career. But he's been
Speaker 8: an emerging prospect in just I think that's part of
Speaker 8: the pressure that's been put in is take those risks.
Speaker 5: We're okay with taking those risks.
Speaker 8: Just it needs to be from an informed soccer view,
Speaker 8: and it seems like everyone is just taking it maybe
Speaker 8: a bit more seriously. I don't know if that's a
Speaker 8: fair way of describing it right, Not that people were
Speaker 8: obviously taking it seriously in the past, but there is
Speaker 8: just an expectation of a floor that this franchise hasn't
Speaker 8: had for a few years.
Speaker 1: I have to ask, did someone ask Greg about the
Speaker 1: Burr Halter Bowl last weekend?
Speaker 3: Going on?
Speaker 8: Who didn't ask about the Burrhlter Bowl. I mean they
Speaker 8: pre game. They made him ask. They asked him on
Speaker 8: serious XM yesterday. I asked him in the post match
Speaker 8: because I told.
Speaker 5: Him that's the only time I was going to ask.
Speaker 8: So what I got from that was so pre match
Speaker 8: Greg was really worried, like how do I handle this?
Speaker 3: Like this is my son.
Speaker 8: I want to see him have success, but also want
Speaker 8: to see us have success, right, Like, come on, it's
Speaker 8: a pretty good narrative too. You're going against an unbeaten
Speaker 8: team depleted because of the international break, like there were
Speaker 8: a lot of reasons to be comptent going into that,
Speaker 8: and the result goes. I think we all saw the
Speaker 8: picture where Greg's smiling and Sebastian's not is they're hugging,
Speaker 8: and that is the appropriate way to describe how that
Speaker 8: game went. And so it was a great event for
Speaker 8: them and their family. He had fun, but I think
Speaker 8: it would have been a different tone if they hadn't won.
Speaker 8: So it was a very fun thing. You're not going
Speaker 8: to get that that often, especially that first time. It
Speaker 8: was really cool to see. And I know the joy
Speaker 8: my parents have from just being you know, at dinner randomly,
Speaker 8: so like just to see those types of things, it's
Speaker 8: not really about soccer, so it was fun to watch,
Speaker 8: and apparently their whole.
Speaker 5: Family was there, and Creig mentioned the restaurant they went
Speaker 5: to and boy was it a a nice place to
Speaker 5: go to. If you want to find it.
Speaker 8: I'm sure you can go digging, but I'll just leave
Speaker 8: it at that, and he joked about some ash tang, which.
Speaker 4: I hope not.
Speaker 2: Well, especially in Chicago. Some very nice places up there.
Speaker 5: This was in Vancouver, which is even nicer in a
Speaker 5: lot of ways.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a global city in a lot of ways.
Speaker 8: I mean, Chicago, I love my city, I love this place,
Speaker 8: but Vancouver is another level.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's the one trip I want to make
Speaker 1: at some point in my I want to go up
Speaker 1: there and I want to cover it.
Speaker 2: I just feel like it'd be so pretty going up
Speaker 2: to Vancouver.
Speaker 8: Everything's pretty except BC place in the crap turf they
Speaker 8: play on.
Speaker 5: But yeah, hey, you win some you exactly.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you looking at MLS as a
Speaker 1: whole for this weekend, besides the Chicago game, are any
Speaker 1: other games that you're going to be tuning into this weekend?
Speaker 8: Oh that's a great question. So me personally, so I'm
Speaker 8: just like going through my schedule. I have to cover
Speaker 8: NWSL on Sunday and Fire two on Sunday, So I'm
Speaker 8: just excuse me for being this guy. I have to
Speaker 8: pull up the schedule to make sure I am not
Speaker 8: forgetting anything.
Speaker 2: You have to and it's all good.
Speaker 8: Okay, thank you if you're filibustering for me for a
Speaker 8: slight moment so I can make sure. Okay, here was
Speaker 8: my one game that isn't Philadelphia in or Miami that
Speaker 8: I'm actually very curious about. Sorry, it's not going to
Speaker 8: be Atlanta, but DC United against Columbus early season game,
Speaker 8: but it's at DC United. I feel like the old
Speaker 8: Crew teams would win this three nothing Like it's not right.
