Speaker 1: But uh, how how has it been for you getting
Speaker 1: adjusted to everything there on the TV side at Apple TV?
Speaker 2: What's it been like for you?
Speaker 3: Been great?
Speaker 4: Yeah, half the season right now, everything's set up good,
Speaker 4: and you know, I'm very happy to to do what
Speaker 4: I'm do and so you know, I excited to here
Speaker 4: with you again one more time. And you know I'm
Speaker 4: happy for for this opportunity.
Speaker 1: And right now, when you look at the halfway point
Speaker 1: of the MLS season, who has surprised you good or
Speaker 1: bad as a team as to how good they are
Speaker 1: or how bad they are? Who has who has surprised
Speaker 1: you the most this year so far here to the
Speaker 1: halfway point, so.
Speaker 4: Far, Vancouver sur private as a good team. They are
Speaker 4: performing great. And the byside, I got two teams that
Speaker 4: I surprised me. Okay, Atlanta because they spend a lot
Speaker 4: of money and they haven't performed word during the half
Speaker 4: of the season. I'm the champion LA Galaxy. They finally
Speaker 4: got a wing, but still not good enough. So that'sn't
Speaker 4: a surprise that so far in the bad way this
Speaker 4: season for me.
Speaker 1: So all right, so since you're here in Atlanta and
Speaker 1: we're here in Atlanta, we'll go ahead and talk about
Speaker 1: Atlanta a little bit.
Speaker 2: What do you think.
Speaker 1: What has been the big issue for you? Even though
Speaker 1: they have one two of their last three and Ronnie
Speaker 1: Dallas seems to have kind of figured some things out.
Speaker 1: What what what have been the issues that you've been
Speaker 1: looking at? What have been the problems that you've seen?
Speaker 4: In my opinion, they have the resort, they get to
Speaker 4: win the role, but they didn't play well enough. I
Speaker 4: think they need a leadership in the field except Brad.
Speaker 4: I don't see any leadership that's that pup and say here,
Speaker 4: I I do my best for the team. I engage
Speaker 4: the teammate. I think the piece of the team. I
Speaker 4: think Dayla haven't put the piece in the right spot.
Speaker 4: In my opinion, I don't see the commitment they decided
Speaker 4: some time of the team they play. Maybe one half
Speaker 4: good and the other half they slowed down. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't see that commitment from all the play and
Speaker 4: the and the team.
Speaker 3: So I play they do the best, but I don't see.
Speaker 1: So does that does that drive you crazy? As a
Speaker 1: player where you may sit there and you'll see a
Speaker 1: team that you have friends or played on, they'll play
Speaker 1: twenty five or thirty five good minutes and then something
Speaker 1: will happen and then it shuts down and then it
Speaker 1: takes a while for them to get back to where
Speaker 1: they were. Does that drive you crazy?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: But how do we from the coach to lift it
Speaker 4: up or one of the leader of the thing inside
Speaker 4: the thing, like say, let's go guy, we have to
Speaker 4: do it.
Speaker 3: We can make it.
Speaker 4: But I don't see that that guy right now on
Speaker 4: the team like and they feel like, you know, you
Speaker 4: have Brad there bright too far sometimes against but you
Speaker 4: need somebody there in the middle of the field or
Speaker 4: four whell there in the red tangle. I can say,
Speaker 4: let's go guy, lead by sample and made the team
Speaker 4: like perform on five because sometimes you win playing good soccer,
Speaker 4: but sometimes you win with heart.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to need.
Speaker 4: To to win with both now because the good part
Speaker 4: of the soccer. They have a good player, but they
Speaker 4: don't they don't connect together.
Speaker 3: They don't they I don't see like they play like good.
Speaker 4: But they had to perform like to Ken and be
Speaker 4: united to win the gainst.
Speaker 3: It's about like beat United as.
