Speaker 1: Hi cap Morning, John.
Speaker 2: So I was explaining in something of an opening kickoff
Speaker 2: kind of a sense, did you hear the story about
Speaker 2: the firecracker lobbed into the press conference room in Lega MX.
Speaker 3: I did not.
Speaker 2: So basically it is as a Chieva Squadalajara midfielder Roberto
Speaker 2: Alvarado has apologized to journalists, and I imagine that there
Speaker 2: are times when I'm sure that players would sit there
Speaker 2: and they'd love to do something like this. I mean,
Speaker 2: a lot of firecracker into a press conference room and
Speaker 2: see the journalist scatter. That's the most that's the most
Speaker 2: vert I've seen from that beat writer in years. So
Speaker 2: Alvarado apologized to journalists after throwing a firecracker that explodes
Speaker 2: in the media room ahead of Thursday's pre match news conference.
Speaker 2: So it's a darby presser, so I would imagine that
Speaker 2: there's maybe more than one or two journalists in said
Speaker 2: press conference room. Roberto Alvarado decides from the neighboring locker
Speaker 2: room to light a firecracker. Like I said, all this
Speaker 2: stuff is apparently like logic that's rolling through dude's head.
Speaker 2: So he goes from having an unlighted firecracker in his
Speaker 2: possession to a lighted firecracker in his possession, and like
Speaker 2: I said, I'm trying to walk through this process, and
Speaker 2: so Alvarado apparently thought that, oh, lighted firecracker.
Speaker 4: I have two choices.
Speaker 2: I can keep it here in the locker room, or
Speaker 2: I can have someone open a door, which just happens
Speaker 2: to be the to the adjoining press conference area, take
Speaker 2: said lighted firecracker, throw the firecracker into the press conference room,
Speaker 2: and have the firecracker go off with you know, journalists there.
Speaker 2: The press officer and one of the defenders apologized to
Speaker 2: the media, but the media was like, nah, fam, that's
Speaker 2: not going to work.
Speaker 4: We need the dude that did it.
Speaker 2: And so the so Alvarado goes in, he comes out
Speaker 2: of the out of the dressing room, and he claims
Speaker 2: it was an accident and that he had no intention
Speaker 2: of hurting anyone. As I sit here and wander through
Speaker 2: conscious decisions of it was an accident. So you go
Speaker 2: from unlighted firecracker, too, lighted firecracker, and lighted firecracker. Oh,
Speaker 2: I've got to do something with this door. Open firecracker
Speaker 2: through door, closed door, firecracker go boom. It was an
Speaker 2: accident beat two, three four. The media were so pissed.
Speaker 2: No one was injured, but the presser didn't take place
Speaker 2: because all the media were like, no, we're boycotting this thing.
Speaker 4: We're out.
Speaker 2: Have you ever, sir, in this go round of have
Speaker 2: I ever have you ever been with a teammate either
Speaker 2: named or unnamed? I don't know, statute limitations can apply here.
Speaker 2: Have you ever had a teammate that had that kind
Speaker 2: of a mischievous trouble streak attached to them where they
Speaker 2: thought that something would be funny something like that? Have
Speaker 2: you ever been with a teammate that had that kind
Speaker 2: of mischievous trouble streak attached to them?
Speaker 4: Like I said, you can name names if you want.
Speaker 2: You don't name names if you don't want to, but
Speaker 2: you can either just say yes or no and maybe
Speaker 2: give an incident.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I played with some crazy teammates.
Speaker 4: How crazy were They.
Speaker 3: Never did anything to the media or anything, but like
Speaker 3: I had a goalie teammate once, Eastern European guy, and
Speaker 3: he showed up at one of our teammate's house. They
Speaker 3: got into an on the field and he showed up
Speaker 3: to his house later on the later on in the
Speaker 3: day with a baseball bat righty telling him basically like
Speaker 3: he kill his whole family if he ever did anything
Speaker 3: like that on the field again, And wow, yeah, nut job.
Speaker 3: But I've never seen a firecracker even in a locker
Speaker 3: room before. I don't even understand how is he why
Speaker 3: is there even a locker room or a firecracker in
Speaker 3: the locker room? Craziness?
Speaker 4: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just it's like, dude made conscious decision A, and
Speaker 2: you carry it back one further You carry it back
Speaker 2: one further step than I did.
Speaker 4: Literally, Uh, firecracker.
