Speaker 1: I feel I feel like Michael, I feel like you
Speaker 1: had you got to have your proud father moment in
Speaker 1: the open copy.
Speaker 2: Am I wrong?
Speaker 3: I mean I no, You're not wrong. Would have been
Speaker 3: prouder had the result gone our way. But the performance
Speaker 3: was good. It was a little unlucky and uh, but
Speaker 3: all in all a tremendous week for the club and
Speaker 3: the stadium. So no complaints at all.
Speaker 2: So when you got up there, walk me through.
Speaker 1: It was going through your mind as you're seeing everything,
Speaker 1: It's like, oh wow, this barn is really, you know,
Speaker 1: fricking awesome. And then you have New England come to
Speaker 1: town and everything that's attached to all that.
Speaker 2: Walk me through your weeks.
Speaker 3: I got to the stadium Friday at about seven forty
Speaker 3: five in the morning, and two things. One, pictures don't
Speaker 3: do the stadium justice as far as like, it's much
Speaker 3: nicer in person and really cool right there on the
Speaker 3: water and you know, weather helps. Number Two. I was
Speaker 3: stunned at oh my god, there's eighty million little things
Speaker 3: that still need to be done around here. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: So it was all hands on deck. I was at
Speaker 3: the stadium from seven to forty five until about nine
Speaker 3: to thirty pm all day, left for an hour and
Speaker 3: a half for lunch. And yeah, it was incredible the
Speaker 3: amount of work that people put into that stadium. I
Speaker 3: mean obviously for weeks leading up, but just even the
Speaker 3: last twenty four hours before the game just amazing. So yeah,
Speaker 3: definitely a huge team effort. But yeah, so that was
Speaker 3: all day Friday. We had an event there Friday night
Speaker 3: for some VIPs and that went really well. And then
Speaker 3: Saturday got there around twelve thirty, attended a tailgate party
Speaker 3: for a little bit, walked around the stadium, did the
Speaker 3: march to the match, helped out around the stadium with
Speaker 3: just some little things with people helping out, and then yeah,
Speaker 3: I went inside and enjoyed the game.
Speaker 2: And eight eighty seven.
Speaker 3: This is Saturday zero.
Speaker 2: Oh, Saturday zero zero. I was thinking open.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, we had, you know, huge chances to win
Speaker 3: the game. They had a couple of big chances that
Speaker 3: coldly made some stays. It was a good game. We
Speaker 3: were down a few starters against a very good team
Speaker 3: in San Antonio, So a draw going into the game
Speaker 3: I would have taken. I would have rather have been
Speaker 3: three to three than zero zero. But no, it was
Speaker 3: a it was a great, great day. And it absolutely
Speaker 3: downpoured in like the eighty eighth minute, eighty ninth minute,
Speaker 3: like a southern storm that rolled in for about five
Speaker 3: six minutes, just absolutely downpourd and the fans that stayed
Speaker 3: out and didn't go undercover, they got louder and they
Speaker 3: really enjoyed themselves. And then a nice rainbow came over
Speaker 3: and that's how the game finished. And we had a
Speaker 3: huge chance in like the ninety second, ninety third minute.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's just a really really good day.
Speaker 1: And ten thousand and seven hundred at the bank, you
Speaker 1: know these listed is listed in the official notes in
Speaker 1: the league as the stadium at Tidewater Landing, but the
Speaker 1: Bank is now there. You mentioned all the little things this.
Speaker 1: I have this vision of you, like chasing after things.
Speaker 1: It's like you're looking at paint and you're edging with
Speaker 1: paint with a toothbrush, and you've got the painter's tape out,
Speaker 1: you know, all these kinds of things. Am I far
Speaker 1: off here? It's like, what were you doing? What were
Speaker 1: you doing to make this happen?
Speaker 2: Sir?
Speaker 3: I had a few different jobs on the day. One
Speaker 3: there were chairs that meant to be like on our
Speaker 3: four corners of the stadium. We have loges and the
Speaker 3: chairs that belong in the lojes where some for some reason,
Speaker 3: like on ground level off to the side of the stadium.
