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Speaker 1: so morning, Michael Valverdi, four card, everybody who's been drifting
Speaker 1: in and out with us, all okay, So sticking to
Speaker 1: our timetables, Bart Keeler is going to join us now
Speaker 1: in fifteen minutes to discuss what we wanted to discuss.
Speaker 1: Let's see how long the internet hangs out with us
Speaker 1: this time. All right, So here's the deal. Leagus Cup changes, Club,
Speaker 1: World Cup groups. Apparently the schedule's coming out later today.
Speaker 1: Bart's going to join us over a couple of topics
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Speaker 1: and we're still on the air. Holy crap. All right,
Speaker 1: So let me get into League's Cup because that's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be a shorter discussion than hanging out with Bart.
Speaker 1: When Bart comes on in ten minutes with Bart. Once again.
Speaker 1: Tom Russo had a reffing down here moment involving Everton
Speaker 1: that he wished to have discussed the article that Steph
Speaker 1: Yang had out at the Athletic where apparently we have
Speaker 1: a corporate overlords overseeing var in Major League Soccer and
Speaker 1: officials and officials are kind of getting creeped out about it,
Speaker 1: and it adds to the attention of credibility when it
Speaker 1: comes to folks in the booth. And then JT. Batson
Speaker 1: had an interview with Amanda Davis at seen an International
Speaker 1: discussing coach sharing. I wanted to get into that with Bart,
Speaker 1: and I also want you to pay a when episode
Speaker 1: CV one oh five pops up, it'll probably be a
Speaker 1: review of the window. We'll talk about Bart. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to Bart about that and get into that discussion. Monday,
Speaker 1: Bart's back in his normal time slot. I'm saving my
Speaker 1: most of my women's national team questions for then, and
Speaker 1: then reughing down here from the weekend, because once again,
Speaker 1: before we go this morning, it'll be looking at things
Speaker 1: that are going on across the planet moments from the
Speaker 1: weekend and going from there. But one of the questions
Speaker 1: that I'm going to warn Bart about on Monday, is
Speaker 1: the goalkeeping situation now that the listen there is done internationally.
Speaker 1: If I remember the stat correctly, as it was broadcast
Speaker 1: on TNT Max and all the other places it was
Speaker 1: broadcast in the last match of a Listenaire the subsequently
Speaker 1: four keepers in line. Hi, Bart, Hello, So I'm going
Speaker 1: to try and piece this together, so we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens here now that you've wandered up to your particular location.
Speaker 1: Apparently the signal didn't die and thanks to the diehards
Speaker 1: that have been hanging out with us this entire time.
Speaker 1: So what I'm going to do is, I'm going to
Speaker 1: let's see if we could start the show all over again.
Speaker 1: I'm going to start the show all over again. So
Speaker 1: let's do that because I'm mad as a hornet right now. So,
Speaker 1: as we're back after a sixteen minute delay, strategic retreat.
Speaker 1: Strategic retreat, Alex says, bite your tongue, sir, Yeah, So
Speaker 1: all right, after eleven minutes, all right, so we'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. Since we're here at the beginning of our
Speaker 1: number two, almost close to ten oh five, how about this.
Speaker 1: And I know that a lot of you are just
Speaker 1: kind of watching to see what else is gonna go
Speaker 1: wrong because it is a Friday. So uh yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: here we go. Let's let's uh, let's do let's do
Speaker 1: let's do things like this, shall we you know, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and run this, all right? So our number two,
Speaker 1: which is really our number one, and we'll see where
Speaker 1: we go. Let's see all right, So what's the what's
Speaker 1: the clock? Yeah, we're live now, four card, Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: apparently we're alive. I guess. So what's the time? All right,
Speaker 1: So let's let's take bets on the juice boxes. A fourth.
Speaker 1: Good morning. Yes, in this economy, we we like spreading.
Speaker 1: We like spreading good mornings. So, uh, all right, how
Speaker 1: long do you think the internet signal is gonna hang out? Now?
Speaker 1: How long do you think it's gonna hang out? Now?
Speaker 1: Just asking, I'm taking bets. How long do you think
Speaker 1: the Internet signal's gonna hang up? It's gonna be with
Speaker 1: us because it's been one of those damn mornings. Literally
Speaker 1: three dumps in the first hour of the show, Nixonian
Speaker 1: gaps that would make the Watergate investigation proud. And so
Speaker 1: now we're going to start our number two, which is
Speaker 1: really turning into our number one. And for this, we're
Speaker 1: gonna bring Bart in and we're gonna talk things. And
Speaker 1: if you could hearn your device sideways, sir, sorry, because
Speaker 1: I'm there.
Speaker 2: We go.
Speaker 1: I wanted to fill up the screen. I wanted to
Speaker 1: fill up, all right, So yeah, we had to hear me.
Speaker 4: By the way, I'm not on my normal audio.
Speaker 1: You you you sound like you're in the room. You're
Speaker 1: not on your headset. Okay, So as he fixes his
Speaker 1: audio setting to hook up, oh there it is, all right?
Speaker 4: Does that matter?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean it's I thought you were hooking
Speaker 1: up your headset to the device.
Speaker 4: Well that was the headset was the issue, Okay.
Speaker 1: All right, all right? So uh, yes, we are. So
Speaker 1: a couple of things that I wanted to bring you
Speaker 1: in this morning to discuss, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: steal from our Monday appearance, so I'm gonna save most
Speaker 1: of my women's national team talk to Monday. And I
Speaker 1: also want folks to go listen to episode CV of
Speaker 1: the Soccer for us P O D and and go
Speaker 1: through all of what was going on in your collective
Speaker 1: brains over there as we go. But the goalkeeping question
Speaker 1: in conundrum. I'm saving that to Monday, okay. So, and
Speaker 1: I imagine that you guys are talking about it, and
Speaker 1: you're over there.
Speaker 4: We are, you know, we we're just refusing to accept
Speaker 4: a listener's request for retirement.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we've decided. Yes, you're you're stomping your
Speaker 1: feet and saying this is not allowed. No, it's not allowed.
Speaker 1: A couple of things I wanted to get into with
Speaker 1: you this morning is Tom Russo had requested a review
Speaker 1: of an egregious off side call in an Everton match.
Speaker 4: Areous? Okay?
Speaker 1: And so I've got to find the context of said
Speaker 1: event and then we can get into what.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was. I watched this on the
Speaker 4: highlights for the Premier League Highlights and okay, let's think
Speaker 4: about this. So I forget the player's name, but there's
Speaker 4: an attacker who you know, John how if you can,
Speaker 4: if you pull it up and see it, it's great.
Speaker 4: But you know, there's a set piece, a free kick
Speaker 4: from basically five yards from the touch line, about parallel
Speaker 4: with the top of the the goal arc, you know,
Speaker 4: so with the penalty arc it so not close to
Speaker 4: the goal, but not a shooting opportunity. Everton has lined
Speaker 4: up with who is they playing?
Speaker 5: Oh, Everton and Wolves are lined up, you know, and
Speaker 5: like a lot of times happens, Everton puts a couple
Speaker 5: of players, specifically one in particular.
Speaker 4: Offside, because that's what a lot of teams do. They
Speaker 4: have one player that kind of stands offside. That player
Speaker 4: then basically sets a pick for the Tchaikovsky I don't
Speaker 4: know how to Tarkowski to come in behind him and
Speaker 4: when the header that ends up.
Speaker 1: Going in the back of the net.
Speaker 4: The reason this was called off side is because the
Speaker 4: player was in an offside position, so they obviously review
Speaker 4: it and they deemed that he interfered with active play. Now,
Speaker 4: I think why this was deemed interference with active plays
Speaker 4: because one of the considerations to be involved in active
Speaker 4: play is as we've talked about a lot of times.
Speaker 4: You know, we talked about the interference of a goalkeeper,
Speaker 4: but you can also interfere with defenders. And in this case,
Speaker 4: he basically moves back onside after the ball is kicked
Speaker 4: and puts hands on an opposing defender, stopping that defender
Speaker 4: from defending the aerial free kick. Right, And I do
Speaker 4: think this was Unfortunately, Tom, I do think this is
Speaker 4: a correct call because he makes an active play in
Speaker 4: uh the on on the free kick, right. He is
Speaker 4: not just standing there, you know, he doesn't just happen
Speaker 4: to run into someone. There is a physical force of
Speaker 4: contact with his hands into the defender who's trying to
Speaker 4: get to the attacker who's making the header. And and
Speaker 4: to me, that is an offside. Sorry, you got involved
Speaker 4: in active play, Okay, So sorry Tom. Yeah you came
Speaker 4: out all right, you know you still won?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you went you won fifteen miil. It was the
Speaker 1: second goal in the sixteenth minute. They were up one
Speaker 1: mill at the point Tarkowski scores on a header from
Speaker 1: Dwight McNeil, and then you get the offside check from
Speaker 1: var So Dale. Johnson's description goes like this, what incidents
Speaker 1: like this happened? We always hear comments such as why
Speaker 1: aren't goals ruled out for blocking on every set on
Speaker 1: every set piece?
Speaker 4: Yeah, fair question.
Speaker 1: The key factor is this isn't a foul, it's offside.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 1: For a foul, the blocking has to be of a
Speaker 1: sufficient nature and not the normal football contact. Correct for
Speaker 1: offside any contact, meaning it doesn't have to be a
Speaker 1: foul which prevents an opponent from being able to challenge
Speaker 1: for the ball is an offense. As the ball is
Speaker 1: in flight to Tarkovski, oral Mongala holds Lamina and prevents
Speaker 1: Wolves from attempting to prevent across from the goals. So
Speaker 1: Dale Johnson says, you don't have to think Lemina will
Speaker 1: win the ball, meaning the player for Wolves, only that
Speaker 1: his ability to challenge for it has been effected. Had
Speaker 1: Mangala been on side, the goal would have stood. Had
Speaker 1: Mangala and Lamina not been in the direct flight of
Speaker 1: the ball to Tarkovski, the goal stood. And a couple
Speaker 1: of other examples in this and Dale Johnson goes back
Speaker 1: to Carabout Cup in twenty two against Chelsea Liverpool and
Speaker 1: then in February of this year, Virgil van Dyke scores
Speaker 1: but var steps in as Indo had stopped the run
Speaker 1: of Levi Calwell. So it's an offside of fence and
Speaker 1: it happened directly in front of the run of the score,
Speaker 1: and so it is a bar intervention that actually did
Speaker 1: work and it was a.
Speaker 4: Positive and I think that is a good indication or specification.
Speaker 4: This is not a foul. We did not call this
Speaker 4: back for a fout. This was offside similar. It's very
Speaker 4: similar to you know, a defender being in the line
Speaker 4: of sight of a goalkeeper affecting their ability to see
Speaker 4: or play the ball. In this case, had the defender
Speaker 4: or the attacker just been in the way, right, I
Speaker 4: don't think that would have been called. But as Dale
Speaker 4: points out, it is physical contact. No, it's not a
Speaker 4: foul that happens all the time. That's fine, But when
Speaker 4: you start offside and then do your little pick setting,
Speaker 4: that's going to be the problem. It's very much John
Speaker 4: off as a pass interference when normal hand fighting is
Speaker 4: one thing, right, but when you inotentially make a route
Speaker 4: to get in front of a defender and prevent them
Speaker 4: from them getting to play defense, that's going to be
Speaker 4: an office. So that's basically what the plus was. Office
Speaker 4: past aperits you know, no goal.
Speaker 1: Go back to where you were standing, Bart, Yeah, take
Speaker 1: number four eighty two minutes in or eighty well seventy
Speaker 1: seven minutes in I think hour and seventeen. Sure, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so let's try this. It's take number four,
Speaker 1: and now people are going to come storming back in.
Speaker 1: Hopefully John's here Bart's there. Like I said, we got
Speaker 1: juice boxes on how long the signal's going to hang out?
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, I really don't.
Speaker 4: It's just besting with my snarky comments here.
Speaker 1: John, Well your starting comment. You're a snarky man, sir.
Speaker 1: I you know it's like, get to be a part
Speaker 1: of the snarky brigade. So all right, So that's done
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Speaker 4: If Britney survived two thousand and seven, you can handle today,
Speaker 4: which is probably a good motto for you this morning, John, you.
