Speaker 1: B two three four, okay, three way dance and I
Speaker 1: gotta hit the music. Developing story from our buddy Ben Jacobs.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I know this will shock both
Speaker 1: of you, and I know that this will shock humanity
Speaker 1: to its core.
Speaker 2: Exclusive from our buddy Ben Jacob.
Speaker 3: Let the music play little, then the suspense built.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but really, I know that this will shock both
Speaker 1: of you, Ben Jacobs, that give me sport saith quote
Speaker 1: into Miami are set to qualify for the Club World
Speaker 1: after beating Columbus Crew to win the Supporters Shield for
Speaker 1: the first time, the victory in which Messi scored twice
Speaker 1: to ensure Miami will finish top of the table. They
Speaker 1: can also an MLS Cup. MLS Cup doesn't conclude until
Speaker 1: December seven. Enter Miami are likely to be confirmed as
Speaker 1: the host representative and Miami's Hard Rock could host the
Speaker 1: opening game featuring them. Confirmation of participation is expected soon,
Speaker 1: potentially this month.
Speaker 2: So I know you're both.
Speaker 1: Shocked that that wild card is heading to Messi and friends.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the world is coming to. I'm stunned.
Speaker 1: Let me check my pulse. Yeah, I'm really stunned, color
Speaker 1: shocked that that was gonna be where teen thirty two
Speaker 1: is going to be in the Club World Cup that
Speaker 1: doesn't have a TV deal, that has clubs sitting there wandering,
Speaker 1: Uh okay, fam where's the payout? And we finally had
Speaker 1: venues announced, but there are too many questions and there
Speaker 1: are answers and oh no, Messi and friends of the
Speaker 1: wild Card color me stunned.
Speaker 2: How did this happen? How did this happen? People? What's
Speaker 2: the world coming to?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I don't know what shocking last Dad or Poschettino
Speaker 3: eventually being announced by US men's national team as the
Speaker 3: head coach. I mean both the shocking things that I
Speaker 3: never saw coming. And yeah, I mean it's it was
Speaker 3: written in stone. It was clearly going to be the
Speaker 3: perfect way to transition that Messi is done what he's
Speaker 3: done in MLS and he was going to be and
Speaker 3: he's going to be in all the marketing and all
Speaker 3: of the spotlight of the Club World Cup. And you
Speaker 3: know now that it is Miami, they were going to
Speaker 3: use the shield as well. You know, we have to
Speaker 3: make sure that we give Miami the credit they deserve
Speaker 3: and getting the shield shoot also get them an opportunity
Speaker 3: to be in the Club World Cup. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: it was so obvious was going to happen that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's interesting, is what everybody expected. But good for Miami.
Speaker 2: Good for Miami.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is the handoff, So all right, so let
Speaker 1: me ask you this, Nico. Before you came in, we
Speaker 1: were discussing what happened last night with the match involving
Speaker 1: Nino's favored at Crew ninety six and Messi and Friends.
Speaker 1: I will maintain and I think that this is probably
Speaker 1: a majority opinion. All right, So let me ask you
Speaker 1: who's the better Club Crewe or Messian Friends Crew Crew?
Speaker 3: For me, I mean, they've done it for a longer time,
Speaker 3: for a longer period of time. They've done it in
Speaker 3: different ways with different coaches. They did not have the
Speaker 3: need to bring the best player of this generation along
Speaker 3: with three friends and a guy like Tata Martino that
Speaker 3: makes scouting just to walk in the park. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's like, oh, I don't want to offend anybody, but
Speaker 3: you know, like Nick Saban and Bama at one point,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, the best of the best is
Speaker 3: gonna go there because Tata's there, and so it's so
Speaker 3: much easier to just get that's exactly the big wallet,
Speaker 3: and that's just the way it is. And look, as
Speaker 3: much as I'm happy for Miami, it's so hard sometimes
Speaker 3: to get behind it because it's so forced and it's
Speaker 3: so cosmetic from the fan base or part of the
Speaker 3: fan base to hore him off and Jerry Jones like attitude.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, last night all over the background
Speaker 3: of people's interviews and talking and with the shield and
Speaker 3: all the antics. Come on, man, give me a break.
Speaker 3: Here's cringe man, something my son used to use. That
Speaker 3: Apparently he's no longer cool either, But cringe is what
Speaker 3: I would say when it comes to so cring he mos.
Speaker 2: Terribly. I'm down with it all right.
Speaker 1: So Nino, your MLS question for Nico and the handoff,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind?
Speaker 2: What are the.
