Speaker 1: Nico is now with us, and it is that time
Speaker 1: for the handoff, where we are going from one coast
Speaker 1: to the other coast to Peru and all points in between. Nico,
Speaker 1: we got a visit from Nino Damas this morning, the
Speaker 1: truth seeker and soothsayer of the future. Oh and so
Speaker 1: he has laid upon us with twenty one months to
Speaker 1: spare the winner in the world competition that is coming
Speaker 1: to this hemisphere in twenty twenty six. And after much
Speaker 1: thought and analysis and having the wool on top of
Speaker 1: the dome, he has said, Nino Damas, so let it
Speaker 1: be said, So let it be done in some circles.
Speaker 1: Donas almost to us all that the i'lb Celeste will
Speaker 1: have a parade in Fort Lauderdale and or Miami and
Speaker 1: ar Buenos Aires, and it will be back to back
Speaker 1: Argentina in twenty twenty six with a thirty nine year
Speaker 1: old Lionel Messi going out like no man has gone
Speaker 1: out in sixty plus years. What's say you to what
Speaker 1: Nino Damas brought to the table this morning?
Speaker 2: Wow, I say, Nino Damas must have that very powerful
Speaker 2: crystal ball or you know, looking to the future, because
Speaker 2: that's that's deep. Having a prediction all the way to
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six might be tough. I think it's a
Speaker 2: good choud. I mean, you see what Argentina has been
Speaker 2: doing in Coma ball as of recent uh. And I'm
Speaker 2: not just talking about the six year over Bolivia, but
Speaker 2: you know, I'm just saying overall, the quality, the balanced
Speaker 2: roster that they have, a guy likes Colonia that just
Speaker 2: seems to do no wrong when he comes to both
Speaker 2: collups and management of that specific group. So yeah, it's
Speaker 2: a good shout. I'd say that, not like I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna say that that England is going to be one
Speaker 2: of the get anything. But there are other teams that
Speaker 2: I'm waiting see what happens with with some madagial changes
Speaker 2: with some new players that could eventually be revelations of
Speaker 2: that twenty twenty six World Cup. So I think that
Speaker 2: there are some teams that I still want to wait
Speaker 2: up and look. But I think Argentina right now is
Speaker 2: definitely the best team in the world.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. All Right, As always, Nino, it
Speaker 1: is fantastic to see both you and Nino Domas dropping
Speaker 1: by on Thursdays. Please stay warm, May the Dome stay warm.
Speaker 1: May the information continue to come to Nino Domas and
Speaker 1: all forms dominis olmos to Nino domason, dominis almos to
Speaker 1: us all. Thank you, my friend, love you very much,
Speaker 1: and we will see you next week.
Speaker 2: Well Nico Jo take care, guys.
Speaker 1: All right, there goes Nino. Nino's going to become properly hydrated.
Speaker 1: And it was yeah, Nino Domas, he put up the
Speaker 1: he took a little bit of what happened in the
Speaker 1: past window. But I think Nino Domas is going for
Speaker 1: the storybook ending where Lionel Messi at the age of
Speaker 1: thirty nine, who's feeling younger. The guys there are keeping
Speaker 1: him young, he's having fun, he's keeping it loose, keeping
Speaker 1: it light, and so I think Nino Domas is looking
Speaker 1: for the storybook ending. I wouldn't put it past them, but.
Speaker 2: I give a shout because they I mean, look, I
Speaker 2: know that they seem to be there and they never
Speaker 2: do it as it just happened to them h in
Speaker 2: the Euros, in the WEFA. But I just I just
Speaker 2: think with Tuccuo as the manager and a team that
Speaker 2: has progressively gotten better and better, I think they're going
Speaker 2: to have something to say in twenty twenty six, I
Speaker 2: think that there are a couple of teams that could
Speaker 2: be tough to play against. I want to see Columbia
Speaker 2: do well. And now one twenty twenty six is going
Speaker 2: to be a really, really good World Cup to watch.
Speaker 1: All right. So with with Tommy Tuckle for School now
Speaker 1: in charge in England, you've got tukel in England, You've
Speaker 1: got Pochettino in the United States. And we talked about
Speaker 1: an hour Number one Tim Howard's comments about saying that
Speaker 1: Christian Polistic needed to stay and not go back to
Speaker 1: his team, not go back to league play and go
Speaker 1: back to Syria, but he needed to stay with his
Speaker 1: team for that second match, even though he wasn't playing
Speaker 1: in it. He had to stay, and that the USA
Speaker 1: has to sit there and go, hey, Milan, this is
Speaker 1: how it's gonna be. We need to keep our guy.