Speaker 3: So all those chairs needed to get repositioned. We had
Speaker 3: to bring a one of those big beverage containers, you know,
Speaker 3: it's like a five foot beverage container thing. We had
Speaker 3: to bring that up into the press box trash here
Speaker 3: and there. I didn't pick up a paintbrush, so that
Speaker 3: was good.
Speaker 2: Please tell me that there's video or pictures of you
Speaker 2: doing all this stuff.
Speaker 3: I hope not. I hope not, but just pitching it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: There was.
Speaker 3: There was a whole list of things on a big
Speaker 3: whiteboard that you know. The staff was constantly just crossing
Speaker 3: things off all day. And you know, our comms director
Speaker 3: sent me emails at like three thirty in the morning
Speaker 3: on Thursday night, so you know him. You know, everybody
Speaker 3: was just working hours and hours to get this going.
Speaker 3: Incredible sounds.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you all crashed the second you got
Speaker 1: back to the to your respective rooms late Saturday night.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I got back to my house at like one
Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning on Sunday night, Monday morning, and
Speaker 3: you know, I was up with the kids at six
Speaker 3: and I was exhausted. When they went to school, I crashed.
Speaker 3: So that was needed. I can't imagine those people that
Speaker 3: you know have been grinding and then you know, turn around.
Speaker 3: We had a rugby match on Sunday, we had the
Speaker 3: Open Cup on Wednesday, We've got another game tomorrow. It's
Speaker 3: just crazy first week at the stadium.
Speaker 1: Does does it feel like it was X number of
Speaker 1: years ago when you decided you were diving into this
Speaker 1: venture with Rhode Island FC to carry it to this
Speaker 1: past week where you've had ten thousand and seven hundred,
Speaker 1: you had, you had the game with San Antonio, you
Speaker 1: had Open Cup, You've had rugby, you had all these
Speaker 1: things going into this venue. Does it seem like it
Speaker 1: was long ago? Or does it seem like it was
Speaker 1: yesterday and you're like, damn all this happened all of
Speaker 1: a sudden.
Speaker 3: In just respect to this project, it seems it seems forever. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it seems long, just because there are so many ups
Speaker 3: and downs and so much bs along the way and
Speaker 3: red tape and like, oh my god, is this project
Speaker 3: going to die right here in front of us. But
Speaker 3: you know, when I think back to other things that
Speaker 3: have gone on five years ago, six years ago, I'm like, gosh,
Speaker 3: I can't believe it. Like my retirement, I'm like, jeez,
Speaker 3: I can't believe it was already that long, you know. So,
Speaker 3: but no, the project itself has seemed like a long
Speaker 3: long time just because of some of the stresses that
Speaker 3: have come along with it. But uh yeah, it's it's
Speaker 3: been incredible, and now a complete focus is a training ground.
Speaker 1: So I mean that's you know, I give somebody with
Speaker 1: a startup idea massive credit for trying to piece something
Speaker 1: like this together, having the idea to do it in
Speaker 1: the first place, and then you're going, yeah, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and do it, and then all you really you
Speaker 1: realize that there's all of this work that goes into
Speaker 1: this idea of whatever that idea is that you're trying
Speaker 1: to germinate from, and then finally seeing that first step
Speaker 1: and you're like, okay, that's a great first step, and
Speaker 1: then you got to dust off and it's like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: now the real work begins. We got to this point
Speaker 1: of the beginning, and now it's sustaining going from going
Speaker 1: from that moment.
Speaker 3: Forward totally, totally, and we've said that to the staff,
Speaker 3: like this is amazing. But now, how do we take
Speaker 3: advantage of it? How do we turn people that just
Speaker 3: want to come to a game every now and then
Speaker 3: into fans who want to get every game no matter
Speaker 3: the weather or the opponents or the time a year whatever.
Speaker 3: So that's the challenge now, and that's a great challenge.
Speaker 3: We should have almost a sold out stadium again on Saturday.
Speaker 3: We basically sold it out against the Revs on Wednesday
Speaker 3: and that was fun and exciting and an awesome opportunity.
Speaker 3: And but yeah, it's it's yeah, it's never ending. So yeah,
Speaker 3: the training ground is definitely a big priority of mine.