Speaker 8: And I think this DC United team, it's another one
Speaker 8: of these DC United teams to be super annoying to
Speaker 8: play against all year. And when you have a Crew
Speaker 8: team that's still evolving, still dealing with a lot of
Speaker 8: players who are on international duty, I feel like this
Speaker 8: is kind of a trap game that they could end
Speaker 8: up losing badly. And you know how the Benech thing is,
Speaker 8: it could be he can go from zero to one
Speaker 8: hundred and five seconds. He's a pain to deal with
Speaker 8: or to any center back about going against him, they
Speaker 8: will shake their heads even if they had a good
Speaker 8: game because they're exhausted. So that is my fun game,
Speaker 8: because yeah, Atlanta's fun. Sorry, but I wasn't going to
Speaker 8: fit that. I actually do think Philadelphia enter Miami is
Speaker 8: a great game, but.
Speaker 5: I don't work for MLS, so I'm not going to
Speaker 5: use that one.
Speaker 1: I well, the one for me that sticks out, which
Speaker 1: you did not have to say Atlanta, that one. That
Speaker 1: one is one that definitely I'm watching because we'll obviously
Speaker 1: be there covering the match, but definitely one I'm interested
Speaker 1: to see how Nashville and Cincinnati plays out because Cincinnati
Speaker 1: is kind of coming off of the two two draw
Speaker 1: against US, and then you know, Nashville is coming.
Speaker 2: Off of a pretty decent stretch right now. They're kind
Speaker 2: of finding their rhythm. We'll see, we'll see. I think
Speaker 2: a lot of fun action this weekend.
Speaker 8: So I don't know if you can still hear me,
Speaker 8: but I totally missed that entire soliloquy from you because
Speaker 8: I just got a phone call and I'm sorry, So
Speaker 8: I'm just going to leave and come right back quickly
Speaker 8: for that because I don't know how.
Speaker 5: To fix this.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, You're good, no worries, all.
Speaker 3: Right, we're just doing audio.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I'm gonna yell at Alex later. If anybody
Speaker 5: would like to blame someone that it was Alex Calibrese
Speaker 5: calling me.
Speaker 8: I think he's at am Calibrase twelve on Twitter and
Speaker 8: Blue Sky. Feel free to just harass him for interrupting
Speaker 8: this interview as Madison was making a fabulous point that
Speaker 8: I completely missed because of him in my audio.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. I'll recap just real quickly.
Speaker 5: I would thank you.
Speaker 1: The one for me that I'm watching for is definitely
Speaker 1: Nashville and Cincy because that one, that one's the one
Speaker 1: that I feel I could go either way because Nashal's
Speaker 1: found more momental. But Cincinnati is coming off this too
Speaker 1: to draw against us.
Speaker 2: We'll see. I'm interested in that one. I'm circling it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And Nashville is going to be an interesting team
Speaker 8: because they have all the pieces. Can they put it
Speaker 8: all together? And is bj Callahan the right coach. That's
Speaker 8: gonna be a big thing throughout the year. He's got
Speaker 8: a lot to prove as a first year coach in MLS.
Speaker 8: But I'm enjoying the Cincinnati team, at least watching them.
Speaker 8: They are a lot of fun. Evanders kind of slid
Speaker 8: in there pretty well. It's gonna take him time to
Speaker 8: really be the best version of himself. But they're another
Speaker 8: team that's just so hard to break down and break
Speaker 8: down a lot that they're just there's such a pain
Speaker 8: to deal with. So, like when you say Nashville going
Speaker 8: against them, it's another one of those games where I'm
Speaker 8: expecting some MLS to happen.
Speaker 5: I'm expecting some MLS to happen.
Speaker 8: It's going to be bonkers, and it's a great pick
Speaker 8: because there's just going to be high quality soccer, but
Speaker 8: there's so much mind games that go and.
Speaker 3: Do it as well with them.
Speaker 5: When those two teams face off.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a fun weekend of MLS, that is
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 1: Before I let you go, let's go ahead and let
Speaker 1: you cut the promo. Where can people find you? What
Speaker 1: can they find you on?
Speaker 2: And what can they expect for Saturday's match against Chicago?