Speaker 2: I think carrying a firecracker into a locker room was
Speaker 2: a great IDEA firecracker unlighted in locker room. Oh, let's
Speaker 2: light it, you know. Oh what do we do with
Speaker 2: lighted firecracker? Oh there's a door. Oh by the way,
Speaker 2: there aremediate people on the other side of that door.
Speaker 2: So so I just had I just had to I
Speaker 2: just had to ask. But yeah, Alex is like, that's
Speaker 2: less mischievous and more felonious when a bat is involved
Speaker 2: instead of a firecracker. I would agree that there's more
Speaker 2: that it is more of felonious when it's when a
Speaker 2: baseball bat is involved, or just speaking of Bielsa, we
Speaker 2: talked about Luis Suarez and him saying that the environment
Speaker 2: with El Loco as they were getting ready for the
Speaker 2: Copa was less than cordial when it comes to this
Speaker 2: will be my opening point this this this week, not
Speaker 2: that you would have had an l Loco as a coach,
Speaker 2: but when you talk to your mentees and when you
Speaker 2: talk to teammates X teammates and everything, when it comes
Speaker 2: to navigating coaches and those in positions of authority that
Speaker 2: have different personalities, how do you talk to your mentees about, well, yes,
Speaker 2: this one's a player's coach, Yes, this one's a hard
Speaker 2: a you know that that kind of a thing. Do
Speaker 2: you talk to them about navigating all the different personalities
Speaker 2: and just understanding that, yes, some folks operate differently than
Speaker 2: others when it comes to trying to get messages across
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 3: We just had a blog about it because it's something
Speaker 3: that's come up repeatedly, so we're like, all right, we
Speaker 3: need to write something about this because it's mostly what
Speaker 3: we're dealing with is how do you deal with a
Speaker 3: hard ass coach who his coaching style is to get
Speaker 3: after you and try and push you that way, but
Speaker 3: they also tend to be yellers on the field and
Speaker 3: yell at you when you make a mistake, And just
Speaker 3: how do you be confident, play freely and get something
Speaker 3: out of it when you're playing for a coach like that,
Speaker 3: especially when you as an individual don't really respond well
Speaker 3: to that type of coaching, because as we know, there's
Speaker 3: different ways to motivate people, and some are motivated by
Speaker 3: that tactic and others are not, and it should be
Speaker 3: a little bit more curated to the individual based on
Speaker 3: some things. But we know that that's not happening all
Speaker 3: the time with coaching. So yeah, it's challenging, and you know,
Speaker 3: we try and tell them that, you know, whether you've
Speaker 3: got a coach that you agree with how he does
Speaker 3: things or not, you're hoping that and it's all proved otherwise.
Speaker 3: You assume they have your best interest at heart and
Speaker 3: they're trying to get the best out of you and
Speaker 3: the best for the team, and they don't mean to
Speaker 3: do anything to make you play poorly. It's just their
Speaker 3: way of coaching. So how do you get the message
Speaker 3: and separate that from the tone and use the information
Speaker 3: to the best of your ability, and sometimes not even
Speaker 3: going to agree with the information. But how do you
Speaker 3: balance that with what you've learned in the past, But
Speaker 3: also you want to do what you have to do
Speaker 3: to stay on the field. So yeah, there is a
Speaker 3: tough balance for sure. I mean we had it with Tata.
Speaker 3: When we started with Tata, especially for the English speaking group,
Speaker 3: it was so different than anything we had ever experienced,
Speaker 3: and on and off the field, and there were times
Speaker 3: right the way that we were playing, you know, Jeff myself,
Speaker 3: you know Alec in the back before Brad got there,
Speaker 3: We're looking at each other like, man, this is crazy,
Speaker 3: Like we can't play like this. We're so exposed in
Speaker 3: the back, Like we have to do a little differently, right,
Speaker 3: And so you do small little things to balance how
Speaker 3: the coach wants to play and how you see it
Speaker 3: out there on the field. And obviously we were in
Speaker 3: a different position because we're out there performing and we're
Speaker 3: a little bit more veteran and than some of the
Speaker 3: other players. So yeah, it's it's it's challenging though, because yeah,
Speaker 3: there's a whole just like individual players, there's a whole
Speaker 3: host of different coaches on different levels, and the way
Speaker 3: that they institute what they want is so so different.