Speaker 1: And where where are your schematics and all of your
Speaker 1: drawings and your to do list when it comes to
Speaker 1: the training ground? Where where's your notebook about Okay, is
Speaker 1: this this, this, this?
Speaker 3: This?
Speaker 2: Does that hidden away? Well, where's your notebook on the
Speaker 2: training ground?
Speaker 3: Not even at that point yet, John, It's more big
Speaker 3: picture stuff. Does it have to be o z Land
Speaker 3: like an opportunity zone which affects taxes and all this
Speaker 3: other stuff?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: So does it have to be that? Can we be
Speaker 3: out side of that, getting partners and finding land and
Speaker 3: basically how big of a space do we need and
Speaker 3: who can partner with us? And you know, those types
Speaker 3: of things before I go in and say, okay, bare minimum,
Speaker 3: what do we need? Best case scenario? What do we want?
Speaker 3: You know? And thankfully we've got a very very very
Speaker 3: good team admin guy who's been around for a long time,
Speaker 3: so he could he could tell me what we need
Speaker 3: and want very quickly.
Speaker 1: All right, time to take the left turn and talk
Speaker 1: about what happens with at Landy United and how we
Speaker 1: can apply that going forward.
Speaker 2: I know that we have.
Speaker 1: We talked about quicksand a lot we talk about those
Speaker 1: kinds of things. How how much passive with everything going
Speaker 1: on in Rhode Island, how much passive interest to you
Speaker 1: know looking at scores and things like that. Were you
Speaker 1: looking at with at Land United in Nashville last time out?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I didn't see the game, but I saw the
Speaker 3: highlights followed it a little bit. Have read a little bit,
Speaker 3: and yeah, disappointing, especially in a second half where you
Speaker 3: know you're tied and it's a home game and we're struggling.
Speaker 3: You'd think that we would have been the aggressors and
Speaker 3: been on top. So to see that, you know, we
Speaker 3: were second best in the second half and you know,
Speaker 3: honestly fortunate to get a draw rather than you know,
Speaker 3: really unlucky that you know, and they've had a couple
Speaker 3: unlucky results during this run. But yeah, I think that
Speaker 3: was disappointing for sure.
Speaker 1: So when you have a when you have a lead
Speaker 1: and you're trying to not make mistakes and preserve that
Speaker 1: lead with everything that has happened in recent history, when
Speaker 1: you're talking to your mentees about, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: preserve something, it's like, Okay, something good happens after a
Speaker 1: run of bad has happened, however you want to phrase bad,
Speaker 1: something good happens, and trying to build off of a
Speaker 1: good thing after a run of bad things. When you
Speaker 1: have these conversations with your mentees, how do they respond
Speaker 1: about that moment, that one moment of good and you're
Speaker 1: trying to get them to build on it and trying
Speaker 1: not to be have them be afraid of that good moment,
Speaker 1: which I think at times sometimes during this run you
Speaker 1: might be afraid of success. Do you talk to your
Speaker 1: mentees about dealing with success and not being afraid of
Speaker 1: it when you have that one moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally. And even as you're talking, I'm thinking about
Speaker 3: injuries too. It's the same thing of not being afraid
Speaker 3: to be healthy, and that is a thing. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: really tough because you know, when I'm thinking about it,
Speaker 3: I'm like at Lenni and Ida has never really been
Speaker 3: built to just win one zero, right, that's not the
Speaker 3: identity of the club. So I guess yet that it's
Speaker 3: difficult when you haven't won and you get a lead
Speaker 3: to say, okay, can we just and win one zero?