Speaker 1: The Alonso hanging out with us again here from an
Speaker 1: Apple TV plus and all all of the Apple TV
Speaker 1: Plus programming attached to Major League Soccer, so he's traditionally
Speaker 1: a very very busy man on the weekends. As you
Speaker 1: mentioned Los Angeles Galaxy, they seemed at points to try
Speaker 1: and find fun, new and different ways to lose. It
Speaker 1: would be an own goal off of players back in
Speaker 1: like the ninetieth minute. It would be you know, a
Speaker 1: fluke here, a deflection here, the black cloud. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was just a black cloud that was hanging over
Speaker 1: LA Galaxy for the longest time and they finally got
Speaker 1: a win. What's it been like to see a team
Speaker 1: like that not have Ricky Pooge you had, I want
Speaker 1: to say, Joseph painzill was injured early this season, you
Speaker 1: didn't have him and Ricky poohe and then it was
Speaker 1: all on Gabriel Pack and then Peck and Paints will
Speaker 1: get injured. What's it been like for you to see
Speaker 1: LA Galaxy just kind of sit there and go mmm?
Speaker 4: This year, so Bryce, you know, I know you missed
Speaker 4: freaky Pooche Paints from the beginning of the season. You
Speaker 4: missed a lot of good player that joelis he went
Speaker 4: to Kansas City, But in the end they went sixteen
Speaker 4: game without a win. So I don't think the player
Speaker 4: that I have can play that during the season because
Speaker 4: at least you have to get some point. But indeed
Speaker 4: the mistake, collect the mistake, and they do their best
Speaker 4: to win the game. But I don't see that from
Speaker 4: for end. Gussie, You're in the championship the year before,
Speaker 4: and I know you're missing a lot of player, but
Speaker 4: I don't think they they play enough to get resolved
Speaker 4: in the beginning. Now finally they gotta they gotta win,
Speaker 4: but they have to. They are seventeen more game to
Speaker 4: make the playoff and it's gonna be very, very very
Speaker 4: difficult for them.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Uh So, if you were in that locker row and
Speaker 1: you got to tell them, all right, so you will
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, what would you as like the guy
Speaker 1: in charge? You're you're the You're the voice that's gonna
Speaker 1: sit there and point at him and go, you're gonna
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. What are you telling LA? What are
Speaker 1: you telling LA Galaxy players about getting their head screwed
Speaker 1: on straight to where they get into the playoffs? What
Speaker 1: are you telling them and what are you trying to
Speaker 1: make sure?
Speaker 4: First of all, we do like a players meeting, no coach,
Speaker 4: no quman, guy, nothing, only play and we sit there
Speaker 4: and we're talking like hard. We said the truth face
Speaker 4: to face and we said, guy, we have seventeen games
Speaker 4: to go. It's not impossible. It's gonna be difficult, it's
Speaker 4: gonna be hard, but it's on us. So fire motivation
Speaker 4: in your life. It can be your wife, your kids,
Speaker 4: and play for them because they're there watching us playing
Speaker 4: and we're not doing enough to.
Speaker 3: Make the playoffs.
Speaker 4: So for now, we have to find a reason to
Speaker 4: play for and if we want to make the playoffs,
Speaker 4: if we want to turn out this season, we have
Speaker 4: to play with hard and with the.
Speaker 3: Big hard.
Speaker 4: I don't want to say that the war, but we
Speaker 4: have to go there. I forget about every team seventeen
Speaker 4: games past. Now it's the new seasons in the beginning.
Speaker 4: It's our hut. So we have to do the best
Speaker 4: to make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: That's see, did you fill out your all star ballot
Speaker 1: yet yet? Okay, so here's what we'll do. We'll fill
Speaker 1: out your all star ballot here.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: What we'll do is we have the top fives that
Speaker 1: are that are the vote getters so far, so we'll
Speaker 1: go through the seven categories of the top fives, and
Speaker 1: I want to find out if you agree with the
Speaker 1: top five or if you would pick somebody else instead
Speaker 1: of the top five. Let's see how you agree with
Speaker 1: the top fives here. Let's start in net the top five.
Speaker 3: Let me get let me get a paper here.
Speaker 1: Okay, get your paper, Get your paper. Get your paper.
