Speaker 1: I heard the magic noise. And so as we're going
Speaker 1: through everything opening kickoff, we can, you know, we can
Speaker 1: continue opening kickoff by talking to our resident mogul and
Speaker 1: training because it is year two, not year one, but
Speaker 1: your two of the expedition known as Rhode Island FC,
Speaker 1: and so this is where we bring in Michael Parkhurst
Speaker 1: and our friends of Beyond Goals Entering's up.
Speaker 2: Dude, good morning John.
Speaker 1: You're I am in a hotel room and making Georgia, Sir.
Speaker 1: I am doing the the high school basketball Championships. And
Speaker 1: so what I do is I start my day doing
Speaker 1: SDH and then at like eleven oh five, slam the
Speaker 1: computer shut, throw on the dress clothes, and drive to
Speaker 1: the arena and I'm there for like the next ten
Speaker 1: or eleven hours. So yeah, so it's running around, babe,
Speaker 1: that's a I'm not as busy as you by any
Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination, but nevertheless running around so as
Speaker 1: you can see the palatial the imitation, palatial upbringing and
Speaker 1: background that we have here in the hotel here making joy. Yes,
Speaker 1: absolutely true. You're you're sporting your Demon Deacons gear as
Speaker 1: I see this morning, and uh, you know you're getting
Speaker 1: ready for the weekend. But this is also a very
Speaker 1: very busy slash important, oh my god important weekend for
Speaker 1: you as a resident mogul and training. It is season
Speaker 1: two of Rhode Island FC.
Speaker 2: Yes, well it's season two of our USL go round.
Speaker 2: But we've got a week one bye, so are our
Speaker 2: season doesn't get kicked up till next week?
Speaker 1: Rat farts, I was gonna we'll then find we'll discuss
Speaker 1: it a week early, since the next time I see
Speaker 1: you the season will have already begun. So actually there's
Speaker 1: Kismut and Karmi here with this discussion. So as as
Speaker 1: things have gone on, how many folks have wandered up
Speaker 1: to you who are our I f C faithful and
Speaker 1: have grabbed you by those demon deacons lapels there on
Speaker 1: that warm up Jack and said, hey, what are you
Speaker 1: going to do for an on core man? And that
Speaker 1: reminds me. I need to get my Eastern Conference championship year.
Speaker 1: That reminds me, So what do you gotta do for
Speaker 1: an on core man?
Speaker 2: Good question, TVD. We'll see. Hopefully we can have a
Speaker 2: better start to the season. We'll start there, you know,
Speaker 2: because everybody remembers the run that we made. But you know,
Speaker 2: the first half of the season, we had about thirty
Speaker 2: five ties in our first ten games, correct, set that
Speaker 2: record in USL. I'm going to try not to repeat that,
Speaker 2: but we do start off with the first eight weeks
Speaker 2: of the season. We've got two buys and six away
Speaker 2: games as we wait for our stadium to be complete.
Speaker 2: So it's not going to be the easiest of starts,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. But so we proved last year we
Speaker 2: can win on the road. So you know, we'll see
Speaker 2: there's some teams in the East that got better. I mean, shoot,
Speaker 2: every team tries to get better, right, but to like
Speaker 2: Birmingham for sure down there got a lot better. They
Speaker 2: signed two top players for the USL championship anyway, So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's you know, we'll have our work cutoff for
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: And at the same time, I mean, you guys didn't
Speaker 1: sit on your laurels. I mean it was it was
Speaker 1: funny the way that it kind of worked its way
Speaker 1: out in the media where it had been long discussed
Speaker 1: that Maxi Rodriguez, what was you know, heading your heading
Speaker 1: your way and I mean you're in the collective Rhode
Speaker 1: Island FC and it's like, yeah, he's heading over there,
Speaker 1: but it's like he's still in the roster for Detroit City.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, wait a minute, how is this possible?
Speaker 1: He's still in the roster for Detroit City. And then
Speaker 1: literally the simultaneous news releases come out Maxi Rodriguez and
Speaker 1: Detroit City part ways.
