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Speaker 1: It's Friday.
Speaker 3: Day, it is, and so that means it's hanging out
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Speaker 3: up to about one hundred and ninety percent, still play
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Speaker 3: it's a freestyle Friday, John hear you Their stack show
Speaker 3: and first half hour will kind of take you through
Speaker 3: what happened late last night. We'll get you through the
Speaker 3: morning promos as well. Nine thirty, Michael Parkers is going
Speaker 3: to join us from our friends at Beyond Goals. Menering
Speaker 3: I and Greg Garz have been very, very busy. They've
Speaker 3: been in demand for obvious reasons. So we'll have Barkey
Speaker 3: joining us. At nine point thirty. Bradley Wright Phillips from
Speaker 3: Apple TV is going to be joining us at ten o'clock.
Speaker 3: And here's everything that BWP does these days. An list
Speaker 3: on MLS count down in MLS three sixty and MLS
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Speaker 3: ten o'clock. We'll break down the quarter pole here in
Speaker 3: Major League Soccer. Obviously, we'll talk about what he thinks
Speaker 3: about at Lanty United so far, we'll go through the good,
Speaker 3: the bad, and the ugly. I imagine that he will
Speaker 3: be mentioning a program up the road in Charlotte is
Speaker 3: a part of his old GBU. And then after BWP
Speaker 3: exits at ten twenty, then we'll get you into the
Speaker 3: weekend whip around patent pending trademark comming Center hopefully rather
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Speaker 3: of the matchups this weekend. So that's the show. Get
Speaker 3: you through last night, kind of get you set up
Speaker 3: for the morning. Michael Parkers at nine thirty, BWP at
Speaker 3: ten weekend preview with it Lanty United, the Purple Team
Speaker 3: and everybody else coming up after that for the remainder
Speaker 3: of that for this show at noon, Soccer's in Session
Speaker 3: presented by our friends at Kaiser Permanente. It is day five,
Speaker 3: Day four, Day five, Day four of Round one of
Speaker 3: the GHSA Playoffs. We're gonna be joined by Mike Pettitt,
Speaker 3: the boys and girls coach at Callaway, and we're also
Speaker 3: going to be joined by Chris Romano in a taped
Speaker 3: piece as they get ready for their matchup tonight as well.
Speaker 3: Then we'll get you through your brackets, get you through
Speaker 3: your stuff. We'll walk you through everything and set up
Speaker 3: the matchups for today in addition to kind of looking
Speaker 3: at it next week and where we might be for
Speaker 3: Round two starting on Tuesday. And so that's where we
Speaker 3: are today, no different than any other Friday where we're
Speaker 3: flying around and just you know, raising all kinds of
Speaker 3: you know what. All right, So last night, how many
Speaker 3: of you show a hands stay up plate? I tried,
Speaker 3: I admit it. Last night. It was a matchup on
Speaker 3: the girls side, Team fifteen and Team eighteen and TRIPAA
Speaker 3: that we had on the network over on the Mixler
Speaker 3: app on our Mixler channel, Johnson Gainesville and a Cony
Speaker 3: County at Coney County. With a four hiel win, you
Speaker 3: can go back and listen to that match, and any
Speaker 3: of the matches that we've done this season, you can
Speaker 3: go back and listen to it the archive. And it
Speaker 3: was a match that started about an hour and a
Speaker 3: half late because of mother nature. And so the last
Speaker 3: time I was at Warriors Stadium for a championship game
Speaker 3: in high school football for a Coney County and they
Speaker 3: ended up getting to win. And the running back at
Speaker 3: the time for a Cony County that was raising all
Speaker 3: kinds of you know what was Tyson Browning. Larry Munson
Speaker 3: Jeff Nnoe called that match and I guess this is
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Speaker 3: for the first time in a very very long time,
Speaker 3: I was at Warriors Stadium. Monson a van note called
Speaker 3: the game first on Georgia Public Broadcasting back in nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety nine, and then Larry Munson got to talk about
Speaker 3: that little Browning kid for an extra couple of years
Speaker 3: as he would go up up out Georgia fifty three
Speaker 3: into Athens and he would go play. But the last
Speaker 3: time I think I was in that building was for
Speaker 3: that championship game, and it was fun to be back
Speaker 3: there last night once again, thanks to everybody out of
Speaker 3: Coney County and with Johnson Gainesville for all the info
Speaker 3: in the intel to have us do the job that
Speaker 3: we could with the broadcast. And like I said, we
Speaker 3: kind of know where we're going early part of next week,
Speaker 3: and when we really really know, we'll let you know
Speaker 3: where we're really really going. But it was fun to
Speaker 3: be up there last night. Games started late, so naturally
Speaker 3: in the coming down of the emotions, I watched a
Speaker 3: little bit of what happened late last night at BC
Speaker 3: placed in front of a crowd of north of fifty thousand,
Speaker 3: and I don't think that it went the way that
Speaker 3: TAMESSI and friends thought it was going to go at all.
Speaker 3: It was a rough night. It was a chippy night.
Speaker 3: It was a physical night. We'll go over the stats
Speaker 3: coming up in just a bit. Morning, David, Morning, Sharif.
Speaker 3: So here's what happened, and it was all Vancouver. How
Speaker 3: many of you in your hands had Vancouver sitting there
Speaker 3: going yeah, I think they'll take care of business at home.
Speaker 3: I know I didn't. So once again, let's roll through
Speaker 3: your highlights early on. It was a goal for Vancouver
Speaker 3: and Mama, here goes that man again Brian White, courtesy
Speaker 3: of our friends at Conkor Calf and FS one kens
Speaker 3: the middle, it comes touched to the edge of the area.
Speaker 3: Been good womans vancouverer. I don't know, like Caps two
Speaker 3: little chances and decent.
Speaker 4: Ones, but they play the little ones who hit and
Speaker 4: he gets off the back.
Speaker 5: Then all mex fall con You're what?
Speaker 3: And so that made it one meal and like I said,
Speaker 3: we'll get into the stats coming up in just a
Speaker 3: little bit. Second half got even more shippy amplified if
Speaker 3: that's a hyphenated word that we just created. I mean,
Speaker 3: you had folks that were getting cards, and you had
Speaker 3: folks that you thought might have been sent off or
Speaker 3: should have been sent off. But it was a moment
Speaker 3: for Sebastian Burholter, who ended up as man of the
Speaker 3: match according to Conky Calf their own selves. And this
Speaker 3: was a chance late coming in transition once again, as
Speaker 3: Messi and friends are chasing after the equalizer and try
Speaker 3: to get that road goal before they go back home
Speaker 3: to the Erector set next week, Vancouver in transition gets
Speaker 3: goal number two once again. Courtesy of our friends of
Speaker 3: concacaff and FS one.
Speaker 4: One touch of the outside. It's Nelson into the metal.
Speaker 4: It's behind White and arriving at roughing it under the net. Taycar,
Speaker 4: It's Purr Walter. It's two the Caps in command.
Speaker 3: I'm into Miami in big, big trouble.
Speaker 5: Pull one back.
Speaker 3: He's a good run as well on that right hand side.
Speaker 3: Initially it was sabby.
Speaker 4: Then you can see that Jada Nelson gets into visors
Speaker 4: and ball to this mate.
Speaker 3: The runs from midfield, and you can see.
Speaker 2: Bron White nearly on his knees celebrating that he was
Speaker 2: at the Nippos. Couldn't get it a.
Speaker 3: Fall post not be your final two nail for the
Speaker 3: late game, And like I said, it got really chippy
Speaker 3: and you were wondering what was going to be let
Speaker 3: go when it came to whistles and such, and you
Speaker 3: were wondering what was going to We'll see, So wouldn't
Speaker 3: you know? Inner Miami's the second most searched team on
Speaker 3: SOFA score. Who knew? All right? So let's take a
Speaker 3: peek of the numbers, and for statistical comparison and analysis,
Speaker 3: we'll go through all of the all the stats here
Speaker 3: once again, Messi and Friends had sixty nine percent of possession.
Speaker 3: Nice didn't matter. You know, when you gotta lead, you're
Speaker 3: gonna sit and you're gonna just kind of launch it,
Speaker 3: and it's right, it's on you. Two big chances, No
Speaker 3: big chances registered for Messi and Friends late last night.
Speaker 3: Total shots nine apiece taka Oka with two saves on
Speaker 3: the night, no big chances two saves for taca Oka.
Speaker 3: Oscar Story had three nine corners for Messi and Friends
Speaker 3: last night, compared to three for Vancouver. Eighteen fouls called,
Speaker 3: eleven of them on Vancouver, seven fouls considering the chippy
Speaker 3: nature of the match. Seven fouls called on inner Miami
Speaker 3: passes more than double to one another, but no real surprise,
Speaker 3: seven fouls, twenty tackles, sixteen tackles for Vancouver, two yellow
Speaker 3: cards for two yellow cards from Messi and Friends in
Speaker 3: three for Vancouver, and I think one of them was
Speaker 3: for a dust up. So eleven fouls, three yellows, seven cards,
Speaker 3: two yellows. Total shots once again nine to nine shots
Speaker 3: on target five to two for Vancouver and four off target,
Speaker 3: two off target four of the home side. Two blocks
Speaker 3: for two block shots for Vancouver three for inner Miami
Speaker 3: shots inside the box. Six of the ten went to Vancouver,
Speaker 3: which meant that it was obviously five and three on
Speaker 3: the flip. Big Chances scored once again to Neil touch
Speaker 3: inside the eighteen twenty four to thirteen in favor of Miami,
Speaker 3: fouled in the final third four times. Messi and friends,
Speaker 3: nothing of it. One off side on the night, one
Speaker 3: off side on the night. That's just wild.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: You look at all of those numbers, then your lineups
Speaker 3: and keep an eye on this once again. Set your
Speaker 3: fantasy sets, your fantasy sets, your fantasy. It was taka
Speaker 3: Oka in net, Ocampo, Blackman, Vesselinovitch and Johnson, midfield of Berhalter,
Speaker 3: Kubas and Vite. You heard Nico Moreno talk about Pedro
Speaker 3: Vita yesterday. Rios, Daniel Rios, sighting, Brian White and Aliakhmed
Speaker 3: going up against the four four two on paper Ustarian,
Speaker 3: net Jordi, Albanoa, Allen, Maxi, Falcone and Cello Wagan midfield
Speaker 3: of Allende, Rodondo, Busquetz and Segovia. And your two in
Speaker 3: the midfield, Messi, You're two up top, Messi and Suarez
Speaker 3: so Cello Wagan registered a seven point five. That was
Speaker 3: the highest ranking of any player they are in in
Speaker 3: Vancouver for the visitors, Falcone and Allen at seven threes,
Speaker 3: Messias seven to three, Segovias seven to one, Suarez Busquets
Speaker 3: seven to zero. Everybody else below a seven on the
Speaker 3: night substitutions for Jabyirmasharana only two. Janick Bright came in
Speaker 3: to give Redondo a bit of a break for twenty minutes,
Speaker 3: and Benja Benamin Kramowski came in for sixteen to take
Speaker 3: over for Segovias, so to nil. Right now, that's how
Speaker 3: it is. Brian White in the twenty fourth, Burhalter in
Speaker 3: the eighty fifth, and it's going to be a tall
Speaker 3: order heading back to the Erector set. But we know
Speaker 3: about heading back to that particular building and what it
Speaker 3: means and make you've got to make sure that the
Speaker 3: building doesn't tilt. And I think that Vancouver, if there's
Speaker 3: anybody that's the run that Vancouver has been on in
Speaker 3: both hemispheric competition and in Major League Soccer this year,
Speaker 3: they don't. They're not going to get intimidated by the
Speaker 3: actions of more than twenty thousand at the Erector set
Speaker 3: next time out. So two nail lead both goals at
Speaker 3: home and they're gonna take They got to shut out
Speaker 3: at home, and they get to go back to Fort
Speaker 3: Lauderdale and register and see if they can get into
Speaker 3: the finals against the winner of the Lega MX semi
Speaker 3: and the winner of the Major League Soccer Semi. So
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens in CONCACAF Champions League. Brought to
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Speaker 3: Ricky Smith, no doubt, shout out to the white Caps indeed,
Speaker 3: and Morning Bart and so Alex Yes, Mary had a
Speaker 3: boy soccer team. They were a four seed, I believe,
Speaker 3: and they in upper upper upper upper upper no. I
Speaker 3: thought they were upper no. So the upper right knocking
Speaker 3: off Lounds are the number ten team in the number
Speaker 3: ten team and the scoreboard rankings, and they are taking
Speaker 3: on a four seed. That's where it is. Region five.
Speaker 3: Team two mary Hatta beat Lounds seven to one in
Speaker 3: day one of the six to eight playoffs. Upper right
Speaker 3: hand corner. They get to host Discovery five days from now.
Speaker 3: So on Wednesday, Marietta hosts Discovery because Discovery knocked off
Speaker 3: Carrollton the five, the fifth ranked team in the rankings.
Speaker 3: Because you know, if you were a team that was
Speaker 3: ranked in rankings that would make sense. So number five Carlton,
Speaker 3: Discovery knocks them out. Discovery now goes to Marietta and
Speaker 3: on Wednesday, unless schedules permit and you can rearrange your scheduling,
Speaker 3: Marietta is gonna host Discovery. So number ten has a
Speaker 3: chance to make it to the quarterfinals. Upper part of
Speaker 3: the bracket was Lambert and North Gwinette. Lambert I believe
Speaker 3: got the win there last night. So Lambert at number
Speaker 3: four takes on Campbell. They are hosting Campbell, and so
Speaker 3: Marietta is hosting Discovery. Uppright as you follow in your brackets.
Speaker 3: In sixth A on the boy's side in soccer, Alex
Speaker 3: says he's going to be there to watch, whether permitting,
Speaker 3: and is I imagine I assume it's I assume it's
Speaker 3: at the cut or are they playing on the new
Speaker 3: campus for the high school. I imagine it's at North
Speaker 3: cut And by the way, if you haven't been to
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Speaker 3: You'll see a stone wall that is around Northcutt Stadium
Speaker 3: that was a WPA project back in nineteen twenty nine.
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Speaker 3: Friday Richards and the Stone project from the WPA, all
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Speaker 3: Michael Parker is joining us in a handful of minutes
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Speaker 3: Good lord, that's a lot for a Saturday anyway. Time
Speaker 3: to catch my breath, time to catch up with our
Speaker 3: or with our golfing buddy, Michael Parkers. What's going on,
Speaker 3: brother John?
Speaker 7: Get some water, take a shower. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I was trying to run down that what's gonna be
Speaker 3: on for folks to watch on TV on Friday and Saturday,
Speaker 3: And I didn't realize this was gonna be so long.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh crap, there's park you better wrap
Speaker 3: it up.
Speaker 7: There's just a little bit of soccer on this weekend
Speaker 7: that people can watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you've been a busy man recently, Rhode Island FC. Uh,
Speaker 3: you now know what's going on? You got a name
Speaker 3: for the ah. He's sporting a jersey on the front.
Speaker 3: You're the man. You are the man. See and once
Speaker 3: again I told everybody about that. I said that, you know,
Speaker 3: beyond goals entering on one sleeve, soccer for good on
Speaker 3: the other, kaiser on the front, SDH on the crest
Speaker 3: right see Lee right there, man.
Speaker 7: It's beautiful, it is. I just did a social post. Well,
Speaker 7: I created a video for social breaking down, a breaking
Speaker 7: down a goal that will be posted on social with
Speaker 7: this jersey on.
Speaker 3: You are the man and a half. You are absolutely awesome.
Speaker 3: So let's see your stadium for your team has a sponsor.
Speaker 3: It is now apparently going to be hosting the Major
Speaker 3: League Rugby Championship game, is like one of the first
Speaker 3: big things in the venue. So you got things moving
Speaker 3: up there at Rhode Island FC and Open Cup man, Yeah.
Speaker 7: Moving and grooving. We I'm headed up there next weekend
Speaker 7: for the big opener against San Antonio next Saturday, and
Speaker 7: then yeah, midweek the next week we play the Revs,
Speaker 7: which is amazing. What an opportunity.
Speaker 3: So all right, how how chaotic is this for you?
Speaker 3: Because of your history with both of these teams in
Speaker 3: the past tense and the present tense clashing like this?