Speaker 3: Chances you know, what the chances to Seattle? No, you
Speaker 3: won yesterday, you number four? And expecting expectations? What are
Speaker 3: your expectations for a playoffs?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, I mean it's a good question, because as
Speaker 3: soccer tends to do, it changes through the weeks. I
Speaker 3: am still firm that Seattle has no more than a
Speaker 3: fifteen fifteen percent chance of really putting it all together
Speaker 3: and making it all the way to even the Western
Speaker 3: Conference Final. I understand that results is what drives us,
Speaker 3: but we got to see beyond it. And as much
Speaker 3: as it's not Seattle's fault, the calendar has been very benevolent.
Speaker 3: No pont S against Houston, no Ryan Gold and two
Speaker 3: other key components for Vancouver. Last night when they beat Columbus,
Speaker 3: there was six players and a field player goal when
Speaker 3: they got the four zero wins. So there's just a
Speaker 3: lot of things that I continue to hold as I'm
Speaker 3: not sure what the Sounders will do when they get
Speaker 3: a full loaded team that's better than they are and
Speaker 3: can they put it together. So because of that, I
Speaker 3: still think that the inertia and the momentum is there
Speaker 3: to where maybe they will put up a really good
Speaker 3: performance in their first match. And that changed for me
Speaker 3: because I feel like they were gonna get burned out
Speaker 3: in the very first game. Now maybe they'll win one
Speaker 3: and see how it goes from there.
Speaker 1: All right, So, Nino, you said, what's going on on
Speaker 1: the weekend? What else do folks need to know about
Speaker 1: what's going on with you and Goal TV and everything
Speaker 1: else during the week there with you?
Speaker 2: What's the words or what folks need to.
Speaker 3: Know, well they need to know as the Columbus school
Speaker 3: will be back. I will see you again into Miami
Speaker 3: in the finals of the conference finals and we see
Speaker 3: how we're doing that I would agree, and Nino I
Speaker 3: would say that, and I never want this to be
Speaker 3: an excuse. But the referee and was very lopsided in
Speaker 3: my opinion. I felt like Busquet had a really tough
Speaker 3: challenge that could have been a red card that didn't.
Speaker 3: I felt like the second yellow and Rudi Camacho was
Speaker 3: very shock.
Speaker 1: Hey, that never happens that gets escaped exactly.
Speaker 3: So I'm not saying that that was the defining factor,
Speaker 3: but I feel like it definitely played into the game.
Speaker 3: Chicho I've never seen him shoot a pik that way.
Speaker 3: It was very odd. Uh So they could very easy
Speaker 3: tie this game. So I believe you. I think Columbus
Speaker 3: will be back and it'll be interesting to see what
Speaker 3: happens in another point of the of this the tournament.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, as always, you know, great to see you
Speaker 1: to go fully loaded to take things off. In the
Speaker 1: first half hour the show, all of the first half
Speaker 1: hour of hour number two on a Thursday, be safe,
Speaker 1: My friend, have great calls, save those pipes, say hi
Speaker 1: to the boss, back behind you and go taking that.
Speaker 2: We'll see you, assume my friend.
Speaker 3: See you guys, take care. Thank you.
Speaker 1: That is Nino and so yeah, Nino. Nino's fired up
Speaker 1: about his crew this morning.
Speaker 3: Uh, I mean everybody would be right. I mean, it
Speaker 3: was a good game, It was entertaining, it was fun,
Speaker 3: but there were some things that were odd and and
Speaker 3: cringe afterwards, and some of the referee and was questionable. Uh.
Speaker 3: Like I said, evens p K was suhs. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I felt like it was all just ready there for
Speaker 3: Miami to just take it.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that we do on a
Speaker 1: on a match day leading into the matchups themselves is
Speaker 1: we make a point to go through the officiating crews
Speaker 1: that are attached to matches, and I think, disappointingly, more
Speaker 1: often than not, you end up with center refs that
Speaker 1: shouldn't be assigned to higher profile games, if that makes
Speaker 1: any sense, because there are there are center refs that
Speaker 1: have problems navigating high profile matches, matches involving teams that
Speaker 1: have that do things stylistically, and you lose control of
Speaker 1: the match early on or you secede, you give up
Speaker 1: control of the match. Ye, unless I mean unless you're
Speaker 1: gonna call things consistently. And from all indications, it sounds
Speaker 1: like Drew Fisher, the man in the middle last night
Speaker 1: for Crew and MESSI and friends, wasn't all that even
Speaker 1: handed when it came to his distribution of things.
Speaker 2: Is that fair?
