Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 2: Come on man, good for it, dude.
Speaker 3: It's Fridayday, Matchday Friday here on s D H A M.
Speaker 3: John here, you there, thanks for dropping by, as you
Speaker 3: always do. It is your standard packed match week preview
Speaker 3: Friday kind of a thing. So obviously our number two
Speaker 3: we can whip around patent pending trademark coming sooner hopefully
Speaker 3: rather than later. We'll go through all the matches, get
Speaker 3: you ready, and obviously we'll get you ready for Atlanta
Speaker 3: United and Charlotte FC. That is the big one, and
Speaker 3: that is batting lead off tomorrow. And as always, as always,
Speaker 3: morning BAM or late evening bam. As always, once again,
Speaker 3: when you see a start time posted at MLS Soccer
Speaker 3: dot com, ad ten minutes because the network has to
Speaker 3: get through their pregame shows and things, the official term things.
Speaker 3: So right now you look on MLS Soccer dot com,
Speaker 3: it's a two fifteen start add ten minutes two twenty five.
Speaker 3: It's going to be on Apple, it's going to be
Speaker 3: on Apple TV Plus, it's going to be on Big Fox.
Speaker 4: It's going to be on Big Fox.
Speaker 3: Support this and so when you have something that goes
Speaker 3: across all of those different networks and all that different strata,
Speaker 3: add ten minutes because Big Fox wants to have their
Speaker 3: big super hypermega pregame show. So two twenty five big
Speaker 3: in extra ten minutes for those of you who are
Speaker 3: traveling up I eighty five, so you got it right
Speaker 3: this time up eighty five to go to Charlotte and
Speaker 3: catch at Land United and Charlotte FC, and I would
Speaker 3: anticipate that there are a lot of you that are
Speaker 3: going so as we get into everything today, we got
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff in our number one involving Premier
Speaker 3: League teams and the courts and finances and wishes and
Speaker 3: dreams about expanding site and TV contracts and all that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. Hopefully we can catch up with our
Speaker 3: friends at Beyond Goals mettering that would be at nine thirty,
Speaker 3: and then once again hour number two we can whip
Speaker 3: around when we go through all the matches and all
Speaker 3: of the things to get you ready for the weekend
Speaker 3: across the board, and a big one obviously with Atlanta
Speaker 3: United on the road taking on Charlotte, and anticipating as
Speaker 3: always a Jason dropping by at ten thirty to give
Speaker 3: his thoughts on not just us, not what he anticipates
Speaker 3: with Atlanta and Charlotte, but he got to go to
Speaker 3: the US Soccer All Hands on Deck meeting downtown, So
Speaker 3: I wanted to get his thoughts on that. Wanted to
Speaker 3: get his thoughts on what we saw where Major League
Speaker 3: Soccer has released all of the roster identifications, who's two
Speaker 3: and four, who's three and three, who's got one less dep,
Speaker 3: who's got one more U twenty two, who's a TAM,
Speaker 3: who's normal, who's got contract links? And all those kinds
Speaker 3: of things. I wanted to get his thoughts on that
Speaker 3: and see what is missing when it comes to Major
Speaker 3: League Soccer and information that would mean an informed, electric
Speaker 3: and fan base. So we'll get into that hopefully around
Speaker 3: ten thirty and Jason will join us then and we
Speaker 3: will plow through anything and everything going on involving Atlanta, United, Charlotte,
Speaker 3: Major League Soccer choice to all the above. So very
Speaker 3: very busy show across the board and there you go,
Speaker 3: all right, quick, morning Hi Alex, Morning Bam, And I
Speaker 3: mean well, and like I said, morning Bams. So for Bam,
Speaker 3: it's like middle of the night, middle of the blanking night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't Ricky.
Speaker 3: If I don't, Ricky's looking at the clock when for
Speaker 3: those of you that may watch on Twitch, there is
Speaker 3: a clock that continues that lets you know how long
Speaker 3: a program has been running. And if for some reason,
Speaker 3: I don't go away on my laptop over here, the
Speaker 3: clock continues and literally it's been like twenty three, twenty
Speaker 3: four hours, so on and so forth, those kinds of things.
Speaker 3: So that's I guess where the clock the clock stream
Speaker 3: identifier has this going for like ninety thousand minutes and
Speaker 3: four hundred and twenty eight days in a row.
Speaker 4: So so yeah, so.
Speaker 3: Bam is sixteen hours ahead of us in Australia, and
Speaker 3: so he's catching up with us that way. Where this
Speaker 3: close to the beginning of the AFL season in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five. So we got that abbey with the public
Speaker 3: service announcement for everybody going going to Charlotte tonight Noda
Speaker 3: Brewing makes it till like a minute work song from
Speaker 3: seven to ten. And I think that Jason and Maddie
Speaker 3: are going to be at Nodah and they're gonna be
Speaker 3: hanging out with all you folks from once again seven
Speaker 3: to ten tonight you're going to a nota brewing up
Speaker 3: in Charlotte. So big gathering for those that are going
Speaker 3: up the night before, hanging out in hotels and gonna
Speaker 3: go see everybody on the early afternoon, so not to
Speaker 3: brewing tonight seven to ten. I think, like I said,
Speaker 3: I think Jason and Maddy are going to be there
Speaker 3: for that, Traffic permitting obviously, but we'll see what's going
Speaker 3: on involving that. Now, a couple of other quick things
Speaker 3: before we get into all the promotional stuff once again,
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk about the Premier League. We're gonna talk
Speaker 3: about Fa Cup. We got juice boxes there, all the
Speaker 3: stuff from the morning. Last night, Vancouver took care of Saprisa,
Speaker 3: so we now know what the Conka CAF Round of
Speaker 3: sixteen is.
Speaker 4: It is complete.
Speaker 3: It is completely complete, and we have brackets and start
Speaker 3: days and things like that. We don't have juice boxes yet,
Speaker 3: but Brian White got a brace last night for those
Speaker 3: of you that stayed up and watched starting at ten o'clock,
Speaker 3: and so that means that Vancouver advances into the Round
Speaker 3: of sixteen from March four through thirteen. Preceded Columbus Crew
Speaker 3: looking at the bracket, so it's crew taking on LAFC
Speaker 3: that one's going to be spicy March fourth, that's when
Speaker 3: that one starts in the round of sixteen upper left.
Speaker 3: It is Cavalier and it is Messian friends. That one
Speaker 3: starts on March the sixth, and in that matchup traditionally,
Speaker 3: Cavalier plays in a building I think that has a
Speaker 3: five thousand seat attendance capacity. They've already sold out the
Speaker 3: National Stadium at thirty five thousand, So very very cool
Speaker 3: for that particular leg. Cavalier and Messi and friends, Columbus
Speaker 3: crew in lafcer left, they are in their own that
Speaker 3: that's that space upper left in your in your concor
Speaker 3: CAF bracket month today is going to take on Vancouver
Speaker 3: white Caps that starts on March the fifth. Once again,
Speaker 3: with Vancouver's win last night to nil, they advance Aliwa
Speaker 3: Lenzay Goes preceeded and I mean pr E dash s
Speaker 3: e E d e D, not p r e c
Speaker 3: E d e D. But they have they were pre seeded,
Speaker 3: meaning they had a seating number before you know, a
Speaker 3: lot of other folks they were they were in the
Speaker 3: barn before other folks. So Alowa, Lensey and Pumas that
Speaker 3: is low left as well. So Montday Vancouver, Alowa, Lenzay,
Speaker 3: Pumas low left starting May March fifth, Montday and Vancouver
Speaker 3: March fourth. Alowa, Lensay and Pumas. That's the left hand
Speaker 3: side of the bracket here in the round of sixteen
Speaker 3: for the concor CAF Hemispheric Extravaganza upper right, Clubamerica and Chievas,
Speaker 3: that one starts on March the fifth, and then you
Speaker 3: also have Krusas Soool and Seattle Sounders. So Seattle Advances
Speaker 3: they get past Antigua and they get CRUs Assoul and
Speaker 3: a friend of those of us in the Southeastern United States.
Speaker 3: So that will be an interesting one with a lot
Speaker 3: of subplot attached, at least for Major League Soccer so
Speaker 3: Club America, Chievas, cruis Asoul, Seattle Sounders, both of those
Speaker 3: start on March five. That's in the upper right bracket.
Speaker 3: Then low right it is Tigris FC Cincinnati that starts
Speaker 3: on March the fourth, and that's interesting. You wonder if
Speaker 3: the firepower will be there for the both for both legs.
Speaker 3: Traditionally in some rounds they will make sure that geniac
Speaker 3: does not make it to an away leg and is
Speaker 3: ready and safe and healthy and sound for the home
Speaker 3: leg Tigress and FC Cincinnati that starts March the fourth.
Speaker 3: Lag and Herediano. We mentioned yesterday Herediano's late night and
Speaker 3: win against RSL. That might have some knock on effects
Speaker 3: in our number two with the weekend whip around when
Speaker 3: we talk about RSL and what they're going to be
Speaker 3: having to face on the weekend. So Herediano and lag
Speaker 3: and that one is March fifth, Tigris and FC Cincinnati
Speaker 3: that is March the fourth. So that is the Round
Speaker 3: of sixteen in the Conca cab Hemispheric Extravaganza.
Speaker 4: And that's what it looks like.
Speaker 3: So it's going to be fun starting on once again
Speaker 3: March four and five, and it's going to go for
Speaker 3: nine blanc in days, nine blanc in days in the
Speaker 3: round of sixteen.
Speaker 4: So there you go.
Speaker 3: So once again, early morning to Bam and Alex and
Speaker 3: Ricky and Abby and David. Good morning as well, and
Speaker 3: big promo. Thank you very much. Yes, David s the
Speaker 3: lovely host. Hey, look, I don't know if you've been
Speaker 3: talking to the boss, but she would agree with you
Speaker 3: on your assessment. So there you go once again, morning,
Speaker 3: Abby and Ricky. You guys are talking the Hawks. I'm
Speaker 3: like Okay, that's that's what the twitch pitch is for.
Speaker 3: I am an uninformed NBA watcher, So look y'all rock
Speaker 3: and rolling on that. I will keep an eye and
Speaker 3: I will watch from afar. Okay, all right, Wow, BAM
Speaker 3: is actually coming to the States.
Speaker 4: Check this out.
Speaker 3: March twenty second, landing in LA for three weeks LA
Speaker 3: Phoenix in Vegas. So if anyone is in the Western Frontier,
Speaker 3: and I mean on the other side of the Mississippi
Speaker 3: River Pacific time zone and you want to say hi
Speaker 3: to BAM, please do so late March early April.
Speaker 4: Very very cool.
Speaker 5: At LAFC.
Speaker 3: He's got three away games, nicely done. So BAM's coming
Speaker 3: to the States. Very cool. All right, let's get through
Speaker 3: all of the promotional stuff and get you ready for
Speaker 3: the day.
Speaker 4: It is once again that time. Go through all the stuff.
Speaker 3: You kick off your day with Kickoff Coffee and kickoff
Speaker 3: Coffeeco dot Com. I know I need to get the
Speaker 3: QR code and figure out how to do it and
Speaker 3: not screw up the rest of the system. But you
Speaker 3: start your day with Kickoff Coffee and Kickoff Coffeeco dot Com,
Speaker 3: then what you can do is, you know they use
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Speaker 3: and then that way you get fifteen percent off your purchase.
Speaker 3: And now our friends at Kickoff Coffee take ten percent
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Speaker 3: what I'm wearing today, Like I said, I know I
Speaker 3: need more soccer sweatshirts for like cold weather stuff. And
Speaker 3: I know that this time of year it's gonna be
Speaker 3: like cold in the morning and then like warmer in
Speaker 3: the afternoon, so I kind of have to dress twice.
Speaker 3: And this you can pick up from our friends at
Speaker 3: Grady Baby and Gradybaby CoA. You see the branding right here.
Speaker 3: You've got the network branding here, You've got the gradybabyrand
Speaker 3: branding right here. Soccer is just better in Atlanta. You
Speaker 3: can get it in the red, you can get it
Speaker 3: in the black. It has the gold lettering all the
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Speaker 3: Grady Baby co what you are doing when you pick
Speaker 3: up this material is you are helping out middle school
Speaker 3: soccer programs attached to the Atlanta Public school system. So
Speaker 3: very very cool relationship that we have formed with our
Speaker 3: friends at Grady Baby and Grady Baby Co.
Speaker 4: You can pick up this gear.
Speaker 3: You can go to Olivi and York and help out
Speaker 3: our Soccer for Good for twenty twenty five getting the.
Speaker 4: First ever.
Speaker 3: SDH jersey thanks to our friends at Kaiser Permanente and
Speaker 3: thanks to our friends at Beyond Goals Menering and thanks
Speaker 3: to Soccer for Good. You can go to Olivi and
Speaker 3: York get our navy jersey. You can get it personalized
Speaker 3: in white letters and numerals or in Carolina blue for
Speaker 3: lack of a better phrase, sky blue, Carolina blue.
Speaker 4: Whatever.
Speaker 3: You can get personalized either in white letters of numerals
Speaker 3: or the sky blue Carolina blue letters and numerals. That way,
Speaker 3: once again you help out our projects for Soccer for
Speaker 3: Good in twenty twenty five, so very very cool stuff there.
Speaker 3: You can go to the Marshall Islands store and help
Speaker 3: them out. Like I said, you can get all the
Speaker 3: things that you want at the Marshall Island Store to
Speaker 3: help out the last nation here on this planet with
Speaker 3: a national soccer program. Go to their store, get their
Speaker 3: gear and it's really cool stuff what they've done with
Speaker 3: player layer and so on. But you order the scarf.
Speaker 3: If you order the scarf, that comes from me. Everything
Speaker 3: else ships from England. The scarf you get because you'll
Speaker 3: notice if you go to the Marshall Island store there
Speaker 3: is a very famous individual who is modeling the scarf
Speaker 3: that we did in collaboration with the Marshall Island Soccer Federation.
Speaker 3: You get the scarf from me. It's on the other
Speaker 3: side of this door. I've got about a dozen left
Speaker 3: before I re order another batch. So if you help
Speaker 3: out the Marshall Islands, you get the scarf from me.
Speaker 3: You get the rest of the stuff from Matt Webin,
Speaker 3: Lloyd Hours and everybody over in England, the Soccer Federation,
Speaker 3: everything else but the scarf comes from England. Scarf comes
Speaker 3: from me. You can help out the Marshall Island Soccer
Speaker 3: Federation once again Soccer for good. Here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: The technical director of Lloyd Hours, if you follow him
Speaker 3: on social he's on the islands now and they are
Speaker 3: having intro island footste all competitions and so that's another
Speaker 3: stage of the development of it where the island, the
Speaker 3: heavily populated islands have their own futsal competitions and then
Speaker 3: they play the Islands amongst themselves, and so it's another
Speaker 3: stage in the growth process there with the Marshall Islands,
Speaker 3: so very very cool stuff. They're involving our friends at
Speaker 3: the Marshall Island Soccer Federation, the last nation on this
Speaker 3: or any other planet to try and have a national
Speaker 3: soccer program. So Marshall Islands, you can help out. Soccer
Speaker 3: for Good, kick Off Coffee, you can help out once
Speaker 3: again with the causes that they have earmarked for Soccer
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Speaker 3: Jersey Soccer for Good, Gratty Baby, Grady Baby co Soccer
Speaker 3: for Good.
Speaker 4: All of these.
Speaker 3: Different things that we have are trying to help out
Speaker 3: the beautiful game. And you get to do that as
Speaker 3: well when you get to invest and invest in the
Speaker 3: ways that you do. And Abby is definitely true. Abby
Speaker 3: is definitely accurate in this case. You can get both
Speaker 3: shirts if you can't make up your mind with Olivi
Speaker 3: and York, with Gratty Baby, with Marshall Islands, with everybody,
Speaker 3: you can get them all, get them all wired up.
Speaker 3: You can all have them in your in your closets.
Speaker 3: And you know, you know, maybe you buy one, you
Speaker 3: share one, but now we have the red. Just to
Speaker 3: give you an example for the sweatshirt, we have the
Speaker 3: red and the black. Here the boss commandeered the black
Speaker 3: one and so she she wears that one around all
Speaker 3: over the place, and so I wear the red one
Speaker 3: on the air and uh.
Speaker 4: You know, so that's kind of where we are.
Speaker 3: So it's all soccer for good, gratty baby Olivi and York,
Speaker 3: our friends at Kickoff Coffee and the Marshall Islands and
Speaker 3: everyplace else that I've forgotten.
Speaker 4: So everything that we do.
Speaker 3: Once again, thanks to all of you for your efforts
Speaker 3: in helping expand and.
Speaker 4: Grow the beautiful game. And so there you go.
Speaker 3: There's your morning promos and that is uh once again
Speaker 3: morning opening kickoff right was buy our friends at Kickoff Coffee,
Speaker 3: Kickoff coffeeco dot com.
Speaker 4: And I'll get the QR I've figured out at some
Speaker 4: point I know.
Speaker 3: And I know Pars Pars is really trying to have
Speaker 3: me cite my sources any other planet, yes, any I
Speaker 3: don't know if IO and Europa FC can compete even
Speaker 3: with the Marshall Islands right now, you know, look, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of, you know, any other any
Speaker 3: other orbiting any one of the twenty that's orbiting Saturn
Speaker 3: right now. I don't think they can compete, No, so
Speaker 3: I would cite sources. But you know, maybe NASA, and
Speaker 3: I mean the the Aeronautic and Space National Aeronautic in
Speaker 3: Space Administration, maybe they would know I'm thinking. But yeah,
Speaker 3: any other planet, I'll say it right now, any other
Speaker 3: planet this or any other planet. I think I think
Speaker 3: I can be brave enough and make that assessment.
Speaker 4: So there you go.
Speaker 3: So thanks for hanging out with us once again this morning.
