Speaker 1: Speaking of that four nil win, and this was something
Speaker 1: that we got into as a part of things. I
Speaker 1: do want to talk about the front office in Atlanta
Speaker 1: because I know that folks are interested in finding out
Speaker 1: details about three of the five candidates that are that
Speaker 1: are linked, and one of them we talked about before,
Speaker 1: but then there were there are others that have ties
Speaker 1: that I want to get into as well. But after
Speaker 1: the four nil win, Wilford Nanci on about a seven
Speaker 1: minute rant and it's completely justified. I mean because you
Speaker 1: and I have talked about it in the past about
Speaker 1: how the rules of engagement when it comes to rosters
Speaker 1: and competitions and all this kind of stuff. Wilford Nanci
Speaker 1: didn't go after the result. He's like, I get it.
Speaker 1: You know what happened. Happened, we lost. I'm cool with that.
Speaker 1: You know, you have Abraham Romero come out make a
Speaker 1: hard challenge red card Zawatski is a position player. For
Speaker 1: the final fifty five five minutes or so, he got that.
Speaker 1: But after the match he comes out and specifically starts
Speaker 1: going after the rules of roster construction in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: What did you think about that particular part of the
Speaker 1: discussion he was cool with the fact that he lost
Speaker 1: four n ill because what happened happened. But what did
Speaker 1: you think about what he said after the match about
Speaker 1: how Major League Soccer constructs things on a weekly basis.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's tough. I think that he did it correctly.
Speaker 3: He did not go full Caleb Porter, which is always appreciated.
Speaker 2: He did it very methodically.
Speaker 3: There are some points that I understand and I get
Speaker 3: where he's going to what he's kind of approaching to it.
Speaker 3: I don't think he was saying it in the sense
Speaker 3: of excusing, like you said, the loss of what happened.
Speaker 3: I think he's more thinking of the development of the
Speaker 3: league and that in the few there should be things
Speaker 3: that should be considered because he was put in a
Speaker 3: situation that was difficult, not as if ultimately it wasn't
Speaker 3: their fault kind of, but in order to keep their
Speaker 3: mythology and ideology of the club on what it means
Speaker 3: to go from a second team to the first team,
Speaker 3: you got to earn it. It shouldn't just be like
Speaker 3: I'm not going to sign you just because I.
Speaker 2: Need you for this game.
Speaker 3: And that's why it's so important for me to be
Speaker 3: able to just have this temporary contracts because I don't
Speaker 3: want to just sign a kid that's not ready, because
Speaker 3: what type of messages of that sense. I like that,
Speaker 3: and I thought he explained it well. I don't see
Speaker 3: it as a guy that's out there crying about it
Speaker 3: like a lot of fans took it, because it didn't
Speaker 3: sound like that. And I just think he wants what's
Speaker 3: best for Emel moving forward and what's best for these kids,
Speaker 3: using tournaments like League's Cup, like even a friendly against
Speaker 3: what was it, Austin Villa, things like that to just
Speaker 3: get you experience, get you out there, get you developed.
Speaker 3: And so in conclusion, I think that there were a
Speaker 3: lot of points that he made that are valid, But
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, decisions could have been made,
Speaker 3: and I'm not putting it just on him. Those that
Speaker 3: are above him, that understand these rules a lot better,
Speaker 3: that should be tallying exactly what's going on, could have
Speaker 3: done a little bit better to ensure that whether it
Speaker 3: was through the Olympic national team time, that certain elements
Speaker 3: were put into fluition so it wouldn't have counted as
Speaker 3: a temporary.
Speaker 2: Play for Columbus, and they didn't.
