Speaker 1: H h.
Speaker 2: Hmmm. Come on, man, helps.
Speaker 3: Helps good for dude.
Speaker 1: Gets Friday.
Speaker 2: Day day, last day of the week. It's decision day tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And Major League Soccer, we got league play coming back.
Speaker 2: We got folks that say they weren't interviewed when it
Speaker 2: came to openings. We have other coaches concerned about pathways
Speaker 2: when it comes to set openings. Got a lot to
Speaker 2: talk about here as we get you ready for decision
Speaker 2: day in Major League Soccer, John, hear you there. Thanks
Speaker 2: for dropping by. It is a freestyle Friday. Whatever is
Speaker 2: on your mind here when it comes to Atlanta United,
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Speaker 2: it comes to the bottom of the hour. We got
Speaker 2: news either way. We got plenty of news either way.
Speaker 2: And so then there was a how do we phrase this?
Speaker 2: There was a zoom call. I was about to say
Speaker 2: a press conference, but because we're in the twenty first century,
Speaker 2: it is now done is zoom. And yesterday Emma Haes
Speaker 2: got to discuss why decisions were made about certain players
Speaker 2: for three matches coming up in the end of the month.
Speaker 2: And it was intriguing to see the list come out.
Speaker 2: And because we can do that, it's time to bring
Speaker 2: in somebody who gets to talk about it. Now. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna bring him in. But he's right now, the invisible man.
Speaker 2: You get to see his background, you get to see
Speaker 2: the stadium, but you don't get to see uh, you
Speaker 2: don't get to see Bart. There he is. I was like,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, man's bring Bart Keeler in. You you
Speaker 2: were you, you did not exist or you existed, but
Speaker 2: I couldn't see it. It was the ethereal Art Keeler.
Speaker 4: I forgot to move the slider over the webcam.
Speaker 2: Yeh, the slider over the webcam. Now it has been slided.
Speaker 2: And so now it is time to catch up with you,
Speaker 2: to bat lead off. Because yesterday, uh, late morning, early
Speaker 2: afternoon East coast time, there was an announcement and the
Speaker 2: trumpets blared and uh and uh soccer fans wept and
Speaker 2: it was it was It was an intriguing list on
Speaker 2: a couple of different fronts for the US women's national
Speaker 2: team for these three matches coming up. There were some names.
Speaker 2: Hal Hirschfeldt sticks out to me, uh for a first time?
Speaker 2: How to do? And so when this list came out,
Speaker 2: what was your initial response to, Hey, this list is out.
Speaker 5: Well, it was good to see some new names on
Speaker 5: the list. Like you just said, John, Obviously, Hal has
Speaker 5: been a part of things, but not a part of things.
Speaker 5: She's been basically given a trial membership to the club
Speaker 5: a couple of times before. So to get her into
Speaker 5: the full squad as like an actual training camp player,
Speaker 5: not just the practice squad player is nice. But this
Speaker 5: was I think a night a lot of coaches in
Speaker 5: the past. Let's just start with there. There you go,
Speaker 5: what have used these games? And this was a US
Speaker 5: Soccer thing as well, just as the Olympic celebration tour. Right,
Speaker 5: So you would have had the eighteen to twenty two
Speaker 5: that were in the Olympics and basically that would have
Speaker 5: been it. You probably would have added one other that
Speaker 5: you know, people knew. Emma Hayes didn't take that approach, right.
Speaker 5: This is a fairly look, fairly familiar roster. Like obviously
Speaker 5: from the CBA perspective. She did have to call in
Speaker 5: the Olympic squad right that their CBA is still to
Speaker 5: get some celebration matches after they win Olympic gold medal
Speaker 5: or World Cup, which is fine, but she still took
Speaker 5: the opportunity to as kind of she put it, reward
Speaker 5: players for good in WSL seasons as that season comes
Speaker 5: to a close, and I think that is different than
Speaker 5: past regimes would have done, and also a signal to
Speaker 5: me that US Soccer isn't so hung up on the
Speaker 5: celebration tour that for some players and some teams lasted
Speaker 5: and felt.
Speaker 4: Like a full year. And so that's the positive.
Speaker 5: I think that's the biggest takeaway I had from this,
Speaker 5: as she was willing to bring in not just new names,
Speaker 5: new faces, but young faces as well, getting some new
Speaker 5: fresh faces into the.
Speaker 4: Squad that deserve a call up. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 4: what this is. They deserved a call up.
Speaker 2: And at the same time, it's a twenty six individual
Speaker 2: crawl and that was also key to this discussion where
Speaker 2: traditionally eighteen to twenty, you know, take your pick and
Speaker 2: you know you get your celebration tour separately. Since it
Speaker 2: was called such by the CBA, then that means players
Speaker 2: get max revenue out of this, which is very cool.
Speaker 5: Well, look, let's be Rollano. So that's the benefit of
Speaker 5: the CBA to the players. And in the past, this
Speaker 5: is the conversation that no one really wants to have.
Speaker 4: Is in the past.
Speaker 5: You know, these players needed the national team to be
Speaker 5: a very large source of their soccer income, right, this
Speaker 5: still gives them that, and look, they deserve it.
Speaker 4: They won.
Speaker 5: So when you win a gold medal, you deserve a
Speaker 5: game or two to celebrate you. We get three this month,
Speaker 5: and they deserve to be celebrated. They deserve to be recognized.
Speaker 5: But I don't think Emma's going to use this just
Speaker 5: as a all right cheer on the gold medalist, but
Speaker 5: a good way to look at you know, even a
Speaker 5: player like Emily Sam's who was part of that team,
Speaker 5: right but didn't get to play a whole lot, well
Speaker 5: these are perfect friendlies for her. I mean, look, Iceland
Speaker 5: and a planet we should not have a problem with,
Speaker 5: especially when it comes to a defensive side. So Emily
Speaker 5: and maybe even Guy Tano is another one who younger
Speaker 5: faces clearly have proven themselves at the professional level, need
Speaker 5: a chance to do.
Speaker 4: It on the international stage.
Speaker 5: Good good opportunities to do that and good opportunities for
Speaker 5: these players to make a name for themselves in front
Speaker 5: of em.
Speaker 2: Hayes October twenty fourth Iceland in Austin at Q two,
Speaker 2: three days later in Nashville at gi Otis and then
Speaker 2: there you go. And then uh, I think there were
Speaker 2: a couple of hundred tickets left for the matchup in
Speaker 2: Louisville against Argentina.
Speaker 4: That's the one I wish I could go to.
Speaker 5: John, I got to real honest, I need to go
Speaker 5: see a game in that stadium.
Speaker 2: Well, and that was one of the discussions. It was
Speaker 2: one of the talking points that that Ema Hayes was
Speaker 2: asked about was stadium size, and for her it was
Speaker 2: not a concern. She was concerned. She her her focus
Speaker 2: was on atmosphere and think about them with that in Louisville. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so you know when you have that kind of
Speaker 2: that that kind of atmosphere and the fan response that
Speaker 2: you know you're going to get, that's what she was
Speaker 2: looking forward to the most. And going to a place
Speaker 2: like Lynn Family.
Speaker 5: Well, you say Louisville is the highest attended USL championship team.
Speaker 5: I think that's correct. Yeah, I'm not the highest vs
Speaker 5: All team, but very very good attendance in Louisville.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think that'll be a problem.
Speaker 2: No, I think, like I said, I think it was
Speaker 2: like seven hundred seats were left.
Speaker 4: Can still with what a week and a half to play?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and like yeah, twelve days, thirteen days as
Speaker 2: of yesterday you sit there. And then that's even before
Speaker 2: Emma Hayes said what she said yesterday about atmosphere, and
Speaker 2: so I think that even with walk up and whatever,
Speaker 2: you're probably going to have some SRO for this particular
Speaker 2: matchup against Argentina. You mentioned the uncapped players, Hal Hirschfeld,
Speaker 2: Emily Sam's. Then you end up with Emma Sears and
Speaker 2: Emma Sears for those of you that might have been
Speaker 2: on the fence in Louisville about possibly going, hey, you know,
Speaker 2: by the way, she's a rookie at Racing Louisville. Oh,
Speaker 2: let's go support let's go support our own. Then you
Speaker 2: end up with the Yasmine Ryan who's got four and
Speaker 2: four for Gotham, and then Alyssa Milanson who got a
Speaker 2: first team call up at the age of twenty, so
Speaker 2: Ryan saw action with the U eight teams and the
Speaker 2: U twenty threes. Alanson played for the U fifteens and
Speaker 2: the U twenty threes. You mentioned Gaetino, who was on
Speaker 2: the She believes roster didn't get any action and didn't
Speaker 2: get to, you know, any activity there which she believes
Speaker 2: didn't call it players from the US team that finished
Speaker 2: third at the U twenties with the two to one
Speaker 2: one over the Netherlands, and her quote on that was,
Speaker 2: we feel that they've played in a major tournament. They
Speaker 2: don't get much recovery. Their clubs and college teams have
Speaker 2: been absent from them. So the U twenties won't come
Speaker 2: into consideration until January, maybe the November camp.
Speaker 5: That's a good expectation to set, because you're right, they
Speaker 5: played a full tournament right they went. They had to
Speaker 5: go to a third place match because they played all
Speaker 5: the matches available, and they do need some rests because
Speaker 5: there are definitely some players.
Speaker 4: From the U twenty squad that need to be part
Speaker 4: of this.
Speaker 5: But I'll tell you what John, I know this is
Speaker 5: we're talking about the new faces, but there are some
Speaker 5: the faces, the names, the players that I'm most excited
Speaker 5: to get back into this team. Ashley Sanchez, Alyssa Thompson. Actually,
Speaker 5: Sanchez has been phenomenal for North Carolina this year, and
Speaker 5: Alyssa Thompson, after I mean a very rough last season
Speaker 5: and then a rough start to the season, has now
Speaker 5: scored I think seven to maybe it's seven goals or
Speaker 5: ten total goal contributions. I forget after last check because
Speaker 5: she seems to get a goal or and assist every
Speaker 5: game since really the break they had for the Olympics,
Speaker 5: and those are players who have been a part of
Speaker 5: the team.
Speaker 4: Obviously.
Speaker 5: Alyssa Thompson went as well to the twenty twenty three
Speaker 5: World Cup.
Speaker 4: Sanchez went to the World Cup.
Speaker 5: Sanchez didn't play at the World Cup, and a lot
Speaker 5: of people criticized Blackgo for that. This is a great
Speaker 5: reintroduction for them after about a year of not really
Speaker 5: getting a look and Sanchez getting the move to North Carolina.
Speaker 5: A new coach maybe helped, you know, just getting someone
Speaker 5: else who can figure out ways to utilize her best talents.
Speaker 5: I am in curious if she can take her talent
Speaker 5: and elevate it to the international level, because I think
Speaker 5: we struggled with that a little bit she struggled with
Speaker 5: that even when she was getting looks in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5: That's the player that I'm most excited to hopefully see
Speaker 5: play and then see what she can provide. Everyone else
Speaker 5: is very young, so it's just hopeful that, oh yeah,
Speaker 5: it would be really cool if they could do this.
Speaker 5: You know, even Emily Sam's is one and Guy Tino,
Speaker 5: but you know Sam's getting part of be a part
Speaker 5: of that Olympic roster. I think we know that she's
Speaker 5: in the discussion, you know what I'm saying. But Sanchez,
Speaker 5: this is a huge opportunity for her to reintroduce herself
Speaker 5: to a new coach, right, reintroduce herself to the fans,
Speaker 5: and prove that she does belong on this national team
Speaker 5: because I think she's really talented. And for Alyssa Thompson,
Speaker 5: it's a crowded forward line, but someone's got to be
Speaker 5: a backup or someone's got to push the starters. And
Speaker 5: Lynn Williams isn't getting younger, so it's as a huge
Speaker 5: chance for her, especially to find a spot on this team,
Speaker 5: even if it is, you know, backing up MoU Swanson
Speaker 5: or Trinity Rodman, which not bad to be back up
Speaker 5: to one of those two.
Speaker 2: No, here's your rundown, Campbell, Murphy and there and net
Speaker 2: nine defenders in the twenty six Fox Guetino, Girma, Krueger, Haley, Mace, Malanson,
Speaker 2: Ny Swanger, Sam's sonnet midfielders seven Albert Coffee, hirschfeldt Heran Lavelle,
Speaker 2: Moultrie Sanchez forwards up top and two of them uncapped,
Speaker 2: Ryan and Sears. You also add Jaden Shosaphia Smith, Mouse Swanson,
Speaker 2: Melissa Thompson, Lynn Williams twenty three obviously will suit up
Speaker 2: for the games, but the roster. But the folks that
Speaker 2: are going to be engaged in these three or twenty
Speaker 2: six and this is an opportunity also for the NWSL
Speaker 2: to sit there and say, hey, look what we're able
Speaker 2: to do with with our league and the talent pool
Speaker 2: that is going to be represented by the USWNT in
Speaker 2: this go round. Because there were a lot of players,
Speaker 2: a lot of different teams that were represented within the
Speaker 2: NWSL that are part of this twenty six person roster.
Speaker 5: Look, it's still the most competitive and probably the best
Speaker 5: league in the world. I'm just saying you get the
Speaker 5: most actual financial investment in the teams and players and
Speaker 5: the coaches. You get the most actual competition from match
Speaker 5: in and match out. This isn't Liga Feminil where you know,
Speaker 5: Barcelona's beating up on teams twenty seven to nothing, you know,
Speaker 5: on a weekly basis. So the NWSL still has a
Speaker 5: lot to offer this national team. That doesn't mean that
Speaker 5: players shouldn't be looking at opportunities to play in Europe.
Speaker 5: I think, as we've seen with Horan Albert even Emily Fox,
Speaker 5: going to a big club right in Europe is probably
Speaker 5: going to be a better fit than just playing in
Speaker 5: NWSL for I don't know, San Diego Wave just to
Speaker 5: pull out.
Speaker 2: One of the bad teams less unless you have a
Speaker 2: connection to someone in the front office on the other
Speaker 2: side of the team. That's gonna be played.
Speaker 4: Anyway, I.
Speaker 2: Think. I mean, I'm thinking that's going to happen at
Speaker 2: some point. Well, as he takes a sip of his coffee, Uh, there's.
Speaker 5: Also an NWS Oh, John, we got to get into
Speaker 5: that one anyway. Good opportunities for NWASL to showcase itself.
Speaker 5: And again Emma kind of pitched this as the Hey,
Speaker 5: you had a great NWSL season, you're your opportunity I
Speaker 5: wouldn't be surprised if that November window, which you know,
Speaker 5: we're playing two very good teams in England and Netherlands
Speaker 5: in Europe, would it. I wouldn't be surprised if that
Speaker 5: has a little bit more of a European bent. There's
Speaker 5: not too many players over in Europe that I would
Speaker 5: just say like we're gonna go take. But for most players,
Speaker 5: their NWSL season will have ended a while ago by
Speaker 5: the time that that November window comes around, so they'll
Speaker 5: either be out of form or probably it on a
Speaker 5: vacation somewhere.
Speaker 4: So again, I wouldn't be surprised if this is.
Speaker 5: THEWSL camp we get the November camp being a little
Speaker 5: bit more euro heavy.
Speaker 2: Yes, sound the trumpets. News this morning out of Bournemouth
Speaker 2: and dony Irola and his press conference has confirmed Tyler
Speaker 2: Adams has been back in training and is in contention
Speaker 2: for playing time. So that's just a quick update there.
Speaker 2: So all right, ten minutes to go. So I will
Speaker 2: ask you this. I know that you had bookmarked something
Speaker 2: in your stream of consciousness discussion after the mention of
Speaker 2: two words San Diego. Do you want to go there
Speaker 2: and do it quickly and discuss the sky is falling.
Speaker 2: The sky is falling after what happened against Mexico.
Speaker 4: Well, real quickly the bookmark.
Speaker 5: I do want to point out John because I want
Speaker 5: people in the comments to sound off and tell me
Speaker 5: how you feel boss Nation.
Speaker 2: Oh oh oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Can we talk about that yet, I've been bus See we.
Speaker 2: Have not talked about boss Nation yet, but feel free.
Speaker 2: Nick fixed it in third a couple days ago.
Speaker 4: Y'all.
Speaker 5: This is the I mean, people are likning it to
Speaker 5: the Proof Louisville, which is what racing Louisville was before that.
Speaker 5: Proof Louisville at least was like, okay, like proof with
Speaker 5: you whatever. It's a little stupid, but whatever they got it.
Speaker 5: This is bad. It's a bad concept. It's a bad origin,
Speaker 5: it's a bad introduction, it's a bad launch, it's a
Speaker 5: bad branding strategy, it's a bad color scheme.