Speaker 1: That's all good. And make sure you got a pen
Speaker 1: that works. Yes, all right, because I got a pen
Speaker 1: that works and I got my paper too. So goalkeeper
Speaker 1: Gallesse Saint Clair taka Oka, Martin Paz or Carlos Krall
Speaker 1: or off the board? Who is your top who is
Speaker 1: your number one keeper?
Speaker 3: Number one keeper? So you you mentioned your Galles, thank Clair?
Speaker 1: Yea, Thencouver, Martin pos In Dallas or Carlos Coronell with
Speaker 1: Red Bulls or somebody else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody else. You don't pick my goal keeper?
Speaker 2: Okay? Who is it?
Speaker 3: Stephen Fry?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right? So what why Stephen Fry?
Speaker 4: You know it is being consistent in the league. I
Speaker 4: know is it this year for a style? I think
Speaker 4: you make a good safe in the big moment for
Speaker 4: Seattle except the last game against Minnesota. You don't allow Tetingo,
Speaker 4: so is the captain for the team is a little
Speaker 4: I think in my opinion, he decided to be there
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 1: So off the board with goalkeepers left back top five
Speaker 1: vote getters so far Jordi Alba, Kaile Wagner, Max Arston
Speaker 1: and Columbus Ryan hollingstaid were lafc or Daniel Lovett's with
Speaker 1: Nashville or is Asie Alanza going off the board?
Speaker 4: I think with bunnye Okay, Philly, yeah, okay, it's been good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were not.
Speaker 4: Left back like he going forward defing where it's one
Speaker 4: of the reasons that Philly is in top in days.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it is Kai Wagner at left back for Osy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Center backs.
Speaker 1: Top five vote getters so far Tristan Blackman and Vancouver,
Speaker 1: Michael Boxall in Minnesota, Jacob Glesnes and Philly, Miles Robinson
Speaker 1: and Cincinnati, Ronco Vesselinovitch in Vancouver.
Speaker 2: Or do you go off the board.
Speaker 3: You say Blackmore and Boxing.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's my two center back, Yeah, because Minnesota is
Speaker 4: I think Saint Clair and Boxing is the main for
Speaker 4: the different I know they had good attack, but the
Speaker 4: main for them is the different and they've been grouped
Speaker 4: Bancoue black Mont. It's being a leader there, scoreding go
Speaker 4: in big moments. So I think I stayed with Blackmore.
Speaker 2: Max Box, Okay, right back?
Speaker 1: Top five Top five vote getters so far Okay Alex,
Speaker 1: Alex Freeman in Orlando and in Nahar in Nashville, Mo
Speaker 1: Farsi and Columbus Griffin Dorsey in Houston, Alex roll Don
Speaker 1: in Seattle. Right back or off the board.
Speaker 4: Okay, Johns player consistent, he got gold, he defend well,
Speaker 4: he's a good promise for the university, for the US.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be in the Gold Cups. So I stayed with.
Speaker 1: With all Right, we got bark Keeler coming up from
Speaker 1: the soccer for US PO D after you and we'll
Speaker 1: discuss the Gold Cup roster coming up being a handful
Speaker 1: of minutes.
Speaker 2: Attacking midfielders. Top five vote getters.
Speaker 1: So far Evander Diego, Luna, Christiana Spinosa and San Jose,
Speaker 1: Lucco Acosta, pet b Ell and Charlotte or you're going
Speaker 1: off the board.
Speaker 3: So messy is attacking or forward forward? Oh?
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, because Espinosa it's been great. A lot of
Speaker 4: band m hmm, Yeah, I kid the team together and
Speaker 4: scoring Gore.
Speaker 3: Uh I stayed with it.
Speaker 2: Okay, you are not alone.
Speaker 3: So he's been good, lot of money for him.
Speaker 4: He's producing, he's scoring god and you know, be together
Speaker 4: with the thing to go pick all right.
Speaker 1: So forwards, Yeah, that messy guy. He's he's in the
Speaker 1: forwards along with Ty Baribo and Philly Brian White and
Speaker 1: Vancouver Denny b Woga with l A. F. C Or
Speaker 1: Anders Dryer in San Diego. So I have to pick
Speaker 1: one those do this one that's not messy, because okay,
Speaker 1: that's an easy one. So gimme, gim me give me
Speaker 1: somebody else.