Speaker 8: Well, you can find me at on tap sportsnet here
Speaker 8: in Chicago. Just google Joe Chats. There's only so many
Speaker 8: things that'll come up that aren't me at Joe Chats
Speaker 8: on the Socials at Joe chats Sports on Instagram.
Speaker 5: I don't really post things with my face other than recaps.
Speaker 5: So enjoyed that.
Speaker 8: But expectations for Saturday it really comes down to really
Speaker 8: the first fifteen minutes. If the Fire can get through
Speaker 8: that without conceding something stupid and get into halftime with
Speaker 8: you know, a good amount of possession, with minimal mistakes,
Speaker 8: I expect them to at least get a point. But
Speaker 8: it's kind of one of those games where I would
Speaker 8: predict to nothing Fire simply because you know you're going
Speaker 8: one way, one team's going one way, one team's going
Speaker 8: the other way. But just new manager bump, the chaos
Speaker 8: of not really knowing who the manager or the manager's
Speaker 8: tactics because he's only really coached in Series C, which
Speaker 8: is so fun in a lot of ways. What a
Speaker 8: ridiculous league if anybody ever follows. Seriously, there's just some
Speaker 8: bonker stuff that goes on. Go Tristina, But this game
Speaker 8: really should be one of those two nothing to one
Speaker 8: Fire wins. But if it comes back to one Montreal,
Speaker 8: there will be a mistake in there that you're like
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, that's that's more of a classic Chicago fire mistake.
Speaker 2: Absolutely well, Joe, thank you so much again for taking the.
Speaker 1: Time for coming on to MLS six pack and hey,
Speaker 1: good luck again on Saturday.
Speaker 5: Oh well, thank you. I gonna be a fun time.
Speaker 8: You know, I don't care about the results really other
Speaker 8: than I like chaos and I like fun. So it's
Speaker 8: gonna be interesting. And I'll be inside so I won't
Speaker 8: be getting rained on, so I'll be smiling.
Speaker 3: Faces dropped on a new week of soccer down here.
Speaker 2: It would be amazing.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying compelling content.
Speaker 2: It's it's non stop entertainment.
Speaker 4: Cold I tanaka want to say?
Speaker 3: Can I tanaka cleans it up? Hey, hold on to.
Speaker 4: KNOCKA says good night, Get back to the left, keep
Speaker 4: back to the right, back to the lap, claise.
Speaker 7: It up, able to slip it, thrills good at driving Itarda.
Speaker 3: With the laft puts in the cross over the head
Speaker 3: of Carlton.
Speaker 4: It ball to him anyway, right, but it shot.
Speaker 3: Go go go. Hey Lanta United too and they take
Speaker 3: the four three lead.
Speaker 2: Welcome back once again.
Speaker 1: Want to thank Joe Chats for taking the time to
Speaker 1: chat with me talking about Chicago fire. And as we
Speaker 1: lead into this weekend of MLS six pack, let's get
Speaker 1: ready for the matches that we have this weekend. Up next,
Speaker 1: We've got two games at two thirty, kind of ones
Speaker 1: where you might want to be doing something else, maybe
Speaker 1: yardwork at the pool, may be doing something else because
Speaker 1: it's New England Revolution hosting the New York Red Bulls
Speaker 1: and then Toronto hosting the Vancouver white Caps.
Speaker 3: I like the road teams.
Speaker 2: Road teams are great.
Speaker 3: I am intrigued by the road potential for wins here
Speaker 3: and what that could look like. But New England, look,
Speaker 3: you're starting to see people who have known things in
Speaker 3: the past tweet things that are alluding to things that
Speaker 3: might mean that there's a lot of pressure on this game.
Speaker 3: It's all talk at the moment. But the Revs have
Speaker 3: not had a good start, and the Red Bulls are
Speaker 3: coming to town, and I don't necessarily see the Revs
Speaker 3: having a get right game here.
Speaker 2: No, ter, It just shakes his head and there's.
Speaker 4: Nothing else to add to it. Caleb Porter might Caleb
Speaker 4: Porter might be on like you know, sign in the
Speaker 4: yard watch yeah, and and Toronto is just I still
Speaker 4: don't I'm gonna go through all twenty five not knowing
Speaker 4: if Robin Fraser is a great manager or not, or
Speaker 4: even a good manager, because what he's been handed in
Speaker 4: Toronto is just this spoiled, left out in the sun
Speaker 4: all day jarapoutine and it's a tough situation for any
Speaker 4: manager to have to deal with, while Toronto tries to
Speaker 4: kind of right the ship, and at this point riding
Speaker 4: the ship might mean sinking it and firing and filing
Speaker 4: the insurance fraud.
