Speaker 1: Faces dropped a little early here on SDH, and the
Speaker 1: reason for that is because I've got to be like
Speaker 1: nine different versions of me today and it starts with
Speaker 1: all of this. It's a wall past Wednesday. Thanks for
Speaker 1: dropping by, John, hear you there. And what we are
Speaker 1: getting ready to do is blow through everything that's going
Speaker 1: on today and get you ready for all of the action,
Speaker 1: all the behavior, and all the things. So it is
Speaker 1: a preview of the day. We'll go through all the
Speaker 1: news of the morning, get you ready for what happened yesterday.
Speaker 1: We'll go through all that stuff. Dylan Butler, God bless
Speaker 1: the man. Morning. Alex set to join us at eight
Speaker 1: point thirty. This is gonna be a power hour because
Speaker 1: all right, so here's the day. You know this time
Speaker 1: of year that I'm like multiple people, and so at
Speaker 1: nine I have to leave Studio HD and I have
Speaker 1: to go to a high school here in the Atlanta
Speaker 1: area for the high school version of me to present
Speaker 1: an award that's gonna air. We're gonna piece it together.
Speaker 1: It's gonna air on GPB in a couple weeks, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna air for the rest of the season. After that,
Speaker 1: I come back here to the house and then change clothes,
Speaker 1: I think, or at least bring more clothes with me.
Speaker 1: I've got to go pick up the Boss's car because
Speaker 1: the the idea of a never flat tire may be true,
Speaker 1: but what that means is that you have to replace
Speaker 1: the tire. And so for the second time in six months,
Speaker 1: we've rolled over a screw. This time it was a
Speaker 1: screw embedded in the never flat tire, and so I
Speaker 1: had to take it to the tire place and they
Speaker 1: had to replace the tire. That it is not something
Speaker 1: that can be plugged. You sit there and twenty five
Speaker 1: dollars later you're out the door. Now it can't be
Speaker 1: that way with a never flat tire. It is replace
Speaker 1: the tire. So for the second time in six months,
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars later, I'll go get the Boss's car
Speaker 1: when I come back from presenting the award. Then after
Speaker 1: bringing the Boss's car back here to Office HD, then
Speaker 1: I have to take somebody out and make sure that
Speaker 1: he gets his walk, then leave here again to head
Speaker 1: down to Mercedes Benz Stadium for ATLANDA United and c
Speaker 1: F Montreal, possibly returning to Impact maybe possibly perhaps never so.
Speaker 1: Then then making sure that someone is fed, he's got
Speaker 1: his food. I can leave and then come back eleven
Speaker 1: o'clock and then make sure that somebody gets walked and
Speaker 1: make sure that nothing has happened inside the house while
Speaker 1: I'm gone, because the boss is out on the West
Speaker 1: coast for her work, so it's in out.
Speaker 2: Sorry wait, hang on, in out, in out, in out,
Speaker 2: in all.
Speaker 1: Starting at nine o'clock after this, Yeah, Alex, God bless you, man.
Speaker 1: I know it's like trying to figure out which one
Speaker 1: of me I am at any given point. Alex is like,
Speaker 1: I don't like this idea of different versions of John.
Speaker 1: All these facets are part of the same jewel. God
Speaker 1: bless him a man. Last night on the network, you
Speaker 1: got to get the pregame for the oldest rivalry in
Speaker 1: the state of Georgia when it comes to college soccer,
Speaker 1: Oglethorpe and Emery and Jason was on the call last night.
Speaker 1: You had to go to go Petrols dot com and
Speaker 1: then team one with the number one sports Jason's call
Speaker 1: one nil win for Oglethorpe after the three to three
Speaker 1: draw that happened earlier in the year. Maddie and I
Speaker 1: had Jason and Oglethorpe head coach John Aiken before the whistle,
Speaker 1: and then after the whistle was posted, we got to
Speaker 1: catch up with the game winning goalscorer sjf. We got
Speaker 1: to catch up with Nico Sheer, Nicoshira, and it was
Speaker 1: Ben Auerham as well as John Aiken last night on
Speaker 1: the Oglethorpe side, and then Corey Gner and and then
Speaker 1: uh Uh the the sophomore keeper for Emery as well.
Speaker 1: So it was great to catch Sharondajani, so great to
Speaker 1: catch up with them. It was a fun night. I
Speaker 1: got bitten by a bunch of mosquitos. But you can
Speaker 1: see the before the whistle. I think it's still up
Speaker 1: on the network as a live if you go through
Speaker 1: a stream yard and all of our different players forms,
Speaker 1: you can go backward and take a peek at after
Speaker 1: the whistle. Maddie was adding that during ast last night
Speaker 1: on the track at Oglethorpe, and she and Sophia Coupertino
Speaker 1: were there and Jason had ast last night, had John
Speaker 1: Aconon had some sound on getting you Ready for tonight,
Speaker 1: So very very busy night for all of us, and
Speaker 1: it continues today.
Speaker 2: So it's going to be.
Speaker 1: Running around, running around, running around, that's where we are.
Speaker 1: So good morning Alex, Good morning everybody. And I guess
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Speaker 1: to join us at eight thirty, I think, and I'll
Speaker 1: ask Dylan when he comes on. I guess this is
Speaker 1: before he has to take everybody to school and then
Speaker 1: come back, and then he races in at ten oh
Speaker 1: five and comes in with us normally. But yeah, Dylan
Speaker 1: was like, okay, I sent out the bat signal and
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, here's the deal. I've got to do
Speaker 1: a power hour at eight o'clock. Dylan's like, I can
Speaker 1: come out at eight thirty. Cool, Tyler is gonna I'm
Speaker 1: hoping be on as a part of the Friday Chaos
Speaker 1: in the last hour of the week at ten o'clock,
Speaker 1: where we can go over everything that is going on
Speaker 1: in Major League Soccer at Landy and Night At, all
Speaker 1: the previews, all the things. So hopefully Dylan can join
Speaker 1: us for the Chaos on Friday. Will catch up with
Speaker 1: maryon Crowder because the USL Super League Spring schedule was
Speaker 1: released yesterday and so next time around, or we might
Speaker 1: even shoot I might try and tape something with Marion
Speaker 1: on Thursday and post it to the networks. So remind me,
Speaker 1: I've got to do that. So I'll catch up with
Speaker 1: Marion and see what her Thursday afternoon is like. We
Speaker 1: can catch up with her, tape that, post it to
Speaker 1: the network, and then you can keep an eye on
Speaker 1: everything going on Super League and SEC soccer there with
Speaker 1: maryon Crowder. So it's always cool to catch up with Marian.
Speaker 1: So apparently there are some things going on in the
Speaker 1: Premier League and in dealing with loans and things. And
Speaker 1: it appears that Russell Martin in Southampton might be close
Speaker 1: to sitting there saying, you know, thanks Fam for getting
Speaker 1: us into the Premier League, but it might be time
Speaker 1: to go just because of the really bad start that
Speaker 1: Southampton has had. Southampton's already freaking out, So no patience
Speaker 1: for Russell Martin whatsoever.
Speaker 2: And it's going to be.
Speaker 1: Might be a short live deal when it comes to
Speaker 1: all of that. So yesterday we had FA Cup, we
Speaker 1: had Champions League. We'll get into those numbers coming up
Speaker 1: in a bit. And apparently Newcastle's facing a billion pound
Speaker 1: bill to redevelop Saint James Park. According to Luke Edwards,
Speaker 1: the expansion plans may increase the stadium capacity to more
Speaker 1: than sixty thousand, but it looks like it might be
Speaker 1: a billion, as I put into my pinky finger into
Speaker 1: the side of my mouth, a billion pounds to make
Speaker 1: that happen. Although the club continue to insist they've not
Speaker 1: made a final decision on whether to improve the existing
Speaker 1: stadium removed to a new, purpose built site elsewhere in
Speaker 1: the city, Telegraph understands detailed architecture Plans for the expansion
Speaker 1: of Saint James Park had been drawn up and studied.
Speaker 1: Plans have focused on the expansion and redevelopment of both
Speaker 1: the East End and the Gallagate End, with capacities stadium
Speaker 1: rising to more than sixty k if it comes to pass.
