Speaker 1: And now Nino's gonna go into the green room. What
Speaker 1: Nino does when we sign off after the handoff, he
Speaker 1: listens in the green room. He doesn't just hang up.
Speaker 1: I mean what he'll do. He'll sit there and he'll
Speaker 1: listen to us talk about Major League Soccer. Ah, he's
Speaker 1: got the rave greenout. Which Cup two or three?
Speaker 2: This is two baby two absolutely.
Speaker 1: So he'll he'll kind of hang out in the green
Speaker 1: room and he'll react to what you and I are
Speaker 1: talking about. Literally, there'll be times where he'll fall out
Speaker 1: of his chair and I can see it in the
Speaker 1: green room. So we we have our South American live
Speaker 1: audience falling out of their chairs as we go through things.
Speaker 1: We started to show off this morning talking about the
Speaker 1: three championship games that happened last night, with what happened
Speaker 1: in Campeona's Cup, with what happened in the can champ
Speaker 1: and with what happened in Open Cup. Where do you
Speaker 1: want to start when it comes to those three?
Speaker 3: Well, I watched two of the three, so I would
Speaker 3: love to start with Open Cup and theybe we can
Speaker 3: put into move into Compelling His Cup after that.
Speaker 1: All right, So it was three to one. Kai Kamara
Speaker 1: obviously with the quote of the day. After the match
Speaker 1: was over, he said Don was here, meaning Don Garber.
Speaker 1: I saw him, he was on the podium. He gave
Speaker 1: me a medal. So just get him in here and
Speaker 1: make sure they don't take MLS away from this. This
Speaker 1: is amazing. You know, this is American soccer right here.
Speaker 1: Don't take away from our history. End quote. So Kai
Speaker 1: Kamara scores. Kai who is I think seventy two years
Speaker 1: old and still is incredibly productive from cal State University.
Speaker 1: He knows what the American soccer footprint is. He knows
Speaker 1: what it means to be in all these different competitions
Speaker 1: and all these different locations. He gets a an oh,
Speaker 1: he gets an Open Cup medal. It's something that LAFC,
Speaker 1: despite their negative nature of playing these days, they fight
Speaker 1: through it and still end up winning titles. Olivier Jerroux
Speaker 1: was all happy and everything, most handsome and major league
Speaker 1: soccer scored last night. I don't see I see this
Speaker 1: as adding hardware. But I don't see this for LAFC
Speaker 1: as something where they will open up things offensively. I
Speaker 1: still think that they're going to be defensive first and
Speaker 1: frustrate everybody except for Steve Charundelo, who I will maintain
Speaker 1: Ever since they got bumped out of Concky Cap Champions
Speaker 1: League when they were all offensive and they had Carlos
Speaker 1: Vela and all the stars. Ever since then, Steve Charundelo
Speaker 1: has pulled back offensively. He's wanted to make sure that
Speaker 1: the that the golf team is in the golf cart
Speaker 1: and he's got the governor on it, and I think
Speaker 1: that he's restricting the talent that's there. It's almost like
Speaker 1: pounce and create instead of create and pounce. Does that
Speaker 1: make sense?
Speaker 2: It does? It does?
Speaker 3: However, I feel like if he's built a team that
Speaker 3: can't benefit from that sort of play, then I think
Speaker 3: it's all good and well right.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've always been like you, right, kind of this.
Speaker 3: Purist of beautiful soccer, and I want to see you
Speaker 3: hold the ball, and I want to see you use
Speaker 3: the width of the field, and I want to see
Speaker 3: a little bit of flair in some connection, some link
Speaker 3: up play.
Speaker 2: But Steve, yeah, I think he saw himself in some situations.
Speaker 3: I mean, you don't lose four finals and don't try
Speaker 3: to change things up. And throughout that time he has
Speaker 3: been a coach that would rather play counter soccer and
Speaker 3: rather give you the ball and like you said, not create,
Speaker 3: but maybe just leive off your mistakes. We're gonna press
Speaker 3: the ball, We're gonna go and transition, and I think
Speaker 3: he's built a team for it, right, I mean, the
Speaker 3: wing play is elite is uh, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Which way you go, you go bwanga, you go both
Speaker 2: with you go kick.
Speaker 3: You got guys that can run perfage when he comes
Speaker 3: to a transition moment. You have a holding mid field
Speaker 3: that is quick distributing the ball, that is going to
Speaker 3: try as much as they can at delivering that switch
Speaker 3: of player or switching the point of attack whenever it's necessary,
Speaker 3: whenever you see the space on the other side.
Speaker 2: So because of that, I don't hate it.
