Speaker 1: Hi, it's a Friday. You know what that means. I
Speaker 1: used to hope you do by now.
Speaker 2: Hmmm, come on, man, go for a dude.
Speaker 3: It's Friday.
Speaker 4: Fayy, no, Lie, it is Friday, John, hear you there,
Speaker 4: and we're stacked today.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a fun one. We're gonna give
Speaker 1: you the promos here in a sec. Jamie Watson's gonna
Speaker 1: join us. We'll talk Club World Cup and Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: Get you to the bottom of the hour, see if
Speaker 1: our friends from Beyond Goals Mintoring are not traveling the
Speaker 1: planet and doing soccer for good, and see if we
Speaker 1: can catch up with either mister Garza or mister Parkhurst.
Speaker 1: Ten o'clock we get another debut visit, Chris Whittingham from
Speaker 1: Apple TV and MLS. He will be joining us for
Speaker 1: the first time ever, and we'll try and do everything
Speaker 1: and be on our best behavior, make sure that he
Speaker 1: does not run off into the sunset and sit there
Speaker 1: with arms failing and go what have I gotten myself into?
Speaker 1: And then we met have a special guest coming up
Speaker 1: at ten thirty, so like after ten thirty, we're anticipating
Speaker 1: perhaps being joined by a fourth individual. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Jamie Watson, hopefully our friends from Beyond Goals, Mintoring,
Speaker 1: Chris Whittingham and a special guest and an unnamed anticipated
Speaker 1: special guest star coming up at ten thirty. So that's
Speaker 1: the rundown. Obviously, we got to get through Major League Soccer,
Speaker 1: get to get through all your your juice boxes, go
Speaker 1: through all the news of the morning, and we got
Speaker 1: to be out by like eleven ten because at Laney
Speaker 1: Unity two is hosting their press conference their MD minus
Speaker 1: two with head coach Steve Cook and Ryan Carmichael, and
Speaker 1: we got to dump out for that so we can
Speaker 1: be ready for the game. Remember Crew two and Laney
Speaker 1: United two on Sunday is going to be on ninety
Speaker 1: two nine in the game in the Odyssey app we're
Speaker 1: gonna have special pregame on the SDH network seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: Then we'll dump out by about seven to twenty seven
Speaker 1: twenty five ish on ninety two nine in the game.
Speaker 1: It'll be Maddie and Jason. They're gonna kick things off
Speaker 1: there ninety two nine in the game like seven twenty five,
Speaker 1: kick seven thirty three, and then we'll have a bit
Speaker 1: of a post game after that. So kind of a
Speaker 1: hybrid on Sunday looking at everything that's gonna be attached
Speaker 1: to everything in MLS Next Pro. It's the one time
Speaker 1: of the year where ninety two nine does an MLS
Speaker 1: Next Pro match. Maddy and Jason will have that for
Speaker 1: you coming up on Sunday night. All right, officially a
Speaker 1: no Dilly, no Dally zone, because you know what that means.
Speaker 1: It's time for us to rock and roll. And uh,
Speaker 1: last time that Jamie was with us, he was out
Speaker 1: on the Lanai. You know, we're trying to hear like
Speaker 1: trains and things and birds dive bombing him and things
Speaker 1: like that. And so now he is, he is indoors,
Speaker 1: he is in a calmer environ morning.
Speaker 5: Sir, Don, Good morning man.
Speaker 6: How are you you tell me you're you're the one
Speaker 6: that's been calling action at the Club World Cup and
Speaker 6: learning pronouncers and all this kind of stuff for a
Speaker 6: tournament that had like ninety eight matches every day that
Speaker 6: you get to hang out with.
Speaker 5: Man, I'll tell you what. First off, I'm very upset.
Speaker 5: I'm not outside right now taking this morning call with
Speaker 5: my cup of coffee here because my lovely neighbor, he's
Speaker 5: a wonderful chef. His name's Brian Baxter. He decides to
Speaker 5: start mowing five minutes city outside and I was like,
Speaker 5: you know what, Brian, fair enough, keep it, keep it moving.
Speaker 5: We'll go inside. So we'll take this one indoors today.
Speaker 5: So it's like where at Mercedes Been Stadium, had to
Speaker 5: close the roof, had to come inside, get rid of
Speaker 5: the elements, and we're in here chatting with you, John.
Speaker 5: But what an action packed show you've got today. Man,
Speaker 5: I cannot wait. And Chris woodiam great, great friend of mine.
Speaker 5: The special guest you've got is a big one. Can't
Speaker 5: believe you pulled that one off. So I'm very excited
Speaker 5: about that. And yeah, either guards are a park here.
Speaker 5: You can't go wrong with either one of those guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. Yeah, it's always fun to catch up
Speaker 1: with them at nine point thirty for when they're not
Speaker 1: traveling the planet and we get to do a beyond
Speaker 1: Goals menering and find out what's going on with them
Speaker 1: with the Friday free kick and everything. I wanted to ask.
Speaker 1: I wanted to kind of pull back the curtain a
Speaker 1: little bit when it came to your preparation and everything
Speaker 1: for the Club World Cup. Because it literally was churn
Speaker 1: and go and churn and go and churn and go.
Speaker 1: How much of a challenge was it for you to
Speaker 1: learn what you could learn about all these clubs in
Speaker 1: the Club World Cup and dance as fast as you
Speaker 1: could and calling all these matches?
Speaker 5: Man, I'd say, first of all, what a bucket list
Speaker 5: dream come true. This past month was getting to cover
Speaker 5: matches for just zoning for T and T. It was incredible.
Speaker 5: So got a chance to spend some time in Atlanta
Speaker 5: for these matches and call the games, which was great
Speaker 5: because the Zone had people on site excuse me, calling
Speaker 5: some games for different countries that to Zone would have
Speaker 5: the production for. And then we had the US Domestic
Speaker 5: Zone broadcast, which was incredible, And so we went to
Speaker 5: the wonderful, beautiful studios in Atlanta and we were able
Speaker 5: to do some games. It was great being in Nashville.
Speaker 5: I was only four hours away, so it was awesome.
Speaker 5: So got a chance to have my family there for
Speaker 5: a little bit of time. But everything was absolutely first
Speaker 5: class to a degree that I didn't know existed in broadcasting,
Speaker 5: with how they took care of us and looked after
Speaker 5: us and the big unsung heroes to this entire project
Speaker 5: were the countless people that working behind the scenes to
Speaker 5: make it all happen. We were ultimately the end product
Speaker 5: the broadcasters, but you know, Sean Brown was the one
Speaker 5: that really put us all together, helped put the team
Speaker 5: along with and that was there. They were producing, art
Speaker 5: was doing the studio. They'd turned the whole inside the
Speaker 5: NBA studio into the daily FIFA Club World Cup show.
Speaker 5: It was incredible. But we had some incredible help with
Speaker 5: getting our information each and every day for the matches.
Speaker 5: We have a great company they work with True Media,
Speaker 5: Steam Swailowski and Paul Carr. Each day would would fill
Speaker 5: your inbox with all the information you could possibly want
Speaker 5: on these teams. So I can't wait to dive more
Speaker 5: into it with you of how we would figure it
Speaker 5: all out, because each and every day, if it weren't
Speaker 5: for the news and notes that were delivered in the
Speaker 5: backgrounds of us, it would have been impossible to be
Speaker 5: able to cover this. So it really did take a village,
Speaker 5: and this was the coolest village to be a part of.
Speaker 1: How many different teams did you call? Do you remember
Speaker 1: off the top of your head.
Speaker 5: So I was fortunate I did sixteen games total, but
Speaker 5: we'll have to do some some math here on it.
Speaker 5: Because I was able to do all three of the
Speaker 5: Seattle Sounders games, which is really really cool because I
Speaker 5: knew as this was being the domestic broadcast, every MLS
Speaker 5: fan was going to be watching Seattle Sounders, right, So
Speaker 5: it was it was really a personally like a cool
Speaker 5: moment for me because MLS is the league that I
Speaker 5: love and the biggest stage in global club football. Seattle
Speaker 5: is a part of it. And I got to call
Speaker 5: a couple of other games which was really really cool,
Speaker 5: and some big ones PSG. Athletico Madrid and you know, yeah, Bodafogo.
Speaker 5: There were some teams in there that John I had
Speaker 5: I had imposter syndrome. I'm like, what am I doing
Speaker 5: calling this? Man? It's incredible. And then so total teams.
Speaker 1: So you got yeah, so we can run through it here.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you right now. We'll go through it together
Speaker 5: here as I've got my incredibly handy fop mob app
Speaker 5: which I was married to during this. Yeah, so as
Speaker 5: we as we look at it. I did ended up
Speaker 5: doing from Group A covered Palmetish in the knockout stage.
Speaker 5: All the four teams from Group B. So there's five
Speaker 5: Pshgvo to Foka, Athletico Madrid, Seattle Sounders, Group C, Benfica, Bayron, Munich.
Speaker 5: There's seven. I did Boca and I did Auckland. There's another.
Speaker 5: There's nine Flamengo ten, Chelsea eleven. That was it from
Speaker 5: Group D into Milan twelve, Monterey thirteen, River Plate fourteen,
Speaker 5: Uraba Red Diamonds fifteen. Now we get to Group F
Speaker 5: Dortmund sixteen Fluminence they got them in the knockout. Seventeen
Speaker 5: I think so Mamlodi Sundowns. Mamlodi Sundowns from South Africa.
Speaker 5: They were incredibly fun. They just threw tactics right out
Speaker 5: the window.
Speaker 1: They just like they'll take the over and we'll just
Speaker 1: rock YEP.
Speaker 5: There's eighteen right there, Juventus nineteen, Alayin from UAE. There's twenty.
Speaker 5: We'd ad Casablanca from Roqua twenty one, Rama did twenty two,
Speaker 5: Saltzburg twenty three. So I think twenty three of the
Speaker 5: thirty two teams. I think, I don't know, need to
Speaker 5: borrow your fingers and to jobs.
Speaker 1: But that's not solid. Because I was doing the math
Speaker 1: with you. I got twenty three.
Speaker 5: Did we go twenty three brilliant, and I think that's all.
Speaker 5: Let's go. We had North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia,
Speaker 5: and Australia. So I had every continent but Antarctica team from.
Speaker 1: So I gotta work on that, man.
Speaker 5: Brother. When I'd tell you, I would wake up some
Speaker 5: days and I would go, Okay, I've got my notes,
Speaker 5: but let me make sure I grab one which team
Speaker 5: from which continent is playing who? And then we tell
Speaker 5: you how fun it was learning pronunciations. Oh man, I'll
Speaker 5: tell you you know how this goes. Sometimes you get
Speaker 5: some names and they give you a pronunciation guide, but
Speaker 5: sometimes it can be a little bit differently said in
Speaker 5: different dialects and whatnot. So myself for the competation, I
Speaker 5: works great ones. Cal Williams from Apple TV, Tony Husband
Speaker 5: as well Andy Bishop, who does a lot of stuff
Speaker 5: with Sky's European based in Chris Sharples as well. Those
Speaker 5: are my four that I got a chance.
Speaker 1: To work with. Cal bring in the the the lip, Mike, Yeah,
Speaker 1: can I can?
Speaker 5: I show? Let me see, I think I might I do.
Speaker 5: I'm going to I'm gonna do the worst thing you
Speaker 5: can do is I'm gonna go off camera to find
Speaker 5: this real quick, fantastic, Actually have a lip mic here.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah about this. So back in the day, are
Speaker 5: the guy who hired us, who's responsible for putting Tony Husband, myself,
Speaker 5: Lorie Lindsay the first season, yeah together. His name is
Speaker 5: Brad Baker and he was a big fan of the
Speaker 5: lip mics. So I actually have a lip mic right here.
Speaker 5: So this is what you'll see some people use. That's
Speaker 5: fantastic and it's really good.
Speaker 1: And like.
Speaker 5: In European stadiums where they're outdoors, they're sometimes in the
Speaker 5: actual gantry and then the stands, and so you use
Speaker 5: this because it keeps obviously the close proximity of this.
Speaker 5: But man, so this is the Cal Williams special. He's
Speaker 5: always doing this and he has this cool system actually
Speaker 5: because normally when you're you know, when you're chatting, a
Speaker 5: lot of a lot of people have microphones and head
Speaker 5: headsets like what you have. That's more common in broadcasting,
Speaker 5: isn't it, John, And so when you're when you're talking
Speaker 5: to get your hands freen A lot of times you
Speaker 5: can kind of hand motion right, you can like point
Speaker 5: you all right, like you go next, or I'll go
Speaker 5: But you know, Cal Wood has a system where he's talking,
Speaker 5: he's talking, and then he'll go like exaggerated, like put
Speaker 5: his microphone down. It's it's so funny the little nuances
Speaker 5: of broadcasting that everybody has.
Speaker 1: He talks in all caps, man.
Speaker 5: With the literation, and and he's wonderful. He's he's incredible.
Speaker 5: But you know, Tony Husband and I I was my
Speaker 5: partner for for three years in Nashville. He was so
Speaker 5: good man. There was there was just so many quality
Speaker 5: broadcasting people, both on camera and behind the camera doing this,
Speaker 5: and it's like it felt like broadcasting sports camp heaven
Speaker 5: because every day you just walk into the bullpen and
Speaker 5: be like, oh, there's Andre's Cantur, who's next to Luis
Speaker 5: Garcia who was on the desk that day with Juan
Speaker 5: Pablo and hell and you know, oh yeah, Devontor Bergertov
Speaker 5: would walk in along the way and Alex Scott was
Speaker 5: hosting Katie with them. Was incredible at hosting Laurene of Bars.
Speaker 5: I mean, it was like a who's who every day.
Speaker 5: Moe Adams was incredible, Brian Dunseeth so man, it was
Speaker 5: it was so fun and we just had a great
Speaker 5: time and I could be more grateful to get to
Speaker 5: experience it all and get to kind of recap with you.
Speaker 5: It's not even done yet. We still have the final
Speaker 5: on Sunday, but.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, well experience. I wanted to ask, is PSG
Speaker 1: like the PSG is the ish right now? I mean,
Speaker 1: they they are insane when it comes to talent and
Speaker 1: what they're able to do out there.
Speaker 5: John, There's there's no there's no holes in their game.
Speaker 5: You want to try to defend them one way, PSG
Speaker 5: will hurt you together. You want to go in high press,
Speaker 5: They're good enough to play around. If you want to
Speaker 5: try to sit back in well, they're patient and they'll
Speaker 5: wait and they'll pass around. Miami saw that into Miami,
Speaker 5: saw that at Mercedes Benz Stadium'm sure a lot of
Speaker 5: your listeners would have been there because that was one
Speaker 5: of the premier matches, you know, to be able to
Speaker 5: see in to Miami in the knockout stage, Messy versus
Speaker 5: PSG again. But ma'am, I think if Chelsea can keep
Speaker 5: this close and keep it respectable, you know, I think
Speaker 5: that the uglier. I said this the other day when
Speaker 5: I was getting a chance to do a show with
Speaker 5: Serious X. Sam said the day before we were pregame,
Speaker 5: or the day of we were previewing it in the
Speaker 5: morning and it was you know, if Real Madrid can
Speaker 5: make it an ugly game, they have a better chance.
Speaker 5: But it's like, right now, with PSG, I'd equate it
Speaker 5: to going into the ring with Mike Tyson in his
Speaker 5: prime and standing there and just trying to throw punches
Speaker 5: with them. You can't do that. It's not going to
Speaker 5: go well for you. You've got to make it as
Speaker 5: ugly as possible and if you if you do, I
Speaker 5: guess you'd give yourself the best chance. But ma'am, I
Speaker 5: think it could be PSG, and I think it could
Speaker 5: be PSG comfortably on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I mean you look at what they're able to do,
Speaker 1: and everybody's sitting there going, yeah, well PSG this, and
Speaker 1: they talk about the opponent, well PSG this, PSG that,
Speaker 1: and then it's like, well Messi and friends lose by four.
Speaker 1: But remember you've got you know, waxed in the Champions
Speaker 1: League final, and so everybody's sitting there going oh mlss
Speaker 1: MLS that. It's like, no, fam, you remember what happened
Speaker 1: in the Champions League final. This has turned into the norm.
Speaker 1: They are a machine. And I saw a story where
Speaker 1: apparently Luis en Rique was interviewing for the Chelsea gig
Speaker 1: when it was open before they gave it to Pochettino,
Speaker 1: and he comes in with this fantastic presentation of what
Speaker 1: you know Luis en Rique does, and he breaks everything
Speaker 1: down to its finest little part and they were like, no, thanks,
Speaker 1: we're not interested, and they went with Pochettino. I'm I
Speaker 1: want to see how this goes with Luis and Rique
Speaker 1: on the weekend.
Speaker 5: I wonder if the people in that room that voted no,
Speaker 5: they saw a job today, you know, but no, I
Speaker 5: tell you it's an incredible team man, And I think
Speaker 5: it was funded. Ballet has proven he should win a
Speaker 5: Ballador this year. It's been incredible. But there were just
Speaker 5: so many different ways. Jean Nevison the midfield's credible talent.
Speaker 5: Man uh Kavicha kavart Scalia, that's the name. I got
Speaker 5: to learn how to say, tell you what, man. When
Speaker 5: you're it's one thing. When you're watching it and you
Speaker 5: hear a couple of people different say it, it's it's
Speaker 5: all well and good. But when I had when I
Speaker 5: had to try to say some of these names like that.
Speaker 5: That was one of the ones that I was going
Speaker 5: to bed the night before being like, all right, said
Speaker 5: my said my prayers, called the wife and kids, and
Speaker 5: then I was like, okay, Kavar Scalia. It was like
Speaker 5: I was counting sheep, trying to make sure I could
Speaker 5: say this name wrong, you know, and broadcasting nightmares right there.
Speaker 1: But it was yeah.
Speaker 5: But I will tell you this something cool that I
Speaker 5: think it is is a cool fact to talk about.
Speaker 5: I had people from Major League Soccer, you know, scouts
Speaker 5: and people in front office texting me throughout this this competition.