Speaker 1: Also believed to be the scope to modernize both the
Speaker 1: Millbourne Stand and the Less End, which were built more
Speaker 1: than twenty years ago, estimated costs between eight hundred million
Speaker 1: and a billion pounds depending on final details. Newcastle will
Speaker 1: need to extend the lease hold on Saint James's Park,
Speaker 1: which expires in seventy years if they stay put, and
Speaker 1: so they have repeatedly insisted, meaning the board any decision
Speaker 1: will be discussed with the club's fan advisory board before
Speaker 1: it's announced rejected the idea that the decision has already
Speaker 1: been made in private. So Newcastle eight hundred million to
Speaker 1: a billion pounds if they want to hang out with
Speaker 1: Saint James Park. Also once again keep an eye on
Speaker 1: that all these bottom all these.
Speaker 2: Bottom lines, and that is the bottom lines, because Santino
Speaker 2: Madadla said so.
Speaker 1: Sam Wallace out of the Telegraph also is mentioning that
Speaker 1: Barcelona suffered an eight figure loss despite il K Gundwan's
Speaker 1: exit and massive cost cutting. Vast wage bill and setbacks
Speaker 1: with the sale of Barsavision are the key issues. Gund
Speaker 1: Wan leaves other departures. The club reduced their wage bill
Speaker 1: from six hundred and seventy million euro to five h
Speaker 1: hundred million euros, so that's basically what one's seventy over
Speaker 1: seventeen over sixty seven, let's just say fifteen percent. Even so,
Speaker 1: it announced losses of ninety one million euro or seventy
Speaker 1: five million pounds. Gun to Wan left to rejoin Manchester City,
Speaker 1: with the club unwilling to sustain his annual wages of
Speaker 1: around sixteen million Europe. Joan Laport is trying to study
Speaker 1: a club debt around three billion euro two and a
Speaker 1: half billion pounds, which includes financing of the new camp.
Speaker 1: Barcelona also admitted the much anticipated sale of Barsavision Barsavision
Speaker 1: previously Barcas Studios, has not gone ahead his date hope,
Speaker 1: forcing a right down of one hundred and forty one
Speaker 1: million euro in the club's assets, initially valued at four
Speaker 1: hundred million euro, a deal to sell just less than
Speaker 1: half of that. Remember, they wanted to sell forty nine percent,
Speaker 1: still sell off a lot of it, but still kind
Speaker 1: of keep control. So it was like a forty nine
Speaker 1: percent sale explored separately with the cattle and businessman Jean Rouher,
Speaker 1: German football financiers A Borough and Socios. In the end,
Speaker 1: the full valuation of the stake was never realized. Disclosures
Speaker 1: made in a taster of the club's next financial results.
Speaker 1: What's a taste. I'm guessing it's just a tease. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's just the wording there. It's a taster announcing record
Speaker 1: merchandising and sponsorship revenue, because yeah, everybody needing a Spotify
Speaker 1: loco in the front of their Barcelona jersey. That's always
Speaker 1: going to get you somewhere announcing record merchandising sponsorship revenue.
Speaker 2: But morning, the one hundred and forty one million pounds.
Speaker 1: Euro right now had wiped out a small operating profit
Speaker 1: twelve million euro Barsavision, which sits in the holding company
Speaker 1: a Bridgeburg invest subject of non payment by some of
Speaker 1: the participating investors, so I were just not interested.
Speaker 3: Apparently.
Speaker 1: Nevertheless, the club declined to write down the book value
Speaker 1: of their own share in the business around two hundred
Speaker 1: million euro, which is going to raise eyebrows among other
Speaker 1: competitors making the economies to comply with such financial controls.
Speaker 1: Sales earned around eighty million year euro Club Academy continues
Speaker 1: to be a reliable production line. Laminamol and Gobby part
Speaker 1: of the Spain squad that won the Euro. So Gundwan
Speaker 1: left in the summer. Doniolmo out the door in a
Speaker 1: salary move as well, and so much trailed move for
Speaker 1: a Euro twenty twenty four winner. Nico Williams of Atletic
Speaker 1: bill Bow never went a hit yesterday in Champions League.
Speaker 1: Somebody put up seven. Somebody put up seven yesterday in
Speaker 1: Champions League. Man, it's like we're gonna just go ahead
Speaker 1: and we're gonna set records. We're gonna put seven on
Speaker 1: the board. So that that traditionally is not a good thing.
Speaker 1: When you have nine matches in the Champions League, if
Speaker 1: you took the over and goals scored yesterday, you won.
Speaker 2: Probably.
Speaker 1: Arsenal beat PSG two nil at home of minus one
Speaker 1: thirty five. Barcela was a big favorite yesterday to minus
Speaker 1: fourteen twenty nine. They shut out Young Boys by five
Speaker 1: byer Leverq's and one nil over ac Milan on the
Speaker 1: minus side at minus one forty seven. Dortmun puts seven
Speaker 1: on Celtic, leaving that there for Jared Smith at all
Speaker 1: minus two thirteen, Enter beat Red Star at a minus
Speaker 1: four thirty five PSV in Sporting Drew at a plus
Speaker 1: two seventy two. We'll discuss that with Nino Torres tomorrow
Speaker 1: at ten o'clock and find out what the heck happened.
Speaker 1: Two our muchly highly touted Victor yokaresh one happened on
Speaker 1: the road and the Manchester City at a minus sixteen
Speaker 1: sixty seven went to Slovon Bratislava and won four nil,
Speaker 1: so that was an easy ride for them.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: Nine more matches to close out this particular phase of
Speaker 1: the League stage. Girona minus one oh two hosting fine
Speaker 1: or remember two matches at twelve forty five Eastern seven
Speaker 1: matches at three o'clock as a minus one oh two
Speaker 1: hosting finan ord to the plus two seventy eight Atalanta
Speaker 1: is playing Shaktar Donetsk. Atalanta is a minus one two
Speaker 1: on the road and it's.
Speaker 2: Not a FIFA tournament, it's at UA for tournament. So
Speaker 2: let me see, let.
Speaker 1: Me see where this particular match is scheduled, but Shaktar
Speaker 1: is a big road dog, not necessarily not necessarily a
Speaker 1: surprise and all matches in match day two. Let me
Speaker 1: see if we can get a location on these okay
Speaker 1: viewing details of Shaktar and Atalanta twelve forty five and
Speaker 1: I need a location. I need a location the arena
Speaker 1: off Shalka and Gelson Kirkin. So it's going to be
Speaker 1: played at the home of FC Shalka. That's where the
Speaker 1: match is going to be. Four Shaktar and Atalanta, and
Speaker 1: so that particular matchup ish shaq Tarama a plus four
Speaker 1: forty seven Atalanta minus one fifty two. Villa hosting Byron,
Speaker 1: And this is one for our buddy Pars as he
Speaker 1: gets ready for his day. Aston Villa three o'clock hosting
Speaker 1: Bayern Munich. They're a dog at a plus three thirty three.
Speaker 1: Bayern Munich a minus one thirty three. Benfica hosting Athletico Madrid,
Speaker 1: probably the match of the day. Benfica is a plus
Speaker 1: one sixty eight. Athletico Madrid a plus one seventy four
Speaker 1: and your draws a plus two thirty nine. Dinomo Zagreb
Speaker 1: hosting Monico Monico a road favorite A big road favorite
Speaker 1: at a minus one sixty one draws a plus three
Speaker 1: forty four Dinamo Zagreb plus four in a quarter lel
Speaker 1: hosting Real Madrid, same thing for excuse me for Real
Speaker 1: Madrid to minus one sixty one. Leal's a plus four fifty.
Speaker 1: Liverpool at home massive favorite against Bologna. Bologna, by the way,
Speaker 1: a plus fifteen sixty nine in the composite. That's what
Speaker 1: you're staring at with Liverpool and Bologna. Liverpoo big favorite
Speaker 1: of minus five fifty six. I would watch it. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't touch it. RBI Leipzig, who is plus one fifty
Speaker 1: Uve's a plus two hundred draws of plus two thirty four.
