WEBVTT 1 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:26.000 So it's Friday. 2 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:28.800 We know what that means, and let's see if we 3 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:32.240 can actually hit it to where it actually does what 4 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:35.240 it says it's gonna do. We hit our magic button 5 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:40.640 and go here. Now I hit the wrong one. Let's 6 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:41.520 try the short version. 7 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:53.640 Come on, man, go. 8 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:54.520 For it, dude. 9 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:56.240 It's Friday. 10 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:07.000 Then. 11 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:09.120 Lucas Panzig is a national and he's going, what in 12 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:11.519 the wide world of sports have I wandered into bat 13 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:13.920 and lead off? Promise this time it actually is happening. 14 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:15.959 Lucas Panzig of one of four five on morning? 15 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:16.719 Brother? What's going on? 16 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:19.480 Morning John? Hope you can hear me all right? A 17 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:22.359 little cold, but excited to get the season started. 18 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.519 Four degrees if I remember correctly, just staring over at 19 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:27.599 the big fifty five and they were telling me what's 20 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:33.079 going on up there? And hopefully the water the pipes 21 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:35.239 did not freeze for or any of your neighbors. You 22 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:38.760 kept the spigot on overnight in the furthest bathroom away 23 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:42.760 from you, and everything is up and running, wasting no 24 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:45.239 time because I know you actually have a job and 25 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:47.519 you have to leave there to go to said job. 26 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:49.840 Brought you in here to talk about Nashville as we 27 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:52.799 always do coming into match week number one. When you 28 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:56.079 look back at twenty twenty four and you look at 29 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:59.519 the season and all of its transitions and everything and 30 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:01.799 ending up with bj Callahi on the touch line. Now 31 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:05.560 he gets his first full training camp, summer and winner 32 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:09.199 and everything getting into this particular season. What sticks in 33 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:12.919 your mind the most as you analyze twenty twenty four, Well. 34 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:15.599 It's kind of a fresh start. You know, it's the 35 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:18.280 first full season for bj Callahan. Like you said, obviously 36 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:20.960 he had the nine games in charge last year, but 37 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:24.560 you know that was him coming in inheriting a team 38 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:27.960 that was struggling to score goals, struggling to make a 39 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.639 push for the playoffs, and they had some nice moments, 40 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:34.639 but on aggregate obviously ended up in the bottom part 41 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:36.919 of the Eastern Conference and missing out for the first time. 42 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:40.280 Nashville just had its biggest roster overhaul in an offseason 43 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:43.520 that it has ever had, eleven signings boosting the midfield. 44 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:46.680 Kind of a blend of veterans with Gaston Brugman and 45 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:50.039 Brian Acosta and Eddie Tagsith coming over from Norway, and 46 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:53.000 you know, some youth with a Matt Corker and a 47 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:56.039 Tryalist from Birmingham Legion who really impressed throughout the course 48 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:59.680 of preseason, so they addressed every level of this team 49 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:03.039 are much more balanced and much more well equipped to 50 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:05.639 play the way BJ wants to play, kind of that connective, 51 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:11.159 free flowing, pressing, attack minded style. But again, John, I 52 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:13.879 do think it's going to come down to your best players, 53 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:16.400 as it does for most every MLS team, and that 54 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:19.280 is how much Honeymooktar and Sam Surage can carry the 55 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:20.840 load scoring the goals for this team. 56 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:25.719 So then if let's play a defensive devil's advocate here. 57 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:29.280 So if you and I are going up against this 58 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:33.960 squad and we know that the idea is to feed 59 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:37.039 Honey and Sam so they can be A and B 60 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:39.599 when it comes to scoring goals, if I cut off 61 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:43.159 those supply lines in twenty twenty five, who is supposed 62 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:46.919 to step up in those spaces to be those influencers, 63 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:49.400 to be that middle step to get it to Honey 64 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:50.199 and Sam to get it in. 65 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:53.199 Yeah, I suppose that's what we're trying to figure out 66 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:57.039 in the early goings. Early candidates. Eddie Tagsaf comes over, 67 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:00.680 and that's a guy that can play in central hacking role. 68 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:04.199 Can play wide, can play between the lines. They really 69 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:07.599 like his versatility, his ability to progress the ball, whether 70 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:10.479 that's through the dribble or his passing ability, his vision. 71 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:13.120 So you know, it's kind of staggered, right. It's an 72 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:15.400 Eddie tag set who could pick up some of that 73 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:17.879 goal scoring load, or a Guston Brugman who can do 74 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:21.480 more of the string pulling from a deeper lying role. Now, 75 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:24.079 I don't know that Guston will play on Saturday. He's 76 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:26.360 kind of got an issue. It seems like he's further 77 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:28.439 away from any of the other guys dealing with something 78 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:28.959 right now. 79 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:30.920 But they love Guston Brugman. 80 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.639 Bj Callahan told Mike Jacobs in the offseason that they 81 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:36.279 wanted to go find a midfield or a light Guston Brugman, 82 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:38.480 and they got deep enough in the process to where 83 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:40.519 they said, why don't we just call La and see 84 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:42.879 what we can do about bringing the man himself in here. 85 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:45.839 And that's what they did. And then to your point, 86 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:46.839 I want to. 87 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:50.920 Throw in Jacob Schaffelberg's name as well, because obviously he flashed. 88 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:53.560 He was a great spark for the Canadian national team 89 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:55.959 last year. But you know, he's not sort of a 90 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:59.839 bright you know, a spry young guy from Canada that 91 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:01.319 you're happy to get a few. 92 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:02.079 Moments out of anymore. 93 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:04.319 And at this point, the next step for him is 94 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:08.439 to turn those international performances into consistency at the club 95 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:10.920 level and more goalscoring contributions. 96 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:15.560 When you look at the vibe there in town coming 97 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:20.319 out of last season and the frustrations that I'm fairly 98 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:24.160 certain that to everyone who believes in everyone in featured, 99 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:27.120 what has the vibe been like with this transition? Getting 100 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:29.319 everybody ready? All of the folks that have come in, 101 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:32.399 is it fan base sitting there going okay, I need 102 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:32.759 a hello? 103 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:33.720 My name is name tag? 104 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:35.720 For some of these folks really having to go down 105 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:38.759 the Encyclopedia Britannic of Soccer trying to figure out who 106 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:40.319 these are? Is what's the vibe been like getting ready 107 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:40.920 for twenty five? 108 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:43.519 A little bit of that, right, A little bit of 109 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:45.800 that when you're talking about guys coming in, you know, 110 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:49.439 not new faces to MLS, Brian Acosta and Andy Najara 111 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:52.439 right back, those guys have been around, but yeah, you 112 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:56.000 know Eddie Tagseth comes in and you know most Nashville 113 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:59.360 See fans aren't watching the Norwegian First Division. I'm ed 114 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:02.079 Kassem comes over from Sweden as the U twenty two 115 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:04.600 initiative signing. He's still in the visa process, so he 116 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:09.279 won't be playing Saturday. But but you know, fans see 117 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:11.560 these moves and Nashville is taking for. 118 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:14.639 They're looking in corners of the globe. They weren't necessarily 119 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:18.759 looking before because Gary Smith played obviously a very certain 120 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:23.040 style and they just they weren't taking these sort of 121 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:25.839 outside the box wings that they are now. So there's 122 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:28.319 a lot of excitement there that the club is making 123 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:30.600 moves like this. And on the youth side of it, 124 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:34.199 Nashville was the oldest roster in MLS last season. Their 125 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:36.720 average roster age went from twenty nine and a half 126 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:38.680 to twenty six and a half. There is a clear 127 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:42.240 directive here where bj Callahan has publicly said we're not 128 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:44.759 going to be afraid to play the young guys, whether 129 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:47.519 it's eighteen year old homegrown Chris Applewhite or Matt Corkoran 130 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:50.240 who I mentioned from Birmingham Legion. So it's sort of 131 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:53.319 this blend that makes it exciting for fans that at 132 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:56.240 least can count on Nashville being fun to watch. They 133 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:59.040 can be fun this year. Will they contend for a trophy? 134 00:06:59.399 --> 00:06:59.759 I don't know. 135 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:02.720 I mean, we've seen teams make these turnarounds before, right 136 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:05.079 Elly Galaxy is a prime example of it from last year. 137 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:08.600 But they will at least fun, and fans are very 138 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:09.839 excited for that prospect. 139 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:13.920 What about as you analyze the rest of the conference 140 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:17.920 and Nashville's place in it. We were kind of getting into. 141 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:19.959 But when you analyze the rest of the conference, what 142 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.600 do you see from your perspective coming into twenty five? 143 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:25.920 Man, I can't wait to see who kind of emerges 144 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:28.959 as the favorites here because the usual suspects of the 145 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:31.680 last couple of years, with the exception obviously of inter Miami, 146 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:36.240 who looks to come back stronger. I look at Cincinnati 147 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:39.480 and wonder how those pieces will gel together with those changes. 148 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:42.240 I look at Columbus Crew, who suddenly has had so 149 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:46.480 much of that crazy goalscoring production slashed from the last 150 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:48.319 couple of years. I wonder how they'll adapt. And then 151 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:50.399 I wonder what team will be able to really take 152 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:53.279 advantage of maybe those teams dropping off a little bit, 153 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:55.839 whether it's a Charlotte who just continues to ascend under 154 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:59.560 Dean Smith or in Atlanta. I loved the offseason Atlanta had. 155 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:00.879 If I'm an Atlanta fan. 156 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:05.439 It just promises exciting football, and you know, I feel like, 157 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:07.519 you know, you can tell me obviously being there. But 158 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:10.720 I feel like so much depends on Miranchuck and how 159 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:12.759 much he's able to carry the load as that as 160 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:15.879 a playmaker consistently throughout the course of a season. But 161 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:19.040 if he's able to do that, fans of the Five Stripes, 162 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:20.959 I feel like should be really excited for what's to 163 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.160 come this year, But as usual, it feels like a 164 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:26.160 lot of parody and a lot of opportunity, unless you 165 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:29.399 know you're Intero Miami and you're obviously the overwhelming favorite 166 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:29.879 once again. 