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Speaker 5: of the MLS secondary transfer windows, so we have that
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Speaker 1: So what Cincinnati is thinking.
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Speaker 5: all the things. So there's all of that to discuss
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Speaker 5: keeping an eye on everything going on after what happened
Speaker 5: in the Copasuit Americana and with all of the just
Speaker 5: the craziness that is going on there. We do have
Speaker 5: a couple of news and notes kind of things that
Speaker 5: are attached to that, and right now this morning is
Speaker 5: probably the bigger piece of news where it appears. And
Speaker 5: we are still waiting on official word on suspensions and
Speaker 5: teams being jettisoned and folks making semifinals and things like
Speaker 5: that following the scenes in the midweek. And this is
Speaker 5: according to our friend at Galasso Argentino. The Ministry of
Speaker 5: Security has ordered Independent play their home game against Platense
Speaker 5: in League elsewhere and not at the study of Libertadoris
Speaker 5: at de America. Could be two weeks before Cono Ball
Speaker 5: make their decision on the sud Americana after a strong
Speaker 5: aperture independent season has gone down, the drain out of
Speaker 5: the Copo Argentina likely out of the Suit Americana and
Speaker 5: a windlass start to the Klaus Surup. So you look
Speaker 5: at that once again. So you're talking two weeks. You know,
Speaker 5: aleian Zelima, do they make their way into the semifinal.
Speaker 5: As we discussed with our buddy, you know Torres yesterday
Speaker 5: when we were in Valdosta.
Speaker 1: It's one of.
Speaker 5: Three things that could happen. You sit there and it's
Speaker 5: a walkover. The team that was the visitor gets the duke.
Speaker 5: So it would be uh Whenniversa Dad did. Chile would
Speaker 5: advance on a walkover, or you play it over and
Speaker 5: you see what happens, or you boot somebody out and
Speaker 5: then you figure out the semifinals from there. I don't
Speaker 5: know how you would have either of these clubs work
Speaker 5: their way forward.
Speaker 1: I really don't.
Speaker 5: And there's a lot of things to discuss. We still
Speaker 5: have the number. The last number that we had I
Speaker 5: think was nineteen injured out of what happened, and frankly,
Speaker 5: I'm grateful that it was less. But it's right now
Speaker 5: at nineteen and you're staring at con the ball first
Speaker 5: and foremost.
Speaker 1: Okay, how are you going to respond to this?
Speaker 5: It was interesting and as you know, you go through
Speaker 5: your algorithms, you know, and your timelines and souff and
Speaker 5: you have like things just kind of pop up. And
Speaker 5: there was a a rant that was posted that was
Speaker 5: attached to one of the big name pundits in Argentina
Speaker 5: and it was Mariano Claus and he literally was having
Speaker 5: both teams habit with as many as many shots as
Speaker 5: he could. And what class said on the air yesterday,
Speaker 5: he said in an editorial that he wrote for ESPN,
Speaker 5: he was highly critical of the whole thing. It is
Speaker 5: the savagery of the Universidad fans against the savagery of
Speaker 5: the Independente fans. So basically he was letting both sides
Speaker 5: have it, understandably. So article from Redgold Dot Colombia, the
Speaker 5: renowned Argentine commentator stated quote, I understand the role of
Speaker 5: the intertwined players the anti racism message. They said, that's positive,
Speaker 5: but let's do something because the conflicts will be back
Speaker 5: in the stadiums. Common Ball as Tall talking to national presidents,
Speaker 5: city mayor's and security personnel. Then he began detailing the
Speaker 5: steps to follow for organizing a match in Argentina. Quote
Speaker 5: they tell me that's as far as they go, meaning
Speaker 5: Conmo ball, because it's up to the organizers in the
Speaker 5: city where the soccer match is being played. So conmo Ball,
Speaker 5: according to Class, basically says, Okay, it's our tournament, but
Speaker 5: it's your match. Since you're the local folks, you get
Speaker 5: to handle it. You know better than us. We'll leave
Speaker 5: it in your hands. We trust you.
Speaker 1: Closs. Quote they tell me that's as.
Speaker 5: Far as they go, because it's up to the organizers
Speaker 5: in the city where the soccer match is being played.
Speaker 5: I have the report after the meeting with all the
Speaker 5: relevant agencies firefighters, security companies, health logistics, municipal transit and
Speaker 5: stadium management.
Speaker 1: Continues.
Speaker 5: This is the prior conclusion, not the conclusion after this.
Speaker 5: In this match, the visitors stand and this is translated
Speaker 5: from a red goal. In this match, the visitors stand
Speaker 5: will be the upper South stand while the lower part
Speaker 5: will be the home fans stand. During the meeting, the
Speaker 5: advisability of not having fans in the lower stand was raised,
Speaker 5: but it was reported that that seat was sold out.
Speaker 5: So Closs, in his information gathering, got the pre plan
Speaker 5: and the idea was to put the whenever I said,
Speaker 5: the Chile fans in the two hundred section like we
Speaker 5: were talking about in the in the if you picture
Speaker 5: it as a normal US based set up, So the
Speaker 5: original plan was to have the visiting fans in the
Speaker 5: two hundred section in the end zone and no one below.
Speaker 1: But the seats below had already been sold out.
Speaker 5: So you were going to have home fans in the
Speaker 5: in the end zone one hundred, and you were going
Speaker 5: to have visiting fans in the end zone two hundred
Speaker 5: and so that's what that was what Class said in
Speaker 5: the paperwork that he was given initially in the pre
Speaker 5: in the pre meetings, in the pre planning, just in
Speaker 5: case anything was missing quote as a preventative measure, police
Speaker 5: and private security personnel were deployed in the visiting stand
Speaker 5: to prevent fans from throwing objects are causing any kind
Speaker 5: of disturbance. It was suggested Class stated something evidently wasn't implemented.
Speaker 5: Once again, wrote Red Goal says. On the night of Wednesday,
Speaker 5: August twenty. Class is clear that Independent's management failed to
Speaker 5: comply with safety recommendations for hosting the rematch against Universa
Speaker 5: Dad to Chile. He provided an irrefutable piece of information
Speaker 5: to confirm his theory of negligence on the part of
Speaker 5: the board headed by Nestor Grindetti. Remember Grendetti. We had
Speaker 5: his quote yesterday on the interview that he had with
Speaker 5: Tay Say and Grendetti was discussing that it was all
Speaker 5: on the universe of Dad to Chile fans. And remember
Speaker 5: in our segment with with you know Tores, basically it
Speaker 5: was like, uh, he's half right, So there you go
Speaker 5: with with Grendetti, and so Class has quote Independiente's board
Speaker 5: of directors doesn't comply with private security or the police.
Speaker 5: The problem is why Intependientes's supporters have to act as
Speaker 5: police officers. Remember the conversation we got into about the
Speaker 5: bra of the bars. They have to act as police
Speaker 5: officers and no one stops them. That's the problem with
Speaker 5: the leadership. According to Claus, Class also reflected on the
Speaker 5: videos and at the end of it. At the end
Speaker 5: of his rant, Claus basically says it happens in Brazil
Speaker 5: where almost everything happens. But here the suggestion regarding the
Speaker 5: handling of the visiting fans wasn't followed. So that's that's
Speaker 5: kind of where we are. Like I said, we're still
Speaker 5: waiting on any kind of news. And according to Pedro Coates,
Speaker 5: it looks like it's going to be about two weeks.
Speaker 5: No real surprise there, that Common Ball is going to
Speaker 5: look at all the evidence and we'll see what Comma
Speaker 5: Baal comes up with. But yes, it does appear, and David,
Speaker 5: good morning to you and Jordan, it does appear where
Speaker 5: that as you're looking at it, you have this you
Speaker 5: have a a governing body. It's like, yeah, it's our
Speaker 5: tournament and all this kind of stuff. But then when
Speaker 5: it comes to the end of it all, oh no, no,
Speaker 5: we we gave the we gave the response, the local
Speaker 5: responsibilities to We give the responsibilities to the local club
Speaker 5: and the team and the local police. It's up to
Speaker 5: them to figure it out. They come up with the plan,
Speaker 5: we'll sit there and go okay, cool. But that's about it.
Speaker 5: So right now, it gives the appearance that con Ma
Speaker 5: Ball is like, yeah, okay, uh cool, great, fine, looks good,
Speaker 5: looks good, everybody's in the tournament, everybody's happy, everything's cool,
Speaker 5: so on and so forth. Oh no, No, it's up
Speaker 5: to you all to figure out all the all the things.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: We we're just we're giving you the tournament, We're giving
Speaker 5: responsibility to you. I will be continually intrigued in this situation,
Speaker 5: especially how con Mabal responds at the end of it.
Speaker 1: If con Mabal does not.
Speaker 5: Blow both teams out and just go ahead and send
Speaker 5: Alan Zelima into the semi finals on a walkover, then
Speaker 5: you know that it's going to be There's going to
Speaker 5: be hell, absolute hell. And so that that is the
Speaker 5: the palace intrigue over the next couple of weeks as
Speaker 5: to what it's going to look like and how many
Speaker 5: folks are going to be yelling from the mountaintops on
Speaker 5: this one. And David, Yeah, it's it is. The the
Speaker 5: passing of the buck is what this appears to be.
Speaker 5: Where you were discussing Copo America, David finds it bonkers,
Speaker 5: visiting fans knowingly outnumbered started ish with home fans below them. Generally,
Speaker 5: I think the setup is most likely best outcome, but
Speaker 5: put but put some blank in security up there. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean, that was apparently that was the initial thought.
Speaker 5: But we get into the Closs quote and you saw
Speaker 5: no security, you saw no police, and they weren't up
Speaker 5: there at the beginning.
Speaker 1: They weren't up there.
Speaker 5: In round two, we saw them outside. They were outside
Speaker 5: in that cordon leading the fans from Universa Diad to
Speaker 5: Chile down that one path and out the door and
Speaker 5: this is how you're exiting, and it's it's up to
Speaker 5: you after that. Literally, that's the only video that we
Speaker 5: have of knowing where the police were. They were outside
Speaker 5: ground floor making sure that the Universa did the Chile
Speaker 5: fans had this one pathway out and they lined it
Speaker 5: didn't matter what you looked like, didn't matter, you know,
Speaker 5: you know, if you were, if you were healthy, if
Speaker 5: you were if you were bloody or whatever, this is
Speaker 5: your pathway and this is you see you later. So
Speaker 5: that was uh hmmm, yeah, So that was the Uh
Speaker 5: that's kind of the latest. So and I say kind
Speaker 5: of the latest because we don't have like update updates.
Speaker 1: Give it a couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: I'm intrigued what Conabal has to say, and I'm intrigued
Speaker 5: what they're going to do in this case.
Speaker 1: Blow them both out.
Speaker 5: Find one, find both, you know to what extent. But
Speaker 5: I would firmly anticipate a statement from ConA Baal after
Speaker 5: the fact when they come up with their final decision
Speaker 5: something like this, let's let's let's play, let's play press
Speaker 5: release here for a second. They come up with the decision,
Speaker 5: they say, what it is. We are disappointed that the
Speaker 5: events of twe August twenty twenty five ended the way
Speaker 5: that they did. There is no place in the sport
Speaker 5: for the behavior of fans acting in such a manner
Speaker 5: in a tournament that is as well respected worldwide as
Speaker 5: the Copasuit Americana. We hope that these decisions that Conno
Speaker 5: Ball makes going forward will be adhered to, and that
Speaker 5: local authorities and teams will do their best to make
Speaker 5: sure that these guidelines will be adhered to going forward.
Speaker 5: We have nothing for the to say in this matter,
Speaker 5: something like that, you're you're going to end up with
Speaker 5: Cono Ball making a decision. It will be three or
Speaker 5: four paragraphs. You'll have the big quote from folks in charge.
Speaker 5: They'll say how disappointed they were. You know, we try
Speaker 5: to put on a great tournament. We try to do
Speaker 5: all the you know, we try to do things that
Speaker 5: will determine a champion in South America, and so you'll
Speaker 5: end up up with opening statement with penalties paragraph from
Speaker 5: important person and then they will try and sit there
Speaker 5: and then you will have after that it will be
Speaker 5: statement of statement of effect going forward, possibly mentioned an
Speaker 5: appeals process something like that. But you have until hang on,
Speaker 5: let me. This is like I said, this is what
Speaker 5: happens when you're a device down. Win are the semi finals.
Speaker 5: So from our friends at odds Portal, and we will
Speaker 5: be discussing things with our friends at Odds Portal. Here
Speaker 5: in a second, we'll go over the MLS schedule and
Speaker 5: we'll go over the we'll go over the schedule of
Speaker 5: the Premier League as well. So Copa suit Americana playoffs
Speaker 5: September sixteenth, So you have Lenus of Flemenense, Independente del
Speaker 5: vall On, Caldas, Bolivar and Atletico those.
Speaker 1: Are the three that we know.
Speaker 5: September sixteenth, right now, that's kind of that's where we
Speaker 5: are in the Sud Americana.
Speaker 1: As we as we wait for a decision on who's
Speaker 1: gonna play.
Speaker 5: Alianza, Lima and Aleian Zelima made their way through knocking
Speaker 5: off Universa dot Katolika at a plus four sixty nine
Speaker 5: in that particular match. So alean Zelima waits for their opponent.
Speaker 5: September sixteenth is your date for determining. Okay, who's gonna
Speaker 5: play when? But everybody's lined up for September sixteenth. Give
Speaker 5: it until maybe Labor Day our time, because then you
Speaker 5: have to have teams figure out, okay, where are they playing,
Speaker 5: what they do and all that kind of stuff. So
Speaker 5: give it to about Labor Day. Then you'll come up
Speaker 5: with your statement from connon Ball. Let's see how much
Speaker 5: responsibility conno Ball takes in this situation. My immediate feeling
Speaker 5: is not much, and we'll see what happens. We'll see
Speaker 5: what happens there. All right, let's get into juice boxes
Speaker 5: and our previews for Major League Soccer. Like I said,
Speaker 5: we're gonna have Ross Smith in case coming up an
Speaker 5: hour number two. They're gonna go over Ross has Nashville
Speaker 5: and that matchup, so we'll get into that with him.
Speaker 5: We get into some Major League soccer, we'll get into Nashville,
Speaker 5: we'll get into we'll get into his thoughts on his
Speaker 5: matchup in all of its glory but let's get into
Speaker 5: the other matchups in Major League Soccer and let you
Speaker 5: know what the juice boxes are in this. So as
Speaker 5: as Ross has Nashville and the Purple Team, we'll get
Speaker 5: to that one on second seven forty starts. And we
Speaker 5: also have to get into announced Cruise and ref Cruise.
Speaker 5: We'll get into that at the end of the show.
Speaker 5: Montreal and Austin. Montreal is a plus one fifty four
Speaker 5: favored at home. Austin FC is a plus one fifty nine.
Speaker 5: It draws a plus two to fifty. I don't know
Speaker 5: if Austin can score on the road. I don't anticipate
Speaker 5: this being a whole lot of goals. I would say
Speaker 5: probably that maybe Montreal squeaks out at least a point here.
Speaker 5: You end up something goal is something very very tight,
Speaker 5: So that would be my guess at the moment, would
Speaker 5: be something like that would be.
Speaker 1: All of that.
Speaker 5: So that's my gut is that there won't be a
Speaker 5: whole lot of goals in it, and there won't be
Speaker 5: a whole lot to talk about in this one after
Speaker 5: the fact.
Speaker 1: So maybe one point.
Speaker 5: Each crew and the REVS cruise a minus one ninety
Speaker 5: two at home draws a plus three forty five. The
Speaker 5: Revs are a plus four to thirty seven. Carlos Heel
Speaker 5: is looking for more offense and more folks to help
Speaker 5: a man out Crew at home. I'm thinking it's going
Speaker 5: to be the Crew at home at a minus one
Speaker 5: ninety two, and I think that it's going to be
Speaker 5: a big matchup for Crew to get full points when
Speaker 5: they really need it. DC and enter Miami. You don't
Speaker 5: know how many of the big guns are going to play.
Speaker 5: There's still even money favored at a plus one hundred
Speaker 5: going to d C. DC's a plus two twenty four.
Speaker 5: A dog plus two twenty four at the bottom of
Speaker 5: the Eastern Conference draws a plus two to eighty seven.
Speaker 5: This one might be lower scoring ozh and as it's
Speaker 5: changing right now in front of us, Messi and friends
Speaker 5: are now plus one oh two. But you don't know
Speaker 5: where the injuries are. You don't know who's going to
Speaker 5: be playing after what happened in the midweek with the
Speaker 5: craziness of the league's cup.
Speaker 1: So do you sit Messy?
Speaker 5: Probably and folks are going to be disappointed that they
Speaker 5: got tickets for matchups at Auti Field, And probably the
Speaker 5: most exciting thing might be the beer snake in the
Speaker 5: end zone. So DC plus two twenty interer Miami plus
Speaker 5: one h two draws a plus two eighty six, don't
Speaker 5: touch it FC Cincinnati, and we got to get into
Speaker 5: the transfer window.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 5: FC Cincinnati minus one ten draws a plus two seventy eight,
Speaker 5: and NYC is a plus two sixty two. Yeah, once again,
Speaker 5: the inability of NYC to score goals turns into an issue,
Speaker 5: and I think that Cincinnati takes care of business at
Speaker 5: a minus one ten.
Speaker 1: We'll get into standings too as we go. Sneaky good
Speaker 1: game here.