Speaker 3: We got a lot of stuff to get into across
Speaker 3: the board when it comes to news and stuff. It
Speaker 3: looks like Greg Gars is going to be joining us
Speaker 3: this morning, and so we'll catch up with Greg a
Speaker 3: little after nine thirty. But there are a couple of
Speaker 3: things I wanted to get into involving Premier League teams
Speaker 3: before Greg joins us in about ten minutes or so.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if you saw this, but Javier
Speaker 3: Tabos is kind of mad and he's got, you got
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff on his mind, and a lot
Speaker 3: of it involves Manchester City. So the man in charge
Speaker 3: of La Liga has decided that Manchester City is guilty
Speaker 3: or is running an in Ron style financial deception. And
Speaker 3: for those that may not know what Enron is Ron,
Speaker 3: and this is going back at least two decades, it
Speaker 3: was an accounting scandal that happened about twenty five years ago.
Speaker 4: They used meaning Enron.
Speaker 3: Big was a big energy, big energy corporation in the
Speaker 3: state of Texas, started back in the nineteen twenties and
Speaker 3: then late nineteen nineties two thousand's they ran a foul
Speaker 3: of the law. They're accounting practices. They used deceptive and
Speaker 3: fraudulent tactics and accounting practices to cover fraud in reporting
Speaker 3: their financial information. And it was the largest, the then
Speaker 3: largest Chapter eleven bankruptcy in history in two thousand and one.
Speaker 3: WorldCom made it bigger in two thousand and two, and
Speaker 3: then Lehman Brothers been in two thousand and eight. But
Speaker 3: because of the irregular accounting procedures that Enron had on
Speaker 3: their books, it resulted in eleven billion dollars in shareholder losses.
Speaker 3: The stock for Enron went from ninety dollars to share
Speaker 3: basically to pennies on the dollar, and they filed for bankruptcy.
Speaker 3: It eventually caused the dissolving of Arthur Anderson as an
Speaker 3: accounting firm. They were one of the Big five at
Speaker 3: the time. Obstruction of justice in two thousand and two
Speaker 3: for destroying documents related to the audit, and then Arthur
Speaker 3: Anderson was forced to stop auditing public companies. Conviction was
Speaker 3: dismissed in oh fied by the Supreme Court, and Arthur
Speaker 3: Anderson basically was a shell of itself going forward. So
Speaker 3: what did they do special Let's see, so accounting practice
Speaker 3: is covering fraud.
Speaker 4: Special purpose entities.
Speaker 3: And I know that this is probably getting into accounting
Speaker 3: down here created to mask significant liabilities from the financial statements,
Speaker 3: and those entities made Enron seem more profitable than it was,
Speaker 3: so where each quarter corporate officers would have to do
Speaker 3: more and more deception to create the illusion of billions
Speaker 3: of dollars of profit on the books when the company
Speaker 3: was actually losing money. Increased stock to that ninety dollars
Speaker 3: level that we were talking about, and then execs began
Speaker 3: to work on insider information, trading millions of dollars worth
Speaker 3: of Enron stock that would eventually become worthless. They knew
Speaker 3: about the offshore accounts hiding losses for the company investors
Speaker 3: did not. The chief financial officer at the time directed
Speaker 3: the team that created off books companies and manipulated the
Speaker 3: deals to provide the CFO himself, his family, and his
Speaker 3: friends with one hundreds of millions of dollars in guaranteed
Speaker 3: revenue at the expense of the corporation that he worked for.
Speaker 4: Once again, this is courtesy of our friends at the Wikipedias.
Speaker 3: So you had all of this going on, and so
Speaker 3: Enron too big to fail, of all those kinds of things.
Speaker 3: So what Javier Tabos has said in pulling and quoting Enron, David,
Speaker 3: we're talking Manchester City and Hobvier Tabos is what we're
Speaker 3: talking about. So Hober Tabos has accused Manchester City of
Speaker 3: an n Run style financial deception, and that's the quotes.
Speaker 3: This is courtesy of our friends at the Independent. Tabas said,
Speaker 3: La Liga file a complaint against city to the European
Speaker 3: Commission in the summer of twenty three, which he says,
Speaker 3: the Commission's investigating City obviously haven't commented on the allegations
Speaker 3: club sources or aware of them, and obviously they refute
Speaker 3: those things. Tabos claimed City used related companies in the
Speaker 3: UAE to hide losses and improve the club's own balance sheet,
Speaker 3: and once again comparing it to the Enron scandal. Tabas
Speaker 3: said in a press conference at the Financial Times Business
Speaker 3: of Football summit, quote City have a lot of companies
Speaker 3: in their group which lie outside the City Football Group structure,
Speaker 3: extra companies where they put their expenses. These other companies
Speaker 3: lose the money, but not the club itself. We've reported
Speaker 3: them to the EU. We have the facts and figures
Speaker 3: we asked for City to be checked. It's very important
Speaker 3: that all clubs are subject to the same transparency rules
Speaker 3: and governance on both the sporting and the financial side.
Speaker 3: The City case is one where we believe they put
Speaker 3: the losses on the companies that are not officially part
Speaker 3: of City Football Group. And then that's when he quoted Enron.
Speaker 3: Tabos claimed they meaning City have a scouting company, a
Speaker 3: marketing company. It's where they have high expenses. They invoic
Speaker 3: City for less money. City have costs less than if
Speaker 3: they didn't have the circle of companies around. When Tabos
Speaker 3: was asked about the status of the complaint, he said,
Speaker 3: I think it's in the investigation phase. We haven't had
Speaker 3: a reply, so it must be in the investigation phase. Obviously,
Speaker 3: City isn't talking. It declined to comment on it, and
Speaker 3: sources close to the club tell The Independent that Tabos
Speaker 3: has a long history of attacking Manchester City. City are
Speaker 3: going to obviously strongly refute the allegations. Sources pointed of
Speaker 3: the club's accounts, which are a matter of public record.
Speaker 3: Details of LA Liga's complaint alleged Cities financing mechanisms cause
Speaker 3: a distortion in the internal market of the European Union.
Speaker 3: Complaint was filed under European regulation governing state subsidies on
Speaker 3: the grounds City are alleged to have received foreign subsidies
Speaker 3: from the UAE LaLiga alleges that allowed the club to
Speaker 3: enhance its competitive position, causing distortions across various national EU markets.
Speaker 3: So Tabos and LaLiga are claiming that there is a
Speaker 3: ripple effect economically from what City is putting out there
Speaker 3: publicly for their profit and loss layout versus what LaLiga
Speaker 3: believes to be the actual profit and loss scenarios involving
Speaker 3: Manchester City. The subsidies, according to LaLiga, enable the club
Speaker 3: to sign all the players and the coaches far beyond
Speaker 3: what would be feasible under market conditions and securing sponsorship
Speaker 3: revenues at levels that don't align with fair market value.
Speaker 3: And remember that's what the Premier League was chasing, after
Speaker 3: making sure that any kind of sponsorship value was a
Speaker 3: fair market and making sure that the horizontal relationships, meaning
Speaker 3: the sideways relationships, if there were ties between clubs and
Speaker 3: companies that are inside the same umbrella.
Speaker 4: Remember they were keeping an eye on that.
Speaker 3: So all of that LaLiga alleges improves the club sporting performance,
Speaker 3: impacting the recruiting capacity of other clubs, and then once
Speaker 3: again city is remembered still waiting on the Independent Commission.
Speaker 3: We said, Richard Masters at this same summit basically said
Speaker 3: that the Commission has all the intel and they've got
Speaker 3: the information and they're sorting it out. So that's where
Speaker 3: Manchester City is right now. But how your tabosses decided
Speaker 3: to sit there and you know, you know, he's saying,
Speaker 3: keep an eye on Manchester City and apparently they LaLiga
Speaker 3: has taken Manchester City to the European Commission. Not to
Speaker 3: be outdone, you have Chelsea and Todd Bowley and Todd
Speaker 3: Bowley has decided to say he believed that. According to
Speaker 3: Paul McGinnis and others at The Guardian, Todd Bowley believes
Speaker 3: that Netflix could maintain the Premier League's global success. Todd
Speaker 3: Bowley has said the Premier League should consider selling its
Speaker 3: global TV rights to Netflix. He also called on Premier
Speaker 3: League execs to agree on priorities for the future of
Speaker 3: the competition, saying they should pull together to maintain success.
Speaker 3: Bully said, quote Premier League content is so valuable because
Speaker 3: it's so widely demanded. How many global platforms are They're
Speaker 3: probably just Netflix. If you're thinking about how do I
Speaker 3: launch a global product, you do it in partnership with
Speaker 3: content like this. This was at the Financial Times Business
Speaker 3: of Football summit. If you really think about it, Bully continued,
Speaker 3: what it could do to unlock a global media platform.
Speaker 3: There's nothing like this. I'm not saying that that is
Speaker 3: the direct answer right this minute, but I think that's
Speaker 3: where it's headed. So that's what Todd Bowley is saying
Speaker 3: when it comes to meet of partners and things like that.
Speaker 3: He also is in the bit of a row right
Speaker 3: now with fellow owners. But right now, at that same summit,
Speaker 3: he didn't really give a whole lot of detail on
Speaker 3: what's going on with the internal debate, shall we say,
Speaker 3: involving Bully clear Lake, the owners and Chelsea and all
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. Now, a quick note from this morning.
Speaker 3: Former Premier League referee David coot has been banned by
Speaker 3: UEFA until June of twenty six. Contract as an elite
Speaker 3: referee with the PGMOL terminated in December after the video
Speaker 3: that came to light showing him making derogatory comments about
Speaker 3: Liverpool and Jrgen Klop. There was a separate video and
Speaker 3: that and that video is also a part of the
Speaker 3: investigation where it was showing him ingesting illegal drugs and
Speaker 3: that took place during the twenty twenty four Euros where
Speaker 3: he was an official. PGMOL said the official was in
Speaker 3: serious breach of his employment contract and his actions made
Speaker 3: his position untenable. That's the word they use. And European
Speaker 3: Football's Control Ethics and Disciplinary Body MET last week also
Speaker 3: ruled coot had violated the basic rules of decent conduct
Speaker 3: and brought football and YUEFA in particular into disrepute. That
Speaker 3: is the latest involving David Coote and Chelsea and we'll
Speaker 3: get back into the Premier League and other things. Okay,
Speaker 3: so it is a Friday, and it is slightly after
Speaker 3: nine thirty. This is what I love about Greg Garza,
Speaker 3: among other things, but the fact that he is an
Speaker 3: incredible fashion model.
Speaker 4: Four our for our jersey this year.
Speaker 3: Greg sends me an email and he always lets you
Speaker 3: know status, and Michael Parkhurst always lets you know status.
Speaker 3: Greg sends me an email this morning after I send
Speaker 3: the links out and everything, and Greg says, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be a few minutes late, And'm gonna be a little late.
Speaker 3: A little late ended up being two minutes. We may
Speaker 3: as well just round it down. He's on time. It's Friday,
Speaker 3: it's Greg. It's time for the Friday free kick with
Speaker 3: our friends that beyond goals entering, Greg Garza, what part
Speaker 3: of the planet are you on, sir?
Speaker 6: I'm home. That like to be home, freaking fantastic.
Speaker 3: You, sir, have been a globe trotter, and you've been
Speaker 3: globe trotting on behalf of Major League Soccer and trying
Speaker 3: to aid in interpersonal relationships among players as a part
Speaker 3: of one of their councils. And now that you are home,
Speaker 3: have you had the chance to think about what you
Speaker 3: were able to do for Major League Soccer, all the
Speaker 3: different conversations you had, all the different lives that you
Speaker 3: interacted with. Have you had a chance to have that
Speaker 3: sync in for this year?
Speaker 6: Yeah, of course. I mean it sucks, It really sucks.
Speaker 6: The LAFC and Colorado just had an incident last week.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm uh.
Speaker 6: You know that's that's that's obviously our main priority with
Speaker 6: everything that we do. And then you see crap like
Speaker 6: that in which we just spoke to those guys three
Speaker 6: weeks ago. They did not go through what like some
Speaker 6: of those guys, does it go through one ear and
Speaker 6: right out of the other, you know, and nobody knows
Speaker 6: what the hate speech was. But still it's uh, it's
Speaker 6: it's uncalled for. And you know that's that's why we
Speaker 6: that's why we do that stuff.
Speaker 3: I know that right now it's a Chadozia wasium alleging
Speaker 3: Sergei Palencia said things we don't know. Once again, what
Speaker 3: was said. Right now, it is an alleged situation involving
Speaker 3: those two clubs, and when it comes to you having
Speaker 3: those kinds of conversations with clubs themselves and individuals knowing
Speaker 3: that you have a bunch of different nationalities under one roof,
Speaker 3: and and understandings and all these kinds of things. How
Speaker 3: much of a learning ex has it been for you
Speaker 3: to be able to have these conversations and at the
Speaker 3: same time remind those players that are currently in Major
Speaker 3: League soccer about the dangers of having the dangers of
Speaker 3: having those kinds of thoughts, and at the same time
Speaker 3: making sure that you understand that everyone around you comes
Speaker 3: from a different place, and that you should understand and
Speaker 3: respect everyone around you, even if they're not wearing the
Speaker 3: same colors that you do in your play.
Speaker 6: That's it's it's difficult to understand, in my personal opinion,
Speaker 6: how someone can say something that is evil, right, I like,
Speaker 6: if you and I'm like, if something bad, if something
Speaker 6: bad happens, if you stub your toe on the table,
Speaker 6: you're probably most likely there's going to be a profanity
Speaker 6: word that comes out several mm hm, And so you
Speaker 6: know somehow that has to release that stress in that moment.
Speaker 6: And so for me, it's like, man, what the hell
Speaker 6: is going through these guys mind and where they feel
Speaker 6: that relieving stress going through the competitive stress like wanting
Speaker 6: to win that you can say something that is you know,
Speaker 6: hurtfull and just hate hateful, I guess you could say.
Speaker 6: So that's always like my misunderstanding with a lot of
Speaker 6: guys that with with within the league and trying to
Speaker 6: help them acknowledge that say the F word fifteen thousand times, right,
Speaker 6: but don't use something that is going to diminish the
Speaker 6: person that's in front of you in terms of what color, race, religion, belief,
Speaker 6: you know, whatever they look like.
Speaker 5: It should not matter.
Speaker 3: Has it changed over time? Has it gotten has the
Speaker 3: conversation gotten easier or more difficult when it comes to
Speaker 3: having to deal with these issues.
Speaker 6: In recent times, in my personal experience, more difficult I had,
Speaker 6: I had more pushback this year.
Speaker 4: Really yeah.
Speaker 6: I think I think just with everything that's going on
Speaker 6: in the world right now, you know, it's it's there's
Speaker 6: a lot of things that are happening around us that
Speaker 6: we can't control, and so, you know, I think when
Speaker 6: people come from other places, they kind of have this
Speaker 6: point of view that you know, whatever someone says is
Speaker 6: how we all think and how we all view things
Speaker 6: as well. So that that was that was a little
Speaker 6: bit of issue, and then you just had some really immature.
Speaker 5: People and players that.
Speaker 6: Were not as understanding as they should have been. And
Speaker 6: I think it was just you know, going through preseason
Speaker 6: and you're ready to get You're ready to get over preseason.
Speaker 6: And so I don't know if sometimes coming in and
Speaker 6: speaking about some vulnerable things can spark kind of that stress.
Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, I always tell
Speaker 6: the guys like I'm I'm just the messenger. I'm not
Speaker 6: here to tell you what you can and cannot do
Speaker 6: with your life. We all make mistakes, we all do
Speaker 6: things that we regret sometimes, but just remember that you know,
Speaker 6: and in that microscopical world that they are in, you
Speaker 6: know you have to you have to make decisions based
Speaker 6: on hopefully making some that will not ruin not only
Speaker 6: your reputation, your team's reputation and financial right, the financial
Speaker 6: want that you want. I mean, I think at at
Speaker 6: the end of the day, I always tell them, look,
Speaker 6: you guys play this game when when you're young, you
Speaker 6: play the game because you and I have talked about
Speaker 6: this before. When you're young, play the game because you
Speaker 6: absolutely love it. And I think as you get older
Speaker 6: and you know, priorities change and you have kids and
Speaker 6: you know, you're having to put food on the table,
Speaker 6: and you have to play through contracts. It's more of
Speaker 6: that doggy dog environment, you know. I think I think
Speaker 6: that's when that's when you know, it becomes less.
Speaker 5: About maybe the love and more about.
Speaker 6: The financial meaning of of how much you can provide
Speaker 6: doing what you love. So you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 6: it's difficult conversations to have. Most everyone say about eighty
Speaker 6: five to ninety percent of guys are very understanding of everything,
Speaker 6: but you'll always have that ten percent that just whether
Speaker 6: they just want to argue or create, you know, create
Speaker 6: some type of debate. So I feel like it's always
Speaker 6: going to happen.
Speaker 3: That you and and when you said that, it really
Speaker 3: took me for a second. You literally do have individuals
Speaker 3: that just want to argue for the sake of arguing
Speaker 3: about these kinds of points.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, seriously, yeah yeah, whether it be where
Speaker 7: they're from, it's okay to say things like this, whether
Speaker 7: you know, whether it's we call each other this all the.
Speaker 6: Time and we don't care, We'll continue to call each
Speaker 6: other this all the time. And I think it's just
Speaker 6: you know, you're dealing. And when we had these first
Speaker 6: initial meetings with the league. Yeah, and I I made
Speaker 6: a point. I made a point within most of the
Speaker 6: guys who were involved with in the player and engagement area,
Speaker 6: and I made a point that you know, most most
Speaker 6: soccer players come from very different backgrounds, like as in
Speaker 6: poverished backgrounds, and so a lot of these guys, a lot,
Speaker 6: you can be very honest, do not have an education.
Speaker 6: They don't have a school education.
Speaker 5: There they're there.
Speaker 6: They might be intelligent and have an amazing soccer I Q.