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Speaker 1: Our friends at the Marshall Island Soccer Federation have a
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Speaker 1: that Maddie modeled when she was an intern. How many
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Speaker 4: So that's international, yes.
Speaker 1: And so Maddie is a part of that. So now
Speaker 1: that we're relatively caught up, you got your snark out
Speaker 1: of the way. Involving the moment with Everton and everything,
Speaker 1: a couple of other things I wanted to get into
Speaker 1: this morning with you, Jack Batson and coach Sharing and
Speaker 1: the Steph Yang article at the Athletic before we get
Speaker 1: into things. But I do want to tease something in particular, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and so we've got to do it this way. I
Speaker 1: know this will shock all of you, but Major League
Speaker 1: Soccer has named their MVP for the season, the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four Landon Donovan, the don Ovan MLS Most Valuable Player, Leo.
Speaker 4: Messi, Ricky Poage.
Speaker 1: Oh, now Leo Messi. According to MLS Communications as of
Speaker 1: twenty four minutes ago, which we would have broken had
Speaker 1: the internetwork, the Argentine becomes the first player in club
Speaker 1: history to earn the league's highest individual honor after leading
Speaker 1: Inter Miami to an MLS single season points record supporter shield.
Speaker 1: More on that later. So I know that you're all shocked.
Speaker 1: You're all shocked about that. That's why I stopped the
Speaker 1: breaking news because we're all shocked about it. Okay, So
Speaker 1: more into that in a bit, all right, Steph Yang
Speaker 1: at the Athletic, And we kind of got into this
Speaker 1: yesterday when the article came out, and as we continue
Speaker 1: our reffing down here kind of a sidebar this morning
Speaker 1: and I wanted to get into discussion with you. Headline
Speaker 1: from Steph Yang MLS refs claim in game interference means
Speaker 1: they are no longer in control and it was a
Speaker 1: wild headline in the first place. And it goes back
Speaker 1: to a routine check during Crew and Red Bulls during
Speaker 1: this past season. And so after Var completes the check
Speaker 1: rule a collision with a keeper in the box was
Speaker 1: not a foul, a pro manager on site, who was
Speaker 1: not a match official, told him to take a second look.
Speaker 1: Transcription of the conversation was given to Steph Yang. Pro
Speaker 1: manager dips into the conversation involving Var and the on
Speaker 1: field refs to intercede in a call and have him
Speaker 1: take another look. Quote. The structure encompassing the officiating of
Speaker 1: North American soccer matches sometimes dizzy in combination of acronyms
Speaker 1: and intermingled bodies pro overseas refereeing as it relates to
Speaker 1: professional leagues. The Professional Soccer Referees Association the PSRA is
Speaker 1: a certified labor union representing the rights of the refs themselves.
Speaker 1: IFAB is an inn organization upholding rules of soccer around
Speaker 1: the world. So IFAB regulations mandate VAR decisions must be
Speaker 1: made by only the on field officials, the video ref
Speaker 1: and their aforementioned assistant, meaning the interaction above from an
Speaker 1: interceding official not on the game sheet. Was it odds
Speaker 1: with the accepted global standards for the use of global replay.
Speaker 1: According to multiple sources familiar with pro policy and refereeing
Speaker 1: at the top level men's and women's soccer, interference from
Speaker 1: pro has become an habitual problem in MLSNNWSO games. While
Speaker 1: the presence of a pro manager listing in at a
Speaker 1: game would be normal as part of their end analysis
Speaker 1: and oversight, actual participant patient in the in game decision
Speaker 1: making process extends beyond their remit So Athletics. If youang
Speaker 1: expect to several referees, all of whom have several years
Speaker 1: of experience, claimed the incidents like the one and Crew
Speaker 1: Red Bulls game were part of a pattern of interference,
Speaker 1: and two referees who remained unnamed obviously because of job security,
Speaker 1: requested anonymity and a reprisal. So now you have referees
Speaker 1: saying that there are bigger issues at stake, the need
Speaker 1: for viewing public to have faith in their officiating performance,
Speaker 1: and that the VAR process is conducted with transparency. You
Speaker 1: have supervisors coming into the pods at halftime of matches,
Speaker 1: according to one referee, communication headset where they can listen
Speaker 1: and talk and talk in and in, and they've come
Speaker 1: on during the course of the game to help point
Speaker 1: us in a different direction. Second referee, there's a concern
Speaker 1: that the protocols in place are not being upheld as
Speaker 1: they have been previously enforced. There have been suggestions which
Speaker 1: fall outside the strict protocol that we've been asked to
Speaker 1: carry end quote. PRO responded this way two six hundred
Speaker 1: and forty nine checks in twenty twenty four, of which
Speaker 1: six two one thousands of one percent prompted comment from
Speaker 1: a supervisor to a video match official. PRO conducted internal
Speaker 1: review when this was brought to our attention, and improvements
Speaker 1: were immediately made to PROS processes as a result. What
Speaker 1: say you about that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is I don't want to say unacceptable, because
Speaker 4: I understand why PRO would feel compelled to want to
Speaker 4: intervene in particularly contentious situations. However, however, that's not their job.
Speaker 4: That is not in the job description, that's not in
Speaker 4: the writer, that's not in the trip manifest, that is
Speaker 4: not what they're there for now. If they want to
Speaker 4: have these conversations after the game, fully fine, But I
Speaker 4: definitely dislike pro officials being in tune with the headsets.
Speaker 4: I think that is a problem. I think that is
Speaker 4: not something that functioning professional referees should have to deal with.
Speaker 4: I do believe that, you know, I understand how at
Speaker 4: my level and the levels leading up to that, I
Speaker 4: could see where in some cases you could have what
Speaker 4: essentially amounts to their assigner, right, that's what pro is basically,
Speaker 4: is the assigner being involved to help with training. You know,
Speaker 4: I could see that, but not in a sanctioned regular
Speaker 4: season league match competition. That is overreached for sure, and
Speaker 4: does make officials who, by the way, should be operating
Speaker 4: at their highest you know, for to use the gen
Speaker 4: Z term, they're locked in.
Speaker 1: They should be.
Speaker 4: They should be at that level of mental focus. You know,
Speaker 4: we all as referees do feel a little bit more
Speaker 4: in tune with the game, maybe when you're being assessed,
Speaker 4: but they're being assessed every game, and the assessment and
Speaker 4: the assessor are the least important people during that game.
Speaker 4: And honestly, it was it was fact, you're going to
Speaker 4: get her from the players and coaches, which.
Speaker 1: How to phrase this, It was concerning, not surprising, Yeah, especially.
Speaker 4: In this instance of VAR.
Speaker 1: But anything passed anyone in any of these situation suations,
Speaker 1: I'm not so I found intriguing but not surprising is
Speaker 1: probably the best way that I can phrase what Steph
Speaker 1: Yang friends at the athletics. So I thought it was.
Speaker 4: I was, uh, oh, here we go again. Ask questions.
Speaker 4: I guess if you want me to answer them. For
Speaker 4: the time being, John got kicked out again. We have Uh,
Speaker 4: he's gonna have to go for a round five. I'll
Speaker 4: stick around for a little bit so he can figure
Speaker 4: it out if it's worth it. So anyway, this is,
Speaker 4: this particular instance of the Red Bulls and Columbus Crew
Speaker 4: match is for my opinion, very concerning because during the
Speaker 4: VAR process trying to again we've talked about this on
Speaker 4: the show a lot re referee and having someone who's
Speaker 4: not a match official come in and try to actually
Speaker 4: referee game is really concerning. That's a problem, and I'm
Speaker 4: a little disappointed in pro for doing that that I
Speaker 4: think they should be better. It wouldn't surprise me if
Speaker 4: we get similar reports from NWSL, but that wasn't in
Speaker 4: the article that Steph wrote. Yeah, y'all have questions. I
Speaker 4: guess put him in there. John is refraining from cursing
Speaker 4: because he doesn't want you all to hear it. But
Speaker 4: I think this is already an explicit rating episode. Yeah,
Speaker 4: if anyone has any questions that you want me to
Speaker 4: answer about the refereeing that we saw, let me know. Otherwise, Yeah,
Speaker 4: let's let's discuss. I love that. Let's talk about Messi.
Speaker 4: You know, I think the problem I have with the
Speaker 4: Messy winning MVP is obviously it was. It was written
Speaker 4: in the Star as well before that, that was in
Speaker 4: the script for the twenty twenty four season. It would
Speaker 4: be it would have been I would have taken a
Speaker 4: heroic effort for someone to beat Messi this year in
Speaker 4: the MVP race. But I do think that I guy
Speaker 4: like Ricky Fooch probably deserved it more than Messi. He
Speaker 4: was way more instrumental to the way the team played. Messy,
Speaker 4: you know, was very important. But come on, man, Like,
Speaker 4: you've got three other World Cup winners on that roster,
Speaker 4: three World Cup players on that roster, Like, you don't
Speaker 4: need Messy to win that. Good job for Messy that
Speaker 4: got them a first round exit, So congrats. What is
Speaker 4: your line as a ref till a game could be abandoned?
Speaker 4: Abandoned at my level would be not really in my control,
Speaker 4: to be honest, because at the grassroots level, while I
Speaker 4: may look up at the sky and say, I'll give
Speaker 4: you two examples, I may look up at the sky
Speaker 4: and go, hey, we have thunder and lightning. We're going
Speaker 4: to clear the field. If that match continues to play,
Speaker 4: or how it gets continued to play, is not something
Speaker 4: that's up to me. But you know, if I don't
Speaker 4: have a league official or the coaches aren't the ones
Speaker 4: making the decision, then it would just basically be you know,
Speaker 4: have we gotten to a lot of leagues have their
Speaker 4: their rules, and most of it is basically have you
Speaker 4: got to the second half? And if so, you can
Speaker 4: abandon a match. Officially, I did have one match get
Speaker 4: abandoned earlier this year because the team showed up with
Speaker 4: only ten players. They had a player get hurt early
Speaker 4: in the second half and they were down like Ford.
Speaker 4: They actually scored a goal, they scored from a kickoff,
Speaker 4: but they ended up losing four to one at halftime,
Speaker 4: and at halftime the coaches came to me and said
Speaker 4: we're done. While the team could have continued to play
Speaker 4: with nine players, they opted to not to. I mean
Speaker 4: that was poor John. He's struggling anyway. The line for
Speaker 4: abandonment is basically whether are we allowed to continue to
Speaker 4: play and how long is it going to be until
Speaker 4: we play again. Usually I like to try to give
Speaker 4: as much time as possible, but I think the general
Speaker 4: rule of thumb is once you've surpassed your playing time slot.
Speaker 4: So for example, if I have a match scheduled at
Speaker 4: nine o'clock and we haven't started restarted a match by eleven,
Speaker 4: then it's likely that match will get abandoned for weather.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: I've also had some issues with parents before where you know,
Speaker 4: luckily we didn't get there, but we've had issues with
Speaker 4: parents where if they can't control themselves, especially literally being
Speaker 4: the adults in the room, we have threatened to kick
Speaker 4: them all out if not abandoned the match if they didn't,
Speaker 4: and you know, abandon the match if they didn't leave.
Speaker 4: We've had that issue once where a parent did not
Speaker 4: want to leave and I said, well, we're not restarting
Speaker 4: this match until you leave, and he tried to stay
Speaker 4: and I you know, basically call the coaches over and
Speaker 4: said if he doesn't leave, we're abandoning the match. But
Speaker 4: that isn't really in the the control of the referee,
Speaker 4: while the laws of the game may say it does
Speaker 4: that very much. Is something that's left up to league
Speaker 4: officials and more importantly, as a referee, we're going to
Speaker 4: go to the coaches to help them make that decision,
Speaker 4: especially at the youth level, because they're the ones kind
Speaker 4: of in charge of that match for reporting purposes and
Speaker 4: you know, making sure everyone's safe. So especially at a
Speaker 4: safety issue, we're going to talk to the coaches and say, hey,
Speaker 4: this is where we're at, it's probably not safe to
Speaker 4: play anymore. Yeah, any other questions, thanks, Rich, Just killing
Speaker 4: time until John gets back. Yeah, who has a Atlanta
Speaker 4: United gift on their wish list this year?