Speaker 1: Oliver Min's life has said nothing about RBI Leipzig as
Speaker 1: a part of the Red bullsy in tree, but he's
Speaker 1: more than happy to sit there and look at Major
Speaker 1: League soccer.
Speaker 2: Look in the mirror, Sir.
Speaker 1: Day two and Storm Graz at three o'clock hosting Club Bruges.
Speaker 1: Club Bruges a plus one oh four. Storm Graz a
Speaker 1: plus two sixty six. Your draws a plus two seventy one.
Speaker 1: And no, I don't do the sound effects for anybody
Speaker 1: from that particular team or country anymore because their ultras
Speaker 1: were a bunch of jerks and so they don't deserve
Speaker 1: to get the horn sound. So that's your activity going
Speaker 1: on in a Champions League today. Once again, reminder two
Speaker 1: at twelve forty five and one and all the rest
Speaker 1: are at three o'clock. And you can watch that on
Speaker 1: all the different aspects of the networks that are going
Speaker 1: on for Paramount Plus. Why is it one I click
Speaker 1: on something, it gives me March twenty six. It's a
Speaker 1: little outdated. So what to watch, Where to watch it,
Speaker 1: how to watch it. CBS Sports Network has been Fiica
Speaker 1: and Atletico Madrid at three o'clock. FS one is your
Speaker 1: free side of what's going on in Major League Soccer,
Speaker 1: Crew and the and the Messian Friends at seven forty five,
Speaker 1: everything else at seven forty on the Apple TV side
Speaker 1: because seven thirty seven forty. If you're on the free
Speaker 1: side though, and you're the FS one simulcast, you get
Speaker 1: the super Hyper make a pregame show the extra either
Speaker 1: five or ten minutes, and it is seven forty five
Speaker 1: for Columbus and Messian Friends that's also being simulcast on
Speaker 1: Fox Sport. This everybody else is on season past. Tonight,
Speaker 1: ESPN plus has the conkor CAF W Champions Cup. It
Speaker 1: is Frasier's Whip going up against Gotham at eight o'clock.
Speaker 1: Whip spell spelled Whip Whip. It's Whip lose USL Championship
Speaker 1: in the midweg Louse City and the MIAMIFC at seven thirty.
Speaker 1: Not to be confused with Messi and Friends. But they
Speaker 1: actually do play, but they play in Boca. They don't
Speaker 1: quite play in they don't quite play in Fort Lauderdale
Speaker 1: League One. Going on back into league play after we
Speaker 1: had the Yeggermeister Cup decided last weekend Omahon Spokane at
Speaker 1: one o'clock, Businessman Special at Warner Park and papal And, Nebraska,
Speaker 1: and then Central Valley Fuego and Northern Colorado at ten
Speaker 1: o'clock on the campus of Fresno State. GLOSSO Network simul
Speaker 1: casting your W Champions Cup tonight with Fraser Twhip and
Speaker 1: Gotham at eight. Paramount Plus has already shown Champions League
Speaker 1: Elite in the AFC with Thistle, Kobe, Sheendong, tayshawn Yokohama
Speaker 1: Marinos and Ulsan Conference League is going on today starting
Speaker 1: at ten thirty in the morning, Basaksha Here, Rapid VNT,
Speaker 1: Victoria Gimeresh and Selje.
Speaker 2: That's at ten thirty.
Speaker 1: Then we mentioned the Champions League on Paramount plus two
Speaker 1: at twelve forty five seven at three o'clock, and they
Speaker 1: also have the Champions League, the Conkorcap Champions League with
Speaker 1: Fraser Swip at eight and Gotham Peacock is broadcasting Super
Speaker 1: League DC in Tampa Bay is at six thirty. So
Speaker 1: that is your your rundown of everything to watch, where
Speaker 1: to watch it, how to watch it. Okay, since it
Speaker 1: was mentioned that you've got Champions are Conference League going
Speaker 1: on today. The Europa League, by the way, is tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and everybody's playing tomorrow in the in the Europa in
Speaker 1: the Europa League Conference League, which has eighteen matchups, you
Speaker 1: have two today and everybody else is tomorrow. So we'll
Speaker 1: go over those numbers. But the two that are going
Speaker 1: on at ten thirty Asaksha Here favored at home at
Speaker 1: a plus one twenty two, Rapid Vienna plus two thirteen,
Speaker 1: Victoria geme Resha big favorite at home to minus two
Speaker 1: eighty six. In Portugal, Selje is a plus seven seventy two,
Speaker 1: So that is what you're looking at with that gossip
Speaker 1: and inn window once again. Dylan Butler set to join
Speaker 1: us at the bottom of the hour to go through
Speaker 1: everything Major League Soccer.
Speaker 2: Hero power hour on a wall past Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Uh getting into the gossip rumor in uendo, what to watch,
Speaker 1: where to watch it, how to watch it? It looks
Speaker 1: like Liverpool has now joined the Jared Branthwaite chase, who
Speaker 1: hasn't at this point. Liverpool ready to rival Manchester United
Speaker 1: for Everton's Jared Branthwaite could even move for him in January.
Speaker 1: For Letter paper take the information at your own peril.
Speaker 1: We do have some Everton news, but I've got to
Speaker 1: figure out how to phrase it. Involving making sure folks
Speaker 1: get paid and the Friedkin Group trying to dive in
Speaker 1: and become owners. Sean Dych given funds to improve the
Speaker 1: Everton squad in January. Once the Freedkin Group complete their takeover,
Speaker 1: no top players will be sold. Gareth Southgate is Manchester
Speaker 1: United's top picture, replaced Eric ten Hawk. They are also
Speaker 1: interested in speaking to ex Uva manager Max Alegri if
Speaker 1: they do sack him. Ten Honk retains the support of
Speaker 1: senior players at Manchester United despite the sides poor start
Speaker 1: of the season. You're Gonna Clop has dismissed speculation he'll
Speaker 1: take over as Germany manager for a letter paper. Do
Speaker 1: you see the picture You're gonna clop? The other day,
Speaker 1: dude looks completely rested. It's like he's getting naps in
Speaker 1: it's watching whatever. He's just I guess he's getting He's
Speaker 1: kicking back, got his feet on the Ottoman and the
Speaker 1: den eating the popcorn.
Speaker 2: Dude looked rested.
Speaker 1: Barcelona and Spain's Andersonist expected to announce his retirement.
Speaker 2: We talked about that yesterday.
Speaker 1: Crystal Palace is Adam Wharton and Atalanta's Edter Center high
Speaker 1: on Manchester City's list should they try to replace rodri
Speaker 1: in January, and Anthony Gordon set to sign that new
Speaker 1: deal that we talked about last week that keeps him
Speaker 1: at Newcastle until twenty thirty. That is from our friend
Speaker 1: Forbrizio Romano in Scotland, Jannis Hajji's returned to Rangers first
Speaker 1: team after the Romanian midfield destruct an agreement to resolve
Speaker 1: the contract wrangle that led him to be frozen out
Speaker 1: for more than a year. That's from the Scottish Three
Speaker 1: Letter Paper. Haji agreed to forego a clause where he
Speaker 1: would be do a salary increase if he played one
Speaker 1: more game for Rangers after several senior players and board
Speaker 1: members put pressure on at Philip Clement to bring him
Speaker 1: back to the first team. He greeted the news that
Speaker 1: he's no longer training with the Rangers B team with
Speaker 1: an Instagram post of him working out, simply saying back.
Speaker 2: Under his swinger lease.
