Speaker 1: And it is time to welcome back.
Speaker 2: I feel like we need like the big intro with
Speaker 2: the pyro and everything. It's been a while, it's been
Speaker 2: too long, but we bring in Jamie Watson to come
Speaker 2: and hang out with us here to put a bowl
Speaker 2: on a Thursday. Jamie, my friend, it has been too long.
Speaker 3: Great to see you, John, I'm so happy to see
Speaker 3: you man. And no pyro necessary. That was a very
Speaker 3: kind introduction. And following Nico, who does a great job.
Speaker 3: Sounder at hard is a must read when it comes
Speaker 3: time to prep for a Seattle Sounder game, and so
Speaker 3: just like soccer down here with you, it's you know,
Speaker 3: there's some local must read must support people doing some
Speaker 3: great work in markets. Nicos one of them, and John
Speaker 3: you're one of the best as well, my friend.
Speaker 1: No, I thank you.
Speaker 2: I mean it's me and Jason and Jared Smith and
Speaker 2: the Nico Lafey, Maddy Cruse and the Castle.
Speaker 4: What a crew, What a crew that is right there.
Speaker 2: I know we're half past crazy. That's the reason why.
Speaker 2: What cup of coffee you on?
Speaker 1: By the way?
Speaker 3: Oh boy, you know hey as a data three normally
Speaker 3: what is it? It's ten am Central here eleven Eastern.
Speaker 3: I'm at least three deep at this point. What about you?
Speaker 4: You host a show, so you've got to be just
Speaker 4: an IV.
Speaker 1: Of it, right, Mountain dew, I don't do coffee.
Speaker 4: Do you just standard mountain dew? Or is it like
Speaker 4: the Code red?
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no oh, that's like.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm sorry. I didn't realize there was a hierarchy.
Speaker 3: Of Mountain Dew class here, and I just showed that
Speaker 3: I'm lower class.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no. To me, Code red tastes like
Speaker 2: Vix formula forty four M.
Speaker 4: That was wildly specific.
Speaker 3: And now I'm not going to be able to think
Speaker 3: of anything else when I have a Code Red, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be thinking. This taste like vis forty four m
Speaker 3: red whatever you said.
Speaker 1: It tastes like cough syrup.
Speaker 2: Brother, It's that cough syrup we had when we're growing up,
Speaker 2: you know, the red cough syrup with the vis Vix
Speaker 2: formula forty four M, the red cough syrup.
Speaker 1: That's what red taste like.
Speaker 4: To me.
Speaker 2: I am die hard original and I have caught so
Speaker 2: much clap. Oh you don't like the you don't like
Speaker 2: the Baja blast. No, I don't just give me the original.
Speaker 2: It's like, look, I'll own the market. Give me all
Speaker 2: the original. You guys can have all the weird flavors
Speaker 2: to yourselves and boost the market share.
Speaker 1: I'm just an original guy. Look full disclosure.
Speaker 3: By the way, hey, look any Mountain Dew executive, but yes,
Speaker 3: there we go.
Speaker 4: Any Mountain New.
Speaker 3: Executives that are die hard fans of the show. There's
Speaker 3: an easy sponsorship right there. All leverages out the door
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 1: Huh correct, Absolutely true.
Speaker 2: A couple of reasons that we wanted to bring you on,
Speaker 2: and I am hoping that you will take advantage of
Speaker 2: the open door and walk through it on Friday's in
Speaker 2: the last hour at ten Eastern because we're kind of
Speaker 2: kind of turn it into a Friday free for all
Speaker 2: and just like drop in, give your thoughts, drop out,
Speaker 2: go finish your coffee.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what I think we're gonna do this year.
Speaker 2: The reason, the first reason that we wanted to have
Speaker 2: you on is because there is some international women's soccer
Speaker 2: that is going on, but folks kind of need to follow.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not just I believe, it's not just
Speaker 1: you believe. It's not just we believed, but it is.
Speaker 1: She Believes and you're.
