Speaker 1: Sl hopefully for a moment, calmed the masses with a
Speaker 1: two miller result against Seattle. It was the MLS home
Speaker 1: opener for the lads on Saturday. Our next guest was
Speaker 1: on the call and he is celebrating a birthday I
Speaker 1: believe today. Yes, Brian Donseeth, happy birthday, buddy boy.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Yesterday was my birthday. But no, I
Speaker 2: appreciate it nonetheless. One man, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: So you're you're what forty two? Is that right thereabouts?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Maybe six years ago? Ka, No, unfortunately, forty eight
Speaker 2: years old man, And I don't know. It's weird. I
Speaker 2: can't be the only one out there in radio land
Speaker 2: who still thinks they're twenty three, twenty four but then
Speaker 2: wakes up with like a crank in their neck, their
Speaker 2: back hurts, and somehow, you know, they've got some foot
Speaker 2: issue out of nowhere. Yeah. I'm young and dynamic in
Speaker 2: my mind, and I'm I'm beat up and old in
Speaker 2: my body.
Speaker 1: You're preaching the choir man. I pulled my hamstring in
Speaker 1: the shower, just trying to you know, body wash, how old?
Speaker 3: How old?
Speaker 1: Was a bright eyed and bushy tailed Brian dun Seth
Speaker 1: when he first landed in Salt Lake City.
Speaker 2: So I was, Uh, I think I was twenty six. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think I was twenty six, twenty seventh somewhere there.
Speaker 1: Okay, man, you've been you've been around these parts. I
Speaker 1: know you left for a moment, but you've been back.
Speaker 1: You're basically a local, Donny by now, aren't you.
Speaker 2: Oh dude.
Speaker 4: I represent the.
Speaker 2: Eight oh one really really well. I Uh I do it.
Speaker 2: Every I do it. Everybody from Utah does. When somebody
Speaker 2: speaks high of this beautiful state of ours, I tell
Speaker 2: him it's horrible that they'd hate it, and don't even
Speaker 2: think about visiting that you wouldn't like it. Just to
Speaker 2: keep all the rip wrap away, No, I I'm throwing
Speaker 2: through my kid. You know. My wife Jade went to Skyline,
Speaker 2: went to Westminster. My boys are going to Churchill in Skyline.
Speaker 4: I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 2: Man. I love the eight oh one.
Speaker 3: That's good living here, There's no doubt.
Speaker 1: All right, Donny, Let's start with little good before we
Speaker 1: dig into potentially some bad. What if anything did that result?
Speaker 1: And you and our guy Max on the call, what
Speaker 1: did that result do? Just to kind of calm people
Speaker 1: down to nil in the home opener. As far as
Speaker 1: MLS play.
Speaker 2: Goes, yeah, I would say Spence, and I agree with
Speaker 2: you to an extent, but I would say it was
Speaker 2: actually more important inside of that locker room for a
Speaker 2: group of players. You know, listen, they're missing forty two
Speaker 2: goals in twenty nine to six. If you go back
Speaker 2: to calendar here talking about Chijo Rongo Andris Domez, Anderson
Speaker 2: Julio and Matt Crooks. You know, the beauty in that
Speaker 2: is when those type of players leave, there's a you know,
Speaker 2: there's a huge upside to it, which means inside that
Speaker 2: locker room there's a great opportunity for young players to
Speaker 2: fill that vacuum, not only on the field, but maybe
Speaker 2: more importantly from a leadership perspective. On top of that,
Speaker 2: I think for Pablo Mastroni, when you're looking at it
Speaker 2: and you're looking at Piol, two players that our young
Speaker 2: dynamic have similar player profiles. One of these guys for
Speaker 2: going out on the international market, one of these guys,
Speaker 2: you got to find somebody who could be that next
Speaker 2: you know, Halvrosapario, that next to Joe Rongo. On top
Speaker 2: of that, I thought defensively at times they were pretty poor.