Speaker 1: Palmer has told Brendan Rodgers he's determined to say with
Speaker 1: Celtic and fight for a starting place, taking a break
Speaker 1: from social media after fan criticism following his only start
Speaker 1: of the season against Falkirk Hammerby's Buzzuman Aiture has welcomed
Speaker 1: interest from around the Europe, as reports in Sweden suggest
Speaker 1: Celtic leading the race to sign the eighteen year old,
Speaker 1: who's also been scouted by Arsenal Palace, Eintracht Frankfort and
Speaker 1: bayer lever Cusen. News on Aberdeen Kevin nisbitt Is revealed
Speaker 1: that Peter Levin played a key role in convincing him
Speaker 1: to move to Aberdeen on loan from Millwall. That the
Speaker 1: first team coach has been helping him rediscover the form
Speaker 1: that led to Scotland caps for the twenty seven year
Speaker 1: old and now Jimmy Thieln no regrets about missing out
Speaker 1: on Elsberg's participation in the Europa leagues. He targets a
Speaker 1: return as Aberdeen manager. So that is your word on
Speaker 1: teams in Scotland that we're keeping an eye on, and
Speaker 1: what's going on in England the Freakin Group and let
Speaker 1: me get into this also, and I know that Tom
Speaker 1: is probably his ears are burning over this Freakin Group
Speaker 1: and we got to keep an eye on this. A
Speaker 1: letter from King and Spaulding, which are the lawyers to
Speaker 1: representing Leadenhall to a New York City court concerning the
Speaker 1: sale of Everton a CAP has not provided the details
Speaker 1: regarding the terms of the transaction, but is committed to
Speaker 1: do so subject to a non disclosure agreement. A CAP
Speaker 1: represented the transaction that will not close until Leadenhall, Ing
Speaker 1: and National Founders have the opportunity to review the terms
Speaker 1: and address any concerns with the defendant and hearings today
Speaker 1: at three o'clock New York time. It means that Leadenhall
Speaker 1: want to make sure that the terms of the repayment
Speaker 1: of the seven to seven to seven a cap loan
Speaker 1: are not detrimental to their cause, meaning that they want
Speaker 1: to get paid.
Speaker 2: And so this is going to be.
Speaker 1: It is going to truly be something that will live
Speaker 1: in the courts, and it will live in the courts
Speaker 1: for a while. So I know that if you're looking
Speaker 1: at the Friedkin Group, you're sitting there hoping, Man, we
Speaker 1: need to get this thing fixed and fixed ASAFP.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: And once again, I'm firmly anticipating that you're going to
Speaker 1: have a lot of stuff in the courts involving Freedkin
Speaker 1: Group before Freedkin Group can take over Everton and the
Speaker 1: ninety four point one percent share of farhad Mosheri's activity
Speaker 1: with Everton as they continue to go forward.
Speaker 2: So let me see, I'm trying to see if.
Speaker 1: There's any other news before we get into since we
Speaker 1: went through all of the gossip, rumor and innu window
Speaker 1: and let's see, Harry Kane's a doubt for Villa after
Speaker 1: an injury in the lever cues and draw, So we've
Speaker 1: got to keep an eye on that. We have to
Speaker 1: get a chance to mention this Christine Sinclair is going
Speaker 1: to retire at the end of the NWSL season and
Speaker 1: when Bart comes on on Monday, and addition to everything else,
Speaker 1: I want to ask him about Christine Sinclair and her
Speaker 1: legacy and what Christine Sinclair has meant to the sport,
Speaker 1: just in the sense of in two countries really with
Speaker 1: her time with the Canadian national team and representing her
Speaker 1: country like she did here.
Speaker 2: This was completely unintentional this morning, but there you go.
Speaker 1: So the our friends at Peace collective that got to peace,
Speaker 1: got to Peace P E P I E C E
Speaker 1: that together and let everything roll and see what's going
Speaker 1: on there. So, uh, I need to ask him about
Speaker 1: Christine Sinclair and her impact going forward. So that's UH,
Speaker 1: that's going to be on the to do list when
Speaker 1: it comes to AH everything that we discuss uh in
Speaker 1: soccer and the world of soccer when uh Bart comes
Speaker 1: back in on Monday. So once again, let me see
Speaker 1: if there's anything that I've missed. Let's see, that's rugby,
Speaker 1: that's Champions League. We've talked about that, and I need
Speaker 1: like some hold music or something. I think we're in
Speaker 1: pretty decent shape. Remember tonight it is at six point
Speaker 1: thirty on ninety two nine in the game in the
Speaker 1: Odyssey app it is ATLANDA United and a CF Montreal.
Speaker 1: We've gone over the standings. Let me go back over
Speaker 1: them really quickly before Dylan Butler joins us and we
Speaker 1: break everything down with.
Speaker 2: MLS. The Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: The chaos is flipped this year, and we'll get into
Speaker 1: this with Dylan, but specifically the idea that traditionally the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference is the one that's more stable. They're the
Speaker 1: calmer of the two conferences. Not this year, where the
Speaker 1: stuff at the top and you pretty much know who's
Speaker 1: going to be in the Western Conference unless somebody really
Speaker 1: does collapse, it's the Western Conference. The Eastern Conference is
Speaker 1: the one with all the castle folks trying to get
Speaker 1: into the party. That literally it's like you see the
Speaker 1: bouncer at the door with the velvet rope and everything,
Speaker 1: and maybe it's more really Kevin Bacon on the sidewalk
Speaker 1: after the favor parade, you know, stay calm all as well,
Speaker 1: and everybody's stampeding and Kevin Bacon ends up being embedded
Speaker 1: into the cement.
Speaker 2: Inner.
Speaker 1: Miami's in. You know who's in at least as far
Speaker 1: as six in the Eastern Conference. Messi and Friends are
Speaker 1: in there, eight points ahead of Crew. Crew have a
Speaker 1: match in hand, they could probably close it to five
Speaker 1: and that might be the distance. But thinking of what
Speaker 1: Crew has gone through this year, multiple competitions, et cetera,
Speaker 1: and to be only five points behind Messi and Friends,
Speaker 1: that's a hell of a run for Wilford Nazi. Cincinnati's
Speaker 1: at fifty six points. They played thirty one matches, they
Speaker 1: got three to go. Remember the number we're looking at,
Speaker 1: thirty four. Purple Team is in thirty one points and
Speaker 1: this is group number two. Purple Teams at forty six.
Speaker 1: NYC at forty four, and they have two more wins
Speaker 1: than Red Bulls. Red Bulls have ten wins in my
Speaker 1: C has twelve. Charlotte has been hanging on and they
Speaker 1: built up a lot of point equity at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season, so they've been able to hang on
Speaker 1: since they won like maybe twice at July forty two
Speaker 1: points there and then we have the peloton. We have
Speaker 1: the peloton starting at eight, and true to form, here's Jarrett.
Speaker 2: Jarrett.
Speaker 1: We're in a power hour until the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: Dylan Butler set to join us coming up here in
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. But I'm going over the chaos
Speaker 1: in the East where it seems like everything is flipped.
Speaker 1: Where it used to be the East was the calmer
Speaker 1: of the two. It's like, yeah, we kind of know
Speaker 1: what we're doing. It's just positioning, that's the element here.
Speaker 1: But it's been flipped this season where the West is
Speaker 1: the one that has the calm and you kind of
Speaker 1: know who's in unless something really happens and the bottom
Speaker 1: falls out on somebody. The East is the one with
Speaker 1: the chaos this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just goes. Sometimes sometimes you just need to like
Speaker 3: sometimes you need to stick put a stick in a
Speaker 3: cage and rattle it around of it. Somebody did that
Speaker 3: means this year where we're at, man, it's you've got
Speaker 3: a lot of teams that are eligible for it, and
Speaker 3: no matter who makes it or doesn't make it, every
Speaker 3: team that doesn't make it is gonna have a very
Speaker 3: specific set of games that they're going to look back
Speaker 3: on and it's gonna be very like, very evident where
Speaker 3: the ball was dropped, so to speak. And yeah, everybody's
Speaker 3: gonna have one that they're gonna feel like got away.
Speaker 3: We know about Atlanta's we've gone over them at nauseum. Yes,
Speaker 3: but Philadelphia is gonna be one of those teams that
Speaker 3: Philadelphia's on the knife's edge with everybody else. They needed
Speaker 3: a win versus Atlanta, probably as much as anyone needed
Speaker 3: that win, because go, look at Philadelphia's running the rest
Speaker 3: of the way, right, it's not nice, No, Like, it's brutal,
Speaker 3: more brutal than Atlanta's, more brutal than a couple other
Speaker 3: teams that are gonna be there like that. Philly needed
Speaker 3: those three points. The fact they couldn't find a second
Speaker 3: goal is possibly getta weigh really heavy on what Philadelphia
Speaker 3: has going the rest of the way. But all of
Speaker 3: them were gonna have games that they look back on
Speaker 3: and go, wow, imagine if we just had not spit
Speaker 3: the bit here here or here.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Dylan, the fifths and butts were candy and nuts,
Speaker 1: we'd all have a merry Christmas. We're talking the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference and the chaos that is the East. Considering the
Speaker 1: cast traditionally is the West, the Eastern Conference is the
Speaker 1: one that's bananas.