Speaker 3: Maxi Rodriguez signs with Rhode Island f C. How does
Speaker 3: this happen? How does this How is this simultaneous news
Speaker 3: releasing happening?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean we had signed him before the season
Speaker 2: was over, right, because you know, free agents can sign
Speaker 2: you know, six months prior, as most of us know,
Speaker 2: and so we had signed them and so yeah, it
Speaker 2: just becomes like the league optics, So the league kind
Speaker 2: of controls a here's signing day.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And obviously you usually try and let the other teams
Speaker 2: say goodbye first before you announce, you know, just try
Speaker 2: and be nice about things.
Speaker 3: So there it is.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, there's there.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: What's it been like, what's it been like to see
Speaker 1: all of this come together there at Tidewater Land.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been pretty crazy. Uh, pretty crazy just to
Speaker 2: see from when did I start with this project four
Speaker 2: years ago? Wow, yeah, four years ago just to I mean,
Speaker 2: there's just been endless speed bumps and headaches and naysayers
Speaker 2: and just doubts and things, and there was a million
Speaker 2: reason is why this couldn't, wouldn't shouldn't happen. And yet
Speaker 2: the stadium is up, the guys are training in it.
Speaker 2: It's not fully open yet, but yeah, we are on
Speaker 2: target here for our opener, and yeah, it's going to
Speaker 2: be pretty crazy. We expect obviously a full house on
Speaker 2: May third, and yeah, it'll be a pretty sweet day,
Speaker 2: that's for sure, because I know how much work a
Speaker 2: lot of people have put into making this day come about.
Speaker 2: And I think that we've got still a lot of
Speaker 2: people to convince up in Rhode Island that this is
Speaker 2: going to be the place to be, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's going to be a really welcoming place and a
Speaker 2: place that a lot of kids growing up in island
Speaker 2: are going to make a lot of good memories over
Speaker 2: their childhood. And so we're excited for that.
Speaker 1: Does it seem like it's been four years ago when
Speaker 1: you started with all this stuff to today? Does it
Speaker 1: seem like it's been that long or does it seem
Speaker 1: like it's been a snap of the finger.
Speaker 2: In general, time is flying by, it's crazy. But when
Speaker 2: I think about this project in particular there, yes, it's
Speaker 2: it's felt like four years just because of so many hoops,
Speaker 2: so much drama, so much political red tape and headaches
Speaker 2: and yeah this I think a lot of people on
Speaker 2: this project have aged more than four years in these
Speaker 2: so in life in general has flown by. I can't
Speaker 2: believe it's been five seasons since I've retired, but yes,
Speaker 2: four years on this project seems about right.
Speaker 1: I'm going to reserve the question about being five years
Speaker 1: since you've retired and whether or not you feel like
Speaker 1: you still have some minutes in you If somebody ever
Speaker 1: gave you call and you sit there your heads back,
Speaker 1: you're cackling. You're like, no way, bro, that is not happening.
Speaker 2: No way, no way.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: You mentioned and so this is where I want to
Speaker 1: get in to start discussing things about mentoring with you.
Speaker 1: This morning, you mentioned that it's been four years that
Speaker 1: you've been engaged in the process there at Rhode Island.
Speaker 1: So how much growth do you get to experience on
Speaker 1: a yearly basis with your mentees? I mean, do you
Speaker 1: have mentees that have been with you and Greg since
Speaker 1: day one, that you've been able to mentor all the
Speaker 1: way through a process and have been with them for
Speaker 1: you know, six months, a year longer or is it
Speaker 1: more just kind of like one season for a mentee
Speaker 1: and then they kind of go their own way. Do
Speaker 1: you get the chance to mentor someone continually through their process.
Speaker 2: Some of them? Yeah, I just had one not too
Speaker 2: long ago where it was the first time I had
Speaker 2: connected with them, and probably like sixty eight months or so.
Speaker 2: But we I mean, I've worked with him a lot
Speaker 2: in the past and probably since he was about twelve,
Speaker 2: and now he's about to start as freshman season, and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, my gosh, I can't believe you're
Speaker 2: in high school. This is crazy. Yes, and to Abby's question, yes,
Speaker 2: my oldest is in high school as well, and yeah,
Speaker 2: she's a freshman. So yeah, it's it's unbelievable, but that
Speaker 2: is It is really cool sometimes to see the growth
Speaker 2: of players over a longer period of time and see
Speaker 2: where their journey has led them. So there is definitely
Speaker 2: a bunch that we've mentored from over the course of
Speaker 2: like three years or so, you know, and obviously a
Speaker 2: bunch of new.