Speaker 2: In the first couple of games, I thought they were
Speaker 2: rock solid in the back with cabral the relationship between
Speaker 2: Justin Glad and Philip Quinton, Amcca and Brian o'heada picking
Speaker 2: up right where they left off, and I thought there
Speaker 2: was a tweak And I'm not sure too many people
Speaker 2: notice this, but I think it could have outstanding ramifications
Speaker 2: going forward. And that was making Diego Luna the undisputed
Speaker 2: playmakers centrally underneath either Piol or a Jago and sliding
Speaker 2: Diego Gonzalvez out to that left hand side. And what
Speaker 2: it signifies to me sets is that Diego Luna has
Speaker 2: the key to the Ferrari and maybe Diogo comesolve, who
Speaker 2: hasn't lived up to expectation so far, maybe a little
Speaker 2: less pressure and a better opportunity to kind of hide
Speaker 2: in the shadows and pick up some really important vacated
Speaker 2: speed spaces, put workout in the running that Diego Luda
Speaker 2: has been doing in that number ten position.
Speaker 1: So I want to throw something at you that Jason
Speaker 1: Jason Christ throw me when cause you referenced Diogo who
Speaker 1: was brought in last summer during that transfer window and
Speaker 1: is technically, I think the only DP now on the roster.
Speaker 1: And to your point, there just haven't been enough bright
Speaker 1: moments to say, Okay, that's our guy, that's our DP.
Speaker 1: And Jason said, the very same thing happened at the
Speaker 1: start of Javier's career, Javier Morales's career here in Salt Lake,
Speaker 1: where you know, you know the story as.
Speaker 3: Well as anybody. Jay takes the gig.
Speaker 1: He's having a tough time getting anybody to let him
Speaker 1: sign players, so he just takes a flight to Argentina
Speaker 1: and finds Javier, finds Fabian and of course Mattias Mantisia,
Speaker 1: which didn't work out as well.
Speaker 2: But is is that?
Speaker 1: Is that a good experience in parallel to drop on
Speaker 1: for RSL fans like, yes, Diogo has struggled, but so
Speaker 1: did Hovey and Hobby, for most people, including me, is
Speaker 1: the best player who's ever played here.
Speaker 2: It's it's a it's a good food for thought, training exercise,
Speaker 2: a couple of different things here at the time Hobby
Speaker 2: came in to play that number ten position. Remember he
Speaker 2: was diving all over the place. He was always on
Speaker 2: the ground, yep. And we were concerned that there was
Speaker 2: a physicality issue, but Hobby still could play Diogo. You know,
Speaker 2: for for whatever reason, Matt Crooks was preferred over Diogo.
Speaker 2: And we can talk about adaption, and we could talk
Speaker 2: about time, we could talk about what I feel was
Speaker 2: the failure for me also link to get the job
Speaker 2: done way quicker than it needed to be, similar to
Speaker 2: Chico getting in the market, you know, three weeks prior
Speaker 2: to even his availability to start training. Uh. You know,
Speaker 2: Pablo quite likely preferred Matt Crooks and Chijo Rongo together
Speaker 2: when healthy, and he preferred Anderson's Julio with Diogo because
Speaker 2: of the positioning. I take what Jason's analogy is, and
Speaker 2: what I'll do is I'll hopefully add to it that
Speaker 2: if Diogo Consolvez is anywhere near as productive and important
Speaker 2: that Pavier Morales was to Real Salt Lake, well then
Speaker 2: you've got an iconic ten not just for the present
Speaker 2: but for the future as well. But as I say that,
Speaker 2: I've I wonder out loud for Diogo if ultimately he's
Speaker 2: a player that thrives on having guys that are also
Speaker 2: leaders amongst him, and having guys that are as talented,
Speaker 2: if not more talented, Because during his time that was
Speaker 2: certainly the case Atanica and Copenhagen. A guy that was
Speaker 2: going to start each and every game, but a guy
Speaker 2: that maybe like Albert Russknat during his tenure. You're here
Speaker 2: at Riale Sa Lake, you didn't have to lean on
Speaker 2: him as much as maybe the observance of being a
Speaker 2: designated player is in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: So tell me, Donny, from your perspective and the inside
Speaker 1: knowledge you have, what is fair to say about the
Speaker 1: front office the ownership group right now? Because you know,
Speaker 1: with all of the moves they made, and you know,
