Speaker 1: How about now there we go. This is what happens,
Speaker 1: and this is Opening Kickoff. Thank you, Ricky. By the way,
Speaker 1: this is what happens when you have when your computer
Speaker 1: allegedly nothing like the first three minutes of the show,
Speaker 1: just completely going. All right, So anyway, this is what
Speaker 1: happens when you have a computer. Well, yeah, better be
Speaker 1: good now, Okay, so I tell you what, here's what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do since you heard me, and I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead. I'm gonna go ahead and do this
Speaker 1: just as like a Friday's being Friday already. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna do this all right now. Okay, so here's the deal.
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Speaker 1: of those mornings. So there's your QR code for those
Speaker 1: of you who are watching us. However you're watching us,
Speaker 1: whether it is on the two hundred and eighty character
Speaker 1: app on Twitch or on our YouTube channel. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: is a restart, Ricky, because and this is opening Kickoff.
Speaker 1: And here's why. I don't know how many of you
Speaker 1: get to experience this as much as I do. But
Speaker 1: the computer decides whenever it decides it wants to update.
Speaker 1: And when it updated overnight and didn't tell me that
Speaker 1: it was gonna you know, I didn't get any kind
Speaker 1: of an email or anything saying that, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: we're going to update, and it didn't. It didn't tell
Speaker 1: me that, and so it updated, and so literally it
Speaker 1: basically re screwed up everything, and so now I had
Speaker 1: to and apparently I'm doing this on the fly this morning,
Speaker 1: where I'm checking audio inputs and outputs, computer inputs and outputs,
Speaker 1: video inputs and outputs, passwords. So basically the computer here
Speaker 1: that helps allegedly me here in Office HD, decided it
Speaker 1: was going to update and basically messed up everything. And
Speaker 1: so now I'm having to troubleshoot live on the air
Speaker 1: because I'm not necessarily thinking that, oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: I've updated all of the passwords and I've blown out
Speaker 1: all the cookies and all of these things need to
Speaker 1: be updated. So you have to backtrack and yeah, you've
Speaker 1: got to recheck all your connections. I don't get that
Speaker 1: notification from the computer here in Office HD. So that's
Speaker 1: the kind of morning it is. I've basically had to
Speaker 1: reset passwords. I've had to apparently find out that there's
Speaker 1: no audio coming out for the first two minutes of
Speaker 1: the show, and then figure out what the hell's going on,
Speaker 1: because it had happened once before, and I found out
Speaker 1: what it was when we were troubleshooting. Remember the Nixonian
Speaker 1: gap that we had like a week or two ago,
Speaker 1: something like that happened, and so anyway, all right, so
Speaker 1: let me restart and let you know what's going on.
Speaker 2: Okay, we got a lot of news.
Speaker 1: We'll get into news leading into hopefully our friends from
Speaker 1: Beyond Goals entering if they can join us at nine thirty,
Speaker 1: because I know that Greg and Kap are two of
Speaker 1: the busiest men of the planet, and we will see,
Speaker 1: if you know, if Vegan come and join us, and
Speaker 1: we'll see what's going on with them at nine to
Speaker 1: thirty ten o'clock as we can whip run patent pending
Speaker 1: trademark coming center hopefully rather than later, and then we'll
Speaker 1: that's all the weekend preview stuff, and we'll get into
Speaker 1: all of that, and we get to catch up with
Speaker 1: folks that we didn't get to catch up with earlier
Speaker 1: in the week because I had to do stuff on
Speaker 1: Wednesday that didn't have anything to do with SDH, and
Speaker 1: so it's whoever wants to hop in the pile that
Speaker 1: we didn't have as a.
Speaker 2: Guest because of Wednesday being Wednesday.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's our number two, getting you ready for
Speaker 1: the weekend Major League Soccer, Landy and I and all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. I have the anticipation that we're
Speaker 1: going long, but that's just me. Later today, if you've
Speaker 1: missed it, you're gonna have the programming that we traditionally
Speaker 1: have on Fridays, the USL Championship League One, MLS Next
Speaker 1: Pro Review preview stuff that's going to be on later today. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: I hope that you were able to join us an
Speaker 1: hour number one where we caught up with Scott Well's
Speaker 1: the head coach at Gardner Webb and Taylor Morton, the
Speaker 1: head coach at LEZ McCrae on the men's side. Those
Speaker 1: conversations about Helene recovery and how everyone is from their
Speaker 1: perspectives in their circles. That's on the network later yesterday afternoon,
Speaker 1: which is kind of a present past part of simple usage.
Speaker 1: But anyway, late yesterday afternoon, caught up with Greg Munn,
Speaker 1: the DSO and the head men's coach at Mars Hill.
Speaker 1: That conversation in video form is already up. That is
Speaker 1: up on the YouTube and on Facebook page at SDH.
Speaker 1: The audio version is going to be put up later
Speaker 1: this afternoon on the app and on social media and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, So you get to find
Speaker 1: out the Mars Hill perspective of things. Also, we have
Speaker 1: a conversation with our friends from poltro SEFC, Christopher Uranga
Speaker 1: and the leading.
Speaker 2: Score for them.
Speaker 1: We get to hang out with them and find out
Speaker 1: what's going on with Mark Bino, who scored eight goals
Speaker 1: so far this season for them. With their three to
Speaker 1: one and one starting a very very tough division in
Speaker 1: the premiere side. On the upsl SO poltrosays a big
Speaker 1: matchup this weekend. After this weekend they get five of
Speaker 1: the next six at home at Marietta High School. So
Speaker 1: potro SEFC conversation coming up later today. Mars Hill audio
Speaker 1: coming up later today. Mars Hill video already up. Video
Speaker 1: and audio from yesterday's conversations with Scott Wells at Gardner
Speaker 1: Webb and Taylor Morton from Lees McCrae already up. We're
Speaker 1: going to continue to have these conversations with these coaches,
Speaker 1: with these individuals, and as things are going, we'll kind
Speaker 1: of get updates and see what they need and all
Speaker 1: these kinds of things and put out the siren call.
Speaker 2: Next week.
Speaker 1: I'm looking to expand that to the high school ranks
Speaker 1: because of soccer being in session and there's some folks
Speaker 1: as we've discussed that that swath that Helene cut through
Speaker 1: the swamp in Georgia, Southeast Georgia into the Carolinas, up
Speaker 1: and out the Carolinas. The high school ranks, we got
Speaker 1: to catch up with them too, because while it is
Speaker 1: American football season, it's a little it's you know, obviously
Speaker 1: it's a deeper conversation than that.
Speaker 2: So we'll start catching up with folks on the high
Speaker 2: school side.
Speaker 1: Jeff Davis is a school that I know through the
Speaker 1: American football side of things got hit really hard the
Speaker 1: town of Hazelhurst. Will start there and work our way
Speaker 1: up the path and we'll catch up with friends at
Speaker 1: Georgian and we'll have those conversations either live on the
Speaker 1: air or as soccer's in session, catchups as we go.
Speaker 2: So there's all of that.
Speaker 1: So conversation with potros all of our weekly stuff, Mars
Speaker 1: Hill audio coming up, and all of the different things
Speaker 1: that are there. So that is what I think is
Speaker 1: what's going on this morning after having live trouble Shot live,
Speaker 1: Trouble Shot, Troubleshot live. Man, I'm speaking English very goodly
Speaker 1: this morning.
Speaker 2: So all of that.
Speaker 1: Oh No, Alex, POTROSEFC in the UPSL has Marietta High
Speaker 1: School as their home field this season, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's north Cut or if it's the actual campus.
Speaker 1: So POTROFC in the UPSL, in the Premier Georgia Division,
Speaker 1: that's where their home is. After this week they have
Speaker 1: five of their next six they're at Marietta High School.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I don't know if that means north
Speaker 1: Cut or if that means the high school high school,
Speaker 1: the new high school a couple of years old, but
Speaker 1: it's still the new high school anyway. So POTROSEFC, so yes,
Speaker 1: actual campus, Thank you Havy. So you've got that going on.
Speaker 1: So Rundown today is news. All the other things we'll
Speaker 1: see if our friends from Beyond Goals Menering can join
Speaker 1: us ten o'clock weekend whip around getting you ready for
Speaker 1: the weekend. And I have a distinct impression. We're going
Speaker 1: past eleven oh five. But that's nothing really new, is it?
Speaker 1: So all right? So morning everybody? Now that now every
Speaker 1: started unbelievable. Yeah, Ricky got no sleep last night. I
Speaker 1: don't think any of us did, considering that Kirko chains
Speaker 1: through for five spins and four scores and last night
Speaker 1: it you know, in fantasy football, the American kind, I'm
Speaker 1: really I'm not very good at least in judging depth
Speaker 1: and rookies and things like that. A couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: I won our league and I've stunk ever since. And
Speaker 1: I had Darnell Mooney last night, but my opponent this
Speaker 1: week had Dre London. And so basically for me with
Speaker 1: the substandard roster, I'm trying to make sure that I
Speaker 1: don't lose ground coming out of the blocks, and so
Speaker 1: Mooney versus London last night, for me, I didn't lose
Speaker 1: a whole lot of ground. I think I was like
Speaker 1: one point nine points behind or something like that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: So morning, Alex, morning Abby uh And so Abby says,
Speaker 1: got a notification that twitch is increasing by two dollars
Speaker 1: a month, and so Potro says, two eighty ASL teams
Speaker 1: and so Abby mentions that Sun plays against him in ADASL.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, Potrose in the UPSL in the premiere
Speaker 1: side and the Georgia division had a lot of heavyweights
Speaker 1: going at it and we caught up. Like I said,
Speaker 1: Christopher Runanga and Mark Pino, that conversation is going to
Speaker 1: be up later today on audio and video. Okay, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: the Ricky We talked about this a little bit yesterday.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: The breaking news is just stunning everybody that the Miami
Speaker 1: CLEB World Cup rubbing the wrong way totally expected as
Speaker 1: much in FIFA as a justifiable reason with the sh
Speaker 1: Yeah sure, but I mean we knew and we've been
Speaker 1: talking about this for a long time that Team thirty two,
Speaker 1: however you wanted to phrase it, if it wasn't going
Speaker 1: to be messy and friends and something something right, because
Speaker 1: you've got to draw eyeballs in when you don't have
Speaker 1: a TV partner yet, when you don't have international TV partners,
Speaker 1: when you have everything that is out in the ether
Speaker 1: when it comes to this competition, teams wondering what the
Speaker 1: payout is, where the payouts coming from, where your TV
Speaker 1: partners are, what the broadcast plans are, and there are
Speaker 1: more questions and answers if you don't try and attract
Speaker 1: the and I mean, I'm serious, you know, thinking about
Speaker 1: this like you know, you have to think about this
Speaker 1: like a like a television program.
Speaker 2: And we talked about this before.
Speaker 1: Legitimately, if there is a team that makes a like
Speaker 1: let's say there's a team that makes a run out
Speaker 1: of laye eight. I mean, Seattle's in because of what
Speaker 1: they've done in Conker caff in years past. Somebody makes
Speaker 1: a run out of lane eight, somebody, you know, let's
Speaker 1: let's see who who's north of the playoff bar out
Speaker 1: west So Colorado say so Colorado? Say say if Chris
Speaker 1: Armis and Colorado make a run and they were to
Speaker 1: win MLS Cup, Vancouver Vanny Sartini or whomever is not
Speaker 1: the can shamp so let's let's stick with Let's stick
Speaker 1: with let'st so maybe the Loons. How about that somebody
Speaker 1: who's a seven or eight or maybe a nine if
Speaker 1: they were to if that particular club was to get
Speaker 1: on an absolute heater of heaters win MLS Cup. If
Speaker 1: you are the club World Cup and you're looking for
Speaker 1: team thirty two, the wild card for the host, I
Speaker 1: mean seriously, who are you picking. It's a no brainer
Speaker 1: that you're picking Messian Friends over that other team as
Speaker 1: Team thirty two as your wild card. You absolutely are,
Speaker 1: You absolutely are, because it's a television show, and what
Speaker 1: draws eyes to television shows, what gives you ratings, star
Speaker 1: power gives you ratings, and inasmuch as Georgie Mihailovich and
Speaker 1: with what Chris Armas is doing in this example, would
Speaker 1: be something that, you know, great for Colorado had they
Speaker 1: if they win MLS Cup and they you know, hey,
Speaker 1: you know we wont MLS Cup. We need to be
Speaker 1: Team thirty two Colorado Rapids Messian Friends. It's a no brainer,
Speaker 1: no brainer that you have something like that go down.
Speaker 1: No brainer. And so I get it, even with all
Speaker 1: of the questions that are there currently in the in
Speaker 1: the in the hemisphere, when it to that particular I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean legitimate, oh ooh, we got we actually the
Speaker 1: first bot we've had in a long time, so extensive enterprise.
Speaker 1: You are a bot, So we need to like eliminate
Speaker 1: them or report them, and they're offline. You know, that's
Speaker 1: just not very nice. You know, they they they want
Speaker 1: to sit there and you know, hey, we're a we're we're.
Speaker 2: Interesting, go ahead and report them. That was the other thing.
Speaker 1: I was like, I had to reset passwords to everything
Speaker 1: this morning because I can't remember what the passwords are
Speaker 1: and then you try to log in with an old
Speaker 1: password that it says, no, that's not your password, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, the hell it's not and they have to
Speaker 1: go back through and reset everything.
Speaker 2: So that was a pain.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I mean literally Georgia Mahalovich, Messi, Messi and friends,
Speaker 1: and there's Louis Suarez news also about Bielsa and interactions
Speaker 1: there that would probably will get into this morning. There's
Speaker 1: news out of the NWSL, and it's heavy and it's
Speaker 1: stuff that we got to get into, obviously with the
Speaker 1: NWSL involving Angel City one and involving Rory Daines. So
Speaker 1: there's headlines there that we've got to get into. And
Speaker 1: let's see. So there's that. Where are my notes? Oh,
Speaker 1: there's my notes? Okay, Like I said, this is where
Speaker 1: we are this morning. So the other thing I'll get
Speaker 1: into Luis Suarez. Now, since we're discussing Messi and Friends
Speaker 1: in the Gulf Stream Galacticos, I do want to talk
Speaker 1: about the firecracker heard round the hemisphere. Because we finally
Speaker 1: do have a solution. We have a name attached to it.
Speaker 1: Lizziebescherano at the four letter, very very early this morning,
Speaker 1: Luis Suarez exposed to what do you called problematic working
Speaker 1: conditions imposed by Marcelo Bielsa during the twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: Copo America, before urging fans not to blame players. Quote
Speaker 1: if something goes wrong moving forward. Bielsa joined May fifteen,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Immediately the impacted the way national team functions,
Speaker 1: according to Suarez, at the Celeste Complex quote, employees are
Speaker 1: not allowed to come in and greet us and eat
Speaker 1: with us, he said on the direct TV show to
Speaker 1: Football Say Abla Assi quote. They have to be careful
Speaker 1: even at the door they have to enter. It breaks
Speaker 1: my heart that this is how life is in the
Speaker 1: complex today. Matias Vesina was first to see it coming.
Speaker 1: Nobody questions the fact that a guy like Messino, who
Speaker 1: is thirty years old, left from one day to the next.
Speaker 1: SaaS wanted to provide insight into the impact Biels's leadership
Speaker 1: had during the Copa, detailing the lack of communication between
Speaker 1: the coaching staff and players. Quote, there were situations at
Speaker 1: the COPA that hurt me, but I didn't say them
Speaker 1: for the sake of coexistence. Many players held a meeting
Speaker 1: to ask the coach to at least say good morning
Speaker 1: to us, but he didn't even say hello. And quote
Speaker 1: a decent run before finishing third, beating Canada and penalties.
Speaker 3: Quote.
Speaker 1: Bielsa gives a conference and talks wonderful things about people,
Speaker 1: and in New York there was a day when he
Speaker 1: asked us not to stop to greet people, and I
Speaker 1: stood up and told him that we were going to
Speaker 1: greet people anyway, he said. Sares has since retired, playing
Speaker 1: his final match September six. Sare said I had a
Speaker 1: five minute chat with Beelsa, speaking as a group leader,
Speaker 1: and at the end he only replied, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Focus now shifts to the twenty six World Cup loss
Speaker 1: unless they sit in third in the Combo Ball rankings.