Speaker 4: It's bad.
Speaker 5: And this is no surprise from an ownership group who
Speaker 5: can't even own the whole damn stadium. They're going to
Speaker 5: play it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't know, John, and I'm sure you do, but
Speaker 4: others don't.
Speaker 2: Go for it.
Speaker 5: Their stadium plan, which is not the worst idea, but
Speaker 5: falls short in a couple of ways. They're basically taking
Speaker 5: a high school stadium, the equivalent of Lakewood if you will, sure,
Speaker 5: renovating it and they'll play there. That sounds great in theory,
Speaker 5: right John, that sounds great. You're giving back to the
Speaker 5: Boston community.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: No, they're owning one grand stand and a green space
Speaker 5: south of the stadium, and they're renovating the two on
Speaker 5: the on the side on the goal lines. But they
Speaker 5: don't own the other gram stand, John, they don't own
Speaker 5: the other seating arrangement on the opposite sideline. Now they're
Speaker 5: donating money to the city of Boston and fixing it
Speaker 5: up and all that kind of stuff, right, But they
Speaker 5: don't own it. They don't even own the whole stadium
Speaker 5: they're playing in. And that's fine because like you could
Speaker 5: just say, hey, we're going to donate all this money
Speaker 5: to fix it up when we get first right of
Speaker 5: refusal for all games. Right, that's an easy contract. No,
Speaker 5: that's not what they're doing. So I'm not shocked that
Speaker 5: an ownership group whose only solution is to throw money
Speaker 5: at problems can't come up with a better name than
Speaker 5: Boss Nation with the Frickin' origin story being Oh, it's
Speaker 5: an anagram of Bostonian, Yes, which is dumb. You could
Speaker 5: just said Bostonian FC. Okay, a little weird, but I
Speaker 5: like it. It's fine.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean Nick, Nick went with hub FC or
Speaker 2: play at the Hub, one of those, considering what Boston
Speaker 2: considers itself to be. Uh so, yeah, so what I
Speaker 2: will do?
Speaker 4: There's a whole lot. But yeah, it's bat John.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is absolutely and so oh great. I just
Speaker 2: had a pen explode in my hand. Uh so much
Speaker 2: for that pen. All right, so, uh go back and
Speaker 2: listen a couple of days ago. I will probably end
Speaker 2: up playing that thirty minutes during the holidays where Nick
Speaker 2: fixed bost Nation FC.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Nick was ranting on it as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah so yeah, so that thirty minutes will be a
Speaker 2: part of the holiday programming, ad infinitum. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: until until they fixed something then yeah, bost Nation I am.
Speaker 5: I do not think this is gonna be the name
Speaker 5: that they're gonna come out with in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't hate this color scheme. I don't love it
Speaker 5: because I think they're like, it's not feminine, but it
Speaker 5: is because pink.
Speaker 2: Well, but what what we what we did as a
Speaker 2: part of fixing Boss Nation, other than wanting to throw
Speaker 2: the name in the haiba, is to take the six
Speaker 2: colors and create three separate uniforms out of it. Where
Speaker 2: you had the uh, you had the pink and the
Speaker 2: championship green, and you turned that into basically your watermelon kit.
Speaker 2: That would be your your okay, yeah, And then you
Speaker 2: took the uh. Then it was the charcoal, and another
Speaker 2: one uh the color number four, and that would be
Speaker 2: like your your badass outfit with the charcoal. And then
Speaker 2: you took the two lighter colors, the two pastels, and
Speaker 2: that was your summer outfit. Because the last thing you
Speaker 2: need is wearing the uh, the charcoal outfit in Boston
Speaker 2: in the summertime. And so we took, we took the
Speaker 2: six colors, cut him into thirds, and gave them three
Speaker 2: three jersey and kit combinations that they could that they
Speaker 2: could work with going forward. They can thank Colossus and
Speaker 2: everybody in Boston can think us.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 4: I would just scrap the whole thing and start over.
Speaker 2: But all right, so a handful of minutes left, the
Speaker 2: sky is falling, The sky is falling. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god. Can you believe what happened?
Speaker 2: And now you have folks like Casey Keller and Tim Howard.
Speaker 2: We mentioned Tim Howard's comments yesterday where apparently US Soccer
Speaker 2: is now supposed to strong arm clubs where players are
Speaker 2: heading back to because of load management or knocks and
Speaker 2: things and go. No, they're supposed to stay here and
Speaker 2: be a part of things. No, they can't go back
Speaker 2: to being in your club because you have league matches
Speaker 2: that are important and one of the folks is your talisman.
Speaker 2: So I a a but can pro see.
Speaker 5: We recorded last night to talk about this one, though
Speaker 5: nine nine kind of just landed at the fact that
Speaker 5: it's a bit of a wash in terms of what
Speaker 5: we learned and didn't. I think we learned a lot
Speaker 5: about individual players. I don't think we necessarily learned a
Speaker 5: whole lot about the Pachettino's system, mainly because, as we've said,
Speaker 5: it's not going to be drastically different than the Burholter system.
Speaker 5: I do hope that he learned that if you have
Speaker 5: Matt Turner and goal playing out of the back is
Speaker 5: not something you should rely heavily on. I do hope
Speaker 5: you learned that Aiden Morris is not a guy you
Speaker 5: can rely on in the midfield to just run that thing.
Speaker 5: And I do hope that he learned that Josh Sargent
Speaker 5: hasn't still has not scored since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: Has has the shot that he took has head landed yet?
Speaker 2: A man?
Speaker 4: That was funny, And that's just I think.
Speaker 5: I think to hit on Josh Sergeant real quick, because
Speaker 5: I think he's the epitome of where US soccer is
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 4: On the men's side.
Speaker 1: Is that.
Speaker 5: You look great, You're doing good things at club, You're
Speaker 5: getting a lot of attention, you make a lot of noise.
Speaker 4: But why can't this translate to the national team level?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 5: Josh Sartin has not scored for the United States since
Speaker 5: twenty nineteen, John, And it was against Cuba in the
Speaker 5: Nation's League or twice. And as much as you know,
Speaker 5: the job of a striker is a lot of things, John,
Speaker 5: but you know, I think most people in Atlanta would
Speaker 5: agree the job of the striker is to put the
Speaker 5: round thing into the rectangle thing.
Speaker 2: Would I would I would stipulate to that, yes.
Speaker 5: And when you don't do that for five years it's
Speaker 5: really hard for me to consider that you're a necessary
Speaker 5: inclusion this team, especially when in the same window you're
Speaker 5: another dude that basically battling for the backup spot, gets
Speaker 5: significant only fewer minutes than you and scores a goal.
Speaker 5: Sergeants started both games, and in Mexico he was quite
Speaker 5: honestly bad.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: I understand that he was disconnected from his back line
Speaker 5: in his midfield line, I get that.
Speaker 2: I think we had thirteen touches on the board.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but at least with Vasquez when he came in,
Speaker 5: there was some sort of he acted as somewhat of
Speaker 5: bit of release voul because he's at least able to
Speaker 5: hold the ball up and win aerial battles, and Sergeant
Speaker 5: wasn't doing that at all either.
Speaker 2: In the eightieth minute that was to save.
Speaker 4: Again, the midfield was bad.
Speaker 5: I don't think that the Bussio Mo Morris midfield is
Speaker 5: a good look.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: That is because John, I think the problem that you
Speaker 5: look at is, yes, depth is an issue. But we
Speaker 5: talked about this a lot of times in college football,
Speaker 5: where yeah, your ones and twos are good, but if
Speaker 5: you're relying on threes and fours to get the job
Speaker 5: done right. That's where you're going to get into issues.
Speaker 5: It's a little bit like Atlanta Nighted playing Columbus Crew
Speaker 5: last year, where we had twenty seven players on international break, remember,
Speaker 5: and we went up there and lost what was it
Speaker 5: five to one or something like that, and you go, well, yeah,
Speaker 5: no dub because you know, unfortunately Noah Cob and Ada
Speaker 5: mcfatten aren't the people you need to rely on to
Speaker 5: get a point on the road in MLS at that time. Now,
Speaker 5: Noah cop has gotten better, but at that time, that's
Speaker 5: not a winning combination. And so I think that's really
Speaker 5: the takeaway from Mexico is, yes, depth is an issue,
Speaker 5: but the problem is that injuries are more the issue,
Speaker 5: and these guys got to get healthy. Now to the
Speaker 5: Killer and the Tim Howard comments, I think it is
Speaker 5: acceptable for players who may have been injured in camp.
Speaker 5: So we're looking at McKinney, Stefan, Fossey. I understand them
Speaker 5: going back home. Stefan and FOSSi reportedly not really training
Speaker 5: with the first team heading into the weekend.
Speaker 4: Fine, send them home.
Speaker 5: But Pepi and Polistic I think is a bit of
Speaker 5: a legitimate gripe from the fans and from pundits because
Speaker 5: I understand load management, I truly do. I think that's fine.
Speaker 5: I don't think you want to work these players that much.
Speaker 4: At all, But you can still.
Speaker 5: Play these players for twenty thirty minutes in a game.
Speaker 5: Right if Polistic had played ninety total minutes over the
Speaker 5: course of the two games, right, I don't think that's
Speaker 5: really that bad form. That said, Humboy has played nine
Speaker 5: hundred total minutes since SARAA has started this year. Right,
Speaker 5: that's ten games. That's a lot, right, And that's something
Speaker 5: that like when you know, Alexi Grifter Lawless talks about
Speaker 5: it and says, load management can kiss my bleep back end, buddy,
Speaker 5: you didn't play ten games a whole season in your career, Like,
Speaker 5: I'm really sorry.
Speaker 4: Like, I mean, they do have.
Speaker 5: A lot of demands on them right now physically, and
Speaker 5: so I understand load management.
Speaker 4: I understand rotation.
Speaker 5: I just think that it's not a great signal to
Speaker 5: the team to say, hey, we're going to go down
Speaker 5: to Mexico and fight and compete and win. Oh, but
Speaker 5: these five players get to go home home because they're
Speaker 5: a little tired.
Speaker 4: Especially when you look at Ricardo.
Speaker 5: Peppy goes back, but Malik Tellman stays, well, Tillman's been
Speaker 5: playing a lot more at PSV than Peppy, Right, Brendan
Speaker 5: Arrison's played. I mean, the Championship plays a game every
Speaker 5: other day, John, and you kept Sergeant, I mean not
Speaker 5: maybe not yet.
Speaker 4: They haven't quite.
Speaker 5: Got to that point in the season, but you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, they play a player. So I do
Speaker 5: think it's a little problematic that we're allowing some players
Speaker 5: to go back who aren't really hurt.
Speaker 4: Again Fosse, Stephen McKinney, I get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Peppy was a Peppe apparently had a knock and
Speaker 2: it's load management with. Yeah. Episode ninety nine is coming
Speaker 2: out when.
Speaker 5: Hopefully today, I got to edit it during the lunch hour.
Speaker 5: I also need to go vote during the lunch hour,
Speaker 5: So if you haven't voted yet, make sure you get
Speaker 5: your early voting in or make a plan to vote before.
Speaker 2: Yes, and check your check your check your registration. All right,
Speaker 2: be good, my friend.
Speaker 4: All right, bye, y'all.
Speaker 2: There go's bart And so now it's time to do
Speaker 2: the hot tag. We bring in Greg Garza and Greg sir,
Speaker 2: good morning, it's been a while.
Speaker 6: Good morning man, how you guys doing.
Speaker 2: Doing all right. Uh, actually, since you're here, let me
Speaker 2: let me see. I have to do this officially. I
Speaker 2: did the hot tag, but of course I'm like, wait
Speaker 2: a minute, it's like I forgot to actually do the
Speaker 2: proper introduction where we have to hold our breath for
Speaker 2: like three extra seconds. So here we go. Are you
Speaker 2: now now it's official?
Speaker 6: What's up?
Speaker 1: Dude?
Speaker 2: You've been running around the planet?
Speaker 6: Brother been traveling?
Speaker 2: I know. Uh so, uh what what have you been
Speaker 2: doing on the on the road? Is it? Is it
Speaker 2: both work and enjoyment where you're globe trotting right now?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's always work. Work is every day, work never stops.
Speaker 6: But yeah, just enjoying some time. I think I believe
Speaker 6: I just moved, so I think the last couple of
Speaker 6: weeks I've been uh my mom was in town trying
Speaker 6: to help me move every thing. So that's always I
Speaker 6: feel like we've done so much but so little.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I get that, especially because moving is
Speaker 2: a pain in the you know what, and you've got
Speaker 2: to figure out okay. So if I'm doing this, it's
Speaker 2: like you peck, you pack up your life, then you
Speaker 2: figure out okay. It's one of those opportunities where I
Speaker 2: maybe should hang onto this. Maybe I can let this go.
Speaker 2: Maybe I can do this and then move into the
Speaker 2: new place. Is it larger or smaller? I guess is
Speaker 2: my first question.
Speaker 6: Yeah, much bigger, much bigger. So yeah, now it's figuring out,
Speaker 6: figuring out where everything goes, needing to buy some new things,
Speaker 6: selling things that don't fit, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Man. Okay, So then let me ask it this way,
Speaker 2: since you since you're discussing moving, let me let me
Speaker 2: apply it to your your mentoring here when it comes
Speaker 2: to your mentors and your mentees specifically, when it comes
Speaker 2: to making those big life adjustments, whether it's making it
Speaker 2: a change in location, a change of environment, those kinds
Speaker 2: of things. How many discussions do you get to have
Speaker 2: with your mentees about these kind of life changing things.
Speaker 2: Where As we get older, we do get used to
Speaker 2: the idea of moving and compressing or expanding our lives.
Speaker 2: But what about young men tees having these big moments
Speaker 2: about Okay, do I make this choice to help my career?
Speaker 2: Do I stay at home? Do you have any of
Speaker 2: those conversations?
Speaker 6: Of course, right, I think I had a great conversation
Speaker 6: with the young boy yesterday from an MLS Academy and
Speaker 6: just speaking about just speaking about the sacrifices that are needed.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 6: I think sometimes whenever you're going through the academy level
Speaker 6: and when you're kind of Okay, this is my dream,
Speaker 6: this is really what I want to do. This is
Speaker 6: I think I can get this close, and then I
Speaker 6: think you come to realization like, oh crap, this is
Speaker 6: this is a lot. And I think it takes a
Speaker 6: pretty special person to you know, I think in total,
Speaker 6: I don't know how many homes I've lived in in
Speaker 6: my career, how many homes I've lived in my life.
Speaker 6: This has got to be this has got to be
Speaker 6: upper twenties right now. Wow, of how many homes I've
Speaker 6: lived since I was twelve years old. So, you know,
Speaker 6: I think it's it's you look at your life and
Speaker 6: I mean, finally this will be a place where I
Speaker 6: can call home, sweet home for quite some time. So
Speaker 6: it feels it feels good. It definitely feels good.
Speaker 2: Is there a greater sense of with your mentees knowing
Speaker 2: that these are things that I have to do or
Speaker 2: is there still I guess the level of comfortability from
Speaker 2: like when you were twelve and you know, I was twelve.
Speaker 2: Back in the late eighteen hundreds, the idea of leaving home.
Speaker 2: It was something that we really had to grapple with.
Speaker 2: Is it easier these days or the young athlete to
Speaker 2: sit there and get that this might be something that
Speaker 2: I need to do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's uh just throwing that out there
Speaker 6: and kind of helping them understand not only the discipline
Speaker 6: that goes beyond it, but just uh, just just the sacrifices, right,
Speaker 6: the things that they most likely will have to be
Speaker 6: in front of at some point if they want to
Speaker 6: take soccer as far as they can. But I think
Speaker 6: it's it's it's it's not the regular or the average
Speaker 6: you know, the average Joe, average Joe's kind of trajectory, right,
Speaker 6: I think the trajectory of sometimes what they play in
Speaker 6: their head is completely different than what it what it
Speaker 6: can truly be.
Speaker 2: One of the things that I wrote down as we
Speaker 2: take our first right turn of the morning, uh, from
Speaker 2: your last visit, it says coaching up and p K's
Speaker 2: that with the with it says coaching up.
Speaker 1: P K.