Speaker 1: we could go over all of them, it's chie show
Speaker 1: to San Jose, it's moving andress on your reference Matt
Speaker 1: Crooks and oh everything. The number that I've been told
Speaker 1: is they pocketed, you know, between fifteen and seven mil,
Speaker 1: which is great, I mean, and I understand that the
Speaker 1: anddress thing is now proof of concept, but if you're
Speaker 1: a fan of the club, you're expecting that money to
Speaker 1: be reinvested into the club to get top shelf talent,
Speaker 1: and if we're honest, that just hasn't happened yet. What's
Speaker 1: fair to say about the process in your opinion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a couple of different factors. And I'm no
Speaker 2: apologist for real Saul Lake, to be clear, because I
Speaker 2: think every team has certain things happened throughout the course
Speaker 2: of their one year plan, their three year plan, that
Speaker 2: five year plan, which is everything's great until you get
Speaker 2: punched in the face. Russel got punched in the face
Speaker 2: on a couple different occasions and whatever it was. However,
Speaker 2: we kind of finalized the Chicho Arongo departure of the
Speaker 2: reality is from a financial standpoint, Rial fal Lake is
Speaker 2: an organization took a four and a four million dollar
Speaker 2: bath on what the output was for what they paid
Speaker 2: for him versus what they ended up inevitably getting as
Speaker 2: a distressed asset. Moving him to San Jose, Anderson Julio
Speaker 2: had a big option year, and at that age and
Speaker 2: at that price, the club certainly felt as though they
Speaker 2: could maybe not upgrade, but upgrade in potential, which is
Speaker 2: what I think they've done. Although you've gotten rid of
Speaker 2: one of the you know, the most physically dominant in
Speaker 2: transition moments and Ajor League Soccer and Anderson Julio to
Speaker 2: stretch the field, and we certainly saw them do that
Speaker 2: in Week one, getting the week the game winner on
Speaker 2: the road in Houston, Matt Crook's family didn't settle. You know,
Speaker 2: a similar story happened up in Vancouver where a designated
Speaker 2: player named Steven Armstrong. I would challenge anyone to think
Speaker 2: about being by themselves with a young family across you know,
Speaker 2: a different in and different continent, and thinking about that
Speaker 2: and having to do the player right, well, it might
Speaker 2: not do the club right. And then finally Elias Manuel,
Speaker 2: who was supposed to come over from New York Red Bulls,
Speaker 2: which I personally wasn't a huge fan of. But in
Speaker 2: the midst of that trade, there was draft picks and
Speaker 2: there was a certain amount of general allocation money that
Speaker 2: was acquired in this offseason. And I think for Manuel,
Speaker 2: who agreed to the move and then decided that he
Speaker 2: didn't want to agree to the move, two things will happen. One,
Speaker 2: you actually got a better return for what you even
Speaker 2: sent to New York Red Bulls for Manoel, because you're
Speaker 2: gonna end up getting around a million dollars from both
Speaker 2: the FOCO in Brazil for a player that never even
Speaker 2: showed up in market. And number two, and this might
Speaker 2: sound harsh, sense, but if you've got a guy that
Speaker 2: doesn't want to be here, good riddance. There's no reason
Speaker 2: that rialso Lake should have to convince some guy why
Speaker 2: he should be coming to Salt Lake. Beat it like
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if we're talking Major League Baseball, we're
Speaker 2: talking NHL, we're talking NBA, Like this is a great
Speaker 2: place to live. And if you don't want to be
Speaker 2: a part of what's happening out here, kick rocks. And
Speaker 2: that's that's exactly what happened. So there's it's been. It's
Speaker 2: been a hefty offseason. I think a couple things caught
Speaker 2: him off guard, but the windows not closed. You have
Speaker 2: significant funds and hopefully you know they've identified somebody that
Speaker 2: will continue to push this group forward in a manner
Speaker 2: in which they will be significantly better than maybe where
Speaker 2: they're at right now. But sud for thought that goal
Speaker 2: from a Jago, two goals in two matches, Hopefully that
Speaker 2: doesn't skew what the immediate need is of the club.