Speaker 3: And I thought that in this particular final they struggled
Speaker 3: a little bit because Peter Vermis, in a very Peter
Speaker 3: Vermes type of situation. He gave LAFC the ball and
Speaker 3: he was very cautious. And yes, a lot of people
Speaker 3: were criticizing Peter for looking a freight in the first half,
Speaker 3: and I think that's outrageous, man.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're playing la f C.
Speaker 3: If I'm going to go play you open, and I'm
Speaker 3: going to try to just beat you out what you're
Speaker 3: good at.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna go anywhere. And I thought that that's why.
Speaker 3: This game was as even as it was through with
Speaker 3: the first ninety. I thought that, uh, Peter did some
Speaker 3: some some great things, right, I mean he really limited
Speaker 3: situations even with Denis Banga did look like Denis Blanca
Speaker 3: votes I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2: He mean, he was all over. He was a handful
Speaker 2: uh speed.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna come right at you, clearly taking advantage of Shelton,
Speaker 3: a non defensive minded player.
Speaker 2: Has a right back.
Speaker 3: And you saw Kai later on do the same. Uh,
Speaker 3: but uh, Dennis Banga was on point. I thought, Jeru
Speaker 3: has this was the best game I've seen him play,
Speaker 3: uh since he started with l A f C. Obviously
Speaker 3: with l A f C and MLS. Please don't come
Speaker 3: at me. The best game I've ever seen him play,
Speaker 3: I mean with this particular team. And I thought that
Speaker 3: the speed that Peter wanted to see out of that
Speaker 3: that midfield, out of their senate defensive midfielders, I thought
Speaker 3: created some problems at times for LAFC. So it was
Speaker 3: a great game, and Kai Kamara, you gotta just applaud
Speaker 3: the man.
Speaker 2: It's so effortless for him that that that third goal.
Speaker 3: Is the final punch that completely knocked out Sporting together City.
Speaker 3: It was two to one. He could have still been
Speaker 3: tied up, it could have been equaled at some point.
Speaker 2: But Kai Kamara, the.
Speaker 3: Way he literally jogs to the eighteen, He's looking at
Speaker 3: Denny's Wangat the entire time Denny Wang is doing his
Speaker 3: thing on the side, he continues to just lightly jog.
Speaker 2: He sees that Shelton has no idea he is right
Speaker 2: behind him, and when then he.
Speaker 3: Puts that ball inside with good pace at the right spot,
Speaker 3: he just runs right in front of Shelton and puts
Speaker 3: the ball away effortless.
Speaker 2: And that's what he's been doing for this team.
Speaker 3: And that's credit to Charondolo for being able to use
Speaker 3: a guy like him with his experience with his IQ,
Speaker 3: and they deservingly won that Open Cup.
Speaker 2: But I do want to credit.
Speaker 3: Sporting Kansas City for making it hard, for taking it
Speaker 3: to ot for not allowing themselves to just get beat
Speaker 3: down by l AFC. Tommy is a guy that he's
Speaker 3: always been productive. He's done it all for Sporting Kindness City.
Speaker 3: He's been in the back line, he's been on a
Speaker 3: plane out wide, he's played middle. In this one he
Speaker 3: played as a cam and I thought he did it well.
Speaker 3: It was nice to see him in shallowy uh put
Speaker 3: that goal for Sporting Kansas City. But LAOC was just
Speaker 3: too much. At the end of the day, LFC wanted it.
Speaker 3: They you said in their faces. You saw it in
Speaker 3: the celebration. They wanted to get that rusted off being
Speaker 3: or that stigma of being the best, second best after
Speaker 3: and say you give lost finals.
Speaker 1: That's never the best, never to win until two more
Speaker 1: questions about LAFC, and to your point about Sporting. If
Speaker 1: I'm Peter Vermes in that matchup, you're on the road,
Speaker 1: You're going up against the team that is better than you.
Speaker 1: Why not let him have the ball? Why not let
Speaker 1: them It's almost like Vermes wants to rope adope you
Speaker 1: and literally it's like, all right, you can have the ball.
Speaker 1: You you expand, you expend, you spend all of your energy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit here and I'm gonna wait. I saw
Speaker 1: I mean, for a philosophy on a road game against
Speaker 1: a team that is better than you, I could definitely
Speaker 1: see look, I'm gonna rop adope your ball. You go ahead,
Speaker 1: and you tire yourself out and I'll take advantage of it. Late.
Speaker 1: I can understand why Peter would do something like this
Speaker 1: for the first hour many minutes. I get that completely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And he said it.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it was after the game, but
Speaker 3: he said, I knew they were gonna come at us
Speaker 3: with everything they have within the first twenty minutes, so
Speaker 3: he had to hold on. He had to do certain
Speaker 3: things and did that. Holding on, Polito gets a great
Speaker 3: chance in front of goal. And now Polito is a
Speaker 3: guy that he needs to put those type of goals away.