Speaker 5: I think I truly believe you were gonna end up
Speaker 5: seeing some players from this tournament end up in Major
Speaker 5: League Soccer sooner rather than later. Because it was an
Speaker 5: interesting viewpoint of getting some of these teams. And I
Speaker 5: won't say for which teams, which games and whatnot, but
Speaker 5: there was definitely some of the games that were not
Speaker 5: necessarily the marquee. Once you know, the big ones, you're
Speaker 5: not gonna you're not going to see somebody go from
Speaker 5: one of the top teams in Europe right now that's
Speaker 5: in their prime to you know, they gonna leave Madrid
Speaker 5: to come that you're not scouting those games, but some
Speaker 5: of the other teams from some of the other continents
Speaker 5: in other countries. I would be shocked if you didn't
Speaker 5: see some players make the leap to Major League Soccer
Speaker 5: from some of those teams after the exposure that some
Speaker 5: of these other leagues got, which was one of the
Speaker 5: cool aspects of the FIFA club woke up.
Speaker 1: Yeah. One of the folks that Jason had earmarked was
Speaker 1: Diosa from a mont Today.
Speaker 5: Inredible. I did two of their games and the one
Speaker 5: that he scored the banger from the distance against Red Diamonds.
Speaker 5: But John Day, it was crazy. It was this goal,
Speaker 5: so it may be one of the goals of the tournament.
Speaker 5: Nelson Diosa don't even have to pull up my notes
Speaker 5: number six for Monterey's defensive midfield, big size, strong, powerful,
Speaker 5: But John this gold a tournament. He scored a match
Speaker 5: Day three Canada for it. He faked a shot from
Speaker 5: right inside of the midfield line at the circle and
Speaker 5: he got the forward to like to jump. He was
Speaker 5: so convincing, and then he moved in about ten to
Speaker 5: fifteen steps forward and he shot and he bangs us
Speaker 5: in anything that just moves and swerves different directions. And
Speaker 5: I was on the call with Andy Bishop for that
Speaker 5: one and we both looked at each other like he
Speaker 5: faked a shot and the guy respected the shot so much.
Speaker 5: He was just from midfield and then he stepped inside
Speaker 5: and scored this banger. But yeah, that's a great shot
Speaker 5: right there. A player like that, he was incredible. He's
Speaker 5: the name Nelson Diosa that I would not be shocked
Speaker 5: if people in Major League Soccer were trying to ask, mantery,
Speaker 5: how much do you want for this guy? He was
Speaker 5: so so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he right now is being courted by Sporting in Portugal.
Speaker 1: And our buddy Neo Taurus from Goal TV, who calls
Speaker 1: the Portuguese league, was giving us the rundown of all that,
Speaker 1: and I mentioned Diosa, and I also mentioned Mehi coming
Speaker 1: from Famalikao to Atlanta United as a whole, as a
Speaker 1: part of this whole dynamic, and Diosa is attracting a
Speaker 1: figure that's like ten million right now, transfer marked Hedham
Speaker 1: at like eight to nine, and so Sporting was looking
Speaker 1: at like ten from on today, we were tempted to
Speaker 1: lock the doors and Mercedes Benz Stadium when monterday was
Speaker 1: playing to assure ourselves that Diosa could not leave. He's
Speaker 1: not good, not allowed to leave there, and not afraid
Speaker 1: to shoot from twenty like you like you had in
Speaker 1: your match, but just in general, he had three shots
Speaker 1: from twenty outside the eighteen and he didn't blame. He
Speaker 1: didn't think twice about it. He was ready to go.
Speaker 5: He was in the last match against Doorman they lost
Speaker 5: two to one to get knocked out of the quarterfinals.
Speaker 5: He just kept smashing the ball. Everybody at that level
Speaker 5: can shoot a ball, John Nelson, Diosa can kick it
Speaker 5: differently than others.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: He absolutely hammers it. And it's it's funny said about
Speaker 5: locking the doors at Mercedes Benz. I'm looking at the
Speaker 5: comments coming in, and one of them from your loyal
Speaker 5: listeners here saying the look up some of the players
Speaker 5: eyes looking at the bins when they first came in,
Speaker 5: they were blown away. That's how good Mercedes Benz Stadium is.
Speaker 5: Some world class players just playing some of the excuse me,
Speaker 5: the biggest stadiums. They walk inside a Mercedes Benz stadium
Speaker 5: and they're like, oh, so this is what a billion
Speaker 5: and a half dollars looks like.
Speaker 7: Huh.
Speaker 5: It's jaw joppy.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: It's absolutely stunning, and it was so cool to see
Speaker 5: how many big games Mercedes Benz Stadium got in and
Speaker 5: some of the big big matchups. And then of course
Speaker 5: you think Messi scoring that free kick or an iconic moment,
Speaker 5: you know, just just ridiculous. Come on, man, come on man.
Speaker 5: The guy delivers on the biggest stage to win against Porto,
Speaker 5: love them hate him because of where the proximity is
Speaker 5: in the rivalry. I get it, but come on, man,
Speaker 5: what a moment when Messi steps up in Andre's canturs
Speaker 5: on the call. Oh my goodness, I'd.
Speaker 1: Been like a twelve second hold. Literally, we were sitting
Speaker 1: there when Andres is on a call. We sit there
Speaker 1: and we literally look at our stopwatches on a goal call,
Speaker 1: and I time out the hold note. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: punching a twelve second hold note on a goal call.
Speaker 5: It's incredible, man. And I remember just walking into the
Speaker 5: bullet in there at the studios and at TNT and
Speaker 5: just wanting to shake his hand and just like I
Speaker 5: was like, Andre, you have been the soundtrack to so
Speaker 5: many great moments of my soccer fandom, Like thank you,
Speaker 5: you know, and he looked like you heard that a
Speaker 5: million times over, So it wasn't anything new to him,
Speaker 5: but it was. It was really really cool to see
Speaker 5: and he was fantastic. He was as good as you
Speaker 5: could imagine meeting him, you know, it was it was
Speaker 5: such a surreal experience the whole time.
Speaker 1: In the twenty three teams that you called, we mentioned
Speaker 1: Diosa from on today. Who else stood out to you
Speaker 1: that might sit there and have folks knocking on the
Speaker 1: door of say Mamalodi Sundowns or a Red Diamonds or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there were some really good players, like on the Sundowns.
Speaker 5: Lucas Roberto was really good from the Sundowns. He was
Speaker 5: number ten, smaller stature, smaller framed player, but he was
Speaker 5: he was really really good. I really enjoyed watching him.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think, I'm trying to go through now
Speaker 5: some of the teams. You know, it's interesting because every
Speaker 5: team has a different need and different price point right
Speaker 5: of who you want to spend, and so you know,
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think of some of the smaller teams
Speaker 5: that we watched, Like.
Speaker 1: Jamie Watson is constructing his eleven from from teams that
Speaker 1: are not that are off the beaten track.
Speaker 5: You know, it's so interesting, right because like, what is
Speaker 5: what is a team? Like we died Casablanca pay right.
Speaker 5: They have this forward Goja Lava, who has scored hundreds
Speaker 5: and hundreds of goals for his club, Like you know,
Speaker 5: he's a he's older, he's like he's thirty three. But
Speaker 5: the guy's just he only scores goals. It's it's insane, right,
Speaker 5: But what are these teams pay? I don't I don't
Speaker 5: know some of the business structures of it, which is
Speaker 5: really difficult to kind of tell. But you know, some
Speaker 5: names of Papa, like Kaku who used to play for
Speaker 5: the New York Red Bulls. He was there, so it
Speaker 5: was kind of cool seeing the MLS connections throughout. Mikael
Speaker 5: who used to play for Houston. You know, he's for
Speaker 5: Palmettish as well, so as Kundo Torres. You know, I
Speaker 5: think there were some really good players. And I'm going
Speaker 5: to skate around the question a little bit because the
Speaker 5: reason I will say this is there were a lot
Speaker 5: of people that I really enjoy working with on the
Speaker 5: scouting side of Major League Soccer that was reaching out
Speaker 5: and I did give them some specific names but out
Speaker 5: of sort of respect to that, I don't want to
Speaker 5: say which ones, but I think you said this John
Speaker 5: and Nelson Dials. I was almost worried that he would
Speaker 5: have been on too high of the pay structure and
Speaker 5: transfer fee command, so I didn't say his name on purpose.
Speaker 5: But he was probably the one player that if I
Speaker 5: could really pinpoint on the higher side, that probably has
Speaker 5: the realistic, you know, top end major League soccer price tag.
Speaker 5: I think that he might be a player like that,
Speaker 5: but it's just tough. I don't know what teams would
Speaker 5: be willing to spend. So I just gave. Each time
Speaker 5: I would get a text, I would say, here's a
Speaker 5: good name, here's a good player, and I would move
Speaker 5: moving on from there.
Speaker 1: You know, absolutely who do you have this weekend in
Speaker 1: Major League Soccer?
Speaker 5: So this weekend I'll get a chance to jump over
Speaker 5: to FS one and I've got an exciting game Nashville
Speaker 5: versus Miami. Oh so tasty one, absolutely tasty matchup. So
Speaker 5: I'll get a get a break from from Apple TV
Speaker 5: this week. Great collaborative effort because I was on the
Speaker 5: game Austin versus New England, but there were some scheduling
Speaker 5: changes around. So I got switched over to do the
Speaker 5: Nashville versus Miami game on FS one, So we're looking
Speaker 5: forward to that one.
Speaker 1: All right, so take the over obviously, always Nashville seemed.
Speaker 1: BJ Callahan seems to have unlocked Sam Surridge right now,
Speaker 1: Surrige and some dude named Messy. You got a studio audience.
Speaker 5: Huh, it's a it's a lovely four year old daughter
Speaker 5: that that wants to come over here and have my attention,
Speaker 5: and she's so hard to say no too. So little
Speaker 5: missus Graylan is over here as well.
Speaker 1: Well, you're gonna put Graylan on camera? Are you just
Speaker 1: gonna sit there and not introduce us or what? Well?
Speaker 5: Grayland's now watching Pepa Pit so you can compete with
Speaker 5: Pepper pick apologize.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5: PJ Allen and and BJ was great, by the way.
Speaker 5: We got a chance to be there with with BJ
Speaker 5: in the studio. He came in and did a wonderful job.
Speaker 5: By the way, very few coaches can come in and
Speaker 5: they can do a good job of being able to
Speaker 5: switch over. Oh she's she. I think she might want
Speaker 5: to say hello now, GRAYLND do you want to say hi? No?
Speaker 5: You don't want to say hi, okay, but here we go.
Speaker 5: We got this. This is the dad life, you know
Speaker 5: that we've got going here. We're breaking down soccer at
Speaker 5: a high level and also making sure our four year
Speaker 5: old doesn't yell at us because I'm a girl dad
Speaker 5: and she's amazing. She's the best. She's got me wrapped
Speaker 5: around her. I think bj Allien did an amazing job,
Speaker 5: by the way, in the studio, he was so good.
Speaker 5: They put him on the big board and and he
Speaker 5: was breaking things down. You could see how his mind
Speaker 5: just operates differently as as a coach, and it was
Speaker 5: I absolutely stole a lot of things that he said,
Speaker 5: and the immediately went and said it on the broadcast.
Speaker 5: But he was great. I think that he's There is
Speaker 5: a complete about the way Nashville, as see plays. There's
Speaker 5: two different players that can hurt you. Because Nashville fans
Speaker 5: will know this. The Nashville one point zero era was
Speaker 5: all about Honey and Atlanta fans will know this because
Speaker 5: Honey saved his some of his best performances for Lanti
Speaker 5: United fans along the way. But you knew if you
Speaker 5: could stop Hanny, you could stop Nashville. Now you also
Speaker 5: have Sam Surge that's contributing. You've got Hanny that's contributing.
Speaker 5: You've got some really hard working players in the middle
Speaker 5: of the park that continue to run into press and
Speaker 5: to repress. And that's where in remind me have broken
Speaker 5: down their their struggles is the repress. Okay, yes, ma'am,
Speaker 5: there's breaking down the repress. Oh, I think she's gonna
Speaker 5: make it zuccher.
Speaker 1: Great?
Speaker 5: Or do you want to say hi? Say hi to
Speaker 5: Daddy's friends?
Speaker 1: There you go, there we go.
Speaker 5: There's mister John and all of his friends. Can you
Speaker 5: get Daddy two minutes and we'll be able to come
Speaker 5: in and play with you. I'll help you, okay, I
Speaker 5: love you bad. Life never stops here. Thanks for letting
Speaker 5: her crash the party.
Speaker 1: It's always good studio arts.
Speaker 5: The love of my life there. But I think, what
Speaker 5: what what you know? Just to wrap that thought up,
Speaker 5: that's what Nashville have done so well as they've been
Speaker 5: complete in the fact that they are very, very difficult
Speaker 5: to break down. I don't know, I'll get it. Go
Speaker 5: serious here. She's so cute it's hard to say. It's
Speaker 5: hard to say no to her. See see how I'm
Speaker 5: up and by the way, she's making me give her
Speaker 5: a PEZ.
Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with Pez.
Speaker 5: At nine thirty am Eastern time, A thirty where I
Speaker 5: am put it's summertime, baby, and you get you.
Speaker 1: Got to give out PEZ. But remind me at the
Speaker 1: back there's talk about Rodrigo to Paul. You've got all
Speaker 1: the firepower right now. It's like, okay, we're just gonna
Speaker 1: outscore folks, and you know you could have a match
Speaker 1: that could be dealing with the overall a weekend.
Speaker 5: And I'll tell you what, man, I'm so interested to
Speaker 5: get your thoughts on Rodrigo de Paul because there's gonna
Speaker 5: have to be some some roster dancing that's gonna have
Speaker 5: to happen. Right How are you going to be able
Speaker 5: to fit an extra, you know, player in there, Dosney
Speaker 5: a player. They're gonna have to switch up some of
Speaker 5: your roster build if you.
Speaker 1: Want to or where do you do this? We were
Speaker 1: walking through it yesterday. Last number that we looked at
Speaker 1: in AM was that Messi and friends had a little
Speaker 1: over three million left in AM and this was like
Speaker 1: late February, I think was when the numbers were released
Speaker 1: by the PA with the three dps that you have.
Speaker 1: Do you sign him as an AM player pro rated
Speaker 1: for half a season and then do you sit there
Speaker 1: and go, Okay, you're AM this year, and then we'll
Speaker 1: try to DP you or go high AM next year,
Speaker 1: and then buy down Jordi Alba, buy down Bousquettes, figure
Speaker 1: out what you want to do. Because your three dps
Speaker 1: all have contracts that are ending at the end of
Speaker 1: this season. So I'm guessing he's a pro rated AM
Speaker 1: this year. Luis Suarez goes home to run the club
Speaker 1: and that gets your your AM slot there, and so
Speaker 1: you sign it to a Soarezi and kind of a deal,
Speaker 1: and so he's probably a high AM or maybe a
Speaker 1: DP and you buy down Jordia Alba or something like.
Speaker 5: That, which could very well happen. I think that's genius,
Speaker 5: a good way to do that. I think that when
Speaker 5: you you've broken that so so well. I also wonder
Speaker 5: is there a world in which guys like Bousquets I
Speaker 5: don't I want to be respectful of other people's money
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. You would assume at the level
Speaker 5: that he's played at, he's probably set financially and couldn't
Speaker 5: spend it all even if he tried. I wonder if
Speaker 5: at the end of the season, he also says, I
Speaker 5: want this to get better, so I will drop my
Speaker 5: salary requests down and almost, you know you don't you say,
Speaker 5: like the hometown discount right? Well, now it's it's almost like,
Speaker 5: is it the you know them trying to think of
Speaker 5: a clever name?
Speaker 8: Here?
Speaker 5: Is it the world beater discount?
Speaker 8: Here?
Speaker 5: Where we could get a world beater to bring.
Speaker 1: The golf stream galacticos buy down.
Speaker 5: There, we go put a patent on it, put it,
Speaker 5: put a TM next to it, because you nailed it. No,
Speaker 5: it's something like that. I mean, I just I just
Speaker 5: wonder if there's an element to that of somebody says
Speaker 5: one of them says, okay, fine, I've made my money.
Speaker 5: I've got one more year left. I want to play
Speaker 5: at a high level with other high, high level players.
Speaker 5: That's what I want to do. So it'll be interesting
Speaker 5: to see if or does MLS come in and do
Speaker 5: they alter some of the rules and change it and
Speaker 5: go four dps right, And I wouldn't be shocked, and
Speaker 5: I wouldn't you know, You've got World Cup winners that
Speaker 5: want to come over now at thirty one years old
Speaker 5: and clubs that are willing to pay reportedly up to
Speaker 5: twenty million dollars.
Speaker 1: Are you going to.
Speaker 5: Stand in the way if you're Major League Soccer, are
Speaker 5: you going to say, yeah, let's try to make that
Speaker 5: happen as well too. So I don't know, it's going
Speaker 5: to be interesting to see, but I don't think that
Speaker 5: MLS should shy away from the idea of figuring out
Speaker 5: roster constructions that bring over players world class players in
Speaker 5: their prime. Ish thirty one is not you're full on prime,
Speaker 5: but you're still he's starting for Athletico Madrid, right, So
Speaker 5: let's let's not sugarcoat here. This is a top you know,
Speaker 5: twenty team in the world, five team in the world.
Speaker 5: And so you say, okay, this is you know, a
Speaker 5: player that can start there if a club wants to acquire,
Speaker 5: and we need to figure out a way to not
Speaker 5: stand in the way of it with our rules.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I think that you opened up another
Speaker 1: door with that fourth DP. Go spend time with Graylan,
Speaker 1: have a fantastic call this weekend with Messy and friends
Speaker 1: in Nashville. And uh, obviously you know you got the
Speaker 1: garage door opener. You know you can crash it anytime.
Speaker 1: It's always great. You know.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm a big fan of the show, and
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go go play down him and take my
Speaker 5: soccer hat off now and go go put my dad
Speaker 5: hat on, and whatever she wants me to do, I'll
Speaker 5: be doing that in just a couple of seconds while
Speaker 5: watching your show Peze. Just by the way, Relentless is
Speaker 5: just crush the whole PEZ dispensed. Wow, unbelievable. All right,
Speaker 5: we're gonna sign off here.