Speaker 6: But if you and I both asked Joseph Martinez until
Speaker 6: what grade he went to, I don't know what grade
Speaker 6: he went to, he might have he might have finished
Speaker 6: school at the third grade and dedicated his whole life
Speaker 6: to soccer, right, And that's that's a lot of Sometimes
Speaker 6: I think people don't understand that that a lot of
Speaker 6: soccer players, that's that's their life, right. They they focus
Speaker 6: more on getting out of a poverish you place, rather
Speaker 6: than what school is and soccer is. They're only out
Speaker 6: in that in that circumstance. So, you know, I think
Speaker 6: sometimes a lot of it, in my personal opinion is
Speaker 6: that you know, sometimes a lot of these guys they
Speaker 6: only they only believe what what they what they see
Speaker 6: or what they're surrounded by, and they don't get that
Speaker 6: that education of you know what what sometimes how it
Speaker 6: how it means to act in certain areas and and
Speaker 6: understand that other cultures are different. It's not just what
Speaker 6: you see around the area or environment or circumstances that
Speaker 6: you grew up in. So I think it's important for
Speaker 6: me to speak about those things because it's uh, hopefully
Speaker 6: it's educational for some of those guys as well. Right,
Speaker 6: It's like we've said before, it might be okay to
Speaker 6: do thumbs up here, if you do the peace sign
Speaker 6: in in England, right, it might mean something else. Right,
Speaker 6: So you've got to understand what what where you are
Speaker 6: the norms and rules that that need to be abided
Speaker 6: around you as well.
Speaker 3: So when it comes to your mentees, where are they,
Speaker 3: you know, in in the that middle school, high school
Speaker 3: age group. When it comes to understanding the rules and
Speaker 3: morays and habits and disciplines of other cultures, what's it
Speaker 3: like dealing with that generation now as a mentor?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like it much more because it's where, because
Speaker 6: it's where you are nipping.
Speaker 5: The bud as quickly as possible to where.
Speaker 6: They can have an idea and understanding on a on
Speaker 6: a quicker basis and listen to someone who's been there,
Speaker 6: done that and tell you, hey, this is how you
Speaker 6: should act, this is what you should say, this is
Speaker 6: how you should do interviews, this is you know, all
Speaker 6: different things that helped I think even Mike and I
Speaker 6: and great professionals be successful. Right, There's there's no need
Speaker 6: to when you, if you and when and if you
Speaker 6: ever become a professional or you are in some type
Speaker 6: of professional environment, you have to understand and learn how
Speaker 6: to act.
Speaker 7: Everybody who goes to a.
Speaker 6: An office room is not saying certain words that might
Speaker 6: be said in the locker room.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of different words that you hear in
Speaker 6: a locker room that there is no way in hell
Speaker 6: they would ever be said in a professional environment. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and so I think that's that's helping kids understand that, hey,
Speaker 6: can you be that person when you are in a
Speaker 6: locker room one day or if you are in a
Speaker 6: professional environment, that at least you understand the norms that
Speaker 6: are needed just to be I say, be a good person,
Speaker 6: but it also just just know just know how to
Speaker 6: act and in public right if you I think that
Speaker 6: if people want to do things within their own closed
Speaker 6: doors right in between four walls or whatever it is,
Speaker 6: right like, then it's that's that's on them. But when
Speaker 6: they're in public and you have, you know, this role
Speaker 6: model stript that's there, Yeah, that's important.
Speaker 3: How much of the conversations that you have with your
Speaker 3: mentees is reinforcing of the behavior of you can only
Speaker 3: do certain things in certain places, what you do behind
Speaker 3: closed doors, you know, is what you do behind closed doors?
Speaker 3: And how much of it is actually flipping opinion and
Speaker 3: having the mentee or the family and the mentee realize that, yeah,
Speaker 3: you might be the best thing since Georgia Canalia out
Speaker 3: there on the pitch, but there are certain things that
Speaker 3: you can't say, and there are certain things that you
Speaker 3: can't do. How much of it is reinforcing a positive
Speaker 3: behavior and how much of it is trying to encourage
Speaker 3: the negative to go into a positive behavior.
Speaker 6: A lot of the times both but it goes both ways. Okay,
Speaker 6: I will always use the quote it does not matter
Speaker 6: how elite of a player you are if you don't
Speaker 6: have elite personality to go behind it. So I think
Speaker 6: it's just helping them understand how an elite of personality
Speaker 6: clities we had in the game that we played and
Speaker 6: how that helped us be successful for a really long
Speaker 6: time and have that consistency within. So that's that's a
Speaker 6: that's a big piece that we try and really focus
Speaker 6: on with especially the younger generation.
Speaker 5: They are essentially our leaders.
Speaker 6: Of tomorrow, so we want them to be as well
Speaker 6: prepared as possible.
Speaker 3: Greg Guards are hanging out with us for the Friday
Speaker 3: free kick at Beyond Goals Mentoring at BG Mentoring on
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Speaker 4: And you know, when you get.
Speaker 3: To globetrot and you get to do all these different
Speaker 3: things and you get to remind professional athletes about all
Speaker 3: of their all the the external things that they are
Speaker 3: rubbing off on every day, how much do you have
Speaker 3: to remind yourself about about who you touch and how
Speaker 3: you touch them? And I mean that in the emotional
Speaker 3: sense and in the intelligent sense, not just physically reaching out,
Speaker 3: you know and going like that. But how much do
Speaker 3: you have to mind yourself these days? You know, I've
Speaker 3: got to stay this way, I've got to do this,
Speaker 3: I've got to do this.
Speaker 4: How much of it is a refresher for you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, big time. It's it's also learning.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 6: The coolest thing for me is learning about others and
Speaker 6: learning about their backgrounds and their cultures. And that's been
Speaker 6: the most enlightening thing for me as a person, is
Speaker 6: going into different locker rooms and like in my own way,
Speaker 6: trying to study where that person is coming from. Like
Speaker 6: I like to kind of study people and get their
Speaker 6: first impression and see why they think the way that
Speaker 6: they do.
Speaker 5: Why they are the way that they are, Right.
Speaker 6: I think that's that's that's a lot of that's a
Speaker 6: lot of good teamwork building. And I think, like I
Speaker 6: whenever we finished, like as the facilitators, Like as the facilitators,
Speaker 6: we always we always see.
Speaker 5: If like how that group is going to be throughout
Speaker 5: the season.
Speaker 6: Is that going to be a good group?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 6: Are they a group that's probably gonna be split in half?
Speaker 6: Or are they a group that's going to be you know,
Speaker 6: very very well, you know, very well bonded and united.
Speaker 5: That's that's that's what I like to do.
Speaker 6: So I like to study my surroundings and see, you know,
Speaker 6: what what the emotions are in the room, how vulnerable
Speaker 6: they are to speak about things, how committed they are
Speaker 6: to each other, and you can tell, you can definitely tell.
Speaker 6: You can get the year within the room, and you
Speaker 6: can be like, well, that team's gonna have a ship season,
Speaker 6: this team might win a championship, right, and so that
Speaker 6: that for me, I walk out of that. And always
Speaker 6: whoever I'm facilitating with, we always like have our under over, right,
Speaker 6: how well is this team going to do? Based on
Speaker 6: how unified you saw saw their team? And that's I like,
Speaker 6: I like doing that because you know, it allows there's
Speaker 6: some vulnerable conversations that that sometimes come out. And like,
Speaker 6: I think one thing within sports is that there's always
Speaker 6: a there's always a tale to tell. And I think
Speaker 6: like when you study other players, right, it's like I
Speaker 6: always use the examples of people that I know. Right,
Speaker 6: It's like everybody always asks, you know, well, why didn't
Speaker 6: Darlington go play? Why didn't Nagby go play?
Speaker 5: In Europe?
Speaker 6: He could have played probably on any team in Europe
Speaker 6: that he ever could, Right, And if you really get
Speaker 6: to know him and you understand what his background is
Speaker 6: and how he was raised and how he came to
Speaker 6: the United States, and you know how his family got here,
Speaker 6: et cetera, et cetera, you will understand why. And and
Speaker 6: that's that's like people don't see that, right, whoever gives
Speaker 6: opinions and whoever you know is speaking on sometimes TV,
Speaker 6: they don't see that side of things. They're not there
Speaker 6: to understand why that person made that decision.
Speaker 3: And sometimes they don't want to be there. They just
Speaker 3: want to have that opinion. They don't want to do
Speaker 3: that research.
Speaker 6: Yes, and I enjoy peopleeople that really dive in and
Speaker 6: and and are just understanding of oh okay, well now
Speaker 6: I understand why I give mad props to that guy, right,
Speaker 6: because family oriented, he doesn't want to go live in
Speaker 6: another country and be away from taking care of his
Speaker 6: mother all these different things. Right, the person who creates
Speaker 6: that opinion, all we see is just well he's he's
Speaker 6: he's too lazy, or he's just doing what he feels comfortable,
Speaker 6: doesn't want to get out of his comfort zone. Right,
Speaker 6: Those were all the conversations back then with NACB.
Speaker 4: He wanted to he wanted to go home, That was.
Speaker 6: It, right, And so it's but I'm just getting one
Speaker 6: oh yeah, I know one example, right, And so for me,
Speaker 6: when I go into locker rooms, I get to know
Speaker 6: that person a little better, and it's like it allows
Speaker 6: them to be like, Okay, well, now I know why
Speaker 6: Ozzy was such an asshole on the field. Right now,
Speaker 6: I know why Ozzy Alonzo was a that was like
Speaker 6: a pit bull. If you ever got into a scuffle
Speaker 6: with them on the field, he was gonna kill you
Speaker 6: on the field, choke you feel like he choked slam
Speaker 6: you after the game. And now getting to know him
Speaker 6: and more understanding of his story, well, hell, I totally
Speaker 6: understand why. Right, he has so much baggage and so
Speaker 6: much luggage and and things that you know that can
Speaker 6: create that competitive stress. But these are all great pros
Speaker 6: that they allowed their competitive stress to be uh, you know,
Speaker 6: put out in the world in different ways. And they
Speaker 6: didn't use any hate, and they didn't use any you know,
Speaker 6: hurtful language, or they didn't even use any discrimination. They
Speaker 6: didn't put anything into the phobias or the isms. They
Speaker 6: they allowed their kind of anger or whatever it is,
Speaker 6: their frustration being upset translate into their game and it
Speaker 6: made them the player that they are so like that
Speaker 6: that's for me is probably the coolest and the most
Speaker 6: interesting thing, I think just learning about other players and
Speaker 6: how how they are and why they are how they are.
Speaker 6: That's the coolest thing for me.
Speaker 3: Are people your age just as open about learning about
Speaker 3: other cultures? Are your mentees more open? Is there an
Speaker 3: approach difference when it comes to the next generation versus
Speaker 3: the current generation?
Speaker 4: Who is one more willing to learn about the other.
Speaker 6: Man? I just from experience with a lot of mentees,
Speaker 6: I feel like there's a lot of open minded kids.
Speaker 5: Okay, there are a lot of kids with And.
Speaker 6: One thing that I think schools teach these days is
Speaker 6: the growth mindset, and we didn't have that whenever I
Speaker 6: was a kid. I feel like sometimes we are more
Speaker 6: stubborn and hard headed than the younger generation because we
Speaker 6: didn't have growth mindset in school. I don't remember learning
Speaker 6: about growth mindset. And I can go into a second
Speaker 6: grade teacher parent teacher conference, a fifth grade parent teacher conference,
Speaker 6: a seventh grade parent teacher conference, and all they talk
Speaker 6: about is growth mindset, growth mindset, growth mindset, growth mindset.
Speaker 6: Everything is growth mindset. And I love that because you
Speaker 6: know it's giving them a chance to.
Speaker 5: Be adaptable and be flexible and adjust to.
Speaker 6: Their surroundings and sometimes be comfortable with the uncomfortable and
Speaker 6: all different things because they want their minds to grow
Speaker 6: the best way possible. I don't remember that. I remember
Speaker 6: whenever I was in school, it was either this way
Speaker 6: or the highway, right. And so I like the fact
Speaker 6: that we've become more flexible, but I would say with kids,
Speaker 6: can we be still have a balance of both, right,
Speaker 6: because I think sometimes being too flexible can sometimes make
Speaker 6: kids soft, and you don't want.
Speaker 5: Kids soft for what the world is, what the world.
Speaker 6: Is going to bring ahead of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you mentioned being comfortable with the uncomfortable. I
Speaker 3: mean that kind of goes along the same lines with
Speaker 3: you know, control the controllables and be comfortable, you know,
Speaker 3: be comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: I guess is you know the way to phrase it.
Speaker 3: And I don't know how many people these days across
Speaker 3: the board are comfortable with the uncomfortable and being and
Speaker 3: facing the uncomfortable at least that you know, face value.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many folks will openly sit there
Speaker 3: and say, yeah, I'm comfortable with all of the external
Speaker 3: stuff and then you know it, can.
Speaker 4: You know, come at me. I don't know how many
Speaker 4: people are like that, though.
Speaker 5: Very few, I'd say very few.
Speaker 6: I always say being uncomfortable allows you to like this
Speaker 6: is a crazy analogy, right, But I had a coach
Speaker 6: or even even my my, my mentor whenever. Whenever I
Speaker 6: was a kid, I was always like the official free
Speaker 6: kick and PK taker of all the youth national teams.
Speaker 6: Like I was just on point. All of my goals
Speaker 6: were uh, free kicks or penalties uh, And all of
Speaker 6: my assists were all corner kicks. I was the set
Speaker 6: piece specialist as a kid. Then you get older and
Speaker 6: you become left back, and you're like, well, I'm probably
Speaker 6: not going to be the set piece specialist anymore. But
Speaker 6: I remember he would always tell me I would get
Speaker 6: I would, you know, do my stance. I would take
Speaker 6: my four steps back, I would take my two steps over,
Speaker 6: and it was almost like I was kicking a field goal.
Speaker 6: And then just got to a point where he was like, dude,
Speaker 6: just just take one step back. And I'm like, I
Speaker 6: don't think I can have the ability or the power
Speaker 6: to still hit it where I want to hit it.
Speaker 6: There's no way I'm gonna get it over the wall.
Speaker 6: And he said, just try it. Make yourself as uncomfortable
Speaker 6: as possible. And after that first one, dude right over
Speaker 6: the wall Nott bins right, and I was like, oh crap.
Speaker 6: Like our bodies adjust to being uncomfortable and our minds
Speaker 6: adjust even more, and it kind of probably made me
Speaker 6: more focused in terms of getting it exactly where I
Speaker 6: wanted it to and doing those things. So I enjoy
Speaker 6: even with that, trying to help kids, make them uncomfortable
Speaker 6: in moments of thinking about certain plays or thinking about
Speaker 6: how they have to just always adapt because the game
Speaker 6: itself and life itself is you always have to be
Speaker 6: adaptable and flexible.
Speaker 3: Well, and when you're talking to your mentees, how do
Speaker 3: you I mean, going into a session with a mentee,
Speaker 3: do you have it in your mind going in? Okay,
Speaker 3: I want to make this mente uncomfortable by thinking about
Speaker 3: X or is it just something like when you and
Speaker 3: I talk on Fridays. Oh, there's an opening, I want
Speaker 3: to make him he or she uncomfortable?
Speaker 6: How do I think more there? When there's an opening?
Speaker 6: I like to kind of follow a curriculum of what
Speaker 6: I have in terms of how that person is or
Speaker 6: how that kid is. I like to kind of base
Speaker 6: my sessions and my exercises off that. But I do
Speaker 6: love and I always tell kids the very first session,
Speaker 6: please ask questions. Ask questions, because when you ask questions,
Speaker 6: it opens up, you know, a can of so many
Speaker 6: other ideas that can be thrown your and and that's
Speaker 6: that's when I think. Whenever I see that they are
Speaker 6: willing and apt to ask questions, it really gives me
Speaker 6: the opportunity to then kind of like poke them a
Speaker 6: little bit in certain ways and see how they see
Speaker 6: how they deal with it.
Speaker 4: How do you.
Speaker 3: Get past the mentee that is quiet by nature, doesn't
Speaker 3: want to ask questions, just sits there and goes uh
Speaker 3: huh uh huh uh huh. And it's not like they
Speaker 3: want to get the session over. They do want to learn,
Speaker 3: but they don't have the they don't have it in
Speaker 3: them yet to speak out.
Speaker 4: How do you draw that out of a mentee.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of them that start like that. There's
Speaker 6: a lot of kids who start very slow and very quiet.
Speaker 6: I just try and make it as fun as possible.
Speaker 6: I try and ask questions to help them think and
Speaker 6: make them understand themselves the best way possible and really
Speaker 6: bring out as much as them as I can. I guess,
Speaker 6: I guess I can say I just have that kind
Speaker 6: of gift of working with kids and loving to work
Speaker 6: with kids, uh, and just making them laugh and making them,
Speaker 6: you know, being goofy sometimes and just doing things that
Speaker 6: you know, UH can can give get them to feel
Speaker 6: a little bit more comfortable and sharing things that maybe
Speaker 6: they've never talked about before.
Speaker 4: How much of that comes from being a dad?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 6: A lot, A lot. I think my kids, even even
Speaker 6: before kids though, I'd always just loved kids. I love kids,
Speaker 6: and I've always had this like, uh like magnet towards kids.
Speaker 6: Kids always I remember just going to like family barbecues
Speaker 6: or whatever it is like after the games on the
Speaker 6: weekends and hanging out with friends. All the adults would
Speaker 6: be in the kitchen drinking their beers. I don't drink,
Speaker 6: so drinking their beers and drinking their wine, and I'd
Speaker 6: be outside playing with kids, right And I'd be that
Speaker 6: one dad playing outside with kids, whether it be playing
Speaker 6: soccer or throwing the football, and have them making routes
Speaker 6: and whatever it is, right I was. I think I'm
Speaker 6: still always that kid at heart, and I think that helps.
Speaker 6: That helps a massive way.
Speaker 3: All right before before your egress here on your Friday.
Speaker 3: It's a rivalry game coming up this weekend, bat and
Speaker 3: lead off. It's Atlanta and Charlotte up in Charlotte. The
Speaker 3: away team has it on lock apparently in this series.
Speaker 3: But when it comes to this particular rivalry and what
Speaker 3: you saw from Atlanta United, whether it was in highlights
Speaker 3: or actually watching match one, what do you think about
Speaker 3: this rivalry game coming up with Charlotte.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was at the game the last game.
Speaker 5: The spark is back. The spark is back.