Speaker 7: Yeah not not too much, honestly. I mean, I really
Speaker 7: enjoyed my time with the Revs, but I don't have
Speaker 7: a great connection with the club anymore. So I'm a
Speaker 7: much closer with Columbus and Atlanta obviously, but you know
Speaker 7: I don't. I still follow them obviously like every other
Speaker 7: club in the league. But there's uh, there's no hiding
Speaker 7: who I'll be rooting for when we play.
Speaker 3: Absolutely true. How much R I f C gear do
Speaker 3: you actually have?
Speaker 6: You know what?
Speaker 3: Not a ton?
Speaker 7: Because well I don't know why that is, John, but
Speaker 7: it will change when I go up there next week
Speaker 7: and I ravage whatever they have.
Speaker 3: It's like mine mine, mine mind was like mister Parker.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, put it on the company card.
Speaker 3: On the Underhills tab. Yes, absolutely, that's where the AMEX card.
Speaker 3: You want, the Underhill's AMEX card. I can give that
Speaker 3: to you. When you have all of these cool things
Speaker 3: going on. I know that your time has been divided
Speaker 3: with what's been going on up there with the good,
Speaker 3: with beyond goals entering and the good, and then with
Speaker 3: what's currently going on with Atlanta United. And I would
Speaker 3: I would ask it this way, if when was the
Speaker 3: last time that you were in a a situation where
Speaker 3: a team stumbled out of the gate with a whole
Speaker 3: lot of promise and was able to turn it around.
Speaker 3: Were you ever in a situation like that in your
Speaker 3: playing career?
Speaker 7: I honestly, I can't remember a time where towards the bottom,
Speaker 7: you know, a quarter of the way into the season.
Speaker 7: But I mean last year, and this is obviously a
Speaker 7: different level, but Rhode Island FC we were second to
Speaker 7: bottom midway through the year and we went on a
Speaker 7: fantastic run and turned things around. So it's very doable,
Speaker 7: and I'm still bullish on the rest of the season.
Speaker 7: I still think the talent's there. I'd be shocked if
Speaker 7: they don't add another piece in the summertime. It's just
Speaker 7: a question of getting things together, getting the confidence as
Speaker 7: a group up, figuring out who plays where and what
Speaker 7: formation and all that. So I still think that this
Speaker 7: group is more than capable of winning games. It's just
Speaker 7: not doing it right now, which obviously is not great.
Speaker 3: But I mean, and when you see a group up
Speaker 3: on a rake, you know, or you know, tie their
Speaker 3: shoelaces together and they don't, and it doesn't go the
Speaker 3: way that you anticipate. I know, Obviously for you as
Speaker 3: a professional athlete, it's frustrating, but for as someone who
Speaker 3: has his heart on his sleeve for this franchise, considering
Speaker 3: everything that you've been invested, it's that it almost it
Speaker 3: doubles and triples when it comes to how how much
Speaker 3: you want it to turn over quickly, how much you
Speaker 3: want it to succeed, because you know what's there. You
Speaker 3: know some of those folks, you've seen them work, and
Speaker 3: it's just it's like you're waiting for that one moment
Speaker 3: I think, to trigger that run that you're talking about,
Speaker 3: like you had with ri Ifc last.
Speaker 7: Year, for sure, for sure. And honestly, it's I think
Speaker 7: it's more of a group mentality and confidence thing than
Speaker 7: anything else, because, like I said, the talent is there,
Speaker 7: and obviously it comes down to the manager to motivate
Speaker 7: and get everybody on the same page and you know,
Speaker 7: maybe change the style a little bit to try and
Speaker 7: get a few points. Right so that on a podcast
Speaker 7: the other day. Right now, you're in a situation where
Speaker 7: you do anything possible or needed to get three points,
Speaker 7: and then once you have a couple of games where
Speaker 7: you get three points, then then the confidence is back
Speaker 7: and then you can, you know, go out there, do
Speaker 7: your thing and play the exciting, beautiful brand of soccer.
Speaker 7: But right now, I think, you know, this weekend, you'd
Speaker 7: rather win one zero on an own goal than play
Speaker 7: beautiful and lose for three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and especially in a rivalry game against the purple
Speaker 3: team in Middle Florida where you have all of these
Speaker 3: things combining, where it's the slow start. It wasn't anticipated
Speaker 3: that it was going to be this way. You're trying
Speaker 3: to do whatever it takes for a win, just to
Speaker 3: kind of reverse your fortunes a little bit because of
Speaker 3: all of the posts that you've hit in the crossbars
Speaker 3: and the calls and just not getting the results. And
Speaker 3: you're now ample applying that with a matchup against the
Speaker 3: team that you know that you drive each other crazy
Speaker 3: when it comes to Major League soccer, so that that
Speaker 3: amplification is it's almost you know, X number of times
Speaker 3: more than it would have been under a normal circumstance.
Speaker 3: In air quotes.
Speaker 7: Totally, And you're right to have been a little unlucky.
Speaker 7: You know, I think that the New England game they
Speaker 7: should have won. You know, of course you get unlucky
Speaker 7: here and there, and so it happens, and of course
Speaker 7: it's easy on the sidelines to say, well you should
Speaker 7: have scored four, you know, but you know, I've never
Speaker 7: seen a call like that, and I still don't agree
Speaker 7: with it. I still think that's a good goal for Miguel.
Speaker 7: I thought the penalty was really soft. It's like, you know,
Speaker 7: it's just sometimes things are going against you and you
Speaker 7: need to, you know, make your own luck. And so
Speaker 7: hopefully they're able to do that, because again I think
Speaker 7: it's there. I think they're close, but I know nobody
Speaker 7: wants to hear that. They just want to see results.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But I mean at the same time, I think
Speaker 3: that if but being reminded of what you're capable of,
Speaker 3: I think that's just as important. And I think that,
Speaker 3: you know, when you and Greg have those opportunities with
Speaker 3: the nine gazillion mentees that you have and that you
Speaker 3: have the influence of, I think just being reminded. And
Speaker 3: we see this from Ronnie a lot in postmatch pressers
Speaker 3: and during the week, he's constantly speaking the positive. It's
Speaker 3: he's there. There isn't any there isn't any issue going
Speaker 3: on about well, you know, no, they just need to
Speaker 3: get their head screwed on straight or whatever. There's always
Speaker 3: that positive reinforcement that's there. I know that you and
Speaker 3: Greig do that as well when it comes to your mentoring.
Speaker 3: But to have a manager that is just as impactful
Speaker 3: in a professional situation with all those positives, I think
Speaker 3: that's just as key. And saying it publicly, I think
Speaker 3: is just as important.
Speaker 7: Totally, totally, because the easiest thing is to say, oh,
Speaker 7: we need to work harder, we need to focus more.
Speaker 7: It's not a lack of effort when you watch the game.
Speaker 7: I watched the games and I don't see a lack
Speaker 7: of effort.
Speaker 6: It's not that.
Speaker 7: And so it's just little little things here and there
Speaker 7: that need to come together, and I think they will.
Speaker 7: But yeah, and I agree with the manager. I see
Speaker 7: what he's saying, and it's it's not obviously what all
Speaker 7: the fans want to hear. They want to hear exactly
Speaker 7: why is it that we're losing or we're not playing
Speaker 7: well and fix it. But as we know, it's not
Speaker 7: that easy all the time to pinpoint things and get
Speaker 7: everybody on the same page and get the confidence of
Speaker 7: the group and confidence of the individuals, and you know,
Speaker 7: limit the little small mistakes individually. Right, It's it's a
Speaker 7: big picture thing for sure.
Speaker 3: How much positive reinforcement do you and Greg do with
Speaker 3: your mentees?
Speaker 7: A lot? And I think it's important because we don't
Speaker 7: know how much they're getting of that outside of our conversations,
Speaker 7: right from mom and dad, from coach, from whoever, right
Speaker 7: teacher in school. And I think everybody can always use
Speaker 7: some positive reinforcements some Hey, let's what have you done well?
Speaker 7: That's one one of the things I love to ask
Speaker 7: kids is, Hey, give me give me a win that
Speaker 7: you've had in the past couple of weeks. And I
Speaker 7: don't necessarily mean the biggest win on the field, right,
Speaker 7: something you overcame. Right, Was it a test you studied
Speaker 7: hard for and it went well, or I don't know,
Speaker 7: you mastered a juggling trick or whatever it is. Right,
Speaker 7: give me a win. I focus on some positives and say, hey,
Speaker 7: good job, man, Like, congrats, that's great, you know, keep winning, uh,
Speaker 7: And I think we can all use more of that.
Speaker 3: When was what was the last win that you had, the.
Speaker 7: Last win that I had. That's a great question, John.
Speaker 3: If you look at yourself in the mirror and go
Speaker 3: so so Michael, what was the last win that you had?
Speaker 3: What would what would you answer to your So.
Speaker 7: The last win that I had was I'll say yesterday.
Speaker 7: I had a very very productive day just in general,
Speaker 7: very focused as far as getting ish done that I
Speaker 7: needed to get done, that maybe I've put on the
Speaker 7: back burner or just you know, sometimes things come up
Speaker 7: and I go, oh, I could do this or that,
Speaker 7: and very productive day, and I take that as a win.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, but you know, there's a reason we
Speaker 3: call it ish because it's like we don't want to
Speaker 3: touch it, we don't want to have anything to do
Speaker 3: with it. But I think that to your point, and
Speaker 3: I go back to one of the best movies of
Speaker 3: all time, The Replacements, where Jimmy McGuinty, who is anything
Speaker 3: but a traditional coach, Pat Gene Hackman, in one of
Speaker 3: his roles as the Krusty NFL, is kind of a coach.
Speaker 3: He has a meeting, he has a team meeting with
Speaker 3: all of his all of the players, and these are
Speaker 3: the guys that are assembled together. You know, they're brought
Speaker 3: together and Keanu Reeves is their quarterback and they have
Speaker 3: that one game where things are going wrong, and so
Speaker 3: it's like, all right, I want to take this energy,
Speaker 3: and I want to talk about quicksand, and everybody's like quicksand,
Speaker 3: And it's the idea of one thing going wrong, then
Speaker 3: then another and another, and you just get stuck in
Speaker 3: quicksand and there's no way to try to get out
Speaker 3: of it. When you have when you have these discussions,
Speaker 3: whether it was as a professional athlete or as a
Speaker 3: mentor these days, do you have you been in that
Speaker 3: situation where you're trying to get out of the quicksand
Speaker 3: and trying to talk to folks about getting out of it,
Speaker 3: whether you're the one who's pulling the rope or whether
Speaker 3: you're the one that might be a part of being
Speaker 3: in the quicksand? Have you ever had any of those
Speaker 3: kind of moments.
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely for sure. I mean I think back to
Speaker 7: I came. I think it must have been twenty seventeen.
Speaker 7: We went like, I don't know, eight games without a
Speaker 7: win something. It was right in the middle of the season,
Speaker 7: and it was not going well. We weren't losing all
Speaker 7: those games, but we weren't winning. And that's tough on
Speaker 7: a locker room. So I understand, you know, how the
Speaker 7: group's feeling over there in Atlanta, it's it's difficult, right,
Speaker 7: And you see it at the end of the game
Speaker 7: where there's no accountability from players to stay and talk
Speaker 7: to media, right. I think I saw something where it
Speaker 7: was the two young guys Noah and Jay, Yeah and
Speaker 7: Jay that talked to the media. And that's just a
Speaker 7: small example. But yeah, for sure with within our menties,
Speaker 7: we talk about it too, and that's why we try
Speaker 7: and say, hey, it's really important to try and snap
Speaker 7: back really quickly. And the big reason is we don't
Speaker 7: want to snowball. And we know that once a snowball
Speaker 7: starts going, it becomes tougher and tougher to stop it
Speaker 7: and reverse it. And so the easiest time and the
Speaker 7: quickest time to do it is right away. And so
Speaker 7: can you can you bounce back quickly? And so that's
Speaker 7: what we're trying give the kids the tools to do,
Speaker 7: is to refocus and adjust quickly before that snowball gets
Speaker 7: too big.
Speaker 3: Are adults better at addressing the snowball or are youth
Speaker 3: better at addressing the snowball and turning things around? These days?
Speaker 7: Uh, that's a good one.
Speaker 3: I think that well, And I mean it might just
Speaker 3: be case by case and having to break it down individually.
Speaker 3: But I mean because because of the reason I ask
Speaker 3: is because you know, when when you were young, I'm
Speaker 3: sure that you know, addressing the snowball was different than
Speaker 3: when you were a professional athlete. And when I was
Speaker 3: a kid back in the seventeen eighties when James Oglethorpe
Speaker 3: colonized this state that we're based in, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: sure it was like, you know, rub some dirt on it,
Speaker 3: that kind of thing, just you know, dust yourself off
Speaker 3: and get your you know, get your you know what
Speaker 3: back out there. So I don't know if it's a
Speaker 3: generational thing where younger players are easier at addressing it
Speaker 3: versus adults. And that's why I wanted to know when
Speaker 3: it came to your ideas, who was easier.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think that the smaller the snowball, the kids are
Speaker 7: bouncing back quickly, and I think that we as adults
Speaker 7: tend to just brush it off, like you said, and
Speaker 7: like we know, Okay, if the snowball gets really big,
Speaker 7: we can address it and figure it out. But until
Speaker 7: then I'll just ignore it, you know, or forget about
Speaker 7: it or whatever. But I think the younger generation ear
Speaker 7: last we're trying to help them, is hey, no, just
Speaker 7: adjust it now, fix it now, get over it now
Speaker 7: that way because they're not usually equipped to get over
Speaker 7: the bigger snowballs, and those can be much tougher for
Speaker 7: younger players and people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned Noah and Jay and specifically they have
Speaker 3: come up through the system. Know they were academy. Noah
Speaker 3: was a fifteen year old going up against dudes that
Speaker 3: were twice his age in USL Championship and he wasn't flinching.
Speaker 3: And Jay hasn't done the any that either when it
Speaker 3: comes to going up against folks that might be ten
Speaker 3: twelve years older than he is. And you can sense
Speaker 3: in them, and not just after the loss last week,
Speaker 3: but you can sense in them the pride that's attached
Speaker 3: with working through the system, coming through the academy, and
Speaker 3: you know, you know, you sit there and you grab
Speaker 3: the crest and you sit there and you grab it
Speaker 3: and you kiss it, and they know what that means
Speaker 3: when it comes to their day to day. When you
Speaker 3: see your mentees have that kind of pride as well,
Speaker 3: what's it like for you to sit there and say, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: they get it, they understand what it means to have
Speaker 3: that logo on the shirt and what they've got to
Speaker 3: do one hundred and twenty percent of the time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's a great feeling. I think that it's
Speaker 7: it's fantastic when a player has that pride within their
Speaker 7: team because you know that they're willing to go the
Speaker 7: extra mile to really stand up for their teammates, to
Speaker 7: really commit everything, which is what you hope every athlete
Speaker 7: finds the place to do. But I also think that
Speaker 7: it speaks to those two guys' mentality of maturation, and
Speaker 7: that's the reason why they have and one of the
Speaker 7: reasons a big reason why they have progressed all the
Speaker 7: way through because I'm sure there's been more talented players
Speaker 7: probably than both of them in the academy at one
Speaker 7: point or another. But as we know, it's not just
Speaker 7: talent that gets you there, right, these guys understand the
Speaker 7: process and they understand what it takes mentally and physically
Speaker 7: to continue to get to the next level and keep
Speaker 7: pushing it. And so yeah, they're not going to be
Speaker 7: in awe of many situations because they've got a good
Speaker 7: head on their shoulders and they've prepared for these moments
Speaker 7: and so, yeah, that's a big part of it.
Speaker 3: What about for those adults or those other talented folks
Speaker 3: that come into that situation and may not understand and
Speaker 3: what it means. They did in their previous locations and
Speaker 3: they understood what it meant then, but how you know
Speaker 3: when it comes to you're with it Landy United as
Speaker 3: an example, So you have a player who comes in
Speaker 3: who doesn't understand what it means to be a part
Speaker 3: of it Landy United. What are the conversations like early
Speaker 3: on with those new additions to a roster to sit
Speaker 3: there and say, no, it's a big deal here. What
Speaker 3: kind of conversations. How do you impress upon those new
Speaker 3: folks coming into a situation what it means and what
Speaker 3: it should mean.