Speaker 3: That is very fair, And I think that's spot on,
Speaker 3: and that that was the odd part about it is
Speaker 3: that And I've always said it, I don't expect the
Speaker 3: referee to be perfect, nobody is, but I do expect
Speaker 3: you to be consistent. And I felt like he really
Speaker 3: lacked consistency overall. And when he did start to call
Speaker 3: a lot of fouls on Miami, the switched of the game.
Speaker 3: The momentum was already had already shifted. The moment that
Speaker 3: Columbus had to take this game away was as soon
Speaker 3: as the first goal comes through. And that was just
Speaker 3: not there. And a lot of it have to do
Speaker 3: because of the way the officiating went.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so it's something and we do this as
Speaker 1: a public service. Yes we do rail on officials, Yes
Speaker 1: we do rail on pro but I think at the
Speaker 1: same time, I think it's just as important to sit
Speaker 1: there and give folks something to keep an eye on
Speaker 1: and be vigilant about with your viewing habits and your
Speaker 1: critical eye as we get to the final match or
Speaker 1: two or three in a regular season and get everything
Speaker 1: all squared away.
Speaker 2: So it's just things that.
Speaker 1: We would suggest that folks keep an eye out for
Speaker 1: going forward as we get to crunch time a couple
Speaker 1: of other matches last night and we have to reset
Speaker 1: the clock on you know, you know how like when
Speaker 1: there's a building that's under construction and there's always that
Speaker 1: sign out front with all the plank boards and everything
Speaker 1: days at this construction site since the last accident happened,
Speaker 1: you know, the consecutive days of safety kind of a thing.
Speaker 1: We do the same thing here involving stupidity down here.
Speaker 1: And so we had a good run. We had a
Speaker 1: good run of days where you know, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen eighteen,
Speaker 1: you know, we've had a good run. But that came
Speaker 1: crashing to a halt apparently last night in New Jersey
Speaker 1: where the FC Cincinnati match in NYC playing at Red
Speaker 1: Bull Arena in New Jersey. That's just confounding on a
Speaker 1: bunch of different levels. So according to Pat Brennan, Cincinnati Inquirer,
Speaker 1: and a match marred by la stoppage and play due
Speaker 1: to an FC Cincinnati player reportedly being subjected to discriminatory remarks.
Speaker 1: FCC dropped its second game in a row, three to
Speaker 1: two lost NYCFC in a sparse crowd at Red Bull Arena,
Speaker 1: home of the New York Red Bulls.
Speaker 2: Color me shocked that it was a sparse crowd.
Speaker 1: Post match, the consequences of the defeat for FC Cincinnati
Speaker 1: took a back seat to what MLS officials stated in
Speaker 1: a post match report was a homophobic chant directed at
Speaker 1: an FCC player. In a separate statement, FCC officials said
Speaker 1: NYCFC fans were responsible for the chant in question. Around
Speaker 1: the eighty six minute, referee gid You Gonzalez Junior stopped
Speaker 1: the match in response to the slur, then discussed the
Speaker 1: matter with the head coaches of both clubs. Instructed stadium
Speaker 1: officials to proceed with the PSA regarding the incident. Ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, discrimination has no place in our sport. Fan
Speaker 1: chant was used as offensive. We asked you not to
Speaker 1: continue to use the chant.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Match did not restart until the end stadium announcement was
Speaker 1: repeated in Spanish after it occurred. FC Cincinnati got the
Speaker 1: match restarted in the nine indieth minute with a drop ball.
Speaker 1: After the game, FC Cincinnati head coach Pat Newton was
Speaker 1: asked how many match officials handled the incident, or how
Speaker 1: match officials handled the incident, how he personally felt about
Speaker 1: one of his players being targeted. At the time, he
Speaker 1: was still gathering facts, but club and MLS officials would
Speaker 1: later confirm the tales of the incident, and so then
Speaker 1: Pat Noonan says what he says and statement to the inquirer,
Speaker 1: and MLS came up with their statement involving a homophobic slur.
Speaker 1: We have to reset the stupidity down here clock to zero.
Speaker 1: We got to put the zero back on the board
Speaker 1: outside the construction site here at SDH. I'm real tired
Speaker 1: of this crap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sick of it. I feel like a lot
Speaker 3: of times where poorly influences a community as a society,
Speaker 3: and those sort of things, unfortunately happened a lot in
Speaker 3: Europe and in the top leagues in South America, and
Speaker 3: they seemed to get misinterpret as pass in it or
Speaker 3: for cloric or whatever word in term makes people feel
Speaker 3: better about just being a d word to anybody about
Speaker 3: whether it's their ethnicity, race, or sexual preference. There's absolutely
Speaker 3: no room for that in our sport. It should not
Speaker 3: be tolerated, and I'm glad that it was handled that way.