Speaker 3: Well, they brought Lorenzo and Signe back. He played and
Speaker 3: did all right, So I don't know, maybe, but Vancouver,
Speaker 3: I think for me, the story in these two is
Speaker 3: I want to see how the White Cap bounce back
Speaker 3: after a loss after a great start. They've got Conca
Speaker 3: Calf to look ahead to, So is that going to
Speaker 3: be a distraction this week in Toronto? Find out?
Speaker 1: Moving on, we only have one game at four point
Speaker 1: thirty that is going to be the Colorado Rapids hosting
Speaker 1: Charlotte FC.
Speaker 3: Rapids got to bounce back after a bad loss to
Speaker 3: Portland Charlotte on the road in Colorado, where it can
Speaker 3: be a difficult place to play because of the altitude,
Speaker 3: Charlotte's way of playing will help them, although the long
Speaker 3: balls might end up in Wyoming if they're not careful.
Speaker 5: You can't.
Speaker 4: You can't. You can't accurately wait those long balls early
Speaker 4: in the game. You just can't. And it's not it's
Speaker 4: not like a it's not like a they suck thing.
Speaker 4: It's a the air is so thin when you hit
Speaker 4: that long ball, it's not going to do what you expect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you might hit a few prairie dogs infected with
Speaker 3: the plague. To be careful with that hole coming back
Speaker 3: in the play, got to watch out for that. But
Speaker 3: uh yeah, I think, honestly, I think Charlotte's style of
Speaker 3: playing will help them in this one. It really feels
Speaker 3: like a draw.
Speaker 4: To me. It feels like a draw, and it's a
Speaker 4: weird one. I think if it was any other than Colorado,
Speaker 4: I think it'd be a very interesting Like this is
Speaker 4: a watermark to see what Charlotte can be. Because everyone
Speaker 4: has talked them up. They made a hell of a
Speaker 4: statement last week with a four to one dismantling of
Speaker 4: San Jose. Of San Jose where the early part of
Speaker 4: that game, like if you go look at the only
Speaker 4: part of that game San Jose pepper the hell out
Speaker 4: of them, but didn't break through. Charlotte got one and
Speaker 4: kind of has that old school Nashville vibe of if
Speaker 4: they get one, it just starts rolling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that one.
Speaker 3: That one for me.
Speaker 1: I picked Colorado. I think Colorado is gonna come away
Speaker 1: with it. I'm interested to see how Charlotte can bounce
Speaker 1: on the road. I think this is their first big,
Speaker 1: big road test and if they can handle it. I
Speaker 1: just because you know, you you drew against Seattle, you
Speaker 1: got a own goal that kind of helped you out there.
Speaker 3: I think it's their first big road test with expectation. Yes,
Speaker 3: I would put it. I would agree it was weird. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like Seattle, you didn't really know and it's easy to
Speaker 3: go on the road where you're the unknown. But now,
Speaker 3: I mean you got people really talking Charlotte up as
Speaker 3: a team that can play with Miami and potentially win
Speaker 3: the East. Okay, if you're that team, you gotta go
Speaker 3: to Colorado and win.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we'll be ready for you and.
Speaker 2: Inner Miami as well.
Speaker 1: You look back at that game that they had inter
Speaker 1: Miami came away with the one, no victory down ten men.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just that's my thing.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a true test to
Speaker 1: see how Charlotte can do deal with the pressure that
Speaker 1: they're already getting from everyone I think in the league,
Speaker 1: talking and hyping them up, and going on the road
Speaker 1: and facing Colorado Rapids, which again I think that they're
Speaker 1: my they're my white horse.
Speaker 2: I want them to do very well. I think they'll
Speaker 2: be really good.
Speaker 4: I hope are they your c are they? Are they
Speaker 4: your earthquakes? What the earthquakes are to me?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 5: I think so.
Speaker 4: I really just like them fall into this darkness like
Speaker 4: I have.