Speaker 2: How do you in a situation like that, how do
Speaker 2: you and Jeff and Alec and uh, you know, and
Speaker 2: everybody that's a veteran who's been through this kind of
Speaker 2: a ringer before, how do you? How do you listen?
Speaker 2: Then how do you implement the what might be you know,
Speaker 2: crazy just in general from your own observations, and then
Speaker 2: not let it get to you and kind of tweak
Speaker 2: it where it's like you're trying to juggle about nineteen
Speaker 2: different things. It's like you're you're paying attention to what
Speaker 2: he's saying, you get it, but then you put your
Speaker 2: own little twist on it and not make it look
Speaker 2: like you're being disrespectful, I guess is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It's like, you understand where he's going, but it's like, hey,
Speaker 2: if we do this, then it's just as impactful and
Speaker 2: not as crazy.
Speaker 4: Does that make any sense?
Speaker 3: Yeah? A little bit for sure. And for us it
Speaker 3: was just what can we control a little bit? And
Speaker 3: so for us we were just like focused on especially
Speaker 3: counter attacks and defensive side of things, and so we
Speaker 3: were like, all right, well, attack wise, we're going to
Speaker 3: do what we do and it's fine, but okay, how
Speaker 3: can we be a little bit more stable defensively? Then
Speaker 3: maybe we're being set up for or how we see things,
Speaker 3: and and it's just to get results, right. You want
Speaker 3: to win and you want to play well and do well,
Speaker 3: and so it's our butts on the line out there,
Speaker 3: for we're giving up four goals, so we're going to
Speaker 3: have We're going to do what we have to do
Speaker 3: to make sure that that's not happening. So, yeah, just
Speaker 3: controlling little things about hey, telling leon or not to
Speaker 3: go up for crosses when the right backs crossing the
Speaker 3: ball and he's playing left center back, and you know,
Speaker 3: maybe having the wing back on the other side hang
Speaker 3: out every now and then, or just adjusting a little
Speaker 3: bit based off the opponent. But if the coach's tactics
Speaker 3: start working like they did with Tata, then you get
Speaker 3: more buy in, then you get more belief, then you
Speaker 3: get okay, I can see how this can work. And
Speaker 3: it takes a little bit of time, right, But if
Speaker 3: it's a huge change at the beginning, it's difficult for
Speaker 3: players that have played one way for a long time
Speaker 3: to say, oh yeah, let's just go do this, It'll
Speaker 3: be fine, versus like, oh, shoot, let's see if it's
Speaker 3: going to be fine.
Speaker 4: I was going to say, I don't think shoot was
Speaker 4: the word that you were using.
Speaker 2: But nevertheless, it's just I wonder about that adjustment period
Speaker 2: in trying to find the happy middle ground. It's like,
Speaker 2: we've been around the block. We know what you're saying,
Speaker 2: but we can also do this, do this, and do this.
Speaker 2: And because if you're a younger player and you're in
Speaker 2: a situation like that, you don't want to upset the
Speaker 2: apple card. You want to say it's like yes or
Speaker 2: yes or yes or you know right at it, reno,
Speaker 2: we're gonna do it. We're gonna do it. And then
Speaker 2: it's you're in lockstep and everything because you know it
Speaker 2: could affect your playing time. I mean, it's a it's
Speaker 2: a balance from the younger players that want to listen
Speaker 2: and learn and implement and the veterans that listen and
Speaker 2: learn and implement, but implement.
Speaker 4: With a twist.
Speaker 2: So the message is still getting out there and the
Speaker 2: result is still the same. It just it might be
Speaker 2: a little different just because of the exposure and the
Speaker 2: experience that you guys had out there.
Speaker 4: In the first place totally.
Speaker 3: And I think that as you as you become more
Speaker 3: of a veteran, and even even for youth players, as
Speaker 3: you play with a coach for more often or you
Speaker 3: get a little bit more experience. Right, there's a way
Speaker 3: that your coach wants you to play before the game starts,
Speaker 3: but then when the game starts until halftime, there's very
Speaker 3: little coaching that can change things on the field, right,
Speaker 3: And so players have to take the initiative to change things.