Speaker 3: And I want to I want to get to him
Speaker 3: in a moment.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad you brought up Manuel because I wanted
Speaker 1: to kick the tires with you on this dynamic and
Speaker 1: whether or not it's something that maybe we should talk
Speaker 1: about more than we do because we talk about it
Speaker 1: all the time through the prism of Pro Basketball and
Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz.
Speaker 3: I mean, I could give you a number of examples.
Speaker 1: Some people know about like Derek Harper and Ronnie Sichlee
Speaker 1: other people, other others don't.
Speaker 3: People don't really know about, namely like a Kevin Love.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: There was a trade on the table to bring Kevin
Speaker 1: Love to Utah when Donovan and Rudy were here and
Speaker 1: he said he's simply through his agent. He informed the
Speaker 1: front office. I don't want to live there. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to play for the Jazz. I don't feel like
Speaker 1: we experienced that much on the soccer side, but are
Speaker 1: we starting to because and look, I know that harkening
Speaker 1: back to you know, two thousand and five to twenty
Speaker 1: ten is a fool's errand with how different the league
Speaker 1: is now. But my prison when I was with the
Speaker 1: club is meeting people like you and Kyle and Chris Brown,
Speaker 1: and I could keep going like transplants who came here
Speaker 1: and ended up loving it here because of our soccer
Speaker 1: community and the support that you guys had. Is it
Speaker 1: a new day where maybe the club is running into
Speaker 1: the issue of people not wanting to live in Salt
Speaker 1: Lake City. To your point, if you don't want to, like, okay,
Speaker 1: get lost, we'll figure it out. But I just I
Speaker 1: don't know that I've heard many examples of it happening.
Speaker 1: Now we have one with a kid that I think
Speaker 1: they were hoping would come here and play.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think there's twofold number one. I think
Speaker 2: we have to acknowledge that in football, worldlife football, worldlife soccer.
Speaker 2: It's a different dynamic here in Major League Soccer that
Speaker 2: effectively the players are league employees. They're not team employees.
Speaker 2: Usually it's a loan, it's a buy, or it's a sell.
Speaker 2: You know, you've got three different situations you can find
Speaker 2: yourself in. Here at Major League Soccer, it's different. You know,
Speaker 2: the club is the club, but you're still technically league employees.
Speaker 2: So that's a unique dynamic in which when players from
Speaker 2: outside of the United States have experiences for the first time,
Speaker 2: they think they're signing with the club. Unbeknownst to them,
Speaker 2: you know, they're at any moment the club could trade
Speaker 2: you and you have no say. It's one of the
Speaker 2: reasons why I came to Rials Lake from being in
Speaker 2: Sweden was because I got traded down to Dallas on
Speaker 2: trade deadline day. General manager quits, head coach gets fired.
Speaker 2: I'm in an option year, and neither the two knuckleheads
Speaker 2: who took charge were telling me either they were going
Speaker 2: to pick up my option or they were going to
Speaker 2: trade me. And when the LA Galaxy wanted me, they
Speaker 2: refused to flat out trade me. So I got caught
Speaker 2: in no man's land with a contract that no one
Speaker 2: would pick up, and yet I couldn't sign with anybody
Speaker 2: because my rights virtually didn't didn't exist. Now that's a
Speaker 2: very difficult two thousand and four conversation versus twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: But the reality is it's still a culture shock for
Speaker 2: some of these players to try to contemplate and wrap
Speaker 2: their heads around the idea of at any moment, I
Speaker 2: could be traded through no fault on my own, even
Speaker 2: when my kids are settled, I've bought a house, and
Speaker 2: you know everyone's in school, so fast forward to that, listen.