Speaker 3: Because man, I'd want them to have the approach of like, hey,
Speaker 3: we're playing at home, you know, with all due respect
Speaker 3: to an average Nashville team, like let's pound them, let's
Speaker 3: set it and set the standard here, get back to
Speaker 3: it and win this game three zero. You know, it's
Speaker 3: there for the taking. You know, Nashville obviously is a
Speaker 3: decent team, but no one's going to say that they're
Speaker 3: one of the best in MLS. And I know that
Speaker 3: they just put seven on Chicago the week before, so
Speaker 3: you know, it's probably not right for me to say that,
Speaker 3: but it's the truth, and you know, so yeah, just
Speaker 3: unbelievably crazy. Right now, they're in Atlanta. But as far
Speaker 3: as with mentees, yeah, you we definitely want them to hey,
Speaker 3: focus on our positives and definitely to your point of
Speaker 3: not being afraid of success, because it takes a lot
Speaker 3: to have success and they put in a lot of work,
Speaker 3: and so we want to celebrate those successes when we
Speaker 3: have them and know that you've earned them. These successes
Speaker 3: aren't lucky. But you're right, teams players can be scared
Speaker 3: of success and scared of health when they're not used
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 1: How do you get in your messaging and in the
Speaker 1: conversations that you have with Greg, how do you how
Speaker 1: do you guys sit there and kind of grab them
Speaker 1: into by the shoulders or whatever and point to the
Speaker 1: empirical evidence. It's like, look, you can do this, We've
Speaker 1: seen it. I know that with peer pressure and a
Speaker 1: lot of things that you know that are environmental, it
Speaker 1: sometimes is really difficult to push through and accept that
Speaker 1: first good moment and sit there and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: we can add to it. You know, how do you
Speaker 1: how do you impress upon a mentee? You know, it's like, look,
Speaker 1: you've done this. How difficult is it? To impress upon
Speaker 1: a men tee to build on success these days, because
Speaker 1: you know the whole put some dirt on it, rub
Speaker 1: it and get back out their generation. That's you know,
Speaker 1: that's when I was in school back in the late
Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds. But I would imagine it's different. But when
Speaker 1: you have these kinds of conversations, what are they like about,
Speaker 1: you know, perseverance and pushing through?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we say, you know, if if it seems too big,
Speaker 3: you know, then the first step just needs to be smaller. Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: take a small win, right to take a take a
Speaker 3: good half and be happy with that and then start
Speaker 3: again fresh second half. Okay, get a win the second half,
Speaker 3: you know that type of thing when when and if
Speaker 3: you're somebody that get subbed in summed oubt, like, just
Speaker 3: win that time period that you're on the field, right,
Speaker 3: feel good about that win, reset, and go win the
Speaker 3: next one when you're out there. Right, So we just
Speaker 3: try and chunk it a little bit to try and build.
Speaker 3: Like you said, build upon successes is definitely an easy
Speaker 3: way to gain confidence and to grow into it. So
Speaker 3: helping them just reframe of what is a win and
Speaker 3: how can I feel good about myself? Because those things
Speaker 3: can change right from player to player, and within a game,
Speaker 3: those goalposts are always changing. And you know, if we
Speaker 3: need small wins, we can create small wins to feel
Speaker 3: good about that, to build up and hopefully build upon
Speaker 3: bigger wins.
Speaker 1: How difficult is it to have them focus on a
Speaker 1: small win because I know that they want to focus
Speaker 1: on the big picture and the finish line and all
Speaker 1: these things. You know, it's like, Okay, we gotta lead
Speaker 1: and you know, winning and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But sometimes sequential is the best way to go about it.
Speaker 1: But I know that we're all into the instant gratification
Speaker 1: these days, and it's like the quick result, and it's
Speaker 1: like focusing on the end instead of focusing on everything
Speaker 1: in the middle to get to the end.
Speaker 2: Is it? How different is it to sit there.