Speaker 2: Listen, We're already there. We're already there, dared. Unfortunately.
Speaker 5: Anyway, a couple of games.
Speaker 1: There's three games. At seven thirty, we'll circle back to
Speaker 1: Atlanta versus NYC. That game is at seven thirty. We'll
Speaker 1: circle back. We'll talk about that later. DC United hosting
Speaker 1: Columbus Crew, and then also at seven thirty we have
Speaker 1: Inner Miami hosting Philadelphia Union.
Speaker 3: Real quick on Columbus. I think what Wilfrid Nanci is
Speaker 3: doing this year is one of his best coaching jobs,
Speaker 3: and that's including a season in Montreal where he didn't
Speaker 3: strangle Joey Suputo, which deserves to be in the Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame. Just for that second. You know, like, this
Speaker 3: is a group that doesn't have as many weapons as
Speaker 3: they've had in the past, and they're battling and they're
Speaker 3: still playing true to their style. It's really impressive. DC.
Speaker 3: We know what DC brings, it's Christian Venteke winning every
Speaker 3: aerial dual known demand. Columbus is gonna have to be
Speaker 3: ready to deal with that. I don't I don't know
Speaker 3: if they get the win on the road in this one,
Speaker 3: but I think they don't lose it. The Miami Philly
Speaker 3: game's fascinating because Miami's looking ahead to play in LAFC
Speaker 3: and CONCACAFF middle of next week. Philly is another one
Speaker 3: in the East who's trying to prove themselves. Can they
Speaker 3: go on the road to Fort Lauderdale and play their
Speaker 3: game and be disruptive against Miami and then for Miami.
Speaker 3: It's always a question mark when you've got other competitions
Speaker 3: going on. How much do the super Friends play in
Speaker 3: this one? And we don't know yet.
Speaker 4: No, I agree, it's how how combative can can Philly
Speaker 4: be with Miami. One of my questions Jason is and
Speaker 4: we I think I thought we were gonna see it
Speaker 4: against Atlanta. I think there were moments where it wasn't
Speaker 4: the entire second half, but they were moments where those
Speaker 4: legs look tired against Atlanta. Those legs a gonna get
Speaker 4: real tired for Miami because the super Friends are logging
Speaker 4: a lot of minutes early in the season. They are,
Speaker 4: and they can do that. Part of getting old, though,
Speaker 4: is that you don't bounce back the elasticity and your
Speaker 4: rubber band is not as intense as it used to be.
Speaker 4: There's gonna come a time where they're just gonna have
Speaker 4: to start resting guys, and even when they're out there,
Speaker 4: they're just not gonna be able to give everything they can.
Speaker 4: At this point, I don't know when that is, and
Speaker 4: I can't predict it because I feel like I'm gonna
Speaker 4: look like a fool doing it. I don't necessarily know
Speaker 4: if it's if it's this game, because I think it
Speaker 4: will be. It will be interesting to see how Miami
Speaker 4: deals with it. Because as much flack as your new
Speaker 4: manager got with Argentine national team fans cheering that their
Speaker 4: youth national team coach was leaving because they thought he
Speaker 4: was bad. He'd done a hell of managerial job so far.
Speaker 3: I like great, he's been great. I love what he's
Speaker 3: done with that team. Defensively, I mean they're aggressive defensively,
Speaker 3: they're doing all the right things. I talked about it
Speaker 3: throughout the game with Miami. Luis Suarez taken away the
Speaker 3: six MESSI picking his spots to press. I mean, you're
Speaker 3: just giving them a couple of cues and you're organizing
Speaker 3: everything else around it. It's been really impressive from Javea Masrano.
Speaker 3: And you know, when we talk about managers, some guys
Speaker 3: are cut out to be a club manager day to
Speaker 3: day where they can work and get into the nitty
Speaker 3: gritty with a team. Some are cut out to be
Speaker 3: national team managers where it's more about man management, more
Speaker 3: about setting up one v one's and basic stuff along
Speaker 3: those lines. And it looks like Mashrano is really taken
Speaker 3: to the club game and he's getting a ton out
Speaker 3: of this Miami team. They've looked better than they did
Speaker 3: last season in my opinion. Now can they maintain it?
Speaker 3: That's the part we don't know. We're just gonna have
Speaker 3: to wait and find out.
