Speaker 1: We had a bit of a late night, sir. That's
Speaker 1: what we've been discussing in hour number one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was on the desk. I know.
Speaker 1: Atlanta United has gone from the ten chance to getting
Speaker 1: into the playoffs getting some help.
Speaker 3: So I guess let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go all the way back to Decision Day, since
Speaker 1: it's been a while since we've had the chance to
Speaker 1: catch up with you. Overall thoughts on Decision Day in general,
Speaker 1: the West saved its chaos till the bitter.
Speaker 3: End, and I mean like the end of the end, and.
Speaker 1: It was well done by our friends at MLS three
Speaker 1: sixty and Apple TV and how that was handled, the
Speaker 1: beauty of multiple screens, and then the chaos in the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference.
Speaker 3: So if you would.
Speaker 1: Please, sir, your observations on the chaos in general getting
Speaker 1: out of the regular season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah. The short of it is, this
Speaker 2: decision Jay doesn't disappoint right. The cool thing about it was,
Speaker 2: I feel like after like the biggest drama was in
Speaker 2: the East, right, because you had four teams fighting for
Speaker 2: two spots, various you know, possibilities. Atlanta needed like seventeen
Speaker 2: things that happened right for them and then when that
Speaker 2: finishes and now you go, you know, you have a
Speaker 2: slight break, right man, I think it's gonna be thirty
Speaker 2: minutes and you go into the next the Western Conference games.
Speaker 2: Like for the longest while, we just felt like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is kind of underwhelming, like you know, it's ho
Speaker 2: hum here, right, and then yeah, it kicks in the gear.
Speaker 2: And it's funny too because if you remember God all
Speaker 2: these decisions. But I feel like it wasn't it last
Speaker 2: year when or was it two years ago? There was
Speaker 2: a decision I think it went against LA where Salt
Speaker 2: Lake what the hell was it? Salt Lake had a
Speaker 2: like a like a it didn't go to VR or
Speaker 2: or the VR went like some crazy decision that got
Speaker 2: missed or something resulted in I think LA getting bounced
Speaker 2: out of the out of the playoffs, and.
Speaker 1: A lot of Vanny got really mad about it. Yeah
Speaker 1: I remember that, so uh so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, flash forward and now, like you said, right, like
Speaker 2: you know, the funny thing is when you have simultaneous kickoffs,
Speaker 2: you get it right because there's no advantage, but you
Speaker 2: really hope that somewhere there's like more stoppage time than
Speaker 2: the rest because you get situations like we had where
Speaker 2: you know, fans watching on phones. I mean, first of all,
Speaker 2: did they not have Apple TV at at the Bank
Speaker 2: of Stadium, right, Like they couldn't just pop that on
Speaker 2: and have it on the main The thought goreboard right
Speaker 2: instead of having all the fans to watch on their phones.
Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, how cool is that?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Like just the the pendulum swings that we had at
Speaker 2: the at the very death, literally right of of of
Speaker 2: the regular season. That was that was trip. That was terrific.
Speaker 1: And you end up with the Uh, let's let's start
Speaker 1: with the Eastern Conference and work our way in the timeline.
Speaker 1: You had uh, you had Philly collapse, you had DC collapse,
Speaker 1: her have a collapse or collapse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then and then and then they then they
Speaker 2: had to be the ones watching the whole drama unfold
Speaker 2: with uh, with Atlanta and Montreal.
Speaker 1: And and you had Troy la scene and the team
Speaker 1: after they realized they did not make the postseason have
Speaker 1: their meeting and I'm guessing in the the the meeting
Speaker 1: on the pitch it was like, okay, we didn't make it.
Speaker 1: Whatever else that was said was said. And then they
Speaker 1: go over and talk to the Ultras behind the net,
Speaker 1: and I guess took the slings and arrows and tried
Speaker 1: to applaud the Ultras for being there and everything, and
Speaker 1: the the Ultras for DC United were less than pleased
Speaker 1: in the in the players stood and took it, you know,
Speaker 1: And it was a rather one sided conversation. I'm fairly
Speaker 1: sure while you had Troy Lacine and DC United plotting,
Speaker 1: who was there still?