Speaker 1: And I'm paraphrasing it was probably there wasn't necessarily a
Speaker 1: whole lot of finger pointing, I wouldn't think, but he
Speaker 1: was verbally finger pointing that the United States and US
Speaker 1: Soccer needs to go to these big clubs and go
Speaker 1: this is how it's going to be. They're gonna stay here,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna just even if they're gonna hang around,
Speaker 1: they're gonna stay and not report to you until the
Speaker 1: window is done. I've raised the people's eyebride of that one.
Speaker 1: I'm like that, it's not how you play in the
Speaker 1: sandbox these days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's exactly what I wanted to say. I mean, look,
Speaker 2: but you didn't doing the right thing by getting himself
Speaker 2: slowly integrated into the group. And he's not gonna come
Speaker 2: in there and just put player in situations that they
Speaker 2: don't have to be. And he understands what players are
Speaker 2: playing for at the club level. He understands that eighty
Speaker 2: percent of their development is due to leak play and
Speaker 2: club play and their positions, the amount of time minutes
Speaker 2: that they get with their clubs. So it's a big deal.
Speaker 2: And I feel like the overreaction has been massive with
Speaker 2: this whole Mexico US loss and where's west End and
Speaker 2: where's Pulisic and what happened to Ricardo Peppy. Look, there's
Speaker 2: only so much of and we talked about this, there's
Speaker 2: only so much you can do a national team head
Speaker 2: coach when he comes to the tactics, the soccer module
Speaker 2: the ideology, the concepts, all of these things that takes time.
Speaker 2: Do you think that Pulisic or Western or anybody who's
Speaker 2: going to get so much more out of staying with
Speaker 2: this team a couple of days, other than maybe just
Speaker 2: the group the camaraderie. No, you really don't. Let's take
Speaker 2: it easy. This is we're just getting started puts doing
Speaker 2: the right thing by making sure that the group components,
Speaker 2: that the relationships with the players are where they need
Speaker 2: to be. Everything else will come in time. What is
Speaker 2: he doing now? What did he need to do? He
Speaker 2: needed to see, not the politics, not the regard of Pa,
Speaker 2: the player that he needs to watch, that he needs
Speaker 2: to see that he hasn't been able to work with,
Speaker 2: but saw a whole bunch of eight. I guarantee you
Speaker 2: that a lot of tape, and most of that tape
Speaker 2: had all the stars the start that are going to
Speaker 2: be there. I would be more focused on some of
Speaker 2: the things that Pochettino did with certain players, like Scally
Speaker 2: playing in the back of a three man back line,
Speaker 2: like Musa playing out as a right back, like making
Speaker 2: sure that there's certain players that maybe I saw something
Speaker 2: in that I can't manufacture, and I could harness that
Speaker 2: other positions. Those are the things that but Justina wanted
Speaker 2: to do. And if you're not going to experiment in
Speaker 2: a friendly and an exhibition, in a warm up game,
Speaker 2: in a tune up game, where are you going to
Speaker 2: experiment in the in the League's Cup, in the World Cup?
Speaker 2: I mean, where are you going to do that? I
Speaker 2: mean Nations League. I'm sorry, where are you gonna be?
Speaker 2: When are you gonna be able to experiment? No other tournament?
Speaker 2: So I think that the reaction is way too high.
Speaker 2: He did what he had to do against Panama, got
Speaker 2: a good positive first win. In second game, I let
Speaker 2: go all my stars, and then I go ahead and
Speaker 2: go up to Mexico and play with my beat team,
Speaker 2: and I got to figure out what certain players do
Speaker 2: or didn't do. Like Sergeant's case, he needed to make
Speaker 2: sure to see certain players play ninety minutes ninety plus
Speaker 2: sixty minutes, and he did that.
Speaker 1: So you're saying that the sky isn't falling, we should
Speaker 1: you mean that? They mean that after one window and
Speaker 1: two matches where you had load management and a couple
Speaker 1: of knocks where a couple of your big guns weren't there,
Speaker 1: and you lose to Mexico in the Guardado sendoff match,
Speaker 1: that the sky isn't falling? What? What? What?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? And I'm saying that anyone who and respectfully of course,
Speaker 2: said that is an abomination and disrespectful that Pulitic and
Speaker 2: these guys were in there are absolutely just overreacting and
Speaker 2: off their meds. I mean, you need let's just take
Speaker 2: a breather. Lest understand, it is a lung process and
Speaker 2: there's no need for that to happen. Actually, if you
Speaker 2: think about it, this is the right way to do it.