Speaker 4: I give you this one because when you had to
Speaker 4: pick or the start, he had to be the top
Speaker 4: score in the.
Speaker 3: League, no matter what.
Speaker 2: Okay, so.
Speaker 4: He's being great for the team. He's a leader, little
Speaker 4: score in the league. So he kid the team top
Speaker 4: in the in the eights. So I had to stay
Speaker 4: with Taipario all right, being amazing. He's a great forward.
Speaker 4: He played off the ball when you have a chance,
Speaker 4: one touch Finnie head try food left food is being great.
Speaker 3: So I think Ty bad there in the top forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's saying messy, that's an easy one.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, so it's just like, give me somebody
Speaker 1: else other than that, because that's that's a slam dunk pick.
Speaker 1: All right, defensive midfielder, here's category number seven Sebastian Burhalter
Speaker 1: and Vancouver Sergey Busquets, Yeah, Pei taverskof in San Diego, Darlington,
Speaker 1: Nagby and Columbus or our tour or off the board
Speaker 1: for defensive midfielder.
Speaker 4: I think you pulled a Berte, I say number six, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm going off the board.
Speaker 2: Okay, you didn't mention my.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think Kubas from Vancouver.
Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah with bur Halter's teammate in Cuba's okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think more Berhte like number A like a
Speaker 4: go go forward, a little bit more like a like
Speaker 4: a like people there, like a defend where like when
Speaker 4: he recovered the boy make a good pause all over
Speaker 4: the place.
Speaker 3: I think cool for me has to be there in
Speaker 3: my opinion, all right, been great.
Speaker 4: One of the reasons why Bankoover went to the final
Speaker 4: and CCC, why Bankool is the top in the West.
Speaker 4: I think Kula is being amazing there in the middle,
Speaker 4: keeping the team to care it the balance you play hard,
Speaker 4: defend he connected with the fore way, the defense of
Speaker 4: for me, Kola has to be there.
Speaker 1: Okay, in my opinion, how busy are you this weekend?
Speaker 1: Are you heading north this weekend? Are you staying at home?
Speaker 3: Nicety of home?
Speaker 1: See, now you get to watch the matches. You get
Speaker 1: to watch the matches like everybody else. As always, my friend,
Speaker 1: it's great to see you. Uh you know the ten
Speaker 1: o'clock on Friday mornings. You know you can come in
Speaker 1: at anytime and sit there and go yo, I want
Speaker 1: to talk and find out what's going on the rest
Speaker 1: of the planet. Ozzie, It's always great to see you,
Speaker 1: my friend. Do not be a stranger and crash at
Speaker 1: any time. Have a good weekend watching everything else instead
Speaker 1: of making the trip up to Connecticut. As always, my friend,
Speaker 1: great to see it. We'll catch up with you soon.
Speaker 1: There goes, he goes, Azzie, Alonzo everybody and so that
Speaker 1: that was a surprise. That's a pleasant surprise. That's why
Speaker 1: we like to have the hour of chaos be the
Speaker 1: hour of chaos, because you never know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: And so Ozzie literally pops in. Ozzie's here, he talks
Speaker 1: to Greg Garza, Greg Garza and Azzie Alonzo. They have questions,
Speaker 1: they go back and forth, and so that's the that's
Speaker 1: kind of what we what we like to do here
Speaker 1: when it comes to all this kind of stuff. So
Speaker 1: so there you go Azzie Alonzo in the Hour of
Speaker 1: Chaos and uh, we get to catch up with Ozzy
Speaker 1: and Ozzie's getting to in his first season with Apple TV.
Speaker 1: Plus he gets to be uh, he gets to be
Speaker 1: an analyst, gets to do some studio work, gets to
Speaker 1: do a zoom in, gets to do the pregame stuff,
Speaker 1: and it's always fun to catch up with Ozzie and
Speaker 1: find out what's going on as he is learning the
Speaker 1: whole TV thing.