Speaker 6: It's just one game, but.
Speaker 5: The spark is there.
Speaker 6: Do I feel like I have a lot to work
Speaker 6: on defensively? I do, and we can pick them apart
Speaker 6: working defensively, because that game could have gone either way.
Speaker 6: But it kind of brought me back to kind of
Speaker 6: like when we played it was almost like we could
Speaker 6: have won five zero or we could have lost eight four, right,
Speaker 6: and so like that. I remember games where we played
Speaker 6: where I finished that game. I was like, holy crap,
Speaker 6: we won the game four too, but we could have
Speaker 6: lost like seven to six, right, you know, Like, and
Speaker 6: I think that kind of gave me those feelings again
Speaker 6: watching that first game at the stadium but I will
Speaker 6: say this, I don't know if Zahaz is playing. I
Speaker 6: think he is. I think he missed the first game
Speaker 6: because his first son was his first daughter son was.
Speaker 4: Born, the first daughter is born.
Speaker 3: He's back, and of course Charlotte's being coy about well
Speaker 3: he might start, he might play. I'm gonna take a
Speaker 3: look at him and we'll see in one of those
Speaker 3: kind of things.
Speaker 6: I am. I love soccer, so you know, yes, am
Speaker 6: I a fan of Atlanta and.
Speaker 5: I yes, but I love just watching players.
Speaker 6: And watching other teams sometimes, so I'm very I'm very
Speaker 6: interested to see how he does is in the league.
Speaker 6: Niggie has not lost a step. He looked exactly the same.
Speaker 6: He looked like a lizard running in water, running on the
Speaker 6: top of water, the exact same he did when he
Speaker 6: was when he was here. I will disagree with Kevin
Speaker 6: Egan though, because Pev said that this is the most
Speaker 6: talented this is the most talented attack that Atlanta has
Speaker 6: had since it's since its inception into the league. I
Speaker 6: would disagree with that because I would say every single
Speaker 6: player that we had on that team in twenty seventeen
Speaker 6: to twenty eighteen, we were all attackers.
Speaker 5: We were crazy attackers.
Speaker 6: So I will say that they have the top four
Speaker 6: or five, we had the top eleven guys that would
Speaker 6: just always bust forward. So that would be my that
Speaker 6: would be my argument against keV one day.
Speaker 3: Okay, And so next time you see each other, make
Speaker 3: sure that someone's rolling tape on it. What's the latest
Speaker 3: with Beyond Goals manering before you get in.
Speaker 6: Same old, same old, continuing to grow the game as
Speaker 6: much as possible. Finally home and able to kind of
Speaker 6: regulate my schedule a little bit more, which is which
Speaker 6: is great?
Speaker 3: Yes, And when we get to see Greg modeling the
Speaker 3: SDH jersey here for twenty twenty five, it's always a hoot.
Speaker 3: It's great to see him, my friend, Glad, Glad, you're
Speaker 3: back into your own kasa where you kind of get
Speaker 3: to do your thing and kind of stare at the
Speaker 3: Chattahoochee River when you need a chance to go three
Speaker 3: pieces in thanks as dropping by, it's always see you
Speaker 3: got it, there goes Greg. And so it's always fun
Speaker 3: when Greg drops by. And that is Friday free Kick
Speaker 3: brought to his buy our friends at Beyond Goals Mentoring
Speaker 3: at BG Mentoring on the two hundred and eighty character
Speaker 3: app beyond Goalsmenoring dot Com. Greg does not have a
Speaker 3: two hundred and eighty character account. Yeah, I believe he
Speaker 3: is on the Insta. I believe, so I think that's
Speaker 3: where I think that's where Greg is. He's on the
Speaker 3: Insta of the IG or the GRAM. He is not
Speaker 3: on the two hundred and eighty character app. And I
Speaker 3: don't know if he is on the face base. So
Speaker 3: it's all great to catch up with him, great to
Speaker 3: catch up with Cap. And it's uh like when I
Speaker 3: go and have these conversations with with Greg and with
Speaker 3: with Michael, this is the amount of questions I have
Speaker 3: written down. Let me see if I can turn it.
Speaker 4: There we go.
Speaker 3: So that's the amount of questions I have written down.
Speaker 3: I have a couple of general ideas when it comes
Speaker 3: to topics and things. But as Greg said in our
Speaker 3: segment this week, you know, sometimes you'll you'll have a
Speaker 3: conversation and that'll open a door. And so traditionally it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: he opened a door, I want to go down that hallway.
Speaker 3: And so then he'll open another door, and another door
Speaker 3: and another door, and so that's where the conversation traditionally
Speaker 3: is with those two because of.
Speaker 4: What they're doing.
Speaker 3: It beyond goals, menering, because of all the doors that
Speaker 3: they open dealing with today's generation, Greg dealing with the
Speaker 3: modern day adult professional athlete, and how that rubs off
Speaker 3: on what he gets to do when he's you know,
Speaker 3: there with his mentees and with Michael's mentee, So both
Speaker 3: of them with that experience and how it applies, you know,
Speaker 3: to the next generation, those kinds of things I wanted
Speaker 3: to I want to get into and responses, and there
Speaker 3: is some current events obviously when it comes to like
Speaker 3: Atlanta United and things like that, but the biggest thing
Speaker 3: is it's it's a learning experience for me about how
Speaker 3: adults right now want to impact the next generation. And
Speaker 3: so that that's part of the end when I have
Speaker 3: the conversations with Greg and with Michael Parkhurst when they're
Speaker 3: with is at nine point thirty, when they're not globe
Speaker 3: trotting or in Michael's case, when he is a mogul
Speaker 3: in training and a week away from being ready for a.
Speaker 4: Season opener season two.
Speaker 3: There's one thing that you can do for an Encore
Speaker 3: and it's win a championship, making it to the last
Speaker 3: game of the year's Eastern Conference Champs. Last year reminds
Speaker 3: me I had to get my RIFC Eastern Conference gear,
Speaker 3: so mogul and training on one end, and what they're
Speaker 3: doing is fantastic stuff. And it's great to catch up
Speaker 3: with them on the Friday free kick when they're not
Speaker 3: globe trotting. All right, our number two and we know
Speaker 3: what that means on a Friday. That means it is
Speaker 3: weekend whip round, patent pending, trademark coming sooner, hopefully rather
Speaker 3: than later. And this is where we go over all
Speaker 3: of the matches going on in Major League Soccer. Obviously,
Speaker 3: we're going to take the conversation with Atlanta United, save
Speaker 3: it for ten thirty and beyond when Jason drops by.
Speaker 3: And like I said, there are a couple of other
Speaker 3: questions that I have involving Major League Soccer and rules
Speaker 3: and the roster release and the AGM meeting for US Soccer.
Speaker 3: So there are a couple of other topics that I
Speaker 3: wanted to get into with Jason in addition to get
Speaker 3: discussing his thoughts on what he saw from Week one
Speaker 3: and heading into week two with this rivalry and tonight,
Speaker 3: as Abby said, NODA brewing. I think it's NOA brewing.
Speaker 3: I think no Da North it's north something, so it
Speaker 3: is North something, but it's no to brewing. I think
Speaker 3: it is from seven to ten. Let me go back
Speaker 3: and see whereas it seven to ten tonight? Here we go, okay,
Speaker 3: tonight gathering of Atlanta United Fans No TOA Brewing seven
Speaker 3: to ten. So I think that that is where Jason
Speaker 3: and Matty are going to be hopefully, if you are
Speaker 3: traveling up the day of or the day before. If
Speaker 3: you're traveling up the day of, I don't know if
Speaker 3: NOTA brewing would be open.
Speaker 4: Before you had to be over at be of A.
Speaker 3: But if you're heading up tonight, Atlanta United Fans gathering
Speaker 3: at NOA Brewing No Da reminds me of the Bigod
Speaker 3: Johnny song for minute Work. But anyway, Noah brewing seven
Speaker 3: to ten. If you're heading up to Charlotte tonight and
Speaker 3: you get to hang out with a bunch of other
Speaker 3: seventeens as you guys get ready to crash b of
Speaker 3: A and be there in full throat tomorrow afternoon to
Speaker 3: twenty five start, because once again it's listed as two
Speaker 3: fifteen Lasoccer dot Com does not include the TV Element
Speaker 3: pregame show in their start time, and so it's two
Speaker 3: twenty five because it's on Big Fox and Big Fox
Speaker 3: deport this, so two twenty five listed as two fifteen
Speaker 3: on MLS Soccer dot Com. So to twenty five start
Speaker 3: and we'll get into the specifics with Jason and it'll
Speaker 3: be aide Gordon and Nick that are going to be
Speaker 3: doing your pre and your post from Colony Square for
Speaker 3: Atlanta United and for Charlotte. All right after the Atlanta
Speaker 3: United and Charlotte match the rest of the schedule for
Speaker 3: the weekend, So you get your you get your early,
Speaker 3: you get your early rub with it Landa United and
Speaker 3: with Charlotte. Once again, we don't know the level of
Speaker 3: engagement that Wilfrid Zaha is going to have. So once again,
Speaker 3: you know, Dean Smith being as coy as you're allowed.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's perfectly fine to be as coy
Speaker 3: as possible, I get.
Speaker 4: It, you know.
Speaker 3: And then you get to look at the rest of
Speaker 3: the matchups, know the announcer matchups yet for each of
Speaker 3: the of each of the games. But uh, once again,
Speaker 3: the one that's really important nineteen nine the game in
Speaker 3: the Odyssey app, aban Nick pregame, ABENDNK, postgame, Jason and
Speaker 3: Mike involved in the broadcast UH ninety nine Game ninety nine,
Speaker 3: Game dot Com and the Odyssey app.
Speaker 4: All right, let's get.
Speaker 3: Into juice boxes and start times as a way to
Speaker 3: go through the rest of the matchups. Here in match
Speaker 3: week number two for Major League Soccer. So after the
Speaker 3: Charlotte Atlanta game is over, everything starts back up again
Speaker 3: at four thirty, which means four forty Eastern time. RSL
Speaker 3: for a two forty start is hosting Seattle.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: Seattle, once again midweek took care business in CONCACAFF Champions Cup.
Speaker 3: They did not start Stephen Fry, as Nico Morenos said,
Speaker 3: it is not injury related. It was just sitting in.
Speaker 3: So Stephan Fry will start against RSL, and then you'll
Speaker 3: have whatever the rotated lineup is, if Brian Schmizer chooses
Speaker 3: to rotate. But this is an opportunity for Seattle to
Speaker 3: take advantage of the situation involving RSL. RSL has had
Speaker 3: a rough week. RSL loses at home to Herediano in
Speaker 3: conca CAF Hemispheric Extravaganza. They get bumped out. How do
Speaker 3: one nil lead lose it? So how does RSL respond?
Speaker 3: And that is the large question here Seattle. They can
Speaker 3: go in with a lineup against a team in RSL
Speaker 3: that is reeling early, grab full points and get out
Speaker 3: the door. Juice boxes have RSL as a favorite, and
Speaker 3: this is in the composite courtesy of our friends at
Speaker 3: odds Portal. They have a listing of different juice box purveyors.
Speaker 3: They take the average and they post it. RSL is
Speaker 3: a plus one fifty six to win at four forty
Speaker 3: draws a plus two twenty five, or Seattle's a plus
Speaker 3: one seventy five. I don't know where the goals are
Speaker 3: gonna come from from RSL. Stephan Fry definitely probably starting
Speaker 3: for Seattle. And net choose your fantasy teams wisely, and
Speaker 3: so I'm leaning Seattle here as a slight underdog and
Speaker 3: a plus one seventy five. Just in general, the fact
Speaker 3: that there are a plus one seventy five it kind
Speaker 3: of helps out for those of you that are handling
Speaker 3: your juice boxes. So, once again, don't know what the
Speaker 3: full lineup's gonna look like for Seattle. Stephan Fry did
Speaker 3: not play against Antigua, and so he's going into Sandy Utah,
Speaker 3: taking on a team in RSL where you don't know
Speaker 3: where the goals are going to come from, and having
Speaker 3: lost to Herediano. So all of these emotional factors in
Speaker 3: these intangibles add up anyway to folks leaning toward a
Speaker 3: slight underdog in Seattle. Then you get your seven forties.
Speaker 3: And I say seven forties, even though there're seven thirties,
Speaker 3: seven thirty listings revs and crew crewe understandably a favor
Speaker 3: of the plus one twenty three in the composite is
Speaker 3: a plus two sixty two and the revs are a
Speaker 3: plus one ninety seven. So RSL, I mean New England,
Speaker 3: you're looking at some kind of revenge of some kind
Speaker 3: of degree, and that's what you're staring at with that
Speaker 3: one with Columbus, we welcome Jared in.
Speaker 9: Hello, Hi, what are welcome?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, of course, I mean Jesus Christ. It is well,
Speaker 4: I mean it's we can whip around time.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 3: We're going through the matchups and you you hit it
Speaker 3: just right. We're saving Landy United and Charlotte for the
Speaker 3: Jason appearance coming up at about twenty minutes. We're blowing
Speaker 3: through the rest of the schedule. Seattle is a slight
Speaker 3: underdog heading to RSL. I don't know where RSL's going
Speaker 3: to score Seattle sat some folks, including Stephen Fry, and
Speaker 3: I'm leaning towards Seattle in that one.
Speaker 9: So as much as I was disappointed with what RSL
Speaker 9: did last week, they're also in both It's interesting that
Speaker 9: both these clubs had a concat Champions Cup. I don't
Speaker 9: know what to make of those games, because we have
Speaker 9: this conversation every season early in the season in those
Speaker 9: Championship Cup in the Champions Cup games just kind of,
Speaker 9: you know, kind of just kind of roll whatever you got.
Speaker 9: I'm not I'm already not gonna bet on MLS because
Speaker 9: I like, I like sanity, and I don't I don't
Speaker 9: seek out bad decisions.
Speaker 4: Like you like you like your wallet. It's current state exactly.
Speaker 9: I'm definitely not gonna put money on games involving teams
Speaker 9: that were in the Champions Cup. Over the weekend, especially
Speaker 9: RSL played like a knockdown, drag out game with Eddiano
Speaker 9: and then lost it in the well. They lost in
Speaker 9: the seventy something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had a goal that was initially pulled back
Speaker 3: by v A R. And then they got one score
Speaker 3: that wasn't held back and then they ended up hitting
Speaker 3: by the end of the day.
Speaker 9: Yeah, because then even when it was one one, they
Speaker 9: were doomed with away goals as yep. And then like
Speaker 9: the ninety I think there's like the ninety ninth minute,
Speaker 9: what's a second the back on that that pretty much
Speaker 9: just uh put dirt on the coffin, so to speak.
Speaker 4: Yep, fall game. Yes, so I don't I.
Speaker 9: Don't know what to make of either one of these
Speaker 9: teams in that situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh so you're looking at that one and then you've
Speaker 3: got crew and revs, and with this one crew obviously
Speaker 3: favored on the road, we wondered where the goals were
Speaker 3: gonna come from, and it turns out that Diego Rossi
Speaker 3: was kind of waving his hand like Forrest Gump on
Speaker 3: the shrimp boat, going you know, hi, you know right here,
Speaker 3: and they're favored heading to Foxborough and they're a plus
Speaker 3: one twenty three and the revs are basically a plus
Speaker 3: two hundred.
Speaker 9: I mean so much it feels like a lot of
Speaker 9: this is going to fall on like on falls to
Speaker 9: be that guy Columbus still has time to me additions,
Speaker 9: by the way, Yeah, and I know, like I feel
Speaker 9: like part of this has been part of the conversation
Speaker 9: with them of like I got time to make additions.
Speaker 9: They do. But I'm gonna say the same thing to
Speaker 9: you that I get told all the time when I
Speaker 9: would say that about Atlanta, which is they do. But
Speaker 9: time is a time is always marching. Yes, So they
Speaker 9: need to go ahead and get somebody in because you
Speaker 9: still have to go through the visa process. And if
Speaker 9: you're gonna get someone who's uh not an American player,
Speaker 9: and man, if this feels like a if it's gonna
Speaker 9: be consistently working, then Diego Rossi is gonna be like
Speaker 9: an like an MVP front runner time.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Jason Russell Rowe, obviously folks are looking at him when
Speaker 3: it comes.
Speaker 4: To helping out a top but.
Speaker 9: It's just a it's and I like Jason Russell Rowe.
Speaker 9: This isn't a shot in him. It's just a lot
Speaker 9: to ask of him. And if he's able to give
Speaker 9: you some really good games but isn't as consistent, which
Speaker 9: would make sense because newsflash, he's not Kuco.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no one, no one?
Speaker 9: What what what dog like Cuco was like what Brian
Speaker 9: Joseph was in terms of like the great equalizer of
Speaker 9: oh is this game a mismatch? Maybe, except they have
Speaker 9: a while Cuco. Yes, Jason Russell Road could be very,
Speaker 9: very good. He's just not gonna be Cucco. And that's okay.
Speaker 9: I hope, I hope it's not held against him, I guess,
Speaker 9: is what I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So yeah, if you look super yeah, so you
Speaker 3: get to figure out what's going on with that one,
Speaker 3: all right. Also on the board, and if it's a
Speaker 3: game that you think is a dog that you don't
Speaker 3: want to talk about basically, well, Cliffhanger and you said,
Speaker 3: you're like, nah, yeah, Red Bulls hosting Nashville Red Bulls
Speaker 3: minus one fifty six National plus three eighty eight draw
Speaker 3: is a plus three zero one.
Speaker 9: Red Bulls. And I'm interested in what Nashville is doing. Yeah,
Speaker 9: this year, now that they have moved off, now that
Speaker 9: they have like freed themselves from the Gary Smith era.
Speaker 9: That's not going to say the Gary Smith era wasn't predictive.
Speaker 9: It was to kind of drag themselves into the future
Speaker 9: of bit here. Yeah, I like what it can be.
Speaker 9: I just think it's gonna take time to put it
Speaker 9: all together, and Red Bulls is still Red Bulls is
Speaker 9: still Red Bulls.