Speaker 2: Garza. Literally, this is the note that I have from
Speaker 2: the last time that we that we talked about these
Speaker 2: kinds of things, and I just want to first off,
Speaker 2: I just want to take it from the idea of
Speaker 2: coaching somebody else because you moving going into someplace new,
Speaker 2: taking that next step, taking those next strides in your life,
Speaker 2: and living in a big, capital h house, you know,
Speaker 2: something like that. When it comes to coaching up an individual,
Speaker 2: coaching up a mentee, obviously they wouldn't have knocked on
Speaker 2: your door if they weren't receptive to the idea of
Speaker 2: hopefully listening to what you have to say. But when
Speaker 2: it comes to coaching them up in a situation, in
Speaker 2: addition to understanding, yes, this is why I'm here, what
Speaker 2: do you have to do to get to that next
Speaker 2: level of encouragement? Because I get that there's probably a
Speaker 2: baseline of being a mentor and then there's that level
Speaker 2: of comfort and then okay, I've got to go to
Speaker 2: this next level with these individuals. So when it comes
Speaker 2: to coaching up your men, tease and going to that
Speaker 2: next level, that second level with them, obviously I would
Speaker 2: think that it differs from individual to individual. But how
Speaker 2: do you as a mentor gauge Okay, I've really got
Speaker 2: to dial it up with this person, I see promise
Speaker 2: or I need to dial it up with this person
Speaker 2: so they can see the promise. How do you figure
Speaker 2: out when to dial it up with a mentee's.
Speaker 6: That's a great question. I think once you start to
Speaker 6: build that kind of trust and I think I think
Speaker 6: Mike and I always say it's like personal storytelling. I
Speaker 6: think is by far my favorite thing to do because
Speaker 6: it allows you to build that connection with each an individual,
Speaker 6: helping them understand whether it be the trajectory of the
Speaker 6: path that you took that that is so much different,
Speaker 6: but just to give them an idea of who you
Speaker 6: are and what you've been through right or who you
Speaker 6: are and kind of what got you to where you
Speaker 6: wanted to go. I think breaking the ice there and
Speaker 6: kind of you know, building a better bond in relationship ship.
Speaker 6: In those moments are when I think I am able
Speaker 6: to pull the trigger and then say, okay, this is
Speaker 6: this is now something that we can speak about in
Speaker 6: regard to maybe building more responsibility or bettering their accountability
Speaker 6: or helping them understand, hey, this this this can be
Speaker 6: something that you can look forward to for a really
Speaker 6: long time. And if you do it this way, this
Speaker 6: is how we did it, this is how I did
Speaker 6: it and it worked for us. So, you know, each
Speaker 6: each and every individual is different. And I think that's
Speaker 6: the beauty of mentorship. And Mike and I always speak
Speaker 6: about it as well, is that some kids just want
Speaker 6: to make varsity from JV, right, and some kids want
Speaker 6: to truly aspire to become a pro. Some kids want
Speaker 6: to take the life values and the life hacks of
Speaker 6: what we what we speak about into maybe a business
Speaker 6: they want to run one day.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 6: There's there's there's so many different little nuances and things
Speaker 6: that we're able to implement and apply to all of
Speaker 6: our sessions. And each each and every kid differs. That's
Speaker 6: the beauty of it as well. Each and every kid
Speaker 6: thinks differently, each and every kid reacts differently, each and
Speaker 6: every kid aspires differently, Each and every kid once onces
Speaker 6: something different, And I think kind of building them up
Speaker 6: within their own internal belief uh, and kind of helping
Speaker 6: them understand what they see in the mirror every day
Speaker 6: and what they're working with every day. That that's that's
Speaker 6: something that's you know, a massive, a massive you know
Speaker 6: benefit I think to.
Speaker 2: Our program well, and I would imagine though that it's
Speaker 2: also a learning experience for you and trying to figure out, Okay,
Speaker 2: here's where I hit the clutch, Here's where I hit
Speaker 2: the brake, Here's where I hit the gas. Because of
Speaker 2: understanding where that men tee is coming from. It's like, Okay, no,
Speaker 2: I don't want to be you know, I don't want
Speaker 2: to be messy. I just want to get to college. No,
Speaker 2: I don't want to be messy. I just want to
Speaker 2: figure out, Okay, how do I apply these life skills?
Speaker 2: How how much of a learning experience has that been
Speaker 2: for you? And cap to to gauge Okay, I might
Speaker 2: be I don't know if I'm pushing hard enough. I
Speaker 2: don't know if I'm pushing too hard. How much of
Speaker 2: a how much of a life hack has it been
Speaker 2: for you?
Speaker 6: It's it's been immense because you learn. I think that's
Speaker 6: the cool part. And we talked about it before you learn.
Speaker 6: You learn a lot from your menties. You learn how
Speaker 6: they view certain things. And you and I have gone
Speaker 6: over like the self belief, self discipline, self regulation, self assessment,
Speaker 6: and there's been times to where I mean, obviously I
Speaker 6: have to kind of push push the envelope a little
Speaker 6: bit more with with some of the kids, right, and
Speaker 6: kind of really help them understand certain phrases or paraphrases
Speaker 6: or synonyms or things that I think of in which
Speaker 6: how those apply to me. But there will be some
Speaker 6: kids that just absolutely blow it out of them, right,
Speaker 6: They just completely explode with amazing phrases and amazing things,
Speaker 6: and you're like, wow, this is this is how this
Speaker 6: kid views this that I want to use that, Right,
Speaker 6: I'm going to use that for myself. I'm going to
Speaker 6: use that in being committed to something or finding consistency
Speaker 6: in something like Sometimes they'll they'll just completely take you
Speaker 6: by a surprise. And I think that that's that's where uh,
Speaker 6: you know, having that flexibility and just being adaptable and
Speaker 6: and and and the willingness and and and wanting to learn.
Speaker 6: Even for us as as adults we're teaching kids, but
Speaker 6: we're also learning a lot from these kids as well,
Speaker 6: which is, uh, which is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'll bite what are some of those phrases
Speaker 2: and descriptors that they are introducing to you that you
Speaker 2: wouldn't have necessarily thought of or applied into a situation
Speaker 2: where oh man, what's the hell of a way to
Speaker 2: sit there and think of something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I wish, I wish I've saved. I mean, whenever
Speaker 6: I do the exercise with them, I usually I use
Speaker 6: post it notes. Ah, and I'll kind of it's really interesting,
Speaker 6: I'll be able to fit all of our phrases within
Speaker 6: and we'll divide that. We'll divide that post it note
Speaker 6: in four right, in four sections, and we'll do the
Speaker 6: four selves. And I mean, I can't really you know,
Speaker 6: I wish I would save all of those posting notes
Speaker 6: of some of the kids to where I'm just completely
Speaker 6: blown away by some of the phrases that they come up,
Speaker 6: because it's it's ultimately what applies to them. Right if
Speaker 6: I look at self belief, for me, I'm thinking about
Speaker 6: you know, taking risks or making mistakes or you know,
Speaker 6: just the good old confidence, right, the good old taking
Speaker 6: responsibility or having the faith in yourself or you know,
Speaker 6: ability to take over or come into a flow state.
Speaker 6: And there'll be other kids to where they'll look at
Speaker 6: those excuse me, niece, go for it, lost it. But
Speaker 6: there'll be other kids that that you know, you do
Speaker 6: that with, and they'll just come up with things that
Speaker 6: are completely different than what you would ever what you
Speaker 6: would ever kind of think self belief to be you know,
Speaker 6: I can't think on the top of my head, but
Speaker 6: you know, there's there's so many interesting ones that we
Speaker 6: have gotten, whether sometimes be speaking with high schools or
Speaker 6: even middle schools or teams. But my favorite is just
Speaker 6: the individual work because you're really diving deep into how
Speaker 6: that individual thinks about about certain qualities of themselves, or
Speaker 6: you kind of look at it and I you know,
Speaker 6: one interesting thing for me is whenever we do finish
Speaker 6: like that exercise with a lot of kids, they'll they'll
Speaker 6: look at it and they'll stare at it, and they'll
Speaker 6: kind of they'll kind of think to themselves of like, Okay,
Speaker 6: I have some of these, but man, I really need
Speaker 6: to focus on a lot of these that I've just
Speaker 6: written down for myself. And that's the power of writing
Speaker 6: things down. I think that's the power of putting things
Speaker 6: out into existence because they're giving themselves almost like a
Speaker 6: guideline and an accountabiit. I tell them it's an accountability list, right,
Speaker 6: It's it's a way to hold yourself accountable and and
Speaker 6: and also kind of consistently see things towards where where
Speaker 6: you want to go, where you want to get to uh.
Speaker 6: So you know it's it's that guideline to your personal
Speaker 6: success of it.
Speaker 2: Essentially, how do you not get lost in all of
Speaker 2: the information that this might be something that you address
Speaker 2: both as a mentor and a mentee. Because of all
Speaker 2: this flow of information that seems like it comes to
Speaker 2: you from a mentee and from you as a mentor,
Speaker 2: how do you prioritize all of the information that might
Speaker 2: be coming your way? Because they all might be great hints,
Speaker 2: they all might be great ideas, But how do you
Speaker 2: look at the list and prioritize and go, Okay, this
Speaker 2: needs to be number one, This needs to be number two,
Speaker 2: instead of getting lost in the sauce and looking at
Speaker 2: it as a piece of paper that has a lot
Speaker 2: of information on it and going, man, what do I
Speaker 2: knock off first? How do you talk to a mentee
Speaker 2: to sit there and go, okay, this is what you
Speaker 2: need to do first. Don't get lost in those other
Speaker 2: four here's the order that you need to attack or
Speaker 2: is there an order that you need to attack? Just
Speaker 2: hit whatever you can knock off the list?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, like for example, in the foreself, they're
Speaker 6: all interconnected, right, and so if you're lacking in one,
Speaker 6: you can always reroute yourself to another, and I think
Speaker 6: that's the beauty of it as well. Usually, like kids,
Speaker 6: at the end of that exercise, they'll usually kind of
Speaker 6: make arrows pointing to where they can go if they
Speaker 6: are feeling a lack in one of them, and I
Speaker 6: think that's something that really helps them. And I don't
Speaker 6: me personally as a mentor, I don't try and give
Speaker 6: too much information within every session that we do. I
Speaker 6: try and mainly focus on just one thing, right, whether
Speaker 6: it be a lot of acronym exercises that we've created
Speaker 6: or acronym exercises that I've created with my just just
Speaker 6: thinking about and looking and learning from things. I don't
Speaker 6: try and give too much information so it'll allow them
Speaker 6: to just truly focus on what that is for that day,
Speaker 6: because I feel like for me, I'm such a visual
Speaker 6: learner as well. I need to see things to kind
Speaker 6: of understand them the best way possible. So yeah, I try,
Speaker 6: and I try and teach the way that I guess
Speaker 6: I learn as well. But you know, giving them hints
Speaker 6: and giving them showing them proof for giving them video
Speaker 6: footage of something to kind of explain more of what's
Speaker 6: needed from them. I think that's a massive point of
Speaker 6: it as well. But I don't try and jump all
Speaker 6: over the place. I think I think having a lot
Speaker 6: of you know, great minds alike. You know, whenever we
Speaker 6: did the ICA training for for MLS, the Inner Cultural Awareness,
Speaker 6: which we have those meetings in a couple of months
Speaker 6: to kind of revamp ICA two point zero for two
Speaker 6: thousand and twenty five. So we just I just got
Speaker 6: that email a couple of days ago to be involved
Speaker 6: again and to be one of the head speakers. So
Speaker 6: I think it's interesting because now I think now even
Speaker 6: doing that has allowed me to bring in a lot
Speaker 6: of things that I do in mentorship, uh, and I
Speaker 6: have a lot of ideas, and so I think that
Speaker 6: now building that trust with them and helping them understand
Speaker 6: from from a league standpoint, hey, this guy can speak
Speaker 6: to people, and this guy can really get a message across. Well.
Speaker 6: I have a lot of messages as well that I
Speaker 6: work with mintees that I feel like would be fantastic
Speaker 6: to work with with professionals. So you know, I think
Speaker 6: that's that's just another another way that we can another
Speaker 6: path that we can take. But yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 6: interesting to to to you know, when we talk about
Speaker 6: giving so much information. Uh, whenever we started those ICA trainings,
Speaker 6: in that first day, we did like a seven hour
Speaker 6: workshop all day and at the end of it, I
Speaker 6: think every single one of our brains was just absolutely
Speaker 6: fried because it was just too much, and they wanted
Speaker 6: us to speak for like three hours to all the players,
Speaker 6: and I was like, look, the most you're going to
Speaker 6: get out of a professional athlete is like thirty five
Speaker 6: forty minutes. Uh if if that right? So you know,
Speaker 6: you have to find a way to interact, keep them connected,
Speaker 6: and and you can't just be speaking to them about
Speaker 6: certain things. You have to get them on board with
Speaker 6: with what you're trying to the message that you're trying
Speaker 6: to portray. So you know, I think it's the same.
Speaker 6: It's the same with a lot of kids as well.
Speaker 6: If you really think about it, the kid's attention span.
Speaker 6: My kids attention span is ten seconds, right, So I'm
Speaker 6: trying to think about things within my sessions that it's
Speaker 6: just one piece of information turned into a bigger exercise,
Speaker 6: but always leading back to what that initial conversation or
Speaker 6: that initial point within the exercise is.
Speaker 2: Because there's a difference in speaking with someone then speaking
Speaker 2: to someone.
Speaker 6: I'm always for speaking with someone rather than speaking to someone.
Speaker 6: And even when I go and speak to title I schools,
Speaker 6: or even when I go and speak to middle schools
Speaker 6: or kids who are struggling in school, or kids who
Speaker 6: are getting in trouble and iss and oss with those kids,
Speaker 6: I always start with questions first. I never do questions last.
Speaker 6: I never speak to them. And I'm like, you know, hey,
Speaker 6: now we're going to leave the last ten to fifteen
Speaker 6: minutes and open up for questions. I want you to
Speaker 6: give me the questions first. Give me the questions first,
Speaker 6: because then it opens up a great conversation to have
Speaker 6: and now I can give them proof or I can
Speaker 6: kind of dig deep and think about stories, whether they
Speaker 6: be personal or with other people that will help connect
Speaker 6: their question. And it's not just giving. And that's where
Speaker 6: I think that personal storytelling becomes, you know, key and
Speaker 6: clutch to to really giving and kind of getting that
Speaker 6: message out.
Speaker 2: Because if you because in a situation like this, and
Speaker 2: I do want to get into your acronyms, so you
Speaker 2: put that in the back of your head for the minutes,
Speaker 2: that's good. But questions first versus questions last. Traditionally, if
Speaker 2: you are called up to speak, and we see this
Speaker 2: a lot, you know, even when we were growing up.
Speaker 2: You know, hey, it's a show and tell day, and
Speaker 2: we have an adult here. If the adult starts by,
Speaker 2: or the expert of the leader or what have you,
Speaker 2: starts by talking, then by the time they have finished talking,
Speaker 2: you just want to get out of the room. All
Speaker 2: of that momentum that the speaker or that that dignitary
Speaker 2: or that person of importance might have had coming in,
Speaker 2: all of that momentum is lost, and the interest is lost,
Speaker 2: and everybody's tired, and you just want to leave. So
Speaker 2: questions last won't necessarily lend itself to a learning back
Speaker 2: and forth where questions first puts the onus on the
Speaker 2: listener to sit there and look at their own curiosity
Speaker 2: and it's like, okay, well why are you here? Can
Speaker 2: I how can I play off of you and get
Speaker 2: my energy moving first, as opposed to having all of
Speaker 2: the energy dissipate and wanting to get out with questions last.
Speaker 6: Most, definitely, I think it kind of for me, it
Speaker 6: kind of softens it softens the room. It allows them
Speaker 6: to kind of feel an easier way to speak to
Speaker 6: an adult. I think sometimes it's hard for kids to
Speaker 6: have that courage and and and kind of.
Speaker 2: Confidence, and especially someone that's not family.
Speaker 6: Especially someone that's not family, especially someone that like I
Speaker 6: look at like title Win schools, or kids that I
Speaker 6: speak to that are in trouble, like they that their
Speaker 6: their level of trust is probably quite low, right because
Speaker 6: they feel like you know, anybody around them, they probably
Speaker 6: most likely don't don't trust. So I think allowing them
Speaker 6: to kind of build that connection from the off and
Speaker 6: and and asking specific questions that might be of help
Speaker 6: to them is a huge is a huge benefit to
Speaker 6: to to lead off.
Speaker 2: You mentioned acronyms, all right, I'll bite. What kind of
Speaker 2: acronyms are ones that you that you have or that
Speaker 2: you've created that help in your creative process?
Speaker 6: Man, we got a lot, obviously. We have the four selfs.
Speaker 6: We have the three c's. Three seas is a good one.
Speaker 6: I can't give all my secrets.
Speaker 2: Away, no, no, no, buts.