Speaker 1: Good Jamie, Mike Raylan gos bye. All right, so they're out. Uh,
Speaker 1: Jamie's gonna go be a dad. Grayland crushed an entire
Speaker 1: case of PEZ in like three minutes, eight thirty in
Speaker 1: the morning local time, and a daughter is crushing PEZ.
Speaker 1: That is a fantastic dietary choice on a Friday morning.
Speaker 1: Jamie Watson, it's always great to catch up with him.
Speaker 1: We got to talk to his neighbor though about mowing
Speaker 1: the lawn because you know, it's like, dude, can't you
Speaker 1: see that Jamie's trying to do TV. He's trying to
Speaker 1: do TV and he's trying to get stuff squared away.
Speaker 1: So Jamie's gonna go be a dad, and it's always
Speaker 1: great to have Jamie Watson come down and see what's
Speaker 1: going on with him. So Chris Whittingham set to join
Speaker 1: his Top of the Hour and we'll break everything down
Speaker 1: major League soccer. We'll find out a little bit about Chris,
Speaker 1: considering it's his first time on the show, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to kind of peel back the curtain a little
Speaker 1: bit because Chris has called a lot of different leagues
Speaker 1: and so my lead off with Chris is going to be, Okay,
Speaker 1: how many leagues have you called this year? How many
Speaker 1: leagues have you called? Do you remember them all? So
Speaker 1: we'll get into that discussion with Chris, talk about major
Speaker 1: League soccer, all the things. Great to catch up with Jamie. Obviously,
Speaker 1: like I said, Jamie's got FS one this weekend where
Speaker 1: he gets messy in Friends and Nashville, and so we'll
Speaker 1: catch up with that. Obviously, we've got a couple of
Speaker 1: things to talk about with Atlanta United. We'll go here
Speaker 1: with one of them. And obviously it's it has been
Speaker 1: in social media for quite some time and if you
Speaker 1: were to follow this particular individual on his social media,
Speaker 1: you would know that he's wearing the gear. He's posing
Speaker 1: in rooms with sofas and things, flexing, muscles and so on.
Speaker 1: It is official Atlanta United his loan Edwin Musquette to
Speaker 1: me Andario So the Columbian First Division through the end
Speaker 1: of next year. So it is a year long loan
Speaker 1: for Edwin Musquetta with an option for a permanent transfer.
Speaker 1: So fast, Eddie is going to be spending the next
Speaker 1: calendar year on loan two millionaios and so for contract.
Speaker 1: And we'll go ahead and go through contract numbers and
Speaker 1: contracts and things like that, and so we'll double check
Speaker 1: Edwin Mosquetta's status. Plus we will double check his salary
Speaker 1: figure according to our friends at the MLSPA and with
Speaker 1: ed Win. Let me see if we can find him
Speaker 1: really quickly or did they already punch him out? Wow
Speaker 1: that might have been. That was fast, okay, let's see
Speaker 1: so Margaret value uh toga she Ronald Derek Jamal Tristan
Speaker 1: William Baugh. Wow they already did. Wow, that was fast. Okay.
Speaker 1: So Edwin Musqueta it's no longer a rumor market value
Speaker 1: of four hundred thousand euro but they had him rumored
Speaker 1: to Atletico naci Ana and so Edwin under contract with
Speaker 1: Atlanta United and I thought, yes, now what they wasted
Speaker 1: no time with this? Okay, so transfer marked officially has
Speaker 1: him flipped. Okay, so joined, yet they have him joining yesterday.
Speaker 1: Actually so joining yesterday transfer marked and it is a
Speaker 1: basically it's a year long loan until the June thirtieth
Speaker 1: to twenty six option to buy. Current market value listed
Speaker 1: at four hundred thousand euro according to our friends at
Speaker 1: transfer Marked and so from the MLSPA. When it comes
Speaker 1: to the salary guide in resources which you really should
Speaker 1: have bookmarked, I don't, but I should from a salary perspective,
Speaker 1: it was Edwin was making four hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: thousand base four sixty two guaranteed compensation. So that is
Speaker 1: that was the rundown of Edwin Mousqueta. The thing about
Speaker 1: think about Edwin, Edwin needs reps, and I think that
Speaker 1: he needs to be in a place where he can
Speaker 1: get constant playing time. He wasn't getting that with Atlanta United.
Speaker 1: You saw with Edwin that you know, the speed is
Speaker 1: there and the imagination is there, as evidenced by the
Speaker 1: one goloasso at Mercedes Been Stadium. That sticks into my head.
Speaker 1: But he needed, he needed regular reps and it was
Speaker 1: a chance for Atlanta United to send him to a
Speaker 1: place where he gets regular reps once again option on
Speaker 1: a permanent transfer. So it is a loan for a
Speaker 1: year and a twelve month loan short of the ten
Speaker 1: days or the eleven days that we're here in July
Speaker 1: and twenty five. So Edwin Mosquette alone to me in Arios.
Speaker 1: He had been posing on social media wearing their gear
Speaker 1: last couple of days. And so Edwin is down there
Speaker 1: now and he's got to work as the first touch
Speaker 1: needs to be worked one a little bit. But the
Speaker 1: speed is there, talent is there, the imagination is there.
Speaker 1: He just needed a place to have regular reps and
Speaker 1: so he gets that at Meg Andario's and he will
Speaker 1: be down there on loan with an option for a
Speaker 1: permanent transfer. Now, the other stuff that we need to
Speaker 1: get into, obviously with Atlanda United, outside of on the
Speaker 1: field is the off the field. And yesterday we found
Speaker 1: out that Garth Loggerway is now in a cancer bout
Speaker 1: and it is an indefinite leave of absence. This came
Speaker 1: out a little after a little before two o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 1: And I know that you guys have been mentioning it
Speaker 1: in the twitch pitch this morning, right now, the way
Speaker 1: that it is, the way that it was released by
Speaker 1: it Land United indefinite leave of absence after recently being
Speaker 1: diagnosed with cancer has begun treatment. No timetable for his return.
Speaker 1: Prognosis of a complete recovery is encouraging. In the interim,
Speaker 1: Chief Soccer Officer Chris Henderson, Chief Business Officer Skate Knopsinger,
Speaker 1: Senior VP of Strategy, Demetrius if Stoth. YOUU continue to
Speaker 1: lead the day to day ops and will provide regular
Speaker 1: reports to Garth and to Rich McKay, CEO of AMBS
Speaker 1: during the absence. You've got a statement from Arthur Blank.
Speaker 1: A statement from Rich Garth's quotation in the release. I've
Speaker 1: made the difficult decision to step back from Atlanta United
Speaker 1: to tackle my cancer treatment head on. I'd like to
Speaker 1: express my profound gratitude to Arthur Blank for not only
Speaker 1: his support, but by doing everything in his power to
Speaker 1: make this process as painless as possible for me and
Speaker 1: my family. I could not possibly work for a better
Speaker 1: organization than AMBS. Atlanta United has a high performing leadership
Speaker 1: team in place on the business and soccer sides of
Speaker 1: the club. Chris Skate and Demetrios are experienced and talented leaders,
Speaker 1: and I have full confidence in their abilities to lead
Speaker 1: our club in my absence. In the meantime, I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to seeing our fans again sun at Mercedes Been Stadium.
Speaker 1: I shall return. End quote. And with that, obviously, you
Speaker 1: want Garth to focus on getting back to fighting this,
Speaker 1: and you want this. I'm gonna phrase it this way.
Speaker 1: Anytime anyone is and I'm gonna break the fourth wall
Speaker 1: here for a little bit. I hate cancer and I
Speaker 1: know I'm not alone in that lost my dad to
Speaker 1: cancer and it was just over fifteen years ago. And
Speaker 1: anytime I hear that anyone is fighting a cancer battle,
Speaker 1: you want them to have the resources available. You want
Speaker 1: them to fight, you want them to focus. You want
Speaker 1: to make sure that this ass of a beast that
Speaker 1: is known as cancer. And I probably could earn the
Speaker 1: explicit rating discussing cancer in and of itself. I hate it.
Speaker 1: I hate what it does to people. I hate what
Speaker 1: it does to families, to relationships and to the lives
Speaker 1: that you're trying to construct. I'm hoping that actually, let
Speaker 1: me rephrase, I hope Garth kicks its ass, and I
Speaker 1: have no qualm about that. Whatsoever. I want Garth, I
Speaker 1: want the Loggerways, I want ABC, I want it Lanta
Speaker 1: United to kick cancer's ass from one end of the
Speaker 1: field to the other. And in Garth's statement, you saw that,
Speaker 1: you heard that. You know, he is blessed to work
Speaker 1: for a place like a MBS and we are blessed
Speaker 1: here in this market to have someone who cares for
Speaker 1: individuals as much as Arthur Blank does. So whatever it
Speaker 1: takes for Garth and the Loggerways and Atlanta United to
Speaker 1: kick cancer's ass, go do it. Because I hate cancer
Speaker 1: with every fiber of my being and probably every fiber
Speaker 1: of my family's being on top of my own. So
Speaker 1: we've got Skate, We've got Chris, We've got d You've
Speaker 1: got Hobby on the analytics side. You've got a lot
Speaker 1: of talented people. They'll work on the business side, and
Speaker 1: they'll continue doing what they do on the business side
Speaker 1: of things. And I hope that Garth realizes. And it
Speaker 1: was on social media yesterday a lot yesterday afternoon and
Speaker 1: last night, the support that Garth has from all of
Speaker 1: us seventeens media, what have you? You know, whatever you know
Speaker 1: envelope or pronoun you want to apply that to. I
Speaker 1: hope that the logger ways feel it every day, the
Speaker 1: support that they have from people they know and people
Speaker 1: they don't about kicking cancer's ass. We probably should print
Speaker 1: up a T shirt kick Cancer's ass today and every day.
Speaker 1: So that's the latest with Garth. That came out yesterday
Speaker 1: about two o'clock yesterday afternoon. So Garth is now undergoing
Speaker 1: Garth is undergoing transfer cancer treatments and we don't have
Speaker 1: a Yeah, an Abby, that's absolutely true with Darren fighting
Speaker 1: it too. Darren fighting it over at Newcastle, Garth fighting
Speaker 1: it here. It does, Abby says, between Garth and Darren
Speaker 1: Eil's good friends both having a cancer diagnosis sucks. Ye,
Speaker 1: it does. So fight it, kick its ass and we'll
Speaker 1: see you when we see you. Come out, you know,
Speaker 1: come out and see games casually, trusting those around you
Speaker 1: and know that we're here for you in whatever aspect
Speaker 1: you You want to apply that sentence in that sentence
Speaker 1: rusure kick cancer's ass today and every day. That's your
Speaker 1: T shirt. Damn that pisses me off, But anyway that
Speaker 1: had to be you know, we had to talk about
Speaker 1: that considering what happened yesterday with the announcement with Garth
Speaker 1: and so lengthy statement from Atlanta United came out yesterday
Speaker 1: afternoon and laying that out. So I'm going to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that too. Once again. Chris Whittingham set
Speaker 1: to join us top of the hour, tell you what,
Speaker 1: let's go through juice boxes and everything in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: Let you know what the numbers are. Chrystill join us.
Speaker 1: It'll be his first time, like I said, hopefully he
Speaker 1: won't go running off into the running off into the night,
Speaker 1: hands failing in the air after the segment's over. And
Speaker 1: then we are planning a special guest coming up at
Speaker 1: ten thirty, so we'll see. We'll see what happens with
Speaker 1: special guest. And like I said, we've got to be
Speaker 1: out a little after eleven five because we've got to
Speaker 1: get ready for the twos and Columbus Crew two coming
Speaker 1: up this weekend at ninety two nine in the game
Speaker 1: and the Odyssey app okay, excuse me, juice boxes this
Speaker 1: weekend involving all of the action in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: We will also let me I will give you the
Speaker 1: juice boxes for the Club World Cup Final at the
Speaker 1: meto lands. Now that I'm thinking about it, let me
Speaker 1: go down and drop that number. So Club World Cup
Speaker 1: Final it is on Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. PSG's
Speaker 1: a minus one sixty four. Chelsea's a plus four fifteen.
Speaker 1: Ninety minute draws a plus three twenty six. So there
Speaker 1: you go. I think the safest play in the world
Speaker 1: is to go with PSG. Nod your head, move on,
Speaker 1: tip your cap to Luis Enrique and that's a show,
Speaker 1: all right. So the seven forties on Saturday night and
Speaker 1: it will be oh wow, it'll be another one of
Speaker 1: those where it is two four, six, eight ten. You'll
Speaker 1: have another ten box in the goo hour over at
Speaker 1: MLS three sixty. Here's what's going on, Charlotte and NYC.
Speaker 1: Charlotte favored of the plus one oh four against NYC,
Speaker 1: who's a plus two twenty five. Your ninety minute draws
Speaker 1: a plus two seventy eight. Dean Smith, apparently the head
Speaker 1: coach Charlotte FC, did not want Patrick Agyemong to go.
Speaker 1: The salary demands were rather large by his agent, according
Speaker 1: to Dean Smith, and Dean Smith decided to let everybody know,
Speaker 1: or let everybody think anyway, that in his mind, the
Speaker 1: EFL Championship is right there, even with the folks in
Speaker 1: Major League Soccer. Dean Smith on contract negotiations with Patrick,
Speaker 1: if it came down the money, it's always money. Back
Speaker 1: in January, thought the club made a fair offer. His
Speaker 1: representatives had a totally different idea that was way out,
Speaker 1: way out of the ballpark for this club. Feels that
Speaker 1: Pat's move is more of a push from his reps
Speaker 1: than Patrick Godgemong. He adds that Dean Smith feels like
Speaker 1: the Championship isn't much different than Major League soccer. Tim
Speaker 1: Reemans back from international duty, Wilson back from suspension, so
Speaker 1: in Dean Smith's mind. Dean Smith adds, he feels like
Speaker 1: the EFL Championship isn't much different than Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: I would wholeheartedly disagree with him, because you don't have
Speaker 1: half of the clubs in Major League Soccer trying to
Speaker 1: stay above water and paying more than ninety five percent
Speaker 1: of your economics to your salaries. Thirteen of the twenty
Speaker 1: four teams that were in the EFL Championship last time
Speaker 1: I looked at at least ninety five percent of their
Speaker 1: budgets going to salaries if not more. Look, you had
Speaker 1: teams that were like at one hundred and thirty percent
Speaker 1: of their economics being paid to salaries. That's not how
Speaker 1: it works here in Major League Soccer. And the fact
Speaker 1: that Dean Smith feels he wants to deny an opportunity. Look,
Speaker 1: if Patrick Augiemong isn't getting minutes in a system where
Speaker 1: he is allowed to flourish, why wouldn't he look for
Speaker 1: another place? Why wouldn't he? And the fact that Darby
Speaker 1: wants to pay roughly was at seven point two for
Speaker 1: Patrick Ajimong. That's seven point two more million dollars that
Speaker 1: Charlotte gets to spend on other folks. But to compare
Speaker 1: the EFL Championship to Major League Soccer, that is a
Speaker 1: big gap in logic and I would disagree. So you
Speaker 1: got that. Good on you, Dean Smith. Hell Is reel
Speaker 1: is also at seven point forty. That's Cincinnati favored at
Speaker 1: a plus one seventeen, cruise a plus one ninety seven
Speaker 1: draws a plus two eighty one. Intrigued at that one, uh,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the draw to plus two eighty one
Speaker 1: Purple team in Montreal, Purple team of minus two fifty
Speaker 1: set your fantasy teams appropriately if you did not set
Speaker 1: your team up for a double week cf. MONTREALI plus
Speaker 1: five ninety six and the composite courtesy of our friends
Speaker 1: at Odds Portal draws A plus three eighty six. Philadelphia
Speaker 1: minus one twenty two hosting Red Bulls, who are a
Speaker 1: plus three to fifteen. Your draws A plus two seventy
Speaker 1: Toronto and Atlanta Toronto a plus one forty one draws
Speaker 1: a plus two to fifty two Atlanta United a plus
Speaker 1: one seventy seven. We'll get Chris Whittingham's thoughts on it
Speaker 1: in the Atlanta United season coming up in a bit. Jamie,
Speaker 1: as he said, he's calling Messian Friends and Nashville and
Speaker 1: Messi and Friends of minus one eleven draws a plus
Speaker 1: three hundred Nashvilles a plus two fifty two. Take the over,
Speaker 1: find the over, Take the over. Let's look for the
Speaker 1: over here for a second. Because of the back line
Speaker 1: of Messi and Friends going up against the scoring that
Speaker 1: Nashville seems to be putting up under bj Callahan, three
Speaker 1: and a half is a plus one twenty two. I'd
Speaker 1: take that four and a half a plus two eighty
Speaker 1: five and a half a plus five sixty three, So
Speaker 1: I like the three and a half obviously to get
Speaker 1: things started. But if you're really into totals, that's where
Speaker 1: I would go with that one eight thirty eight forty
Speaker 1: Austin without Brandon Vasquez for the rest of the rest
Speaker 1: of the season, minus one zero four at home against
Speaker 1: the Revs. Revs are a plus two sixty one at
Speaker 1: Q two in your draws A plus two sixty eight.
Speaker 1: Chicago hosting San Diego. San Diego is a road favorite,
Speaker 1: slight the road favorite of the plus one forty six draws.
Speaker 1: A plus two to eighty. Chicago is a plus one
Speaker 1: fifty four loons in San Jose minus one ten for
Speaker 1: the home side. San Jose's a plus two to fifty two,
Speaker 1: and your draws basically a plus three hundred eight forty
Speaker 1: sporting in Seattle sporting a plus two hundred. That number
Speaker 1: has gone up in the last twenty four hours. Seattle
Speaker 1: a plus twenty eighteen. Your draws a plus two seventy
Speaker 1: three nine forty stars. Colorado hosting Vancouver, Colorado A plus
Speaker 1: one sixty Vancouver favored slightly on the road of the
Speaker 1: plus one fifty six in the composite draws a plus
Speaker 1: two to fifty four RSL at home even money plus
Speaker 1: one hundred, Houston visiting at A plus two to fifty
Speaker 1: draws A plus two sixty three LAFC minus two fifty
Speaker 1: FC Dallas on the road of plus five eighty seven
Speaker 1: in the composite draws A plus four hundred LAG hosting
Speaker 1: DC United with out their former head coach Troy Lasain,
Speaker 1: who was dismissed yesterday after technically after their late night
Speaker 1: Open Cup loss where you had a two nail legue
Speaker 1: and you lose five to two. LAG Hosting DC United
Speaker 1: lag minus one sixty seven, d C north of plus
Speaker 1: four hundred draws A plus three twenty six and SNS
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Soccer seven ten All Caps hosting Portland in
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, plus one twenty for Saint Louis City SC
Speaker 1: draws a plus two seventy eight. Portland is a plus
Speaker 1: one ninety eight. So Cap Charlotte favored Cincinnati, Favored Orlando
Speaker 1: on the minus side, big favorite Philadelphia on the minus side.