Speaker 2: This year.
Speaker 4: It is Yeah, and and uh, I don't know, I
Speaker 4: think I feel like we uh we we we knew.
Speaker 4: I don't have a new can you ever be defendive?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: But we we had an idea that, like the best
Speaker 4: teams in MLS where these right this year? But yeah,
Speaker 4: the West is making it say as well, and I
Speaker 4: think it's going to be a wild postseason. But first,
Speaker 4: it's obviously the run right to the playoffs and positioning,
Speaker 4: and it's in a league that loves parody. Parody down
Speaker 4: the stretch of a regular season equals chaos. Uh huh,
Speaker 4: team chaos, and I'm all, I'm all about team chaos.
Speaker 1: You are not the only one when it comes to
Speaker 1: the matchups tonight. Yeah, I guess, first and foremost, are
Speaker 1: you on the desk for any of these?
Speaker 2: What are you being subjected to?
Speaker 4: I am on the desk well beyond from what are
Speaker 4: we starting at seven point thirty until probably two?
Speaker 3: Oh no?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Are you allowed to nap at the Dylan Butler states
Speaker 1: be so.
Speaker 4: At Dylan Butler estates, The Boss and the Princess are
Speaker 4: currently uh in Montauk right now, camping with my father
Speaker 4: in law, So I have the estates to myself, So
Speaker 4: you know, could I go that route? Possibly? But I
Speaker 4: do also, uh, I look out on my lawn and
Speaker 4: it does need some mowing, so.
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know if a nap isn't is in order,
Speaker 4: but you know I might be able to do both.
Speaker 4: I work today, my shift today, my desk, my my
Speaker 4: first of two MLS shifts today ends at too, So
Speaker 4: I think I can if I can get going right away,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe be done by four, to be nap
Speaker 4: at five, get up at seven and start my Mary
Speaker 4: match day thirty six.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, so let's roll through the schedule and
Speaker 1: look at the juice boxes and see and basically what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're gonna play Cliffhanger today. We're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna do the old prices right game where we're
Speaker 1: gonna roll through the games and if there is a
Speaker 1: game that you wish to discuss, just go ahead and
Speaker 1: yell stop and we'll talk about so.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I was today years old when
Speaker 1: Odd's portal and it's like, hey, Atlanta United's first when
Speaker 1: it comes to home games. Uh, they're the first, They're
Speaker 1: the first home. They're the first home team that's listed.
Speaker 1: That's great for seven thirty kicks. Then I realized it's
Speaker 1: in alphabetical order, numb nuts.
Speaker 4: I figured it was just because Atlanta fans figured that
Speaker 4: they were you know, Lanta United was the most important team,
Speaker 4: so of course they would be listed for It was
Speaker 4: like listed in order of importance.
Speaker 2: Of course, course it is.
Speaker 3: Remember we had to reinvent soccer after Seattle and Vincent.
Speaker 1: That's right, yes, Atlanta and iited a minus one sixty
Speaker 1: nine draws a plus three sixty one a CF Montreal
Speaker 1: never to be impact ever again until Joycepputo sells and
Speaker 1: the fans have an uproar a plus three eighty six.
Speaker 2: Jared, I'm just gonna go ahead and y'll stop. What
Speaker 2: do you think?
Speaker 3: Obviously you need to win out from here on out.
Speaker 3: You need to. You need to hope that like Philadelphia
Speaker 3: just gets their ass beat in that goblet they have
Speaker 3: to go through, and a couple of other teams drop points,
Speaker 3: a classic kind of six point game. My fear with
Speaker 3: them right now, and I will continue to have this
Speaker 3: sphere until there's a seat change. Is they come inexplicably
Speaker 3: flat like the Nashville game.
Speaker 4: That is, you have a different fear today. Your fear
Speaker 4: today is Joseph coming in and getting a break.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joseph ending your season with the Coudi graw is
Speaker 3: right up there. That is like one A and one b.
Speaker 2: Mm mm mm mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Traditionally this season, CF Montreal's road form ain't that great.
Speaker 1: They literally have been two separate clubs. And Jared has
Speaker 1: been to Stad Suputo, so he knows how tough.
Speaker 2: Of a love.
Speaker 3: He's my favorite away fans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so he knows the chaos that can be
Speaker 1: associated with anybody going to stodd Saputo. That is not
Speaker 1: the case here. CF Montreal has to go through customs.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a customs agent or eight at Hartsfield Jackson International, Galactic,
Speaker 1: you know, Starport. That will kind of slow things down
Speaker 1: a little bit. But CF Montreal ahead of it Land
Speaker 1: in the standings by three Atlanta. If they win tonight,
Speaker 1: they now get the tie and wins and then they
Speaker 1: would have the type breaker because of gold difference two
Speaker 1: eight and five away from home this season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but Atlanta only has three more.
Speaker 1: Home wins, that is true, five six and four at home.
Speaker 1: So that's what we're staring at with this particular game.
Speaker 1: So basically, the two of you are saying, toss up
Speaker 1: until further notice.
Speaker 2: Is this is what I'm is this what I'm saying chaos?
Speaker 3: Okay, So again Atlanta is two different teams at home.
Speaker 3: They're the team at against Nashville that were just bad
Speaker 3: and then the team that when Columbus or Miami game
Speaker 3: here they went balls of the wall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, playing up or down to the level of competition.
Speaker 1: And so right now, see if Montreal's above them in
Speaker 1: the standings. So, as an Atlanta United fan, you were
Speaker 1: hoping that they play up to them, all right, how
Speaker 1: Cliffhanger continues. Charlotte at home in a minus one fifty
Speaker 1: four hosting Chicago Fire Fire a plus three eighty two.
Speaker 2: They're eliminated. They don't care.
Speaker 1: NYC is at where are they tonight, Dylan?
Speaker 4: Which version you are at the place they dominated on Saturday,
Speaker 4: which is Redwell Arena.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this ISDB, they're hosting FC Cincinnati in New
Speaker 1: Jersey as NYCFC to minus one twenty three draws the
Speaker 1: plus three twelve FC Cincinnati, who is chasing Columbus right now,
Speaker 1: third behind them by a point, is a plus two ninety.
Speaker 4: It's amazing, though, because it doesn't it doesn't feel I mean,
Speaker 4: they are yes, they are in the standings chasing Columbus,
Speaker 4: But doesn't it really just feel like it's it's now
Speaker 4: like it's not even a three horse race anymore with
Speaker 4: all these with all the injuries, all injuries to center
Speaker 4: back position for Cincinnati, Like they don't they don't feel
Speaker 4: like they're that Like they feel like a distant third
Speaker 4: at this point. You know, like you'd almost you'd almost
Speaker 4: give more credence to Orlando, and we'll talk about them
Speaker 4: in probably thirty five seconds, but like they there's ten
Speaker 4: points difference between Cincinnati and Orlando, but right now you
Speaker 4: would give Orlando probably a better chance of making a
Speaker 4: deeper run than Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Truth Purple Team, Jared is a minus one thirty two
Speaker 1: at home hosting said Philadelphia Union. Philadelphia is a plus
Speaker 1: two ninety eight in a composite to win the draws
Speaker 1: of plus three twenty eight. So I have more concerns
Speaker 1: obviously with Cincinnati, considering that what they don't have at
Speaker 1: the back. Purple Team is actually the team that we
Speaker 1: traditionally think of with Oscar Pere has the slow fade
Speaker 1: that's not happening this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he seems to figure out the formula which is interesting.