Speaker 2: It'll be fun, It'll be a fun time. Moving on
Speaker 2: to the eight thirty games, we have four of them.
Speaker 2: Starting up. We have Chicago hosting Montreal Chicagos.
Speaker 4: Who were great club Speaking of guys who were great
Speaker 4: club managers but may not have been great national team managers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, better national team manager than he got credit for.
Speaker 3: But yes, I think he is a club club manager.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In Chicago wins, We don't even have to keep going
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 1: Right then we got Dallas hosting Sporting Kansas City.
Speaker 3: Dallas wins, Lucho Acosta scores, he gets into the seventy
Speaker 3: five seventy five club I think one of six or
Speaker 3: seven guys to do that. Seventy five goals, seventy five
Speaker 3: assists in MLS, he's got seventy four goals.
Speaker 4: Right now, guys for Peter Urmes's head grow louder. And
Speaker 4: the worst party for Sporting Kansas City is that they're
Speaker 4: not even angry anymore. They're apathetic, which I swear to
Speaker 4: God is worse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's much worse, and I don't think it gets
Speaker 3: any better this week.
Speaker 1: All right, at another eight to thirty game, we have
Speaker 1: Minnesota hosting Salt Lake.
Speaker 3: I still don't know what to think about Minnesota. I
Speaker 3: don't know if it's yeah same. I have higher hopes
Speaker 3: for Salt Lake because I think Diego Luna could break
Speaker 3: down a brick wall with his bare hands, yes, and
Speaker 3: enjoy it. So at least I have something to lean into.
Speaker 3: With RSL Minnesota, I just don't quite know yet, and
Speaker 3: they're at home. I mean it's it's an opportunity for
Speaker 3: These are two teams that I think coming into the
Speaker 3: year a lot of people kind of had roughly around
Speaker 3: the same level. Do they separate this week or is
Speaker 3: it a draw?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Moving on, last game of the eight thirty PM hour,
Speaker 1: This one I'm actually watching for because I'm really intrigued
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: Nashville hosting Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: No I thought what to do with either one of
Speaker 4: these teams right now.
Speaker 3: I give Nashville a ton of credit. Bj Callahan has
Speaker 3: gotten them after a first couple of weeks where they
Speaker 3: did not look good. I think that's been washed away
Speaker 3: with how good they've looked since. But they did not
Speaker 3: look good in the first couple of weeks. They didn't
Speaker 3: look good at the end of last season. He's turned
Speaker 3: it around now. Is that because of the matchups? Is
Speaker 3: that just a good, nice run of form. We'll find out.
Speaker 3: Cincinnati's not one hundred percent though. This is a team
Speaker 3: that's that's kind of banged up. This is a team
Speaker 3: that I think is maybe still dealing with a little
Speaker 3: bit of the disappointment from getting knocked out of Conker Calf.
Speaker 3: They're not what they've been so far this season. And
Speaker 3: we had the conversation coming into it, you know, is
Speaker 3: Evander going to be able to replicate Lucianoacosta? And everybody
Speaker 3: pretty much said yes. I've been skeptical of that. I
Speaker 3: didn't really see anything up close, although they didn't have
Speaker 3: their normal group, but Landa didn't have their normal group.
Speaker 3: I didn't see anything really up close to change my
Speaker 3: opinion of that. Last week. I don't know if they
Speaker 3: go to Nashville and get anything.
Speaker 4: I've always felt like, okay, I felt since day one
Speaker 4: that this is unfair to Evander because he's not the
Speaker 4: same players. Luco is such a different Yeah, Lucio is
Speaker 4: such a unique player in this league's history and can
Speaker 4: just do things that he just does Luco things. I
Speaker 4: don't know what else to call it. He's just very
Speaker 4: unique and asking Evander to be that guy isn't fair
Speaker 4: to him. It's more of Evander. I need to just
Speaker 4: come in and be Evander, and then for Cincinnati is
Speaker 4: adjusting to Evander being him. They are built to play
Speaker 4: around for so long what Luco did, but aust what
Speaker 4: they're doing around Evander, and I think you'll get moments
Speaker 4: like we saw in those fifteen minutes against Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was only fifteen minutes, I know.