Speaker 1: Favored against Red Bulls Toronto plus one forty one favorite
Speaker 1: against Atlanta. Messi and Friends on the minus side. Favored
Speaker 1: against Nashville, Austin on the minus side, favored against New England,
Speaker 1: San Diego favored on the road at Chicago. Slight Minnesota
Speaker 1: minus side favored against San Jose. Seattle on the plus side,
Speaker 1: favored at Sporting Colorado, Vancouver pretty much throwing a blanket
Speaker 1: over the whole thing. Vancouver slightly favored in the composite
Speaker 1: over Colorado RSL even money plus one hundred, favored at
Speaker 1: home against Houston, LAFC big favorite against Dallas at home.
Speaker 1: LAG big favorite at home against DC United. Obviously the
Speaker 1: juice box purveyors looking and sitting there thinking that there's
Speaker 1: not going to be any new coach bump involved at DC.
Speaker 1: And then Saint Louis City favored at home against Portland
Speaker 1: on Sunday night. So that's how it looks Abby posting
Speaker 1: in the Twitch Pitch Mega Tifo this weekend. Also going
Speaker 1: to do a banner for Garth and all her fighting cancer.
Speaker 1: Help is needed, anyone can come and help. No photos
Speaker 1: where stuff you don't mind getting pain on. And she
Speaker 1: has also posted the link to the sign up Genius link,
Speaker 1: so don't take any pictures, but go help out. They're
Speaker 1: doing two separate tefos one to show support for Garth
Speaker 1: and one for the beginning of three matches in eleven
Speaker 1: days as Chicago comes to town middle of next week.
Speaker 1: There is a bit of a surprise that we will
Speaker 1: let you in on early next week involving the Chicago
Speaker 1: Atlanta match. It's a cool surprise. It's SDH based, somewhat
Speaker 1: SDH adjacent. But next week we'll let you in on
Speaker 1: that story coming up. Michael not looking forward to the
Speaker 1: match this weekend. Let's say, let's see you who's here
Speaker 1: this morning, so we can say everybody, Morning Alex, Morning Abby,
Speaker 1: Morning David, and let's see morning Michael, Kefzi, Morning Kefzi,
Speaker 1: and let's see morning Ricky with the news on Mousqueta,
Speaker 1: and morning Sharif who is back. And let's see. So
Speaker 1: there is Ricky, there is Michael, there is Abby, and
Speaker 1: once again the sign up genius, which I'm leaving up
Speaker 1: for a minute, morning ropes. So that's the rundown for
Speaker 1: everybody here that is keeping an eye on things in
Speaker 1: the twitch pitch, looking forward to, looking forward to, looking
Speaker 1: forward to the visit for Chris Whittingham coming up here
Speaker 1: in a couple of minutes. The Cosmos returning in name
Speaker 1: League One. They're playing in Jersey. They're playing at Hinchcliffe
Speaker 1: Stadium in Patterson, New Jersey. Stadium's got about eight thousand
Speaker 1: seats coming twenty twenty six. Here's how they laid it out.
Speaker 1: Past President Cosmos. I feel like you need finger pistols
Speaker 1: or something like that, Past Present Cosmos. So it's interesting there.
Speaker 1: There's some transfer news that we'll get into toward the
Speaker 1: tail end of the show. Morgan Gibbs White is now
Speaker 1: and is he or isn't he? Nottingham Forest is mad
Speaker 1: about how things were handled. Brentford is getting Jordan Henderson
Speaker 1: apparently from IAX on a free So you've got a
Speaker 1: lot of moving and shaking going on. Remember, thirteen days
Speaker 1: before the trance, the secondary transfer window opens up for
Speaker 1: Major League Soccer. You can talk about all the things
Speaker 1: you want inbound, and nothing can happen officially and be
Speaker 1: officially official until the twenty fourth, and then that's about
Speaker 1: a month worth of activity, and so you can talk
Speaker 1: about all the things you want. Now, we'll talk about
Speaker 1: all the things we want inbound coming up here, you know,
Speaker 1: for the next thirteen days or so, but the twenty fourth.
Speaker 1: Starting the twenty fourth, it could be very very entry
Speaker 1: sting when it comes to folks. So, uh, let me
Speaker 1: see if I can spell. I always have a problem
Speaker 1: spelling Chris's name because it's like there's a no, that,
Speaker 1: there's a there's agent a y, and it's like ancient dum.
Speaker 1: I'm all over the place with it. I really am. Uh.
Speaker 1: I believe all of the all of the things. That's
Speaker 1: where we are. See, you try and sit there and
Speaker 1: you spell something and you're trying to be nice about it,
Speaker 1: and you always screw it up. So that's that's the
Speaker 1: way it is. No, it's like, no, it's like cutting paste.
Speaker 1: I just want cutting paste. I'm not asking for much
Speaker 1: twenty first century problems. Time for a debut. It's our
Speaker 1: number two. I may fill a buster for another forty
Speaker 1: five seconds just so it's right at ten o'clock. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that. Uh. Like I said the
Speaker 1: first time, that Chris Whittingham is here with us on
Speaker 1: the show, and we're gonna talk because if we talked
Speaker 1: about other things, it might be a little off the rails,
Speaker 1: but you know, with the show talks about everything off
Speaker 1: the rails anyway, So we welcome Chris Whittingham to the show.
Speaker 1: Good morning, sir, Welcome to the Morning Show and the
Speaker 1: Chaos and the Hour of Chaos, specifically as we call
Speaker 1: it here on Fridays.
Speaker 3: This is the Hour of Chaos.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: So I guess I have a lot to live up to.
Speaker 3: Then I'll try and bring the chaos.
Speaker 1: Ah. Well, you know, we try to pace ourselves a
Speaker 1: little bit here. First off, thanks for doing this, especially
Speaker 1: as you're getting ready for match week and everything like that.
Speaker 1: I know that your schedule is probably what how many
Speaker 1: different calendars do you have when it comes to figuring
Speaker 1: out what version of you has to beware?
Speaker 3: Well, I do have a note in my phone where
Speaker 3: I keep my calendar for CBS and my overall list
Speaker 3: of game. It would probably be easier on a calendar,
Speaker 3: but for some reason, the note on the phone is
Speaker 3: more effective for me. And then usually I do kind
Speaker 3: of the calendar for these sorts of things like the
Speaker 3: radio hits and the coach calls and all that sort
Speaker 3: of thing. So I'd say probably two to keep everything
Speaker 3: in line.
Speaker 1: Okay, because I'm seven hundred and two years old, I
Speaker 1: have four Okay, I have I have the Daily, I
Speaker 1: have the the Oh.
Speaker 3: So this is handwritten, handwritten calendar.
Speaker 1: Well, I have what's one of them I have? I
Speaker 1: have the handwritten calendar done like my old TV days
Speaker 1: where you sit there and you make the line down
Speaker 1: the side and it's like left is who's on and
Speaker 1: right is what else you have to do? Okay, then
Speaker 1: do you remember when we were growing up when we
Speaker 1: would actually go into a thing called a bank, Yes,
Speaker 1: and we would do those kinds of things. I have
Speaker 1: my monthly calendar like that you slide, you know, underneath
Speaker 1: the glass, like the dude that would deny you the
Speaker 1: interest rate on your on your thirty seven dollars and
Speaker 1: twenty eight cents for your savings account when you're thirteen
Speaker 1: years old. You know, I've gotten that to go under glass. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got the calendar on the fridge because the boss
Speaker 1: and I have conflicting schedules in the fall m hm,
Speaker 1: and we do it in different colors, so it's like
Speaker 1: on this time, you're gone, this time, Oh we have
Speaker 1: a gap space. We're neither put anything on the calendar.
Speaker 1: So this is where that's where that goes. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there's I have four separate calendars, and the fourth one
Speaker 1: is the Google calendar. That I look at last because
Speaker 1: I don't know how to access it.
Speaker 3: You don't know how to access it.
Speaker 1: I well, like I said, I'm seven hundred and two
Speaker 1: years old, and anything technology is always a challenge. And so
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, Google Calendar, did it make it
Speaker 1: into the Google Calendar? And I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just throw my phone down and I'm like, well.
Speaker 3: If it works for you, that seems a little chaotic
Speaker 3: for me in this hour of chaos, that seems like
Speaker 3: it'd be difficult to follow all of that.
Speaker 1: That's why, that's why I end up with just having
Speaker 1: basically the two here in the office and I ignore
Speaker 1: the other two. Yes, when it comes to the different
Speaker 1: versions of you that are out there these days, hmm,
Speaker 1: do you remember how many different how many different leagues
Speaker 1: have you called matches for this year, whether it is
Speaker 1: for Apple or for Paramount or CBS or Choice D
Speaker 1: all the above. Do you remember all the different leagues
Speaker 1: that you have called so far this year this year?
Speaker 3: Yes, In the past it would take me, it would
Speaker 3: take me a while. But this year, yeah, SETIAWEFA Champions League,
Speaker 3: the Conky CAFF Nations League, the NWSL and MLS and
Speaker 3: I think that's it.
Speaker 1: I think, how do you keep it all straight for
Speaker 1: the for the young and impressionable broadcasters out there that
Speaker 1: actually do watch the show against their better judgment, What
Speaker 1: advice would you give them to make sure that that
Speaker 1: everything doesn't mash and you're not talking about uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you're not talking about Eric Maxim Chupomo Tang when you're
Speaker 1: talking about Como you know one of those, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean well Eric maximum Moting did used to play
Speaker 3: for Byron Munich, so I guess finding the connections sort
Speaker 3: of helps.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, I think in some ways a big
Speaker 3: part of of everything is just kind of to be
Speaker 3: a mile wide and maybe a foot deep. Maybe not
Speaker 3: an in Steve. I do think that in this sport
Speaker 3: it's incredibly hard to kind of be across everything. Part
Speaker 3: of it is the work necessitates it. So I host
Speaker 3: score Line on the Golotso network, which is an evening
Speaker 3: show five to six pm every night, where we kind
Speaker 3: of round out all the highlights, all the news, and
Speaker 3: and in doing that, yeah, get the plug in. But
Speaker 3: I really do think it's kind of instructive because the
Speaker 3: it is kind of from the beginning you're covering everything.
Speaker 3: So you start in segment A with the club Woral Cup,
Speaker 3: and segment B you talk of the women's zeros, and
Speaker 3: segment C you're talking MLS and and segment D you're
Speaker 3: talking about some big story about next European club season,
Speaker 3: and then some news and so it just necessitates it.
Speaker 3: So I'm a big reader. I read as much as
Speaker 3: I can. I do it the two thousand and seven way.
Speaker 3: I have a bunch of RSS feeds that that that
Speaker 3: I pull from, so I try and read as much
Speaker 3: as I possibly can. And and YouTube is actually an
Speaker 3: incredible service for me because look, to be honest, I
Speaker 3: cannot watch every major European game, every major MLS game,
Speaker 3: every major Cluboral Cup game, and so I spend a
Speaker 3: lot of time watching YouTube highlights and and and catching
Speaker 3: up on things to make sure I at least know
Speaker 3: the big things. And then when a really big game
Speaker 3: comes round, or it's on when I'm in the office,
Speaker 3: or it's on when I have free time, then I
Speaker 3: will put the actual full game on. But it really
Speaker 3: is just kind of taking in as much information as
Speaker 3: you possibly can and making sure that there are things
Speaker 3: that you know for certain, right you know who the
Speaker 3: players are a real Madrid and Barcelona on PSG, on
Speaker 3: the absolute big teams you talk about every single week,
Speaker 3: and then the rest you kind of use as preps.
Speaker 3: So I do think that there are certain things you
Speaker 3: kind of have to have as base knowledge that are
Speaker 3: inside your brain, not that you need to recall from
Speaker 3: memory or that you need to take notes on or whatever,
Speaker 3: but actually know. And that's kind of the beginning of
Speaker 3: it for me.
Speaker 1: How many devices do you have fired up at any
Speaker 1: one time when you're trying to keep up with things.
Speaker 3: So it's actually kind of funny. When we're in the
Speaker 3: office at CBS, there's a wall with twelve televisions, and
Speaker 3: so when I'm at that wall sometimes on a Europa
Speaker 3: League Thursday or on a Champions League Wednesday, every single
Speaker 3: one of those screens has a different game in it
Speaker 3: that and then you have, you know, a computer open
Speaker 3: or an iPad op. When I'm at home, it's usually
Speaker 3: kind of TV laptop iPad. Usually when I'm at home
Speaker 3: and I'm discovering I used to be. I'm of the
Speaker 3: NFL Red Zone generation, which is to say that I
Speaker 3: grew up on I was probably seventeen or eighteen years
Speaker 3: old when I watched for the first time, and it
Speaker 3: was like discovering a new world. And so I love
Speaker 3: the NFL red Zone and the whip around style. I
Speaker 3: have come to realize over time that if you need depth,
Speaker 3: it's not as useful as I wish it was, meaning
Speaker 3: like you see the key moments of the game, but
Speaker 3: you don't really get a sense for the game. And
Speaker 3: so I do think that there are times where I
Speaker 3: am sacrificing a little bit more, taking in more tonnage
Speaker 3: in exchange for taking in things at a little bit
Speaker 3: more quality. So if there are four games on, I
Speaker 3: might have two of them on, but I would prefer
Speaker 3: to have one of them on because if I'm really
Speaker 3: going to take in anything about any of the game,
Speaker 3: I need to pay attention to it. So two is
Speaker 3: kind of my maximum. And I even kind of figured out, like,
Speaker 3: all right, if if I have two games on, let's
Speaker 3: say on a Friday at CBS, it's a Bundesiga game
Speaker 3: and the SETIAG game, I'll kind of watch each in
Speaker 3: five minute intervals, So I'll watch five minutes here and
Speaker 3: then five minutes there. In the five minutes, so I'm
Speaker 3: trying to get some sense of the essence of the
Speaker 3: game and not just you know all there is a
Speaker 3: goal scored in the thirty eighth minute. You're actually getting
Speaker 3: an actual, real sense of what's going on.
Speaker 1: And I will ask you for your best Poppy Miller story,
Speaker 1: considering Poppy is one of our plus ones, he's one
Speaker 1: of our ogs here. Yeah, going back to the Charleston
Speaker 1: Battery days, you got it exactly, that's when we started. Next. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, next time you see Poppy do this.
Speaker 1: Next time you see Poppy, ask her the next time
Speaker 1: she's going to do a P block. Okay, because that
Speaker 1: was literally we would do a Charleston Battery show and
Speaker 1: it would be you know, a block, B block, C block.
Speaker 1: She would always be the end, she'd be the anchor
Speaker 1: lag and it was always the P block.
Speaker 3: That's brilliant, all right, It'll know that I know a
Speaker 3: bit about her past.
Speaker 1: Yes, So next year, go up and ask her about
Speaker 1: the P block next time you next time you see her,
Speaker 1: we are going to talk to Chris about soccer and
Speaker 1: Major League Soccer. Yes, I know, but considering this is
Speaker 1: his maiden voyage here in Office HD and on the
Speaker 1: Morning Show, I figured we'd try to let everybody know.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, there's Chris Whittingham, and then there's obviously questions.
Speaker 1: I guess let's do the Since worth the halfway point
Speaker 1: of the season for Major League Soccer, we can do
Speaker 1: the senior superlatives right now. Biggest surprise for you at
Speaker 1: this point of the Major League Soccer season here in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five would be blank.
Speaker 3: Team or player. Yes, actually it's kind of one and
Speaker 3: the same. I'll go for Nashville SC and Sam Surage
Speaker 3: because I do think that Sam Surridge was brought in
Speaker 3: as such a key piece as the designated player is
Speaker 3: meant to be the final piece for Gary Smith in Nashville,
Speaker 3: and he just was never able to get a striker online.
Speaker 3: I really thought that Surridge was at some point going
Speaker 3: to head back to England, head back to the championship,
Speaker 3: a place that he's more comfortable and more familiar with.
Speaker 3: But he stuck it out with a new coach, and
Speaker 3: all of a sudden he's the Golden Boot leader. And
Speaker 3: he scored two more goals in the Open Cup in midweek,
Speaker 3: and Nashville I think could be well on their way
Speaker 3: to win that trophy. Actually, actually that actually could be
Speaker 3: a really good semi final. Should Philadelphia advance ahead of
Speaker 3: the Red Bulls when they make up that game. But
Speaker 3: Nashville Philly are right now the top two in the East,
Speaker 3: and it would be two of the top three in
Speaker 3: the East. It would be a really good game. So
Speaker 3: having just seen them at Yotis Park, I think that
Speaker 3: Nashville are the surprise of the season, given how good
Speaker 3: they've been and kind of how little expectation we had
Speaker 3: for them. I was going through for preseason predictions and
Speaker 3: because I had Nashville Philly this past weekend, Nashville was
Speaker 3: predicted to finish tenth and Philly was predicted to finish twelfth,
Speaker 3: And so honestly, you could pick one of those two
Speaker 3: teams as the biggest surprises. But I do think that
Speaker 3: Nashville and Sam Surreig as the Golden boot leader in
Speaker 3: a league with Lionel Messi in it is certainly a
Speaker 3: big surprise.
Speaker 1: I've heard of that dude coach of the Year? Is
Speaker 1: it Vus? Is it Carnell? Who is it for you?