167 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:33.360 Yeah, with the with the Five Stripes in Atlanta United, 168 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:35.679 we have we're trying to figure out. I think they've 169 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:38.159 settled on the nickname for the attack. I mean, me, 170 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:40.759 being an old wrestling guy, I'm sitting there going four horsemen, 171 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:43.639 But it looks like it's going to be slam As 172 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:47.759 is the acronym this year because of Saba La Telt, 173 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:52.519 Midanchuk and al Moron, So there might be some onyx 174 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:54.279 being played in Mercedes Benz this year. 175 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:55.919 I don't know, I'm into that. 176 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:59.360 That's great, No, I mean I love the I love 177 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:03.679 just that sort of mix of nostalgia that can help 178 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:06.240 the team. Right bringing Amron back that just made too 179 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:09.519 much sense and late lotsa it's hard not to get 180 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:13.039 fired up about what he can bring, terrorizing back lines, 181 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.159 running in behind, running right at defenders. So I know 182 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:17.559 we got to wait a few weeks for that first 183 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:20.039 Nashville Atlanta matchup, but it's a team I'm really excited 184 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:20.720 to watch this year. 185 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:21.799 Yeah, no doubt about it. 186 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:25.600 And so we're taking all of our activity today except 187 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:27.600 when we duck out and talk about Europa League Champions 188 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:29.519 League and the women's national team. We're spending all of 189 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:31.200 our time getting ready for the weekend, whip around and 190 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:31.919 letting everything go. 191 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:33.799 I know, you got a boogie. 192 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:36.440 Hit the promo for me about everything going on at 193 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:38.480 one oh four five and let everybody know how they 194 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:40.279 can keep an ear out for what's going on up 195 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:41.080 there in Nashville. 196 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:44.519 Sure you can find me on Twitter at Lucaspanzico. Beyond 197 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:44.799 the Call. 198 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:47.159 Tomorrow night in Nashville hosting New England to open up 199 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:50.960 the season seven thirty Central kickoff, and as you guys know, 200 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:52.919 on Apple TV, you always have the option to listen 201 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.480 to the home radio broadcast, So hope you'll check us 202 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:58.000 out as I believe Atlanta as an hour before, right, 203 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:00.679 so maybe once that Montreal game he wraps up, you 204 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:02.600 can kick over and check out what's going on in 205 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:03.240 Music City. 206 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:07.679 Multiple devices is what we anticipate all season long. Now 207 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:10.720 that you have the key to open the door, you 208 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:14.840 can crash in anytime. I'm tempted to turn Fridays into 209 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:18.000 a free for all. So if anybody literally wants to 210 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.159 just drop in, give me five minutes and get out 211 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:23.840 about their particular matchup perfectly, fine, curve and cool, because 212 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:25.919 that's what Friday's for for whip aroun when it comes 213 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:27.279 to match weeks, go to work. 214 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:28.720 I don't wanted to get you in any trouble. Do 215 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:29.519 you need a haul pass? 216 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:31.440 D I'm all right. I think I'll manage. 217 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:33.120 Let's see if I can make it through with this 218 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:35.120 snow and ice still on the ground out here, but 219 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:36.519 I just got to make it to tomorrow night. 220 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:37.240 Looking forward to it. 221 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:39.080 There you go, brother, be safe. We'll catch up soon. 222 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:40.519 Thanks, John, talk to you soon. 223 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:43.159 That's Lucas Panzica, one of four five the zone up 224 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:45.960 there in Nashville, and it's great to catch up with 225 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:48.799 him and get his feedback on what's going on. Interesting 226 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:51.919 off season for our friends up there four hours away, 227 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:53.960 a couple of weeks away, as Lucas said, from that 228 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:57.679 matchup with Landy unighted and with Nashville, so wanted to 229 00:10:57.679 --> 00:10:59.639 get Lucas in to get the perspective of one of 230 00:10:59.679 --> 00:11:03.440 the region area rivals. We talked to Willie p earlier 231 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:06.840 this week, talked to Lucas today and so that's kind 232 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:10.840 of where we sit. So our number two is going 233 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:13.159 to be the weekend whip around pat and pending trademark 234 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.519 coming center hopefully rather than later, and we'll go over everything. 235 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.480 I'm anticipating that Jason's visit weekly visits at ten thirty 236 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:22.960 will start in an hour and fourteen minutes from now, 237 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:25.240 and we'll go over everything. I want to start with Rooted. 238 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:27.039 I want to go through that. I want to go 239 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:29.399 through on Side and what we saw there with Apple TV, 240 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:31.600 and then I want to get into the matchup. Obviously, 241 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:34.519 the news yesterday, we still have a lingering question at 242 00:11:34.519 --> 00:11:37.480 the back line involving a fitness test. I wanted to 243 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:39.679 get Jason's thoughts on the back line, what he thinks 244 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:41.799 it's going to look like, and what the attack is 245 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:44.879 going to look like, and what he sees against a 246 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:45.759 team in. 247 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:50.919 CF Montreal that could cause early problems. 248 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:52.480 I mean, I think by the end of it, I'll 249 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:54.240 want go through the juice boxes too as we go, 250 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:57.360 but I think early on, I mean, there is no 251 00:11:57.440 --> 00:11:59.399 denying And for those of us that have seen Lauren 252 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:02.480 Coontrois with his time in MLS Next Pro with Crew two, 253 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:04.440 we know what he can bring to the table. And 254 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:06.799 there are a couple of players that can cause problems 255 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:10.080 for Atlanta United and have done so in the past. 256 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:13.519 You have Caden Clark and Bryce Duke for starters. Remember 257 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:15.559 Bryce Duke. If it wasn't in Montreal, it was out 258 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:18.879 in Los Angeles. And with Cad and Clark, we know 259 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:21.240 his history as well here in Major League Soccer, so 260 00:12:21.639 --> 00:12:24.039 past those points. Want to get into that. And you've 261 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:26.039 also got George Campbell hanging out at the back too, 262 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:29.240 So want to get into Montreal a little bit, want 263 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:31.600 to get into Atlanta a lot. Whatever is on your 264 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:34.399 mind here on a match week preview on a weekend 265 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:37.960 Whip brown on a freestyle Friday. So we've obviously put 266 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:40.240 out the bat signal to our friends at Beyond Goals Menering, 267 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:42.919 so we'll see if Greg and or Parky can join us. 268 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:45.600 In about fifteen minutes, we'll go through what it's like 269 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:49.080 to start something anew what their anticipation levels are. If 270 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:52.519 you've looked at Greg on his social media this morning, 271 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:54.360 he was going through a thirty minute challenge. I want 272 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:56.159 to talk to him about that when it comes to 273 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:58.799 his mentees, and we'll find out about that, and we'll 274 00:12:58.799 --> 00:12:59.759 see if Parky's thought out. 275 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:01.720 So we'll get into that stuff coming up in about 276 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:02.279 fifteen minutes. 277 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:04.399 All right, time to cut the promos and get everything 278 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:07.240 squared away for you here on a freestyle Friday once 279 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:09.039 again we can whip around. Coming up an hour number 280 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:12.799 two Okay opening Kickoff presented by our friends at Kickoff 281 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:16.559 Coffee Kickoff Coffeeco dot Com. I've got the QR code 282 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:18.159 in the computer somewhere. 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Does it really seem 294 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:57.759 like that first ever Opening Day? Was that many years ago? 295 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:03.759 Over at the Flats, it seems like it was yesterday 296 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:07.039 at some points and in other points, yet it does 297 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:09.240 feel like it was, you know, that many years ago. 298 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:12.200 But it's the beauty of opening day. 299 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:14.519 I mean, we discuss it right now with pitchers and 300 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:17.559 catchers and your favorite teams and spring training, whether it's 301 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:22.320 great further Cactus League, this is where optimism begins anew 302 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:26.360 and everything is laid out. Where you've got You've got 303 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:29.519 all of your off season transactions. Everything has been put together. 304 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:32.360 If you're doing fantasy, set your fantasy leagues and set 305 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:34.559 your fantasy rosters. I do not know yet if we're 306 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:37.720 having a fantasy league this year, and when we do, 307 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:42.039 obviously we'll put out the notifications. So you set your 308 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:45.360 fantasy teams, you have your expectations, You've seen what's been 309 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:47.080 going on in the off season, and now it's time 310 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:50.200 for the rubber to hit the road. Slam it into uh, 311 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:53.360 slam it to drive. Squeal the tires like Steve McQueen 312 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:55.799 did in Bullet when he missed the turn, back it 313 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:57.759 up and go down the intersection, one of the best 314 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:00.960 chase scenes ever. Squeal the tire, slam it and drive 315 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:04.159 and go. And I know that the optimism is there 316 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:08.200 understandably so considering what we've seen in the Eastern Conference 317 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:12.120 with transactions and players going from one place to another, 318 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:16.679 and here in Atlanta obviously with what Garth Lockerway and 319 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:19.960 Chris Henderson and the front office have done scouting department 320 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:23.000 and everybody globe trotting and bringing in all these players 321 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:25.200 over the last and we'll go ahead and say nine 322 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:30.039 to twelve months, and the expectations are there, both in 323 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:34.240 house and obviously with you the seventeens, so you have 324 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:37.720 all of this material piece together. Tomorrow is when it 325 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:42.360 hits for real. And then the sprint which in a 326 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:44.600 way it's what it is. It doesn't seem like it, 327 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:47.440 but then by the time the season's over, you're like 328 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:50.600 man that went by quick, and it kind of does. 329 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:52.559 Before you know it. 330 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:55.440 It will be September and October and we'll be looking 331 00:15:55.480 --> 00:15:57.960 at combinations and permutations and all that kind of stuff. 