Speaker 4: But I think they can expand on it if they
Speaker 4: can just kind of coalesce around it. But that's a
Speaker 4: big if.
Speaker 3: Understand it's a big if. I think Nashville gets the
Speaker 3: win here. I think they're in a good spot right now,
Speaker 3: and they're more expansive than they've ever been. And I'm
Speaker 3: really curious to see how the fan base takes to that.
Speaker 3: In Nashville playing a more bold, aggressive style, I think
Speaker 3: it will help them. I think it will definitely get
Speaker 3: more attention over time and create more excitement. I think
Speaker 3: it's the right.
Speaker 2: Way to go all right, speed round. We got three
Speaker 2: games at ten point thirty. We have LA Galaxy hosting Orlando.
Speaker 3: Orlando goes on the road and gets the win, and
Speaker 3: it's because their designated players have delivered so far with
Speaker 3: Mourtreel and with Passily especially. I didn't expect either to
Speaker 3: be doing what they've been doing. Orlando goes to win
Speaker 3: the Galaxy or just not the Galaxy.
Speaker 4: At the moment, the calls for Greg Vanny, you're going
Speaker 4: to be unfair, but they're going to be there.
Speaker 3: They shouldn't be and anybody who does that should be
Speaker 3: smacked in the face.
Speaker 2: We have San Diego hosting LAFC draw.
Speaker 3: I think LAFC has to look ahead to host in
Speaker 3: Miami in the midweek in Conca Calf. I think San
Speaker 3: Diego is good enough at home to frustrate them. LAFC.
Speaker 3: I know a lot of people still are super impressed.
Speaker 3: I'm not, and I don't think they have enough at
Speaker 3: less than one hundred percent to go to San Diego
Speaker 3: and get a win. They need to put all their
Speaker 3: eggs in the basket of Conca Calf and really go
Speaker 3: after that Miami series, which could be a lot of
Speaker 3: fun because it's a very good class styles.
Speaker 4: I also don't know that LAFC is going to expand
Speaker 4: enough for San Diego to break them down, like lafc's
Speaker 4: going likedraw. Yeah, they're gonna sit in their shell.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then the last game of Saturday ten thirty, we have
Speaker 1: the Quakes hosting Seattle.
Speaker 3: Quakes have fallen off a little bit a little bit,
Speaker 3: and Seattle are trying to bring in Ryan Kent. How
Speaker 3: do you feel about that one, Jared.
Speaker 4: Don't know what Ryankan has in the tank at this point.
Speaker 4: He was really good for Rangers a couple of years
Speaker 4: ago with and just nothing really happened. He was at
Speaker 4: his best under Steven Gerard at Rangers, but hasn't really
Speaker 4: reproduced it. I think the right manager can get a
Speaker 4: very solid player out of him.
Speaker 3: I think Spetzer could be that guy.
Speaker 4: I think would not be sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you could really serve them. Well, it's
Speaker 3: not done yet, so we'll see. I wonder about Seattle
Speaker 3: on the road in this one, but San Jose has
Speaker 3: reverted back to form a little bit. I wonder if
Speaker 3: this is one of those games where Bruce Arena just
Speaker 3: goes into it and says, you know what, we haven't
Speaker 3: been playing great, We're not going to lose today. Might
Speaker 3: not win, but we're not going to lose today. Kind
Speaker 3: of got that vibe about it. So I will also
Speaker 3: go draw here.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, we have two games at two point fifteen.
Speaker 1: We have Saint Louis hosting Austin.
Speaker 3: That should be a fun one. Austin found their offense
Speaker 3: last week, although they couldn't convert all the chances that they.
Speaker 6: Have had four goals, six, eight, ten, like it could have.
Speaker 6: He could have set a record. It was crazy and
Speaker 6: it Brandon Vesquez and was it was.
Speaker 3: Saint Louis has been one of the best defensive teams
Speaker 3: in the league this season, so it sets up for
Speaker 3: a really entertaining game and I want to see that one.
Speaker 3: That's one that in the West this weekend. That's one
Speaker 3: I'm really looking forward to on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Then at seven pm for Sunday Night Soccer, we have
Speaker 1: the Portland Timbers hosting the Houston Dynamo.