Speaker 3: If you're getting punched in the face, especially repeatedly, Right,
Speaker 3: you can't just assume, Okay, let's just keep doing it
Speaker 3: and it'll eventually work out. No, it won't, right, You
Speaker 3: need to adjust. And like for example, with Greg Burholtzer
Speaker 3: in Columbus or he wanted us to play out of
Speaker 3: the back all the time, every time, but there were
Speaker 3: certain situations where it was like, Okay, hey, guys, we're
Speaker 3: going to step up to midfield and have the goalie
Speaker 3: kicked it as far as he can, and we're going
Speaker 3: to kick the ball into the other half and we're
Speaker 3: going to go play over there for a few minutes
Speaker 3: and chill out, and then we'll get maybe and then
Speaker 3: maybe we'll get back to what we're doing here, but
Speaker 3: we need to we need to reset. And you know,
Speaker 3: same thing under Tata, like, yeah, I know that we
Speaker 3: want to play out of the back, but you know what,
Speaker 3: I'm going to kick this ball along for a little
Speaker 3: bit because I'm sick of us playing in our half
Speaker 3: of the field. And like little things like that where
Speaker 3: it's like, you know, you're not disregarding completely the game plan,
Speaker 3: but you're adapting because you see things on the field
Speaker 3: and you you are in it.
Speaker 2: I need to breather, I need to blow. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: kick this long for a minute. It's just I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go that way and I'm gonna catch my breath for
Speaker 2: a second. Generationally, and this is something that you've been
Speaker 2: kind of alluding to here in our conversation this morning.
Speaker 4: Are the younger players today?
Speaker 2: Is there bs meter lower than it was when you know,
Speaker 2: we were, you know, learning the game. Do they sit
Speaker 2: there and you know, if somebody's yelling at me these days,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be like, yeah, okay, whatever, great. You know
Speaker 2: you can yell at me all day long. I either
Speaker 2: feel like I know what's going on, I know what
Speaker 2: you're saying. You don't have to yell at me these
Speaker 2: kinds of things. How how different is the intake with
Speaker 2: your mentees than it would be with say, folks that
Speaker 2: are your age or slightly younger than you. Is is
Speaker 2: the intake different? Is the BS meter less? Do they
Speaker 2: is a BS meter higher or lower? What about mentees
Speaker 2: these days?
Speaker 3: Yes, that's a good question. You know, it's and like everything,
Speaker 3: it depends on the personality of the player, but it's
Speaker 3: you know, I think in general, younger players still listen
Speaker 3: to their coaches. The coaches have a huge influence, and
Speaker 3: you know, hopefully that's a good thing. There are definitely
Speaker 3: some individuals who, regardless of the coach, are going to
Speaker 3: go out there and do their own thing. But you know,
Speaker 3: I think that for the most part, they are listening
Speaker 3: to their coach and trying to implement what they from
Speaker 3: the sideline are saying. And that's why it can be challenging, right,
Speaker 3: especially if that coach is a yeller and yelling at
Speaker 3: you about mistakes, because then you get out there and
Speaker 3: you're afraid to make mistakes because you don't want to
Speaker 3: get yelled at. And so that's a tough way to play,
Speaker 3: and you'd think that coaches would see that and understand that,
Speaker 3: but for some reason they all don't.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I would think that that that that
Speaker 2: the ego of that coach plays into this too. It's like, well,
Speaker 2: i have thissier of success in my brain and I've
Speaker 2: won you know, I've won this trophy of you know,
Speaker 2: I've won this miscongeniality trophy for finishing third in our division,
Speaker 2: you know, you know, eighteen years ago, and so obviously
Speaker 2: what I do works. And I would think that ego
Speaker 2: plays into it, from the ego of the superior of
Speaker 2: the of the individual in powers about to say superior,
Speaker 2: sometimes they're not, but the coach on the sideline, the
Speaker 2: administrator on the sideline, because they have this history of success,
Speaker 2: it's like, well, yes, obviously it works. And then you'll
Speaker 2: have folks these days who might sit there and go,
Speaker 2: really that works. No, you know, It's just there are
Speaker 2: times I would think that adults, and we've had this
Speaker 2: talk too, where adults some kind sometimes just kind of
Speaker 2: need to dial it back and listen more instead of
Speaker 2: sitting there and just yelling and ranning and raving and
Speaker 2: poking fingers and going this is the way, and let
Speaker 2: it be a two way street with you know, some
Speaker 2: just at least listening, even if the feedback isn't taken in.
Speaker 2: At least just take the effort to listen to what's
Speaker 2: coming back at you instead of just saying my way
Speaker 2: or the highway, because that doesn't work all the time.
Speaker 3: Rarely, rarely does it work. Oh for sure.
Speaker 4: I mean, fine, it's my way or you're not playing.