Speaker 3: And we're talking about a whole different ballgame, right, And
Speaker 3: that's been Sporting.
Speaker 2: Kansas City's season in a nutshell, right.
Speaker 3: It's just the fact that their top players are not
Speaker 3: a top form right now, and guys like shallow Wie
Speaker 3: and and Pledo, even even Russell, who obviously is at
Speaker 3: the end of his career already, or at least not
Speaker 3: in his prime, they're starting to see a little bit
Speaker 3: of problems.
Speaker 2: But I thought that the strategy was put on right.
Speaker 3: I thought that they played the game that they that
Speaker 3: was going to give him the best chance to win.
Speaker 3: And again, anytime that you take LAOC to overtime with
Speaker 3: the limitations and problems you've had all season, I mean
Speaker 3: that's created to Peter.
Speaker 1: How did Carlos? How does Carlos Vela fit under the salary?
Speaker 1: Capt Did they just give him like an Albertson's gift
Speaker 1: card or something for I mean literally, is it like
Speaker 1: Marko and Albertson's gift cards and you know, maybe a
Speaker 1: lifetime a lifetime gift card to in and out Burger?
Speaker 1: How did this come down? How did this fit?
Speaker 2: That's a great question. I know that they have room.
Speaker 1: It wasn't much, okay, and that and that was my
Speaker 1: biggest thing. It's like, you know, how creative are they?
Speaker 1: Did they actually have room? Was it a gift cards
Speaker 1: kind of a thing? What is what was working with here? All?
Speaker 3: I know that they they did have room both in
Speaker 3: roster and in salary. And that number, I'm unaware of
Speaker 3: what that is because I've read a couple of different
Speaker 3: reports and I don't want to give you a wrong number.
Speaker 2: But there was room for it.
Speaker 3: Whether whether that number is the same number that you
Speaker 3: know they.
Speaker 2: Told us they gave Gary Bale at one.
Speaker 3: Point, and what they're saying that they're giving Louise, I'm
Speaker 3: not sure what's behind the scenes. Did they do get
Speaker 3: that in and out lifetime warranty, you know, if they
Speaker 3: get a free pass for the entire family to hit
Speaker 3: up Disneyland, I don't know. But at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, there's gotta be something else in line. But
Speaker 3: you know, look the cumins Bille.
Speaker 2: I think it is interesting. Man, it's more.
Speaker 3: Of a celebration to him. I think it's just like
Speaker 3: a farewell tour. I love the way Carlos kind of
Speaker 3: tamed all expectations. Man, I'm not ready to play in
Speaker 3: any team.
Speaker 2: I'm just here.
Speaker 3: Just to help the squad right probably later down the road,
Speaker 3: and I think that's what it's gonna be. He's gonna
Speaker 3: be training, he's gonna be with the guys. He's gonna
Speaker 3: enjoy of whatever run LAFC makes this season, and whenever
Speaker 3: his number is called, he'll be ready to play fifteen
Speaker 3: twenty minutes. Maybe I don't know if he'll get a star,
Speaker 3: but if he does, he's gonna have to get used
Speaker 3: to all the changes that happened with his offense. He's
Speaker 3: gonna have to get his body right, and he lets
Speaker 3: you know already that he his buty's not right start
Speaker 3: or to play any minutes at this point in time.
Speaker 3: So I think it's more of a celebration to a
Speaker 3: player that was great. Look, I kind of envy them.
Speaker 3: I would love to see a Nicoletodero final tour in
Speaker 3: the Club World Cup next year, but she's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: But I thought that it was a cool, interesting thing.
Speaker 3: I love that Torrenton ended up even answering some questions
Speaker 3: in Spanish about the decision to bring back a player
Speaker 3: as important as Carlos Bella. But in terms of the
Speaker 3: salary cap, I'm sure they did some some magic tricks
Speaker 3: because I don't know how he fits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kilany bail Reese jeru Vela, there's some creative financing
Speaker 1: going on here with.
Speaker 2: But it was weird. If this was going to be
Speaker 2: the end game, why didn't Carlos just accept whatever it
Speaker 2: is that was negotiated before.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's a little bit odd. I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna lie to you that part. I like to see
Speaker 3: the best of the novel of the series of the Gesture,
Speaker 3: but it is a bit of a headscratcher of why
Speaker 3: you would you decide to sit for six months and
Speaker 3: then come back and take pennies underd dollar.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, YEP can Champ. Vancouver
Speaker 1: won in PKS and they win the can Champs, so
Speaker 1: they get their way into the CONCA CAF Hemispheric Extravaganza.
Speaker 1: Columbus and Cluba Medica go to PKS tied after ninety
Speaker 1: go to PKS cluobe America wins at five to four.