Speaker 3: So there were just a lot of missteps from Columbus
Speaker 3: as organization. But in terms of what will Fred Nancy said,
Speaker 3: I think he has a lot of good points and
Speaker 3: I think they will be taking into consideration in the future.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that if Major League Soccer kind of
Speaker 1: treated themselves more like the NBA, where you're you're cool
Speaker 1: with ten day contracts, fourteen day contracts, and you just
Speaker 1: kind of loosen your roster restrictions a little bit for
Speaker 1: Open Cup, for League's Cup, for these friendlies so when
Speaker 1: you're chasing after championships or what have you, so you're
Speaker 1: not pinned into what we saw with with Columbus and
Speaker 1: not having a not having a backup keeper from a
Speaker 1: keeper that was your third keeper to begin with because
Speaker 1: your first keeper's on national team duty and your backup
Speaker 1: keepers injured, so you got to work up a three
Speaker 1: and you don't have a four. So I mean, and
Speaker 1: he brought up his four previously stop Slacus from Crew two,
Speaker 1: and he couldn't do it anymore because of the restrictions
Speaker 1: that are there. So I think that if if common
Speaker 1: sense were to be applied, you would a lot for
Speaker 1: more floating up and down of players from your second
Speaker 1: team and things like that, because I know that I
Speaker 1: guaran damnta that Brian Schmetz would love to be able
Speaker 1: to use a guy like Paul Rothrock more in his
Speaker 1: early days than just sitting there calling him up and
Speaker 1: having him sit Yeah. I mean, that's just me off
Speaker 1: the top of my head.
Speaker 3: No, And or you could add little you know, coveyas
Speaker 3: because I understand the players Union and what the players
Speaker 3: it's trying to do with making sure that these guys
Speaker 3: are not overused, and if you want him and you
Speaker 3: need him, then sign them to a contract that are
Speaker 3: paid the correct wage for their efforts. But maybe having
Speaker 3: you know, a little small writing about specific situations. Hey,
Speaker 3: if I got six guys called into US national in
Speaker 3: duty and my goalkeepers heard and whatever, Dan, you're allowed
Speaker 3: an extra one. So if you want to get down
Speaker 3: to like the needy greedy and we're gonna just you know,
Speaker 3: daughterize and crosser tees and that's what we're gonna do
Speaker 3: with the current rules and regulations, then let's do that.
Speaker 2: But there has to be some changes.
Speaker 3: So that the soccer component doesn't hurt, the development component
Speaker 3: doesn't hurt, and everybody.
Speaker 1: Happy, exactly, amen, brother, All right, so Garth logger Way
Speaker 1: and Carlo Spogenegger parted ways, and so now it is
Speaker 1: it is Garth's show. It is it is Garth and
Speaker 1: what he wants to do and putting a stamp on
Speaker 1: Atlanta United. You're looking now at vice president, technical director
Speaker 1: and head coach. Those vacancies are there. Rob Valentino, obviously
Speaker 1: still with what he is doing on the field, is
Speaker 1: under consideration for the full time head coach position, for
Speaker 1: the general manager, whatever term you want to use, the
Speaker 1: soccer director of soccer operations. Names have been floated out
Speaker 1: there that have ties to Seattle. That is not a surprise.
Speaker 1: Chris Henderson obviously number one on the list. The talk
Speaker 1: that Tom Bogert had about roll Son lay Hey kicking
Speaker 1: him out of his office. Uh oh, I like that
Speaker 1: corner office. I like those windows. I think I'll go there.
Speaker 1: And so Chris Henderson apparently, according to Tom Bogert, had
Speaker 1: to find a new office space involving his time there
Speaker 1: with MESSI and friends. I don't know if he's in
Speaker 1: the snack bar. I don't know if he's in a
Speaker 1: broom closet. I don't know if he's got a window what.
Speaker 1: But according to Bogue. According to Bogert soun Lay, he
Speaker 1: liked Chris Henderson's office, and it's like I want that office.
Speaker 1: That would that? Would you know? That would cause a
Speaker 1: little rancor and a bit of a headache for me
Speaker 1: if I was Chris Henderson. But other names out of
Speaker 1: Seattle Asked and Current Seattle are being floated as a
Speaker 1: part of this discussion. To me, Chris Henderson seems to
Speaker 1: be the number one slam dunk idea, but other names
Speaker 1: being floated as a part of this include Mark Nichols
Speaker 1: and Craig Wibel. Yeah, when it comes to hearing those
Speaker 1: two names in addition to Chris Henderson, how would you
Speaker 1: explain who those individuals are? Would they be in a
Speaker 1: move to a mood to make a move like that.