Speaker 1: And so Bart's hear before even me.
Speaker 4: Now I was I was here the whole time, John.
Speaker 1: I know you were. And so to continue our conversation,
Speaker 1: Derek says, being an ar and youth games and having
Speaker 1: to listen to parents crap is the worst.
Speaker 4: Well, crap is the nice way to put it, because
Speaker 4: they don't use that word. I have gotten a really,
Speaker 4: I have developed a really good teacher look. I use
Speaker 4: both as an official and as a center official and
Speaker 4: an assistant because parents forget that they're the adults sometimes,
Speaker 4: Like it's really sad, John. I I had one earlier,
Speaker 4: like last month, where I mean it was a younger
Speaker 4: kid in the middle, but like, I am super protective
Speaker 4: of anyone under the age of like nineteen who is refereeing,
Speaker 4: because I think we've talked about this on on this
Speaker 4: show before the turnover, and a lot of that is
Speaker 4: because younger referees don't like being yelled at, and parents
Speaker 4: see a kid in the middle and just think that
Speaker 4: they don't know anything. You know, this kid has gone
Speaker 4: through actual training and you're over there and as a
Speaker 4: parent who barely can run and have opinions on this,
Speaker 4: and I've I've i've straight up yelled at them before
Speaker 4: I have and I'm not supposed to like one hundred
Speaker 4: percent understand this, but I've old assigners and assussers that
Speaker 4: like they're like, you know, they're given the standard, like
Speaker 4: don't interact with the coaches, and I'm like, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: show to tell you, like I'll let them for a
Speaker 4: second and it's not bad. I'm just like, hey, that's enough.
Speaker 4: Type of things you get because you gotta think, John.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not a I'm not a parent, but
Speaker 4: I've seen this parenting trick. When the kid is not
Speaker 4: acting right, you gotta give a nice little like shot
Speaker 4: to their systems so they go, oh, they're serious about this.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes quoting Dale Hansen. Sometimes you just got
Speaker 1: to pop them in the butt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so I can't physically do that, I'll do
Speaker 4: that mentally with a nice little jerk of the oh okay, sorry,
Speaker 4: And usually they get it because because most of the
Speaker 4: time they're just being petulant. Yes, they didn't like one call,
Speaker 4: and now all of a sudden everything has to be
Speaker 4: Oh they didn't like that I called a throw in
Speaker 4: for the other team. Heaven forbid, I miss a throw in,
Speaker 4: which is going to go straight to the other team anyway,
Speaker 4: because they're twelve and they don't know how to throw
Speaker 4: the ball in anyway.
Speaker 1: Yes, uh so that was that was the point number
Speaker 1: two that I wanted to bring in. But yeah, the
Speaker 1: the idea of corporate overlord overseeing VAAR and impacting decisions
Speaker 1: that that that drew the people's eyebrow from me when
Speaker 1: that when the Steph Yang article came out from the Athletic.
Speaker 1: Not a fan of not a fan of those kinds
Speaker 1: of things. It's not appropriate, John, No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: not appropriate.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Third topic that I wanted to discuss with you, and
Speaker 1: that that you've hung on here for forty two minutes
Speaker 1: and only been able to talk for like eight uh. J. T.
Speaker 1: Batson did an interview with Amanda Davis at CNN and
Speaker 1: CNN International and so he says that he's open to
Speaker 1: job sharing in top coaching roles and it was a
Speaker 1: proposal floated by Emma Hayes last week before the draw
Speaker 1: with England. She mentioned the arrangement, which is already used
Speaker 1: by various soccer college programs once again the SECN NSWORTHY,
Speaker 1: as a way of providing more opportunities for female coaches
Speaker 1: at the top level. She did not relate the proposal
Speaker 1: to her own position as head coach and that of
Speaker 1: Mauritia Pochettino Batsen when asked by a Manda Davis about it,
Speaker 1: absolutely as to whether he'd be open to the idea.
Speaker 1: One of the driving factors quote behind US building a
Speaker 1: national training center for the first time is around creating
Speaker 1: those opportunities for a lot more mentorship, a lot more
Speaker 1: job sharing, a lot more seconds, a lot more opportunities
Speaker 1: to collaborate as folks are growing in their career. We've
Speaker 1: got this incredible growing market in soccer, and specifically women's soccer,
Speaker 1: and you need great talent off the field to be
Speaker 1: able to support those on the field. We need to
Speaker 1: need to have a broad based investment in programs, and
Speaker 1: job sharing is a great example of those end quote.
Speaker 4: A big issue in American soccer, and I would say
Speaker 4: soccer as a whole anywhere is still lack of females
Speaker 4: involved with any sort of management or leadership at any level.
Speaker 4: There are many times that I'll go referee a you know,
Speaker 4: a string of girls' youth matches, Right, I did this
Speaker 4: what two weekends ago where I had three matches not
Speaker 4: a single female coach for, But are total to six
Speaker 4: girls teams that would be unheard of on the boys side, right.
Speaker 4: Obviously they all have men who are coaching them. But
Speaker 4: when you have a bunch of girls being coached by men,
Speaker 4: I'm not saying that they can't coach, and that's not
Speaker 4: the point, but we need more women involved referees, coaches, administrator,
Speaker 4: oftentimes the only woman in any sort of position of
Speaker 4: power out there as the athletic trainer. And so this
Speaker 4: is a good uh. I think JT's hit on a
Speaker 4: couple of things. One is that I really love is
Speaker 4: that unified training center allows your coaches to be here,
Speaker 4: and so what if the youth seventeen girls coach is
Speaker 4: also out there at the U twenty boys practice right,
Speaker 4: That to me is a great use of time and
Speaker 4: talent of the coaching fool that you have within US soccer.
Speaker 4: It also allows for more interaction between the two sides,
Speaker 4: which means that you're sharing ideas and we you know,
Speaker 4: the point of DEI to bring up a bad word, apparently,
Speaker 4: the point of DEI is Dale, raise hail for Rasdale.
Speaker 4: The point of the I is to bring diverse perspectives
Speaker 4: and thoughts to the table. And when you only have men,
Speaker 4: and a lot of times men from a very specific
Speaker 4: class of people, you're not getting different perspectives. So, you know,
Speaker 4: I think his point is just more broad about why
Speaker 4: are we limiting women to certain jobs? And we just
Speaker 4: need more women in period in soccer, and so you know,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't know if he's truly open to say.
Speaker 4: You know, m A. Hayes coaching both the men's and
Speaker 4: women's national team, although we've joked that should happen, but
Speaker 4: now we have Pochatino, So I think they're at least
Speaker 4: relatively comparable coaches. But you know, I think I do
Speaker 4: think Emma could have got a better result at Copa America.
Speaker 4: But it is something that you see at a lot
Speaker 4: at the college level where maybe you have well, this
Speaker 4: is a great example. Actually we talked about Lisa mc
Speaker 4: cray a lot on this podcast, and the head coach
Speaker 4: of the women's team there, Cali Morale was the head
Speaker 4: women's coach at Leonora Ryan when I was there, but
Speaker 4: coach Adrian Blewett was technically the head coach both the
Speaker 4: men's and women's teams. That makes sense, So he was
Speaker 4: the director of soccer basically, and then you had the
Speaker 4: head assistants for either team who were kind of done
Speaker 4: with managing, and so Kelly was really in charge of
Speaker 4: the women's team, but underneath the director of soccer. And
Speaker 4: so that does happen a lot of times because budgets
Speaker 4: are the biggest reason, I think because the unfortunate. Part
Speaker 4: of that is it's not because you're being altruistic. You're going, well,
Speaker 4: it's easier to pay one head coach for both teams,
Speaker 4: give him a little bit of a bump, and then
Speaker 4: you know, have two assistants that you're going to have
Speaker 4: to have anyway. So I don't know, Hi, Nick, I'll
Speaker 4: hire you.
Speaker 1: How do Hi?
Speaker 4: This is your internet working? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Nick's internet's working.
Speaker 4: I'm sure my internet is working.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So it seems to be some trouble there this morning there.
Speaker 1: John, Yeah, four dumpouts in the first hour and twenty
Speaker 1: five minutes, including the thirty minutes to actually think.
Speaker 4: And it's not his fault, Nick, This is truly the internet.
Speaker 1: So well, folks, I mean I think it was a
Speaker 1: commando was just said. It was FIFA that was coming
Speaker 1: down on me once and for all for for everything.
Speaker 6: Well, well, I for one salute our new soccer overlords,
Speaker 6: and uh, you know, I look forward to the crushing
Speaker 6: oppression ad.
Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, so you get to talk about club World
Speaker 5: Cup stuff and how enter Miami got a super easy.
Speaker 4: Draw to spot.
Speaker 1: No. Look, because I have had no internet this morning,
Speaker 1: we haven't had the chance to talk about the group
Speaker 1: configurations in the Club World Cup. We haven't talked about
Speaker 1: what allegedly is going to be happening in League's Cup,
Speaker 1: nor have we had the chance to discuss what's going
Speaker 1: to be happening in the last match of the year
Speaker 1: in Major League Soccer. We've done more is all we.
Speaker 4: Need to know about Club World Cup.
Speaker 1: John.
Speaker 4: We don't know when the games in Atlanta are happening
Speaker 4: or who's playing yet.
Speaker 1: We don't know it's supposed to be today.
Speaker 4: That's yeah, hopefully by the end, by today. That's all
Speaker 4: that matters. That's the most important thing, because that's what
Speaker 4: we care about. I'm not traveling for Club World Cup.
Speaker 4: No offense to Club World Cup. That sounds fun, but
Speaker 4: I'm not traveling for that. But tell me when, what, when,
Speaker 4: and where the games are when and who the games
Speaker 4: are for Atlanta, and that way I can start making
Speaker 4: my decisions. Also, I'm sure those tickets will be This
Speaker 4: is going to be a test to see how much
Speaker 4: they can actually price the twenty twenty six World Cup
Speaker 4: tickets for FIFA usually does a good job of keeping
Speaker 4: those prices low. But I am confident we'll.
Speaker 1: See mm hmm, so yeah, we will will definitely take
Speaker 1: a peek at that. But yeah, the the grid is
Speaker 1: supposed to scheduling grid is supposed to come out later today,
Speaker 1: so we will find out what it looks like, all right,
Speaker 1: So then fine, we'll go ahead and take that turn.
Speaker 1: Since you mentioned Club World Cup, let's go through the
Speaker 1: groups Group A, Paul Marris, Porto al Ackley and Inter Miami.
Speaker 1: And apparently the first matchup is going to be Messi
Speaker 1: and your your current Lendon A Donovan Major League Soccer
Speaker 1: most Valuable Player, Lino Messi. Uh, they're going to take
Speaker 1: on Paul Mayris apparently in the tournament opener at hard Rock.
Speaker 1: So Group A Paul Mayris, Porto Alckley and interm Miami.
Speaker 1: So Messi and friends will not be playing at the
Speaker 1: director set. They'll be playing at the Casino Stadium instead,
Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a button seats game, right there.
Speaker 1: Ain't it. Oh, let's say Group B PSG Athletico Madrid,
Speaker 1: both the Fogo and Seattle Sounders. And I knew, I
Speaker 1: knew that the longer Seattle was on the table in
Speaker 1: pot D that you know, And there are only certain
Speaker 1: things that you could do and map out. Okay, you
Speaker 1: can't have these teams going up against these teams, and
Speaker 1: these teams going up against these teams. The longer Seattle
Speaker 1: was in play, I knew they were going to be
Speaker 1: put here in Group D to go up against PSG
Speaker 1: Athletic and both the Fogo. G Thanks, well, the.
Speaker 4: Jury is still out of PSG is actually good right now.
Speaker 6: So there's that, But the jury's also out on on
Speaker 6: who they're going to bring for right right. I mean
Speaker 6: it could be you know, hey, look that that academ
Speaker 6: kid who was bringing the water barrels on the field.
Speaker 6: Can we bring can we bring him along? You are
Speaker 6: starting ten?
Speaker 4: That's uh, that's that's correct. But yeah, hey, look good
Speaker 4: for Seattle they get to host these games. I mean
Speaker 4: I think legitimately getting to host in Seattle PSG is cool. Yeah,
Speaker 4: our buddy Thiago Almada he is to come back. Correct
Speaker 4: still there by then, I don't think.