332 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:02.840 Enjoy the ride, should be fun, should be a blast. 333 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:09.399 Starts tomorrow. Remember, folks, pace yourself both when you go 334 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:12.360 to games and just in general, so just pay yourself, 335 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:16.279 enjoy it. It's Match Day one coming up tomorrow. We'll 336 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:19.120 go over broadcast plans in our number two as well 337 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:23.399 when it comes to Atlanta United. But pay yourself, enjoy yourself. 338 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:25.559 It's match week one, and I know that a lot 339 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:27.120 of you are ready to just slam it in the 340 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:31.679 fifth gear and get the twenty twenty five season underway, understandably. 341 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:32.799 So so let's have some fun. 342 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:38.600 And obviously, starting on Monday programming note there, Monday, we're 343 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:41.440 gonna be talking about it all. I will be in 344 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:44.759 a hotel room in Thomson, Georgia with you because of 345 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:47.720 no actually no, i'll be Tuesday will be when I'm 346 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:52.440 in a hotel room in Thompson Georgia. Monday is another 347 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:54.399 one of our games of the week, and so after 348 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:58.799 the Monday show where we have reaction Monday, Monday's matches 349 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:02.799 are going to be in Lincolnton, Thompson and Lincoln County. 350 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:04.359 It'll be our first time there to look at the 351 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:08.359 up and coming Lincoln County program in Class A in 352 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:12.519 high school. And it's a region it's an area arrival. 353 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:14.640 It's not a region rival, but it's an area arrival 354 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.519 and Thompson separated by about twenty minutes, and it'll be 355 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:20.720 a good gauge for what's been going on with will 356 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:22.960 Homskis and how they've grown the program out there. So 357 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:28.799 Monday Reaction Monday, I hop in a car travel to Lincolnton, 358 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:33.960 broadcast from Lincolnton on our mixer channel Thompson and Lincoln County. 359 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.480 That is Monday night. So Tuesday as well, I'll try 360 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:39.720 to recover. I'll be in a hotel room in Thompson, 361 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:42.359 Georgia for the morning show and we will break it 362 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:48.720 down there Today after all of this finishes up, Jason 363 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.599 and I mid afternoon are going to try and welcome 364 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:54.039 the traffic up I seventy five. We're gonna join it. 365 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:56.680 We're gonna head to Dalton, second time this week that 366 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:59.000 the Dalton Catamounts have been on the air, and it's 367 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:01.839 a boys game seven thirty beyond the air about seven 368 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:06.319 to fifteen with your pregame show with Dalton hosting Johnson Gainesville. 369 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:11.400 Two great programs here at the end of winter break, decided, Hey, 370 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:14.039 let's match up and we'll see where we are. So 371 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:17.400 Johnson gains will travels to Dalton seven thirty kick seven 372 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:20.720 fifteen ish pregame on our Mixler channel. Let's soccer down 373 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:23.400 here dot Mixler dot com. So you'll get a big 374 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:28.279 Georgia high school boys matchup tonight seven fifteen to seven 375 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:29.960 thirty and then nine thirty and then Jason and I 376 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:33.319 head back home. We should have an after the whistle 377 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:38.359 posted for postgame of that match Saturday morning for you. 378 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:40.200 It's kind of like a primer to get you into 379 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:43.480 match week one. So Action Tonight seven fifteen and seven 380 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:46.440 thirty pregame and real game, uh the the high school 381 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:49.440 game of the Day, presented by our friends at Kaiser 382 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:53.839 Permanente and Kaiser Permanente fantastic sponsors here with us here 383 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:56.759 at sdh SO seven thirty match after the whistle tomorrow 384 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:58.839 because we got to drive back to Atlanta and I've 385 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:00.640 got to let out somebody, but because he will have 386 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:03.480 been staring at the door for a handful of hours. 387 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:06.680 So that's the broadcast plan today. You've got all the 388 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:09.680 content that was put up yesterday. The interview that Maddy 389 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:11.759 had with Dax McCarty is up on the network, so 390 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:14.319 you can look at that, get Dax's thoughts as he's 391 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:16.839 heading into Match week one now with the new gig 392 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:19.880 where he's wearing a blazer and Tenney's working for Apple TV. 393 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:22.880 Great conversation that Maddy had with Dax that's up on 394 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:25.400 the network right now as well. So all of this 395 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.960 stuff getting you ready for Match week one. Callum Williams 396 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:32.000 conversation as well. So all of that material on the network, 397 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:34.200 on all of our social media channels. You can view it, 398 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:35.920 you can listen to it, all of it once again 399 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:38.799 getting you ready for Match week one. But tonight first 400 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:41.880 step seven to fifteen pre game seven point thirty kick 401 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:46.039 Johnson gains will and Dalton from a harmon chapel up 402 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:47.880 in Dalton, and it's going to be fun to be 403 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:49.880 up there and see that environment on a Friday night 404 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:54.880 during winter break. Okay, other things. Now, once again you 405 00:19:54.920 --> 00:19:59.720 can get the first ever SDH jersey presented by our 406 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:02.119 friends at Kaiser Permanente. Thanks to our friends at Olivi 407 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:04.799 and York helps out and once again thanks to our 408 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:08.279 friends at Beyond Goals menoring Soccer for Good and with 409 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:12.079 your purchase of that Olive and York jersey, you help 410 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:13.960 out some of the programs that we have earmarked here 411 00:20:13.960 --> 00:20:16.160 in twenty twenty five to do our hashtag Soccer for 412 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:17.039 Good campaign. 413 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:19.799 You can get it the navy jersey is Navy. 414 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:22.519 You can get it either in white letters and numerals 415 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:26.400 for personalization, or you can get it in the Navy blue. 416 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:28.599 So you can go to Olivi and York get the 417 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:31.119 SDH jersey. You can help give back a soccer for 418 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:33.720 Good here in twenty font Also, what you can do 419 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:36.319 is you can go to Grady Baby and Grady Baby Co. 420 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:39.240 You've seen me wear the sweatshirt, You've seen Jason wear 421 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:41.000 the sweatshirt. I know that some of you also have 422 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:43.240 picked up the sweatshirts and or the T shirts. You 423 00:20:43.240 --> 00:20:45.440 can get it in red with gold lettering. You can 424 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:48.640 get it in black with gold font Soccer's just Better 425 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:51.759 in Atlanta. You go to Grady Baby and you can 426 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:53.839 get the sweatshirt of the T shirt or both, and 427 00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:57.680 you're helping out middle school soccer programs attached to Atlanta 428 00:20:57.680 --> 00:20:58.519 public schools. 429 00:20:58.640 --> 00:20:59.880 And so if you go through. 430 00:20:59.720 --> 00:21:02.359 Great Baby and Grady Baby Co, you get the Soccer's 431 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:05.599 Just Better in Atlanta, you help out the aps and 432 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:09.200 middle school soccer programs and the growth of the game there. Also, 433 00:21:09.559 --> 00:21:13.240 don't forget if you watch us on a daily basis, 434 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:16.119 you see in the open the discussion about becoming a 435 00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:21.839 Fanati code. Go to Chant, download the Chant app, and 436 00:21:21.880 --> 00:21:24.960 then if you sign up for being a Fanati co 437 00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:28.519 ten dollars a year you get with the Chant app, 438 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:30.519 you get all kinds of discounts to a bunch of 439 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:33.519 cool places, and you get to help us out here 440 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:36.960 at SDH. You get discounts a bunch of different joints 441 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:40.039 here and we're starting our Fanati Coast chapter. For ten 442 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:42.720 dollars a year. You go to Chant. I think Abby 443 00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:46.039 has done it. Abby has navigated it successfully. I still 444 00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:48.119 have to figure out how to navigate it successfully. But 445 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:51.039 go into Chant become a finaate co at SDH you 446 00:21:51.079 --> 00:21:53.559 get some really cool discounts along the way, very very 447 00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:56.160 cool stuff. Helping out SDH, helping out businesses and helping 448 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:58.440 out grow in the game as well. So Chant the 449 00:21:58.559 --> 00:22:02.079 Chant app going to become a finati coo ten dollars 450 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:03.960 a year helps you out there. I'm trying to think, Oh, 451 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:06.799 the Marshall Islands projects send out some Marshall Island scarves yesterday. 452 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:10.680 And with all of that which you can do is 453 00:22:10.680 --> 00:22:13.640 you can help out a program that has grown from 454 00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:16.160 the ground up. Lloyd Auers, the technical director, is on 455 00:22:16.279 --> 00:22:19.319 the island right now. If you follow him on the 456 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:23.279 two hundred and eighty character app and you see now 457 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:27.200 inter intra Island since it's all inside the Marshall Islands chain, 458 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:30.160 Intra Island Footsal tournaments. So that's where the game has 459 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:33.000 grown in eighteen months. They now have organized footsal tournaments 460 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:35.640 amongst the islands there in the island chain. They're trying 461 00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:39.079 to get sanctioned and be a part of the Oceania 462 00:22:39.480 --> 00:22:42.640 Confederation in FIFA. A lot of growing to do. You 463 00:22:42.680 --> 00:22:44.839 can get the jerseys through them, you get the bucket 464 00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:47.119 hats through them. All of that stuff you get through them. 465 00:22:47.160 --> 00:22:50.839 They ship it from England. Help out locally. You want 466 00:22:50.839 --> 00:22:52.880 to get the scarf, you go to the Marshall Island store. 467 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:55.200 You want the Marshall Island scarf. I send it to 468 00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:57.039 you because I've got him on the other side of 469 00:22:57.039 --> 00:23:00.640 this door. Got about fourteen left right now in the 470 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:02.839 current shipment. So you can help out the Marshall Island 471 00:23:02.839 --> 00:23:07.599 Soccer Federation continue to grow. Help the guys in England. 472 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:10.640 Actually fly to the Marshall Islands. It's like a twenty 473 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:13.880 two hour flight and you can help them out as 474 00:23:13.880 --> 00:23:16.279 they continue to grow the island and grow the island nation. 475 00:23:16.680 --> 00:23:19.279 When it comes to the beautiful game, so you can 476 00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:21.599 help out the Marshall Island Soccer Federation as we have 477 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:23.759 with our project. You get to see Maddie's face hold 478 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:26.039 up the scarf that we help design with them, and 479 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:27.240 I send it to you. 480 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:30.119 That's the beauty of it. I send you the scarf. 481 00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:34.119 Order everything else that comes from England, you get the scarf. 482 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:34.720 It comes from me. 483 00:23:36.599 --> 00:23:39.319 That's how close you are to helping out the Marshall Islands. 484 00:23:39.319 --> 00:23:42.559 It's a lot less than the mail service coming from 485 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:44.640 the other side of the Atlantic. It's just when you 486 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:47.519 kick me in the button, get me to the you 487 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:49.279 get me to the post office so I can mail 488 00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:50.640 it to you, so you can help out the Marshall 489 00:23:50.680 --> 00:23:54.200 Island Soccer Federation by doing that. All right, so we 490 00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:57.000 do have news. We do have a bunch of things 491 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:01.039 to discuss. The matchups are out in Europa Conference League. 