Speaker 2: Is you go from the outside in and figure out
Speaker 2: the guys that are in the outside of that bubble
Speaker 2: of the US pool are and then you focus on
Speaker 2: those who are in who you know will be in.
Speaker 1: You mean, you mean that we have to look at
Speaker 1: your depth and figure out who those dudes are that
Speaker 1: can contribute and not the stars that you anticipate will
Speaker 1: be there anyway. What you want to fill in a
Speaker 1: roster from the bottom up. What is the matter with you?
Speaker 2: Craziness?
Speaker 1: Craziness damn all right, So let's go ahead and shift
Speaker 1: it to decision day before we play a little Cliffhanger,
Speaker 1: because then Cliffhanger has a direct result in what you
Speaker 1: think is going to happen on decision day. How then
Speaker 1: we've been talking about it all season. Or additionally, the
Speaker 1: West is the one that's chaotic top to bottom on
Speaker 1: decision day, and the East is the one that's locked
Speaker 1: in place this year. It's the reverse. The East is
Speaker 1: the one that has its bouts of chaos, and it's
Speaker 1: got its couple of groups. You know, it's almost like
Speaker 1: the Tour de France, where you've got the you got
Speaker 1: the dude that's gonna get the yellow jersey. You know
Speaker 1: who that's gonna be. You know who's gonna finish. Second.
Speaker 1: Then you've got the chase pack. You've got that first
Speaker 1: chase pack, and then you've got the peloton, the big
Speaker 1: group that's chasing after that one thing. In the East,
Speaker 1: it's four teams, one win, three points, two spots plus
Speaker 1: positioning up above, and the West is the one that's
Speaker 1: all calm about all this what is going on with
Speaker 1: this planet that we live in.
Speaker 2: I just think that, in all honesty and just by
Speaker 2: looking at it, seem like the East was just more entertaining.
Speaker 2: There was a lot more challenges there were the the
Speaker 2: level just seemed a little bit higher in the East.
Speaker 2: In my opinion that that the tougher teams, the teams
Speaker 2: that had a lot of changes. The the West just
Speaker 2: was a little bit block. I mean it was a
Speaker 2: little bit bleak. I mean you outside of the first
Speaker 2: five teams, everybody else was extremely inconsistent. They were almost,
Speaker 2: uh in a dire need for for help. And I
Speaker 2: understand that we have New England on the on on
Speaker 2: the east side, but teams like Austin the worms all season,
Speaker 2: teams like San Jose that seemed to just be going
Speaker 2: through the motions of every single game. When you have
Speaker 2: all those teams that've been up in Minnesota, was a mess.
Speaker 2: Finally they figured it out at the end of the season.
Speaker 2: But I mean there was so much inconsistency in the
Speaker 2: in the West that I feel like in the East
Speaker 2: it was just a little bit more competitive. And I
Speaker 2: think you're seeing that here to just close it all
Speaker 2: out with Montreal, with this United, with Atlanta, and you know,
Speaker 2: you got all these teams that are still in the
Speaker 2: works Nashville, I don't know where not anymore, but there
Speaker 2: was a point in time where you're like, can Callahan
Speaker 2: do it? So it's just some of those things that
Speaker 2: I think have made the East interesting and I'm excited
Speaker 2: for it, and I think DC United against Montreal is
Speaker 2: going to be one. I mean DC United against Charlotte's
Speaker 2: going to be an interesting game. I think that Montreal
Speaker 2: also will have everything on the line and we'll see
Speaker 2: what they can do. I don't think that they'll end
Speaker 2: up going through. Atlanta has a difficult game against Orlando.
Speaker 2: So I just think that the East in general, to me,
Speaker 2: had a little bit more quality on the field than
Speaker 2: the West did. If we go overall all, every single
Speaker 2: team in that conference.