Speaker 1: And John Texter gets an entire tournament to look at
Speaker 1: on Twitter to see if he can find folks to
Speaker 1: get to both the Fogo, much like you did find
Speaker 1: Tiagua Alma. They got a helpful hint about a guy
Speaker 1: named Thiagua Almada on Twitter and he chased after it.
Speaker 1: We talked about it yesterday in the handoff with Nino
Speaker 1: and Nico.
Speaker 4: Which is better using Twitter or transfer market to make
Speaker 4: your decisions?
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good question. That is really a good question.
Speaker 1: Depends on what your budgets are. Groups.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll just say that's one one of those guys
Speaker 4: won a trophy. The other one is now firing their
Speaker 4: third head coach in three years.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 6: Well, here's here's my question regarding Look, the idea is
Speaker 6: that we found this player on social media. Right, That
Speaker 6: means that some chuck wagon posted the content, right, Yeah,
Speaker 6: some poor schmuck out there posted, went through. They probably
Speaker 6: created a great Thiago Almada video with light, excellent euro
Speaker 6: techno beats behind it, you know. And uh, I don't
Speaker 6: know about that, John, That's that's a little concerning. Sounds
Speaker 6: like you need some pepto. Uh. But but you know,
Speaker 6: is this person getting a dime? You know, is there
Speaker 6: like a finder's fee that we can direct to the
Speaker 6: person who posted the Thiago Almada content social media that
Speaker 6: got him to Vota Fogo?
Speaker 1: Doubtful? I mean, John Texter, Right now, we know what's
Speaker 1: going on with Eagle Football Group, so remember Leon. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: so right now I'm guessing the answer to that's a
Speaker 1: hard no.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Group CE Bayern, Munich, Benfica, Boca Juniors and Auckland City.
Speaker 1: Thanks for dropping by.
Speaker 4: Auckland City, a semi pro team. We love it.
Speaker 1: Group D Flamengo, Leone, Chelsea and ESPORTID the two Nie
Speaker 1: from Too Nisia.
Speaker 4: I actually think this is an interesting group because we
Speaker 4: get the Lega a Mechi's team playing in the US,
Speaker 4: which I think, you know will shock a lot of
Speaker 4: European fans that that many, you know, passionate fans would
Speaker 4: be in the US. You know, Chelsea is on a
Speaker 4: good runniform. Who knows what Todd Bowley does by next summer?
Speaker 4: And uh yeah, I think that's an I think that's
Speaker 4: a really interesting group personally.
Speaker 1: And I mean I'm I'm staring at that when I'm
Speaker 1: going Estid the two Nie thanks for dropping by.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Here's my thing is, I think that this could be
Speaker 6: one of those groups that could I will agree with
Speaker 6: my with my esteemed colleague, the estimable bart uh with
Speaker 6: saying that this could be the group to watch out for,
Speaker 6: but I would not sleep on on our friends from Tunisia.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying that as a you know, a North
Speaker 6: African uh, you know fanboy, I will say that I
Speaker 6: think Tunisia and and there our friends from Liga E Mekis.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: This is one thing that tends to happen in these
Speaker 6: summer tournaments here in the United States, is that I
Speaker 6: saw this way back, uh in the early two thousands
Speaker 6: when Club America played Milan at the Georgia Dome. And
Speaker 6: Milan came in and they brought a largely full strength
Speaker 6: roster and they got ran by Clobe America. I mean,
Speaker 6: they were not ready for the intensity that the LGA
Speaker 6: Mechi's team brought. They were not ready for the bat
Speaker 6: blank insanity that they were willing to engage.
Speaker 1: In, and they did.
Speaker 6: They did not tried playing catch up until the second half.
Speaker 6: And I'm just saying, you could see some shocks in
Speaker 6: this group if the team from Tunisia and the team
Speaker 6: from Mekis show up and decide to go full boar, don't.
Speaker 4: I mean as well? I mean that's the thing that
Speaker 4: I think a lot of these nick these European teams
Speaker 4: have never truly dealt with, outside of maybe some trips
Speaker 4: to the Baltic States is fans who I mean, they're
Speaker 4: scary to be quite honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it. All right, So that's uh,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to. I'm looking forward to chaos, you know,
Speaker 1: me and chaos, that's what I'm hunger. Group E, River
Speaker 1: Plate Yurawa, Red Diamonds from Japan, Mont Today and inter
Speaker 1: Milan nick in Group E.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, So the Blue and Black team's gonna go
Speaker 6: do something.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: We've got to make sure that the're probably having to
Speaker 6: work for the airline to ensure that the team could
Speaker 6: afford to pay their way over. But I want to
Speaker 6: see where this group ends up because if if they
Speaker 6: put this group on the West coast, then you could
Speaker 6: get some butts in seats.
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, If you.
Speaker 6: Put this team on in the southeast, it could be
Speaker 6: problematic for some of your matchups. But this is gonna
Speaker 6: be interesting to see where FIFA puts these groups. And
Speaker 6: because they believe me, Look, they I agree that the seat.
Speaker 6: You may have some tickets that are moderately affordable, but
Speaker 6: at the end of the day, you will find groups
Speaker 6: that are magically playing in certain locations to ensure that
Speaker 6: you're gonna end up getting some some cash flow coming
Speaker 6: in from this thing. They want to make this the
Speaker 6: most successful Club World Cup in history. They want to
Speaker 6: make sure that they have a good a good footprint,
Speaker 6: good road map for how to handle a World Cup
Speaker 6: coming up. And they have to also sell to the world.
Speaker 6: And I'm not trying to get political here, but you
Speaker 6: have to sell to the world that you will have
Speaker 6: a safe experience here.
Speaker 1: In America, yeah, for twenty six and that.
Speaker 6: This is also part of the process. So there's a
Speaker 6: lot riding on this tournament for FIFA, and so I
Speaker 6: really want to see where they put these u these groups,
Speaker 6: and especially if somehow, some way Boca and River end
Speaker 6: up playing each other. Somewhere along this line, you are
Speaker 6: going to get a lot of security testing h in place.
Speaker 6: Especially if you end up in the Southeast or if
Speaker 6: you end up in the Southwest. You could have some
Speaker 6: really really interesting dynamics playing out. As we saw H
Speaker 6: during Copa America in Miami.
Speaker 4: This group screamsnick being in Georgia and Florida. It does
Speaker 4: when you look at all the Yeah, when you look
Speaker 4: at the sites, You've got Mercedes Bens, You've got Bank
Speaker 4: of America up and Charlotte. I can see that very
Speaker 4: favoring Monterey, the Hiante from Mexico, and then with the
Speaker 4: Argentinian connection and and Miami and probably Orlando as well,
Speaker 4: I could see like, yeah, this is gonna be a
Speaker 4: problem for I know you're you will absolutely hate seeing
Speaker 4: an Italian team get thropped by some of these South
Speaker 4: American and Central I know you'll just it'll break your heart.
Speaker 6: Big River.
Speaker 4: I want to know if if if mon and and
Speaker 4: are gonna wear their striped kits together because one is
Speaker 4: white and blue and the other is black, but I
Speaker 4: think they should try that out.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. But yeah, so Nick big urala red diamonds energy.
Speaker 6: Massive massive for NICKI I'm the guy who would dress
Speaker 6: up at like in the inflatable Godzilla outfit when that
Speaker 6: when they play against Enter and like do like the
Speaker 6: the inflatable thundersticks. Yeah, that would be me. If you
Speaker 6: see that at Bank of America Stadium, you just know,
Speaker 6: all right, that's Nick and they're about to have heage stroke.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Group. F uh we we always mentioned that
Speaker 1: the Seattle Group is the group of de la Mortes,
Speaker 1: Group of de la Morte Group f Flamense Dortmund, old
Speaker 1: Son and Mammelodi sundowns what happened here? Group? I guess
Speaker 1: they want Dortmund to go through, eh, I.
Speaker 4: Would say yes to be fair, like those are yeah,
Speaker 4: those are the two to get through that group.
Speaker 1: I mean that's literally that's what I'm staring at. In
Speaker 1: this one we mentioned one's a group of death. This
Speaker 1: one is like the the the group of paper footballs
Speaker 1: or whatever. In in Group F group g Man City v.
Speaker 1: DoD Ac out of Morocco, I'll Ian out of the
Speaker 1: UAE and Juventus nick.
Speaker 6: I would like to see. Morocco has put a ton
Speaker 6: of money from the top down into their program, so
Speaker 6: into their entire like their entire soccer pyramid has received
Speaker 6: significant and substantial funding. There is a sincere effort to
Speaker 6: place Morocco front and center on the world stage at
Speaker 6: all levels of football. It will be very easy to
Speaker 6: point at this team out of Morocco and say, okay,
Speaker 6: they're out, but they will show up ready, guns of blazing,
Speaker 6: in order to showcase, hey, that money was not wasted, right,
Speaker 6: So they want to put on a good showing here. Uh,
Speaker 6: Youve is I'm not going to say youve is a
Speaker 6: shell of themselves because they're not, but they will show
Speaker 6: up with how Italian teams do God bless but go
Speaker 6: up here and they're not going to work unless they
Speaker 6: have to. If they don't, it's gonna be very interesting
Speaker 6: what happens when Enter and Uve get punched in the face.
Speaker 6: I want to see how that works out. But don't
Speaker 6: sleep on any of these African teams coming out for
Speaker 6: Club World Cup.
Speaker 4: Well, two things I want to talk about with both
Speaker 4: Groove G and App is you've got the potential for
Speaker 4: Americans playing here. Obviously with with Youve you've got McKenny
Speaker 4: and Weea, with Dortmund you've got Girana and Cole Campbell
Speaker 4: who's who's making his ways, and Monterrey as well if
Speaker 4: you want to go see Brandon Vasquez. But Nick, I'm
Speaker 4: curious how the American connection will help you. They in
Speaker 4: the stands this summer.
Speaker 6: I think it'll be huge. Uh again, it's you know,
Speaker 6: butts and seats, right, and so if you have the opportunity,
Speaker 6: it's one thing to.
Speaker 4: I mean, if it's closed, I'm going type of right.
Speaker 6: Right, And and that's that's the huge thing here is
Speaker 6: that how often do you get to see your national
Speaker 6: team heroes, especially if the European based ones play here
Speaker 6: in America like we saw when.
Speaker 4: In the rail matches matches. Yes not the yeah.
Speaker 6: Correct, correct. It's one thing to say, Okay, I'm going
Speaker 6: to go and spend an insane amount of money to
Speaker 6: watch a team during a player friendly in which my
Speaker 6: hero will only play half of the game, if like
Speaker 6: maybe twenty minutes tops, and then they're out. So you know,
Speaker 6: you get the slow walk off the field, the collapse,
Speaker 6: everybody's cheering, and then half the stadium empties out. FIFA
Speaker 6: does not want that, you know. So it will be
Speaker 6: good for US men's national team fans to see their
Speaker 6: heroes in the European clubs probably get some significant playing time,
Speaker 6: and you know, you will look at this as a
Speaker 6: brand building exercise.
Speaker 4: So do you think they have the strongest.
Speaker 6: And no, okay no, I think Milan right now has
Speaker 6: eclipsed to them just by Polisitics.
Speaker 4: Because of politic That makes sense. Do you think youve
Speaker 4: is up there in terms like because when I think
Speaker 4: of Italian clubs, I think youve Is. I mean there's
Speaker 4: a reason but the nickname of the grand.
Speaker 6: Old lady or whatever, but yeah, yeah, it looks.
Speaker 4: I do think I get your point about Polisic specifically
Speaker 4: has raised Milan's status, but I think there's a lot
Speaker 4: of Uve cloud still out there.
Speaker 6: There there is. I think that I think that Juve
Speaker 6: was a far more attractive ticket when you had when
Speaker 6: you had Buffon and Gold, when you had Kilini, when
Speaker 6: you had Banucci, when you had that Moron number seven
Speaker 6: up top, you had you know there were it was
Speaker 6: a more attractive ticket. You know. It's it's this is
Speaker 6: a brand that would still have significant drawing power in Europe.