Speaker 5: Philadelphia and Chicago probably should take the over in this one.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking there might be a lot of goals, so
Speaker 5: Philly's a minus one twenty five. I still think that
Speaker 5: Philadelphia wins. It might be something too one ish somewhere
Speaker 5: in there, three to one if Philly's chef, so Chicago's
Speaker 5: chasing late. So Philadelphia minus one twenty three. Chicago is
Speaker 5: a plus two eighty eight. In your draw is a
Speaker 5: plus two ninety six. So that's what you're you're staring
Speaker 5: at with that particular matchup Dallas and LAFC. FC Dallas
Speaker 5: eight forty kick is a plus two fifty two. Your
Speaker 5: draws a plus two sixty eight. Lafc's a minus one
Speaker 5: oh three. LAFC picked up a couple of folks in
Speaker 5: the secondary window, and we'll see how soon it is
Speaker 5: before they all integrate with the yongman Son think an
Speaker 5: LAFC is gonna take care of business on the road,
Speaker 5: and it's gonna be another three points in the shootout
Speaker 5: in the West, Houston and San Jose. Houston favored of
Speaker 5: the plus one o two just because you really don't
Speaker 5: know what San Jose team you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: Draws a plus two eighty.
Speaker 5: San Jose is a plus two twenty seven, And because
Speaker 5: you don't know what San Jose team you're gonna get
Speaker 5: on the road, that's why you lean Houston. I'm not
Speaker 5: so sure. Probably something draw and a heavy total, that's
Speaker 5: my guess. Nashville and Orlando. Like I said, Ross Smith
Speaker 5: will be joining us at ten o'clock Eastern. We'll catch
Speaker 5: up with him about this one. Nashville's a minus one
Speaker 5: oh nine, Purple Team's a plus two to fifty nine,
Speaker 5: and the draws of plus two seventy seven Orlando. After
Speaker 5: what happened in the midweek, they're probably gassed, and so
Speaker 5: this leans well into Nashville's favor at a minus one
Speaker 5: oh nine. So I'm thinking Nashville in this one. RSL
Speaker 5: Minnesota United. RSL favored at home at a plus one fourteen.
Speaker 5: Minnesota is a plus two oh six. Draw is a
Speaker 5: plus two sixty nine. So RSL once again you're looking there. Yeah,
Speaker 5: probably with Minnesota, you know, on the road, not knowing,
Speaker 5: maybe a draw something one one two TWOISHU because of
Speaker 5: Minnesota United being clinical as they are. We're keeping an
Speaker 5: eye on the tiny Olawi Sai news where he might
Speaker 5: be transferred to England for the total of about seven
Speaker 5: and a half million.
Speaker 1: We'll keep an eye on that.
Speaker 5: Vancouver and all Caps. Vancouver a big favorite at home,
Speaker 5: understandably so nine to forty Eastern time.
Speaker 1: Draw's a plus three eighty two.
Speaker 5: Saint Louis City is a plus sorry, Saint Louis City
Speaker 5: is a plus four to seventy nine.
Speaker 1: White Caps.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking this one fairly simply that they'll probably take
Speaker 5: care of business in that one. Lag in Colorado once again,
Speaker 5: with what happened in midweek, How does Lag look when
Speaker 5: it comes to a lineup they go to penalties in theirs.
Speaker 5: Colorado kind of waiting. Paxton Aronson had his press conference yesterday.
Speaker 5: Don't know if he's gonna have any minutes on the weekend.
Speaker 5: If he does, it might be a cameo in the back.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking Colorado here at a plus one eighty eight
Speaker 5: or a draw to plus two seventy. I don't know
Speaker 5: if if LAG's gonna have the legs to go with
Speaker 5: Colorado for a full ninety minutes ten forty start out
Speaker 5: West and then San Diego also at ten forty, hosting
Speaker 5: Portland at a minus one sixty four. Portland is a
Speaker 5: plus three seventy and your draw is a plus three
Speaker 5: thirty three. I'm thinking San Diego in that one. That's
Speaker 5: your matchups for Saturday. Atlanta big favorite at home against
Speaker 5: Toronto at a plus three eighty eight and Atlanta United
Speaker 5: to minus one sixty seven draws a plus three twenty two.
Speaker 5: Charlotte Addlson, Milanda Gone Middlesbrough, so they'll have issues at
Speaker 5: the back trying to figure out how to fill that
Speaker 5: hole in the short term. Charlotte to minus one nineteen
Speaker 5: against Red Bulls, who are a plus two to seventy
Speaker 5: six draws a plus two ninety two. I'm not so
Speaker 5: sure about that one. I know that the Juice boxers
Speaker 5: are kind of looking at the offense for Charlotte at
Speaker 5: home going up against Red Bulls.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the back for Charlotte.
Speaker 5: I think that might be opportunities for Eric Maximchupemo Tang
Speaker 5: and Emil Forsburg. So maybe the total here might be
Speaker 5: a higher scoring game than we anticipate. And I would
Speaker 5: think that Red Bulls have a puncher's chance. Seattle hosting
Speaker 5: Sporting the last matchup, and it is the late game,
Speaker 5: and so twenty what's twenty one hundred nine o'clock, so
Speaker 5: nine to twenty five Eastern time on Sunday night. It
Speaker 5: is Seattle and Sporting. Seattle is a minus two point
Speaker 5: fifty at home. After what happened in the mid after
Speaker 5: what happened in the midweek, Intrigued about whether Steph Fry
Speaker 5: is going to be in net, Andrew Thomas was basically
Speaker 5: given League's Cup, Hey, this is yours. And Andrew Thomas
Speaker 5: comes up big in PK's with two saves. So you
Speaker 5: end up with the Andrew Thomas situation. Do you continue
Speaker 5: to run Andrew Thomas out there considering how hot he's
Speaker 5: been in net. You have the injury issues with Seattle,
Speaker 5: but sporting on the road at a plus five thirty three,
Speaker 5: probably Jovilch gets his, no one else gets theirs. So
Speaker 5: it's probably two one three one something in there for
Speaker 5: uh something in there for Seattle. So I'm guessing that
Speaker 5: that that's what you're staring at with those matchups as well.
Speaker 1: So that's that's my that's my gut. I welcome yours.
Speaker 5: Traditionally, when it comes to when it comes to these
Speaker 5: kinds of things, take what I say with a grain
Speaker 5: of salt. I haven't hit anything since I was.
Speaker 1: Thirteen.
Speaker 5: Really, I was in a I was with my dad
Speaker 5: and I ended up.
Speaker 1: We went to we went to the racetrack. Michael Parker's
Speaker 1: joining us in a second.
Speaker 5: And you know, as you do when you go to
Speaker 5: the racetrack for the first time, you know, you're thirteen.
Speaker 5: You're sitting there and you look at the horses. You
Speaker 5: always want to look at the book. You want to
Speaker 5: sit there and you're going, okay, so what's gonna what's
Speaker 5: the deal? So you always want to bet on the
Speaker 5: horses and things like that. So but of course you
Speaker 5: know when you're thirteen, you can't quite do that. So
Speaker 5: I go and there was a there's one race in particular,
Speaker 5: and it ends up as a horse that whose name
Speaker 5: I will never forget. Grandma Bojacks. Grandma's Bojacks was the horse,
Speaker 5: and I got the perfecta. I literally got one, two
Speaker 5: three four in that race. Of course, when you're thirteen,
Speaker 5: you can't bet on it, but if but if I had,
Speaker 5: it would have been a nice payday. I have got
Speaker 5: nothing right since then, when I was thirteen.
Speaker 1: Nothing.
Speaker 5: So literally, if you've got if you've got a favorite,
Speaker 5: you've got your you've got your thing favored it out.
Speaker 5: You know, it's like, Okay, I'm gonna do this, this, this, this,
Speaker 5: and this. I'm gonna go here. I'm gonna hear what
Speaker 5: Nelson has to say. That's a bad idea. Don't do
Speaker 5: what Nelson says. Go the exact opposite direction, Go fleeing
Speaker 5: the other way. Do not trust me under any auspice
Speaker 5: or circumstance when it comes to anything having to do
Speaker 5: with juice boxes.
Speaker 1: Swear to God how this works.
Speaker 5: Now we go and check in with our mogul and
Speaker 5: training on the Friday free kick find out what's going
Speaker 5: on in the life of Parky and what else is
Speaker 5: going on? Because you know, he's having to juggle with
Speaker 5: Yegermeister cup, like the actual cup, not like cups with
Speaker 5: Yeagermeister in it.
Speaker 1: People.
Speaker 5: Come on, now, he's got a tournament. Although there might
Speaker 5: be benefits there, I don't know. We'll bring in Parky.
Speaker 5: What's up, dude, morning?
Speaker 6: What sorry to hear about your scarring from juice boxes at.
Speaker 5: The age at the age of thirteen, when I was,
Speaker 5: when I was at the horse track. I mean, look,
Speaker 5: look when you go through all the juice boxes. Literally,
Speaker 5: it's like, okay, here's what I think.
Speaker 1: What do I know? What?
Speaker 5: How much do any of us know? Virtually nothing? So
Speaker 5: literally it's like, yeah, okay, this this, this sounds good,
Speaker 5: this looks good, this looks good. What does Nelson say?
Speaker 5: Nelson gives you numbers? I said what I did? What
Speaker 5: Nelson said, you went the wrong direction. By the way,
Speaker 5: Greek's from a hotel room in Millgeral, Georgia. By the way,
Speaker 5: I'm not in office HD as you can tell here
Speaker 5: we go. Yes, No, it's it's that timing or where everything
Speaker 5: kind of blends together.
Speaker 1: Uh, and you know.
Speaker 5: And you know, when you're in a hotel, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: go ahead and lean lean to my right a little bit,
Speaker 5: you know. So you know, when you're in a hotel,
Speaker 5: you always try if you've got if you're stuck with
Speaker 5: this in the background, you always try to make it
Speaker 5: look like you made your bed. You know, even if
Speaker 5: you're a slob like me, It's like, okay, let's just
Speaker 5: make it look like it made the bed.
Speaker 1: And that way.
Speaker 5: So if something happens and I have to look this way,
Speaker 5: oh it's a clean hotel room.
Speaker 1: No, not.
Speaker 5: When you are in with college kicking back in this
Speaker 5: as we come screeching and I burned the transmission on
Speaker 5: this transition. Uh, college is kicking back in. High school's
Speaker 5: back in practice, and everything is ramping up. When it
Speaker 5: comes to you and Greg and your men, tees, how
Speaker 5: where is the pacing right now?
Speaker 1: Is it ramping up?
Speaker 5: Did it literally just slam on the gas and everybody
Speaker 5: hops back in the door. Is there a transition here
Speaker 5: or is it just basically like a light switch on off, on, off,
Speaker 5: on off.
Speaker 6: When I Commentory, well, we do run a sale in
Speaker 6: August because we know seasons are starting back up and
Speaker 6: help with preparedness, but not crazy as far as light
Speaker 6: switch style, because some players want to or parents want
Speaker 6: their players to be prepared as the preseason starts and
Speaker 6: get in the right mind.
Speaker 2: But often.
Speaker 6: History has told us that sometimes athletes wait until things
Speaker 6: aren't going perfect to seek us out, and so sometimes
Speaker 6: that needs to marinate a little bit within the start
Speaker 6: of a season. So based off of that, it's not
Speaker 6: a light switch which is nice for us.
Speaker 5: Well, and does it you know, if you could and
Speaker 5: I don't know, if you could gently do it to
Speaker 5: where you're grabbing your mintees by the the lapels, you know,
Speaker 5: the the floppy collar from like the eighties and nineties
Speaker 5: on the soccer jersey, and it's like, look, it's a
Speaker 5: twenty four to seven three sixty five thing.
Speaker 1: Pacing is okay.
Speaker 5: It doesn't have to be something where it's like, oh, ish,
Speaker 5: something's wrong. I need to go check in with mentees.
Speaker 5: I mean, do you have to have these reminders? It's like, look,
Speaker 5: it's okay to reach out to me in an off season.
Speaker 5: It's okay, it's cool. That's kind of what this development
Speaker 5: thing is all about. Do you have to remind them
Speaker 5: sometimes and sit there and go, yeah, it's cool to
Speaker 5: talk to me.
Speaker 6: In the off season, for sure, we send out reminders
Speaker 6: to families and things because you know, ideally we'd love
Speaker 6: to and a big part of our mentoring is trying
Speaker 6: to give them the tools to handle the adversity when
Speaker 6: the adversity hits, so that they aren't hitting the ish.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: They that's tough, right, It's it's tough for teenagers, which
Speaker 6: mostly we work with right to have that mindset right.
Speaker 6: They just want to think about the present and what's.
Speaker 2: Going on right now.
Speaker 6: And I'm sure we were the same way when we
Speaker 6: were teenagers, So I get it. It's tough, but yeah,
Speaker 6: that's why we try and connect with people a little
Speaker 6: bit in the off season. I get, yeah, you want
Speaker 6: to get away from soccer and everything, which is great,
Speaker 6: but you know, as the season kicks off, we try
Speaker 6: and have a session with everyone just to give them
Speaker 6: the tools again as a new season starts and expectations
Speaker 6: are there, and just figuring out their role, whether it's
Speaker 6: a new team or current team, or going into high
Speaker 6: school or going into college. It's it's all a challenge.
Speaker 6: So some of them do, some of them don't, and
Speaker 6: we take it from there.
Speaker 5: So when you you know, when you have how many
Speaker 5: how many mentees?
Speaker 1: Are we talking eleven y billion?
Speaker 2: Just under eleven dy billion?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the goal.
Speaker 2: Gets to eleven dy billion.
Speaker 5: And you've got you've got book on all of them, right,
Speaker 5: you have at least some kind of a whether it's
Speaker 5: is it is it a word doc or is it
Speaker 5: written down on legal pad?
Speaker 1: Or where do you keep your notes?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we do wear docs that way we can share
Speaker 6: I know, I'm sorry Google Docs.
Speaker 2: We don't do work, we don't do Microsoft.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you keep running tally on all of your mentees.
Speaker 1: When they circle back to you at the.
Speaker 5: Beginning of a season, when that first round of ish
Speaker 5: happens and they all of a sudden, it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: I got to talk about you know, you've got your
Speaker 5: notes there with you. Are you able to process progression
Speaker 5: in conversations and even how they carry themselves, whether it's
Speaker 5: a couple of months at a time, if they go
Speaker 5: away and they handle themselves, they're handling themselves differently when
Speaker 5: they pop back in the door. Are you able to
Speaker 5: gauge that from the notes that you have and those
Speaker 5: initial conversations coming back or or is it one of
Speaker 5: those where I've got them. Intee, they're back in here. Okay,
Speaker 5: we're picking back up or we left off. I guess
Speaker 5: how much is how much is progression a part of
Speaker 5: it that you pick back up, and how much of
Speaker 5: it is like okay, literally is at the end of
Speaker 5: the last sentence when we last we're hanging out with
Speaker 5: each other.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like sixty forty seventy thirty about progression. I
Speaker 6: think we all need reminders about things that we've learned
Speaker 6: in the past. Right, It's tough for us to keep
Speaker 6: tally on everything. And so for sure, especially where the
Speaker 6: athlete is, of going back and giving some reminders about
Speaker 6: certain things that maybe presented themselves multiple times in the
Speaker 6: past or whatever. Or we're big concerns earlier, right, checking
Speaker 6: back in see how we're doing there, and.
Speaker 2: Then we progress from there.
Speaker 6: And you know, progression might be the same topic, just
Speaker 6: viewing it a little bit differently and talking about confidence
Speaker 6: differently and what it means to them now. And yeah,
Speaker 6: that's so it's not all different topics. It's just different
Speaker 6: approaches and based off of who they are, where they
Speaker 6: are and things. But you know, we're still at a
Speaker 6: point where we're young enough that and I don't even
Speaker 6: know if this will ever change, but the notes are
Speaker 6: good just to give us a friendly reminder.
Speaker 2: But usually when you get.
Speaker 6: Back on a call, you remember the person and kind
Speaker 6: of okay, yes, I remember you and what you were
Speaker 6: going through, and you know whether they're easy to talk
Speaker 6: to or not, or who's going to run the conversation.
Speaker 2: How involved are parents? Like all those little.
Speaker 5: Things, and you have all of these these issues. What
Speaker 5: what do you think is the biggest issue that you
Speaker 5: continue to tackle over time? Is there one that's more
Speaker 5: constant than the others, or is it still the variety
Speaker 5: of things depending on the mentee, or is there they're
Speaker 5: just one big thing that Yeah, this seems to be
Speaker 5: a common topic with mentees these days.
Speaker 6: Confidence is always one, yeah, But another big one is
Speaker 6: just understanding the journey is full of.
Speaker 2: Ups and downs, and you know when you when you.
Speaker 6: Zoom out, you hopefully see it going up, but when
Speaker 6: you zoom in you see some ups and downs, and
Speaker 6: up and downs and ups and downs and understanding, hey,
Speaker 6: these downs are normal, and just understanding that they're going
Speaker 6: to hit and that's okay.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 6: That's the age of social media right where it's like, Hey,
Speaker 6: these people that are having success and these people that
Speaker 6: are out there having a great time, right, that's just
Speaker 6: how they live life twenty four seven, and that's how
Speaker 6: I should we live.
Speaker 2: In life twenty four seven.