Speaker 7: Well, I think you know, it's easy to lecture, but
Speaker 7: that's it's tough for the other person to sometimes take
Speaker 7: it in right. It depends on the individual. And so
Speaker 7: our biggest piece of advice is find someone that's been
Speaker 7: there for a while and make sure you're sitting at
Speaker 7: their lunch table and listening to what they're talking about
Speaker 7: and what they say. And find a good pro that's
Speaker 7: been a pro for a really long time or been
Speaker 7: at this club for a long long time, and watch
Speaker 7: what they do over a week and not just on
Speaker 7: the field, right, What time do they get to the
Speaker 7: train grounds, what do they do before training, what do
Speaker 7: they do after training? How are they taking care of
Speaker 7: their body? All those things like watch learn right that way,
Speaker 7: I don't have to tell you right, just use your
Speaker 7: eyes and you know you'll see it. So you know,
Speaker 7: that's definitely our biggest piece of advice. That way. We
Speaker 7: try and keep the lecturing down as much as possible.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean when you at well and right in
Speaker 3: these days as a as a mentor, what you want
Speaker 3: to do is you want to have conversations with you
Speaker 3: don't want to lecture for sure, because especially with the
Speaker 3: younger athlete today, they they don't like get I don't
Speaker 3: think that they really take a whole lot to being
Speaker 3: lectured too. I think that they if if if your
Speaker 3: conversation and correct me if I'm wrong, if the conversation
Speaker 3: is honest and there's give and take, where they can
Speaker 3: sit there and feel like they can speak freely with you,
Speaker 3: even you, even if you are you know Michael Parkhurst
Speaker 3: and bold font and you know capital letters and everything.
Speaker 3: I think that if there's an honest give and take
Speaker 3: the instructive criticism, they can take it and they take
Speaker 3: it well. Whereas if you come out of the blocks
Speaker 3: and you're just straight, you know, fingerpointing and lecturing, it's
Speaker 3: just going to be like, all right, I'm changing the channel.
Speaker 3: I'm out the door totally.
Speaker 7: And that's what That's what good leadership is, right, it's
Speaker 7: not just leading, it's asking, it's it's questioning, it's listening.
Speaker 7: And so yeah, in our sessions, of course, we try
Speaker 7: and ask questions, and we try and have the mentee speak,
Speaker 7: you know, forty fifty percent of the time, right, what
Speaker 7: do you think? What do you see? How did you feel?
Speaker 7: What do you think you could have done differently? Right
Speaker 7: in all these different situations that we talk about, and
Speaker 7: then we can say, hey, yeah, have you thought about
Speaker 7: this or what about that? Or you know, this is
Speaker 7: how I dealt with this, you know when I had
Speaker 7: a similar situation type thing. But yeah, it's yeah, it's
Speaker 7: a delicate balance.
Speaker 3: So if you were in the Atlanta United locker room
Speaker 3: and you were to have those kinds of conversations, how
Speaker 3: would you want a conversation like that to go? You're
Speaker 3: asked to speak to the current roster.
Speaker 7: You go in the current situation.
Speaker 3: In the current situation, So if you in the current situation,
Speaker 3: you are asked to go in and have a conversation
Speaker 3: behind closed doors, I mean, I'm asking you to have
Speaker 3: a closed door conversation and let me know what you
Speaker 3: would say in a closed door conversation. Basically, Uh, I
Speaker 3: don't think you're gonna come at it with the hair dryer.
Speaker 3: There might be moments where you would, but what are
Speaker 3: the main talking points that you would have to the
Speaker 3: folks in the room.
Speaker 7: Without going into individuals, I would try and keep it
Speaker 7: more of Every team goes through points like this in
Speaker 7: a season, every team, no matter what, and the ones
Speaker 7: that come out of it together and figure things out
Speaker 7: are the strongest teams at the end of the season.
Speaker 7: Right they they have figured it out and they've gone
Speaker 7: they've been battle tested, and they've regrouped and they've figured
Speaker 7: it out. And when they figure it out, they're going
Speaker 7: to go through another period throughout the season. Right, or
Speaker 7: maybe in a game, and you have to be able
Speaker 7: to look at each other and bounce back quickly. Right
Speaker 7: in a playoff game, you don't have time, right, you
Speaker 7: have to bounce back quickly. You know there's going to
Speaker 7: be different moments, and you know this is a moment
Speaker 7: for them and they have to pull together. And the
Speaker 7: other thing I would say is like, guys, you're Atlanta
Speaker 7: freaking United. You need to like have a chip on
Speaker 7: your shoulder to say we are ballers and we are
Speaker 7: the better team. Whether you believe it or not, or
Speaker 7: whether it's two or not, that's the belief you need
Speaker 7: to have. And so hey, we're going to go out
Speaker 7: there and we're going to show that we deserve or
Speaker 7: we think that we deserve right to be the ballers
Speaker 7: of this game. And does that mean we need to
Speaker 7: dictate the game the whole time. No, But that means
Speaker 7: we even if we're defending for sixty minutes, we can
Speaker 7: still put fear in the other team by counter attacking.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 7: It's there's different ways to put fear into the other team.
Speaker 7: And you know, I think that they're still capable of
Speaker 7: doing that, but it definitely starts with some belief and
Speaker 7: some knowledge that hey, we have each other's back and
Speaker 7: we're going to get out of this. And you know,
Speaker 7: maybe start with just getting a point this weekend.
Speaker 3: When was the last time you stood up in a
Speaker 3: room and had to give a speech like that, it's
Speaker 3: been a while, how'd that feel.
Speaker 7: I don't really like love giving speeches. I did it
Speaker 7: as infrequently as I could when I was playing, But
Speaker 7: I think that also helps it go over stronger. The
Speaker 7: message comes out stronger, because you know, if you're yapping
Speaker 7: all the time, you get tuned out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because if someone like you that is the quiet,
Speaker 3: confident leader, you know, that's like you want your actions
Speaker 3: to do it most of the time, because when you
Speaker 3: do stand up, everybody's like, oh you know what, oh ish.
Speaker 3: Look if Parky's standing up and he's talking and he's
Speaker 3: addressing the room, then he's really got something on his
Speaker 3: mind that he wants all of us to hear.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: I mean, who were those who were those quiet leaders
Speaker 3: when you were playing outside of when you were the leader,
Speaker 3: Who were the leaders that you learned from when you
Speaker 3: were playing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Jeff was for sure a quiet leader within the team, right.
Speaker 7: He just took no ish on or off the field.
Speaker 7: But also he was like, you know, a guy you
Speaker 7: could talk to off the field and everybody respected, and
Speaker 7: he went about his business right. Jeff, for the every
Speaker 7: single year felt like he had something to prove that
Speaker 7: somebody doesn't respect me, somebody doesn't think that I'm good enough.
Speaker 7: And every year it was I need to I need
Speaker 7: to show it. I need to prove why that's not
Speaker 7: the case. And so you know, that's that's an incredible
Speaker 7: mentality to have and it's why he played for so
Speaker 7: long and had so much success. But he was definitely
Speaker 7: a quiet leader. I had a really good captain and
Speaker 7: Norschalin who was respected a lot, and he was the
Speaker 7: same way. He was loud when he needed to be,
Speaker 7: but just you know, really had the respect of a
Speaker 7: lot of the guys, everybody actually, And I think that
Speaker 7: for me, it's about showing up every day and doing
Speaker 7: the little things. It's are you out there grinding every
Speaker 7: day with everybody else and doing it? And that's why
Speaker 7: Darlington is a leader as well. Right, the guy doesn't
Speaker 7: take days off. It's incredible. And yeah, he's not loud
Speaker 7: and he's not the raw raw and he's not gonna
Speaker 7: you know, really talk in a huddle and things like that,
Speaker 7: but everybody respects him and that's because he does everything
Speaker 7: the right way.
Speaker 3: All right, So what's with the BWP coming up in
Speaker 3: a handful of minutes. We got the Purple team come
Speaker 3: up this weekend. What's your favorite Purple Team memory?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Gosh, so many, I was gonna say, other than beating
Speaker 3: them every every single match when it mattered.
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh.
Speaker 3: Joseph scoring bothering it? Yeah face?
Speaker 6: What was that?
Speaker 7: The what goal was that? That was the all time
Speaker 7: record a season?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was the Bendick face where he's hopping up
Speaker 3: and he looks and bendis just like, you know, the
Speaker 3: base goal. But yeah, we got BWP coming up in
Speaker 3: a couple of minutes.
Speaker 7: That's the favorite memory for sure.
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, So what's going on beyond goals these days?
Speaker 6: What is going on?
Speaker 7: We finished up high School Talks, still onboarding our newest member.
Speaker 7: I'm setting up high school Talks up here in Ohio
Speaker 7: for the first time.
Speaker 3: So there you go, doing that as.
Speaker 7: Well, expanding and trying to put together a camp for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: So there you go. So, is there going to be
Speaker 3: like Traducan for the Camp MVP. You're gonna have stuff
Speaker 3: like that reducing Yeah, you know, like you know when
Speaker 3: you get the Maden the you get the Madden MVP.
Speaker 3: It was always like the tur Ducan and you get
Speaker 3: the leg of the tur Ducan if you're a team
Speaker 3: MVP on things.
Speaker 7: Okay, I like that, tbd OKBD.
Speaker 3: So you know when you look at all of these
Speaker 3: all this stuff with beyond goals, I mean, we've got
Speaker 3: playoffs going on down here. What's it like to expand
Speaker 3: into Ohio?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a different season, right, So up here we
Speaker 7: play high school soccer in the fall, so you know,
Speaker 7: having these conversations in the late summer is what we're
Speaker 7: setting up for. But yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited because
Speaker 7: you know, it's just broadening our horizons and getting to
Speaker 7: speak with more athletes and that's always a good thing.
Speaker 3: How many mentees do you guys have right now? Eleven gazillion?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know, I don't know. Hundreds.
Speaker 3: What's that? I mean, what's it like to have hundreds
Speaker 3: of folks knocking on your door and asking you and
Speaker 3: Greg for mentoring advice.
Speaker 7: It's awesome.
Speaker 6: We love it.
Speaker 7: That's how we do it. It's phenomenal. It's really cool
Speaker 7: to think that we're helping people out and they're appreciative
Speaker 7: and that's why they keep coming back, honestly.
Speaker 3: So all right, so next week, when are you leaving
Speaker 3: to go to Rhode Island?
Speaker 7: Thursday?
Speaker 3: Okay, so uh Friday morning next a week from today.
Speaker 3: If you if you are at Centerville Bank, can you
Speaker 3: crash the party in like nine thirty and come in
Speaker 3: with your phone and just kind of give us a
Speaker 3: tour about the stadium.
Speaker 7: If you're there, you text me and remind me.
Speaker 3: Yes, Oh that'd be sweet, see because you give the
Speaker 3: walking tour, you won't you wear the hard hat and
Speaker 3: everything and gosha.
Speaker 7: If we need hard hats on the day before the
Speaker 7: opener of the you know we're in.
Speaker 3: Trouble, that's true. So then we're in your Rhode Island
Speaker 3: FC gear. How about that?
Speaker 6: There we go?
Speaker 3: All right? So where's Deacon and her.
Speaker 7: Spot John as always, you know, just living the tough life.
Speaker 3: Yes, with our strawberry. Yes, all right. So I'm gonna
Speaker 3: do a I'm gonna do a crossover here because we
Speaker 3: have cleared and our number two and coming in early
Speaker 3: believing in the Tom Coughlins.
Speaker 7: Of course he is. He's a true pro.
Speaker 3: True pro. So we're gonna do a crossover here starting
Speaker 3: our number two. We welcome b w P to the proceedings.
Speaker 3: In b w P, Michael parkerst is with you as
Speaker 3: he's on his way out the door. And here here's
Speaker 3: analyst MLS countdown, MLS three sixty and MLS wrap up
Speaker 3: on MLS Season Pass. It's MLSBWP here with Michael Parkers
Speaker 3: big time.
Speaker 6: Can you guys hear me? Good?
Speaker 3: You're good man, Pauky.
Speaker 6: I can't believe you're leave him, bro, it'd be nice
Speaker 6: to chat.
Speaker 7: To Nobody told me that you were going to be
Speaker 7: on BRON you know, get the heads up.
Speaker 6: I didn't know you're gonna come on the show. Actually
Speaker 6: you have to come on the show. You let me know.
Speaker 3: Okay, So Michael, before you go, and I know that
Speaker 3: the fourth has held up the banner here, what question
Speaker 3: do you have for BWP.
Speaker 5: I don't think toughest.
Speaker 7: Toughest thing about the new gig.
Speaker 6: I think in the beginning, I think great question. By
Speaker 6: the way, the hardest part for me was trying to
Speaker 6: be myself, like just how I jump onto this podcast,
Speaker 6: just like right this second, I'm trying to get that more,
Speaker 6: you know, be myself, analyze the game, say what I think,
Speaker 6: but sounding like Bradley when I first got on, I
Speaker 6: was trying to sound, and I felt like I sounded
Speaker 6: like other people. Now, I don't care if the you know,
Speaker 6: the word I use is a little bit different. I
Speaker 6: want you to know who I am while I'm talking
Speaker 6: about this game. That was the hardest part.
Speaker 3: All right, So bw PTE question for Michael Parkers, that's.
Speaker 6: A tough one. No, okay, okay, you weren't the biggest
Speaker 6: center back, but I found you one of the most
Speaker 6: difficult to play against. How did you gain your advantages.
Speaker 7: Using using my brain? I didn't want. I had to
Speaker 7: avoid physical confrontation, right because every every striker, even yourself,
Speaker 7: was stronger and faster than me. So anytime I was
Speaker 7: in a fifty to fifty was no boyl for me.
Speaker 7: So it was I had to be there before them.
Speaker 7: So I had to know where the ball was going,
Speaker 7: give myself the extra moment, and always have my brain on.
Speaker 6: It.
Speaker 7: Couldn't relax because just didn't have the physical tools to
Speaker 7: just be lazy and make up.
Speaker 6: It felt like playing against you felt sometimes I'll do
Speaker 6: like a double movement or try and to spin someone them.
Speaker 6: I would look at him when you're there, I'm like,
Speaker 6: why are you here? Even you know I'm meant to
Speaker 6: have left you on the first one. Well, yeah, credit
Speaker 6: to you. It was tough to think playing against Mike.
Speaker 3: All right, So, Mike, are you looking at bwp's hips
Speaker 3: in a situation like that? Are you looking at the
Speaker 3: running back and sitting there going Okay, the hips are
Speaker 3: going this way and I'm just going to follow him there?
Speaker 3: What's what? What are you looking at?
Speaker 7: No, there's not time for that. It's more what I
Speaker 7: see and what I would do, what I think strikers
Speaker 7: will do, like, oh, where's the space? Where should he run?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 7: And then going to that as those areas and obviously
Speaker 7: you see it time and time again, and and she
Speaker 7: Brad and I played against each other a lot, and
Speaker 7: so after the first few times, you get a sense
Speaker 7: of like, Okay, he likes to make these movements, he
Speaker 7: likes to do certain things. And then you're just trying
Speaker 7: to guess a little bit here and there. Right, Sometimes
Speaker 7: you just especially on crosses and stuff, it's like I
Speaker 7: got to just put myself in the best position that
Speaker 7: I think it's going to go to, and then you know,
Speaker 7: a little bit of luck helps out. But yeah, just
Speaker 7: I'm not looking at the body position so much as
Speaker 7: where I think he should go. But Brad was one
Speaker 7: of the great ones along with Wando. It was like
Speaker 7: what he's talking about double movements, right, A lot of
Speaker 7: strikers don't make double movements. It's easier, right, but the
Speaker 7: double movements really throw the center backs off. But him
Speaker 7: and Wando and Land and the smarter guys always so
Speaker 7: much more difficult.
Speaker 3: Time. App as always, thanks for dropping by when you can't.
Speaker 3: I will text you about your time at Rhode Island
Speaker 3: FC next week and we can get to tour the
Speaker 3: new stadium. Thanks as always for dropping and we'll catch
Speaker 3: up with you soon, my friend. All right, all right,
Speaker 3: so now it is time for BWP to drop by.
Speaker 3: And thanks, first off for coming in on a Friday.
Speaker 3: I know that you're getting prepped for everything. What I
Speaker 3: wanted to do here on SDHA, other than welcome you
Speaker 3: properly and give your Golden ticket status blocks, so to
Speaker 3: come in on any Friday from ten until whenever, because
Speaker 3: this is traditionally the hour of chaos, where folks can
Speaker 3: come in and crash and say their piece two minutes
Speaker 3: string minutes and they can go.
Speaker 6: I like that.