Speaker 1: We were talking about it with Nino to begin this hour,
Speaker 1: and he thinks that it might be one more year
Speaker 1: after this one before Wilfrid Nanci and Columbus crew and
Speaker 1: Jimmy Haslam are given the offer that they count refuse
Speaker 1: to have Wilfrid Nanci go overseas and manage someplace and
Speaker 1: have the chance to go home. Do you get the
Speaker 1: sense that Wilfred is happy with the resources he's getting
Speaker 1: with the Haslums in Columbus and would stay longer than that,
Speaker 1: or is he looking for larger frontiers.
Speaker 3: I think he's happy there, and I don't know will
Speaker 3: Fred like this, but if I was to paint a
Speaker 3: picture of what I think goes on in that big
Speaker 3: brain of his.
Speaker 2: I think that he likes what he has right now.
Speaker 2: He has the.
Speaker 3: Ability to mold young players, he has old the resources
Speaker 3: that he can. He has a team of brilliant players
Speaker 3: and you saw it in the play. We'll get into
Speaker 3: that in a little bit that he can work with.
Speaker 3: So it's all good right now. But in soccer things
Speaker 3: tend to change day to day. So I'm looking at Kucho,
Speaker 3: I'm looking at how much he's making.
Speaker 2: I know he's looking around the league.
Speaker 3: I know he has still time on his contract, but
Speaker 3: there's going to be a point where he's going to
Speaker 3: be like, hey man, I'm over here dominating in MLS
Speaker 3: and I'm not getting dominated money. I look around the
Speaker 3: league and even and you know, this current contract over
Speaker 3: all redeas is still above mine. And I think Evander
Speaker 3: makes more than I do. And I think, you know,
Speaker 3: all these players that are not Coocho or making more
Speaker 3: than I do.
Speaker 2: I need to get a race. So how does.
Speaker 3: Management make sure that a guy that is important as
Speaker 3: Coucher stays and that keeps Wilfrid happy? There We'll see.
Speaker 3: But I feel like the infrastructure of Columbus and what
Speaker 3: they've been able to do even moving on from certain
Speaker 3: front of his personalities, and they've been able to keep
Speaker 3: that theory and that soccer module. I think Wilfrid is fine,
Speaker 3: and I don't think he's dying to get to Europe.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure that's what I see when he when
Speaker 3: he talks, So I think he's happy there as long
Speaker 3: as things continue to be the same. I feel like
Speaker 3: Wilfrid is smart enough that he's not in any type
Speaker 3: of rush to put himself in a situation that might
Speaker 3: not just be advantageous to him but to his career.
Speaker 3: I mean, at this point, continue to win, continue to
Speaker 3: get the benefit of being the top team in MLS,
Speaker 3: and continue to be that guy that everybody looks up
Speaker 3: to when he comes to the way you play, uh,
Speaker 3: the way they've managed the locker room, all of these things.
Speaker 2: And then later on under road, then you could go
Speaker 2: ahead and make that pussure.
Speaker 3: So if I have to say whether he wants to
Speaker 3: stay or not, I think for right now and at
Speaker 3: least for a couple of years, he'd want to stay
Speaker 3: in MLS.
Speaker 1: Kucho to your point, and I found the salary figures
Speaker 1: courtesy of our friends at the MLSPA. Kucho's base is
Speaker 1: two point six guaranteed comp just under two point nine.
Speaker 1: Some of the other heavy hitters in Columbus Nagby one
Speaker 1: point four base one point five four guaranteed, Rossi two
Speaker 1: point six seven five base guaranteed three point three. He's million,
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy six twenty seven dollars. That's Rossi guaranteed.
Speaker 1: And those are the only ones that are into seventh
Speaker 1: those seven figure players on Columbus. It's just those three
Speaker 1: that are making more than a million dollars a season,
Speaker 1: those three guys, and Kuco right now is second at
Speaker 1: two point six and two point eight eighty six behind
Speaker 1: Diego Rossi on that roster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, absolutely, And compared to what Wilfrid was coming from,
Speaker 3: I mean that that's gonna feel pretty good. And I
Speaker 3: do expect this team to go and get more people.
Speaker 3: And when I saw guys like Juwan Jones come in
Speaker 3: for whatever money they did, that looked like a move.
Speaker 3: Dad Wilfrid said, I need that guy. I want that guy,
Speaker 3: and they got him that guy, So I'm not really
Speaker 3: of the thought that he needs a big wallet in
Speaker 3: just ones undeniable money like Atlanta or Miami. I just
Speaker 3: think that he wants the guys he wants, and as
Speaker 3: long as you provide him those players, he's going to
Speaker 3: be fine. And again, as long as you give him
Speaker 3: the guys that have made a difference on the field
Speaker 3: and off the field, Rossi all those big, those big
Speaker 3: name players na be and keep them with those sort
Speaker 3: of resources, I think he's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: Right now, Patrick Shelty, who's probably going to be getting
Speaker 1: a big, big raise. His comp right now full is
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, so that is going
Speaker 1: to be going that direction with a Shelty at the
Speaker 1: very least.
