Speaker 1: Yeah, h.
Speaker 2: Yah, h m hm.
Speaker 1: M m m.
Speaker 3: It is Timothy Castigny who has to trudge forward again.
Speaker 3: None of these players would have expected to even have
Speaker 3: to take a penalty, let alone too, and it's the
Speaker 3: It's incredible.
Speaker 2: It's the right back.
Speaker 3: Castigny now with the penalty for Fulham hits it. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: he misses the target and the door is a jar
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Speaker 3: I'm finally this epic penalty Shoe Tights.
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Speaker 1: I like that that was different?
Speaker 2: Yes, And so that that is the that's like the
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Speaker 2: now leading into the based upping every single day. All Right,
Speaker 2: the show is justifiably stacked. It's a midweek it's a
Speaker 2: midweek whip around, patent pending, trademark coming center, hopefully rather
Speaker 2: than later. I apologize for nine o six. Jarrett and
Speaker 2: I were talking about old hockey teams and new hockey teams,
Speaker 2: and old owners and new owners.
Speaker 5: We were just about to discuss the merits of Dean
Speaker 5: Sylvester in the early Atlanta Yes.
Speaker 2: And so yeah, I showed Jarrett that I broke out
Speaker 2: my Atlanta Fire Ants T shirt this morning from roller
Speaker 2: Hockey International. How many of you remember that? Show a hand.
Speaker 2: That's what I thought. Richard Adler, the owner of the
Speaker 2: Atlanta Knights, was looking for something to fill the uh
Speaker 2: fill the arena during the summer months, and so that's
Speaker 2: where Roller Hockey International came in. He could still pay
Speaker 2: his players the same under the contract. It's just that
Speaker 2: they had to go indoors and be on roller skates
Speaker 2: and try to go up against it guys like Nick
Speaker 2: Fatigu and the New Jersey Rolling Rockers, those kinds of franchises.
Speaker 2: So yeah, broke out my RhI Atlanta Fire T shirt
Speaker 2: this morning. So that's where we are. Tyler's joining us
Speaker 2: in about five minutes and we'll discuss Atlanta United, messy
Speaker 2: and friends and anything else that comes to mind. In
Speaker 2: the our number one our number two if they can
Speaker 2: the busiest man in the Northeast, Dylan Butler. Will we
Speaker 2: get to talk about the new part owner of Dylan
Speaker 2: Butler Estates and n y CFC, possibly Marion Crowder, to
Speaker 2: discuss what's going on in the usl Zuper League, plus
Speaker 2: what's going on in the Southeastern Conference, and the bat
Speaker 2: signal is always out for Nick and for Jason. As
Speaker 2: we get ready for it, Landy United and Messy and
Speaker 2: friends tonight, my gut tells me Jared, it's probably going
Speaker 2: to be more and friends than it will be messy
Speaker 2: than anything else, considering what happened against rich on the
Speaker 2: weekend in the win against Philadelphia.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, let mean, we'll just we gotta see. You
Speaker 5: got to face whoever lines up there. You've beaten them
Speaker 5: with MESSI, you've beaten them without messy. You've gotten slopped
Speaker 5: around by them. More importantly, for Lanta, he's got to actually, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's double.
Speaker 2: Yes, showing up would be a good thing. And so
Speaker 2: obviously we'll get Tyler's thoughts, we'll get your thoughts, and
Speaker 2: we'll get everybody's thoughts on what's going to happen tonight.
Speaker 2: And once again it's a midwek whip around. So that
Speaker 2: means we gotta go over all the other juice boxes
Speaker 2: and the other matchups that are surrounding at Landy United
Speaker 2: as they are hovering to hop into the playoffs in
Speaker 2: the eight nine, and we'll see what happens in this
Speaker 2: matchup as they get through this one. Get through this
Speaker 2: one first, and then starting tomorrow with Reaction Thursday and
Speaker 2: the Power Hour and and then weekend wep around on
Speaker 2: Friday where we get ready for it Landy United and
Speaker 2: Red Bulls. It's fast and furious, So everybody strap in
Speaker 2: and figure out what you want to discuss with all
Speaker 2: of all of it. What do you mean, Dell? What
Speaker 2: do you mean? Fans are playing well?
Speaker 5: I was talking about showing up.
Speaker 1: Yes, you actually have to show up and act like matters.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: And Joseph because questions about after Saturday mm hmm yeah
Speaker 1: mm hmm, like we can we can rehab that. I
Speaker 1: don't really care. You just can't have that.
Speaker 5: Performance against a team that was mostly dead and you
Speaker 5: came out like you were gonna walk it, and they
Speaker 5: came out like they weren't fight and you didn't use
Speaker 5: for some reason, took third and fourth gear out of
Speaker 5: the car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you put the you put the golf team back,
Speaker 2: You put the governor back in the golf cart for
Speaker 2: those teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So Atlanta, the players, yeah, I mean fans will show
Speaker 5: up and look, it's gonna be a mixed crowd to night.
Speaker 5: I'm sure we'll get the compliants that usually get from
Speaker 5: Falcons games where it's like it's a Steelers.
Speaker 1: Home game down here in Atlanta or a Cowboys home game.
Speaker 1: You're probably gonna get some.
Speaker 5: Of that tonight because people are going to go on
Speaker 5: their pilgrimage to see messy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna happen. It's happened everywhere. M M.
Speaker 5: And guess what people are gonna sell their tickets if
Speaker 5: they can make.
Speaker 1: A mint on it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what they'll do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just how it runs. Speaking of pilgrimage, Tyler's here.
Speaker 6: Like that.
Speaker 2: What's in the mug by the way?
Speaker 1: Umm?
Speaker 6: Straight like breakfast roast coffee this morning?
Speaker 2: Okay? And what is said mug? Are you ps U
Speaker 2: R P I M.
Speaker 6: P I am I am Yeah. I don't know if
Speaker 6: I would call this the pem Cup, but no.
Speaker 2: It's what you are promoting. Sir, it's a straight up
Speaker 2: promotion for these scarves and spikes mug that you can
Speaker 2: get at their location and their store and all of
Speaker 2: their social media that have the the links that you
Speaker 2: can click to and click through so you can wear.
Speaker 1: And you can go watch them before the game.
Speaker 2: That is yes, yes, that is true. Go ahead and
Speaker 2: get the plug.
Speaker 6: Uh right, y'all are doing all the promos for me
Speaker 6: this morning.
Speaker 2: We'll dial it up early because we got other stuff
Speaker 2: to talk and we got all the stuff to talk about.
Speaker 2: We'll get the promos out of the way. So you
Speaker 2: and the cast of thousands are at the Hotel Signia
Speaker 2: across the Home Depot backyard.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, yeah, we'll be there kicking it off at
Speaker 6: five thirty up at the nest On four bar, and
Speaker 6: I'll probably be drinking a mohido as Wow, mahudos are
Speaker 6: good there, so go get you one. And they have
Speaker 6: really good steak freets, so I'll throw that out there too.
Speaker 6: I had that last time.
Speaker 1: Really good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So we'll be there five thirty. We now know
Speaker 6: that at least MESSI will travel, so yeah, I guess.
Speaker 6: But yeah, y'all come hang out with us. It'll be
Speaker 6: good time. We'll go for about an hour, so plenty
Speaker 6: of time for everybody to get over to the Bens
Speaker 6: and get in your seat and then watch John also
Speaker 6: up on the the Halo board as well, and then
Speaker 6: head Yeah, but and then one other thing too. Monday,
Speaker 6: we are starting kind of an MLS Monday type show.
Speaker 6: It'll be added on to what we normally do with
Speaker 6: Atlanta and added on Monday. But we're gonna be bringing
Speaker 6: on some like some some different podcasters and folks from
Speaker 6: just around the league talking about whatever happens the weekend
Speaker 6: before the weekend prior. So that'll be that'll be kind
Speaker 6: of kicking off a little bit more on Monday as well.
Speaker 2: So I so he buries the lead program expansion at
Speaker 2: Scarves and Spikes. I see, I see, I see you working.
Speaker 2: I see I see you, I see you working. I mean,
Speaker 2: come on, now, you buried the lead. You're expanding your
Speaker 2: programming grid. Come on now, mane A.
Speaker 6: Little been a busy two and a half minute since
Speaker 6: I've been on the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, so let's let's see how you can.
Speaker 2: Let's see how you can keep up with the fifth year.
Speaker 2: Just basically slamming the car into fifth year as we
Speaker 2: get on here, because I mean, because yeah, that exactly well, sir,
Speaker 2: I will go, yeah, I'll go like that since since
Speaker 2: I've never been a fan of the the brown flavored water.
Speaker 2: But uh, let me the gods as you said, that's
Speaker 2: that's on your particular perspective, sir, I will I will
Speaker 2: go with the pepsi product that has been all over
Speaker 2: the place and keeping people awake allegedly.
Speaker 5: Uh are you doing like the what was it the
Speaker 5: Coke zero oreo flavor thing?
Speaker 1: Too?
Speaker 2: Oh? Good lord? No, Well, first and foremost, that would
Speaker 2: be a Mike Conti question, because he is the Coke
Speaker 2: Zero of ficionado. I to be legit, to be honest,
Speaker 2: I can't remember the last time that I crossed the
Speaker 2: streams and went from the pea product to the sea product.
Speaker 2: I really don't. I just I cannot remember.
Speaker 5: Very weird for somebody who was born and they went
Speaker 5: to school here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's just wrong.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's it's uh, it's more, it's more sugar, and
Speaker 2: uh you know it's that's less, it's less bite. Look
Speaker 2: that they lost me when they went to New Coke
Speaker 2: and said it was New coke when actually it was sugar.
Speaker 2: Versus a Sucros fruit Toose remix, and they were a
Speaker 2: bunch of fibbing fibbers to me forty years ago. True,
Speaker 2: That's that shows you how old I am. So yeah,
Speaker 2: they lost me then and they have not gotten me back.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to the the thought pattern of
Speaker 2: the folks that hang out with with you, whether it
Speaker 2: is you, Kama, Sid Kama, Tommy Colon, guests and those
Speaker 2: that drift into your twitch pitch, what has been the
Speaker 2: feedback that you've been getting since the Nashville clunker leading
Speaker 2: into Messian friends? What have been the prevailing thoughts of
Speaker 2: the folks that have been hanging out with you on
Speaker 2: the night side after us on the day side.
Speaker 6: Mainly that Atlanta didn't deserve to win and they don't
Speaker 6: deserve to make the playoffs at this point. Not not
Speaker 6: that they're not, you know, hoping for it regardless, but
Speaker 6: it's one of those things where you go and you
Speaker 6: put out a performance like you did on Saturday, and
Speaker 6: you know, we all saw how Rob was after the
Speaker 6: after the match.
Speaker 2: He was dropping dropping an F bomb in the post.
Speaker 6: I'm happy, but I think it pretty well reflected the
Speaker 6: fan base. So I mean, there's still you know, it
Speaker 6: sucks because there's that apathy. That apathy has been there
Speaker 6: for I think really since the summer transfer window, maybe
Speaker 6: since the Santo lagoona game, and oh look it's time
Speaker 6: we get on the soccer down here.
Speaker 2: But at nine night, your your your phone is.
Speaker 6: It was on snooze. So that's the second time it's snooze.
Speaker 6: So look, I was actually early.
Speaker 2: You were early, You were early, and your phone was
Speaker 2: four minutes late.
Speaker 6: That's well that's where my life is at right now. Okay,
Speaker 6: all right, no, but yeah, it was it was very
Speaker 6: much a sense of apathy and like just it's just frustration.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, we have people coming into our
Speaker 6: version of the twitch pitch and they're you know, they're like, man,
Speaker 6: what are we going to do in the off season.
Speaker 6: That's where everybody's at. They just want to get to
Speaker 6: the off season. They want to get to what changes
Speaker 6: are going to be made to this organization that are
Speaker 6: going to make it better. Because nobody's necessarily coming out
Speaker 6: specifically in saying it, except for maybe Sydney. Sydney kind
Speaker 6: of kind of hinted at it the other day, but
Speaker 6: he said, you know, it feels like the team kind
Speaker 6: of phoned it in, and we know they don't go
Speaker 6: out there and just not put forth effort. You know,
Speaker 6: I think anybody that says that is absolutely wrong. But
Speaker 6: you can go out there and try to drive a
Speaker 6: square peg in a round hole all you want to,
Speaker 6: like they did against Nashville, and it does kind of
Speaker 6: look like you're not trying. And so Saturday was just
Speaker 6: one of those days.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 6: It was a really frustrating one. You you had everything
Speaker 6: going for you and then you came out ten minutes,
Speaker 6: came out flat. Bragg Zanne had to save you in
Speaker 6: the first three minutes and then he couldn't save you
Speaker 6: in the first five minutes. So that just set the
Speaker 6: tone for the night. Unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Jarrett with Tyler on his weekly Wednesday visit.
Speaker 5: So what do you consider to be the proper or
Speaker 5: anacceptable reaction to tonight or for tonight?
Speaker 6: For tonight? You know, I mean, I if Atlana were
Speaker 6: to go out there tonight, obviously you're going to celebrate it, obviously,
Speaker 6: but you kind of put yourself back where you started because,
Speaker 6: you know, you beat Charlotte, and I think a draw
Speaker 6: in that one would have been cool, But you beat
Speaker 6: Charlotte had a two week break, didn't you go up
Speaker 6: against Nashville who just was an awful run of for
Speaker 6: him at home, and you don't do anything, and so
Speaker 6: you know, that could have been the beginning of a
Speaker 6: two game streak, right, and you don't handle business. So
Speaker 6: then if you do somehow win against Miami tonight, you're
Speaker 6: kind of back where you started. But then you have
Speaker 6: to go on the road. It doesn't get easier from here.
Speaker 6: You find a way to fiddle around and screw up
Speaker 6: your games that you probably should win, and then somehow
Speaker 6: you go and beat Miami in Fort Lauderdale, you know,
Speaker 6: or Columbus here at home, Like you just have this
Speaker 6: weird way of going about, you know, playing to the
Speaker 6: level of your opponent. And so yeah, there is a
Speaker 6: chance that my Atlanta could come out tonight and play
Speaker 6: Miami to another five to two game, because they just
Speaker 6: have that weird way of playing up or down to
Speaker 6: the level. But I mean, for what I what I
Speaker 6: said on the show on our show was a two
Speaker 6: to two draw too for Atlanta because they're kind of
Speaker 6: playing for a little bit of pride and for Rob
Speaker 6: Valentino to not scream at them again and Miami too,
Speaker 6: because it's Miami and they're on a score two goals
Speaker 6: at least with MESSI there. I imagine.
Speaker 2: One of the things that I wanted to discuss with
Speaker 2: everybody yesterday was what you were discussing on the night side,
Speaker 2: the idea of well, don't deserve to be in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. And there are there are fans
Speaker 2: that will either watch either one of our programs or
Speaker 2: watch both. We encourage that you watch both because your
Speaker 2: experience becomes immersive at that point. It is NonStop that
Speaker 2: if you don't deserve to be in the playoffs, go ahead,
Speaker 2: play the kids. Go you know, all the all the touchstones,
Speaker 2: play the kids. I don't want to be in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Those kinds of things. And I wanted to know yesterday,
Speaker 2: and I'll go ahead and reposit the question today, because
Speaker 2: you know, viewership and listenership is different. I wanted to
Speaker 2: know where that mindset came from of not wanting to
Speaker 2: go into a postseason because for me, as someone who
Speaker 2: is a Los Angeles Kings fan, you know, tried and true,
Speaker 2: hand over the heart, other hand in the air twenty
Speaker 2: twelve Stanley Cup Playoffs, you go in as an eight seed,
Speaker 2: You smash folks, You get a goalie who's on a
Speaker 2: heater of all heaters, you win the whole thing. So
Speaker 2: I have never been one to hold back when it
Speaker 2: comes to a team and sit there, go no, I
Speaker 2: don't want to you know, I don't want to go
Speaker 2: into a postseason. The draft is not something that is
Speaker 2: readily going to help you if you are there in
Speaker 2: the in betweens, right there on the edges. You know
Speaker 2: the the thirteen fourteen selection may not necessarily help you
Speaker 2: in the immediate So why not go ahead, dive into
Speaker 2: the deep end of the pool, make the playoffs. Treat
Speaker 2: it like a college football bowl game, where you get
Speaker 2: those extra practices, where you get those extra reps, you
Speaker 2: get that extra activity, and you get to give yourself
Speaker 2: more of a knowledge base if you're the front office
Speaker 2: and sit there and say, okay, so and so's really
Speaker 2: throwing them into it. So and so is so, and
Speaker 2: so is so and so is and that way you
Speaker 2: get more more empirical evidence that can help you going forward.