Speaker 3: You could also include bj Callahan for that turnaround work
Speaker 3: kind of in the same realm. You can definitely throw
Speaker 3: yesper Sorenson in there, though Vancouver has fallen off in
Speaker 3: the last few weeks. I just think having been around
Speaker 3: into Miami for their expansion build, when I was down
Speaker 3: there in Miami and I was around the team and
Speaker 3: I was the radio announcer in that first year, and
Speaker 3: how difficult everything was, and even they were trying to
Speaker 3: go for big names and landing everything and landing that
Speaker 3: plane and developing a style. And I appreciate that San Diego,
Speaker 3: if anything, has more assets, as it were, to kind
Speaker 3: of go at the Major League soccer season, but to
Speaker 3: put that all together, to have some players that you're
Speaker 3: getting a ton out of college draft picks, even Chris
Speaker 3: McVeagh at center back. I'm going San Diego and Mikey
Speaker 3: Varrus because it's not just that they're good, which is
Speaker 3: hard enough as an expansion team. And I appreciate that
Speaker 3: that Saint Louis were first in the West under Bradley Carnell,
Speaker 3: and that some expansion teams have come int the league
Speaker 3: and done well. I still think though, that to not
Speaker 3: just be that good, but it has such a clear
Speaker 3: sense of who they want to be, their style of play,
Speaker 3: and honestly be one of the best footballing teams in
Speaker 3: the league from day one, when you're kind of throwing
Speaker 3: it all together and figuring out answers and you have
Speaker 3: no prior information on how it's all going to work,
Speaker 3: is incredibly impressive, especially considering I do think that that
Speaker 3: appointment was probably considered to be a bit underwhelming. I
Speaker 3: appreciate he was the under twenty national team coach, but
Speaker 3: I'm not certain he kind of came away from that
Speaker 3: with a huge amount of credit, So it was a
Speaker 3: bit of a risk. Everyone there has been taking risks
Speaker 3: in San Diego, but it's all paid off. And honestly,
Speaker 3: if I lived in southern California, I'd want to go
Speaker 3: to every game because it's it's entertaining, it's fun. Even
Speaker 3: though they lost last weekend in Houston, it's a four
Speaker 3: to three game, it was awesome. So I think the
Speaker 3: how defined they are in their identity is well deserving
Speaker 3: of the credit for me of Coach of the Year.
Speaker 1: And at the same time, you got dudes that aren't
Speaker 1: that are not even household names in their own household
Speaker 1: doing well. Yeah, I get Taverskov Anders Dryer. Unless you
Speaker 1: really know your Orange County sc you may not know
Speaker 1: who Neil and Nilaski is no. I mean you're you're
Speaker 1: piecing all this stuff together and it's like nah, mikey
Speaker 1: Arrius is like not, no, fam I got this.
Speaker 3: And also not even necessarily with Chuki Lozano going crazy, right,
Speaker 3: it's not like he's had in unbelieve or they brought
Speaker 3: you know, I mean he's he's you know, six goal seven,
Speaker 3: This is pretty decent. But it's not like, you know,
Speaker 3: you brought in three big name vps or they signed
Speaker 3: Kevin de Bruyne and Kevin de Brune's bosting. And it's
Speaker 3: with players that are as you say, not household names,
Speaker 3: that are that are getting it done.
Speaker 1: All right, So since we've done the good, we can
Speaker 1: either do the bad or the ugly. And if it's
Speaker 1: the same in the good old GBU, that can apply.
Speaker 1: So the bad for you here at this particular point
Speaker 1: of the season.
Speaker 3: I think you gotta go Atlanta United, And and I
Speaker 3: do appreciate that it's it's not the best time to
Speaker 3: say it, because Garth locker Way certainly sending our best
Speaker 3: to him after yesterday's reveal d had a cancer diagnosis,
Speaker 3: wishing the best to him, but with everything that they've
Speaker 3: spent I predicted them. I think they finished second or
Speaker 3: third in the Eastern Conference, and it just hasn't come off.
Speaker 3: It just hasn't come off. There's something about the combination
Speaker 3: of players about Lati, Lata, al Midan and Midanchuk that
Speaker 3: just isn't working U And even last week they played
Speaker 3: DC United a playout on nil all draw. That wasn't
Speaker 3: a brilliant game there. I think relying too much on
Speaker 3: pieces that aren't delivering for them right now when based
Speaker 3: off of expectations, I don't there's a team that's underperformed
Speaker 3: to that level, and honestly, it would be hard. You'd
Speaker 3: be hard pressed to see them in a playoff spot
Speaker 3: this year. So considering that they're thirteenth in the East,
Speaker 3: they won four out of their twenty games, I just
Speaker 3: can't see anyone else as being the answer to this question.
Speaker 3: And I still kind of think that there's a team
Speaker 3: somewhere in there, but you're getting to the point of
Speaker 3: the season where you're kind of having to write it off.
Speaker 1: What about lag.
Speaker 3: Leg of course, I mean, of course, but at least
Speaker 3: there are mitigating circumstances. The Ricky Pooch injury, the amount
Speaker 3: of injuries they had preseason, the fact that they had
Speaker 3: to lose guys because of the salary cap because it
Speaker 3: was getting expensive for them to keep their team, and
Speaker 3: losing Yeovilich as well, who's proven himself in Kansas City.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of mitigating circumstances there. It still
Speaker 3: is the champion going from, you know, winning everything to
Speaker 3: be playing some of the best soccer in the league.
Speaker 3: Two wins in the whole season, So I definitely agree
Speaker 3: with you, but I think we were kind of expecting,
Speaker 3: with the number of key players that left, for them
Speaker 3: to take at least a little bit of a step back.
Speaker 3: I still thought that'd be a playoff team, and I
Speaker 3: thought pack and Payn's so he could carry the day,
Speaker 3: but they haven't quite so I do think that Galaxy
Speaker 3: are certainly an enormous disappointment, But I still think that
Speaker 3: man Atlanta, and part of that is sort of the
Speaker 3: money spent and you can kind of get lost in
Speaker 3: off season headlines, but Galaxy are certainly up there. But
Speaker 3: for me, Atlanta's that a little bit bigger of a disappointment.
Speaker 1: Chris Whittingham and he is hanging out with us here
Speaker 1: for another couple of minutes, and like I said, hopefully
Speaker 1: he's not going to be like Macaulay Culkin and home alone,
Speaker 1: coming down the stairs and running off into the distance
Speaker 1: after this particular segment is over. By the way, I
Speaker 1: do want to let you know now that you do
Speaker 1: have the garage door opener here to Office HD. You
Speaker 1: can crash at any time if you're bored on a Friday.
Speaker 1: There's ten thirty on a Friday, and beyond when we're
Speaker 1: putting the last half hour of the weekend, you can
Speaker 1: come in, sit there and say I want to get
Speaker 1: this off my chest and turn off your microphone, turn
Speaker 1: off your microwave because apparently your breakfast is ready or something.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it was, my phone ringer, My apologies.
Speaker 1: Yes, du Look we had Jamie Watson on the first
Speaker 1: half hour and he had he had his daughter Grayland
Speaker 1: come in as a studio audience. Look, it is what
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 3: You've got kids running around there. It's very difficult to
Speaker 3: keep them out of the room for for enough time
Speaker 3: to do a full radio hit without distraction.
Speaker 1: Well, and get this, she pounded an entire pez sleeve
Speaker 1: at the end of the segment.
Speaker 3: Wow, So I'm actually in Connecticut. The PEZ factory is
Speaker 3: around here.
Speaker 1: I love PZ.
Speaker 3: I love PEZ, so I feel I haven't had one
Speaker 3: in a long time. Have to go around, all right.
Speaker 1: So you've got the PEZ factory, You've got the w
Speaker 1: w E headquarters.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I used to live right down the street. Used
Speaker 3: to be able to walk to the w W headquarters.
Speaker 1: See. Now that's the thing. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: you wanted to paint you know, the DX.
Speaker 3: Logo likes even great if I did.
Speaker 1: Paint a DX logo on your way that do that
Speaker 1: at the CBS studios. Just painting a big old D S.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it was just an old address. Who you
Speaker 1: calling this weekend?
Speaker 3: Charlotte again. It'st New York City from Bank of America State.
Speaker 3: Which is a fun one because I have actually never
Speaker 3: been to Charlotte before, despite the fact that I have
Speaker 3: connected through that airport, yeah probably about fifty times. Yes,
Speaker 3: And so the fact that I actually finally get to
Speaker 3: walk out of the airport, I don't even know what
Speaker 3: to do where to go when I when I come
Speaker 3: through there, there's the Chick fil A, there's a lounge
Speaker 3: of there, and the Lego store and the food court
Speaker 3: with the Jersey mics. I'm so familiar with the airport,
Speaker 3: but yes, I've never actually walked out of it, so
Speaker 3: I have no idea what I'm gonna do. Uh, let's see,
Speaker 3: So Doug, Well, the thing is is that when you
Speaker 3: walk out of Douglas, you actually since it's like fifteen
Speaker 3: to twenty, literally you're flying into Douglas and it's like trees.
Speaker 3: You see downtown often the distance and you're, yeah, I
Speaker 3: need to go there, and you're flying.
Speaker 1: Into like Raleigh or something trying to land. I imagine
Speaker 1: that you're staying downtown close to the stadium. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of pretty decent eateries that are around mm hm,
Speaker 1: so I think you'll you'll be in good stead. Just
Speaker 1: just kind of kick the tires on yelp and see
Speaker 1: if there's anything like barbecueis or I don't know what
Speaker 1: your window is for hanging out. Are you like leaving
Speaker 1: later today?
Speaker 3: No, No, I'm actually leaving first thing Saturday morning, so
Speaker 3: it's it's really only a lunch window.
Speaker 1: Okay, So there should be some stuff downtown, so it
Speaker 1: just kick the yelp fires and you should be fair enough,
Speaker 1: all right. So Dean Smith and we talked about this
Speaker 1: before you came on. Dean Smith apparently is comparing the
Speaker 1: EFL Championship to Major League Soccer, saying that they're about
Speaker 1: the same. Considering that big Pat Patrick Godjamong had a
Speaker 1: I think it was a seven million dollar offer from
Speaker 1: Darby County heading to Charlotte. I would play Hollywood Squares
Speaker 1: and go. I disagree circle gets the square with Dean
Speaker 1: Smith and comparing the EFL Championship to Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: But there so there's some there's some subtexts and things
Speaker 1: going on in Charlotte within MYYC coming to town. What
Speaker 1: do you when you're looking at it from thirty thousand
Speaker 1: feet as you're landing in Douglas, what do you see?
Speaker 3: Well, I do think talking about that particular discussion, I
Speaker 3: do think because we have the EFL at CBS, and
Speaker 3: I do think that it's so interesting when we talk
Speaker 3: about league comparisons, even like, for example, this whole thing
Speaker 3: with the Saudi Pro League compared to a league like MLS.
Speaker 3: I do think that, for example, the best teams in
Speaker 3: the Saudi Pro League are as you sawt the Club
Speaker 3: World Cup. One of them beat Manster City better than
Speaker 3: most MLS teams. But I do think that the worst
Speaker 3: team in that league is significantly worse than the worst
Speaker 3: MLS team, and so I do think that for Charlotte
Speaker 3: and for Dean Smith making that comparison, I think if
Speaker 3: you were going to Sheffield United, if switch one of
Speaker 3: the teams that you would expect to be competing for
Speaker 3: promotion to the Premier League, that is a higher level.
Speaker 3: Darby County was in League One two seasons ago, was
Speaker 3: promoted ahead of last season, and last year finished nineteenth
Speaker 3: in the Championship. I think that is a lateral move,
Speaker 3: if not maybe a bit of a step down from
Speaker 3: playing for Charlotte. So I do think that Dean Smith
Speaker 3: has a good point in that respect. It's not just
Speaker 3: about the league, it's about do you have kind of
Speaker 3: that upward mobility. You would have to have a great
Speaker 3: season there to maybe get a move to one of
Speaker 3: those top championship clubs to then maybe get to the
Speaker 3: Premier League. At some point you're kind of several years
Speaker 3: away from being where you want to be in European football,
Speaker 3: and I do think that there is a temptation now
Speaker 3: with as much as we talk about Europe, Europe, Europe,
Speaker 3: eure up Europe for American players to not kind of
Speaker 3: smell the rosen and go well, is there an actual
Speaker 3: path to development or an actual path to where I
Speaker 3: want to get to by going to Darby County as
Speaker 3: opposed to an actual club that can offer that kind
Speaker 3: of on the flip side within the same club, but
Speaker 3: deals in Milanda is being Lenkel with a move to PSV.
Speaker 3: That's different because you're playing at the top of the
Speaker 3: Dutch League. They won the Dutch League last year. They're
Speaker 3: playing in the Champions League, and so if you want
Speaker 3: to move to the Champions League, that's a different thing
Speaker 3: than moving to the team that finished nineteenth in the Championship.
Speaker 3: So I think at that point it is interesting. And
Speaker 3: then with Charlotte and the overall dealing with that in
Speaker 3: the middle of a pretty rough losing streaker or a
Speaker 3: winless run, a run where they have not been good
Speaker 3: for more than a month now, I think that's kind
Speaker 3: of difficult for Dean Smith to sort out. You go
Speaker 3: back to their last game against Orlando, they're tuneil up
Speaker 3: and they're unable to hang on to a lead at home,
Speaker 3: which is a difficult spot to be in. I think
Speaker 3: Orlando are better than Charlotte right now, so you can
Speaker 3: understand why. But Charlote got to figure out how to
Speaker 3: close out results because I had them in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: They were one nill up.
Speaker 3: Into second half stopic Simon lost the game two one,
Speaker 3: So they got to figure out how to ice games away,
Speaker 3: which I wouldn't have thought would have been a problem
Speaker 3: for them considering how good they were defensively last year,
Speaker 3: but it has now become a problem. They're actually one
Speaker 3: of the bottom half teams in the East in terms
Speaker 3: of defending, So I think they got to figure some
Speaker 3: things out and then try and sort out the situation
Speaker 3: with Ajima.
Speaker 1: And when you've had Christian Colleena between the sticks basically
Speaker 1: saving your bacon every single week out whether what your
Speaker 1: back line is looking like, he is turning into a
Speaker 1: mortal human being at times, and so that's something that
Speaker 1: you have to take into the too account of this.
Speaker 3: Also, Yeah, I mean last year, if you go by
Speaker 3: the advance, that's he saved eleven goals. I think it
Speaker 3: was last year, and this year, like you say, he's
Speaker 3: kind of become just more of a normal MLS goalkeeper.
Speaker 3: Been decent, but not been as good as he was
Speaker 3: last season and at one point kind of you know,
Speaker 3: missed two games and David Bingham took over. So yeah,
Speaker 3: when you don't have all world goalkeeping, can you afford
Speaker 3: to kind of sit back in a deep block and
Speaker 3: defend even at home? They have thirty three percent possession
Speaker 3: last week against Orlando. I think that's a figure that
Speaker 3: has to go up. They have to try and control
Speaker 3: games a bit more through midfield and with the ball,
Speaker 3: So I think there's definitely some things for them to
Speaker 3: figure out.
Speaker 1: You realize, of course that your Europe it's going to
Speaker 1: turn into a drop by the way on the show
Speaker 1: when you said Europe to end up being a drop.
Speaker 3: For the really and it is what And it's kind
Speaker 3: of interesting. We just went through a Gold Cup where
Speaker 3: Mauricio Pochtino picked some players that were in MLS head
Speaker 3: of the players that were kind of in that second
Speaker 3: tier of European teams, and those guys in those second
Speaker 3: tier European teams are going wait a second, I thought
Speaker 3: the whole thing was for me to go to Europe
Speaker 3: so that I can get the attention of the national
Speaker 3: team and a new coach is coming and say, well,
Speaker 3: really that big of a step up. I don't think
Speaker 3: it is. So I think it's interesting that that whole
Speaker 3: motivation of everyone must get to Europe now is maybe
Speaker 3: not quite the same thing, because not all European clubs
Speaker 3: are the same. Go to Uventus is a much different
Speaker 3: thing than going to I don't know, go Ahead Eagles
Speaker 3: in the Dutch Air divis or something like that.
Speaker 1: Uh see, now, now you're gonna have me go and
Speaker 1: try and find if I can get gear from go
Speaker 1: Ahead Eagles office. HD. Uh Now, it has been an
Speaker 1: absolute blast having you drop by. I know that you're
Speaker 1: you're you're in your time of trying to get everything
Speaker 1: squared away so you can hop on a flight, flying
Speaker 1: to Douglas, going to downtown, catch a match and all
Speaker 1: those kinds of things. So I cannot thank you enough
Speaker 1: for dropping by.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: Like I said, you've got the garage door opener, So
Speaker 1: you know that on Friday's or shoot, any other day
Speaker 1: of the week you want to come in and parachute it.
Speaker 1: Look Terren's if you ever talk to Tyler, Tyler has
Speaker 1: come in three times in a week because and literally
Speaker 1: we had we had kindra on. Uh, we had kindra
Speaker 1: on and he was in the Cincinnati Airport. He literally
Speaker 1: was at CVG and he got through security, parachuted in,
Speaker 1: gave Kendra some grief for two menu and it's went
Speaker 1: to Soborro and check out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds like Terren's. We used to work at Sirius.
Speaker 3: I think he still works at Serious x M and
Speaker 3: they had like a like a call in line for
Speaker 3: for fans to call in and give their hot takes
Speaker 3: about games as they were happening. And I think the
Speaker 3: person who use it the most was Terren. So that
Speaker 3: does not surprise me whatsoever.
Speaker 1: So as always, it's great to see. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 1: Do not be a stranger. You know that the that
Speaker 1: the carpet is out, and so anytime you want to
Speaker 1: come in and chat, just let us know you got
Speaker 1: You've got my deats. I think as the kids say,
Speaker 1: so time you want to drop in, Chris, it's always cool.
Speaker 1: Thanks again for being on Friday. Be safe, have a
Speaker 1: great call Sea soon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having John. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: You got it. There goes Chris Whittingham. Chris Whittingham survived
Speaker 1: his first visit. He survived his first visit. This is
Speaker 1: what we bring in Jared Smith and so Jared's in
Speaker 1: here on a Friday. So, how are things in the
Speaker 1: Mountain time zone, sir?
Speaker 7: They're going well, how are things in the Eastern time
Speaker 7: zone sir?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, we had the news on Edwin Muschatta
Speaker 1: come out this morning that it is officially a year
Speaker 1: long loan to me in ours.