Speaker 2: Getting ready for that, and it's a handful of matches
Speaker 2: in a very short period of space from thirty thousand feet.
Speaker 1: What are you anticipating here?
Speaker 4: First of all, that is that's hilarious.
Speaker 3: I'm probably gonna steal that joke when there's a new audience,
Speaker 3: So thank you for that one, like.
Speaker 4: All my good ones.
Speaker 3: Look, it's the tenth annual She Believes Cup, which has
Speaker 3: become the pre eminent tournament in women's world football. Four
Speaker 3: teams in the top twenty one this year, two new teams,
Speaker 3: two new countries. You've get Japan who's returning for the
Speaker 3: third time, obviously, the United States, who host and have
Speaker 3: been the dominant team in this tournament year after year.
Speaker 3: You welcome in Colombia for the first time, very young,
Speaker 3: up and coming program in world football, ranked twenty one
Speaker 3: right now. And then you also welcome in Australia fifteenth overall,
Speaker 3: a name that we familiar as manager in interim role
Speaker 3: as Tom Smani. It's his third time being back with
Speaker 3: Australia as a coach and former Orlando Pride coach as
Speaker 3: well too, so he knows the lay of the land
Speaker 3: in this country. Very well, so tonight we'll have a
Speaker 3: doubleheader starting at five eastern. We've got Japan taking on Australia.
Speaker 3: That one will be on MAX. You can stream that one.
Speaker 3: I will be alongside a woman who needs no introduction,
Speaker 3: comes to her accolades, but I'm gonna give it anyways.
Speaker 4: Three Olympics, four World Cups and five was.
Speaker 3: The voted third best women's footballer in the world. Shannon
Speaker 3: Box will join me in the both one hundred ninety
Speaker 3: five caps, so I get to have her experience and
Speaker 3: her relationship with Tom SMANI will be pretty incredible.
Speaker 4: So Japan Australia.
Speaker 3: Will kick off five pm Eastern on Max and then
Speaker 3: immediately following that coverage will start at seven pm on
Speaker 3: TBS Linear and you can also stream on Max as well.
Speaker 3: That will be the hour long pregame show where you've
Speaker 3: got Sarah Walsh taking you through. Melissa Ortiz will be
Speaker 3: on the desk as well, and Julie Foudy is there
Speaker 3: and we welcome in a new member. Becky Sauerbrunt will
Speaker 3: be joining and it's exciting to have Becky because she's
Speaker 3: got over two hundred caps.
Speaker 4: Of the team.
Speaker 3: Being with Becky yesterday at training. He couldn't go further
Speaker 3: than two feet with her seeing a former player and
Speaker 3: coming up and talking. And then you've got Boxy and
Speaker 3: you've got Julie Foudy and it was incredible. And then
Speaker 3: Luke Wildman will be on the call for that one
Speaker 3: that kicks off at eight pm Eastern. So USA taking
Speaker 3: on Colombia should be a good matchup and a good
Speaker 3: test if you knew new faces in camp and some
Speaker 3: younger players. So it's an exciting time for the US
Speaker 3: Women's national.
Speaker 2: Team doubleheader at Helenaschelle and that is tonight, as you say,
Speaker 2: and then on Sunday double header and Glendale, Colombia and Japan,
Speaker 2: followed by the USWNT in Australia. Then everybody heads to
Speaker 2: snap Dragon for Wednesday Australia Colombia at seven thirty Eastern. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they get the afternoon sunshine at snap Dragon, and then
Speaker 2: it's the WNT taking on Japan at ten thirty. So
Speaker 2: that your triple, your three days of double headers. One
Speaker 2: of the things that I thought was interesting, and we
Speaker 2: have Bart Keeler from the Soccer for USPOD on every Monday,
Speaker 2: we discussed Emma Hayes and this particular group, and it's
Speaker 2: not just been this group, but it's been a couple back.