Speaker 3: So Red Bulls favored largely seven forty at the stadium
Speaker 3: named after a magazine, so big sponsorship for them there.
Speaker 3: Purple Team and Toronto also at seven forty. Purple Team
Speaker 3: favored at a minus one seventy five. Draw is a
Speaker 3: plus two ninety five, and Toronto is a plus four
Speaker 3: sixty six. On the road to Central Florida.
Speaker 9: Give me, give me Purpole, give me Orlando.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 9: It's It's fine to like, it's fine to look at
Speaker 9: that game with wide eyes with what happened with Philadelphia
Speaker 9: over the weekend last weekend, because that was bad, like
Speaker 9: it was, it was sloppy. But if you get boat
Speaker 9: raced by Toronto, yeah, then we then we get to
Speaker 9: have some really fun conversations, some really uncomfortable conversations. Yes,
Speaker 9: I just don't think that will happen.
Speaker 3: No, not not with not with Toronto on the road
Speaker 3: and Purple Team and home.
Speaker 9: Again if they lose, if they lose to Toronto Team,
Speaker 9: then we have to have like two full conversations of like,
Speaker 9: do we need to like start picking out a plot
Speaker 9: for Orlando and do we need to have conversations about Toronto.
Speaker 9: But we also do this early in the season where
Speaker 9: it's completely irresponsible, which.
Speaker 4: Is why we do it.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, and that's that's that's why we're here on Fridays.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Philadelphia, the Bradley Carnell Era in match number two,
Speaker 3: slight underdog at home against f C Cincinnati or a
Speaker 3: slight favorite at home against de f C Cincinnati. Obviously
Speaker 3: they're thinking that Cincinnati, with them playing in the midweek,
Speaker 3: is going to impact them here on the weekend. Union
Speaker 3: a plus one fifty at home, So I home favorite
Speaker 3: draws a plus two to fifty seven f C Cincinnati
Speaker 3: on the roads of plus one sixty two. And I
Speaker 3: think really the only reason that Cincinnati is a dog
Speaker 3: here is because of the midweek activity. Am I reading
Speaker 3: that right?
Speaker 9: That's what I'm guessing. And because of the way they play,
Speaker 9: I can definitely see it. It would be narrative central
Speaker 9: though for Philadelphia to start to it. Oh man, Yeah,
Speaker 9: and look, you play the schedule you're given, so I
Speaker 9: will not be if Philadelphia like winns this game and
Speaker 9: they start two and oh you can say, well, well,
Speaker 9: Orlando we don't know. Orlando is kind of weird. And
Speaker 9: then you have Cinci on.
Speaker 10: The mid week.
Speaker 9: I don't really care. You can qualify how where you want.
Speaker 9: If they beat Cincinnati, I don't care that Cincinnati played
Speaker 9: the midweek. You win your home games. Yeah, go do that, Philly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So that's uh, that's where that one lays itself out.
Speaker 3: And then speaking of the games where you're kind of like, huh,
Speaker 3: Chicago and hosting d C, they have no Brian Goodierres
Speaker 3: who got the retroactive red from Disco in the midweek
Speaker 3: for basically the forum shiver from behind that wasn't caught
Speaker 3: on the field or through var Disco came in from
Speaker 3: behind and said, yeah, that's a game. So the guy
Speaker 3: that gets you a brace last week is not available
Speaker 3: this week. You're at home. You're favorite at a plus
Speaker 3: one oh eight draws, a plus two sixty three. DC
Speaker 3: United is a plus two thirty one.
Speaker 9: What if I tell you it doesn't matter and they
Speaker 9: still be DC Because I'm I'm a believer in in
Speaker 9: what would be the funniest timeline, which is Greg Burhalter
Speaker 9: winning a trophy year one in Chicago and absolutely pissing off.
Speaker 9: So many people in this country.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt, no question. I could definitely see that
Speaker 3: going down. Loon's in CF Montreal Minnesota United to minus
Speaker 3: one ninety six. CF Montreal playing their first handful of
Speaker 3: matches away from home, because otherwise you'd be playing at
Speaker 3: ice Station Zebra. Minnesota on the draw plus three twenty
Speaker 3: eight and CF Montreal to win is pushing a plus
Speaker 3: five hundred.
Speaker 4: Don't think about this. I would have misbe no.
Speaker 9: Over the numbers on this.
Speaker 3: Minnesota minus one ninety six, okay, draws of plus three
Speaker 3: twenty eight. CF Montreal's right now plus four ninety two.
Speaker 9: Man, I liked what we saw for Montreal, and they
Speaker 9: weren't even full strength, and I'd never know if I
Speaker 9: can really trust Minnesota or not. I like that plus
Speaker 9: four hundred number.
Speaker 4: Wow, Okay, just to throw it.
Speaker 9: The plus four hundred number with the team that I
Speaker 9: really liked to know. Again, keep in mind Atlanta and Minnesota,
Speaker 9: excuse me, and Montreal, we're both not at full strength
Speaker 9: last week. Yeah, Atlanta's missing both full backs, rotated the
Speaker 9: center back. You put Louis sa bram In there when
Speaker 9: we were expecting Derrick Williams. Whatever. But Montreal was also
Speaker 9: missing people in that game, like both teams are missing guys.
Speaker 9: Montreal still was just making stuff happen. Mm hmm, Yeah,
Speaker 9: I was happy with it. Like, ye give me, give
Speaker 9: me Montreal on a plus four hundred, I'll take it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, plus four ninety two, you're going to the back
Speaker 3: of the going to the back of the fridge, no problem.
Speaker 3: Eight forty Eastern at Sporting, Bruce and Peter Urmes, you
Speaker 3: want to talk about cameras that you need on the
Speaker 3: side for ISO, you need a coach cam for this one.
Speaker 3: S Yeah, there might be a Sporting is a plus
Speaker 3: one eighteen. Your draw is a plus two sixty three.
Speaker 3: San Jose on the road is a plus two o six.
Speaker 3: Now you're saying you're either leaning it for the total
Speaker 3: or you're leaning at that plus two o six.
Speaker 9: I know I'm leaning. I'm I'm I'm inclined to just
Speaker 9: just say give me San Jose and walk away from
Speaker 9: the table. Yeap, is what I'm inclined to do. John,
Speaker 9: I'm I am perpetually at this point of the timeline,
Speaker 9: in a constant state of please prove it to Peter Urmes,
Speaker 9: because there's just been issues man like and and you're
Speaker 9: anging like Alan Polito is gone. We don't have to
Speaker 9: pretend like we're waiting for Alan Palito to get healthy anymore.
Speaker 9: Mm hm No, we don't have.
Speaker 11: To do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Maddie's joining for the the craziness here.
Speaker 4: Oh no, where where are you? Ms Madison?
Speaker 1: So I'm actually waiting for Sophia because me and Sofia
Speaker 1: are about to make the drive down to Charlotte for
Speaker 1: the Land United Charlotte FC game.
Speaker 3: Okay, just just checking. So right now we are in
Speaker 3: we can whip around section. We are waiting to discuss
Speaker 3: at Land United and Charlotte. So we're blowing through matchups
Speaker 3: right now. We are in the eight thirties where Sporting
Speaker 3: and San Jose are going to be playing. And this
Speaker 3: is one, like I said, you need coach, You need
Speaker 3: a coach Iso cam on Peter Urmese and one on
Speaker 3: Bruce Arena, and then one with the interactions with the
Speaker 3: two of the angriest, most crotchety coaches in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, listen, you got Bruce Arena. You know
Speaker 1: he's back. You know, one of the winning best coaches
Speaker 1: in MLS for sure. I mean, I mean it shows
Speaker 1: with I mean what we saw on last week, I
Speaker 1: mean they're gonna be They're gonna be someone to watch
Speaker 1: out for it because I mean it was a beatdown.
Speaker 12: It was an absolute beatdown of a match. I mean,
Speaker 12: that one's gonna be fun. I'm excited to see that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm also excited because Brucerina is obviously back
Speaker 1: in MLS, and you know, that's just always fun to
Speaker 1: have Brucerina back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the way that we do, we can whip
Speaker 3: around obviously if there's a matchup that you don't want
Speaker 3: to talk about, basically just go skip it, nack, don't care, whatever,
Speaker 3: and we go to the matto.
Speaker 9: Here's the thing, though, what if I tell what if
Speaker 9: I told you John, do you remember what happened and
Speaker 9: I realized your I realized your brain might not be
Speaker 9: as broken as mine, and that's okay. Do you remember
Speaker 9: what happened Week one last year with Portland? No, okay,
Speaker 9: Week one last year Portland goes out and just absolutely
Speaker 9: takes a sledgehammer to someone's chest for ninety minutes. I
Speaker 9: forget who they beat, but the ex g was like one, yeah,
Speaker 9: like four or five goals on the board and it
Speaker 9: was like a really weird four or five goals. You're like,
Speaker 9: that's not happening again. But it's very funny in the moment. Yes,
Speaker 9: what if I told you that's what San Jose's life
Speaker 9: is like this year in debt, san Jose, you know,
Speaker 9: put up, put up a number for RSL and San
Speaker 9: Jose kind of lives somewhere in between that expectation and
Speaker 9: then the floor upon which they were set and they're
Speaker 9: just good, not amazing. Yeah, like like let us let
Speaker 9: us hold the reins of this let's hold let's hold
Speaker 9: the reins of this horse together before we go too crazy.
Speaker 1: Yes, boarding's got to come back from you know, obviously
Speaker 1: the lost in the in the first day, obviously to Austin,
Speaker 1: and then also now you know, losing to enter Miami
Speaker 1: and the CAUCAAFF Champions Cup. You know, they're hosting San Jose,
Speaker 1: so maybe that gives them a little bit.
Speaker 12: Of an edge.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, I don't know. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: much from them. Like I'm gonna be honest, like, I
Speaker 1: don't They're not really someone. I'm like, ooh, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's not a fair one, not a point, not appointment
Speaker 3: viewing for you yet Sporting Kansas City.
Speaker 12: I mean, listen if soccer's on, I'm watching soccer, so
Speaker 12: I don't listen, you know.
Speaker 3: Like yes, that's just me. Yeah, yeah, right there with you,
Speaker 3: all right. So nine to thirty Colorado and FC Dallas.
Speaker 3: Colorado's a plus one twelve draws A plus two forty nine.
Speaker 3: Fcd's a plus two twenty nine. Does anyone Does anyone care?
Speaker 9: Yeah? I care about Colorado because I care about the
Speaker 9: Chris RMIs revenge tour.
Speaker 1: True, Yeah, I mean, yeah, I would agree. I mean
Speaker 1: they're also in the same boat. They have to bounce
Speaker 1: back from, you know, the loss to LAFC, and you know,
Speaker 1: going up against FC Dallas. You know, we saw them
Speaker 1: obviously in preseason with Atlanta United, and you know, I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see like them really really in action, especially
Speaker 1: you know, it's so funny, like the first couple of
Speaker 1: like game obviously are like basically a feeling ground of
Speaker 1: like Okay, where are things going, what pieces are gonna fit?
Speaker 6: What's not?
Speaker 1: They got the tide Saint Louis, But I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I'm just see what FC Dallas does, especially with
Speaker 1: the with you know, Luca Acosta and like seeing him
Speaker 1: more in that in that scope of thing.
Speaker 12: So I don't know, It's an interesting one for sure.
Speaker 1: And also think I think all the Otter Rapids could
Speaker 1: actually make the jump and they could possibly be someone
Speaker 1: to watch out for in the West as the as
Speaker 1: the season goes on.
Speaker 3: Certifiable pain in the you know what, Uh yes, ten thirties.
Speaker 3: We got three of them, LAFC and n y CFC.
Speaker 3: LAFC is on the minus at a minus one forty one,
Speaker 3: draws an even a plus three hundred. NYC is a
Speaker 3: plus three thirty seven. Does anybody care? That sounds like
Speaker 3: a no? All right, I'll moving.
Speaker 4: Let's fine.
Speaker 3: Portland and Austin. Portland's a plus one oh four after
Speaker 3: what happened last week, draw is a plus two eighty eight.
Speaker 3: Off on the road is a plus two twenty.
Speaker 1: I mean, Portland's got to bounce back after that really
Speaker 1: really horrible loss. I mean, also, Tommy, listen, they got
Speaker 1: a red card the game. They got a red card.
Speaker 1: You know, it makes sense, you know, like you can't
Speaker 1: really gauge too much on what happened based off that,
Speaker 1: but like, I mean, they got a bounce back in
Speaker 1: front of their home their home fans again. You know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of devastating. You know, as a fan, you
Speaker 1: walk in and you know you're expecting a good game.
Speaker 12: It's first game of the match week, and then you
Speaker 12: know you have to, you know, watch that. It's it's rough.
Speaker 3: Timber, Johnny, Uh, didn't have any any work in that
Speaker 3: for Timber.
Speaker 4: Joey, Chimber, joe Joey.
Speaker 9: God you fine, I can't protect you.
Speaker 4: No, you can't. So it's fine, Timber Jesus all right,
Speaker 4: So John, thank you.
Speaker 3: All Caps otherwise known as Saint Louis City SC goes
Speaker 3: to San Diego. My first thought is what is the
Speaker 3: turf going to be like at snap Dragon? Considering you
Speaker 3: had a double header earlier in the week for She
Speaker 3: Believes Cup and it is the San Diego FC home
Speaker 3: opener at a plus one oh two draws a plus
Speaker 3: two sixty one and All Caps is a plus two
Speaker 3: forty seven.
Speaker 1: First of all, love this snap Dragon Stadium. That is
Speaker 1: my all time favorite name now for a stadium. I
Speaker 1: love it. I read it and I just can't get
Speaker 1: over it. I think it's so fun. But I this
Speaker 1: one is interesting because I was really impressed with San
Speaker 1: Diego in week one, because you know, you get a
Speaker 1: team that's very new, especially in the expansion team, you
Speaker 1: don't really expect them to come out and put like
Speaker 1: you don't expect them to come out and put something
Speaker 1: like that in their first match. But they looked like
Speaker 1: they had been a team that has been here for
Speaker 1: a while. Like they played really well, they played very cohesively.
Speaker 1: And I mean obviously too, we can't overlook the fact
Speaker 1: that they were playing against a La Galaxy team that
Speaker 1: just isn't the same La Galaxy we saw last season
Speaker 1: that won the MLS Cup. There right now, they got
Speaker 1: to find who they are without Ricky Pouche. I think
Speaker 1: that is their biggest issue. They also don't have Paincil.
Speaker 4: Right now and Jon in Kansas, so yep, like you.
Speaker 1: Gotta like figure out who they are without them. But
Speaker 1: I mean, besides that and your stryer, I think he
Speaker 1: is going to be someone.
Speaker 12: Oh he's good. And I keep thinking back, sorry, I
Speaker 12: like gripped my hands on this year.
Speaker 1: I keep thinking back to this like one, it's the
Speaker 1: it's the second goal, it's the game winner, and I
Speaker 1: just keep thinking back to the build up, like the
Speaker 1: build up from the back and then you get, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh.
Speaker 4: Three passes beautiful.
Speaker 12: It is absolutely stunning. So I'm excited yea.
Speaker 3: And so Maddy is excited about Qualcomm's brand of chip
Speaker 3: chip and that's where snap Dragon comes from.
Speaker 9: So proud of you for knowing that that's what snap
Speaker 9: Dragon is.
Speaker 4: It took some research.
Speaker 9: I can't okay. I was like, did John just know
Speaker 9: that snap Dragon is the name of a processor? From God?
Speaker 9: That's what they put in phones? Like, uh, that was
Speaker 9: a really common thing, like, especially in some of the
Speaker 9: early Android phones. They were just different snap Dragon processors. Yes,
Speaker 9: So when Android phones were like a why when it
Speaker 9: wasn't just Google doing their own hardware in house and
Speaker 9: Samsung doing their own hardware in house, when you had
Speaker 9: like HTC and Motorola and Nokia like full boar.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: I had my I had my Shoot, I had the Razor,
Speaker 3: and I had the Nokia, the little handheld Nokia that
Speaker 3: looked like a walkie talkie that was about four inches tall,
Speaker 3: that had the.
Speaker 9: Did you have the push to talk one.
Speaker 3: Did not have the push to talk, but I did
Speaker 3: have the very very small remote control looking Nokia as
Speaker 3: one of my cells. Sunday we got two Vancouver who
Speaker 3: survived Soaprissa and keep scoring. They host l a G
Speaker 3: at BC plays and they are favorite at a plus
Speaker 3: one oh two draws a plus two eighty four and
Speaker 3: LAG is a plus two twenty seven.
Speaker 1: I'll actually interrupt you. We got miss Sophia Cupertino joining them.
Speaker 1: All right, she's joining, good, excellent, welcome to the morning show.
Speaker 4: Yes, Sofia's like, yeah, whatever, don't care.
Speaker 9: I didn't sign up for this.
Speaker 3: No, Sophia's like she's Sophia is gonna actually heckle. So
Speaker 3: Maddi's got a studio audience going forward for the Remainder
Speaker 3: program and so remain I got a.
Speaker 12: Drive, John, I can't. I can't be distracted.
Speaker 9: This is Georgian. We don't do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Really, So, uh you're you're heading to the thing at
Speaker 3: Noduck correct, Yes, we are? Okay, so uh you should
Speaker 3: be getting there? Say what three o'clock for the seven
Speaker 3: o'clock start?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, so okay, yeah, all right, well not.
Speaker 12: Not tonight because it'll be for what do you what
Speaker 12: are you talking about?
Speaker 4: Didn't like a four hour drive to Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll probably get there, like you know, like
Speaker 1: three point thirty ish, especially if we like stop a.
Speaker 3: Little bit, like, isn't there Uh yeah in South Carolina?
Speaker 4: I think there is.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 12: We're going to North Carolina though, but you've.
Speaker 9: Got to go through South Carolina to get to North Carolina.
Speaker 12: Yeah that's true. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: I don't I actually don't think it's on the way.
Speaker 1: I think the last time I took it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think there is one.
Speaker 4: Hang on, see we had we had the buggies me.