Speaker 6: Three seasons ago and it's confidence, consistency, and commitment. We
Speaker 6: have a lot of them. I have the three most,
Speaker 6: I have three m vts. That's a good one. To
Speaker 6: kind of always tell kids, look, I like to focus
Speaker 6: on the mindset, and even when I speak to to
Speaker 6: to even parents as well. I truly like to focus
Speaker 6: on the mindset. But I think that the heart has
Speaker 6: a lot to do with it as well. So heart,
Speaker 6: heart and head connection. The three three m vts is
Speaker 6: three most valuable things in your life. That's one of
Speaker 6: my favorite ones to do with kids because it allows
Speaker 6: them to kind of see how fortunate they are and
Speaker 6: and kind of build that internal connection of the people
Speaker 6: around them providing support, which is which.
Speaker 1: Is a really good thing.
Speaker 6: There's a lot, there's a lot we have, I mean
Speaker 6: a lot of three things. You have three controllable factors.
Speaker 6: I like things that come in threes. Yeah, just just things,
Speaker 6: things that are controllable, things that can essentially help them
Speaker 6: understand how to how to process, how to process circumstances
Speaker 6: and maybe trials and tribulations that they'll they'll encounter in
Speaker 6: the future. I think that's that's the That's one of
Speaker 6: my biggest messages is just helping these kids. It's not
Speaker 6: necessarily hey, give us a call or work with us
Speaker 6: when crap hits the fan. Yeah, it's more so of
Speaker 6: just hey, this is This is preparation because life is
Speaker 6: going to have it's ups and downs, it's ebbs and flows,
Speaker 6: and it's it's it's hard times and good times. But
Speaker 6: you know, the way that you react, the resiliency that
Speaker 6: you have within is is going to be a massive
Speaker 6: It could be a massive turning point for you and
Speaker 6: in that moment of your youth soccer career, or in
Speaker 6: that moment of your profession career and whatever you choose
Speaker 6: to do in your life. So I like to really
Speaker 6: connect it to that.
Speaker 2: As well, because consistency is key in all of this.
Speaker 2: Where you don't want to hit somebody at a high point.
Speaker 2: You don't want to because they'll sit there and they
Speaker 2: may think that they're you know, unbeatable or what have you. You
Speaker 2: don't want to hit them at a truly low point
Speaker 2: because they might be so down on themselves that they
Speaker 2: either won't keep the information, won't listen to the information,
Speaker 2: or just not want to be engaged in the process.
Speaker 2: I think that the key here is to to engage
Speaker 2: them and keep a level of consistency so when they
Speaker 2: have those highs, they understand why it's a high and
Speaker 2: understand why while it might be a low point. It
Speaker 2: is not a fixed low point, if that makes any sense.
Speaker 2: You want to try you want to draw them back
Speaker 2: to the middle as opposed to you don't want to
Speaker 2: sit there and say, well, having a high as bad
Speaker 2: or being at a low is going to get better.
Speaker 2: You want to try to eight. You want to keep
Speaker 2: the consistent seeing and have them understand the highs of
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 6: There are so many different ways to use the word consistency.
Speaker 6: You can talk about the emotional curve, which is probably
Speaker 6: what you're talking about right now, right, and we use
Speaker 6: I use another Chinese proverb which is great Chinese farmer,
Speaker 6: his son and the Black Stallion, which is a great
Speaker 6: Chinese proverb. Not sure if you've read it before, but
Speaker 6: it's a it's a great Chinese proverb. Teaches about the
Speaker 6: emotional curve and understanding how to stay closer to the
Speaker 6: baseline there there, you know, these are these are stories
Speaker 6: that I can tell, Like that story right there, I
Speaker 6: can tell a young kid, right, a very young kid
Speaker 6: who's at the age of eleven twelve, and their their
Speaker 6: their emotions are just I mean, even my son emotions
Speaker 6: are all over the freaking place, right, and so it's
Speaker 6: it's helping them. Hey, can you be the Chinese farmer right?
Speaker 6: Think about the Chinese farmer next time this happens. Just
Speaker 6: self talk Chinese farmer. And there are so many kids
Speaker 6: that I work with that are like man. The parents
Speaker 6: will be like man. After the game, I was like man,
Speaker 6: my son near my didn't react a certain way, and
Speaker 6: you know, asked them, what do you tell yourself? Like
Speaker 6: how did you get through that moment?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 6: Because I remember coach Creig, we did the Chinese farmer.
Speaker 6: And so you know, there's so many proverbs that you
Speaker 6: can give within especially with an Asian culture that kind
Speaker 6: of linked them. You know, teaches the essence of life,
Speaker 6: which is great. But the coolest thing for me about
Speaker 6: consistency is that any kid that I ask what consistency
Speaker 6: means on the field, and every kid will tell you
Speaker 6: that consistency means that you always play well. And it's interesting,
Speaker 6: every single kid, nine out of ten kids that I ask,
Speaker 6: will always say consistency means that because you know, what
Speaker 6: their coaches are telling them is that you need to
Speaker 6: be a consistent player. You need to be a consistent player.
Speaker 6: You need to be a consistent player. And I'll always
Speaker 6: ask them you know, how many games do you think
Speaker 6: you've played in your youth career so far? I mean,
Speaker 6: these kids played two games, three games every weekend. So
Speaker 6: if they're fifteen sixteen years old, man, they've played six
Speaker 6: hundred games in their lives so far. And so it's
Speaker 6: it's it's always an interesting one for me. And I
Speaker 6: always asked them, well, how many games do you think
Speaker 6: you've played really well? In those six hundred games? Maybe
Speaker 6: half right, and maybe maybe you know a quarter of
Speaker 6: them or the other half that they've they've probably done terrible, right,
Speaker 6: And So in my mind, consistency is not playing well always,
Speaker 6: because even as a professional athlete, you're not always going
Speaker 6: to play well. But I always tell them to write
Speaker 6: things down that they do on a consistent basis whenever
Speaker 6: they play, because that's what makes you a consistent player.
Speaker 6: I knew the second that Brad Guzanne had the ball,
Speaker 6: my absolute tale was going to be on the touch
Speaker 6: line before anybody was ever going to tell me, right,
Speaker 6: And that is something that I did consistently well. I
Speaker 6: knew that whenever the ball went up, the first thing
Speaker 6: that I thought to myself was making sure I was
Speaker 6: going to stick with my line.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 6: So I was looking over at LGP and Parky and
Speaker 6: you know, Franco or Julian whoever was on the other
Speaker 6: side of making sure that I was in line with them.
Speaker 6: That was something that I did religiously and consistently. Well,
Speaker 6: So it gets them once again, it gets them to
Speaker 6: start thinking, Wow, Okay, they're probably things that I do
Speaker 6: on a consistent basis. Do I always try and play forward?
Speaker 6: Do I always try and make sure I'm in a
Speaker 6: defensive stance?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 6: There's little little nuances and little things that they have
Speaker 6: within their game that they've never thought about before. And
Speaker 6: so that, to me, I think is a big one
Speaker 6: to help them understand the value of what consistency truly
Speaker 6: can be. And I think it gets them away from Okay,
Speaker 6: I need to always play well. No, if I do
Speaker 6: these things, then you know I'm giving myself a chance
Speaker 6: of performing consistently.
Speaker 2: Thankay, the fourth is holding up the light board, so
Speaker 2: I know that we're gonna add a couple of minutes here.
Speaker 2: Last question for you has to do with the pressure
Speaker 2: of decision day and right now, specifically Land United. They
Speaker 2: got to win down with the Purple team, They got
Speaker 2: to get business taken care of How do you handle
Speaker 2: or how would you advise handling the pressure of got
Speaker 2: to have it to have a chance.
Speaker 6: What did I call the team last year? What did
Speaker 6: what was I think?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You do? I can't remember.
Speaker 6: I heard somebody say it and I I started cracking
Speaker 6: up and I completely forgot it. You just said the
Speaker 6: Purple team. I was like, man, that's somebody.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I see. But now you're thinking about it, and I
Speaker 2: know you can text me when you remember it, textas.
Speaker 6: I don't remember, dude, I got too many other things
Speaker 6: on my mind right now. I gotta get all these
Speaker 6: boxes out of my house and recycle.
Speaker 2: Monday.
Speaker 6: Brother, Oh it's Tuesday here, Tuesday here.
Speaker 2: How do you handle the pressure of decision day knowing
Speaker 2: that you got to have a result.
Speaker 6: Yeah, uh, you can't think about anything else. You just
Speaker 6: have to do what's what's in front of you. I
Speaker 6: don't know, it's it's I've been in that situation before,
Speaker 6: even in Mexico, to where we did not qualify. We
Speaker 6: had to wait for other we were playing away in
Speaker 6: the Coxa and we had to have like two other
Speaker 6: games finished the way that we wanted to. I did
Speaker 6: not go with the way that we wanted, because I
Speaker 6: think we were probably already extremely disappointed with how the
Speaker 6: whole entire season had gone, and I think it was
Speaker 6: just kind of one of those things to where we
Speaker 6: just let let our guard down, or it was too
Speaker 6: much thinking about other results, and so it's it's it's
Speaker 6: a really difficult place to be. I think you can
Speaker 6: even look at you know, even Rob's Rob's interviews, right
Speaker 6: if you watched his last interview, I think pregame of
Speaker 6: maybe yesterday. You know, I think it's a very tough
Speaker 6: situation to be in. You know, you you have to
Speaker 6: focus on what's in front of you, but at the
Speaker 6: same time, you're not too confident, you know. I think
Speaker 6: you can kind of hear that within their voices whenever
Speaker 6: they give the interviews of you know, it's it's you
Speaker 6: can only control what's in front of you and hopefully
Speaker 6: you can get a good result. I would say, in
Speaker 6: the back of my mind, the only thing I would
Speaker 6: have is just to get a good result, to leave
Speaker 6: a last impression, to finish off on a good note.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 6: And if for some odd reason something miraculously happens, then
Speaker 6: it's happened. I don't know if it's deservingly but it's happened, right,
Speaker 6: and so I think that's uh, that that's probably that's
Speaker 6: probably my main focus, just to finish off on a
Speaker 6: good note. I wouldn't even I wouldn't even think about
Speaker 6: qualifying or getting into the playoffs. Just just finish.
Speaker 2: On a good note, because there's other things at play,
Speaker 2: like your job future, whether it's in the town that
Speaker 2: you're in currently or somebody else that might be looking
Speaker 2: at you.
Speaker 1: Seven.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of guys having second thoughts about where
Speaker 6: they're going to be in a couple of weeks right now.
Speaker 6: So yeah, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta perform for
Speaker 6: who's watching you right now, or you got to perform
Speaker 6: for somebody who's watching that last game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, So what's going on with beyond goals?
Speaker 2: Menoring my friend other than you? Other than you moving
Speaker 2: boxes for recycle?
Speaker 6: Same old, same old man, same old, same old, working hard.
Speaker 6: I'm getting into that cold weather business. So high school
Speaker 6: is right around the corner, so I'm sure we'll be
Speaker 6: making some really cool connections here in a couple months,
Speaker 6: and just continuing to build a game.
Speaker 2: Love It Go Sneeze'd be good my friend. We'll see
Speaker 2: you soon.
Speaker 6: That's good. Always good to connect it.
Speaker 2: Take care all right, all right, you too, Greg Garza,
Speaker 2: and it's always great to catch up with Greg and
Speaker 2: our friends at Beyond Goals Entering. I know I kept
Speaker 2: him long past ten o'clock, but I had to ask
Speaker 2: about decision day and at Lane United, all right, late
Speaker 2: to the party. Morning, David, morning, Alex, morning, everybody, morning, Harry.
Speaker 2: Harry was in early this morning in the Central time zone.
Speaker 2: As always, we will have our programming out later today
Speaker 2: with USL Championship USL League One, and then tomorrow we'll
Speaker 2: have our look at MLS next Pro because the playoffs
Speaker 2: start on Sunday. It is the round of sixteen, eight
Speaker 2: and eight either side. We'll go over all that stuff
Speaker 2: coming up in just a little bit. And Alex, the
Speaker 2: only thing worse than winning and the other results not
Speaker 2: doing you a favors not winning, and I'll correct, yes,
Speaker 2: and not winning all the other planets aligned, absolutely true.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the the the if if we had done
Speaker 2: hours then as opposed to what we did ours and
Speaker 2: they didn't, you know, they didn't cooperate, all right, So
Speaker 2: let's go over the uh activity on the weekend. We've
Speaker 2: invited pretty much anybody and everybody that wants to come
Speaker 2: in to discuss what's going on with Atlanta United or
Speaker 2: anything else in Major League Soccer. Here for our number two.
Speaker 2: So with the bat signal is out, anybody that crashes
Speaker 2: the party will come in and crash the party. We'll
Speaker 2: go over the updated juice boxes, will go over what
Speaker 2: is the scenarios. Scenarios. I feel like a movie Silver
Speaker 2: Streak with Patrick McGowin. I've been to the scenario where bye,
Speaker 2: uh so we'll go over all the things and Jared
Speaker 2: is here to discuss all the things. Some of the things.
Speaker 1: We actually all the things. Yeah, what are we doing?
Speaker 2: Uh? Literally, you are here right at the beginning of
Speaker 2: the batting order. So I was going to do updated
Speaker 2: juice boxes and say the Atlanta United discussion the tale
Speaker 2: end and you know, just have folks drift in and
Speaker 2: drift out and see what's going on with decision day
Speaker 2: and who's got what and who's in and who's out
Speaker 2: and what do you got to do and all that
Speaker 2: other kind of ish. So that's that's where we are
Speaker 2: this morning. When it comes to all of the juice boxes.
Speaker 2: Remember kickoffs simultaneous in the Eastern Conference, all at six ten.
Speaker 2: I imagine at six ' ten. Considering that's what Apple has
Speaker 2: done all season long, this would be that one time
Speaker 2: where it's like no, no, no, it literally is a six.
Speaker 1: O'clock kick, I will fight someone.
Speaker 2: I mean, you've gone to the tens all season long.
Speaker 2: And then, well, like I said, right now, it is
Speaker 2: listed at six o'clock Eastern, nine o'clock eastern. I am
Speaker 2: operating under the premise that it is six ten and
Speaker 2: nine ten. We'll go over the officiating crews as well.
Speaker 2: That are a part of the discussions after we roll
Speaker 2: through the juice boxes. But wouldn't this be the day
Speaker 2: where it would end up being like, you know, we're
Speaker 2: going to be at six o'clock. So all right, so
Speaker 2: juice boxes, here we go. It is a CF Montreal
Speaker 2: in New York City six ' ten kick. I imagine
Speaker 2: CF Montreal is a plus one ninety five. Your draw
Speaker 2: is a plus two seventy two NYCFC. Who has things
Speaker 2: to play for? They are at a plus one twenty two.
Speaker 2: And so it will be intriguing to play instad suputo
Speaker 2: when you got some stuff that you got to figure
Speaker 2: out and then you lay it all You lay it
Speaker 2: all out on the line for all of these things.
Speaker 2: So seating is going to be intriguing here. For NYC, specifically,
Speaker 2: they can pass the Purple team for a spot in
Speaker 2: the top four, claim a round one hosting right in
Speaker 2: the Eastern Conference. The others. You could end up with
Speaker 2: Seattle on RSL, chasing after the three in the West.
Speaker 2: Plenty of movement possible. Further down Vancouver Minnesota look to
Speaker 2: avoid the wild card game. Messi and friends will get
Speaker 2: into them in just a bit. But your juice boxes
Speaker 2: in Montreal plus one twenty two shifted slightly more toward
Speaker 2: even money on NYC, and I mean slightly one plus
Speaker 2: one ninety five for C if Montreal, your draws a
Speaker 2: plus two seventy two. Chicago and Nashville is an East
Speaker 2: is an Eastern Conference game, but yes, so that means
Speaker 2: it is a six o'clock six ' ten start, and
Speaker 2: Chicago is even money plus one hundred. The draw and
Speaker 2: Nashville are within the margin of error. Nashville's a plus
Speaker 2: two to fifty four in the composite courtesy of our
Speaker 2: friends of odds Portal, and the draw is a plus
Speaker 2: two fifty nine DC and Charlotte d C is on
Speaker 2: the minus side at a minus one oh six draws
Speaker 2: a plus three oh five. Charlotte to win on the
Speaker 2: road is a plus two forty. Like I said, we'll
Speaker 2: go over all the scenarios and lets you know what's
Speaker 2: going on here in a bit. Messi and Friends hosting
Speaker 2: the REVS at the Erector Set in Fort Lauderdale. The
Speaker 2: odds have pretty much exploded, No real surprise. Messi and
Speaker 2: Friends are chasing after a new single season points record
Speaker 2: if they beat New England at home. The twenty twenty
Speaker 2: one revs are the current record holders was seventy three.
Speaker 2: Messi and Friends have seventy one. They've clinched the pie
Speaker 2: plate and have MLS Cup hosting priority, so the numbers
Speaker 2: once again no real surprise. Messi and Friends are to
Speaker 2: minus two eighty six draws a plus four seventy one.