Speaker 7: It's not mistaken. Twenty twenty six is an option year
Speaker 7: two for Edwin. Yeah, so this is functionally a he's
Speaker 7: loaned out until he's gone.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And so that was the question that Michael had
Speaker 1: in the twitch pitch.
Speaker 7: Basically, if they don't renew, if he's not bought, because
Speaker 7: there's an option to buy, if he's not bought, I
Speaker 7: cannot see a world in which Atlanta is going to
Speaker 7: pick up that option in twenty because it's a club
Speaker 7: option in twenty Yeah. So yeah, this is Edwin is
Speaker 7: functionally gone from the club.
Speaker 1: And I was trying to break down Edwin where Edwin
Speaker 1: needs reps, needs consistent playing time, needs to start, needs
Speaker 1: to continue to develop. He wasn't getting that with it
Speaker 1: Land United. There were some things that you saw from
Speaker 1: Fast Eddie. You got to see the thirty minutes driving
Speaker 1: people crazy, You got to see the imagination at times,
Speaker 1: but he needed he needs a place to have regular
Speaker 1: reps first and.
Speaker 7: Foremost he does. Yeah, he needs to be somewhere where
Speaker 7: he's going to play consistently. So yeah, that's that's kind
Speaker 7: of the most important thing I think for him is
Speaker 7: he needs to play consistently and needs to be somewherehere
Speaker 7: he's comfortable. And it's something you run into a lot
Speaker 7: of times with players is if they're not comfortable, they
Speaker 7: need to be somewhere where they are, Yeah, and if
Speaker 7: that's not going to be here, then you need to
Speaker 7: get him somewhere and look for for all of the
Speaker 7: all of the like gravel Road that has been this
Speaker 7: club for the last number of years, they've done a
Speaker 7: pretty good job of taking care of guys, you know,
Speaker 7: even going back to the Carls Caromona thing in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 7: You know, through different players through the years. If someone's
Speaker 7: got to go for personal reasons, they've done a pretty
Speaker 7: good job of that. Even Edwins everyone was a weird
Speaker 7: one when he was at bah God back in twenty
Speaker 7: twenty two. I think when he was in or twenty
Speaker 7: three when he was in UH defense that he was
Speaker 7: DC and Argentina alone. They canceled alone and Atlanta took
Speaker 7: him back and it created that U twenty two backlog
Speaker 7: were uh uh or Franco Abada got shipped out to Toronto.
Speaker 7: But it was a weird situation then because you can't
Speaker 7: like once the EJA cancels the loan. Yeah, you you
Speaker 7: don't really have room for him, but you kind of
Speaker 7: have to take him back because if you don't, then
Speaker 7: you know, what you're doing by doing that is you're
Speaker 7: maintaining the relationship with them. You're you're not You're trying
Speaker 7: not to, you know, burn down a forest, right, and
Speaker 7: it puts you in a weird spot, but you maintain
Speaker 7: a more essional relationship with them. But you you're also
Speaker 7: trying to take care of guys. You So if it's
Speaker 7: not working for him, you're bringing him back from somewhere
Speaker 7: where it's not working and it might be impacting him
Speaker 7: on a personal level. So now you're he he is.
Speaker 7: I think he's made overtures on social media to wanting
Speaker 7: moves well.
Speaker 1: Granted, yeah, I mean and because he was wearing and
Speaker 1: he was wearing I think Millionarios gear yesterday.
Speaker 7: On social Oh he's been doing this since like uh,
Speaker 7: preseason like he's been. He's been. I think he's been
Speaker 7: ready to move since pre season. And in credit to him,
Speaker 7: like he went out that he scored the opener. He
Speaker 7: was dangerous when he got on the field. He was
Speaker 7: professional about it on the field, I think, and did
Speaker 7: his job. But if he wanted to go, then wish granted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then uh, you've got that coming into the
Speaker 1: matchup with Toronto, Toronto's slight favorite at home. They've lost
Speaker 1: four or six in senior Bernardeski gone and now Robin
Speaker 1: Frasier kind of gets to blend the team the way
Speaker 1: that he would like. And you've got two struggling sides
Speaker 1: and we're going to see today practice. I guess at
Speaker 1: the end of practice, if Brad Gazan is going to
Speaker 1: look like Batman the Phantom of the Opera, if it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Jagan Hibberts.
Speaker 7: I think you're gonna I think you would. I think
Speaker 7: you would have to chain Brad to the wall to
Speaker 7: keep him from playing. He is that kind of psychopath
Speaker 7: about it all. He is a gamer. He is very
Speaker 7: old school in this way. I think you would have
Speaker 7: to have, like you have to chain him to the wall.
Speaker 7: Like hunch back and note of doom. Yes, to keep
Speaker 7: him from playing in this game. But that being said,
Speaker 7: this will be an interesting one. This is a John.
Speaker 7: This is for me personally. This is kind of a
Speaker 7: we're checking the nerves right now to see if there's
Speaker 7: any life left where we're seeing if there is any twitch,
Speaker 7: any electricity running through this brain of this season, because
Speaker 7: damn things.
Speaker 1: All that done.
Speaker 7: You've got to point it DC at A that game
Speaker 7: was like room temperature water out of the tap in
Speaker 7: terms of blandness. And David Brad got kicked in the
Speaker 7: face in the DC game. He took if you remember
Speaker 7: in the DC game if you watched it. If not,
Speaker 7: well here's your update. He Luisa Brom caught him across
Speaker 7: the face while Brad went down for a ball and
Speaker 7: Abrom was trying to get it. It was just kind
Speaker 7: of a bad timing situation. But Brad went down for
Speaker 7: a ball, a Brom.
Speaker 1: Kind of kicking in the face. Yeah, so Brad was unfortunate. YEA.
Speaker 1: Luis is going backward trying to defend. Brad is coming
Speaker 1: forward trying to grab the ball and Luis's left knee
Speaker 1: I think as he's going past Brad hits Brad on
Speaker 1: the left side of his face and they diagnosed a
Speaker 1: fractured cheek bone.
Speaker 7: So he had surgery this week. He's going to want
Speaker 7: to play, Like I said, the man, it's very Brad
Speaker 7: is very old school about this, always has been, always
Speaker 7: will be, I think. But he's gonna want to play.
Speaker 7: But yeah, that game was pretty damn tapped against DC.
Speaker 7: If you can like drag a win out of this game, yeah,
Speaker 7: at least shows It doesn't mean that your season is saved,
Speaker 7: because I'm gonna be honest with you, John, I don't
Speaker 7: think it can be saved at this point. It doesn't
Speaker 7: mean like I would love to eat Crow. I'd love
Speaker 7: for them to pull like a twenty, like a twenty
Speaker 7: seventeen twenty eighteen Sounder kind of vibe.
Speaker 1: That'd be great.
Speaker 5: Would would would.
Speaker 7: Enjoy that thoroughly. Yeah, I don't know that they can.
Speaker 7: I don't think they can whole damn seasons on live
Speaker 7: support at this point, and it kind of feels like
Speaker 7: we're just keeping it there to keep it there. But
Speaker 7: if you can pull three points out of this game,
Speaker 7: you at least show me that that maybe a couple
Speaker 7: of key people are still are still out there fighting
Speaker 7: and scrapping. Yep, you'll you draw this game. We're just
Speaker 7: kind of where we are. You'll lose this game, and
Speaker 7: I don't know, man, Like it's I don't know where
Speaker 7: you don't what's whatever's below bedrock? Just depending on how
Speaker 7: the game goes, Like, if you lose it one nothing
Speaker 7: on like a deflection or a weird penalty that sucks
Speaker 7: the most he gets out of hand, then yeah, then
Speaker 7: you have you have found something below bedrock. But until
Speaker 7: they play the game, Yeah, there's no way to know
Speaker 7: for sure, man. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Right now, Atlanta's at eighteen points twenty matches, so fourteen
Speaker 1: match to go eighteen points, ten points out of the
Speaker 1: playing round, and Toronto is a point behind them at
Speaker 1: four eleven and five at twenty matches played fourteen to
Speaker 1: go seventeen points that are attached to Toronto as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and.
Speaker 7: Objects and mirror closer than they appear. Look, Galaxy only
Speaker 7: have two wins, but not as far behind you as
Speaker 7: you would be comfortable with right now. Yeah, it's just been.
Speaker 7: It's it's been. It's been a shit year on multiple fronts.
Speaker 7: The Garth loger Way News, Yeah, talked about hitting. Yeah, man,
Speaker 7: that hits harder than just about anything. For those of
Speaker 7: you that haven't interacted with Garth is a very big personality. Yes,
Speaker 7: has never been anything other than very cordial and pleasant
Speaker 7: and fun to talk to. And this always kind of
Speaker 7: gets into the thing where when people start getting antsy
Speaker 7: about sports jobs of wanting wanting people done. Because I
Speaker 7: felt this way about Carlos and Darren and Douw Garth
Speaker 7: as well, I promise you these guys don't want to fail.
Speaker 7: For Garth, this is a This was a taking it
Speaker 7: to the sporting side of it for a minute away
Speaker 7: from the human side. We'll get to that. This was
Speaker 7: a different challenge for Garth. Like he had been that
Speaker 7: technical director before, this was him taking on a spot
Speaker 7: that was a step higher where he had the final
Speaker 7: say on things. And this was going to be a
Speaker 7: very different and more broad chapter in his career as
Speaker 7: an executive. And hopefully that career is not done in
Speaker 7: terms of, like you know, hopefully he's hopefully he is
Speaker 7: able to recover to the point where he's comfortable coming
Speaker 7: back in and doing his job, because I promise he
Speaker 7: was a tense, stressful, draining kind of job, especially at
Speaker 7: a club like Atlanta that has expectations and money and
Speaker 7: desires left right at center right now. I hope Garth
Speaker 7: isn't worrying about that, even though he will, yes, even
Speaker 7: in the pressers like he's going to be getting information
Speaker 7: from Demetrios and Chris and yeah, it's like, you know,
Speaker 7: he's going to get updates. You know, he's gonna be
Speaker 7: asking for updates.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope he's going to be that guy's like, so,
Speaker 1: how was it today, Well, you put your phone down,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I'm hopeful that he can put his phone down
Speaker 7: enough to just enjoy time with his family and recover
Speaker 7: and just get back to one hundred percent were close
Speaker 7: to it is a damn well camp. Look, this club
Speaker 7: isn't going anywhere in this in the sense of it's
Speaker 7: not like it's going to vanish every night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you.
Speaker 7: Know, hopefully Earth can just catch his breath, recover, fight
Speaker 7: through this and we'll all be here when he's in remission.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so that's what that's what we're staring at.
Speaker 1: And we talked about Garth in our number one, talked
Speaker 1: about at Lanty Knight. Chris Whittingham discussed at Landy United coming,
Speaker 1: you know, with him, but he was looking at it
Speaker 1: the halfway point, considering the expectations that he had with it.
Speaker 1: Landy United not alone in his assessments.
Speaker 7: It's the most it is for me, the most disappointing
Speaker 7: performance in the league this season from where expectations were
Speaker 7: to what they are. I I I think it's I
Speaker 7: think it's they are the most disappointing team this year,
Speaker 7: and that some look, someone always has to someone's always
Speaker 7: going to be in the stocks. Yeah, and this year
Speaker 7: it's you, Atlanta, And that sucks doesn't mean it stays
Speaker 7: like that forever. That's why we enjoy good times when
Speaker 7: they happen, because they don't last forever. It's why we
Speaker 7: don't burn everything down when they are bad times. Right,
Speaker 7: Those don't last forever.
Speaker 1: Either, Right. So it's it's navigating it as best you
Speaker 1: can and trying to see where you know where it
Speaker 1: is on a daily basis. Okay, I was somewhat teasing
Speaker 1: a special guest star, and as it turns out, special
Speaker 1: guest star has made it. We have to work on avatars,
Speaker 1: but a special guest star has made it. Jessica Charman
Speaker 1: joins us to wrap up the week. So yess, long
Speaker 1: time they talk.
Speaker 9: Hello.
Speaker 10: I could not let you down today. It has been
Speaker 10: quite the flaking process.
Speaker 9: John.
Speaker 10: If people could see our text chat, it is just
Speaker 10: me saying, hey, I'll do it next week. Hey, I'll
Speaker 10: do it tomorrow. So I'm very glad, you know me.
Speaker 10: I am a woman of my word as much as
Speaker 10: I can be. But life has been a little hectic lately.
Speaker 10: But so glad I can be back with the Ogs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is a tease that we're also going
Speaker 1: to have you early next week as well, but we're
Speaker 1: not divulging that reason until it's officially official. But it'll
Speaker 1: be good to have you on for a couple of
Speaker 1: shows this week and next. I wanted to discuss some things,
Speaker 1: starting off with the Club World Cup and how incredibly
Speaker 1: jealous I am that you have and es pronounced the
Speaker 1: Tunisi jersey and I do not.
Speaker 10: I mean, I don't know if you want what comes
Speaker 10: with having that jersey, John, because I am viral in Tunisia.
Speaker 10: Viral yeah, yeah, so like the equivalent of BBC Sport,
Speaker 10: Tunisia picked up my post and when I say again,
Speaker 10: like five hundred followers, all of which are like Tunisi
Speaker 10: and middle aged man, no issue with it, Like, absolutely fine,
Speaker 10: it is what it is. I'm glad that they support me.
Speaker 10: But it was quite surreal going on Facebook for you
Speaker 10: and it being me a photo of me with like
Speaker 10: Arabic options.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I mean, it wasn't on my bingo.
Speaker 10: List of my club World Cup experience, but it was
Speaker 10: pretty freaking cool. And honestly, those fans, like Flamengo was
Speaker 10: really really cool as well. But the Brazilian teams got
Speaker 10: their love and rightly so, you know. But I think
Speaker 10: if there was one team that maybe didn't get as
Speaker 10: much attention as they deserved, it was the Esperanz fans
Speaker 10: who were incredible. And I mean even the fact that
Speaker 10: we were in Philadelphia with them, and then I think
Speaker 10: it was Nashville. I'm trying to remember that was all
Speaker 10: the place. It was Nashville, right, Okay, good memory, Jess,
Speaker 10: and so like for them to be able to travel
Speaker 10: and the embedded reporter was telling me they had traveled
Speaker 10: some from Tunisia, from Dubai, from France, from Canada, like
Speaker 10: because it's such a worldwide team. I just think for
Speaker 10: people to spend their money to come watch their soccer
Speaker 10: team is a beautiful.
Speaker 1: Thing, no doubt, Jared for Jess talking Club World Cup
Speaker 1: and other stuff.
Speaker 7: Go for it, all right, let's cut to the chase.
Speaker 7: I want to talk about goalkeepers, and I want to
Speaker 7: talk about goalkeepers. Possible people and keepers getting yelled at
Speaker 7: on social media for doing their job even though they
Speaker 7: stretched their bodies out and and put themselves in incredibly
Speaker 7: dangerous spots, and then other people in the GTA union
Speaker 7: calling them out.
Speaker 10: But we're evil, right, We're evil goalkeepers that only have
Speaker 10: the intention of hurting others. This like being a goalkeeper,
Speaker 10: as you know, Jared, is bloody hard, right, Like, it's
Speaker 10: not easy.
Speaker 7: It's a suicidal activity.
Speaker 10: You literally dive in head first and everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 10: they have the advantage, they can use their hands, well
Speaker 10: not really, like okay, in an aerial duel, Okay, a
Speaker 10: goalie has the advantage. But when you're laying yourself flat
Speaker 10: out when someone's running at you full sprint, it's a
Speaker 10: dang accident.
Speaker 9: Like is it horrendous? Yeah? Have I been in this situation?
Speaker 9: I still remember that was a.
Speaker 10: Game I was playing for Watford where I went in
Speaker 10: for a really awkward challenge like that and I got
Speaker 10: the ball my momentum took me through the lady's leg
Speaker 10: and I heard a noise that sounded.
Speaker 9: Like I broke a leg. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 10: They ended up having, like the medical team taken, but
Speaker 10: I was shaken up about it. But it wasn't a
Speaker 10: malicious thing. It's just the nature of the beast. And
Speaker 10: how often is it the goalkeeper on the other end
Speaker 10: of it. I mean, as someone that witnessed peta Check
Speaker 10: getting absolutely steamrolled by Stephen Hunt, these things happen, and
Speaker 10: nine times out of the ten it's the goalkeeper that's
Speaker 10: worth for where But when the goalkeeper gets worth for
Speaker 10: where everyone says it was an accident, or is their momentum,
Speaker 10: or they couldn't stop their running, or they jumped over
Speaker 10: the keeper and they tried. But when it's the goalkeeper
Speaker 10: making the mistake, there's not the same.
Speaker 9: Benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 10: And that's where I think that we need to realize
Speaker 10: that the goalkeepers make mistakes with timings. Absolutely, but at
Speaker 10: the same time you're throwing your face into someone's boots, like,
Speaker 10: are you really the one making the malicious act?
Speaker 9: I don't think so.
Speaker 7: Well, that's the thing. It's like you're in that instance.
Speaker 7: And I feel for don Over because when you watch
Speaker 7: the sole emotions like oh man, that sucks that he
Speaker 7: rolled up his ankle. Also the person whose leg he's
Speaker 7: broke seems cool with it was like, hey man, that's
Speaker 7: this games, maybe that's the sport. But also so often
Speaker 7: when you see those in freeze frame, how close it
Speaker 7: is to a goalkeeper getting kicked in the face, Like
Speaker 7: you're putting your face down there where someone's freeze frame.
Speaker 10: That kills me because everyone wants to like freeze frame
Speaker 10: where they're saying he's laughing or whatever, like do we
Speaker 10: know that? Like I don't think he was laughing. It
Speaker 10: was a weird freeze frame. But this day and age,
Speaker 10: it's like the same with var right. You can freeze
Speaker 10: frame or slow mo anything to get the right conclusion
Speaker 10: that you want. And that's not a football move, you know,
Speaker 10: if football takes place in full speed where people are
Speaker 10: making last ditch moments and if anything, I thought maybe
Speaker 10: the defender had a role in like the way that
Speaker 10: he shielded the ball made it really awkward, But no
Speaker 10: one's blaming the defender.
Speaker 9: You know, it's always the goalie's fault.