Speaker 2: Were you getting that same kind of feedback when it
Speaker 2: came to well, I don't want to go in because
Speaker 2: X Y Z you know, just whatever, were you getting
Speaker 2: those same kinds of yin and yang when it kind
Speaker 2: of came to to coming in. Yeah, I want more,
Speaker 2: I want more practices, I want to see folks or
Speaker 2: just like Nope, don't worry about it. Was it one
Speaker 2: extreme or the other?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's definitely like one. It's there's a line
Speaker 6: and there's nobody on the line. Everybody's on once out
Speaker 6: of it, and I think you know right now again
Speaker 6: the apathy is crept in, which I hate that it sucks,
Speaker 6: but I also completely understand it.
Speaker 2: And that's where and being in the middle and having
Speaker 2: apathy is worse than the other extremes. You either you
Speaker 2: either want very good or very bad. The yeah middle
Speaker 2: Lukewarm sucks. Yeah, yeah, lukewarm. You're just kind of like eh,
Speaker 2: because it doesn't help you with a soda, doesn't help
Speaker 2: you with coffee, doesn't help you with your favorite drink
Speaker 2: or your favorite food.
Speaker 6: It's just there, terrible bathwater, all of it. It's just terrible. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think the one side of it playing
Speaker 6: to try to get into the playoffs, and I still
Speaker 6: contend all and always will because of what you said,
Speaker 6: you don't get anything for sucking. You really don't, So
Speaker 6: go make it into the playoffs in the version that
Speaker 6: MLS has this year, because we don't know what it
Speaker 6: could be next year. Go get in because you can,
Speaker 6: and then just see what happens. See what happens. Give
Speaker 6: your fans something to something to fight for, something to
Speaker 6: be excited about. I mean, you haven't shown them a
Speaker 6: lot because you've been so flip floppy, but it's anybody's
Speaker 6: game once you get into the playoffs. The other side
Speaker 6: is I think why so many folks are just like, man,
Speaker 6: let's look to twenty twenty five. And that's not to
Speaker 6: say they've given up entirely, but I think people are
Speaker 6: just ready for the paid just to turn. And I
Speaker 6: think that comes from there are so many changes in
Speaker 6: this organization right now, from from the team all the
Speaker 6: way up that I think people are looking at the
Speaker 6: end of the season as well. Whatever we do then
Speaker 6: anyway isn't going to matter much in the grand scheme
Speaker 6: of things, because half the squad and probably a new
Speaker 6: head coach and a new you know, technical director are
Speaker 6: all going to be in place maybe and designated players
Speaker 6: going into twenty twenty five. So in the next you know,
Speaker 6: five months, you could have a ton of new faces.
Speaker 6: So you know this this squad could go out there
Speaker 6: and maybe make a little run into the playoffs. But
Speaker 6: then what then most of them are going to end
Speaker 6: up getting you know, shuffled around. You know, you'll keep some,
Speaker 6: maybe some are going to be on the way out,
Speaker 6: You're going to bring in new guys, and so that
Speaker 6: extra little bit doesn't really do much for the chemistry
Speaker 6: overall of the team going into preseason of next year.
Speaker 6: Not saying that's right or wrong, but I think that's
Speaker 6: kind of where the people that I've talked to, that's
Speaker 6: their mindset.
Speaker 2: Jared with Tyler here on Wall Pass Wednesday, go for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, looking at you know, we.
Speaker 5: Can talk about all the changes that might come, but
Speaker 5: we can get really deep into this in the postseason
Speaker 5: or in the offseason. Gives me when when we really
Speaker 5: dig our hands down to the clay of change.
Speaker 1: But let's talk about tonight because you don't have Seandae.
Speaker 5: Silva, who Rob touched on that he's been dealing with
Speaker 5: the foot injury and honestly makes a lot of sense
Speaker 5: for a lot of seanday as I kind of gestured
Speaker 5: towards everything for twenty twenty four if it's kind of
Speaker 5: been a general injury.
Speaker 1: But what do you doing tonight if you're lining this up?
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have him.
Speaker 6: I think. I mean, obviously Tyler Wolf and Edwin Muscara
Speaker 6: are two of the main choices, but I would love
Speaker 6: to see Luke Brennan get some time. I would love
Speaker 6: to see Luke Brennan get some time. And you know,
Speaker 6: if you saw media the night on our show, I
Speaker 6: was very much And that was the other thing that
Speaker 6: you asked earlier that I didn't say, play the kids,
Speaker 6: like play the kids because they're hungry, they're gonna want it.
Speaker 6: And this past game kind of felt like one of
Speaker 6: those games where and Rob kind of implied like the
Speaker 6: team just didn't want it and that's a motivational thing.
Speaker 6: That's something that they've got to figure out. And not
Speaker 6: saying that that's necessarily true. I don't think you can
Speaker 6: be a professional in this organization and not want to
Speaker 6: go win, but it sure looked like it. Yeah, so
Speaker 6: put out the players that you know are going to
Speaker 6: give you one hundred and ten percent every time, and
Speaker 6: that is the Luke brennans. I will say that Edwin
Speaker 6: mostquare is because he doesn't get a lot of playing
Speaker 6: time and he's hungry as well. You know, all the
Speaker 6: guys that we've seen, the f Rains and Noah Cobbs,
Speaker 6: all the young guys that are coming up that have
Speaker 6: had phenomenal years in the short time that they've played,
Speaker 6: give them an opportunity. Now, being practical, I think you're
Speaker 6: going to see Edwin mostcare start and I would like
Speaker 6: to see the the mischief. Mischief, it's the worst, just mischief, Yeah,
Speaker 6: the mischief of Luke Brennan. Yeah, yeah, I would like
Speaker 6: to see that because I just think with Miami's back line,
Speaker 6: with their defense, with the potential friend of ours that
Speaker 6: he might be going up against on that side if
Speaker 6: he does play on the left, I just think his
Speaker 6: play style is gonna fit getting around and getting in behind.
Speaker 6: Add in the the you know, the the fact that
Speaker 6: you don't have, you know, the one of the world's
Speaker 6: best midfielders, even though he hasn't been great against Atlanta.
Speaker 6: I just think it fits a Luke Brennan kind of guy.
Speaker 6: So that's what I would like to see sixtieth sixty
Speaker 6: fifth minute. You know, bring in fresh legs and let
Speaker 6: it be Luke.
Speaker 2: So run like hell at the left hand side, have
Speaker 2: him go chasing shadows and then when you hit sixtieth minute,
Speaker 2: tag out and have them continue to chase shadows for
Speaker 2: another thirty months.
Speaker 6: Yeah, except these shadows do a lot of dribble stuff
Speaker 6: and go subways and then vertical a lot.
Speaker 2: Of a lot of dribbly stuff. That that's that, and
Speaker 2: that is the official soccer tournament is a loss. Uh
Speaker 2: no ovelis nobusquets because of red card accumulation. And then
Speaker 2: you wonder, and we talked about it earlier in the week.
Speaker 2: A lot of the folks that are making this trip
Speaker 2: as a part of the three matches in eight days
Speaker 2: for Messian Friend played eighty or north of eighty against
Speaker 2: Philadelphia's So you wonder about availability tonight. How many minutes
Speaker 2: is it a cameo? Do they run out those kinds
Speaker 2: of things? And this is where I think the the
Speaker 2: the palace intrigue sets in. Yes, I know it's supposed
Speaker 2: to be a full house tonight at Mercedes Benz Stadium,
Speaker 2: but how much rotation does Tata Martino put out there?
Speaker 2: Considering all the minutes that the starting eleven had against
Speaker 2: Philadelphia in a win there where you've got to win
Speaker 2: against you got to win against Philly. You're chasing after
Speaker 2: the number four team in the Eastern Conference. On the weekend,
Speaker 2: your ten points clear, you have a little breathing room.
Speaker 2: I just I legitimately wonder what it's going to look
Speaker 2: like for for Messi and friends tonight, just because of
Speaker 2: all of these different factors that we talk about, all
Speaker 2: the minutes played on the weekend, dudes that are missing
Speaker 2: and playing NYC on the weekend, and the irony of
Speaker 2: Marcello Clowray. So there's a whole lot of stuff that's
Speaker 2: in play here for me and I will be interested
Speaker 2: to see what Tata does tonight with that lineup of this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think look, if you if you watch me
Speaker 6: to the night, you would know that I was quite
Speaker 6: irritated talking about the Nashville game, and I did say, yeah, like,
Speaker 6: I think you kind of hope that that Messi shows
Speaker 6: up simply because of the fact that the apathy for
Speaker 6: Atlanta has set in. All the things that we've talked
Speaker 6: about have set in, and so you know you're opening
Speaker 6: the stadium up on a Wednesday. Anyway, MLS, is this
Speaker 6: is not Atlanta's decision necessarily. It's a Wednesday game, right.
Speaker 6: The crowds not that they've been bad. I know people
Speaker 6: are talking about, like, you know, the crowd's eye and
Speaker 6: all that. Absolutely it has diminished. I'm not at all
Speaker 6: trying to deny that still one of the best crowds
Speaker 6: you're you're going to see in MLS period. So that
Speaker 6: being said, it's not forty five thousand, it's not seventy thousand.
Speaker 6: I think it'll be good for folks to just go
Speaker 6: into a Mercedes Been Stadium. Again, that is relatively fool
Speaker 6: I think, you know, whatever happens happens. I think the
Speaker 6: Atlanta fans know the kind of up and down nature
Speaker 6: of this team. So the fact that Messi is at
Speaker 6: least making the trip I think is good just for
Speaker 6: the overall day. I don't know that it's gonna be
Speaker 6: good for the health of Atlanta United. But I also
Speaker 6: don't think that he plays much, if at all. I
Speaker 6: think he will play now that I know he's coming,
Speaker 6: because I don't know why in the world he would
Speaker 6: make the trip if he wasn't going to at least
Speaker 6: see the pitch for a few minutes. No way he
Speaker 6: plays ninety. I doubt he plays even forty five because
Speaker 6: that would be a dumb coaching decision by Tata Martinez,
Speaker 6: it really would. I mean, you played him ninety this
Speaker 6: past weekend. You're on a three day or a three
Speaker 6: game kind of run, just like Atlanta is. But you
Speaker 6: were in the top of the standings and you can
Speaker 6: afford to play anybody else because anybody else has still
Speaker 6: gotten you points. It's not like you know a lot
Speaker 6: of other teams that as soon as you take that
Speaker 6: prim starting eleven off the pitch and then things start
Speaker 6: to drop. Miami has gotten points this year when not
Speaker 6: playing you know, Messi and all of his buddies, or
Speaker 6: at least most of them. Yeah, so yeah, I mean
Speaker 6: I think I think Messi will get a cameo appearance.
Speaker 6: Everybody else. Suarez, I think, unless any news has popped
Speaker 6: up that I've missed, I would have Jian Suirez would
Speaker 6: at least play a half. I imagine we'll see a
Speaker 6: lot of Campana and then and then everybody else just
Speaker 6: kind of be mixed in and matched as as they can.
Speaker 6: But lots of rotation. Absolutely. I just don't think you're
Speaker 6: gonna see you know, the quote unquote stars for a
Speaker 6: significant amount of time.
Speaker 2: Uh. The injury report listed is out for Atlanta, Shanda out,
Speaker 2: Ronald Hernandez out. And the other part of this is
Speaker 2: what happened late in the match against Nashville involving Pedro
Speaker 2: Amador v. Sam Surage. And you're hoping that Pedro Amador
Speaker 2: is okay considering the contact that was made and him
Speaker 2: hitting the turf pretty badly. Uh, No, I did not.
Speaker 6: It was rough.
Speaker 1: It was bad.
Speaker 6: He genuinely looked like he got in a fight and
Speaker 6: got punched. It was you know, the the kind of bruising, bloody,
Speaker 6: kind of not right here and then starting to black
Speaker 6: out over How in the world he didn't end up
Speaker 6: with the actual concussion is beyond me. But he got flacked.
Speaker 2: Well. The other element in this, and it's something that
Speaker 2: you and I have not had the chance to talk about,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure that it was talked about on your
Speaker 2: show and on and on hours, is that after that happened,
Speaker 2: that after the contact was made with Surage, that no
Speaker 2: one short of Brad Yep went up to the man
Speaker 2: in the middle and tried to have a discussion and
Speaker 2: Sam Surriage is grabbing his head when there was no
Speaker 2: real contact with that part of his body. And I'm
Speaker 2: you know, and I understand not wanting to draw a
Speaker 2: cheap card and all those kinds of things, but I
Speaker 2: think there is a line that can be walked in
Speaker 2: that situation where Pedro Amador is your teammate, this happens
Speaker 2: to him, Sam Surrige cleans him out. It literally comes
Speaker 2: in from behind.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I'm left handed, Surge did it with
Speaker 2: his right. So think of this as in a mirror.
Speaker 2: Sam Surge comes in, cleans out Amador from behind, and
Speaker 2: all you have is Brad discussing things with the referee.
Speaker 2: And disappointingly, that wasn't even taken to VAR for review
Speaker 2: about any kind of contact or any kind of card period.
Speaker 2: It was just like, yeah, okay, whatever, Surge grabs his
Speaker 2: head and he walks off after a while. That was
Speaker 2: something that I wish had taken a different amplitude after
Speaker 2: that happened to a teammate of folks with Atlanta United
Speaker 2: on Saturday Night.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, the var thing honestly doesn't bother me,
Speaker 6: only because Atlanta didn't deserve to even kind of come
Speaker 6: close to winning that game the way that they played
Speaker 6: like you go back to the Vaar decision earlier in
Speaker 6: the game, and I mean it was close, it was
Speaker 6: the right call, ultimately right, but Atlanta was just not
Speaker 6: doing themselves any favors. And then you have that moment
Speaker 6: happened with Pedro Amador and it's like what what, Like,
Speaker 6: where's the fight, where's the where's the backup for your
Speaker 6: brand new teammate? And Tommy kind of went off on
Speaker 6: a rant on this on our show the other night,
Speaker 6: and and but I agree, like it's one of those
Speaker 6: things that stood out to me because you know, I
Speaker 6: was on here what was it Friday, and all of
Speaker 6: us were on here, and Jason mentioned kind of the
Speaker 6: levelheadedness of this team, which me and him have talked about.
Speaker 6: We've talked about it on here, like, and I think
Speaker 6: it's great because the team never goes up or down,
Speaker 6: They never go beyond, they never go to the valleys
Speaker 6: or the peaks with their emotions. Anytime they lose a game,
Speaker 6: it's well, we're looking forward to the next.
Speaker 2: One, and tom helf Off go to the next Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, and that's just kind of the overall vibe
Speaker 6: of the team the whole year, and ninety percent of
Speaker 6: the time, eighty percent of the time, whatever, that's where
Speaker 6: you have to be. But at some point somebody needs
Speaker 6: to start losing their mind. And it doesn't need to
Speaker 6: be Brad and it doesn't need to be Rob Valentino.