Speaker 2: How much is Farsi making Mo.
Speaker 1: Farsi According to the MLS players salary grouping, he's three
Speaker 1: point fifty base three eighty guaranteed.
Speaker 2: They've just done such a good job with that.
Speaker 3: I mean, when you look at those players and you
Speaker 3: look at the talent level at some point and maybe
Speaker 3: this is one of those situations where it's the perfect
Speaker 3: moment for the team because you got all of these
Speaker 3: upcoming players that haven't reach top salaries. But when you
Speaker 3: look at Farsi morera, when you look at Christian Ramirez
Speaker 3: and what he's making. Again, even Kucho Kutcha could be
Speaker 3: asking for double what he's making, but he came in
Speaker 3: at this specific price in time. Would you look at
Speaker 3: duwe Jones, would you look at Matan? I mean, these
Speaker 3: are quality players that have been consistent for this team,
Speaker 3: and yet they're at a very low salary. So just
Speaker 3: credit to that front office and what they've been able
Speaker 3: to do the way they've been able to do it.
Speaker 1: They're all making mid six figures to answer the names
Speaker 1: that you mentioned. Christian Ramirez full compensation just under five
Speaker 1: hundred thousand. We mentioned Chelte right now he's at one
Speaker 1: sixty six oh three. He's going to get a big
Speaker 1: raise and then a big ass raise is what he's
Speaker 1: going to be getting. Let's see Morera's at eight hundred
Speaker 1: thousand base eight eighty two guaranteed, Maton coming in from
Speaker 1: his time with CFC in other places, four to fifty
Speaker 1: base for eighty three and a quarter is guaranteed, and
Speaker 1: we mentioned Farsi Shaberco is at five point fifty three
Speaker 1: and a quarter guaranteed, Rudy Camacho five point fifty one
Speaker 1: total guaranteed, and Multi Aminsen just under four hundred thousand guaranteed.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of six figure dudes there, but
Speaker 1: they're all mid six figure dudes. And so there's a
Speaker 1: good massaging that's been going on with salaries. In the
Speaker 1: salary cap, you know what time it.
Speaker 2: Is, Oh, it is Cliffhanger time.
Speaker 1: It is Cliffhanger time. So we're gonna run through the
Speaker 1: games and if there's a game you want to talk
Speaker 1: about total number, we'll do it. Uh, seven thirty starts
Speaker 1: seven forty actually, so seven thirty in the book seven
Speaker 1: forty on Apple TV CF Montreal San Jose CF Montreal
Speaker 1: favored at Stott Suputo to minus one nineteen DC and
Speaker 1: Crewe Crue is a road favorite. Even after last night,
Speaker 1: there are still a road favorite at a plus one
Speaker 1: thirty three. DC United a plus one seventy five. The
Speaker 1: draw is a plus two to seventy seven. Interesting there,
Speaker 1: coming off a midweek game with Crew having to go
Speaker 1: to DC. I thought that was intriguing. What's the draw
Speaker 1: to seventy seven?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'd probably go with a draw there. Maybe
Speaker 3: Columbus goes and just manages this game.
Speaker 2: DC United.
Speaker 3: If anything, they can create some problems for that three
Speaker 3: man back line, specifically with their crosses.
Speaker 2: I thought that.
Speaker 3: Yesterday they put themselves in some bad situations. I mean
Speaker 3: that goal by Davila that there is a new signing
Speaker 3: for Club America from Chile.
Speaker 2: Very good, very fast.
Speaker 3: It happens in a little bit of a breakdown where
Speaker 3: your lines are just too high, you're pressing. They try
Speaker 3: to repress, and they failed, not by anything that they
Speaker 3: didn't do, but credit to Club America. And all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, you got a guy running in front right
Speaker 3: your goal and he puts that one away. Uh so yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that might be a situation in which, uh,
Speaker 3: maybe Columbus gets a draw.
Speaker 1: All right, other matchups as we roll, here we go
Speaker 1: it is I'm gonna save Atlanta, Philly and Seattle Houston
Speaker 1: to the end. It is FC Cincinnati LAFC. FC Cincinnati
Speaker 1: at TQL a minus one oh four draws a plus
Speaker 1: two eighty one. LAFC coming out off of last night
Speaker 1: at home flying to Cincinnati is a plus two fifty Wow.
Speaker 4: Uh huh wow, that's uh, that's uh, what's the goals
Speaker 4: on this one?
Speaker 1: All right? So let's see what direction we go here.