Speaker 3: It actually ended up helping Cincinnati and being a disadvantage
Speaker 3: to New York that had some momentum building and because
Speaker 3: of the whole stoppage of the Blues in some of
Speaker 3: the momentum, So the result and the sport goes second
Speaker 3: to this sort of situation. But I feel like because
Speaker 3: of the stoppage, I'm glad that it affected the team
Speaker 3: of the people that were trying to make this ridiculous chance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, good on, You're nicely done.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we have to reset the we have to
Speaker 1: reset the stupidity clock back to zero.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and in a lesser stupid way, we could ask
Speaker 3: to add Bernardeski man, he had blinders on last night.
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened led the let his frustration
Speaker 3: get the best of him and he was another factor
Speaker 3: of a stupidity in a lesser important way. But yeah,
Speaker 3: he did not. He was not very bright last night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, he was not very bright last night at all,
Speaker 1: and so so since you mentioned it, three zero win dominant,
Speaker 1: Vancouver did have some absences last night. You were plus
Speaker 1: one seventy nine heading in, but you got the win
Speaker 1: as a road dog in Cascadia, obviously that helps things
Speaker 1: out when it comes to the standings. But some of
Speaker 1: your takeaways from the three nil win for Seattle last.
Speaker 3: Night, Yeah, I think it's the most complete game they've
Speaker 3: had over the last two months in them a less
Speaker 3: play meaning away from League's Cup. I felt Dad Bryant
Speaker 3: Metzer is very lucky to have found to not just contributors,
Speaker 3: but influential players like Paul Rothrock and Georgia Mnongu, both
Speaker 3: who scored last night. I think specifically, Paul is tiding
Speaker 3: very well with the turnaround the team had when they
Speaker 3: were having issues, when they needed a spark, and he's
Speaker 3: become a guy that has surprised many. Last night, I
Speaker 3: asked him that if he was surprised, he's that he
Speaker 3: had high expectations that he had. I think he was
Speaker 3: fifteen goal contributions something to that similar number he said
Speaker 3: about what he had expectations for him. But man, the
Speaker 3: guy has eight goals in all competitions. And it's not
Speaker 3: just the goals. Is the press he has, is the effort,
Speaker 3: is the runs, is the shiftiness of his game. I
Speaker 3: mean he's not just a player that is your typical American,
Speaker 3: just high effort and athletic, and no, the guy can play.
Speaker 3: I mean there's a couple of times where the way
Speaker 3: he brings down the ball with his shoulder, his eye
Speaker 3: on the ball. I've talked many times about his notes
Speaker 3: for a goal. So last night we saw a lot
Speaker 3: of that defensively this team and I've said it consistently
Speaker 3: as well. That's the baseline, that's the foundation of Seattle's
Speaker 3: success is that defense. Is Yamar gomenz Andrade, who was
Speaker 3: unbelievable in the last two games. Is Electro Dan playing well,
Speaker 3: He's knew who last night gets the ball and blocks
Speaker 3: it on the line. Steph was beat, Yamar was beat,
Speaker 3: the ball was about to get in the goal, and
Speaker 3: with that flair that knew who has he gets it
Speaker 3: out of the back of the net. So yeah, it
Speaker 3: was just the overall good performance as a unit, the
Speaker 3: collective play yesterday, it was very well. There were moments
Speaker 3: where Vancouver challenged Seattle, and there were moments that they
Speaker 3: lost some momentum. And at that time, even when they
Speaker 3: had to defend a little bit deeper and they have
Speaker 3: to get more compact, they did that. They were physical,
Speaker 3: they were good on possession. That's what their game models about,
Speaker 3: their possession based team, and last night it was effective
Speaker 3: and therefore it's going to help out in the future.
Speaker 3: But again, this was a Vancouver White Cups team with
Speaker 3: three key absences, and therefore we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 3: But happy for Paul. I will take some time to
Speaker 3: give Georgie Manongu his credits, and I need to applaud
Speaker 3: a kid that has done so much. But last night
Speaker 3: he mentioned that his dad died two weeks ago and
Speaker 3: that he was still playing with the team and he
Speaker 3: did not take time off, And the way Brian put
Speaker 3: it is that he wanted to make the most of
Speaker 3: his opportunities. So that sort of commitment to the team,
Speaker 3: that sort of commitment to yourself is to be applauded.
Speaker 3: And for a team that got so much heat for
Speaker 3: being for having no activity and not doing more or
Speaker 3: actually not doing anything really in the summer window, a
Speaker 3: guy like Paul and a guy like Manoongu that last
Speaker 3: night they cannot put him on the leash. I mean
Speaker 3: they were trying to figure him out, the way that
Speaker 3: the stepovers, the way he moves his body, the speed.