492 00:24:01.119 --> 00:24:03.559 The women's national team last night at Helen Michelle. We 493 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:06.559 had Jamie Watson on yesterday to break down the She 494 00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:07.319 Believes Cup. 495 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:08.559 Two goals on the board. 496 00:24:08.599 --> 00:24:12.039 Capt Maccario and ab and Ali Sentner score in the 497 00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:13.920 thirty third and the sixtieth one on each half in 498 00:24:13.960 --> 00:24:16.319 front of an announced crowd of just over fifteen thousand 499 00:24:16.720 --> 00:24:19.680 and so. Emma Hayes with a bunch of new faces 500 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:24.759 that are there, uh Yasmin Ryan, Lily Johannes, all of 501 00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:27.680 the younger faces were there. We'll go through the grades 502 00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:31.319 really quickly. Jane Campbell, listed as a five, didn't have 503 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:33.200 to make a single save on the day, posted a 504 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:37.960 shutout defenders Emily Fox, Emily Sonnic, Tara McEwen Fox a six, 505 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:41.119 Sonata five mcew and a six. Jenn and Eiswanger had 506 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:42.960 a four on the night. And this is once again 507 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:44.839 courtesy of our friends at Soccer America and how they 508 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:51.759 view things according to our friends at Soccer America. Apparently, 509 00:24:51.799 --> 00:24:55.160 according to Theodore Lloyd Hughes TLH, he said that jenn 510 00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:59.119 and Eiswanger looked uncomfortable at times dealing with Lacy Santos 511 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:04.240 Ramirez and and Cayesadam so he gave Niswanger a four 512 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:08.519 on the night midfielders Lily Johanna, Sam Coffee, Lindsay Heaps, 513 00:25:08.839 --> 00:25:11.400 Lily Johannes he gave us seven. Lindsay Heaps of five, 514 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:15.119 Sam Coffee got a six. Kat maccario back. You also 515 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:18.119 had mccario once again. You had Yasmine Ryan and Alley Center. 516 00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:22.599 Yasmin Ryan six, Macario and Center got sevens. International debuts 517 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:26.480 last night for Giselle Thompson and Michelle Cooper. Thompson goes 518 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:29.640 for fourteen minutes, Michelle Cooper goes for twenty seven And 519 00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:33.680 you also had Lynn Biendelo, Lynn Williams getting a handful 520 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:36.680 of minutes, Jadon Shawn, Corbin Albert fives across the board 521 00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:40.279 according to TLH and Soccer America for Biendelo, Cooper, Thompson, 522 00:25:40.359 --> 00:25:44.000 Corbin Albert and Jaden Shaw. Your trivia courtesy of Soccer 523 00:25:44.039 --> 00:25:47.920 America from last night. Lily Johannas at seventeen years, two 524 00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:50.559 hundred and fifty three days old, second youngest player ever 525 00:25:50.599 --> 00:25:54.359 to appear, and she believes after Brazil's Geo Garbealini back 526 00:25:54.359 --> 00:25:58.200 in twenty twenty one, seventeen years two forty five youngest 527 00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:01.960 ever to start, as she believes match McEwan Thompson Cooper fourth, 528 00:26:02.039 --> 00:26:04.079 fifth and sixth players to earn their first caps that 529 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:07.640 she believes, following in the footsteps of Rose Level and 530 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:11.359 seventeen ad franch in twenty nineteen and Trinity Rodman in 531 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:15.160 twenty two, she believes continues with the USWNT tanking on 532 00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:20.359 Australia in Glendale on Sunday, Your refing crew was a 533 00:26:20.440 --> 00:26:24.599 Karen Hernandez, Jessica Morales, may Ramra and Amarani Garcia was 534 00:26:24.640 --> 00:26:26.759 your fourth once again. Shots on the day ten to 535 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:30.279 seven to the US, three on target for the United States, 536 00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:33.400 none for Columbia, one say for Columbia on the day. 537 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:35.200 Cornerkicks six total four to. 538 00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:38.160 Colombia, two to the US twenty six fouls on the 539 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:41.119 day fourteen for Columbia twelve to the US six off 540 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:44.079 side calls four of those to Columbia possession two to 541 00:26:44.119 --> 00:26:46.160 one for the United States. 542 00:26:46.200 --> 00:26:47.000 So that's your. 543 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:53.160 Rundown quickly of what happened in she believes and that 544 00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:57.440 is that's what you're staring at. So I think it 545 00:26:57.480 --> 00:26:59.960 was supposed to be Greg's turn. You know, Greg obviously 546 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:06.039 is globe trotting. Then once again, you follow great through 547 00:27:06.039 --> 00:27:06.640 social media. 548 00:27:06.680 --> 00:27:08.119 You know that. 549 00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:12.480 He's all over the place helping out Major League Soccer 550 00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:17.519 and trying to grow Beyond Goals, and so we'll see, 551 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:20.079 I'm trying to type with Greg through email at the 552 00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:23.880 same time I'm trying to talk to you, and so 553 00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:32.160 we may may have a cameo. Greg is obviously he's 554 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:33.720 trying to figure out if he can make it. If 555 00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:35.440 he can't, he can then once again, if he can't, 556 00:27:35.880 --> 00:27:39.119 then well then we'll obviously we'll pick up party and 557 00:27:39.240 --> 00:27:42.200 Greg on the flip side with our friends from Beyond 558 00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:45.680 Goals and the Friday free kick announced early this morning 559 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:49.839 through MLS All Caps and the deal is officially official. 560 00:27:51.039 --> 00:27:55.960 Savannah's Indiana assalv part of the Tormentous System. Indy has 561 00:27:56.039 --> 00:28:01.319 been sent from All Caps to Philadelphia a million dollars 562 00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:05.240 in guaranteed gam over two seasons. If you read published reports, 563 00:28:05.799 --> 00:28:10.680 you would have seen that Indy apparently was not happy 564 00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:14.880 with his time in Saint Louis and was looking for 565 00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:18.920 a new address to apply his trade in Major League Soccer. 566 00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:22.400 Saint Louis and Philadelphia had a conversation, and so Indiana 567 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:25.559 Vassilev is now headed to Philly in exchange for four 568 00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:28.880 hundred thousand in GAM and twenty five, six hundred thousand 569 00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:31.240 in gam and twenty six, and there could be an 570 00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:34.359 additional two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in GAM if 571 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:39.519 certain performance based incentives are achieved. This is coming straight 572 00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:44.160 from Saint Louis City sc This morning. Lutzvanensteel came out 573 00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:48.680 with a couple of sentences and it was two seasons 574 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:52.000 before Saint Louis that that Indy was with Messi and 575 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:55.160 Friends five plus two and forty five matches played back 576 00:28:55.200 --> 00:29:00.319 to back seven goal contributions seasons with Saint Louis two 577 00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:03.720 plus five and twenty three seven goal contributions and five 578 00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:06.240 assists were career bests. In twenty four he had three 579 00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:10.599 goals and four assists over twenty over twenty nine matches played. 580 00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:14.440 So Indiana of asselev now officially official going from Saint 581 00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:17.839 Louis to Philadelphia. It was reported yesterday Saint Louis now 582 00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:20.519 has the official ward out that it is Indiana of 583 00:29:20.519 --> 00:29:24.319 asslev from Savannah heading from Saint Louis to Philly to 584 00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:29.119 be a part of the Union roster here in what's 585 00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:31.039 the year what I'm talking about, twenty twenty five, So 586 00:29:31.480 --> 00:29:34.839 that's what's where we are with the early transactions this morning, 587 00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:38.279 getting you're ready for match week one. Also we'll get 588 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:42.519 into we actually do have Friday Night football tonight and 589 00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:46.559 it is Lester and Brentford, and there are some stuff 590 00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:50.039 going on overseas. We'll get into Champions League so we 591 00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:51.759 can get the Champions League in the Europa League out 592 00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:53.720 of the way when it comes to matchups and discussions 593 00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:55.599 and things like that, and we'll say hi to everybody. 594 00:29:55.759 --> 00:29:58.359 Gets you ready for match week one with weekend Whip 595 00:29:58.400 --> 00:30:01.960 Brown kicking off at ten o'clock now it is Champions 596 00:30:02.039 --> 00:30:05.519 League draw is in full and Ricky no doubt it 597 00:30:05.559 --> 00:30:08.559 is the connection with Bradley Carnell. Carnell liked what he 598 00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:11.599 saw with Vassilev and so it was an easy dance partner. 599 00:30:12.279 --> 00:30:17.559 So you end up with the last sixteen. Now officially 600 00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:19.440 they had the draw this morning. In about Champions League 601 00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:25.039 and in Europa League PSG and Liverpool obviously not a 602 00:30:25.079 --> 00:30:27.400 bad matchup if you can have it. So you have 603 00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:30.839 PSG in Liverpool and they will get the winner of 604 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:35.400 Bruges and aston Villa. So you have on the left 605 00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:39.200 hand side of the bracket. In Champions League you have 606 00:30:40.359 --> 00:30:44.839 all three Premier League clubs in the eight. On that 607 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.119 side you have all three Premier League clubs to the left, 608 00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:52.559 no Premier League clubs to the right, Paris and Liverpool, 609 00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:55.920 PSG in Liverpool upper left they get the winner of 610 00:30:56.039 --> 00:31:03.200 Bruges and aston Villa. Low left, realmad Athletico Madrid, hm, gee, 611 00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:06.680 that won't be any fireworks or nothing, and ps behind 612 00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:10.640 Hoven and Arsenal. So really the survivor of Real Madrid 613 00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:13.559 and ATHLETI could end up getting Arsenal, but don't tell 614 00:31:13.559 --> 00:31:18.640 PSV that right hand side of the bracket Benfica, Barsa, 615 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:22.319 Dortmund and Leal, so you kind of see where it 616 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:25.720 might be heading there if chalk was to happen, Bayern, Munich, 617 00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:30.839 Buyer Lever Cusan okay, and then fian Oord and Inter Milan. 618 00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:36.759 So you do have some interesting subplots in bracket in 619 00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:39.720 the matchup number three as you go down each particular 620 00:31:39.880 --> 00:31:43.559 side in the brackets, as you're following along in bracketology, 621 00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:48.039 you literally have Real and Athlete as matchup three on 622 00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:51.400 the left hand side, and you have Bayern Munich and 623 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:53.880 Buyer Lever Cusan as your third matchup on the right 624 00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:57.720 hand side. So that's what you're staring at with those matchups. 625 00:31:58.119 --> 00:32:02.279 March fourth and fifth, eleventh and twelfth, and that is 626 00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:05.359 when the Champions League gets from the Round of sixteen 627 00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:06.880 heading toward the round of eight. 628 00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:09.000 Liverpool and PSG. 629 00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:11.720 And Arsenal is on the same side of the draw 630 00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:17.559 as Real Madrid, same mini bracket as Real Madrid. So 631 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:20.200 if Arsenal survives, then they get the winner of Real 632 00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:24.519 Madrid and Atletico Madrid. Gee, thanks for dropping by so 633 00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:29.279 uh Villa and Bruce is a tough quarterfinal for Unayamri 634 00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:34.920 as you look forward, but brucees and Villa man round 635 00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:41.519 of sixteen Real Madrid Atletico Madrid, thanks for coming. I'm 636 00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:44.680 not gonna mention anything about frozen envelopes or anything. Third 637 00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:49.119 year in a row Arsenal get PSV mckel artetis side 638 00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:53.240 they've had problems away from home playing at PSV beat 639 00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:55.599 them four nil on the Emirates back in September twenty three. 640 00:32:56.799 --> 00:32:59.359 League phase inter have only given up one goal in 641 00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:04.720 eight matches and that's just insane. Fine order fourth in 642 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:09.359 the air to his Ze And so right now, Vincent Company, 643 00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:12.839 if you look back at the last matchup with the 644 00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:17.200 Vincent Company had in Champions League, just ask Jared about 645 00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:21.839 Celtic and how close Celtic was to maybe knocking off 646 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:25.960 Bayern Munich. If it didn't happen at the death, you 647 00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:28.440 would have gone an extra thirty. Then you would have 648 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:30.799 seen from there what would have happened. So Jared has 649 00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:33.960 been ruing what happened in the last round. So you've 650 00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:39.480 got Byron Shabi Alonzo unbeaten in six against Byron beat 651 00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:43.319 him to the league title last year. Borusha Dortmann. By 652 00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:48.160 the way, they're eleventh in the Bundesliga. Right now, you 653 00:33:48.200 --> 00:33:54.720 get Lel you should advance Benfica and Barsa. If you 654 00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:56.720 were Juice, if you're looking at juice boxes in this one, 655 00:33:56.759 --> 00:33:57.799 you probably should take the over. 656 00:33:58.640 --> 00:33:59.359 Just saying. 