Speaker 2: Emma Hayes has made a point to bring in some
Speaker 2: newer faces, newer faces into camps and newer faces getting
Speaker 2: their first caps, being put in these kinds of situations,
Speaker 2: and I you know, because you don't have triple espresso,
Speaker 2: you got to do something. And so Emma's looking in
Speaker 2: places I think that either others just didn't or they
Speaker 2: might have just kind of put to the side and
Speaker 2: tried to look at for other folks. But you're getting
Speaker 2: a lot of new faces in these camps and for
Speaker 2: these competitions for the WNT.
Speaker 3: Which is really cool to see and I'm really excited
Speaker 3: to see how this group holds up to that challenges.
Speaker 4: You know, A list and a Are.
Speaker 3: Now has retired from international women's football as a goalkeepers.
Speaker 3: Now you get Jane Campbell who plays for the Houston Dash,
Speaker 3: so she'll get a chance to be a goal here.
Speaker 3: But you're right, there are some new names. Another Houston
Speaker 3: Dash player that I'm really looking forward to. I think
Speaker 3: she was wildly underrated, and that's partly because Gotham were
Speaker 3: so good last year and have so many good players.
Speaker 3: Yasmine Ryan was traded in the offseason to Houston Dash
Speaker 3: So those two players I've really got my eye on.
Speaker 3: Cat Mercado comes back into the group and getting to
Speaker 3: be back in with the US women's national team. She
Speaker 3: has a wild story after being out for nearly eighteen
Speaker 3: months getting a chance to come back in and compete
Speaker 3: with the group. That is something that we spoke to
Speaker 3: her about yesterday and she said it was mentally challenging,
Speaker 3: but you appreciate it more when you're back in, so
Speaker 3: that'll be interesting. There's some good, real good storylines you've got,
Speaker 3: like Emily Sands, who defended her the year for Orlando Pride.
Speaker 3: She was a converted center forward to center back now
Speaker 3: one of the best in the world. Young players though,
Speaker 3: like Ali sent Nooor getting called up. She was the
Speaker 3: NWSL Rookie of the Year. Jaden Shaw goes from the
Speaker 3: wave to the courage. She's in with the group. Let's see,
Speaker 3: there's there's just so many players that are trying to
Speaker 3: make a impression in front of m Hayes and that's
Speaker 3: what I'm looking forward to most.
Speaker 4: And when we talked to her, she said, look, there
Speaker 4: are sixteen.
Speaker 3: Of twenty three NWSL players, And I said this yesterday,
Speaker 3: and I think what she's saying is, I think there's
Speaker 3: a real value on this league as being the best
Speaker 3: league for women's soccer in the world. And now we're
Speaker 3: going to give some players who did well in that
Speaker 3: league an opportunity and we're going to find out where
Speaker 3: you fit because if you're not quite at the US
Speaker 3: women's national team level, which that level, I don't know
Speaker 3: why I put here. It should be way up here
Speaker 3: right off the camera first, to you know, first in
Speaker 3: the FIFA World rankings. Hayes wants to put an INMPAS
Speaker 3: on this, and I thought this was really key. She says, Okay,
Speaker 3: then we can use the U twenty threes as a
Speaker 3: growing and developmental route that has maybe been skipped over
Speaker 3: in the past. So I think Ema Hayes is looking
Speaker 3: at this holistically. How can I use this tournament to
Speaker 3: identify players that are ready to surpass the U twenty
Speaker 3: three level. But if you're not quite ready, it's okay,
Speaker 3: because we're going to put you at the twenty threes
Speaker 3: and we're going to give you an opportunity to grow.
Speaker 3: So I think the US women's national team much like
Speaker 3: we spoke about with Australia, and Colombia will be looking
Speaker 3: to be able to try to establish where players fit
Speaker 3: going forward in this group. And Japan will be an
Speaker 3: interesting one as well too in this tournament because they've
Speaker 3: got a brand new coach for the first time, a
Speaker 3: non Japanese coach. So it's a lot of storylines going
Speaker 3: into this tournament, and I think it's one of the
Speaker 3: she Believes Cups where every team will feel as though
Speaker 3: they have a chance to win it and some will
Speaker 3: have an easier role than others. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: I think that it'll be a tournament in which there
Speaker 3: could be some surprises and I'm excited to see it
Speaker 3: unfold over the next week.