Speaker 3: So Parky kind of took one of my questions, okay
Speaker 3: about you know, no, but no, it's all good. That's
Speaker 3: what we're here for. So what's it like for you
Speaker 3: sitting at the table and doing the gig that you've
Speaker 3: got now where you get to put up with our
Speaker 3: buddy Kevin Egan on.
Speaker 6: First of all, Kevin, what a guy, man. I'll show
Speaker 6: three sixty. You need to have energy, you need a
Speaker 6: good host, and keV is, you know, perfect. He's the
Speaker 6: perfect person for it because he doesn't take a moment off,
Speaker 6: does his research, does his homework. He's enthusiastic. I sit
Speaker 6: right next to him, so that energy just just fools
Speaker 6: onto me. You know, sometimes I'm tired of moody. I
Speaker 6: want to be a bit, you know, just relaxing. Kes
Speaker 6: just like punching me. You know, he's amazing. What a guy. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but it's very different obviously being an analyst now and
Speaker 6: being in the studio because I was the guy on
Speaker 6: the pitch, you know, trying to ignore these headlines, trying
Speaker 6: to ignore the media and what they thought, you know,
Speaker 6: trying to get my head down this. The transition was tough.
Speaker 6: I found it hard talking about players I knew you don't,
Speaker 6: you know, you have to you have to get over
Speaker 6: that because you don't want to offend anyone. But I
Speaker 6: got some advice from my dad and it was just,
Speaker 6: you know, anything you would say to someone's face, then
Speaker 6: you can you can say it on TV, you know.
Speaker 6: And that stuck with me, and now I find it
Speaker 6: easier to talk. I find it easier being myself. And
Speaker 6: that's that's facts obviously to the staff and then the crew.
Speaker 3: I have with me two big topics that I do
Speaker 3: want to borrow you on here this morning, over the
Speaker 3: next fifteen minutes, basically the good, the bad, and the
Speaker 3: ugly here at the quarter pole. And I do want
Speaker 3: to ask specifically about what you think about it, Landy,
Speaker 3: and iighted, what direction do you want to go? First?
Speaker 6: Good, the bad and the ugly?
Speaker 3: All right, so good, the bad, and the ugly at
Speaker 3: the quarter pole? Who's the good?
Speaker 6: The good? Vancouver obviously mm hmm, yeah, Vancouver has been brilliant.
Speaker 6: Sorrowson's done a great job. Even if you watched them
Speaker 6: last night in the CONKAKAFT Champions Cup. This is not luck.
Speaker 6: This is a well coached team with very good players
Speaker 6: that you know us in this league because they're not
Speaker 6: superstars and you know, they weren't playing at big clubs abroad.
Speaker 6: We almost don't want to give these Brian White's and
Speaker 6: Ryan Golds and these players. Takahoka the keeper, Vesselinovich blackman,
Speaker 6: these guys are stars right now. This season they are stars,
Speaker 6: and depending how this season goes, they they should be
Speaker 6: recognized as that.
Speaker 3: All right. So that's good in the Western Conference, good
Speaker 3: in the Eastern Conference. Outside of Messi and friends.
Speaker 6: I have to say I'm torn between three teams. Obviously,
Speaker 6: the three teams, but because I think Columbus, you know,
Speaker 6: this is a team I love dearly. I only spent
Speaker 6: a year in Columbus, but the way they treat me there,
Speaker 6: the football they played, it's just a great place to
Speaker 6: play football. And Wilfrid Nanty's gone in there after Caleb
Speaker 6: and done a great job. I just think I thought
Speaker 6: at the beginning of the season they would struggle a bit,
Speaker 6: no Kucha. You know, they lose Ramirez, that was a
Speaker 6: player that could come off the bench or start and
Speaker 6: get you goals. And I thought maybe this, you know,
Speaker 6: maybe that last little bit that extract is going to
Speaker 6: be tough. But they're still up there, you know, they're
Speaker 6: still up there. They're still coach world. Wilfrid Nunt. He's
Speaker 6: a very good coach, so I have to put him in.
Speaker 6: I think that's a very good season start to this
Speaker 6: season for him. Then Cincinnati, you know, looking at them,
Speaker 6: they haven't blown me away with performances. But again, it's
Speaker 6: a team that's built on some real like defensive foundations.
Speaker 6: They work for each other, real team, real team like
Speaker 6: efic around that squad. They're getting players back now evanders Is,
Speaker 6: he's a very very top player, top top player. Yeah,
Speaker 6: they're getting him going and with players to come back,
Speaker 6: I just think they just get stronger and stronger. And
Speaker 6: then Charlotte, because Charlotte, if you ask me, I'm not
Speaker 6: you know this early in the season. I know it's
Speaker 6: what ten games coming up now, I'm not putting them.
Speaker 6: You know, where are they in the league now? Second?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're they're right there, right, they're part
Speaker 3: of that gaggle.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah. So credit to Dean Smith and his boys.
Speaker 6: They still got to get Wilfrid Darhago. Imagine when he
Speaker 6: starts playing really well again, you're looking at a strong team.
Speaker 6: So I'd say that's the good Dar.
Speaker 3: All right, so bad East or West, take your pick.
Speaker 6: I'll go I'll go West first. Okay, I have to
Speaker 6: throw the Galaxy in there, because they are the Galaxy
Speaker 6: probably the biggest team, you know, the most famous team
Speaker 6: in the MLS and when you see them in the deposition,
Speaker 6: they are It's got to be tough for Great Valley.
Speaker 6: Obviously they've had their issues, but yeah, I gotta throw
Speaker 6: that in bad the West as well. I'll just leave
Speaker 6: it with that. Actually bad in the East, and this
Speaker 6: ain't the worst. And I'm with you guys now, this
Speaker 6: is more because you know the frustration when I want
Speaker 6: to say Atlanta, because yeah, when you spend the money
Speaker 6: you did, especially on the attack. Me as an avid
Speaker 6: football fan, I was excited to watch Atlanta United. How'marron
Speaker 6: coming back? I've played against this team. I've played against
Speaker 6: Atlanta when they are the top team at the bench.
Speaker 6: It is a horrible place to play, daunted. Honestly, if
Speaker 6: you don't get a good start, forget about it. You're
Speaker 6: going to like you're getting run over for a day
Speaker 6: and a half. Is a very tough place to play.
Speaker 6: It is, so I thought those days were coming back,
Speaker 6: you know, with this new front line and I've been
Speaker 6: a little bit disappointed because I know the talent that's there.
Speaker 6: I know it can be put together. Just they just
Speaker 6: look a bit indecisive. The balance is off and I'm
Speaker 6: not sure what they're trying to do. So for me,
Speaker 6: that's bad, and it it's because what I expected. I
Speaker 6: wanted to see more from that side.
Speaker 3: All right, So Bookmarke Atlanta and push them to the back.
Speaker 3: Ugly in the East and the West.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, sorry, ugly in the East and the West.
Speaker 3: What's ugly Montreal?
Speaker 6: It's tough to say Montreal's ugly because the fixtures, you know,
Speaker 6: the schedule wasn't kind to the beginning season. They have
Speaker 6: to play seven or eight what is it? Seven games
Speaker 6: away from home? Yeah, I don't know if I'm in
Speaker 6: that locker room, if you know what I mean, if
Speaker 6: I enjoy that, I don't know how you know, you
Speaker 6: get through a stretch like that. So it's tough to say.
Speaker 3: You put the roof back on the Big O and
Speaker 3: turn that into a functioning place.
Speaker 6: Probably, it's true. It's tough for me. Have you got
Speaker 6: any suggestions to me?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean I was thinking, you know, for me specifically,
Speaker 3: man allergies are killing.
Speaker 6: They've been kicking my eye this morning.
Speaker 3: So I mean I would have said obviously Montreal with
Speaker 3: their rough start, you know, and you look at the bottom.
Speaker 3: I would have initially said somebody like New England, but
Speaker 3: then Caleb Porter found something. See I don't know how.
Speaker 3: I don't know how folks made it off the tarmac
Speaker 3: in San Jose after what happened. For the ride home, I.
Speaker 6: Really d C is a good shout because while they
Speaker 6: do have a great goalscorer DC is, they've been tough
Speaker 6: to watch early in this season. You know, they've been
Speaker 6: really tough to watch. Troyla saying that I know spent
Speaker 6: a little bit at Troy with when I was at
Speaker 6: Red Bull, and he understands the game. I know what
Speaker 6: he's trying to do. That he wants to play a
Speaker 6: decent side of football. Also with that counterpress thrown in there,
Speaker 6: and it's you know, it hasn't looked pretty, but they
Speaker 6: did get a good result at Red Bull, which is
Speaker 6: not an easy place to go to. So I didn't
Speaker 6: put them in ugly because I'm a fan of seeing
Speaker 6: teams turning around, turning that corner. As soon as I
Speaker 6: see a little den of hope. I look out for that,
Speaker 6: you know, so I don't really have Ugly right now.
Speaker 3: And then Ugly in the West since you had lag
Speaker 3: as a bad yeah, Ugly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean on Kansas City. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Kansas City.
Speaker 6: Again similar to the Galaxy. It's a team that we expect,
Speaker 6: you know, like to be playing a good stile of football,
Speaker 6: a team that we always expect to be competing in
Speaker 6: the playoffs. And when you see them as low as
Speaker 6: they are not stringing together some good results, you know
Speaker 6: more often than not, yeah, you may have to put
Speaker 6: them in that bad.
Speaker 3: Category, all right. So Ugly now, yeah, that's all good.
Speaker 3: The man who has three business cards with or actually
Speaker 3: four if you just want to separate them all out.
Speaker 3: Analyst MLS Countdown, Analyst MLS three sixty, Analyst MLS wrap up,
Speaker 3: MLS Season Pass, Bradley Right, Phillips. We are now at halftime,
Speaker 3: turning into the second half, and I want to break
Speaker 3: things down with you. You mentioned it Landy United in
Speaker 3: the bad, So I asked Parky, I said, if you
Speaker 3: were in that locker room, because he now does he
Speaker 3: and Greg Garza do a lot of work with their
Speaker 3: mentoring aspect. Now they've got I think two hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty the student athletes that they mentor with beyond goals mentoring.
Speaker 3: And I said, okay, with your history with this franchise,
Speaker 3: and you're now mentoring currency that you have. If you
Speaker 3: were to wander into that locker room and talk to
Speaker 3: these guys, even though you weren't necessarily a talker all
Speaker 3: the time, but you had to stand up and say
Speaker 3: the stuff. What would you say? And so you know,
Speaker 3: it's like, look, it's going to turn around and the
Speaker 3: you know, the conversation is going to be there, but
Speaker 3: you know, just keep pushing and pushing in the moments
Speaker 3: will come and then it will snowball and the positive
Speaker 3: from there, unlike the snowballing that's been going on far
Speaker 3: when you see Atlanta. You mentioned obviously putting them in
Speaker 3: the bad because of the expectations, But what else have
Speaker 3: you noticed about it Landy United this year in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five I.
Speaker 6: Mentioned a little bit earlier. It's just that I don't
Speaker 6: know if they It's like the defense is trying to
Speaker 6: play one way and the attack is is doing another thing.
Speaker 6: I don't know what they're trying to do. I can
Speaker 6: only imagine that if I was, you know, coaching that side,
Speaker 6: and by no means a great coach. It just looks
Speaker 6: at me like it's a team that you know, they
Speaker 6: should have played like Columbus or San Diego. A team
Speaker 6: that looks like they're suited more in transition moments. When
Speaker 6: I think of Saba on the right, he's great running
Speaker 6: into space, He's great getting on the end of the
Speaker 6: passes Latin that has paced to spare. I would like
Speaker 6: to see him more, you know, out on the run,
Speaker 6: getting getting onto through balls and being set free running
Speaker 6: in behind Almron When he plays on the right, I
Speaker 6: don't think it's been as affective because I think he's
Speaker 6: lost a couple of yards, But I do think he
Speaker 6: can still do that central ten role ways, dropping into pockets,
Speaker 6: turning and creating from there and driving breaking lines. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I just don't see a real way of them playing.
Speaker 6: I don't see you know, the things that make them dangerous,
Speaker 6: the things that I just said, I don't see them
Speaker 6: doing that enough. So I I think if I walked
Speaker 6: into that locker room while I'll be trying to, you know,
Speaker 6: get the boys all playing one way, you know, if
Speaker 6: I'm like a lot. I'll be talking to the center back,
Speaker 6: to all the midfielders. You know, when you see me
Speaker 6: in this place, just run, Just play me in behind,
Speaker 6: you know, play me behind. Even if I don't get it.
Speaker 6: We're up the field and we're attacking in their half.
Speaker 6: I think they're in a place now where it can't
Speaker 6: just be relied. You can't just rely on dialogue or
Speaker 6: obviously is his responsibility, but the senior players in that
Speaker 6: locker room have to. They have to come together. I
Speaker 6: remember whenever we were going through hard times, especially at
Speaker 6: Red Bull, we start from the beginning again, we start
Speaker 6: from the begin the basics. First fifteen minutes, maybe we're
Speaker 6: playing their half, don't concede. Then we get to that
Speaker 6: fifty Past that fifteen minutes, it's a different task and
Speaker 6: before you know it's halftime. The results better than it
Speaker 6: was last weekend, and there's something to build off. I
Speaker 6: think they have to go back to basics and forget
Speaker 6: talent for a minute. Is get together, be hard to beat,
Speaker 6: and then take steps from there.
Speaker 3: What about somebody like an Alexi Midanchuk who we know
Speaker 3: his artistry, yeah, and we know what he is capable of,
Speaker 3: almost like that point guard that you see in basketball. Yes,
Speaker 3: who knows where folks need the ball, but it's like
Speaker 3: we talk about positional gravity, and it's something that you
Speaker 3: know a lot about considering that when you had the ball,
Speaker 3: you had like nine dudes just come and collapse upon you.
Speaker 3: But that also means that eight other guys are open
Speaker 3: at that particular moment. When you see someone like Midanchuk
Speaker 3: with his artistry and he played a little deeper against
Speaker 3: NYC at times because they were trying to come back,
Speaker 3: and you saw what he's capable of. What about somebody
Speaker 3: like Midnchuk and.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you hit a nail on the head. When I
Speaker 6: look at Morantu, like there's been a couple of times
Speaker 6: he's had to go in that sixth row and build
Speaker 6: the game for Atlanta if they are going to build,
Speaker 6: if they do want to play that way, he has
Speaker 6: to be in that six role because he's really good
Speaker 6: on the half turn, and I think him playing in
Speaker 6: the six takes a lot of responsibility. I don't want
Speaker 6: to put you know, I don't want to say that
Speaker 6: he's a man that is not built for that moment.
Speaker 6: But I think when you play him in a ten,
Speaker 6: we will look at him and be like, Okay, make
Speaker 6: something happen. We look at him in that Evander rope,
Speaker 6: you know, in what Almaron is coming here to do,
Speaker 6: and I think it's a little bit unfair on. So
Speaker 6: if you play him in the six I think he's
Speaker 6: really good, like I said, at getting on the half
Speaker 6: tend then he can find those players when you put
Speaker 6: him into ten, I don't think he's a man for
Speaker 6: the big moments. You know, in every game. I think
Speaker 6: you see more of his qualities playing deeper on the field,
Speaker 6: deeper down the field, and I think that will help
Speaker 6: at landa a little bit more.
Speaker 3: And you know, in this system that Ronnie currently has
Speaker 3: formationally it's a four two three one, you're dealing with
Speaker 3: two sixes. You have guys like Bart Slash, who he's
Speaker 3: got a bit of a mean streak to him, but
Speaker 3: you're also seeing younger players like Jay Fortune step up.
Speaker 3: You see him atteas Click, who was brought in from
Speaker 3: d C for a pack of Pall Mall's, some Hostess
Speaker 3: twinkies and a box of matches. And you know, when
Speaker 3: he gets healthy, I know what he can bring to
Speaker 3: the table as well. When you look at the rest
Speaker 3: of this roster outside of that attacking for what else
Speaker 3: do you see?
Speaker 6: I see good players, especially if he getting the right
Speaker 6: ones on the field. I see good players. I see
Speaker 6: a team that can play both ways. I see a
Speaker 6: team that could play in transition, and I see a
Speaker 6: team that could build if the right players in the
Speaker 6: right spot. This is why I put them in the
Speaker 6: bad because I don't get I am not seeing it.
Speaker 6: There's no excuse it's a good roster. I'm seeing teams
Speaker 6: with If you take Austin for example, I don't that
Speaker 6: Ross is not bad than Atlanta's, but they've got some
Speaker 6: kind of together and it's they're hard to beat and
Speaker 6: they're somehow right now up the table.