Speaker 1: East has Messi and friends. They're number one, they're chasing
Speaker 1: after records. So my guess is is that they're eighteen
Speaker 1: will be flipped. You'll have the Gulf Stream Galacticos on
Speaker 1: the bench. You need to close something out late, you'll
Speaker 1: substitute them in. And we've seen what Tata Martino has
Speaker 1: been able to do with the roster that he and
Speaker 1: Chris Henderson have assembled that it's to the point to
Speaker 1: where there's a lot of trust in those guys that
Speaker 1: are twelve through thirty, and you're seeing what's happening with them,
Speaker 1: so they're untouched. Columbus they're going to be the number two.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati they're going to be the number three. Then this
Speaker 1: is where the fourth fun begins. Orlando could be a
Speaker 1: lockdown four if they win, but they've got NYC breathing
Speaker 1: down their neck. NYC is a favorite on the road
Speaker 1: at CF Montreal, so Orlando. If there is going to
Speaker 1: be a point that Orlando needs more than a point,
Speaker 1: then they get it on goal difference, because then if
Speaker 1: there's any kind of a draw in New York City wins,
Speaker 1: they're both at fifteen, fifteen, eleven and eight. Orlando in theory,
Speaker 1: would have a better goal difference. Charlotte if they win,
Speaker 1: could jump in YC if NYC loses on the road.
Speaker 1: In my treol, Red Bulls if they win, could be
Speaker 1: as high as five. If things fall down in front
Speaker 1: of them. Charlotte could be five if they win an
Speaker 1: NYCFC doesn't, then you get into the math. But Red
Speaker 1: Bulls they don't have as many wins as Charlotte and NYC,
Speaker 1: so any kind of a tiebreaker involving them, that's where
Speaker 1: that falls down. You're four to five to six and
Speaker 1: the seven. Then we mentioned DC Montreal, and then you
Speaker 1: end up with Philly in Atlanta once again, four teams,
Speaker 1: two spots two at forty two at thirty seven, and
Speaker 1: there will be math in a test later on. In
Speaker 1: the West, LAFC took care of business last weekend. They
Speaker 1: got the win against Vancouver to get them back to
Speaker 1: thirty three matches. LAFC needs a win. Lag needs a
Speaker 1: point basically to secure the top. Seattle and salt Lake.
Speaker 1: They're beating the ish out of each other because right
Speaker 1: now salt Lake's got one less win, same amount of points,
Speaker 1: so Seattle has to better a result from RSL to
Speaker 1: be the threef My math is correct, then five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight nine could be chaotic. Dynamo could lock themselves in
Speaker 1: at the five with bettering a result from Colorado fifty
Speaker 1: one to fifty forty nine I feel like a Van
Speaker 1: Hagar album. Minnesota, then Vancouver at forty seven. Vancouver could
Speaker 1: have made things a little bit more interesting if they
Speaker 1: had gotten a result against LAFC, but they were five
Speaker 1: men down because of international duty. Portland's at forty six.
Speaker 1: Everybody else is gone. So now we bring in Cliffhanger
Speaker 1: and this will then where the math is concerned. If
Speaker 1: there's a game that you want to talk about then
Speaker 1: this is where we all stop and we talk about it.
Speaker 1: NYC Hall. They are a road favorite at c F
Speaker 1: Montreal at a plus one thirty three, tough place to play.
Speaker 1: They're a road favorite trying to solidify their place fire
Speaker 1: in Nashville. Who cares? Chicago Fires even money plus one
Speaker 1: hundred DC and Charlotte. You mentioned that one DC is
Speaker 1: a minus one fifteen at home. Charlotte is a plus
Speaker 1: two point fifty four. With Christian Kalina in net, your
Speaker 1: draw is a plus three to Zho eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that P eight draws some pretty interesting and
Speaker 2: I like it. I think that that's those are numbers
Speaker 2: that I would like to get into. But I have
Speaker 2: a gut feeling that DC United is going to pull
Speaker 2: it off. And regardless of playing against the best goalkeeper
Speaker 2: my vote for a goalkeeper of the year in Kalina,
Speaker 2: and a Charlotte team that has actually figured it out
Speaker 2: even up top, and they've been able to do a
Speaker 2: lot of things right, I think that DC Unit is
Speaker 2: going to pull it off. Whenever D United has send
Speaker 2: a lot of guys forward, I think Benteke has a
Speaker 2: lot to play for when he comes to Obviously that
Speaker 2: Golden Bood his team. I mean, in another era, he
Speaker 2: he'd be MVP. Can it for everything he's done for
Speaker 2: this United. But I like the midfield. I really like
Speaker 2: how Area has played all season, the way he pushes
Speaker 2: on the right side. I think that there's a lot
Speaker 2: of movements on the attacking end that can flustered Charlotte
Speaker 2: and their well disciplined defensive tactics. So I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: ahead and take this United. I do think that it's
Speaker 2: going to be a low scoring game, so maybe a
Speaker 2: one zero two to one at best, But I do
Speaker 2: think it's going to be a low scoring game for
Speaker 2: this United. On the other side, when it comes to Montreal,
Speaker 2: that seems to be a game that I'm not so
Speaker 2: sure Montreal has enough to beat New York City FC.