Speaker 3: It's interesting though, because like they had so many guys
Speaker 3: on loan last year that I wasn't sure they would
Speaker 3: be able to recreate what they did through chunks of
Speaker 3: last year, and I think they didn't. More not as
Speaker 3: like explosive, but more consistent this year. And they just
Speaker 3: kind of, I don't know, it kind of feels like
Speaker 3: Orlando's just kind of floating on along here, but not
Speaker 3: in a bad way. Like they're just kind of sitting
Speaker 3: right outside that category. And they seem fine with it.
Speaker 3: They're gonna go out there if there's anything ye.
Speaker 4: Sorry, Jad say.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
Speaker 4: They they they've been on a run, but against the
Speaker 4: teams that are not making a run, right like they
Speaker 4: they've been beating bad teams to this to this point
Speaker 4: right there stretch Drive. Now you know they've got to
Speaker 4: beat a couple of good teams and and and I
Speaker 4: think tonight, granted they're they're going to be at home,
Speaker 4: you know, they're they're facing a desperate Philly team, but
Speaker 4: I but they're still Philly. Like I this is a
Speaker 4: really interesting one to me, I think because we get
Speaker 4: to kind of, you know, Philly is looking more Philly.
Speaker 4: You know, are are you buying stock in Orlando, I'm
Speaker 4: not sure even even even though they're making this run,
Speaker 4: you know, it's been largely other than the Charlotte win,
Speaker 4: it's been largely against teams that aren't gonna make the playoffs.
Speaker 4: So let's see what Orlando has tonight against a Philly
Speaker 4: team that you know, like I said that they're looking
Speaker 4: more like themselves, and then they go to Cincinnati and
Speaker 4: then you know, of course, the end the season against Atlanta.
Speaker 3: And even Charlotte is kind of I've been giving Charlotte
Speaker 3: a side after the last month because they've been dropping
Speaker 3: points at places that good teams don't drop points.
Speaker 1: And you end up dropping points in places and I
Speaker 1: think that that's what eventually comes back up and bites them.
Speaker 1: And then you know what going forward when it comes
Speaker 1: to this, Charlotte make the playoffs.
Speaker 3: No, they're just gonna have an annoying ass first round game.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And that annoying ass first round game is
Speaker 1: what's I think gonna cost Charlotte.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: In addition to the combination of question marks upfront and
Speaker 1: in the back line outside of Christian Collina, who has
Speaker 1: to stand on his head every single time and turn
Speaker 1: into the second second coming of Manuel Noyer on a
Speaker 1: weekly basis in his prime man, Uh Toronto FC at
Speaker 1: home plus one forty three slide home favored against Red
Speaker 1: Bulls who are a plus one eighty three. We'll see
Speaker 1: if Oliver Min's laugh will be pleased with their efforts
Speaker 1: on the road tonight.
Speaker 4: Then seven five, which hold, hold on a second, how
Speaker 4: how bad are the Red Bulls right now? Like Toronto's
Speaker 4: not looking good either? So this is this one is
Speaker 4: an interesting one too, just to sort of you know,
Speaker 4: is anyone gonna step up here and take take three points?
Speaker 4: Is this gonna be a a one one or something?
Speaker 4: And and nobody's happy? I mean, uh, you know, you
Speaker 4: you it's it's it's sports cliche. But obviously, look, you
Speaker 4: want to be playing your best going into the playoffs
Speaker 4: and they're in the playoffs again. But if I'm a
Speaker 4: Red Bulls fan, I don't how do you celebrate a
Speaker 4: playoff streak that doesn't included one doesn't include a championship.
Speaker 4: Two in recent history barely includes any wins in the postseason.
Speaker 4: So they they you know, what was the sign that
Speaker 4: was in Red bull Arena? Not good enough?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: One like this, Uh this. This is not good.
Speaker 1: No, it is not And so I think you have
Speaker 1: the hall of not good going on the road to
Speaker 1: a team that you don't know which team you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: But it's it's it's like the Scooby Doo chase sequence.
Speaker 1: You don't know what door you're going in, and you
Speaker 1: don't know who's chasing you, and you don't know what
Speaker 1: it's going to look like until you smash into each
Speaker 1: other in the middle of the hallway.
Speaker 4: So these two will certainly smashage smash into each other
Speaker 4: in the middle of the hallway.
Speaker 1: Yes, seven, which means seven to fifty five, which means
Speaker 1: that you get the Super Hypermaica pregame show on over
Speaker 1: the air television. It is Crue and Messi and Friends
Speaker 1: Jarrett Cruise minus one fourteen at.
Speaker 2: The Death Star. That's their nickname. They gave it to us.
Speaker 1: I did draws a plus three twelve and Messi and
Speaker 1: Friends are a plus two point fifty nine.
Speaker 2: What say you, Jared Smith?
Speaker 3: I mean I call it that too, other than what
Speaker 3: lower dot com field.
Speaker 1: Low, Hey, they paying us so for me? It's yeah, that's.
Speaker 3: It's like, uh, it's but it's kind of like that
Speaker 3: that that's one of those who are like, it just
Speaker 3: doesn't roll off the tongue, kind of like guaranteed rate
Speaker 3: field and baseball like.
Speaker 1: All the hell, that's the that's the new comiskey, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh okay, mm hmmm, baby.
Speaker 3: Over to the worst team in baseball history under twenty
Speaker 3: one losses.
Speaker 1: Well, and if it hadn't been for the Los Angeless
Speaker 1: of Anaheim and from Orange County south on the five
Speaker 1: Freeway that are uh you know, letting folks go at
Speaker 1: discounted rates, then it would have been one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty one or more a lot sooner it hadn't been
Speaker 1: for the three games sweep.
Speaker 2: But that's neither here another.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's just the Angels as far as this
Speaker 3: goes in, Like Columbus is just Columbus just kind of
Speaker 3: motors on along until until proven otherwise. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: I kept waiting for go ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I think this is this is Columbus's chance
Speaker 4: here tonight to make a major statement, like one, screw
Speaker 4: you guys, you're not winning the shield in.
Speaker 2: Our house, ring as head.
Speaker 4: And you know they might not be winning the shield,
Speaker 4: you know, because of their recent results either Columbus, but
Speaker 4: you know they're gonna let my or they should be
Speaker 4: letting Miami. Know, you know this is not going to
Speaker 4: be a cakewalk. You know we're gonna see each other
Speaker 4: in a much more important game, and uh, you know,
Speaker 4: here here, here's what, here's what's coming. So I think,
Speaker 4: you know, I would expect some animosity tonight as well
Speaker 4: between these two. What a terrific what was a round
Speaker 4: of sixteen in a League's Cup match that these two
Speaker 4: had at said field? But yeah, listen, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I feel like this is like I feel like this
Speaker 4: could be like a three to one win for Columbus.
Speaker 1: So you think when this one could go eight nuts, sideways,
Speaker 1: take the over kind of a thing. Yeah, I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to it. This one will be fun. While we're
Speaker 1: at Mercedes, Benz keeping an eye on must win at
Speaker 1: Landy United and c F Montreal eight thirties Dynamo to
Speaker 1: minus one ninety six hosting the Revs at a plus
Speaker 1: four sixty eight. Also at eight thirty Nashville hosting DC United.
Speaker 1: Nashville's actually favored a g otis at a plus one
Speaker 1: twenty five draws a plus two fifty four DC is
Speaker 1: a plus twoh six, And this one kind of seems
Speaker 1: like it might be an elimination game for the loser
Speaker 1: if it ends up being a loser, because because DC
Speaker 1: thirty four points three points out of a playoff spot,
Speaker 1: Nashville thirty three points three matches to go four points
Speaker 1: out of a playoff spot. So it's a battle of
Speaker 1: twelve versus thirteen, and it might be a loser leave
Speaker 1: town match by the time we're done talking about that one.
Speaker 1: At geotis at eight thirty nine thirties. The Prairie Dogs
Speaker 1: in Colorado hosting LAG. Colorado's a plus one seventeen. LAG
Speaker 1: is a plus one eighty one. That's an interesting number.
Speaker 1: Draws a plus three twenty one. Also RSL hosting the Loons.
Speaker 1: RSL's a minus one fifteen. Loons are a plus two
Speaker 1: to fifty nine. I don't think that that number is
Speaker 1: low enough, and your draw is.