Speaker 1: So FC Cincinnati and LAFC we're gonna go over under
Speaker 1: and once again this is courtesy of our friends in
Speaker 1: the composite at odds portal. Two and a half a
Speaker 1: minus one eighty three, three and a half a plus
Speaker 1: one thirty six. So that's where it changes three and
Speaker 1: a half at plus one thirty six. Under three and
Speaker 1: a half is a minus one seventy five.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Now, uh, if I had to do this game, because
Speaker 3: I feel like it's gonna be hard to decipher because
Speaker 3: of all the factors.
Speaker 2: The just mentioned.
Speaker 3: Because Cincinnati within themselves have been not the Cincinnati of old,
Speaker 3: I could see a two two draw in this one.
Speaker 3: And let me say that we did pretty good last
Speaker 3: week on the goals differentials, and if it wasn't because
Speaker 3: Atlanta messed me up, we put it would have gotten
Speaker 3: Atlanta as well.
Speaker 2: But we did pretty well. So I'm gonna go three
Speaker 2: and a half in this one.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take the draw for a two to two
Speaker 3: between Cincinnati and LFC.
Speaker 1: All right, so we'll go to two draw. By the way,
Speaker 1: over at four is a plus two thirty nine. Under
Speaker 1: four is a minus three thirty five. Since you punched
Speaker 1: that number, figured we'd go there. Uh, MESSI and friends
Speaker 1: at the Erector set are gonna be waiting for Charlotte
Speaker 1: to try to get out of this mess. My guess said,
Speaker 1: Charlotte's gonna fly out of Helene as soon as they
Speaker 1: can MESSI and friends of mine one ninety two. Charlotte
Speaker 1: has only won twice I think since July fourth. So
Speaker 1: Charlotte a plus four thirty three, Your draws a plus
Speaker 1: three seventy three New England flat out even money plus
Speaker 1: one hundred at home hosting Nashville, Nashville's a plus two
Speaker 1: fifty and your draw is a plus two sixty three.
Speaker 2: Intregue, give me Nashville, Man, give me Nashville.
Speaker 1: A plus two thie give me Nashville. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: those those numbers are just odd.
Speaker 3: You know, they are odd, and that I like those
Speaker 3: numbers look allowed me to use your platform to just
Speaker 3: stuck Carless Hill that it is not the way that
Speaker 3: you come at a defender. That's that the thing between
Speaker 3: him and Haiaga and the way he pushed them, the
Speaker 3: way he came at him, the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Caleb called it embarrassing.
Speaker 3: It was embarrassing, But Caleb, I mean, but Carlos Hill
Speaker 3: as the face of the franchise the best player.
Speaker 2: He cannot come out.
Speaker 3: Of have areaga that, regardless of whether he was having
Speaker 3: a terrible game or not.
Speaker 2: That's not here nor there. That's not leadership. Man.
Speaker 3: You can't come at your player like that and dog
Speaker 3: them right in front of everybody as you're walking towards
Speaker 3: the tunnel in the locker room.
Speaker 2: Keep it in the locker room. The I'm doing it
Speaker 2: in front of everybody. Come on, I.
Speaker 3: Think that New England imploded last game. They allowed Charlotte
Speaker 3: to put four on you. That's Charlotte baby four on you.
Speaker 3: So I think that in this one, with all of
Speaker 3: the bad vibes, all of the problems, Dylan Borrero suspended
Speaker 3: all the things that happened New England. I think Nashville
Speaker 3: is a good pick this week.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll go from there to Hudson River Red
Speaker 1: Bulls hosting New York City Red Bulls A plus one
Speaker 1: twelve draws A plus two sixty seven and NYCFC on
Speaker 1: the road crossing over the rivers A plus two nineteen.
Speaker 2: That's a draw, baby, that's a drawing.