Speaker 3: Look, look fine, hang on, so let's let's let's solve
Speaker 3: this issue here because if if there is BUCkies, we're
Speaker 3: gonna move. You're gonna get you there, all right. So,
Speaker 3: uh no, it's in South Carolina. Okay, So you'd have
Speaker 3: to be on the other end of the state to
Speaker 3: get to Florence South area.
Speaker 12: That's what I thought, because I thought there was one.
Speaker 1: But I think just the way that we're going, like
Speaker 1: we're just going through South Carolina, like we're not going
Speaker 1: to even.
Speaker 12: Go it like that way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now Florida, Florid problems with the state of North Carolina.
Speaker 3: But yes, so so is a Sophia gonna drive and
Speaker 3: you're gonna talk or are you driving?
Speaker 4: And Sophia is gonna heckle? What's the deal?
Speaker 9: Well, I'm I think she's just going to hang up
Speaker 9: and be a.
Speaker 12: Responsible Yes, Alas.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, would you like us to both give our thoughts
Speaker 1: on Lani United before we go?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yes, please, so that way you can put a
Speaker 4: bow on your conversation.
Speaker 12: Perfect. I mean, I'm excited. I think it's gonna be
Speaker 12: a ton of fun.
Speaker 1: Talking to Ronnie Diler this week at training, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about sea If Montreal you know,
Speaker 1: first half was great. If that's what we see all
Speaker 1: game against Charlotte, that's gonna be huge. But you can't
Speaker 1: allow like that lull in the game to happen again.
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta come out ready to go. It
Speaker 1: was just very much a lack of like a lack
Speaker 1: of just defending there, you know, like you let see
Speaker 1: if Montreal come back into it. And also too, I
Speaker 1: don't want to place full blame on Atlanta. See if
Speaker 1: Montreal played really, really well, You're now going up against
Speaker 1: Charlott team that is very different in how they play,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a little different to see, like
Speaker 1: how the five stripes can navigate that, and how this
Speaker 1: new style that they're trying to play against Charlotte, how
Speaker 1: it's gonna fare up. Because see, if Montreal was a
Speaker 1: little bit more of like high press, we're more possession based.
Speaker 1: Charlotte is kind of a little bit not like that.
Speaker 1: So I'm interested to see how it all pits together.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a really really fun game though,
Speaker 1: because especially if we get Saja.
Speaker 12: Saja might be there and he might play. We don't know,
Speaker 12: so that'll be fun.
Speaker 3: Yep, you gotta prep for it either way. So it
Speaker 3: is the game that kicks off the entire thing. Two
Speaker 3: twenty five, Saturday afternoon. Maddie and Sophia are heading up
Speaker 3: there now so they can stake their claim and annex
Speaker 3: western North Carolina for the state of Georgia for this
Speaker 3: particular matchup.
Speaker 4: Just be safe.
Speaker 3: Ladies, please and obviously follow along on all the media
Speaker 3: that is social for the two of them, and you
Speaker 3: can't miss them anywhere.
Speaker 4: What did you do? I don't know.
Speaker 12: You did this and it did fireworks?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: See, okay, so a thumbs up that two thumbs up
Speaker 3: creates fireworks on Maddie's phone.
Speaker 12: Yes, hey, it's a grand exit. John.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so two thumbs up for the both of you.
Speaker 4: So it's a thumbs up emoji and.
Speaker 9: More fire doesn't create fireworks on your end.
Speaker 4: John, No, it was not. I was trying to create
Speaker 4: it on their end.
Speaker 9: Okay, as long as you know.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we actually just like set off a couple of fireworks.
Speaker 4: Actually nice.
Speaker 9: So right at home on Tobacco Road.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you guys get to Anderson and you buy
Speaker 3: all the fireworks up, that's gonna be that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 3: So I keep an eye on all the social media
Speaker 3: for Sophia and Maddie as they head up and they're
Speaker 3: going to be part and parceled everything. So just drive safely, ladies,
Speaker 3: and we'll see you today and tomorrow on social media.
Speaker 4: Just be safe and we'll have fun and we'll hear
Speaker 4: you later. We'll do all right.
Speaker 3: There goes Maddie and Sophia. And so now that lends
Speaker 3: us to the two Sunday matchups, and that gives us
Speaker 3: the chance to talk about Vancouver briefly.
Speaker 4: And Vancouver and Lag.
Speaker 3: Vancouver favored at a plus one h two, having played
Speaker 3: last night, Lag trying to figure out their offense and
Speaker 3: figure out who's going to take over. I thought it
Speaker 3: was going to be someone like a Diego Plagundez. Hasn't
Speaker 3: quite happened yet. They're a plus two twenty seven on
Speaker 3: the road.
Speaker 9: I feel like I'm not as I feel like I'm
Speaker 9: not as worried yet about the Galaxy. What happened the
Speaker 9: other night was bad. Like it was just bad. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I don't know how else you want to call it
Speaker 9: just bad. They'll have to figure out where the magic
Speaker 9: is going to come from, since a sacer come from
Speaker 9: picky poos right now. But you still have attacking talent, yeah,
Speaker 9: Marco Rusk. You also still have the fact that San
Speaker 9: Diego was an unknown quantity of bit when the scouting
Speaker 9: report gets out, let's see what it looks like for
Speaker 9: some first time through the lineup.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm. Absolutely true.
Speaker 9: Not And this isn't to take anything away from what
Speaker 9: San Diego did because they outplayed the Galaxy. This isn't
Speaker 9: to say like, well, san Diego got lucky and don't
Speaker 9: expect that get No, like that was really damn impressive.
Speaker 9: This isn't a shot across the ballot San Diego at all.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 9: It's the first time we've really seen what those pieces
Speaker 9: look like, and it's really impressive. I want to see
Speaker 9: what everyone else does against it, and then I want
Speaker 9: to see when there's more tape on it and people
Speaker 9: start figuring out tendencies, how people adjust to it, and
Speaker 9: then how San Diego adjusts back.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's that's that's what we look for in these
Speaker 3: kinds of situations. So Vancouver favored against Lag. It's always
Speaker 3: tough for teams to travel. You got border crossings and
Speaker 3: paperwork and all this kind of stuff. So Vancouver's favored
Speaker 3: with Lag heading to BC plays.
Speaker 9: And I like Vancouver. We were talking about last night, John,
Speaker 9: I did not have Brian White becoming a Vancouver legend
Speaker 9: on my bingo card when he was just kind of
Speaker 9: scoring goals for Red Bulls, but they were kind of
Speaker 9: Red bullsy and goals. But man like I said last night,
Speaker 9: you got to get Brian White as flowers. He's been legit,
Speaker 9: man like. It's not like it's not like he just
Speaker 9: bundles home like he just like crashes the box and
Speaker 9: bundles home sloppy chances. Yeah, he's been really good for
Speaker 9: Vancouver and has made a hell of their career for
Speaker 9: himself one that anyone would give their right arm for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and considering the turnover that Vancouver's had in the
Speaker 3: off season, you lose to Armstrong and all the other
Speaker 3: goal Yeah, and so the departures that you've got to
Speaker 3: try and figure out. And so far the new coach
Speaker 3: in the system one match, limited sample size, but you're
Speaker 3: doing okay so far in both MLS and in the
Speaker 3: concak CAF hemospheric extravaganza late night or late night seven
Speaker 3: o'clock Eastern, so it means seven ten or whatever Sunday
Speaker 3: night soccer. It is Houston at Helena Schell hosting Messian Friends.
Speaker 3: And finally, the numbers flipped. Yesterday Messi and Friends were
Speaker 3: a dog. There were a dog at about a plus
Speaker 3: one sixty and the Dynamo were favored. That has flipped
Speaker 3: today in twenty four hours to wear Messi and Friends
Speaker 3: on the road or a plus one forty one, Houston
Speaker 3: is a plus one sixty eight and your draws a
Speaker 3: plus two sixty six.
Speaker 9: Okay, that's how I feel about it. Okay, Basically, this
Speaker 9: is this is now the this is the Messy Revenge
Speaker 9: Tour for when I don't know if you remember John
Speaker 9: Houston stole their US Open Cup.
Speaker 4: Why, yes they did, Thank you, Griffin Dorsey. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 9: This is this is Miami's chance at revenge.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 9: I have no idea how to read that. I had
Speaker 9: no idea what it looks like. Yeah, we shall see.
Speaker 6: Might be fun.
Speaker 9: Like I like Houston. Benny Ball's fun. Yeah, if you're
Speaker 9: if you're anti Benny Ball for whatever the hell reason,
Speaker 9: I I cannot help you.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 9: There's no reason to be anti Benny Ball. And like
Speaker 9: all those Texas teams could be fun. I mean, I
Speaker 9: think the like the one I have the most questions
Speaker 9: about is Austin. And it's not that I think Austin
Speaker 9: will be bad. It's just we just didn't really know
Speaker 9: because they were changing.
Speaker 3: So much, bringing all the dps, including Open Cup hero
Speaker 3: Brandon Vasquaz and you're you're you're dropping, you're dropping a
Speaker 3: lot of coin on folks that you're in anticipating an
Speaker 3: instant return on. By the way, the over under three
Speaker 3: and a half is where everything flips from a negative
Speaker 3: to a positive. The three and a half is a
Speaker 3: plus one forty six, and that it goes up from there.
Speaker 9: By the way, also to that point. You also have
Speaker 9: the fact that Miami has to sort out the Julian
Speaker 9: Gressell thing. Yeah, because Julian Brussel was not part of
Speaker 9: the eighteen last weekend. He was part of the eighteen
Speaker 9: for Champions Cup. Yes, for the hemispheric extravaganza. Yet's describe it.
Speaker 9: He was part of that. But he doesn't look like
Speaker 9: he's going to factor into these plans for this club
Speaker 9: with his manager.
Speaker 4: But what does that look like exactly?
Speaker 9: So I don't like, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's part of this, this part of it
Speaker 3: right now. So we'll bring in the third the third member.
Speaker 3: Who was the third man?
Speaker 4: It's Jason Man.
Speaker 9: Once again, Bobby Heenan just completely ruins that entire bit.
Speaker 4: Is he the third man?
Speaker 9: Who's is he on? So he just completely ruins what
Speaker 9: was gonna be What was an amazing heel turn. What
Speaker 9: could have been better if Bobby Heenan had just kept
Speaker 9: his damn mouth.
Speaker 3: Shut shut up, Bobby Heenan exactly the first time in
Speaker 3: his life.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: So we had gone through everything else, Jason, with all
Speaker 3: the other matchups, and we were talking about Sunday night
Speaker 3: soccer involving Houston and Messi and Friends and what it
Speaker 3: might look like. The numbers flipped in twenty four hours
Speaker 3: from Messi and Friends being an actual dog to now
Speaker 3: being a favorite at a plus one forty one.
Speaker 10: Yeah, people woke up to uh putting juice boxes on
Speaker 10: that one. I'm assuming because look, Miami should be the favorite.
Speaker 10: They were the best team in the league last year.
Speaker 10: They're really good. You know, they had a red card
Speaker 10: in Week one and they still came back and got
Speaker 10: a point out of that.
Speaker 11: This is a good team.
Speaker 10: I do wonder about the pile up of Conker caf
Speaker 10: minutes on a team that is a little bit older,
Speaker 10: and when they start to rotate, how they do that.
Speaker 10: They Cavalier sc which is a look a fairly comfortable
Speaker 10: round the sixteen matchup for them, and they get the
Speaker 10: first leg at home. So do you rotate a little
Speaker 10: bit here and just try to take care of business
Speaker 10: in the midweek. It'll be on Thursday so they have
Speaker 10: a little bit of extra time, or do you rotate
Speaker 10: next week? You know, we'll just have to wait and
Speaker 10: see how all of that plays out. But I really
Speaker 10: like this Houston team. I really like Jack McGlenn, I
Speaker 10: like what they can be. This is a big opportunity
Speaker 10: for them to plant their.
Speaker 3: Flag, no doubt about it. And that'll be Sunday Night
Speaker 3: Soccer on Apple TV. But we saved talking about it
Speaker 3: Landy United and the road trip to Charlotte for your
Speaker 3: appearance here in the last X number of minutes. How
Speaker 3: many minutes do we have you by the way, ten
Speaker 3: to twelve? Okay, so we'll take ten to twelve minutes.
Speaker 9: About a stoppage time? Great?
Speaker 4: Yes, So basically, Jared, go ahead and lead off with Jason.
Speaker 4: What's on your mind?
Speaker 9: Well, don't worry. Maddy got off the field under ten
Speaker 9: seconds so we could bring Jason in. Yeah, it was important.
Speaker 9: We had to drive that point home with her going
Speaker 9: into this game. I know the Zaha thing is the
Speaker 9: talking point for a guy who might only feature and
Speaker 9: might not start. So let's focus on the other things
Speaker 9: that we know will happen aside from Azimn being an
Speaker 9: absolute water buffalo of a person. What do you worry
Speaker 9: about in terms of the Houston offense, the Charlotte offense,
Speaker 9: the Charlotte office. Jesus Christ. Sorry, we were talking about
Speaker 9: Houston before you came on.
Speaker 10: So yeah, we're not worried about Houston. Yet maybe we
Speaker 10: won't get the MLS Cup. We'll see Atlanta and Houston.
Speaker 10: I mean with Charlotte, look, Ozimon is a huge factor.
Speaker 10: He's one of the top forwards in the league, and
Speaker 10: I think this is a year where he should become
Speaker 10: recognized as such. There's nobody in his way in Charlotte anymore.
Speaker 10: Two players that have always seemingly had big games against
Speaker 10: Atlanta United le al Abada and Ashley Westwood. I think
Speaker 10: those are two very very important players, especially Westwood in
Speaker 10: those transition moments. I think this will be a game
Speaker 10: that has a ton of those, whether it's Charlotte getting
Speaker 10: played through in the middle of the park as we
Speaker 10: saw Seattle do a few times, playing Jordan Morrison behind
Speaker 10: Latte Lott would like to see that. Miguel al Maroon
Speaker 10: would like to see that. T Saba Loo Genizza would like
Speaker 10: to see that.
Speaker 9: But I think when.
Speaker 10: Atlanta steps up to press high, they're gonna have to
Speaker 10: be better connected than they were against Montreal.
Speaker 11: At times.
Speaker 10: Montreal was able to take advantage of gaps between the lines,
Speaker 10: and that's something Atlanta's gonna have to be very aware of.
Speaker 10: As the game goes on. I think it's a communication issue.
Speaker 10: I think it's an experience playing together issue. If Almron
Speaker 10: La de la Saba step up high and press Miranchuk,
Speaker 10: either joining them or sitting right behind him, sometimes the
Speaker 10: wingers will sit a little bit back and it'll be
Speaker 10: more four four two. However that plays out when they
Speaker 10: go high, the midfield has to go high with them.
Speaker 11: The back line has to go high with them.
Speaker 10: When they don't, it's far too easy for a team
Speaker 10: to beat the first line and then have an kind
Speaker 10: of odd man rush situation. You've got to avoid those
Speaker 10: areas and when the back line needs everybody to drop
Speaker 10: a little bit more, that communication has to be there.
Speaker 10: I think if Derek Williams is able to start, that
Speaker 10: communication will be better. I think when you look at
Speaker 10: the back line last week and you have Ronald Hernandez
Speaker 10: who is very vocal on the left side, you have
Speaker 10: Luisa Bram who is not very vocal. You have Stean
Speaker 10: Gregorson who's inconsistently vocal, and you have Met Edwards making
Speaker 10: a first MLS start.
Speaker 9: The communication wasn't where.
Speaker 11: It needed to be.
Speaker 10: I would hope if Derek Williams is able to start
Speaker 10: that would improve, and you want to see other players
Speaker 10: kind of take on some of those leadership situations and
Speaker 10: speak up a little bit and if you know, look
Speaker 10: you need to catch your breath, yell at the wingers
Speaker 10: to come back and sit more in a four to
Speaker 10: four to two and have Miranchuk and Latte lot be
Speaker 10: the pressure that is a little softer. I think the
Speaker 10: other thing too, and Jared we talked about it a
Speaker 10: good bit in the Dallas game. I thought they pressed
Speaker 10: so well there without getting over committed at times against Montreal,
Speaker 10: and this is something that we've seen in home games
Speaker 10: at Mercedes Benz Stadium. You get so jacked up because
Speaker 10: of that crowd that you go and chase things, and
Speaker 10: you go and over commit in situations where you don't
Speaker 10: need to. I liked how they pressed in preseason where
Speaker 10: it wasn't as much getting stuck in for tackles and
Speaker 10: trying to win the ball on the first attempt high
Speaker 10: up the field. It was take the passing lanes away,
Speaker 10: make the opponent either play backwards, where then you can
Speaker 10: amplify the pressure or force a more difficult pass because
Speaker 10: you're taking passing options away and you win the ball
Speaker 10: that way. I think that's the more effective way and
Speaker 10: a little more controlled. I think we might see that
Speaker 10: on the road more, where the crowd will affect you,
Speaker 10: but not in the And I know it's not negative
Speaker 10: that the home crowd gets you so jacked up and
Speaker 10: amped up, but it can make you make some bad
Speaker 10: decisions at times, and I think on the road you.
Speaker 4: Won't have that.
Speaker 10: In this you'll have a different kind of pressure, and
Speaker 10: I think it might suit Atlanta a little bit better.
Speaker 3: I was going to ask, how far back is the
Speaker 3: record where the road team has won in this series.
Speaker 4: Atlanta's one up there to last two.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you have the three the three goal shal lacking
Speaker 9: two years ago, and then you had last year where
Speaker 9: Jay got the game winner, where Atlanta outplayed well Atlanta
Speaker 9: and barrass Charlie in Charlotte.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and then Charlotte one and Mercedes Benz and triggered
Speaker 10: a whole series of events. So look, it's it's these
Speaker 10: the road teams the last what four times? Then ye
Speaker 10: have once two times, last two games, just two years,
Speaker 10: sorry sorry, last two years, last four games. Yeah, it's
Speaker 10: it's been. It's an interesting one because there'll be a
Speaker 10: lot of people in the building. You know, I I
Speaker 10: hear the conversation out of Charlotte, and I hear the
Speaker 10: conversation out of some other folks, like, ah, forty five
Speaker 10: thousand tickets sold as of yesterday, that's that's disappointing. Man,
Speaker 10: What a world we live in When it's disappointing, you know, like,
Speaker 10: they're gonna be fine, They're gonna have a big crowd.