Speaker 6: You need somebody out there that, you know, I go
Speaker 6: back to the Copa America match with the US and
Speaker 6: that whole issue with cleaning out you know, goalkeeper and
Speaker 6: then you know, slugging people five minutes later and getting
Speaker 6: a red card. It's it's just there is a there
Speaker 6: is a strategy to the Dark Arts. Absolutely, that is
Speaker 6: a game within the game, yeah exactly. But like you know,
Speaker 6: you have a you have a player do that to
Speaker 6: you in your house, and you are beating you in
Speaker 6: your house, to one of your new, your new players
Speaker 6: that just came here in the summer, and you left
Speaker 6: this guy out alone, not a single at landing and
Speaker 6: in a player came up and got in anybody's face.
Speaker 6: And I understand, like you said, and not wanting to
Speaker 6: get a you know, stupid yellow understand that. So like
Speaker 6: some things are you know, again it's strategy. Some things
Speaker 6: are bigger than that. You have to go up. You
Speaker 6: have to start a little dust up, if you will.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you will, I mean, you know, to
Speaker 2: go to the six pack of water bottles. The surge
Speaker 2: is getting getting treatment. Go to the six pack of
Speaker 2: water bottles that the Nashville physios brought out. Sit there,
Speaker 2: grab the water bottle, take a bit of a swig,
Speaker 2: kind of look over and make sure that those of
Speaker 2: us that are proficient in let you know, get our
Speaker 2: masters in lip reading for television. Yeah that we can't
Speaker 2: sit there and understand what you're saying, but you know,
Speaker 2: peer over the edge and kind of sit there and
Speaker 2: remind somebody that you know, we'll remember that, and then
Speaker 2: you know, Eli's comming. So just it can be something
Speaker 2: that simple. But that wasn't even there.
Speaker 6: No, Yeah, it doesn't have to be necessarily you running
Speaker 6: up in Goldberg's bearing same surage. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 6: think a lot of people would have liked to have
Speaker 6: seen that. I'm sure Petro romondor would have loved that. No,
Speaker 6: you just something needs to be said, and it needs
Speaker 6: to come from a few people, like put somebody on notice,
Speaker 6: like the day was done at that point, really, if
Speaker 6: we're being honest, like the day was the over Nashville
Speaker 6: had had pretty much done the job or were well
Speaker 6: on their way to doing the job. Pride, you know, Pride,
Speaker 6: it's it's your teammate.
Speaker 2: I wasn't looking for red Wings and Avalanche. I was
Speaker 2: not looking for that. I was not looking for Claude
Speaker 2: lam Youeu and Chris Draper and then Darren McCarty waiting
Speaker 2: three hundred and seventy one days before, you know, finding
Speaker 2: Claude lam You. I'm not looking for that. I am
Speaker 2: looking for that kind of a memory going forward, but
Speaker 2: I'm not looking for the Darren McCarty kind of event
Speaker 2: where he forces you know, Cludela muta turtle and he
Speaker 2: goes off and goes back into the locker room. I'm
Speaker 2: not looking for that. I'm just looking for hey, you know,
Speaker 2: well remember that going forward. That That's what I'm hunting
Speaker 2: for here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, something other than the Atlanta night Players just kind
Speaker 6: of wandering around the pitch, you know, grabbing water and
Speaker 6: then walking off like that's not what you want, That's
Speaker 6: not what you want to see. That's not what pedro
Speaker 6: Amador wants to see, and I'm sure that's not what
Speaker 6: Rob Valentino wants to see. That can't be the response
Speaker 6: can't be the response. It's not it's not acceptable. Like
Speaker 6: if I was Pedro Amador and that happened to me.
Speaker 6: The moment I got back to the locker room, I
Speaker 6: would be irate with my teammates, like where were we
Speaker 6: all at man? We where was the where was the backup?
Speaker 6: Like because it's gonna happen, Like Sam Surge didn't do
Speaker 6: anything that every soccer player hasn't done at some point
Speaker 6: in their career, Like it's just part of it. You
Speaker 6: just came in, you know, little d Baggy and they
Speaker 6: look a little bit of an extra shove. It happens.
Speaker 6: The response is what you need and that response was
Speaker 6: everything about it was wrong except for Brad. But it
Speaker 6: shouldn't come from Brad, even though he's as the captain.
Speaker 6: He should be in the ref's ear while the rest
Speaker 6: of the team is starting a dust up.
Speaker 2: With what we know about who's not going to be around.
Speaker 2: You mentioned the front on a quick turn, having to
Speaker 2: also think about Red Bulls on the weekend. What are
Speaker 2: you looking for in the midfield? What are you looking
Speaker 2: for at the back? We were discussing last time out
Speaker 2: against Messi and friends. It was a three five two
Speaker 2: five three two is kind of a thing where you
Speaker 2: drop back to five defensively, Are you starting in a
Speaker 2: are you you know? Are you you know? Bringing the
Speaker 2: four three three, having somebody like Dax be a de
Speaker 2: facto center back, drifting him back As a part of
Speaker 2: the discussion, what are you anticipating here with the with
Speaker 2: the midfield and the back line challenging this group as
Speaker 2: they are here on their way to New York City.
Speaker 6: I would I would like to see Dax start. Excuse me,
Speaker 6: I would like to see Dak start.
Speaker 2: Get your liquid. You got to make sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I just think you're gonna need a little bit
Speaker 6: more solidity in that midfield, and they don't have Busquettes.
Speaker 6: And again caveat here is Bousquetes has been terrible every
Speaker 6: time he's played Atlanta. It doesn't matter, but you need
Speaker 6: to start off and not allow Miami to just open
Speaker 6: you up early. So I think you need the veteran
Speaker 6: aspect of having Dax Steon took a cut to the cheek,
Speaker 6: but he's he's okay, Derek is okay. Of course, you
Speaker 6: have Luisa Bram who you might have to rely on
Speaker 6: at some point, whether you come out in a you know,
Speaker 6: back three, or just for the sheer fact that pedromondor
Speaker 6: literally has like a goose egg on his on his
Speaker 6: what left eye, I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you'd have the possibility of keeping an eye
Speaker 2: out for Luis at the left, Derek Steon, Brooks, Das
Speaker 2: Daxa as you're six drifting back into be a third
Speaker 2: center back yep.
Speaker 6: And then you know this, this Jay fortune Tristan Miyumba
Speaker 6: thing has me intrigued in the fact that that Jay
Speaker 6: has more or less usurped Tristan Miyumba is interesting, but
Speaker 6: he deserves it. Yeah, I mean, I mean I would
Speaker 6: like to see him come out and start again, you know,
Speaker 6: because everybody had a bad game on Saturday. This you
Speaker 6: can't pick out one person. I know, everybody's kind of
Speaker 6: focused on Brooks Lennon from Saturday. He put in a
Speaker 6: bunch of bad crosses, but it wasn't just him, it
Speaker 6: was everybody. I want to see Jay get another start.
Speaker 6: He's also your lone goal scorer since the summer transfer window,
Speaker 6: so he's also, you know, much more attack oriented, and
Speaker 6: he's had some pretty good times against Miami in the past,
Speaker 6: like the games that he's played against them, he's he's
Speaker 6: done well, so and then you know, of course you
Speaker 6: got to have a Lexi and on the left, I
Speaker 6: think practicality, you're gonna at one MOUs scara start, and
Speaker 6: then I think Daniel Rio's up top again, and then
Speaker 6: of course Saba over on the right. I kind of
Speaker 6: think that's how it plays out.
Speaker 2: So then you're anticipating say, Edwin Tyler, Saba Luke, Daniel
Speaker 2: Jamal in some combinations because you have to think about
Speaker 2: tonight and you have to think about Harrison New Jersey
Speaker 2: on the weekend.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the one wild card for this kind
Speaker 6: of three game stretch would be Merionchuck because you don't
Speaker 6: know what he is capable of in terms of fitness overall.
Speaker 6: Like you know, most number tens around the world and
Speaker 6: in Atlanta's history have been smaller, you know, smaller guys
Speaker 6: that they can run for days. Tiago Amata would never
Speaker 6: come off the pitch. No, that's just how it was. No,
Speaker 6: I don't know that Alexi Mirinchuk is the same. So
Speaker 6: do you see, depending on the way the game is
Speaker 6: going him come off, even if it's just twenty minutes early.
Speaker 6: And then you have to kind of do something strange there,
Speaker 6: maybe move J up and bring whatever.
Speaker 2: And what we've seen with Bart is there have been
Speaker 2: times where Bart has been engaged and Bart is moved
Speaker 2: forward as the attacking midfielder and it turns into a
Speaker 2: four to one four one, and you catch your opponent
Speaker 2: a bit off guard because they haven't really seen Atlanta
Speaker 2: in an attacking four to one four one at times,
Speaker 2: and especially with Bart being the one going forward. So
Speaker 2: you know, it's this, this, this dance that you're trying
Speaker 2: to figure out because one of who's in town, Two
Speaker 2: where you've got to be on the weekend, and three Okay,
Speaker 2: so who's healthy, who's got minutes? What can the physios
Speaker 2: tell me about who's going to be doing what where
Speaker 2: and when? So, uh, this is where this is where
Speaker 2: coaches really do and physios they really do earn the
Speaker 2: daily wage because of having to think about not just
Speaker 2: this one, but the one coming up on the weekend.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's again, it's the chess game. It's the dance,
Speaker 6: right because you look at the way if everything goes
Speaker 6: the way I thought it would, and what I said
Speaker 6: earlier with MESSI maybe making a cameo at the end
Speaker 6: of the game, and you don't want Dex to play
Speaker 6: ninety minutes, so your obvious choice there is to bring
Speaker 6: in Bart. However, he can't go up and play super high.
Speaker 6: If Lionel Messi's on the pitch, he has to stay
Speaker 6: back home and just basically mark Messi. Which is why
Speaker 6: I think Jay would be the guy. If there's one
Speaker 6: guy that has to play ninety minutes, or I would.
Speaker 6: I would really really be happy if he did play
Speaker 6: ninety minutes, it would be Jay. Or if Miyamba does
Speaker 6: come on, he has to be told you've got to
Speaker 6: you've got to get up a little bit more and
Speaker 6: help out either Mirrion Chuck or whoever is coming on
Speaker 6: for Mieron Chuck. So I just you can't try transition.
Speaker 6: You can't make subs in the sixtieth minute or seventieth
Speaker 6: minute or whatever if the game is still close, and
Speaker 6: then they bring on Messi and expect everything to be
Speaker 6: the same.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, I find I finally found there We go. Yeah, see,
Speaker 2: that's it. We got to make sure that that that
Speaker 2: gets played at any appropriate moment.
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: When you look around the rest of Major League Soccer,
Speaker 2: now that uh, you know we're going to be keeping
Speaker 2: an eye on a lot of stuff, you know, because
Speaker 2: it's it's head on a swivel. It's a match day
Speaker 2: and you are not. You're in the middle of a
Speaker 2: push and a hunt and whatever words you want to use.
Speaker 2: NYC is hosting Philadelphia, Toronto is hosting Columbus at BEMO,
Speaker 2: so I would probably end up taking the over in that. Orlando.
Speaker 2: And this is and this is the goofy part. You've
Speaker 2: got free You've got a free game on FS one
Speaker 2: tonight in addition to everything that's going on that will
Speaker 2: be keeping an eye on Orlando is Charlotte allegedly at
Speaker 2: eight fifteen. And this is, like I said, this is
Speaker 2: the website, this is this is what MLS Soccer dot
Speaker 2: com is telling its eight fifteen, So that's probably eight
Speaker 2: twenty five, yep, where FS one gets the Super Hypermega
Speaker 2: pregame show. Then you start drifting. Cincinnati's on the road,
Speaker 2: Nashville is at home hosting Chicago. What other games are
Speaker 2: you going to be keeping an eye on in the
Speaker 2: Eastern Conference? Knowing full well that going into tonight you
Speaker 2: have to think about tonight and the weekend, where it
Speaker 2: is Charlotte kind of on the slow fade where I
Speaker 2: don't think they I don't think they've I was talking
Speaker 2: about yesterday. I don't think they've won since like August first,
Speaker 2: they give one day.
Speaker 6: Since August first, they've kind of fallen off.
Speaker 2: And so Charlotte is on the slow fade, which means
Speaker 2: that Toronto is kind of drifting further and further up.
Speaker 2: And so any team that is right now where it
Speaker 2: Atlanta is, and there's a lot of them, get you
Speaker 2: get on a hot streak, then you could be making
Speaker 2: things difficult in Charlotte. Charlotte at thirty eight, Toronto at
Speaker 2: thirty six, DC at thirty three, that's the playoff bar.
Speaker 2: Atlanta's at thirty one, Philadelphia at thirty and literally these
Speaker 2: six teams that are not in the playoffs right now
Speaker 2: in the Eastern Conference, the six teams that are not
Speaker 2: in ten through fifteen separated by four points, and you're
Speaker 2: anywhere from two to six points away from d C.
Speaker 2: So how many screens are you going to have up
Speaker 2: and running tonight?
Speaker 6: By the way, like three, it's it's gonna between me,
Speaker 6: Sidney and Henry and Jackson sitting there, We'll probably have everything.
Speaker 6: It'll look like, you know, SpaceX Control Center.
Speaker 2: It'll looks like it looks like Hanson an NFL red Zone.
Speaker 2: It's the octobox.
Speaker 6: No, yeah, I mean I was talking about this last
Speaker 6: night with with one of the battered herons of the
Speaker 6: Miami Podcast, and the bottom of this Eastern Conference is ridiculous.
Speaker 6: I mean, if I were a neutral and I had
Speaker 6: no dog in this fight at all, the New York
Speaker 6: Philly game would be probably really fun to watch. We're
Speaker 6: at that weird point though, where because Atlanta is on
Speaker 6: the outside looking in barely, it's kind of hard to say,
Speaker 6: like do I want this team to win or do
Speaker 6: I want it to be a draw? And you know,
Speaker 6: because Orlando and New York are not out of reach.
Speaker 6: I think if you're a basically DC fan below, you're
Speaker 6: just looking to try to make it to that seventh
Speaker 6: spot and that's reasonable new York and Orlando possible. Anything
Speaker 6: above that, you're I mean, you have to win pretty
Speaker 6: much went out the rest of your season, So I
Speaker 6: don't know, man, what the results I want to be.
Speaker 6: It's really tough. It's almost like, you know, do you
Speaker 6: want it to just be a draw and each get
Speaker 6: a point and you win and you just kind of
Speaker 6: start trying to stack wins. Ultimately, though, any game from
Speaker 6: now on, you want d C and Toronto to lose, period,
Speaker 6: And I think you just have to hope that everybody
Speaker 6: else kind of just notches, you know, draws, if anything,
Speaker 6: to help bump your way up the standings if you're
Speaker 6: an Atlanta fan. So, but if I was just watching
Speaker 6: another game, the Philadelphia game would be probably probably a
Speaker 6: good one with Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, full disclosure. Look, we're all gonna be
Speaker 2: watching all the other games in the Eastern Conference. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's no other way around it. That's just that's literally
Speaker 2: how it is going to be. That Look everything from
Speaker 2: this moment forward, You're you're going to be just absolutely
Speaker 2: breaking everything down. There's gonna be math, You're gonna have
Speaker 2: your compass out. Literally, it's like the the T I
Speaker 2: ninety two, sorry, the T I ninety that you know,
Speaker 2: double I. You're gonna be yeah, you know, working all
Speaker 2: those kinds of combinations. Yes, sit there, I'm make words.
Speaker 2: You know, hey, dude, we all did it so that
Speaker 2: anybody that anybody that denies they didn't try to make words,
Speaker 2: you know, typing out eight double oh eight and getting
Speaker 2: a laugh. Yeah, don't don't think we didn't do that.
Speaker 2: Don't don't think that we didn't remember that kind of
Speaker 2: stuff either.
Speaker 6: What group you are?