Speaker 2: No triple Espresso, no Rose Levell, no Naimi Girma. So
Speaker 2: then let me ask you this. You mentioned a tournament
Speaker 2: of surprises if, and like I said, this is just
Speaker 2: an if that I'm putting out there, and with the
Speaker 2: time that you spend covering the women's national team in
Speaker 2: soccer in general, this is why I'm going to ask
Speaker 2: this question, because you're out there far more than I am.
Speaker 2: If for some reason, you know the you know Bain
Speaker 2: comes by and it's like hines Field and he blows up,
Speaker 2: you know, the turf and everything, and the US does
Speaker 2: not win. She believes cup for whatever reason, you know,
Speaker 2: you get a loss of deflection whatever if they don't
Speaker 2: come away with the title, even though it is anticipated
Speaker 2: as such. If something happens and they don't, then how
Speaker 2: do you think it will be received? I guess externally
Speaker 2: and internally for fans watching, and then Emma Hayes looking
Speaker 2: outbound with all of this youth and the first timers
Speaker 2: that are there.
Speaker 3: So I'll start off by saying, I think it would
Speaker 3: take something extraordinary for the US women's national team to
Speaker 3: not be the team standing at the time of the
Speaker 3: Mountain this time next week, right, I do think that
Speaker 3: they will win the tournament. I do think that they
Speaker 3: have the best team in the world, but also especially
Speaker 3: in this tournament.
Speaker 4: But let's play the what if game? What would happen?
Speaker 3: I think that right now with this group, what it
Speaker 3: would do is it would really help solidify where that
Speaker 3: next wave of US women's national team players are going
Speaker 3: to come from.
Speaker 4: I don't think that there will be.
Speaker 3: Any downfall Tom Hayes or should we looked at differently
Speaker 3: after this tournament, I think that I actually truly believe
Speaker 3: that being around Ema Hayes, she has this level of
Speaker 3: respect and control from top to bottom. Emma Hayes quite
Speaker 3: frankly doesn't care about what happened before she was here.
Speaker 3: She cares about what's happening while she's in here. She
Speaker 3: has this assertiveness in this confidence that commands respect. I'm
Speaker 3: really impressed when I'm around her and how she carries herself,
Speaker 3: and I don't think she cares that she impresses me
Speaker 3: and has my respect, Like it's almost actually an admirable
Speaker 3: quality as a human being that she has such belief
Speaker 3: and conviction and what she wants to do in her
Speaker 3: everyday life, but also with the US women's national team program.
Speaker 3: So I think that regardless of how results go in
Speaker 3: this tournament will be it the expectation, and I believe
Speaker 3: the belief is that US will win this tournament. I
Speaker 3: don't think that it will change anything in the big
Speaker 3: scheme of things, because there's a bigger picture to this,
Speaker 3: and so I think what players can do is they
Speaker 3: can really help themselves in this tournament and really give
Speaker 3: this as a launching point to say when it comes
Speaker 3: time to tournament football, I can be a part of
Speaker 3: this group and contribute, or it may just say for
Speaker 3: some players, Okay, your path that maybe is just going
Speaker 3: to take a little bit longer because you're going to
Speaker 3: need to go prove that again at the twenty threes
Speaker 3: and then when you get your opportunity again with the full.