Speaker 4: But we get that. I mean, you get managers who
Speaker 4: are this way in different sports.
Speaker 2: It's like, you're going to do it my way or
Speaker 2: you ain't playing, and then you know, then you sit
Speaker 2: and it's just it. I would think that it would
Speaker 2: drive folks crazy where you see a better a better
Speaker 2: pathway and that position an individual in a position of
Speaker 2: power doesn't and it affects everything and down it affects
Speaker 2: everything downstream, and it just it doesn't do anything that's better.
Speaker 3: And again, I don't think that most of these coaches
Speaker 3: are coming from a place of trying to be the
Speaker 3: little kids or be mean or anything, right, they're just
Speaker 3: usually what I see is they're so competitive and they've
Speaker 3: got the juices flowing and they can't help themselves, so
Speaker 3: they need to They need to figure out how they
Speaker 3: can channel their aggression and hype for the game into
Speaker 3: a better way. But yeah, no, I mean anytimes, the
Speaker 3: best leaders are good listeners for sure, and it goes
Speaker 3: into parenting and leadership and coaching and everything, right, And
Speaker 3: it's one thing to listen and then you know, do
Speaker 3: what the kid wants. But it's another thing, you know,
Speaker 3: to just get their respect a little bit. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: hear you. I understand what you're saying. But here's why
Speaker 3: I think differently. Here's why I see it differently, you know.
Speaker 3: And I think if coaches explain that stuff sometimes it
Speaker 3: goes a little bit longer of a way. Okay, I
Speaker 3: understand now why we're doing something rather than this is
Speaker 3: just what we're doing.
Speaker 2: Hey, Dad, I think I should take the car out
Speaker 2: this weekend. Yeah, and yes, I hear you. I understand
Speaker 2: your point of view. The answer is still no. Exactly
Speaker 2: about another ten minutes or so with Michael parkerst Our
Speaker 2: mogul and training at MF Parkhurst on the two hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty character app and beyond Goals entering where we
Speaker 2: go completely and totally sideways, because there'll be an entry
Speaker 2: point every single time that you and Greg come out
Speaker 2: with the Friday free kick and then it goes. It
Speaker 2: literally is like bumper cars every single time that you're on,
Speaker 2: and I will tell you each and every time that
Speaker 2: you come on for putting up with all of these
Speaker 2: right turns and all of this chaos that comes through
Speaker 2: my brain and comes out the other side. I cannot
Speaker 2: thank you and Greg enough for doing this kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: Rhode Island FC.
Speaker 2: Question from Bart Keeler, what are the chances of Rhode
Speaker 2: Island FC bidding to host a national team match after
Speaker 2: tidewater landing is complete? Our IFC is mentioned in the
Speaker 2: next episode of the Soccer for Us podcast.
Speaker 3: Nice Unfortunately very low. What well, the men don't play
Speaker 3: on turf, and I don't think the women play on turf.
Speaker 3: I don't know that for sure, but I would highly
Speaker 3: doubt they do. And I don't think that our stadium size,
Speaker 3: it's a ten thousand, five hundred seat stadium. I don't
Speaker 3: know if the cost to bring in the grass over
Speaker 3: the turf and bring a team in and that type
Speaker 3: of stuff it would make sense for us. So unfortunately,
Speaker 3: probably pretty low, but we are definitely looking at other opportunities.
Speaker 3: We're going to fill that stadium as much as we
Speaker 3: can with different events and sports and opportunities and teams.
Speaker 3: So there'll be a lot going on other than Rhode ISLANDFC.
Speaker 3: Rude is DFC obviously is number one, but there will
Speaker 3: be a lot. I don't think that the national team, though,
Speaker 3: would would take.
Speaker 2: Us well well, bar, it's like, yeah, by a score,
Speaker 2: I appreciated art.
Speaker 4: Well, then then don't let me ask you this.
Speaker 2: And this might be crossing the streams and drawing the
Speaker 2: ire of some nationalists folks, but do you have see
Speaker 2: Marsh's phone number in your in your rolodex too, because
Speaker 2: you know, going from say Toronto and the sponsored stewardship
Speaker 2: that the a tenured professorship that the Jesse Marsh has
Speaker 2: now with that that national team to the north of US,
Speaker 2: it's not it's not I mean shoot in in covid.