Speaker 3: So if Jared's got the Quakes and Maddy's got the Rapids,
Speaker 3: i guess I've got the Dynamo. And I'm just still
Speaker 3: very disappointed. And I love I love what ben Elson.
Speaker 3: I love what he is as a coach, I loved
Speaker 3: what he was as a player, and it's just not
Speaker 3: quite happening for them at the moment. They have not
Speaker 3: won the season. You know you lose Hector Herrera here
Speaker 3: a different locker room. Jack McGlenn, I think will come
Speaker 3: good for them, but he's like, from a present standpoint,
Speaker 3: he's not Hector Herreri can't be. He's like half his
Speaker 3: age almost, So it hasn't quite hit yet. And does
Speaker 3: it hit in Portland? Who has some momentum now? Phil
Speaker 3: nevill getting the win in Colorado last week? Are things
Speaker 3: turning for them? With Da Costa getting more time and
Speaker 3: he's trying to be a Vander even though he's not
Speaker 3: a Vander but he's got to be Evander plus to
Speaker 3: help the Timbers team. I think they're changing goalkeepers help
Speaker 3: them as well. I think Portland probably gets the win
Speaker 3: here and I'll still be disappointed.
Speaker 2: All around, disappointed all around.
Speaker 4: Whoever, like if Portland is suffering Houston's first victory of
Speaker 4: the season, you're also going to start getting those whispers
Speaker 4: out in Portland.
Speaker 3: I think those whispers. They they went back to whispers
Speaker 3: last week after the win. They will get back to
Speaker 3: not quite bullhorn level, but conversation, yeah, maybe open conversation,
Speaker 3: like not trying to hide it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Going back to the game at seven thirty,
Speaker 1: Atlanta United versus and why see really quick thoughts.
Speaker 2: What do y'all think?
Speaker 3: I'm waiting to see the lineups? Keaton Parks question mark,
Speaker 3: mattash click question mark. Guys coming back from international duty
Speaker 3: in general are always question marks. Peter Amador coming back
Speaker 3: after the birth of his versus child question mark. So
Speaker 3: a lot of those with these two teams, two teams
Speaker 3: that want to play a really similar way. Ronnie Diler
Speaker 3: versus NYC. That's a storyline right there. I think it
Speaker 3: should be, and it feels like it typically is between
Speaker 3: these two clubs. It should be a really good game,
Speaker 3: really good game between two teams that want to play.
Speaker 3: So I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: Midfield for me, is gonna be as resting for Atlanta.
Speaker 4: We know Tristan's out for a couple of weeks now
Speaker 4: click getting healthy, Slee's coming back, But you have two
Speaker 4: kids in that midfield, Jay Fortune, who hasn't gotten as
Speaker 4: many minutes this year and hasn't just grabbed everything by
Speaker 4: the throat like he did last year, and then Will Riley,
Speaker 4: who put together an outstanding first ever performance last week.
Speaker 4: One of those kids is gonna have to factor into
Speaker 4: the midfield and some way shape or form in this game?
Speaker 4: Who is it and do they step up to the
Speaker 4: moment and can they be that difference maker that maybe
Speaker 4: New York City doesn't happen in the midfield A keating
Speaker 4: Parks isn't giving you as much.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a fun one on Saturday at Mercedes
Speaker 1: Benz Stadium. That's gonna start at seven thirty six point thirty.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have the pregame show on ninety two nine
Speaker 1: and the Odyssey app myself and Abe Gordon will take
Speaker 1: you through everything you.
Speaker 2: Need to know about the match seven thirty.
Speaker 1: A little bit afterwards, Mike Connie and Jason Longsrour will
Speaker 1: hop on and they'll give you the beautiful call of
Speaker 1: the match. And then post game it'll either be Abe
Speaker 1: Gordon and it'll either be my off Ordered Smith or
Speaker 1: both of us.
Speaker 2: Who knows, you know, we might who knows. We'll keep
Speaker 2: you guessing.
Speaker 3: You'll never just have to wait and see what happens,
Speaker 3: wait to.
Speaker 2: See what happens.
Speaker 1: We'll leave it there. But yeah, guys, that was another
Speaker 1: episode of MLS six pack. You're on the SDH network.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for listening, and we'll see
Speaker 1: you Guys next week for more Major League soccer chaos.