Speaker 2: The revs are a plus six eleven. If you wish
Speaker 2: to go down that road, that number has exploded from
Speaker 2: one side of plus six hundred to the other in
Speaker 2: twenty four hours. Red Bulls and Crew, this game means
Speaker 2: nothing to Crewe. If I remember my math correctly, it
Speaker 2: ain't meaning nothing. You got nothing there, So one, two,
Speaker 2: and three are all laid out. Miami's at seventy one,
Speaker 2: Columbus is at sixty three. They can't touch Miami. They
Speaker 2: can't be touched by Cincinnati. So doesn't mean anything to
Speaker 2: Columbus at all. Nothing, nothing, nothing to Columbus. So went
Speaker 2: through a couple of the early juice boxes. NYC has
Speaker 2: something to play for. The favorite number has gotten a
Speaker 2: little closer to even money plus one hundred and no
Speaker 2: one cares about Chicago and Nashville. And also we're at
Speaker 2: DC and Charlotte. DC's on the minus side of the
Speaker 2: minus one oh six MESSI and Friends a big favorite
Speaker 2: as they chase the points record. Red Bulls and Crew.
Speaker 2: Red Bulls a plus one thirty three draws a plus
Speaker 2: two seventy four Crew, who probably will trot out as
Speaker 2: many Crew two folks as they could get away with,
Speaker 2: considering they would have to play on Sunday as well
Speaker 2: in the MLS next Pro playoffs, or a plus one
Speaker 2: seventy four, So the game means nothing to Crew. They
Speaker 2: are understandably an underdog. Union and Sinci Philadelphia is a
Speaker 2: minus one twenty eight. They're a part of the mess.
Speaker 2: The four teams in the two spots draws a plus
Speaker 2: three twenty two FC Cincinnati is a plus two point eighty.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati cannot be touched by Orlando. They're the three regardless
Speaker 2: of what happens. And if you were looking for a
Speaker 2: danger sign and somebody to get bumped in round number
Speaker 2: one of the playoffs, no matter who they're facing, I'm
Speaker 2: staring at you, Cincinnati. So of those six o'clock six
Speaker 2: ' ten starts, Jared, outside of Atlanta and the Purple team,
Speaker 2: which we're saving, what sticks in your mind with what's
Speaker 2: going on in the Eastern Conference here for decision Day.
Speaker 1: I mean the Philadelphia sinc One matters. Here's my thing,
Speaker 1: and we'll get deeper into it with Atlanta. Of the
Speaker 1: many mini games that you can look back on and
Speaker 1: be angry about that have put you in the situation,
Speaker 1: the two that stick in I had the most are
Speaker 1: Montreal and Nashville. You had no excuse playing the way
Speaker 1: you did against Nashville just badly unacceptable. You can't lose
Speaker 1: that home game because if you have those six points,
Speaker 1: even if you had two points, even if you got
Speaker 1: draws in those games, you're in a much better situation.
Speaker 1: You've made your bed. Now you're in chaos mode, Philly.
Speaker 1: Since he's really interesting, you're gonna be watching obviously the
Speaker 1: four games that matter. Like that just kind of goes
Speaker 1: without saying. And I think a lot of for me personally,
Speaker 1: a lot of that East Coast boils down to those
Speaker 1: four games. Like the rest of it is, like everyone,
Speaker 1: I think goes into it the same way we go
Speaker 1: into like the fourth quarter of a blowout in football. Hey,
Speaker 1: run the offense, don't get hurt. That's kind of feels
Speaker 1: like what it is. There have been more chaotic this
Speaker 1: decision days. There have been less chaotic decision days. But
Speaker 1: all we ask for, uh as patrons of the gods
Speaker 1: of chaos, is that you give us at least something
Speaker 1: funny to watch on decision day, and we have been
Speaker 1: blessed with that. For me, it's it's those four games,
Speaker 1: and it's you. It's how much those teams want to
Speaker 1: go want to like go go go full bore into
Speaker 1: those games because you're not gonna get much movement in
Speaker 1: that top in the top part of the playoffs. So
Speaker 1: you know, if if things start to get things start
Speaker 1: to get away from you, if you're Charlotte, maybe you
Speaker 1: just power down, right if things start to get away
Speaker 1: from you, if you're New York City, maybe just power down.
Speaker 1: But you know, this thing could come down to there's
Speaker 1: there's gonna be one of those things where this could
Speaker 1: very simply come down to the last ten minutes of
Speaker 1: the season, and we don't know which teams are going
Speaker 1: to the playoffs on which you're not. And it's very
Speaker 1: easy for us to sit here and say, and I
Speaker 1: know it's kind of been the dooming gloom thing in
Speaker 1: the city of you know, you don't expect anything good
Speaker 1: at this point. But I'm here to tell you there's
Speaker 1: plenty of fans of those four teams who are also
Speaker 1: going to be like anxiety ridden by what they're going
Speaker 1: to have to watch. You're not the only ones who
Speaker 1: have to suffer here. Those fan base are gonna suffer too.
Speaker 1: It's not always gonna be pretty current points. They could,
Speaker 1: they could they could also very easily spit the bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is absolutely true. Point situation once again, one, two,
Speaker 2: and three. They're locked in. No one can touch them.
Speaker 2: Orlando's the four at fifty two. NYC is the five
Speaker 2: at fifty Charlotte is the six at forty eight. Red
Speaker 2: Bulls are the seven at forty seven. That is one
Speaker 2: group of chaos. Then the eight to nine has DC
Speaker 2: and Montreal at forty points and ten wins. Then you
Speaker 2: have filled out Eelphia and Atlanta thirty seven points, nine wins. Now, remember,
Speaker 2: here's your tie breaking scenarios in order, total number of wins,
Speaker 2: goal difference, goals four, fewest disciplinary points per match. I'll
Speaker 2: only go there because I don't think we're going to
Speaker 2: go any place deeper than fourth. Because looking at the eight,
Speaker 2: nine and eleven and twelve currently laid out as it
Speaker 2: is ten, thirteen and ten, that's DC in Montreal, Philadelphia
Speaker 2: and Atlanta nine fourteen and ten. Folks win, folks lose,
Speaker 2: You're going to be looking at that ten win marker. Okay,
Speaker 2: keep going. Goal difference benefiting two teams of the four,
Speaker 2: it would be Philadelphia and Atlanta. Philadelphia is at plus eight,
Speaker 2: Atlanta's at minus four, d C is at minus fifteen,
Speaker 2: Montreal is at minus eighteen. DC's given up sixty seven
Speaker 2: goals this year. Montreal not too far behind them at
Speaker 2: sixty four. So that's goal difference right there. Third, if
Speaker 2: it got to it, and I don't think it would
Speaker 2: just because of the difference in goals, because literally it
Speaker 2: would have to be something where DC and Montreal would
Speaker 2: lose and at Philadelphia and Atlanta would have to like win.
Speaker 2: And so you're not going any deeper than that. So
Speaker 2: we're not going to go any deeper than the goal
Speaker 2: difference category because that pretty much will decide where things
Speaker 2: land when it comes to all of your tie breakers.
Speaker 2: So your scenarios in the East disciplinary points would get
Speaker 2: into all that madness too. So your tie breakers are
Speaker 2: those particular tie breakers. That's where you are in order
Speaker 2: when it comes to laying things off. And remember, if
Speaker 2: you get into the wildcard round, you go from playing
Speaker 2: on Saturday to playing on Tuesday, Wednesday, you win. In
Speaker 2: the wildcard round, you go to playing on from or Saturday,
Speaker 2: and you're playing all the way through in theory November
Speaker 2: tenth if you get it to the best to the
Speaker 2: third game of the best of three. So that is
Speaker 2: where you are with the tiebreaker scenarios. Now your scenarios
Speaker 2: for the four clubs at the bottom, Like I said,
Speaker 2: we know the chaos with who's gonna do what? And
Speaker 2: then you look at math for the first chase group
Speaker 2: four through seven, eight, nine, ten, eight, nine, twelve, and
Speaker 2: thirteen or eight, nine, eleven and twelve Sorry d C
Speaker 2: in with a win or drug against Charlotte or Montreal
Speaker 2: loses versus NYC and Philly does not get full points
Speaker 2: against Cincinnati and d C owns the tiebreaker advantage over Montreal,
Speaker 2: or Montreal loses against NYC and Atlanta does not win
Speaker 2: at Orlando and d C owns the tiebreaker advantage over
Speaker 2: Montreal or Philly does not get full points and Atlanta
Speaker 2: does not get full points. See if Montreal in if
Speaker 2: win or draw. Basically, if they don't lose to NYC
Speaker 2: or DC loses, Philadelphia doesn't get full points and Montreal
Speaker 2: owns the tie breaker advantage over d C. D C
Speaker 2: loses and Atlanta doesn't get full points and Montreal owns
Speaker 2: the tiebreaker advantage over Atlanta or Philadelphia does not win
Speaker 2: against Cincinnati and Atlanta does not win against Orlando because
Speaker 2: they're introducing all these doesn't win lose draw things, So basically,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to knock out as many words as possible
Speaker 2: so we all don't lose our minds. Philly in if
Speaker 2: they win and Montreal loses and DC loses or Philly wins,
Speaker 2: Montreal loses, Atlanta does not get full points, Philly wins
Speaker 2: and Montreal loses. Philadelphia owns the tiebreaker advantage over Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Philly wins, DC loses, Atlanta doesn't get full points, or
Speaker 2: Philly wins. DC loses. Philly owns the tiebreaker advantage over Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Atlanta in IF win, and this is predicated on winning
Speaker 2: first and foremost, since you were at thirty seven points,
Speaker 2: win first and foremost and Montreal loses, DC loses when
Speaker 2: Montreal lose, Philly doesn't get full points. When Montreal loses,
Speaker 2: and Atlanta has the tiebreaker advantage over Philly, Atlanta wins,
Speaker 2: DC loses, and Philly does not win. Against Cincinnati, Atlanta wins,
Speaker 2: DC loses, Atlanta owns the tiebreaker advantage over Philly. So
Speaker 2: there you go. That's Atlanta, and that's where we are.
Speaker 2: Nothing like a bunch of win and that's where you are.
Speaker 2: If you are below the playoff bar, it is win.
Speaker 2: And tried to break that down as much as possible.
Speaker 2: So that's your six o'clockers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again as much as we talk about Atlanta,
Speaker 1: because again we're based in that betro Atlanta, as much
Speaker 1: as we talk about them, you have three other teams,
Speaker 1: two of whom control their destiny, two of them do not,
Speaker 1: who are also going to be kind of staring at
Speaker 1: everything wondering what if at the end of this, because
Speaker 1: two teams are going to go home very unhappy and
Speaker 1: they're going to be feeling very much disappointed and a
Speaker 1: feeling of what if. I think, because Philadelphia is going
Speaker 1: to feel that. Now, imagine if Atlanta doesn't spit the
Speaker 1: bidding of Philadelphia early in the season, which still to
Speaker 1: me feels like the folk of this entire season. You
Speaker 1: blow that lead to Philadelphia at home inexplicably when you
Speaker 1: were like they were dead and you just crawl back
Speaker 1: into the game. If you take care of that, does
Speaker 1: everything turn because you were you were, you were fine
Speaker 1: up to that point. Wasn't perfect nothing ever is? I mean,
Speaker 1: you can sit there and watch results and look for
Speaker 1: the bad and everything and look for it. Oh, this
Speaker 1: is bad, so this is going to come crashing down.
Speaker 1: You can do that. Now you can also be realistic
Speaker 1: and look at things like, hey, we need to improve this,
Speaker 1: but also you can do it in a way that
Speaker 1: isn't a doom and gloom, but you were getting results.
Speaker 1: You were getting results, you were getting wins not playing
Speaker 1: at your best. Hell, when you beat Orlando early this season,
Speaker 1: you didn't play your best and you still beat them too. Now,
Speaker 1: but you kind of let that Philadelphia game roll down
Speaker 1: hill on you. But yeah, you got two teams are
Speaker 1: going very much feel like they let everything get away,
Speaker 1: and they did. Whether that's Atlanta, Philly, DC, or Montreal too.
Speaker 1: Of those teams are going to have let this opportunity
Speaker 1: slip away, and they're all they're all going to have
Speaker 1: to have a very hard look in the mirror. We know. Atlanta's,
Speaker 1: I think, is going to be the most extreme because
Speaker 1: of all the changes that are coming in front office
Speaker 1: and coaching staff and roster like there is going to
Speaker 1: be the most extreme one. Montreal's, I feel like, isn't
Speaker 1: as extreme, Like Montreal was kind of rebuilding everything anyway.
Speaker 1: So it's fine, DC in the same boat Philadelphia is.
Speaker 1: And I don't know where Rich is when I need him.
Speaker 1: But Philadelphia still to me kind of feels like an
Speaker 1: existential crisis of we know what they can be, we
Speaker 1: know what they've been in the past, but they don't
Speaker 1: seem to have the horses anymore, and will they spend
Speaker 1: to give Jim Curtin what he needs and or will
Speaker 1: he use the kids in a way that is more risky.
Speaker 1: He's done it in the past. Go back to twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen in the playoffs where it was like Austin trust
Speaker 1: and it wasn't Mackenzie. I forget who the other center back.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was all. I don't think it
Speaker 1: was Mackenzie. But Austin Trusty was one of the young
Speaker 1: center backs that they threw out there during the season
Speaker 1: and they got burned repeatedly, but by playoff time they
Speaker 1: had the experience. As this core gets older, is he
Speaker 1: going to be able to turn to those kids as much?
Speaker 1: Is he going to be willing to turn to those
Speaker 1: kids as much? So whoever loses, they're gonna have some
Speaker 1: questions to answer. That's between them and God.
Speaker 2: Yes, and Rich is here, by the way, So Rich
Speaker 2: does exist.
Speaker 1: Friday, Rich, Yes, it's my question for you and your
Speaker 1: team is going to be do they spend and how
Speaker 1: much does Jim Curtin trust the kids going into twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, because there's going to be got to turn
Speaker 1: over so many things there and I know, yeah, rich,
Speaker 1: So I don't know how much the I don't know
Speaker 1: how much the front office until you will spend in
Speaker 1: the off season and then you know how much do
Speaker 1: you trust? How much does Jim Curtin trust those kids
Speaker 1: like he did back in twenty seventeen, eighteen nineteen, how
Speaker 1: much does he trust them? Because I don't know? All yeah,
Speaker 1: because I and it's it's kind of my my staple
Speaker 1: for the play the kids thing is twenty eighteen where
Speaker 1: like Austin trustee, it was one of those young center
Speaker 1: backs who were just getting burned all year long and
Speaker 1: they just developed and developed and developed and suffered and
Speaker 1: kind of those it's kind of like watching someone kick
Speaker 1: us a log long enough where all the microfractures just
Speaker 1: calcified and those kids calcified into being good. But man,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's there's going to be pain points when
Speaker 1: you do it. Atlanta's gone through that in the past
Speaker 1: as well. Hell, I still have anger and my soul
Speaker 1: for the way George Campbell was talked about on this here,
Speaker 1: damn you know, cursed dead bird app by people who
Speaker 1: went week to week praising him and then damning him
Speaker 1: and then damning him with faint praise because you know,
Speaker 1: twenty and twenty one year old kid wasn't playing consistently
Speaker 1: as he was getting us first ever in the last minutes.
Speaker 1: Like I want to see how Philadelphia handles twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: And Rich is all in on Cavin Sullivan. No surprise.
Speaker 1: As long as he's here.
Speaker 2: Yes, three more years, three more years of Calvin Sullivan.
Speaker 1: Although like like, uh, he kind of got the arch
Speaker 1: Manning thing. We got three years to make some magic
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 2: So yes, really two from Arch before you before you
Speaker 2: transfer out, and and.
Speaker 1: Or what's the ald boy at Carlton High School who reclassified?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Juju, he's gonna leave he early. He's like no,
Speaker 2: it's like, jud you've made a business decision. I'm playing ahead.
Speaker 1: For those of you who playing are playing the home game,
Speaker 1: who don't know high school football in Georgia, that's okay,
Speaker 1: you'd be a if you did.
Speaker 2: Yuh.
Speaker 1: Juju is a quarterback at Carlton High School out in
Speaker 1: west west of town who's reclassified himself as a senior,
Speaker 1: So he's going to play three years of high school ball.
Speaker 1: But he's I think John he's committed to USC Yeah.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going out to Lincoln.
Speaker 2: Riley Land for the moment n I L. His n
Speaker 2: I L is two point one million dollars currently. That's
Speaker 2: the beauty o Lipstic City for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey man, you know what though, go for it.