Speaker 3: He's a little bit of an orthodox with the ball,
Speaker 3: so he's hard for a defender to kind of figure
Speaker 3: out where he's gonna go. He was fantastic, very good.
Speaker 3: And I'll finalize by saying that Albert Russnick as well,
Speaker 3: career high sixteen assistances. I believe that he has very
Speaker 3: good He's earned a new contract here as a DP.
Speaker 3: That wasn't the question at some point that if he
Speaker 3: was going to return, if he wasn't. I think that
Speaker 3: he's finally lived up to that cam that leader on
Speaker 3: the field, I did hear. I saw this morning a
Speaker 3: tweet though about you know this is the best season
Speaker 3: this that how people are ready to admit that this
Speaker 3: season from Albert Russnick is better than any of Nicolesto d'iro's.
Speaker 3: And Mark's a guy that I respect. He has some
Speaker 3: very good knowledge on the team. He used to be
Speaker 3: a or he's still a journalist covering the team. But
Speaker 3: let me just say this, yeah, maybe stat wise and
Speaker 3: if you want to limit that to the regular season,
Speaker 3: then yes, you can make this statement. But the best
Speaker 3: from Nicolesto Dero came in the postseason, came on what
Speaker 3: he did afterwards, so that's still to be proven. By
Speaker 3: Albert Russnak is that legendary players are built by bringing
Speaker 3: championships and about stepping up on big moments and not
Speaker 3: just padding down stats. That's why I'm not a numbers guy.
Speaker 3: There's a lot more to the game than statistics. So
Speaker 3: I will say that I disagree with that because a
Speaker 3: season as a whole, it has not been better player
Speaker 3: than nic Coolestadaro. He's the best player of all time
Speaker 3: for the head of Thunders, There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 3: So let's give him credit without having to take credit
Speaker 3: away from a guy like Nicholas Darrow.
Speaker 2: Give him credit a slow basically.
Speaker 3: Yes, slow your role baby.
Speaker 1: With that win, two matches to go, Seattle's fifty three
Speaker 1: points and you have the tiebreaker on RSL even on
Speaker 1: goal difference, but you've got one more win with two
Speaker 1: matches to go, so the street fight will continue. In
Speaker 1: the Chase group in the Western Conference LAFC three matches
Speaker 1: to go, two points, clear of Seattle on RSL Houston
Speaker 1: right now at fifty one points, Colorado at fifty and
Speaker 1: then you get into Vancouver, Minnesota, Portland. Portland had a
Speaker 1: chance last night to kind of get out of that
Speaker 1: ish that's eight to nine, but Austin came up and
Speaker 1: bit them, winning one nill at a plus four thirty four.
Speaker 2: So it's a draws Austin closer.
Speaker 1: Austin's gotta win out and get tiebreakers and they'd be
Speaker 1: even with wins and everything like that. Interesting win for Austin.
Speaker 1: Portland stepped on a rake last night when they had
Speaker 1: a chance not to.
Speaker 3: Austin just playing spoiler at this point, man, I mean
Speaker 3: that's all they're doing. They drew Iris a week ago,
Speaker 3: I mean the last game, and they beat Portland for
Speaker 3: what you just spoiling people's chances. But it's on Portland.
Speaker 3: Portland had chances Portland created. Evander looked frustrated at the
Speaker 3: end of the game. I mean, I've said it a
Speaker 3: thousand times. With no Evander, there's no glory, and when
Speaker 3: he's not shining, neither is Portland. The goal was a deflection.
Speaker 3: Good for Stuart, who's been by far the MVP for
Speaker 3: Austin the most consistent player. Just the way he's kept
Speaker 3: that team going. It's it's amazing at the goalkeeping position.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Portland should have done more. Minnesota is not
Speaker 3: losing a beat, So I think that we're starting to
Speaker 3: see those teams that are going to stay above. Good
Speaker 3: for Shadow to be in third, I was not expecting it.
Speaker 3: They have a tough game against Colorado coming up. But yeah,
Speaker 3: the West thing is starting to take shape. And if
Speaker 3: there's two teams that should be worried RSL because man,
Speaker 3: it feels like there's the curse of the Bembino and
Speaker 3: then there's the course of the Columbino because once Andris
Speaker 3: Gomez was out, they have not been the same. Baby,
Speaker 3: they have not been the same. Not Chico has been
Speaker 3: the same. The tech hasn't been the same, and they
Speaker 3: really need to figure it out before and U Portland. Man,
Speaker 3: if they keep dropping points, if they keep giving this
Speaker 3: team's way in, they might find themselves out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the East is its standard amount of chaos. Uh.