Speaker 2: Toronto FC played in Hartford or Pratt and Whitney, so
Speaker 2: you know, playing playing in Connecticut is not something completely
Speaker 2: and totally foreign to Toronto FC. So maybe if you
Speaker 2: talk to the folks at the Maple Leaf, now, hey, hey, Jesse,
Speaker 2: you want to have a friendly against Azerbaijan at Tidewater Landing.
Speaker 4: You know, something like that.
Speaker 3: I'm saying, yeah, sure.
Speaker 2: And we all did get our recent email to purchase
Speaker 2: season tickets for for Tidewater Landing, by the way, that
Speaker 2: that has made its way down here to the south.
Speaker 2: What's the what's since we're here, what's the latest on
Speaker 2: Tidewater Landing.
Speaker 4: Where are things coming along?
Speaker 3: Well, we are definitely happy that the port is backed
Speaker 3: up and running and so that will not delay anything.
Speaker 3: But we've got seats in the stadium, not all of
Speaker 3: them yet, but we do have seats in the stadium,
Speaker 3: so that's nice. And you know, I think that the yeah,
Speaker 3: the email campaign or the season ticket campaign has started
Speaker 3: and they've got this cool virtual thing where you can
Speaker 3: kind of see each section and what the stadium looks
Speaker 3: like or what will look like, and what your seat
Speaker 3: the view and all that stuff. So yeah, that's exciting.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we're definitely obviously gearing up for twenty five
Speaker 3: while we're keeping a close eye on twenty four because yeah,
Speaker 3: playoff aspirations here.
Speaker 2: Why yes, you do, and considering where things currently stand,
Speaker 2: where the draws have turned into wins, and that reminds
Speaker 2: me I still need to catch up with with Thomas
Speaker 2: and media relations or perhaps the mogo and training and
Speaker 2: figure out how to get on the show. Right now,
Speaker 2: you're a part of the chaos in the second Chase
Speaker 2: group in the Eastern Conference where it's like lou City
Speaker 2: and then everybody else and then Charleston is the right
Speaker 2: now in second eleven points to the Chase group, Detroit
Speaker 2: City at forty eight, Tampa Bay at forty six, indy eleven,
Speaker 2: ten wins or sorry, twelve wins, and a match in
Speaker 2: hand on somebody called Rhode Island FC, both at forty
Speaker 2: three points. You've won three your last five, and you
Speaker 2: have a point on Legion and you've got five on Louden.
Speaker 2: You have six below the playoff bar with Hartford Athletic
Speaker 2: and a ninth place in thirty seven points. So there
Speaker 2: is some there is a little bit of space right
Speaker 2: now for Rhode Island FC in the postseason. But it
Speaker 2: would be an opening round matchup if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 2: against l Uge at Keyworth, and that's always a fun
Speaker 2: place to play because they're right on top of you
Speaker 2: and they throw things at you and there's smoke bombs
Speaker 2: and all these kinds of things. Maybe it's not a
Speaker 2: light at Firecracker mind you. And it's also out doors,
Speaker 2: but it is a rough place to play.
Speaker 3: It would the Parkers family wouldn't mind it because it's
Speaker 3: a nice little jive, but it wouldn't be the best
Speaker 3: venue for us to play. Uh, it's yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: It is tough to play there. Some of these turf
Speaker 3: fields are aren't in the best condition and they make
Speaker 3: it challenging, right to. Detroit's one of those, and yes,
Speaker 3: and Pittsburgh's one of them. So hey, but that's what
Speaker 3: makes it unique and that's what makes it fun and challenging.
Speaker 3: So we'll see. But we've got four games left. I think,
Speaker 3: if you know, I think if we get if we
Speaker 3: get three a out of four wins, we could sneak
Speaker 3: into the top four. But if we go to and two,
Speaker 3: I think that we'll be we'll finish in the top six.
Speaker 2: And I mean that would be very very cool for
Speaker 2: for our resident part of the ownership group.
Speaker 4: And besides, you know, hey, we we know a playoff owner. Hey,
Speaker 4: we got we got him on speed dial.
Speaker 2: You know, we can have him come on on a
Speaker 2: Friday and talk about things. When it comes to the
Speaker 2: pressure of accomplishment. Since we're since we're talking playoffs. When
Speaker 2: it comes to your mentees and the pressure that's attached
Speaker 2: to doing well, and it's almost like the scene and
Speaker 2: Breakfast Club, you know, when they're in the library and
Speaker 2: emiliostev is his character Andrew is talking about all the
Speaker 2: pressure from the parents and everything. When it comes to
Speaker 2: pressure and succeeding and trying to do your best. What
Speaker 2: kind of feedback do you get from mentees about external
Speaker 2: pressure where they're just trying to do as best they can,
Speaker 2: enjoy what's going on and what happens happens, and if
Speaker 2: they succeed and continue to succeed more over time, that's great.