Speaker 2: I think the reality is and we're a very insecure
Speaker 2: Utah state right especially when it comes to our sports.
Speaker 2: I think when people hear the name real Salt Lake,
Speaker 2: if they're not aware of it. They're going to have
Speaker 2: to do a quick Google search and figure this out.
Speaker 2: Number two, I think they'll be aware of the Mormon culture,
Speaker 2: the universities, you know, the sporting ventures, you know, Utah
Speaker 2: Hockey Club and the jazz and then as they dig
Speaker 2: a little bit more into it once they show up
Speaker 2: in market, I think they're going to be overawed by
Speaker 2: the you know, by by the ridiculous beauty and you
Speaker 2: know how incredibly nice everybody is in Utah. So I
Speaker 2: don't know, to your original question, we could potentially be
Speaker 2: in a situation like that, but I honestly think it's
Speaker 2: a bullet dodged for real salt Lake when it's all
Speaker 2: said and done. Like I told you, he was a
Speaker 2: substitute off the bench in an MLS Cup final. I
Speaker 2: wasn't really sold. I didn't think he was an upgrade
Speaker 2: Dan with some Julio. Oh what do I know?
Speaker 1: So let's move over and now to the group of
Speaker 1: strikers that are on the roster before I ask you
Speaker 1: about potentially what's next. And they did sign a player
Speaker 1: Jesus Berea, who I'd known nothing about, And honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't know anything about any of these guys, I'm learning
Speaker 1: all about him, but I will ask you about the
Speaker 1: Yago kid because that was a really nice finish. Now
Speaker 1: the second leg again, Sara Diiano. He did have a goal,
Speaker 1: but he had like seven that he just should have
Speaker 1: like tapped in. He had so many chances. But I
Speaker 1: feel like there's something there. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: but he's a big, physical kid with good speed and
Speaker 1: he does have both their goals. So you know, before
Speaker 1: we get to what's next, what's your take on whether
Speaker 1: it's Barea or Piol or Forrester and what you've seen
Speaker 1: so far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Jago, You're right, he had back to bad goals.
Speaker 2: He could have had multiple goals against Heritano. He took
Speaker 2: that goal extremely well. I actually said during the broadcast
Speaker 2: in the goal call that he took it early, and
Speaker 2: I think that's one of the things that surprised Stephen
Speaker 2: Fry as the goalkeeper was coming off his line. A
Speaker 2: different player profile than what Peol has right Forster, Ajago
Speaker 2: going through went to Duke University. Since some time at Nashville,
Speaker 2: He's got some familiarity with the league. Despite being a
Speaker 2: young striker. You can see there's high, high level potential.
Speaker 2: He's got a body type that's kind of Mama du
Speaker 2: Diallo for the MLS. Sikos out there the MLS after
Speaker 2: darkers that are listening to and if you're out there,
Speaker 2: you're epic. Piol Is a young twenty year old from
Speaker 2: you know, Southwest Australia. Five goals in eleven games for
Speaker 2: his club before he comes over. He had that one
Speaker 2: potential redirect from Katrani's ball was a little bit behind him,
Speaker 2: so he couldn't get it cleanly. But both of these
Speaker 2: guys body types are similar and yet they play dramatically
Speaker 2: different to one another. And then Barrera from anything that
Speaker 2: I've seen, college kid worthy of a high level draft pick.
Speaker 2: You've and remember there's because of the transition from the presidency,
Speaker 2: there's some paperwork issues that are being worked.
Speaker 4: Out in real time, and unfortunately for some of.