Speaker 1: I would think Craig is happy where he is right now.
Speaker 1: But for those that don't know Craig and Mark, explain
Speaker 1: who they are personality wise, what they've done through the
Speaker 1: Seattle framework, and what they could bring to the table.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me just stop by saying that that with
Speaker 3: a tumbugger report. I mean there's stuff that I I
Speaker 3: can't report on, but I will say, Dad, Chris Henderson
Speaker 3: I've heard from several sources that there have been times
Speaker 3: where he is a little bit underminded and underappreciated to
Speaker 3: a certain sense, and just simply looking at in Miami
Speaker 3: as a whole and who they are, it does seem
Speaker 3: like he tends to be the guy in the back
Speaker 3: of the room rather than in the front, when he's
Speaker 3: probably doing a lot more than that. So I definitely
Speaker 3: think that going somewhere like Atlanta, where he'd be the
Speaker 3: phase of the game, he'd be the phase of the organization.
Speaker 3: He has his boy camera, you know, Kobe and shack
Speaker 3: up a situation again, I think that it would be
Speaker 3: perfect in terms of these two look. Mark Nichols is
Speaker 3: a very smart and well put together front office member.
Speaker 3: He is his main attribute to the Sierra sanas both
Speaker 3: with the academy.
Speaker 2: He's being in Columbus.
Speaker 3: For uh some time now, and uh I think that
Speaker 3: he's someone that is more of a behind the scenes
Speaker 3: guy that has a lot of understanding of development of players,
Speaker 3: understands the league exactly where teams need to inject money
Speaker 3: to be successful, not over one or two or three years,
Speaker 3: but over a decade of soccer. I think that he's
Speaker 3: shown that everywhere he's gone. He's a really good, well
Speaker 3: connected element within MLS. But I don't know how much
Speaker 3: exposure beyond that I can say that he has. Uh,
Speaker 3: there's no there's no doubt that he's networking has gotten
Speaker 3: bigger as time has gone from the point he left
Speaker 3: Seattle to where he is now. I believe he had
Speaker 3: a short running in in in Nashville before going to Columbus,
Speaker 3: if I'm not mistaken. But all in all, I think
Speaker 3: that Nicholas is a great guy. I just don't know
Speaker 3: if he's Atlanta fit. And what I mean by that
Speaker 3: is that Atlanta comes with a lot more than just
Speaker 3: the soccer IQ.
Speaker 2: And the ability to do the job.
Speaker 3: There's a thick skin component, there's a necessity and an
Speaker 3: ability to handle everything that comes at a club with
Speaker 3: as much expectation. So I don't know if Nichols has
Speaker 3: that sort of experience and that sort of shield around
Speaker 3: him to really be successful in a market where he's
Speaker 3: gonna be hammered down every day. And I feel like
Speaker 3: you need a little bit more experience, you need a
Speaker 3: little bit more of a name of Aura cut of
Speaker 3: the book Conectar was a guy that should have been
Speaker 3: fired a long time ago, and it still felt like
Speaker 3: he is going to run his race. Put the blinders on.
Speaker 3: I don't see nothing. I'm doing my own thing. He
Speaker 3: wasn't successful at it, but I feel like that's something
Speaker 3: that he had to his quality. I don't know if
Speaker 3: Nicols has that when it comes to White Bull. I
Speaker 3: really like him, and I think that he has that
Speaker 3: thick skin. He's been hammered every single year, season, moment, month, day, hour,
Speaker 3: minute since Gard Laggerway left the ship to him. And
Speaker 3: I do think his book connected. I feel like he's
Speaker 3: a guy that perhaps with a bigger check book behind him.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure where he would be at right now,
Speaker 3: you know, because there have been I've seen where his
Speaker 3: work ethic, where his planning has gone, but he hasn't
Speaker 3: executed because of the limitations here in Seattle.