Speaker 2: Team YEP, four players uncapped, Claire Hutt and Giselle Thompson,
Speaker 2: both nineteen. Terry mcew and Michelle Cooper all forward international
Speaker 2: experience in the twenty sive for the US, and that
Speaker 2: is she believes it is six matches, three days of doubleheaders,
Speaker 2: starting at Hele Michelle and Houston tonight, then going to Glendale,
Speaker 2: then going to snap Dragon in a week's time. Jimmie
Speaker 2: Watson here crashing the party on a Thursday, as you
Speaker 2: darnwell should.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: I just I just have this vision like if something
Speaker 2: happens and the world opens up that you will that
Speaker 2: it will be uh some fans taking to it very
Speaker 2: very calmly and just running out in the street and going, ah,
Speaker 2: you know, you know you have one.
Speaker 1: You have one of those moments.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of what I was asking is is
Speaker 2: everyone that you have seen from a fan perspective, Do
Speaker 2: they understand where Emma is coming from here and looking
Speaker 2: at things in a larger picture, just step at a time.
Speaker 2: We're here to learn and figure out the future and
Speaker 2: immediate results. Yes, why we anticipate winning. There's a bigger
Speaker 2: picture to play here. Do you think a lot of
Speaker 2: folks from the outside get that. With Emma Hayes and
Speaker 2: what she's trying to do, I don't know.
Speaker 3: And and the reason I'm not one hundred percent sure
Speaker 3: is because I think and believe the way that Emma
Speaker 3: Hayes views her role as the manager of this program.
Speaker 3: And she said a word in the middle of it
Speaker 3: of the press yesterday, and a little phrase that I
Speaker 3: thought was so telling, but also I caught and I noticed,
Speaker 3: and I hung on to and it's worth mentioning now,
Speaker 3: you know. So one of the questions was from the
Speaker 3: media about, you know, the younger players and getting the
Speaker 3: chance and will they be okay you know with the
Speaker 3: moment or something along those lines, and she remembers saying that,
Speaker 3: you know, there's my job as a manager.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't need to motivate because.
Speaker 3: When we we all wake up and we put this
Speaker 3: crest on, and this is the phrase she goes, We're
Speaker 3: all renting the ability to wear this crest, and for
Speaker 3: how long that's none of us know, but we all
Speaker 3: know what a privilege and an honor it is. And John,
Speaker 3: I was a part of the seventeens, the eighteens, the twenties,
Speaker 3: the twenty threes. I played for every part of the
Speaker 3: youth national team except for the full team, So I
Speaker 3: understand what it feels like to put on on the crest.
Speaker 3: And I've done a lot of things I'm very proud
Speaker 3: of but in my playing career, but wearing the US
Speaker 3: Soccer crest is up there.
Speaker 4: I mean, it really really is up there.
Speaker 3: But for Emma Hayes, who's the leader of this program,
Speaker 3: to say that and feel as though even herself is
Speaker 3: renting the ability to wear a US Soccer crest goes
Speaker 3: to show that everyone understands how much of a privilege
Speaker 3: it is to do it, and even the top of
Speaker 3: the total pole does. And I think that there is
Speaker 3: a mindset that is being instilled with this group and
Speaker 3: a level of confidence that she is the right leader
Speaker 3: for this program, and so does everyone outside of that
Speaker 3: understand it. I don't believe so yet, but I think
Speaker 3: they will continue to the more that they get to
Speaker 3: see what this group is evolving into. How she is
Speaker 3: as a leader. Every time she speaks, how it just
Speaker 3: seemingly adds another layer of respect and command and shows capability.
Speaker 3: So I think the mindset, if there were any doubters
Speaker 3: about Hayes, I would just encourage you to listen to
Speaker 3: her talk for five minutes and it will remove a
Speaker 3: lot of those doubts because she.
Speaker 4: Is a competent and capable leader.
Speaker 3: And I would have loved to have played for somebody
Speaker 3: like Ima Hayes in my playing days.
Speaker 2: Strong Jamie's hanging out with us talking, she believes, and
Speaker 2: he full well knows that I can't let him go
Speaker 2: if if we don't talk about Major League Soccer, because.
Speaker 4: Absolutely let's do it.
Speaker 2: I don't know if folks have heard, but there are
Speaker 2: games that are gonna matter coming up this weekend on
Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday. We've been going over it. We did
Speaker 2: it Tuesday, we did it a little bit this morning.