Speaker 7: Okay, we did okay, okay, yes, because I also had
Speaker 7: this argument with the US national team in God, was
Speaker 7: it the Costa Rica game where Freeze misplays the ball
Speaker 7: because Tim reen plays him this gopher hunting, Yeah, this
Speaker 7: gopher hunting rocket ball that he has to like he's
Speaker 7: as he's getting closed down where he can't take another
Speaker 7: touch to settle it. And it's like it's Likeez has
Speaker 7: to do better with that. Your or your center back
Speaker 7: could not like fire it into you from twenty feet
Speaker 7: away down.
Speaker 9: Funny because with the modern game, everyone.
Speaker 10: Expects goalkeepers to have the distribution of midfielders. And look,
Speaker 10: a lot of goalkeepers do have really good distribution now.
Speaker 10: Just look at Hannah Hampton in the Euros with that
Speaker 10: pass through for Lauren James's goal. Remarkable passing range for
Speaker 10: goalkeepers now. But the end of the day, you want
Speaker 10: them to be the best shot stoppers, the best decision makers,
Speaker 10: the best vocal goalkeepers, the best one on ones, the
Speaker 10: best you know, dominating their box. But you also want
Speaker 10: them to have better footwork than your midfielder, like chill out,
Speaker 10: like what a goalkeepers meant to be?
Speaker 9: Literally superhuman?
Speaker 10: Like it's at some point we're going to sacrifice, shot stopping,
Speaker 10: and I think we're already seeing it with some goalkeeper
Speaker 10: shot stopping or other key components of a goalkeeper because
Speaker 10: they've got better footwork. And look, I get it, goalkeepers
Speaker 10: need to be an outlet, but at the end of
Speaker 10: the day, not criticize him at the same level for
Speaker 10: their footwork as you can a defender.
Speaker 9: And I loved him.
Speaker 10: Reem for the time he had a Charlotte when I
Speaker 10: was there. But at the end of the day, if
Speaker 10: I'm a goalkeeper, and maybe Matt Freeze needs to be
Speaker 10: more vocal. We've seen him in the it was freezing
Speaker 10: the Atlantic United game right with the the era where
Speaker 10: like it.
Speaker 9: Was shielded back to him or he didn't come get
Speaker 9: it that kind of thing. Yeah, Freeze didn't. He needs
Speaker 9: to be more vocal as a goalkeeper.
Speaker 10: Like for me, if I'm heed off at my defenders,
Speaker 10: I hold them accountable. I don't think Freeze, and we've
Speaker 10: seen it in a couple of moments for country and
Speaker 10: for club gives enough of that. Like I would love
Speaker 10: to just see him like call Tim Reim out even
Speaker 10: though he's a veteran, like because as a goalkeeper, we
Speaker 10: should protect ourselves by being very when someone screwed U
Speaker 10: sober so, Jared.
Speaker 1: Do you want to go ahead and say the word pissed?
Speaker 7: Oh mean, I already got us, I already got us
Speaker 7: the explicit rating this morning. You can get his puss
Speaker 7: as you want to. Doesn't matter, Yeah, because because also
Speaker 7: also you could just repeat everything Brad Guzanne says, because
Speaker 7: Brad Guzane gets an explicit rating eight seconds after heruls
Speaker 7: out of bed. I'm pretty sure yes, because you talk
Speaker 7: about yes, but you talk about like being that vocal
Speaker 7: guy like I will never like lives rent free. In
Speaker 7: my head is the twenty nineteen US Open Cup with
Speaker 7: it Land and Charleston. They played behind closed doors in Kennesaw.
Speaker 7: The only two voices you could hear in that stadium,
Speaker 7: Lauder Clear was Brad yelling and on and on in
Speaker 7: the stand. Leandro Pirez was not playing in the game,
Speaker 7: but he was sitting in the stand and you could
Speaker 7: hear that hoarse voice of his yelling at everyone on
Speaker 7: the field.
Speaker 10: I mentioned in a lifetime that is insane. What a
Speaker 10: throwback that is?
Speaker 7: How he just got his B and C license?
Speaker 1: Wow? Yeah, uh so let me, Jess, let me ask
Speaker 1: you this going back to the Musiala Donor Ruma thing.
Speaker 1: When Manuel Noyer comes out postmatch says what he says,
Speaker 1: basically throwing another keeper under the bus when all you've
Speaker 1: got to do is look at file photos and file
Speaker 1: tape of Manuel Noyer going knees up and elbows up
Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff. What did you think
Speaker 1: about Noyer and Frankly, the sporting director for Bayern saying
Speaker 1: what they said, throwing Donor Ruma under the bus for
Speaker 1: And I understand, I get the whole team thing and
Speaker 1: trying to be supportive, but they went over the line
Speaker 1: I thought when it came to what they were saying
Speaker 1: post match, blaming don Ruma for the whole thing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think you have to be really careful where
Speaker 10: it comes with intention.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 10: It reminded me of do you remember the Rex and
Speaker 10: one when Paul Mullen had his lung collapse. Yeah, Parkey
Speaker 10: came out and was like talking about his character and
Speaker 10: all of that as the goalkeeper, even though it was
Speaker 10: like a young goalkeeper making mistake and that's not really
Speaker 10: the same with the level of experience, level of.
Speaker 9: Pay that these goalkeepers get.
Speaker 10: I think that you have to be so careful when
Speaker 10: you talk about someone's intention and also someone's character, which
Speaker 10: even if you don't directly say it, that's what those
Speaker 10: sorts of comments.
Speaker 9: Kind of talk about, right, They inflect.
Speaker 10: About someone's character, about someone's decision making. I understand protecting
Speaker 10: your teammate.
Speaker 9: You're shocked. It's horrible.
Speaker 10: I mean, it looked disgustingly, to be honest, it was
Speaker 10: a nasty injury to look at. You're emotional, you're maybe
Speaker 10: not thinking, but take a deep breath and be very
Speaker 10: careful because as you've mentioned, like if you're that goalkeeper,
Speaker 10: you feel like rubbish. Anyway you've been a part of that,
Speaker 10: every human being would feel like rubbish.
Speaker 9: To rub it in is pretty crappy.
Speaker 10: And then, as we always talk about, the GK union
Speaker 10: is a really real thing. Like I know it sounds mythical,
Speaker 10: but there's a really special connection between goalkeepers because they
Speaker 10: really do have a unique mindset, a unique loneliness, a
Speaker 10: unique responsibility. I mean, being a goalkeeper is the best
Speaker 10: and the worst thing that happened to me. It's lonely,
Speaker 10: it's difficult, it's emotional. I lost a lot of sleep.
Speaker 10: I mean, you're the enemy half of the time. And
Speaker 10: you're the hero maybe one in a million times. So
Speaker 10: that goalkeeper Union thing is huge, and I think that
Speaker 10: in that moment, you can say I was shocked about
Speaker 10: the tackle, but I understand these things happen in the
Speaker 10: speed of the modern game or something like that. But
Speaker 10: it leaves a poor taste in my mouth yet again,
Speaker 10: because the more you look at it, the more I
Speaker 10: just don't think it's a malicious thing. And Okay, the
Speaker 10: guy's hurt, that sucks, but we can't claim that it's
Speaker 10: malicious without really knowing or being the only person that
Speaker 10: knows that is the goalkeeper involved.
Speaker 1: All right, how many teams did you? And you were
Speaker 1: paired with Danny for the whole time? Right, for a time,
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 10: With Danny until Danny got elevated. I got kicked out
Speaker 10: at the end of the group's day. Danny continued on.
Speaker 9: But that's okay, I'm not sort and I'm kidding.
Speaker 10: It's fine. It was my first ever work for the UK.
Speaker 10: I was not expecting a knockout round. When I signed up.
Speaker 9: I knew I was getting six group stage games with UH.
Speaker 10: I had six games with six teams, so it was
Speaker 10: really nice because I saw every team I did twice,
Speaker 10: which was really good. By the end of the tournament
Speaker 10: that you know the teams, because when you have six
Speaker 10: games in twelve days with a whole different bunch of rosters,
Speaker 10: pronunciations teams, it was a lot, but it was amazing
Speaker 10: and I was really proud of myself because I broke
Speaker 10: the stereotype. And some of the English audience might not
Speaker 10: have liked it because they're used to people say Martin,
Speaker 10: what do they say in England Martinez or whatever?
Speaker 9: They say? You know what I mean.
Speaker 10: They can't say the names. But I nailed the pronunciations,
Speaker 10: and the amount of tweets I got like, does this
Speaker 10: girl speak Arabic because she is pronouncing the names correctly?
Speaker 9: Wow?
Speaker 10: Is this lady from Brazil because she's pronouncing their names amazingly.
Speaker 9: Yes, So that was pretty cool.
Speaker 10: I was very proud because anyone that knows English commentators,
Speaker 10: the stereotype is that they butcher pronunciations and anglicize everything.
Speaker 9: I will not be that person.
Speaker 10: Guys, so love it or hate it and repeat how
Speaker 10: it comes out of the player's mouth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when when their mom, when their mom wants to
Speaker 1: have a conversation with him and bring them in for dinner?
Speaker 1: How did they how do they call their name? That's
Speaker 1: basically the question that I always ask.
Speaker 10: The one that was annoying me, though, is like ads
Speaker 10: is how you say it? But nobody was doing it
Speaker 10: right and that bothered me.
Speaker 1: Well, but you got it right though exactly.
Speaker 9: I sounded like I speak Arabic. So there you go, boys,
Speaker 9: all right?
Speaker 1: So I asked Jamie Watson about this when Jamie was
Speaker 1: on at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 10: Oh, Jamie's worked with me, did you ask you should
Speaker 10: have asked him about me?
Speaker 9: Jamie? Do you know?
Speaker 10: Do you want to know what Jamie did in my
Speaker 10: MLS debut? It was It was not my It was
Speaker 10: my second MLS game. I did my MS debut with
Speaker 10: Devin Cut. My first game with Jamie Watson. A player
Speaker 10: got hit in the man parts and I said the word, well,
Speaker 10: that one was quite pay I'm sure that one was
Speaker 10: very painful.
Speaker 9: Jamie said, yeah, it was.
Speaker 10: We've all been there before, and then took a really
Speaker 10: awkward pause and said, well, not all of us, I suppose, and.
Speaker 9: We could very.
Speaker 10: It was quite the Yes, it was a good moment,
Speaker 10: But the issue was they literally zoomed in on the
Speaker 10: gentleman like rearranging his package. Oh my guys, I know
Speaker 10: we have a male audience predominant. Well no, not in MLS.
Speaker 10: We have a very female audience too. Maybe the females
Speaker 10: would like that, who knows. But when you have a
Speaker 10: female play by play, let's try not to cut to
Speaker 10: the close up of the man rearranging his genitalia, because
Speaker 10: what do you.
Speaker 9: Want me to say?
Speaker 1: Special delivery? Maybe?
Speaker 10: No, John, it was my second game. I had to
Speaker 10: play it safe.
Speaker 9: You know now that I like this.
Speaker 10: Weekend his game number six, I can take a few
Speaker 10: more risks.
Speaker 1: Basically, it's dead air. You have Jamie take it if
Speaker 1: it's match name number two. Uh. We were all looking
Speaker 1: at teams and the players that we were watching from
Speaker 1: the teams that we don't get the chance to watch
Speaker 1: like you got Esperance and a couple of others that
Speaker 1: are not part of our normal viewing habits. Who are
Speaker 1: some of the players that you think folks here on
Speaker 1: this side of the Atlantic should be grabbing from rosters
Speaker 1: on the other side of the Atlantic and bringing them
Speaker 1: in as a part of Major League Soccer. Who are
Speaker 1: some of your standouts from some clubs?
Speaker 9: Well, I know he's.
Speaker 10: Had some controversy, so I'm not even sure if it's
Speaker 10: a possibility. But you said, Balily is incredible, And I
Speaker 10: was so disappointed when he picked up the second yellow
Speaker 10: card for diving, because then he missed the third game
Speaker 10: for Esperance, and I think it would have been a
Speaker 10: really different match for them if he'd have been able
Speaker 10: to play. He's just incredible, electric explosives, so talented, so
Speaker 10: love what he did, really passionate player. Obviously saw him
Speaker 10: score the goal, So you said, Balily fantastic. I do
Speaker 10: think it was kind of hard that he got that
Speaker 10: yellow card. I don't think it was a penalty. For me,
Speaker 10: simulation needs to be like a true dive, not over
Speaker 10: selling it, do.
Speaker 9: You know what I mean? Like, I don't like players
Speaker 9: over selling it.
Speaker 10: But if there's a little bit of contact and you
Speaker 10: feel it and you go down, that's not to me
Speaker 10: what the yellow card is for, do you know what
Speaker 10: I mean? I just don't think you've ruled out the penalty.
Speaker 10: Do you need to give a yellow card there when
Speaker 10: he did feel contact? And again we go back to
Speaker 10: football playing moves. Anyone that's been running full speed and
Speaker 10: gets even a touch, sometimes you do go to ground
Speaker 10: because you're caught off balance.
Speaker 9: So love Baliley.
Speaker 10: I don't think he'll ever come to him less because
Speaker 10: he's playing for Al Hilal, but Salemo Dossre is so
Speaker 10: good as well.
Speaker 9: He I think he.
Speaker 10: Pulled his hammy in the second game. I did so
Speaker 10: he missed the rest of Al Hilao's incredible run, but
Speaker 10: I thought he was absolutely amazing. And then again, never
Speaker 10: gonna go. But you're seeing Bono what a goalkeeper man.
Speaker 10: It was just lovely to watch him play in person.
Speaker 10: Absolutely love that Wallace Yan was pretty good. But he's
Speaker 10: going to go for big money. Honestly, guys, I hate
Speaker 10: to say, if they're playing in club walk up with
Speaker 10: the money that they're getting, it's going to be pretty difficult.
Speaker 10: I liked watching Hugo Lauris play again, and it was
Speaker 10: kind of cool to know that I commentated Juru's last
Speaker 10: game for LAFC, so I guess that was kind of
Speaker 10: a cool moment as well.
Speaker 7: Here you go, Jered, what's on your already has been
Speaker 7: doing this for fifteen years, pulling France out of the
Speaker 7: fire and got blessing for it. But let me ask
Speaker 7: you this then, of the club World Cup teams. How
Speaker 7: do you stop the PSG death star?
Speaker 10: I don't think you do, man, Holy crap, Like they
Speaker 10: are so good.
Speaker 9: It's just been amazing to see.
Speaker 10: And what I love is led by such like a humble,
Speaker 10: grounded coach that just everybody is rooting for.
Speaker 9: I don't know if you stop them, but I.
Speaker 10: Do love that the rhetoric towards MLS has had to
Speaker 10: take a pause based on the fact these statistical comparison
Speaker 10: between Into Miami's performance and Real Madrid's performance is bringing
Speaker 10: me a lot of like, even though I'm not the
Speaker 10: biggest Into Miami fan, right, I think anyone in a
Speaker 10: Major League Soccer that work for a different club understands
Speaker 10: like the difficulties of a team like Into Miami coming
Speaker 10: in and becoming a darling. Right now, I work for
Speaker 10: the league, Obviously, I see it from a slightly different perspective,
Speaker 10: so be careful here, but I think that it's so
Speaker 10: nice to see that MLS slander kind of have to
Speaker 10: take a pause because Into Miami was more resilient and
Speaker 10: put up more of a fight against PSG that I'm
Speaker 10: kind of happy to watch PSG dominate everything and they
Speaker 10: just play exciting fun soccer.
Speaker 9: I don't think anyone's stopping them.
Speaker 10: I think it's going to be a first ever because
Speaker 10: that's technically what it is.
Speaker 9: This is the first ever FIFA Club World Cup. Guys.
Speaker 10: Some of the commentators on TNT are like saying it differently,
Speaker 10: but we were told very specifically by this zone and
Speaker 10: FIFA that this is the first ever edition of the
Speaker 10: FIFA Club World Cup. This is a brand new tournament.
Speaker 10: So the first ever champions of the FIFA Club World Cup.
Speaker 10: It's going to be PSG. Surely I would put twenty
Speaker 10: seven boxes on it, like a full Sam's Club juice box,
Speaker 10: no doubt.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Chelsea, No, I'm right there with you. Uh so,
Speaker 1: do you get a weekend to catch your breath?
Speaker 9: I'm fining to Chicago tonight. Oh wow, I got Chicago
Speaker 9: San Diego tomorrow. Boys.
Speaker 1: Oh cool?
Speaker 10: Yeah, my last season pass eight thirty CM Eastern Jess
Speaker 10: Stup and I enjoy.
Speaker 9: What are you accent?
Speaker 10: Matchup we're gonna have in Chicago at Soldier Field.
Speaker 1: Pick it out, waiting for that, waiting for that from
Speaker 1: from Ian. That's good. So with the study hall with
Speaker 1: Chicago and San Diego. Mikey Verius Coach of the Year
Speaker 1: for you or is it somebody else?
Speaker 9: He is the nicest guy I've spoken to.
Speaker 10: I The one thing I've had to adjust to is
Speaker 10: season pass. It's funny because like in NASL coaching caols,
Speaker 10: I feel super chill because I've been around it long
Speaker 10: enough and people know who I am now.
Speaker 9: And also I do the world feed, so I don't
Speaker 9: lead the call with season pass.
Speaker 10: I have to lead the call, and it's quite I
Speaker 10: don't say intimidating, because I know I belong, but as
Speaker 10: I get used to it, I'm a new face, like
Speaker 10: introducing myself, asking these questions, hoping that the coaches haven't
Speaker 10: been asked these because when you come into a league
Speaker 10: mid season as a voice, it's quite difficult because you
Speaker 10: don't necessarily haven't had the chance to ask the coaches
Speaker 10: questions things like that. So like, I've done three Chicago
Speaker 10: Fire games, so this was this is going to be
Speaker 10: number three. So Greg Burholters probably fed up with me,
Speaker 10: to be honest, he's a gentleman, he's lovely, and.
Speaker 9: Then I'm gonna have to chat with Greg. Hey, I
Speaker 9: can I can hint here.
Speaker 10: I'm not going to say the exact words but I
Speaker 10: might be talking to Greg on Monday or Tuesday next week.
Speaker 10: Read between the lines if you want to winkling nuch now.