Speaker 2: But also, if you're the Ultras, if you're any fan base,
Speaker 2: right like, how does your team lay an egg of
Speaker 2: that proportion, right like on the final day of the season,
Speaker 2: and you didn't even need right they needed a point,
Speaker 2: didn't they? They didn't even need three. And then it's
Speaker 2: not like they lost one nil on a dodgy pk
Speaker 2: mm hmm, like they got thoroughly outplayed three nil. That's
Speaker 2: a bad look.
Speaker 3: Not that close. It was. It was an it was
Speaker 3: an ugly showing.
Speaker 1: And and then you mentioned the and this was the
Speaker 1: other thing that concerned me is that the second half
Speaker 1: didn't have unified starts because you had I mean, you
Speaker 1: had the first half start at six ' ten. Everybody
Speaker 1: else started there. Second half didn't have unified start times
Speaker 1: because I think Atlanta was one of the last ones
Speaker 1: to start in the second half because of the amount
Speaker 1: of minutes that had been carried over in the first
Speaker 1: forty five.
Speaker 3: So traditionally, what you and I are used.
Speaker 1: To seeing in the decision day over in Britain with
Speaker 1: the brim is that you have second half starts, even
Speaker 1: first half starts, even everybody's waiting around trying to figure
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 3: But you didn't have that in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: So even with the advantage of time and you starting
Speaker 1: ahead of time, you had to wait that much longer
Speaker 1: to come up with a decision, and so you still
Speaker 1: ended up with folks sitting there going and pulling what's
Speaker 1: left of their hair out.
Speaker 2: And you know, listen for me, I'm and we've had
Speaker 2: this conversation just because of the nature of my job.
Speaker 2: I'm literally always every match night for thirty eight match
Speaker 2: nights on MLS three sixty. That's a good day to
Speaker 2: be on it, even if you're just a casual fan,
Speaker 2: right like, because of the whip around and because of
Speaker 2: the chaotic nature of a chaotic league, especially on his
Speaker 2: final day of the regular season.
Speaker 1: And that happened in the Western Conference because you had
Speaker 1: going in the idea of Lag and LA f C
Speaker 1: chasing after it, and then it took a late equalizer
Speaker 1: for Lag to be back on top. Then it was
Speaker 1: a late goal. Then it was the chaos that was
Speaker 1: attached to all of that, where you're thinking, okay, it's
Speaker 1: Lags and then it turns into la f C's and.
Speaker 2: Daniel steris yes, like if you're if you're, if you
Speaker 2: if you've got a board up right, and like who's
Speaker 2: scoring the late winner or the late decisive goal here
Speaker 2: for Houston? Uh huh, Daniel Stairs isn't going to be
Speaker 2: your guy?
Speaker 3: No, no, no.
Speaker 2: Right and against his former team.
Speaker 1: Yes, And the Marlin goal proved out to be a
Speaker 1: goal difference difference maker because if everything was locked down
Speaker 1: with the number of points, then the Marlin goal ends
Speaker 1: up being the goal that gets them that particular category
Speaker 1: if it had come down to it. So you had
Speaker 1: chaos upon chaos if you stayed up until what I Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: traditionally twelve thirty or so, but now this time around,
Speaker 1: it was only like eleven thirty watching everything going on
Speaker 1: in the western half of the planet, So it wasn't
Speaker 1: it wasn't as bad of a late night, but it
Speaker 1: was still a late night.
Speaker 3: It's always a late night, yes, and that's absolutely true.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to the postseason, well, I guess
Speaker 1: this is almost senior superlatives time. But what team worries
Speaker 1: you the most? Who do you not want to face
Speaker 1: in the East right now? And who in the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference do you think is the team that can be
Speaker 1: bumped off the easiest? Which which one concerns you for
Speaker 1: being a seated team that could get bumped out early?
Speaker 1: And what team do you not want to face right now?
Speaker 2: All right? So bumped off first? Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, how you can take it?
Speaker 2: How have you wish Cincinnati? They've they've limped, I mean
Speaker 2: literally down down the stretch with all of their injuries.
Speaker 2: They never looked to be the same team that they've been.
Speaker 2: And they face now a dangerous ny CFC team. Right,
Speaker 2: that's that on their best day, you know, all right
Speaker 2: there with the best in in in the league. So
Speaker 2: seeded teams, Yeah, I would say that's a team right
Speaker 2: like that, at least in the East, I think has
Speaker 2: the best chance to get knocked off. We can, we
Speaker 2: can go conference to conference and then in the West,
Speaker 2: uh yeah, Columbus, Like it's like it's Columbus, like I,
Speaker 2: it's funny, Like I I still feel like I'm one
Speaker 2: of these I don't know, like not non believer, I guess,
Speaker 2: And I don't know. Am I a non believer in
Speaker 2: in Miami? It's hard to be at this, I don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, because I think.