Speaker 1: Suarez signaled for caution. Quote tomorrow, I ask people not
Speaker 1: to take it out on the players if something goes wrong.
Speaker 1: Bielsa has separated the whole group, even in the way
Speaker 1: they train. Utuguay returns to action October eleven. It's Perude
Speaker 1: next Round of World Cup qualifiers. So there's there's that,
Speaker 1: and so that came out this morning. Yeah, Alex literally
Speaker 1: man nicknames a loco. Not sure what else people expect.
Speaker 1: That is true, circle gets the square. We also have
Speaker 1: news at Anissa this morning and that might also be
Speaker 1: kind of opening kickoffish the firecracker heard around the hemisphere,
Speaker 1: we finally have a name attached to it, Adriana Garcia.
Speaker 1: Very early this morning before we came on the air.
Speaker 1: Shievas midfielder Roberto Alvarado has apologized to journalists after throwing
Speaker 1: a firecracker that exploded in the media room had a
Speaker 1: Thursday's pre match news conference. Journalists waiting at the Lega
Speaker 1: MX's club's Verde Valler headquarters for the news conference to
Speaker 1: start ahead of Saturday's Classico Tapatio against Atlas were left
Speaker 1: stunned and then angry. The firecracker had been thrown from
Speaker 1: the nearby locker room. The club's press officer, along with
Speaker 1: the Chiebas defender Antonio Brissagno, apologized to the media president,
Speaker 1: yet the journalists insisted that the perpetrator come out to apologize.
Speaker 1: Alvarado did come out and claim it was an accident.
Speaker 1: Claying that he had no intention of hurting anyone. No
Speaker 1: one was injured at the news conference. No one was injured,
Speaker 1: but the news conference did not take place since all
Speaker 1: the media boycotted it. So all right, so let me
Speaker 1: get this straight. So Roberto Lvarado Morning four card Roberto
Speaker 1: Lvarado decides that he thinks a throwing a firecracker into
Speaker 1: a press conference in a press room, that's that's a
Speaker 1: cool thing. But he says it had been been it
Speaker 1: was done by accident. Alvarado came out claimed it was
Speaker 1: an accident and had no intention of hurting anyone. When
Speaker 1: you take a lighted firecracker, all right, so let's walk
Speaker 1: through this process, shall we. You have a lighted firecracker
Speaker 1: or you have a firecracker. Let's just let's walk through
Speaker 1: this for a second. So you have a firecracker in
Speaker 1: your hand, and you sit there and you think, you know,
Speaker 1: I think I should do something.
Speaker 2: With this firecracker. I don't know what.
Speaker 1: Hey, there's a room of assembled people next to where
Speaker 1: I am, and I have an access point. If I
Speaker 1: were to open a door, it's like door opens. Oh, firecracker,
Speaker 1: you light the firecracker. There's only a certain amount of
Speaker 1: time where you really can make an informed decision in
Speaker 1: your own brain.
Speaker 2: Of what to do with said firecracker in that timeframe.
Speaker 1: So yeah, literally, as Widespread Panics said with their live
Speaker 1: album titled The Light Fuse Back Away. So Roberto Alvarado decides,
Speaker 1: apparently possibly probably okay, firecracker, unlighted door, other side of door,
Speaker 1: press room, lights firecracker. I have X number of seconds
Speaker 1: to decide what to do. Oh open door, jettison firecracker
Speaker 1: into room with assembol journalists. So I mean, obviously the
Speaker 1: choice is one of two things. When the firecracker goes
Speaker 1: from unlighted to lighted and the fuse is going and
Speaker 1: you're hearing the you only have a certain amount of
Speaker 1: seconds to sit there and figure out.
Speaker 3: What to do.
Speaker 1: You're not going to keep that firecracker, throw it up
Speaker 1: into the air and have it go on off in
Speaker 1: the player's locker room, I don't think. I mean, unless
Speaker 1: you just want to sit there and this will be funny,
Speaker 1: you throw it up in the air or something. But
Speaker 1: you make a conscious decision apparently to throw a lighted
Speaker 1: firecracker into an adjoining room where a door has to
Speaker 1: be opened, and you take the firecracker choice.
Speaker 2: I mean literally, the choice is one of two things.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, but you know four card yeah, four
Speaker 1: card members in twenty twenty when I wanted to bring
Speaker 1: fireworks into the Benz. Actually the Benz has their own
Speaker 1: fireworks now that they launch from a pie and send
Speaker 1: down low. But I mean, if you think about this process,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to just work through in my head
Speaker 1: what Roberto Alvarado is processing here, I'm trying to follow
Speaker 1: his logic. But if you light a firecracker and you
Speaker 1: have X number of seconds to figure out what to do,
Speaker 1: either keep it in your room or put it in
Speaker 1: another room and in the other room just happened to
Speaker 1: be assembled journalists getting ready for a press conference for
Speaker 1: a Darby. Oh, but you have to make a conscious
Speaker 1: decision literally to open a door throw the firecracker into
Speaker 1: the other room before it goes off, so it doesn't
Speaker 1: go off in your dressing room or assembled area. I
Speaker 1: do not know the layout of the Achievas training facility,
Speaker 1: so Alvarado makes a conscious decision to go you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it this way. I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and either open the door myself or have someone open
Speaker 1: the door and I throw the firecracker into that room.
Speaker 1: Alvarado comes out claimed it was an accident, had no
Speaker 1: intention of hurting anyone. So it was an accident that
Speaker 1: you consciously or unconsciously. Let's just say it was an
Speaker 1: accident that a firecracker that was unlighted became lighted. Then
Speaker 1: to compound the accident to open an adjoining door to
Speaker 1: a press conference room that I imagine was fairly filled. And
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't know what the firecracker was.
Speaker 1: It might have been just one of those you know,
Speaker 1: you know pop deals. You sit there and you throw
Speaker 1: it in it goes h. I mean, I don't think
Speaker 1: it was like an M eighty or anything, but you know,
Speaker 1: just like something that we get when it was illegal
Speaker 1: to get them across the border. You sit there and
Speaker 1: you get like by buy one, get four free. You know,
Speaker 1: you like the you know, you go, you go across
Speaker 1: the border, and the day's previous to us all being adults.
Speaker 1: You go to like Tennessee and you go across the border.
Speaker 1: You got Alabama across the border to like Lynette or Valley.
Speaker 1: You get all that group of fireworks and you're you're
Speaker 1: all happy, that you just smuggled it back into the
Speaker 1: State of Georgia for July fourth, and you like the thing,
Speaker 1: but taking a fire taking a firework fire cracker and
Speaker 1: sitting there and going Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and open have someone open a door, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw I have that firecracker thrown into the press conference room,
Speaker 1: and we'll ask our guests coming up here in a
Speaker 1: second if he's ever had to experience firecrackers being lobbed
Speaker 1: into a room. Oh, I see, I see the I
Speaker 1: see the inquisitive eyebrow rays from our mogul And training.
Speaker 1: So he'll be with us here in just a second.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go ahead and run our special intro.
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out about Rhode Island s CE, We're
Speaker 1: gonna find out about the mogul And training. We're gonna
Speaker 1: find out about fireworks being lobbed into other rooms because
Speaker 1: it's time for the Friday free kick.
Speaker 2: You know what that means.
Speaker 1: It's time for our buddy Michael Parker is to find
Speaker 1: out what's going on with our friends at Beyond Goals
Speaker 1: Minnering and maybe.
Speaker 2: Lighted firecrackers too. Here's the special intro.
Speaker 4: Hi Cap Morning John.
Speaker 2: So I was.
Speaker 1: Explaining in something of an opening kickoff kind of a sense,
Speaker 1: did you hear the story about the firecracker lobbed into
Speaker 1: the press conference room in Lega MX.
Speaker 4: I did not.
Speaker 1: So basically it is as a Chieva Squadalajara midfielder Roberto
Speaker 1: Alvarado has apologized to journalists, and I imagine that there
Speaker 1: are times when I'm sure that players would sit there
Speaker 1: and they'd love to do something like this. I mean
Speaker 1: a lot of a firecracker into a press conference room
Speaker 1: and see the journalist scatter. That's the most that's the
Speaker 1: most vert I've seen from that beat writer in years.
Speaker 1: So Alvarado apologized to journalists after throwing a firecracker that
Speaker 1: exploded in the media room ahead of Thursday's pre match
Speaker 1: news conference. So it's a darby presser, so I would
Speaker 1: image that there's maybe more than one or two journalists
Speaker 1: in said press conference room. Roberto Alvarado decides from the
Speaker 1: neighboring locker room to light a firecracker. Like I said,
Speaker 1: all this stuff is apparently like logic that's rolling through
Speaker 1: dude's head. So he goes from having an unlighted firecracker
Speaker 1: in his possession to a lighted firecracker in his possession,
Speaker 1: and like I said, I'm trying to walk through this process,
Speaker 1: and so Alvarado apparently thought that, oh, lighted firecracker.
Speaker 2: I have two choices.
Speaker 1: I can keep it here in the locker room, or
Speaker 1: I can have someone open a door, which just happens
Speaker 1: to be the to the adjoining press conference area, take
Speaker 1: said lighted firecracker, throw the firecracker into the press conference room,
Speaker 1: and have the firecracker go off with you know, journalists there.
Speaker 1: The press officer and one of the defenders apologize to
Speaker 1: the media, but the media was like, nah, fam, that's
Speaker 1: not going to work.
Speaker 2: We need the dude that did it.
Speaker 1: And so uh the So Alvarado goes in, he comes
Speaker 1: out of the out of the dressing room, and he
Speaker 1: claims it was an accident and that he had no
Speaker 1: intention of hurting anyone. As I sit here and wander
Speaker 1: through conscious decisions of it was an accident. So you
Speaker 1: go from unlighted firecracker, too lighted firecracker, and lighted firecracker. Oh,
Speaker 1: I've got to do something with this door. Open firecracker
Speaker 1: through door, closed door, firecracker, go boom.
Speaker 2: It was an accident beat two, three four. The media
Speaker 2: were so pissed.
Speaker 1: No one was injured, but the presser didn't take place
Speaker 1: because all the media were like, no, we're boycotting this thing.
Speaker 2: We're out.
Speaker 1: Have you ever, sir in this in this go round
Speaker 1: of Have I ever have I? Have you ever been
Speaker 1: with a team either named or unnamed? I don't know
Speaker 1: statute limitations can apply here. Have you ever had a
Speaker 1: teammate that had that kind of a mischievous trouble streak
Speaker 1: attached to them where they thought that something would be
Speaker 1: funny something like that? Have you ever been with a
Speaker 1: teammate that had that kind of mischievous trouble streak attached
Speaker 1: to them? Like I said, you can name names if
Speaker 1: you want. You don't name names if you don't want to,
Speaker 1: but you can either just say yes or no and
Speaker 1: maybe give an incident.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I played with some crazy teammates.
Speaker 2: How crazy were They.
Speaker 5: Never did anything to the media or anything, but like I,
Speaker 5: I had a goalie teammate once Eastern European guy, and
Speaker 5: he showed up at one of our teammate's house. They
Speaker 5: got into it on the field and he showed up
Speaker 5: to his house later on the later on in the
Speaker 5: day with a baseball bat.
Speaker 3: Right, who.
Speaker 5: Tell them basically like he kill his whole family if
Speaker 5: he ever did anything like that on the field again,
Speaker 5: And wow, yeah, nut job. But I've never seen a
Speaker 5: firecracker even in a locker room before.
Speaker 4: I don't even understand how is it? Why is there
Speaker 4: even a locker room or a firecracker in the locker room? Craziness?
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just it's like, you, dude, made conscious decision A,
Speaker 1: and you carry it back one further You carry back
Speaker 1: one further step than I did.
Speaker 2: Literally, firecracker.
Speaker 1: I think carrying a firecracker into a locker room was
Speaker 1: a great IDEA firecracker unlighted in locker room. Oh, let's
Speaker 1: light it, you know. Oh what do we do with
Speaker 1: lighted firecracker? Oh there's a door. Oh by the way,
Speaker 1: there are mediate people on the other side of that door.
Speaker 2: So I just had I just had to I just
Speaker 2: had to ask.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Alex is like, that's less mischievous and more
Speaker 1: felonious when a bat is involved instead of a firecracker.
Speaker 1: I would agree that those more that it is more
Speaker 1: felonious when it's when a baseball bat is involved or
Speaker 1: just a Speaking of Bielsa, we talked about Luis Suarez
Speaker 1: and him saying that the environment with l Loco as
Speaker 1: they were getting ready for the Copa was less than
Speaker 1: cordial when it comes to this will be my opening
Speaker 1: point this this week, not that you would have had
Speaker 1: an L Loco as a coach, but when you talk
Speaker 1: to your mentees and when you talk to teammates X
Speaker 1: teammates and everything, when it comes to navigating coaches and
Speaker 1: those in positions of authority that have different personalities, how
Speaker 1: do you talk to your mentees about, well, yes, this
Speaker 1: one's a player's coach, Yes, this one's a hard a
Speaker 1: you know that that kind of thing. Do you talk
Speaker 1: to them about navigating all the different personalities and just
Speaker 1: understanding that, yes, some folks operate differently than others when
Speaker 1: it comes to trying to get messages across for sure.
Speaker 5: We just had a blog about it because it's something
Speaker 5: that's come up repeatedly, so we're like, all right, we
Speaker 5: need to write something about this because it's mostly what
Speaker 5: we're dealing with is how do you deal with a
Speaker 5: hard ass coach who his coaching style is to get
Speaker 5: after you and try and push you that way, but
Speaker 5: they also tend to be yellers on the field and
Speaker 5: yell at you when you make a mistake, And.
Speaker 4: Just how do you be confident, play freely.
Speaker 5: And get something out of it when you're playing for
Speaker 5: a coach like that, especially when you as an individual
Speaker 5: don't really respond well to that type of coaching because
Speaker 5: as we know, there's different ways to motivate people, and
Speaker 5: some are motivated by that tactic and others or not,
Speaker 5: and it should be a little bit more curated to
Speaker 5: the individual based on some things. But we know that
Speaker 5: that's not happening all the time with coaching. So yeah,
Speaker 5: it's challenging, and you know, we try and tell them that,
Speaker 5: you know, whether you've got a coach that you agree
Speaker 5: with how he does things or not, you're hoping that and.
Speaker 4: Unstill proved otherwise. You assume they have.
Speaker 5: Your best interests at heart and they're trying to get
Speaker 5: the best out of you and the best for the team,
Speaker 5: and they don't mean to do anything to make you
Speaker 5: play poorly. It's just their way of coaching. So how
Speaker 5: do you get the message and separate that from the
Speaker 5: tone and use the information to the best of your ability,
Speaker 5: and sometimes you're not even going to agree with the information,
Speaker 5: But how do you balance that with what you've learned
Speaker 5: in the past, But also you want to do what
Speaker 5: you have to do to stay on the field.
Speaker 4: So yeah, there is a tough balance for sure. I
Speaker 4: mean we had it with Tata.
Speaker 5: When we started with Tata, especially for the English speaking group,
Speaker 5: it was so different than anything they had ever experienced,
Speaker 5: and on and off the field, and there were times
Speaker 5: right the way that we were playing, you know, Jeff myself,
Speaker 5: you know Alec in the back before Brad got there,
Speaker 5: We're looking at each other like, man, this is crazy,
Speaker 5: Like we can't play like this. We're so exposed in
Speaker 5: the back, Like we have to do a little differently, right,
Speaker 5: And so you do small little things to balance how
Speaker 5: the coach wants to play and how you see it
Speaker 5: out there on the field. And obviously we were in
Speaker 5: a different position because we're out there performing and we're
Speaker 5: a little bit more veteran than some of.
Speaker 4: The other players.
Speaker 5: So it's challenging though, because yeah, there's a whole just
Speaker 5: like individual players, there's a whole host of different coaches
Speaker 5: on different levels, and the way that they institute what
Speaker 5: they want is so so different.