Speaker 6: And then when you're not and challenges hit and adversity hits,
Speaker 6: or a bad grade comes in, or a tough training
Speaker 6: session or whatever it must be, where you get benched. Right, Well,
Speaker 6: everybody on Instagram's not doing that, so poor me type thing,
Speaker 6: So that's a big one for sure.
Speaker 5: Well, and how much of when you and Greg are
Speaker 5: talking to your mentees about the ups and downs do
Speaker 5: you try to remember to to have your mentee remember
Speaker 5: that it's about trying to stay in the middle as
Speaker 5: much as you can, because we all know and I
Speaker 5: know that we're surrounded by.
Speaker 1: Young athletes and it is.
Speaker 5: The extremes seem to rule more than the median, and
Speaker 5: success over time, I would imagine comes more from enjoying
Speaker 5: this and not locking into the bottom and remembering that
Speaker 5: that median is always what you're what you're aiming for,
Speaker 5: and not getting wrapped up in the highs and lows
Speaker 5: as much. Yeah, I'm sure, I mean, it's just it
Speaker 5: seems like something that And like I said, I know
Speaker 5: that we were fifteen, sixteen, seventeen. I mean I was
Speaker 5: back in the seventeen nineties. But you know, when you
Speaker 5: have these kinds of things, how difficult is it to
Speaker 5: remind them about being even keeled because of that youthful
Speaker 5: exuberance and wanting to sit there and go, yeah, I'm
Speaker 5: doing great or no, or no I'm not and I've.
Speaker 1: Got to fix it. How difficult is it to remind
Speaker 1: them about the happy medium?
Speaker 6: Sometimes it can be, for sure, and sometimes it's because
Speaker 6: players are constantly getting too high, more often because they're
Speaker 6: constantly being too hard on themselves.
Speaker 2: So it's all over the gambit.
Speaker 6: But regardless, Right, we talk about that median and that
Speaker 6: neutral line because it can serve so many benefits as
Speaker 6: far as just expectations if you're on the high side,
Speaker 6: but also it can serve as a.
Speaker 2: Goal if you're on the bottom side of it.
Speaker 6: Right, we don't have to get from negative ten to
Speaker 6: positive ten.
Speaker 2: Right, there's that zero in the middle. That's pretty good
Speaker 2: for most of us.
Speaker 6: Right, you're living a decent life if you're living right
Speaker 6: on that line, or at least you can be if
Speaker 6: you're viewing it that way. So you know that provides
Speaker 6: hope for people that are struggling with confidence. Right, I
Speaker 6: don't have to go from unconfident to super confident.
Speaker 2: I can go from unconfident.
Speaker 6: To feeling neutral, and from neutral I can play better,
Speaker 6: have more success, and gradually gain my confidence.
Speaker 5: How hard is that, though, I mean to remind him.
Speaker 5: You know, it's like we live in the extremes. Everything's
Speaker 5: cool or it's not. How difficult is to remind him
Speaker 5: that okay is okay? Because I mean it's like we
Speaker 5: live in this idea of everything's great, everything stinks. Everything's great,
Speaker 5: everything stinks. Just have a just have a good day
Speaker 5: is having a good day and then starting that winning
Speaker 5: streak of good days? Is that something that you literally
Speaker 5: have to pound in the folks. Sometimes it's like, look,
Speaker 5: it's okay to have a zero. It's okay, instead of
Speaker 5: being a minus ten or a positive ten.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's cool. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I have to tell myself that even today John out
Speaker 6: on the golf course, right, hey, just have an okay day.
Speaker 2: Don't have a shocker here, you know, don't put up
Speaker 2: a snowman, just get a bogie. It's fine, right, But
Speaker 2: when you're in it, that's tough.
Speaker 6: Because you want to be good and you want to
Speaker 6: be the best, and you want to challenge yourself. You
Speaker 6: want to push yourself. So it's it's natural within all
Speaker 6: of us. But yes, when you take a step back
Speaker 6: and you say, hey, if my bad day was just
Speaker 6: okay and it wasn't brutal, right, it makes it really
Speaker 6: easier to bounce back. And that's the biggest thing, because
Speaker 6: we're all going to have these off days and bad
Speaker 6: moments and bad things and whatever, right, but how quickly
Speaker 6: can we rebound is usually the differentiator between people. And Yeah,
Speaker 6: if we make it easier for ourselves to bounce back,
Speaker 6: and we have some tools that are going to help
Speaker 6: us bounce back, then we can try and separate ourselves
Speaker 6: and then you know, some of those really good days
Speaker 6: come a little bit more often.
Speaker 5: How hard are you and Greg on yourselves when it
Speaker 5: comes to wanting to do right by all of your mentees.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's definitely something we work on because of course
Speaker 6: it's only two of us, and it's you know, it
Speaker 6: takes time, and nothing's you know, every session that we
Speaker 6: have is our time. It's nothing automatic here, and so yes,
Speaker 6: we want to be there for everyone and we want
Speaker 6: to do everything, but we also have to say no
Speaker 6: sometimes and we have to We can't partner with everyone
Speaker 6: and do everything, and we have to be strategic about things.
Speaker 6: And you know this this summer was a good example
Speaker 6: for me, Like I did not have a super productive
Speaker 6: summer in terms of work, but I had a super
Speaker 6: productive summer in terms of enjoyment and being around the
Speaker 6: kids and enjoying you know, one of the last few
Speaker 6: summers I have with them in the house and everything.
Speaker 2: And so for me, that was the priority this summer and.
Speaker 6: Just understanding and having that knowledge of hey, I can
Speaker 6: catch up with this work and I can get back
Speaker 6: on it and you know, focus more time. But that's
Speaker 6: that's always tough because you feel like you're letting someone
Speaker 6: down and you hate to do that, especially especially as
Speaker 6: a mentor. Right you're supposed to be helping other people up.
Speaker 6: And so yeah, it's always a struggle, but we just
Speaker 6: do the best you can.
Speaker 1: Our resident m I. T. Grad Michael Parkhurst hanging out
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 2: Did you see that, John, You see m I T.
Speaker 1: Did you get it? Yeah? Yeah, look, m I T.
Speaker 1: I saw it. That's why, that's why I mentioned it.
Speaker 2: I know, what did you did?
Speaker 4: You do?
Speaker 2: You get it? M I T.
Speaker 1: It's not no, then what is it? What is it?
Speaker 1: M I T. Mobile and training and training? Awesome?
Speaker 5: Okay, cool, you got me. I haven't had enough caffeine.
Speaker 5: That's awesome though, our resident I T.
Speaker 1: I like that when it comes to saying no.
Speaker 5: You mentioned that for for you and your own personal
Speaker 5: sanity and enjoyment and timeframes and anything like that. I
Speaker 5: know that when your mentees are of that age, they
Speaker 5: want to please everybody. They want to be they want
Speaker 5: to be in the end Click. They want to be
Speaker 5: in that group. They want to be that person that
Speaker 5: you know they they want to they want to make
Speaker 5: sure that, uh, they want to make sure that. Gretchen
Speaker 5: Wiener's is is you know, a happy person, so I'm
Speaker 5: twenty four to seven three sixty five, and that you're
Speaker 5: in part of the end Click and that you're not,
Speaker 5: you know, outside of it. Do you tell your mentees
Speaker 5: it's okay to say no. Do you have those conversations?
Speaker 5: Do they even ask about that kind of stuff? Because
Speaker 5: we're in that age group, we always want to be
Speaker 5: pleasing to folks and we want to sit there and
Speaker 5: be our best. Do you tell do you talk to
Speaker 5: them about that kind of thing?
Speaker 1: Rarely?
Speaker 6: Actually, John, that you mention it, and maybe I should.
Speaker 6: Maybe it's something I should kind of institute a little
Speaker 6: bit here and there, especially for the more adolescent teenagers.
Speaker 2: Right, the older.
Speaker 6: Ones here that are, you know, sophomore June and your
Speaker 6: seniors having choices of what they want to do sometimes
Speaker 6: after school and who they hang out with and what
Speaker 6: friends are doing. I mean, for sure, we talk about
Speaker 6: saying no in terms of sacrifices and if you've got
Speaker 6: a game on a Saturday and all your buddies are
Speaker 6: doing something on a Friday night and they're having a
Speaker 6: sleepover and you want to go right, and hey, there's
Speaker 6: sacrifices to be made in order to have success, and
Speaker 6: you can't have everything, so what's the priority? And so
Speaker 6: there's there is that, but that's less of the pleasing
Speaker 6: thing and more towards sacrificing and dedication type stuff. So
Speaker 6: but no, you know, that is probably something that we
Speaker 6: should look into and discuss a little bit more. Even
Speaker 6: with the younger generation of Hey, people pleasing and what
Speaker 6: that what goes into that and you know versus what
Speaker 6: do you want to do?
Speaker 2: And who are you? And does this make you happy?
Speaker 2: Type stuff?
Speaker 5: And uh, I mean like and that was literally just
Speaker 5: from the conversation that we had. That was why that
Speaker 5: popped up into my head. I was like, well, you know,
Speaker 5: we we think that we're bulletproof at that age. Legitimately
Speaker 5: doesn't matter how many things we got going on. We
Speaker 5: think that we can go until two thirty three o'clock
Speaker 5: in the morning, go on four hours of sleep, roll
Speaker 5: out of the racket seven o'clock, go to dunkin Donuts
Speaker 5: and go to the go to the game, and everything's
Speaker 5: locked in and everything's fine.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's.
Speaker 5: Patience, it's pacing, it's understanding. Okay, you can't you can't
Speaker 5: go on undred miles an hour all the time if
Speaker 5: you want to be better at doing all these other things.
Speaker 5: It just to me, I know that I sit there
Speaker 5: and I'm looking at all these young athletes today and
Speaker 5: they all look bulletproof.
Speaker 1: They really do. But I'm just I.
Speaker 5: Am in I'm in awe of what you and Greg
Speaker 5: do because of the level of patience that you guys
Speaker 5: piece together with all of these individuals and want to
Speaker 5: make sure that this next generation is approaching it the
Speaker 5: right way and that they're not you know, that nothing
Speaker 5: gets left out and that they continue to do things
Speaker 5: the way that it's supposed to be done. And I mean,
Speaker 5: it's just it's just something that's come across from me
Speaker 5: that you guys wanted to take this on in the
Speaker 5: first place, to do this kind of stuff. Do you
Speaker 5: do you feel the impact that you guys are having,
Speaker 5: You get I know you may not necessarily get to
Speaker 5: see it all the time, but do you do you
Speaker 5: kind of gauge the impact that you guys are having
Speaker 5: with what you're doing there beyond goals?
Speaker 6: Sometimes sometimes yeah, sometimes sometimes we get good feedback and
Speaker 6: we see somebody have success. We see somebody commit to
Speaker 6: a college, you know, be very happy with where they're at.
Speaker 6: You know, talking to a few pros lately that are
Speaker 6: in circumstances they want to change, and you know, when
Speaker 6: something comes out of that and you know they see
Speaker 6: things a little more clearly, that's success in my eyes.
Speaker 6: So yeah, you know, there's there's definitely some moments where
Speaker 6: we feel good about what we're doing. To get back
Speaker 6: to what you were saying earlier, John, about you know,
Speaker 6: telling kids that you know it's okay.
Speaker 2: To say no.
Speaker 6: Sometimes I can just foresee a parent of like a
Speaker 6: twelve or thirteen year old saying, well, my kids said
Speaker 6: no that I'm not going to do chores this week
Speaker 6: because that doesn't make me happy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you've run that. You've already run that game,
Speaker 5: haven't you.
Speaker 6: Barky told me I can say no and do things
Speaker 6: that make me happy and not feel pressured.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. My men said this. Well, I'll show you this.
Speaker 5: It's like, okay, Mentor, you know, all right, Mente, you
Speaker 5: go over there and take out the garbage. I mean,
Speaker 5: but you shoot, hey, hey, Mentor, go take out the garbage. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 5: you get home after your weekend, it's like, hey, Mentor,
Speaker 5: Sunday night, go take out the garbage. Yes, ma'am, I
Speaker 5: mean that literally. But that's that's how things are. Michael
Speaker 5: Parker's hanging out with It's beyond goals. Entering our resident
Speaker 5: in our mogul and training, I noticed you got a
Speaker 5: banner over your your left shoulder in the office.
Speaker 1: Now I noticed this.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, yes, that's from the first inaugural game at
Speaker 6: the stadium.
Speaker 1: How did that feel?
Speaker 6: And this guy over here, I bring this out for
Speaker 6: all event the other day. I guess I can't hold
Speaker 6: it up because it kind of but that's what it is.
Speaker 1: All all very nice, all of that.
Speaker 2: Look at that good reminders.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, so since you open that box, I'll go
Speaker 5: through that door. When you're in a when you're in
Speaker 5: a situation like you're seeing with your old club, and
Speaker 5: it's like you're seeing improvement, but it's almost like you know,
Speaker 5: Schleprock's hanging out with you, and you hit hit a crossbar,
Speaker 5: you hit a post. It's like you're seeing improvement, but
Speaker 5: it's not coming into results. I guess that's something else
Speaker 5: we could talk about with your mentees. What's it like
Speaker 5: to see the current state of affairs with Atlanta United
Speaker 5: the way that it is right now, with only a
Speaker 5: handful of matches left at home this year.
Speaker 2: It's tough. Not going to sugarcoat it.
Speaker 1: It's tough.
Speaker 2: Thanks. Uh yeah, obviously a far cry from where it
Speaker 2: was a few years ago.
Speaker 6: But you know, I'm a half glass full, and you know,
Speaker 6: I understand there's huge expectations every season, I think, particularly
Speaker 6: going into this season based off of the off season
Speaker 6: last year and the finances and everything right, And so
Speaker 6: I think that's what makes it more frustrating, because it's
Speaker 6: not a lack of effort from the front office.
Speaker 2: That things haven't gone well.
Speaker 6: And you know, it's easy to say, oh, it's because
Speaker 6: this guy got injured or this guy was missing, or
Speaker 6: oh we just don't have a good striker, Oh this
Speaker 6: that or the other thing. It's more frustrating when you
Speaker 6: can't exactly pinpoint it and say, hey, we've spent money,
Speaker 6: we've got a talented roster, we should be good enough
Speaker 6: to be at least a playoff team.
Speaker 2: Why isn't it clicking? Why can't we do it? Type thing?
Speaker 6: That's where the frustration really lies for probably most people,
Speaker 6: and including the players.
Speaker 2: I've been there. My last year in Columbus was like that,
Speaker 2: why can't we win?
Speaker 6: I don't know why? And it's super frustrating. And yeah,
Speaker 6: there's nowhere to sugar go to it. There's no one
Speaker 6: that's from players to staff to fans that's enjoyed this season,
Speaker 6: and that's frustrating. But I do think that you know,
Speaker 6: given the league and Arthur's ambition and the club and
Speaker 6: where we're at that, there's no reason why we can't
Speaker 6: be a top team next year.
Speaker 1: When are you playing golf? When's your tea time?
Speaker 6: I wish I was playing today, but I did play
Speaker 6: the other day, John, John, I've been playing really well lately.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've got my handicapped down to I think it's
Speaker 6: right at eleven. Who I shot at eighty five yesterday
Speaker 6: with an eight on the last hole.
Speaker 1: Wow, So that.
Speaker 6: Was frustrating finish, but I played well, and so for me,
Speaker 6: that's really good golf.
Speaker 2: The single digit handicap is within sight.
Speaker 1: Wow. See.
Speaker 5: I play better the longer the gap time between rounds,
Speaker 5: Like I play like back to back or like twice
Speaker 5: in a week.
Speaker 1: That's second round. I'm awful.
Speaker 5: If I haven't played in like six months and I
Speaker 5: go out cold Turkey, I'm crushing it nice.
Speaker 1: It's just it's stupid that way.
Speaker 5: I can't explain it. I'm probably in eighteen. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm probably, I mean I break ninety. But it's like
Speaker 5: I got I've got a new set of clubs. The
Speaker 5: boss was like, we've got to get rid of your
Speaker 5: old metal shafts, and I've had to dial everything back
Speaker 5: to zero. My yardages are just screwed up because I
Speaker 5: now have callaways with the graphite shafts or the composites,
Speaker 5: and I'm back to zero. It's like literally, it's like
Speaker 5: I'm sitting here and because of my swing speed and
Speaker 5: everything everything, you know, I'm two and three club club
Speaker 5: links ahead. It's like I'm hitting nine irons one fifty
Speaker 5: two with my old clubs.
Speaker 1: With the nine iron.
Speaker 5: Now I'm back to one ten and I'm sitting there
Speaker 5: and I'm piddling around, and I'm going, okay, you know
Speaker 5: when it goes one ten, and dealing with new clubs,
Speaker 5: especially with new fangle technologies, stinks.
Speaker 1: Man, it's awful.
Speaker 6: Well, I hope to have that problem someday. But I
Speaker 6: told myself, my my Nikes, everyone, everyone's always amazing that
Speaker 6: I play with Nike clubs.
Speaker 2: I got.
Speaker 6: I got the whole thing, you know, Driver Woods, irons,
Speaker 6: the whole thing except for a putter and put the
Speaker 6: putter John I got from play it against sports like
Speaker 6: three four weeks ago.
Speaker 2: To be a game changing for me.
Speaker 1: But that's the thing.
Speaker 5: It's like literally your club and and that's the thing.