Speaker 3: That's a safe draw on my regard, and again, thank
Speaker 3: you Red Bulls for ruining my Atlanta pick that one
Speaker 3: was tough or or or Atlanta ruined in my my
Speaker 3: pick on that one because that that looked good that
Speaker 3: that Atlanta was going to take that game and they didn't.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think it's gonna be a draw.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: New York City has been interesting, man, because they have
Speaker 3: a lot of quality players. Uh, they seem to at
Speaker 3: least have gotten the nine situation situated, but they still
Speaker 3: seem to have issues managing games in general. They played
Speaker 3: well or actually Miami didn't play well and they were
Speaker 3: able to get a drug against Miami. But I think
Speaker 3: that there are things with New York City have seed
Speaker 3: that can change in the future. But between these two teams,
Speaker 3: I think a draw is pretty safe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're I think you're spot on. We're
Speaker 1: gonna save Philly and Atlanta. We're going to save Seattle
Speaker 1: and Houston for the end. Austin hosting RSL. Austin favored
Speaker 1: at home at Q two at a plus one thirty three,
Speaker 1: RSL plus one eighty three, Chicago hosting Toronto with a
Speaker 1: minus one o two, obviously looking at having Toronto traveling
Speaker 1: to Vancouver then having to come back and play in
Speaker 1: Chicago on the weekend. Toronto's a plus two to fifty
Speaker 1: seven draws a plus two sixty six. If the Purple
Speaker 1: team can get out of Central Florida, they're supposed to
Speaker 1: play in Dallas FC. Dallas a plus one thirty three
Speaker 1: draws a plus two and a half. In Orlando City
Speaker 1: is a plus one ninety two. LUN's hosting Rapids at
Speaker 1: a minus one oh one, Colorado a plus two thirty
Speaker 1: four draws a plus two to ninety one. Battle of
Speaker 1: the Interstate. I always forget what interstate it is that
Speaker 1: links Saint Louis and Kansas City all caps of minus
Speaker 1: one twenty five and draws a plus three thirteen. Sportings
Speaker 1: a plus two to eighty three, especially with what happened
Speaker 1: in the midweek, Sporting having to play one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty minutes in Los Angeles, having to come back. You're
Speaker 1: playing on the road in Saint Louis taking on City
Speaker 1: SC you're a dog. And then Vancouver and Portland in Cascadia.
Speaker 1: Vancouver playing at home after the midweek winning in pks
Speaker 1: minus one o nine against Portland the draws of plus
Speaker 1: three twelve. Portland is a plus two thirty eight, and so.
Speaker 3: Wow, really yeah, wow, So let me get two one.
Speaker 3: I would definitely take Portland over Vancouver in this one,
Speaker 3: although Portland was another one that could have been real
Speaker 3: good for me last week and then it ended up
Speaker 3: being a draw.
Speaker 2: But they were there, they were there.
Speaker 3: We did get the goals on that one, by the way,
Speaker 3: But I'll take Portland on this one.
Speaker 2: And I want to see the goals on.
Speaker 3: A FC Dallas and Orlando City because that's gonna be
Speaker 3: an interesting one.
Speaker 2: Look, f SE Dallas is not the FC Dallas of old.
Speaker 3: I think that in the non Nicostaves era, they are
Speaker 3: not just more dangerous because of the structure of the play.
Speaker 3: I just feel like they'd be more decisive. And of
Speaker 3: course the fact that they're getting Ferreira back in Belasco back.
Speaker 3: I mean, those players are soort ho. You saw that
Speaker 3: last week. I think that in this one with another
Speaker 3: team that likes to get forward in Orlando City, there
Speaker 3: could be a lot of goals.
Speaker 1: Two and a half a minus one forty three and
Speaker 1: a half a plus one seventy four, so technically it
Speaker 1: changes it three to a plus one nineteen, so three
Speaker 1: and a half. If you go two two, that's a
Speaker 1: plus one seventy four. If you take the over.
Speaker 2: There, what four and a half four alef.
Speaker 1: Four and a half is a plus three ninety four.
Speaker 1: So if you're looking at three two or four to
Speaker 1: one plus three ninety four.
Speaker 3: Give me the four and a half. I should have
Speaker 3: taken more fours and a half last week, and I didn't.
Speaker 3: We would have hit that Portland game. We would have
Speaker 3: hit the Columbus game. So this week I was thinking,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go more four and a halfs. That's one
Speaker 3: of them. I'll take the four and a half. Orlando
Speaker 3: and FC Dallas.
Speaker 1: David is asking if Shelty is the Generation Adidas or
Speaker 1: a homegrown. Shelty is on his option year that was
Speaker 1: renewed in his first three year deal, and so I'm
Speaker 1: efforting to figure out if he's a GA or if
Speaker 1: he's a homegrown product.
Speaker 2: I thought he was a home grown.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's I'm almost I'm almost certain that
Speaker 3: he's a homegrown, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So we'll go with homegrown until evidence comes otherwise
Speaker 1: about Patrick Schulte. Okay, last two matchups on the board,
Speaker 1: Atlanta at Philadelphia, Philadelphia minus one forty one in the
Speaker 1: playoff Chaos in the East. Your draws a plus three thirty.
Speaker 1: Atlanta's a plus three seventeen, provided that they can get
Speaker 1: out of town.
Speaker 2: What do you think that's a tougher man, Atlanta.
Speaker 3: It's been such a headache for me, and Philadelphia has
Speaker 3: has bounced back.
Speaker 2: I could see why the numbers are what they are.
Speaker 3: I know you guys probably don't want to hear it,
Speaker 3: but I think another draw in the future of Atlanta
Speaker 3: is pretty pretty possible. I just think Atlanta has had
Speaker 3: so many woes defensively and just bad moments in general,
Speaker 3: not taken care of the right moments. I know it's
Speaker 3: hard sometimes to play in front of the substitute teacher
Speaker 3: that you know he's going to be the remaining teacher,
Speaker 3: but man, it's just it's tough sometimes to watch Atlanta.