657 00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:05.759 Five to four when they played in January, Barcelona, Benfica 658 00:34:05.759 --> 00:34:08.239 and Monaco. Remember the insanity of the six gold draw 659 00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:11.840 there at three to three, winning four to three on aggregate. 660 00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:20.400 So it's looking like, let's just say you figure Liverpool, 661 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:30.320 you know, you figure maybe next round is Liverpool and 662 00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:35.719 Aston Villa Arsenal in Real Madrid. But Real Madrid, and 663 00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:41.199 that's lette who you figure Barsa an ter see one 664 00:34:41.920 --> 00:34:45.400 of the publications overseas is already looking at a Real 665 00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:49.119 Madrid win over Barsa in the final. So that's what 666 00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:52.000 you're looking at. With the draw from Champions League this morning, 667 00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:53.840 we do have news out of the Premier League coming up. 668 00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:59.599 In a second Europa League draw round of sixteen. You 669 00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:04.599 got as everybody's heading to bill Bau, Victoria Pilsen and 670 00:35:04.679 --> 00:35:08.280 Lazzio Bodo Glimpt, remember the craziness that was there in 671 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:12.760 Bodo Glimpt trying to advance furious second half comeback. So 672 00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:16.840 Bodo Glimpt advances, they get Olympiacos i Ax and Eintrach, Frankfurt, 673 00:35:17.239 --> 00:35:20.719 oz At Alkmar and Spurs. Spurs is still hanging in 674 00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:22.840 their left hand side of the bracket. Right hand side, 675 00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:27.320 Roma and Athletic Clube, fender Bache and Rangers. So you 676 00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:30.880 could have Josie Mourinho and fender Bach taking on Roma 677 00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:34.039 in the next round of both teams advance FCSB and 678 00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:39.480 Leyel Rail sociodad in Manchester United. So Manchester United they 679 00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:42.320 get past Rail sociadd you could end up with Leon 680 00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:45.360 and then you look at the matchups. 681 00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:49.480 Dutch fans. Remember when they tried to. 682 00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:53.960 Go for the west Ham matchup last time around, Remember 683 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:56.039 the security problems there. I would anticipate a lot of 684 00:35:56.079 --> 00:36:00.760 security in that matchup with azy alkmarn Spurs Our Sociodd 685 00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:03.880 Manchester United. With everything going on with Rubin a Marim 686 00:36:03.920 --> 00:36:06.320 and Manchester United, there's probably not a lot of optimism 687 00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:11.519 that Manchester United would get out of this matchup. You 688 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:14.159 got folks sitting there saying Rale sociodid And apparently there's 689 00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:17.559 going to be a three D later today from Drew Dickinson. 690 00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:20.079 He said it was one of the longest three d's 691 00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:25.920 that he has ever pieced together. So listen for that 692 00:36:26.039 --> 00:36:28.960 and we'll post that on the network a little later on. 693 00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:31.440 But so round of sixteen you could have Roma and 694 00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:37.000 Fenerbache in a quarterfinal. Now news out of the Premier 695 00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:39.599 League once again, we're gonna talk about it Land United 696 00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:41.679 and what's on your mind As we go after this 697 00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:44.280 and get you ready for the weekend. We'll go through gossip, 698 00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:45.960 rumor and innuendo. What to watch, her to watch it, 699 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:47.760 how to watch it. Then we're gonna spend the rest 700 00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:50.760 of the time talking about Major League Soccer weekend, Whip 701 00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:54.599 Brown and catching up with all you. Telegraph article Mike 702 00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:59.400 McGrath Manchester United staff threatened with the sack if they 703 00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:04.000 leak in from Chief executive Omar Barata has issued a 704 00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:07.679 warning in an email as an investigation has been launched 705 00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:12.000 into a succession of leaks. Warrant staff in a bombshell 706 00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:16.360 email revealing club information will be considered gross misconduct, which 707 00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:19.920 could get them sacked. A five hundred and eighty word 708 00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:26.320 missive McGrath says to employees. As details of the cutbacks 709 00:37:26.320 --> 00:37:31.840 and redundancies continue at United, staff were told additional measures 710 00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:33.920 in quotation marks are now being put in place to 711 00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:37.280 prevent the details of changes being released before official club announcements. 712 00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:46.440 In the email quote, anyone disclosing information outside of the 713 00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:49.480 club is breaching their obligations of confidentiality. We are very 714 00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:51.880 clear that this will be considered gross miss conduct. To 715 00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:54.840 protect the club and its colleagues. Additional measures are being 716 00:37:54.840 --> 00:37:57.960 put in place to prevent future breaches of confidentiality and 717 00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:04.519 also identify any person's responsible end quote. Under government guidelines, 718 00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:07.519 employees can be dismissed immediately for grossman's conduct if the 719 00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:11.400 correct procedures are followed. According to McGrath, so far Surgeon 720 00:38:11.480 --> 00:38:13.679 Ratcliffe has seen over two hundred and fifty staff leaving 721 00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:19.400 through the redundancy process. Another one hundred now expected. United 722 00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:21.519 are going to hold a staff meeting Monday when further 723 00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:24.480 plans are outlined to reduce costs to raise revenues after 724 00:38:24.519 --> 00:38:26.800 losing more than three hundred million pounds in the last 725 00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:30.800 three years. And remember earlier this week we said that 726 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:34.440 it cost fourteen and a half million pounds to pay 727 00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:37.559 out Eric Tenhag, his staff and Dan Ashworth. 728 00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:39.679 Thank you for your service. 729 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:45.960 So that's probably the biggest piece of news from the 730 00:38:46.360 --> 00:38:50.039 Telegraph this morning. And there's a rather large special report 731 00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:53.840 in the Telegraph about the first year under Sir Jim Ratcliffe. 732 00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:59.239 As things have laid out, and it's probably easy to 733 00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:02.440 say that it has not been a fun year for 734 00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:06.559 anyone who has been associated either in the employee or 735 00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:14.039 in the fandom at Manchester United, checking really quickly just 736 00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:15.440 to see if there's anything else that. 737 00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:16.480 I may have missed. 738 00:39:16.599 --> 00:39:22.159 When it comes to stuff, probably your deeper you're deeper 739 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:24.800 read This morning is over at the Guardian. Has to 740 00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:28.079 do with the Zambian Federation. Just so you're knowing what's 741 00:39:28.119 --> 00:39:31.920 going on with what's going on with the calf. You 742 00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:36.559 had an FA president reelected unopposed. Eight nominees were disqualified 743 00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:42.079 in the process, and so you have another federation that 744 00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:46.039 t is in a bit of upheaval. So we'll keep 745 00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:48.159 an eye on that as well. Okay, let's say hot 746 00:39:48.199 --> 00:39:50.920 everybody and get you into what to watch or to 747 00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:52.440 watch it, how to watch it, and all the gossipermer 748 00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:54.239 in any window once again, our number two. We're gonna 749 00:39:54.239 --> 00:39:57.079 spend with weekend up around patent pending trademark coming sooner 750 00:39:57.159 --> 00:39:59.280 hopefully rather than later. Jason should be joining us around 751 00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:03.400 ten thirty or so. We'll go everywhere from onside and 752 00:40:03.519 --> 00:40:07.320 rooted forward with Major League Soccer, all those matchups and 753 00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:09.000 what he looks at in the Eastern Conference, any of 754 00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:12.320 the other matchups that are there. So your gossip, berumer 755 00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:14.079 and innuendo for today Like I said, I'm getting all 756 00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:15.559 this stuff out of the way so we can talk Mlsson 757 00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:16.599 Atlanta United. 758 00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:17.400 For the remainder of the show. 759 00:40:18.719 --> 00:40:22.400 Liverpool look increasingly likely to sell Darwin Nunez, with him 760 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:25.880 looking to struggle for playing time at Old traff at Anfield. 761 00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:29.199 Manchester unitedly the race to sign Crystal Palace midfielder Adam 762 00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:32.400 Wharton you they remain interested Jack Grealish, Kevin de Bruna 763 00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:36.119 Bernardo Silva expected to headline an exodus of Manchester City 764 00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:39.719 players this summer as pept Guardiella rebuilds the squad. Manchester 765 00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:41.559 City also could look to sell as many as eight 766 00:40:41.599 --> 00:40:44.400 senior players, according to The Daily Mirror, as they try 767 00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:47.679 and chase after Florian verts at bayer Levercusan and You've 768 00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:51.599 a full back Andrea Cambiasso. Guardiella is committed to putting 769 00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:53.960 things right at Manchester City, according to the Telegraph, but 770 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:56.119 if he were asked to leave, the club would not 771 00:40:56.159 --> 00:40:58.960 stand in his way. If he were to ask to leave, 772 00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:00.159 the club would not stand at his way. I have 773 00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:03.440 to get my modifier right. Newcastle prepared to pay Brentford 774 00:41:03.679 --> 00:41:07.000 fifty million pounds for Brian and Bumo ac Milan ready 775 00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:09.800 to listen to offers for rafa Al Barcelona Chelsea long 776 00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:13.760 term admirers Barcicon Admiral they want How are you going 777 00:41:13.800 --> 00:41:17.039 to pay the man? That's the biggest question. United also 778 00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:20.440 interested in signing Atalanta's keeper One Muso, currently on Londed 779 00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:25.480 Athletico Madrid. His concerns grow over Andre Onana's form. It's 780 00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:28.400 a day that ends in why. Manchester United are also 781 00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:31.039 weighing up a summer move for ac Milan left back 782 00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:36.679 tail Hernandez, and Milan is willing to sell. United among 783 00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:40.360 several European clubs interested in Sporting wing back Giovanni kend 784 00:41:40.360 --> 00:41:42.199 To seventeen, but have not reached an agreement with either 785 00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:45.039 club or player. We've been discussing that with Nino Torres 786 00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:49.440 ever since Amarine got hired. No surprise, Yo Koresh Kenda 787 00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:53.119 at all looked for that pipeline from Sporting to line 788 00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:57.000 up to Manchester United. Arsenal's been given encouragement to sign 789 00:41:57.119 --> 00:42:01.000 Spanish keeper Jean Garcia from Espanol. The Newcastle will sign 790 00:42:01.079 --> 00:42:03.960 Burnley keeper James Trafford this summer, even if Burnley are 791 00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:07.760 promoted to the prem Newcastle interested in Bournemouth striker Antoine 792 00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:12.719 Semeno paid a man Barcelona Byron PSG interested in signing 793 00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:15.320 Mason Greenwood from Marseille United, would get fifty percent of 794 00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:18.360 any transfer fee generated by the striker, and Zo Moresca 795 00:42:18.400 --> 00:42:21.159 maintains the support of his players and the club's hierarchy 796 00:42:21.159 --> 00:42:23.280 despite his side winning just three of their last eleven. 797 00:42:24.079 --> 00:42:26.440 Carlos Alcaraz keen to make his move to Everton, where 798 00:42:26.440 --> 00:42:29.519 he's on loan from Flamengo. A permanent arrangement no clause 799 00:42:29.800 --> 00:42:32.559 in the contract of Cole Palmer that would allow him 800 00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:34.079 to leave the club if they failed to qualify for 801 00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:37.440 the Champions League, and dony Iroola at Bournemouth would be 802 00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:41.960 spurs preferred candidate to replace Opasta Coglu if onepasta Coglu 803 00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:44.159 ends up leaving the club in one way or another. 804 00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:46.840 An Arsenal agreed to a deal to sign young Scottish 805 00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:51.559 central defender Callan Hamill, fifteen from Saint Johnston this summer, 806 00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:54.960 fifteen years old. Now gossip Brummer and in the window 807 00:42:55.039 --> 00:42:56.519 is done. What to watch or to watch it? How 808 00:42:56.519 --> 00:42:58.800 to watch it? And this is just Friday, because Saturday. 