Speaker 2: New York City is needed. They have been inconsistent. They've
Speaker 2: looked like they can, you know, beat teams like Miami
Speaker 2: at times, and then they go ahead and completely have
Speaker 2: duds of a game. But I think santagoguez Alonso that
Speaker 2: attacking end in a midfield, the's starting to look like
Speaker 2: the midfield of an experienced balance team. I would say
Speaker 2: that New York CITYFC takes down as well.
Speaker 1: Messi and Friends are a minus two seventy eight hosting
Speaker 1: the Revs, who are north of plus five eighty. Red
Speaker 1: Bulls hold favorite in a game that means nothing for
Speaker 1: Crew at a plus one thirty three Crew or a
Speaker 1: plus one seventy two. Philadelphia at home favored against Cincinnati
Speaker 1: once again. Cincinnati game doesn't mean anything to Cincinnati at
Speaker 1: all because Cincinnati is at fifty six points. They can't
Speaker 1: touch Columbus. Orlando can't touch them. So what will Cincinnati's
Speaker 1: lineup look like? We don't know. Cincinnati a big road
Speaker 1: dog at a plus two seventy six. Philadelphia at home
Speaker 1: of minus one twenty seven, which leaves us with the
Speaker 1: Purple team hosting Atlanta United at a minus one thirty
Speaker 1: nine at Lanti United is a plus two to ninety.
Speaker 1: Your draw is a plus three forty three Atlanta United.
Speaker 1: It's got to have it, Nico, What do you think?
Speaker 2: I want to see the goals on that. That is
Speaker 2: probably the only thing that I would touch because I
Speaker 2: do think Orlando will take it. I think Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: Atlanta just has been tough to watch at times, and
Speaker 2: as much as the new acquisitions have given them some
Speaker 2: life and I think that eventually next year, when there's
Speaker 2: a full roster and you're using all of your resources
Speaker 2: to put that team together, I think it's going to
Speaker 2: be a very good team. But I feel like Orlando
Speaker 2: is in great form. I think that there's such a
Speaker 2: gambit of offensive players that are spot on when they
Speaker 2: need to be. I think Fundooris is having one of
Speaker 2: the better close seasons that the closing part of the
Speaker 2: of the season, if we compartialized what he's done in
Speaker 2: other seasons, this end part of it has been really
Speaker 2: really good. I think Poppies figured out Oscar Perea. I
Speaker 2: think he's really got it going on over there, making
Speaker 2: every body available. You see when Louis Muriel goes in
Speaker 2: Louise Moriell that you thought that was going to be
Speaker 2: absolute bust. I think Oscar Pere has done perfectly. What
Speaker 2: he does best is hitting the individual. Get him to
Speaker 2: understand this is what you're gonna do better. He's changed
Speaker 2: his training regiment. He's looked better. He's played almost like
Speaker 2: a ten for this team because he knows that Dramiron
Speaker 2: Rique and Duncan MacGuire ahead of him in the striking component.
Speaker 2: So Maria has been doing a little bit of everything.
Speaker 2: Sometimes he drops socaus, he gets really white. He's been
Speaker 2: a distributor. He's been really good coming off the bench.
Speaker 2: So I think Orlando just has too much power on
Speaker 2: the attacking end for Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Three and a half over is a plus one ten,
Speaker 1: and that's where it flips. Four and a half is
Speaker 1: a plus two forty six. That sounds like you don't
Speaker 1: need to touch it.
Speaker 2: No, that's a little to reach from my blood, especially
Speaker 2: lately when I've been getting a little bit too greedy
Speaker 2: on some of these. So yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: touch it either way. I don't think there's enough good
Speaker 2: numbers for me to grab onto it. But I do
Speaker 2: think Orlando will get the best out of Atlanta in
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 1: Okay, Western Conference and now let's roll through juice boxes here.
Speaker 1: Austin and Colorado. Colorado is a road dog at a
Speaker 1: plus one seventy three. Austin's a plus one twenty three
Speaker 1: FCD and Sporting FC Dallas favorite at a minus one
Speaker 1: twenty five Sporting and plus two eighty six. Houston at
Speaker 1: home hosting lag Lag is a plus two seventeen on
Speaker 1: the road. Yeah, plus two eighty seven to draw, LAG
Speaker 1: needs a point to distance themselves away from LAFC. LAG
Speaker 1: to win on the road at Houston A plus two
Speaker 1: seventeen Houston Dynamo a plus one oh four.