Speaker 1: And remind them about the small stuff to get to
Speaker 1: the larger stuff when we all want to jump to
Speaker 1: the end of the book to find out who committed
Speaker 1: the murder.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Sure, And what we try and tell them is,
Speaker 3: you know, if you start a big picture season, right,
Speaker 3: it's all a bunch of smaller games, And a game
Speaker 3: is all a bunch of smaller moments. So these small
Speaker 3: moments matter. Every small moment within a game dictates how
Speaker 3: the game goes from there on out. And so, yeah,
Speaker 3: we want to win our little moments. And you know,
Speaker 3: every moment doesn't necessarily mean a winn or a loss, obviously,
Speaker 3: but they can be small things that we can build
Speaker 3: upon and they set the tone for the game. And
Speaker 3: so yeah, you know, and we also talk about we
Speaker 3: can separate team performance from the individual performance, right, so, okay,
Speaker 3: focus on the individual performance here for a minute, and
Speaker 3: win your battles. Do what you need to do, and
Speaker 3: if everybody on the team is doing that, the team
Speaker 3: is going to be able to do that as a group. Now,
Speaker 3: of course, there's times where okay, we need to focus
Speaker 3: on the team and what's best for the team, and
Speaker 3: you know as far as like oh do I need
Speaker 3: to pass this ball or shoot this ball, or do
Speaker 3: I go for my hat trick? Or do I play
Speaker 3: like a good teammate and things like that, But those
Speaker 3: are you know, different times, and you know, more of
Speaker 3: the time we have to say, okay, how can I
Speaker 3: help my team? What are the small wins that I
Speaker 3: can create? Because again, small moments, that's what leads to
Speaker 3: big moments.
Speaker 1: How difficult is it to separate being afraid to fail
Speaker 1: and understanding that failures can lead to successes because I
Speaker 1: know at times they seem like there are one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty degrees from each other, but I think that
Speaker 1: there are times when they can blend and you can
Speaker 1: learn from one to the other. How do you get
Speaker 1: them to understand that there's a blend here, that bad
Speaker 1: can lead to good instead of having the bad way
Speaker 1: you down and turn it into more things that could
Speaker 1: be bad.
Speaker 3: It's tough. That's one of the toughest things And what
Speaker 3: makes it even tougher is parents on the sideline freaking
Speaker 3: out over every play, every loss, and everything, because then
Speaker 3: the kids are picking up on that, saying, well, losing
Speaker 3: is so bad, And yeah, of course we want to
Speaker 3: breed some competitiveness and the desire to win, for sure,
Speaker 3: but no doubt, you can't have success without losing. And
Speaker 3: we say athletes, they lose the most out of any
Speaker 3: person and job out there. Right. If a person that
Speaker 3: didn't have an athletic job lost and didn't have success
Speaker 3: as much as an athlete did, they'd get fired, they'd
Speaker 3: lose their job. But we as athletes can lose and
Speaker 3: we lose a lot, and you're going to lose a
Speaker 3: lot and that's going to happen. And so how can
Speaker 3: you learn from it? How can you get better from it? Right?
Speaker 3: Is it poor me? Why me? It's not my fault?
Speaker 3: Coach's fault? This that right? Or do you take ownership?
Speaker 3: And if you can take ownership of things and grow
Speaker 3: from it, you'll lose a lot less in the long run.
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Speaker 1: You know, when you discuss failure and being in a
Speaker 1: funk and snapping out of it and all these kinds
Speaker 1: of things, I would imagine. I mean, you mentioned failure
Speaker 1: and athletes. I mean what Tony Gwinn was a failure
Speaker 1: seventy percent of the time, and he's a Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: you know, and that's I don't think that folks may
Speaker 1: necessarily look at it that way. Yeah, Tony Gwenn, he
Speaker 1: was a career, you know, three thirty five hitter. He
Speaker 1: failed two out of three times, and he's one of
Speaker 1: the best that ever performed in his sport. When you
Speaker 1: got into a funk as a as a professional athlete,
Speaker 1: how did you shake yourself out of it? And do
Speaker 1: you get to apply those same kinds of principles today
Speaker 1: as a mentor to the next generation to get them
Speaker 1: out of funds?
Speaker 3: Yeah, getting into funks is challenging and sometimes it can
Speaker 3: happen quick for whatever reason. And you know, for me,
Speaker 3: there were definitely some moments where I just felt like
Speaker 3: I wasn't playing great, was I playing terrible? Like no,
Speaker 3: I wasn't playing terrible game in and game out. But
Speaker 3: you know, there were moments and runs where it was like, man,
Speaker 3: I'm just not playing up to the standard and that,
Speaker 3: or it was like every mistake I'm making right now
Speaker 3: is leading to a goal Versus when things are going well,
Speaker 3: as a defender, you could trip over the ball and
Speaker 3: give the guy a breakaway and he shanks it or
Speaker 3: the goalie saves it or whatever. But when things aren't
Speaker 3: going well, you make one half bad pass, they pick
Speaker 3: it off, one pass in the back of the net,
Speaker 3: and it just seems like there's moments and there's runs
Speaker 3: that you go on and that happens. I don't know why,
Speaker 3: It's just the way it is. And really nothing can
Speaker 3: get you out of it other than staying the course
Speaker 3: and continuing to show up at practice and do the
Speaker 3: small things and you know, get back to enjoying the game,
Speaker 3: because when you're in these moments, it's easy not to
Speaker 3: enjoy it and just complain about anything and everything. But
Speaker 3: that becomes really contagious within the locker room that I've seen.