Speaker 2: About the separate tiers in the east and the west
Speaker 2: when it comes to this particular side of the Mississippi.
Speaker 2: Considering this is where you live Eastern conference to you,
Speaker 2: what are the highlights and the big storylines that you're
Speaker 2: going to be looking at here as we head into
Speaker 2: match week one.
Speaker 3: Man, I think that we'll start off with Atlanta, right,
Speaker 3: because I think that's going to speak to a large
Speaker 3: portion of your viewers. Even though this is broadcasted worldwide,
Speaker 3: I think there is a large contingencies of fans in
Speaker 3: the chat that'll be very curious to hear. How it's
Speaker 3: how you know other people outside of Atlanta viewing what
Speaker 3: Atlanta Night have been up to. I first and foremost
Speaker 3: think that the off season was wildly successful for Atlanta. Look,
Speaker 3: you've got an owner that willing, is willing to spend
Speaker 3: and has continued to show that and put it put
Speaker 3: it in perspective. I think just the latte leaf, Am
Speaker 3: I saying that right? I got a practice on that one.
Speaker 2: It's a hard tea, So it's a latte lot. It's
Speaker 2: almost like a lot. There we go like you're slurring
Speaker 2: the tea in the h together, So it's a latte.
Speaker 4: Lot, laatee lot.
Speaker 3: I got to get my pronunciations right before I get
Speaker 3: Atlanta in a couple weeks on the dock here I
Speaker 3: think what is rumored transferfrea about twenty two million dollars perspective.
Speaker 3: Philadelphia Union came into MLS to believe in about two
Speaker 3: thousand and nine, and they've gone sort of the homegrown
Speaker 3: route and have spent less than that on total transfers
Speaker 3: of players in so Atlanta United in one player this
Speaker 3: offseason have surpassed what Philadelphia have done, and their cumulative
Speaker 3: of transfers in reportedly right. All these numbers. We don't
Speaker 3: know how it completely works in the back end of it.
Speaker 3: I don't read the books math Man. All that to say,
Speaker 3: it is Math's hard man. I gotta count the fingers
Speaker 3: and toes and all that stuff. All that is to say,
Speaker 3: I do believe that Atlanta United have every reason, the
Speaker 3: faithful there and the seventeens have every reason to be
Speaker 3: optimistic of a top four finish in the East, which
Speaker 3: obviously would have felt like a million miles away at
Speaker 3: certain points last year. They'll have to cope with losing
Speaker 3: Dax McCarty, who I felt like his leadership at times
Speaker 3: was maybe under appreciated and undervalued. But with that, this
Speaker 3: group has added layers each window, and with Garth Logerway
Speaker 3: and now Chris Henderson there as well, who I thought
Speaker 3: should have been the Executive of the Year last year
Speaker 3: with the way that he was able to be a
Speaker 3: gymnast and be flexible with that salary cap. In Miami, Man,
Speaker 3: you've got two masterminds putting it together. And I'm just
Speaker 3: very excited to see what this group can do in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: I think top four should be the expectation for them,
Speaker 3: and then from there, you know you're gonna have to
Speaker 3: battle against Miami, and they were able to pull it
Speaker 3: off last year and one of the best most shocking
Speaker 3: upsets in MLS playoff history to everybody outside.
Speaker 4: Of the four or four.
Speaker 3: But man, it was incredible and I think there should
Speaker 3: be even more optimism this year for Atlanta. But I
Speaker 3: still think Inter Miami will reign supreme.
Speaker 4: In the East.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Messi and Friends that top tier in the East.
Speaker 2: Some combination of Messi and Friends, Atlanta United and hell
Speaker 2: Is Real, Columbus and Cincinnati and Wilford NANCI will probably
Speaker 2: just continue to be on the tour of Yet this
Speaker 2: is me. This is what we do. I don't care
Speaker 2: who's here, and we're just gonna continue to win. I mean,
Speaker 2: he doesn't he's missing sa Ram, he doesn't have Kucho,
Speaker 2: and it's just like, yeah, okay, whatever, and we're just
Speaker 2: going to keep being who we are. So I think
Speaker 2: that that four is what it's crazy on the top
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it.