Speaker 2: Head to head the crew are better.
Speaker 3: Yes, I would agree.
Speaker 2: Right, So, like, I think that's gonna be an unbelievable Eastern.
Speaker 3: Conference final if it gets to them.
Speaker 2: Unless Atlanta just blows the whole thing up. Well, I
Speaker 2: mean possibility.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We mentioned that Atlanta United is the only team that
Speaker 1: has four points off of Messian Friends this year.
Speaker 3: They have not lost.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so uh uh, Miami for Lauderdale has issues.
Speaker 1: Messi and Friends have issues at the back. They do
Speaker 1: it is it is a point of it is a
Speaker 1: point of parliamentary procedure.
Speaker 3: They have issues at the back.
Speaker 1: And I mean that back line, not Drake Calendar, even
Speaker 1: though Calendar has been a little up and uppy, uppy
Speaker 1: downy here in the last say a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: of the regular season. But that back line I think
Speaker 1: can be had. And if you have speed to get
Speaker 1: around the midfield and can not let Miami. It's like
Speaker 1: if you if you don't look at the back of
Speaker 1: the jersey and sit there and are intimidated all you know,
Speaker 1: holy ish, There's there's a guy named Messi. Holy Ish,
Speaker 1: there's a seven foot two inch guy named Sergei Busquetz.
Speaker 1: You know, holy ish, there's Jordi Albo. You know, holy ish,
Speaker 1: there's Luis Suarez. They didn't get bogged down in that
Speaker 1: at Mercedes Been Stadium and they handcuffed you know Messi
Speaker 1: and I mean they can be had. They can be had.
Speaker 1: I think it can be had before a possible matchup
Speaker 1: with Columbus.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, yeah.
Speaker 2: Even Orlando, right, if they thinking you on their trajectory.
Speaker 3: They could pip. Yes, they can't. Western Conference.
Speaker 1: Who of the seeded bunch you know, of the higher
Speaker 1: seeds are you concerned about the most?
Speaker 3: And then who do you not want to face right now? Oh?
Speaker 3: Thinking capiss On.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The seed that I'm concerned about the most I want,
Speaker 2: Like in my heart, I want to say Galaxy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because of their defensive deficiencies.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. What about RSL, Yeah.
Speaker 2: They're the four? Are they four? Right?
Speaker 3: They? I think there's I think the three six I
Speaker 3: want to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'll flip to that because they have not
Speaker 2: been the same team since Gomez left. Now, you know,
Speaker 2: Luna looked really good, but it's still about chi Cho, right,
Speaker 2: and chi Cho hasn't been chi Cho for for a
Speaker 2: while now, ye, so for sure, Yeah that's a concern. Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, I I really really would like to see
Speaker 2: an l traffic O Western Conference Final, especially because of
Speaker 2: what that meant on decision day. You know, the Galaxy
Speaker 2: undefeated in Carson this year, but obviously l a FC
Speaker 2: has the home field now, so I still I'm not
Speaker 2: like if you if you asked about like a wild card,
Speaker 2: Like I think Portland is this crazy wildcard in this
Speaker 2: whole situation because they could score like seventeen goals in
Speaker 2: a game that they might give up fourteen. True, but
Speaker 2: I mean there's so much fun to watch, so on
Speaker 2: the on the given day, they can they can mess
Speaker 2: ish up, so you know they're that kind of sneaky,
Speaker 2: dangerous team there. But yeah, I think the team I
Speaker 2: don't want to play is LAFC. Now it's not you
Speaker 2: know that sets up for an LFC Columbus's Cup, but
Speaker 2: so be it, because these are the two teams that
Speaker 2: right now seem to be on that trajectory, right like
Speaker 2: the biggest games and when a title is the line,
Speaker 2: they seem to somehow find each other.
Speaker 1: Dylan Butler imlosccer dot com at Dylan Underscore Butler on
Speaker 1: the two hundred and eighty character app hanging out with
Speaker 1: us when he's not the busiest man in the Northeast
Speaker 1: having to call five men matches in a four day
Speaker 1: period or five games in a four day period when
Speaker 1: it comes to high school. Yeah, so soccer, soccer and soccer.