Speaker 1: Ones when you mentor over time is it you know, okay,
Speaker 1: well we have our baseline of stuff that we need
Speaker 1: to discuss, whether it's on the field, off for both,
Speaker 1: and then as it goes is it fine tuning? Is
Speaker 1: it finding other things to mentor them over what's the
Speaker 1: is it you got you go down a road and
Speaker 1: then over time are there more? You know, are there
Speaker 1: stop signs and off roads and things like that, or
Speaker 1: is it just kind of tweaking and fine tuning that
Speaker 1: individual on the field and all?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the fine tuning and I think that reminders, right,
Speaker 2: and no matter what level we get to, right, some
Speaker 2: of the things are still the same. Just reminders of
Speaker 2: like what we can control and what we can't, and
Speaker 2: you know, what's important and what's not and how do
Speaker 2: we come over and how do we view things that
Speaker 2: are coming up? Right, like a freshman going into high
Speaker 2: school right now, all of a sudden, you might not
Speaker 2: be a starter. You're planning against kids that are four
Speaker 2: years older than you. Right, how do you approach these
Speaker 2: types of things? How do you have conversations with seniors
Speaker 2: on your team? You know, how do you act in
Speaker 2: the locker room? Like all these little things that's new.
Speaker 2: So I think there's always new obstacles and new things
Speaker 2: that will be occurring, and it's just kind of reminders
Speaker 2: of how to get through those, how to deal with
Speaker 2: those things, and how to put your best foot forward.
Speaker 1: How much of a reminder is it for you and
Speaker 1: Greg about how to handle growth processes for young athletes,
Speaker 1: because it seems like it's at one point it seems
Speaker 1: like it could be a refresher course for you about
Speaker 1: how to reset with these individuals. But at the same
Speaker 1: time it opens those other windows about Okay, they're giving
Speaker 1: me this issue that I get to tackle for the
Speaker 1: first time, or this issue. So how much of it,
Speaker 1: you know, is a learning experience for you and for
Speaker 1: Greg about handling other mentees that may not necessarily be
Speaker 1: the one you're talking to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's always growth. I mean, I spoke to
Speaker 2: a family yesterday whose daughter is involved with these national
Speaker 2: team stuff and not quite getting the level of training
Speaker 2: she needs at her club team, you know, because she's
Speaker 2: in a small town and and just that dynamic, Right,
Speaker 2: what do you do when you know you've got an
Speaker 2: elite athlete yet they're not on an elite team and
Speaker 2: you want them to continue, right, you know. So it's
Speaker 2: just there's so many different journeys. There's so many different
Speaker 2: aspects to it. And yeah, it's cool for me to
Speaker 2: hear about everybody's journey because you know, it's one of
Speaker 2: the things we talk about, how everyone's journey is different.
Speaker 2: But when I get to like hear how these journeys start, right,
Speaker 2: because we just hear usually at the end, like oh,
Speaker 2: what was your journey to become a professional, right, But
Speaker 2: I'm hearing all these journeys as they're going through it
Speaker 2: here at at a young age, and of course you
Speaker 2: don't know who's going to go on to play even
Speaker 2: in college, but you never know. So yeah, it's it's
Speaker 2: super interesting and it allows me to grow too and
Speaker 2: open my knowledge as well. Like we all know, youth
Speaker 2: soccer is just ever changing in the land scape and
Speaker 2: what's going on. But it's good for me to stay
Speaker 2: up to date as well, like some of these times
Speaker 2: these parents are teaching me about what they're going through
Speaker 2: in these leagues and who's who and what goes on,
Speaker 2: and you know, so it's just ever learning for.
Speaker 1: Sure, and I want to at a future time, I
Speaker 1: want to bookmark the whole thing about parents teaching you
Speaker 1: about these things. But you mentioned something that I thought
Speaker 1: was really interesting. Where you have mentees in smaller towns
Speaker 1: that are that aren't near you know, the big metropolitan areas,
Speaker 1: I guess by comparison, and the troubles I would imagine
Speaker 1: for them are geographical in addition to all of the
Speaker 1: other issues that they're facing, because if they are a
Speaker 1: fantastic student athlete in a town that is detached away
Speaker 1: from larger operational bases, like you can't just you know,
Speaker 1: turn a corner and go to a you can't you
Speaker 1: can't go to like top Hat, you can't go to
Speaker 1: e CNL, you can't go to someplace right around the corner.