Speaker 2: That's my lock of the day. And let me see that.
Speaker 2: Let me see the goals on that, But that is
Speaker 2: my lock of the day LAG over Houston. Houston has
Speaker 2: been good, they have been deaf difficult. They do play
Speaker 2: that Benny ball that has gotten them to where they are.
Speaker 2: But can they keep up with this team? Can Dorsey
Speaker 2: stay back enough to not allow Pencil to get behind
Speaker 2: him when he loves to get forward? I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Can this midfield old Ricky Pooch, I don't think so either.
Speaker 2: Can anybody do anything to hold up Gabriel Peck and
Speaker 2: how dominant he has been all season? I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I do think that LAG with this team, this roster,
Speaker 2: they take it, and I would do three and a
Speaker 2: half in this one easy.
Speaker 1: Plus LAG plus one oh six is three and a half.
Speaker 1: So that's where it turns from a minus to a
Speaker 1: plus is three and a half. Four is a plus
Speaker 1: one seventy five In the composite, four and a half
Speaker 1: is a plus two thirty seven, but three and a
Speaker 1: half is where it changes from minus to plus.
Speaker 2: Man, that's a good one. I'm definitely taking that one.
Speaker 2: I will be going here later on today to set
Speaker 2: some so definitely Brugman's back. That gives LAG such a
Speaker 2: better balance. You saw them be able to get guys
Speaker 2: on the same page, man, and that the depth of
Speaker 2: their bench. I mean, man, LG is going to be
Speaker 2: a handful in the playoffs, and they're going to start
Speaker 2: off by taking this Houston game as a playoff game.
Speaker 2: It's just going to be the startup to what I
Speaker 2: had for this LG squad.
Speaker 1: LFC big favorite of minus four hundred against the San
Speaker 1: Jose Earthquakes, who are north of plus eight hundred loons
Speaker 1: or a minus one ninety six at home against All
Speaker 1: Caps Saint Louis City City is a plus four twenty
Speaker 1: six RSL in Vancouver RSL, which we know hasn't been
Speaker 1: the same a minus one oh three. Hosting Vancouver, who's
Speaker 1: a plus two to nineteen on the road, draws a
Speaker 1: plus three eighteen.
Speaker 2: Mm hm m ooh, ooh. That's a good one. That
Speaker 2: is a good one. Uh, you know what, uh, what's what?
Speaker 2: What's re Elsea Lakes.
Speaker 1: Numbers there again minus one oh three light minus to
Speaker 1: be favored at home.
Speaker 2: No that stuff. I'm gonna go ahead and go with
Speaker 2: the draw on now one know there's enough to go
Speaker 2: with a draw just to make that West Coast even
Speaker 2: more difficult to kind of get through. Uh yeah, I
Speaker 2: think a drawing down one makes makes sense for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Last one on the board is your Sounders,
Speaker 1: the game that you're going to be at reporting on
Speaker 1: and blowing up Seattle a minus one thirty five against Portland.
Speaker 1: Who needs it? Portland's a plus three twenty one draws
Speaker 1: basically a plus three hundred, but a minus one thirty
Speaker 1: five for Seattle hosting Portland. What do you think?
Speaker 2: All right? Well, before that, I will say that that's
Speaker 2: a Lewis game. Looks to me like a big game
Speaker 2: that you could take sa Lewis on. Look at No.
Speaker 2: Minnesota and I heard that number? What was it? Well?
Speaker 1: Plus what ridiculous? Plus four to twenty six for All
Speaker 1: Caps to win.
Speaker 2: I will put some money on that.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: Look, that's that All Caps game between that they had
Speaker 2: against Houston. They really jumped on Houston and it seems
Speaker 2: like the Germans have really put their things together, and
Speaker 2: I understand that they have nothing to play for, but
Speaker 2: jobs are to play for, and what you're kind of
Speaker 2: hoping to get here at the end of the season
Speaker 2: going into next season. To me, I don't know why
Speaker 2: that jumped right in front of me, and I will
Speaker 2: be setting that up. So I will take all Caps
Speaker 2: no goals against Minnesota. I think whether it's a low
Speaker 2: scoring game or not, that's to be seen. But I
Speaker 2: do think Saint Louis has enough to make Minnesota struggle
Speaker 2: and I think that he could pull it off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh Jarras signs a contract extension by the way
Speaker 1: through twenty twenty five with a team option for twenty six.