809 00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:01.280 I know everybody that is probably here in this footprint, 810 00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:04.440 they're gonna end up being partying at Mercedes Benz getting 811 00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:07.880 ready for Atlanta United and c F Montreal so Friday, 812 00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:12.719 Turkish Super League AOPSPOR and bishktas Is at noon. Once 813 00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:16.400 we're off the air, Ren and Reem in League two 814 00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:19.920 forty five being an ESPONOL simulcasting. If you don't have 815 00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:21.360 the b ins, you want to get the b N 816 00:43:21.519 --> 00:43:24.480 CEO New Wester Telly for the fans, tayse Ur Buddy 817 00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:27.079 Neino tours at gold TV LEGA one LEGA one max Pro. 818 00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:31.559 You go to finates FNTZ dot Co slash Soccer down here, 819 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:34.920 helps the network out, helps our network out, helps you out. 820 00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:37.239 Become a true degenerate that Jason has turned me into. 821 00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:40.880 I blame him. UAFA Women's Nation's League at three ten 822 00:43:40.920 --> 00:43:43.559 on CBS Sports Network, France and Norway. FS two has 823 00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:45.920 a double header going on right now in the league 824 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:48.719 that we neither condone, endorse nor promote U twenty Women's 825 00:43:48.800 --> 00:43:51.559 Championship in CONCACAFT six o'clock on FS two Trinidad and 826 00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:54.719 Tobago and Bermuda Leicester City Brentford on USA at three 827 00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:58.599 o'clock at ESPN Deportes has selt the Divigo and Osasuna 828 00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:01.559 at three, Gold TV Braga nacion Il see if our 829 00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:04.559 buddy Nino is calling that one at three fifteen two 830 00:44:04.599 --> 00:44:08.639 to NA Friday Night Football Puebla Tijuana at ten. Universo 831 00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:11.559 simul casting the Premier League. Three matches in the plus 832 00:44:11.800 --> 00:44:15.400 the Lalliga match Bundesliga at two twenty Bundesliga B at 833 00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:18.280 twelve thirty. Fox Soccer Plus has the U twenty Women's 834 00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:21.440 Championship Guiana Belize. First half is at the half right now. 835 00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:24.960 Dominican Republican bond Air is at six. NBC Sports dot 836 00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:28.679 Com simul casting Lester and Brentford at three. You have 837 00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:32.440 a re air of the draws of the Champions League 838 00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:34.639 in the Europa League on Paramount Plus coming at noon. 839 00:44:34.679 --> 00:44:39.440 In twelve thirty Championship a Latte lot Less. Yeah, I 840 00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:42.039 think I got that right, Middlesbrough at two forty five, 841 00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:44.880 with Bristol City Siria A lech Udines at two forty five. 842 00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:47.360 The Scottish Championship at two forty five, Greenwick Morton and 843 00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:51.199 Falkirk Vicks has a double header in Legamaki, Coxhemos at 844 00:44:51.239 --> 00:44:54.159 Lan and Puebla and Tijuana. So that is what to 845 00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:57.079 watch today because, like I said, all y'all gonna be 846 00:44:57.159 --> 00:45:00.360 probably at Mercedes Benz on Saturday, so I wasn't going 847 00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:02.400 to go that far. Okay, time to say hi to 848 00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:04.760 everybody and catch up once again. 849 00:45:06.119 --> 00:45:06.639 Top of the hour. 850 00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:09.360 We start weekend whip around patent pending, trademark coming. We'll 851 00:45:09.400 --> 00:45:11.159 go through all the matchups and I want to know 852 00:45:11.199 --> 00:45:13.840 what you think about all the other matchups in addition 853 00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:18.280 to Atlanta United and with c F Montreal coming to town. Morning, 854 00:45:18.320 --> 00:45:22.199 Alex Morning, Ricky, Yes, one more day, one day more, 855 00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:27.920 absolutely true? And Abby, good morning. Still low on the volume. 856 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:30.599 I cannot understand this. I've jacked this up like nobody's 857 00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:32.880 business Morning, Derek. 858 00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:35.599 Let's see. 859 00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:39.840 Abby personalized her new jersey, same as always as far 860 00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:41.360 as what it says, but sparkly. 861 00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:43.679 We always dig sparkly. 862 00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:46.519 Abby was concerned about missing what happened last night at 863 00:45:46.559 --> 00:45:49.639 the Moxie that was postponed. It is now Our first 864 00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:54.239 third Thursday event is March twenty at Moxie Midtown. So 865 00:45:54.519 --> 00:45:59.239 March twenty, set your calendars appropriately and hopefully the load 866 00:45:59.239 --> 00:46:00.880 out is cool. Came wait to see what the TFO 867 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:04.480 looks like, you know, I needs a t FO Morning 868 00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:10.079 ropes and let's see morning David. David got halfway through 869 00:46:10.159 --> 00:46:14.639 his morning Espresso before the Twitch pitch call. Let's see 870 00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:17.679 Abby and BM Messi and friends having the discussion there. 871 00:46:18.119 --> 00:46:23.320 Let's see I'm trying to see who else Cafsie grab 872 00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:26.079 your ticket, come get with it at LX spress. Okay, 873 00:46:26.239 --> 00:46:30.800 so see now Kessy's gone musical this morning. Let's see 874 00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:33.679 so and everybody's trying to figure out how to access 875 00:46:33.719 --> 00:46:35.559 morning Espresso. You can look at the video version on 876 00:46:35.599 --> 00:46:38.440 YouTube audio version of hit your podcatchers and also when 877 00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:41.840 you are a Finatiko and I'll have Jason explain this 878 00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:45.079 as well when he comes on that you can you 879 00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:48.320 get a newsletter every day in your inbox, so newsletter 880 00:46:48.360 --> 00:46:51.599 every day with headlines Jason with Morning Espresso and video form, 881 00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:54.400 and Morning Espresso goes to your podcatcher and audio form, 882 00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:58.000 so it gives you all three versions. It's three dimensional 883 00:46:58.039 --> 00:47:01.519 when it comes to a morning Espresso. Here on the network, pars, 884 00:47:01.599 --> 00:47:04.840 we are not doing anything tomorrow before the match because 885 00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:11.039 we're all gonna be busy. Jason is obviously getting ready 886 00:47:11.079 --> 00:47:14.199 for ninety two nine. I will be in the building 887 00:47:14.239 --> 00:47:18.480 at two thirty getting ready for everything that you'll see 888 00:47:18.760 --> 00:47:20.800 on the halo board and all of that. 889 00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:22.559 I have to be there five hours. 890 00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:24.159 Early, and since it's the first one, I have to 891 00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:25.519 be there five hours early so we can get to 892 00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:27.000 the lighting right and the blocking right and all that 893 00:47:27.079 --> 00:47:30.800 kind of stuff for halftime. And Maddie is going to 894 00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:33.480 be busy with ninety two nine as well, and she 895 00:47:33.639 --> 00:47:38.159 will be on pregame. So Maddy'll be on pregame, and 896 00:47:38.679 --> 00:47:41.159 I will be doing postgame for home games except for 897 00:47:41.159 --> 00:47:42.719 a couple of dates where I have conflicts, like with 898 00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:45.679 the Basketball Championships and stuff like that, so I'll be 899 00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:48.800 doing postgame with Abe, Maddie'll be doing pregame with Able 900 00:47:48.920 --> 00:47:51.639 ninety two nine. Jason will be with Mike calling the match. 901 00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:55.039 Then when postgame is done, then everybody congregates into the 902 00:47:55.079 --> 00:47:57.599 same room and we talk for fifteen or twenty minutes. 903 00:47:57.679 --> 00:48:00.800 So we will all be in the building very very 904 00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:03.679 early doing one thing or another attached to a game 905 00:48:03.760 --> 00:48:05.679 day for Atlanta Night at either ninety two nine or 906 00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:11.280 inside Mercedes Benz. For Mercedes Benz, Yes, Ricky rooted was 907 00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:14.559 great onside like I said, on Side has a moment, 908 00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:20.239 and for folks that have seen on Side, you can 909 00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:21.960 put it in the twitch pitch if you wish, or 910 00:48:22.039 --> 00:48:24.159 you can talk directly to an individual about it. 911 00:48:24.199 --> 00:48:25.280 But there is a moment in there. 912 00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:27.280 And we talked to Tyler about it back on Wednesday 913 00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:32.239 that I wish I'd known it happened in real time, 914 00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:37.159 but to see it happen after the fact, it adds context. 915 00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:37.400 And you're like, whoa. 916 00:48:38.199 --> 00:48:39.840 It was definitely one of those Whoe moments that you 917 00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:42.960 get in the back of your seat. So definitely Onside, 918 00:48:43.079 --> 00:48:46.079 very very cool, Ricky Ricardo. Eight years ago, I had 919 00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:50.239 an entirely different life. You ain't the only one, Okay, Okay? 920 00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:51.960 Cool? Public service, Ricky. 921 00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:54.800 After the show's posting a link in the discord to 922 00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:59.360 a fantasy league if anybody wants to join. And so morning, 923 00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:05.119 Harry bart is in this morning, one day from the 924 00:49:05.159 --> 00:49:05.800 start of the season. 925 00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:07.440 Are you ready? I feel like I should get Triple 926 00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:11.880 H's drop in here now too. Am I ready? Sure? 927 00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:12.760 Bring it on? 928 00:49:13.079 --> 00:49:17.000 I mean, everybody was like, okay, you know, Atlanta United 929 00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:19.559 exits the playoffs and it was seven weeks ago, and 930 00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:21.199 everybody was thinking, it's like well, what are you gonna 931 00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:23.440 do for seven weeks to talk about to get everybody 932 00:49:23.519 --> 00:49:28.599 ready for twenty five? Seven weeks have past people, seven 933 00:49:28.639 --> 00:49:33.239 weeks are gone. You got a match at Mercedes Benz. 934 00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:35.119 You get time to catch up with your friends. Dress 935 00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:36.800 warmly because I think it's only going to be in 936 00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:38.400 the fifties, but at least it's not going to be 937 00:49:38.440 --> 00:49:42.159 like seventeen degrees outside. I picked that number randomly. It 938 00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:46.639 was not just because of seventeen Bart going over USWNT. 939 00:49:46.840 --> 00:49:48.320 Jenna had a rough night dealt with most of the 940 00:49:48.440 --> 00:49:52.639 volatile Columbian attackers. McEwan struggled a bit too. And so 941 00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:57.280 you've got once again. Twenty third is Glendale? Twenty sixth? 942 00:49:57.480 --> 00:49:57.599 Is it? 943 00:49:57.719 --> 00:50:00.480 Snap Dragon? We'll talk to Bart about that our number 944 00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:03.119 two on Monday. And Ricky, yeah, Villa, it's got a 945 00:50:03.159 --> 00:50:05.960 great opportunity for them to make it to the quarters. 946 00:50:06.039 --> 00:50:10.119 KEFSI going to fors a Roma and Ricky with a question, 947 00:50:11.519 --> 00:50:13.519 do I have a sports ticker behind me? 948 00:50:13.639 --> 00:50:13.800 Yes? 949 00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:14.079 I do? 950 00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:19.320 And this is from our friends at Glance led and 951 00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:22.199 I wish I had the bigger one like over here, 952 00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:25.840 like over my shoulder. But trying to figure out how 953 00:50:25.880 --> 00:50:28.480 to suspend it would have been a problem. So right now, 954 00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:34.239 the ticker that I have has news and information from 955 00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:36.960 the morning and things like that, but mainly it has 956 00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:41.559 soccer competitions and times and start times. So yeah, our 957 00:50:41.599 --> 00:50:45.079 friends at glance led. I saw that and I was like, okay, 958 00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:48.519 what can I add to the studio space in addition to. 959 00:50:50.559 --> 00:50:50.880 The boss. 960 00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:54.559 So what I did when I remember to turn it 961 00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:58.000 on is picked up the glance Led just as something 962 00:50:58.079 --> 00:50:59.760 kind of over the shoulder, Like I said, I don't 963 00:50:59.800 --> 00:51:02.800 we I don't think we have any way to suspend 964 00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:06.400 the longer ticker board over my left shoulder because that's 965 00:51:06.440 --> 00:51:08.320 a door that goes to the outside and people would 966 00:51:08.360 --> 00:51:10.800 hit their heads. So yeah, this is glance Led and 967 00:51:11.159 --> 00:51:14.480 hopefully some mornings, if you miss information and you're looking 968 00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:17.119 at things short of having a ticker below me here 969 00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:20.320 on set, glance Led hopefully can help you out through it. 970 00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:21.519 And I know I need the bigger one, but I 971 00:51:21.599 --> 00:51:23.199 just wanted to get something started so I could have 972 00:51:23.320 --> 00:51:25.239 it here. See that's our friends from glance Led. That 973 00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:28.320 is a ticker that they have and they have various 974 00:51:28.360 --> 00:51:31.840 sizes and it's yours in their subscription service. 975 00:51:31.880 --> 00:51:33.639 Forever you buy the thing and you're in. 976 00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:38.079 So you buy it, and folks have got like rooms 977 00:51:38.199 --> 00:51:40.559 with their tickers and everything like that. So I think 978 00:51:40.599 --> 00:51:43.599 it's three separate sizes for Glance. They've been running deals 979 00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:47.400 and look on social media and then apply those codes. 980 00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:50.639 Go directly to the website and you can get your 981 00:51:50.760 --> 00:51:54.400 glance Led. That is not a That is not a 982 00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:58.519 paid endorsement, although I wouldn't mind if Glance had LEDs 983 00:51:58.599 --> 00:52:00.599 for all of us here in our home studios with SDH. 984 00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:03.639 That's just a flat out endorsement because I'm a geek 985 00:52:03.719 --> 00:52:06.000 that wanted one of these things in my studio space. 