Speaker 2: These work permits or green cards, Rialsa Lake is like
Speaker 2: many other teams in Major League Soccer and in the
Speaker 2: sporting landscape where things aren't getting done as fluidly as
Speaker 2: maybe they did under the previous administration. So I think
Speaker 2: there's going to be a little bit of a rotation,
Speaker 2: not in a bad way, but more of an addition
Speaker 2: to the roster. This kind of gets leveled out and
Speaker 2: calm down and you see the certain paperwork that was
Speaker 2: planned on getting done and dusted. But I only saw
Speaker 2: Johnny in in two training sessions, and I can tell
Speaker 2: you that there is some great potential for this young
Speaker 2: Spaniard pathless traveled, kind of like, yesper Laffelson coming to
Speaker 2: the United States to get his college education and then
Speaker 2: playing professional soccer, which yesper Loffelson should be starting, by
Speaker 2: the way for San Diego on Saturday for San Diego FC.
Speaker 2: Former rsler. But yeah, high, high level potential. So I
Speaker 2: think when we're talking about the roster Spence, I probably
Speaker 2: should say this. I don't think this is anywhere close
Speaker 2: to being the best roster for Rialsa Lake, as it's
Speaker 2: obviously in flux, But I would say position for position,
Speaker 2: you've got two legitimate starters in each position, and it
Speaker 2: might be the most competitive position and for position roster
Speaker 2: that our solo has ever put together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some definite depth in certain areas, but there
Speaker 1: just doesn't seem to be depth or quite frankly, top
Speaker 1: shelf quality up top. So let's move over now to
Speaker 1: any insight you have about a striker potentially on the way. Now,
Speaker 1: Kurt was on the show last week and he said
Speaker 1: that they're working on it, like they are actively talking
Speaker 1: to people. And you know, I know that the fans
Speaker 1: are just simply a little bit front because I heard
Speaker 1: you and Max on the broadcast talk about this arms
Speaker 1: race in the Western Conference where these teams are spending
Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars on high quality players. And
Speaker 1: to your point, there's depth in a lot of places.
Speaker 1: The new keeper seems to be a really experienced dude,
Speaker 1: but you've got to do something up top. So do
Speaker 1: you think reinforcements are on the way and do you
Speaker 1: have any idea what that looks like.
Speaker 2: So there's always a couple different ways to look at this, right,
Speaker 2: There's different mechanisms. Do you want to designated player? Do
Speaker 2: you want a target allocation money player? Do you want
Speaker 2: a you twenty two initiative player where it's effectively a
Speaker 2: designated player type under the age of twenty two. Do
Speaker 2: you want to use general allocation money. There's a new
Speaker 2: mechanism called cash per player in Major League Soccer. That's
Speaker 2: what saw Lucuo Coosta leave Cincinnati and go to Dallas
Speaker 2: Evander leave Portland and go to Cincinnati. Joviilich leaves LA
Speaker 2: Galaxy and go to Sporting Kansas City. And here's the
Speaker 2: other wrinkle in dynamic I've always been intrigued on and
Speaker 2: I've never really had clarity. What's the role of Ryan
Speaker 2: Smith in this conversation with regards to the monopoly money
Speaker 2: that both he and David Blitzer have. You know, we're
Speaker 2: acutely aware of both having the sporting umbrella in multiple
Speaker 2: leagues and having the sporting umbrella. It's with particular with
Speaker 2: David Blitzer worldwide. When you think about the investments in
Speaker 2: the clubs in the Bundesliga, the Premier League, Danish Super League,
Speaker 2: down in Portugal. I mean list goes on and on,
Speaker 2: and what is the valuation and the ultimate amount of
Speaker 2: money that you're willing to spend not only on transfer
Speaker 2: fee but effectively the weekly wage, the yearly wage. So
Speaker 2: I guess what I'm trying to say, Spence is there's
Speaker 2: a lot of ways to crack the egg. The question
Speaker 2: is what kind of egg is going to be cracked
Speaker 2: and is it just going to be a singular sunnyside
Speaker 2: up or are we cooking with an omelet. That's that
Speaker 2: all remains to be seen. But my problem, and I'll
Speaker 2: take this from more of like an Apple MLS analyst perspective,
Speaker 2: it's tough to be It's tough to try to tell
Speaker 2: everybody that you're taking Conky Cap Champions Cup serious when
Speaker 2: you have such a unique history in that tournament and
Speaker 2: it's your first time back in a long long time,
Speaker 2: and that's the roster that you put together three weeks
Speaker 2: ago to head down to Harry Giano. I think there's
Speaker 2: way more questions than answers, and for a really turbulent offseason.