Speaker 5: It's like your clubs are your clubs. They're they're what
Speaker 5: you wanted. They're what you like, it fits you. This
Speaker 5: is my thing, and you know, to heck with the
Speaker 5: rest of you. You know, this is this is this
Speaker 5: is what I'm doing, this is what I'm comfortable with.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to succumb to the peer pressure of
Speaker 5: golf clubs. This is not going to happen for me.
Speaker 5: I'm going to play my nikes and to heck with you,
Speaker 5: and I'll get a snowman and I'll when was the
Speaker 5: last time.
Speaker 1: You broke eighty?
Speaker 2: I never have?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay? Okay, So that's that.
Speaker 5: So in addition to getting from a double handicapped to
Speaker 5: a single, you got to break eighty.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: See you were you were like you were you were.
Speaker 5: If you if you hadn't a snowman and you just
Speaker 5: bogied out, you'd beat an eighty three.
Speaker 6: I know I'm shot eighty two and eighty three a
Speaker 6: bunch of times, but yeah, nember eighty one, never eighty
Speaker 6: never below.
Speaker 2: Oh man, it's coming, it's coming.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 5: What's the latest with beyond goals entering? When are we
Speaker 5: announcing this third minte mentor?
Speaker 2: Oh she's announced, John, it's out in the wild.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Zara uh.
Speaker 6: Chevoshi, Okay, I want to here the last name, uh Zara. Yes,
Speaker 6: defender for Orlando Pride.
Speaker 2: She went to Wake Forest h of course she did.
Speaker 2: And uh yeah, she's awesome. The third mentor Canadian American.
Speaker 6: So she played with both national teams at the youth
Speaker 6: level and then has played. I don't know if she's
Speaker 6: fully committed yet or not, but she's played with the
Speaker 6: full Canadian team.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 5: Okay, so Canadian American and playing for the Purple team
Speaker 5: in the NWSL. As always, my friend, It's great to
Speaker 5: catch up with you wherever the door opens and wherever
Speaker 5: it goes. I'm glad that we're back to see the
Speaker 5: next season of Beyond Goals Mannering and you guys are
Speaker 5: crushing it and then dealing with all the ish that
Speaker 5: folks have to deal with these days and correcting it
Speaker 5: to make sure that the path is what it always is.
Speaker 1: Where's Deacon.
Speaker 2: On the floor not in her bed this time?
Speaker 1: But it's but it's cooler. I understand that you're you're
Speaker 1: talking about it.
Speaker 6: What in the most recent book that I'm about to
Speaker 6: start there it is Chief Joy Officer.
Speaker 5: Okay, So, our Chief Joy Officer and I t Michael
Speaker 5: Parkers as always my friend. Great to see you and
Speaker 5: have a great weekend. We'll catch up leaving a couple
Speaker 5: be well and we'll catch up soon.
Speaker 2: You too, say Charlie.
Speaker 5: Chief Joy Officer Michael Parkers. I have to remember that
Speaker 5: Chief Joy Officer, Chief Joy Officer, so he'll end up
Speaker 5: being like the CJO and the mi I at BGM Okay,
Speaker 5: I see how this works.
Speaker 1: Okay, good stuff.
Speaker 5: It's always great to catch up with Michael parkerst and
Speaker 5: find out what's going on there with Beyond Goals of
Speaker 5: me entering and they put up with me like nobody's business.
Speaker 5: He and Greg it's like when they can. They pop
Speaker 5: in and they get to talk about everything and growing
Speaker 5: all of the what's going on at Beyond Goals, and
Speaker 5: it's always really fun to catch up with them. Our
Speaker 5: number two, Ross Smith set to join us in a
Speaker 5: couple of minutes from Apple TV and Apple TV Plus
Speaker 5: and Major League Soccer and Casey Casey White's going to
Speaker 5: join us at ten thirty. We're going to talk a
Speaker 5: little bit about it Toronto FC because her last matchup
Speaker 5: was Columbus and Toronto, and we're going to go into
Speaker 5: the College rank. She's got a couple of games this
Speaker 5: weekend to get into. We'll go over what happened with
Speaker 5: Florida State and the low down, dirty cheaters and Gainesville,
Speaker 5: and we'll, you know, with her call with Jen Hildreth,
Speaker 5: we'll get into that, and then we'll wrap up the
Speaker 5: show with what to watch, gossip, MLS, secondary transfer windows, stuff,
Speaker 5: all of all of those things.
Speaker 1: We'll probably get into that.
Speaker 5: With Ross a little bit too, and we'll find out
Speaker 5: what's on his mind, and we might recap the life
Speaker 5: and times of Brenner while we're at it, because Cincinnati
Speaker 5: making a whole lot of moves and Paxon Aronson coming
Speaker 5: into the league, and so we'll get into the minutia
Speaker 5: of the window, you know, in the last fifteen minutes
Speaker 5: of the show, but probably the bulk of it. We'll
Speaker 5: talk Nashville, talk Orlando, we'll talk that match up, talk
Speaker 5: about it Lanta, and talk about the secondary transfer window
Speaker 5: with Ross when he pops up here in just a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 1: Apparently the and.
Speaker 5: There have been another couple of moves that were announced
Speaker 5: this morning by the way, that I guess made it
Speaker 5: across the one am deadline, and so we'll see what
Speaker 5: happens there joining us now, Oh, he's got his seat
Speaker 5: belt on, so it is safe guesting with Ross Smith
Speaker 5: and we'll try and get our best Tony husband story
Speaker 5: while we're at it too, So there's ro yes, see
Speaker 5: that's the idea.
Speaker 4: Hi John, Nice, nice to see you.
Speaker 5: You're to be seen. Let's see, so you are safe
Speaker 5: guesting this morning? Where are you, sir?
Speaker 3: I am my apologies. I am actually heading to Nashville.
Speaker 3: Essy's training right now. Okay, so yeah, so whenever, yeah, whenever,
Speaker 3: I mean it's I'm in market, I live in Nashville,
Speaker 3: I'm based out of here. But on the Fridays, I
Speaker 3: love the access we get with Apple to be able
Speaker 3: to get on the training ground and chat with the coaches,
Speaker 3: and coaches have warmed up to it a bit more
Speaker 3: than the first year when they're a bit a bit.
Speaker 4: A bit skeptical of what we're up to coming.
Speaker 3: Onto the training ground, but now it's it's fantastic and
Speaker 3: the insight you get is.
Speaker 4: There's nothing like it to prep for the games.
Speaker 1: So you got BJ Callahan.
Speaker 5: When you get to show up on Fridays, what's it
Speaker 5: like to see the BJ Callahan era in Nashville compared
Speaker 5: to what Gary Smith had, and he had going.
Speaker 3: On a different culture and I would say a different language.
Speaker 3: And bj Callahan from the first day when he stepped
Speaker 3: on the training ground, the words that he was using
Speaker 3: is so different and unique to any other manager, not
Speaker 3: not just Gary Smith. He's made it his own and
Speaker 3: he's believed that the players, they all need to be
Speaker 3: on the same page as part of creating the culture
Speaker 3: that he wants, but the understanding as well.
Speaker 4: So he went when he uses certain.
Speaker 3: Terms and granted that was, you know, a year ago
Speaker 3: when he started out. Now when I'll step on the
Speaker 3: training ground today, everybody's talking the same talk. And I
Speaker 3: think that's it's really interesting to you know, to to
Speaker 3: sort of see that. And then the style of what
Speaker 3: you go into and how he's approached it. He's very
Speaker 3: meticulous with his attacking phase of play and the spaces
Speaker 3: guys get into. It's been, uh, it's been really neat
Speaker 3: to see him operate and how it's come together.
Speaker 1: What unlocked Sam Surage.
Speaker 3: His position, I think his position and I know Gary
Speaker 3: Smith was was looking at that as well.
Speaker 4: And I think with.
Speaker 3: With Sam playing more towards like a left winger and
Speaker 3: that's when he played, That's where he played when he
Speaker 3: was across in England.
Speaker 4: You know, I think that's his sweet spot. You know.
Speaker 3: It's It's interesting because Sam, when I say what stands
Speaker 3: out whenever you have a designated player, I always say
Speaker 3: they have to have a separating feature. And when Sam
Speaker 3: first came in, I thought, I really don't know. He
Speaker 3: doesn't have blinding pace. He's not a beast in the air,
Speaker 3: and it's not as though its back to goal he's
Speaker 3: bullying center backs. So what separates them? And for me
Speaker 3: now it's it's right place, right time. He understands where
Speaker 3: he needs to be. I think bj Callahan has made
Speaker 3: that very clear. And Honey Mooktar also raising his game
Speaker 3: back to the levels that we've always known to Handy
Speaker 3: since he's come into the league. You know, Hani's backed
Speaker 3: as well, and that certainly helps Sam surge. But you know,
Speaker 3: the positioning, the starting position of Sam surg I think
Speaker 3: he feels a lot more comfortable and he's used to
Speaker 3: that position from from when he was at his best
Speaker 3: back in England.
Speaker 5: Traditionally it would be for going up against Nashville. You
Speaker 5: pin in Honey Mooktar you cut off the supply lines.
Speaker 5: Nashville doesn't have that second option. Now under BJ, you've
Speaker 5: got Sam and then there are some other supporting players
Speaker 5: that take advantage of this positional gravity. Who else, in
Speaker 5: your mind, has benefited the most from the unlocking of
Speaker 5: surage and Honey getting back to being Honey.
Speaker 3: It's a great, great question, And you know, I'll tie
Speaker 3: this back in when he said, you know the difference
Speaker 3: with Gary Smith, I would say Gary didn't. He didn't
Speaker 3: have Patrick Gasbeck, he didn't have Eddie tag Seth and
Speaker 3: they make a massive difference. And the style to which
Speaker 3: BJ can play now is that they can press higher
Speaker 3: up the pitch, they can keep teams, teams locked in
Speaker 3: their own half, they can keep their team on the
Speaker 3: front foot in the front half, and so they make
Speaker 3: a massive difference. So there's wave after wave now coming.
Speaker 3: I don't think Eddy Tags Steth John has been given
Speaker 3: enough credit for what he is is done for the team.
Speaker 3: If there was an MVP category in terms of the
Speaker 3: most truly the most valuable player, he's got to be
Speaker 3: in the conversation for what he does winning second balls,
Speaker 3: you know, biting at the other teams their ankles, not
Speaker 3: allowing them to find a rhythm in the game. He
Speaker 3: makes the most difference for guys like Schaffelberg to go
Speaker 3: And I still don't think we're quite seeing the best
Speaker 3: of Schaffelberg. We're seeing it in in glimpses.
Speaker 4: What he can do.
Speaker 3: But Alex Mweel, I think he's the biggest benefactor of
Speaker 3: what we've seen in terms of players off the radar
Speaker 3: to what you wouldn't notice right away. You want to
Speaker 3: talk about Surge and want to talk about Hanimuktar. Now
Speaker 3: we're starting to talk about teg Seth and Patrick Gasbeck.
Speaker 3: I think alexman Wheel has had the best season he's
Speaker 3: had an MLS's the position he takes up. It's the
Speaker 3: role he's been asked to do. And you know the
Speaker 3: guys that are around him as well. I've certainly benefited
Speaker 3: from the quality of of tech Seth and the aspect.
Speaker 5: Russ Smith practicing safe guesting on his way to practice
Speaker 5: this morning in Nashville, hanging out with us year on
Speaker 5: s d H A M.
Speaker 1: It is the Purple team coming to g otis.
Speaker 5: We can't we can't use the word here in an
Speaker 5: Atlantic program.
Speaker 1: Ross so uh.
Speaker 5: They played in the midweek, Gallesse ends up getting the
Speaker 5: same and the shot and the clincher in the PKS,
Speaker 5: which was insane. What kind of a lineup are you
Speaker 5: anticipating for the Purple team coming to the Fairgrounds and
Speaker 5: the Speedway to take on Nashville this weekend.
Speaker 3: I think it's really uh, it's it's interesting.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: And the one thing is that's helped them is that
Speaker 3: their their game next weekend, which my my partner Tony
Speaker 3: husband and I we were gonna be covering their game
Speaker 3: has been pushed now to October eleventh, and so that
Speaker 3: allows them then to maybe turn out a stronger team
Speaker 3: today to be able to then flip that around and
Speaker 3: turn it turn it around against Miami knowing that they
Speaker 3: have next weekend, you know.
Speaker 4: With without that game. So I it's it's interesting.
Speaker 3: I think Oscaria, that's the one the one standout feature
Speaker 3: to what he's done is depth in this team, and
Speaker 3: he's he's almost got two players for each position. And
Speaker 3: and for me, Oscar Perea, I don't think he's in
Speaker 3: the conversation enough for for being sought manager. What he
Speaker 3: does with players from scattered all over the world, and
Speaker 3: I know that's the league we're in now, but there's
Speaker 3: there's no better example than Orlando, where, you know, I
Speaker 3: feel like you have two players from from each part
Speaker 3: of the world world that have come to his team
Speaker 3: and they found the common thread. So getting back to
Speaker 3: your question, you know, I think it'll be a semi
Speaker 3: strong team, but I don't think it matters because I
Speaker 3: think he's got the rotation, he's got the buy in,
Speaker 3: and he's got he's got twenty players that at any
Speaker 3: point can step in and do the job.
Speaker 5: And I think what we've also seen with Oscar and
Speaker 5: probably like over the last two seasons, it seemed like
Speaker 5: old Oscar when he realized, Okay, I'm safe, I'm in
Speaker 5: the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Everythink's cool. He would decelerate.
Speaker 5: And then it's like, okay, purple teams in the playoffs,
Speaker 5: everything's cool, and then they hit the wall the second
Speaker 5: they get into the postseason.
Speaker 1: That's not the case anymore with Orlando.
Speaker 5: They're just still pedaled down and they haven't taken the
Speaker 5: foot off the accelerator win their late season anymore.
Speaker 3: They know what they are, John, and I mean, first
Speaker 3: and foremost, when you talk about all the stylistic points
Speaker 3: that I think in Nashville will get and you know,
Speaker 3: teams like San Diego, first and foremost, they are horrible
Speaker 3: to play against Orlando, and I think they embrace it.
Speaker 4: Every game they go in. It's a street fight, it's
Speaker 4: a brawl, and teams know it. They have to be
Speaker 4: up for it. They have to be up for the gamesmanship.
Speaker 3: Players like Schlegel, I think he defines what Huscar Perea's
Speaker 3: side is all about. That he will fight and he'll
Speaker 3: he'll go for every little moment to go his way,
Speaker 3: and that is just It reverberates throughout the whole team,
Speaker 3: and that's what they're about. So first and foremost they fight,
Speaker 3: and I think they wear you down. And then you
Speaker 3: get into a long season, you start to step into
Speaker 3: playoffs and you think, oh my goodness, we've got Orlando again.
Speaker 3: You know, the body's maybe a bit tired. We're piecing
Speaker 3: ourselves together and we got to go up against this
Speaker 3: team who aren't going to give us a second to breathe.
Speaker 3: That's where they get at you, and that's where I
Speaker 3: think they become stronger and stronger because every single player
Speaker 3: knows what they're about. Every single player fights for their
Speaker 3: lives for every single ninety minutes, even at this stage
Speaker 3: of the season.
Speaker 5: So then how do you combat that kind of a team. Say,
Speaker 5: say you're on the opposing touchlown, You're going into this
Speaker 5: matchup knowing it's going to be a street fight. Do
Speaker 5: you match street fight for street fight? Do you change
Speaker 5: your mindset a little bit? How do you attack a
Speaker 5: street fight in this case?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's difficult because you can't get sucked in
Speaker 3: because that's exactly what they want is to rile you up.
Speaker 3: But then at the same time, you can't back down.
Speaker 3: So you have to find that that balance of not
Speaker 3: losing your head and and think about you know what
Speaker 3: Messi in his first year, nobody could figure out the
Speaker 3: formula to to to beat Miami until Orlando came out
Speaker 3: along in a ujo in the center of the park,
Speaker 3: God under Messi's skin, you know, and you thought, that's
Speaker 3: the first player to do that to Messi. And Orlando
Speaker 3: turns Miami over. It's impressive. You gotta find the balance.
Speaker 3: You got to find the balance, and you've you've got
Speaker 3: to as best as you can let your quality show through,
Speaker 3: and that's will have plenty of it. You know, if
Speaker 3: you don't have the then you have to grind it
Speaker 3: out against them, but you you have to match it
Speaker 3: to a certain level. But you have to trust that
Speaker 3: your quality and you have to rise above it with
Speaker 3: with your ability levels.
Speaker 5: Okay, let me go through secondary transfer window. Will do
Speaker 5: some of the greatest hits here. As you're on your
Speaker 5: way to practice, Paxton Aronson comes from Europe comes back
Speaker 5: to Major League Soccer. That's another big get for MLS
Speaker 5: three point zero whatever you want to call it. You
Speaker 5: now have players from Europe who are of the US
Speaker 5: M and T quality coming back to play here in
Speaker 5: Major League Soccer. How big a get is having somebody
Speaker 5: like Aaronson come back to Major League Soccer.
Speaker 4: At his age as well the European experience.
Speaker 3: You know, you've seen it with Mahalovich when you know
Speaker 3: coming back to Colorado and then obviously Toronto and the
Speaker 3: amount of money they've paid. So it's it's great for
Speaker 3: It's great for MLS getting guys in their prime and
Speaker 3: wanting to come back to a league that you know
Speaker 3: they were very much a part of before and helping
Speaker 3: to grow.