Speaker 1: For those in big cities, I would imagine that the
Speaker 1: issues and the conversations might be a little different because
Speaker 1: someone's in a smaller town that's detached from all of that,
Speaker 1: where they have to travel, you know, ninety minutes to
Speaker 1: do something one way. I mean that seems like it's
Speaker 1: a different conversation entirely at times.
Speaker 2: Oh totally. And this family travels three hours one way
Speaker 2: for training and they only go once a week because
Speaker 2: of the distance. But yeah, that's that's crazy. As a
Speaker 2: parent of youth athletes, that's insane, right, I'm like, oh god,
Speaker 2: this game is an hour away or this game is
Speaker 2: forty minutes away on a weekday, you know, and yeah,
Speaker 2: some families are making that type of dedication, and so yeah,
Speaker 2: how do you how do you continue to grow? Because
Speaker 2: what they realized was when they went to this national
Speaker 2: team camp was, you know, the level at the camp
Speaker 2: obviously was high, and the coaching was really good, and
Speaker 2: and then it makes you like look at what your
Speaker 2: own situation is and like, shoot, I'm not getting anywhere
Speaker 2: near that here. And I always say like, well, the
Speaker 2: bright side is you're at that level without the coaching
Speaker 2: right now, without the environment. So that's amazing, right, So
Speaker 2: you know, we just just just just we just discuss
Speaker 2: different options, right, Can you train up with other female teams?
Speaker 2: Can you train with boys and you know, go through
Speaker 2: that dynamic of playing, you know, with players that are
Speaker 2: typically faster and stronger than you. So different options. And
Speaker 2: then one of the things I learned was about guest
Speaker 2: playing and tournaments and I need to find out more
Speaker 2: about that, but that is allowed in e CNL as
Speaker 2: far as guests playing with a team in showcases and things,
Speaker 2: so there's different options.
Speaker 1: Well, and that was since you mentioned these different options,
Speaker 1: I was going to ask how you close the distance
Speaker 1: of that three hours and I didn't know that the
Speaker 1: idea of you know, playing up makes sense and something
Speaker 1: like that, but also crossing over and if you're if
Speaker 1: you're a female playing with you know, if you're a female,
Speaker 1: you're playing you can play with males. You play with
Speaker 1: the boy athletes that are out there if you're on
Speaker 1: the girls side of things. So I guess part of
Speaker 1: the mentoring in that aspect is trying to you're troubleshooting
Speaker 1: in a way, but it's a different kind of trouble
Speaker 1: shooting where it's an off the field trouble shooting trying
Speaker 1: to help so the on the field troubleshooting can get advanced,
Speaker 1: So you're you're having to do things a little differently
Speaker 1: and you're having to go on the field and off
Speaker 1: when it comes to these things.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, for sure, And that's what mentorship's about, right,
Speaker 2: It's it's holistically and so many of these things off
Speaker 2: the field affect on the field performance, So yeah, for sure,
Speaker 2: And you know, and that's the way we enjoy it
Speaker 2: and that's what keeps it always fresh. And you know,
Speaker 2: of course, on the field, stuff is is more straightforward
Speaker 2: for us. It's it's easier because you know, game is
Speaker 2: game basically, it's just different levels to it. But off
Speaker 2: the field, everything's so different and to each person and
Speaker 2: to each family. So that's it's interesting.
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Speaker 1: How are you getting adjusted to doing the video analysis
Speaker 1: and just talking into a camera and doing the self
Speaker 1: the self reporting and the self discussion. How are you
Speaker 1: at talking as the only person in the room. How
Speaker 1: is that evolving for you?
Speaker 2: Pretty good?
Speaker 3: That there.
Speaker 2: It does happen frequently that I will go to record
Speaker 2: things and my dog will think that, oh, now is
Speaker 2: a great time to get up from her bed where
Speaker 2: she usually is right here next to me, all see
Speaker 2: and get up and PLoP down onto the hardwood right
Speaker 2: next to me. So there's just a massive thud right
Speaker 2: in the middle of my best continue on for now.
Speaker 2: I think people just need to know.
Speaker 1: I see no issue with a thud and okay, so please,
Speaker 1: if you would, sir, please return the camera to your
Speaker 1: copilot's position and explain who your co pilot is.