Speaker 1: We talked about Messi and friends getting the win last
Speaker 1: night in a very unevenly called match at Crewe. Joseph
Speaker 1: gets a brace last night at a plus three eighty.
Speaker 1: Atlanta loses to one. Charlotte gets rid of the dumpster fire.
Speaker 1: They were a favorite and one. NYC exposes Cincinnati's issues
Speaker 1: at the back once again, winning three to two. Purple
Speaker 1: Team won at home, beating Philadelphia two to one.
Speaker 2: Red Bulls.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned what's going on with Toronto FC. It's like,
Speaker 1: I don't, dude, I don't know what what Toronto FC
Speaker 1: team is going to show up on any given time.
Speaker 1: And so the standings in the East after the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we'll get into Cliffhanger in just a seconds.
Speaker 2: Messi and friends are clear and they're going to the
Speaker 2: Club World Cup.
Speaker 1: Who knew Cruise at fifty seven, but they've got a
Speaker 1: match in hand on Cincinnati. I'm worried about Cincinnati, I
Speaker 1: really am. With all the injuries that they have at
Speaker 1: the back, They're gonna have to outscore folks.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they can do that. Purple Teams
Speaker 2: one four of five. They're at forty nine and fourth.
Speaker 1: NYC is two wins ahead of Red Bulls at forty seven.
Speaker 1: That gets us to Charlotte at seventh at forty five.
Speaker 1: CF Montreal's at forty they're unbeaten in their last five.
Speaker 1: They've got some separation on everybody else. Toronto FCE, now
Speaker 1: everybody's the one that's gunned for you. You've only got
Speaker 1: one point in your last four matches. You only have
Speaker 1: one match left, so you'll be a sitting duck on
Speaker 1: the decision day. Philadelphia's at thirty seven to nine wins,
Speaker 1: DC's at thirty seven to nine wins, Atlanta's at thirty
Speaker 1: four to eight wins, Nashville's at thirty three eight wins.
Speaker 1: The Revs they need to win out and have everybody
Speaker 1: else lose out. And Revs right now are at thirty one.
Speaker 1: They've lost three of five and the dumpster fire been eliminated.
Speaker 1: They have one match to go and can't get any
Speaker 1: higher than thirty three points. All right, So that sets
Speaker 1: up cliffhanger and oh, actually, what do you think about
Speaker 1: what's going on in the East and the chaos before
Speaker 1: we get in the cliffhanger.
Speaker 3: I think Charlotte heard us talking and they decided to
Speaker 3: figure it out and score some goals and find that
Speaker 3: way through. And they've been moving up. Toronto just seems
Speaker 3: like they're imploding and it's about to you know, just
Speaker 3: the wheel. They're about to follo off that bus real quick.
Speaker 3: All the rainbows and sunshine that was that locker room
Speaker 3: and a new head coach is no longer there. And
Speaker 3: I think between DC and Philadelphia they both have a
Speaker 3: really good chance. Like DC been taking just takes so
Speaker 3: much pressure off everybody on the field. I mean, last
Speaker 3: night they were in a thriller in a four to
Speaker 3: three game against Nashville and Parani's two goals. They are
Speaker 3: set up by everybody just looking for Bentechy, where's Benecky,
Speaker 3: where's he at?
Speaker 2: We at?
Speaker 3: Oh, you forgot about me? And there goes a brace.
Speaker 3: So it's it's an interesting team. I do think Toronto
Speaker 3: will find himselves out though.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: And Toronto has Messi and friends at home this weekend
Speaker 1: at a plus one twenty nine, Messi and Friends are
Speaker 1: in the barn. They don't care, they but I mean, shoot,
Speaker 1: what was it? Sasha question said that Messi was out
Speaker 1: of fifteen games, and he scored seventeen goals in the
Speaker 1: games that he was actually in, So Messi and friends
Speaker 1: in the game, that doesn't mean anything. On the road
Speaker 1: of a plus one seventy seven. I still think they
Speaker 1: get a result. I think Toronto continues to fall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they get a result, but I don't
Speaker 3: think i'd won too much action on that game, just
Speaker 3: because we don't know what's going to be the Miami
Speaker 3: that plays out. I don't doubt that Tata is looking
Speaker 3: at the points all time record. That's just who Tata is.
Speaker 3: But I also think that he's not looking at dad
Speaker 3: wear and tear of his team, and he might just
Speaker 3: put a rotationary team against Toronto. So yes, they'll get
Speaker 3: the win. Don't know about the.
Speaker 1: Bulls Atlanta and Red Bulls. Atlanta's favored must win situation.