Speaker 10: It'll be fifty thousand plus, no question. Yeah, that's not
Speaker 10: a disappointment in anybody's book. But there'll be a lot
Speaker 10: of Atlanta United fans there, and that's something where you know,
Speaker 10: we talked about it a lot last year. Being at
Speaker 10: home is pressure in a very different way. And I
Speaker 10: think at times, with these kinds of crowds, being at
Speaker 10: home and trying to entertain and again maybe over committing,
Speaker 10: over extending yourself, at times it can be hard to
Speaker 10: deal with.
Speaker 9: And I think it takes.
Speaker 10: A really top team to be able to manage that.
Speaker 10: At home, rise to the occasion, entertain your fans, because
Speaker 10: there's an obligation. Look, you got fifty thousand in the building,
Speaker 10: there's an obligation to put on a show.
Speaker 9: You got sixty five.
Speaker 3: Nope, no, oh, I think we lost folks, Jarrett. You here, Jason,
Speaker 3: we lost them all.
Speaker 4: This is just me.
Speaker 3: I guess, okay, that's Jarrett. What you there, Jason. I
Speaker 3: don't know what happened. I legitimately do not know what happened.
Speaker 3: Jason was in the middle of a conversation and uh,
Speaker 3: there goes Jarrett. So I think Jarrett might try and
Speaker 3: log back on.
Speaker 4: No, And so.
Speaker 3: Jason's in the middle of a great point and then
Speaker 3: something happened. I blame technology. I blame me. Okay, I
Speaker 3: blame me. I don't know what happened. So Jason was
Speaker 3: in the middle of a great point and about fifty
Speaker 3: thousand folks being there, and I know that there's going
Speaker 3: to be a lot of you there, and yeah, Ricky's like,
Speaker 3: couldn't the how just spend the weekend child bonding? Yeah, well,
Speaker 3: I'm it's uh, it will be interesting to see how
Speaker 3: many minutes he plays. All right, so Jarrett, take two,
Speaker 3: take two. Wow, I don't know what happened. Yeah, Hi, Right,
Speaker 3: It's like Jason was in the middle of the point
Speaker 3: about fifty thousand folks and then it's like silent, and
Speaker 3: then you weren't and he wasn't, and I'm like, and
Speaker 3: then who then who am I here?
Speaker 9: By?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Well, and now he's back. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 3: I blame technology. You were on a great point about
Speaker 3: fifty thousand folks.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I guess I got too excited and my phone
Speaker 10: overheated for a minute.
Speaker 11: So we'll try not to have that happen.
Speaker 9: Did he catch though?
Speaker 11: It did not catch on fire?
Speaker 3: But I'm also in the cult now and I'm a
Speaker 3: little disappointed that it overheated and dropped me from the line.
Speaker 3: But that's what happens when you're talking about big crowds
Speaker 3: and all these things.
Speaker 4: So look, you gotta handle it.
Speaker 10: You got you gotta deal with it and manage putting
Speaker 10: on a show with getting results and following the game plan.
Speaker 11: We'll see if Charlotte can deal.
Speaker 10: With that, because I think the discussion for them was
Speaker 10: really similar to what it was here in Atlanta. After
Speaker 10: what's a good result? You know, you go to Seattle
Speaker 10: and you get a point. That's a really good result.
Speaker 10: But there was a lot of disappointment in the way
Speaker 10: the team played on the whole Atlanta night. He gets
Speaker 10: a win at home, good result, A lot of disappointment
Speaker 10: about how that second half went. So it's two teams
Speaker 10: that are gonna want to not just get the result,
Speaker 10: but to play better. And I'm curious which way of
Speaker 10: playing wins out.
Speaker 3: Jared, what else is on your mind with Jason before
Speaker 3: we get out of here, before he gets out of
Speaker 3: here first?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I guess in looking at at what went wrong
Speaker 8: for them in that Seattle game and looking at the
Speaker 8: way this team is constructed, how much does that game
Speaker 8: getting stretched out in the speed become a potential problem
Speaker 8: for a team in Charlotte who.
Speaker 9: Let's be honest, it might not might not sit on
Speaker 9: the ball as much as other teams that were you
Speaker 9: might see.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm really curious to see how Charlotte plays this
Speaker 10: because I think if they play too high of a
Speaker 10: line defensively, they're gonna get shredded. And we've seen that
Speaker 10: before in this matchup, and Atlanta's faster than they've been before.
Speaker 10: So you think back to Caleb Wiley's big day in Charlotte,
Speaker 10: You've gotta be aware of that if you are Charlotte FC.
Speaker 10: So does that mean Dean Smith concedes because possession a
Speaker 10: little bit more? Does that mean that he sits a
Speaker 10: little bit deeper and looks to play on the counter,
Speaker 10: as they've had success at Mercedes Benz Stadium. I would
Speaker 10: think that would make sense, but then you're back to
Speaker 10: that whole conversation about the obligation to entertain. I'm very
Speaker 10: curious to see how Dean Smith approaches it. If Tim
Speaker 10: reams at left back, that can create a little bit
Speaker 10: of a green light situation for Atlanta to run at him.
Speaker 11: But you're talking about Matt Edwards having the confidence to.
Speaker 10: Do it, and he's gonna need to get high up
Speaker 10: the field because we know al Maroon's gonna cut inside.
Speaker 11: So you need to get a little more width in
Speaker 11: this game.
Speaker 10: If you're Atlanta to take advantage off Charlotte, sits back deeper.
Speaker 10: If Charlotte plays a high line, look for the ball
Speaker 10: over the top, look for the through ball all day long.
Speaker 11: Make them drop and then you can play.
Speaker 10: It might be one of those games, Jared, where Charlotte
Speaker 10: is a little conservative early on, you try to play
Speaker 10: over the top and you force them further back. Miranschuk
Speaker 10: might not touch the ball often for the first ten
Speaker 10: to fifteen to twenty minutes, but once you force them back,
Speaker 10: then he's gonna have a lot of space to play,
Speaker 10: and I think that's a cycle that we'll see Atlanta
Speaker 10: do a good bit this season where you just scare
Speaker 10: the Bejesus out of the opponent with that ball over
Speaker 10: the top and latte a lot speed and then they
Speaker 10: drop and then you can play to Miranschuk with a
Speaker 10: lot of space around him.
Speaker 3: All right, one more question before you get out here
Speaker 3: comes from Ricky. How do the center backs properly defend
Speaker 3: ou Jamunk.
Speaker 10: You're not gonna shut him down entirely, it's just impossible.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 10: You want to find the balance of having help without
Speaker 10: taking away help from other talented players. I mean, Carowin, Vargas,
Speaker 10: Lee Labada, pet Biel. You don't want them in one
Speaker 10: v one situations. Wilfrid Za when he comes on, you
Speaker 10: don't want him in one v one situations. So you
Speaker 10: want to have that balancing act between as Gregorson talked
Speaker 10: about this week, kind of bracketing him, and that might
Speaker 10: be Sleep dropping back a little bit to be in
Speaker 10: front of Ajimon on long ball situations, for example, and
Speaker 10: having somebody behind him. But you don't want the two
Speaker 10: center backs to be in that spot too. Often because
Speaker 10: then you don't have cover, and you got to make
Speaker 10: sure you have cover. We've seen that Lee Labada have
Speaker 10: big days against Atlanta.
Speaker 11: You don't want to get him going.
Speaker 10: Zaha's gonna play, I would assume. I just don't know
Speaker 10: how much you know. Can he start and give you
Speaker 10: forty five? Does it come off the bench and give
Speaker 10: you more like thirty? When he comes in, you're gonna
Speaker 10: have to be aware of that. And he's going to
Speaker 10: run at people all day. So you can't get so
Speaker 10: focused on Ajimon that you do it at the expense
Speaker 10: of being disciplined and responsible defensively.
Speaker 11: It's not Eavey.
Speaker 10: I think maybe the more important thing is you think
Speaker 10: a lot about how you deny service and you don't
Speaker 10: let the ball get played into Ajimon.
Speaker 11: And that's gonna be through the pressure.
Speaker 10: You know, if you're gonna have moments where you step
Speaker 10: up and press and are committed, the entire group has
Speaker 10: to be committed. You can't be fifty to fifty in
Speaker 10: the kind of pressure that Atlanta United wants to use.
Speaker 11: Defensively, You've got.
Speaker 10: To all go and knowing that ball could get played
Speaker 10: over the top and you're gonna be running and chasing
Speaker 10: Gregorson can run and chase.
Speaker 11: He's got the ability, he's got the pace to do it.
Speaker 10: But you've got to be fully committed to whatever that
Speaker 10: individual sequence of play is. And you can't get too
Speaker 10: hung up on Ajimon and lose Abata and lose bl
Speaker 10: who I really like, Pep bl and lose Zaha when
Speaker 10: he's on the field. You can't let them get one
Speaker 10: v one situations to try to deal so much with Ajimon.
Speaker 3: All right, I know you've got to get out of here.
Speaker 3: Travel playing plans in Charlotte and broadcast plans tomorrow.
Speaker 10: Travel plans will be making the trip up to Charlotte
Speaker 10: on the very long flight from Atlanta to Charlotte. That'll
Speaker 10: be coming up in a little bit this afternoon tomorrow.
Speaker 10: Pregame coverage we'll start at one o'clock on ninety two
Speaker 10: nine the game and the Audissey app a, Gordon Nick
Speaker 10: Aleefy on the pregame show. Mike Conti and myself will
Speaker 10: be in Charlotte. We'll catch up with Garth loggerway around
Speaker 10: one thirty ish a little bit before that. Kick off
Speaker 10: isn't until two twenty five. Thanks to our friends at
Speaker 10: Fox we'll have the call, we'll have the postgame show,
Speaker 10: Nick and Abe, we'll be back in the studio.
Speaker 11: We'll have audio from Charlotte.
Speaker 10: From myself and from Madison Cruz, and then.
Speaker 11: We'll be all making our way back to Atlanta. Make
Speaker 11: sure you're following soccer down here as well.
Speaker 10: We'll have photos from Sophia Coopertino and lots of commentary
Speaker 10: from the crew.
Speaker 3: As always, it's great to hear from you, my friend.
Speaker 3: Just be safe and have a great call, be listening
Speaker 3: why and all the things will catch up with you soon.
Speaker 4: Audio to everybody there goes d os for Jason.
Speaker 3: So Jason catches the the the incredibly long flight from
Speaker 3: Atlanta to Charlotte.
Speaker 4: And uh, hey, that's a hole man, it is that
Speaker 4: is true. I will admit this about Douglas International.
Speaker 3: It is one of the first airports that I saw
Speaker 3: in all of my travel in my history where there
Speaker 3: were stores that sold intimate items in an airport, and
Speaker 3: that was at Douglas.
Speaker 4: That was the first place I saw.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I was like, okay, this is an odd
Speaker 3: this is odd stuff to sell in an airport.
Speaker 4: And they all.
Speaker 9: Brought to you back and brought to you by American
Speaker 9: airlines because A is a hub up there, and like,
Speaker 9: if you want to fly out of Charlotte usually.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you fly in either AA or uh you know,
Speaker 3: uh freaking US are a Time and United. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it isn't a American hub.
Speaker 9: But yeah, you tell the children about Value Jet.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh my god, Uh so that was a yeah,
Speaker 3: that too, granof all of those. But yeah, and Douglas
Speaker 3: International is not a metropolitan airport.
Speaker 4: It is it is.
Speaker 3: It is in the forest. I mean, it's like when
Speaker 3: you're when you're flying into Charlotte, you see downtown Charlotte
Speaker 3: and you're like, oh, there's a lot of green space
Speaker 3: between downtown and the airport. So yeah, there's it is
Speaker 3: not it is not right in the international area of
Speaker 3: the downtown area or close to functioning businesses there. But yeah,
Speaker 3: first place I ever saw intimates for sale inside of
Speaker 3: an airport was in Charlotte. Uh do not, So I
Speaker 3: don't know. Uh, let's see Hid to Ricky, Hi to David,
Speaker 3: and Hi to Alex Hid Jordan. Jordan is going to
Speaker 3: be heading up there. Jordan's also got his predictions, bitch
Speaker 3: for not just this match, but the Sunday matches as well, Jared,
Speaker 3: what else is on your mind?
Speaker 4: Mind? Are you irish? Goodbye at some point?
Speaker 9: Probably? Okay, that's just kind of the way the nature
Speaker 9: of the universe is and all that jazz. Yeah, I
Speaker 9: guess the rest of it is, you know, fun weekend. Again,
Speaker 9: My concert reminder is to still remember that we don't
Speaker 9: know what teams are necessarily gonna look like because of
Speaker 9: the the Internet, the hemispheric extravaganza that it is. Yeah,
Speaker 9: you know, so don't don't read these early season games,
Speaker 9: especially for teams that are playing in the Hemispheric Extravaganza
Speaker 9: twenty two far into the results. Yes, it's gonna be okay,
Speaker 9: and it's a long season.
Speaker 3: Yes, so the the the randomness of what happens, just
Speaker 3: because it happens in a small sample size does not
Speaker 3: mean that it is going to be a continued sample
Speaker 3: and then anticipation of.
Speaker 4: Results for the twenty twenty five season. So uh, it's
Speaker 4: gonna be.
Speaker 3: Yes, get your fantasy lineups in, get your fantasy pick,
Speaker 3: your fantasy pick, your fantasy pick, your fantasy get that too,
Speaker 3: and I might have to look at it and a
Speaker 3: just and see if there's anything. Yes, and Ricky with
Speaker 3: the PSA and Jared with the PSA about fantasy lineups
Speaker 3: as well, So uh yes, yes, yes, yeah, Ropes they are.
Speaker 3: Nick is a part of the rotation this year. Ropes
Speaker 3: is like they're letting Nick on the radio. They absolutely are,
Speaker 3: And that's part of the rotation for nine game and
Speaker 3: the Odyssey app this year is that it's going to
Speaker 3: be a cast of thousands and it's gonna be Jared
Speaker 3: when he can, Nick when he can, Maddie on road games,
Speaker 3: and me and the home games as many of those
Speaker 3: as humanly possible. So now it's gonna be fun this year,
Speaker 3: and Abe's gonna Abes's head's gonna have to be on
Speaker 3: a swivel trying to figure out, okay, who's who's with
Speaker 3: me this week and then have to dance with all that.
Speaker 3: But no, it's been it's been fun so far, and
Speaker 3: thankful for everyone that was involved in that process to
Speaker 3: unleash the hounds, as it were, and unleash the fury.
Speaker 3: So we're all in your ears when it comes to
Speaker 3: pre and post this year. So very very cool stuff
Speaker 3: on that in that regard. But yeah, they are letting
Speaker 3: Nick on the radio, so very very cool stuff there.
Speaker 3: Let me see if there's like news and things. I'm
Speaker 3: trying to think if there's anything else that's on the
Speaker 3: board that I might have missed this morning. Heading in
Speaker 3: Brighton apparently has as printed for twenty three twenty four
Speaker 3: a massive profit the neighborhood of is seventy four million pounds. Liverpool,
Speaker 3: on the other side, they recorded a fifty seven million
Speaker 3: pound loss after missing Champions League. So for Brighton a
Speaker 3: lot of it had to do with selling players like
Speaker 3: Moist's Cacedo, And for Liverpool, you invest in all that stuff,
Speaker 3: you don't make Champions League and you get the prices right,
Speaker 3: loser horn when it comes to your bottom line.
Speaker 9: Look, my favorite thing has been someone pointing out that
Speaker 9: that Liverpool very likely to win the Premier League with
Speaker 9: like with like fifteen fewer points than Klopp had when
Speaker 9: he lost it. Yes's watching this like pulling his hair out.
Speaker 9: It's not to take anything away from smooth and what
Speaker 9: he's done, but likes like, yah, we put up ninety
Speaker 9: something points and couldn't win the damn league. He might
Speaker 9: win it with eighty five.
Speaker 3: Yes, and that I mean that shows you where the
Speaker 3: pack is coming. And it's like not the top is
Speaker 3: coming back to the pack as opposed to the other
Speaker 3: way around. Ricky has a question a better invasion SDH
Speaker 3: or WCW.
Speaker 9: Well, we haven't hamstrung the We haven't hamstrung a bunch
Speaker 9: of people in the on on our side of the
Speaker 9: invasion yet uh And man, Vince hamstrung a lot of
Speaker 9: the WW people. Yes, like, go back and look at
Speaker 9: what they like DDP was was so far over it
Speaker 9: wasn't even funny. In w CW. Go look at what
Speaker 9: Vince did with him in WWE like didn't know what
Speaker 9: like Russo screwed up a lot of things WW in
Speaker 9: the Nine Days. Go look at like how they just
Speaker 9: but go look at how w W butchered the deployment
Speaker 9: of a number of the w CW stars. And that
Speaker 9: doesn't and this isn't to say Goldberg, because Goldberg, like
Speaker 9: Bill Bill Goldberg, had like three moves and one of
Speaker 9: them was into that guy's career.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm. And just ask Brett hard about that.
Speaker 9: Brett will tell you. You don't have to ask him. He'll
Speaker 9: tell you I'm prompting. Hell yeah, he'll volunteer that information. Brother, Yeah.
Speaker 8: Man, Like w.
Speaker 9: WW butchered a bunch of those ww guys who could
Speaker 9: have been not to say like you could you would
Speaker 9: have like had them being the best of the best
Speaker 9: and guys carrying the company for fifteen years. But you
Speaker 9: had guys who could have been really valuable pieces for
Speaker 9: w W E they just they just am fested it man.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 3: That that and the uh that in the when E
Speaker 3: c W was bought out and you tried to do
Speaker 3: the the invasion angle with them too.
Speaker 4: So I mean it was it was it was an
Speaker 4: adventure to say the very least. Uh. So, what are
Speaker 4: your plans this weekend, sir?