Speaker 2: This is Deacon obviously, no, yes, and she's our almost
Speaker 2: five year old COVID pup. You still call her a
Speaker 2: puppy even though she's five almost five, Golden Retriever, sweetest
Speaker 2: little girl out.
Speaker 3: Yes, see, I imagine.
Speaker 1: So let me see, let me see if I can,
Speaker 1: if I can gauge the morning for Deacon. So one
Speaker 1: or both of you, as the leaders in the Parkhurst household,
Speaker 1: you get up earlier than the other. One gets up
Speaker 1: earlier than the other. Deacon sees that as a sign
Speaker 1: to hey, it's time to go outside. Depending on the temperature,
Speaker 1: Deacon will do either one or two things. Deacon will
Speaker 1: want to go out on the long walk of the morning,
Speaker 1: or sit there and go h door gets open, front door,
Speaker 1: back door, whatever Deacon goes. It's too blank and cold
Speaker 1: out here. I'm gonna do my thing, and I'm hopping
Speaker 1: back inside and I'm going back to bed now that
Speaker 1: I've awakened. To the rest of you, I'm going back
Speaker 1: to bed, Am I close?
Speaker 2: You're not too far off. She always starts in bed
Speaker 2: with my son, and always in the middle of the
Speaker 2: night will come wake me up and I put her
Speaker 2: in the crate. This is a routine. She finds comfort
Speaker 2: in her crate. She won't put herself in the crate,
Speaker 2: but she will wake me up and she will go
Speaker 2: over to the crate and I have to lock the crate.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 2: So I have now started waking up in the morning, John,
Speaker 2: I used to sleep in a little bit, but now
Speaker 2: I wake up at six with the rest of with
Speaker 2: my wife and my daughter, and I go work out,
Speaker 2: and then I get her out of the crate at
Speaker 2: like six thirty six forty. And she always wants to
Speaker 2: go outside. It doesn't matter the temperature. The colder the better,
Speaker 2: unfortunately for me. Yeah, and then of course then she'll
Speaker 2: sleep for you know, thanks three hours.
Speaker 1: The rest of the day, it's like, oh, it's lunchtime.
Speaker 1: It's time for me to get up and get lunch.
Speaker 2: Sure lives a very very nice life, we tell her
Speaker 2: all the time. She's very lucky.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, the same way as well, Hey, the same way
Speaker 1: it is with the rowdy man in our place. I
Speaker 1: know I'm third in that house. It is the boss,
Speaker 1: it is the rowdy man, it is me. I know
Speaker 1: I'm third. I knew that going into the equation. So
Speaker 1: that's an easy one for me. So you mentioned changing
Speaker 1: routines with you getting up in the morning with the
Speaker 1: deacon sitting there and it's like bruh, time to go out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when it comes to talking to your your mentees about okay,
Speaker 1: what is your standard day, like you know, and then
Speaker 1: they may they may walk you through their day and
Speaker 1: you may sit there and say, okay, stop, you need
Speaker 1: to change this behavior. You may be successful, you may
Speaker 1: be your game may be great, you might be improving,
Speaker 1: you might be on a path. But when they walk
Speaker 1: you through your their day, how much adjusting to maximize
Speaker 1: their potential do you go through in these kinds of
Speaker 1: situations where it's like, Okay, I see something that can
Speaker 1: be fixed here that can make you even better. How
Speaker 1: much day adjustment and lifestyle adjustments do you guys do
Speaker 1: off the field when you're talking with the mentees.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not a whole lot, because we want them to
Speaker 2: want to make the adjustment right. We don't want to say, hey,
Speaker 2: you do this, right, But we more talk about, Okay,
Speaker 2: what routines and habits can you create? Right if you
Speaker 2: are struggling to sleep, or you're struggling to wake up
Speaker 2: in the morning, or you're eating habits aren't good, right, Okay,
Speaker 2: what could be some possibilities And we try and say, hey,
Speaker 2: everyone's different. There's no set routine for that's going to
Speaker 2: fit everyone the same, right, but okay, can you do
Speaker 2: X y Z, you know after before bedtime? Can you
Speaker 2: do this in the morning? Can you you know, getting
Speaker 2: a routine of this or that? And we're just trying
Speaker 2: to give them options and ideas of like, hey, find
Speaker 2: a routine, like these things help. Doing these things over
Speaker 2: and over again, your body just gets used to it
Speaker 2: and it can be so helpful. So we really try
Speaker 2: not to say, hey, you need to be doing this
Speaker 2: versus hey, think about these different options and what they
Speaker 2: could do for you.