Speaker 2: No, and especially for those of us who still act
Speaker 2: like we're twelve on a daily basis, Uh, one more time,
Speaker 2: hit me with the promo about what's going on today, tonight, tomorrow, uh, now, forever,
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So it'll be uh, myself, Sydney and Henry at the
Speaker 6: Signia Hotel next to the Bins. Never heard of it, man, right, Uh,
Speaker 6: if you never heard of it, it's the giant glass
Speaker 6: building right next to the Bins. Large hotels, Star, very
Speaker 6: very very big one. Go to the fourth floor, just
Speaker 6: walk in, go up escalators, and we'll be right there.
Speaker 6: We'll be doing a live show starting at thirty, going
Speaker 6: for about an hour, so you have plenty of time
Speaker 6: to get inside and and get your seat and get
Speaker 6: more food and whatever else. So you just come hang
Speaker 6: out with us. We're talking the game and then whatever
Speaker 6: else we happen to get into. Starting a I guess,
Speaker 6: I guess, expanding upon what we normally do on Monday
Speaker 6: with kind of an MLS Monday. We'll just call it
Speaker 6: a wrap up where we go over just some of
Speaker 6: the bigger stories from the weekend, so that'll be part
Speaker 6: of our our normal show on Monday night. And yeah,
Speaker 6: Scarves and Spikes dot com. And then I will say
Speaker 6: I saw it in the Twitch pitch. The whole Bens
Speaker 6: is open tonight.
Speaker 2: Oh it is. It is more than it's more than
Speaker 2: forty two. It's like big big.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's big big. So like right now you have
Speaker 6: I mean there's tickets, uh three oh one forty forty dollars,
Speaker 6: three oh six thirty seven dollars. Okay, yeah, so it is.
Speaker 6: It is going to be open, fully open, all right.
Speaker 2: Soo, so I thought it was just going to be
Speaker 2: the this was the thing.
Speaker 6: This is the third of the three ones that they
Speaker 6: were going to do this year.
Speaker 2: Okay, so full full house. So yeah, I was mistaken.
Speaker 2: It as a full full house tonight that is available
Speaker 2: as the roof will be closed or maybe not. We'll
Speaker 2: see what happens with with the roof. But no, I
Speaker 2: think you want the I think you want the cauldron
Speaker 2: of noise to be on top of Ystyan friends, and
Speaker 2: so I think that the roof will be closed with
Speaker 2: what's going on, Uh get you know, say, save your pipes,
Speaker 2: get your morning coffee going, and uh, obviously we will
Speaker 2: be seeing you. Oh what what are you picking on
Speaker 2: the menu? What's good on the menu that you have
Speaker 2: come across there at the signia by the way.
Speaker 6: Well, so they obviously they change it periodically. But the
Speaker 6: one thing that they've had pretty much every time we've
Speaker 6: been there is this is the stake free okay, for
Speaker 6: free whatever you can repronounce that.
Speaker 2: It's the them them steak frights.
Speaker 6: Yeah, those things steak with fries, it's but it's a
Speaker 6: genuine it's a it's a good steak. And I will
Speaker 6: tell you if a steak sucks, I really will. And
Speaker 6: they're not paying me to talk about their menu. I'm
Speaker 6: just telling you, like it's it's a really good, really
Speaker 6: good steak. The fries or those little almost like shoe
Speaker 6: string fries, but they give you a good pile of them,
Speaker 6: you know, So yeah, that's good. And then I'm a
Speaker 6: mohido snob slash of ficionado. And then Mohido is off
Speaker 6: the chain, okay, and good old fashion.
Speaker 2: Too well, and what you do is you get the
Speaker 2: big steak to kind of neutralize the effects of said
Speaker 2: mohito and said, other drinks before you wander in and
Speaker 2: get to work. That's right later tonight, all right, So
Speaker 2: we will see you indoors. We'll see you. Some will
Speaker 2: see you at the signia, some will see you indoors,
Speaker 2: some will see you in both places. It's always great
Speaker 2: to have you to come on on Wednesdays and break
Speaker 2: everything down from these scarves in spikes perspective as he
Speaker 2: sits there and continues to promote the show as he
Speaker 2: should with the hat and the coffee mode, we will
Speaker 2: see you indoors. My friend will see you outdoors. Be safe.
Speaker 2: We'll see you tonight, all right, see you appreciate it.
Speaker 2: There goes Tyler, and Tyler's going to go drink more
Speaker 2: coffee because I'm sure I woke him up. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know steak frights in this economy. That is kind
Speaker 2: of Gary.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: And Derek, you are absolutely correct. I didn't know calculators
Speaker 2: were good for anything else. You know, we're always sitting
Speaker 2: there and we're trying to make words and everything. But yeah,
Speaker 2: for me, it was always the baseline of eight double
Speaker 2: O eight h D. Graham's leaving Mosquito on the bench.
Speaker 2: Miodanchuk slides to the wing. I mean you mean that
Speaker 2: could be a possibility. We saw that with Tiago at times,
Speaker 2: and so does Miodonchuk slide to the wing. Do you
Speaker 2: start Bart and Tristan? I mean, do you start Bart
Speaker 2: and Jay and Dax? So I mean it was like
Speaker 2: I said, this the meet and the sandwich of the
Speaker 2: three matches in eight days. This is this is it'll
Speaker 2: it will be intriguing to see how once again with
Speaker 2: Messi and friends, all the minutes they played on the weekend,
Speaker 2: then who's going to be available once again, no novelis nobusquets?
Speaker 2: And then who's going to be available available? Considering all
Speaker 2: the minutes that they played on the weekend, and you're
Speaker 2: getting ready to play the number four team in the
Speaker 2: Eastern Conference, even though you have a ten point lead,
Speaker 2: how does it look? Every but he's gonna be making
Speaker 2: the trip. Just who's gonna dress out? So we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens with with with Totto Martino. Uh so yes,
Speaker 2: Amelia tonight is according to Tyler full configuration, So like
Speaker 2: big big seventy thousand, Uh yeah, let they come Pona Golasso,
Speaker 2: uh and Emilio asking you know how long before me
Speaker 2: don Juke asks himself, what did I just do? I
Speaker 2: left Bergramo for this. I mean, I'd give him a
Speaker 2: little more credit than that, and I would give it
Speaker 2: a little more time than just a couple of matches.
Speaker 2: You know, I would think that part of the conversations
Speaker 2: that you have with Alexi and his agent going in
Speaker 2: is the current state of affairs. You're not gonna I mean,
Speaker 2: And besides, any player can sit there if they're being
Speaker 2: courted and recruited, if it's courted and Cruton, they can
Speaker 2: they can look and see what's going on that they
Speaker 2: can look and see where things are in the standings.
Speaker 2: They can see what's going on inside the league and everything.
Speaker 2: So it's not it's not like there that anyone is
Speaker 2: totally naive to a situation. You know, I think that
Speaker 2: there's gonna be I think there's some patience involved. And Alex,
Speaker 2: thank you for the mischievousness. JBG. You know, what have
Speaker 2: I seen lately from Atlanta United gives you any hope
Speaker 2: they could win even if they made the playoffs. We've
Speaker 2: talked about it going up against Columbus and Messi and
Speaker 2: friends against them earlier this season. You've seen those kinds
Speaker 2: of moments, and so that would be those would be
Speaker 2: exhibits A and B for me in that kind of
Speaker 2: a situation. Well, and Emilio, it doesn't matter if the
Speaker 2: players are staying or if they're going, or if they
Speaker 2: think they're staying, or if they think they're going, he says,
Speaker 2: you know, it also depends if you think the players
Speaker 2: are staying. They're playing for jobs. And if you're not
Speaker 2: doing well and it shows and your aura is you know,
Speaker 2: it's just a bad it's you've got bad juju, you know,
Speaker 2: you know, oozing from you, for lack of a better phrase.
Speaker 2: If if your bad juju is rubbing off on others,
Speaker 2: and if folks can see your bad aura and you're
Speaker 2: not giving one hundred percent, that's going to affect your
Speaker 2: paychecks down the line. So that would be the larger
Speaker 2: point in all of this. It's like, you can't just
Speaker 2: sit there and not do because other teams are looking
Speaker 2: not just here in the country, but all round. So
Speaker 2: you can't just sit there and Christmas Tree and have
Speaker 2: a bad or and all those kinds of things. Busiest
Speaker 2: Man of the Northeast, it is time to transfer up there,
Speaker 2: and we'll talk about the mi I six story in
Speaker 2: his beloved Newcastle. By the way, Dylan Butler, how are you, sir?
Speaker 7: I'm good, how are you?
Speaker 2: We are discussing anything and everything in the midweek, the
Speaker 2: meat in the sandwich, the second match of three in
Speaker 2: an eight day period, and yesterday we broke the news
Speaker 2: that to Dylan Butler Estates and NYCFC have a new
Speaker 2: part owner and Marcelo Clowray three years to the day
Speaker 2: that he got bought out to no longer be a
Speaker 2: part of Beckham and Friends and now he is a
Speaker 2: part of NYCFC and Dylan Butler estates to the valuation
Speaker 2: of one point five billion dollars, so it sounds like
Speaker 2: it was a one hundred and fifty million dollar investment
Speaker 2: by Marcelo Clowray. You got the photo of all of
Speaker 2: the CFG folks Clowray holding up the jersey, so you
Speaker 2: got owner new owners holding up jerseys now with the
Speaker 2: NYCFC and Dylan Butler estates it was. It was an
Speaker 2: intriguing storyline yesterday where NYCFC and Dylan Butler Estates end
Speaker 2: up getting a new owner that gets his own chair
Speaker 2: added to the table as a co vice chair. It's
Speaker 2: like yeah, uh yeah, Marcelo, you want in? Okay, cool? Great,
Speaker 2: Well where am I gonna sit? Oh, we'll just pull
Speaker 2: up another chair. You just pull up another chair to
Speaker 2: the to the conference table. Here. We got glass table,
Speaker 2: glass walls, your co vice chair. That's fine, We'll just
Speaker 2: go ahead and bring up another chair. No worries.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think what is it's ten percent ownership?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so it's ten percent to Clowry, ten percent
Speaker 2: to the Yankees, and eighty percent to cfg City football groups.
Speaker 7: So I'm not sure what that ten percent gets you, right,
Speaker 7: Like I know, I mean I seated that table for sure,
Speaker 7: but you know it's I almost liking it to just
Speaker 7: a very expensive season ticket.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it could very well be considering that
Speaker 2: he's got like interest in Girona, an interest in Boulevard.
Speaker 2: And now it's like it's like he's just picking up things.
Speaker 2: It's like I'm in I'm in ale number four. I'm
Speaker 2: at ahuah wah, you know, or at Dwayne I'm at
Speaker 2: Dwayne Reid. I'm in ile number six and I've got
Speaker 2: oh I'll take this, and I'll take this, and you know,
Speaker 2: I'll take this and oh, by the way, by the
Speaker 2: way you get to leave Dwayne read and you get
Speaker 2: your photo taken in the photo booth. I mean, is
Speaker 2: it legitimately? That's what it just seems like an investment
Speaker 2: to add to what Clowry is doing across all levels
Speaker 2: when it comes to what you're staring at with with
Speaker 2: him and cfg's umbrella.
Speaker 7: Yeah, part of his uh what do they call it
Speaker 7: in the investment world, part of his portfolio.
Speaker 2: Yes, part of the portfolio. And uh, you know, so
Speaker 2: it's it's interesting and.
Speaker 7: A good time to jump in to be honest, right
Speaker 7: like once we've seen it with other you know, not
Speaker 7: to get to like Business Weekly into this whole thing.
Speaker 2: But down here, Yeah.
Speaker 7: The teams that have their own stadium, right and are
Speaker 7: able then to you know, get money off of their
Speaker 7: own stadium and not have to pay rent like ny
Speaker 7: CFC has had to do. They're usually valued as one
Speaker 7: of the higher teams in Major League Soccer, right, So
Speaker 7: to to come in now before that happens is I
Speaker 7: think a wise investment.
Speaker 2: And that's what investments should be. They should be a
Speaker 2: wise investment if you are looking at things in that
Speaker 2: particular vein Eastern Conference, it is three matches in eight days.
Speaker 2: It's for everybody. It is three matches in eight days,
Speaker 2: if not non everybody, right, because there's uh you know,
Speaker 2: you don't have the double match week in your fantasy
Speaker 2: with them, and so please adjust your rosters appropriately and
Speaker 2: uh DC yeah, because it wasn't anything last week, but
Speaker 2: they end up with stuff, you know, this upcoming weekend.
Speaker 2: We know that the chaos is there, and it's different
Speaker 2: kinds of chaos. In the Eastern Conference, it's people trying
Speaker 2: to climb over each other to get in. You know,
Speaker 2: it's like they're trying to get on the they're trying
Speaker 2: to get on the l and they're just climbing over
Speaker 2: the you know, the the turnstiles. They're trying to climb
Speaker 2: all over each other, trying to skip paying and try
Speaker 2: to get on the train so they don't miss it.
Speaker 2: That's getting into the playoffs. And then you have some positioning,
Speaker 2: you know, like three four five and that kind of stuff,
Speaker 2: maybe two three four five and see who's fading and
Speaker 2: what have you. And then in the West it's at
Speaker 2: the top where everybody's trying to figure out and then
Speaker 2: like two through seven. Three through seven is an absent
Speaker 2: loot mess. What's it been like for you trying to
Speaker 2: keep your brain straight with all of these different concepts
Speaker 2: that are going on here, knowing that we we we
Speaker 2: knew it was going to be chaotic. We just thought
Speaker 2: it was going to be kind of different. Chaos in
Speaker 2: the east, it's getting in in the west, it's trying
Speaker 2: to figure out if you can get a home match.
Speaker 2: What's it been like trying to cover all this map?
Speaker 7: The key is not to make definitive statements. Yes, so
Speaker 7: it's a lot of it's a lot of could bees
Speaker 7: and possibly and it appears to be you know, you
Speaker 7: couch a lot of your statements. It's but this is
Speaker 7: what you want, right, I mean, you know, in a
Speaker 7: league that has so many games and is across so
Speaker 7: many months, you want the stretch drive to be meaningful
Speaker 7: for the team that you support, right, Or if you're
Speaker 7: a casual or you know you watch the entire league,
Speaker 7: you your root for chaos. Right, So you want you
Speaker 7: want decision day too, you know, you want to have
Speaker 7: five different things up and your tablet and your iPad
Speaker 7: and you're everything because because you can't miss what's happening,
Speaker 7: and you know that this result will affect three other
Speaker 7: teams and but that's great, right, Like who wants it
Speaker 7: to be already decided by the time the the last
Speaker 7: two matches or three matches happened. So no, it's been great,
Speaker 7: it's been fun. It's it's been wild. I think, especially
Speaker 7: like in the East, I think you're you're seeing a
Speaker 7: little bit of a separation, well more than a little bit.
Speaker 7: You're seeing a separation from top three down right, and
Speaker 7: I think you're seeing a separation from one, and then
Speaker 7: it's like one, then two, three are kind of together,
Speaker 7: and then there's a jump for four. Like it appears
Speaker 7: that nobody wants that fourth home game, like or that
Speaker 7: or that home game. I'm sorry in fourth, yes, because
Speaker 7: Charlotte and the Red Bulls and n y CFC have
Speaker 7: all had opportunities for quite a while, right, and now
Speaker 7: our Lando's like, listen, guys, if you're not going to
Speaker 7: take it, we're going to creep in here and and
Speaker 7: and do what we apparently do, which is looked terrible
Speaker 7: for a good chunk of the season, and then turn
Speaker 7: it on late right like the old Seattle.
Speaker 2: Sounders Zobby Sounds Baby.
Speaker 7: And then yeah, and then and then it's and then
Speaker 7: it's like who who then gets in at the bottom, right,
Speaker 7: like Chicago gets to win over Red Bulls, like they're
Speaker 7: not out of it, Like I mean, I think even
Speaker 7: technically technically you could say New England's not out of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, six teams separated by US six. Well they have two.