986 00:52:06.880 --> 00:52:08.719 So no, it's not a paid endorsement at all. Glance 987 00:52:08.800 --> 00:52:10.639 is not a sponsor. I'd love them for too, I'd 988 00:52:10.679 --> 00:52:13.679 love for them to be a sponsor, but glance Led 989 00:52:14.159 --> 00:52:16.519 not a sponsor. But you can get it programmed and 990 00:52:16.599 --> 00:52:19.119 you can go online once you register the device, and 991 00:52:19.199 --> 00:52:21.800 you can program the grid to reflect whatever you want. 992 00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:24.239 For me, it reflects daily news and a lot of soccer, 993 00:52:25.760 --> 00:52:27.199 So that's a glance Led. 994 00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:28.960 So there you go. 995 00:52:29.960 --> 00:52:32.639 Kef C about Manchester United doesn't love it. Not ideal 996 00:52:32.679 --> 00:52:35.519 but firing someone and labeling as Grossman's conduct as well 997 00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:39.559 gross true. Michael had amazing about to start season number nine, 998 00:52:39.639 --> 00:52:41.039 hoping for the best time to see if all the 999 00:52:41.079 --> 00:52:43.440 talk is going to be backed up with the results. 1000 00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:46.360 Kef c Alcoraz look pretty good in the handful of 1001 00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:53.760 matches and rich with the with the note I'm guessing 1002 00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:58.199 that this is the joining of Indiana of Aslev with 1003 00:52:58.320 --> 00:53:00.760 the link. Yes, Indy coming to he come into Philly. 1004 00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:06.199 And by the way, Indy's mustache could not be any 1005 00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:12.400 more snidely whiplash in that promo photo could not could 1006 00:53:12.480 --> 00:53:16.119 not be any more snidely whiplash or rolly fingers. Those 1007 00:53:16.159 --> 00:53:20.159 are your Google searches for today. The handlebar mustache that 1008 00:53:20.320 --> 00:53:24.159 is growing from Indiana Vassala very very strong. When we 1009 00:53:24.239 --> 00:53:26.639 had Indian, when he was up in the Saint Louis, 1010 00:53:26.679 --> 00:53:28.400 we had him for a one v one. He looked 1011 00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:31.400 off my shoulder and he saw this and lost his mind. 1012 00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:33.880 He saw the Tormento scarfin but just about lost his mind. 1013 00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:40.519 PSA from Abbey, effective May seven, for anybody flying everywhere 1014 00:53:41.239 --> 00:53:43.840 Georgia residents eighteen and older have to show a real idea, 1015 00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:46.760 passport or other federally approved idea to board domestic flights. 1016 00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:48.159 Roma and Emelia. 1017 00:53:48.199 --> 00:53:50.159 We were talking about romas like might get a new stadium, 1018 00:53:50.719 --> 00:53:52.599 you're gonna have to deal with the politics there in 1019 00:53:52.679 --> 00:53:56.320 town first. And if you're dealing with the politics, and 1020 00:53:56.480 --> 00:53:58.440 Nick can get into this a lot better than any 1021 00:53:58.480 --> 00:54:01.679 of the rest of us can. But if a place 1022 00:54:01.880 --> 00:54:07.960 is looking for a new stadium for a franchise inside Syria, 1023 00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:10.440 you got to go through the local boards and the 1024 00:54:10.519 --> 00:54:13.039 local governments and you got to convince them that you're 1025 00:54:13.079 --> 00:54:16.719 not going on some kind of ground that is thirty 1026 00:54:16.760 --> 00:54:19.360 five hundred years old BC when it started, and that 1027 00:54:19.440 --> 00:54:22.000 you're not tapping into anything historic and you're not uprooting 1028 00:54:22.039 --> 00:54:25.519 the history there in Italy. So it is a tall 1029 00:54:25.639 --> 00:54:28.800 slog and I mean it in the tallest of forms 1030 00:54:30.039 --> 00:54:33.639 for anybody that wants to do anything modern in Syria. 1031 00:54:33.800 --> 00:54:36.079 Like I said, Nick can go on this topic forever 1032 00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:41.920 because he has seen it, so that that's gonna be 1033 00:54:42.119 --> 00:54:44.320 That's gonna be a tall slog for anybody in Syria. 1034 00:54:44.519 --> 00:54:46.880 Roman wants one, don't know if Rome's going to get one. 1035 00:54:47.880 --> 00:54:50.239 And it's going to be an interesting conversation with rich 1036 00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:53.800 and Bart in the Twitch pitch about the about the 1037 00:54:53.840 --> 00:54:55.239 She Believes Cup and what it means. 1038 00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:57.760 So I'd love to know on Monday. 1039 00:54:58.119 --> 00:54:59.880 I want to know the end result of this chat, 1040 00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:04.039 and even if they have some stuff offline where Rich 1041 00:55:04.119 --> 00:55:07.280 wants Bart to sell them on, she believes says it's 1042 00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:09.000 not the all Garb replacement. 1043 00:55:08.599 --> 00:55:09.280 It was supposed to be. 1044 00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:11.119 Feels like it's just an excuse for the US to 1045 00:55:11.159 --> 00:55:13.840 beat up on South Americans for a week. So I 1046 00:55:13.920 --> 00:55:15.480 want to find out what the end of that discussion is, 1047 00:55:15.519 --> 00:55:17.480 and I'll ask Bart about this on Monday. So remind 1048 00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:20.960 me on Monday about that particular as I've sit here 1049 00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:25.320 and pointed the twitch pitch here in my monitor. But uh, 1050 00:55:25.519 --> 00:55:26.880 but yeah, I want to find out what the end 1051 00:55:26.880 --> 00:55:30.440 of the discussion is. All right, ten o'clock hour and 1052 00:55:30.599 --> 00:55:33.400 five minutes, We're going to go through everything in Major 1053 00:55:33.480 --> 00:55:36.440 League Soccer. We'll go through all the juice boxes and 1054 00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:39.800 we will let you know what is going on here 1055 00:55:40.079 --> 00:55:46.719 in am my last for match week number one. So 1056 00:55:47.480 --> 00:55:50.400 biggest thing is Bart. Here's Bart, So here we go. 1057 00:55:50.599 --> 00:55:53.519 I'll do Bart a public service. So since Bart's looking 1058 00:55:53.559 --> 00:55:58.920 on YouTube, Bart sell me on. She believes Cup anymore, 1059 00:55:59.079 --> 00:56:01.239 not the algar replace it was supposed to be. Feels 1060 00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:02.920 like it's just an excuse for the US to beat 1061 00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:06.679 up on South Americans for a week. Discuss there you go. Okay, 1062 00:56:07.400 --> 00:56:10.039 Now we've got to go over the broadcast teams. We've 1063 00:56:10.039 --> 00:56:12.480 got to go over the officials, we got to go 1064 00:56:12.519 --> 00:56:15.199 over the juice boxes. Got to go over the matchups, 1065 00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:17.159 because it is match week one in Major League Soccer. 1066 00:56:18.079 --> 00:56:24.320 So we look at the matchups themselves, and like I said, 1067 00:56:24.360 --> 00:56:27.320 we'll go over juice boxes. Probably the easiest thing to 1068 00:56:27.400 --> 00:56:31.360 do is go over the matchups themselves, then go over 1069 00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:34.920 the juice boxes, and then go back and go in 1070 00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:38.400 depth into each match so we can read all the 1071 00:56:38.480 --> 00:56:41.360 results in a line, then come back and analyze the 1072 00:56:41.840 --> 00:56:45.119 matches themselves. And like I said, Atlanta United probably gonna 1073 00:56:45.119 --> 00:56:48.400 take up the bulk of the final thirty or thirty 1074 00:56:48.440 --> 00:56:53.039 five minutes of the show. So your matchups here in 1075 00:56:53.280 --> 00:56:58.239 match week one in Major League Soccer for twenty twenty five, 1076 00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:00.400 and I'm probably gonna have to be properly high rated 1077 00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:03.280 the entire time. So I apologize if I duck out 1078 00:57:03.360 --> 00:57:06.840 in a matchup in mid information just to get a 1079 00:57:06.920 --> 00:57:11.000 good swing of Soota. All right, One matchup at four 1080 00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:14.400 point thirty LAFC in Minnesota, United that kicks off the week, 1081 00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:19.800 so LAFC, after freezing in Colorado, has to turn around 1082 00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:21.719 and play Minnesota United. 1083 00:57:21.760 --> 00:57:23.320 It's gonna be a tough matchup for LAFC. 1084 00:57:25.880 --> 00:57:29.119 Lafc's a minus one twenty draws a plus two eighty 1085 00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:31.079 three in the composite courtesy of our friends at odds 1086 00:57:31.119 --> 00:57:34.360 Portal Minnesota United plus two ninety nine. So basically, Minnesota 1087 00:57:34.440 --> 00:57:40.679 United is a plus three hundred in this matchup against LAFC. Remember, 1088 00:57:41.719 --> 00:57:45.920 LAFC had to freeze in Commerce City, Colorado, midweek, turn 1089 00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:48.079 around and come back for this matchup. 1090 00:57:48.960 --> 00:57:49.760 Minnesota United. 1091 00:57:49.880 --> 00:57:54.000 Eric Ramsey, his quarter zip vest or, his button down 1092 00:57:54.039 --> 00:57:55.760 sweater and his white T shirt did not have to 1093 00:57:56.880 --> 00:57:58.920 so Minnesota United got the chance to watch. 1094 00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:01.719 Keep an eye on that one. 1095 00:58:02.920 --> 00:58:05.239 Minnesota United at plus three hundred draws a plus two 1096 00:58:05.280 --> 00:58:08.800 eighty three at Land United CF Montreal at Landy United 1097 00:58:08.800 --> 00:58:11.239 a prohibited favorite of a minus one seventy five CEF 1098 00:58:11.280 --> 00:58:14.480 Montreal north of plus four fifty. These are at seven 1099 00:58:14.599 --> 00:58:19.639 thirty seven forty on Apple TV Crew and fire Crew 1100 00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:24.400 at a minus two hundred draw with Chicago a plus 1101 00:58:24.440 --> 00:58:27.760 three forty eight at the Death Star and Chicago to 1102 00:58:27.840 --> 00:58:32.039 win a plus four ninety one. Once again, we talk 1103 00:58:32.079 --> 00:58:35.519 about teams that are having to balance a couple of 1104 00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:42.280 different things. Columbus no offense out of the blocks. The 1105 00:58:42.920 --> 00:58:45.320 offense is lacking. Let's put it that way. I won't 1106 00:58:45.360 --> 00:58:47.079 say no because I know that there's going to be 1107 00:58:47.119 --> 00:58:49.119 a lot of folks that might have Jason Russell roll 1108 00:58:49.159 --> 00:58:52.519 on their sheets this year as a leading scorer in Columbus. 1109 00:58:53.559 --> 00:58:56.679 So Columbus once again minus two hundred plus three forty 1110 00:58:56.719 --> 00:59:00.280 eight draw Chicago plus four ninety one DC I did 1111 00:59:00.320 --> 00:59:05.159 minus one nineteen hosting Toronto FC draws A plus two 1112 00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:09.000 seventy three Toronto FC's a plus three oh five Cincinnati 1113 00:59:09.079 --> 00:59:11.639 and Red Bulls. This one will be must see in 1114 00:59:11.679 --> 00:59:14.599 the early block if you're if you have multiple devices 1115 00:59:14.679 --> 00:59:18.280 going Cincinnati plus one oh two draws A plus two 1116 00:59:18.360 --> 00:59:22.559 fifty six Red Bulls A plus two fifty MESSI and 1117 00:59:22.679 --> 00:59:25.400 Friends hosting NYC at the Erector set of minus one 1118 00:59:25.519 --> 00:59:29.480 thirty two draws A plus two eighty nine n y 1119 00:59:29.599 --> 00:59:34.199 c's A plus three twenty six. Purple team hosting Philly 1120 00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:38.800 and Indiana assilev Purple teams of minus one forty three 1121 00:59:38.920 --> 00:59:41.079 or draws A plus three eleven Philadelphia on the road 1122 00:59:41.119 --> 00:59:46.079 to plus three thirty four eight thirties. Austin and Sporting 1123 00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:49.599 Austin a minus one twenty five, Draws a plus two 1124 00:59:49.639 --> 00:59:54.360 eighty six. Sporting is a plus three oh seven Texas 1125 00:59:54.480 --> 00:59:57.480 Darby Houston hosting Dallas. We had Glenn Davis on the 1126 00:59:57.480 --> 01:00:00.719 show yesterday to discuss Houston and has gone on with 1127 01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:04.800 them from twenty four into twenty five. Houston favored at 1128 01:00:04.800 --> 01:00:09.000 a minus one eleven. FC Dallas with Lucho Acosta, Acosta 1129 01:00:09.079 --> 01:00:13.280 and Peter Mussa, They're gonna win you some games. Dras 1130 01:00:13.320 --> 01:00:15.079 a plus two to fifty two, Dallas a plus three 1131 01:00:15.119 --> 01:00:18.800 oh one. Lucas this morning once again Lucas Panzico one 1132 01:00:18.800 --> 01:00:21.199 oh four to five The Zone. Nashville hosting the Revs. 1133 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:25.599 Nashville favorite at a minus one eighteen, Dras a plus 1134 01:00:25.639 --> 01:00:28.599 two sixty six. Revs are a plus three oh five 1135 01:00:29.519 --> 01:00:33.000 last eight thirty All Caps hosting Colorado. Saint Louis City 1136 01:00:33.280 --> 01:00:36.159 is a minus one oh four, Colorado a plus two 1137 01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:38.719 ninety and the Rapids are a plus two thirty nine. 1138 01:00:39.679 --> 01:00:45.480 Ten thirties. The beginning of Bruce Arena. The beginning of 1139 01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:53.599 Bruce Arena hosting RSL. Santasee's a plus one twenty four. 1140 01:00:54.599 --> 01:00:59.480 DRASA plus two seventy six. RSL is a plus one 1141 01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:02.920 eighty six. Once again, RSL, they don't know what their 1142 01:01:02.960 --> 01:01:06.519 offense is going to look like, so we will keep 1143 01:01:06.519 --> 01:01:11.599 an eye on that last matchup at your ten thirties, 1144 01:01:11.679 --> 01:01:17.760 we talked about Seattle hosting Charlotte with Nico Moreno. That 1145 01:01:17.840 --> 01:01:20.719 conversation is up on the network. It's also on Nico's 1146 01:01:20.840 --> 01:01:24.079 in its entirety on Nico's social media at L Rollo 1147 01:01:24.159 --> 01:01:26.599 ANDW part of the longer conversation that we had about 1148 01:01:26.599 --> 01:01:29.920 the Western Conference. Seattle to minus one twenty seven, Charlotte 1149 01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:32.719 plus is a plus three fifty one. Your draw is 1150 01:01:32.760 --> 01:01:36.920 a plus two to fifty eight. Sunday's matches four o'clock 1151 01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:40.159 Portland hosting Vancouver in an early cascade of Portland to 1152 01:01:40.199 --> 01:01:43.039 minus one oh eight draws a plus two eighty six, 1153 01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:48.440 Vancouver a plus two forty eight. LAG at seven o'clock 1154 01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:53.400 hosting San Diego FC and LAG a prohibitive favorite there 1155 01:01:53.440 --> 01:01:56.440 at a minus two thirteen. San Diego is a plus 1156 01:01:56.480 --> 01:01:59.199 four fifty five, and your draw is a plus three 1157 01:01:59.360 --> 01:01:59.840 eighty eight. 1158 01:02:01.039 --> 01:02:02.920 So uh, those are. 1159 01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:07.480 Your matchups for week number one, referee assignments will go 1160 01:02:07.599 --> 01:02:09.199 through some of the greatest hits. Let you know who 1161 01:02:09.239 --> 01:02:11.800 the man is in the middle for a match Day one, 1162 01:02:14.440 --> 01:02:16.079 Pierre Looke Losieer is going to be the man in 1163 01:02:16.119 --> 01:02:19.000 the middle against for the matchup with the Atlanta and 1164 01:02:19.159 --> 01:02:22.960 c F Montreal. Pierre Looke Loziere has one match in 1165 01:02:23.119 --> 01:02:26.039 the USL Championship involving at Land United two a handful 1166 01:02:26.079 --> 01:02:27.559 of years ago. He has been the man in the 1167 01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:34.079 middle twice for Atlanta United in history. The fourth in 1168 01:02:34.239 --> 01:02:40.239 the matchup is Philip Duyach, and you may remember. You 1169 01:02:40.480 --> 01:02:47.360 may remember Philip Duyach. You may remember Philip Duyach from 1170 01:02:47.400 --> 01:02:51.800 a moment last year. That moment if you missed it, 1171 01:02:51.840 --> 01:02:53.199 un least if I can turn it up in time. 1172 01:02:55.000 --> 01:02:57.199 Philip Duyach, he was the man who was part of 1173 01:02:57.400 --> 01:03:01.079 the however, var, but he's the fourth this particular matchup. 