Speaker 2: So he's someone that I would.
Speaker 3: Say it's a better possibility the Nichols. Now, would the
Speaker 3: Sounders be willing to let him go? And how would
Speaker 3: that look? And would he be willing to go down
Speaker 3: to a place where the expectation is even more and
Speaker 3: where he has He's coming to a whole new ballgame
Speaker 3: where he has no control over what's been going on.
Speaker 2: That's another story.
Speaker 3: But I do feel like out of the candidates that
Speaker 3: I saw, he's the most qualified because of those additional
Speaker 3: things to his soccer AQ.
Speaker 2: We can all have networking of people.
Speaker 3: Doing A B and C if I don't have the
Speaker 3: sort of ability on me, but there are things that
Speaker 3: you're going to have to have to be the Atlanta
Speaker 3: United face in the managerial position, and I feel like
Speaker 3: he has a lot of that.
Speaker 1: So in order, it would be Henderson Wibel Nichols if
Speaker 1: you were to if you were to rank the Seattle
Speaker 1: Ties to filling in that GM position to you, it
Speaker 1: would be Henderson Wyble Nichols.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 3: But I would not be surprised, And I'm not going
Speaker 3: to say a name here because I don't have that
Speaker 3: green light, but I would not be surprised if there
Speaker 3: was a candidate that would come up of an international.
Speaker 2: Aspect or global more of a global name.
Speaker 3: Even if it's not more recognized here in MLS and
Speaker 3: within the United States, that would be an option there.
Speaker 3: I know that it hasn't come to fluition, but I
Speaker 3: know that they've talked to him, so we'll see where
Speaker 3: more of these candidates come up. But out of the
Speaker 3: ones that you're asking me, yes, I think Craig is
Speaker 3: the one that at least has hold the more water
Speaker 3: out of the two.
Speaker 1: Okay, And so now that you have intrigued me, I'm
Speaker 1: going to I'm going to DM you after the show
Speaker 1: and find out who that individual is. You know what
Speaker 1: time it is. It is time to play Cliffhanger. Forget
Speaker 1: another week because all of these topics of conversation that
Speaker 1: we have leading up, It's like, man, we could go
Speaker 1: for like an hour and talk about things, but I
Speaker 1: know that I only have you for a certain amount
Speaker 1: of time. House. I don't want to get you up
Speaker 1: out of bed at seven o'clock in the morning to
Speaker 1: break things down or keep you from ten thirty. From
Speaker 1: a seven thirty to eight thirty as we go here
Speaker 1: on Thursday, all right, Cliffhanger time. And for those that
Speaker 1: might be catching us for the first time, what this
Speaker 1: is is we go through all of the games on
Speaker 1: the weekend and we give Nico the juice boxes that
Speaker 1: are attached to them, and we ask his opinions on
Speaker 1: what he thinks. And I think it is safe to say,
Speaker 1: Nico to this point of the season. How well do
Speaker 1: you have you come out on the plus side with
Speaker 1: everything that you've done on Cliffhanger? Do you think for the.
Speaker 3: Most part last week I completely ignored the international window,
Speaker 3: and I do apologize for that. I should have taken
Speaker 3: that into consideration a lot more and they didn't, and
Speaker 3: that kind of bid me in the behind. But I
Speaker 3: think that for the most part, we've done very well.
Speaker 3: Specifically with the West Coast matchups totaling goals, we've come
Speaker 3: up actually pretty pretty nicely. I think that's where I've
Speaker 3: hit the most, just kind of understanding the dynamic of
Speaker 3: certain teams playing each other.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think we've done pretty well.
Speaker 1: All right. So it's time for a little bit of
Speaker 1: rivalry here in Cliffhanger. And I will save Atlanta and
Speaker 1: Nashville for last, because we, you know, since that's where
Speaker 1: we're based. I'm just gonna run through games and if
Speaker 1: you're interested, just tell me to stop and then we'll
Speaker 1: talk about it. CF. Montreal and Charlotte. Charlotte on the
Speaker 1: road at Stodd Supputa is a plus one forty two.