Speaker 3: Hey, some of these n I L collectives are not
Speaker 3: playing games. But what happens when Kayla the Boar is like, hey, hey,
Speaker 3: Jalen Milro is going to be gone and I need
Speaker 3: someone to run this and say it all.
Speaker 2: Uh huh oh yeah, it'll be. It'll be.
Speaker 1: Or if Dan Lanning decides he wants a new toy
Speaker 1: to play with up there.
Speaker 2: In Eugene, mister Knight, mister Knight, mister Knight, you know
Speaker 2: it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a million as shit to him.
Speaker 2: No, that is absolutely true. I mean literally, it is
Speaker 2: literally that when you see things like what you see,
Speaker 2: it is absolutely going to.
Speaker 4: Be like this, Penny Sheldon.
Speaker 2: Literally you're knocking on the door of your of your
Speaker 2: NIL collective. But when Juju Lewis as in as a
Speaker 2: freshman said that he was declaring the Southern cow as
Speaker 2: we always say when it comes to Cruton, that's when
Speaker 2: the creutin started when you declared as a ninth grade
Speaker 2: that you were going to Southern col That's when everybody
Speaker 2: starts to dial it up. Right now, Yes, his nil
Speaker 2: is reported at two point one million dollars and he
Speaker 2: basically he's going to graduate in three years, and so
Speaker 2: he is he is going to go to college somewhere.
Speaker 2: We don't know yet. Until that fax is in, we
Speaker 2: don't have an answer officially, and so all of the
Speaker 2: talk between now and early in December is going to
Speaker 2: be that just talk, and then this is gonna happen
Speaker 2: sooner rather than later. I anticipate that you will have
Speaker 2: a high profile athlete in the high school ranks opt
Speaker 2: out of playing in a championship game because of their
Speaker 2: high in il and that they will have declared to
Speaker 2: go to a university in early December the state championships
Speaker 2: usually a week or two after, depending on which state
Speaker 2: you're talking about. I will guarantee you that you will
Speaker 2: get to the point where you have high school athletes
Speaker 2: opting out of playing in championship games because of their
Speaker 2: future and their money earnings that are still there. Because
Speaker 2: I'm not a businessman, I'm a business man. That's where
Speaker 2: we are right now and I can see it coming, Jared.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be It's gonna be weird too when
Speaker 1: it happens. Especially is brigeting because we know we've got
Speaker 1: a couple of these seventeen year olds in college now,
Speaker 1: like Ryan Williams at Obama, Who's who might have been
Speaker 1: built in a lab.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he was, because.
Speaker 1: He's seventeen and he is. He is making twenty two
Speaker 1: year old men look like they want to quit what
Speaker 1: they're doing.
Speaker 2: Yes, but.
Speaker 1: If you tell me, as a kid, I'm sitting on
Speaker 1: anywhere between one and a half and two million dollars
Speaker 1: in nil and I might graduate early. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: want to go full Lance Harbor from Parsity Blues and
Speaker 1: blow my ride to Florida State. Which that's a hell
Speaker 1: of a dating for that movie, for what it's worth,
Speaker 1: because when that movie was made, a full ride to
Speaker 1: Florida State was was the thing is it was a
Speaker 1: late nineties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're talking, what if it's in state, you're
Speaker 2: talking somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand dollars out
Speaker 2: of state that was out of state dollars for four years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But man, like it's gonna be hard for me
Speaker 1: to sit here and say that kids are wrong for this.
Speaker 1: Also because I'm still bitter about two things on the
Speaker 1: coaching front, because I I we we saw it with
Speaker 1: mix sabment when he left after a signing day, when
Speaker 1: he retired Virginia's.
Speaker 2: Coach, announcing Tony Bennett.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tony, Tony Bennett stepping down? What are we thirty
Speaker 1: days away? Twenty days away?
Speaker 2: I'm three weeks yeah, m hm, three weeks yeah.
Speaker 1: Because I've seen a lot of the well at Iowa
Speaker 1: has chased away another great coach, Nil has been going
Speaker 1: on for a while.
Speaker 2: The quiet part is now out loud.
Speaker 1: People, Well, Tony Bennet's walking away three weeks before the
Speaker 1: start of the season. I hope nothing is medically wrong
Speaker 1: with him that facilitated this, because if there's not anything
Speaker 1: medically wrong, then I don't ever want to hear about
Speaker 1: how a player should be loyal to university again when
Speaker 1: the coaches can can and do dip out. Go look
Speaker 1: at man, y'all. Go read about the time Tommy Tumberville
Speaker 1: was at dinner with a player and went to take
Speaker 1: a phone call for the Cincinnati job. Accept the job,
Speaker 1: went back to the table and tried to flip the
Speaker 1: kid to Cincinnati with him in that moment. Who's the coach?
Speaker 1: Who was the coach at Auburn he tried to screw
Speaker 1: over repeatedly, I say one, as if there weren't I
Speaker 1: forget there was one coach in particular. Oh who was it? Somebody?
Speaker 1: Who's god, who was it he was? Uh? So he
Speaker 1: somebody he tried to get fired at Auburn. Okay, or
Speaker 1: it might have been Petrino.
Speaker 2: I'm sure Patrino was trying to stab anybody in the back.
Speaker 1: So oh yeah, Patrino stabbed himself at the back and
Speaker 1: he saw himself in the mirror. My point being with
Speaker 1: with the money at stake now, for players, loyalty as
Speaker 1: a word and loyalty to themselves and their families. I
Speaker 1: won't begrudge them that anyway. I didn't mean to take.
Speaker 4: Us down this road though.
Speaker 2: That's on the OSG sports side of things. By the way,
Speaker 2: the college football programming The Review is taped on Sundays
Speaker 2: and released shortly thereafter, and the College Football X is
Speaker 2: in the midweek. This week, we catch up with the
Speaker 2: play by play voices at Iowa State and at Boise State.
Speaker 2: We catch up with Bob Beler in the studios at
Speaker 2: KBOI as he was talking about what's going on with
Speaker 2: Boise and Ashton genty So that was a good conversation.
Speaker 2: So that's on the act. You can catch that on
Speaker 2: at the OSG Sports Network and on your favorite podcatchers
Speaker 2: Western Conference. It is allegedly nine o'clock starts. It's what
Speaker 2: it's listed as. We think it's going to be nine
Speaker 2: to ten, but if it's nine o'clock then we wouldn't
Speaker 2: be surprised.
Speaker 1: I will, I will. I'm trying to make time, but
Speaker 1: my Sundays are generally very busy, but I will, I
Speaker 1: will definitely make time. When Kennisaal State wins a football game,
Speaker 1: which should be in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: I think, well, the show show ain't going nowhere, But yeah, they.
Speaker 1: It was a long time there was Kennisaal State, buddy.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was a long night in the midweek in
Speaker 2: Murfreesboro where get in prices at Red Floyd were three dollars. Uh.
Speaker 2: We always talk about college football and a budget, and
Speaker 2: that was one of them. This past week. Austin FC
Speaker 2: without Josh Wolf is a plus one twenty five at
Speaker 2: home hosting Colorado, who's a plus one seventy five year
Speaker 2: draws a plus three oh five. FC Dallas minus one
Speaker 2: twenty two hosting Sporting Kansas City. FC D's a minus
Speaker 2: one twenty two draws plus three oh five sportings of
Speaker 2: plus two eighty seven now Houston and LAG. Houston is
Speaker 2: a plus one oh six. That number has wabbled slightly.
Speaker 2: Draws a plus two eighteen LAG on the road and
Speaker 2: the game that means something is a plus two eighteen.
Speaker 2: This one is what I think folks referred to as
Speaker 2: a line mistake. Plus two eighteen on the road at Houston.
Speaker 2: That one I'm staring at LAFC is a minus four
Speaker 2: seventeen at home against the Jared San Jose Earthquakes.
Speaker 1: You just want to go see a dead body to
Speaker 1: this game.
Speaker 2: FJF at the plus eight seventy eight and your draws
Speaker 2: a plus five sixty four loons in all Caps loons
Speaker 2: a minus one ninety two draws three seventy eight and
Speaker 2: plus it's.
Speaker 1: A tricky man like all Caps have been ish in
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. I still feel like
Speaker 1: they them firing their coach after they literally did not
Speaker 1: give him much to work with, of course, and certainly
Speaker 1: didn't give him any depth.
Speaker 2: Yea, Carnell gets injuries and then it's like, oh, by
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 1: And then he's fired because they didn't have much to
Speaker 1: begin with. They overachieved like a mofo last.
Speaker 2: Year, that's true, first time through the petting order.
Speaker 1: And then this year with injuries like it, just they
Speaker 1: didn't have much to work with. They didn't give him much,
Speaker 1: and then they fire him. They start bringing in guys,
Speaker 1: which is you know, the kind of thing that creates
Speaker 1: jokers in this world, that that will be his joker moment.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Minnesota, I think, can still drop into the
Speaker 1: wildcard game if they lose this.
Speaker 2: That will go over that in just a bit. But yeah, so.
Speaker 1: Minnesota, who has not always who has more than once
Speaker 1: gotten a gift horse and decided to look at its
Speaker 1: mouth in their existence, would do well not to look
Speaker 1: to this gift horse in the mouth and just take
Speaker 1: care of business. I think they will take care of business, right,
Speaker 1: but it would also be a little looning not to
Speaker 1: and to get dropped into the wildcard game and then
Speaker 1: you have to you suddenly like wake up and find
Speaker 1: yourself in midweek fight.
Speaker 2: Yes, RSL's even money plus one hundred, Vancouver, who's a
Speaker 2: plus two twelve, draws a plus three thirteen, and Cascadia
Speaker 2: at Lumen Seattle hosting Portland. Seattle's a minus one thirty
Speaker 2: draws a plus three hundred. Portland is a plus three fifteen. Now,
Speaker 2: conference standings in the West, LA is in just don't
Speaker 2: know where, three points ahead of LAFC, So basically LA
Speaker 2: needs a point. So I would say, look at the
Speaker 2: draw option, look at the win option. How confident are
Speaker 2: you about LAG sixty four points, three points ahead of LAFC.
Speaker 2: LAFC is either going to be the one or the two.
Speaker 2: Tiebreaker could go for a while because wins would be
Speaker 2: the same, and there's a margin of two. When it
Speaker 2: comes to goal difference, LAG is a plus twenty, LAFC
Speaker 2: is a plus two eighteen, so I could see LAFC
Speaker 2: trying to put up a number against FJF. Keep an
Speaker 2: eye on that one. Seattle Salt Lake both at fifty
Speaker 2: six points. Salt Lake if they win, they're at sixteen wins.
Speaker 2: If Seattle gets a point, there at fifty seven, so
Speaker 2: that's where that matters. But gold difference is the same
Speaker 2: at sixteen, but your win totals may not jibe if
Speaker 2: numbers end up being what numbers are. Houston in the
Speaker 2: second chase group fifty one points, and this is where
Speaker 2: the chaos is from five through nine, Houston at fifty one,
Speaker 2: Colorado at fifty, Minnesota at forty nine, Vancouver at forty seven,
Speaker 2: Portland at forty six. Portland cannot catch Minnesota in a
Speaker 2: tiebreaker if they were to win in Cascadia, so Portland
Speaker 2: would be at thirteen wins, Minnesota would be at fourteen.
Speaker 2: But if Vancouver wins on the road, Vancouver could jump
Speaker 2: Minnesota to Jared's point. And if Minnesota does not get
Speaker 2: a result, and goal difference could come into play here
Speaker 2: as well, you could end up with If Vancouver wins,
Speaker 2: they go to fourteen, twelve and eight. If Minnesota draws,
Speaker 2: that is their eighth draw goal difference. Right now, Minnesota
Speaker 2: is it plus six, Vancouver is at plus four. You
Speaker 2: would imagine that if it is a draw once again,
Speaker 2: Minnesota would stay at plus six. If Vancouver wins by two,
Speaker 2: then you're really getting into goals scored, and then Vancouver
Speaker 2: might have to put up a number because it's fifty
Speaker 2: four scored by Minnesota Vancouver fifty one, so Vancouver would
Speaker 2: be rooting for a goalless draw and putting up a
Speaker 2: number on the road to get a win.
Speaker 1: All I really wanted was kind of like if you
Speaker 1: remember the NPSL absolutely this summer where I went through
Speaker 1: the numbers for y'all. Ye, I showed you that the
Speaker 1: on decision day in the Southeast that if we had
Speaker 1: gotten like a nine mizil win, bye forget who it
Speaker 1: was near to win nil. One of the clubs needed
Speaker 1: to win nine nil. Hops, Yeah it was Hops needed
Speaker 1: a nine mizil win and they needed Carey to lose.
Speaker 1: I think it would have gone down to like the
Speaker 1: ninth tiebreaker, yes, and it would have been a coin flip,
Speaker 1: like they would just had to get together and.
Speaker 2: Flip a coin drawing of lots.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to draw straws like all the oil
Speaker 1: rig astronauts and Armageddon.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, when.
Speaker 1: They're deciding who's gonna blow up to stay behind and
Speaker 1: blow up the rock. Yeah, that's what I really wanted here.
Speaker 1: I wanted this to come down to let's see, let's
Speaker 1: see if we can get down to a part where
Speaker 1: we're deciding who when this who gets out of the
Speaker 1: wild card based on like flipping a coin, drawing lots
Speaker 1: and let's get it in like a like a late
Speaker 1: nineties closed circuit television on a gl TO on a
Speaker 1: cannon GL twenty camera recording at the tape like you
Speaker 1: still got the tracking bar at the bottom of the screen.
Speaker 1: We're gonna put a couple of weird like knockoff voltron
Speaker 1: toys in the background like we used to do with
Speaker 1: the US Open Cup draw.
Speaker 2: It's it's all soccer house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. It's flip a coin in like a
Speaker 1: dimly lit room where a light bulb is flickering because
Speaker 1: the bulb they got from the Dollar General just ain't
Speaker 1: cutting it. Like that's what I really want. I want
Speaker 1: that energy to carry on through the playoff.
Speaker 2: Game, swinging in the room and not locked in into
Speaker 2: a position. It doesn't have a lampshade on. It's just
Speaker 2: kind of shifting from one side of the table to
Speaker 2: the other. By the way your tie breaking procedures. Total
Speaker 2: number of wins, goal differential goals four. Like I said,
Speaker 2: that could get crazy in the West. Fewest disciplinary points
Speaker 2: per match is number four. Disciplinary points. Fouls are one
Speaker 2: technical staff warnings are two yellow cards, are three second
Speaker 2: yellows or seven straight reds or seven, and so that's
Speaker 2: your disciplinary point, number away goals, different away goals four,
Speaker 2: home goals differential home goals four. And then the ninth
Speaker 2: tiebreaker is coin toss for a tie of two clubs
Speaker 2: or a drawing of lots in a tie of three
Speaker 2: or more. So that is how you get to the
Speaker 2: ninth circle of hell is by going through all of those.
Speaker 2: But you could go in the west. There is a
Speaker 2: scenario where you could go to number four, fewest disciplinary
Speaker 2: points per match and working at some kind of goofy
Speaker 2: blank and average and trying to figure out what it's
Speaker 2: going to look like.
Speaker 1: Then somebody gets like a really late yellow card or
Speaker 1: a series of like we get like a mass confrontation
Speaker 1: and multiple cards, and look, I'm begging y'all for chaos.
Speaker 1: Like I'm I'm in a situation watching Atlanta knowing that
Speaker 1: they don't control their own destiny because of their own
Speaker 1: inability to play consistent Balls of the Wall games this year.
Speaker 1: But if I can't have them comfortable in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: then give me the most chaotic playoff situation possible. Give
Speaker 1: me a world where Minnesota spits the bit against Saint Louis,
Speaker 1: gets run off, the field, goes into the playoff wild
Speaker 1: card round, and then somehow makes like the Western Conference file.
Speaker 2: And then there's something like that everyone will be wearing
Speaker 2: quarters zips and white T shirts.
Speaker 1: Well, well, I mean, I don't know how that's going
Speaker 1: to go though, because and she won't be there to
Speaker 1: blow it again.
Speaker 2: True. Yeah, So you're looking for Portland to win to
Speaker 2: get to forty nine, but they would lose out on
Speaker 2: the wins number of thirteen. So Portland wins, they'd lose
Speaker 2: a tiebreaker. They couldn't finish any higher if my math
Speaker 2: is right, they couldn't finish any higher than eight if
Speaker 2: they beat Seattle because they'd be at forty nine points
Speaker 2: and they would lose the first tiebreaker to Minnesota fourteen
Speaker 2: wins to thirteen. So Fancou would be the team to
Speaker 2: put Minnesota into the wildcard round by winning on the road.