Speaker 1: How do you in a situation like that, how do
Speaker 1: you and Jeff and Alec and uh, you know, and
Speaker 1: everybody that's a veteran who's been through this kind of
Speaker 1: a ringer before, how do you? How do you listen?
Speaker 1: Then how do you implement the what might be you know,
Speaker 1: crazy just in general from your own observations, and then
Speaker 1: not let it get to you and kind of tweak
Speaker 1: it where it's like you're trying to juggle about nineteen
Speaker 1: different things.
Speaker 2: It's like you're you're.
Speaker 1: Paying attention to what he's saying, you get it, but
Speaker 1: then you put your own little twist on it and
Speaker 1: not make it look like you're being disrespectful, I guess
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. It's like you you understand where
Speaker 1: he's going, but it's like, hey, if we do this,
Speaker 1: then it's just as impactful and not as crazy.
Speaker 2: Does that make any sense?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: A little bit for sure.
Speaker 5: And for us it was just what can we control
Speaker 5: a little bit? And so for us we were just
Speaker 5: like focused on especially counter attacks and defensive side of things,
Speaker 5: and so we were like, all right, well, attack wise,
Speaker 5: We're going to do what we do and it's fine,
Speaker 5: but okay, how can we be a.
Speaker 4: Little bit more stable defensively?
Speaker 5: Then maybe we're being set up for or how we
Speaker 5: see things, and and it's just.
Speaker 4: To get results, right. You want to win.
Speaker 5: And you want to play well and do well, and
Speaker 5: so it's our butts on the line out there. If
Speaker 5: we're giving up four goals, so we're gonna have We're
Speaker 5: going to do what we have to do to make
Speaker 5: sure that that's not happening.
Speaker 4: So yeah, just.
Speaker 5: Controlling little things about hey, telling Leandro not to go
Speaker 5: up for crosses when the right backs crossing the ball
Speaker 5: and he's playing left center back and you know, maybe
Speaker 5: having wing back on the other side hang out every
Speaker 5: now and then. They're just adjusting a little bit based
Speaker 5: off the opponent. But if the coach's tactics start working
Speaker 5: like they did with Tata, then you get more buy in,
Speaker 5: then you get more belief, then you get okay, I
Speaker 5: can see how this can work. And it takes a
Speaker 5: little bit of time, right, But if it's a huge
Speaker 5: change at the beginning, it's difficult for players that have
Speaker 5: played one way for a long time.
Speaker 4: To say, oh yeah, let's just go do this, It'll be.
Speaker 5: Fine, versus like, oh, shoot, let's see if it's going
Speaker 5: to be fine.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, I don't think shoot was
Speaker 2: the word that you were using.
Speaker 1: But nevertheless, it's just I wonder about that adjustment period
Speaker 1: in trying to find the happy middle ground. It's like,
Speaker 1: we've been around the block. We know what you're saying,
Speaker 1: but we can also do this, do this, and do this.
Speaker 1: And because if you're a younger player and you're in
Speaker 1: a situation like that, you don't want to upset the
Speaker 1: apple cart. You want to say it's like yes or
Speaker 1: yes or yes sir, you know right at it, Reno,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it.
Speaker 2: We're going to do it.
Speaker 1: And then's you're in lockstep and everything because you know
Speaker 1: it could affect your playing time. I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a balance from the younger players that want to
Speaker 1: listen and learn and implement and the veterans that listen
Speaker 1: and learn and implement, but implement with a twist. So
Speaker 1: the message is still getting out there and the result
Speaker 1: is still the same. It just it might be a
Speaker 1: little different just because of the exposure and the experience
Speaker 1: that you guys had out there in the first place totally.
Speaker 5: And I think that as you as you become more
Speaker 5: of a veteran, and even even for youth players, as
Speaker 5: you play with a coach for more often or you
Speaker 5: get a little bit more experience. Right, there's a way
Speaker 5: that your coach wants you to play before the game starts,
Speaker 5: but then when the game starts until halftime, there's very
Speaker 5: little coaching that can change things on the field, right,
Speaker 5: And so players have to take the initiative to change things.
Speaker 5: If you're getting punched in the face, especially repeatedly, Right,
Speaker 5: you can't just assume, Okay, let's just keep doing it
Speaker 5: and it'll eventually work out.
Speaker 4: No, it won't. You need to adjust.
Speaker 5: And like for example, with Greg Burholtzer in Columbus or
Speaker 5: he wanted us to play out of the back all
Speaker 5: the time, every time. But there are certain situations where
Speaker 5: it was like, Okay, hey, guys, we're going to step
Speaker 5: up to midfield and have the goaliekicked it as far
Speaker 5: as he can, and we're going to kick the ball
Speaker 5: into the other half and we're going to go play
Speaker 5: over there for a few minutes and chill out, and
Speaker 5: then we'll get maybe and then maybe we'll get back
Speaker 5: to what we're doing here.
Speaker 4: But we need to we need to reset.
Speaker 5: And you know, same thing under Tata, like, yeah, I
Speaker 5: know that we want to play out of the back,
Speaker 5: but you know what, I'm going to kick this ball
Speaker 5: long for a little bit because I'm sick of us
Speaker 5: playing in our half of the field.
Speaker 4: And like little things like that where it's like, you.
Speaker 5: Know, you're not disregarding completely the game plan, but you're
Speaker 5: adapting because you see things on the field and you
Speaker 5: you are in it.
Speaker 1: I need to breather, I need to blow. I'm going
Speaker 1: to kick this long for a minute. It's just I'm
Speaker 1: going to go that way and I'm going to catch
Speaker 1: my breath for a second.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: General generationally, and this is something that you've been kind
Speaker 1: of alluding to here in our conversation this morning.
Speaker 2: Are are the younger players today?
Speaker 1: Is there bs meter lower than it was when you know,
Speaker 1: we were you know, learning the game. Do they sit
Speaker 1: there and you know, if somebody's yelling at me these days,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be like, yeah, okay, whatever, great. You know
Speaker 1: you can yell at me all day long. I either
Speaker 1: feel like I know what's going on. I know what
Speaker 1: you're saying. You don't have to yell at me these
Speaker 1: kinds of things. How how different is the intake with
Speaker 1: your mentees than it would be with say, folks that
Speaker 1: are your age or slightly younger than you. Is is
Speaker 1: the intake different? Is the BS meter less? Do they
Speaker 1: is a BS meter higher or lower? What about mentees
Speaker 1: these days?
Speaker 4: Yes, that's a good question.
Speaker 5: You know, it's and like everything, it depends on the
Speaker 5: personality of the player, but it's you know, I think
Speaker 5: in general, younger players still listen to their coaches. The
Speaker 5: coaches have a huge influence, and you know, hopefully that's
Speaker 5: a good thing. There are definitely some individuals who, regardless
Speaker 5: of the coach, are going to go out there and
Speaker 5: do their own thing. But you know, I think that
Speaker 5: for the most part, they are listening to their coach
Speaker 5: and trying to implement what they from the sideline are saying.
Speaker 5: And that's why it can be challenging, right, especially if
Speaker 5: that coach is a yeller and yelling at you about mistakes,
Speaker 5: because then you get out there and you're afraid to
Speaker 5: make mistakes because you don't want to.
Speaker 3: Get yelled at.
Speaker 4: And so that's a tough way to play.
Speaker 5: And you'd think that coaches would see that and understand that,
Speaker 5: but for some reason they all don't.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I would think that that the ego
Speaker 1: of that coach plays into this too. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: I have this dossier of success in my brain and
Speaker 1: I've won you know, I've won this trophy. You know,
Speaker 1: I've won this miscongeniality trophy for finishing third in division,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, eighteen years ago, and so obviously
Speaker 1: what I do works. And I would think that ego
Speaker 1: plays into it, from the ego of the superior of
Speaker 1: the of the individual in Power's about to say superior
Speaker 1: sometimes they're not. But the coach on the sideline, the
Speaker 1: administrator on the sideline, because they have this history of success,
Speaker 1: it's like, well, yes, obviously it works. And then you'll
Speaker 1: have folks these days who might sit there and go,
Speaker 1: really that works. No, you know, It's just there are
Speaker 1: times I would think that adults, and we've had this
Speaker 1: talk too, where adults some kind sometimes just kind of
Speaker 1: need to dial it back and listen more instead of
Speaker 1: sitting there and just yelling and ranning and raving and
Speaker 1: poking fingers and going this is the way and let
Speaker 1: it be a two way street with you know, some
Speaker 1: just at least listening, even if the feedback isn't taken in.
Speaker 1: At least just take the effort to listen to what's
Speaker 1: coming back at you instead of just saying my way
Speaker 1: or the highway, because that doesn't work all the time.
Speaker 4: Rarely, rarely does it work. Oh for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, fine, it's my way or you're not playing.
Speaker 1: But we get that. I mean, you get managers who
Speaker 1: are this way in different sports. It's like, you're going
Speaker 1: to do it my way or you ain't playing, and
Speaker 1: then you know, then you sit and it's just it.
Speaker 1: I would think that it would drive folks crazy. Where
Speaker 1: you see a better, a better pathway in that position,
Speaker 1: an individual in a position of power doesn't, and it
Speaker 1: affects everything and down it affects everything downstream, and it
Speaker 1: just it doesn't do anything that's better.
Speaker 5: And again, I don't think that most of these coaches
Speaker 5: are coming from a place of trying to be the
Speaker 5: little kids or be mean or anything, right, they're just usually.
Speaker 4: What I see is they're so competitive.
Speaker 5: And they've got the juices flowing and they can't help themselves,
Speaker 5: so they need to They need to figure out how
Speaker 5: they can channel their aggression and hype of the game
Speaker 5: into a better way. But yeah, no, I mean anytime,
Speaker 5: the best the best leaders are good listeners for sure,
Speaker 5: and it goes into parenting and leadership and coaching and everything, right,
Speaker 5: And it's one thing to listen and then you know,
Speaker 5: do what the kid wants. But it's another thing, you know,
Speaker 5: to just get their respect a little bit. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: hear you. I understand what you're saying. But here's why
Speaker 5: I think differently. Here's why I see it differently, you know.
Speaker 5: And I think if coaches explain that stuff sometimes it
Speaker 5: goes a little bit longer of the way. Okay, I
Speaker 5: understand now why we're doing something, rather than this is
Speaker 5: just what we're doing.
Speaker 1: Hey, Dad, I think I should take the car out
Speaker 1: this weekend. Yeah, and yes, I hear you. I understand
Speaker 1: your point of view. The answer is still no. Exactly
Speaker 1: about another ten minutes or so with Michael parkerst Our
Speaker 1: mogul and training at m F Parkhurst on the two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty character app and beyond goals entering where
Speaker 1: we go completely and totally sideways, because there'll be an
Speaker 1: entry point every single time that you and Greg come
Speaker 1: out with the Friday free kick and then it goes
Speaker 1: literally is like bumper cars every single time that you're on,
Speaker 1: And I will tell you each and every time that
Speaker 1: you come on for putting up with all of these
Speaker 1: right turns and all of this chaos that comes through
Speaker 1: my brain and comes out the other side. I cannot
Speaker 1: thank you and Greg enough for doing this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Rhode Island FC.
Speaker 1: Question from Bart Keeler, what are the chances of Rhode
Speaker 1: Island FC bidding to host a national team match after
Speaker 1: tidewater landing is complete? Our IFC is mentioned in the
Speaker 1: next episode of the Soccer for US podcast.
Speaker 4: Nice Unfortunately very low.
Speaker 5: What well, the men don't play on turf, and I
Speaker 5: don't think the women play on turf.
Speaker 4: I don't know that for sure, but I would highly
Speaker 4: doubt they do.
Speaker 5: And I don't think that our stadiums eyes it's a
Speaker 5: ten thousand, five hundred seat stadium. I don't know if
Speaker 5: the cost to bring in the grass over the turf
Speaker 5: and bring a team in and that type of stuff
Speaker 5: it would make sense for US. Uh So, unfortunately, probably
Speaker 5: pretty low, but we are definitely looking at other opportunities.
Speaker 5: We're going to fill that stadium as much as we
Speaker 5: can with different events and sports and opportunities and teams.
Speaker 5: So there'll be a lot going on other than Rhode
Speaker 5: Island NFC. Right ISLANDFC obviously is number one, but there
Speaker 5: will be a lot. I don't think that the national team, though,
Speaker 5: would would take us.
Speaker 2: Well, well, Bart's like, yeah, by a score.
Speaker 4: Of appreciated art.
Speaker 2: Well, then then don't let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: And this might be crossing the streams and drawing the
Speaker 1: ire of some nationalists folks, but do you have Jesse
Speaker 1: Marsh's phone number.
Speaker 2: In your in your rolodex?
Speaker 1: I use too, because you know, going from say Toronto
Speaker 1: and the sponsored stewardship that the tenured professorship that the
Speaker 1: Jesse Marsh has now with that that national team to
Speaker 1: the north of US, it's not it's not I mean
Speaker 1: shoot in in COVID. Toronto FC played in Hartford at
Speaker 1: Pratt and Whitney, so you know, playing playing in Connecticut
Speaker 1: is not something completely and totally foreign to Toronto FC.
Speaker 1: So maybe if you talk to the folks at the
Speaker 1: Maple Leaf, you know, hey, hey, Jesse, you want to
Speaker 1: have a friendly against Azerbaijan at Tidewater Landing, you.
Speaker 2: Know, something like that, saying yeah, sure.
Speaker 1: And we all did get our recent email to purchase
Speaker 1: season tickets for for Tidewater Landing. By the way, that
Speaker 1: that has made its way down here to the south.
Speaker 1: What's the what's since we're here, what's the latest on
Speaker 1: Tidewater Landing.
Speaker 2: Where are things coming along?
Speaker 5: Well, we are definitely happy that the port is backed
Speaker 5: up and running and so that will not delay anything.
Speaker 4: But we've got seats in the stadium, not all of
Speaker 4: them yet, but we do have seats in the stadium,
Speaker 4: so that's nice.
Speaker 5: And you know, I think that the yeah, the email
Speaker 5: campaign or the season ticket campaign has started and they've
Speaker 5: got this cool virtual thing where you can kind of
Speaker 5: see each section and what the stadium looks like or
Speaker 5: what will look like, and what your seat.
Speaker 4: The view and all that stuff. So yeah, that's exciting.
Speaker 5: So yeah, we're definitely obviously gearing up for twenty five
Speaker 5: while we're keeping a close eye on twenty four because yeah,
Speaker 5: playoff aspirations here.
Speaker 1: Why yes, you do, and considering where things currently stand,
Speaker 1: where the draws have turned into wins, and that reminds
Speaker 1: me I still need to catch up with with Thomas
Speaker 1: and media relations or perhaps the mogul and training and
Speaker 1: figure out how to get kind of on the show.
Speaker 1: Right now, you're a part of the chaos in the
Speaker 1: second Chase group in the Eastern Conference where it's like
Speaker 1: lou City and then everybody else and then Charleston is
Speaker 1: the right now in second eleven points to the Chase group,
Speaker 1: Detroit City at forty eight, Tampa Bay at forty six,
Speaker 1: Indy eleven ten wins or sorry, twelve wins, and a
Speaker 1: match in hand on somebody called Rhode Island FC, both
Speaker 1: at forty three points. You've won three your last five,
Speaker 1: and you have a point on Legion and you've got
Speaker 1: five on Louden. You have six below the playoff bar
Speaker 1: with Hartford Athletic and a ninth place and thirty seven points,
Speaker 1: So there is some there is a little bit of
Speaker 1: space right now for Rhode Island FC in the postseason.
Speaker 1: But it would be an opening round matchup, if I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, against l Rouge at Keyworth, and that's always
Speaker 1: a fun place to play because they're right on top
Speaker 1: of you and they throw things at you and there's
Speaker 1: smoke bombs and all these kinds of things. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: not a light at Firecracker, mind you, and it's also outdoors,
Speaker 1: but it is a rough place to play.
Speaker 5: It would the Perkers family wouldn't mind it because it's
Speaker 5: a nice little jive, but it wouldn't be the best
Speaker 5: venue for us to play. Uh, it's yeah, you're right.
Speaker 5: It is tough to play there.