Speaker 1: Red Bulls come to town. They got Forrestburg back there
Speaker 1: at a plus one twenty four, Red Bulls a plus
Speaker 1: one ninety two.
Speaker 3: What do you think, Well, man, that's a tough one man.
Speaker 3: Atlanta against Montreal was just tough. I mean, Joseph just
Speaker 3: he really came out after you guys. I respect the
Speaker 3: fact he did not celebrate, but man, you couldn't have
Speaker 3: written that anymore.
Speaker 2: Him that much space, You can't.
Speaker 3: Absolutely you have to know where he's had at all times.
Speaker 3: You know, It's it's just it's tough and Red Bulls,
Speaker 3: there's such a different team when Forstburg's in there. I
Speaker 3: still see a draw in this one. I feel like
Speaker 3: it'll be a game where both teams are inconsistent, both
Speaker 3: teams are hard to decipher. I think the draws a
Speaker 3: safe bet on this one.
Speaker 1: Charlotte's playing CF Montreal, good for them, crew hosting Philadelphia
Speaker 1: mine minus one sixty one.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 3: I want? Nothing worth of the goals. I definitely that
Speaker 3: those numbers are not going to get any better. So
Speaker 3: the only thing that I would won in this game
Speaker 3: is maybe goals. I could see Columbus coming in. They're
Speaker 3: trying to work something out, so let's just look at
Speaker 3: the goals.
Speaker 1: Two and a half is a minus one thirty three
Speaker 1: is a minus one fifty two. Three and a half
Speaker 1: is where it flips to a plus one oho eight
Speaker 1: on the over.
Speaker 3: I want nothing to do with that game, But I
Speaker 3: say Columbus takes.
Speaker 2: To win a Why does that not surprise me? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: So interesting one here FC Cincinnati and a minus one
Speaker 1: o nine hosting the Purple Team at a plus two
Speaker 1: to sixty.
Speaker 3: Orlando is a plus two sixty. So give me as
Speaker 3: you look for the goals. For me, please let me
Speaker 3: just say s ce. Cincinnati has won two of their
Speaker 3: last seven games. They've been inconsistent, they've been beat out.
Speaker 3: The defense is not what it used to be. I'm
Speaker 3: shocked out of my mind dead Miles Robinson got called
Speaker 3: up for the US national team to be frank. So yeah,
Speaker 3: Cincinnati is just a very It's a shell of what
Speaker 3: they were last season. There really are. It's just a show.
Speaker 3: It's just the jersey now. And because of that, I
Speaker 3: think Orlando City does win this one. But it'll be
Speaker 3: a thriller as well. So what are the goals?
Speaker 1: Three is a minus one of four three and a
Speaker 1: half on the overs of plus one forty seven.
Speaker 3: Wow. Oh yeah, they're not giving you much choice. They
Speaker 3: know what's going on. So yeah, I just take Orlando
Speaker 3: and find yourself, you know, lucky with that. But I
Speaker 3: think Orlando wins it and they give Cincinnati another tough
Speaker 3: loss and a lot more to think about for a
Speaker 3: team that at some point we thought was a candidate
Speaker 3: for the Cup.
Speaker 1: And then you get all those injuries at the back
Speaker 1: and you're trying to figure out, Okay, who's going to
Speaker 1: do what?
Speaker 2: Hey? Have you played left? Have you played right? Back?
Speaker 2: In your life. Yeah, back when I would play eight.
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, you're you're right back, So purple team of
Speaker 1: the plus two sixty out West.
Speaker 2: Shoot, we'll just go.
Speaker 1: We got we got a couple on Sunday in MC
Speaker 1: in Nashville, Portland, in Dallas. But yeah, let's just go
Speaker 1: straight to your game. Colorado and the Prairie Dogs hosting
Speaker 1: Seattle at a plus one twenty seven. Seattle is at
Speaker 1: plus one ninety four draws.
Speaker 2: What do you think about this one?
Speaker 3: What's the draw?
Speaker 1: The draw is after I click on the years, The
Speaker 1: draw is a plus two five seven in the composite.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that that's tough. Honestly, Colorado a tough team.
Speaker 3: Seattle has a hard time in Colorado, but I think
Speaker 3: that they'll have enough defensively to hold and limit a
Speaker 3: lot of what Colorado likes to do. Likewise, I think
Speaker 3: that Colorado will do a lot to limit Seattle's efforts offensively.
Speaker 3: We got a nice little break, uh eventually for this
Speaker 3: for this game after that, and it's gonna be it's
Speaker 3: gonna be interesting how that plays out. I think SATA
Speaker 3: will go all out. Brian has not rotated his squad.