Speaker 2: And so that's what you're looking at when it comes
Speaker 2: to that's what you want with chaos. You want Vancouver
Speaker 2: to win at RSL, at least at the bottom and
Speaker 2: the second chase group. So then RSL would then be
Speaker 2: stuck at fifty six, then if Seattle, if Portland was
Speaker 2: to win at Seattle, Portland goes to forty nine, Seattle
Speaker 2: stays at fifty six, but then they would have the
Speaker 2: same number of wins that they had going in. So
Speaker 2: Seattle looks like they have the tiebreakers leaning in their
Speaker 2: direction with sixteen wins to fifteen, salt Lake has too
Speaker 2: many draws. That's the problem here. Going into decision day
Speaker 2: in the West with the first.
Speaker 1: Prison, Seattle is still fascinating to me because I feel
Speaker 1: like we heard all year about Seattle and there is
Speaker 1: like this level of like uneasiness and are Seattle good?
Speaker 1: What's the problem out there? What's the timeline? Like for
Speaker 1: Brent Bran, is it time to make a change. Guys
Speaker 1: can't stay healthy? Oh shit, is it bad out there?
Speaker 1: Let me look, well, they're a third place. I haven't
Speaker 1: trade problems with you, SIAT that will happily trade problems
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Such a horrible year that they've had.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the Bama thing, m which I mean,
Speaker 1: Mamma's problems are different this year. Getting getting blown off
Speaker 1: the ball by Vanderbilt is a different.
Speaker 2: Jordan Morris ain't doing nothing this year washed up?
Speaker 1: Man, alright, p Tammy, But yeah, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1: I guess like I just like I remember like all
Speaker 1: year thinking like man, Seattle's like everything just feels like
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of on the edge for Seattle, and
Speaker 1: there's so many questions that look, they do have roster questions,
Speaker 1: they do have roster questions going into next year about
Speaker 1: how they want to build this, how they want to
Speaker 1: reset some of the ages. But man, I looked up.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what do you what do you your third place?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I no longer care about your problems.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm happy for you.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, John, Sorry, I no longer care. I'm right
Speaker 2: there with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you deal with your problems in the off season.
Speaker 1: For now, go try and prevent this in this weird
Speaker 1: kind of unspoken inevitability of a traffic a Western Conference final,
Speaker 1: and it feels like it's coming. But it also feels
Speaker 1: like MLS digital Is is absolutely on board with it
Speaker 1: because they'll be able to It's the same thing in baseball, man,
Speaker 1: Like It's that it's the same thing of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the what do you think the league wants? You know
Speaker 1: what the league wants? The League wants Dodgers and Yankees. Yes,
Speaker 1: Rob Manfred wasn't throwing a like a highball glass at
Speaker 1: a TV last night when Fy hit that walk off
Speaker 1: for the try for the Guard. Sorry anymore. As of
Speaker 1: one of the best last two wings of baseball I've
Speaker 1: seen in a couple of years, Man, that was Noel
Speaker 1: came up and hit a ball out to the damn lake. Yes,
Speaker 1: and then for I walks it off on the tenth Jesus,
Speaker 1: good job Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Also, I think the Mets are out of the Mets
Speaker 1: might be out of Managine. So yeah, if they come
Speaker 1: back from three to one, then then I will have
Speaker 1: been wrong. But they cannot hit a ball in the
Speaker 1: ass with a bass fiddle right now.
Speaker 2: No, then that's a big That's a big fiddle. The
Speaker 2: questions for Seattle Involvery Diaz, Rus Knack, Jill Polo club
Speaker 2: option on Cardoso and Leo Chew, as well as Andrew
Speaker 2: Thomas and Jonathan Bell and the supplementals. You have a
Speaker 2: lot of club options that are available, especially for six
Speaker 2: younger players Obed Vargas, Jackson, Reagan, Cody Baker still have
Speaker 2: a couple of years on them. But there are some
Speaker 2: decisions that need to be made backup keeper. Then you
Speaker 2: have club options for a couple of folks and the
Speaker 2: biggest names that they got to stare at our Joe,
Speaker 2: Paulo rus Knock and Ruy Diaz. Diaz, by the way,
Speaker 2: made just under two point eight last year, So that's
Speaker 2: the that is those are your your aging decisions for Seattle.
Speaker 2: And apparently, by the way, uh Luis Suarez is debating
Speaker 2: coming back next year.
Speaker 1: Whose legs are he you going to be? Is he
Speaker 1: gonna be.
Speaker 2: Using probably either Campana's or Kromaski's.
Speaker 1: Let me get with I'm out of flow?
Speaker 2: How can we swing that?
Speaker 4: Well, no, because his.
Speaker 1: Entire belief of like his entire belief of criticism of
Speaker 1: is be predicated in this instance of what's the best
Speaker 1: use he has for Miami. Well, we cut his legs
Speaker 1: off and we grasped him onto Luis Suarez to buy
Speaker 1: a couple more years. Correct, that's the greatest contribution you
Speaker 1: can make to Miami.
Speaker 2: Benefit the collective? Sir, how can I do that? How
Speaker 2: can I still be a part of this run? We
Speaker 2: need your legs to give to Luis Suarez.
Speaker 1: So I know people have asked about like man we
Speaker 1: should get a guy like that here, Mac if Miami
Speaker 1: really wanted to and put a kpana up on the
Speaker 1: market in the league for trade. Hey, it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: This wouldn't be the only town with people.
Speaker 4: Saying go get him, man.
Speaker 1: Hey, another, there are number of clubs I'm sure in
Speaker 1: a number of fan bases would be like, bring Leo
Speaker 1: in here, and nobody's going to say a word.
Speaker 2: Man, No, no, no, no, no, absolutely not. Oh and
Speaker 2: so that reminds me, since we're here on this number point.
Speaker 1: Does that remind you of he asked, terrified of the answer.
Speaker 2: Total calf allocation. This is this courtesy of our friends
Speaker 2: at spot track. By the way, total cap allocation forty
Speaker 2: one six and seventy seven thousand dollars. Half of that's
Speaker 2: going to lien on Messi. By the way, Messi is
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four and guaranteed for twenty five. Busquets is
Speaker 2: now at eight and three quarters guaranteed for twenty five.
Speaker 2: Suarez has a club option, Jeordi Alba has a club option.
Speaker 2: They're each at a million and a half. Nikola Frere
Speaker 2: is out of contract this year. Thanks for dropping by.
Speaker 2: Let's see Gressel's got a couple of years. Kritsoft's got
Speaker 2: a club option. Compagna actually has three more years under
Speaker 2: contract as a DP, given salary just over seven hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty thousand dollars. Jump on that issue a second
Speaker 2: for Kunda. Fadias at a U twenty two is a
Speaker 2: couple more years under contract. Mattias Rojas has a couple
Speaker 2: of club option years attached, Diego Gomez a couple of years,
Speaker 2: Thomas Avolis a couple of years. Drake Callender has one
Speaker 2: more guaranteed waigand has a club option at the end
Speaker 2: of this year. Emerson has a loan until June and
Speaker 2: then a club option. As a U twenty two, they
Speaker 2: have like nine gazillion U twenty twos. They have one, two, three, four,
Speaker 2: five U twenty twos currently on the roster. Five Negri
Speaker 2: has a club option. Robbie Robinson's out of contract, Redondo
Speaker 2: has a couple of years as a U twenty two.
Speaker 2: C J Josantos is a backup keeper, has a club
Speaker 2: option for this year and next, and Ryan Sailor is
Speaker 2: out of deal. Okay now homegrowns Ian Frey has a
Speaker 2: club option for next year. Kromowski re signed Noah Allen
Speaker 2: has one more guaranteed year than club option. Yannick Bright, Leo,
Speaker 2: Alfonso Cole Jensen Laws in Sunderland, and Harvey Neville who's out.
Speaker 2: They all have club options for next year with club
Speaker 2: options for subsequent years. And then David Ruiz is in
Speaker 2: Purple as a TBD what and dead money with Ascona
Speaker 2: and Schneider Borgeln dead money. They have one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty three thousand and dead money. With your three dps
Speaker 2: being Messi, Busquets and Campana. Let's see a couple of
Speaker 2: tbds when it comes to non actives. Valent Morales boat
Speaker 2: right under contract, Tyler Hall under contract, David Martinez is alone,
Speaker 2: and Oscar Ustari is also a TVD. And that's from
Speaker 2: our friends at spot Track, by the way, And you
Speaker 2: can really go down a rabbit hole at spot Track
Speaker 2: and get lost. You can get lost looking at spot Track.
Speaker 2: So that is where things are with it, Landy United.
Speaker 2: I mean this will be the easiest that Landy United
Speaker 2: discussion we've had. You got to just take your business.
Speaker 2: I mean we could talk strategy all day long. Biggest thing.
Speaker 2: You gotta have it, So score early, keep the pedal down,
Speaker 2: keep chasing all those cliches that we can put the
Speaker 2: five bucks in the jar, all of them, all of
Speaker 2: them go in the jar. But biggest thing that you
Speaker 2: can have once again, give up an early goal. Orlando.
Speaker 2: Once again, we look at conference standings and Orlando right
Speaker 2: now in the Eastern Conference as a part of the discussion,
Speaker 2: they can't get to third, but they could be in
Speaker 2: the chaos of being in fifth if they lose. So
Speaker 2: that's the difference, and this is why Orlando has something
Speaker 2: to play for. Orlando could be the fourth home game,
Speaker 2: or they could be on the road. The four or
Speaker 2: five matchup could be one of two things. Orlando hosting NYC,
Speaker 2: NYC hosting Orlando. So that's why Orlando's got something to
Speaker 2: play for once again. Orlando City as one four of five,
Speaker 2: fifteen seven and eleven goal difference of plus ten, n
Speaker 2: y C at fifty points goal difference of plus seven.
Speaker 2: Like I said, there's more chaos in the Western Conference
Speaker 2: when it comes to four, third and fourth tiebreakers than
Speaker 2: there is in the East. But Orlando's going to be
Speaker 2: playing for something, so the game will be out of
Speaker 2: the blocks. It will not be something where you end
Speaker 2: up with a you know, Orlando could in theory play
Speaker 2: for a point if they wanted to. They could go
Speaker 2: for a kickabout because let's say NYC wins fifty three points,
Speaker 2: fifteen wins, it goes to goal difference, and unless NYC
Speaker 2: wins by a large margin and it makes up that
Speaker 2: three goal difference going in nyceed have to put up
Speaker 2: a number in Montreal. So Orlando's going to be playing
Speaker 2: for something. Four teams, two spots at the bottom positioning
Speaker 2: four five sixty seven. That's what's going on in the east,
Speaker 2: positioning in the west. Short of the first couple of spots,
Speaker 2: the one, the two of the three in the East
Speaker 2: are locked in positioning four five sixty seven and the
Speaker 2: eight nine. That's what's going on in the East. In
Speaker 2: the West, they're trying to figure out the one, the
Speaker 2: two separately within their own fight the three in the four,
Speaker 2: and then the chaos of five through nine. This has
Speaker 2: definitely been a personality flip of these two conferences here
Speaker 2: in in twenty twenty four ref assignments, we'll get into
Speaker 2: that and we'll keep an eye on who's in the middle,
Speaker 2: who's doing what, and who is where, what kind of
Speaker 2: a match to expect and molests assignments for week thirty
Speaker 2: eight from our friends at pro. We'll go through the
Speaker 2: matchups and see if there's any crossover of interest when
Speaker 2: it comes to who's in the middle, who's on the edges,
Speaker 2: and what it could look like, because no, you don't
Speaker 2: want it to come down to a particular moment and
Speaker 2: a particular crew and a particular center ref. But you
Speaker 2: never know. Fire in Nashville, John Freeman in the middle.
Speaker 2: Photos Bazakas is your fourth, Jaya Marufo is it DC
Speaker 2: and Charlotte okay. Corey Rockwell is your ar. Ismael L.
Speaker 2: Fath is your var. Alexis Da Silva has Messy and
Speaker 2: Friends in the revs. Jeff Gambles your var. Alan Chapman
Speaker 2: is in the middle for c F Montreal and NYC.
Speaker 2: Edvan Jurissevitch is your var. Red Bulls and Crue Guto
Speaker 2: Gonzalez Junior in a game that means nothing for Krube
Speaker 2: but means a lot for Red Bulls, So Geto Gonzalez
Speaker 2: Juniors in the middle. Soor in Steutschka is your VR.
Speaker 2: Ruby Olvasquez is in the middle for Orlando and Atlanta United.
Speaker 2: At Enter and co Kyle Atkins and jose Da Silva
Speaker 2: are your ars. Your fourth is Marcus d OLIVERA. Kevin
Speaker 2: Terry Junior is your VR. Tom Supple is your a VAR.
Speaker 2: Alfhia and Cincinnati get Joe Dickerson in the middle. Sergei
Speaker 2: Boyko is your fourth. Daniel Radford is your var. Keep
Speaker 2: the people's eyebrow attached to that one. That's your six
Speaker 2: o'clocks nine o'clocks in theory, unless it's nine to ten.
Speaker 2: Chris Penso is in the middle for Austin hosting Colorado.
Speaker 2: Remy Tushan is your fourth. J. C. Rivero is your
Speaker 2: v R. TJ's a BLOCKI is your avar.
Speaker 3: E.
Speaker 2: Katerina Coralva is in the middle. For FC Dallas and
Speaker 2: Sporting Katherine Nesbit is the AR. Drew Fisher is your fourth.
Speaker 2: Vangeris Savitch is your VAR. Drew Fisher is your fourth.
Speaker 2: Edvanngeris Savitch is your VR. Renee Par is your a
Speaker 2: v R. Rosindo Mendoza is the man in the middle
Speaker 2: for Houston and La G. Brooke Mayo is your AR.
Speaker 2: Ben Pilgrim is your ar to. Timothy Ford is your fourth.
Speaker 2: Michael Radchuck is your VR Tom Supple is your ava R.
Speaker 2: Pierre Luke Lozier is uh l a fc in San
Speaker 2: Jose Felicia Mariskaal is your AR one. Eduardo jeff is
Speaker 2: your AR two. Sergey Dimianchuk gets to travel from one
Speaker 2: end of the world to the other to be the fourth.
Speaker 2: Horygan Zales is your v R. Mike camp Minor is
Speaker 2: your A v A R. Lucas Zapala's in the middle
Speaker 2: for Loons and All Camps, Malik but Aw is your fourth.
Speaker 2: Unis Maracci is your v R. Craig Lowry is your
Speaker 2: A v R R s L and White Camps. Armando
Speaker 2: va Rayal is the man in the middle. Caroline Schnard
Speaker 2: is your v A R. Joshua pat Lack is your
Speaker 2: A v R, and Ismir Pekmich is in the middle
Speaker 2: for Cascadia Seattle hosting Portland at Lumen, Logan Brown Gianna,
Speaker 2: Johny Fachini or your AR is. Victor Revos is your fourth.
Speaker 2: Kevin Stott is your VR. Victor vas is your fourth.
Speaker 2: Kevin Stots your VR. Joseph Batco is your A v R.
Speaker 2: So that's your that's your rundown of your officiating cruise
Speaker 2: for de Day here in twenty twenty four conference quarterfinals
Speaker 2: in MLS Next Pro and all of those are on
Speaker 2: Sunday once again. Tomorrow, we will have your look at
Speaker 2: the matchups specifically and what it's going to look like
Speaker 2: and who made it in who got what where. We'll
Speaker 2: look back at some of the big matchups from the
Speaker 2: tail end of the regular season. They got a week
Speaker 2: to think about it. They had the draw on they
Speaker 2: had the draw on the YouTube channel for MLS Next
Speaker 2: Pro and let's pick your opponent the Pyo Show and
Speaker 2: the way that it is it was. I thought it
Speaker 2: was going to be somewhat chalky in the East and
Speaker 2: not in the West. It was flipped fire to in
Speaker 2: Orlando City B's at three o'clock on Sunday afternoon. All
Speaker 2: Caps is hosting LAFC two at three o'clock at City Park.
Speaker 2: Ben Regal, who we have seen with MLS Next Pro
Speaker 2: this season is the ar two and that when Joshua
Speaker 2: Incarnaciona is the one as a man. Mal Sean Taheney
Speaker 2: is your fourth Union two and NYCFC two at Subaru
Speaker 2: Park now bil Bin Salah is your ref for that one.