Speaker 1: So he's got matches end games and games end matches
Speaker 1: to roll through here as we get get into the
Speaker 1: playoffs and kind of break everything down here. I mean
Speaker 1: to your point about Portland. Portland, I think is tied
Speaker 1: in the Western Conference for they're tied for second in
Speaker 1: most goals scored in the Western Conference, and they have
Speaker 1: that offense where you are right, they can score seventeen through.
Speaker 2: Through multiple guys too. Doesn't mean like it's not like
Speaker 2: it's a it's not like a DC situation where it's
Speaker 2: Beenteke or nothing like it's you know, a Vander and
Speaker 2: Rodriguez and Felipe and Mora and you know, they've They've
Speaker 2: got a host of different guys who could score the ball.
Speaker 1: And to your point about defense and giving up fourteen
Speaker 1: a game, they are second in goals allowed in the
Speaker 1: playoff teams in the Western Conference. They've given up fifty
Speaker 1: six this season in thirty four games. Colorado is the
Speaker 1: only team that's worse of giving up sixty. Colorado will not.
Speaker 1: They've got to be concerned about Georgia Mihailovich, who was
Speaker 1: pulled from his match with a serious injury in the
Speaker 1: first half.
Speaker 3: How is he going to look? Will he be at
Speaker 3: one hundred percent?
Speaker 2: That's a kind of on fumes, you know, heading down
Speaker 2: the stretch. You know they've got that tire that got
Speaker 2: busted and they're just hoping to to get off the road.
Speaker 2: You know, they're worried.
Speaker 1: About Yes, like I don't have triple A and I
Speaker 1: see the gas station at the X.
Speaker 2: Somehow limp my way over there to get help.
Speaker 1: Yes, So that is so That's what I'm agreeing with
Speaker 1: you about Colorado as well.
Speaker 3: Colorado I have.
Speaker 1: A concern because of injuries and just how they kind
Speaker 1: of faded into the postseason Portland. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: look at goals allowed. They're at fifty six, so that's
Speaker 1: eighth of nine in the Western Conference, and then before
Speaker 1: them it is literally the fifty of lag So there's
Speaker 1: a gap there, and then it's even you know, then
Speaker 1: you get into those teams that are stout defensively, like
Speaker 1: Seattle who only gave up thirty five. Stephan Fry had
Speaker 1: eleven clean sheets this year, Houston at thirty nine. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that if you're and and if you're if
Speaker 1: you're Vanny Sartini, you've got to be just beyond pissed,
Speaker 1: don't you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the NYCFC situation, it's a little bit different, right,
Speaker 2: like you're playing in baseball fields obviously, you know, let's
Speaker 2: let's get the jokes in there, right, but it's teams
Speaker 2: that are in the playoffs, right and they just now,
Speaker 2: you know, think they could thank the Dodgers just are
Speaker 2: able to get titty Field back. They were going to
Speaker 2: be playing their playoff game a rebel arena. But that's
Speaker 2: because of the tenants that are in that in those stadiums,
Speaker 2: laying their most meaningful games. That's not the case at
Speaker 2: BC plays and that's a bad luck.
Speaker 1: And so do we know how this is gonna look,
Speaker 1: I mean, does Vancouver get the home dressing room and
Speaker 1: get to boot Portland to the visitors dressing room or
Speaker 1: anything like this or because.
Speaker 2: It's all honestly, I think, honestly, for Vancouver's sake, I
Speaker 2: think you just treat it as a everything is a roadmatch,
Speaker 2: like let's get you know, and and it's and it's
Speaker 2: their familiarity as well, right, so like let's go to
Speaker 2: the visitors locker room. Let's where the I mean, maybe
Speaker 2: the kid will be different. I don't know, like it
Speaker 2: might have to be different because of the seeds, but
Speaker 2: as far as the building goes and the operations and
Speaker 2: all that, Like I it's a road trip. That's what
Speaker 2: it is. If I'm Vancouver.
Speaker 3: And just the frustrating you had.