Speaker 2: I think that's the point that frustrates Russ when you
Speaker 2: think about, as you referenced, Tave and Nick and Kyle
Speaker 2: Nat and the good old days under Jason, But even
Speaker 2: when you think about Albert Rousmok or dom Dom or Crylock,
Speaker 2: Jefferson Savarino now cheat Show, you know now, Andres Gomez now,
Speaker 2: Anderson Julio. You know, You've got a fan base that
Speaker 2: really believes in its players and believes in the club.
Speaker 2: But they need to believe in the club long term
Speaker 2: and who's going to be those next long term players
Speaker 2: that and maybe potentially make themselves those iconic faces and
Speaker 2: names that RSO has always been used to referring.
Speaker 1: To all right, last thing, Donnie, that I'll set you loose.
Speaker 1: And this is tapping into Brian Dunseeth, the Apple TV analyst.
Speaker 1: The Houston Donamo played into Miami and Lino Messi did
Speaker 1: not make the trip because he needed to rest. The
Speaker 1: Dnamo sent out a post on social media and suffice
Speaker 1: it to say fans that had shelled out a bunch
Speaker 1: of money to see Messi play in Houston were besides themselves.
Speaker 1: The Donamo did with a co They've offered some free tickets,
Speaker 1: but this it's just part of the deal, isn't it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't expect him at his advanced age
Speaker 1: to be healthy every single week. But I find this
Speaker 1: an interesting topic because you know my view on this,
Speaker 1: and I do view this from an old school MLS perspective.
Speaker 1: When Beckham came to the league, everyone, all of us
Speaker 1: in the league at the time, said Okay, when do
Speaker 1: we get him here? And I feel like, as long
Speaker 1: as Messi is playing, every team in MLS should have
Speaker 1: the opportunity to have him in their city. But if
Speaker 1: he needs rest, he needs rest, right I guess it's
Speaker 1: just part of the deal, but I understand the fan frustration.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they certainly didn't need him last night in Easton anyway,
Speaker 2: and they enter Miami smashed them. I think it's the
Speaker 2: timing that surprises everybody, because you're talking about load management
Speaker 2: at game three, game four and such early start of
Speaker 2: the season. But also remember this is an inter Miami
Speaker 2: team that kind of bounced around the world in preseason
Speaker 2: because they were monetied the Messi effect. I've got a
Speaker 2: real problem with people taking shots at the Houston Dynamo
Speaker 2: spence because those from the outside looking in are refused.
Speaker 2: But they're taking cheap shots, obviously, but also refusing to
Speaker 2: acknowledge that when people would take trips to Barcelona, to
Speaker 2: the city of Barcelona, they would also try to coincide
Speaker 2: that with Barcelona playing at home when Lionel Messi was
Speaker 2: playing at the Camp New.
Speaker 4: I was guilty of it.