Speaker 4: And I think that's.
Speaker 3: Important when you hit on that point, is that players
Speaker 3: who want to be here to see the league grow.
Speaker 4: I think you're starting to see more and more of that.
Speaker 3: Yes, you know Paxton being American, but you've seen other
Speaker 3: players from outside the country. They want to be part
Speaker 3: of something and to push it forward. But in terms
Speaker 3: of this transfer, when John is as well with other
Speaker 3: you know, big ticket names coming in, obviously Muller, obviously
Speaker 3: Sun for for l a FC.
Speaker 4: You know, everybody's making a push.
Speaker 3: Columbus crew have gone out and signed a designated attacker,
Speaker 3: designated player attacker, spend a lot of money on it,
Speaker 3: you know, Cincinnati. I don't know if it's over the line,
Speaker 3: but Brenner's coming back. It sounds like who was terrific.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's over lined by today, but
Speaker 3: it's just the names that are coming back in and
Speaker 3: more and more. The talent is UH is improving. And
Speaker 3: and I'll finish on this with what has stuck with me.
Speaker 3: I sat with Jim Curtin. I think it was the
Speaker 3: start of last season and Jim Kurtin, I'm waiting to
Speaker 3: see where he's going to pop up. But Jim Curtin said,
Speaker 3: what other league overpays for players than MLS? And he said,
Speaker 3: we'll go out and we'll spend a little bit more
Speaker 3: to be able to bring in the talent. And he's
Speaker 3: right when you do actually sit and you think what
Speaker 3: other leagues in the world will pay the money that
Speaker 3: that MLS is paying.
Speaker 4: And you know it's a it's a.
Speaker 3: League now that is taking you know, more investment, further
Speaker 3: pride in the talent coming in and they're willing to
Speaker 3: spend a bit more than other leagues to bring that time.
Speaker 5: All right, what's your best Tony husband story? I know
Speaker 5: you turn into a pumpkin here in a second.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, my best Tony husband's story.
Speaker 3: You know what Tony Tony as he's never won for
Speaker 3: a signature goal call. And this one stands out to
Speaker 3: me because Tony to find humor in his own jokes.
Speaker 3: You know, that's that's never won for him. But our
Speaker 3: Saint Louis game last year, we had Nelly, who was
Speaker 3: from Saint Louis going to be He delivered the match
Speaker 3: ball and he was in the stands and he is asked, producer,
Speaker 3: if Saint Louis score, make sure you get.
Speaker 4: A shot of Nelly because I've got a great goal call.
Speaker 3: And that's never Tony Tony's gold calls are always, you know,
Speaker 3: off the cuff, and he had it ready that and
Speaker 3: he didn't tell me, and it wasn't until after the
Speaker 3: game it was nil nil, so I never got to
Speaker 3: do the gold call. But he wanted if Saint Louis scored,
Speaker 3: it was going to be a shot of Nelly and
Speaker 3: he was gonna go.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's getting hot in here. See it's so cheesy.
Speaker 1: John though, it's so cheesy.
Speaker 3: But I thought that's brilliant and it had me in
Speaker 3: stitches because it's so unlike Tony and he was so
Speaker 3: happy with it.
Speaker 5: Well, I would have I would have said that something
Speaker 5: like I'm from the lou and I'm proud. That would
Speaker 5: have been what I would have done if it was
Speaker 5: a Nelly shot in there. Just don't talk plymouth argyle
Speaker 5: with him. I think that's the key with you can't
Speaker 5: talk because all right, full disclosure, Tony's been on with
Speaker 5: us in this time slot before and over my shoulder
Speaker 5: in my studio, I'm in a hotel room about two
Speaker 5: hours east southeast of Atlanta today in my studio space
Speaker 5: over my shoulder, I have the Plymouth argyle AFC Wimbledon
Speaker 5: promotion playoffs scarf over my shoulder because I'm a member
Speaker 5: of the Dons trust.
Speaker 1: I forgot.
Speaker 5: I kind of conveniently forgot to tell Tony that that
Speaker 5: I'm a Don's trust and so literally I just I
Speaker 5: shifted over and I said, yeah, and I've got that,
Speaker 5: and he noticed that I had the plymouth arg gyle
Speaker 5: thing there, and it's.
Speaker 1: Just like, yeah, man, we're just we're not good this year.
Speaker 5: And it's literally, if you get him going on a
Speaker 5: plymouth argyle riff, he's gone and you can't bring him back.
Speaker 1: And it's awesome.
Speaker 3: To me and with Wayne Rooney when he went there
Speaker 3: and he couldn't believe it.
Speaker 4: It was. It was tough times.
Speaker 3: We were having an extra pint at the bar nights
Speaker 3: after games to talk about to commiserate over his time
Speaker 3: with h With Rooney, I've got to ask you before
Speaker 3: I know, You've probably got to cut me loose. But
Speaker 3: so you are Don's Dons, and are you Don's Wimbledon AFC.
Speaker 1: Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 5: You just mentioned you mentioned a team that's a bunch
Speaker 5: of carpetbaggers, sir, that the on the ones that exited. Okay,
Speaker 5: so here here's the deal. And I thought you were
Speaker 5: turning into a pumpkin because you parked. Okay, so I
Speaker 5: got a couple of minutes here full disclosure. When I
Speaker 5: when I started, like a decade or so ago, getting
Speaker 5: back into the EFL and the English Pyramid and all
Speaker 5: that kind of stuff, I thought it would be cool
Speaker 5: to join a trust in each of the divisions. And
Speaker 5: so what I did is I joined Swansea's trust, I
Speaker 5: joined Pompey's trust, I joined AFC Wimbledon, and I joined
Speaker 5: Scunthorpe United. And I'm like, okay, I've got one in
Speaker 5: each and you know, it costs like sixty bucks a
Speaker 5: year to do all four and that's cool and everything.
Speaker 5: And you know, when Portsmouth was being sold, they send
Speaker 5: you this forty page document that you've got to go
Speaker 5: through and you know, approve it to Michael Eisner, all
Speaker 5: this kind of stuff, and I'm like, yeah, great, I've
Speaker 5: got one in each of the four divisions. Then that
Speaker 5: whole prorail thing got in the way, and so literally
Speaker 5: I'm now having teams playing each other that I have
Speaker 5: trusts again with, you know, so it's like AFC Wimbledon's
Speaker 5: playing Portsmouth and I'm losing my hair about what's going
Speaker 5: on with all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: But no, I am AFC Wimbledon.
Speaker 5: I've got the document on the other side of the
Speaker 5: desk back in the office.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: And so that literally was I'm look when AFC Wimbledon.
Speaker 5: And I didn't tell Tony this either. When Ak and
Speaker 5: Finn was scored the penalty to secure promotion, I was
Speaker 5: screaming in the office and the boss back home. Literally
Speaker 5: she comes running downstairs and she's like, what is going on?
Speaker 1: Is everything okay? I said, yeah, yeah, everything's great.
Speaker 5: We just got promoted and so and she's like, oh
Speaker 5: that and then she just kind of did her hand
Speaker 5: and then she goes back upstairs. But yeah, So that's
Speaker 5: I didn't tell Tony that part about Ak Andfinn won
Speaker 5: the PK.
Speaker 1: I didn't get it. So, yes, literally, that's that's how
Speaker 1: someone that is.
Speaker 4: We are you gonna get? Have you had Robbie urrole
Speaker 4: on your shoure?
Speaker 3: So I learned sort of my trade and broadcast under
Speaker 3: Robbi Eurrol because we're both at Portland's. What a guy,
Speaker 3: What a fantastic guide, what a fantastic person mentor But
Speaker 3: if you want stories.
Speaker 4: What a guy for that is long.
Speaker 5: You get Robbie on here and we probably I'd budget
Speaker 5: twenty and we'd probably go for an hour and a half.
Speaker 1: Uh, have a have a great call with.
Speaker 5: Tony now now that you have the key, now that
Speaker 5: you have the garage door opener. Like I tell everybody
Speaker 5: else that comes on in this ten o'clock slot, Tony
Speaker 5: Terren's you witting Ham.
Speaker 1: All of you.
Speaker 5: You get bored on a Friday and you want to
Speaker 5: pop in and here in the hour of chaos, say
Speaker 5: you're three minutes, get in and get out. That's what
Speaker 5: this hour is for, for all of you to kind
Speaker 5: of sit there and so like, Hey, I'm sitting here
Speaker 5: at practice and I figured that would check in.
Speaker 1: That's what this ten o'clock East hour is for. Rock.
Speaker 5: You've got the garage door opener, go to practice and
Speaker 5: have a good call this weekend.
Speaker 4: I would love to come on again. Thanks so much.
Speaker 5: John the evet that goes Ross Smith, He's going to
Speaker 5: practice and yeah he's in Nashville and so so Ross
Speaker 5: now knows my secrets. Uh, Casey D's going to join
Speaker 5: us in a ten minutes. We're going to talk things.
Speaker 5: We mentioned Brenner and I wanted to get into Brenner
Speaker 5: here for a second, and we'll get into all of
Speaker 5: the moves that happened in the MLS secondary window, and
Speaker 5: Brenner was the one that stuck out to me. So
Speaker 5: it appears, and I don't think I've gotten anything from
Speaker 5: SC Cincinnati in the mail that breaks down. Okay, Brenner
Speaker 5: is now back at FC Cincinnati. I don't think that's
Speaker 5: officially official through the club yet. I'll go back and
Speaker 5: look at my emails or back and look at the website.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's official. But when Laurel Fayler broke
Speaker 5: this yesterday as something to happen before the end of
Speaker 5: the window, I literally was like, are you blanking kidding
Speaker 5: Mete with this? So here's the from Jeff Carlisle parts
Speaker 5: of three seasons with Cincinnati twenty twenty seven goals, seventy
Speaker 5: two league playoff appearances, twenty twenty two, eighteen and thirty one.
Speaker 5: Itching to make a move Overseas, transferred to an Essay
Speaker 5: for a fee of around eleven million in the middle
Speaker 5: of the twenty three season. Struggled to make much of
Speaker 5: an impact in Italy, scoring just twice in nineteen League
Speaker 5: and Cup appearances, hoping to recapture his form back in
Speaker 5: Major League Soccer. Cincinnati and Udinase are looking to complete
Speaker 5: the deal. Like I said, this was last night about
Speaker 5: seven o'clock, and so it was trying to figure out, Okay,
Speaker 5: what's the deal and how it was that Brenner was
Speaker 5: working his way back to FC Cincinnati and so Bogert
Speaker 5: same time last night around dinner time loan from UDINASEI
Speaker 5: working to finalize the signing ahead of one am initial
Speaker 5: loan purchase option in the winner tam signing for twenty
Speaker 5: five while on loan, and so now you would have
Speaker 5: Brenner coming back, Evander den K and them chasing after
Speaker 5: championships in the Eastern Conference. And so with all of
Speaker 5: the with all of the things that we're going on
Speaker 5: with Brenner toward the end of his tenure, you're like
Speaker 5: really coming back, huh apparently? So, like I said, I
Speaker 5: have nothing officially official from the club. Let me let
Speaker 5: me go back and check my email just to make
Speaker 5: sure that nothing happened while we while we were yacking.
Speaker 5: But we do have another couple of clubs who did
Speaker 5: announce some things. As I try and track down my
Speaker 5: notes from FC Cincinnati. Okay, so the only note, the
Speaker 5: last note that I have from f C Cincinnati has
Speaker 5: to do with the Orlando City game getting flex to
Speaker 5: the twenty eighth September to Sunday Night soccer. That's the
Speaker 5: last thing that I have from s C Cincinnati in
Speaker 5: an official capacity. So yesterday LA Galaxy got a million
Speaker 5: and a half dollars from Nashville in exchange for midfielder
Speaker 5: Jonathan Perez cash for player trade straight up, an additional
Speaker 5: three hundred thousand to LA if certain performance based incentives
Speaker 5: are achieved by Perez, he get a sell on percentage
Speaker 5: of Perez is sold to another club. Also that happened
Speaker 5: late last night. Toronto FC adding Jose Sifuentes from Rangers.
Speaker 5: This was rumored yesterday and now it's officially official as
Speaker 5: of nine thirty this morning. Sifuentes on loan from Rangers.
Speaker 5: Loan agreement runs through the end of June of twenty six,
Speaker 5: so basically it's like a year long loan deal with
Speaker 5: a purchase option added to the club's roster. Penning receipt
Speaker 5: of the ITC work permitting medicals. Twenty six year old
Speaker 5: midfielder will not occupy in international slot as he obtained
Speaker 5: the US green card December second, twenty twenty one, completed
Speaker 5: on Thursday, prior to the close of the secondary transfer window.
Speaker 5: Quote from Jason Hernandez. Toronto FC's GM was it with
Speaker 5: Rangers for the last two years and obviously spent time
Speaker 5: in the league before three and a half seasons. LAFC
Speaker 5: helped lead them to the Pie Plate and MLS Cup
Speaker 5: and the CCL Finals in twenty twenty three. Four seasons
Speaker 5: fifteen and twenty through one hundred and twenty one appearances.
Speaker 5: Originally joined LAFC on a tam deal back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: Fourth player in LAFC history to reach one hundred MLS
Speaker 5: regular season matches to ten players in MLS history to
Speaker 5: reach the milestone in their first four seasons before turning
Speaker 5: twenty five, So Jose Sefuentes from Rangers on loan to TFC.
Speaker 1: That happened this morning officially.
Speaker 5: Then shock of shocks, Interer Miami signs Argentine youth international
Speaker 5: attacker Mateo Silvetti. Silvetti joins from Newell's old boys Wink Nudge,
Speaker 5: Nudge as a part of the U twenty two Initiative,
Speaker 5: announcing today they've signed Mateo Silvetti from Newele's Old Boys
Speaker 5: to a contract through the twenty nine season with an
Speaker 5: option for twenty thirty talents. That Argentine youth international attacker
Speaker 5: joins the club as part of the U twenty two initiative,
Speaker 5: penning receipt of the ITC and the P one VISA.
Speaker 5: Nineteen years old comes from Newell's, graduated through the youth rank,
Speaker 5: spent the entire of his professional career, making his professional
Speaker 5: debut in twenty four. Since then, thirty seven appearances are
Speaker 5: all COMPS six plus two. Silvetti has represented Argentine' U
Speaker 5: twenties three appearances won goal since his debut in twenty four. Notably,
Speaker 5: and this is the last paragraph managed by Jabyer Masherrano
Speaker 5: in his three appearances to date for LAL for the
Speaker 5: I'LLBI Celeste's U twenty side. So signed from Newles to
Speaker 5: a contract doesn't say how it's like it might have
Speaker 5: been a hey, here, take him, you want him here?
Speaker 5: So apparently Silvetti is a here you want him deal.
Speaker 5: Messi and friends are like, sure, we'll take him. Sign
Speaker 5: from Nowles on contract through twenty nine option for thirty
Speaker 5: and he's a U twenty two Mateo Silvetti five seven,
Speaker 5: nineteen years old from Missario Argentina. So that is uh,
Speaker 5: that's that happened. Like I said, that happened early this morning,
Speaker 5: it was released that it happened, but it was part
Speaker 5: of everything breaking down before getting into the the end of.
Speaker 1: The secondary transfer window.
Speaker 5: So let's roll through what Tommy Scoops has to say
Speaker 5: with all of the transactions.
Speaker 1: No, that it's not what I want. I want to
Speaker 1: go here and literally.
Speaker 5: It's like if you don't do if you don't do
Speaker 5: it a certain way, then the phone sits there and
Speaker 5: squawks at you and you go through. Okay, So mentioned Brenner.
Speaker 5: Ivon Jime on loan from Porto to c F Montreal.
Speaker 5: Loan until next summer, includes a purchase option. Jime added
Speaker 5: to Montreal's roster as a DP. Houston Dynamo signed Mali
Speaker 5: in international midfielder a Diad Samasiku some Asiku twenty nine,
Speaker 5: previously with Hothenheim and Salzburg. He's a free agent. Forty
Speaker 5: two caps with Mali, eighty seven Bundesliga appearances. FC Cincinnati's
Speaker 5: deal to sign a Poland international Dominic Markschuk on loan
Speaker 5: from RSL does include a permanent option. Option is for
Speaker 5: a cash trade, so that sealed the deal a loan
Speaker 5: deal through the end of the year. RSL gets a
Speaker 5: first round Super Draft pick since he gets Mark Schuk
Speaker 5: and his international slot, so Cincinnati gets Marchuk. They signed
Speaker 5: Miles to an extension and it looks like they're bringing
Speaker 5: Brenner back. And so as of eleven hours ago, Bogert
Speaker 5: has the deal being done. Nothing official in paperwork from
Speaker 5: FC Cincinnati in the form of a press release. Loan
Speaker 5: option to an Essa till the winner with a purchase option.
Speaker 5: Brenner hits Cap as a tam less than three hours
Speaker 5: ahead of the deadline.
Speaker 1: Deal is sealed.
Speaker 5: So like ten o'clock Eastern time last night. So Brenner
Speaker 5: Martschuk and so your death chart is this. Den K Doto, Vealezuela,
Speaker 5: aub Jubbari, Sergio Santos, Brenner, Kai Kamara, er Etchiniki and
Speaker 5: U Yakuba are your forwards. Central attacking mid Evander Dotovalanzuela,
Speaker 5: Luca Oriziano, central midfielders Buka i'm Ogidi, U Yakubo, defensive
Speaker 5: mid Todd Bryan and Nounga Giedi, Stephen Hemenez and Obinna Wibodo.