Speaker 3: So uh yeah, I hope that the environment at Elani
Speaker 3: and Eider right now is not that. And maybe that's
Speaker 3: why they brought the therapy dogs in the other day.
Speaker 1: Hey look, I mean you know what Deacon does for
Speaker 1: you inside the Parkhurst household?
Speaker 2: Am I right?
Speaker 3: Sure do?
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: So it's like Deacon's the boss or a boss b
Speaker 1: and it's like it's the whole there you go. I
Speaker 1: don't think Deacon has moved since the last time we talked.
Speaker 2: But but and that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, when you are when you're surrounded
Speaker 1: by or when negative energy is around you. I think that.
Speaker 1: So then let me ask this. We know what negative
Speaker 1: energy can be. What is more contagious these days, in
Speaker 1: the conversations that you have with your mentees, negative energy
Speaker 1: spreading or positive energy spreading.
Speaker 3: Well, it's proven that negativity spreads a lot faster than positivity. Okay,
Speaker 3: so that has the power to be more contagious, much
Speaker 3: more easily. But positivity can also affect other people and
Speaker 3: be contagious, no doubt about it. It's just that that's
Speaker 3: why it says, you know, one bad apple, right, and
Speaker 3: one bad apple can really affect quickly a group a
Speaker 3: lot faster than one positive person can bring positivity with
Speaker 3: them throughout a whole group. So that's that's a challenge,
Speaker 3: and that's why you try not to have too many
Speaker 3: of those guys around. Yeah, but speaking of that, I
Speaker 3: really like the question Emilio put out there when we're
Speaker 3: talking about positivity, because you know, he asks about a
Speaker 3: home crowd, can it be too much at times and
Speaker 3: cause anxiety? It's not a stupid question at all, because
Speaker 3: I literally think that's what's going on in Manchester United,
Speaker 3: and when I watch them play and I hear the crowd,
Speaker 3: and you know, especially when you see Anthony do so
Speaker 3: poorly for Manchester United leave and then all of a
Speaker 3: sudden go back to the player he was at where
Speaker 3: it was PSV, you know now that he's in Spain.
Speaker 3: And I definitely definitely think a home crowd can play
Speaker 3: a factor in this. And now I'm not blaming a
Speaker 3: home crowd. I think players need to be able to
Speaker 3: stand up and put their shoulders up and you know,
Speaker 3: stick their chest out and bring it on and really
Speaker 3: rise above it. But you know, you don't want to
Speaker 3: disappoint a crowd, and you know that, oh shoot, if
Speaker 3: we don't play well, they might boo us. And you
Speaker 3: know they have high expectations. And so that's why sometimes
Speaker 3: teams play a little bit better on the road where
Speaker 3: they don't have the pressure of needing to win or
Speaker 3: expecting to win in front of their home crowd. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it's tough, but every player would rather have a huge
Speaker 3: home crowd than not, so they need to be able
Speaker 3: to deal with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you look at the idea of we've been
Speaker 1: talking with Greg, and Greg has been mentioning about competitive
Speaker 1: stress and things like that, I would think that competitive
Speaker 1: stress is multiplied at home, especially as things are not
Speaker 1: going well and everybody talks about, you know, hey, getting
Speaker 1: away from home, and it might be you know something
Speaker 1: to to flip the switch and have you go the
Speaker 1: other way when it comes to you know, competitive stress
Speaker 1: and in a in a home arena environment, did you
Speaker 1: want to break? Did you want to get off the
Speaker 1: schneid more at home? Or just get off the schnid
Speaker 1: wherever it happened and then build on it from there.