Speaker 3: Well, but they can't score. It's like you bringing all
Speaker 3: this hot you bring in all this heavyweight talent, and
Speaker 3: what Basquez has two? Uh what it's uh yeah, it.
Speaker 6: Hasn't been good enough. You're right, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: For them in attacking, it hasn't been good enough. But
Speaker 6: they can still be at the top of the table.
Speaker 6: So for me, why is Atlanta not doing something similar.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying play that style of football. I'm saying,
Speaker 6: you know, at least putting these performances where Okay, the
Speaker 6: attack's not going well, but you don't just come to
Speaker 6: the Bens and beat us. You know this is a
Speaker 6: difficult team, This should be a difficult team to play against.
Speaker 3: Then you dropped a whole lot of am to bring
Speaker 3: in Robert Taylor away from Messi and friends to help
Speaker 3: out with your offense. Three minute warning. I know I'm
Speaker 3: keeping you to a clock, all right. So this weekend
Speaker 3: it is Atlanta and the Purple Team in Central Florida. See. Yeah,
Speaker 3: The thing is the only way that we can mention
Speaker 3: the O word here is if we if we sing
Speaker 3: it like Book of Mormon, literally, we have to say Orlando.
Speaker 3: We're going to say that. Otherwise they're just the Purple team.
Speaker 6: Just good. I used to do that when I played
Speaker 6: for the Rebel. I would call it the New York City
Speaker 6: the Blue Team. So I get it. I get it.
Speaker 3: So Atlanta United in the Purple team coming up this weekend.
Speaker 3: When you see this kind of a rivalry match like
Speaker 3: you did with Red and Blue, what sticks to mind
Speaker 3: in this matchup for you?
Speaker 6: So you talking about gameplay first of all? Yeah, I'll
Speaker 6: talk about gameplay first and one and I'll talk about
Speaker 6: how I would go into those games. So I think gameplay,
Speaker 6: the game's there for the take you for both teams.
Speaker 6: Both teams not in a great place. So if I'm
Speaker 6: in each locker room, I'll go into that game thinking
Speaker 6: we can win this if we just do ABC, we
Speaker 6: can win this game. For Orlando at the moment that
Speaker 6: that front four that started off so well and not
Speaker 6: firing on all cylinders, uglying that plays into your hands.
Speaker 6: I think if you can make the game difficult in
Speaker 6: the first half, first half of the half, first half, sorry,
Speaker 6: then you're looking at maybe getting a good result. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but I expect to see fireworks. These are the kind
Speaker 6: of games that can that can turn your season. These
Speaker 6: kind of games for Atlanta. Now, if you get a
Speaker 6: big win here and build a meta from this place,
Speaker 6: you can look back come you know, October and whatever
Speaker 6: and say, you know what, when we played that game,
Speaker 6: when we beat one of our rivals. I think that's
Speaker 6: the way you can put, you know, a stamp where
Speaker 6: the season started to change for them.
Speaker 3: All right, last question for you, the time to cut
Speaker 3: the promo because you are on MLS countdown, MLS three
Speaker 3: sixty and MLS wrap up on MLS season pass as
Speaker 3: MLS Bradley Right, Phillips, I feel like now MLS needs
Speaker 3: to be in front of every single aspect of your name,
Speaker 3: with everything that you're doing up there with Apple these days.
Speaker 3: What's going on this weekend? When do you go into
Speaker 3: production meetings? When do you get to see Kevin Egan?
Speaker 3: What cut the promo for me? What book should expect
Speaker 3: this weekend?
Speaker 6: Okay, so I'll head up to Connecticut on Saturday morning.
Speaker 6: I'll get to this sh studio maybe two thirty, sit down,
Speaker 6: gathering my thoughts, and that's when you start seeing the
Speaker 6: boys come in. First of all, Yeah, production meeting, Yeah,
Speaker 6: and then we'll go we'll go on air for the
Speaker 6: first tundown, maybe six thirty. You know, after all the
Speaker 6: prep's done for those few hours six point thirty, do
Speaker 6: an hour just building up the games, building some excitement,
Speaker 6: letting you know our opinions. And then straight after that
Speaker 6: won't even move from the studio three sixty and that's
Speaker 6: when it gets hectic. And that's where your boy keV
Speaker 6: comes in and just gets that energy going. We've just
Speaker 6: got a bunch of games going on, a bunch of goals,
Speaker 6: bunch of key plays just a lot of fun. It's
Speaker 6: a long time, but that's like the most fun you
Speaker 6: can have in five to six hours. Honestly, it's brilliant.
Speaker 3: And after that, I was gonna say, what's it like
Speaker 3: flying without a net for six hours?
Speaker 6: It's crazy because you're watching so the mone it will
Speaker 6: be to our right somewhere. So I want to focus
Speaker 6: on the show, but I also want to see what's
Speaker 6: happening in the game. So when we do go to
Speaker 6: that key play, I have some good feedback for you.
Speaker 6: I have some good analysis. There's been times where you
Speaker 6: get pull, you might miss a goal. It comes up
Speaker 6: as a key play. We get to watch it obviously,
Speaker 6: but I haven't seen the build up, so I don't
Speaker 6: even know how this all's come about, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean. So it's hard really focusing on the game
Speaker 6: that's on the screen, what you guys might be seeing them,
Speaker 6: focusing on getting little nuggets for you guys. So when
Speaker 6: you see that key play giving you the information, it's crazy,
Speaker 6: it's carnage.
Speaker 3: It is it's and then but the thing is you
Speaker 3: may not be able to see the build up, but
Speaker 3: then you get to see the build up on MLS
Speaker 3: wrap up.
Speaker 6: Right facts, So that wrap up is like a it's
Speaker 6: probably the show where you get to really talk about
Speaker 6: what you saw in a game, because we've seen them
Speaker 6: all on the Saturday and now we do the wrap
Speaker 6: up on Sunday night after Sunday Night soccer. So now
Speaker 6: I've seen all those goals. Now I've seen all those
Speaker 6: build ups. Now I've heard all the talks, what people
Speaker 6: think and what my opinions are. So wrap up you
Speaker 6: can really have conversations. That's why you see it's a
Speaker 6: more laid back ride. We're in the sofas you know,
Speaker 6: we're in the comfy seats, and we're talking and really
Speaker 6: dissecting these games and our thoughts on the weekend.
Speaker 3: Especially if you're sitting in a hard chair for six hours.
Speaker 3: As always, you are officially now golden ticket status. You
Speaker 3: have the garage door opener, you know where the spare
Speaker 3: key is, and so anytime you want to come in
Speaker 3: and crashing this hour of chaos as we get the
Speaker 3: weekend prepped, you know you can.
Speaker 6: I like that. Thank you for that invitation. I'll be
Speaker 6: taking you up on that.
Speaker 3: Golden ticket status is yours, Bradley Wright Phillips. Once again,
Speaker 3: Analyst MLS Countdown, Analyst MLS three sixty, Analyst MLS wrap Up,
Speaker 3: Analyst MLS Season passed, Analyst s d H A M there.
Speaker 3: I went ahead and said it at it in to
Speaker 3: the business card, BWP as always, thanks for dropping by,
Speaker 3: my friend. We'll see you soon.
Speaker 6: I appreciate Joe, you're doing a great job.
Speaker 3: But I keep out, all right, uh see, because I
Speaker 3: know you're gonna come down and kick my ass sick,
Speaker 3: all right, see now, And Jason, Jason's gonna come in
Speaker 3: here in a little bit and he's gonna look at
Speaker 3: that lid that BWP had and he's gonna go respect
Speaker 3: you know, the he's got the he's got the cap
Speaker 3: much like Jason does when Jason's not wearing the straight
Speaker 3: you know, the straight lid U, the SDH lid. He's
Speaker 3: got the he's got the schoolboy lid going wherever, you know,
Speaker 3: wherever b WP was. But no, it's it's great to
Speaker 3: have b WP on. And like I said, like I
Speaker 3: told him, I said, look, you've got the garage door opener. Man,
Speaker 3: anytime that you want to drop in you can, so
Speaker 3: there you go. So it's it's a very very cool
Speaker 3: to get BWP in, to get Kevin in, to get
Speaker 3: Tyler Terren's in. Tyler came in three times in a week.
Speaker 3: He was that jacked about dropping by, and so you know,
Speaker 3: anytime that any and this is what I want to
Speaker 3: do when we don't have a guest at ten o'clock
Speaker 3: on a Friday, like BWP or or anybody like that.
Speaker 3: First off, it was kind of cool to see the
Speaker 3: interplay between Michael Parkers and I'm Bradley Wright Phillips. But
Speaker 3: I want to have a lot of different opinions as
Speaker 3: this is the last hour of the week here as
Speaker 3: we get you ready for everything going on in Major
Speaker 3: League soccer, not just necessarily at Landy United going up
Speaker 3: against the Purple Team this week, but in and around
Speaker 3: Major League Soccer on the whole. So the hour of chaos.
Speaker 3: Let it be the hour of chaos. Tyler comes in.
Speaker 3: He wants to talk about his game. Great, great, fine cool.
Speaker 3: BWP wants to talk about the league. Great fine, cool.
Speaker 3: Parky wants to come on late. He wants to talk
Speaker 3: about everything going on with Atlanta night cool. Glenn Davis
Speaker 3: wants to come in. He can come in perfectly fine.
Speaker 3: Glenn Crooks wants to come in perfectly fine. When they
Speaker 3: all walk in the door for the first time, they
Speaker 3: get the garage door opener. Literally it's right there for
Speaker 3: them and with them. Jessica Charman wants to come in.
Speaker 3: She can talk anybody. Anybody that's got the keys, they
Speaker 3: can come in and crash. Mike Grammaho. If you missed
Speaker 3: that interview that we had, like it's a chance to
Speaker 3: catch up with Mike Gramajo and find out what's going
Speaker 3: on with everything down there with the Purple team and
Speaker 3: speaking of Fridays and having the garage door opener, we
Speaker 3: bring in Bart Keeler. So yeah, as I mentioned the
Speaker 3: garage door opener in the Hour Chaos, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: there's Bart, So what's on your mind?
Speaker 2: Well, I commit bringing breaking news.
Speaker 3: John, you've broken news.
Speaker 2: I have not, but I am reporting from a report
Speaker 2: that NWSL has submitted an application to US Soccer to
Speaker 2: launch a Division two league starting in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 2: which John, if you look at a calendar, is next year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: next year. So this is really cool and I felt
Speaker 2: like our people should hear about this because I'm sure
Speaker 2: this will then also spark conversation of why don't they
Speaker 2: have one in Atlanta, which I'm sure will be fun
Speaker 2: to listen to.
Speaker 3: Okay, so please, there you go. Now now it's officially official.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. So eight existing NWSL clubs will field
Speaker 2: affiliated team for its inaugural season, should the plans be
Speaker 2: approved by us Soccer. Obviously, again, as we're learning with
Speaker 2: USL on the men's side, you do have to submit plans,
Speaker 2: but given that they are tied to the NWSL club
Speaker 2: and stadium, all eight teams which are AFC Kansas City Current,
Speaker 2: North Carolina Courage, New York, New Jersey, Gotham, Orlando Pride,
Speaker 2: Raising Louisville and Seattle Rain, and the Washington Spirit, all
Speaker 2: eight of those teams meet a super seed. By the way,
Speaker 2: the Division two requirement on the women's side, which is
Speaker 2: simply have six teams in your first year and need
Speaker 2: to be at five hundred thousand plus metro area in
Speaker 2: a two thousand plus stadium where all those teams meet.
Speaker 2: That So John, this for everyone following along, this is
Speaker 2: essentially going to be INWSL next pro.
Speaker 3: Okay, go for it.
Speaker 2: The goal is to have all of the sixteen NWSL
Speaker 2: teams have an affiliated team in this league. They will
Speaker 2: do a double round robin the first time around with
Speaker 2: playoffs at the end. So this is I think a
Speaker 2: good step for NWSL. But I think this is also
Speaker 2: a great way to open up a second vision, a
Speaker 2: second tier of player development in this country. We've seen
Speaker 2: recently obviously with USL Super League trying to create another
Speaker 2: Division one league, and then WPSL bringing a professional league
Speaker 2: at the D two level as well. This is just
Speaker 2: an evolving landscape for women's soccer that's pretty awesome.
Speaker 3: According to the documents obtained by CBS Sports, the application
Speaker 3: was filed on April one. Yeah file that dataway and
Speaker 3: six page letters signed by NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman submitted
Speaker 3: to US Soccer CEO and Secretary General J. T. Batson.
Speaker 3: In the letter, Berman likens the proposed Division two league
Speaker 3: to the minor league baseball system, writing that it is
Speaker 3: quote imperative that NWSL creates a robust pipeline for world
Speaker 3: class athletes to fuel the explosive growth, meaning the existing
Speaker 3: Division one explosive growth. D two once again described as
Speaker 3: a transitional space between the college game and the professional game,
Speaker 3: one where young players can experience the quote technical, tactical,
Speaker 3: and mental demands say, I was trying to think of
Speaker 3: a T word that would you would go right up
Speaker 3: public speaking one oh one, so technical, tactical, and thought provoking.
Speaker 3: Maybe top flight soccer demand. So once again you mentioned
Speaker 3: the eight and playoffs at the end of the fourteen
Speaker 3: game regular season. Number one, place four, two place three
Speaker 3: winners get into a championship. League confirmed the proposal in
Speaker 3: a following statement to CBS Sports several sentences long. But
Speaker 3: they want to look forward to building a strong foundation
Speaker 3: for future generations of players, officials, coaches, and sure the
Speaker 3: continued advancement of the women's game. And so you mentioned
Speaker 3: the capacities that are there. All Division one teams expected
Speaker 3: to form an affiliated second tier within the first four years,
Speaker 3: a point in which the NWSL will have at least
Speaker 3: sixteen expansion teams in Boston and Denver having their inaugural
Speaker 3: seasons next year. Teams unaffiliated with the NWSL also be welcome.
Speaker 3: And as you mentioned, so this would be NWSL Next Pro,
Speaker 3: where we have in MLS Next Pro, the Carolina Cores,
Speaker 3: you have the Chattanooga FC's, you have those, And that
Speaker 3: is what they encouraged from the beginning, is that MLS
Speaker 3: Next pro wanted to have in addition to the Major
Speaker 3: League Soccer franchises, they wanted to have the independent ownership
Speaker 3: groups to have franchises to the grid. And that's what
Speaker 3: you've gotten so far. So the NWSL following in those footsteps.
Speaker 2: Yeah, again, this makes a lot of sense for a
Speaker 2: couple of reasons, John, and I'll but then I'll explain
Speaker 2: why this doesn't make sense for another reason.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of sense other than the fact
Speaker 3: it's next year.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think that's the issue, John, when you
Speaker 2: look at the fact that this is these are existing
Speaker 2: teams with stadiums that exist. You know, we're not We're
Speaker 2: not building something really new. It's just about filling a roster.
Speaker 2: And as I have said plenty of times, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of women's professional soccer talent in this country.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: But so from that say, it makes sense, right, there's
Speaker 2: there are people out there who want a shot, a
Speaker 2: legitimate shot, and deserve a legitimate shot at proving they
Speaker 2: can be perfect level and nw with cel level quality players,
Speaker 2: if that makes sense. Second reason this makes a lot
Speaker 2: of sense is we have seen, especially this year, a
Speaker 2: lot of chatter and obviously this goes back to what
Speaker 2: three years ago with Olivia Multie with a lot of
Speaker 2: teenagers who are good enough to play professionally needing to
Speaker 2: come to NWSL because they have just outgrown where they
Speaker 2: are currently and John, we see this in MLS Next
Speaker 2: Pro where there are a lot of teenagers who are
Speaker 2: out of the academy level. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: they are better than that, they're not truly MLS ready,
Speaker 2: and I think we're seeing that as well with NWSL,
Speaker 2: where a lot of these players are brought up because well,
Speaker 2: she's good enough to be a professional, but maybe not
Speaker 2: full time. And the other reason is, well, craft we
Speaker 2: need to bring up a player because we've got a
Speaker 2: lot of injuries, and this reserve team essentially does provide
Speaker 2: them that. We obviously have seen that a few times
Speaker 2: with Atlanta United this year. Where it doesn't make sense
Speaker 2: is that NWSL teams do not have the academy structure
Speaker 2: that MLS and a lot of other professional leagues do.