Speaker 1: You won the eight, but because of other things in
Speaker 1: the building, you get to be the nine, or you
Speaker 1: get to be on the road. Is the eight to
Speaker 1: take on the nine in a building where they have
Speaker 1: been fairly fairly unbeatable this season Portland at home nine
Speaker 1: three and five, eight three, eight and six away from home,
Speaker 1: Vancouver fairly consistent. I mean there's six, seven and four
Speaker 1: at home. At BC Place, there's seven, six, and four
Speaker 1: away from home, So maybe if you look at numbers
Speaker 1: then it's kind of sort of, you know, to a
Speaker 1: slide advantage there, but Vancouver having to go on the
Speaker 1: road and look at things. So right now, obviously with
Speaker 1: Atlanta United in the win tonight is Vancouver and Portland.
Speaker 1: I guess you're saying take the over in this one Island.
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, I'm not sure. I didn't look.
Speaker 3: We can we can go over juice boxes and I can.
Speaker 2: See this being uh a four to two game, mm hmm.
Speaker 1: No, I definitely could see the over being the play here.
Speaker 1: When it comes to this game, I just have it.
Speaker 1: I just have it going super bananas foster off the
Speaker 1: rails very very quickly as Portland is trying to outscore Vancouver,
Speaker 1: and then Vancouver comes back and it turns it into
Speaker 1: an absolute, an absolute zoo. But I do have a
Speaker 1: worry about Colorado. They're the one late game on Saturday
Speaker 1: night at LAG and I just that one could be
Speaker 1: over quickly. I think that when it comes to being
Speaker 1: in a series, I think that it could be over
Speaker 1: quickly with Colorado and Lag just because of injuries and
Speaker 1: travel and you see them fading into the the end
Speaker 1: of the regular season, almost Orlando esque, almost like the
Speaker 1: purple team for the Colorado Rapids and fading in.
Speaker 3: And doing those kinds of things. Yike, shaggy.
Speaker 1: We haven't even talked about postseason awards and what it
Speaker 1: means and what you would vote for and all these
Speaker 1: kinds of things. When it comes to m VP. How
Speaker 1: how are you when it comes to other sports? How
Speaker 1: do you gauge your MVP voting? When when I mentioned
Speaker 1: m VP, how do you vote for an MVP? And
Speaker 1: other sports, how do you look at like your your
Speaker 1: Yankees in baseball and and MVPs and things like that,
Speaker 1: how do you view it in other sports?
Speaker 2: Certainly for my Yankees, it's it's regular season and postseason
Speaker 2: at this point because oh my god, John Carlos Stansen
Speaker 2: just you know, boo booed in the regular season. But
Speaker 2: he's like, hang on, wait for October. But I but
Speaker 2: I digresses. Yeah, So so there's it's it's the definition
Speaker 2: is the problem of it?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Like? Is it the best player on the best team?
Speaker 2: Not necessarily right? Is it the guy who brings who who?
Speaker 2: If that guy wasn't on your team, that team implodes,
Speaker 2: you know, So I think it's I think it's you know,
Speaker 2: but also it really can't be a last place team
Speaker 2: because then what did that person.
Speaker 3: Do so less?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so so case in point, I think had d
Speaker 2: C made the playoffs, I think a strong point could
Speaker 2: have been made for Christian Beneke. I I I don't
Speaker 2: think there's a player more valuable to their team's success
Speaker 2: in MLS this year than Christian Beneke. But again we
Speaker 2: mentioned all those parts around them, right, and I agree.
Speaker 2: I think I think when you look at a Vander
Speaker 2: and his total goal contributions and you know, the Valeri
Speaker 2: esque type of season he's having, he warns consideration as well.
Speaker 2: But I think ben Teke where you know, if you
Speaker 2: take ben Teke out, they're probably a wouldn't spoon team again, right, so,
Speaker 2: but they didn't make the playoffs, so I think that
Speaker 2: takes him out of the picture. So yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: that that's the problem I think with with m v P, right,
Speaker 2: like I think I think Messi will probably win it.
Speaker 2: I don't like I'm I I would go Kucho in
Speaker 2: this situation, but I did like for for for a
Speaker 2: good chunk there, I was team of Ander as well,
Speaker 2: just hard too because they're you know, I mean I
Speaker 2: I still think that they're they would score a chunk
Speaker 2: of goals with the other three or four guys I
Speaker 2: have in the mix there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean for me, I was team Kucho in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference, team of vander and the Western Conference
Speaker 1: and then you can sort of out amongst yourselves and
Speaker 1: figure it out.