Speaker 6: But I don't know if it's going to be the
Speaker 6: same here outside of the of the US men's national
Speaker 6: team players, But I way, yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Think that will still carry a long way. I mean,
Speaker 4: you're gonna see a lot of red, white and blue
Speaker 4: and the stands cheering for you.
Speaker 6: In my opinion, Yeah, yeah, You'll see a lot of
Speaker 6: US men's national team kids when you shows up to play,
Speaker 6: and there will be pressure on them to play those
Speaker 6: those guys and play them for a while.
Speaker 4: Do you enter and you've ay just play in the
Speaker 4: New York, New Jersey Philadelphia area or are they going
Speaker 4: to be.
Speaker 6: Yes, they will. I think people are going to demand, Yeah,
Speaker 6: you know a place you don't want to place them
Speaker 6: in Dallas? Okay, you don't want to place them there.
Speaker 4: But I don't. I don't know if Nashville is the
Speaker 4: play which where I am now, I don't know if
Speaker 4: Nashville is the place to put the Italian team.
Speaker 6: No, but I would certainly look at putting you a
Speaker 6: in the northeast. And you got to give him a rin?
Speaker 4: Are can Tommy DeVito's agent be the official cointosper?
Speaker 6: What are we doing if that doesn't happen? If what
Speaker 6: are we doing as a society if that's not happening?
Speaker 1: Oh man, to see once again, here we go working.
Speaker 1: We're fixing the Club World Cup and it hadn't even
Speaker 1: started yet.
Speaker 4: That's I mean, that's why I'm like, why you know
Speaker 4: the Mexican teams are going to get in like one
Speaker 4: of four locations. It's going to be l A. Yeah,
Speaker 4: probably Florida one of those two, and then Atlanta and Charlotte.
Speaker 4: There's huge Mexican populations and all three, all four of
Speaker 4: those places, like's not dumb, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they they need to they need to fill their coffers.
Speaker 1: According to Ben Jacobs earlier this morning, uh MESSI and
Speaker 1: Friends are supposed to play at the Casino and Group
Speaker 1: A Toy play at the hard Rock Group be expected
Speaker 1: to be in Los Angeles and i'le no surprise once
Speaker 1: again the Sounders being attached to Group B. Around half
Speaker 1: of the other games, according to Jacobs, will take place
Speaker 1: in New York and Atlanta is also expected to get
Speaker 1: a big chunk of games. Group H Real Madrid, All Hillal,
Speaker 1: Pachuca and f C Salzburg. Hey, Real Madrid, thanks for
Speaker 1: coming by the Hike.
Speaker 4: Think this is a really good opportunity for a Salzburg
Speaker 4: team that doesn't get a whole lot of Like when
Speaker 4: they go to the champions You're you know, the UAA
Speaker 4: Champions League, they get kicked out early because there is
Speaker 4: that talent gap. I'm curious how a team that has
Speaker 4: been so good in Austria competes with a Pachuka or you.
Speaker 1: Know, I'll have Lee mm hmmm. One. So what you're
Speaker 1: looking at for venues once again? L A and Seattle.
Speaker 1: They're thinking that's Group B. You have, you got hard
Speaker 1: rock and I'm guessing they're gonna try and put it
Speaker 1: in the Citrus Bawl. I don't know if they're gonna.
Speaker 4: Pay and can't imagine that when you get to.
Speaker 1: Deeper stages and things.
Speaker 4: When you get to the A La Klee versus Porto match,
Speaker 4: is that going to be in the Citrus Bowl? Or
Speaker 4: is that an excuse me, camping World or is that
Speaker 4: an enter and co?
Speaker 1: Hey, they they ain't paying us to talk about their equipment.
Speaker 1: So it's the Citrus Bowl. Bank of America capacity TQL
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati is twenty six thousand, Rose Bowl listed as
Speaker 1: one of the venues. Hard rock capacity of sixty five,
Speaker 1: g otis listed with a capacity of thirty, the Metal
Speaker 1: Lands at eighty two five for soccer, Citrus BUWL listed
Speaker 1: at sixty five for soccer, and yes, the Amber Sand
Speaker 1: Stadium in Middle Florida with a capacity of twenty seven thousand,
Speaker 1: the link for sixty nine thousand, lumin at sixty nine thousand, nice,
Speaker 1: and Audi at twenty And that's what we're staring at.
Speaker 1: So DC, they're moving him to Audi Field. They better
Speaker 1: get some horticulture squared away from that joint, because what was.
Speaker 4: The other option? John freaking FedEx? That ain't you'll, I.
Speaker 1: Don't know if is FedEx even wide enough?
Speaker 4: Is what I'm saying yeah, is actually wide enough, but
Speaker 4: it's just a terrible stadium.
Speaker 6: Well, let's keep in mind the Rose Bowl. The reason
Speaker 6: why they're playing in the Rose Bowl, they're going to
Speaker 6: play it off as this historic stadium. That's not the case.
Speaker 6: The big issue here is in LA when they built
Speaker 6: the stadium, they didn't build it with FIFA lines in mind,
Speaker 6: and ownership refuses to remove any seats in order to
Speaker 6: ensure that they can account they can account for the
Speaker 6: FIFA lines.
Speaker 4: So, uh, Stan crockey once again forgetting that soccer.
Speaker 3: Is this sport.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you have this this this modern, like goulous,
Speaker 7: gorgeous cathedral in LA that you can't even use for
Speaker 7: the premier sport in the world.
Speaker 6: So you've got to haul it up to Pasadena.
Speaker 4: And you know CONCA CAF is playing their next two
Speaker 4: Nations League finals there though.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it'd be it'd be great. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 6: gonna be a good good job.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But and for those who have never been to Pasadena,
Speaker 6: it is it. Look, it ain't exactly next door to
Speaker 6: Los Angeles. The Rose Bull is in a neighborhood. Like
Speaker 6: you run down from one corner and like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you park on the golf course. That's how
Speaker 1: the golf course makes their money, especially for rose ball environments.
Speaker 1: You park on the golf course, they overcharge you for
Speaker 1: the parking and then they take the revenue from the parking,
Speaker 1: and that's how they fix the golf course.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 6: So, if you've ever seen like the movie kill Bill,
Speaker 6: right where the bride shows up and faces off against
Speaker 6: Vivica a fox, that's Pasadena. That neighborhood, that beautiful, little
Speaker 6: quaint neighborhood is Pasadena. And it's like probably that where
Speaker 6: they shot that was probably maybe like three minutes away
Speaker 6: from the Rose Bowl tops. So there ain't exactly a
Speaker 6: fantastic level of infrastructure there to make that to make
Speaker 6: that happen. But Krocky won't make any moves necessary to
Speaker 6: make any adjustments in his modern technological masterpiece.
Speaker 1: So you know, okay, great, let's see. Let me take
Speaker 1: the tour real quick. It looks like Aaron Opoko has
Speaker 1: reached a verbal agreement with All Caps. The twenty five
Speaker 1: year old striker from Kaiser, Slout and Keen to join
Speaker 1: the MLS in January. Already received fee as an offer
Speaker 1: worth a two hundred and fifty to three hundred fifty
Speaker 1: thousand and transfer fees and courting internally. Advice is now
Speaker 1: being sought on whether to accept the offer otherwise a
Speaker 1: pre transfer in the summer is looming. We did have
Speaker 1: a trade this morning in Major League Soccer. The Loons
Speaker 1: have acquired and I don't know how talented this individual
Speaker 1: is from Sporting Kansas City, but Minnesota United has acquired
Speaker 1: general allocation money from Sporting Wows this morning, and it's
Speaker 1: an undisclosed amount too, So that's how secretive the talent
Speaker 1: pool is involving general allocation money wow being acquired from
Speaker 1: Sporting Kansas City next for the homegrown priorities of Ian
Speaker 1: James and Jack cork Camp. So Minnesota United acquires an
Speaker 1: undisclosed amount of GAM from Sporting Kansas City in exchange
Speaker 1: for homegrown priorities of Ian James and Jack cort Camp,
Speaker 1: who I believe are two U seventeen's with the the
Speaker 1: national team.
Speaker 4: So interesting, but.
Speaker 1: Yes, so you don't get a specific amount, you don't
Speaker 1: get specific allocation money, you get an undisclosed amount of
Speaker 1: general allocation money. So the trade involved something. So it
Speaker 1: might have been like, you know, a bag of Dorito's
Speaker 1: and a you serve and.
Speaker 4: You know, figuring out Cheetos and U seventeen.
Speaker 1: Yes, Messi won the Donovan MVP with thirty eight point
Speaker 1: four percent of the vote, beating Kuco Hernandez at thirty
Speaker 1: three points seven. Jorgey Moss optimistic Messi will extend until
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six translation when the new stadium opens. Quote.
Speaker 1: I'm very confident he'll be opening our new stadium in
Speaker 1: twenty six. I'll be sitting with Leo at some point
Speaker 1: in the off season. I'm optimistic that as long as
Speaker 1: Leo's health holds up, we'll be seeing him in pink,
Speaker 1: according to Ben Jacobs. Ben Jacobs was very busy at
Speaker 1: the Club World Cup to do and get this. Jacobs
Speaker 1: asked Jorgey Moss whether Nayma is on their radar and
Speaker 1: if he's tempted to reunite MSN, Messi, Suarez and Nama.
Speaker 1: Quote and this is this Isjorgey Moss. We've an unlimited budget.
Speaker 1: We are aspirational if there's ever a chance to bring
Speaker 1: the caliber of a player like Neymar we will not
Speaker 1: head eh. Quote aren't you care? What a man?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Sorry, my computer was dying. I need to head Charter.
Speaker 6: Actually let's look, let's look at this messy news or
Speaker 6: this messy quote thing here from Moss. Look, Messy is
Speaker 6: now officially on about eighty seven percent of all products
Speaker 6: involving sporting water, beer chips. It is everything that America
Speaker 6: has promised nil, right, and the old jay Z quote,
Speaker 6: I'm not a businessman. I'm a business man. So you
Speaker 6: anybody can be employed by Messy the business and not
Speaker 6: Messy the team.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 6: So if you're employed by Messi the man, he can
Speaker 6: pay you whatever he wants. And so if Neymar says, hey,
Speaker 6: look how do I get over here? Great, well you
Speaker 6: sign up with MESSYLLC and we can ensure that we
Speaker 6: can compensate you whatever is needed for you to come
Speaker 6: here and play in pink for a while. And there's nothing.
Speaker 6: It's it's the most beautiful loophole that you.
Speaker 4: Can imagining, Nymar Audi Dealership. Oh yeah, Orlando, and just
Speaker 4: you know, like not not Miami, Orlando where you have
Speaker 4: a huge Portuguese speaking, Brazilian speaking population, Brazilion.
Speaker 1: Perhaps a chain of of Ortho dealerships to make sure
Speaker 1: that he's got the proper equipment when he's on crutches.
Speaker 6: Well, especially when that that injury happens from the December
Speaker 6: to March timeframe.
Speaker 1: Yes, and uh so he's late for training camp. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's dinged up. We're letting him rest now.
Speaker 6: We're letting him rest down at Carnival.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So ay, if they if Miami makes it happen, beautiful,
Speaker 6: go for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go for it. Yeah, I mean if that legitimately,
Speaker 1: if that's what, if that's what you can if that's
Speaker 1: what you can make happen, make happen. Test the limits
Speaker 1: of nil and and sponsorships and things like that. But
Speaker 1: my larger question is it so Messi wins the don
Speaker 1: Ovan MVP Award over Koot scho, Evander Binech and Suarez
Speaker 1: was someone who played in fifty five percent of Miami's
Speaker 1: matches worthy of getting the MVP award.
Speaker 4: How did well?
Speaker 6: The question really is, how are we defining most valuable?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Oh man, I'm with you, Nick, I mean, are.
Speaker 6: We talking about on the field scoring goals or is
Speaker 6: it to you know, how much did Apple's subscriptions tick up,
Speaker 6: how much was added to the bottom line, how much
Speaker 6: viewership jumped this past season? Because if those numbers are
Speaker 6: markedly improved, he was the most valuable player for the
Speaker 6: league if he But if you're telling me that from
Speaker 6: on field perspective, he was more important than bed Teca
Speaker 6: because who was DC without the decade?