Speaker 2: So obviously in the Premier League you have you know,
Speaker 2: your professional Premier League clubs, and then they have the
Speaker 2: U twenty one league that you know acts basically as
Speaker 2: a reserve league, but also kind of the for lack
Speaker 2: of a better term, minor league where you send a
Speaker 2: recovering star on there to make a recovery start.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I think this is a strategic move from
Speaker 2: NWSL to provide clubs with a great way to kind
Speaker 2: of build out their roster without having to build out
Speaker 2: their roster. They're just doing it on a whole separate place.
Speaker 2: But I'm curious what this means for the league and
Speaker 2: if this was truly a response to the WPSL pro move.
Speaker 2: I don't think it was one, because WPSL no offense
Speaker 2: to Cherokee. It's a perfectly acceptable county that's not a
Speaker 2: big market, if you will, for a soccer team, that's
Speaker 2: not even to the extent of Rome or Gainesville or
Speaker 2: any or even Peachtree City. Again, no offense tove Cherokee.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not telling y'all, y'all don't matter. But
Speaker 2: that's not the market that you would expect for a
Speaker 2: truly professional team. So for NWSL to be looking at
Speaker 2: just creating second teams for their existing markets, I guess
Speaker 2: it gives a little bit more legitimacy to the club
Speaker 2: that they're going to be running and Hopefully they think
Speaker 2: that that means they'll get more people come try out
Speaker 2: who and their minds are more worthy of a full
Speaker 2: professional contract.
Speaker 3: Right uh. WPSL for those that may not have recalled,
Speaker 3: not there is no Division two Women's League. WPSL pro
Speaker 3: announced the plans just last week to launch D two.
Speaker 3: They were initially going to be D three, but then
Speaker 3: there launching is D two. You have to have a
Speaker 3: seven figure commitment on the books when you present your
Speaker 3: proposal to the WFL, and Georgia Impact is doing exactly
Speaker 3: that up in Cherokee County and Cleveland, I believe Cleveland Soccer,
Speaker 3: Cleveland Soccer group they were chasing after an NWSL group.
Speaker 3: They did not get it the NWSL approval, and so
Speaker 3: then they went to the WPSL route. And so that's
Speaker 3: where they're trying to build their soccer specific stadium and
Speaker 3: come online as a league starting in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 3: awaiting sanctioning from US Soccer. Once again, they would be
Speaker 3: Division two if both get the all clear, and so
Speaker 3: you would have multiple you'd have multiple leagues with the
Speaker 3: same divisional layout. And so we'll see what happens here
Speaker 3: as everything starts to head toward twenty six.
Speaker 2: It's also somewhat of an understanding of the landscape. Or
Speaker 2: you look at the USL Super League, which I do
Speaker 2: not think is rivaling INWSL in any way right now,
Speaker 2: but they do also have the USL League, which is
Speaker 2: somewhat of their minor league. It's pre professional Division III level.
Speaker 2: The number one takeaway John love the fact that we
Speaker 2: are getting more division to women's soccer. Obviously we had
Speaker 2: zero coming into this year and now we've added quite
Speaker 2: a bit. And I think that alone is great for
Speaker 2: the women's soccer professional period pyramid here in this country,
Speaker 2: because that is something that I think when you're looking
Speaker 2: at building the health of your professional leagues, you need
Speaker 2: to have something below them where people can come and
Speaker 2: either just play because they want to play, or possibly
Speaker 2: prove that they belong in the first division.
Speaker 3: All right, So it is the last half hour, and
Speaker 3: so that means that we go into weekend, whip around
Speaker 3: pat and pending trademark coming sooner hopefully rather than later,
Speaker 3: and we run through all of the other matchups and
Speaker 3: as folks come in in the hour of chaos, we
Speaker 3: discuss what is on everybody's mind. Yes, we know Atlanta
Speaker 3: is taking on the Purple team. We traditionally try to
Speaker 3: save that one for the last all your.
Speaker 2: Favorite Orlando Purple Team moment.
Speaker 3: John got to ask you, I think it's got to
Speaker 3: be Bendi face, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 3: I think I think it has to be. Oh, by
Speaker 3: the way, uh MLS assignments match day ten. Going back
Speaker 3: to our conversation that we had with UH with Mark
Speaker 3: Geiger and UH, once again, I can't thank our friends
Speaker 3: at PRO for dialing us up with that particular Q
Speaker 3: and A session. There was one question that I left
Speaker 3: on the table that I will ask them next time,
Speaker 3: so UH, and that question is when PRO is called
Speaker 3: to the principal's office, who is the principal? That's what
Speaker 3: I want to know. So if if there are issues
Speaker 3: that a higher power feels need to be addressed with PRO,
Speaker 3: who is the principle and the principal's office, That's what
Speaker 3: I want to know. Who are they accountable to going up?
Speaker 3: That's what I want to know.
Speaker 2: It's a great question because again that that breakdown is
Speaker 2: you have prs A. Yes, Sorry to make sure I
Speaker 2: got that acronym right, professional reference p s R A
Speaker 2: professional Soccer Referee Association.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 2: P R s A is Public Relation Society. Yes, uh,
Speaker 2: that's the that's the I know. Uh anyway, p s
Speaker 2: A R is the union, right and then PRO is
Speaker 2: the assigning body, and so they work together, but they're
Speaker 2: not the same function, right And yeah, that's a great question.
Speaker 3: PSR is there to benefit the officials that are engaged
Speaker 3: in PRO and propctivities. So who is so like when
Speaker 3: people are mad at PRO, who's where do they go
Speaker 3: for the principal.
Speaker 2: I would imagine it's MLS owners, to be quite honest,
Speaker 2: at least, that would be what I would imagine is
Speaker 2: that that that's the reviewing processes. You know, maybe not
Speaker 2: owners specifically, but you know what I mean. The MLS
Speaker 2: is competition people.
Speaker 3: The alternate, the alternate governor or whoever gets uh doctor
Speaker 3: bust into sitting into the zoom call. Basically all right,
Speaker 3: So here's our ref assignments and we'll go through all
Speaker 3: of these here before we get into the matchups this weekend.
Speaker 3: FC Cincinnati Sporting Kansas City at TQL. Alan Chapman is
Speaker 3: the man in the middle. Logan Brown, Gianny Fichini Thomas
Speaker 3: Snyder are downstairs. Photos. Bazakas and Craig Lowry are upstairs.
Speaker 3: Toronto FC and NYC. See we can't call him n
Speaker 3: YCFC anymore if the branding according of Tyler Terrence's NYC
Speaker 3: at Bemo, Pierre Lo Glazier is the man in the middle.
Speaker 3: Gerard carderre lebuill oscar Mitchell, Carvallo and Mario al Ayas
Speaker 3: are your folks new stairs. Kevin Stotton, Tom Supple are
Speaker 3: upstairs for this one. Red Bulls and CF Montreal at
Speaker 3: SI Stadium. Torrey Penso is in the middle. Kyle Atkins,
Speaker 3: Brook Mayo, Luis Diego Arroyo or downstairs. Caroline Schnard and
Speaker 3: Jonathan Johnson are upstairs. Philadelphia and d C. Rubiol Vasquez
Speaker 3: is the man in the middle. Ian McKay, Megan Mullen,
Speaker 3: Lorenzo Hernandez are downstairs. At JC. Rivero Mike camp Miner
Speaker 3: are upstairs. Purple Team and Atlanta United. Marcus di' olivera
Speaker 3: is the man in the middle. Andrew Bigelow, Tyler, why Rostik,
Speaker 3: Matt Thompson or downstairs. Edvon Jurissevich and Joseph Batco are upstairs.
Speaker 3: Charlotte and the Revs Victor Revos is the man in
Speaker 3: the middle. Ryan Graves and Jason White, Sergei Boyko downstairs.
Speaker 3: Soren Steutschka and Mike camp Miner, who is doing the
Speaker 3: daily double, is upstairs. Crewe in San Jose, Guido Gonzalez
Speaker 3: Junior is the man in the middle. Jeffrey Greese and
Speaker 3: Justin Howard, Colin Rodisov are downstairs. Kevin Terry Junior and
Speaker 3: Craig Lowry are upstairs. San Diego rsl at snap Dragon.
Speaker 3: Ricardo Fieriro is the man in the middle. Michael Barwagon,
Speaker 3: Eduardo Jeff and Elvis Osmanovich are downstairs. Vin Yes, Kevin
Speaker 3: Stott and Jeff Muschik are upstairs, sir, Yes, No, sorry, oh,
Speaker 3: I thought I thought there was a there was a
Speaker 3: reaction to that particular crew, and I'm like, wait minute,
Speaker 3: Ricardo Fierro, You're like, eh, uh, well interested.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's one of the newer referees. So that's yes,
Speaker 2: that is that is true.
Speaker 3: And on those guys, Yes, Copatee Has Houston and Austin
Speaker 3: Chris Penso is the man in the middle. Corey Parker,
Speaker 3: Catherine nesbut Ottoai Munroy are downstairs. Unis Marocchi Jonathan Johnson
Speaker 3: are upstairs. Nashville and Chicago, Rossendo Mendoza Man in the middle,
Speaker 3: while Heatherly, Diego Blass, Nolbil Ben Salah are downstairs. Michael
Speaker 3: Radchuck and Tom Felice are upstairs. Colorado and Seattle, along
Speaker 3: with the Rabid Prairie Dogs in Commerce City, Colorado, Alexis
Speaker 3: da Silva is the man in the middle. Corey Richardson,
Speaker 3: Jose de Silva, John Matto are down are Upstairs are downstairs.
Speaker 3: Caroline Schernard, Fabio Tovar are downstairs. Sunday, Drew Fisher has
Speaker 3: Minnesota and Vancouver. Chris Elliott, Ben Pilgrim and Serge Demon
Speaker 3: Chuck are downstairs. Photos Bazakas Robert Schapper upstairs, Messy and
Speaker 3: Friends in FCD, Lucas Sapala Man in the Middle, Cameron Blanchard,
Speaker 3: Nick Yuranga, Sergi Boiko are downstairs. Armon be a Real,
Speaker 3: Craig Lowry are upstairs. Jayra Marufo has La and Saint
Speaker 3: Louis City. Sc Corey Rockill, Adam Garner and Joe Dickerson
Speaker 3: are downstairs. Daniel Radford, Fabio Tovar are upstairs. Lag and
Speaker 3: the Timbers, Philip Duyach is the man in the middle
Speaker 3: of Felicia Marisko, Chris Bawi, you're downstairs, AVENGERI Savitch, Robert
Speaker 3: shapp are upstairs. Any of those assignments stick out to
Speaker 3: you for imbalance or advantage?
Speaker 2: Uh, well, I will say I think giving Chris Penzo
Speaker 2: the Dynamo Austin match is a little bit interesting only
Speaker 2: because no offense to Chris. But I would have expected
Speaker 2: someone a little bit more navigable, yeah, to get a
Speaker 2: rivalry match like that. Uh huh So, honestly, like, I
Speaker 2: feel like duych would have been a good assignment for
Speaker 2: that one, just because he does call a lot of
Speaker 2: fouls and that's what you need in a game that's
Speaker 2: going to probably lead to people being very stupid, but
Speaker 2: we'll see. I mean, Penzil is obviously a very experienced referee,
Speaker 2: but yeah, a little bit interesting. I mean there are
Speaker 2: some there are some assignments that Rubio Vazquaz with Philly
Speaker 2: and then Weedo Gonzales Junior with Cruz San Jose. I
Speaker 2: know that probably make more sense maybe from standings, but
Speaker 2: I just feel like, you know, you got an actual
Speaker 2: rivalry match in Copetejas even put someone a little bit
Speaker 2: more navigable reading the room. Yeah, you having someone who
Speaker 2: can read the room not stuck in their ways.
Speaker 3: Yes, Jared's now joining us here as we go through
Speaker 3: weekend whip around and our juice boxes. Jarrett, your timing
Speaker 3: is impeccable. Okay, two thirty FC Cincinnati and Sporting FC
Speaker 3: Cincinnati is a minus one sixty one, Sporting a plus
Speaker 3: four h seven. Do I need to go any further?
Speaker 5: I don't know if you need to go further, But
Speaker 5: like Sporting has been getting the dead cat bounce out
Speaker 5: of this yeah, and played a drunk ass game last week,
Speaker 5: Cincinnati's just kind of still waiting for the engine to
Speaker 5: turn over offensively. But what they're doing differently than some
Speaker 5: clubs that we will not name is that they are
Speaker 5: keeping the ball out of the net consistently. Yes, which
Speaker 5: is ironic because when they played that club we will
Speaker 5: not talk about right now, they gave up two goals
Speaker 5: in the process. But they've been very good at keeping
Speaker 5: teams out of the net and keeping that big zero
Speaker 5: on the board, which, hey man, a lot of people
Speaker 5: got pissed when Frank the board wanted to play that way.
Speaker 5: Bet y'all missed that shit now, don't you.
Speaker 3: There's the E rating for the day out. A boy,
Speaker 3: he's in here for like three minutes, ready to go?
Speaker 3: All right, So bart de FC Cincinnati Sporting.
Speaker 2: You know what, I'm just glad that Sporting continues to exist,
Speaker 2: and I'm proud of them for continuing that.
Speaker 3: It sounds like a truck on them for actually getting
Speaker 3: rid of their manager when a year and.
Speaker 5: A half ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think Sporting is I'm sad we
Speaker 2: don't have them on the schedule this year. Let's just
Speaker 2: put it that way.
Speaker 5: I'm jod nervous about it now.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's true. But since he since he's also
Speaker 2: one of those teams that, when you look at the
Speaker 2: league overall, somehow feel like they're underperforming but aren't, if
Speaker 2: that makes any sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe that doesn't.
Speaker 2: Click at Charlotte's on top, and I didn't expect that.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I'm still like, man, I've been I've been
Speaker 5: trying to I'm still trying to be careful about how
Speaker 5: I talk about Charlotte because I am impressed with them
Speaker 5: on one hand, and kind of like Minnesota, I don't
Speaker 5: know if it works in the playoffs, pet bl might
Speaker 5: be your front runner for MVP, and he deserves his flowers.
Speaker 5: They god forbid they go on the road though in
Speaker 5: the playoffs, because they've been horrendous on the road this year.
Speaker 5: They've been outstanding at home. Yeah, they've also played a
Speaker 5: lot of games where they have not looked like the
Speaker 5: better team except for like a ten minute stretch.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm mmmm.
Speaker 3: So it's not wrong. Yeah, so you guys are saying,
Speaker 3: so Bart staring at the draw out of plus three
Speaker 3: oh nine, I think is what he's staring at.
Speaker 2: Honestly, Yes, but since these problems, I don't They just
Speaker 2: don't score enough slash create enough chances. That's been their
Speaker 2: biggest kind of issue. And so if you're playing a
Speaker 2: team like Sporting that is climbing out of a hole,
Speaker 2: if that's the way you want to put it, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I would put my money on sincey yes,
Speaker 2: I would put the I would put the whoppers Robin
Speaker 2: Eggs on since since we yes.
Speaker 5: Go through there you go you want, you want a
Speaker 5: player who would have been a fun pick up at
Speaker 5: the deadline for a team if if if Kansas City
Speaker 5: had stayed dead, they've kind of crawled. They've they've pushed
Speaker 5: the hand out of the grave. Now it's a matter
Speaker 5: they take themselves out and they get pushed back down.
Speaker 5: Daniel Shallowe would have been a very fun pick up
Speaker 5: for a lot of teams to clear in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Wow, Daniel to actually make a move that benefited the team.
Speaker 2: But yeah, not just Atlanta.
Speaker 5: A lot of teams could have used Daniel Shallowy. This
Speaker 5: isn't just like an Atlanta thing. This is like a
Speaker 5: Daniel Shallowie has just been like a steady little source
Speaker 5: of productivity on left wing for them.
Speaker 6: For a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, including their bad years, he's been pretty Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's not putting up. He's not always gonna put
Speaker 5: up double digit goals and assists, but he just goes
Speaker 5: out there and produces. Speaking of fort of former Kansas
Speaker 5: City players, though Johnny Russell is going to RSL.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd have taken him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you Perna the reason Johnny Russell's a bit of
Speaker 5: a ship kicker. I'd have taken it.
Speaker 3: Oh Man Uh Toronto hosting NYC. Toronto's a plus one
Speaker 3: fifty draws a plus two twenty seven barred NYC is
Speaker 3: a plus one to eighty one on.