Speaker 3: Important too, I think rzel.
Speaker 4: God, it was only two weeks, three weeks. I feel
Speaker 4: like ago, maybe maybe more, maybe a month. All these
Speaker 4: match days sty'll blend in together, but I feel like
Speaker 4: it wasn't too long ago that we were saying RSL
Speaker 4: were one of what five shield Intenders.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh, and then now chi Cho's got like a goal
Speaker 4: in his last maybe six games. You know, he's not
Speaker 4: scoring goals. And and and the Loons they are, right,
Speaker 4: Kelvin Yeboa is scoring goals from Minnesota. They're they're looking
Speaker 4: to make a push. So I think this is an
Speaker 4: important one for RSL just to just to kind of
Speaker 4: halt this negative momentum that they have going on.
Speaker 1: Halt who goes there? Jared, what do you think about RSL?
Speaker 1: I mean, when you don't have folks who who were
Speaker 1: efforting the ball to Chichio Orongo and you're missing the playmakers,
Speaker 1: you end up with what you have at RSL. What
Speaker 1: about those nine thirties or the eight thirty nine thirties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, time is relative.
Speaker 2: It is just early in the morning, You're damn right.
Speaker 3: It is besides ES Central times on the Scouts time zone.
Speaker 3: Just a'll find out this week with when when Auburn
Speaker 3: gets to play it with Auburn. Oh, they've got a
Speaker 3: really pissed off u GA team. Cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you in Athens.
Speaker 3: Can't wait to see who can blame this one on you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's gonna he's gonna throw folks under the
Speaker 1: bus on that one he find.
Speaker 3: The way they're cooper tailed under the bus from twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: Wave that flag.
Speaker 3: But I'm I am consistently so impressed, even when even
Speaker 3: though they've they've had those bumps in the Roads of Colorado,
Speaker 3: though man like Armist goes in there actually gets some
Speaker 3: support from stan Krocky financially and find some stability there.
Speaker 3: RSL still feels like that kind of team that they're
Speaker 3: not perfect, they've got flaws, but if they can catch
Speaker 3: like a good week of form, they're gonna ruin somebody's
Speaker 3: playoff and they're gonna screw up people's brackets just because
Speaker 3: they do it, even though the consistency is always there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but they can just like rattle off, Oh yeah, what happened.
Speaker 3: RSL scored like fifteen goals in three games, and then
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, we're looking around at RSLs in
Speaker 3: like the Western Conference semi final. No, they might run
Speaker 3: out of gas, but they could just as easily score,
Speaker 3: you know, two goals in three games and be done.
Speaker 1: I love those nine thirties. We got four at ten thirty,
Speaker 1: which means yeah, Dylan, oh God, I do not end
Speaker 1: to you my friend LAFC hosting all Caps lafcs and
Speaker 1: minus two thirty eight, your draws a plus four twenty
Speaker 1: six and.
Speaker 4: The LFC has found there for him again.
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, Well, I mean when you don't have and
Speaker 1: this is the other point about alternate competitions and multiple
Speaker 1: timelines with crew, crew you end up with they were
Speaker 1: kind of distracted, they were working on other things, they
Speaker 1: were trying to win things him as so I can
Speaker 1: understand why there are a couple of points back in
Speaker 1: trying to chase after things with Messian Friends in the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference. So the fact that they finished second probably
Speaker 1: by the time that we're done with the regular season
Speaker 1: not a surprise. And then they get to focus on
Speaker 1: everything going on in the playoffs, that all the stuff
Speaker 1: is behind them. The League's Cup is behind them, the
Speaker 1: CONCACAF Hemispheric Extravaganza.
Speaker 2: Is behind them. You can focus on what's going on
Speaker 2: in front of you.
Speaker 1: That's why I think Columbus is one and Messian Friends
Speaker 1: are two.
Speaker 2: Same with LAFC.
Speaker 1: Don't have to worry about League's Cup anymore, don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about any other competitions.
Speaker 2: You can focus on what's on in.
Speaker 1: Front of you and city is north of five fifteen tonight,
Speaker 1: and it might be a long night for them. Portland
Speaker 1: and Los Verdes, Portland and Austin. Portland a big favorite,
Speaker 1: no Real Shock at of minus one eighty two. Austin
Speaker 1: is a plus four to zero eight, and the composite
Speaker 1: draws a plus three seventy. Jarrett, your quakes host f
Speaker 1: C Dallas, you're a plus one forty two.
Speaker 3: Quakes are dead, brother, I'm aware.
Speaker 1: Of this, but you're a favorite tonight at paper Park,
Speaker 1: where folks have another opportunity to boot John Fisher if
Speaker 1: they see fit.
Speaker 3: Fisher. I don't know why we're all moved the Ain
Speaker 3: movie movie as in the PayPal Park.
Speaker 1: Let's get weird, yeh It would be a short porch
Speaker 1: to right. It would help out the left handed batters.
Speaker 1: I'll give you that much.
Speaker 3: Hey. You know what, though, he should do it for
Speaker 3: that reason alone, because it'll be entertainment value when someone
Speaker 3: starts popping off six runs game.
Speaker 4: Could you get Aaron Judge like hit went onto the
Speaker 4: tarmac over there, then.
Speaker 3: Probably that'd be Great's signing Joey Gallo with the fure
Speaker 3: hope that Joey like, hey man, that ports is like
Speaker 3: two hundred feet. Just keep hitting pop ups somehow. Joey
Speaker 3: Gallow hits seventy five runs a year.
Speaker 1: For for Sacramento baseball team. I don't even think they're
Speaker 1: going to be the A's. I think they're just gonna
Speaker 1: be SBT. I think they're going to be Sacramento Baseball Team.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna have a nickname next year.
Speaker 4: Even they should be a baseball club. No, Like, if
Speaker 4: we're gonna keep it.
Speaker 1: The there you go, yes, Sacramento Baseball Club or the Sacramento.
Speaker 2: Cells real real, oh real, Sacramento BC.
Speaker 1: That'd be fantastic. Raal Sacramento BC. Make it how we
Speaker 1: gotta we gotta do shirts hear it? Raal Sacramento BC.
Speaker 1: That'd be fantastic. As a way to discover the Begreen.
Speaker 3: They're probably gonna go for a different reason. Yes, San
Speaker 3: Jose is an in the season territory, like this is
Speaker 3: just get us done. It's another it's another wooden spoon,
Speaker 3: it's you fired the manager. God only knows like what
Speaker 3: it takes to actually get that team turned around. Kind
Speaker 3: of in that situation. I think that Chicago was in
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago where it's like everything is
Speaker 3: just that we need to pull it out. Was this
Speaker 3: is that.
Speaker 2: Frank Klopus two point zero?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to pull the damn roots out on
Speaker 3: this thing, man, like you gotta like, we gotta dig
Speaker 3: up the soil, We gotta we gotta put down new fertilizer.
Speaker 3: We got a idea.
Speaker 4: Got a lot of weeding to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, you are not wrong. You got a lot
Speaker 3: of weeding to do here, because I don't even know
Speaker 3: where you begin with that one. I know there were
Speaker 3: the rumors about I think Matt Doyle had it about
Speaker 3: uh greg at Chicago, which at least would provide some stability. Chicago,
Speaker 3: like San Jose doesn't even have that right now, they
Speaker 3: didn't have like rumors of stability. They Man, the closest
Speaker 3: they're gonna get is like John Fischer's gonna see the
Speaker 3: like former national team manager, and he's gonna whistle for
Speaker 3: like urg and Clintsman to come in and ask them
Speaker 3: like Clintman to come in.
Speaker 4: Rumors of Stability was my favorite Fleetwood Mac album.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, absolutely, because because all all that happened in
Speaker 1: the album was that Stevie Nicks yelled at Lindsay Buckingham
Speaker 1: for a full forty eight.
Speaker 2: Minute Yeah, yes, yeah, and uh.