Speaker 7: Games in hands on ninth place d C.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So you've got the bottom seven separated by six points,
Speaker 2: which is basically two wins, which is a hot week,
Speaker 2: and that's to get in the bottom seven separated by
Speaker 2: six points two wins, and you know the bottom four
Speaker 2: is to get to knock on the door, you're separated
Speaker 2: by four points. So it is a it is a
Speaker 2: zoo in the Eastern Conference with two separate groups. So
Speaker 2: let me let me take it piece at a time.
Speaker 2: Who is you know who who is the team that
Speaker 2: you're looking at? That is you know, mister upswing, right,
Speaker 2: So who's the hot who's the hot hand right now
Speaker 2: in the East that you're sitting there saying can make
Speaker 2: noise either in that group to get in or that
Speaker 2: group to get to the second section.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think Orlando right right now there they are
Speaker 7: one of the hottest about the hottest team in MLS,
Speaker 7: right now you know that there they were a team
Speaker 7: we were wondering are they out? Is Pereja out? And
Speaker 7: now they appear to be the team mostly I'm putting
Speaker 7: in the appear. They appear to be the team most
Speaker 7: likely to take that fourth spot, which you know, like
Speaker 7: if you if you go, if you say all the
Speaker 7: favorites then in the east wind right and your final
Speaker 7: four is Miami versus Orlando and Cincey versus Columbus. That's
Speaker 7: pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh then who's just kind of tread and water
Speaker 2: right now? Who's got the float hees on and is
Speaker 2: just kind of happy to be in the pool.
Speaker 7: Clearly the Red Bulls right like they cannot get out
Speaker 7: of their own way, Like it's it's honestly, John, kind
Speaker 7: of mind boggling, right Like you you you go into
Speaker 7: this season and you're like, they need a ten and
Speaker 7: they need a nine, and boom amel foursburk comes out.
Speaker 7: They've got their tens. Great, So in the sum get
Speaker 7: your nine. Hello, hello, is there a nine coming in here?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 7: Your has been injured now for three months? So with
Speaker 7: no ten and no nine, that math equates the not
Speaker 7: many wins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this gives me the chance to to to
Speaker 2: to do this just as kind of a reminder of
Speaker 2: what might be happening there, just as just as gallant
Speaker 2: Any Sheldon, you're you're looking for you're looking for that.
Speaker 7: You're going bueler with that. But but it does have
Speaker 7: the same effect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, I mean, it's just one of those things, right,
Speaker 2: so we know who's who's on the upswing and who's
Speaker 2: wearing the floaties, who's uh hanging on. Traditionally it's Oscar
Speaker 2: parreh in the slow fade, but it looks more and
Speaker 2: more like Charlotte is doing the Oscar pere high impression
Speaker 2: right now, considering they've only won once since August first,
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 7: And that also don't define there's no lodge there either,
Speaker 7: right because logic would dictate when you get your highest
Speaker 7: paid players on the field, when you could finally play
Speaker 7: with three dp's, you should be be at your best,
Speaker 7: and they've they've not been that. They were at their
Speaker 7: best earlier in the season when they weren't, as Dean
Speaker 7: Smith said recently, conceding stupid goals right again, I don't
Speaker 7: you know, like you follow this league and you're an expert,
Speaker 7: and sometimes it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: No, that is absolutely true. And when it doesn't make sense,
Speaker 2: we've been at the bat signal to bring Nick in.
Speaker 2: So Nick, as we tour Major League Soccer with Dylan Butler,
Speaker 2: what is on your mind this morning as we are
Speaker 2: here with Dylan.
Speaker 4: And book Man. There's it's the haves and have nots
Speaker 4: for a league that throught, you know, that builds itself
Speaker 4: on on parody and you know, the ability for teams
Speaker 4: to be competitive fairly quickly. It seems like there are
Speaker 4: some teams that are that are stuck in the have
Speaker 4: not category and seem to be sort of cementing themselves there.
Speaker 4: And uh, you know, it's going to be interesting, I
Speaker 4: think to you know, much to what Dylan was talking
Speaker 4: about earlier. You know, teams that had an opportunity to
Speaker 4: go get players at a particular position that was desperately
Speaker 4: needed and then elected, well we'll just sit tight for now.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, teams like the Red Bulls, teams like Atlanta,
Speaker 4: teams that sat there and kind of you know, hit
Speaker 4: the pause button on you know, maybe brought in one
Speaker 4: player and then uh and kind of left it at
Speaker 4: that one or two players and you know, left some
Speaker 4: key areas unaddressed. It's going to be interesting to see
Speaker 4: how these teams shake out going forward, you know, because
Speaker 4: there's this Harvard there's this business term out there called
Speaker 4: the trust thermal line right where Yeah, it's so long
Speaker 4: story short. If the ocean has different levels of temperatures,
Speaker 4: right so up to the surface it's warm, down below
Speaker 4: it gets cool, and those waters really don't mix, right
Speaker 4: because it is like once an object gets below a
Speaker 4: certain temperature barrier, it's not coming back up. And so
Speaker 4: somebody associated with like the Harvard Business Review put together
Speaker 4: this whole flow chart that says that businesses go through
Speaker 4: the same thing where after a period of time, the
Speaker 4: customer trust gets below what's called the trust thermal line,
Speaker 4: and it is virtually impossible to bring that trust in
Speaker 4: energy and enthusiasm back. It's I think teams are going
Speaker 4: to have to aren't making some more calculated risk when
Speaker 4: it comes to the transfer windows, And you know, much
Speaker 4: like the red Bulls, much like at lad to say, hey, look,
Speaker 4: we need to bring in some eyeballs. We need to
Speaker 4: kind of re energize and re enthuse a fan base.
Speaker 4: I you know, I think there's a lot of teams
Speaker 4: right now that are kind of being very very conservative
Speaker 4: on the spending side, and it's not benefiting them and
Speaker 4: it's not benefiting their fan bases. That's what is on
Speaker 4: my mind.
Speaker 2: Good sir, Wow, the trust Therma Cline, I literally have
Speaker 2: just started doing this and yet Nick is like, you know,
Speaker 2: there's no there's no second chance to make that first
Speaker 2: impression is basically what you're staring at. You will you
Speaker 2: will not get a second chance to burn trust Adam Fisher,
Speaker 2: Medium Magazine back in twenty twenty two. So Dylan, this
Speaker 2: is where we're going this morning on.
Speaker 7: The law and the waters in Montreal are shark infested.
Speaker 7: That shark his named joey'suputo wow, because he is just
Speaker 7: ready you know they stay below that line. Yeah, they're
Speaker 7: looking at like their thirty eighth new coach in the
Speaker 7: last six years.
Speaker 2: Well, and then you invested money in players that have
Speaker 2: turned out to be much like Dennis Green said in
Speaker 2: his press conference, we are who we thought they were
Speaker 2: and it's just like the worst. I mean their defense,
Speaker 2: by the way, goal difference for CF Montreal minus twenty two.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's not the degrees.
Speaker 2: That's not no, no, no, that is not even Celsius compare.
Speaker 2: I mean, like if the fahrenheit gold difference were to
Speaker 2: be converted, yeah, it might be a little closer to zero. No, No,
Speaker 2: that is goal difference. That that is flat out goal difference.
Speaker 2: Not in Celsius. That is fahrenheit at minus twenty two.
Speaker 7: And it's even the worst, it's not even the worst
Speaker 7: in the East.
Speaker 2: That's bad, man, Yes, that is horrendous.
Speaker 7: And and the teams that are below them not that
Speaker 7: you you want to give them an out. But like Chicago, look,
Speaker 7: they're they're gonna have a whole new another restart right right,
Speaker 7: support of the director, head coach, the whole thing. Nashville just
Speaker 7: got a new coach, right like New England first year
Speaker 7: head coach new you know, so all those are are different,
Speaker 7: uh levels of a rebuild. Philly will go under, will
Speaker 7: We'll have a big change coming forward, right because they
Speaker 7: ran it back with this group, and and they're below
Speaker 7: the playoff line right now. So Atlanta is currently in
Speaker 7: the middle of that too, right So but yeah, no,
Speaker 7: like Montreal is the one that kind of isn't and
Speaker 7: it's it's not looking good.
Speaker 4: No, Atlanta, Atlanta and Philly are going to be rebuilding, right,
Speaker 4: And I think what the difference is is that, well,
Speaker 4: actually a commonality between the two and I'm sure Jason's
Speaker 4: going to launch himself to the roof when he hears
Speaker 4: me say it is that is that both teams are
Speaker 4: in the middle of having to identify a sustainable culture.
Speaker 4: Like Philly's style has been n fight in a pham
Speaker 4: booth every game, right, which is which requires a mentality.
Speaker 4: You have to have players who are one hundred percent
Speaker 4: mentally engaged in making life hell for the other team, right.
Speaker 7: And also Nick, from a player perspective, right, like, this
Speaker 7: is a team that you know, they are the academy guys,
Speaker 7: they are, you know.
Speaker 4: And then and then.
Speaker 7: It's finding that like third division German midfielder yes below
Speaker 7: a rock that will will do those will will will
Speaker 7: will play that hard game for you, right.
Speaker 4: And and from a fan perspective, you know, we talked
Speaker 4: about that trust thermal client. Again, you have the one
Speaker 4: commonality I see amongst the Philly fans is that they
Speaker 4: love their team, but they understand and hate the fact
Speaker 4: that ownership will consistently choose the cheaper option as opposed
Speaker 4: to investing in players who will come in play that
Speaker 4: aggressive style and capture interest in eyeballs, and you know,
Speaker 4: as a result, you sort of get hammered into playing
Speaker 4: this particular aggressive style because you are having to make
Speaker 4: do with that third division German player who was out
Speaker 4: of the game for like, you know, four years and
Speaker 4: you know, ended up going to a D three university
Speaker 4: here stateside. Atlanta is going to have to figure out,
Speaker 4: you know, what kind of culture they want. Is it
Speaker 4: going to be Seattle East Coast? Is it going to
Speaker 4: be you know, you know, IAC Southeast. I mean like
Speaker 4: where everything gets fed through the academy now, and that's
Speaker 4: you know, you try to supplement with a few high
Speaker 4: dollar dps to get you over the line. I mean
Speaker 4: there's a lot of culture ships that are taking place
Speaker 4: in MLS Chicago. It's a revolving door of culture up
Speaker 4: there because they can't ever seem to get anything with
Speaker 4: some level of consistency. So it's if you are a
Speaker 4: team in MLS right now that has sort of a
Speaker 4: solidified culture, you're sort of playing with house money at
Speaker 4: this point.
Speaker 2: Nothing like nothing like talking. I did not know that
Speaker 2: we are going to go down the trust thermacline. Uh,
Speaker 2: but I mean it's a wall past Wednesday. I get it.
Speaker 4: Look, I'm on like cup of coffee number four right now, man,
Speaker 4: so I'm like seeing galaxies and nebulas and everything else.
Speaker 4: At this point.
Speaker 2: It's amazing how they just come to sit there and
Speaker 2: they talk to you. It's like, yes, starts talking to you.
Speaker 7: Speaking of the gap.
Speaker 2: See well yeah, I mean you know you got to
Speaker 2: Wallace because we haven't talked about the West yet. I mean,
Speaker 2: l a g right now by the way in L traffico.
Speaker 2: And it's another thing that drives Jason crazy, is saying
Speaker 2: EL traffic because he hates that. You know, you're thinking
Speaker 2: that LAFC they got a two nil lead in L
Speaker 2: traffico and you're like, yeah, yeah, we got We're under control.
Speaker 2: And then uh, Joe Tatino gets out his number two
Speaker 2: Taikondroga pencil and since here and goes not so fast,
Speaker 2: my friend four goals in the fourth one coming off
Speaker 2: of a red card in an eleven B ten situation,
Speaker 2: and now Lag is the one that is steaming away
Speaker 2: from everybody else. But then all of a sudden, John
Speaker 2: Thorrington decides to go into the not so way back
Speaker 2: machine and bring back Carlos Vela for the home stretch.
Speaker 2: What in the blue issues all that about, other than
Speaker 2: maybe trying to find lightning in a bottle and knowing
Speaker 2: that you don't have to pay him at ten bucks
Speaker 2: and and maybe an in and out gift card or
Speaker 2: something for the remainder of the window.
Speaker 7: Yeah, bring bring out the bring out the closer, right,
Speaker 7: bring out the righty out of the bullpen or or
Speaker 7: the lefty because he cuts it onto his left. Yeah,
Speaker 7: if if you know, if again, I think good, good
Speaker 7: piece of business for sure, right, like you said, you know,
Speaker 7: there's there's options there and and see see what he
Speaker 7: has left. I mean, it's been a while since he's played, right,
Speaker 7: it's a match so match fitness wise, you know. I
Speaker 7: mean the whole thing is, you know you love to
Speaker 7: get him, you'd love to get him going for the
Speaker 7: last uh maybe two matches of the regular season and
Speaker 7: and and have this be your be your stretch drive.
Speaker 7: The concern, I guess on the other side of it
Speaker 7: is how does that mess up sort of this continent
Speaker 7: that you have in your attacking unit, right Like you've
Speaker 7: got guys who for twenty eight twenty seven matches have
Speaker 7: been together, right now, you throw this into the mix now.
Speaker 7: But then again, what what is is he a super sub?
Speaker 2: You know, is he Gareth Bale all over again?
Speaker 7: Possibly it worked then, I mean.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, as you get into you know, as you
Speaker 4: get toward the playoffs, you're going to have to win
Speaker 4: in different ways, right, So there's going to be some
Speaker 4: games where you can, you know, playing wide open will
Speaker 4: get you the result. And then there's going to be
Speaker 4: some games where the opponent will you know, chuck everyone
Speaker 4: back around the eighteen, including the water boy, the medical assistant,
Speaker 4: and probably a third owner. And you're going to have
Speaker 4: to figure out how to break that down. And the
Speaker 4: ability now for LAFC to say, okay, we're gonna put
Speaker 4: Carlos Vela at the eighteen and just roam, just roam,
Speaker 4: find space and then turn and fire. You know, if
Speaker 4: you can call him in at like the sixty fifth
Speaker 4: minute to say, look, go out there and give us
Speaker 4: a few I you know, I think that's where Carlos
Speaker 4: Vela could be very helpful for them. You know, I
Speaker 4: completely agree with Dylan thoughing that what kind of match
Speaker 4: fitness is this guy going to be in? He's certainly
Speaker 4: not somebody you can put on for a minute. One
Speaker 4: and call it good. However, you know, however, sixty fifth minute,
Speaker 4: when you got some tired legs and some space presents itself,
Speaker 4: it could think of some worse guys to have out
Speaker 4: there than Carlos Vela, even if he's at you know,
Speaker 4: even if he is at you know, maybe thirty forty
Speaker 4: percent of who he was.