Speaker 2: Them whatever you want, don't put your money on Toronto,
Speaker 2: draw or NYC. Don't put your money on Toronto ever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not a good look, Jared.
Speaker 5: Don't trust Toronto. I still don't know if Robin Fraser
Speaker 5: is a great manager. And again I've said this every week.
Speaker 5: I'll continue to say it. We won't know if he's
Speaker 5: a great manager because he managing Toronto or Toronto's kind
Speaker 5: of a mess.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's true.
Speaker 5: Apparently very apparently falls. I think he's I genuinely think
Speaker 5: he's going to fall into the Chris Armis category, which
Speaker 5: is I don't know that I've ever heard anyone have
Speaker 5: a crossroad to say about Chris Armis, Like he's very
Speaker 5: well thought of as a person. Yeah, no one really
Speaker 5: knew how good of a manager he was because when
Speaker 5: Toronto brought him in, that roster wasn't built to play style.
Speaker 5: And now he's flourishing in Colorado. God bless him. I'm
Speaker 5: in Fraser seems like a very good guy.
Speaker 6: I don't know how good he is.
Speaker 3: Red fuls Jared minus one twenty hosting CF Montreal to
Speaker 3: plus three fifty three.
Speaker 5: Redble hitting perfect by any means, like they've had some
Speaker 5: really dirty performances.
Speaker 3: Yes, they have dirt.
Speaker 2: I'd like to know the money line for Montreal to score.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go, Well that would be I would
Speaker 3: take the.
Speaker 2: Over under a Montreal one a point five and go
Speaker 2: under even you know.
Speaker 3: All right, so your your your numbers.
Speaker 5: By the way, John can't pull this right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's it's I'm sitting here and looking
Speaker 3: at like match facts and things like that and head
Speaker 3: to head and all that kind of stuff. So you're
Speaker 3: total your total total. Basically this is over under total.
Speaker 3: So this is both teams to score. Here we go.
Speaker 3: Here's what you're hunting for both teams to score. Yes,
Speaker 3: is anywhere from a minus one ten to a minus
Speaker 3: one twenty eight. No, both teams to score anywhere from
Speaker 3: the same margin one oh eight to one twenty two.
Speaker 3: So uh, slightly less in the juice boxes for both
Speaker 3: teams to score, the answer being no, but you can
Speaker 3: get a I was gone down to one twenty eight
Speaker 3: and the highest number.
Speaker 2: I would say that New York. I know this isn't
Speaker 2: the point, but I would say, like to nothing New York, Okay,
Speaker 2: Like I would put more money on New York to
Speaker 2: score multiple goals in Montreal to score one.
Speaker 3: There you go, Uh Philadelphia Union d C United Jarrett
Speaker 3: Unions of minus one thirty seven. D C's a plus
Speaker 3: three thirty four.
Speaker 5: Oh it's the Union. DC is in a full motory
Speaker 5: build man, Like, there's a reason they gave you a
Speaker 5: tash click and or paying for him.
Speaker 2: That's that was and yet the same amount of points
Speaker 2: as us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's and that there in there in lives the
Speaker 5: problem or one of them for their how many for
Speaker 5: one of them? For there are many, but they're in.
Speaker 5: They're in a full motory build man, like they're Their
Speaker 5: philosophy right now is how do we get the ball
Speaker 5: to Christian man.
Speaker 3: Teke kind of like Charlotte with Zaha, Chris go run.
Speaker 5: Wait, why would you get to Saha right now?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: No, the the thing with Charlotte right now is get
Speaker 5: the ball to pet b l and let him do shit.
Speaker 5: The matter the how does that matter right now? Is
Speaker 5: a hostake and an average shot from outside the box,
Speaker 5: Like that's his average shooting distance. You have a bull
Speaker 5: moose for a striker. You have a inconsistent talented right
Speaker 5: winger in le Albata, who's a youth national team player
Speaker 5: for Israel.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 5: Zaha gets fouled a lot and bitches about it constantly
Speaker 5: and seems to take himself out of the game. And
Speaker 5: the process is Charlotte runs through pet Bl. I could
Speaker 5: give a golden God day again about Wildah would not
Speaker 5: care less because no, it's not going through Wilfrid's a
Speaker 5: It's not. It's going through pet Bl. God blessing for it.
Speaker 5: He's been amazing. He's still on loan. They haven't even
Speaker 5: locked him down. God, you better lock him down, Charlotte,
Speaker 5: because you know somebody else will.
Speaker 3: Yes. And speaking of which they're minus one thirty three
Speaker 3: hosting the ReBs, he is.
Speaker 5: We're speaking, we're speaking ill of people who were tied
Speaker 5: on the table or above us or below us, because
Speaker 5: nobody's perfect. Everyone is prone in MLS, well, Jared is
Speaker 5: speaking ill and find themselves on the floor next to
Speaker 5: a decade.
Speaker 2: Jared is speaking ill of Wilfrid Zaha. You need to
Speaker 2: be very that's he's not saying. Charlotte is a damn
Speaker 2: good player, but he has not been correct but.
Speaker 5: On fire.
Speaker 3: Right. And we are speaking of DC because they because
Speaker 3: they're d C, because they.
Speaker 5: Punted on the season. Yeah, they got the same points
Speaker 5: as US. That's an US problem. That's not a d
Speaker 5: C problem, that's Money United problem.
Speaker 2: D C at nine points is the expected.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, So I'm still pissed off at a lot
Speaker 5: of people who decide who like wanted to go after
Speaker 5: Noah Cobb when he got skied last year in that
Speaker 5: hat trick game. Uh from Christian Bentech and is if
Speaker 5: Christian bent Teke did not lead the known universe and
Speaker 5: aerial duels won.
Speaker 3: Yes, this and every other planet in this solar system.
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: I mean name a center back who hasn't got mosta Yes,
Speaker 2: people were good.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I don't know if Noah Cobb's
Speaker 5: that guy you got beat by Benekey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, Noah Coaba is not that guy to
Speaker 2: beat Beneke in an arial du correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you know.
Speaker 5: Honestly what they did to really kind of put Teke
Speaker 5: under wraps and they go back and watch the League
Speaker 5: Cup gameracket they put no, they put fram Morales on him. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and fram Morales just basically beat him with a tire
Speaker 5: iron the entire time. Remember the goals you gave up
Speaker 5: in that game were freaking Galazzo by DC and then
Speaker 5: Josh Cohen rolling the ball to d C.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you match Spentech.
Speaker 5: Morales beat him with a tire iron for ninety minutes,
Speaker 5: which is how you have to play him. Yeah, you do,
Speaker 5: because he's such a physical presence with such an immense
Speaker 5: control and position.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And if Charlotte, if that Dean Smith doesn't want
Speaker 3: Patrick Godjimong, I know a lot of teams that would. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So yeah, I hope they want it.
Speaker 5: My whole thing I'm not. This isn't me dumping on Zaha.
Speaker 5: It's saying he's a bad player. He's a great player.
Speaker 5: This is me saying Charlotte has been doing all this
Speaker 5: called wolfrid. Zaha not really doing what I think they expected,
Speaker 5: what everyone expected of him, Like he scored that goal
Speaker 5: against Atlanta on like basically a putback and everyone at
Speaker 5: MLS Digital lost their ever loving minds and tried to
Speaker 5: like coordinate him that day. Hasn't really he's produced. I
Speaker 5: think he's been very good off the ball with his
Speaker 5: gravity and his movement. He's gonna draw fouls and get
Speaker 5: you in good positions, but he hasn't carried them. Honestly,
Speaker 5: It kind of makes them scary in that regard. I'm
Speaker 5: still a little nervous because I need them to go
Speaker 5: show me something on the road. But that's a me problem.
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, So we got to get through nine
Speaker 3: other matches before we talk about Atlanta in the Purple team, Okay, Bart,
Speaker 3: crew in the earthquakes creuse a minus two awake quakes or.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would San Jose's good. San Jose is fun,
Speaker 2: but crews, that's my money. I would put the Reces eggs.
Speaker 3: On the crew.
Speaker 5: I agree completely with what Bart said it San Jose
Speaker 5: it's fun. Yes, as Jason got pussy with me last
Speaker 5: week about you know, Saint Jose basically lead the league
Speaker 5: in all of the offensive categories that should lead to goals.
Speaker 5: But when we say, when I say that about Atlanta
Speaker 5: in the past, I get shouted down.
Speaker 2: But point seven expected goals for eighteen point what expected
Speaker 2: goals against? They're fun?
Speaker 7: You better have that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have.
Speaker 5: You have a Wrongo strike and you have Joseph coming
Speaker 5: off the bench in spots starting and you're not asking
Speaker 5: him to run twenty five miles anymore, which he seems
Speaker 5: to have adapted to, which God blessed Like, Yeah, they're fun,
Speaker 5: but also the crew are just the crew, and there's
Speaker 5: almost like there's something like, you know, galactic empire about
Speaker 5: them that is both fun but also kind of depressing. Right,
Speaker 5: Oh my god, the inevitability is just gonna crush me.
Speaker 3: Yep, so Jared San Diego FC hosting RSL to minus
Speaker 3: one thirty five Bart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and RSL was without Diego Luna, So why even
Speaker 2: watching them?
Speaker 8: Well, they were scinded the red Oh that's right, because
Speaker 8: Pro screwed up because it was incondubious that he got
Speaker 8: it in the beginning with I think he was again,
Speaker 8: both of those guys should have got a card, right,
Speaker 8: card was upheld because apparently couldn't find an angle that
Speaker 8: didn't show.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Still san Diego at home, Yeah, they've proven to be
Speaker 2: pretty good.
Speaker 3: Uh, Copete has Bart Houston a plus one ten hosting
Speaker 3: Austin at A plus two fifty.
Speaker 2: I weirdly am gonna take Austin. I would put my
Speaker 2: full money on Austin. Houston is still I don't like
Speaker 2: talk about it. Disappointed they Yeah, I'm gonna make this statement.
Speaker 2: I think Houston is way more disappointing this year than Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Because Houston had a good last year, like actually good,
Speaker 2: showed improvement, did things. Now, there are some transfers that
Speaker 2: they made or that happened that maybe dropped their floor
Speaker 2: a lot. But I think a lot of people are
Speaker 2: expecting Houston to be where Austin is in the table
Speaker 2: and they're not. So I'm putting I would put my
Speaker 2: full money on Austin.
Speaker 5: Jared, I don't believe in either one of these teams.
Speaker 5: I guess I believe in Austin a little.
Speaker 3: Bit more, believe in Houston a little bit less.
Speaker 2: I do believe in and Brad Stuver, and I do
Speaker 2: think that is one of those things where I think
Speaker 2: he he and there are a couple of goalkeepers in
Speaker 2: this league who actively make their team better, and Stuver
Speaker 2: is one of those. The only reason Charlotte is as
Speaker 2: good as they are is because Christian Collina the Atlanta
Speaker 2: in the first.
Speaker 5: Half, Christian Kalina consisted like the day Christian Klina starts
Speaker 5: to slip is the day it's dark and Charlotte real.
Speaker 2: Quick, listen, Charlotte, you'rreven goals against on the season, right,
Speaker 2: you know what they're expected goals against us thirteen point one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a stick the goal difference. Yeah, he's been
Speaker 5: a muted for years. Like that's just that's just what
Speaker 5: he's been.
Speaker 2: He has become the new Andre Blake. Not that Andrea
Speaker 2: Blake is bad, but Andre Blake was the dude who
Speaker 2: was the reason a lot of times Philly wasn't given
Speaker 2: up all the goals they probably should have been given up.
Speaker 5: Christian, we've taken that this and see what you're getting into.
Speaker 6: Bart is.
Speaker 5: One of my things that makes me nervous about Charlotte
Speaker 5: is that they play more defensive, They sit more and
Speaker 5: they'll play you on the.
Speaker 2: Counters m They still give them a lot of chances.
Speaker 5: Yes, that they play defensive, but they're still giving up chances. Now,
Speaker 5: you can talk whatever trash you want when you know
Speaker 5: Christian Cleana as you should is in my opinion, because
Speaker 5: if we had Christian Kleina, I would be letting everyone
Speaker 5: in their mother know. That's how I would introduce myself
Speaker 5: on the phone. Yeah, live in the city where Christian
Speaker 5: Kleina is saving everything under the sun. But if he's
Speaker 5: not saving everything under the sun, it gets weird. It's
Speaker 5: really weird. Brett Stuver is going to end up in
Speaker 5: basically whatever this soccer goalkeeper equivalent to PTSD treatment is. Though,
Speaker 5: Like you know those soldiers in World War One who
Speaker 5: were like at the Psalm or at Vert Dunn where
Speaker 5: they were just getting shelled for months on end, Like
Speaker 5: it's just the sound of shells hitting the ground for
Speaker 5: months on in and it was a constant day and night.
Speaker 5: That's gonna be Brad Steuver because he's been in a
Speaker 5: firing range since Austin started. Like he's like leading the
Speaker 5: known universe and saves every year. He has to, though,
Speaker 5: because they're going to get forward, and they can give
Speaker 5: them a chance of even when they don't get forward.
Speaker 5: Lesson for it. But like I want one day for
Speaker 5: Brad Stubt and not have to do something because I
Speaker 5: feel like he should be able to do the thanos
Speaker 5: and look out on the grateful universe.
Speaker 2: And rest mm hm, this might be a good year
Speaker 2: for it. Who knows Austin is doing things. So I again,
Speaker 2: my money's on Austin because I have more players there
Speaker 2: than I believe can be good.
Speaker 5: I'm with you that I'm disappointed with Houston'm disappointed with
Speaker 5: all of Texas. I thought Dallas would click better, and
Speaker 5: a lot of that as Peter Mussa being great and
Speaker 5: Lucho Costa is not really clicking yet. I thought Dallas
Speaker 5: would be better than they are too.
Speaker 3: Nashville and Chicago Jared Nashville to minus one eleven, Chicago
Speaker 3: north of plus three hundred.
Speaker 6: I am.
Speaker 5: I believe in three g I believe once again that
Speaker 5: Greg Burrhalter might have been a good not great national
Speaker 5: team coach, like still stuck to thorn in Mexico's eye repeatedly,
Speaker 5: which is funny. Went to the World Cup and tried
Speaker 5: to play and did successfully at times. It wasn't perfect.
Speaker 5: There were plenty of issues. I think you've seen a
Speaker 5: lot more national team managers than Greg, and I think
Speaker 5: he's a much better club manager.
Speaker 6: And my.
Speaker 5: I still firmly hope that he wins a trophy this year.
Speaker 5: Don't know what trophy would be. I hope he wins
Speaker 5: a trophy this year with Chicago because it would burn
Speaker 5: down US Soccer Twitter and I want to see it.
Speaker 2: Well, this is the Burholter Derby. I mean, you've got
Speaker 2: Greg and you've got BJ. I am gonna go with
Speaker 2: the draw.
Speaker 3: Okay, draw is a plus two to fifty six. So
Speaker 3: bart Colorado hosting Seattle juice boxers threw a blanket over
Speaker 3: the whole thing. Basically, it's a plus one sixty five.
Speaker 3: Either side draws a plus two twenty nine, so they
Speaker 3: don't even know.
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know either. Because Seattle is underperforming. I think
Speaker 2: it's fair to say Colorado is I think wants to
Speaker 2: be good, but haven't been good, have been above average.
Speaker 2: I would go with I'm gonna go with Colorado at.
Speaker 5: Home, Colorado at home, go look at go look at
Speaker 5: just about any Colorado home game, and you'll see you
Speaker 5: very You'll notice it in like the sixty fifth minute.
Speaker 5: Watch the watch the way the game shifts in like
Speaker 5: the sixty fifth minute, just because it gets to that
Speaker 5: point where you can't breathe anymoreocating.
Speaker 2: Literal sea level.
Speaker 3: H Yeah, so you've got that. Sunday Minnesota United Vancouver,
Speaker 3: Minnesota United, JAREDI minus one oh two, Vancouver a plus
Speaker 3: two seventy eight, coming off of their win last night,
Speaker 3: and I don't think they care.
Speaker 5: Give me Minnesota, I don't like. Okay, this is some
Speaker 5: of this is stylistic. Some of this is me being
Speaker 5: a little bitchy and stylistic about things and kind of
Speaker 5: in a mood. As it stands, Minnesota might set the
Speaker 5: record for lowest average possession MLS. I know that people
Speaker 5: are a possession of verse almost at this point because
Speaker 5: of the way Atlanta has played since what's check the
Speaker 5: notes of twenty twenty, where like we've talked about dominating possession,
Speaker 5: Minnesota has the ball, Like they played a game this
Speaker 5: year where they had the ball like twenty nine percent
Speaker 5: of the time.