Speaker 3: If wil for Nanci can do it this year after
Speaker 3: getting rid of you know, christ Nramiraz and sending him
Speaker 3: off and Kucho leaving, if he can continue to do
Speaker 3: that and just replace with the next wave of you know,
Speaker 3: Jason Russell Row and players in Now we're really talking
Speaker 3: about wilfer Nance being one of the most elite coaches
Speaker 3: this league has seen in its entirety. But man, it's
Speaker 3: it's all this is the best time of the year. Man,
Speaker 3: it's it's optimism. It's thirty teams in thirty fan bases
Speaker 3: that feel as though this is their year and what
Speaker 3: an achievement. Thirty years Major League Soccer and now thirty teams. Man,
Speaker 3: I'm so excited for this year to go and this one. Honestly,
Speaker 3: anybody that tells you they know how this year is
Speaker 3: going to go right now is looking you at the
Speaker 3: eyes and lying. Right now, John, Man, it's so fun
Speaker 3: to get to talk about it in the excitement and
Speaker 3: then I don't know, this guy is falling over when
Speaker 3: an MLS Cup come, you know, Sunday morning, Monday morning,
Speaker 3: when it's all said and done in week one is
Speaker 3: in the book.
Speaker 4: So we'll see and see how it plays out.
Speaker 3: But there should be a lot of optimism in the
Speaker 3: South right now for a landing United.
Speaker 1: Hit the promo for me one more time. What are
Speaker 1: you doing and working folks?
Speaker 3: Watch man if you'd be so kind obliged to tune
Speaker 3: into Max today. We've got Japan Australia starting at five pm.
Speaker 3: Then stick around on the app or head over to
Speaker 3: TBS and you can watch my good friends call the game.
Speaker 3: Starting coverage will start just shortly after that seven pm
Speaker 3: Eastern TBS on linear television, and then we get the
Speaker 3: ground running MLS season Pass starts this year, thirtieth year
Speaker 3: in Major League Soccer. It will be incredible. John, this
Speaker 3: is incredible to be with you. I'm such a big
Speaker 3: fan of the soccer down Here network and everything that
Speaker 3: you do, Jason and crew, Maddy, everybody that I didn't
Speaker 3: name just now because there's a cast of a thousand stars,
Speaker 3: so you know, tune in, enjoy engage these We need
Speaker 3: more people like yourself and what you guys are doing
Speaker 3: with the SDH network, so keep going. We're big fans.
Speaker 3: Thank you for me and from the fans that don't
Speaker 3: get to say that to you, and thank you to
Speaker 3: everybody in the chat for joining and participating. Man, this
Speaker 3: is what it's all about. We love this game and
Speaker 3: it's only the future is only getting brighter and bright
Speaker 3: in this country, both domestic and internationally with the national team.
Speaker 4: So it's exciting times, man.
Speaker 1: No doubt. Love you brother, have a great call.
Speaker 2: May everything stick to the cards when it comes to interviews,
Speaker 2: and we'll be watching you tonight and hope that they
Speaker 2: only just give you a dusting of makeup because HD
Speaker 2: pulls out there. Look that's what they told us when
Speaker 2: they got to HD cameras. They're like, look, you don't
Speaker 2: have to put on a lot of makeup because people
Speaker 2: will know when you're wearing too much makeup. So just
Speaker 2: a little powder style and profile and we can't wait.
Speaker 1: Have a great call. We'll catch up with you soon,
Speaker 1: my friend crashing, I'd.
Speaker 4: Be lost without you. Thank you, John, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Be good.
Speaker 2: There goes Jamie, and it's great to catch up with him.
Speaker 2: It's been entirely too long since Shamie was here.