Speaker 1: How well does today's men tea take care of themselves?
Speaker 1: Because I know that when in the days of black
Speaker 1: and white television back in the late sixteen hundreds, when
Speaker 1: I was young, you literally could eat anything it would
Speaker 1: burn off. You could you could have you know, you
Speaker 1: could have chili dogs, you could go out and you
Speaker 1: could play for your team. Everything's fine, it burns off
Speaker 1: and then you're okay. How much lifestyle adjustments and consultation
Speaker 1: do you guys have, Because we've all lived through it,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, okay, metabolism changes when you're thirty.
Speaker 1: Then you have to start paying attention to things. How
Speaker 1: much lifestyle adjustments do you sit there and encourage It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: well you might need to work on this a little bit.
Speaker 1: Not sitting there and saying cut the chili dogs out
Speaker 1: basically yeah, but how much adjustment do you sit there
Speaker 1: do you notice It's like, okay, you could be better
Speaker 1: if you did this.
Speaker 3: What about lifestyle adjustments and things like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely something we talk about. I think that
Speaker 2: in general, athletes are way more knowledgeable and in tune
Speaker 2: to nutrition than we were when we were young. And
Speaker 2: I think that some of it is because parents these
Speaker 2: days are way more in tune to the nutritional side
Speaker 2: of things than our parents were. So I think that
Speaker 2: in general they're in a better starting place, you know,
Speaker 2: And so we always try and say start with sixty forty,
Speaker 2: seventy thirty right where you're at least focusing on what
Speaker 2: you're putting in your body, and so's it's something we
Speaker 2: definitely speak about, but general I think that they're doing
Speaker 2: a pretty good job at a younger age of being cognizant,
Speaker 2: and we never like, hey, yeah, is chick fil a
Speaker 2: good for you?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: Is it amazing taste? Yes? So if you want to
Speaker 2: eat Chick fil A, go ahead and eat Chick fil A, right,
Speaker 2: but okay, maybe eat something healthier the next meal, you know.
Speaker 2: So it's like such a balance, like with everything, what is.
Speaker 1: This balance that you talk about? Come on now, I
Speaker 1: mean no, it's we're all supposed to be like John
Speaker 1: Belushi in the Olympics eating the chocolate donuts. That's how
Speaker 1: we're supposed to win. Everything is making sure that we
Speaker 1: are ready for the cathlon eating chocolate donuts.
Speaker 3: That's how this works.
Speaker 1: Man, Gosh, you'd still be playing if that was the case,
Speaker 1: if it was like chocolate donuts and everything.
Speaker 4: Oh, just to answer a couple of questions here in
Speaker 4: the chat, Harry, Yes, our Tidewater Stadium is ten thousand
Speaker 4: seats right now, but we did build it with the
Speaker 4: knowledge that we might go D one in the future,
Speaker 4: so it can be increased to five extra five thousand
Speaker 4: pretty easily.
Speaker 2: If that needs to be the case down the line,
Speaker 2: Blue Sky, I think I haven't account to Blue Sky.
Speaker 2: I haven't made the switch yet, even though I need
Speaker 2: to at some point.
Speaker 3: I'm on both.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I need to at some point. The other one
Speaker 2: just keeps sucking me back in somehow. I think that
Speaker 2: was it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So at Lanta United, you know, obviously I have
Speaker 1: to you discuss it Land United before you get out
Speaker 1: of here. Lanta United is hosting Red Bulls this weekend,
Speaker 1: and we know what Red Bulls brings to the table.
Speaker 1: They're going they're going to try to pressure out of
Speaker 1: the building, create short fields. They don't care about possession.
Speaker 1: The ball has cooties. You know, it's like, we don't
Speaker 1: want it. We just want it only a short period
Speaker 1: of time. We're going to be clinical. We're going to
Speaker 1: try and finish. It's going to be pressure, pressure, pressure
Speaker 1: from as many as five coming at the back line
Speaker 1: of Atlanta United. How different of an animal is facing
Speaker 1: Red Bulls versus everybody else?
Speaker 2: Different so much so that you know you need to adjust.