Speaker 1: So that that was rumor that that was a hell
Speaker 1: of an album. And I say that because I played
Speaker 1: albums and I got a turntable up on the mid level,
Speaker 1: so I know of which you speak. Last game is
Speaker 1: Cascadia bound. Yeah, it is Vancouver and Seattle. Vancouver at
Speaker 1: BC Place. I don't know if they're going to open
Speaker 1: the upper deck or not. Plus one thirty four draws
Speaker 1: a plus two fifty Seattle's a plus one ninety three.
Speaker 1: Vanny Startini must be protected at all costs. The man
Speaker 1: wore a Terry Fox T shirt to a press conference
Speaker 1: and gets Terry Fox. That's your Google search for today, kids.
Speaker 1: But Vanny Sartini must be protected. Dylan Butler, what's say you?
Speaker 1: Last game on the board.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so Vancouver could could get some or put themselves
Speaker 4: into some good position for silverware. Here it's the run
Speaker 4: for Cascadia Cup.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 4: I believe leading right now in those standings, but this
Speaker 4: is their last Cascadia Cup match. The final Cascadia match
Speaker 4: could be a lot of fun and have major playoff
Speaker 4: positioning implications when when Portland and Seattle do their thing,
Speaker 4: on decision days, So big one for for both of
Speaker 4: these teams. The negative though, right now, for for the
Speaker 4: white Caps Stuart Armstrong out calf injury, Ryan Goald questionable
Speaker 4: knee injuries. So yeah, so so that's a that's a concern,
Speaker 4: don't know how serious for Stuart Armstrong. But but look,
Speaker 4: obviously you know clearly these are these are major characters
Speaker 4: in this in this show you got going on out
Speaker 4: of Vancouver, So, uh, that is a concern. But yeah,
Speaker 4: Cascadia at the end of a long match day, it's
Speaker 4: always fun.
Speaker 2: Jared, last match on the board.
Speaker 3: What do you think I will always stump for Vancouver.
Speaker 3: That's kind of where I'm at yea. And Vancouver also
Speaker 3: turning into like the island of misfits Scottish national team
Speaker 3: cast offs is one of my favorite plots in all.
Speaker 1: Of this as it should be completely and totally all right. So, Dylan,
Speaker 1: by the time this match is over, this match card
Speaker 1: is over at the end of the night, what do
Speaker 1: you anticipate seeing by the time you go to bed.
Speaker 4: Stars like just double you're over it at that point. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 4: we're not seeing a supporter shield winner, Okay, Uh, I
Speaker 4: think we will see some there will be movement in
Speaker 4: the table. I don't know how significant. Let me see
Speaker 4: again real quick. I don't in the West, I don't
Speaker 4: think we're seeing anybody get over the I think you're
Speaker 4: I think you're in. I think you're nine in the
Speaker 4: West right now, are set. It's just now a matter
Speaker 4: of positioning. So uh, I don't I don't know if
Speaker 4: Montreal can. I I'll say we won't see anybody new
Speaker 4: above the line.
Speaker 1: Okay as well, and.
Speaker 4: We will see about a Danny Bowonga hat trick.
Speaker 2: Oh okay.
Speaker 1: So that means that I gotta have him as my
Speaker 1: captain on my fantasy teams. By the way, Jared, by
Speaker 1: the end of the night, we will have seen blank
Speaker 1: in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 3: We will have seen at least one team in the
Speaker 3: East throw away their playoff lives. And when I say
Speaker 3: throw it away, I mean like in a winning position
Speaker 3: with twenty minutes to go and show can chicken bo damn?
Speaker 4: Well, is that happening anywhere near you? Guys? That sounded
Speaker 4: very personal there, you know.
Speaker 3: What, though, it could be either one of those teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if you told me that.
Speaker 3: Montreal had a one mill lead in the seventieth minute
Speaker 3: and like, I don't know, like it's an ogle and
Speaker 3: Asian Gregerson deflected a header, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: Lena's alive in Montreal, staring in the mirror wondering what happened.
Speaker 3: I would leave it. If the inverse happened, I would
Speaker 3: believe it.
Speaker 2: And Joey Saputo goes storming down into the into into
Speaker 2: the locker room and yells at Laurence Courtois and we
Speaker 2: can hear it through the wall as Rob Valentino is
Speaker 2: giving his post match press conference.
Speaker 3: Also John Herdman might fight someone in.
Speaker 2: Toronto and welcome to a day that ends and why uh?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: So we back at it again nine oh five tomorrow
Speaker 1: and we will be discussing everything that happened today. Scott Wells,
Speaker 1: the head coach of Gardner Webb, is going to be
Speaker 1: joining us in our number one. He had a big
Speaker 1: win last night. We'll discuss that. We'll discuss what's going
Speaker 1: on in Western North Carolina. And we have the phone
Speaker 1: lines and the pipelines wide open to everybody in Western
Speaker 1: North Carolina on all levels of soccer if they want
Speaker 1: to come and crash and let us know what's going
Speaker 1: on and update us on everything going on up there.
Speaker 1: They have an open line to do so, and we'll
Speaker 1: continue to do it, and we'll keep talking about that.
Speaker 1: We'll probably go in after the first of the week
Speaker 1: to what's going on here in the state of Georgia,
Speaker 1: look at it through soccer's in session and the high
Speaker 1: school lines. And I want to thank Dylan for jumping
Speaker 1: in early. I want to thank Jarrett for jumping in early. Guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for getting the power hour to it's and where
Speaker 1: we can all get on with our days and sprint
Speaker 1: into our various lives.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, gentlemen. We'll catch up with you soon.
Speaker 1: I guess all right, that's Dylan and that's Jared and
Speaker 1: so Jared and I will be at Mercedes Benz with Maddie.
Speaker 1: We'll let you know whether everything is going on there.
Speaker 1: And it will be six thirty pre game on ninety
Speaker 1: two nine, the Game of the Odyssey app Jared last
Speaker 1: thoughts before we get out of here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Saan, this game could be really weird.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: I know that kind of goes about saying with this
Speaker 3: team because they've been schizoprenic, but look, they've had to
Speaker 3: they've been put they've put themselves in a position where
Speaker 3: they're gonna have to be ballsy every every game, and
Speaker 3: another performance like the Nashville one will not go overwhelm
Speaker 3: with anybody in that locker room, with anyone on the
Speaker 3: coaching stuff, anyone in the fandom. I know there's a
Speaker 3: lot of talk all the time about, uh, you know
Speaker 3: the fans need to show up. Well, the fans have
Speaker 3: done their part, and it's back and forth with this. Yeah,
Speaker 3: everyone's gonna show up, but which team shows up?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I will I will reiterate, man like I wouldn't
Speaker 3: be as frustrated if we didn't know that they can
Speaker 3: be better than what they've shown.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: If if their ceiling was what it is and that's
Speaker 3: just what they were, that would be one thing. But
Speaker 3: they've shown you what they can be when it links
Speaker 3: up and it clicks and they push and the inconsistency
Speaker 3: and intensity is what makes it frustrating because we know
Speaker 3: they could be better. What can they be? Tonight?
Speaker 1: We'll keep an eye on it. We'll be back at
Speaker 1: it again tomorrow morning, and let you know. Power hour
Speaker 1: to finish things up with Nina and Nico at ten o'clock,
Speaker 1: nine o'clock Scott Wells and every reaction Thursday for Jarrett,
Speaker 1: for Dylan, I'm John, We're out.
Speaker 2: We'll see you later.
Speaker 1: I think maybe perhaps you know I'm trying to play
Speaker 1: something and it doesn't play.
Speaker 2: You know, I set something up as a bumper.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and I know it's like you set something
Speaker 1: up and it's like, well, what am I supposed to
Speaker 1: do to click on it?
Speaker 2: And you click on it and then nothing happens.
Speaker 1: It's like, come on, no, I was gonna be all
Speaker 1: fancy and everything, and you know, play the intro clips.
Speaker 2: Fine, here's your outro clip, as Jared whistles us out.
Speaker 2: We're supposed to do. We're supposed to play the ultro
Speaker 2: and in the stream. I get it.
Speaker 1: So so that's when you's like a click in stream
Speaker 1: and it says play ultro and in stream. So that's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. We're out there. We'll see in
Speaker 1: a little lesson twenty two. See tonight at NB