Speaker 4: You know, Yeah, And that that gets into the conversation
Speaker 4: to Nick of well, I agree, ben Teke was more
Speaker 4: valuable to his team. His team wasn't good, That's true,
Speaker 4: except against Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Well, and they were and Messi and friends won eight
Speaker 1: of nine in Major League Soccer when he was not
Speaker 1: in the lineup. Remember he was over two months with
Speaker 1: the ankle injury. The remember the picture of him on
Speaker 1: the bench in the KOPA final where his ankle looks
Speaker 1: like somebody turned a a King scepter upside down and
Speaker 1: had its substitute as his left leg. I mean, fifty
Speaker 1: five percent of the matches in a thirty four match
Speaker 1: competitive season, he gets the MVP, they win eight of
Speaker 1: nine with that out him. But to Nick's economic, three
Speaker 1: dimensional perspective, well.
Speaker 4: He also had the I mean, as the release says,
Speaker 4: more goal, more goal contributions than anyone else in the league.
Speaker 4: Right now, I think for me, the discussion as we're
Speaker 4: getting to is, yes, the numbers for Messi look great,
Speaker 4: but when you talk about most valuable. The wins above
Speaker 4: replacement seemed pretty darn good for someone. You know, It's
Speaker 4: not like he he was necessary war. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 4: like he his war is that great, because I think
Speaker 4: anyone to be quite I mean, you put Christian roll
Speaker 4: Don in that position and he's probably contributing to some
Speaker 4: goals on you know, a goaligain no fense. But that's
Speaker 4: just the reality when you have a guy like Luis Suarez, Leo,
Speaker 4: you know, and all the rest of the talent, you
Speaker 4: know it. I still think that Hughgue is the one
Speaker 4: that got snobbed from all of this discussion because I
Speaker 4: think when you watched LA Galaxy and watch how instrumental
Speaker 4: he was to that. I mean, I think he averaged
Speaker 4: a million touches a game. Yeah I wish I were exaggerating,
Speaker 4: but like he had an insane amount of touches for
Speaker 4: ninety and when you look at his team, sure they
Speaker 4: didn't set a points record, but you know, and it's
Speaker 4: not like LA is like hurting for talent either. But
Speaker 4: they had a very good season. They are now in
Speaker 4: the final, which I know doesn't play into these voting discussions,
Speaker 4: but still I think Ricky pug is the one who
Speaker 4: was snubbed the most in a season where Messi didn't
Speaker 4: have to be on this team for I mean Messi.
Speaker 4: Look obviously, I think if Messi's not there, then you
Speaker 4: don't have all the other players who are there. But
Speaker 4: if Messi were to not have played this year, as
Speaker 4: we said, I think Miami would have been just fine.
Speaker 4: Are they setting the points record? Maybe not, but they're
Speaker 4: still probably the number one overall seed and they still
Speaker 4: get bounced by Atlanta in the first round. There you go.
Speaker 1: League's Cup is going to be played in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Lizziebthcerano came out with that news yesterday, but apparently now
Speaker 1: and this goes to comments that were made by Ernst Tanner.
Speaker 1: I want to say last week in Philly, it looks
Speaker 1: like the League's Cup format may only be eighteen and eighteen.
Speaker 1: When Ernst Tanner said that it didn't look like the
Speaker 1: Union were going to be one of the chosen many
Speaker 1: that were going to be in League's Cup. So eighteen
Speaker 1: MLS teams considering this format, eighteen MLS teams and the
Speaker 1: eighteen Liga m Echis teams for what could be League's
Speaker 1: Cup in twenty twenty five. Yes it will be played,
Speaker 1: but now they're trying to figure out to what extent
Speaker 1: it will be played because of everything going on simultaneously.
Speaker 1: Gold Cup June fourteen to July six, Club World Cup
Speaker 1: June fifteen to July thirteen, and League's Cup is expected
Speaker 1: to be played in the summer months. So you could
Speaker 1: have a demolition derby of a schedule involving League's Cup,
Speaker 1: Gold Cup, Club World Cup here in this particular hemisphere.
Speaker 1: Remember the twenty three and the twenty four versions of
Speaker 1: the League's Cup had everybody in the pool. Now they're
Speaker 1: looking at eighteen plus eighteen and that's what we might
Speaker 1: be seeing that Once again, that's from Lizziebethcherano over at
Speaker 1: the four letters.
Speaker 6: So look, the only winner here is the Ortho Clinic.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's the clinic is the one that wins this, right.
Speaker 6: I this is not sustainable. This kind of schedule is
Speaker 6: not sustainable. It is you are forcing athletes. And before
Speaker 6: anyone says, oh there are a millionaires, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: You go.
Speaker 6: If you know any professional athletes, you go and you
Speaker 6: see them after they've retired, and you look at them
Speaker 6: hobbling around your body does not recover. It does not recover.
Speaker 4: I have played professionally and I'm still hurting when I
Speaker 4: wake up every day from playing the time I was
Speaker 4: foreign telling, I mean, seriously, it's just it's this is
Speaker 4: not good for them.
Speaker 6: It's not And and I don't care what the rev
Speaker 6: split is. I don't care what it doesn't make up
Speaker 6: for it. Yeah, the maximum they maximize, they maximize their
Speaker 6: their visibility in the market. Please no, I'm sorry, Like
Speaker 6: that's that's like when somebody says, hey, you can do
Speaker 6: this job, Nick, you'll get paid an exposure, right, Exposure
Speaker 6: doesn't pay the power bill. Exposure doesn't pay the water bill.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: And you know the exposure doesn't reconstitute a CLS, MCLs
Speaker 6: and Achilles. So when you have this kind of ridiculous
Speaker 6: schedule happening, you're punishing these players, and you're punishing their
Speaker 6: parent clubs. And initially, when I heard what Ernst Tanner said,
Speaker 6: I was initially like, well, blank, you Ernst Tanner out
Speaker 6: of principle. But now I'm like, great, I get to
Speaker 6: have my players sit to the side and have a
Speaker 6: reduced schedule. Amazing.
Speaker 4: Here's here's my thing about the League Cup is I
Speaker 4: think the problem with Leagues Cup personally is for those
Speaker 4: of you who don't remember, in the old format, it
Speaker 4: was basically for MLS the teams that didn't make CONKAKEP
Speaker 4: Champions League, all right, and so there was a level
Speaker 4: of qualification, so it was essentially the Europa Cup, right,
Speaker 4: Europa League. Yeah, And I think there is value in
Speaker 4: that for MLS and League A mechis, who by far
Speaker 4: have the best, the biggest saturation of good clubs in
Speaker 4: the Semisphere, to have their own little Europa League, you know,
Speaker 4: because you do want to reward For example, under this format,
Speaker 4: you know, like Charlotte would not have doesn't qualify necessarily
Speaker 4: for a Champions Cup type point, but hey, you had
Speaker 4: a good season, you get rewarded because you now qualify
Speaker 4: for League's Cup. You get an extra you know, two
Speaker 4: three games throughout the season in a group stage and hey,
Speaker 4: if you do that then you're going to a quarterfinal,
Speaker 4: semi final final. That sounds fun, right, That is a
Speaker 4: way to build hype because you have qualified for it.
Speaker 4: I think what you have the problem with right now
Speaker 4: in this current edition is from the MLS side, and
Speaker 4: I think from the League A Mechi side. The fans
Speaker 4: aren't buying what's being sold to them because there's no stakes.
Speaker 4: It's just like, okay, cool, you have a month break.
Speaker 4: That's terrible, especially when you're Atlanta and don't know how
Speaker 4: to win in the League's Cup and.
Speaker 1: You know, there's the Zinger sure that I was waiting for.
Speaker 4: I was thin here as a fact, John, and so
Speaker 4: then you sit for three weeks afterwards and you're just like, well,
Speaker 4: what do we do. That's a that's a bad it's
Speaker 4: bad format.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I think this is a step in the right direction.
Speaker 4: I think the obvious answer is you're gonna have Seattle
Speaker 4: in Miami not play a League's Cup because they're in
Speaker 4: Club World Cup. And you're probably you know, I don't
Speaker 4: know about the selection thing, but you know, Philly didn't
Speaker 4: make the playoffs, so I don't have they you know,
Speaker 4: if you want to talk about good teams, and they
Speaker 4: shouldn't be in it. But my fear is you're gonna
Speaker 4: have Seattle on Miami playing this because you've got to
Speaker 4: have MESSI playing a competition that's MLS based, And that's
Speaker 4: to next point. That's not good for anyone. But this
Speaker 4: should be the year coinciding with Champions Cup. This should
Speaker 4: be the tournament for the people and the teams in
Speaker 4: LEGA and Mechi's and MLS who did not get in
Speaker 4: a Champions Cup but still had very good seasons. Give
Speaker 4: them give me the next eight if.
Speaker 1: You will well, And what I would also propose is
Speaker 1: a widening of the roster eligibilities and make sure that
Speaker 1: your rosters.
Speaker 4: Are john Now you're talking about owners making decisions that
Speaker 4: make sense, and that's your problem there.
Speaker 1: Well, because you're getting to the point. I made this
Speaker 1: point earlier this week that you're getting to the point
Speaker 1: with all of these competitions, Nick, can can you help
Speaker 1: me out? Because Jason pronounces the country better than I do,
Speaker 1: and I think that you do a good second. Where
Speaker 1: the Premier League plays, thank you, With all of the
Speaker 1: competitions they have, that is where we are heading here.
Speaker 1: And in that country you have Gummy Bear Cup, You've
Speaker 1: got FA Cup, you have Premier League, You've got whatever
Speaker 1: league you're playing in, and in the pyramid you have
Speaker 1: Johnston's Paint, You've got Europa League. You've got all of
Speaker 1: these tournaments, and you need to with all of these
Speaker 1: tournaments now here in this Hemisphere, you've got to loosen
Speaker 1: your roster restrictions. So the thirty guys that are there,
Speaker 1: it's easy for them almost like make it like the
Speaker 1: NBA and the and the G League, where guys are
Speaker 1: ten day deals, but you don't restrict how many matches
Speaker 1: they can play, where you could have call ups and
Speaker 1: only be eligible. You could be called up for four
Speaker 1: times to sit on a bench and only play two. No,
Speaker 1: you got to wipe that off the board.
Speaker 4: If you're gonna get the point of having League MLS
Speaker 4: next pro as a reserves league, if you don't use
Speaker 4: the reserves.
Speaker 1: See I mean that's you saw in Open because you've
Speaker 1: got League's Cup, you've got Open Cup, you've got regular season,
Speaker 1: you've got Conker Calf for those that qualify. All of
Speaker 1: these things that are stacking up, and you're restricting your
Speaker 1: own roster size, roster health, tournament advancement. You're going to
Speaker 1: have teams take one of these tournaments. It might be
Speaker 1: Leagues Cup where you get three weeks off. If you
Speaker 1: don't get out of group, you could sit there and
Speaker 1: tank your group. If it's a large market team. Let's
Speaker 1: just say if it is a large market team in
Speaker 1: the old US television ad I breakdown. If a large
Speaker 1: market team that is attached two Major League Soccer decides
Speaker 1: because they're in all these damn tournaments, tell you what,
Speaker 1: we're gonna blow off Leagues Cup. We're gonna blow off
Speaker 1: this television series on Apple TV and just go through
Speaker 1: the group stage. We're going to Christmas Tree it under
Speaker 1: the current roster specs, and then we're gonna take three
Speaker 1: weeks off and get healthy. That does not I mean
Speaker 1: you're not drawing in the audiences and the larger chances
Speaker 1: at metrics by keeping these clubs engaged in these tournaments
Speaker 1: and being a part of these television shows that you're
Speaker 1: creating on Apple. You've got to fix the roster rules.
Speaker 6: Here well, because they're not looking at there. There are
Speaker 6: terms in corporate America that will absolutely warp your brain. Okay,
Speaker 6: like and you see it on LinkedIn all the time. Uh,
Speaker 6: they don't want they don't want exciting, amazing competition. They
Speaker 6: want attentive consumers, right, attentive consumers of product. And that
Speaker 6: you have to utilize the resources at your disposal to
Speaker 6: obtain these engaged consumers. And how do you do that?