Speaker 9: I have children's birthday parties for the next two weekends,
Speaker 9: including my own. So there's that.
Speaker 4: M yeah, okay, god speak, God speak challenger.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's that's so. Actually, I won't be at the
Speaker 9: game next weekend because I will be uh we'll be
Speaker 9: executing my own child's birthday party.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well okay, so so yeah, so how was your child's
Speaker 3: birthday party? How are you How do you feel about
Speaker 3: the execution of your child's birthday party?
Speaker 9: I'm for right, yeah, like, well, next weekend, I'll see
Speaker 9: what happens. Yeah, so that's like my next two weeks
Speaker 9: are my child's birthday, other people's children's birthday, so that
Speaker 9: that's that's pretty and then like soccer when I can, yes,
Speaker 9: that that is my existence right now, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so and mine will be once again Monday Tuesday.
Speaker 3: Everything's normal. Then Wednesday, Thursday Friday from the Hotel Room
Speaker 3: in Macon, so that is that is normal. We still
Speaker 3: have some news and some updates to get into. But
Speaker 3: since Jarrett was talking scheduling, it is Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Speaker 3: from the Hotel Room in Macon. Basketball Championships, So I
Speaker 3: won't even be at the Red Bulls and Atlanta United
Speaker 3: match because I will be in Macon for the last
Speaker 3: day of the High School Basketball Championships on GPP, So
Speaker 3: that'll be That'll be all that is paired up with that.
Speaker 3: But no, so morning show will be normal. The only
Speaker 3: thing we're still trying to figure out next week is
Speaker 3: in session and how that might.
Speaker 9: Have to have Maddie crept my credential for me because
Speaker 9: I still don't have it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was sick.
Speaker 9: Last weekend and and then you know, not being there
Speaker 9: next weekend because of the birthday party. I have to
Speaker 9: have somebody crab.
Speaker 4: My credential for me still have it. Yes, absolutely true.
Speaker 3: By the way, the Liverpool lost, they paid Clop and
Speaker 3: his staff nine point six million pounds out the door,
Speaker 3: so almost twenty percent of the fifty seven million pound
Speaker 3: loss was paying Jurgen Clop in the salaries. So all
Speaker 3: of that Will Morning Russo and Donn holding WWE back
Speaker 3: still went crazy. Imagine people knew what they were doing
Speaker 3: instead of watching Yes, uh and uh so Ricky, it
Speaker 3: gets May in June and for us it is June
Speaker 3: and so yeah club World Cup and then it's like
Speaker 3: birthdays and everything. So all of that that that is
Speaker 3: a part of it, all right. So other news and
Speaker 3: things before we get out of here. We mentioned Liverpool
Speaker 3: reporting that fifty seven million pound loss paid Klop and
Speaker 3: his staff nine point six million pounds as a part
Speaker 3: of that deal. Kevin Thelwell, the director of football at Everton,
Speaker 3: is leaving the club as a part of the restructuring
Speaker 3: when his contract expires at the end of the season.
Speaker 3: Freedkin Group are looking to put their own stamp on
Speaker 3: the club. The Premier League is also stepping up their
Speaker 3: war with the players Union. According to The Times in
Speaker 3: Matt Lawton and Martin Ziggler, when you got more than
Speaker 3: one byline, that's never good news. Lawton and Ziggler ready
Speaker 3: to escalate the legal battle with the PFA, so this month,
Speaker 3: the PFA issued a legal threat to the Premier League,
Speaker 3: challenging the proposed introduction of the new financial rules, which
Speaker 3: could include a system that limits how much clubs can
Speaker 3: spend on transfer fees, agent fees and player wages. The union,
Speaker 3: which has the support of United and CITE, accused the
Speaker 3: league of a flagrant breach of an agreement in which
Speaker 3: the PFA must be consulted on matters that impact players
Speaker 3: pay in conditions under a body which has been in
Speaker 3: place for decades called the Professional Football Negotiation at a
Speaker 3: Consultative Committee, the PFNCC. The committee comprises reps of the PFA,
Speaker 3: the FA, and the Premier League in the EFL, but
Speaker 3: at a meeting of the clubs in the Premier League
Speaker 3: last week, Richard Masters said it may now consider leaving
Speaker 3: the PFNCC. It was the body was established to protect players,
Speaker 3: ensuring that substantive changes to player contracts and conditions cannot
Speaker 3: be made unilaterally, giving each organization represented on the committee
Speaker 3: the right of veto. But Masters told the clubs the
Speaker 3: dispute with the PFA may have to be resolved in arbitration,
Speaker 3: with the Premier League challenging the Players Union's rights to veto.
Speaker 3: Masters then said if such a move failed, quitting the
Speaker 3: committee altogether would be an option that they could consider.
Speaker 3: It's also understood that Masters reminded clubs the Premier League
Speaker 3: remains the principal funder of the Players Union, with the
Speaker 3: present five year deal thought to be worth an excess
Speaker 3: of twenty five million pounds a season. So among the
Speaker 3: proposed changes to the rules is the anchoring system, under
Speaker 3: which no Premier League club would be permitted to spend
Speaker 3: more on wages, transfers and agent fees then a multiple
Speaker 3: of the broadcast and prize money earned by the club
Speaker 3: who finished at the bottom of the league. That multipliers
Speaker 3: thought to be five times, and there was a desire
Speaker 3: to run it from next season, only for cities legal
Speaker 3: victory in the sponsorship rules to ruin any chance of
Speaker 3: that they're going to run in shadow. Eighteen clubs voted
Speaker 3: in favor of the trial, the two Manchester clubs voted
Speaker 3: against it, and those clubs and there may be others
Speaker 3: joining them see anchoring as a further means of trying
Speaker 3: to limit spending as well as impacting the players, and
Speaker 3: that once was blocked once before, back in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 3: so that you got involving the Premier League and the
Speaker 3: players' union, So you got to keep an eye on
Speaker 3: that going forward as well. Also other news once again
Speaker 3: will do gossip, bermannu indo, what to watch, where to
Speaker 3: watch it, how to watch it, all those kinds of
Speaker 3: things before we get out of here. A lot of
Speaker 3: folks are now saying, after what happened yesterday watching Lester
Speaker 3: that they're probably going to get relegated, not a surprise,
Speaker 3: that they really don't have a whole lot of a
Speaker 3: whole lot of offense and it's, you know, it's kind
Speaker 3: of a painful watch. Sorry, Nick's Jose Mourinho banned and
Speaker 3: fined thirty five thousand pounds for his comments after the
Speaker 3: Istanbul Darby. Fenerbace manager Jose Mourinho handed a four match
Speaker 3: penalty after what he said in the after the Galatasarai match,
Speaker 3: who accused the Portuguese coach of making racist statements. Mourinho
Speaker 3: had said the Galatasarai bench were quote jumping like monkeys
Speaker 3: end quote following an early challenge, and also said the
Speaker 3: fixture was better for being refereed by Slovenian slavco vincage
Speaker 3: rather than Turkish officials after both clubs requested a foreign appointment.
Speaker 3: Following the accusations of racism. Did he a drog but
Speaker 3: came to the defense of his old coach and his
Speaker 3: dad as he refers to him.
Speaker 4: Mourinho so.
Speaker 3: A Drogba came to his coach's defense. On social media,
Speaker 3: Galatasarai had outlined their intention remember to initiate criminal proceedings
Speaker 3: concerning the racist statements made by Jose. Mourinho claimed he
Speaker 3: made derogatory statements directed toward the Turkish people. Thursday, the
Speaker 3: Turkish Football Fed released decisions taken by their disciplinary board
Speaker 3: imposing sanctions on the boss for two separate, separate disciplinary matters.
Speaker 3: Marinho had the TFF said, come to the referees room
Speaker 3: and directed his derogatory and offensive statements in quotation marks
Speaker 3: toward the fourth official, who was Turkish. The Portuguese coach
Speaker 3: also quote accused Turkish football of chaos and disorder with
Speaker 3: insulting the offensive statements towards both the Turkish football community
Speaker 3: and all Turkish referees end quote period, actions and statements
Speaker 3: that insulted the brand value of football activities taken into
Speaker 3: consideration decision of a two match ban from both the
Speaker 3: dressing room and touchline, as well as a fine of
Speaker 3: one hundred and seventeen thousand Turkish lira or the equivalent
Speaker 3: of twenty five hundred pounds and so the post match
Speaker 3: press conferences the TFF came out with another statement as such,
Speaker 3: a fine of a million and a half Turkish lira
Speaker 3: imposed alongside the other two mansan so not in the
Speaker 3: dugout for Antalia Spor, Samson Sport Buldrum and traps On Spor. Galatasaray,
Speaker 3: who lead Fenerbacchi by six at the top of the
Speaker 3: Super League would add a fifth start to the crest
Speaker 3: if they secure a twenty fifth league title this season. Man,
Speaker 3: there's a lot to that. I'm trying to see if
Speaker 3: there's anything else that I have missed.
Speaker 4: Let's see.
Speaker 3: The European Commission has confirmed the spanishly complaint over Manchester
Speaker 3: City that we talked about in the first half hour
Speaker 3: of the show, and apparently the pressure is increasing on
Speaker 3: rud van Nisselroy after the Lester loss yesterday, let's see
Speaker 3: women's football, European football. We had the drogwak comment. Okay,
Speaker 3: what's to watch? Where to watch it, how to watch it? Gossip,
Speaker 3: rumor and innuendo. Before we get out of here, we'll
Speaker 3: let you know what's going on on your Friday, all right.
Speaker 3: Marcus Rashford apparently is up for a permanent move to Villa,
Speaker 3: prepared to turn the g Ananuary loan into one that's
Speaker 3: reported by the Three Letter Paper. Take the information at
Speaker 3: your own peril. Barsa and Byron also keeping tabs on Rashford.
Speaker 3: Liverpool have a growing interest in Alexander Isach. Arsenal remained
Speaker 3: keen on a move for him as well. Arsenal may
Speaker 3: have to sell Andro Troussard or Gabriel Martinelli to fund
Speaker 3: a summer rebuild, both players' targets for clubs in the
Speaker 3: league that we neither condone, endorsement or promote. Victor Osimhen
Speaker 3: is keen on a transfer to Manchester United, although they
Speaker 3: will need to overcome a couple of other clubs. Who's
Speaker 3: inn oceman is on lone at Galatasara from Napoli. Manchester
Speaker 3: United prepared to offload Rasmus Hoyland to get Osamhen it's
Speaker 3: from Kaucho Marcato. Chelsea remained keen on the possibility of
Speaker 3: signing Dortmund winger Kareem at A Yemi, who's valued at
Speaker 3: forty five million Europe. Also, Manchester City keen to sign
Speaker 3: a keeper to replace Ederson. They're in talks with Porto
Speaker 3: over a move for Diego Costa. Bayern Munich have with
Speaker 3: drawn their offer of a new contract to Yoshua Kimmick
Speaker 3: after becoming frustrated with his hesitant to extend the deal.
Speaker 3: Barcelona expressed an interest in Rafa Lao. Newcastle pursuing a
Speaker 3: deal to sign Burnley keeper James Trafford. And we mentioned
Speaker 3: the whole idea about the two separate transfer windows, because
Speaker 3: you can't do ninety minutes as a block. You could
Speaker 3: have an exceptional window with the club World Cup and
Speaker 3: you could have a second one that is attached to
Speaker 3: that as well. Now, Soccer America, what to watch, where
Speaker 3: to watch it, how to watch it. We'll let you
Speaker 3: know what's going on and what it can be like
Speaker 3: today because tomorrow it's going to be all MLS all
Speaker 3: the time, I would imagine.
Speaker 4: So here we go and Yeah.
Speaker 3: Ricky says he's found that Rashford has found something really
Speaker 3: good at Villa.
Speaker 4: He should stay all right.
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Speaker 3: and it help helps out the network, helps out them,
Speaker 3: helps out us, and it really does continue to turn
Speaker 3: you into a true degenerate watching things from all around
Speaker 3: the planet.
Speaker 4: Jason got me hooked.
Speaker 3: I blame him being an espanol a simulcasting ESPN Deporte
Speaker 3: says via the lead Los Palmas at three Fox Deportis
Speaker 3: has the league that we neither can done. Endorse Norm
Speaker 3: promoted to o'clock, Al Nasser is playing it too. Two
Speaker 3: to an Alliga, Mki's at ten o'clock, Mazatlan and CRUs
Speaker 3: Asoul on the plus the Belgian Pro League, including a
Speaker 3: matchup with Charle Ra and Yank It to forty. Villa
Speaker 3: and Cardiff on the FA Cup will go through the
Speaker 3: juice boxes in a second.
Speaker 4: That's at three.
Speaker 3: Bundesliga Stuttgart and Bayern it two twenty Bundesliga b do
Speaker 3: Fortuna dusldor from Gruth to Firth at twelve thirty by
Speaker 3: the leading lost Palmis is at three, Paramount plus has
Speaker 3: Siria Fiorentina and Letcha at two forty five.
Speaker 4: Okay, Now FA Cup odds and things.
Speaker 3: Villa big favorite today against Cardiff at of minus five
Speaker 3: hundred four. Matches Tomorrow two at seven fifteen in the
Speaker 3: morning if you're up that early. Crystal Palace big favorite
Speaker 3: against Millwall. Millwall's basically a plus one thousand. Preston North
Speaker 3: End is a dog at home to Burnley. Burnley's a
Speaker 3: plus one twenty nine. Preston North End theo plus two
Speaker 3: forty three ten o'clock Bournemouth hosting Wolves at a minus
Speaker 3: one thirty three twelve forty five. Manchester City a minus
Speaker 3: sixteen sixty seven in the composite as they host Plymouth
Speaker 3: Argyle on Sunday two. Matches eight forty five. Newcastle favored
Speaker 3: of a plus one fourteen against Brighton at a plus
Speaker 3: two eleven Manchester United at a plus one forty two
Speaker 3: favored against Fulham at a plus one eighty eight. Monday
Speaker 3: Night FA Cup Nottingham Forest and Ipswich Forest is a
Speaker 3: minus one forty one. Ipswich a plus three sixty five
Speaker 3: ninety minute draw is a plus two eighty nine. Catch
Speaker 3: your breath now also on the board, and let's see
Speaker 3: what did we miss? Okay, tricky transfer of veto Roque,
Speaker 3: according to the Athletic, leaving Barsolt for Paul Maris a
Speaker 3: twenty one million pound fee will turn a profit on
Speaker 3: the striker. And figures released by US Soccer revealed that
Speaker 3: the women's national team head coach black Coo and Danofski
Speaker 3: earned a higher summer at a higher salary in his
Speaker 3: last nine months on the job than Greg Burholter. So
Speaker 3: that's out there as well, and that is at the Athletics.
Speaker 3: So I think that takes care of everything for a Friday.
Speaker 3: Remember tonight, tonight tonight whoa it is your activity with
Speaker 3: high school soccer presented by our friends at Kaiser Permanente,
Speaker 3: and with the Kaiser Permanente and our high school soccer coverage,
Speaker 3: it is going to be West Fordscyth at Lambert the
Speaker 3: matches at six and eight and I'll have those for
Speaker 3: you on our Mixler channel Soccer down here dot Mixler
Speaker 3: dot com. It'll be good to catch up with those
Speaker 3: two programs once again. Six o'clock for the girls, eight
Speaker 3: o'clock for the boys. Soccer down here dot Mixler dot com,
Speaker 3: and we'll have those two matches for you as a
Speaker 3: part of our high school coverage. Next week, we're going
Speaker 3: to have Harrison and Walton. That one is on Tuesday
Speaker 3: from Raider Valley. We'll have that doubleheader for you, and
Speaker 3: we might have another game as well on the fourth.
Speaker 4: We'll keep an eye out for that one.
Speaker 3: Remember the GA one hundred project is going on I
Speaker 3: think Tuesday in Dalton. We might have a match that's
Speaker 3: tied to that city. Keep your ears out posted for that.
Speaker 3: But Drew Dickinson will be on the call for Harrison
Speaker 3: and Walton on Tuesday with those matchups at Raider Valley,
Speaker 3: assembling that information as we go, So once again, keep
Speaker 3: an eye out. Maybe more than one broadcast going on
Speaker 3: with our high school coverage presented by our friends at
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Speaker 3: Lambert for having us be there and letting us broadcast
Speaker 3: the matches tonight tomorrow. Remember it is one o'clock pre
Speaker 3: game ninety two nine the game in the Odyssey app.
Speaker 3: It is Abe, it is Nick, and they are going
Speaker 3: to be the lead in for Mike and Jason and
Speaker 3: Madison Cruise will be there as well Sophia Coupertino. You
Speaker 3: saw Maddie and Sophia in the car on their way
Speaker 3: up to Charlotte, and so it will be fun to
Speaker 3: hear what's going on in that particular rivalry. How many
Speaker 3: minutes will Wilford Zaha play, That's the big question. We'll
Speaker 3: see what the answer is there as Atlanta takes on
Speaker 3: Charlotte to twenty five kick. So a bit of an
Speaker 3: elongated pregame show that'll be on ninety two in the
Speaker 3: Game of the Odyssey app post match it will be
Speaker 3: Nick and Abe as well, and then we'll have Abe
Speaker 3: on on Monday morning and everything starts a new So
Speaker 3: thanks to all of you for yet another great week
Speaker 3: of doing everything here on SDCH and hanging out with us,
Speaker 3: all the great conversation, all the great guests.
Speaker 4: That we've had.
Speaker 3: So we've had Abe Bart Tyler will Pologic the play
Speaker 3: by play voice for Charlotte, FC, Nino, Nico and Jason.
Speaker 3: That's been the week, letting you know what's going on
Speaker 3: here around the planet at the SDH network. So since
Speaker 3: it is the end of the week, that means one
Speaker 3: thing and one thing only and mucha plati, all play
Speaker 3: it safe and just be safe. Both hands on the
Speaker 3: wheel and enjoy your weekend. Early kick tomorrow is it
Speaker 3: Land United leads off Charlotte, would you plot to all
Speaker 3: plate safe at the end of the week.
Speaker 4: That means we get to do this.
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