Speaker 3: I asked him about rotation yesterday, and he answered me
Speaker 3: with a shoe in his hand and was just like,
Speaker 3: if you look at the calendar, you would know. I
Speaker 3: do look at the calendar, Brian.
Speaker 2: I'm aware he's going to krus on you and he's banging.
Speaker 3: I'm aware of the calendar. Brian. Don't treat me like
Speaker 3: a rookie here. I was just asking because you have
Speaker 3: been very reluctant to rotate your squad, so uh, I
Speaker 3: think that one would be a stay. Bad to say
Speaker 3: it's going to be a draw.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So I just had this vision now of of of
Speaker 1: crusher schmitz Aer going sitting there and he's banging the table.
Speaker 2: He took his low turn with it. How dare you
Speaker 2: ask me about the calendar? All right? So what's going
Speaker 2: on with the Pols sports and the soccer bar? My friend?
Speaker 3: All right, well, we got soccer bar here in about forty minutes,
Speaker 3: we're gonna be going taking a deep dive into a
Speaker 3: lot of this. We're gonna take a deep dive into
Speaker 3: into Miami. As much as people hate it, we have
Speaker 3: to give Miami their credit. We have to go into it.
Speaker 3: We'll talk from horhe mans Man. I'm gonna be talking
Speaker 3: about hoheim Master's antics there. Man, it was so weird
Speaker 3: just in the back of every interview, just kissing, hugging,
Speaker 3: looking at the camera like, oh, I'm not really sure
Speaker 3: if i'm you know, you're on the camera. Come on
Speaker 3: stop it. So you know, we'll talk about that great,
Speaker 3: it's so hardy, it is terrible. We'll have to talk
Speaker 3: about Seattle, what's coming up Colorado. I'm gonna go a
Speaker 3: little bit deeper into what that game kind of meant
Speaker 3: for the team and what it can mean for the future.
Speaker 3: So it'll be a good one. And in Pulsel Sports,
Speaker 3: we probably won't have anything until the team is back.
Speaker 3: There's no availability today. I don't think there's any on Friday,
Speaker 3: so whenever they're back, will be back at post for sport.
Speaker 3: I'm also taking a trip to Vegas, so the juice
Speaker 3: boxes are going to be very convenient for me. And
Speaker 3: that's why if you would allow me, sir, I would
Speaker 3: want you to please let me know if you have
Speaker 3: a way to look at the goals for the LA
Speaker 3: Galaxy Austin, because I feel like Austin has done some
Speaker 3: things as of late where maybe Vegas is thinking this
Speaker 3: one might not be a high scoring game, but La
Speaker 3: Galaxy and Ricky puts with the Salt Babe last night
Speaker 3: and his two best friends in Pencil and Peck. I
Speaker 3: think if that one's a high scoring game, I'd be
Speaker 3: willing to go as far as four and a half on.
Speaker 2: That one plus one eight five on the over.
Speaker 3: For four and a half.
Speaker 2: Four and a half is a plus, Vegas, come on
Speaker 2: plus on the over at four and a half.
Speaker 3: Oh that's tough. Dangn all right, well that's not gonna work.
Speaker 3: But either way, I'll be in Vegas. All of these
Speaker 3: juice boxes will come very handy. Uh So man, it's uh,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a fun weekend. So pussl Spores might
Speaker 3: be a little delayed on some information, but we'll be
Speaker 3: back on Monday, nice and ready to go.
Speaker 1: Beautiful love it be safe when you have fun as
Speaker 1: you're staring at all of the video monitors that have
Speaker 1: all of the juice box activity going on and sensory
Speaker 1: overloading everything, And please come get there safely, come home safely,
Speaker 1: enjoy your trip, and we will see you next week
Speaker 1: in the International window. Talking about where things stand as
Speaker 1: we get ready for international windows and decision day and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Be well, my friend will catch up with you next week.
Speaker 3: Thank you, my friend, have a good one, all.
Speaker 2: Right, he's gonna go Rave Green. Oh is that two
Speaker 2: or three? By the way, three? Man.
Speaker 3: I have to watch a lot of games last night,
Speaker 3: you know me. Man, I gotta see that. I have
Speaker 3: to see I had to rewatch the Colorado I mean,
Speaker 3: I have to rewatch the Orlando game. I had to
Speaker 3: rewatch the inner Miami game. I was up for a while.
Speaker 2: So it is my third, no doubt. All right. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm right there with you.
Speaker 1: You've got You've got your coffee, I got my soda,
Speaker 1: and we'll rock and Roll'll see you next week.
Speaker 3: Take you to see my friend, all right.
Speaker 2: That's Nico.