Speaker 4: Some of these tur fields are aren't in the best condition.
Speaker 5: And they make it challenging right to Detroit's one of those,
Speaker 5: and yes, in Pittsburgh's one of them. So hey, but
Speaker 5: that's what makes it unique and that's what makes it
Speaker 5: fun and challenging.
Speaker 4: So we'll see.
Speaker 5: But we've got four games left. I think, if you know,
Speaker 5: I think if we get if we get three a
Speaker 5: out of four wins, we could sneak into the top four.
Speaker 5: But if we go to and two, I think that
Speaker 5: we'll be we'll finish in the top six.
Speaker 1: And I mean that would be very very cool U
Speaker 1: for for our resident part of the ownership group. And besides,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, we we know a playoff owner. Hey,
Speaker 1: we got we got him on speed dial. You know,
Speaker 1: we can have him come on on a Friday and
Speaker 1: talk about things. When it comes to the pressure of
Speaker 1: accomplishment since we're since we're talking playoffs, when it comes
Speaker 1: to your mentees and the pressure that's attached to doing well,
Speaker 1: and it's almost like the scene and Breakfast Club, you know,
Speaker 1: when they're in the library and emiliostev is his character
Speaker 1: Andrew is talking about all the pressure from the parents
Speaker 1: and everything. When it comes to pressure and succeeding and
Speaker 1: trying to do your best. What kind of feedback do
Speaker 1: you get from mentees about external pressure where they're just
Speaker 1: trying to do as best they can, enjoy what's going
Speaker 1: on and what happens happens, and if they succeed and
Speaker 1: continue to succeed more over time, that's great. But do
Speaker 1: they talk about external pressures with you with you and
Speaker 1: Greg a lot, and about how difficult it may or
Speaker 1: may not be to handle these kinds of things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they do, And yeah, I think a lot of
Speaker 4: it is when they're going through the college.
Speaker 5: Recruitment process and they know that they're scouts at games
Speaker 5: or if they're players that want to get to a
Speaker 5: new team, and they know that sometimes they're being watched,
Speaker 5: so you know, it's usually it goes along with aspirations
Speaker 5: to get to the next level.
Speaker 4: To take that next jump. That would be the biggest pressure.
Speaker 5: Induced for sure that we we've come across with our
Speaker 5: mentees there, and then there's other players that just feel
Speaker 5: pressure to play well. Because those players usually don't say why,
Speaker 5: but you know it's usually because they don't want to
Speaker 5: let the team down.
Speaker 4: They don't want to let coach.
Speaker 5: Down, They want to let mom and dad down, right,
Speaker 5: and they just want to win because they don't not
Speaker 5: because they don't see the value of losing.
Speaker 4: But you know, nobody wants to lose.
Speaker 1: Before you get out of here, what's going on with
Speaker 1: beyond goals entering these days?
Speaker 5: We've had two really crazy busy months, So that's it's been.
Speaker 4: It's been great. It's been really really good.
Speaker 5: And we're trying to get more content up there on
Speaker 5: the on the website with blogs and different topics that
Speaker 5: people come to us, just to try to spread more information.
Speaker 5: One of the things I'm working on, John is a
Speaker 5: book list for players but also coaches slash parents, So
Speaker 5: putting one together because a couple of people have asked
Speaker 5: me about that, so I was like, it's time for
Speaker 5: me to do some more work.
Speaker 2: Here do you do you do the blogging?
Speaker 1: I mean, do you do you formulate these kinds of
Speaker 1: thoughts or do you have guest bloggers or things like that.
Speaker 2: Do you do some of the blogging yourself?
Speaker 5: We do, Yeah, a lot of the lot of the
Speaker 5: stuff Greg and I come up with ourselves. We do
Speaker 5: have a marketing group that we just recently started working
Speaker 5: that they help us out with some of the blogs
Speaker 5: and some of the ideas, and then Greg and I
Speaker 5: will write down usually will write down either the whole
Speaker 5: blog or we'll write down like our main ideas and
Speaker 5: they'll spruce it up from there.
Speaker 1: Guys, I was going to say, when it comes to
Speaker 1: finding your voice, when it comes to writing, how how
Speaker 1: are you and finding your voice?
Speaker 4: I'm good. I've always enjoyed writing.
Speaker 5: I actually, very early in my career I did some
Speaker 5: guest writing for ESPN, but that was a long time ago.
Speaker 4: But I've always enjoyed writing.
Speaker 1: Okay, Then one more question before you get out of here,
Speaker 1: other than getting ready for Tampa Bay at Burn this weekend.
Speaker 1: A question from four Kard Do shield winners get championship rings.
Speaker 4: That I know of?
Speaker 5: Not that I know of, but I never did win
Speaker 5: the shield, so I don't know for sure.
Speaker 4: But I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I mean I might have to do with the comment
Speaker 1: that was put on your social media recently about stars
Speaker 1: on jerseys and winning shields and things like that.
Speaker 4: It's always a fun conversation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the Captain America Shield that means so much
Speaker 1: when it comes to the end of the season and
Speaker 1: who wins a trophy. Cap as always, thanks for dropping by.
Speaker 1: It's great to pick your brain. It's great to find
Speaker 1: out what's going on in all these different aspects of
Speaker 1: your life. And next time you drop in, it'll be
Speaker 1: a postseason time. We'll talk about postseasons, not making post seasons,
Speaker 1: what to do, how to improve all those kinds of things. Uh,
Speaker 1: and we'll just keep riding on rock and roll and
Speaker 1: love what you and Greg are doing. And thanks for
Speaker 1: putting up with my questions on a weekly basis.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me, John having every weekend you too.
Speaker 1: That's some guy named Michael Parker. He's a he's a
Speaker 1: mogul in training. By the way, it is ten o'clock
Speaker 1: and so it's after all, technically it's ten oh one.
Speaker 1: And so I'm gonna bring in Tyler since I was,
Speaker 1: you know, since Tyler, since I was like all of
Speaker 1: the four winds. On Wednesday, your traditional visit ended up
Speaker 1: going by the wayside. And so you have graciously after
Speaker 1: I commandeered you and hog tied you in the midweek
Speaker 1: Wednesday night to figure out, you know, can.
Speaker 2: You come on on Friday?
Speaker 1: And you're like, yes, sure, and so your Wednesday has
Speaker 1: turned into a Friday this week.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I once again get to follow up from
Speaker 6: Michael Parker her So you know, not like big shoes
Speaker 6: or anything.
Speaker 1: Oh but I mean there's nothing wrong with bat and fifth,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're if you're, if if he's, if
Speaker 1: he's your cleanup hit.
Speaker 6: Her, then hey, I'm swinging for the fences. I don't care.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's all good.
Speaker 1: So, uh, the same question for you, do shield winners
Speaker 1: get championship rings? Who cares? Four Card says it's a
Speaker 1: serving tray.
Speaker 2: It is. It literally is like the Captain America Shield,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Uh, Miami fans may never get to hold it
Speaker 1: because none of their supporters groups are members of the
Speaker 1: i C. I heard about that. Yeah, four supporters groups
Speaker 1: and none of them are part of the I s C.
Speaker 1: So that's uh that that got a big harumph from
Speaker 1: a lot of folks coming in this week, you and
Speaker 1: the folks that scarves and spikes. You guys have had
Speaker 1: a busy week. It's like you're on, you're off, you're on,
Speaker 1: it's a game day, You're on, you're off. You're all
Speaker 1: over the place this week. It's like I'm trying to
Speaker 1: really grind your voice into the ground with all these
Speaker 1: appearances and shows that you guys are having over at SNS.
Speaker 1: And I drag you in first thing on a Friday
Speaker 1: morning to see what's going on to kick off hour
Speaker 1: number two.
Speaker 2: Oh, what's the mug and what's in it?
Speaker 6: By the way, I was gonna say, that's actually what
Speaker 6: the coffee's for, you know, So mug, scarves and spikes smug.
Speaker 2: At a excellent plug, nicely done.
Speaker 6: So I don't know, I just you know, I normally
Speaker 6: don't drink coffee actually with sugar anymore. Like I stopped
Speaker 6: a while back, threw some sugar in here this morning,
Speaker 6: just just for that extra little kick, Okay, to help
Speaker 6: get me through the week.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I'm I'm down with opp I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: there and so I completely understand what's going on now
Speaker 1: that you've had a couple of days to kind of
Speaker 1: digest everything. What's been the what's been the vibe other
Speaker 1: than disappointment slash anger slash consternation from everybody that's been
Speaker 1: watching and listening and hanging out with you guys at
Speaker 1: sns AM. I pretty much there when it comes to
Speaker 1: all of the the emotional curves that are there for
Speaker 1: Atlanta United followers, fans, et cetera.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think folks are just disappointed. The locker room
Speaker 6: I think echoed that sentiment a lot, and it was
Speaker 6: just it was one of those things where you know
Speaker 6: you have hope until you can't anymore, and right now,
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, mathematically there is still a possibility, but
Speaker 6: don't ask me to do the math, but I think
Speaker 6: it's down there below five percent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I mean, hey, you sit there and you
Speaker 1: still go and until until you don't go, Then did
Speaker 1: you just keep trying to to plug away at it?
Speaker 1: Because pretty much every result ahead of you didn't hurt you.
Speaker 1: Short of the Montreal giving themselves some space in the eight,
Speaker 1: everybody else didn't do what they needed to do to
Speaker 1: solidify a space going forward here into either two or
Speaker 1: three or one match to go in the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: fourth season. Everybody helped you out when it came to
Speaker 1: doing all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think that's what's so frustrating is you
Speaker 6: just didn't help yourself out, right, like you're at home.
Speaker 6: I get that. It's Joseph, And I will say, like,
Speaker 6: if anybody's going to knock Atlanta or all butt knock
Speaker 6: Atlanta out of the playoffs, it's only fitting and slightly
Speaker 6: poetic and whatever other words you want to put in here,
Speaker 6: that is Joseph Martinez. Also, for all the people that
Speaker 6: showed up to the bins that day, I'm glad you
Speaker 6: got to see Joseph scoring the bins and not somebody random.
Speaker 6: At least, let it be Joseph, some rando like peop
Speaker 6: yeah a poke, I'm looking at you now. Yeah, but no,
Speaker 6: I mean I think you're you just didn't do yourself
Speaker 6: any favors, right, like everything else really went your way.
Speaker 6: We were kind of in the beginning keeping an eye
Speaker 6: on the scoreboard and things were looking very positive for Atlanta,
Speaker 6: and then you go into the half, right, and you've
Speaker 6: got a little bit of momentum. You know, you scored
Speaker 6: the goal getting close to going and the half and
Speaker 6: then you just couldn't put it away. You couldn't put
Speaker 6: it away. And you know, Joseph that second goal, that's
Speaker 6: vintage Joseph to a t, like you give him a
Speaker 6: slight opportunity in the box like that. And it felt
Speaker 6: like the Julian Gress little Joseph connection that we've seen
Speaker 6: so many times of the Benz except not Julian Gressel
Speaker 6: coming from the other side. But no, I mean, just
Speaker 6: a lot of disappointment from folks, you know, somber and
Speaker 6: you know, we talked about it on the show last night.
Speaker 6: Just the locker room last night or on Wednesday was
Speaker 6: just very down and I know you were in there
Speaker 6: with Rob as well. Just it feels like a lot
Speaker 6: of folks are at the point where they just don't
Speaker 6: know what to say.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you run out of things to say.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like if things continue to go on
Speaker 1: and on and on, Uh, you know, what what is
Speaker 1: it that what is it that they say, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: having to do with repeated results, doing the same thing
Speaker 1: over and over again and anticipating a different result.
Speaker 2: Is something in there that's like, you know, it doesn't
Speaker 2: happen or whatever.
Speaker 6: The definition of insanity.
Speaker 1: Thank you, definition of in saying doing something over and
Speaker 1: over again and anticipating a different result. Alex he says,
Speaker 1: y'all are a bunch of sickos, Sico's committee, no desira
Speaker 1: or preference for Joseph to be the one to score.
Speaker 1: I mean there there are those. And Joseph, to his credit,
Speaker 1: this time did not celebrate. Last time out he celebrated,
Speaker 1: and I would thought that that would have stuck with
Speaker 1: a lot of folks that he celebrated last time he
Speaker 1: was here, this time he did not. It was it
Speaker 1: was interesting to see the dichotomy this time around with
Speaker 1: with Joseph and the the lack of a celebration, and
Speaker 1: there were the videos that CF Montreal put out there
Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff. So it was it
Speaker 1: was an interesting dichotomy with this version of Joseph as
Speaker 1: opposed to the other version of Joseph when he was
Speaker 1: with Messi and friends trying to make sure, mister Messi,
Speaker 1: is your seat warm enough? Do you do you need
Speaker 1: an a partief? Do you do you need a do
Speaker 1: you need some you know? With your cafe? Do you
Speaker 1: need you know whatever?
Speaker 6: Can I bring you a latte?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 1: Can I bring you a Latte for mister Beckham, Sir,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the it was it was a
Speaker 1: different it was a different Joseph Joseph vibe. But I
Speaker 1: mean it was, like I said, it was a different
Speaker 1: Joseph vibe. And for Joseph to possibly be the one
Speaker 1: to take your to take your point and go one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty degrees with it, For Joseph to end
Speaker 1: up being the one that might be the individual that
Speaker 1: knocks Atlanta out when they when you needed a result,
Speaker 1: the irony there lost on a lot of folks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, and I think maybe it eases the blow
Speaker 6: a little bit. But it's one of those things where
Speaker 6: the team has had opportunities, they've had control of their
Speaker 6: own destiny. Now, you know, for a while, I mean
Speaker 6: obviously you could say that about every team to the
Speaker 6: whole season, but as it got closer to the end
Speaker 6: of the season, things were looking somewhat probable that you
Speaker 6: still made the playoffs. You just had to win a
Speaker 6: few games, right, and you just haven't been able to
Speaker 6: do that. And so yeah, I mean, to get to
Speaker 6: the point where you're backed against a wall and then
Speaker 6: you know, Joseph comes in with the dagger. I mean,
Speaker 6: it is what it is. But Joseph, to his credit, yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, he runs around wearing number seventeen,
Speaker 6: which I get that was his his number well before
Speaker 6: Atlanta as well, but also I think there's there's something
Speaker 6: absolutely about the fact that he chose to wear that
Speaker 6: number still up there. You know, when we were in
Speaker 6: there talking with Rob and when we went to the
Speaker 6: Atlanta nine of locker room, Sydney actually went to go
Speaker 6: talk to Joseph and he did an article over on
Speaker 6: discarverssbikes dot com. And but when I got back up
Speaker 6: to the press box that night and we were getting
Speaker 6: ready to record our three Takeaways video, he the first
Speaker 6: thing he said was, it just seems like Joseph is
Speaker 6: like at peace, okay, And he talked to him and said,
Speaker 6: you know, I have nothing but love for this city,
Speaker 6: you know, more than anything, but I have to fight
Speaker 6: for the colors that I'm wearing. And I mean that's
Speaker 6: the job, right, Like, yes, you're getting paid the due,
Speaker 6: so there's no hard feelings. But it does seem like
Speaker 6: he's kind of moved past everything, at least according you know,
Speaker 6: to kind of the vibe that Sidney got from him.
Speaker 6: So wish him the best obviously, always have. And if
Speaker 6: if he has moved on and he's not, you know,
Speaker 6: upset about the way things went down, then you know,
Speaker 6: more power to him, because if we're being honest, this
Speaker 6: team and this entire club is totally different than what
Speaker 6: it was the last time Joseph wore a Atlanta jersey.
Speaker 1: Uh, and David to the point and Bart your comment,
Speaker 1: I do want to circle back to as a part
Speaker 1: of this, David says, uh failing to finish chances early
Speaker 1: being something that dooms them late. Saba miss off the
Speaker 1: post falls in the category Joseph gets his bad angle
Speaker 1: touch and Saba misses. So but there were chances for
Speaker 1: Atlanta United, and this is something that's occurred all season long.
Speaker 1: The the missed opportunities, the shots that you know, hit
Speaker 1: the post, the saves, the the pass that should have
Speaker 1: been taken as opposed to hanging on to a ball.