Speaker 1: I don't like that. I'm gonna go draw at a
Speaker 1: plus two fifty four. I know that Montreal has problems
Speaker 1: stopping goals, but stotd Suputta is an entirely different animal.
Speaker 1: I can go draw there very easily.
Speaker 3: Yes, I think draw is a good one for that.
Speaker 3: That gave me everything tells you that it's going to
Speaker 3: be a draw. Charlotte's Forte is not Huffens, and although
Speaker 3: Montreal has a lot of issues in their own back end,
Speaker 3: I'm starting to again see things where they can manage
Speaker 3: more of ninety minute game, and so I think that
Speaker 3: a draw is a good safe bet on that one.
Speaker 1: Juice Box bosses have thrown a blanket over DC United
Speaker 1: and NYCFC. DC United the plus one fifty NYC is
Speaker 1: a plus one fifty eight on the road at DC,
Speaker 1: so they're kind of close to the margin of air.
Speaker 1: Don't be surprised if that continues to close as we go.
Speaker 1: Hell is Real Cincinnati a plus one twenty seven at
Speaker 1: home against Crew who's a plus one eighty four, and
Speaker 1: your draw is a plus two seventy seven. It is
Speaker 1: two and three in the Eastern Conference. What say you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: First of all, I would like to check on the
Speaker 3: goals there, but I think that this is a big
Speaker 3: one for Columbus, and I think that they know they
Speaker 3: have an egg in their face and they really want
Speaker 3: to get rid of that after the Seattle Sanders loss.
Speaker 3: I understand that will Fred took the high road and
Speaker 3: whatever you want, But as a competitor, as someone that
Speaker 3: has not seen the back, you know, lights of any
Speaker 3: team in MLS in a very long time, and a
Speaker 3: team that understands exactly what's at stake here on out,
Speaker 3: I think they're going to use this game against Cincinnati
Speaker 3: as a statement win and I have them winning this one,
Speaker 3: and I have them winning by a couple of goals.
Speaker 1: Wow, three is a minus one twenty four. Three and
Speaker 1: a half is plus one twenty six. So that's where
Speaker 1: it turns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I see, they know there's some goals coming on
Speaker 3: that one. The three and a half, that's where it turns.
Speaker 2: What's the four plus plus?
Speaker 1: Okay? Well, full is a plus two to twenty one.
Speaker 1: Four and a half is a plus two seventy five.
Speaker 3: Man, you know what, I might take that four and
Speaker 3: a half just just because I feel like this is
Speaker 3: gonna be a game that is gonna be a lot
Speaker 3: more open than people think. And again for a guy
Speaker 3: like Cucho, Hernandez that decided Columbia decided to just bring
Speaker 3: on so he could wear the kid and carry the
Speaker 3: waters and whatever they did with Kucho. I think he's
Speaker 3: gonna come in very motivated, very fit, and ready to go.
Speaker 3: Having that interaction with your national team when you'd be
Speaker 3: wanting to get on the field as long. I think
Speaker 3: that's gonna translate into the field. I see Columbus coming
Speaker 3: in hot in this one, and I know and I
Speaker 3: know Cincinnati's gonna be able to say a little bit
Speaker 3: something back. So I think there's gonna be a really
Speaker 3: good game. I'll take four and a half and I'll
Speaker 3: take Columbus.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, Messi and friends. Maybe with Messi at
Speaker 1: the minus one ninety two at the Erector set in
Speaker 1: South Florida's Philadelphia Totown. Philly is north of plus four
Speaker 1: thirty five. That could be. That could be a long
Speaker 1: night either way.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't want anything to do with it, but I
Speaker 3: think in in Miami is gonna win this game.