Speaker 2: But do they talk about external pressures with you with
Speaker 2: you and Greg a lot, and about how difficult it
Speaker 2: may or may not be to handle these kinds of things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they do, And yeah, I think a lot of
Speaker 3: it is when they're going through the college recruitment process
Speaker 3: and they know that there's scouts at games, or if
Speaker 3: they're players that want to get to a new team
Speaker 3: and they know that sometimes they're being watched, So you know,
Speaker 3: it's usually it goes along with aspirations to get to
Speaker 3: the next level, to take that next jump that would
Speaker 3: be the biggest pressure induced for sure that we've come
Speaker 3: across with our mentees there, and then there's other players
Speaker 3: that just feel pressure to play well because those players
Speaker 3: usually don't say why, but you know it's usually because
Speaker 3: they don't want to let the team down. They don't
Speaker 3: want to let coach down, they want to let mom
Speaker 3: and dad down, right, and they just want to win
Speaker 3: because they don't not because they don't see the value
Speaker 3: of losing. But you know, nobody wants to lose.
Speaker 2: Before you get out of here, what's going on with
Speaker 2: beyond goals mentering these days?
Speaker 3: We've had two really crazy busy months, so that's it's been.
Speaker 3: It's been great. It's been really really good. And we're
Speaker 3: trying to get more content up there on the on
Speaker 3: the website with blogs and different topics that people come
Speaker 3: to us, just to try to spread more information. One
Speaker 3: of the things I'm working on, John, is a book
Speaker 3: list for players but also coaches slash parents, So putting
Speaker 3: one together because a couple of people have asked me
Speaker 3: about that, so I was like, it's time for me
Speaker 3: to do some more work.
Speaker 4: Here. Do you do you do the blogging?
Speaker 2: I mean, do you do you formulate these kinds of
Speaker 2: thoughts or do you have guest bloggers or things like that.
Speaker 4: Do you do some of the blogging yourself?
Speaker 3: We do, Yeah, a lot of the a lot of
Speaker 3: the stuff Greg and I come up with ourselves. We
Speaker 3: do have a marketing group that we've just recently started
Speaker 3: working that they help us out with some of the
Speaker 3: blogs and some of the ideas, and then Greg and
Speaker 3: I will write down usually will write down either the
Speaker 3: whole blog or we'll write down like our main ideas
Speaker 3: and I'll spruce it up from there.
Speaker 2: Because I was going to say, when it comes to
Speaker 2: finding your voice, when it comes to writing, how are
Speaker 2: you and finding your voice?
Speaker 3: I'm good. I've always enjoyed writing. I actually when I'm
Speaker 3: very early in my career. I did some guest writing
Speaker 3: for ESPN, but that was a long time ago. But
Speaker 3: I've always enjoyed writing.
Speaker 2: Okay, then one more question before you get out of here,
Speaker 2: other than getting ready for Tampa Bay at Burn this weekend.
Speaker 4: A question from four Kard Do Shield winners get championship rings.
Speaker 3: That I know of? Not that I know of, but
Speaker 3: I never did win the Shield, so I don't know
Speaker 3: for sure, but I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I mean, I might have to do with the comment
Speaker 2: that was put on your social media recently about stars
Speaker 2: on jerseys and winning shields and things like that.
Speaker 3: It's always a fun conversation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the Captain America Shield that means so much
Speaker 2: when it comes to the end of the season and
Speaker 2: who wins a trophy cap as always, thanks for dropping by.
Speaker 4: It's great to pick your brain.
Speaker 2: It's great to find out what's going on in all
Speaker 2: these different aspects of your life. And next time you
Speaker 2: drop in, it'll be a postseason time. We'll talk about postseasons,
Speaker 2: not making postseasons, what to do, how to improve all
Speaker 2: those kinds of things, and we'll just keep riding on
Speaker 2: rock and roll and love what you and Greg are doing.
Speaker 2: And thanks for putting up with my questions on a
Speaker 2: weekly basis.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me John having every weekend you too.
Speaker 4: That's some guy named Michael Parker.