Speaker 5: Who's on the injured list? Your back line of five
Speaker 5: left wing back or Jiano Lucas Ingle, Brad Smith, Gilbuctro, Flores,
Speaker 5: Lucas Engle, Teenage Hedebi at left, center back, center back,
Speaker 5: Miasga and Hagland right center back Miles Hagland, Alvis Powell,
Speaker 5: right wing back, Marc chuk or Ajiano Kubo at Chinik,
Speaker 5: Alvis Powell and in Net Celentano, Evan Laurel and Paul Walters.
Speaker 5: That's your death chart for FC Cincinnati right now. So
Speaker 5: we mentioned some Asiku, we mentioned mart Chuk mentioned Brenner.
Speaker 1: Let's see, uh trying to go back here.
Speaker 5: Minnesota United was trying to finalize a deal signing Greek
Speaker 5: defender at Nectarios Triantis from Sunderland. Deals all set and
Speaker 5: the personal agreement was laid out by Pete Rourke twenty
Speaker 5: two spent last year on loan from Hibbs in Scotland
Speaker 5: and Paxton Aronson had his press conference yesterday with the Masses.
Speaker 5: City was done with the window. FC Cincinnati currently tied
Speaker 5: as they roll through. Okay, last half hour the show
Speaker 5: and it's time to bring in Casey D. And we
Speaker 5: get to find out what is on her mind. We
Speaker 5: get to get a little opposition research going with Toronto,
Speaker 5: and we get to talk about the college game, anything
Speaker 5: else on her mind before we go and lay everything
Speaker 5: out with her. So Casey D looks like you are
Speaker 5: at home again?
Speaker 1: Is that true?
Speaker 7: I am. It's a little surprising that I'm at home,
Speaker 7: but I am. You're right.
Speaker 5: So I'm the one in the hotel two hours away
Speaker 5: from Atlanta right now.
Speaker 1: So the script, well, you.
Speaker 5: Know, it's the time of the year where everything kind
Speaker 5: of blends together and the American high school football and
Speaker 5: I'm out on a shoot in Millgeville, Georgia for that
Speaker 5: that's later today. So I'm doing the show from a
Speaker 5: hotel room and hope that everything happens, you know, the
Speaker 5: signal stays the way that it's supposed to, and we
Speaker 5: get to talk about things. I do want to talk
Speaker 5: Last night, I did have the TV on kind of
Speaker 5: in the background, and it was South Carolina and Ohio
Speaker 5: State that was going on in the SEC. I do
Speaker 5: want to get into that a little bit later on
Speaker 5: everything else in the SEC and the acc lowdown, dirty
Speaker 5: cheaters in Gainesville and your call with Jen Hildreth and
Speaker 5: all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that.
Speaker 5: Okay, last MLS match you called was Columbus in Toronto
Speaker 5: with Evan Weston last week. This is where the opposition
Speaker 5: research comes into play with it. Landay United taking on
Speaker 5: Toronto this weekend Sunday afternoon four to ten.
Speaker 1: Kick.
Speaker 5: What did you see in Toronto that folks need to
Speaker 5: keep an eye on when it comes to the Reds
Speaker 5: coming into this matchup this weekend?
Speaker 1: What's stuck out to you?
Speaker 7: Well, first off, if I don't say that Jessica is
Speaker 7: on the call with me, she's gonna get upset because
Speaker 7: she's an OG. So it was Jessica charm. You have
Speaker 7: to say that.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, John, That's right. It was. It's like Evan was.
Speaker 7: The week before though, Like these games are coming so fast,
Speaker 7: but because of Jessica, because you know her, I've got.
Speaker 1: To say that, yes, she'll she'll shoot me next time
Speaker 1: I see her too. So yeah, it was.
Speaker 5: It was the Wonder Twins calling that matchup. Yes, Oh
Speaker 5: that's hilarious.
Speaker 7: So what's really interesting about Toronto? They are a team
Speaker 7: right now that you do not want to let stay
Speaker 7: in games. The last two matchups that they have had
Speaker 7: with Philadelphia Union with Columbus Crew, they've shown that they'll
Speaker 7: give up early goals. So their start is certainly something
Speaker 7: that Robin Fraser is going to be focused on. But
Speaker 7: they're giving up early goals. The problem for the Philadelphia Union,
Speaker 7: the problem for the Columbus Crew is they almost were
Speaker 7: in this rhythm of it just looks like a goal
Speaker 7: is going to come. They were able to get more possession,
Speaker 7: they were able to move the ball around and get chances,
Speaker 7: but it was not this urgent speed of play to
Speaker 7: put Toronto away. When Toronto has shown that they can
Speaker 7: stay in the games, they figure out something at the
Speaker 7: end to get that equalizing goal. But it's even more
Speaker 7: than that from a possession standpoint and an urgency standpoint.
Speaker 7: They seem to adapt really well at halftime, so you
Speaker 7: don't want to let them get to halftime close.
Speaker 5: Georgia Mihailovich is now in the stacks and he has
Speaker 5: been very quiet offensively the tail end of his time
Speaker 5: in Colorado. Still pretty quiet right now with Toronto. What
Speaker 5: does he bring to the table in a perfect world
Speaker 5: that Toronto is looking forward to unlock with him now
Speaker 5: there north of the border.
Speaker 7: The perfect world is him scoring goals and getting assists
Speaker 7: one hundred percent. But I believe that he draws so
Speaker 7: much attention talking attention about him, whether it's scouting reports,
Speaker 7: whether it's media, whatever it may be. And then attention
Speaker 7: on the field. He plays in pockets of the field
Speaker 7: that might just shift a defender one or two yards
Speaker 7: to open a gap for someone else. So when there's
Speaker 7: a high profile player that's brought into an environment, they
Speaker 7: take attention off and I would say pressure off of
Speaker 7: other players where they're able to step up. So do
Speaker 7: I think that there's going to be more production from him, Yes,
Speaker 7: But what he's doing already is taking that pressure and
Speaker 7: attention off other players, and it's allowing other players to
Speaker 7: step up. On top of just the fact that he
Speaker 7: can play make and he can take that pieces corner
Speaker 7: kicks his service for their goal. He was able to
Speaker 7: have the service.
Speaker 1: So he still is providing, all right.
Speaker 5: So when you got to take a peek at them,
Speaker 5: I know that we're we kind of look at shiny
Speaker 5: objects and we look at starting elevens. If Toronto is
Speaker 5: to be successful, I guess this is almost like match game,
Speaker 5: give me somebody second level below the radar, not really
Speaker 5: one of those names that you gravitate toward for Toronto
Speaker 5: to be successful. Who are some of those foot soldiers
Speaker 5: that have to be a part of the conversation for
Speaker 5: Robin Fraser.
Speaker 7: For me, Kuajo and midfield is probably the most unseen
Speaker 7: hero we've talked about it. I love holding midfielders, I
Speaker 7: love playmakers. And in the first half versus Columbus, he
Speaker 7: would drop between the center backs and dictate play to
Speaker 7: a degree. But in the second half it was almost
Speaker 7: as if a coach went up to him and said,
Speaker 7: I want you to do this every time. We're better
Speaker 7: when you're on the ball. Because the second half he
Speaker 7: got on the ball and Toronto was able to set
Speaker 7: more play. And when Toronto's able to do that, they
Speaker 7: build into the games. They build confidence and with any team,
Speaker 7: when that confidence is going, everyone has pieces up top
Speaker 7: that can generate chances, have chance creation. So that was
Speaker 7: the big difference I saw from the first half of
Speaker 7: the second half was his intentionality to be a playmaker,
Speaker 7: to be involved in the build in almost every time
Speaker 7: that Toronto had the ball.
Speaker 5: Oppo research with Casey d and yes, Casey, we did
Speaker 5: not know that you were a card holding member of
Speaker 5: the Holding Midfielders Appreciation Society.
Speaker 1: We do.
Speaker 5: We do have the h the hmas here on at
Speaker 5: soccer down here.
Speaker 7: So you know why. I'm an attacking midfielder. So I
Speaker 7: loved my holding midfielder to do certain things and it
Speaker 7: just made my life so much.
Speaker 5: Easier that they got your back, that they let you run.
Speaker 5: They've got your back, that's what you're hunting for. So
Speaker 5: it's good to see Kzy remember the Holding Midfielders Appreciation Society.
Speaker 5: That is, that's a look at Toronto. Anything else that
Speaker 5: that sticks out in your mind when it comes to
Speaker 5: TFC that folks need to look at other than shiny
Speaker 5: objects in Kuwajo in the midfield.
Speaker 7: I don't know if there's anything super specific. I do
Speaker 7: think they're gonna have to figure out Brent Hilton up top.
Speaker 7: He was not much of a factor in that game.
Speaker 7: So you've got Kerr coming off the bench. You now
Speaker 7: have they'll sont so watch for Robin Frasier to figure
Speaker 7: out who is that parent partner with Mihailovich operating underneath.
Speaker 7: I think there's some decisions to.
Speaker 5: Be made there, all right, college game. Uh, last time
Speaker 5: you we're on with this. You and Gen got to
Speaker 5: sit through a weather delay. Hey we're shocked North Florida
Speaker 5: Panhandle rain. Oh my god, No, that never happened. It
Speaker 5: was Florida State and the low down dirty cheaters from Gainesville.
Speaker 5: When you look at those kinds of matchups, you want
Speaker 5: them early in the year to kind of see where
Speaker 5: you are. What were some of your takeaways early on
Speaker 5: looking at Florida State and the low down dirty Cheaters.
Speaker 7: Well, when there's a weather delay, I think it's always
Speaker 7: fascinating to see how teams come out of a locker room.
Speaker 7: And that really was the story of this game. Because
Speaker 7: I'll give the Gators some credit. They came out pretty strong,
Speaker 7: and Florida State is a worthy oponent. The opponent they are,
Speaker 7: in so many ways the gold standard of women's soccer
Speaker 7: in the last few years. And to come out and
Speaker 7: keep it really tight till about the thirty fifth minute
Speaker 7: was really impressive. Then the rain delay happens and we
Speaker 7: think we're within a minute of it coming back out,
Speaker 7: we go back in, then it happens again. So when
Speaker 7: you're going through that, what is your leadership doing, how's
Speaker 7: your coaching staff managing things. How are your peers and
Speaker 7: teammates managing those moments is something that's really important. Florida State,
Speaker 7: after that delay showed why they're Florida State. They came out,
Speaker 7: they had made I knew that was going to make
Speaker 7: you happy. They came out with an urgency that they
Speaker 7: didn't have in the first half. Now, it was the
Speaker 7: first game of the year, so there's always going to
Speaker 7: be that little bit of nerves, that connectivity piece. But
Speaker 7: they showed their quality. They showed the responsibility of coming
Speaker 7: out after a weather delay, and they went after it.
Speaker 7: The chance creation was insane that they had after they
Speaker 7: came back out.
Speaker 5: And it's interesting now that the schedule quirk has happened
Speaker 5: where you've got to schedule even more games with the
Speaker 5: calendar of having been expanded, and you're seeing a lot
Speaker 5: of random matchups where D one go five group of
Speaker 5: five clubs or sitting there going, oh crap, we need matchups,
Speaker 5: and you're seeing like D three's showing up against D
Speaker 5: one kind of thing.
Speaker 1: What what do we gain? And this is a.
Speaker 5: Philosophical question, So I answered, as you wish, and that
Speaker 5: was that was not me sending you an email. What
Speaker 5: I guess are there are there benefits to expanding the
Speaker 5: schedule this additional week. Is is the benefit to the
Speaker 5: the lower division club getting the opportunity to play a
Speaker 5: D one with this expansion of the schedule?
Speaker 1: I guess is it.
Speaker 5: Are there more benefits to it or is it just
Speaker 5: kind of the way things are with the system being
Speaker 5: the way that it is these days.
Speaker 7: I think that there could be a benefit in a
Speaker 7: in a multitude of ways. Potentially, one is that you
Speaker 7: just get a little bit more time to be able
Speaker 7: to ease players into things. It starts early, but games
Speaker 7: that maybe aren't as instrumental to what you're doing, so
Speaker 7: it gives you time to see certain things. There were
Speaker 7: some cancelations. I mean, we didn't end that we were
Speaker 7: like four minutes away from getting canceled in Florida State.
Speaker 7: We weren't. But if there are, we've seen some of
Speaker 7: those across the country. Like, you can move on, you
Speaker 7: can get another matchup, whatever it may be. I think
Speaker 7: the one thing that's, you know, interesting, is that we
Speaker 7: want to expand a lot of people want to expand
Speaker 7: the college season because it's so much in so little
Speaker 7: amount of time. So for me. I don't mind expanding
Speaker 7: it to a degree, but when you add in an
Speaker 7: extra game weekend, how you manage that is really if
Speaker 7: it's going to be to your detriment or if it
Speaker 7: can be a positive for your group.
Speaker 5: Casey d hanging out with us here outside of her
Speaker 5: normal Tuesday because she's like one of the busiest people
Speaker 5: in show business.
Speaker 1: So we we.
Speaker 5: Try to hang on, try to try to hang on
Speaker 5: to that comments tale as hard as we humanly possibly can,
Speaker 5: trying to pin you down every week. Traditionally, for those
Speaker 5: that may not know, Casey dbats lead off with us
Speaker 5: on Tuesdays and we go over the weekend and everything there,
Speaker 5: SEC ACC, what has stuck out in your mind? Like
Speaker 5: I said last night, I had in the background South
Speaker 5: Carolina taking on Ohio State. Ohio State came in and
Speaker 5: they're starting eleven. Wasn't They're full blown starting eleven and
Speaker 5: it eventually ended up wearing them down early in the
Speaker 5: second half. When you look at those two Power five Conferences,
Speaker 5: what has stuck in your mind from the last last
Speaker 5: week or so.
Speaker 7: The expectation of the ACC has always been to win
Speaker 7: the majority of games. SEC is now there as well,
Speaker 7: and both of them are coming out very strong. Last night,
Speaker 7: nine out of ten SEC teams won and Texas tied,
Speaker 7: so the one non win was still a tie. And
Speaker 7: then you look at the ACC very similar to the
Speaker 7: two out of the nine lost, including my tar Hills.
Speaker 7: I have to say that, but the reality is both
Speaker 7: conferences are showing that they have the ability to compete
Speaker 7: at the highest level. That's no surprise to anyone. But
Speaker 7: what I like about this year is that, in my opinion,
Speaker 7: and I don't know if this is like true fact
Speaker 7: or not, but there seems to be more ACC SEC
Speaker 7: matchups or maybe there's just more of a focus on
Speaker 7: it because of the SEC's level and how much better
Speaker 7: they have gotten in the last few years. But those
Speaker 7: matchups are making it really hard in non conference for both.
Speaker 5: And you've got one Sunday night Wake in Mississippi State.
Speaker 5: Mississippi State loses their head coach to Auburn, and so
Speaker 5: you try and figure out, Okay, where does the Stark
Speaker 5: Vegas machine go from here? Does it continue to just
Speaker 5: go on the treadmill and everything's fine, or is there shakeups?
Speaker 5: And is it different against Wake Forest. We had Michael
Speaker 5: Parkhurston earlier in the show, and so we know all
Speaker 5: about Wake's pedigree Wake in Mississippi State, what are you
Speaker 5: taking going into this? One Sunday night at seven.
Speaker 7: Thirty, you mentioned James Armstrong going to Auburn. Nick has
Speaker 7: been around for six years. With James Armstrong, he is
Speaker 7: known around the country. Everyone knows he's an emotional leader,
Speaker 7: he's a motivator, and he's definitely not going to lose that.
Speaker 7: But he had the tactical ability to be at the
Speaker 7: highest level as well. So I expect them to hit
Speaker 7: the ground running. They got their first win under him
Speaker 7: last night, or first official win, I should say, so.
Speaker 7: I think that Missippi State is going to continue to
Speaker 7: be this hard working, gritty team with a couple very
Speaker 7: sophisticated players that step up on the other side. I mean,
Speaker 7: Tony deLuce recruited me and I was talking to him
Speaker 7: this morning on a coach call and I said, I'm
Speaker 7: not trying to make you sound old, but like you've
Speaker 7: been around a while, and he started laughing. And I
Speaker 7: was asking him about his group because we know they
Speaker 7: are a fluid, possession oriented program. They play a beautiful game.
Speaker 7: But what I liked about what I saw last night
Speaker 7: was their goals were incisive. They were possession oriented, but
Speaker 7: they cut right through back lines a lot of runs
Speaker 7: forward in the box. But they're a young team. They're
Speaker 7: depending on a lot of freshmen, very few transfers to replace.
Speaker 5: What they lost last year and by that comparison rolling
Speaker 5: it back to Mississippi State Auburn, they have decided to
Speaker 5: go to the transfer portal. They've gone international with a
Speaker 5: lot of their players to try and turn things over quickly.
Speaker 5: Do you anticipate more teams going quick fix and doing
Speaker 5: it that way? Like if a coach goes into a
Speaker 5: situation that's new, do you anticipate the internationals coming over
Speaker 5: that much faster, that much more in bulk? Is it
Speaker 5: going to be transfers and grads? How are you looking
Speaker 5: at the landscape now, especially with nil if that impacts
Speaker 5: it that much, How are you looking at the landscape
Speaker 5: changing now with coaches going into a new situation.