Speaker 1: And Rob mentioned that in the post match press conference too.
Speaker 1: There were a couple of looks where the pass would
Speaker 1: have been the play as opposed to hanging on to
Speaker 1: it and attempting a shot that gets either blocked or
Speaker 1: saved or what have you. But now and the seats
Speaker 1: and but yes, Saba's opportunity, sabas miss off the post,
Speaker 1: you have your I mean literally we could probably sit
Speaker 1: there and go through all the matches and go.
Speaker 2: Okay, here, here, here, here, and here, and it will
Speaker 2: be a.
Speaker 1: Laundry list of missed opportunities for the club in from
Speaker 1: the ball in the back of the net this season.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know, Saba specifically has got to be
Speaker 6: the unluckiest guy on the planet. Like I put up
Speaker 6: a meme or a gift during the middle of the
Speaker 6: match after he hit the crossbar again or the would
Speaker 6: work again, and it was just like, you know, Saba
Speaker 6: and the woodwork they just hate each other like they
Speaker 6: cannot stand. It's been so many times this season where
Speaker 6: he's he's come so close, and you know, for him
Speaker 6: to still be your your leading playmaker essentially in terms
Speaker 6: of numbers is astounding and you just think of like
Speaker 6: what could have been? Yeah, right, But that's just that's
Speaker 6: the season. I mean, there's so many, so many aspects
Speaker 6: of the season where it's just it was so close.
Speaker 6: It was so close. You had the finest of margins,
Speaker 6: whether defensively or offensively. Lately, it's been offensively to where
Speaker 6: you could have squosed out another three or six points
Speaker 6: and we would be having a totally different conversation. And
Speaker 6: that's what's so frustrating about it is it's not like you're,
Speaker 6: you know, fifteen points below the playoff line. You've been
Speaker 6: right there on the edge for what a month and
Speaker 6: a half and you just just didn't go your.
Speaker 1: Way and you have leads that are lost giving up
Speaker 1: the first goal once again, tell me if you've heard
Speaker 1: this before, you get to you give up the first goal,
Speaker 1: you come back and fight, and then something else happens.
Speaker 1: It either ends up being a draw or it ends
Speaker 1: up being a win the other way. So there are
Speaker 1: a lot of different things, and the post mortem and
Speaker 1: the analysis of this season, whenever it ends, it's going
Speaker 1: to have a lot of these these topics that are
Speaker 1: going to be discussed. And our friends at spot track
Speaker 1: are going to let us know about salaries and you know,
Speaker 1: the nine players that are at the end of their
Speaker 1: contracts or have options that could or could not be
Speaker 1: picked up after the calendar year is over, and they're
Speaker 1: going there's going to be there. There is going to
Speaker 1: be there are going to be there. There is going
Speaker 1: to be a tremendous amount of decisions that will be
Speaker 1: made by the garth Logger way led at the moment
Speaker 1: front office and how this is going to go forward,
Speaker 1: and and and one of the things that will always
Speaker 1: stick with me and especially and literally if you mentioned,
Speaker 1: if you mentioned to Jarrett Pedro Amador, if you mentioned
Speaker 1: Pedro Amador to Jarrett, Yeah, there you go, finish.
Speaker 2: You're gonna need to You're gonna need to get you
Speaker 2: need like round two.
Speaker 3: I'm sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sticking up for teammates, that is something I think that
Speaker 1: uh and being there as a part of a collective,
Speaker 1: I think that is going to be something that a
Speaker 1: lot of folks inside the Children's Health Care of Atlanta
Speaker 1: training ground, inside that locker room, outside those of us
Speaker 1: that cover it and watch it on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: Being there for your teammates, I think it is going
Speaker 1: to be something that that will be thought of and
Speaker 1: heartfelt and thought about a lot in the postseason and
Speaker 1: then the offseason.
Speaker 6: That it's a culture thing in a way, like unless
Speaker 6: you're being explicitly told not to, you know, go potentially
Speaker 6: get a yellow or or whatever, there's no reason to
Speaker 6: not go in on some of the some of the
Speaker 6: players that have put in these really bad challenges lately.
Speaker 6: And yeah, I mean Pedromedor is like the most egregious one.
Speaker 6: But you know, I've kind of been pointing it out
Speaker 6: to like Sydney and Henry and and folks in the
Speaker 6: press box, like over the past few matches where somebody
Speaker 6: goes down and Atlanta player goes down and the only
Speaker 6: one running over there is Brad And I understand he's
Speaker 6: the captain, but we know that's not just because he's captain.
Speaker 6: That's Brad. Where is everybody else? And that's just one
Speaker 6: part of the report card, I think at the end
Speaker 6: of the day.
Speaker 3: Day.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but like show some a hole at some.
Speaker 2: Point, like testicular fortitude.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, absolutely, and and and show the fans like
Speaker 6: you're at home. You're at home, and you're not playing
Speaker 6: well at home like much less away. You got to
Speaker 6: give the fans something to hold onto. And I've been
Speaker 6: saying that for for a while now, like with the
Speaker 6: front office and the way things are going, like fans
Speaker 6: just admittedly aren't very excited about the team. And the
Speaker 6: best way that you can you can kind of drum
Speaker 6: up a little bit of something is to give the
Speaker 6: fans something to hold onto, and that has to come
Speaker 6: ultimately from the pitch. It has to be the players
Speaker 6: going out there and showing that they're fighting for the badge.
Speaker 6: And that doesn't always mean you know, running seven and
Speaker 6: a half miles in a match and and you know,
Speaker 6: just running yourself into the ground like that's great one
Speaker 6: hundred percent, but you got to show some personality, some attitude,
Speaker 6: and I just don't see that right now. I don't like,
Speaker 6: I see, you know, there's complaints, want to play or
Speaker 6: a foul doesn't go your way, things like that, but
Speaker 6: I don't see the swag, I guess, and the chemistry
Speaker 6: is just it feels non existent. And Rob even said
Speaker 6: it in the press conference. He said, you know, I
Speaker 6: see the same thing that y'all do, and I feel
Speaker 6: the way y'all do about how it feels like the
Speaker 6: team comes out flat all the time. And for him
Speaker 6: to say that now, I mean, I wish he had
Speaker 6: an answer for it, but nobody seems happy it.
Speaker 1: Well, there's only so much that a coach in any
Speaker 1: situation like that can do. You can you and your
Speaker 1: staff can get a team prepared for a match that
Speaker 1: is as important as these matches are and then when
Speaker 1: the team goes out and does not perform and match
Speaker 1: the level of expectation, self expectation, and the level that
Speaker 1: you know, they feel that they should be meeting if
Speaker 1: they're going to be chasing after you know, three points,
Speaker 1: playoff spot, all those kinds of factors, then there's only
Speaker 1: what is it we talked about it? You know the
Speaker 1: definition of insanity. You know, you keep doing the same
Speaker 1: thing over and over again and anticipating a different result.
Speaker 1: There's only so many times that you can sit there
Speaker 1: and hope that you're giving the message and getting the
Speaker 1: message across, and you hope that the players are listening,
Speaker 1: and then it comes to the implementation of that message.
Speaker 1: There's only so many times, Like a coach cannot be
Speaker 1: an eligible player yep, and be out there and go, well,
Speaker 1: this is what I'm you know, And like the conversation
Speaker 1: we were had with Michael with Michael parkerst where a
Speaker 1: coach can tell you something and then you have the
Speaker 1: players out there that'll sit there and they'll tweak the
Speaker 1: message out there because they're the ones out there adjusting,
Speaker 1: and it's like we're the ones playing. Okay, so let's
Speaker 1: suggest this, this, this, and this. A coach is not
Speaker 1: out there to help you adjust to do this, this, this,
Speaker 1: this and this. You get, you get all of this,
Speaker 1: and you get you get this from coaches, they're not
Speaker 1: out there doing that same thing because you know, they
Speaker 1: have to stay in their their dotted space.
Speaker 2: So there's only so much that a coach can do.
Speaker 1: Ultimately, it comes down to the players and their performance
Speaker 1: on the field on it on a game by game basis.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think that's what's really really frustrating from
Speaker 6: the players perspective, and then of course from the fans
Speaker 6: because you see, like you know, up in the the stands,
Speaker 6: you watch the team play lately especially and now it
Speaker 6: doesn't necessarily feel like they have an identity. They are
Speaker 6: trying new things like credit to rob you know, I mean,
Speaker 6: put Jay Fortune on the left wing, like changing things around,
Speaker 6: like there's there's things that are being done to just
Speaker 6: not do the same thing over and over again, right,
Speaker 6: But it just feels like it's just a mentality thing.
Speaker 6: And that's very tough to fix. That's very tough to
Speaker 6: fix because you have to identify what the actual problem
Speaker 6: is first and then come up with a way to
Speaker 6: fix it, but it doesn't feel like anybody has really
Speaker 6: determined like what the problem is. Like we can say chemistry,
Speaker 6: we can say mentality, we can say all those words
Speaker 6: all day, but there's something specific that somebody is gonna
Speaker 6: have to find and nail it down and remove it
Speaker 6: and start building back, like you know, a culture of
Speaker 6: truly winning, not just playing to not lose.
Speaker 1: Doug Robertson of the AJAC is saying that he does
Speaker 1: not see Shanda Silva out at practice this morning getting
Speaker 1: ready for Red Bulls coming up this weekend for the
Speaker 1: last home match of the season for Atlanda United. David's
Speaker 1: fan impression mostly frustration, belief we certainly should be getting
Speaker 1: more out of the group than we do. It's not
Speaker 1: they're just bad, but more we're flat or just finding
Speaker 1: new ways to lose. And other guys like Tristan and
Speaker 1: Shande who flashed when they've arrived and have not just
Speaker 1: re emerged, and shandaih Shanday and Jamal it is they
Speaker 1: have not been healthy one hundred percent of the time,
Speaker 1: and then you're trying to regain the form you had
Speaker 1: when you were healthy, and that takes time and with
Speaker 1: urgency in a situation. There are all these things that
Speaker 1: that snowball and trying to regain what you had, and
Speaker 1: it's not something where you can flip a switch and
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, i'm on, i'm off, i'm off, i'm on,
Speaker 1: I can get it all back.
Speaker 2: It takes.
Speaker 1: It takes growing back into the situation because of the
Speaker 1: lingering issues that are attached to an injury, the you know,
Speaker 1: the probably the internal concern that you have as an
Speaker 1: athlete about getting back to form, not wanting to press,
Speaker 1: but you feel like you have to press, and you know,
Speaker 1: help out your team. All these different kinds of things
Speaker 1: that are there. Uh, Bart, let me get to Bart's point.
Speaker 1: Bart wants to know if he's a bad fan by
Speaker 1: wanting the team to miss the playoffs. So there's no
Speaker 1: pretense of success when evaluating individual performances this year for
Speaker 1: end of your roster decisions and transfer market. Bart, I
Speaker 1: would say this, Bart as as a fan of West
Speaker 1: Virginia football, and Bart is a West Virginia West Virginia
Speaker 1: Leonora Ryan. So take your pick either Division two playoffs
Speaker 1: or Division one college football. I think even if you
Speaker 1: finish six and six, you want the bowl game. So
Speaker 1: you can sit there engage how you are. In a
Speaker 1: college football sense, I think you want that bowl game
Speaker 1: to get those extra practices, to see what it looks
Speaker 1: like leading into next season. I think that in other sports,
Speaker 1: you'll want to.
Speaker 2: Be the eighth seed.
Speaker 1: As Jared has said and has mentioned to everybody here repeatedly.
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup champion twenty twelve Los Angeles Kings, eight seed
Speaker 1: and got a keeper, got a goalie and Jonathan Quick
Speaker 1: that was on a heater and it was four four four.
Speaker 1: Beat the Rangers win a Stanley Cup. You don't know
Speaker 1: until you get in. That's literally that's how I look
Speaker 1: at it when it comes to I want, I want
Speaker 1: a team to get into a playoff just so I
Speaker 1: can get those extra practices, just so I can see
Speaker 1: what you got, just so I can continue to further
Speaker 1: evaluate instead of having a you know, have the garage
Speaker 1: door shut on a season. What about what Bart said
Speaker 1: and we put it back up here for you, Tyler.
Speaker 1: That's Bart about getting into the postseason.
Speaker 3: What about you?
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't. I don't think you're a bad fan.
Speaker 3: Bart.
Speaker 6: I don't because there are thousands of other people that
Speaker 6: feel the same way you do. I think what like
Speaker 6: what John is saying, Absolutely, you you have to try
Speaker 6: to get in and just see where it goes, because
Speaker 6: that is the one, you know, positive or negative depending
Speaker 6: on who you ask about MLS. It's a different playoff format.
Speaker 6: It's an American playoff format, and so there is always
Speaker 6: that very very small belief that you can get in
Speaker 6: and have a you know, just a dream run. But
Speaker 6: I said it last night, and if I am Garth Logerway,
Speaker 6: I'm going to the team, every first team player before
Speaker 6: this match tomorrow and telling them this is essentially a
Speaker 6: job interview.
Speaker 3: The next one.
Speaker 2: It has been for a while.
Speaker 6: I mean it should have been. It should have been,
Speaker 6: but like it just feels like that message is not
Speaker 6: like you would think that if if the players really
Speaker 6: felt that, then you wouldn't be having the same mistakes
Speaker 6: and that the same thing's going on that you have
Speaker 6: right now. And I mean, I know, I know it's
Speaker 6: a hard place for the players because I know they're trying.
Speaker 6: I'm like, I've come on here and I've tried to
Speaker 6: make sure that is understood and i know y'all have
Speaker 6: as well. Like I know it's not that they're just
Speaker 6: like punting the season or giving up, like I know
Speaker 6: they're trying, but morale is a heck of a thing.
Speaker 6: And if if you're morale is not there, your job,
Speaker 6: you might be able to go do the job, but
Speaker 6: you're probably not going to do it as well as
Speaker 6: you could. And that's kind of like where we're at
Speaker 6: right now. And so you've got to find as a professional,
Speaker 6: you've got to find a way to dig deep and
Speaker 6: self motivate. And if you can't and your boss telling
Speaker 6: you essentially that you might not have a job, We're
Speaker 6: going to find a way to rebuild everything. If that
Speaker 6: doesn't do it for you either, then you really don't
Speaker 6: have any business wearing the shirt. And I'm not saying
Speaker 6: anybody specific. I don't know that that's how you know
Speaker 6: the players feel, but I know how the fans feel,
Speaker 6: and I know how it looks out there on the pitch.
Speaker 6: And that's the only thing I can come up with
Speaker 6: is do you want to be a part of next
Speaker 6: year and this, as Henry said, the redemption arc? Or
Speaker 6: do we need to move on from you?
Speaker 1: And I think that a part of this, and this
Speaker 1: is something that we've talked about a lot here is
Speaker 1: the youth that is available to Atlanta United, whether it's
Speaker 1: two's cup of coffee. Players have been first team, second team,
Speaker 1: you have the academy guys that are that are growing,
Speaker 1: and we'll have another season under their belt. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of promise and and bart to your point about
Speaker 1: extra practice as substitute players and players who've proven who
Speaker 1: they are. This the continued reps for me, give me
Speaker 1: an opportunity to sit there and continue to look at
Speaker 1: folks like Noah Cobb in a practice situation, Ephan Morales
Speaker 1: in a practice situation, Matt Edwards jad and Hibbert Jay
Speaker 1: Fortune to continue to see what he's got, you know,
Speaker 1: Aiden Torres as he continues to go Yeah, I mentioned
Speaker 1: in a lot of kids. But for me, I think
Speaker 1: it's beneficial for those younger players, whether they're twos or
Speaker 1: first team contract or what have you. You know, Jacob Williams,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe a hobby armist or an noble Akello
Speaker 1: or a cream to me me a lot of the
Speaker 1: folks that we've seen with the twos to continue to
Speaker 1: interact with those first team players to see how they are.