Speaker 2: Seven points back. But they have two matches in hand,
Speaker 2: so there really isn't a whole lot of flinching space
Speaker 2: for LAG. But then we mentioned the k in the
Speaker 2: Western Conference two through seven separated by four points. Right
Speaker 2: now LAFC two matches in hand on LAG forty eight points,
Speaker 2: Colorado Salt Lake forty seven, Seattle at forty six, Vancouver
Speaker 2: at forty five. And I know that Nick is ready
Speaker 2: to lay down his life for Vanni Sartini at any
Speaker 2: given moment. This is accurate, and Houston the Dynamo at
Speaker 2: forty four. And then you get into the eight and nine,
Speaker 2: and there's a little bit of space there between the
Speaker 2: eight and the nine, which looks like it's fairly safe
Speaker 2: unless somebody just completely and totally collapses down the stretch,
Speaker 2: meaning Portland, Minnesota. So it's a different kind of chaos
Speaker 2: but three through seven, it's really two through seven at
Speaker 2: the moment. You cannot breathe funny right now in the
Speaker 2: Western Conference with all that activity going on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think if you're salt Lake, you're that
Speaker 7: team that's that's a temperature is up now, right like,
Speaker 7: and again it's it's part of I think it's part
Speaker 7: of the reality of this league. Is you know, and
Speaker 7: and Atlanta had something similar, right Like, you you get
Speaker 7: a young prospect, they play really well, there's I think
Speaker 7: it was an eight figure deal on the table. You've
Speaker 7: got to sell them, right And that's what Salt Lake
Speaker 7: did with Andres Gomez. But here's the other part of it,
Speaker 7: to Nick's point, like where's the replacement? Right Like, there
Speaker 7: hasn't been one, and they've not been the same team
Speaker 7: since that, so you know a lot of what he
Speaker 7: was doing also aided uh Chicho Orango. Orango hasn't been
Speaker 7: the same player since Goma has left, so you know
Speaker 7: they're struggling right now. And and and the teams that
Speaker 7: are rising are you know, Colorado and I and I
Speaker 7: will again uh uh or not again, but I will
Speaker 7: say that I think Chris Armors should be in serious
Speaker 7: contention for Coach of the Year Ding ding ding. And
Speaker 7: I know he won't. He won't because Toto Martino will
Speaker 7: win it because you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: But I think that Chris Armis should at least be
Speaker 2: invited to sit in the front road the New York
Speaker 2: Athletic Club at the end of the day.
Speaker 7: I just I think it's the definition of what a
Speaker 7: Coach of the Year is, right, Like, are you the
Speaker 7: coach of the best team? Is that difficulty? Hes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So basically what you're It's like the the MVP voting.
Speaker 2: Basically where Tatsa Martino did what he was supposed to
Speaker 2: do with the resources he had on hand, where Chris
Speaker 2: Armis was given resources and for the first time in
Speaker 2: known history, Kronky Sports and Entertainment actually decided to invest
Speaker 2: and they brought and actually spent money in bringing in
Speaker 2: Georgie Mahailovich. They trusted Chris Armis with the style of play,
Speaker 2: do your thing, We'll leave you alone, and you see
Speaker 2: the results.
Speaker 7: And and and the year to year difference in points.
Speaker 7: I think with a new coach at the HELM, I think,
Speaker 7: should you know? To me, that's more about Coach of
Speaker 7: the Year than anything else.
Speaker 4: But it feels very NBA ish to be where you
Speaker 4: have you have like the Darling market that is going
Speaker 4: to get all of the eyeballs and all of the wards,
Speaker 4: all the accolades, and meanwhile you have like, you know,
Speaker 4: like Denver, you know, you have Denver Okac or somebody
Speaker 4: else who you know, because they're not, you know, the
Speaker 4: major primetime market eyeball catcher, they're you know, they're just
Speaker 4: going to go under the radar and you know, kind
Speaker 4: of be ignored for awards and things like that. To me,
Speaker 4: armists should be clear manager of the year. However, however,
Speaker 4: you know when when you have essentially an unlimited ATM
Speaker 4: at your disposal and you can bring in Messi and co,
Speaker 4: then you're you're going to get that sort of NBA treatment.
Speaker 7: And in that sense too, Nick, right, Tata is like
Speaker 7: an NBA coach because he's just managing these big, big
Speaker 7: per finalities, right.
Speaker 2: He is, in fact pat Riley and he's not. You
Speaker 2: just hope that if you're the Moss Brothers that he
Speaker 2: doesn't turn into Paul west Head. Uh. All right, so
Speaker 2: what are your weekend plans? Dylan? What do you what
Speaker 2: do you think games tonight? Damn son, what are your
Speaker 2: midweek plans? What are you up to tonight as you
Speaker 2: get ready for everything?
Speaker 7: Yeah, on the desk tonight some some some good ones,
Speaker 7: you know. Obviously eyeballs again on on Miami as they
Speaker 7: always are, right, Like Tata has said that Messi is
Speaker 7: available for both this match and for the game up
Speaker 7: in the Bronx on Saturday afternoons, so that should be fun.
Speaker 7: Houston Vancouver, I think is is a good one tonight, right,
Speaker 7: although although Herrera is out with a hamstring, and hamstring's
Speaker 7: a tricky like, this is not a good time. Great,
Speaker 7: he was already sidelined with the knee at the start
Speaker 7: of the year and now to have a out with
Speaker 7: a hamstring usually those like at least a month, right,
Speaker 7: So that is offer a team like Houston that's been
Speaker 7: playing some really good soccer as well, So h tough
Speaker 7: one for him, but yeah, listen. And then Portland LA.
Speaker 7: I don't know, listen, John, you love the juice boxes.
Speaker 7: I don't know what that one says about the over,
Speaker 7: but I would take it. These are two of the three,
Speaker 7: or I should say, the two highest scoring teams not
Speaker 7: called Miami in MLS. One goal difference between these two teams,
Speaker 7: they score goals. It's MLS after Dark, perfect perfect scenario
Speaker 7: for like a six or five banger.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I don't necessarily love the juice boxes,
Speaker 2: but I understand their place, and that's why we talk
Speaker 2: about them as much as we do. Over under four
Speaker 2: courtesy of our friends the odds portal in the composite
Speaker 2: over under a four is a plus one twenty two.
Speaker 2: Four and a half is a plus one six and
Speaker 2: then obviously it goes up from there to your eleven
Speaker 2: gold banger. Over under nine and a half is at
Speaker 2: plus five thousand to go from there. So that's what
Speaker 2: you're staring at, at least with that particular matchup. So no,
Speaker 2: I do not. I do not have juice boxes to spend.
Speaker 2: Therefore I don't spend them because I don't have them.
Speaker 2: I just understand the place that the juice boxes are
Speaker 2: when it comes to folks and their day to day
Speaker 2: enjoyment of their particular franchises.
Speaker 7: And yeah, that's an over, that's an overmatch.
Speaker 2: So take the overstarting at four and a half, you
Speaker 2: should be good. Dylan is always my friend. Thanks for
Speaker 2: dropping by. We will catch up with you again. When
Speaker 2: your world calms down. Oh, varsity media, what's going on?
Speaker 7: No, it's good, rare weekend off. So's it's all MLS
Speaker 7: all the time this weekend?
Speaker 2: There you go, all right, all MLS all the time?
Speaker 2: Oh what's the mug by the way?
Speaker 7: A little goldfish?
Speaker 2: Little? Uh?
Speaker 7: Sorry, there you go.
Speaker 2: There you go, be a goldfish. Enjoy your cup of
Speaker 2: coffee and be the number one dad. We'll catch up
Speaker 2: with you soon, my friend. I guess all right, that's Dylan.
Speaker 2: I forget to talk to Dylan about the I six
Speaker 2: engaging in investigations of the PIF when it came to Newcastle.
Speaker 2: When Martin Zigler at the Times has that as a byline, Nick,
Speaker 2: that's not necessarily a good thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look, the money is the money's too dumb. The
Speaker 4: money's too dumb. And you know you're gonna have to
Speaker 4: people are going to have to become savvy and educated consumers,
Speaker 4: which I don't have a ton of faith in, but
Speaker 4: they're going to have to make some choices on the
Speaker 4: product they wish to invest in.
Speaker 2: Yes, one thing that I definitely wanted to get into
Speaker 2: the discussion with you about is why are Well I
Speaker 2: know the answer why, but why are folks firing managers
Speaker 2: after four matches in Syria?
Speaker 4: Money? That's it's it's scared money. So you have Roma
Speaker 4: who fired the or els. See they said the results
Speaker 4: weren't there.
Speaker 2: It's four your ten percent into your schedule.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they are what's happening is they're looking up
Speaker 4: at a table and they're saying, if we are not
Speaker 4: in the top four or five and we're not getting
Speaker 4: Champions League, that sweet sweet Champions League revenues not coming
Speaker 4: in to fill the coffers, and that puts us at risk.
Speaker 4: And you have American business mentality that says that, you know,
Speaker 4: we have to generate X in order to be considered successful, right,
Speaker 4: And that's that's fine, that's business. But there's a difference
Speaker 4: between allowing a club legend to work and gain some
Speaker 4: sort of traction and to turn things around versus saying, Okay,
Speaker 4: we're gonna make it, we're gonna make a swift change
Speaker 4: here because we're just trying to ensure a certain placement
Speaker 4: in the table. Roma gets what they deserve now. So
Speaker 4: you know, there's that's one of the great, uh, one
Speaker 4: of the great backhanded statements of our time is have
Speaker 4: the day you deserve. So, uh, you know, that's that's
Speaker 4: what Roma needs to be getting right now because they're
Speaker 4: talking about bringing it Ivansurich now, the former manager of
Speaker 4: to Reno. You're telling me that you're going to have
Speaker 4: radical wild success with Ivansurich. This, it's this, you know,
Speaker 4: it's the same mentality up in Milan where they said,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, Paula fon Seka is going to be the
Speaker 4: guy who's going to make us exciting and fun. Milan's
Speaker 4: a mess. Roma's a mess, you know. They because you
Speaker 4: have these ownership groups that you know, they're they're they're
Speaker 4: in gay in this moneyball bs and they're saying, well,
Speaker 4: we have to generate X revenue or else we're going
Speaker 4: to be in trouble. Okay, great fire the manager bringing
Speaker 4: someone else, maybe that gets the results, have the day
Speaker 4: you deserve.
Speaker 2: I had to ask about that considering that we saw that,
Speaker 2: and that kind of lit up our lit up our page.
Speaker 2: As we go, juice boxes over the top when it
Speaker 2: comes to the midweek whip around right now and I
Speaker 2: you know, I sit there and I look at all
Speaker 2: the seven thirties and there's four of them, which means
Speaker 2: that they're seven to forties and I'm going, hey, at
Speaker 2: Landy United's first in the list, they're the alphabetical highest
Speaker 2: home team. Moron that land United right now plus one
Speaker 2: two in the composite courtesy of our friends at Odds
Speaker 2: Portal draws a plus two ninety four and enter Miami
Speaker 2: Messian friends is a plus one six one. Jared, what
Speaker 2: do you think.
Speaker 1: You issuaall lead?
Speaker 5: The rule is in First of all, the rule has
Speaker 5: never been on MLS.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 1: First of all, that's that's the rule. Verst All.
Speaker 5: Yes with this though, Atlanta's so weird and so unpredictable
Speaker 5: and inconsistent. Uh, if you are going to ignore rule
Speaker 5: number one, rule number two is, don't ignore rule number one.
Speaker 5: Rule number three is clearly you're not going to listen
Speaker 5: to me and a full as money are soon parted.
Speaker 5: If you've got a home dogs, you take them. I
Speaker 5: don't know how to deal with this because we've seen very,
Speaker 5: very very many variations of what Atlanta United can be. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the thing that annoys me the most about this team
Speaker 5: when you get performances like Saturday.
Speaker 1: Is it they've shown you they can be better.
Speaker 5: They wouldn't be as disappointing, have they not shown you
Speaker 5: that they are better than when they showed you against Nashville,
Speaker 5: Because if someone has lit a fire under their ass,
Speaker 5: or if they are feeling any sort of way after
Speaker 5: getting embarrassed by Nashville, not just on the scoreboard, but
Speaker 5: also in terms of like Sam Surage trucking one of
Speaker 5: your guys and you didn't do shit about it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: by all accounts, you should come out here ready to
Speaker 5: throw hands tonight. And in that case, I might be
Speaker 5: tempted to. I don't know, man, what time of year.
Speaker 5: We're almost to October. It's almost spooky season. Let's go
Speaker 5: Halloween candy on this. Wow, pretty got the Halloween candy?
Speaker 1: What do I get?
Speaker 5: Like a crunch bar? Something that I don't mind but
Speaker 5: I can live it out. I'm putting a crunch bar
Speaker 5: in Atlanta just because this team is unpredictable, inconsistent, and
Speaker 5: untrustworthy right now. But we've seen what they.
Speaker 2: Can do, and then we got to keep an eye
Speaker 2: on that. Alex As one of our de facto producers here,
Speaker 2: is letting us know about Guillermo Rivera and conversations out
Speaker 2: of Chicago, and it appears that the Chicago fire are
Speaker 2: close to naming a new manager. That new manager might
Speaker 2: be Greg Burholter. Rivera says, not done yet, fire biting
Speaker 2: discussions with Burholter for several weeks. Would have complete control
Speaker 2: of soccer operations, but Joe Mansweto, the owner, would like
Speaker 2: to keep some of the technical staff on board. A
Speaker 2: technical director slash GM or similar title would work under him.
Speaker 2: It is a waiting game now, according to Guillermo Rivera,
Speaker 2: So it would be Burholter as Vermes is what we're
Speaker 2: looking at here.
Speaker 4: So that's terrifying.
Speaker 2: Possibly, you know where you have Burholter head coach cso
Speaker 2: you know he's you know, Burholter equals Vermes in Chicago
Speaker 2: would be how it would look. Yeah, Nick is uncomfortable instantly.
Speaker 4: I question giving Burhalter that much power, and I have
Speaker 4: no I think Burhlter is a fine person. He's a
Speaker 4: good person. Most of the people who interact them seem
Speaker 4: to sick find him, you know, kind and personable. I
Speaker 4: have major issues with why from an offensive perspective, his
Speaker 4: team's go from you know, at they have like brief
Speaker 4: flashes of attacking capability and then go to like like
Speaker 4: Honda Accords, stuck in the mud, like it's there doesn't
Speaker 4: seem to be any sort of him getting out of
Speaker 4: his own way from that perspective, and if you're giving
Speaker 4: that guy all the control, good luck.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, because I don't know how that's really going
Speaker 4: to work for you. Okay.
Speaker 5: I feel the same way in the technical director's side.
Speaker 5: I don't know how I feel about giving him that
Speaker 5: kind of control. If you have a team like Chicago,
Speaker 5: though Atlanta, you're not too far off this. Don't get
Speaker 5: too side eyed on me. Where Chicago needs not just
Speaker 5: a change in leadership on the field, but you kind
Speaker 5: of need an injection of culture. I think Greg can
Speaker 5: be that guy on the field side of it. Don't
Speaker 5: know what he's going to do.
Speaker 1: On the technical side.
Speaker 5: I will always go back to those Columbus teams where
Speaker 5: pre Court was not spending and Greg was still getting
Speaker 5: them to the playoffs despite Anthony pre Court trying to
Speaker 5: actively sabotage that club to get them moved. They played well,
Speaker 5: overachieved it times, and it seems stable on the inside.
Speaker 5: Chicago can benefit from that.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: That's true, and good.
Speaker 5: For Greg if that's the case. I wasn't sure after
Speaker 5: coaching the US national team if you would want to
Speaker 5: break from everything, or if he was one of those
Speaker 5: guys he just needed to jump back into the fray.
Speaker 5: I don't hate it for Chicago on the field side
Speaker 5: of it. The technical side feels like we are staring
Speaker 5: into a dark jungle and I don't know what's on
Speaker 5: the other side of that tree line.
Speaker 2: We'll find out, and you don't know.
Speaker 5: Can it be any more dysfunctional than what Chicago already
Speaker 5: has been?
Speaker 2: True?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, here's here's a question that I'm going to
Speaker 4: have is what has Greg Burhalter learned from his time
Speaker 4: with the national team.
Speaker 2: That's the interview Number one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, because you have to any manager who
Speaker 4: it gets fired for, you know, he was. I hesitate
Speaker 4: on saying this because what US men's national team fans
Speaker 4: to find a success and what a lot of other
Speaker 4: national teams define a success are two very different things.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: The Gold Cup is the Gold Cup.
Speaker 1: You're only.
Speaker 4: The US cannot help the competition that is in CONCACAF.
Speaker 4: They just can't. You can help being usurped by Canada,
Speaker 4: a broke federation, and that happened on If you talk
Speaker 4: about Burhalter winning Gold Cups, you could talk about the
Speaker 4: United States, you know, getting you serted by Canada, So.
Speaker 2: Who are they?