Speaker 1: Purple team big favorite hosting New England Caleb Porter serving
Speaker 1: a suspension. Toronto On the minus side, hosting Austin FC
Speaker 1: Fire is a plus one seventy three hosting Red bull
Speaker 1: So red Bulls are a road favorite, going to Chicago
Speaker 1: at a plus one forty nine. Houston on the minu
Speaker 1: side hosting RSL. RSL is a plus two fifty eight
Speaker 1: on the road at Houston. I find that that's an
Speaker 1: interesting one for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but her Sel has been a little bit of a.
Speaker 3: Hard team to decipher after the loss of Carlos Gomez
Speaker 3: and Chi Cho. And yeah, I don't know if I
Speaker 3: feel comfortable taking the Russell. What's the drawing down?
Speaker 1: One draw is a plus two eight three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think a drawn that one would be a
Speaker 3: safe bet. A two eighty three.
Speaker 1: Absolutely all Caps on the plus side, barely hosting Minnesota
Speaker 1: United at plus one oh four, Rapids barely on the
Speaker 1: plus side of the plus one oh six hosting Timbers
Speaker 1: of the plus two oh six l traffico. Once again,
Speaker 1: juice box bosses have thrown a blanket over it, Lag
Speaker 1: a plus one fifty and then the uh check the
Speaker 1: absences and who's going to be back because last week
Speaker 1: no Oliveta, no Bogush and Nobu Wonga for LAFC. We
Speaker 1: got to figure out who's back. But right now LAFC
Speaker 1: is a plus one fifty four lag is a plus
Speaker 1: one fifty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a that's a tough one, tough one.
Speaker 1: I'm going goals on that one. I'm not touching. I'm
Speaker 1: not touching anything when it comes to the game itself.
Speaker 1: If I do, it's going to be draw two and
Speaker 1: a half a minus two fifteen. See this is they
Speaker 1: think goals are going to be here. But wow, that
Speaker 1: changed in a hurry. Three and a half is a
Speaker 1: plus one seventeen. Four is a plus one ninety two.
Speaker 1: Four and a half is a plus two sixty.
Speaker 3: Wow, four and a half with the bus to sixty.
Speaker 1: Four four over over over four? Maybe not?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think I'll go over four.
Speaker 3: I think four and a half is good and quite honestly,
Speaker 3: like you said, depending on who who's back. I mean,
Speaker 3: L A C is very tempting. And I know that
Speaker 3: the Galaxy have had some to say against U l
Speaker 3: A f C. But uh man, Galaxy has so many
Speaker 3: issues back there defensively and they they even struggled in
Speaker 3: the first line of midfielders and just holding back a
Speaker 3: team of transition like L A f C. Look, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm gonna go on on on the side
Speaker 3: of LA f C. I'm gonna take l A f
Speaker 3: C in the four and a half on that one.
Speaker 1: All right, uh Vancouver big favorite, obviously hosting San Jose.
Speaker 1: Then your match Seattle minus one sixties on Sunday and
Speaker 1: the Sporting is a plus four thirteen. No real support,
Speaker 1: no real surprise there, no.
Speaker 2: No, no the Seattle Saunders.
Speaker 3: I think they are also unreliable to be honest, even
Speaker 3: at home. Even if it's a team like Sporting Kansas City,
Speaker 3: I would not put my juice box necessarily there because
Speaker 3: of obviously the minuses on that one. I think the
Speaker 3: draw is somewhere where uh, Sport against City could come
Speaker 3: and benefit out of a game that maybe they can
Speaker 3: slow down make very uncomfortable. I think that there's been
Speaker 3: an improvement out of Sporting Kansas City, at least in
Speaker 3: the defensive side.
Speaker 2: So what's the draw on that one?
Speaker 1: Draw on that one is a plus three one eight.
Speaker 3: Three one eight mm hmm. I like those numbers. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna lie to you. I know that the status
Speaker 3: trending in the right direction, and I get it, and
Speaker 3: I understand that with Peppo starting to get some minutes,
Speaker 3: things can come about but I'm still not one hundred
Speaker 3: percent sold on the team. I think that for my money,
Speaker 3: I think a draw would not be bad on.