Speaker 1: Like I said, if if there's somebody and I am
Speaker 1: not casting in a spursion I'm just saying that if there,
Speaker 1: if that, if you are at the Children's self gare
Speaker 1: at Atlanta training Ground and you are looking at Luke Brennan,
Speaker 1: thank you, Abby, excellent excellent pick up there too. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you're looking at folks, whether it's a Landing Nighted
Speaker 1: two roster and with what Steve Cook and Lewis Sharp
Speaker 1: and Jose Silva, that what they've done. You get those guys,
Speaker 1: you have them go into the same situation and practice
Speaker 1: against the first team. You get to see those Alan
Speaker 1: Carlton another one that that is that is there? Literally
Speaker 1: I could I could literally run down the roster of
Speaker 1: the twos and I could tell you, hell, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and do it. I'm gonna do it right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get to get around my razzles and
Speaker 1: my and my charms blow pops and everything. Is that
Speaker 1: a piano, Yeah, it's a piano.
Speaker 6: I did not know that this entire time, I've not
Speaker 6: known that that was a piano sitting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the boss, the boss plays piano. Okay, so all right,
Speaker 1: so let's take a peek at this. Effrian Morales, Aiden
Speaker 1: Torres Noah cop and I'm just literally I'm just running
Speaker 1: down the list. Efrian Morales, Aiden Torres, Noah kab Luke,
Speaker 1: Brennan Fermino, Ramsey Cowasmi with what he's been able to
Speaker 1: do at the back, Ethan Dudley coming from Florida Gulf
Speaker 1: Coast inserting himself into the back line, Alan Carlton Noble,
Speaker 1: Rodrigo Neeri who got a call up to the U
Speaker 1: twenties recently, matt Edwards, Cooper Sanchez probably a couple of
Speaker 1: years away with academy time, but still seeing what you've
Speaker 1: got with Cooper, Matthew de Janey's still at the academy,
Speaker 1: Dominic Chong Que who at the age of sixteen d
Speaker 1: c Q has put in quality work. On the left
Speaker 1: hand side, You've got Eric Centino as he recovers from
Speaker 1: his ankle injury, Matties ga Jarda with what we've seen
Speaker 1: from him. In the middle, Stephen Hurlock with his time,
Speaker 1: Ashton Gordon with what we've seen from him. You've got
Speaker 1: Hadley with the academy, Jacob Williams hobby armist, Caden Moore,
Speaker 1: kareem To Mimi Jaden Hibbert in Nett who is a
Speaker 1: story in and of himself. So how many dudes, did
Speaker 1: we just name off in like thirty seconds, like eighteen, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so to have those players interacting and a part
Speaker 1: of the first team practice schedule. That's why as a
Speaker 1: part of being with the first team guys getting those
Speaker 1: extra practices. I want to see how these dudes interact
Speaker 1: with that group. So that's why I'm looking for more practices.
Speaker 1: Even if at the end of you know, even at
Speaker 1: the end of the day you get in as a nine,
Speaker 1: you're playing an eight, you still get extra reps with
Speaker 1: everybody who's here. So Bart, I guess that was my
Speaker 1: larger point. David, I know that you and I will
Speaker 1: disagree on Ronald Hernandez completely. I would go and read
Speaker 1: the article that was done at Soccer down here Dutnet
Speaker 1: about Ronald Hernandez. Then I know we'll disagree about Ronald
Speaker 1: Luisa Bram. David wants to free up international spots, Morales
Speaker 1: Cobb Edwards serve as debt free up international spots. More
Speaker 1: of a difference makes up.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 1: So that's why we ran through that list of a
Speaker 1: lot of dudes who are in the pipeline and are
Speaker 1: common I want to see how they interact with the
Speaker 1: first team. I mean, go back to behind the stripes
Speaker 1: and was it the second episode was the Cincinnati loss?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 1: Who was it that spoke up Dax and Noah Cobb? Yep,
Speaker 1: that's what you're staring at. H. So that's what I'm
Speaker 1: looking at with these extra reps and these extra practices.
Speaker 1: Get me in is a nine and show me what
Speaker 1: you can do. I want those extra reps period. That's why.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it's like I said, does that make sense?
Speaker 2: Did that make any sense?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: One hundred percent. And I think, you know, I think
Speaker 6: the argument is always going to be, well, they've had
Speaker 6: all season, which I get, but at the end of
Speaker 6: the day, like all those guys that you named, they
Speaker 6: can't have enough reps, especially the ones that have done
Speaker 6: so well when this year, which is really all of them,
Speaker 6: if if we're being honest, I mean, there really isn't
Speaker 6: a guy with the twos that has come up and
Speaker 6: put in first teen minutes that hasn't done pretty well.
Speaker 1: Go to the Open Cup game against Charleston, Yeah, shining example,
Speaker 1: Go watch that and that rotated side that was in
Speaker 1: there the gut the win in Charleston in a gut
Speaker 1: check game.
Speaker 2: All the names that were attached to that win.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, and you know that was an interesting one
Speaker 6: as well. But I remember I was, uh because I
Speaker 6: was actually there getting destroyed by the sand.
Speaker 2: Natural yes, and the sun.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, but Jay Fortune was injured at the time
Speaker 6: and he was sitting right in front of me, and uh,
Speaker 6: the relationship in the chemistry that he had, you know,
Speaker 6: cheering on the guys that he's put in time with
Speaker 6: with the twos and just being around that group was refreshing.
Speaker 6: And that it's just it's another thing, and going back
Speaker 6: to what we talked about earlier, it is something that
Speaker 6: you have to see. You have to see that kind
Speaker 6: of camaraderie that I don't think you see a lot
Speaker 6: of with a lot of the folks on the first team.
Speaker 6: Not that that has anything to do with the training
Speaker 6: reps or anything, but I just think it's another example
Speaker 6: of the folks coming up through the system are really
Speaker 6: on the right path, and right now the first team
Speaker 6: is just really struggling with what feels like a broken
Speaker 6: system and it has to be fixed.
Speaker 1: Then Bart's like, got it. So we need extra reps
Speaker 1: for all the players who aren't actually on the team.
Speaker 1: So the first team players who've proven they're not good enough,
Speaker 1: can pretend they've achieved a goal of the playoffs. Bart's
Speaker 1: on fire this morning. I would look play until you
Speaker 1: can't play anymore. If that means that you don't get
Speaker 1: into a postseason, you've done what you've done, you don't
Speaker 1: get in, you don't get in. You play until you
Speaker 1: don't play anymore. If it means you get in and
Speaker 1: the math works, you're nine, you get in, you find
Speaker 1: out what happens there. Just playing until you don't play anymore,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm looking at.
Speaker 6: And I mean, I think Garth is a smart enough
Speaker 6: guy to look at it. If if the scenario plays
Speaker 6: out where suddenly you make it to the playoffs after
Speaker 6: these last two games, regardless of who plays, I think
Speaker 6: Garth is smart enough to just look at the overall
Speaker 6: season and say, all right, well, you know, the young guys,
Speaker 6: every time they were out on the field, they were hungry,
Speaker 6: They left it all out there, and they did everything
Speaker 6: they had to do mistakes, which is fine, but they
Speaker 6: they played far beyond their years and they did really well.
Speaker 6: And I think you can look at some of the
Speaker 6: players that are consistently getting time with the first team
Speaker 6: and you say all right, well where was the effectiveness?
Speaker 6: And where were you when we had five must win
Speaker 6: games near the end of the season, Like, why was
Speaker 6: the the effectiveness not there? You know? I just think again,
Speaker 6: it's a report card and you're looking at individual players,
Speaker 6: and I just I think Garth is smart enough to
Speaker 6: look and say, all right, well yeah, just because they
Speaker 6: squeaked in. If they do, there are thirty four games
Speaker 6: overall that we have to look at and say, well,
Speaker 6: this was this was how it all played out. Ultimately,
Speaker 6: it is not going to come down to the two games.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 1: Jared thy Cholcome Tyler and I are discussing the idea
Speaker 1: of playing until you can't places the more and if
Speaker 1: it turns into the idea of getting a lot of
Speaker 1: the folks that we've seen, either at the academy level
Speaker 1: or at the twos level, getting them to continue to
Speaker 1: interact with the first team players and see where things
Speaker 1: stand with them, I'm all for it. And I literally
Speaker 1: ran through the list of all of the dudes that
Speaker 1: have gotten major minutes this year with it landa United
Speaker 1: too as a part of this whole process to see
Speaker 1: them and how they interact with first team guys that
Speaker 1: are going to be around next season.
Speaker 3: Look, there's a lot of decisions they gotta get made
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 2: Front, no doubt.
Speaker 3: You got a lot of the guys who were brought
Speaker 3: in on the twos are on like one year deals
Speaker 3: like Noble Killow on your deal. How the armis play
Speaker 3: every dayn minute. The twos, you got decisions to make them,
Speaker 3: and you have decision to make for the first team.
Speaker 3: Like I said yesterday though man like, at the risk
Speaker 3: of it sounding too dramatic, because I don't mean it
Speaker 3: too even though I don't know how to make it
Speaker 3: not sound dramatic, right, if you can't come out into
Speaker 3: this game tomorrow night with your hair on fire, with
Speaker 3: you know, basically like Billy at the beginning of the
Speaker 3: third Active Predator where he stands on the log he
Speaker 3: cuts his chest open and waits for the predator. If
Speaker 3: you can't come out there like that, you're making my
Speaker 3: decisions a little bit easier when it comes to off
Speaker 3: season roster decisions. Because no Garth had said when gets
Speaker 3: out up the night that was fired, that you know,
Speaker 3: everybody's jobs on the table. Obviously we saw that with
Speaker 3: Carlos spokanegra being LetGo as well, I'm sure it goes
Speaker 3: deep in the organization, but that should go for players
Speaker 3: as well. There's a world market for the sport. And
Speaker 3: if you don't fight for the badge, I will find
Speaker 3: someone who will. So show me something tomorrow night, and
Speaker 3: show me what you got against a rival. And buddy,
Speaker 3: it's always a rival.
Speaker 1: And uh, Bart getting okay and so and Jared, I'll
Speaker 1: let you tackle this when Bart says it's worth noting
Speaker 1: the two is finished thirteenth to fifteenth in the Eastern
Speaker 1: MLS next pro correct, But okay.
Speaker 3: They they weren't good enough. Like you call whatever you want,
Speaker 3: you can you can phrase it however you want. They weren't.
Speaker 3: They dropped points when they shouldn't have. You know, you
Speaker 3: go back to go back to the Orlando game. But
Speaker 3: they up a goal, up a man, gave up two
Speaker 3: goals while up the man in ten minutes. They weren't
Speaker 3: good enough. There are talented players on that team, hobby armists.
Speaker 3: Bobby Armis don't have a damn good career for himself.
Speaker 3: I don't know IF's MLS. I don't know if he's
Speaker 3: fast enough, like foot feet fast enough for MLS.
Speaker 2: Dan Dale, see he's Jared is staring at flora and fauna.
Speaker 1: Here as he's he's becoming one with a bird happy place.
Speaker 3: A bird landed above my head. I can't do anything
Speaker 3: about that, But like I don't know where Hobby plays, Yeah, Hobby,
Speaker 3: Hobby don't play somewhere though, But you you have talented
Speaker 3: players there, like Mary is a hell of a lottery
Speaker 3: ticket to pick up, and you picked him up halfway
Speaker 3: this season, but it didn't come together until too late
Speaker 3: in the season. Then since second season you've done that.
Speaker 3: So what do you do to fix it? M hm?
Speaker 3: And I know it's tough because guys are training with
Speaker 3: the first team. There's very little consistency into his training
Speaker 3: because guys are getting pulled into national team duty. They're
Speaker 3: getting pulled into when they're academy guys tournaments around god
Speaker 3: knows where. Some of them are training with the first team,
Speaker 3: like we saw it like last year when j before
Speaker 3: j Fortune was trying to make himself a staple in
Speaker 3: the first team. Last year, he was training with the
Speaker 3: first team consistently, and he's going to be training with
Speaker 3: the first team like this is a chance for them
Speaker 3: to show what they got. Is tough, but they got
Speaker 3: to figure out something. Yeah, we've seen similar to the
Speaker 3: first team, that identical that I wouldn't be as disappointed
Speaker 3: if I wasn't sure that there's better in there, because
Speaker 3: they've shown it. So you got to figure it out
Speaker 3: for this year, this upcoming year with the two's how
Speaker 3: you want to balance that and be consistently good and
Speaker 3: not have to have these really good runs at the
Speaker 3: end of the feat.
Speaker 2: Yep, all right, So let's turn to Red Bulls.
Speaker 1: It was announced by the team just half a second
Speaker 1: ago that Lower Bowl forty two thousand sold out for
Speaker 1: the last match of the year on a Saturday. Shows
Speaker 1: you how many folks also will be keeping an eye.
Speaker 1: They'll be tailgating watching what's going on in Athens, not
Speaker 1: necessarily going because it's probably going to be blowout city and.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be a snuff film. Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the boss isn't going.
Speaker 3: Peyton Thorn is. Peyton Thorn is going to need to
Speaker 3: go onto wits protection, mostly mostly from Freeze, so Freeze
Speaker 3: hasn't throw him under a bus again.
Speaker 2: But yeah, give it time, give him another week or so,
Speaker 2: he'll he'll find a way.
Speaker 1: Uh. When you look at Red Bulls, this is a
Speaker 1: this is still Tyler, very red bullsy in but with
Speaker 1: a twist, so it's not quite your older Brothers Red
Speaker 1: Bulls team, but with a healthy er emial Fourburg coming
Speaker 1: back got some minutes last time out. I am intrigued
Speaker 1: to see which version of the Red Bulls we get
Speaker 1: and if Atlanta United just sits there and turns it
Speaker 1: into like it was in the playoffs at Red Bull Arena,
Speaker 1: tell you what you can have it and you guys work.
Speaker 2: From the back. I want to see how this plays out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think this is where it gets really easy
Speaker 6: to talk about the tactics between the two teams, right
Speaker 6: because I think fans are looking for more of an
Speaker 6: internal conversation about the players, kind of like what we've
Speaker 6: been talking about. What are you going to show me?
Speaker 6: What are you going to show out on the pitch
Speaker 6: when you're wearing this shirt against a team that we
Speaker 6: hate and have consistently hated, And one could argue is
Speaker 6: Atlanta's first real rival. Go win the game, like come
Speaker 6: hell or high water. Doesn't matter what the Rebels do.
Speaker 6: It doesn't matter if they come out and press you high. Yeah,
Speaker 6: if you've got to sit back and and and you know,
Speaker 6: play some shenanigans or whatever, do what you got to
Speaker 6: do to make some tweaks. But ultimately, the eleven players
Speaker 6: that Rob picks to be out there on the opening whistle.
Speaker 6: They need to put on a show for everybody in
Speaker 6: the bins and for goth loger way.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, I'm i'm I'm I am intrigued Jared as
Speaker 1: to what this looks like coming out of the blocks
Speaker 1: for UH, for Atlanta Nighted going up against Red Bulls
Speaker 1: in a in a in a math nasium that is
Speaker 1: going to be the playoffs between now and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: two weeks from now, because remember it is this weekend
Speaker 1: international break where we all get to gnash our teeth
Speaker 1: and twiddle our thumbs and do math and all these
Speaker 1: kinds of things during an international window and then get
Speaker 1: ready for a decision day and find out who's going
Speaker 1: to be doing what I am intrigued to see A
Speaker 1: with the lineup looks like and b uh, they better
Speaker 1: come out with their proverbial hair on fire in this.
Speaker 1: In this gotta have three point situation.
Speaker 3: You're gonna know something going into the window. This will
Speaker 3: be It's interesting that we schedule breaks here because after
Speaker 3: this hame you the window. You have a bit of
Speaker 3: a break. You're gonna have some time to think on
Speaker 3: some ship.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. There's the explicit rating for.
Speaker 3: The morning what you are because if you don't get
Speaker 3: it done Saturday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3: That's it. You don't get three points. If you don't
Speaker 3: get three points, probably with some room despair for comfort,
Speaker 3: like multi goal wind kind of thing. You're done.
Speaker 2: Do not pass, go, do not collect two hundred dollars,
Speaker 2: do not go to the boos.
Speaker 3: Then then what does the last game look like?