Speaker 1: That just came out a couple of minutes ago.
Speaker 2: But all should a big riverory, the big one, the
Speaker 2: game everybody's going to be watching. Seattle got the best
Speaker 2: out of Portland in Portland, but Portland has had Seattle's
Speaker 2: number at home for a very long time. We asked
Speaker 2: brands mat Sure about it and his and his reaction was,
Speaker 2: you're gonna remind me of this. You're really gonna remind
Speaker 2: me that we haven't been able to beat Portland at
Speaker 2: home when we're in such a good streak, Yes, Brian.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately that was Jeremiah who has the question Jeremiah from
Speaker 2: Sandra Hart And yeah, so there is a lot to
Speaker 2: be played for their pride. There's obviously Cascadia. There is
Speaker 2: a birth to CCC conker keV Champions Cup that is
Speaker 2: on the line. So there's a lot to be played
Speaker 2: for here for Seattle. So I think there's a lot
Speaker 2: of pressure. If I'm not mistaken, I had heard that
Speaker 2: Kamal Miller might not play this game. That's a big
Speaker 2: blow for Portland. But let's be honest. Portland is not
Speaker 2: worried about the defense. Portland is your typical Mexican boxer
Speaker 2: is gonna go out there and knock your head off.
Speaker 2: They're the defense. They're gonna come at you. So because
Speaker 2: of that, I think it's gonna be a really good game.
Speaker 2: And I'm struggling to just say that the Seattle Sanders
Speaker 2: will win because they are in such good rhythm. But
Speaker 2: I think Portland they're kind of against a corner and
Speaker 2: they have a lot of offensive weapons that could make
Speaker 2: Seattle very vulnerable. So give me those numbers.
Speaker 1: Again, numbers again, minus one thirty five for Seattle at
Speaker 1: home plus three to zero one on the draw Portland
Speaker 1: to plus three twenty one.
Speaker 2: Plus three twenty one. My goodness, Yeah, it's uh, it's
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a game. It's gonna be a game,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna go ahead and go with the draw.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with the draw. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 2: the draw on this one, and I think that it'll
Speaker 2: be it'll be a good game. It could be a
Speaker 2: one to one, it could be a two to two game.
Speaker 2: But I think that Seattle's going to be tested against
Speaker 2: a Portland team is gonna come in here with everything
Speaker 2: that they have. I think Seattle has done well. They
Speaker 2: have some guys that are international duty. They'll be coming back.
Speaker 2: All but Vargas got about ten minutes with the Mexico
Speaker 2: national team, which you know, props to him. He barely
Speaker 2: got to touch the ball, really, but you know he's
Speaker 2: going to be coming back. So we'll see how those
Speaker 2: players Raider grate to this team as quickly as they
Speaker 2: can and play against his Portland team. But I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go ahead and go with a drawing.
Speaker 1: Now, one, okay, one more thing before you get out
Speaker 1: of here, and we put a bow on Today. Earlier
Speaker 1: in the week, Johnny and Fantino Today, I feel grunge.
Speaker 1: As we said on the show. He shows up in
Speaker 1: Seattle and announces that Luman is going to be the
Speaker 1: host for the three as he takes his drink from
Speaker 1: his rave green mug. Going to be the home for
Speaker 1: the Sounders matches in the Club World Cup. So Johnny
Speaker 1: Infantino in town, he had the pictures taken, he had
Speaker 1: the scarf around him for World Cup twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Please patent police, don't let us get in trouble for
Speaker 1: mentioning those words together as a group, Johnny and Infantino
Speaker 1: came to town first announcement for Club World Cup and
Speaker 1: the Sounders get to stay at home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was exciting, it was. It was
Speaker 2: a great experience. I'm not gonna lie to he. Whenever
Speaker 2: you see someone of the stature of Infantino around here,
Speaker 2: you get to ask him a couple of questions. He
Speaker 2: sounds like a really cool guy, by the way. I
Speaker 2: mean I know that he's probably not, and there's a
Speaker 2: lot of things that you know surround that name in FIFA,
Speaker 2: to be quite honest, but you can tell why he
Speaker 2: is well. He is because he is as likable and
Speaker 2: charismatic as he gets. Man. I mean the way he talks,
Speaker 2: the way he handles questions. I mean he's a politician.