Speaker 3: But no, I am with you.
Speaker 1: I My discussion is with an MVP, is it with
Speaker 1: that individual? How how worse with how worse off would
Speaker 1: they be? And so for me, I'm not denying. And
Speaker 1: this is for everyone who would vote for Lionel Messi
Speaker 1: in this situation. They navigated his absence, they were they
Speaker 1: were cool, they were fine without Messi, and David wants
Speaker 1: to know what the record was sounds messy and it
Speaker 1: was basically half the season.
Speaker 2: And they were like it was close, but they were
Speaker 2: a better points per game team without Messi in the lineup.
Speaker 3: Mm hm.
Speaker 2: And because of Luis Warez.
Speaker 1: Yes, And so I mean it's for and so for me,
Speaker 1: I would have Suarez ahead of Messi when it comes
Speaker 1: to that particular club and MVP voting, and it's and
Speaker 1: we were the one of the first ones, uh, We
Speaker 1: were the first ones to sit there and go, you know,
Speaker 1: Luis Suarez, we think his knee is jello, and we
Speaker 1: think that he's just gonna, absolutely, you know, have that
Speaker 1: knee just blow up on the on the pitch somewhere
Speaker 1: at the erector set and you know it won't he
Speaker 1: won't make a difference. We were wrong in that assessment.
Speaker 2: That of of into Miami takes to to into Miami's credit.
Speaker 3: Yes, they didn't.
Speaker 2: They didn't think they had it in them for a
Speaker 2: supporter shield, you know, like doing what they did over
Speaker 2: the course of the season, let alone a record amount
Speaker 2: of points. I thought they were more because of their
Speaker 2: older star power, better served in a short turn like
Speaker 2: a knockout tournament situation, then across the stretch of the
Speaker 2: entire season. But so yeah, full credit to them.
Speaker 1: So as of August twenty third, so this was Michelle Kaufman,
Speaker 1: I don't I'm gonna try and see if you can
Speaker 1: find something later than this, but thirteen to twenty five
Speaker 1: missed at the time. Heading into Saturday's home game against
Speaker 1: EPSIE Cincinnati and ter Miami boast their best record major
Speaker 1: League Soccer. Miami's record with him without MESSI this year
Speaker 1: is not as desperate as one might guess. Across all
Speaker 1: comps including Triple C and League's Cup inner Miami is
Speaker 1: nine two and four with him, ten six and two without,
Speaker 1: so it was a six.
Speaker 3: And this is like with two months. This was basically
Speaker 3: two months ago.
Speaker 1: So yeah, two months ago they were nine two and
Speaker 1: four with him, ten six and two without him, so
Speaker 1: five point fifty five winning percentage at one point, I'll
Speaker 1: see if I can come up.
Speaker 3: With a deeper number.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so they were slightly better with two months
Speaker 1: to go in the season with him than without, and
Speaker 1: I mean like the lightest of margins. So it was
Speaker 1: and I think it flipped at one point to to
Speaker 1: get there. Okay, So ten oh and three as of September,
Speaker 1: So I'm getting warmer with my numbers here.
Speaker 3: It's like you're trying and find something. You find something,
Speaker 3: You find something.
Speaker 1: Miami ten oh and three in MLS and League's Cup play.
Speaker 1: In Messi's absence, Messi's twenty five goal involvements in twelve appearances,
Speaker 1: or forty percent of Miami's sixty one league goals. You
Speaker 1: had Suarez, Gomez, Alba, Rojas, the Herron scored at least
Speaker 1: two goals in eleven to thirteen matches since Messi last featured,
Speaker 1: and so inconsistent defense middle of the pack forty goals conceded,
Speaker 1: sixteenth most in the league. That came from Braden Chalker
Speaker 1: a month ago. So we're getting warmer and warmer and
Speaker 1: warmer when it comes to what it would what it
Speaker 1: has been like with and without. But they're both in
Speaker 1: the neighborhood. And I think that that goes to the
Speaker 1: U the nil deals that have been signed by the
Speaker 1: Gulf string galacticos to make sure that they are under
Speaker 1: the salary cap. I mean, we've seen what Messi with
Speaker 1: lays and home improvement and beer and all these kinds
Speaker 1: of things. There have to be nil deals to make
Speaker 1: sure that everybody else is under the manageable cap space
Speaker 1: that's available, I would think, I mean, come on, it's
Speaker 1: got to be some nil deals in there somewhere. They've
Speaker 1: navigated the cap brilliantly and tried to figure out how
Speaker 1: to keep everybody happy. Four Cards saying Suarez was full
Speaker 1: of ish about his knee. When we all thought that
Speaker 1: Suarez his knee was full of ish yea. So four
Speaker 1: Cards says that Sarez his knee claims were just to play.