Speaker 10: You also don't have to fly anywhere this midweek, so
Speaker 10: that's going to be cool as well. But Mike, he's
Speaker 10: just so lovely. It was so cool the minute I
Speaker 10: popped them, like, oh, I haven't got to.
Speaker 9: Meet you before.
Speaker 10: Oh that's awesome, Yeah, ask away anything. The way he
Speaker 10: talks about the game is fantastic. And the biggest thing
Speaker 10: I took from the coaches CAOL is they want to
Speaker 10: be an and team, not a butt team. They enjoy
Speaker 10: the ball and their pressure is on point, not a
Speaker 10: they're good on the ball, but they can't work in transition.
Speaker 9: They always want to be an and team.
Speaker 10: And I thought, I it seems such a basic concept,
Speaker 10: but I absolutely love that because it's so true. How
Speaker 10: often on a broadcast are we like, well, the goalkeeper
Speaker 10: has great shots stopping, but his footwork sucks, or this
Speaker 10: midfielder is really physical, but he's got the touch of
Speaker 10: a donkey. So I love this kind of ability to
Speaker 10: be able to be an and team, and I want
Speaker 10: to be an and broadcaster right, And so Mikey has
Speaker 10: really inspired me to It's funny. I had this call
Speaker 10: yesterday and now I feel like that's like I'm gonna
Speaker 10: steal his motto from San Diego and just take it
Speaker 10: to my life that I want to be an and
Speaker 10: broadcaster where hey, she's really good at goal calls and
Speaker 10: she understands the flow of the game, or she's really
Speaker 10: really well informed on the team and she's able to
Speaker 10: control the tempo of the match, those kind of things.
Speaker 10: So we need more and people in our lives and
Speaker 10: less butt people. So I think it's like a mic
Speaker 10: drop moment, honestly.
Speaker 1: All right, so we'll make that your mic drop moment.
Speaker 1: So MLS season past just charming one of our ogs,
Speaker 1: always an og gonna be calling Chicago and San Diego,
Speaker 1: where I would probably take the over considering the offensive
Speaker 1: talent on both of these teams.
Speaker 10: I was gonna say, these teams score goals for fun,
Speaker 10: but also deflet in a lot of goals. So on paper,
Speaker 10: Chicago's already been involved in two games where our team
Speaker 10: has scored seven this season, wouldn't put against it. But
Speaker 10: also now that we talk so much about the goalscoring
Speaker 10: prize and the lack of defensive ability.
Speaker 9: It could be Neil Nel who knows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we jinxed it. So it'll be great to see
Speaker 1: you and he enjoy pick it out on Saturday with
Speaker 1: Chicago and San Diego and then wink week nudge, nudge,
Speaker 1: we'll have you back early next week. How about that, Jess,
Speaker 1: I can't wait.
Speaker 10: Thank you boys for having me as always always an
Speaker 10: og Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All right, there goes Jess. So Jarrett other matches this
Speaker 1: weekend that you're keeping an eye on. Does anything else
Speaker 1: stick out to you when it comes with all the activity?
Speaker 7: Well, let's see, let's take a look at the schedule.
Speaker 1: Well, you've got I've got to pull up okay.
Speaker 7: Cool if you want to read that for people to find,
Speaker 7: don't do it for me.
Speaker 1: But I mean, you've got You've got hell is Real,
Speaker 1: You've got Philly Red Bulls, You've got Atlanta Toronto messy and.
Speaker 7: Philly Red Bulls. Philly Red Bulls will be fun. I
Speaker 7: forget who it was.
Speaker 1: That wrote it.
Speaker 7: Might have been dull over at MLS who wrote it
Speaker 7: that what Philly thrives on is chaos, and good teams
Speaker 7: don't allow chaos in the door, which is why Philly
Speaker 7: is a really good team, but hey, they're rich whenever
Speaker 7: you pick this up. But the question is, is Ken
Speaker 7: Philly break down teams that are really good that don't
Speaker 7: let chaos in the door. Yeah, that'll be the interesting one.
Speaker 7: I know you said, Uh, Inter Miami and Nashville. Nashville's
Speaker 7: going for five straight wins. Look, Nashville's the hottest team
Speaker 7: in the league right now and is the top is
Speaker 7: at the top of your do not want to play list?
Speaker 7: What BJ Callahan does done is absolutely outstanding work. When
Speaker 7: when when Gary got fired last year, they were very
Speaker 7: much in the woods.
Speaker 1: They got p J.
Speaker 7: Callahan in, it was not pretty for a while, they
Speaker 7: missed the playoffs. He apparently kept them for basically like
Speaker 7: a postseason camp, which Walker Zimmerman attributes to a lot
Speaker 7: of what they've done really well. Uh, you know, mess
Speaker 7: and friends are always going to be fun. But Nashville
Speaker 7: right now is the biggest buzz Saul that you do
Speaker 7: not want to play in this league as far as
Speaker 7: I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and then so there's that one. Jamie's on
Speaker 1: the call for that one. Jess is on the call
Speaker 1: for Chicago and San Diego Austin without Brandon Vasquez for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season is going to be hosting
Speaker 1: New England. They're a slight favorite, so they're a handful
Speaker 1: of you know, hell is reel. Since Dy Columbus and
Speaker 1: DC heading out to LA to take on l a
Speaker 1: G DC decides that they Troy Lay and.
Speaker 7: He did not okay.
Speaker 1: Resources to compete. No, he was not.
Speaker 7: I my brain is My brain is giving Robin Fraser
Speaker 7: vibes for Troy La Sane in the sense that I
Speaker 7: don't know how good of a coach this guy is
Speaker 7: because the resources were not there. Like Robin Fraser's resources
Speaker 7: in Colorado. He had that he had one really good
Speaker 7: year where they finished you know, I think top three
Speaker 7: in the West. It was great or power to him,
Speaker 7: but they didn't continue to spend for him and it
Speaker 7: fell apart. But Troy Lasain did not exactly get a
Speaker 7: resources to work with in BC. And I don't know
Speaker 7: what to make of what Troy La Saying can be
Speaker 7: as a manager in the same sense that like even
Speaker 7: Robin Fraser going to Toronto, I don't know what to
Speaker 7: make of Robin Fraser as a manager. I'm not gond
Speaker 7: because like you can tell me, like, like, Fraser had
Speaker 7: that one good year and since in Colorado and then
Speaker 7: you know, it fell apart and it wasn't good. And like,
Speaker 7: if I'm not gonna judge him strictly off this Toronto season, yeah,
Speaker 7: I'm not, because he has been he's been handed a
Speaker 7: really weird hand and now he's lost to his DPS.
Speaker 7: Now maybe the chemistry and that team picks up.
Speaker 1: I don't know, since since the two players were the
Speaker 1: ones that were one of the two players was linked
Speaker 1: to multiple run ins with multiple coaches.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Like, there's there's levels to this that I can't
Speaker 7: I can't sit here and tell you that Robin Fraser
Speaker 7: is a great coach ords terrible coach. I'm not. It's
Speaker 7: certainly not going to tell you he's a terrible coach
Speaker 7: just because you know, Toronto isn't having a great year
Speaker 7: because like and look, we all say, we literally, John,
Speaker 7: we literally.
Speaker 5: Just watched.
Speaker 7: Chris Armis go to Toronto basically get hired to do
Speaker 7: a job, not have the pieces to do that job,
Speaker 7: and get fired. Yeah, and then go to Colorado and
Speaker 7: Colorado's up and down this year, but they're spending their
Speaker 7: giving resources and they were good last year and they're
Speaker 7: I think they're still trying to find their feet and
Speaker 7: he's still trying to find himself as a manager. But yeah, man,
Speaker 7: like Trolo saying and Robin Fraser, both are guys that
Speaker 7: I can't I'm not going to sit here and damn
Speaker 7: them as managers because what they've been handed.
Speaker 1: So we'll keep an eye on DC heading out to
Speaker 1: Lag Lag is favored chasing after their third win of
Speaker 1: the year. Does DC get the new coach bump from
Speaker 1: someone that they brought in from Europe and they wasted
Speaker 1: virtually no time in naming as their new head coach.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens with see what happens with DC,
Speaker 1: see what happens with Toronto and Atlanta, and what's your
Speaker 1: gut tell you about what's gonna happ and a bemo.
Speaker 7: Well, okay, so we have the question of do you
Speaker 7: judge Dila off the season since he came on to
Speaker 7: a broken roster. Oh, buddy, So, first of all, we
Speaker 7: didn't think the roster was broken to begin with. We
Speaker 7: were wrong. We didn't think it was broken at the beginning,
Speaker 7: But you you are going to judge him on some things.
Speaker 7: I'm also to the point personally, and this is a
Speaker 7: me thing, this is not an SDH thing. I'm as
Speaker 7: if not more critical of the players on the roster
Speaker 7: because going back over a calendar year now, I've watched
Speaker 7: guys on this roster not be able to lock in consistently.
Speaker 7: They did it under they did it under Rob Valentino.
Speaker 7: Go back to the Nashville game, which was kind of
Speaker 7: the that was kind of the full crumb of Rob's
Speaker 7: time as his second stint as interim manager. Because go
Speaker 7: back to when Atlanta lost to Nashville at home and
Speaker 7: embarrassed by a Nashville team that had not turned the
Speaker 7: corner yet and got physically dominated and pushed around and
Speaker 7: didn't fight back. I have watched this roster just look
Speaker 7: like they don't have that dog in them. Yeah, And
Speaker 7: because because like here's the thing, it's not always going
Speaker 7: to be roses. You're gonna have to fight through. This
Speaker 7: is to to blend your analogies. I think it was
Speaker 7: John Smoltz once talked about, you know, you only have
Speaker 7: your A plus stuff on the mound, what like three
Speaker 7: or four times a year. The rest of it, you're
Speaker 7: you're grinding it out. You're only gonna have your most teams.
Speaker 7: Most teams are only gonna have their like three four
Speaker 7: five goal a game, beautiful champagne styles a couple times
Speaker 7: a year that it's gonna line up. You're gonna have
Speaker 7: to grind out the rest of them. Right now, this
Speaker 7: this roster does not feel like maybe individuals do feel like.
Speaker 7: I'm not going to speak for all the individuals as
Speaker 7: a collective. This roster does not have that grind mentality
Speaker 7: on them to grind out those tough times, to grind
Speaker 7: out those tough games. So will Dala be judged, Yes,
Speaker 7: because he's the manager of this team, and God bless him,
Speaker 7: he is trying different things. God knows he has run
Speaker 7: out eighty five thousand different combinations, different ideas, different formations,
Speaker 7: different setups, you know, different instructions to try and find
Speaker 7: something that works. But look, everyone most scatters already.
Speaker 1: Out the door.
Speaker 7: I remember it takes two to tango. So before you
Speaker 7: start burning the roster down and understand guys that you
Speaker 7: have to have a place for guys to go. I
Speaker 7: think personally there that will be if if you can
Speaker 7: do it, it will be a very very busy summer. Yes,
Speaker 7: there will be a lot of bloodshed.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 7: Will Ronnie be judged for it? Yeah, because he's manager.
Speaker 7: Well you think that's fair or not. He is a manager.
Speaker 7: He's going to be judged for it. I will.
Speaker 1: And we'll see.
Speaker 7: We'll see how the how the season ends after the
Speaker 7: summer window. We'll see if if they find you just
Speaker 7: brought in a center back as well. Let's see if
Speaker 7: they find some cajonas about themselves as far as this
Speaker 7: game goes. As I jump off the off ramp to
Speaker 7: John's question, sure, I don't know. It's a team that
Speaker 7: so often looks like they're thinking instead of playing and
Speaker 7: playing scared and I'm I'm sick of watching them play
Speaker 7: scared man like. And when I say play scared, I
Speaker 7: mean like when Atlanta gets into the final third, it's
Speaker 7: it's like they're afraid to drive at someone, and it's
Speaker 7: like they're afraid to take chances. And I it's it's
Speaker 7: for me, John, it's it's exhausting because I'm I am
Speaker 7: expecting this team to be more like what we saw
Speaker 7: in preseason, which was aggressive in the final third, trying
Speaker 7: to make that line splitting pass, playing that more dangerous ball,
Speaker 7: because when you do it your own in the final third.
Speaker 7: That's fine. The the insanity of this team is that
Speaker 7: the risk taking is so often in front of their
Speaker 7: own goal. And you know, whether that's Miguel Almaron, who
Speaker 7: is all over God's creation dropping back everywhere to get
Speaker 7: on the ball and then misplaying passes. Almost gave up
Speaker 7: a goal against DC the same way you gave one
Speaker 7: up against red balls Migual Amaron dropping way back into
Speaker 7: the back right and then playing the ball across the middle.
Speaker 7: That was just ill advised and poor to hit. Like
Speaker 7: that's where you're taking risks. Now, No, take some damn
Speaker 7: risks in the attacking half. Get into the final third
Speaker 7: and take a risk, play a ball over the top, like,
Speaker 7: try and get creative, you know, don't just get it
Speaker 7: out to Brooks. Learn ask him to pump in a
Speaker 7: line cross. Don't just ask Pedromador to hit an early cross.
Speaker 7: Take some chances placing through balls, try and combine, try
Speaker 7: and pick out that pass to break a team over
Speaker 7: your knee. And they have not shown that bravery in
Speaker 7: the attacking half. And I'm flabbergasted.
Speaker 1: By a John You're not the only one I know.
Speaker 7: But that's just particulating how I thought about Ronnie was
Speaker 7: in the two s match. Great. Look, I've long maintained
Speaker 7: at this point, if things are cooked, I'm bringing guys
Speaker 7: up like I'm putting Will Riley out there now that
Speaker 7: Jay's out for the year, especially like I'm putting Will
Speaker 7: Riley out there to fight. If I got to call
Speaker 7: a short term now that I'm down a winger, if
Speaker 7: I got to call a short term a moistista blante
Speaker 7: and I tell him, Hey, I need you to play
Speaker 7: too stupid to be afraid ball and because want will
Speaker 7: drive that you like man is insane, you know, Looke,
Speaker 7: I need, I need more Luke Brendon minutes the I
Speaker 7: need Caman toga sheet mm hmm, like driving at people
Speaker 7: and pressing people and getting stuck in a quarter of
Speaker 7: a second late, because if you're starting eleven, because a
Speaker 7: lot of times what will happen as a manager get
Speaker 7: stuck into the not stuck into but into the idea
Speaker 7: of I'm gonna run my starting eleven out there because
Speaker 7: there's tension on the job right now and we need
Speaker 7: to win, and these guys are giving me.
Speaker 1: A chance to win. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Great, But when you're doing that you're still giving up
Speaker 7: three goals game, you might as well just might as
Speaker 7: well see what the kids can keep. You might as
Speaker 7: well see what it looks like when it's Noah Cobb
Speaker 7: at fran Morales who was your man in the match
Speaker 7: yep last weekend. Might as well see what you got met.
Speaker 1: And on that note, once again remind you the very
Speaker 1: very busy weekend that Landy United Toronto FC. That is
Speaker 1: five stripes countdown with Maddie and Abes six thirty on
Speaker 1: ninety two nine in the game in the Odyssey app
Speaker 1: kick off at seven forty from BEMO and then the
Speaker 1: full time report after then with everybody flying back from Toronto.
Speaker 1: And by the way, unified match at Landy United Toronto FC.
Speaker 1: Their conflicting reports nine thirty ten o'clock in there on
Speaker 1: Saturday mornings, so keep an eye out on your socials.
Speaker 1: Toronto FC is saying ten, Atlanta United saying nine to
Speaker 1: thirty in their releases, so early Saturday morning, keep an
Speaker 1: eye out for that nine thirty ten o'clock somewhere in
Speaker 1: there at Lanty United's unified Toronto FC's unified first match
Speaker 1: for them since twenty nineteen. So I think the Jason
Speaker 1: and the Hoff will have the call on that one
Speaker 1: up at Demo U. Then on Sunday ninety two nine,
Speaker 1: in the game in the Odyssey app, Maddy and Jason
Speaker 1: will have the twos and Columbus Crew two on the network.
Speaker 1: We'll have pregame on SDH about seven o'clock, go for
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes. Then we will yield the balance of
Speaker 1: our time and then about seven to twenty five, Maddy
Speaker 1: and Jason will come in and it'll be Maddie and
Speaker 1: Jason on the call ninety two nine in the game
Speaker 1: for the twos and Crew two. I'll be on for halftime,
Speaker 1: We'll have postgame and we'll let you know what's going
Speaker 1: on with that. So very very busy weekend at ninety
Speaker 1: two nine the game in the Odyssey app for it
Speaker 1: Lanty nighted First Team Unified. You can watch that on
Speaker 1: Socials and on the twos as well on Sunday night
Speaker 1: from the fraction, so you get your get your action
Speaker 1: from the fraction and you can have a mo at
Speaker 1: BEMO on Saturday. So very very full weekend across the board.
Speaker 1: Jared as always my friend. Now it's nine to twelve
Speaker 1: on a Friday morning, thanks for as always dropping by,
Speaker 1: no problem. It is time. Since it is a Friday,
Speaker 1: we have to play. We have to make sure that
Speaker 1: the whistle, the Friday, the Friday Whistle plays in its entirety.
Speaker 1: So for jareded for Jess, for Chris Whittingham, and for
Speaker 1: Jamie Watson, for everybody else here at SDH. It was
Speaker 1: a fun show. It was a full show. We always
Speaker 1: like it when that happens on a Friday. So a
Speaker 1: played safe. Everybody, enjoy your weekend. Be safe. We will
Speaker 1: catch up with you again before you know it. Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 1: Back here on Monday, and because it is Friday, this
Speaker 1: is where we go.
Speaker 9: The war was.
Speaker 1: The keys on the typewriter had sharp points.
Speaker 8: To keep sticking into our fingers. The dictating equipment started
Speaker 8: asking us questions, and our papers.
Speaker 3: Sent electric shocks just threw 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.
Speaker 8: Our frail bodies were strapped to the chairs, and our chairs.
Speaker 5: Were chained to the desks. Our please for justice were ignored.
Speaker 9: And the end seemed near.
Speaker 8: But we busted our slave drivers little bitny Balls, Hler Break, Fortress,
Speaker 8: the streets, our Harsty Gods. Yes, Friday, Friday, Friday Day,