Speaker 2: The town in Dynamo dos at Saint Mary's Mohammed Hassan
Speaker 2: is in the middle at six o'clock eastern. FC Cincinnati
Speaker 2: two and Crown Legacy is on the campus of Northern
Speaker 2: Kentucky at seven eastern. J. C. Griggs is in the
Speaker 2: middle for that. Messi and Friends too and Crew two
Speaker 2: probably one of the big matchups of the weekend at
Speaker 2: Chase at seven o'clock Sunday night. Elvis Asmanovich is the
Speaker 2: man in the middle there North Texas sc and Vancouver
Speaker 2: at chalk Taw at eight thirty. Lorenzo Hernandez is your
Speaker 2: ref for that one. And then Tacoma Defiance and Ventura
Speaker 2: County or at Starfire ten o'clock eastern. Alexandra Billetier Billetaire
Speaker 2: is in the middle. Sorry about that, Darren Bondi, Matthew Schwartz,
Speaker 2: and Laura Rodriguez is the fourth. So those are your
Speaker 2: matchups for that one. Going through some of the other
Speaker 2: news and notes, there's some stuff going on in the
Speaker 2: Premier League. Remember they're back at it this weekend as well.
Speaker 2: And Evangelinas Marinacas the owner and let me know if
Speaker 2: you're surprised by this. Evangelinas Marinacas, by the way, has
Speaker 2: been sanctioned for behavior in the tunnel and it has
Speaker 2: been a five match suspension, a five match suspension for
Speaker 2: Evangelinas Marinacus, and of course Nottingham Forest is going to appeal.
Speaker 2: I know that you're all stunned and shocked by that.
Speaker 2: So Evangelinas Marinacus continues to add to the list of
Speaker 2: grievances that he has against the Premier League and continues
Speaker 2: to lash out in the ways that he lashes out.
Speaker 2: Eric Tenhag apparently had his press conference involving the matchup
Speaker 2: this weekend and he was none too pleased with the
Speaker 2: response from the local media. By the way ten Hogg
Speaker 2: was asked about his future, he was asked about a
Speaker 2: bunch of things, and he said the noise is only
Speaker 2: coming from some of you in the media, creating stories
Speaker 2: and fairy tales and bringing lies. Eric Tennhog, He's slightly
Speaker 2: angry this morning journalists didn't believe me. I saw the reports.
Speaker 2: Of course, we are unhappy with the position where we are. Ultimately,
Speaker 2: internally it is quiet and composed. We stick to the
Speaker 2: plan and are very convinced it will be a success.
Speaker 2: So Eric Tenhogg this morning our time at his press conference, says, quote,
Speaker 2: the noise is only coming from some of you in
Speaker 2: the media, creating stories and fairy tales and bringing lies.
Speaker 2: Journalists didn't believe me. I saw the reports. Of course,
Speaker 2: we were unhappy with the position where we are. Ultimately,
Speaker 2: internally it is quiet and composed. We stick to the planet.
Speaker 2: Are very convinced it will be a success. Yikes. Eddie
Speaker 2: Howe decided if he can, went public and said that
Speaker 2: he was not interviewed for the the England job. The
Speaker 2: FA came publican and said, well, we talked to ten folks.
Speaker 2: Whether talk and interview are the same thing, that's entirely different.
Speaker 2: We don't know if that's the case. Eddie Howe says
Speaker 2: he was not interviewed. I was not. There was no
Speaker 2: contact from the FA. England. Have to do what's right
Speaker 2: for them only they'll know the processes they've gone through through.
Speaker 2: For me, it's about Newcastle iron Man, one hundred percent focused.
Speaker 2: If you drop focus, the job becomes impossible, and there
Speaker 2: is a there There is a press conference once again
Speaker 2: that was out there, involving Sean and Wayne Rooney separately.
Speaker 2: They did not have a a together presser, but Sean
Speaker 2: Dish brought the concern to the table about the pathway
Speaker 2: for coaches and wondering, okay, so then the Thomas Tuckle
Speaker 2: appointment shows that the FA coach pathway is pointless. Chris
Speaker 2: Bascom at The Telegraph Sean diysh Ha's question the FA's
Speaker 2: commitment to its own coaching pathway following the tukel appointment
Speaker 2: Dische said the system was pointless if the coach is
Speaker 2: working within the structure at Saint George's Park were not
Speaker 2: considered the right profile for the top job. He suggested
Speaker 2: Lee Carsley's promotion from the U twenty one manager to
Speaker 2: take the senior position full time, following the example of
Speaker 2: his predecessor, Guard Southgate, would have reflected a more successful
Speaker 2: policy sidebar. Carsley said he didn't want it and hope
Speaker 2: to be going back to coach the U twenty one.
Speaker 2: If I remember Carsley correctly in a press conference situation
Speaker 2: after sending out conflicting ideas and folks wanted to get
Speaker 2: him to get it straight, Carsley's like, I have three windows.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping to go back to be coach of the
Speaker 2: U twenty one. So I don't know why. Sean Diisch
Speaker 2: felt compelled to use Carsley as an example other than
Speaker 2: the fact that Carsley was the man, is the man
Speaker 2: in charge in these windows quote from Dish. For all
Speaker 2: we know, Lee Carsley might have been so close to
Speaker 2: getting it. But all I would ask is are those
Speaker 2: coaches at the younger age levels already considered the right
Speaker 2: type to manage our national side. If not, then it's
Speaker 2: going to be difficult to develop them to be the
Speaker 2: one who is the leader of the gang. Evidence coach
Speaker 2: is only one of four English managers working in the
Speaker 2: Premier League, alongside how O'Neill and Russell Martin. Ditch said
Speaker 2: he did not apply to be England manager, but was
Speaker 2: intrigued as to how youth coaches were being developed to
Speaker 2: make the step up quote. I haven't been in the
Speaker 2: FA as regards to doing my badges for a number
Speaker 2: of years now, but I do go back in to
Speaker 2: do talks and things like that, so I'm not quite
Speaker 2: sure what the up to date is on that. The
Speaker 2: only question I would ask is, and I know it's
Speaker 2: not as literal as this, but is the coach of
Speaker 2: the U sixteens whose job has a delicate edge for
Speaker 2: that age group made of the stuff that you can
Speaker 2: see them going all the way through the system to
Speaker 2: become the England manager. I'm not saying if they are
Speaker 2: or not. I don't know those coaches, but if it
Speaker 2: is a different job than how do you get people
Speaker 2: through the system internally? This is today's requested required reading,
Speaker 2: so I will post it in the timeline. But using
Speaker 2: the Carsly example, Shandisch might not necessarily have chosen the
Speaker 2: correct individual. And at the end of the day, who
Speaker 2: says that a coach that goes through the U system
Speaker 2: the academy system can't go take a professional job someplace
Speaker 2: else if it's not a national team job, can it
Speaker 2: be a professional job? But I don't think that using
Speaker 2: Carsley was the proper example, considering Carslely had admitted that
Speaker 2: he was hoping he was going to go back to
Speaker 2: be the coach of the Utey one. So that's the
Speaker 2: Seandish press conference wondering about the pathway when it comes
Speaker 2: to coaches and coaching and such. Nuno and Gibbs White
Speaker 2: have been handed bans by the FA from his conduct
Speaker 2: that goes along with the Marinacas five game stadium ban.
Speaker 2: Unable to attend any game home or away until late November,
Speaker 2: and yes, they appealed. Nuno also hit with a touchline
Speaker 2: suspension in the club's latest brush with the FA initially
Speaker 2: charged Marnacas with improper behavior around the tunnel area after
Speaker 2: the final whistle of a match which left the club
Speaker 2: angered by a number of refereeing decisions. I think we
Speaker 2: can figure out which one that was, so it was
Speaker 2: the Fulham match. They actually did go public with that
Speaker 2: so after the game a senior club source one that
Speaker 2: poor refereeing standards are damaging the Premier League. The ban
Speaker 2: is regarded as a huge punishment. The owner can't sit
Speaker 2: in the owner's box is a huge punishment and according
Speaker 2: to Ben Jacobs, they were already appealing. Marnacus has been
Speaker 2: as the longest in English football since Leyton Orient president
Speaker 2: Francesco Bakehetti was suspended from the stadium for six matches
Speaker 2: after found being guilty of violent conduct. Latest sanction second
Speaker 2: in side a week from the FA following the three
Speaker 2: quarters of a million pounds fine for the post on
Speaker 2: social media made after last season's defeat to Everton. Nuno
Speaker 2: banned from the touch line for three matches find fifty
Speaker 2: five thousand pounds charge with misconduct following the draw with Brighton, Oregon.
Speaker 2: Gibbs White suspended for one match after comments and acting
Speaker 2: quote in an improper manner following his dismissal at the
Speaker 2: Brighton match. Contentious dismissal of Gibbs White was the sparking
Speaker 2: point for all of this. In a subsequent review, the
Speaker 2: Key Match Incidents Panels Pluit three two, with the majority
Speaker 2: regarding the second caution as incorrect. But you still for
Speaker 2: Gibbs White's activities after still give him a one year sorry,
Speaker 2: one year wow, one one match, one match suspension. So
Speaker 2: let's see. Is there any other stuff here? Okay, let's see. Oh,
Speaker 2: let's do a Premier League juice boxes. Actually, let's do
Speaker 2: gossip Brimmer inn windo because we're now in plus time. Sorry,
Speaker 2: all right, so gossip Brimmer innuendo, and then we'll do
Speaker 2: what to watch for your Friday to get you ready
Speaker 2: for the weekend. Remember six o'clock nine o'clock, and that
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Speaker 2: game dot Com uh your Gossip Roomeran Innuendo Pep Guardiola
Speaker 2: could sign an extension to his contract even if the
Speaker 2: club loses the legal battle. According to the Athletic Sportings,
Speaker 2: Rubin a Marine by Lever Cusin Shabi Alonso top Manchester
Speaker 2: City's list to replace Guardiola if he leaves. Four Letter Paper,
Speaker 2: Liverpool have accepted Trent Alexander Arnold will not sign a
Speaker 2: new deal, looking to negotiate a sale to Real Madrid.
Speaker 2: In January, Barcelona Byron also interested in Alexander Arnold. Manchester
Speaker 2: City's pursuit of Wolves left back Ryan ait Nouri has
Speaker 2: been boosted by their reportment of Hugo Vianna as sporting director.
Speaker 2: Four Letter Paper. Barcelona rejected a quarter of a billion
Speaker 2: euro offered from PSG in the summer for La Mignamal.
Speaker 2: Arsenal City among the admirers of Atalanta midfielder Charles de
Speaker 2: Kettelaire United boss Eric ten Hog keen to sign Frankie
Speaker 2: DeJong in January. Manchester United also interested in Arbie Leipzig
Speaker 2: and Slovenia Ford Benjamin Tesco, lever Cusan, Jonathan Levercus's Jonathan
Speaker 2: Ta Byron, Munich's Alfonso Davies, Leal's Jonathan David being tracked
Speaker 2: by Barcelona. Real Madrid have lined up Byer lever Cusan's
Speaker 2: Jeremy Frimpong is a target if they can't sign Alexander Arnold.
Speaker 2: Chelsea's Cesrey Casa Day has been advised by Italy U
Speaker 2: twenty one by Carming Newonziata to consider his Blues future
Speaker 2: in January if he isn't getting game time. That's from
Speaker 2: RYE Radio. Uh. I have to slow down, it says
Speaker 2: New England. It says New England boss. You got to
Speaker 2: slow that down. New England boss Thomas Tookele could make
Speaker 2: approaches for staff currently at Chelsea as he wants to
Speaker 2: assemble a new backroom team that he trusts for letter
Speaker 2: paper and Liverpool and Rangers winger Ryan Kent. Former Liverpool
Speaker 2: Rangers winger Ryan Kent had his contract terminated by Fennerbace
Speaker 2: after falling out of favor under Jose Mariinho. So that's
Speaker 2: your gossip, brumer and innuendo, and always be careful of
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Speaker 2: College Soccer today. Let me see how much there is
Speaker 2: a lot of men's action, actually does a handful of
Speaker 2: men's actions. So twelve matches on the men's side, ESPN Plus,
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Speaker 2: going on today. It is the fund Belt that is
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Speaker 2: California and Portland. Women's action and there's a lot of
Speaker 2: it today starts at three o'clock in the fun Belt,
Speaker 2: Marshall and Coastal SEC plus Vandy and Florida is at
Speaker 2: three point thirty. You've got Big Sky, You've got Big West.
Speaker 2: You've got more sun Belt tonight on the women's side,
Speaker 2: South Alabama, Georgia Southern at five from Mobile, Tennessee and
Speaker 2: Georgia SEC plus six thirty tonight on the women's side,
Speaker 2: you've got a lot of SEC action tonight. You've got
Speaker 2: once again a whole lot of AC. You've got sun Belt,
Speaker 2: You've got all of that going on. You've got Southland
Speaker 2: Conference SEC Plus it's going to be very very busy
Speaker 2: with all of their action going on on the women's
Speaker 2: side tonight, and you've got once again Southland, Lamar, Houston, Christian,
Speaker 2: Big Sky and Big West at nine o'clock and ten o'clock.
Speaker 2: And that gets you through what to watch today. As
Speaker 2: always great to have all of you hear. It's decision day.
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Speaker 2: here on Monday where we'll talk about it at all
Speaker 2: and we will discuss everything in the queue. Speaking of
Speaker 2: Atlanta United, yesterday we caught up with the director of methodology.
Speaker 2: How are your pet it? It's a great conversation, and
Speaker 2: keep an eye out for that on the weekend. In
Speaker 2: addition to all of the other programming that we have
Speaker 2: across the board and the previews once again USL Championship,
Speaker 2: USL League One, they'll be out later this afternoon. Our
Speaker 2: couple Labertador's Show with our buddy Howard Hamilton from Soccer
Speaker 2: Metrics that will be out today as well. Keep an
Speaker 2: eye out and ear out for the Soccer for USPOD
Speaker 2: episode ninety nine and they've got ninety nine episodes and
Speaker 2: the pitch ain't one, so there's that. So a lot
Speaker 2: of programming coming up on the web and on the network.
Speaker 2: Keep an eye out on all the social media's and
Speaker 2: we'll keep you posted when it comes to the Football
Speaker 2: Content Awards. Obviously, thanks to everybody who is a part
Speaker 2: to voting in all of that with us and getting
Speaker 2: out your sling shots and your stones to try to
Speaker 2: give us a puncher's chance against the other nine worldwide
Speaker 2: nominees in that competition. Humbled that we are part of
Speaker 2: the ten. Humbled that you guys were voting for us
Speaker 2: as well, and stuff in the ballot box because that's
Speaker 2: fifty percent of the vote. We'll see what the judges
Speaker 2: have to say. Don't know, like I said, if there's
Speaker 2: going to be any final finalists or anything like that.
Speaker 2: And if there is, then we're going to London. But
Speaker 2: obviously if it's like less than two weeks out and
Speaker 2: we still haven't heard anything, we're going to be here
Speaker 2: and we'll watch like you guys the Thursday before Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: week before Thanksgiving Day, November twenty first, and we'll find
Speaker 2: out what happens over there in London at Tottenhamhotspur Stadium.
Speaker 2: So for everybody here at SDH, thanks for dropping by.
Speaker 2: As always, it's time where we put up the banner
Speaker 2: and say goodbye to another week once again. At Landy
Speaker 2: United six o'clock maybe six ' ten. So I guess
Speaker 2: if we should say six to ten, maybe six o'clock tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Decision Day. A lot going on in Major League Soccer
Speaker 2: six o'clock, nine o'clock, six ' ten nine ten Eastern
Speaker 2: and we'll be watching it with you. We'll talk about
Speaker 2: it all on my Monday morning with Abe and Bart
Speaker 2: and everybody else. So for everybody here at sdhplate safe.
Speaker 2: Enjoy your weekend, Please be safe, be back at it
Speaker 2: again on Monday, and keep an eye out for us
Speaker 2: on the weekend. We got some academy stuff with it.
Speaker 2: Landy nighted Maddie and I will be doing that tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: It's at Landy United against NYCFC. We'll talk about that
Speaker 2: as well. So uh see you tomorrow morning at at
Speaker 2: outd dot com. See you back here on the network
Speaker 2: across all the platforms on your Monday which plot yel
Speaker 2: plate safe. Time to get out of here for you.
Speaker 2: Another week. War was on.
Speaker 7: The keys on the typewriter head, sharp points sticking into
Speaker 7: our fingers, dictating equipment, starting to exting us questions and
Speaker 7: our papers stands. Electric shocks just through our.
Speaker 8: Body like a cattle prod out in the warehouse. The
Speaker 8: trucks kept banging into the docks, not even thinking about stopping. Oh,
Speaker 8: our friend. Bodies were strapped to the chairs and our
Speaker 8: chairs were chained to the desks.
Speaker 7: Our please for justice were ignored.
Speaker 8: And the end seemed near. But we busted our save drivers,
Speaker 8: little bitny balls. We've changed high their breakftress the streets,
Speaker 8: our hearty gods. Yet Friday, Fridayday, Fay Day,