Speaker 1: It's like, we'll take pity, We'll take pity on Louis
Speaker 1: Suarez and it's like, oh yeah, it's nice. His ne
Speaker 1: will blow up and then all of a sudden, Suarez
Speaker 1: blows up. Uh what, sir, are your weekend plans? When
Speaker 1: are you on the desk? What are you doing?
Speaker 3: And what's going on at Varsity Media?
Speaker 2: Let's see, I well I was last night. I'm not
Speaker 2: thankfully on tonight merciful for the what it eleven o'clock start?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're I think you're pretty close. I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's ten thirty. Actually, well ten ten forty.
Speaker 1: Because that's the other thing. People sit there and look
Speaker 1: at the start time and they're ready for ready to
Speaker 1: go right on the the hour of the half hour,
Speaker 1: and then it's like you got to add ten minutes.
Speaker 1: So ten forty Eastern times start Vancouver, the eighth seed
Speaker 1: at Portland, the nine seed from Providence Park.
Speaker 2: And I was flipping sports for a second. So like
Speaker 2: last night hockey had that what do they call it,
Speaker 2: the frozen frenzy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, where everybody's playing on the.
Speaker 2: One night but at all different times like that was
Speaker 2: so confusing. I was like, looking at my Rangers, I'm like,
Speaker 2: why are we playing at seven to fifteen? And then
Speaker 2: why are the Islanders playing at seven forty five? Like
Speaker 2: it was, I didn't I forgot what the marketing play
Speaker 2: was there.
Speaker 1: All in the stagger to confuse us. All that what
Speaker 1: the I needed to have an NHL three see.
Speaker 2: And they'll go into my first Ranger game of my
Speaker 2: quarter season plan coming up Thursday tomorrow, right tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Yes, tomorrow. Who's uh who's in town, sir, Florida?
Speaker 4: Oh okay, So how do you how do you uh
Speaker 4: win the bet as to which which games you're going
Speaker 4: to go see with your quarter season package?
Speaker 3: Your your your ten?
Speaker 2: I mean, I have their minds. So it's just a
Speaker 2: matter of like I sold the home opener, it was
Speaker 2: it was a Saturday, right, so MLS obviously rules the
Speaker 2: world on a Saturday. And then other days if there's
Speaker 2: just you know, work related things I can't go, you know,
Speaker 2: then I'll sell them as well. So okay, but this
Speaker 2: will be the first one which will be fun. Got
Speaker 2: I'm on the desk Sunday, uh double header?
Speaker 1: Yes, you get the Orlando Charlotte and l A versus
Speaker 1: the winner at the eight nine.
Speaker 2: Oh, did I already say Portland?
Speaker 3: Portland?
Speaker 2: That's what I put on my schedule. I didn't like
Speaker 2: it was it was easier on my phone just to
Speaker 2: put the winner like here you go, so good luck,
Speaker 2: congratulations Vancouver, you just apparently won that game. And a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of you mentioned varsity media. That's a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of soccer playoffs. I am. I am Derek raying it.
Speaker 2: If you will, I guess I've got a Saturday doubleheader.
Speaker 2: I've got a Monday doubleheader, a Tuesday double header, a
Speaker 2: Wednesday doubleheader. Who Thursday championship, next Saturday championship, next the
Speaker 2: third a double header championship.
Speaker 3: So sir, it's very busy as always.
Speaker 1: Great to see my friend, Glad you're here, and we'll
Speaker 1: talk about your Newcastle and the p IF the next time,
Speaker 1: and how you're trying to rule the world and buying
Speaker 1: things like networks and.
Speaker 3: Things like that.
Speaker 2: I just want to win. I just want to win games.
Speaker 1: Yes, uh, Dylan is always my friend. Great to see you.
Speaker 1: We'll catch up next time.
Speaker 2: Cheers