Speaker 6: You put your resources out front and center every chance
Speaker 6: you get. And the idea is that these engaged consumers
Speaker 6: will lock onto your product and they will buy the
Speaker 6: supporting products that you know of your advertisers and services.
Speaker 6: And you know, I'm sure Family Insurance is a wonderful
Speaker 6: insurance company that does a good book of business. I
Speaker 6: have never once looked at purchasing American Family Insurance because
Speaker 6: they are in the front of Atlanta, United Jersey. But
Speaker 6: there they are, right and my partner. But it's you know,
Speaker 6: at the end of the day, that's all this is,
Speaker 6: and you the consumer have to make a choice whether
Speaker 6: you were going to tune into all of this mess
Speaker 6: or not. I fundamentally disagree with the fact that we
Speaker 6: have to have these crazy conversations where we have to
Speaker 6: look at a team that may tank, because you end
Speaker 6: up with like Blackpool and I England some years ago,
Speaker 6: where they take if I remember correctly, there were accusations
Speaker 6: that they were tanking in the f A Cup because
Speaker 6: they were concerned about survival in the pren and they
Speaker 6: were nuking the manager after the game on this and
Speaker 6: the manager said, I am the manager of Blackpool. I
Speaker 6: select the roster, not you, and not anyone else in
Speaker 6: the media, and it was this huge to do, and
Speaker 6: I think that you're going to get a situation. You know,
Speaker 6: I could absolutely see Sporting Kansas City and you know
Speaker 6: where they end up in front of cameras and conversations
Speaker 6: are being had.
Speaker 1: No, I am the managers, Yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm the manager of the general manager. I'm everybody
Speaker 6: in this organization. Maybe you won't tell me nothing about
Speaker 6: my roster. And I don't be shocked if some of
Speaker 6: these other teams do it as well. And and to
Speaker 6: Bart's point, if you have a next pro you need
Speaker 6: to have a fluid transition period from roster to roster
Speaker 6: during periods like this where Garber comes in and says
Speaker 6: when from this window to this window, you can fluidly
Speaker 6: move players back and forth, no roster issues.
Speaker 4: That is, to me, the point of a reserves team
Speaker 4: is why. I mean, we saw this with Atlanta United
Speaker 4: the summer where we're in you know, Open Cup competitions
Speaker 4: and we gave the young players some chances. That's the
Speaker 4: point of the Open Cup. That's the point of this
Speaker 4: because otherwise no offense to you know, the next pro teams,
Speaker 4: but you're just playing a bunch of guys who are
Speaker 4: at the same.
Speaker 1: Level as you and you won in Charleston with a
Speaker 1: rotated lineup with second team and academy and next roeral players.
Speaker 1: What what this?
Speaker 4: This is my solution. So here here it is. We're
Speaker 4: trying to fix the problems. But I think MLS, US
Speaker 4: Open Cup and Leagues Cup need to allow teams to
Speaker 4: have a forty player roster and so that or you know,
Speaker 4: increase whatever the roster sizes by ten. I don't remember
Speaker 4: what they are at each one.
Speaker 1: I mean it's thirty under contract.
Speaker 4: But if you go to yeah, but that's MLS. I
Speaker 4: don't know what it does for, like what the roster
Speaker 4: I don't know exactly the roster rules, but anyway, it
Speaker 4: allows teams to have forty teams rostered, and so MLS
Speaker 4: needs to allow teams to understand that there is the
Speaker 4: MLS roster. You have thirty. You also then can add
Speaker 4: up to forty for your roster and then just stipulate
Speaker 4: like it has to be from your reserve team or academy.
Speaker 4: That's it, because this is how the European teams get
Speaker 4: by with it.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Arsenal is not putting out, Chelsea is not putting out
Speaker 4: they're best eleven when they go play in an FA
Speaker 4: Cup third round match, although we might have to because
Speaker 4: now we're playing Manchester United, which.
Speaker 1: Is here's the explicit rating for this.
Speaker 4: Sorry, yeah, like this like this episode is gonna yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: this is this episode deserves an explicit rating. But that's
Speaker 4: what I don't get, Nick, is like, we have this
Speaker 4: reserves and these academy systems, but we don't allow them
Speaker 4: to even dip their foot into the professional waters. Which
Speaker 4: is the point of having that structure.
Speaker 6: On the surface, is the point of having that structure.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: What it looks like with the way that MLS has
Speaker 6: structured this is it looks like it's two things, uh,
Speaker 6: real estate and market share. It looks like, okay, well,
Speaker 6: you're gonna put an MLS Next Pro team in a city,
Speaker 6: uh that is, you know, in the surrounding zone of
Speaker 6: a Major League Soccer club, Uh, to ensure that we
Speaker 6: expand the fan base, uh that of the parent club
Speaker 6: in that pyramid, right and where you may have had
Speaker 6: a you know, one of these MLS Next Pro teams
Speaker 6: in Huntsville. Huntsville's I think a prime example because their
Speaker 6: parent club is Nashville, correct, yes, uh, you know, you're
Speaker 6: what four hours from Nashville if you're in Huntsville.
Speaker 1: Oh no, you're more like two more to.
Speaker 6: Okay, two I thought Okay, I thought it was like yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Herefore from here to Huntsville too, From Huntsville to Nashville.
Speaker 6: There we go. So if if you're two hours from that,
Speaker 6: you're trying to expand into Alabama, correct, because there's no
Speaker 6: Major League Soccer team in Alabama.
Speaker 4: Son to Huntsville from where I am in East Nashville.
Speaker 6: Okay, so there you go. So so you have the
Speaker 6: MLS start expanding. But if you put the roster rules
Speaker 6: in place that say you cannot fluidly move these players
Speaker 6: back and forth at the will of the parent club,
Speaker 6: then all you're doing is talking real estate and market share.
Speaker 6: Otherwise it's not there to benefit the parent club. Well
Speaker 6: is there to benefit the parent club from player development? Okay? Great,
Speaker 6: you're talking about all of these resources to move what
Speaker 6: ten percent of this second division club up to the
Speaker 6: first team maybe fifteen percent tops, It's okay, what else
Speaker 6: is it?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 4: This is what I don't get nick, I urrie with
Speaker 4: you about like the market share, the visibility, all that like,
Speaker 4: I totally understand why Nashville has a team in Huntsville, Alabama,
Speaker 4: which is you know, the next I mean literally, it's
Speaker 4: not as closer than both Memphis and Knoxville, next closest
Speaker 4: big city, right. But the problem I have with this
Speaker 4: is you're not able to actually monitor, in my opinion,
Speaker 4: those players on your reserves team adequately day in and
Speaker 4: day out. And if they're all down in Huntsville, sure
Speaker 4: you've got scouts and reports, but like, if I'm the
Speaker 4: GM and the head coach, I want eyes on them
Speaker 4: as much as possible. And that's why I just don't
Speaker 4: love the idea of a MLS next Pro team, a
Speaker 4: reserve team of an MLS team being you know, external
Speaker 4: like that. I could understand if it's like Franklin, Tennessee,
Speaker 4: where it's like, you know, you're forty five minutes south
Speaker 4: of the city and we're just putting one here because well,
Speaker 4: you've got an open stadium, you know, Like I mean,
Speaker 4: if I get it, but I don't love the Huntsville
Speaker 4: Nashville relationship. I understand the I understand that a little
Speaker 4: bit better than the independent clubs, but whatever, I just
Speaker 4: they're not using this correctly. These tournaments are opportunities to
Speaker 4: actually use your reserve and your academy players, and MLS
Speaker 4: continues to restrict that ability. Which if you want to
Speaker 4: be a selling league, getting a seventeen year old into
Speaker 4: an open cut match before he becomes eighteen so that
Speaker 4: you can show him off to the world and say, hey,
Speaker 4: look which you could be buying in six months time.
Speaker 4: That makes too much sense for anemal.
Speaker 6: Way too much sense. Part way too much sense.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. All right, so before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: obviously we got to talk about the last game of
Speaker 1: the end of the year for Major League Soccer. It
Speaker 1: is Lag and it is Red Bulls. No Ricki Pooge obviously,
Speaker 1: who played thirty minutes on a torn ligament in his
Speaker 1: knee and still contributed to the one goal in the match.
Speaker 1: The man is insane and it is Lag at home
Speaker 1: hosting Red Bulls. Nikolafy, what say you in this matchup
Speaker 1: this weekend?
Speaker 6: I logic suggests Red Bulls, but.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 6: There are moments in sports that don't make any damn sense.
Speaker 6: I'm going back to the New England Patriots in two
Speaker 6: thousand and one, Drew Bledsoe Rocket arm quarterback who is
Speaker 6: a statue but could throw the ball further than Uncle
Speaker 6: Rico goes down with an injury. Everybody thinks that the
Speaker 6: Patriots are done for. They're no, you know, they don't
Speaker 6: have an option. This random nobody named Tom Brady steps
Speaker 6: in and the Patriots going to win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: I don't know if this is that this is going
Speaker 6: to mirror that situation, But the Red Bulls as an organization,
Speaker 6: I think, have a lot of pressure to prove their
Speaker 6: worst to the Red bull org. From a managerial perspective,
Speaker 6: there's a lot of pressure there. From a player perspective,
Speaker 6: there's a lot of pressure. This is an organization that
Speaker 6: has won nothing but supporter shields. They have to win
Speaker 6: the big one.
Speaker 4: Barely have supporting shields. Yeah, yeah, I have a couple,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I'm with you, like this is this is yeah.
Speaker 6: Give give me, give me, give me, LA. I'll take
Speaker 6: LA still riculous, LA, I'll take them.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: The number has decreased over the week. LA g's a
Speaker 1: minus one sixteen now. It's started basically around minus one thirty.
Speaker 1: It's dounded well minus one sixteen draw and Red Bulls
Speaker 1: have pretty much stayed the same draw in ninety minutes
Speaker 1: is plus two seventy seven in the composite Red Bulls
Speaker 1: to win outright as a plus two eighty two.
Speaker 6: But that that LA line has moved.
Speaker 1: LA line moves has moved closer to even money over time.
Speaker 6: Look, all I'm saying is that if a line, if
Speaker 6: a line's moving, Vegas knows something, man at least have
Speaker 6: a hunch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and diego for probably is going to be in
Speaker 1: the spot shadow with Rocky Pooje out as the catalyst
Speaker 1: for two thirds of the killer piece. Yeah, Nick, According
Speaker 1: to four card, Nick needs to join Picks of the
Speaker 1: Week in the discord. So, uh, you could be like
Speaker 1: me and finished last by picking draw all the time.
Speaker 4: So you've got that, And we're taking John to the
Speaker 4: sports book.
Speaker 1: No you're not, because but.
Speaker 6: The funniest things during soccer over there is when John
Speaker 6: would pick draws, nothing but draws. It would it would
Speaker 6: win like once in a blue moon happened. It was
Speaker 6: the funniest.
Speaker 1: Teams you know nothing about. I'm not I'm gonna hedge
Speaker 1: my bet and sit there and go draw. And you've
Speaker 1: also got to counter program everybody else on the show.
Speaker 1: When it came to picks. So you know, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I've got to figure out a way to advance this
Speaker 1: somehow everybody's picking one side or the other. It just
Speaker 1: coincidentally meant that I picked draw, and I ended up
Speaker 1: picking draw more often than not. So that was that
Speaker 1: was I'm counter programming without any knowledge, without any.
Speaker 6: To watch Jason's face, would it would be like, uh,
Speaker 6: like inter Mongolia is getting a plus nine hundred job
Speaker 6: like draw draw.
Speaker 1: Raw. Absolutely true. And so we're trying to figure out
Speaker 1: even if it's in tape form, probably need to have
Speaker 1: Nick bringback Soccer over there just to even have it
Speaker 1: on tape, even if it's not live, just to have
Speaker 1: the episodes available. And we got to figure out a
Speaker 1: way to make that happen. We've got to bring SOT
Speaker 1: back so that we'll figure it out. That is that
Speaker 1: is mandatory, all right. This weekend, it is a bunch
Speaker 1: of college championships and advancements and things like that. Columbus
Speaker 1: States playing tomorrow afternoon at three at Walden against the
Speaker 1: University of West Florida in the round of eight Division
Speaker 1: two women, number two ranked team in the country against
Speaker 1: number one, and it's in Columbus Emery Is in Las
Speaker 1: Vegas in the final four for Division three women. SCAD
Speaker 1: continues to win in their turnes. Yes, so SCAD continues
Speaker 1: to win. Dalton State continues to win. We're keeping an
Speaker 1: eye on all of that, trying to catch up with
Speaker 1: programs as they continue to win in advance, and we'll
Speaker 1: probably catch up with them early part of next week Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Next week is gonna be a little wonky because of
Speaker 1: high school football, so it might end up being an SDHPM.