Speaker 1: That one, okay, because then you've got a quick turn
Speaker 1: like everybody else, and then you're playing San Jose in
Speaker 1: the midweek at home. That so you got that to
Speaker 1: take care of. Last on the board for US Atlanta Nashville.
Speaker 1: Atlanta's a big favorite of the minus one fifty two.
Speaker 1: Nashville is a plus three sixty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't touch Nashville with you know, my mother
Speaker 3: in last me. I think Atlanta's gonna take care of business.
Speaker 3: I think Nashville has been honestly disappointment disappointment this season.
Speaker 3: They've gone from bad to worst. They've honestly been a
Speaker 3: yawn to refer to a lot of times. And I
Speaker 3: think Atlanta's turning in the right direction. So yeah, give
Speaker 3: me Atlanta.
Speaker 1: All right. What's going on with the soccer bar and
Speaker 1: Pulso Sports, because I know you've got to get out
Speaker 1: of here, and we got to get out of.
Speaker 2: Here, Yes, sir soccer Bar.
Speaker 3: In about forty minutes, we'll be hitting a little bit
Speaker 3: deeper into the Pochettino news. We're going to talk about
Speaker 3: you and spas national team. We're going to talk about
Speaker 3: the upcoming matches Seattle Sounders. A lot of what's going
Speaker 3: on for this game, specifically, Stephen Frye still a concussion protocol.
Speaker 3: I don't think he'll play against Sporting Kansas City. Lel
Speaker 3: Chew has been playing individually and he's really fallen out
Speaker 3: of favor. I've talked about this before with the coaching staff,
Speaker 3: Brian says, tendonitis. Look, I've asked around and I haven't
Speaker 3: heard that there is any sort of situation with Leo,
Speaker 3: So I'm not sure what's going on there. But I
Speaker 3: think this all goes back to my article with Sounder
Speaker 3: hard where there is a lot of things in the
Speaker 3: locker room that you know, Brian might want to, obviously
Speaker 3: for the correct reasons, keep it all in house and
Speaker 3: everything's okay. And I don't know why Raoul is upset,
Speaker 3: And I don't know why he called certain situations on
Speaker 3: my article. Inflammatory he didn't say that again this week,
Speaker 3: so maybe he got a chance to read it a
Speaker 3: little bit farther. But again, when I come with a
Speaker 3: story that I've worked this long, I do my job
Speaker 3: sourcing it. I'm not going to put my reputations under
Speaker 3: our reputation on the line for gossip. And when I
Speaker 3: said that I have multiple sources on those locker room issues,
Speaker 3: I don't mean one, two, three, and four. I mean
Speaker 3: beyond that. So there's definitely a lot going on in
Speaker 3: the locker room. We'll see how that plays out. But
Speaker 3: we'll talk about that as well in Soccer Bar Post
Speaker 3: and Sports will have everything that goes.
Speaker 2: On today in training. On Sunday, I will not be
Speaker 2: at the game, but we will have one of our
Speaker 2: reporters there.
Speaker 3: It's my birthday on Monday, so I have the weekend off.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so I won't be at the game, but
Speaker 3: I will have to report it there. It's going to
Speaker 3: bring guys, everything that happened after the game into Sporting
Speaker 3: City Sounders game.
Speaker 1: So you turn twenty five on Monday. I see how
Speaker 1: this plays right, But early early birthday, Early happy birthday
Speaker 1: from all of us. We love you very much and
Speaker 1: enjoy your weekend. We'll catch up with you because we
Speaker 1: will have two games to talk about when you come
Speaker 1: back on very little sleep next Thursday, as we break
Speaker 1: things down as always. Great to see my friend. Thanks
Speaker 1: for all the intel and all the insight. We'll catch
Speaker 1: up with you soon, no.
Speaker 2: Problem, my friend.
Speaker 3: I'll make sure to bring the twenty ounswer for our
Speaker 3: next show because it will be a long one.
Speaker 1: You ain't kid brother, all right. Enjoy, enjoy, we'll catch
Speaker 1: up next time.
Speaker 2: Thank you, guys,