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 3: You know? Is it? Hey, couple of kids, show me
Speaker 3: what you got? Is people, we are out of the race.
Speaker 3: We're out of the race. Show me what you've got,
Speaker 3: Guys who are on the bubble, show me what you
Speaker 3: have got. How it looks for Saturday? No, I mean
Speaker 3: it's the off points like it. I don't know what
Speaker 3: it's gonna look like. I mean, yeah, like red bulls
Speaker 3: can't come out press you. Red bulls trying to try
Speaker 3: and solidify themselves too, trying to make sure they're in
Speaker 3: a good spot because even if you're in the playoffs,
Speaker 3: as we saw last year, it's not just about getting
Speaker 3: into the dance like if you're in a situation like Atlanta, yeah,
Speaker 3: you just want to get in. Yeah, if you're in,
Speaker 3: you're trying to position yourself in a way that you
Speaker 3: don't want. For instance, you don't want to be in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Spot last year, we'll have to play a first round three,
Speaker 3: best of three against Columbus. Hell tho, I don't want
Speaker 3: to do that. So those teams who are in have
Speaker 3: to figure out where are they in or if they
Speaker 3: can get in, and you just do what you can.
Speaker 3: But you know, we'll see, we'll see what it all
Speaker 3: looks like. I don't know what. I don't know what
Speaker 3: Saturday night looks like for Atlanta other than yeah, you're
Speaker 3: red Bulls might force you to play long, Okay, if
Speaker 3: Jamal can give you forty five minutes, right, because then
Speaker 3: I can bring Jamal on the second half in the
Speaker 3: fifty fifth minute and tell him go chase, Yeah, just
Speaker 3: play fetch, or I can start the game. If you
Speaker 3: can give me forty five minutes to start the game,
Speaker 3: fetch and play long or have Rios try and win those.
Speaker 3: A couple of times in that game against Montreal, Rio's
Speaker 3: won the long ball didn't always make the best decision
Speaker 3: with it. The one that kills me is the second
Speaker 3: half where he's or the first half use me where
Speaker 3: he is going down the on a one v two
Speaker 3: and doesn't play soba in on the right side like
Speaker 3: Tyler is.
Speaker 8: Just like.
Speaker 6: Tyler's already tweeted in capital letters right when it happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. It was a lot and Saba didn't
Speaker 3: have a great night. But also he is your guy
Speaker 3: right now as you are constructed, and you kind of
Speaker 3: have to you you have to feed him even when
Speaker 3: even when like he is flipping the spoon like and
Speaker 3: and not always hitting the target. This this is monta
Speaker 3: Ella's territory. You gotta let him shoot. He is, he's
Speaker 3: he's killing full j R. Smith. You just gotta let
Speaker 3: him shoot. Steve can get the microwake going.
Speaker 2: Yo yoansn coming off the bench.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I'm like, like, I don't know, like uh
Speaker 3: Waiters when he was Waiters just jacking up the three
Speaker 3: es lehing right, just with absolutely zero conscience. But you know,
Speaker 3: you might have to play like that at times, might
Speaker 3: not be pretty, but you you less style in the
Speaker 3: window in the rear view mirror A long time ago,
Speaker 3: at this point styles over the horizon. Yep. So what
Speaker 3: you do then is can you show me some baults?
Speaker 3: Red bulls will get stuck? Can you get stuck in?
Speaker 3: Red bulls will get stuck in? Can you get stuck in?
Speaker 3: Stand over somebody and ask them and their mom if
Speaker 3: they want to make something about it? Yeah? What you got?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So what do you? What do you and your
Speaker 2: mama have to say about this one?
Speaker 3: And to Anthony's you know, too much work to be
Speaker 3: done for a lot of these players are worry about
Speaker 3: the roles. I think some of you got to worry
Speaker 3: about your future. We talk about this in the NFL
Speaker 3: when like somebody when when the team is like four
Speaker 3: and five, stare at you. Jacksonville guys got to play
Speaker 3: for their futures. Like, yeah, they they might not be
Speaker 3: making the playoffs, but if there are an option year
Speaker 3: or if they're maybe a target for movement, they got
Speaker 3: to play for their futures. They can't just completely phone
Speaker 3: it in and folks will notice it and folks will
Speaker 3: see it. You can't escape especially these days. Man. But
Speaker 3: like every I got cameras everywhere. We're tracking data. We're
Speaker 3: tracking your fitness, We're tracking how much you run. We're due,
Speaker 3: they're they're tracking how much your urb on the field.
Speaker 7: M h, guys, I've got to go out there and
Speaker 7: you got to absolutely bust your ass and you've got
Speaker 7: to show people something that you either deserve to be
Speaker 7: part of, you know, what is going to be hopefully
Speaker 7: built starting in the off season, or if I can
Speaker 7: make other decisions that don't include you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's and that's why you know, even if
Speaker 1: the players are if to your point, Anthony, they got
Speaker 1: to think about themselves either here or they got to
Speaker 1: think about themselves someplace else. And if you go out
Speaker 1: and you just Christmas Tree, what happens in whatever minutes
Speaker 1: you're given in the final two matches of this season,
Speaker 1: then you know that will affect you. That will affect
Speaker 1: you and your location next year if it is not here.
Speaker 1: So that's uh so that's what we're staring at. Okay,
Speaker 1: time to play Cliffhanger, guys. Uh let me go through
Speaker 1: the standings really quickly in the East. But we're gonna
Speaker 1: go Cliffhanger with all the other matchups in and around.
Speaker 1: What's going on, MESSI and friends of Clinch. They're eleven
Speaker 1: points clear. Columbus has three matches to go. They can
Speaker 1: only max out at three nine sixty six, so they
Speaker 1: can't catch them. Columbus at fifty seven FC Cincinnati and
Speaker 1: all of their issues at the back two matches to go.
Speaker 2: There at fifty six Orlando.
Speaker 1: If they beat Cincinnati this weekend, the game next weekend
Speaker 1: won't matter because they can't catch Sincy and NYC and
Speaker 1: Red Bulls can't catch them. So if you're the purple team,
Speaker 1: you want to try and win this one, so the
Speaker 1: one in two weeks doesn't matter. NYC and Red Bulls
Speaker 1: both at thirty two matches played. Ny CFC has thirteen
Speaker 1: wins and Red Bulls only have eleven. Charlotte's in at
Speaker 1: forty five, they are thirty two matches in two to go.
Speaker 1: They can play anywhere from seven to four, depending on
Speaker 1: how things go. Montreal with the win ten, twelve and ten,
Speaker 1: they're at forty. Then the fun begins. Toronto eleven wins,
Speaker 1: thirty seven points, Philadelphia same record as DC and a
Speaker 1: twenty five goal advantage in goal difference plus nine to
Speaker 1: minus sixteen. Atlanta's at thirty four, Nashal's at thirty three,
Speaker 1: New England's at thirty one. They need to win out
Speaker 1: with their three matches to finish at forty, and they
Speaker 1: need everybody else to lose everything else Chicago the dumpster fire.
Speaker 1: They're done at thirty points, and then you've got everything
Speaker 1: going on in the West, all right, So let's go
Speaker 1: juice boxes here and play Cliffhanger. If there's a match
Speaker 1: that you want to talk about, just literally jump in
Speaker 1: and start talking about it, and we'll talk about it.
Speaker 1: Because that's how this goes, Because if there's a match
Speaker 1: and it draws your interest, then we'll talk about it,
Speaker 1: all right. So and because our friends of Odds Portal
Speaker 1: do things alphabetically, I have to go all the way
Speaker 1: down to the letter you and click on a button.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Four o'clock in the afternoon, Toronto hosting Messi and Friends
Speaker 1: as a home favorite at Bemoca. They because Messi and
Speaker 1: Friends have clinched the number one seed. But for Messi
Speaker 1: and Friends, the Tata Martine probably chasing after a points record,
Speaker 1: So the fact that they are a plus one sixty five.
Speaker 2: Dog on the road might be the one to take.
Speaker 1: With Toronto FC at a plus one thirty eight, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: what say you, tyler go.
Speaker 6: I think they're gonna rest every everybody they can. That's
Speaker 6: you know, geriatric FC. So they've done everything they have
Speaker 6: to do right now, you don't want to you don't
Speaker 6: want to take too much of a break because we
Speaker 6: see how that goes typically, right like a team gets
Speaker 6: a bye going into the playoffs and all of a
Speaker 6: sudden they forget how to play football. But you have,
Speaker 6: you have guys on that team that have been playing
Speaker 6: for a long time. They haven't forgot how to play
Speaker 6: football yet. So I think you can afford to rest them,
Speaker 6: make sure they're all set and ready to go, because
Speaker 6: you know, I know the supporter Shiel is great, and
Speaker 6: I know Michael Parker has had the tweet and the
Speaker 6: chat earlier. But like ML's cup is the thing, and
Speaker 6: Tata has been there before, He's been in a very
Speaker 6: similar position, so he knows kind of how to uh
Speaker 6: you know, set his team up. So yeah, very long win.
Speaker 6: A way of saying in Miami, they're gonna they're gonna,
Speaker 6: I think, rightfully, sit back a little bit, take it
Speaker 6: a little easier than normal, and uh, I don't think
Speaker 6: that's gonna be good for Atlanta. If if if you're
Speaker 6: looking at the very small percentage, But I still I
Speaker 6: think I think Toronto is able to come out with
Speaker 6: a win.
Speaker 2: All right, Jared, what do you think?
Speaker 3: I have no idea. The reason I say that everything
Speaker 3: Tyler said I think is accurate true. I also watched
Speaker 3: Toronto Closed as possible to Nick Saban made his ass
Speaker 3: quick Territory the other night in the midweek. You're missing
Speaker 3: one of your key playmakers in this game.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: John Herdman like, stop the bleeding in twenty twenty four
Speaker 3: for Toronto. We don't know how well he actually stitched
Speaker 3: that wind closed though, if it's gonna pop back open
Speaker 3: or not.
Speaker 2: But just as the throne manufacturers in Canada.
Speaker 3: Well it's I don't know. I don't know how they're
Speaker 3: going to put it back together. Just they're they're they
Speaker 3: are wildly inconsistent. They've had some good performances. Some guys
Speaker 3: shout out to Derek Gatty and Junior who's gonna find
Speaker 3: since he got there just was a classic change of
Speaker 3: scenery guy and he got his change of scenery and
Speaker 3: he did well. Miami man like, yeah, they'll probably rest guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah the rest part in the tower mentioned that the
Speaker 3: rest part is weird and part of this is also
Speaker 3: my sha like to my chagrin, would like the whole
Speaker 3: best of three thing, which it can make it fun
Speaker 3: to kind of weird when we do. I prefer it
Speaker 3: to be like, should be that Wednesday, and should be
Speaker 3: Wednesday for strong, should be that next Saturday. That way
Speaker 3: that it should always stay like that forever and ever. Amen,
Speaker 3: because that way, at least the teams that earn a
Speaker 3: buy U one unquote, they get a full weeks break,
Speaker 3: right and the teams that are wild card have to
Speaker 3: go play in the midweek. That way, it doesn't feel
Speaker 3: like an extended break where you can still keep your rhythm,
Speaker 3: your game week rhythm, but you do have an advantage
Speaker 3: in terms of travel and energy. Like you just just
Speaker 3: keep it like that, don't overcomplicate it. I have like
Speaker 3: I'm willing to put like an Ecto cooler juice box
Speaker 3: that MLS is going to change their playoff structure again
Speaker 3: in the next two years.
Speaker 1: Because well because if if you want Apple TV to
Speaker 1: come up with more television episodes for their TV program
Speaker 1: then you're certainly going to do that. If you want
Speaker 1: to draw more eyes to the whole process.
Speaker 6: You're gonna have to change it. In twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, that's also true. Yes, this is also true.
Speaker 2: We'll save it.
Speaker 1: Landy United in Red Bulls Charlotte, CF Montreal. Charlotte's a
Speaker 1: big minus so to minus one fifty two as CF
Speaker 1: Montreal comes to town. Crewe in Philadelphia, Cruz a minus
Speaker 1: one thirty nine unions of plus three thirteen. Speaking of
Speaker 1: f C Cincinnati, they're a home favored at a minus
Speaker 1: one fourteen Purple teams of plus two to seventy four
Speaker 1: on the road.
Speaker 2: That two seventy four.
Speaker 1: Shoot, I'd take that in a heartbeat, considering what we've
Speaker 1: seen from FC Cincinnati recently. DC United is a plus
Speaker 1: two oh two on the road at the Revs who
Speaker 1: are a plus one seventeen, and NYC is minus one
Speaker 1: eighty nine hosting Nashville a plus four fifty five. That
Speaker 1: is your Eastern Conference stuff at Landy United plus one
Speaker 1: twenty four hosting Red Bulls, who are a plus one
Speaker 1: ninety six, draws a plus two sixty nine.
Speaker 2: Tyler, what's your gut tell you about what they're gonna do?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 2: Right back with no Brooks Lennon.
Speaker 6: Ronald, I mean, I think that's that's the plug and
Speaker 6: play option. And I mean he played and did really
Speaker 6: well in that match against Columbus a few months ago.
Speaker 6: You know, anything Rob tried to do at this point
Speaker 6: would be totally valid if he if he got really weird.
Speaker 6: But I think the easiest answer is just simply to
Speaker 6: play Ronald Pedro on the left defensively against Rebels. I mean,
Speaker 6: you're gonna have to kind of sit back and play
Speaker 6: some ugly football, kind of like what we talked about earlier.
Speaker 6: And I know people will look and they have their
Speaker 6: faults for Ronald, but Ronald can put a ball on
Speaker 6: a dime across the pitch, and talking about getting Jamal
Speaker 6: or or Daniel up there to catch some of these
Speaker 6: and try to come down with him and make something
Speaker 6: out of it. Ronald can. Ronald can put the right
Speaker 6: ball in. So I think, yeah, just the easiest is
Speaker 6: going to be put Ronnie in and see what happens.
Speaker 1: Then center back, obviously you go with Derek and Stean Jarrett.
Speaker 1: But then you look at your midfield. You wonder if
Speaker 1: you're gonna need to drip keep somebody back in more
Speaker 1: of a six or if you go to the four
Speaker 1: to one four one is kind of a thing that
Speaker 1: we've seen that's caused problems for defenses where Bart goes forward.
Speaker 1: What are you looking at, uh, midfield going forward for
Speaker 1: Atlanta United?
Speaker 3: What does Dak's have in the tank? Because I don't
Speaker 3: know if it's much left. It's like in general, yeah,
Speaker 3: like Dad, like daks is just he's he's I think
Speaker 3: he's on at this point. And it's just been a
Speaker 3: long season. And not even just like on the field
Speaker 3: obviously for this organization, it's been a long season off
Speaker 3: the field, right, I don't know what he's got in
Speaker 3: the tank. If he can sit and be that guy
Speaker 3: to kind of protect the back line, I'd ask him
Speaker 3: to do it. If he if he can give me
Speaker 3: that for sixty minutes or more, great. I'm really leaning
Speaker 3: towards the idea of pushing Jay further up the field,
Speaker 3: as we've seen him get not just better and more competent,
Speaker 3: but I think physically stronger. You go back to the
Speaker 3: goal against Charlotte where he's writing off challenges. Give me
Speaker 3: that from jacause you're gonna need You're gonna need somebody
Speaker 3: who can write off the challenge, who can fight through contact.
Speaker 3: You're gonna need someone to to to just be strong
Speaker 3: and tough in those moments. To Uncle's question, I don't
Speaker 3: know what Hernandez said this is would not be shocked
Speaker 3: if you saw Matt Edwards on the bench in this
Speaker 3: as an option. You're gonna need him. You're maybe you
Speaker 3: get weird here and you have an extra center back
Speaker 3: or two on the bench, and then you start shifting
Speaker 3: potentially to three at the back with wing backs if
Speaker 3: you really need to, you know, ask Pedro to play
Speaker 3: that wing back role. Hell, ask Mo Scatta to play
Speaker 3: that wing back role. Like like Tyler said, anything Rob
Speaker 3: does here is pretty much justified. I think one of
Speaker 3: the things, though, John, is that I will be very
Speaker 3: interested in Rob's reaction to things because the last few
Speaker 3: games it hasn't just been the disappointment of not getting
Speaker 3: results across the line, it's also been for me personally.