Speaker 1: Did it mean more when you when you snap a streak,
Speaker 1: you know, personally at home or just whenever I did it?
Speaker 2: I did it and then build out it from there?
Speaker 3: It didn't matter, didn't matter at all home or away,
Speaker 3: you know, own goal or five zero performance, literally take whatever. Honestly,
Speaker 3: sometimes I think it a little bit more away from
Speaker 3: home because it's tougher to win away from home, and
Speaker 3: sometimes I can bond a group a little bit, right,
Speaker 3: and then usually the next games at home, okay, can
Speaker 3: we build on this versus you know, you're supposed to
Speaker 3: win your home games, especially against most teams. Right, there's
Speaker 3: very few teams in MLS where they come into the
Speaker 3: benz and like we might not win this one, yeah, right,
Speaker 3: But most teams that come in you you expect to win.
Speaker 3: So that's where the expectations can lead to more pressure
Speaker 3: and more.
Speaker 1: Stress nothing like all, all right, So let me go
Speaker 1: with Dell here, what was the what was the favorite
Speaker 1: time of day to play matches or midday?
Speaker 3: I disliked the most a one pm game.
Speaker 2: The first one out of the blocks, uh huh.
Speaker 3: Uh huh or earlier, and those were rare usually for
Speaker 3: some reason, Canadians like those, so every now and then
Speaker 3: we had them. And the reason why I disliked it
Speaker 3: the most is because your pregame meal you're having at
Speaker 3: like eight o'clock or nine o'clock in the morning, and
Speaker 3: it's just weird. You know, You're used to having you know,
Speaker 3: chicken and pasta and that type of stuff, and so
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, you know, are you waking
Speaker 3: up at six o'clock to have breakfast so then you
Speaker 3: can have a normal pregame meal or you're just having
Speaker 3: one meal. You know, it's weird. So I really disliked
Speaker 3: any thing before like three o'clock. That said, I really
Speaker 3: like like anywhere between a four and a six pm
Speaker 3: kickoff most of the time. Most of the time, he says,
Speaker 3: it gets there's different factors that come into it. Because
Speaker 3: I love the early kickoff, because a seven thirty game
Speaker 3: it's really difficult after the game to eat, you know,
Speaker 3: hydrate and get a good, nice sleep. It's very, very
Speaker 3: difficult home or away, and so that was a challenge always.
Speaker 3: But if it's hot out, I'd rather kick off at
Speaker 3: nine pm, I don't care.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: So you know, if you're playing in Orlando basically anytime
Speaker 3: of year, seven thirty great, But if you're playing at
Speaker 3: the Bends, yeah, give me a nice five o'clock kickoff.
Speaker 1: Perfect, And so Dell kind of answers that. It brings
Speaker 1: another question in that would kind of relate to your
Speaker 1: time there in Rhode Island and getting tidewater, landing.
Speaker 2: Off and running. It's sleep, but all after an intense game.
Speaker 3: It's tough, especially in the late game, right. You just
Speaker 3: you get on this high and it's very difficult to
Speaker 3: come back down after the game. Right. So yeah, there's
Speaker 3: it's not uncommon for guys to be up until like one, two,
Speaker 3: three o'clock in the morning after a game just because
Speaker 3: you're wired and you just can't you just can't rest, right,
Speaker 3: You're physically tired, but the brain won't shut off of
Speaker 3: the mind, and you know, it's difficult. So yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 1: So after you got to move chairs and move drink
Speaker 1: machines and everything, and the match againt san Antonio. Did
Speaker 1: you crash immediately or were you still up until two
Speaker 1: or three o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3: No, I mean it was a four thirty game. So
Speaker 3: I went out to dinner with some people afterwards, and
Speaker 3: you know, we actually called it. I was expecting maybe
Speaker 3: that we'd have a kind of a rowdy night, but
Speaker 3: everyone was so tired that I was asleep by ten thirty.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: That does not surprise me one bit, because everything that
Speaker 1: you've invested to that particular point makes perfect sense. Okay,
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