Speaker 1: Can? You know?
Speaker 4: That happened on his watch too, you know, the the
Speaker 4: US you know sputtering in U in Copa America. That
Speaker 4: happened on his watch too. And that's against larger competition,
Speaker 4: you know, the World Cup, all the mess that happened
Speaker 4: with that. I would like to know, Greg, what have
Speaker 4: we learned through this whole thing? Like to the full
Speaker 4: house music?
Speaker 5: You know, I learned something don't don't don't bring in.
Speaker 4: Arena, Yes, don't bring in arena.
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 5: I don't think you have to worry about Giorana signing
Speaker 5: for the Chicago Fire.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't don't think so. But you know, like
Speaker 4: if you look at Greg's career, there have been teams
Speaker 4: that have fired him because they're his teams generated no
Speaker 4: attacking capability whatsoever. Greg, have we learned how to become
Speaker 4: more attacking within the confines of your system?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 4: I think that, you know, I think my system. Nope,
Speaker 4: you're out.
Speaker 2: That's what That's where John McLachlan comes into play.
Speaker 4: Wrong here is Yes, I've worked that out. I you
Speaker 4: know I have. I've got to be a little more, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, a little more dangerous. I gotta, you know,
Speaker 4: embrace risk a little more.
Speaker 2: This is your interview with the parole board man.
Speaker 4: We're going forward now we're going have.
Speaker 2: You have you reformed? What have you learned? This is
Speaker 2: in front of the parole board man.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, But look here's the thing. Chicago is ahead
Speaker 4: of Atlanta right now on the rebuild. If this is accurate.
Speaker 4: You know, Greg Burhalter was a name that was out there.
Speaker 4: He's off the board. So you know who is going
Speaker 4: to be the name that is now kicked around? Is
Speaker 4: it still Patrick Vieira the name that this has been
Speaker 4: kicked around on the rumor mill? You know it Atlanta
Speaker 4: has Hey, I'm I'm fine with GEO. I'm fine with GEO,
Speaker 4: but you know, I want to see this. Atlanta is
Speaker 4: is needing a technical director. They are needing a head coach.
Speaker 4: They need two dps and they need to win the
Speaker 4: trust uh and and excitement of the fan base back.
Speaker 4: I don't think any of what I just said is
Speaker 4: out of bounce and JAREDT. When Sturage cleared out, uh
Speaker 4: that that number of the five stripes, were there any
Speaker 4: yellow cards? For Atlanta United handed out after that.
Speaker 5: No, and Dick I was on the field when it
Speaker 5: happened because I was going to interview Rob after the game.
Speaker 5: And then Rob Rob took off down the tunnel to
Speaker 5: go yell at everybody, and I wonder if that was
Speaker 5: I hope that was a part of it, because when
Speaker 5: we saw it happen on the field level, Rob snapped
Speaker 5: goose went to the referee, which is about all you
Speaker 5: can do. And it's the rugby thing to be the
Speaker 5: captain and go politicket, which is fine. But yeah, And
Speaker 5: I did this manifesto Monday, Nick that like it. It
Speaker 5: still bothers me three days four days on that nobody
Speaker 5: put a hip into stourage and if Storage is down
Speaker 5: on the pilets like let's say he's down on the field,
Speaker 5: that nobody put a hip into Walker Zimmerman or Honeymoon
Speaker 5: Tar who's wearing the arm band for that team.
Speaker 1: Mhmm.
Speaker 5: You're getting absolutely beaten down in your own building in
Speaker 5: a rivalry game, yep, getting blanked against the teams that
Speaker 5: is dead in the water. Yes, and then they take
Speaker 5: what a mouse to a cheap shot on your guy.
Speaker 1: You don't do anything that that to me.
Speaker 5: Is that to me, I'm not saying you had to
Speaker 5: go get sent off or that you had to like
Speaker 5: try and hurt him.
Speaker 2: You didn't have to Aaron McCarty on his ass, but.
Speaker 5: The fact that nobody stepped to him or step to
Speaker 5: anyone on Nashville and creating a mass confrontation with Look,
Speaker 5: you show you are showing people, whether or not that's
Speaker 5: true or not, when you do that, when you don't
Speaker 5: step like that, you were showing them yourself. Yeah, you're
Speaker 5: so much.
Speaker 4: One hundred percent because you you have to show like,
Speaker 4: you have to show that you have fight, Like, you
Speaker 4: have to show that you have fight. And even if
Speaker 4: you're not gonna win the day, at least let the
Speaker 4: other team know they've been in a fight.
Speaker 2: Win the moment.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like, if if you are
Speaker 4: going to lose a fight, at least you know, at
Speaker 4: least claim the other person's teeth in the process. You
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, Like, if you're gonna lose, I'm
Speaker 4: leading the quote Denzel Washington, I'm leaving with something, you know,
Speaker 4: leave with something. And I think that's part of the
Speaker 4: issue is and when I talk about that, that that
Speaker 4: trust thermoc line that do you think jeff Lorenowitz would
Speaker 4: have let that slide in the past, jeff Lorenowitz would
Speaker 4: have been like breaking somebody getting the yellow car, shoving
Speaker 4: somebody's face into the turf? Where is that?
Speaker 5: He wasn't on the field, and I worry he might
Speaker 5: have taken it a step too far.
Speaker 1: But I worry if that for Morales had been on
Speaker 1: the field.
Speaker 5: Who look, I know most people haven't only seen they've
Speaker 5: seen a couple of games of play. The boys got
Speaker 5: combaball in his blood and he's got combon ball blood
Speaker 5: on his hands from coming up through Bolivia set up.
Speaker 1: He's got that edge an that I would have liked
Speaker 1: in that moment.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying I want him to get a red car,
Speaker 5: but I think he had a stepped to somebody.
Speaker 1: And you need did that? Yeah? You need that? You
Speaker 1: need And Rob.
Speaker 5: Talked about this after the game of You know, you
Speaker 5: have Brad, you das veterans who have leadership. But one
Speaker 5: of the perils of having a young team is you
Speaker 5: don't have leaders all the time on the field, and
Speaker 5: you have to develop that and you can guide people,
Speaker 5: but you've got guys have gotta want it. They gotta
Speaker 5: want that smoke and leadership. I would hope that that
Speaker 5: is kind of that that I would hope that that
Speaker 5: moment Saturday night becomes a touchstone for a couple of
Speaker 5: guys of well, somebody's got to step up, and if
Speaker 5: no one else is gonna do it, I will.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think you have to have that, and that's.
Speaker 2: This is.
Speaker 4: This is what's happening now is a relationship and it
Speaker 4: gets you know, and I I know, I'm the person
Speaker 4: who has always said nostalgia is the last bastion for
Speaker 4: a person with no hope, right, they have no hope
Speaker 4: in the future.
Speaker 2: All you have is nostalgia.
Speaker 4: And you know, when you look at social media, I
Speaker 4: remember a time when oftentimes you saw players out together
Speaker 4: in town. You saw fans meeting players out in the street,
Speaker 4: smiling faces. I don't see any of that anymore, like,
Speaker 4: none of it, you know, And to me, I don't
Speaker 4: know if that's players are just you know not you know,
Speaker 4: fans aren't just randomly bumping into players anymore or anything
Speaker 4: like that, or the players is more low key about
Speaker 4: where they go and what they do. That's fine, you know.
Speaker 4: I don't see any of that. I don't see. There
Speaker 4: was a you know, a time when you had players
Speaker 4: that on the field, if somebody got out of line
Speaker 4: with one of your stars, they were eating the turf
Speaker 4: you had. You had some some people with razor blades
Speaker 4: in the cheeks who were ready to go to work.
Speaker 4: And I don't see that anymore. I see a collection
Speaker 4: of players. I don't think if there's anyone who laces
Speaker 4: their cleats up professionally who's okay with losing, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's possible to be a professional and
Speaker 4: be okay with losing. So if there's anyone out there
Speaker 4: who says Nick says that the players are okay with lose, no,
Speaker 4: I don't. But what I do believe is that there
Speaker 4: are some folks who are like, you know, Okay, I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna stay in my lane. I'm just gonna kind
Speaker 4: of do my thing and do my business and go
Speaker 4: about it. And that to me is if you're not winning,
Speaker 4: you've got to show that there's fight at some level,
Speaker 4: you know, you got to show that there's a relationship
Speaker 4: there at some level, and if you don't, people will
Speaker 4: check out, and people on the field will check out.
Speaker 4: People in the stands will check out, and I find
Speaker 4: it hard to stay engaged when it is when you
Speaker 4: have something like that where smarmy stourage is bucking your
Speaker 4: own dudes around.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, I'm.
Speaker 4: Just saying, and he's bucking your own players around in
Speaker 4: your house, and you can't ask McCarty to do anything
Speaker 4: about it because that's his old team and he's on
Speaker 4: the way out, so you know. But there needed to
Speaker 4: be somebody on that team who said, I don't care,
Speaker 4: you know, if I like you, if I hate you.
Speaker 4: If you're wearing the same shirt as me, and somebody
Speaker 4: comes and tries to pee on my carpet, brother, we fighting,
Speaker 4: and that's it. If somebody comes in and says, I
Speaker 4: spit in your house, we're fighting. And even if you
Speaker 4: do it to somebody I don't like, we're still fighting
Speaker 4: because he's wearing the same shirt as me, and I
Speaker 4: just I need to see something before we get a
Speaker 4: technical director, before we get a coach, before we get DPS.
Speaker 4: A basic fundamental thing I need to see is people
Speaker 4: on the field in the starting eleven who have a
Speaker 4: little bit of piss and vinegar in their blood and
Speaker 4: are willing to fight. Just show me you're willing to fight.
Speaker 4: I'll eat a red card and a horrible loss if
Speaker 4: my team is at least show and fight. Right If
Speaker 4: you're showing fight, I got no problems.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: Cool. We're not a very good team right now. They're
Speaker 4: scrappy as hell. I'll take scrappy, you know, Like if
Speaker 4: we got to Jason, I'm sorry, if we got to
Speaker 4: go Philly and we gotta play knife fight in a
Speaker 4: phone booth, at least show me you're willing to do it,
Speaker 4: you know. I think that's half of why Rob was
Speaker 4: so mad at his press conference. He's like, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, come on, man, it's not it's not
Speaker 4: even where's the fight is? Where's your heart? Where's your heart?
Speaker 4: Don't don't tell me you do exceptional on a beat test.
Speaker 4: Don't tell me that you know you you do really
Speaker 4: well in a in a practice scenario when you have
Speaker 4: storage a C list attacker coming over here and then
Speaker 4: like doing doing like the Irish jig and kicking Guzan's
Speaker 4: water bottle up towards the supporter section, man, you you
Speaker 4: better clear him out. Where's the heart? I mean, anybody
Speaker 4: who wants to d m me or anything, or be mad.
Speaker 4: I make it easy to find me.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: It is my real last name on Twitter. You I'm
Speaker 4: easy to find to me, show heart And I'm not
Speaker 4: saying you got to be cheap. Sometimes it's okay, but
Speaker 4: you better.
Speaker 5: Be petty sometimes sometimes sometimes you gotta be said to.
Speaker 1: M h they said that she is not the heart
Speaker 1: yet it is not good. Lord, make sure you got
Speaker 1: to make sure you got some blood bags on the sideline.
Speaker 4: Yes, indeed, indeed, you know when when people were saying
Speaker 4: fire Carlos, fire, Carlos, fire, Carlos, Carlos had a run
Speaker 4: of injuries that were damn near unprecedented, and in in
Speaker 4: this league he had to make really like throw caution
Speaker 4: to the wind the signings to be remotely competitive. A
Speaker 4: lot of teams would have said, yep, we're eating last place,
Speaker 4: right But I don't think Carlos ever recovered from that period, right, like,
Speaker 4: because the contracts took so long to get out from
Speaker 4: underneath that and the results were not there that you
Speaker 4: had to do what you had to do. But in
Speaker 4: the meantime, some of these players have just decided, yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: all right, I'm gonna be calm, cool, professional. I'll do
Speaker 4: my job, you know, I don't know. Man, it seems
Speaker 4: like we have a bunch of mid level managers. It's
Speaker 4: like supervisors, uh, you know, checking metrics. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I need to see some fight and if and just
Speaker 4: like I have a remote to change the channel at home,
Speaker 4: if there's a TV show that gets boring, you know,
Speaker 4: I I there's a there's a way for me to
Speaker 4: not show up to games. There's a way for me
Speaker 4: not to watch on TV. There's other things for me
Speaker 4: to be doing. Uh, you know, And that's that is
Speaker 4: just that is the nature of sports. It is entertainment.
Speaker 4: It is diversion. That's what sports are. It's entertainment, you know,
Speaker 4: unless it's SEC football and then this life.
Speaker 1: But you know, that's that's culture.
Speaker 4: But and and Cal football now apparently.
Speaker 5: No one was prepared for Cal football to be that online.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, we were not pars.
Speaker 5: So it looks like it's two contracts Goose and Quinton
Speaker 5: Westberg are up at the end of this season.
Speaker 2: There are nine that end dates. But there are options
Speaker 2: and other decisions.
Speaker 5: And look, if it comes down to it and you
Speaker 5: are to bring back the slogan from the back to
Speaker 5: slogan from this first radio station that let me tag
Speaker 5: along for remote. You're not part of the project, you're
Speaker 5: proud of the problem.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 5: You can find homes for guys if you have to,
Speaker 5: because the thing is for me what we saw in
Speaker 5: the lack of like fight in that. I think at
Speaker 5: the same time, it is a team is a talented roster.
Speaker 5: Like when you look at the roster, I see guys
Speaker 5: who have talent like but I'm struck can play. I
Speaker 5: am still of the belief. I'm still the belief that
Speaker 5: if you get a DP left winger and a DP
Speaker 5: nine and like if you if Saba is your fourth
Speaker 5: attacking option, I think Saba is an absolute monster in
Speaker 5: that role.
Speaker 2: He guy not the guy for some yes, yes.
Speaker 1: More of the Joe Johnson kind of guy where.
Speaker 5: If you ask him to be the guy, he's gonna
Speaker 5: give you those games like the Miami game. But I
Speaker 5: think he is at his dust or or a Chris
Speaker 5: Bosh at his best when being the accompanying peace and
Speaker 5: helping carry LOWD and benefiting from others who are drawing
Speaker 5: attention where he can drive as you know, the third
Speaker 5: option with the ball. I think there's talent there on
Speaker 5: this roster. But yeah, somebody's got to come in throw
Speaker 5: some dirt in the soup and you gotta find that.
Speaker 5: You got to find the grid somewhere. And the trick
Speaker 5: is and we talk about this in college football to
Speaker 5: keep the laboring the analogies is you know that the
Speaker 5: great Burholzer thing. There's a difference between winning the games
Speaker 5: and winning the press conference. Right, could go out there
Speaker 5: and win the press conference for Chicago. I don't think
Speaker 5: it's a bad yet for Chicago at all, and I
Speaker 5: think it can work for them.
Speaker 1: They need to see if they need to see change.
Speaker 5: It's not just about coming out there and winning the
Speaker 5: press conference. If you're Atlanta, when you get a technical director,
Speaker 5: whoever your manager might be, I would be tickled to
Speaker 5: Rossie gets an interview now, just to see what Nick does.
Speaker 4: Hey, you wouldn't have to worry about those boys fighting.
Speaker 4: I can tell you that.
Speaker 5: Mm hm, No, you would not, because if they didn't,
Speaker 5: he might square up with them on the field.
Speaker 4: It's like the managers getting a red card for punching
Speaker 4: his own player.
Speaker 5: Just like another Italian manager that we've talked about in
Speaker 5: the past.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, give my boy Gatuso in here, get get My,
Speaker 4: Get My, get my large brother, Gatuso in stave and
Speaker 4: Duds would have Ford.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I mean, uh something like.
Speaker 4: This, Simons may be good some times.
Speaker 2: May you know, like that, that's what you're hunting for.