Speaker 1: I've got to alert Taylor Hodges about that. There's some
Speaker 1: moves and information in USL Championship that have happened. Taylor
Speaker 1: Dovel assigns a multi year contract extension with lou City.
Speaker 1: San Antonio FC is inc Torge Hernandez to a multi
Speaker 1: year deal. Detroit City has signed former Sacramento defender Shane Wheat.
Speaker 1: Birmingham Legion has signed Ronaldo Damos on loan from GIF
Speaker 1: suns Fall in Sweden. I initially looked at this like
Speaker 1: Gift suns Fall. No gif suns Fall with an option
Speaker 1: to purchase from the Swedish the Swedish clubs, So transactions
Speaker 1: of plenty are happening in the USL. New coaches for
Speaker 1: one Knox in League one in Lexington, SC as they
Speaker 1: move up to USL Championship. Uh, gossip Berumeran and you
Speaker 1: window let me get into that and then want to
Speaker 1: watch or to watch it and how to watch it?
Speaker 1: And uh quickly as we get into the weekend here.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, Bart, you're in You're in Nashville. You're you're
Speaker 1: You're in God's time zone.
Speaker 4: I am currently in Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Okay, because you said East Nashville, I'm like, wait a minute.
Speaker 4: See I am in East Nashville.
Speaker 1: You're that close to Murphreysboro and the southernmost white castle
Speaker 1: in the United States. Yes, tremendous.
Speaker 4: There's a white castle here.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, there is.
Speaker 6: Sun Oppery Mills, Baby up Opery Mills.
Speaker 1: That is true.
Speaker 4: I will be downtown on Broadway tonight, so pray, Actually,
Speaker 4: don't pray for you. I'll enjoy it.
Speaker 1: But I'm going.
Speaker 4: I'm up here for concerts.
Speaker 1: So oh which concert?
Speaker 4: Casey Muscraves is playing two? Go to both of them
Speaker 4: because I'm addicted.
Speaker 1: Understood, Uh Arsenal Chelsea, both targeting a striker, both looking
Speaker 1: at Newcastle's Alexander Esach Curvery year Ears Alex. Manchester United
Speaker 1: have also made signing a striker their top priority in
Speaker 1: the window. Byron have made significant progress regarding a contract
Speaker 1: extension for Alfonso Davis, who's being monitored by Manchester United.
Speaker 1: According to Floria and Plettenberger, skuy Germany United, also behind
Speaker 1: Chelsea and the Racist, signed letcha'se twenty year old Denmark
Speaker 1: left back Patrick Dorghu. Chelsea and Brighton manager Graham Potter
Speaker 1: has been sounded out by both Wolves and west Ham.
Speaker 1: Dortmund coach Edwin Turzich will not become the new manager
Speaker 1: of west Ham if Jewel and Lopateeg's relieve of his position,
Speaker 1: but Casper Schulmand is in contention. David Moyes is among
Speaker 1: the contenders for Wolves at Garry O'Neil gets sacked, but
Speaker 1: Looton boss Rob Edwards as an outsider, having been well
Speaker 1: thought of at the Malinu because he played there for
Speaker 1: four years. Bright in Southampton tracking eighteen year old Mother Weell,
Speaker 1: teenager Lennon Miller, Scotland U twenty one midfielder also interesting
Speaker 1: to Liverpool and Newcastle. Four letter paper. Take the information
Speaker 1: at your own peril Liverpool, then contact with Lever cus
Speaker 1: and removed for Jeremy Frimpong Georgia and Napoli winger Kevichkatkavard.
Speaker 1: Skellia is attracting interest from Liverpool. Not a shock. That's
Speaker 1: definitely one of the thing you got to look at
Speaker 1: Cavart Skellia from what happened in the Euros. He has
Speaker 1: definitely got a spot shadow on him. Liverpool monitoring Bayern
Speaker 1: Munich winger Leroy Sane, who could be sold Manchester City,
Speaker 1: will allow Kevin de Bruna to join one of cfg's
Speaker 1: sister clubs when he leaves. It's from the Telegraph from yesterday,
Speaker 1: Enter Miami, tell me you're shocked. David Beckham have made
Speaker 1: to Bruna their man in the transferred target, although de
Speaker 1: Bruna has been linked to San Diego FC. Everton's Beto
Speaker 1: and Molly, midfielder Abdulah to Corey, both wanted by Roma.
Speaker 1: So Guinea BASAs striker Beto Molly midfielder Abdulight de Currey
Speaker 1: both wanted by Roma. Liverpool confident that Ibrahimo Knate will
Speaker 1: sign a new contract with the club. Juve and Marseille
Speaker 1: interested in signing Chelsea's defender Benoa Badi Ashiel Chelsea have
Speaker 1: made contact with Benfica over signing center back to as
Speaker 1: A Arrujo, with them willing to let French defender Axel
Speaker 1: Desasci leave in January as a makeweight. Wobierre's long term
Speaker 1: future at Arsenal's in doubt, with the Gunners ready to
Speaker 1: listen to offers for the midfielder currently on loan at Porto,
Speaker 1: and Deco, who is the director of football at Barsa,
Speaker 1: has met with the reps for Jonathan Ta who's out
Speaker 1: of contract at bier Leracues and next summer. Did I
Speaker 1: miss anything, gentlemen, No.
Speaker 4: I think striker rumors, coach rumors, gim rummers, nothing, But
Speaker 4: there is the people what they want.
Speaker 1: But there is a note on Edwin Mousqueta that came
Speaker 1: out this morning from Mariano Olson, who has forty thousand
Speaker 1: followers on the two hundred and eighty character app and
Speaker 1: he's one of the correspondents for Win Sports in Colombia.
Speaker 1: Uh Muscata is on the radar of Junior. I'd l
Speaker 1: to go nacion Al and Millonarios could go out on
Speaker 1: a loan with an option to buy. No official doors yet,
Speaker 1: so as I for us for loan with an option
Speaker 1: to buy with Edwin Scan it up. What is uh, Nick,
Speaker 1: what is on your viewing habit this weekend or are
Speaker 1: you going to not watch much of anything this weekend.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to watch much of anything this weekend.
Speaker 6: That is my that is my plan. Anyway, I've got
Speaker 6: to get I've got to shoot in Denver coming up.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, right, so I've got to be uh, I've
Speaker 6: got to be prepping for that and uh, making sure
Speaker 6: all the cinema lenses and gear and whatnot's prepped and
Speaker 6: ready to go. And that will be my That will
Speaker 6: be my game plan for the weekend.
Speaker 1: And I know the part is Casey musgraving this entire weekend,
Speaker 1: So I don't know how much soccer you're actually going
Speaker 1: to watch.
Speaker 4: I'll watch. I'll have some time in the morning to watch.
Speaker 4: I'll be able to check out Premier League as in
Speaker 4: the morning, but probably not too much after that.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, why do we.
Speaker 4: Put margy'side Derby on it six thirty in the morning
Speaker 4: over here?
Speaker 1: That was well, first off, because it's seven thirty in
Speaker 1: the morning over here and the same difference. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's but six already hits different. Just I mean, it's
Speaker 1: like going It's literally it's like having a zero and
Speaker 1: a price tag and a nine tenths on a price tag.
Speaker 1: That zero just looms a little larger h ninety nine
Speaker 1: in a price tag versus an even money, even an
Speaker 1: even dollar amount, that it just hits you a little different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and six thirty am hits you really different. When you're
Speaker 1: sitting there and you want to watch a match on
Speaker 1: seven thirty Eastern time on a Saturday morning. They're trying
Speaker 1: to start the they're trying to start the weekend early
Speaker 1: for you. All right, last thoughts before we go on anything,
Speaker 1: Niko leafy uh.
Speaker 6: Just look, be savvy consumers. Friends. Look, just at the
Speaker 6: end of the day, watch what you want to watch.
Speaker 6: But make sure that you support your grassroots soccer, right
Speaker 6: that means getting out and if you know, if you
Speaker 6: live in the Brookhaven area of the Great State of Jadja,
Speaker 6: you go and check out Oglethorp, see what's happening at Oglethorpe,
Speaker 6: see what's happening at Emery and be nice to your
Speaker 6: freaking youth league refs. Okay, be nice to them, all right,
Speaker 6: that it is not a personal vendetta against little Bryson
Speaker 6: with six rs and three y's in his name.
Speaker 1: Because numeral, he's a numeral.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Bryson Bryson, Jamison Willingham. The fourth was off
Speaker 6: side and somehow it is gehod By, your your local
Speaker 6: fourteen year old referee. It's not that kid's fault. Be
Speaker 6: nice to your fricking' refs. You want good refs at
Speaker 6: a higher level, you need good reps at a lower level.
Speaker 6: They are learning, so be nice to them man. And
Speaker 6: this is from the King of Dark Arts himself. Nice
Speaker 6: to the.
Speaker 1: Refs, absolutely true.
Speaker 4: So this is how you get away with dark Arts, Nick.
Speaker 4: You get it on the reps good side and they
Speaker 4: don't think that you'll do it right.
Speaker 1: That's right. Last words from Bart Keeler who's stuck with
Speaker 1: us for an hour and forty eight minutes and not
Speaker 1: all of that was on the air.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Enjoy MLS Cup if you're watching it. I think it's
Speaker 4: a celebration of our league. It's a wonderful time for
Speaker 4: us as fans of the league to enjoy the last
Speaker 4: hurrah that we'll have for a couple of months. Now
Speaker 4: is a great time December and January to look into
Speaker 4: becoming a referee. Or a coach. So I was to
Speaker 4: encourage anyone to go to the US Soccer dot Com website.
Speaker 4: Look at how you can do that if you feel
Speaker 4: so behooped. We always need referees, we always need coaches,
Speaker 4: and we need people who love the game to be
Speaker 4: involved in refereeing and coaching. That's my biggest thing. If
Speaker 4: you love the game and you want it to continue
Speaker 4: to grow and you want to make it a good
Speaker 4: place for people, you have to be involved.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, so enjoy your games on whatever level it is.
Speaker 1: Stay warm, and we'll be back with you on Monday
Speaker 1: to discuss it all. Bart'll be back on Monday to
Speaker 1: discuss other things like the goalkeeping situation for the women's
Speaker 1: national team anticipating episode CV with the soccer for USPOD.
Speaker 4: Yes, should come to you today.
Speaker 1: Oh well, whether there you go, we.
Speaker 4: Can your internet is working?
Speaker 1: Yeah, really exactly, so it worked for however long it
Speaker 1: was what an hour and what an hour and fifteen minutes?
Speaker 1: We actually got something to function here on a run,
Speaker 1: but no, enjoy it. We'll be back on Monday, and
Speaker 1: since it is Friday, that means it is one thing
Speaker 1: on our way out the door. And thanks to everybody
Speaker 1: who's stuck with us for pricking two hours and forty
Speaker 1: nine minutes and four dumps of the internet here at
Speaker 1: the head end and office HD. So it is the
Speaker 1: end of the weeks, which means we play this, play safe, everybody,
Speaker 1: We'll see you on Monday.
Speaker 6: War was.
Speaker 4: The keys on the typewriter head shark points.
Speaker 8: Sticking into our fingers, the dictating equipment starting to asking
Speaker 8: us questions, and our beepers sends electric shocks just through our.
Speaker 3: Body like a cattle prod out in the warehouse. The
Speaker 3: trucks kept banging into the docks, not even thinking about stopping.
Speaker 3: Our frail bodies were strapped to the chairs, and our
Speaker 3: chairs were chained to the desks. Our please for justice
Speaker 3: were ignored, and the end seemed near. But we busted
Speaker 3: our save drivers, little bitty balls we've charged high their
Speaker 3: breakftress the streets. Our hearty gods, yets Friday, Fridayday, Fay Day,