Speaker 2: So yeah, man, I'll go with the drawing.
Speaker 1: Down, all right, And so let's wrap up with yours
Speaker 1: and your matchup is one of the late games on Saturday,
Speaker 1: hosting Dynamo. Seattle's minus one twenty three draws a plus
Speaker 1: two sixty eight. Houston is a plus three thirty. What
Speaker 1: say you, Moneto you laugh to start things out?
Speaker 2: Wow, I don't know why I like that. Three thirty man.
Speaker 3: Look, I think a draw is probably a safer bed.
Speaker 3: I think Seattle against San Jose went back to a
Speaker 3: lot of the problems that they've had all season. Houston
Speaker 3: is not an easy game to be He's Houston is
Speaker 3: not an easy team to break down. Houston has some
Speaker 3: quality experience midfielders, and without Joe Pablo and the fact
Speaker 3: that he's gonna be Josh Atencio and Ovid Bargains in
Speaker 3: the midfield, which both quality players. I just think that
Speaker 3: against Orlando, you need a little bit of those dark arts.
Speaker 3: You need a little bit of that experience. Play a
Speaker 3: little shoulder here, a little elbow there. I mean not
Speaker 3: that I'm trying to, you know, encourage anybody from playing
Speaker 3: the game that way, but I feel like it's just
Speaker 3: gonna be a very physical game. I think Ponse can
Speaker 3: really give Seattle some issues because of the movement that
Speaker 3: he can have in the final third. So I'm over
Speaker 3: here just moving it around. I think Houston wins it,
Speaker 3: and I think they win it by the minimum, by
Speaker 3: a one zero score in Seattle, and I hope I'm wrong,
Speaker 3: and I hope I don't get you know, canceled over
Speaker 3: here in Seattle, But I feel like Houston is equipped
Speaker 3: to get give Seattle headaches and give Jordan Morris heads
Speaker 3: and when there is no plan B by this Sounders team,
Speaker 3: when Jordan isn't scoring, I think that this one could
Speaker 3: go to Houston.
Speaker 1: All right. So that is the rundown of everything this
Speaker 1: week and this week's version of Cliffhanger. So what is
Speaker 1: going on with you in Pulsar Sports on the soccer bar,
Speaker 1: I know that you've got probably about a half hour
Speaker 1: to catch your breath and head toward Cup number three.
Speaker 3: I do, so we got definitely a soccer bar. We
Speaker 3: are going to be talking about a lot more into
Speaker 3: depth to compel in this cup. What happened while went right?
Speaker 3: While went wrong? I thought it was a very exciting game.
Speaker 3: I thought it was entertaining. Regardless of what both of
Speaker 3: these teams are in the standings. At the end of
Speaker 3: the day, it's a battle of two countries. They played
Speaker 3: it that way. So we're gonna go into that. We're
Speaker 3: gonna have a conversation with Danny Lava, another player that
Speaker 3: has been molded here in Seattle. He came out of
Speaker 3: the academy. He's very talented, but hasn't really broken out.
Speaker 3: He hasn't really had the ability to turn himself into
Speaker 3: this player that you know, we all think he can
Speaker 3: be at some point. So check that out. That's going
Speaker 3: to be both in Soccer Bar and Pulso Sports. And
Speaker 3: then we'll be at the training grounds at Providence and
Speaker 3: Swedish Clubhouse later on today, so check that out as
Speaker 3: well at Pullso.
Speaker 1: Sports mister Schmitzer's clubhouse. As always, it's great to have
Speaker 1: you on on Thursdays, my friend. Enjoy your second cup
Speaker 1: as your head toward your third. Be safe.
Speaker 2: Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Oh and by the way, we will also have a
Speaker 3: really good podcast with Jeremiah Shan that we'll be recording today.
Speaker 2: I don't know why he'll drop.
Speaker 3: It, but it should be should be spicy. We're gonna
Speaker 3: be looking into the Sounder season where they're at Bryan
Speaker 3: Smetzer right now. The conversation is contract ends at the
Speaker 3: end of the year, you keep them, do you move on?
Speaker 3: What do you do? Are you happy where they are?
Speaker 3: So check that one out. There's going to be a
Speaker 3: spice see little podcast there by.
Speaker 1: See all right, as always, my friend, great to see
Speaker 1: you and great to hear from you and have everything.
Speaker 1: May everything stick to the cards, May all the interviews
Speaker 1: work out well and we will catch up with you
Speaker 1: next week. Always great to see you my friend.
Speaker 2: Thank you as I have a good one.