Speaker 2: We already hit the explicit rating, so I had no
Speaker 2: problem running out at the.
Speaker 1: End of the show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just want Look, I am a season ticket holder.
Speaker 1: I want you.
Speaker 4: You cannot put a shirt on that says Atlanta and
Speaker 4: expect people to show up. Do you have to have fight?
Speaker 4: I mean, right now, it feels to me like the
Speaker 4: Falcons with Desmond Ritter. There's some dudes out there, like
Speaker 4: a pretty talented roster outside of a few areas, but
Speaker 4: nothing's working, you know. So I you know, I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 4: it's you gotta give me something, man.
Speaker 5: You can.
Speaker 4: You can give me steak with no sizzle, Okay, you know,
Speaker 4: if there's sizzle and no steak, maybe a little tougher
Speaker 4: to deal with. But if you bring nothing but Romayne,
Speaker 4: let us on my plate and tell me it's a
Speaker 4: five star meal, I'm gonna start questioning things.
Speaker 2: So mm hmmm, let's say twelve thirty one twenty four.
Speaker 2: H Okay, so we know what's going on with Atlanta.
Speaker 5: Woes retired to go run Bonaventure's and il oh wow,
Speaker 5: that's random the last wojebob. Yeah, he's rehiring from media.
Speaker 5: He's going to go be the general manager for Saint
Speaker 5: Bonaventure and basically run their NIL program.
Speaker 1: Heya, because I get man, Shames made his ask quick.
Speaker 1: Well also, I think the shame. I think Shams's contracted
Speaker 1: that ag.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you better sign Shams now, that's what you gotta do.
Speaker 2: So all right, So with that particular.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, and because because John's putting that there, just
Speaker 5: so y'all can read, not everyone qualifies for free agent status.
Speaker 5: Remember free agent status in MLS is dumb, yes, very weird.
Speaker 1: It has very specific qualifications.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, So those are the nine names who have
Speaker 2: current contracts that end. We are not discussing option years
Speaker 2: or anything like that. Current contracts that end New Year's
Speaker 2: Eve day. That's that's what you're looking at. Their New
Speaker 2: Year's Eve, New Year's Eve midnight. That's when those nine
Speaker 2: contracts technically end. We do not I'm not talking option
Speaker 2: years or anything like that, but current contracts that have
Speaker 2: options that could be exercised. So there's that before we
Speaker 2: get out of here. Other games and so if there's
Speaker 2: any other game that you guys want to talk about,
Speaker 2: broadcast plan six thirty ninety nine in the game in
Speaker 2: the Odyssey app it is the pregame show, and then
Speaker 2: it's Mike and Jason seven forty kick, and then it
Speaker 2: is a full hour of the full time report. After
Speaker 2: the fact, Atlanta United Inner Miami at Lanty United is
Speaker 2: swam heavy favorite now to a plus one twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Inter Miami is a plus one seventy nine. That was
Speaker 2: a lot closer when we started this morning, it is
Speaker 2: not now. If there is a particular game you guys
Speaker 2: want to talk about, just go ahead and yell it
Speaker 2: out and yell stop and we'll talk about it. We're
Speaker 2: gonna do cliffhanger to wrap up the show.
Speaker 4: Well, let's let's just stop right there with Atlanta and
Speaker 4: Miami with that that line swinging so heavily.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: That that's well one. Betting on MLS as my as
Speaker 4: the right good gentleman Jared Smith has said, is an
Speaker 4: act of folly to put it in the most genteel
Speaker 4: way possible. Uh, somebody knows something. Yes, somebody knows. If
Speaker 4: that line swung like that, somebody knows something.
Speaker 5: Somebody might warm up on the sideline and get a
Speaker 5: round of applause. That somebody might not see.
Speaker 1: Minute, or it might see very limited minute.
Speaker 4: Yes, somebody knows something. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh VS minus one thirty seven hosting CF Montreal
Speaker 2: at to plus three thirty six, NYC minus one thirty
Speaker 2: nine hosting the Union at plus three twenty eight. Toronto
Speaker 2: FC plus two forty three at home against Crew Crewer
Speaker 2: A plus one oh two in your draws, A plus
Speaker 2: two seventy one eight point fifteen on FS one in
Speaker 2: the free side of Apple TV Purple Team hosting Charlotte
Speaker 2: Purple Team minus one thirty nine Charlotte a plus three
Speaker 2: fifty three on the road eight thirty which means eight
Speaker 2: forty eastern time Houston minus one thirty two favored against
Speaker 2: the Vancouver at a plus three twenty six loons plus
Speaker 2: one thirty six. Hosting FC Cincinnati at a plus one
Speaker 2: eighty nine draws A plus two fifty six. Nashville is
Speaker 2: a minus one twenty seven. Hosting Chicago at a plus
Speaker 2: three thirteen draws a plus two ninety six Sporting plus
Speaker 2: one nineteen hosting Colorado at a plus one ninety five draws,
Speaker 2: A plus two eighty six RSL minus one forty one
Speaker 2: hosting f sc SE Dallas at a plus three fifty
Speaker 2: one drawings came out after the city council meeting in
Speaker 2: the environs of FC Dallas's Toyota Stadium. They're gonna have
Speaker 2: the biggest UH soccer specific stadium matrix board six thousand
Speaker 2: square feet in the new drawings, as the city allowed
Speaker 2: for a nine figure investment toward renovations at Toyota. Dallas
Speaker 2: is a plus three fifty one ten forty LAFC hosting
Speaker 2: Austin at a minus two seventy eight draws A plus
Speaker 2: four twenty four Austin's north of plus six eighty Portland
Speaker 2: hosting LAG Dylan likes the over in this one. Portland
Speaker 2: a plus one twelve Galaxy A plus one ninety eight
Speaker 2: draws A plus three ozh seven. Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 5: Somehow we have entered a wormhole where the LA Galaxy
Speaker 5: are like not respected as much as they should be
Speaker 5: across the board. I don't know, man, It's been too
Speaker 5: many years since they were a dominant team.
Speaker 1: I get it, but like.
Speaker 5: They were down to Nail to Lac. They parked their bike,
Speaker 5: took the chain off the bike, and beat LAFC until
Speaker 5: they quit moving.
Speaker 2: Yes, and so you have lag almost at a plus
Speaker 2: two hundred on the road going to Portland. Your draws
Speaker 2: a plus three oh seven. Dylan likes the over Seattle
Speaker 2: hosting San Jose a to minus two ninety four draws
Speaker 2: a plus four fifty. San Jose is a plus six
Speaker 2: ninety two.
Speaker 5: Buddies, Yeah, yeah, Seattle, Seaple's too weird.
Speaker 2: Major League Yes, Major League Soccer has posted the club
Speaker 2: roster profiles of each of the clubs in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 2: So if you're looking for required requested reading, maybe this
Speaker 2: is something that you take a peek at courtesy of
Speaker 2: our friends at the communications segment at Major League Soccer.
Speaker 2: And it isn't a document that you can click all
Speaker 2: the way through and you can check and see what
Speaker 2: uh this is after the roster freeze of September thirteen,
Speaker 2: So as of September seventeen, roster free September thirteen, and
Speaker 2: they go through all of the explanations and you have
Speaker 2: tam players for Atlanta United a Bram Gregorson. Remember that
Speaker 2: flipped where you have Bart now as the DP for
Speaker 2: the remainder of this calendar, this roster year. Only they
Speaker 2: flip it and it gives them more money to invest
Speaker 2: next year going into next year by flipping Gregorson's status
Speaker 2: and Bart's status. Now Stiana is the TAM Bart is
Speaker 2: your DP. Franco Evara is still listed as a U
Speaker 2: twenty two. Brooks is a TAM. Sabas a tam AM
Speaker 2: fifty nine is a DP. Mosquet is a U twenty two.
Speaker 2: William Boz a tam. Shande's a TAM. Bart's now the DP.
Speaker 2: Sosa unavailable online on the U twenty two. Jamal is
Speaker 2: a TAM. You have seven home growns on the supple
Speaker 2: from the supplemental roster. Luke Noah Matt j efra Aiden Torres,
Speaker 2: Tyler Wolfe, Eric Centeno is a Generation Adida signing for
Speaker 2: supplemental roster Spot thirty one, but obviously since he's on
Speaker 2: loan to the twos, he is not attached to the
Speaker 2: Atlanta United roster. On the whole International slots, Atlanta has
Speaker 2: one available international slots are Luis Pedro, Gregorson, Saba Am
Speaker 2: fifty nine million Boss Shande Bart and Jamal. Your dp's
Speaker 2: currently Miran Chuk and Bart sleish you two initiatives Franco,
Speaker 2: Edwin Santi and a fourth is wide open and your
Speaker 2: unavailables obviously because of being loaned out a Bara and
Speaker 2: Sosa and Centeno is being loaned out to the twos
Speaker 2: and so you can catch up with your favorite team.
Speaker 2: Check your roster profiles. It is available and it is
Speaker 2: posted at document clickthroughs at mlssoccer dot com. Now, if
Speaker 2: you would only do the same thing for the salary cap.
Speaker 1: No, we don't do that here.
Speaker 2: I know. I just figured I would yell about it.
Speaker 1: Nick.
Speaker 2: Last thoughts before we get out of here.
Speaker 4: There's this I don't know if you talked about it already.
Speaker 4: The Five Stripes Unplugged the exclusive program that provides members
Speaker 4: with unparalleled access to the personal stories and insights to
Speaker 4: help define at Landing and I of the conversations are
Speaker 4: led by member submitted questions that dictate the content and
Speaker 4: these exclusive interviews with the team's front office, players and coaches.
Speaker 4: Please join us October first, six pm for an exclusive chat.
Speaker 4: President and CEO Garth Lockerway. I will be submitting I've
Speaker 4: received this in my inbox because again season ticket holder
Speaker 4: and founding member. But I'm going to ask him and
Speaker 4: quite plainly, what are you going to do to make
Speaker 4: me believe in this team? Again and again? Because I
Speaker 4: don't currently and I need to know why, as a
Speaker 4: savvy consumer I should I should continue to put forward
Speaker 4: money to the team, because I think that is a
Speaker 4: common question that a lot of people, not all, a
Speaker 4: lot of people are asking, and I think it is
Speaker 4: fair to ask, and I will be asking that question
Speaker 4: on my own behalf, not representative of the SDH network,
Speaker 4: not representative of anybody else.
Speaker 2: Ticket holder as a season ticket.
Speaker 4: Holder, why I should continue to be a season ticket
Speaker 4: holder outside of a discount with merch and first DIB
Speaker 4: access the second DIP access because the you know, the
Speaker 4: seat owners for the Falcons, I think at first ultra priority,
Speaker 4: we're like business class boarding on that particular thing. But
Speaker 4: I'm going to ask why we should continue to believe
Speaker 4: in the meantime. If the team would like to help
Speaker 4: answer that question for me, by all means, please do so.
Speaker 4: By when one of your players gets trucked, show up
Speaker 4: for your teammate and help fight for them. Basically, I
Speaker 4: don't have to add I don't have to win by
Speaker 4: four goals. Just show me something. We're in Missouri mode
Speaker 4: right now. This is the officially now the show Me city.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. I like that it is and better than
Speaker 2: all caps. So h So Nick has that Jared last
Speaker 2: thoughts before we get out of here.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give it a real quick hit because Unk
Speaker 5: mentioned you know about the guys possibly kicking cans down
Speaker 5: the road, So let's look at those real quick. Brad,
Speaker 5: if you can bring it back for a lower number, sure,
Speaker 5: I don't know if Brad's done or not. I don't
Speaker 5: know how Brad feels. We'll get a better idea closer.
Speaker 5: I think to the end of the season and of
Speaker 5: the off season. If he wants to just go home
Speaker 5: and be a family man like he's in three, five
Speaker 5: or two. JA actually think is done only I think
Speaker 5: he said he's done unless he went to the LS Cup.
Speaker 5: He promised saw me he'd come back for one more
Speaker 5: year if they win the Cup. Jamal and Rios, if
Speaker 5: you're keeping one of them, I don't know which one.
Speaker 5: I Jamal would be easier because you wouldn't have to
Speaker 5: pay a fee uh Rios, though absolutely betting on himself,
Speaker 5: is going to get to go somewhere and play, and
Speaker 5: I'm very happy for him because he's pretty chill.
Speaker 1: He's also very cocky.
Speaker 5: But he's I'll performed his contract and he brought him here.
Speaker 1: I think you're keeping a lot of them's easier to
Speaker 1: keep as a backup striker. Ronald, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I love Ronald to stay, but I'm still wondering.
Speaker 2: Check the piece on the website about Ronald.
Speaker 5: Yea, check the piece on the website about Ronald. He's
Speaker 5: a fascinating listen, it's.
Speaker 1: A good dude. Then you have.
Speaker 7: Nick.
Speaker 5: I don't know if there's room for Nick, just because
Speaker 5: of the way he plays it so weird. Tyler, I
Speaker 5: don't think stays. Ephyra and Jay I would love to stay,
Speaker 5: but they're out of homegrown range, so now you'd have
Speaker 5: to use this upplemental spot for them. I would love
Speaker 5: them both.
Speaker 1: I would be very disappointed, I think more so if
Speaker 1: James going.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's it, okay, all right, So once again, six
Speaker 2: thirty ninety two of the Game of the Odyssey app
Speaker 2: full house, full house, like upper deck and everything available.
Speaker 2: So if you don't have tickets, you want to go
Speaker 2: see if you can get tickets and go. It was
Speaker 2: listed as a sellout.
Speaker 1: Can I give you my final thing? I promise. Can
Speaker 1: I give you my really weird prediction for the off season,
Speaker 1: go for it.
Speaker 5: They show out for a bigger left buck and Amador
Speaker 5: becomes more of a backup utility back. Okay, I like Domador,
Speaker 5: but yes, with all the money you have and with
Speaker 5: the changes of the salary structure, right and you're clearing
Speaker 5: out some salary, that would be my kind of off
Speaker 5: the wall move is you go get a bigger name
Speaker 5: and a more explosive left back, and Amador kind of
Speaker 5: slides into that Ronald role if.
Speaker 2: Ronald leaves, right, So it'll be a full house, full
Speaker 2: house tonight listed as a sellout. But we'll see about
Speaker 2: that and looking forward to seeing everybody tonight as we
Speaker 2: get ready for the Gulf Stream Galacticos and Messi and
Speaker 2: friends and Tata and homecomings and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: But six point thirty on the Odyssey at ninety two
Speaker 2: nine in the game, with your pre game, Mike and
Speaker 2: Jason went to call seven forty kick and everything else
Speaker 2: that's going on over there, So I'll keep an eye
Speaker 2: on all that stuff. But once again, thanks as always
Speaker 2: to all of you for hanging out with us here
Speaker 2: on a on a Wednesday, because it's a wall pass
Speaker 2: and there you go. We'll see from there what's going
Speaker 2: on with Atlanta United and with Messi and friends. So
Speaker 2: once again, be there B Square. We'll see you and
Speaker 2: love all you guys. Thanks to Dylan and thanks to
Speaker 2: thanks to Tyler for hanging out with us. And don't
Speaker 2: forget go to Signia and see them, and we'll make
Speaker 2: sure that you go say hi to them because apparently
Speaker 2: the menu and the drinking is a pretty top notch.
Speaker 2: So for all of us here, to all of you there,
Speaker 2: thanks for dropping by. We'll see you tonight. We'll come
Speaker 2: back here for reaction Thursday, for life in three games
Speaker 2: in a week, so we'll see what happens and we'll
Speaker 2: walk and roll from there. So for everybody here to
Speaker 2: all of you guys, see you tonight, see you back
Speaker 2: here in a little less than twenty two Nick, if
Speaker 2: you would please sir, send.
Speaker 1: Us home until next time.
Speaker 4: Everybody, just remember this is all for entertainment. Love you guys.
Speaker 2: What he said