Speaker 2: I convinced my beautiful wife Jade, on our ten year
Speaker 2: anniversary to stop in Barcelona on two specific days so
Speaker 2: I could watch Lionel Messi and then say to her, oh, no,
Speaker 2: I just wanted to introduce you to Lino Messi. So
Speaker 2: I got away with it. What people don't understand, or
Speaker 2: at least what people have failed to take into context,
Speaker 2: is when Lionel Messi is popping around in the United States,
Speaker 2: it's effectively the same as when Pele was at the
Speaker 2: end of NASL with the New York New Jory or
Speaker 2: New York Cosmos, when David Beckham was with La Galaxy,
Speaker 2: or say in particular, when any of your favorite teams
Speaker 2: from abroad come to the United States. Maybe not so
Speaker 2: much Tottenham, but you know big clubs like Man United
Speaker 2: that's in Barcelona and Juve.
Speaker 3: Unnecessarily, people will spend.
Speaker 2: People will spend monopoly money to go see their team
Speaker 2: because spence it's cheaper and it's easier than getting on
Speaker 2: a plane flying abroad, spending the money on the flights,
Speaker 2: spending the money on the hotel, spending the money on
Speaker 2: the food, spending the money on the tickets. So what
Speaker 2: you're creating with Lionel Messi is a once in a
Speaker 2: lifetime effect to see the Peles or the Diego Maradonas.
Speaker 2: And if you're you know, if you're an introvert, you're
Speaker 2: a messy person. If you're an extrovert, you're a Ronaldo
Speaker 2: Christiano Ronaldo person to see one of these players that
Speaker 2: are quote unquote the best players of our generation. So
Speaker 2: bravo to the Houston Dynamo in recognizing that in that
Speaker 2: moment there's an opportunity and the disappointment of all of
Speaker 2: those fans in the state of Texas or flying in
Speaker 2: from other states to go to Houston, to go to
Speaker 2: Shell Energy Stadium to see the Houston Dynamo play host
Speaker 2: inter Miami. They recognized that there were a lot of
Speaker 2: people only coming for Liono.
Speaker 4: Messi, not even for inter Miami, just for Messi.
Speaker 2: But they also recognize it, Spence, Let's give them an
Speaker 2: extra ticket and see if we can get them back
Speaker 2: in the building. And while they may be a Messi.
Speaker 4: Fan, they may even be an inter Miami fan, maybe
Speaker 4: we can be.
Speaker 2: Their second favorite team. And I think that's what they did.
Speaker 2: Anybody tries to argue that it was naive, that it
Speaker 2: was inexperience, that it was silly, that it was dumb,
Speaker 2: They're as silly and naive to think that this wasn't
Speaker 2: a moment where the Houston Dynamo recognized that maybe, just
Speaker 2: maybe they could get a lot of crossover fans that
Speaker 2: were there just for MESSI but hopefully can be you know,
Speaker 2: short term and long term Houston Dynamo fans going forward?
Speaker 1: Is it Tito Max simply because his cocktail is Tito
Speaker 1: soda line?
Speaker 3: Is that as simple as what it is?
Speaker 2: No? No, it's oh, oh my god, this whole time.
Speaker 2: But Spence, I can promise to he is Tito Max
Speaker 2: every once in a while.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, this whole time. I'm like, it's he
Speaker 1: must just dig about casoda now now I know the deal.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, but man, happy, belated, always appreciate
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 3: Hope to see you soon.
Speaker 4: Okay, sounds good, but I'll talk you all right.
Speaker 1: The great Brian down seth RSL gets a win over
Speaker 1: the weekend against Seattle at home. Uh, San Diego is
Speaker 1: the next opponent coming up. There's no midweek games for
Speaker 1: a minute, because RSL bowed out of conkor CAF Champions
Speaker 1: Cup action in a pretty pathetic fashion. So it's let's see,
Speaker 1: We've got San Diego, then a road game at Houston,
Speaker 1: back against Dallas, and then on the road against Minnesota.
Speaker 1: That's your March schedule for the soccer club, all right,
Speaker 1: com up next? The latest with UTABH men's basketball coaching search.
Speaker 1: Who with the candidates? How close is it to being done?
Speaker 1: Is Alex Jensen on the way. We'll get to that,
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