Speaker 3: It kind of reminds me of the wigans Alo talked
Speaker 3: about things. Ganzolo and Rob have different cadence and the
Speaker 3: way they speak. They're going to say different things, but
Speaker 3: just that that underlying frustration of I can't do it
Speaker 3: for you guys, mm hmm, I need you you. You
Speaker 3: gotta put the chances away, not off the crossbar and
Speaker 3: you gotta fight. I can't do that for you. I
Speaker 3: can draw it up for you, but you've got to
Speaker 3: go execute it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh, to your point, if Ronald can't give you ninety,
Speaker 1: even though Ronald you know, will try to do his
Speaker 1: dead level best too, I think at that point you
Speaker 1: probably turn the dial one one notch to the right,
Speaker 1: and then Stean ends up being a right back, Derek
Speaker 1: slides your six, pulls back in. It's almost like another
Speaker 1: center back, and Pedro stays on the left. So I
Speaker 1: think that you take the dial and you turn it
Speaker 1: one notch to the left and everyone rotates over. If
Speaker 1: Ronald can't give you ninety, or you work with you
Speaker 1: work with Matt Edwards or something like that.
Speaker 2: As a part of the the eighteen, let's see.
Speaker 1: Any other games either East or West, because there are
Speaker 1: some nick nacky newsy things that I want to get
Speaker 1: into before we get out of here. And Tyler, thanks
Speaker 1: for hanging out for like an hour man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, any.
Speaker 1: Other matches that you guys are going to be looking at,
Speaker 1: Jared will start with you on any other matches you're
Speaker 1: going to be staring at, just on general premise or
Speaker 1: screw it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna watch them all. I think I stunned him.
Speaker 3: No, you called me in a situation where I am
Speaker 3: happy to pull the schedule.
Speaker 2: Now, well, I could tell you what's going on.
Speaker 3: I mean, well I can look at it and tell
Speaker 3: you pretty quickly that like, let's take a look, because
Speaker 3: that's the fifth yet I don't even know what day
Speaker 3: it is. I have to film the game tonight, football time,
Speaker 3: they'd be I I am interested in a couple of
Speaker 3: West Coast games just for like kind of dark reasons,
Speaker 3: like l A. C. Is gonna go like they're gonna
Speaker 3: flake Kansas City, right that, like, like what is what
Speaker 3: is like Kansas City is gonna have one of their
Speaker 3: one of it's not their lowest point totals ever under
Speaker 3: under under Peter urmes Yeah, and that's the thing who
Speaker 3: has been there since. Like I think Peter Jurmeys and
Speaker 3: Kirk Farence might be the two longest tenured coaches in
Speaker 3: American sports.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the offense is really showing for both. But
Speaker 2: that's another point.
Speaker 3: Well, if it's because Kansas City can't punt, to take
Speaker 3: a punt, my god, Yeah, entirely different conversation. Corl Road
Speaker 3: and Seattle could get really feisty. La and Austin. Like,
Speaker 3: we've seen like a lot of unconfirmed rumors all year
Speaker 3: about Josh Wolfe. Is he on the hot seat? Is
Speaker 3: he not? Austin fans wanting mounts. We see he's out
Speaker 3: here liking tweet suggesting he's done and he wants out.
Speaker 3: I'm low key amazed that Josh Wolfe made it this
Speaker 3: far to the end of twenty twenty four. Like, what
Speaker 3: does Austin look like as a finishing acting What does
Speaker 3: the grand finale of twenty twenty four for that schizophrenic
Speaker 3: Ass team look like?
Speaker 1: Yes, I always enjoy skitzag you know schizophrenic ass teams?
Speaker 2: And what the ending is are?
Speaker 1: According to a ten Credi Palmieri, just in Manchester United
Speaker 1: in the past days have offered in Zogie the role
Speaker 1: to take over the managerial job with the immediate effect
Speaker 1: during the international break, but.
Speaker 3: In Zione technically have a manager under contract.
Speaker 1: But yes, but in Ogie declined, so uh yeah, fun
Speaker 1: with uh yeah, so yeah we got a manager.
Speaker 2: But hey and Zogie do you want it? And Zoggie
Speaker 2: is like, nah, fam, I'm good.
Speaker 3: You got to get somebody there.
Speaker 6: Sometimes you know, the dumpster fire is not worth trying
Speaker 6: to put out.
Speaker 2: M m oh.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you just got a lot of burn ding.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just watch it go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1: Uh. Also it appears that biting is going to give
Speaker 1: you eight games. Uh and so uh literally, if you
Speaker 1: bite somebody, it's an eight game suspension.
Speaker 6: Okay, I've heard that right. I didn't know where we
Speaker 6: were going with that. I had images of Luis Suarez
Speaker 6: already conjured out close.
Speaker 1: Presston North End forward Million ten is my age has
Speaker 1: been handed an eight game suspension for biting Blackburn's Online
Speaker 1: Liverpool defender Owen Beck during a Championship match last month.
Speaker 1: The Montenegrin international has shown a yellow ca by the
Speaker 1: match referee during the game, but the English FA subsequently
Speaker 1: charged him after reviewing the incident. Suarez got ten for
Speaker 1: biding Ivanovich. Osmaich has been banned for eight and fine
Speaker 1: twenty grand after he admitted the charge.
Speaker 3: So if there's a repeat of thunder clause there.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there is.
Speaker 1: But yeah, milliontons Mich has been given eight for biting
Speaker 1: for Preston North End for biting a player in the Championship.
Speaker 1: So you got that to sit there and sift through
Speaker 1: as a part of it, I'm trying to look at
Speaker 1: some other things. Oh, the NWSL stuff that I wanted
Speaker 1: to get into before we get out of here. Oh,
Speaker 1: are there any other games, Tyler that you're going to
Speaker 1: be keeping an eye.
Speaker 6: On just since he in Orlando, I think just because
Speaker 6: I'm curious what Orlando's going to do on decision Day
Speaker 6: and if Atlanta has a chance going into decision Day,
Speaker 6: it would be nice if for Orlando decided not to play. Yes,
Speaker 6: So I'm just I want to see how this one
Speaker 6: plays out versus see And to your point earlier, I
Speaker 6: mean I would be betting against Cincy as well, because
Speaker 6: they've just not been very consistent lately. And Orlando is
Speaker 6: that weird team that tends to either do really well
Speaker 6: or really bad at the end of the season, and
Speaker 6: it's always the opposite of what they've done in the
Speaker 6: beginning of the season.
Speaker 2: Yes, and the slow fade for Oscar Pereha is not
Speaker 2: happening this year.
Speaker 3: So I'm so excited about them getting into the playoffs,
Speaker 3: Like I think it was twenty twenty when they got in,
Speaker 3: and like they were just picking up red cards in
Speaker 3: the playoffs, like to a game because then they had
Speaker 3: the one shootout where unless they got sent off in
Speaker 3: the shootout, yes, and then they had to put an
Speaker 3: outfield player in the outfield player made a safe.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it was against New England. Think it was
Speaker 3: against Bruce's New England team, and then they had to
Speaker 3: go play the next week or that was New England
Speaker 3: they played, and then they got like two more red cars.
Speaker 3: Like I think it was like who on just just
Speaker 3: went like full booker te missile drop kick, Yeah, on
Speaker 3: their edge. Yeah. I I for until the day I die,
Speaker 3: I will associate that Orlando psychotic era with Nannie, Like
Speaker 3: they just seemed to chill out with Nan he was
Speaker 3: not there anymore, but like like they had an edge,
Speaker 3: but like they saw the edge and they just ran
Speaker 3: past it like Wiley Coyote.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, so it was Rodrigo Schlegel who took
Speaker 1: over in the ny CFC match. Uh yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was uh Schlegel taking over for Gallessa in
Speaker 1: the after the Gallesse read uh NWSL notes and uh
Speaker 1: they by the way, and Bart made this point in
Speaker 1: the twitch pitch. NWSL concludes an investigation in salary camp
Speaker 1: violations by Angel City and imposing disciplinary actions based on
Speaker 1: the findings following a review. ACFC violated multiple league rules
Speaker 1: during the calendar year twenty three, entered into five side
Speaker 1: letters directly with players that affected multi year agreements and
Speaker 1: were not disclosed to the league. Agreements included a combination
Speaker 1: of compensation and benefits reflected in the standard player agreement,
Speaker 1: excess benefits that were neither reported to the league nor
Speaker 1: included in the standard player agreement. Basically, I guess it
Speaker 1: was nil and the nwsl due to the undisclosed benefits,
Speaker 1: ACFC exceeded the salary kept by approximately fifty grand for
Speaker 1: four weeks during the twenty twenty four season, fined two
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a three point deduction in the standings,
Speaker 1: effective immediately. Julie Yeerman, President and CEO, and Angela Heuclusmungano
Speaker 1: GM are suspended, effective immediately, from conducting duties relating to
Speaker 1: any player transactions for the remainder of the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four calendar year. In addition, the NWSLB conducting annual investigation
Speaker 1: and audits a player spending across clubs to ensure compliance
Speaker 1: with league rules, and then the NWSL says that they
Speaker 1: remain committed to maintaining fairness and transparency across all clubs,
Speaker 1: reinforcing the importance of adhering to the established rules and
Speaker 1: upholding the competitive balance within the league. So I guess
Speaker 1: ACFC tried to go nil and got busted because you
Speaker 1: can't quite do that.
Speaker 2: That's that's bad.
Speaker 1: So a team not making the playoffs, as Bart says,
Speaker 1: got found for busting for breaking salary rules and got
Speaker 1: deducted another three points. Thanks for coming by.
Speaker 6: You know, it's not an excuse at all.
Speaker 3: But like.
Speaker 6: When I see things like this happen, especially like this one, Yeah,
Speaker 6: it just feels like like somebody genuinely just made a mistake,
Speaker 6: Like because we know there's there's other little you know,
Speaker 6: bits and pieces and places that you can make you know,
Speaker 6: extra income. Lino MESSI and I don't I'll be the
Speaker 6: first to say, I don't know how like all that
Speaker 6: has to be reported in what kind of channels they
Speaker 6: have to go through, But like it just feels like
Speaker 6: somebody missed a zero somewhere.
Speaker 2: Do it as an nil deal man?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know. I mean it's I will say,
Speaker 6: then WSL for every it seems like for for every
Speaker 6: like issue that they've had with the club. For the
Speaker 6: most part, they they lay down the hammer pretty pretty quick.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. That is absolutely true.
Speaker 1: And by the way, it looks like next week we
Speaker 1: are going to be hearing from In addition to our
Speaker 1: normal batch of folks, we have we have a name
Speaker 1: for the new franchise in Northwest Arkansas in the USL.
Speaker 1: They are now going to be called Ozark United FC.
Speaker 2: They are no longer.
Speaker 1: USL n w A and Gordon Soley might have something
Speaker 1: to say about that by the time we're done, but
Speaker 1: they are now Ozark United FC, or our friends in
Speaker 1: Northwest Arkansas that are helping out our friends at the
Speaker 1: Marshall Islands. So it is now officially Ozark Night at
Speaker 1: f C jared with Northwest Arkansas in the USL.
Speaker 3: I look forward to.
Speaker 9: Inevitably getting involved in some of the rivalries that exists
Speaker 9: there in like the Arkansas Mississippi area, and it's kind
Speaker 9: of not talked.
Speaker 2: About enough mmmmm.
Speaker 1: But so yeah, they had a big they had a
Speaker 1: big to do in a big reveal, so there now
Speaker 1: it was our y unit at f C and uh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go probably and buy my USL and w
Speaker 1: A gear Uh, Tyler, what else you're looking at for
Speaker 1: the weekend?
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter, Where, doesn't matter, who, doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: What else are you looking forward to this weekend?
Speaker 6: Just hoping there's something good to see at the Bens tomorrow.
Speaker 6: That's the biggest thing. We'll be there, we'll be doing. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's just just how it goes.
Speaker 1: Most likely to swag sir for Atlanta United in a
Speaker 1: situation like that, be whom.
Speaker 6: I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. Voting as closed,
Speaker 3: that's it.
Speaker 2: Uh mm hmmm.
Speaker 6: No, uh, that's it for me. I mean we we
Speaker 6: like we've got our shows, uh tomorrow before and after.
Speaker 2: You go out, where are you going to be in
Speaker 2: the building or at Sidney or what are you doing?
Speaker 6: No, No, we'll be just doing our normal pre match
Speaker 6: thing from the press box and then our three takeaways
Speaker 6: after and then watching whatever happens in the ninety minutes
Speaker 6: in between, and hoping it's a good thing, hoping that
Speaker 6: the locker room is much less somber than it was Wednesday.
Speaker 2: All right, Jared, what else are you staring at this weekend?
Speaker 3: Oh man? Just and we'll keep an eye around the league.
Speaker 3: We'll see what the playoff looks like. You'll you'll be
Speaker 3: seeing it as the night goes on, as we get
Speaker 3: into the emotional highs and lows of how it goes.
Speaker 3: You know what, Atlanta gets an early lead, do you get?
Speaker 3: How excited do you get? You check other scores around
Speaker 3: the league, see how much it matters. I'll be keeping
Speaker 3: an eye on that.
Speaker 10: We're not having anything to do with Sunday with the Falcons.
Speaker 10: Not that the Falcons are normal, no, dont no, Yeah,
Speaker 10: I mean I want to see how much, how much
Speaker 10: how much of Auburn's blood UGA.
Speaker 3: Can paint the field with.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh and Abby's you can be so angry. It's
Speaker 1: the Halloween candy game as well. Absolutely true, Yes, absolutely true.
Speaker 1: All right, So it's going to be a full It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a full day on a bunch of different fronts.
Speaker 1: Tonight is high school football. Be there to support your
Speaker 1: favorite clubs. Be there tomorrow morning to support your favorite
Speaker 1: clubs leading into tomorrow night. Be careful with the tailgating.
Speaker 1: Pace yourself. It's supposed to be a nice day tomorrow,
Speaker 1: so pay yourself to your tail game.
Speaker 3: Just I'm just happy we're back to Friday nights because
Speaker 3: last week I had to do a Saturday game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the Friday night lights on Saturday morning does not hit
Speaker 3: the same way. No it does not.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, it does not.
Speaker 1: Yes, and so at Atl pilgrimat Scarves the letter in Spikes,
Speaker 1: where else do folks pay attention.
Speaker 6: Tyler Scarves and Bikes dot com and the YouTube's and
Speaker 6: the YouTube and the YouTube that is definitely the main one.
Speaker 2: Yes, So it's great as always.
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on two days after your normal
Speaker 1: and dropping by for like an hour and a half
Speaker 1: and seeing what's going on with all of us here.
Speaker 2: So that's the review, getting you ready for the weekend.
Speaker 1: He's Tyler, He's Jared, And so I'm gonna see if
Speaker 1: I can actually pull this off this time and actually
Speaker 1: send us out appropriately. But it's going to be a
Speaker 1: two step process because you know, first and foremost what
Speaker 1: we always have to do. We have to listen to
Speaker 1: the proper greeting for the weekend. For Tyler, For Jared,
Speaker 1: I'm John. We're out enjoyed everybody. We will see you
Speaker 1: at the Benz, We'll see you all over the place. First,
Speaker 1: it was time to remember war was.
Speaker 11: On the keys on the typewriter had sharp points that
Speaker 11: keep pat sticking into our fingers. The dictating equipment starting
Speaker 11: asking us questions, and our papers sent electric shocks just
Speaker 11: threw our body like a cattle prod.
Speaker 3: I'm in the warehouse.
Speaker 11: The trucks kept banging into the docks.
Speaker 8: Not even thinking about stopping. Our frail bodies were strapped
Speaker 8: to the chairs.
Speaker 2: And our chairs were chained to the desks.
Speaker 8: Our please for justice were ignored, and the end seemed near.
Speaker 8: But we busted our save drivers, little bitty balls. We've
Speaker 8: changed high their break fortress to the streets. Are harsty gods. Yes, Friday, Friday, Fayday.