Speaker 2: You do when a team is that good at pressing
Speaker 2: and honestly and Honestly, I don't know the Red Bulls
Speaker 2: this year how good they are at pressing, if it's changed,
Speaker 2: But in years past the risk rarely outweighed the reward
Speaker 2: in that you could break the press three out at
Speaker 2: ten times, five out of ten times, even if even
Speaker 2: seven out of ten times, but that it might only
Speaker 2: create one or two chances. If they win the ball
Speaker 2: three times out of those ten, they are getting three chances.
Speaker 2: So it's very different against the Red Bulls. And you
Speaker 2: know they to your point, don't really want the ball,
Speaker 2: which I always found like, okay, let them have the ball,
Speaker 2: to turn the around, let them have the ball, don't
Speaker 2: press them and then counter attack. So yeah, it's it
Speaker 2: is different, it's challenging, but yeah, it'll be exciting hopefully,
Speaker 2: Crazy John. When I was watching the game last week,
Speaker 2: I thought Zaha was terrible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was mad.
Speaker 1: Edwards had Zaha in his in his hip pocket for
Speaker 1: the first and.
Speaker 2: Even the second half, like people were like, oh, you know,
Speaker 2: the assist wasn't an assist. You know, it was a
Speaker 2: blocked shot or a bad shot. It doesn't count in
Speaker 2: my book. And the goal it was a very good
Speaker 2: He had one good touch all game and it was
Speaker 2: the goal, right. He took it very well, but he
Speaker 2: did not create anything, honestly. If I'm a Charlotte fan
Speaker 2: and I was thinking about tweeting this, but I was like,
Speaker 2: he was so bad that I'd be nervous, like because
Speaker 2: I didn't think he moved well. And I like Zaha,
Speaker 2: like I thought that was a great signing. I was like, man,
Speaker 2: this guy's gonna crush it. I don't know if it
Speaker 2: was jet Lag. I don't know if it was the
Speaker 2: turf or what, but I thought he looked terrible and
Speaker 2: that was kudos to Edwards as well. But man, we'll see.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know he plays in Miami this weekend
Speaker 2: on grass, so if he doesn't look much better, and
Speaker 2: it's it's crazy because everyone says, oh, golden assists, you know,
Speaker 2: see it's all over MLS sooccer dot com, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: dude was brutal. Yeah, but that's soccer, isn't it. I
Speaker 2: mean the other way to look at it is, oh,
Speaker 2: he was brutal, yet he had a gold and assist,
Speaker 2: so wait till he's good.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So if he's brutal and had a gen and a
Speaker 1: then you know, hey, wait wait until he figures everything
Speaker 1: out at the bouncy house and Charlotte with that trampoline
Speaker 1: turf that they have there. Yeah, so what do you
Speaker 1: what are your So May the sixth is the opening
Speaker 1: at Tidewater Landing May third, May third, Thank you? All right,
Speaker 1: I'm writing this down and I'm trying to see if
Speaker 1: what our schedules may be.
Speaker 3: So yes, I'm already planning it. So yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we look when somebody floats me a picture
Speaker 1: of what Tidewater Landing looks like, and it's this gorgeous thing.
Speaker 1: And you know, we got to figure out what's going
Speaker 1: on with United and the twos on May third. But yes, okay,
Speaker 1: it is in pencil, or it's in green sharpie pen
Speaker 1: but I've written the date down. As always, my friend,
Speaker 1: it's great to see you. It's great to find out
Speaker 1: what's going on, especially with what's going on with beyond
Speaker 1: Goals and you being a mogul and training and Rhode
Speaker 1: Island f C and all the topics, all the things.
Speaker 1: I think is Deacon still sleeping, hasn't moved. That's what
Speaker 1: I figured, all right, So maybe you can sneak out
Speaker 1: of the room and then the second you sneak out
Speaker 1: of the room, Deacon's gonna sit there and go, broh,
Speaker 1: where'd you go get back here? So please have a
Speaker 1: safe weekend with Deacon and everybody. Enjoy your watching and
Speaker 1: your viewing habits, and you know we'll catch up with
Speaker 1: you soon. It's great to see you, great to get
Speaker 1: all the updates and find out what's going on with
Speaker 1: you on the Freddy Free Kick with mentoring and with
Speaker 1: your Rhode Island f C.
Speaker 3: Be safe, my friend, have a good weekend.
Speaker 2: Thanks Jean, good to talk to you. Enjoy the basketball today, yeah,