Speaker 7: I don't necessarily think much will change about the international landscape.
Speaker 7: Those that have international pipelines that are looking to recruit
Speaker 7: internationally always have and continue to do so. But I
Speaker 7: do think more and more coaches are going for the
Speaker 7: transfer portal for some of those I guess, like you said,
Speaker 7: quote unquote quicker fixes or immediate impact type of players.
Speaker 7: But I believe the best programs have a mix of
Speaker 7: both in their vision that long term of getting the
Speaker 7: top players coming out of high school, which is vitally
Speaker 7: important for the health of your program, for the health
Speaker 7: and the country of the sport, continue to develop players.
Speaker 7: So if you mix that with getting I believe one
Speaker 7: or two impact players, whether it's internationally or transfer, it's
Speaker 7: a really good mix for success.
Speaker 5: You realize, of course, I've held out one of the
Speaker 5: games that you're calling this weekend on purpose, you have.
Speaker 7: I noticed that, and if I know where you're going,
Speaker 7: I didn't actually bring it to They have a Christmas
Speaker 7: mud today. I know it's dirty. It's dirty.
Speaker 1: How do you not have more? How do you not
Speaker 1: have more than one you and C Mug in the
Speaker 1: house because.
Speaker 7: That one is like vintage and I don't even want
Speaker 7: to like add to it. It's like so old, and
Speaker 7: I just keep it as my Mike you and S Mug.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, So then secondary we question how many
Speaker 5: of your old jerseys do you have and are they
Speaker 5: framed or are they just on hangers?
Speaker 1: How much of the of your career you have on hangers.
Speaker 7: I have one framed Carolina jersey, but I've moved recently,
Speaker 7: so it's literally like on the ground behind me in
Speaker 7: like bubble wrap because i haven't had a chance to
Speaker 7: do anything with it. So being really honest, but I
Speaker 7: have one of each of my Carolina colors, Carolina blue
Speaker 7: and white, and then with the US, I probably I
Speaker 7: have one from every cap, but I've given a few away.
Speaker 7: I've given to my parents. They're probably on hangers, and
Speaker 7: I've got one framed. So a little bit of a
Speaker 7: little bit of everything. It's a mixed bag to answer
Speaker 7: that question.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so you're how do you end up
Speaker 1: with it? Now?
Speaker 5: You and c and Rice Sunday at ten please tell
Speaker 5: me that ken p Eastern and not ten a.
Speaker 7: It's ten a because I think't goas Yes, so that
Speaker 7: is a ten am game and doing that for an
Speaker 7: institutional broadcast, you know, just being in alum being in
Speaker 7: the area and yeah, so I'm doing that there. It's
Speaker 7: for acc X on digital and then I'll do SEC Network.
Speaker 1: That night ten am. Man, that's ten am.
Speaker 5: How do you how on a game day do you
Speaker 5: prepare for that? I mean you've got to be in
Speaker 5: the building probably what eight eight thirty for the broadcast.
Speaker 5: I mean, work backward with me here. How do you
Speaker 5: prepare for an am kick?
Speaker 7: Well, a lot of coffee in the morning, so that's
Speaker 7: the first step. But we arrive at least two hours
Speaker 7: before kick, so I will be at the stadium by
Speaker 7: eight am, ready to go, getting sorted all of that.
Speaker 7: So yeah, so literally I'll be waking up, coffee, eat, go.
Speaker 7: I mean, there's not a whole lot, but and there's
Speaker 7: on cams for this. It's not like you're sitting in
Speaker 7: a booth with no on cams or anything like that.
Speaker 7: So I've got that early and then a little bit
Speaker 7: of a break reset, and then have the SEC at
Speaker 7: seven thirty that night.
Speaker 1: Crazy all right? So you and c and Rice? What
Speaker 1: study hall been like getting ready for that one?
Speaker 7: Well, Carolina losing two out of the first three. I
Speaker 7: haven't actually sat and looked at if that's happened anytime recently.
Speaker 7: That that's definitely different for the program. So there's obviously
Speaker 7: still sorting some things out. But I think what needs
Speaker 7: to be said is the opposition they're facing in Georgia
Speaker 7: and Tennessee they are very good programs. And while North
Speaker 7: Carolina is a story program and has the legacy piece
Speaker 7: and one last year, every years a new start and
Speaker 7: they have new players in they've lost a lot to
Speaker 7: the Pro League. So I don't want to take anything
Speaker 7: away from Georgia or Tennessee and as wins because they
Speaker 7: are of the level to be competing in the NCAA
Speaker 7: tournaments going far in the tournament, and they've showed up
Speaker 7: early in this season. So I think Carolina obviously has
Speaker 7: some things to figure out because the expectation is very
Speaker 7: high and having you know, a win last week was
Speaker 7: good for them. But Rice is going to come in
Speaker 7: obviously hard to play in Chapel Hill, but I expect
Speaker 7: Carolina to be able to handle things this weekend. But
Speaker 7: you just never know how they're dealing with those early losses.
Speaker 5: And Tennessee combines that win with a win against UCLA
Speaker 5: out on the coast and they're hanging out before they
Speaker 5: go play Loyal and Merrimount before they come back with
Speaker 5: the checkerboard and they come back to Knoxville. So it's
Speaker 5: an early good start for Tennessee. As we as you
Speaker 5: are the you are the the last guest of the week.
Speaker 5: I will I will lay this out here on the
Speaker 5: table for you, right. Is there anything from the week
Speaker 5: itself that has stuck in your brain that has driven
Speaker 5: you crazy or that has deserved the plot it's hauzahs
Speaker 5: and hurrahs that it should. Is there anything that is
Speaker 5: stuck in your brain from this week that you want
Speaker 5: to sit there and tip your cap to or do
Speaker 5: you want to sit there and go this really frustrates
Speaker 5: me and blanks me off and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Is there? Is there anything from the.
Speaker 5: Week that has stuck with you, that that is on
Speaker 5: your mind, that has stuck on your mind this week?
Speaker 1: Is there anything could.
Speaker 7: Be about this? You should because I could probably have
Speaker 7: a list of things, but off the top of my head, one,
Speaker 7: I have not been traveling this week and I thought
Speaker 7: it would be good for me, and I'm so antsy,
Speaker 7: so I have to say that first. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 7: not used to being at home, so that's been kind
Speaker 7: of strange. But I'll say this, I think I want
Speaker 7: to make a comment about what you mentioned about Tennessee
Speaker 7: in the college game, and you're going to nod your
Speaker 7: head with this. Those types of losses that Carolina had,
Speaker 7: whether it's to Tennessee to whatever it may be. Over time,
Speaker 7: you see how good of a loss or bad of
Speaker 7: a loss it is. And Tennessee beating UCLA, it's starting
Speaker 7: to look like, well, that might actually be an okay
Speaker 7: loss if Tennessee is proving that they're going to compete
Speaker 7: at that high of a level throughout the entire season.
Speaker 7: So I think that'll be interesting to and for Tennessee
Speaker 7: to follow up with that was really nice to see.
Speaker 7: I'm a big fan of Joe Kurt and him going
Speaker 7: into that head coaching role, so I'm excited to see
Speaker 7: that just from a personal level, a human level of
Speaker 7: them doing well. Well. We haven't mentioned in WSL, so
Speaker 7: i'll mention NWSL the win for angel City last night
Speaker 7: over the Orlando Pride. They had a huge sighting the
Speaker 7: Orlando Pride. Ovia is going to be coming. They made
Speaker 7: a big splash this week. The Orlando Pride lose to
Speaker 7: Angel City on the road. Angel City has not been
Speaker 7: in the greatest form, to put it, put it nicely,
Speaker 7: and they had a late start with having their coach
Speaker 7: come in kind of changing the way they want to
Speaker 7: play identity and he has so much success and long term,
Speaker 7: I think we're going to see that, but short term
Speaker 7: it's been really tough for Angel City. Angel City winning one,
Speaker 7: it says something about the Orlando Pride of Okay, maybe
Speaker 7: they aren't quite at the top. It allows San Diego
Speaker 7: Wave to potentially get further ahead, the Spirit to jump them.
Speaker 7: But for Angel City, I think that was a marquee
Speaker 7: win to be able to say we want to still
Speaker 7: be a part of the conversation for playoffs because they've
Speaker 7: had such a tough stretch. So I liked seeing that.
Speaker 7: It makes it more interesting or on the playoff line
Speaker 7: for the NWSL. So that's one piece and then two
Speaker 7: teams that I think these are like almost must win
Speaker 7: weekends in my opinion is Gotham and then North Carolina Courage.
Speaker 7: Not because they'll be mathematically out or anything like that,
Speaker 7: but they're in a spot where one win can really
Speaker 7: propel you or one loss now starts to compound things
Speaker 7: because they haven't been in the greatest form and found
Speaker 7: those results. So thinking to Belsala is really interesting this weekend.
Speaker 5: Case d hanging out with us on a Friday, and
Speaker 5: normally she batslead off on Tuesdays because she has been
Speaker 5: flying around the planet and this is why we're catching
Speaker 5: up with her as the last guest of the week.
Speaker 5: Sunday morning, ten am, North Carolina and Rice, you look
Speaker 5: all the caffeine in the world. I give you full
Speaker 5: credits and lining up at ten am on a Sunday
Speaker 5: morning calling a match especially.
Speaker 1: For the all.
Speaker 7: Oh sorry about that. I will say, this is my
Speaker 7: first time to ever call a match at Dorrance Field,
Speaker 7: not Fetzerfield. I thought to say Fetzerfield because I'm old.
Speaker 7: I always wanted to coach against North Carolina when Anson
Speaker 7: was still around, and it's a little personal antidote I
Speaker 7: was supposed to when I was the head coach at
Speaker 7: Xavier University. I scheduled Carolina as my first game as
Speaker 7: head coach of the college team there, and I ended
Speaker 7: up taking a national team coaching job with the YOU teams,
Speaker 7: and so I never got to do that, and I
Speaker 7: never got to coach at the facility that I played at,
Speaker 7: and so this is actually my first ever game to
Speaker 7: be on site in my old stadium, and so from
Speaker 7: a personal standpoint, I just feel very honored and very grateful,
Speaker 7: and I'd be remiss not to bring that up because
Speaker 7: It is something that's really special to me because it
Speaker 7: was a great four years for me and really helped.
Speaker 5: Launch my career, no doubt about it. Ten am U
Speaker 5: NC and Rice. That's on the ACC digitals. So for
Speaker 5: those of you that have the the ACC and net
Speaker 5: ACC network plus, I was about to see ACC D
Speaker 5: n ACCX or whatever whatever, yeah, whatever, whatever the alphabet
Speaker 5: soup is for the digital platform for the ACC network.
Speaker 5: Case is going to be on UNC and Rice and
Speaker 5: then she's going to turn around and do wake in
Speaker 5: Mississippi State Sunday night at seven thirty, and then she's
Speaker 5: going to be back with us batting lead off on
Speaker 5: Tuesday to talk about NWSL and college and all the
Speaker 5: other things that stick in her brain and get to
Speaker 5: add her to the Holding Midfielders Appreciation Society as well.
Speaker 5: That is something that we did not know but we
Speaker 5: now know. Fantastic as always, Casey, Great to see you,
Speaker 5: Great to catch up with you. Glad we could cover
Speaker 5: the things that we don't normally get to cover. When
Speaker 5: you get to drop by, we get to talk college
Speaker 5: and NWSL and all those really cool things and when
Speaker 5: you and you and the other half of the Wonder
Speaker 5: Twins Jess Charmon, get to go and travel to Toronto
Speaker 5: and turn turn Ontario Province upside down with the two
Speaker 5: of you calling that match.
Speaker 1: It's always cool.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, case We'll see you on Tuesday. Have great calls
Speaker 5: and we'll catch up with you soon.
Speaker 7: Sounds good, see you later.
Speaker 1: Goes Casey CACD.
Speaker 5: And so Casey D has two games and she is
Speaker 5: ones on ACC streaming ones on ACC Network Extra Plus
Speaker 5: over there, and then Wake in Mississippi State is on
Speaker 5: SEC Network.
Speaker 1: That's on Sunday at seven point thirty.
Speaker 5: So god, I can't believe I messed up the fact
Speaker 5: that it was her and Jess all the pictures that
Speaker 5: they posted on Instagram, that is on me completely. She
Speaker 5: was paired with Evan before doing Minnesota. That's where I
Speaker 5: was getting it all messed up. So she was paired
Speaker 5: with Evan doing Minnesota and Colorado then, And that's the thing.
Speaker 5: It's like, so two times in a row, Casey has
Speaker 5: called an MLS match involving an opponent that is going
Speaker 5: into play at Landy United.
Speaker 1: That's where it was stuck in my brain. So John's
Speaker 1: an idiot? What else is new?
Speaker 5: Did not have not seen the quotes coming out of
Speaker 5: the Chris Henderson press conference, Ricky, I have not seen those,
Speaker 5: so we've been kind of locked in. We talked to
Speaker 5: Ross Smith and talked to a couple of other folks.
Speaker 5: Anything of note. Hang on, let me go and see
Speaker 5: if there was anything from the press conference that is
Speaker 5: in line with anything and everything here.
Speaker 1: So let's see.
Speaker 5: Have not seen anything come out of the Chris Henderson
Speaker 5: presser and.
Speaker 1: I could spell Henderson.
Speaker 5: I could probably sit there and see what's going on
Speaker 5: with the with all of the notes, no current plan
Speaker 5: to change the existing DPS using the same group next year.
Speaker 5: Club is communicated to Brad Gazanne that they're looking for
Speaker 5: a number one going forward and the U twenty two
Speaker 5: slots will be utilized to some extent because they don't
Speaker 5: have any U twenty two's right now. Brad knows we're
Speaker 5: looking for a number one goalkeeper next year, so that
Speaker 5: is from today's press conference.
Speaker 1: So that is.
Speaker 5: You know what you're what you're looking at with with
Speaker 5: probably that's probably one of the bigger quotes from from
Speaker 5: Hindi from this morning. Brad knows we're looking for a
Speaker 5: number one goalkeeper next year, So that's you said Matt
Speaker 5: Edward's training individually, Brooks Lennon training with the team, and
Speaker 5: those look like the early notes. But the early notes
Speaker 5: basically Brad knows we're looking for a number one goalkeeper
Speaker 5: next year. No current plan to change the existing dps
Speaker 5: using the same group next year. Club is communicated to
Speaker 5: Brad they're looking for a number one U twenty two
Speaker 5: slots utilized to some extent. So once again utilized to
Speaker 5: some extent. Like I said, there are no U twenty
Speaker 5: twos currently on the roster. The last one was Edwin Musquitta,
Speaker 5: and Edwin would be a Edwin would be a situation.
Speaker 5: Once again, his contract is over. There is an option year,
Speaker 5: but right now with his situation at ME and AIOS
Speaker 5: do not anticipate Edwin Musqutta coming back. So that's that's
Speaker 5: where I think those are the probably the couple of
Speaker 5: bullet points that you would be looking at from the
Speaker 5: Chris Henderson presser going forward. So we'll see what happens
Speaker 5: there Atlanta and Toronto. Once again, you've got that coming
Speaker 5: up this weekend. It's on four o'clock, four ten kick
Speaker 5: and that is on Sunday. Looking forward to seeing everybody there.
Speaker 5: Remember Saturday night it is. It is at Lanty United
Speaker 5: two and OCB. That is I think it's a six
Speaker 5: thirty pre game. So half hour before kick we got pregame.
Speaker 5: You'll hear from Jose Silva, you'll hear from Ryan Carmichael,
Speaker 5: and we'll get you ready for the weekend and we'll
Speaker 5: let you know what's happened all week long in MLS
Speaker 5: Next Pro and we'll get you ready there. So at
Speaker 5: Lanta United to OCB on the network. That's Saturday night,
Speaker 5: Sunday afternoon. It is Atlanta United at Lanty United in
Speaker 5: Toronto FC. It is five stripes countdown, three o'clock, four
Speaker 5: to ten kick and also it is the unified match
Speaker 5: after So when you go to the match this weekend,
Speaker 5: stay come around to the one hundreds cheer on the
Speaker 5: Unified because this is the back end of the home
Speaker 5: and home for the matchup against Toronto. Remember when it
Speaker 5: was in Toronto, the early morning kick in Toronto against
Speaker 5: Toronto FC, it was a five to three shootout. And
Speaker 5: remember it's only going to go eighteen to eighteen, so
Speaker 5: it's going to be thirty six yards shorter of a field.
Speaker 5: That was the first match that Toronto had played. I
Speaker 5: think in six years as a club, so you've got
Speaker 5: that to kind of look at.
Speaker 1: Going going for the weekend.
Speaker 5: So Atlanta United Unified, if you're there, stay watch h
Speaker 5: o utd dot com, slash Live Atlanta United and Toronto FC.
Speaker 5: That's Sunday OCB Atlanta United to on the network on
Speaker 5: our mix OERD channel, Soccer down here dot mixlore dot
Speaker 5: com and on.
Speaker 1: Soccer down here dot net. So that's Saturday and that's Sunday.
Speaker 5: So that's that's where we are with those really quickly
Speaker 5: juice boxes for the Premier League will go over officials
Speaker 5: and what to watch coming up here for the end
Speaker 5: of yet another week. And thanks for hanging out with
Speaker 5: us as you always do. West Ham and Chelsea today
Speaker 5: three o'clock. Chelsea's a minus one forty nine. West Ham's
Speaker 5: a plus four hundred Grandpotters already gotten the voted confidence.