Speaker 3: No care, I man, I.
Speaker 5: That ish will put me to sleep. Man, Yeah, I
Speaker 5: get you can play out on the counter. That's great.
Speaker 5: I'm still curious how Julian greslol fits out there. Just
Speaker 5: because you're a team that's being at you're gonna be
Speaker 5: asked to defend over sixty percent of the time. And
Speaker 5: he's not a defensive player.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: When he gets out on the counter, yeah, he's gonna
Speaker 5: he's gonna run, he's gonna hit early crosses, and that's
Speaker 5: gonna be incredibly dangerous asking him to defend sixty percent
Speaker 5: of the time. I don't know about that. I'm not
Speaker 5: one hundred percent solid on that because I've also watched
Speaker 5: two of the most reputable managers that have ever come
Speaker 5: through this league bench him in the playoffs when it
Speaker 5: mattered most mm hm. So you can call me a
Speaker 5: hater if you want to, But I also watch two
Speaker 5: of the best managers, two the more well regarded managers
Speaker 5: in this league bench him in the playoffs from more
Speaker 5: defensive security, and now he's going to a team that's
Speaker 5: gonna defend a lot. Still give me Minnesota in this
Speaker 5: because Vancouver played in the midweek and played an emotional
Speaker 5: game last night and just stuck Messi in the face
Speaker 5: with a skunk and it was great.
Speaker 3: And speaking of which, Messi and friends barn reminus one
Speaker 3: eighty two hosting FC Dallas at a plus four forty two.
Speaker 3: Is Messi mad?
Speaker 2: You know, I'm actually curious how this is going to
Speaker 2: set up, because yes, I think they're going to be mad,
Speaker 2: But I mean that travel from Vancouver midweek and a
Speaker 2: short midweek at that, yeah, man, you know, back to Miami.
Speaker 2: I'm interested to see how that plays for you know,
Speaker 2: the old guys. And that doesn't mean I think they'll lose.
Speaker 2: I'm just curious. I do think Miami is should be
Speaker 2: the favorite and will win, but I'm very curious how
Speaker 2: that works, because look, Miami had no business beating Columbus
Speaker 2: last week, no business whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Again, they got lucky, and.
Speaker 2: I'll give Columbus credit. They were They filled that stadium
Speaker 2: with a lot of Crew fans up and up and
Speaker 2: the city that has a repper that catches on fire.
Speaker 2: But sad baby, I will say this, I have enjoyed
Speaker 2: multiple trips to Cleveland. It is a very cute big city. Anyway,
Speaker 2: did not deserve to win that game. I'm wondering if
Speaker 2: karma was this midweek or if karma will stick with
Speaker 2: them for the Saturday or for the Sunday.
Speaker 3: That's my question, all right, Jared l a f C
Speaker 3: and All Caps. Lafc's minus one eighty nine Saint Louis.
Speaker 5: City All Caps LAFC still can't win.
Speaker 3: Plus four seventy five your draws a plus three twenty
Speaker 3: two las. I'm sorry, LAFC, I was thinking Galaxy, lay,
Speaker 3: I'm Carl, Yeah, LAFC. Sorry, I'm thinking Galaxy just because
Speaker 3: the Galaxy are like literally winning that. Oh my god, dude,
Speaker 3: Like to the point now where I'm like, I don't
Speaker 3: know if this is a precky poosh thing anymore, or
Speaker 3: if this is just a we need to get you,
Speaker 3: like in an MRI.
Speaker 5: Machine now kind of bad.
Speaker 3: Well give me give me l A C.
Speaker 5: I guess I'm not one hundred percent sold on l C.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, maybe maybe Olivia Cherue gets another goal. I
Speaker 5: I'm still absolutely floored that they were not made. He's
Speaker 5: not He was not slandered more by the Mothership for
Speaker 5: going this long without scoring a goal on MLS. I
Speaker 5: feel like any other team you bring in, like a
Speaker 5: known World Cup winning international striker and he goes this
Speaker 5: long without scoring, we would have been hearing about it
Speaker 5: every damn week on the wrap up show or on
Speaker 5: pregame or whatever, or on every podcast known to mankind
Speaker 5: that the league puts out. We never heard about it,
Speaker 5: while Olivia was just kind of strolling through the meadow whatever.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, yeah, I mean he is mister July on
Speaker 3: the calendar, I would imagine Lag a minus one oh
Speaker 3: five favored against Portland Timbers at a plus two forty
Speaker 3: two draws a plus two ninety two bart.
Speaker 2: False no Portland. That we just what Jared just said,
Speaker 2: copy paste sorry now Portland.
Speaker 3: So that gets us the matchup involving at Landy United
Speaker 3: in the Purple team, Purple teams of minus one thirty
Speaker 3: three draws A plus two seventy eight and at Landy
Speaker 3: United Jared plus three fifty five.
Speaker 6: I'm not like.
Speaker 5: This is kind of sound thefeatist and I don't want
Speaker 5: it to so whatever, take it for what it is.
Speaker 5: I'm not nearly as worried about the result this week
Speaker 5: as I am the fight. If you lose this to nil,
Speaker 5: but you come out, you throw some hips into people,
Speaker 5: you pick up a couple of cards, you get into
Speaker 5: a mass confrontation, you put shots on goal, and you
Speaker 5: have eleven.
Speaker 6: Guys who have each other's back.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to be happy, but I'm going to
Speaker 5: be less irate, if that makes sense, because, like I
Speaker 5: said Monday, the thing that bothers me right now and
Speaker 5: talked about this for Jason after the Tuesdame the other night,
Speaker 5: was how often it feels like they don't have each
Speaker 5: other's back when somebody makes a mistake. Like when Brookslynen
Speaker 5: dribbled into basically a giant bear trapped for the second goal,
Speaker 5: it didn't feel like anybody picked him up. It did
Speaker 5: not feel like whenever there's a mistake, they're picking each
Speaker 5: other up. Go watch the teams that are near the
Speaker 5: top of the table. When somebody makes a mistake, somebody
Speaker 5: else slides in to back them up, to pick them up,
Speaker 5: to carry each other. They work as a FAILINGX. Right now,
Speaker 5: it feels like it's not working as a FAILINGX. They're
Speaker 5: not picking each other up, they're not correcting each other's
Speaker 5: mistakes by being there to make sure that mistakes don't compound.
Speaker 5: I need to see that, need to see some togetherness
Speaker 5: in it. And like I said, you want to win
Speaker 5: in Orlando every damn time. It's a rivalry. Miss me
Speaker 5: with your non rivalry bullshit. However, However, right now, you're
Speaker 5: not in a position where it looks like you're gonna
Speaker 5: go get that. I would love to be wrong. Go
Speaker 5: show me fight, though, Go show me that you're going
Speaker 5: to play as a team. Go show me that you're
Speaker 5: gonna pick each other up, that you're gonna be fiery
Speaker 5: and under control, but also maybe stick a thorn in
Speaker 5: somebody's paul. Go show me that. Please, let's start with
Speaker 5: that and then work our way up. I'm not asking
Speaker 5: you to climb the mountain in one week, but I
Speaker 5: am asking you to put a foot on the mountain.
Speaker 2: Art Orlando is one of the most They are who
Speaker 2: we thought they are teams in the fact that they
Speaker 2: look three three wins, four draws, they marginally overperform both
Speaker 2: XG four and against, meaning they're gonna give you a
Speaker 2: very consistent performance and with a coach that's been there
Speaker 2: for what three four years now. My concern is Orlando
Speaker 2: is just a more stable soccer club right now than
Speaker 2: Atlanta United. And that is probably the greatest indictment of
Speaker 2: this team right now, is it. Orlando looks calm, cool
Speaker 2: and collected compared to Atlanta United. I'm with Jared though
Speaker 2: that I don't think we win. But you need to
Speaker 2: prove to me that all the things you keep telling
Speaker 2: us in the media are gonna come true. Because I
Speaker 2: sat here and listen to y'all last week. Tell me
Speaker 2: about how, oh this pre match press conference was great.
Speaker 2: Players were coming out and they were saying, they said
Speaker 2: all the right things, and what happened on Saturday night
Speaker 2: last Saturday night was shameful. So y'all need to stop
Speaker 2: talking and show the hell up. Prove to me you're
Speaker 2: ready to fight. Prove to me you're ready to battle
Speaker 2: for each other because y'all ain't done that yet this year,
Speaker 2: and it's it's very sad. As someone who pays a
Speaker 2: lot of money to watch this team week in and
Speaker 2: week out, that's all I'm asking for. Prove to me
Speaker 2: that I'm paying money for something worth watching.
Speaker 3: And that is another week here at SDH once again
Speaker 3: on Friday, the Hour of Chaos thanks to Bart who
Speaker 3: came in with breaking news. Bart came bearing breaking news
Speaker 3: on a Friday and so we had that to start
Speaker 3: things off here as well. And as always, it's great
Speaker 3: to catch up with Jarrett when Jarrett can come in
Speaker 3: and crash. Great to have Bradley Wright Phillips once again.
Speaker 3: Let me get the let me get the title description
Speaker 3: of the Multiple Business Card Analyst MLS Countdown Analyst MLS
Speaker 3: three sixty Analyst MLS wrap Up on MLS Season Pass.
Speaker 3: So we got to catch up with MLSBWP this morning
Speaker 3: and that was really cool. Oh yeah, I caught up
Speaker 3: with a BWP to start Hour number two. Had a
Speaker 3: little bit of a crossover with the BWP.
Speaker 6: I know you did that.
Speaker 5: Charlotte has news.
Speaker 3: Oh, Charlotte has news.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Charlotte has waived Ben Bender.
Speaker 3: Okay, so Ben Bender. Let me check our friends at
Speaker 3: MLS players and the salary guide, so we see what
Speaker 3: Ben Bender might have been bringing to the table here.
Speaker 5: So he was the number one pick a couple of
Speaker 5: years of their first year. But dude's been like a
Speaker 5: scrappy little sob since he got there.
Speaker 4: I've liked him.
Speaker 3: Yep. Central midfielder guaranteed compensation one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 3: thousand dollars. So if anybody wishes to grab Ben Bender
Speaker 3: on a free I believe they can do so as
Speaker 3: long as he fits within their salary cap specifications and
Speaker 3: they don't have to wait for any time in the
Speaker 3: near future. So Ben Bender out the door. Obviously, that
Speaker 3: shows the thoughts that Dean Smith has about his midfield
Speaker 3: you know right now, and doesn't want the former number
Speaker 3: one pick out of Clemson. And so we will continue
Speaker 3: the Palace intrigue involving that Michael Parkhurst crossover with BWP
Speaker 3: or sorry Michael Parkers and a crossover with MLSBWP. Then
Speaker 3: it was Jared and it was Bart here on a Friday.
Speaker 3: So coming up to absolutely you did so top of
Speaker 3: the hour once again it is Soccer's in session. We
Speaker 3: catch up with Mike Pettett, the head coach at Callaway.
Speaker 3: On the boys and girls sides, We've got an interview
Speaker 3: with Chris Romano, the boys coach at I was about
Speaker 3: to say Orlando County. It was a Coney County girls
Speaker 3: team won last night on the air against Johnson Gainesville
Speaker 3: boys play today. We caught up with coach Romana before
Speaker 3: the matchup and we'll play that. We'll get your brackets ready,
Speaker 3: get you ready for day four of the high school playoffs. Here,
Speaker 3: soccer's in session. We're catching up with our friends at
Speaker 3: USC Upstate because they have a really interesting thing going
Speaker 3: on with their soccer program. That's going to be a
Speaker 3: tape piece that'll be out this weekend, in addition to
Speaker 3: everything else involving Atlanta United and Orlando City and the
Speaker 3: Purple Team that's going to be on ninety two nine
Speaker 3: in the Game of the Odyssey app at Lanta United
Speaker 3: two FC Cincinnati two that is on Sunday at two
Speaker 3: pregame show ahead of that here on the network as
Speaker 3: well for soccer down here at mixbore dot com and
Speaker 3: the mix Work app. Follow at Landy United and our
Speaker 3: coverage of the twos continues as well, and when we
Speaker 3: know where we're going to be in round number two.
Speaker 3: We will let you know for the GHSA playoffs, but
Speaker 3: that's going to come over the weekend in early next week.
Speaker 3: Any last thoughts on the week in the overall, we'll
Speaker 3: start with bart.
Speaker 2: Look, I think we have, as we the breaking news
Speaker 2: I brought in with, we have a very evolving in
Speaker 2: a good way. I think soccer landscape in this country.
Speaker 2: We owe it to our ourselves and to the sport
Speaker 2: to continue to support it and let's hope that we
Speaker 2: can continue to grow this game here as we head
Speaker 2: into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty six, that's eight months. It's almost seven months away, Jared.
Speaker 3: Last thoughts on the week on the whole.
Speaker 5: For you, this is my once again my ann you'll
Speaker 5: reminder of you to go follow the Scottish Women's Professional League.
Speaker 5: The WPL just keeps throwing bangers every single year. Usually
Speaker 5: it's traditionally been a three horse race between Rangers, Celtic
Speaker 5: and Glasgow City. Last year Celtic won the title on
Speaker 5: the last day of the year in the last five
Speaker 5: minutes with the game winner. This season, as they do
Speaker 5: the split just like they do in the men's side,
Speaker 5: where they split the top. They split the twelve teams
Speaker 5: to a championship group and then a relegation group. With
Speaker 5: a couple of games left, Hibbs ear in a first
Speaker 5: place on sixty four points. Rangers are on sixty two,
Speaker 5: Glasgow City's on sixty one. The Celtic Hearts the Motherwell
Speaker 5: are just kind of down there, meandering. Celtic has not
Speaker 5: been good, which is kind of it's been weird, like
Speaker 5: a lot of what they did last year was really
Speaker 5: good with front Alonzo in charge. In front Alonzo leaves
Speaker 5: in the middle of the day, takes the job in Houston,
Speaker 5: doesn't stay with the Houston dash like just disappear years
Speaker 5: off the face of the earth. Still don't know what
Speaker 5: the actual blue hell happened in Houston. He's over in
Speaker 5: Spain now, I think. But they end up winning the
Speaker 5: league on the last day of the season. But they
Speaker 5: haven't been as good this year, sitting on fifty six points.
Speaker 5: But again, this league constantly produces insane end of the
Speaker 5: season situations. A couple of years ago. Two years ago,
Speaker 5: they went into decision day with Rangers, Glasgow City and
Speaker 5: Celtic all capable of winning it within two points of
Speaker 5: each other and Rangers won it in like the ninety
Speaker 5: third minute to seal the title. This year is Hiss
Speaker 5: on top, two point two points ahead and three teams
Speaker 5: separated by three points. Keep an eye on the SWPL.
Speaker 5: It's gonna get dumb and it's gonna be a lot
Speaker 5: of fun if you want to watch them.
Speaker 6: That's very likely.
Speaker 5: It's gonna come down to the last twenty minutes once again.
Speaker 3: Fran Alonzo, by the way, is Coachingliga Feminine Departiva la Caruna.
Speaker 5: That's where I have no idea what his damage was,
Speaker 5: but when he was in Houston, he took like a
Speaker 5: leave that they claimed was like medical and they were
Speaker 5: not very clear about it, and then he just never
Speaker 5: came back.
Speaker 3: Yep. Six months in hired three days before Christmas in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, left unspecified reasons June twenty second of
Speaker 3: twenty four on the first of October, parted ways November
Speaker 3: twenty five, Happy Thanksgiving, appointed manager of Lega F Club
Speaker 3: at Deportiva dela Caruno. So that's where fren Alonzo is
Speaker 3: right now. So that's your plans, that's your weekend. We've
Speaker 3: laid it all out for you. You know where you
Speaker 3: can go and watch things. You know where we're recommending
Speaker 3: you go watch things. Was a watch party for atlant
Speaker 3: United as well, so you can be a part of
Speaker 3: that as they take on the Purple Team this weekend. Everybody,
Speaker 3: please be safe as always, thanks for hanging out with
Speaker 3: us for another week here of SDHAM. And because it
Speaker 3: is Friday, it's time to put a bow on things,
Speaker 3: which means we get one message to you to wrap
Speaker 3: up the week. Mich of plot y'all played, say here's
Speaker 3: your message. We'll catch up with you soon.
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