Speaker 2: I mean to be honest, I mean to be where
Speaker 2: he's at right. But I thought it was great to
Speaker 2: just see him enjoy the city. I like what he
Speaker 2: said about Looming Field. He said that he felt like
Speaker 2: there was some soul in that stadium. He loved the
Speaker 2: way that the stadium was directly connected to the center
Speaker 2: of the city or the downtown area. Peter Tomasawa, who
Speaker 2: is the CEO for the Seattle committee for the World Cup,
Speaker 2: mentioned that they had him at the top of the
Speaker 2: Toyota Balcony in Seattle, right next to the city, and
Speaker 2: he was just taken back by that that field that
Speaker 2: connections between the city and the stadium. So it was
Speaker 2: it was great to see someone like Infantino that has seen,
Speaker 2: you know, stadiums around the world. And I'm sure he
Speaker 2: was probably also very nice to you know, age and everybody.
Speaker 2: He was always gonna have been positive, but it was
Speaker 2: good to just see him being part of what we've
Speaker 2: experienced and kind of put that in a global spect
Speaker 2: so yeah, six games in the World Cup, six Gay,
Speaker 2: six seven in the World Cup, six seven, the Club
Speaker 2: World Cup. That's gonna be huge for this city. We
Speaker 2: have seen how much involvement there's been from the city
Speaker 2: from a Sounders organization to get the city right for
Speaker 2: those moments. So just overall a huge moment for the
Speaker 2: community in Seattle, and I don't think that they're gonna
Speaker 2: disappoint at least in terms of experience and the city
Speaker 2: and everything in general. With the stadium. We'll see what
Speaker 2: happens with the Sounders and how well they can perform
Speaker 2: in those moments. But I was just happy to see
Speaker 2: the excitement from everybody surrounding the organization about having those
Speaker 2: games and that amount of exposure globally.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. All Right, cut the promo for me.
Speaker 1: What's going on with Polsto Sports in the soccer bar
Speaker 1: because you're gonna be busy in about forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: Yes, So if you want to hear what Infantino said
Speaker 2: about his experience here in Seattle, you could check that
Speaker 2: out a postal sports we have the whole thing. I
Speaker 2: did ask him about, are there any improvements that need
Speaker 2: to be made to the stadium to the city things
Speaker 2: like that. He did not answer. I shouldn't have asked
Speaker 2: that question because I should have known better. He did
Speaker 2: talk about other things that are that are pretty cool,
Speaker 2: so go ahead and check that out. We also have
Speaker 2: Adrian Hanauur and Peter tomas Hawa in the same channel,
Speaker 2: of course, talking about everything that happened with Infantino, and
Speaker 2: then here in Soccer Bar we're going to be getting
Speaker 2: into the US two zero loss against Mexico, the overreaction.
Speaker 2: What we like, what we didn't like is the ceiling falling,
Speaker 2: you know, is the sky falling all of those states.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk a little bit about Mexico and
Speaker 2: the struggles that they've had and how he kind of
Speaker 2: felt like Pochettino maybe left them a loose, loose situation
Speaker 2: because if there was a team in need of rescue
Speaker 2: and in need of a big game, was Mexico. And
Speaker 2: was a two zero win against a B squad of
Speaker 2: the United States really a big win? I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think that if Pachatino would have put some more
Speaker 2: of those stars they would have had, they would have
Speaker 2: had more relevance as of a win. So I thought
Speaker 2: that Pagettino and the US Federation were maybe given Mexico
Speaker 2: less to work with, and regardless of the win, I
Speaker 2: think it did this. So we're gonna talk about that.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about decision day, so go ahead and
Speaker 2: check it out here in about forty minutes.
Speaker 1: What he said, as always, my friend at l Rollo
Speaker 1: in w on the twitters, at sports Pulso at the
Speaker 1: Soccer Bar, we will catch up with you next week
Speaker 1: because next week we're through the eight nines and we're
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, so we will have set the regular
Speaker 1: season aside and the sprint continues in other forms. As always,
Speaker 1: my friend, great to see you. What coup coffee?
Speaker 2: Are we on number two? Number two here today. I
Speaker 2: had to rewatch that Mexico US game this morning just
Speaker 2: because we're going to get deep into it. So it's
Speaker 2: going to be interesting to talk.
Speaker 1: About that, no doubt. All Right, be good, my friend.
Speaker 1: We'll catch up with you soon. Love you very much.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week.
Speaker 2: Thank you, my guy.