Speaker 1: Five matches tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Man City's a minus one ninety six at home against
Speaker 5: Spurs at a plus four seventy one, born with at
Speaker 5: home favored against Wolves at a minus one twenty three.
Speaker 5: Wolves are a plus three twenty five. Brentford a plus
Speaker 5: two twenty fourth. The Gtech hosting asketon Villa, who's a
Speaker 5: plus one nineteen. The draw just changed in front of
Speaker 5: me to a plus two fifty two. Burnley and Sunderland
Speaker 5: an early marker for the teams that are being looked at,
Speaker 5: possibly to just go back down to the championship. Burnley
Speaker 5: a plus one twenty five draws a plus two to fifteen.
Speaker 5: Sunderland a plus two forty three on the road Arsenal
Speaker 5: big favorite at home against Leeds at a minus three
Speaker 5: seventy leads and plus ninety ten draws a plus five
Speaker 5: eighteen three. Matches on Sunday two at nine o'clock Palace
Speaker 5: a plus one thirty seven. Hosting Nottingham Forest at a
Speaker 5: plus two eleven draws a plus two twenty seven. News
Speaker 5: there that it is apparently Nuno is Spirito Santo and
Speaker 5: the admittent of the front office. Nuno's casting doubts over
Speaker 5: his future as his relationship with Angelinas Marianacus sours. From
Speaker 5: Ben Fisher at the Guardian quote casting doubt over his future,
Speaker 5: conceding the relationship with Merinacus has deteriorated and acknowledging there
Speaker 5: is no smoke without fire. Ami reports he could be
Speaker 5: sacked and so you secure European competition for the first
Speaker 5: time in thirty years three year contract. In June pre
Speaker 5: match press conference, Nuno, who tends to be guarded and
Speaker 5: reluctant to overshare, divulge the breakdown of communication after being
Speaker 5: asked whether his relationship with Marinacus has suffered. Quote, I
Speaker 5: always had a very good relationship with the owner. Last
Speaker 5: season was very close, almost daily basis this season not
Speaker 5: so well. But I always believe the dialogue and your
Speaker 5: opinion is always valid because my concern is the squad
Speaker 5: and the season that we have ahead of us. But
Speaker 5: our relations have changed. It is not so close, meaning
Speaker 5: the relationship now, I'm being honest with you, I cannot
Speaker 5: say that is the same because it's not the same.
Speaker 5: The reason behind it, I don't know. My job is
Speaker 5: always to try and anticipate what's coming ahead of us,
Speaker 5: and that's what I said with respect.
Speaker 1: It's not good.
Speaker 5: I think everybody at the club should be together, but
Speaker 5: it's not the reality. The reality is it's not what
Speaker 5: it used to be. It was a good respect for
Speaker 5: relationship but was more based on trust and sharing opinions,
Speaker 5: and now it's not so good. Ask about the quote
Speaker 5: where he possibly could be sacked. He says, where there's smoke,
Speaker 5: goes fires. So I know how things work, but I'm
Speaker 5: here to do my job. I understand because I'm worried.
Speaker 5: I'm the first one to be worried. I'm the first
Speaker 5: one to be concerned. There's no smoke without fire. So
Speaker 5: that's what you're looking at with Nuno Spirito Santo and
Speaker 5: the relationship having changed at Nottingham Forest Everton A plus
Speaker 5: two oh nine. At home for the Homo Perner at
Speaker 5: Bramley Moore, Doc Brighton's a plus one thirty seven. On
Speaker 5: the road full I'm an eleven thirty Sunday Morning is
Speaker 5: a plus two twenty seven. Manchester United a plus one seventeen,
Speaker 5: draws a plus two fifty four. Monday Night Football Newcastle
Speaker 5: A plus two thirty four hosting Liverpool, Who's a plus
Speaker 5: one oh four. Now let's get into all of the
Speaker 5: notifications and find out who's doing what where, what the
Speaker 5: ref situations look like, and what it's going to look
Speaker 5: like involving all of the crews this weekend broadcast, et cetera.
Speaker 5: So here's your pro rundown and then we will get
Speaker 5: into all of the all of the juice boxes, what
Speaker 5: to watch, where to watch it, how to watch it,
Speaker 5: all those things, and so MLS next Pro and it's
Speaker 5: more of that. Do we have our inside video review?
Speaker 5: We got to look at Gregorio Barkie at some point.
Speaker 5: Uh okay, Match day thirty, we finally have those assignments.
Speaker 5: Here we go, all right, Match day thirty, as I
Speaker 5: sit here and try and fish for it before we
Speaker 5: get out of here.
Speaker 1: All right. MLS assignments.
Speaker 5: Match Day thirty, FC Cincinnati NYC Victor Reevas in the middle,
Speaker 5: Catherine Nesbut Michael Barwag and Matthew Corrigan, your ar's and
Speaker 5: your fourth units. Maroci and Brian Done upstairs. Sergei Damianchuk
Speaker 5: in the middle for crew and the revs. Logan Brown,
Speaker 5: Jason White, Mohammad Hassan at your ars and your fourth.
Speaker 5: Edvan Jorissevitch is your var and he is upstairs with
Speaker 5: Claude yubadea DC United Messian Friends, Ricardo Montero, Aria the
Speaker 5: man in the middle, Adam when Kowski, Meghan Mullen, Philip
Speaker 5: Duy at your ars and your fourth. Caroline Shenard and
Speaker 5: Kevin Locke are upstairs. Ce F Montreal and Austin Alan
Speaker 5: Chapman for that one. Leah's Arfa, Jeffrey Grees and Mario
Speaker 5: l Aas Your AARs and your fourth. Greg dop Cut,
Speaker 5: Craig Lowry upstairs Philadelphia and the Fire, Ruby Elvasquez in
Speaker 5: the middle, Corey Rockwell, Justin Howard, Servando Barnay, your AARs
Speaker 5: and your fourth. Kevin Stott and Alisia Mesher Alicia Messer
Speaker 5: are upstairs. FC Dallas and lafc Ricardo Fierro in the middle.
Speaker 5: Adam Garner, Ben Pilgrim, Jerry Marufo is your fourth, Jeff Gamble,
Speaker 5: Robert Schapp upstairs, Timothy Ford in the middle for Nashville
Speaker 5: in Orlando City, Hopefully Ross Smith gets to enjoy that.
Speaker 5: Andrew Bigelows, Gerard kater le Buis, John Freeman, your ars
Speaker 5: and your fourth. Jose Carlos Rivero and Mark Allaton are upstairs.
Speaker 5: R s L Minnesota United. Joe Dickerson in the middle
Speaker 5: for that one. Cameron Blanchard, Eduardo, Jeff Alexis Da Silva,
Speaker 5: your airs and your fourth. Roomy Twoshon, Joshua pat Lack
Speaker 5: upstairs Houston and Santase Sergey Boyco the Man in the middle.
Speaker 5: Corey Richardson Stephen McGonagall, Tory Penso is your fourth. Daniel Radford,
Speaker 5: Fabio Tovar are upstairs, Fotis Bazacas man in the middle
Speaker 5: for Vancouver and All Caps. Jeremy Hansen, brook Mayo Momo
Speaker 5: Senni is your fourth. Kevin Terry Junior, Ian McKay upstairs,
Speaker 5: La Galaxy and Colorado. Pierre lou Lozier in the middle,
Speaker 5: Jeremy Qiso Diego Blosso, Malik Madwi is your fourth. Caroline Schnard,
Speaker 5: Claude Jobadea are upstairs San Diego and Portland. Rosendo Mendoza
Speaker 5: in the middle. Chris Wadam, Stephan Tanaka Frount, Christian Campo
Speaker 5: Hernandez is your fourth. Greg Doptka, Craig Lowry upstairs. Lorenzo
Speaker 5: Hernandez is in the middle for Atlanta in Toronto. We'll
Speaker 5: get his stats in a sack. Eric Wise Broad, Marcus d'olivera,
Speaker 5: Walt Heatherly Delavera.
Speaker 1: Is your fourth.
Speaker 5: David Barry Jonathan Johnson upstairs. Remember David Barry and v
Speaker 5: A R. Charlotte FC and Red Bulls. Armando Virial the
Speaker 5: man in the middle, Kylette Tyler, Wirastik, Calean Radisov is
Speaker 5: your fourth.
Speaker 1: Ismael L.
Speaker 5: Fath, Fabio Tovar are upstairs. Seattle and Sporting, Chris Penso,
Speaker 5: Corey Parker, Chris Beenso is in the middle, Corey Parker,
Speaker 5: Nick Balsar, Drew Fisher is your fourth. David Barry, Jonathan
Speaker 5: Johnson are upstairs. Okay, So, Lorenzo Hernandez, let's do some
Speaker 5: Let's do some digging into the kind of style he
Speaker 5: has and what his stats are this season when it
Speaker 5: comes to whistles and such. So according to our friends
Speaker 5: at who scored and this is where we traditionally go
Speaker 5: for these kinds of assignment. So it is Lorenzo Hernandez,
Speaker 5: twelve in the middle, averages twenty three and three quarter
Speaker 5: fouls per game.
Speaker 1: He has.
Speaker 5: Fifty let's see, so he's got fifty seven yellow cards
Speaker 5: and twelve matches, so he averages four and three quarters
Speaker 5: when it comes to four and three quarters when it
Speaker 5: comes to all of the matchups that he has called
Speaker 5: this season. Foulsper tackle about three quarters of a foul
Speaker 5: per tackle, and he does have he's got to penalties
Speaker 5: per game two thirds. Hang on just a second, So
Speaker 5: if he's going to be calling a lot of if
Speaker 5: he's going to be calling a lot of penalties here,
Speaker 5: football statistics, top tournaments, No, hang on, so what did
Speaker 5: we traditionally do.
Speaker 1: Referees?
Speaker 5: Hang on? Yes, I meant referees. What did we do here,
Speaker 5: Lorenzo Hernandez ref stats?
Speaker 1: What did we do here? Hang on?
Speaker 5: He's got twelve, so four two and three's gotta throw.
Speaker 5: So that's a little off. So it's twenty three and
Speaker 5: so he averages two and three quarters yellow cards a match.
Speaker 5: He calls about twenty four fouls a match, so it
Speaker 5: doesn't really give a whole lot of cards. But it
Speaker 5: looks like Lorenzo Hernandez gives us a couple of okay, statistics,
Speaker 5: This was how we did it. I don't want statistics.
Speaker 5: It was not tournaments. It was actually referees.
Speaker 1: But h crap.
Speaker 5: So of course you can't find it in short notice.
Speaker 5: I don't want football statistics. But it was who scored,
Speaker 5: was where we were. So it looks like he doesn't
Speaker 5: really flash a whole lot of yellow cards, averages about
Speaker 5: twenty four fouls a match, and so that's kind of
Speaker 5: where we are. So let's see if stats up can
Speaker 5: get it to me quicker. Not really Okay, so much
Speaker 5: for that idea, all right, But anyway, it looks like
Speaker 5: he's not all that when it comes to the cards,
Speaker 5: and not all that when it comes to all of
Speaker 5: the fouls. It looks like he calls about twenty four
Speaker 5: fouls a match, and it looks like, so let's get
Speaker 5: into the referee section. I don't want to click there.
Speaker 5: I'm going to close it, and so once again I
Speaker 5: apologize for twenty twenty four. I don't want twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: I want twenty twenty five. So twenty twenty five, all right,
Speaker 5: So Philip Douyitch, referees, etc. So hang on, So referees stats,
Speaker 5: top goal scorer, So match is called U. Lorenzo Hernandez
Speaker 5: is called twelve.
Speaker 1: He has.
Speaker 5: It can't be yeah, So fifty seven yellows in twelve matches,
Speaker 5: So that puts him in I wish we had a
Speaker 5: better layout of all of this, but fifty seven kind
Speaker 5: of puts him in the middle. He called six matches
Speaker 5: last year, had thirty two yellow cards, twelve matches this
Speaker 5: season fifty seven. So that's that's where we are with
Speaker 5: Lorenzo Hernandez as a referee. So twenty four ish fouls
Speaker 5: and he pulls about four yellows in that grouping. So
Speaker 5: that's Lorenzo Hernandez quick stats for us that really weren't
Speaker 5: all that quick because I was trying to find him
Speaker 5: and I didn't. So that is that's what we're looking
Speaker 5: at with Morning Dell and Charleston and Louden. Yes, definitely
Speaker 5: looking forward to that one this weekend in USL Championship.
Speaker 5: Next week at some point our buddy a Keayler Hodges
Speaker 5: will be joining us and we'll find out what's going
Speaker 5: on with him. So MLS, let's see who's calling what
Speaker 5: and see if the announced teams have been announced. I
Speaker 5: thought they had because I thought I saw them and
Speaker 5: it was a layout of who's calling what. We know
Speaker 5: that Tony and Ross are calling their match, So emiless communications.
Speaker 5: Let me go here, and I apologize for not having
Speaker 5: this up faster considering that we had all the guests
Speaker 5: that we had, And once again, thanks to thanks to
Speaker 5: Casey D and thanks to Ross Smith for joining us
Speaker 5: in our number two and thanks to all of you
Speaker 5: guys for hanging out with us.
Speaker 1: Here as well.
Speaker 5: So okay, so it's not an MLS communication all right,
Speaker 5: So I guess we don't have the announced teams set
Speaker 5: up yet anyway. Okay, thanks for all of the rambling
Speaker 5: this morning. Thanks to Michael Parkers, Thanks to Ross Smith
Speaker 5: on his way to national practice. Thanks to Casey White
Speaker 5: as she gets ready for her college matches this weekend.
Speaker 1: And it will be.
Speaker 5: Fun to catch up with all of you at Mercedes
Speaker 5: Benz Stadium on the weekend. I'm trying to think of
Speaker 5: there's anything else that we missed before we get out
Speaker 5: of here. We talked about MLS, We've got all the
Speaker 5: juice boxes out there, got our cruise set, got to
Speaker 5: the quick quotes from Chris Henderson, and we're looking forward
Speaker 5: to the weekend there.
Speaker 1: I think I think we got to cover.
Speaker 5: If there's anything I missed, obviously, just reach out and
Speaker 5: catch up with again on Monday. On Monday, we'll catch
Speaker 5: up with what happened with Atlanta and Toronto and the
Speaker 5: unified teams and all of that stuff, and OCB and
Speaker 5: Atlanta United two as well. We'll catch up with all
Speaker 5: that stuff that's there and we'll let you know all
Speaker 5: about it on Monday morning at nine oh five. This
Speaker 5: next week will be the last week that we do
Speaker 5: the Thursday and Friday from the hotels. It'll be from
Speaker 5: the same hotel in the Middle Georgia, and we'll be
Speaker 5: doing that one final time because we're trying to get
Speaker 5: all of these elements shot for high school football before
Speaker 5: we get out of here, so before the season starts
Speaker 5: and we have games for real where I can't do
Speaker 5: anything on a Friday. So today we're here in Millersville,
Speaker 5: going to GMC, prep for the game tonight, heading home,
Speaker 5: then prepping for at Landy United too and OCB, then
Speaker 5: prepping for it Landy United in Toronto.
Speaker 1: Then next week.
Speaker 5: It'll be in Hawkinsville, but I'll be staying in Perry
Speaker 5: so you'll see like avid hotel stuff behind me. So
Speaker 5: it'll be in Perry and in Hawkinsville on Thursday, north
Speaker 5: Side in Morner Robbins on Friday. So that's where we'll
Speaker 5: be next week. If you're watching high school football tonight's
Speaker 5: enjoy your favorite team. If your favorite team isn't playing,
Speaker 5: go find a game and enjoy it elsewhere. Also on
Speaker 5: the web, GPP's got to Jackson and Mary Persons with
Speaker 5: Cody Chaffins on the call as well. That's gonna be
Speaker 5: a fun one. So thanks to all of you guys
Speaker 5: for yet another week. Had some ups and downs for sure,
Speaker 5: and we'll continue to do our best to let all
Speaker 5: the news be what the news is each and every
Speaker 5: day here on SDHAM. For everybody here at SDH, for Jason,
Speaker 5: for Jarrett, for Maddie, for Sophia, for Nick, for me,
Speaker 5: and for everybody here. To all of you, I'm just John,
Speaker 5: thanks for hanging out for another go round of SDHAM
Speaker 5: once again, ninety two nine.
Speaker 1: In the Game the.
Speaker 5: Odyssey app the Off the Woodwork podcast section, we'll have
Speaker 5: the best of the week that'll be up tomorrow late morning,
Speaker 5: and that'll be we'll be catching up with the interview
Speaker 5: that we had with Nino Torres. We'll have Ross Smith
Speaker 5: on there, and we'll also have the interview that we
Speaker 5: had with Jason Stevens as we start our conversations about
Speaker 5: multi club ownership models and how that is impacting the
Speaker 5: world's soccer game. So that is I think everything, and
Speaker 5: we're good to go. Thanks to all of you guys,
Speaker 5: as always, we could not do this without you, and
Speaker 5: we will be back again Monday morning, nine oh five.
Speaker 5: Plus all the stuff that we do on social throughout
Speaker 5: the weekend, and it's going to be a blast.
Speaker 1: Hanging out with each and every one of you.
Speaker 5: So for everybody here at SDH, plate safe, everybody, much
Speaker 5: of Platl. Since it is the end of the week,
Speaker 5: means I get to do this.
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