1174 01:03:01.639 --> 01:03:05.920 Ref assignments La in Minnesota Geta Gonzales Junior is the 1175 01:03:05.960 --> 01:03:11.079 man in the middle. Caroline Snard is your var. Pierre 1176 01:03:11.119 --> 01:03:15.079 Look Lozier is your man in the middle. Here lies 1177 01:03:15.239 --> 01:03:17.039 Arfa who I don't know. I think this is his 1178 01:03:17.159 --> 01:03:21.000 first activity inside major League Soccer as an AR of 1179 01:03:21.039 --> 01:03:25.480 any degree. I think he's new here. Ben Pilgrim is 1180 01:03:25.519 --> 01:03:28.199 your second AR. It has now changed. It is now 1181 01:03:28.880 --> 01:03:32.920 Sergei Dimianchuk. Who is the man in the middle. Is no, 1182 01:03:33.039 --> 01:03:34.719 it is not so I took so I played my 1183 01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:38.840 joke and it passed by Sergei. Demionchuk is now your fourth. 1184 01:03:39.199 --> 01:03:42.599 Jeff Gamble is your VR. FC Cincinnati and Red Bulls. 1185 01:03:42.679 --> 01:03:45.679 Lucas so Apala is the the man in the middle. 1186 01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:48.280 Natalie Simon is your fourth. Edvan Jerasevitch is your VR. 1187 01:03:48.840 --> 01:03:52.000 Fotis Bezakas is in the middle for Crew and Fire. 1188 01:03:53.119 --> 01:03:58.320 Soren Stoutschka is your VR. Sergey Boyko DC United Toronto FC, 1189 01:03:59.000 --> 01:04:02.519 Michael Radchuk your v R. Messi and Friends hosting nycfc 1190 01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:06.400 Rosendo Mendoza is the man in the middle. Catherine Nesbit 1191 01:04:06.559 --> 01:04:09.440 is your AR. Is your AR one. Unice Maracci is 1192 01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:12.719 your VR. Purple Team in Philly, Ruby Elvasquez is the 1193 01:04:12.800 --> 01:04:15.079 man in the middle. Kevin Terry Junior is your VR. 1194 01:04:15.679 --> 01:04:18.519 Austin and Sporting Chris Penso is in the middle. David 1195 01:04:18.599 --> 01:04:21.880 Barry is your VR. David Barry, you remember, was var 1196 01:04:22.119 --> 01:04:27.159 for the red card for Brad last season against LAFC. 1197 01:04:28.639 --> 01:04:30.239 So David Berry var. 1198 01:04:30.440 --> 01:04:34.880 Chris Penso your center f for Austin and Sporting Houston 1199 01:04:34.960 --> 01:04:37.239 and Dallas. Armando Viral the man in the middle. Jc 1200 01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:40.599 Rivero's your VR Nashville in New England, Marcus de Elavera 1201 01:04:40.679 --> 01:04:43.840 the man in the middle. Harhy Gonzales your VAR City 1202 01:04:43.960 --> 01:04:47.679 and Rapids, City and Rapids. Sorry, John Freeman, no relation. 1203 01:04:47.800 --> 01:04:51.480 Man in the middle, Kevin Stott your VAR. Malik Badawi 1204 01:04:51.719 --> 01:04:54.320 is the man in the middle for San Jose and RSL. 1205 01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:58.199 Sean Taheney is your VR. Corey Rockwell is your AR 1206 01:04:58.320 --> 01:05:01.000 number one. Philip Duyitch is now been moved to ref 1207 01:05:01.679 --> 01:05:04.679 the man in the middle Seattle and Charlotte and Greg 1208 01:05:04.760 --> 01:05:08.440 Dapka is your VAR Portland and Vancouver. On Sunday, Victor 1209 01:05:08.480 --> 01:05:10.360 Revos is the man in the middle. Kevin Stott your 1210 01:05:10.440 --> 01:05:14.079 VAR there Lag in San Diego, Alan Chapman the man 1211 01:05:14.119 --> 01:05:16.559 in the middle at seven o'clock eastern seven to ten really, 1212 01:05:17.000 --> 01:05:21.440 and then Michael Radchuk is your VAR four that matchup 1213 01:05:21.480 --> 01:05:24.360 with Lag and San Diego. So that is your refereeing 1214 01:05:24.440 --> 01:05:27.199 matchups when it comes to the weekend. All right, let's 1215 01:05:27.199 --> 01:05:36.679 break it all down LAFC and Minnesota. We'll get the Uh. Well, 1216 01:05:36.719 --> 01:05:37.400 ok so we'll tell you what. 1217 01:05:37.519 --> 01:05:38.199 Let's let's do that. 1218 01:05:38.360 --> 01:05:41.639 Let's do uh all right, so let me So Ricky 1219 01:05:41.719 --> 01:05:46.920 is requesting the commentator assignments. So let's see if I 1220 01:05:47.239 --> 01:05:52.159 can because they're traditionally posted. They are traditionally posted. There's 1221 01:05:52.159 --> 01:05:55.480 your article about Sunday Night soccer. There's your season preview 1222 01:05:55.480 --> 01:06:00.440 about the only the Captain rule. Uh, we have matts 1223 01:06:01.199 --> 01:06:04.320 opening weekend, all. 1224 01:06:04.239 --> 01:06:04.880 Right, So. 1225 01:06:07.360 --> 01:06:10.519 Sliding, sliding, sliding, and I'm trying to find the I 1226 01:06:10.719 --> 01:06:13.239 can't find the announcer assignments. It's something that we're used 1227 01:06:13.239 --> 01:06:17.920 to seeing, especially early in the week. Huh okay, hang on, 1228 01:06:21.679 --> 01:06:24.480 all right, So this is once again I feel like 1229 01:06:24.480 --> 01:06:28.719 I need, like hold music or something. Sometimes let's see 1230 01:06:32.079 --> 01:06:37.239 Friday night Baseball announcer schedules. But that went offline twenty 1231 01:06:37.320 --> 01:06:44.639 twenty five. Uh, I really do need I really do 1232 01:06:44.800 --> 01:06:53.480 need hold music. Okay, Match Day six and twenty three 1233 01:06:54.760 --> 01:06:59.800 Apple dot Com newsroom with season pass thirtieth sleeve patches. 1234 01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:02.679 By by the way, those look kind of cool. Sunday 1235 01:07:02.760 --> 01:07:08.320 Night soccer man, this is this is odd. 1236 01:07:09.480 --> 01:07:16.679 Traditionally you used to you're used to seeing the announced 1237 01:07:16.719 --> 01:07:25.159 teams posted somewhat regularly, whether it's done by MLS Communications 1238 01:07:25.320 --> 01:07:29.159 or what have you, But I don't see them. Wow, 1239 01:07:29.320 --> 01:07:30.920 I know I could, Derek, I could just tell the 1240 01:07:31.000 --> 01:07:35.440 music to Jeopardy Ropes. I don't know the full I 1241 01:07:35.559 --> 01:07:41.639 don't know the full girl from Epanima. That's my problem 1242 01:07:41.760 --> 01:07:44.280 is that I don't know the the girl from Epanima 1243 01:07:44.400 --> 01:07:49.119 in full. Twenty twenty four Assignments twenty twenty five is 1244 01:07:49.440 --> 01:07:54.559 just listed. So we know who's going to be a 1245 01:07:54.679 --> 01:07:58.199 part of it this year. We know that it's going 1246 01:07:58.280 --> 01:08:02.239 to be a six pack of folks. But the on 1247 01:08:02.519 --> 01:08:04.760 came the on Cam talent this year, just on the whole, 1248 01:08:06.320 --> 01:08:10.480 it is going to be you look at all the 1249 01:08:10.559 --> 01:08:14.000 match talent. It is going to be Taylor Troulman, Diego 1250 01:08:14.079 --> 01:08:18.800 Valerimo Adou Loari, Lindsay Andres Aguya, Tony Cherchi, Danny Higginbotham Kennedy, 1251 01:08:18.920 --> 01:08:24.920 Saint Aubin, Marcelo Balboa, Sammy Sodavnik, Jake Zivin, Keith Costigan, Brunovine, Cangelosi, 1252 01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:30.359 Pablo Ramirez. So that we know about who's going to 1253 01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:34.039 be in this year studio, folks, it's gonna be Kevin 1254 01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:38.520 and Uh Ramsey Sandoval. They're gonna be paired with kayl 1255 01:08:38.600 --> 01:08:42.439 and Kyle Antonella Gonzalez, b w P, Sasha Question, Dax McCarty, 1256 01:08:42.760 --> 01:08:45.960 Geo Savaresa, Miguel Gajardo and uh and. 1257 01:08:46.159 --> 01:08:50.319 Uh Alonso and uh an Azzie Alonzo. So we know 1258 01:08:50.439 --> 01:08:50.920 who's in. 1259 01:08:52.359 --> 01:08:55.119 So I'm gonna I'm gonna go and ask someone who 1260 01:08:55.439 --> 01:08:58.560 is a lot faster and knows where to look. It 1261 01:08:58.640 --> 01:09:02.000 might be Jason when he pops by. Hey, you know, 1262 01:09:02.119 --> 01:09:05.319 Bart done a lot of play by play this week. 1263 01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:08.439 I had a point, folks, It's like you're doing it, 1264 01:09:08.520 --> 01:09:09.920 and you're doing it, and you're doing it and you're 1265 01:09:09.960 --> 01:09:16.119 doing it. So I think Callum Williams is calling the 1266 01:09:17.119 --> 01:09:21.800 matchup for Atlanta United, Ricky. I think it's Callum Williams, 1267 01:09:22.399 --> 01:09:27.199 And so, man, that is that is odd. Traditionally it's 1268 01:09:27.359 --> 01:09:32.199 posted by Major League Soccer when it comes to who's 1269 01:09:32.439 --> 01:09:37.560 who's doing what, and it's traditionally something that's released by communications. 1270 01:09:38.479 --> 01:09:45.880 You have the graphic up for Major League Soccer. You 1271 01:09:45.960 --> 01:09:49.520 got the Indiana Vassilev deal, And like I said, I'm 1272 01:09:49.520 --> 01:09:52.399 sliding through and everything, but I can't but it doesn't. 1273 01:09:52.520 --> 01:09:54.920 I they don't have it posted. 1274 01:09:55.159 --> 01:09:56.239 That's just strange. 1275 01:09:57.960 --> 01:10:03.960 Man, that's disappointed. That's disappointing. I think it's Callum. I 1276 01:10:03.960 --> 01:10:04.399 think Callum. 1277 01:10:04.680 --> 01:10:07.640 I think Callum Williams is doing play by play for 1278 01:10:08.680 --> 01:10:10.640 uh Atlanta United this weekend. 1279 01:10:10.720 --> 01:10:11.760 So let's let's check. 1280 01:10:11.760 --> 01:10:15.279 Because Callum, by the way, was interviewed by Maddie and 1281 01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:19.199 so you can catch up with that particular interview. 1282 01:10:20.800 --> 01:10:22.680 On the network. So cal. 1283 01:10:23.960 --> 01:10:31.159 Let's see play games this week. Okay, so Calum Callum doesn't. 1284 01:10:31.439 --> 01:10:37.680 Callum doesn't list his call but I think call Like 1285 01:10:37.720 --> 01:10:39.680 I said, I think it's Callum Williams that is calling 1286 01:10:39.760 --> 01:10:41.640 the match for Atlanta United. 1287 01:10:41.720 --> 01:10:44.840 So yeah, they usually do post. It's just odd. I'm 1288 01:10:44.920 --> 01:10:48.520 just glad that I found the referee assignment. That's wild. Okay. 1289 01:10:49.279 --> 01:10:51.680 Uh So if anybody finds it faster than I tried 1290 01:10:51.720 --> 01:10:55.119 to look for it, then uh please post the link 1291 01:10:55.159 --> 01:10:57.439 and we can all get informed together. All right, the 1292 01:10:57.520 --> 01:10:59.880 matchups in depth, and like I said, we'll go through 1293 01:10:59.920 --> 01:11:02.600 these and Jason comes in will get his thoughts. If 1294 01:11:02.640 --> 01:11:05.399 you missed him last night on the six pack on 1295 01:11:05.520 --> 01:11:07.159 the network, you can go back and catch it. We'll 1296 01:11:07.159 --> 01:11:09.279 see if anything is changed from last night to this morning, 1297 01:11:09.840 --> 01:11:15.880 LAFC and Minnesota, I would as a rule, any team 1298 01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:20.319 that had to play in the CONCACAF Hemispheric Extravaganza, I 1299 01:11:20.359 --> 01:11:23.680 would be wary of them this weekend, especially if they 1300 01:11:23.720 --> 01:11:27.479 are a favorite, just because they had to play in 1301 01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:30.960 the midweek and they're having to turn around LAFC less 1302 01:11:31.039 --> 01:11:33.840 so than the folks that really had to go on 1303 01:11:33.960 --> 01:11:36.319 the road, like FC Cincinnati had to go on the road. 1304 01:11:36.399 --> 01:11:39.279 Seattle had to travel three thousand miles to get the Honduras. 1305 01:11:40.159 --> 01:11:43.560 If you fly from Seattle's on pedro silo three fifty 1306 01:11:43.640 --> 01:11:48.399 nine miles. See those kinds of things. So anybody that 1307 01:11:48.520 --> 01:11:50.960 had to travel distance, anybody that had to deal with 1308 01:11:51.079 --> 01:11:54.039 the elements, because we all know how old folks are 1309 01:11:54.399 --> 01:11:56.319 first thing in the morning, especially when it's like nineteen 1310 01:11:56.359 --> 01:11:59.920 degrees outside, bones are a little creaky, I will be 1311 01:12:00.399 --> 01:12:05.720 I will be intrigued about rotation and how the rosters look. 1312 01:12:06.600 --> 01:12:08.800 For the clubs that played in the midweek. How much 1313 01:12:08.880 --> 01:12:09.720 rotation is there. 1314 01:12:10.000 --> 01:12:12.600 How many minutes do folks get if they weren't rotated 1315 01:12:12.640 --> 01:12:15.920 from starting eleven to starting eleven, And keep an eye 1316 01:12:15.960 --> 01:12:17.159 on Like I said, keep an eye on the juice 1317 01:12:17.199 --> 01:12:18.479 boxes in these matchups too. 1318 01:12:19.239 --> 01:12:21.000 LAFC I mean a minus one twenty two. 1319 01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:24.079 Minnesota United a tough team last season under Air Cramsey 1320 01:12:25.199 --> 01:12:30.359 basically to plus three hundred heading to LAFC. Maybe look 1321 01:12:30.399 --> 01:12:32.239 at that, Maybe look at that draw number at plus 1322 01:12:32.279 --> 01:12:36.479 two eighty three as a baseline for what to expect. Obviously, 1323 01:12:36.520 --> 01:12:39.479 Atlanta United a prohibited favorite minus one eighty two in 1324 01:12:39.600 --> 01:12:43.079 the composite. See if MONTREALI plus four seventy six, crew 1325 01:12:43.159 --> 01:12:47.640 and fire same thing. You know, you look at Crewe 1326 01:12:49.039 --> 01:12:51.760 once again, they lose c ramon kuco. 1327 01:12:53.039 --> 01:12:53.840 Who's going to do the. 1328 01:12:53.840 --> 01:12:55.840 Scoring for them, especially early in the years they're trying 1329 01:12:55.840 --> 01:12:59.880 to figure things out. Prohibitive favorite at a minus two hundred. 1330 01:13:00.239 --> 01:13:06.560 But Chicago scores once maybe twice. Not plus four ninety 1331 01:13:06.560 --> 01:13:10.000 one looks like a big number, especially the draw plus 1332 01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:15.760 three forty eight. I think you could see teams that 1333 01:13:15.840 --> 01:13:23.359 played in the midweek get results against them from the 1334 01:13:23.399 --> 01:13:27.119 teams that come into town because of all the activity 1335 01:13:27.159 --> 01:13:29.439 that they had to go through, all the flying, all 1336 01:13:29.479 --> 01:13:31.479 the all the playing, all the miles, having to get 1337 01:13:31.520 --> 01:13:35.159 back region, get the region the next day, maybe a 1338 01:13:35.239 --> 01:13:39.039 day of prep and then bang match day. I gotta 1339 01:13:39.079 --> 01:13:44.199 keep an eye on that stuff. DC and Toronto. I 1340 01:13:44.439 --> 01:13:52.079 mean this as no real slight, but you've got to 1341 01:13:52.119 --> 01:13:53.960 be a hardcore. If you're not, if you're not gonna 1342 01:13:53.960 --> 01:13:57.279 watch your home team game. And traditionally what I will 1343 01:13:57.319 --> 01:13:59.159 do on a on await days when I'm not at 1344 01:13:59.199 --> 01:14:01.359 Mercedes been this all, watch MLS three sixty and Kevin 1345 01:14:01.439 --> 01:14:03.960 and I'll text Kevin during the show, but I'll wait 1346 01:14:04.000 --> 01:14:07.680 till commercial break. DC United at a minus one nineteen. 1347 01:14:12.439 --> 01:14:15.880 I mean, is it probably just because Toronto may be 1348 01:14:16.039 --> 01:14:21.319 worse or more schizophrenic? Toronto coming to town at a 1349 01:14:21.319 --> 01:14:27.560 plus three oh five taking on DC United. If you 1350 01:14:27.640 --> 01:14:29.479 have other matches to watch, I'd probably go watch those 1351 01:14:29.479 --> 01:14:32.760 other matches. At seven forty, that one might be a 1352 01:14:32.800 --> 01:14:38.239 bit of it might be a bit painful. Cincinnati and 1353 01:14:38.319 --> 01:14:40.720 Red Bulls once again, this is another one of those matchups. 1354 01:14:41.720 --> 01:14:46.880 Cincinnati a plus one oh two at TQL, but they 1355 01:14:46.960 --> 01:14:49.039 had to play in the midweek. Yes, they got a 1356 01:14:49.119 --> 01:14:53.119 comfortable win, but it's the travel and it's all these 1357 01:14:53.239 --> 01:14:55.760 things that you have to do to go back. And 1358 01:14:56.159 --> 01:15:00.680 it is a Red Bulls team with a healthy as 1359 01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:04.439 of right now Emil Forsburg and they are far different 1360 01:15:05.399 --> 01:15:12.079 as a healthy Red Bulls team than they are without 1361 01:15:12.079 --> 01:15:14.159 Emil Forsburg. I think that you saw the difference in 1362 01:15:14.239 --> 01:15:18.720 Red Bulls when Forstburg was a part of that lineup. 1363 01:15:20.119 --> 01:15:23.439 And what you saw when he wasn't a part of 1364 01:15:23.479 --> 01:15:28.239 the lineup. So that's uh. That to me. 1365 01:15:30.079 --> 01:15:32.159 Is one of the big differences that's attached to this 1366 01:15:33.800 --> 01:15:40.680 different different with Forstburg in the lineup. Cincinnati has Evander, 1367 01:15:40.760 --> 01:15:43.600 but once again, you're just going to tell Evander match 1368 01:15:43.640 --> 01:15:46.560 week one if you're Pat Noon and Yeguaton run. We'll 1369 01:15:46.560 --> 01:15:48.600 get it all figured out as we go, especially with 1370 01:15:48.680 --> 01:15:51.359 only a couple of days in between matches one in 1371 01:15:51.479 --> 01:15:55.039 Conka calf and then getting everybody back for Major League Soccer. 1372 01:15:56.800 --> 01:16:00.520 I think, once again, as we look at these things, 1373 01:16:02.560 --> 01:16:05.680 red Bulls at a plus two fifty could go to 1374 01:16:05.880 --> 01:16:10.199 Cincinnati and get a result. Draw is a higher number 1375 01:16:10.319 --> 01:16:14.239 than a win, not by much, but still is. I 1376 01:16:14.399 --> 01:16:16.039 think you could end up with a win or a 1377 01:16:16.119 --> 01:16:17.960 result at the very least if your Red Bulls going 1378 01:16:17.960 --> 01:16:21.319 into Cincinnati. Because of the midweek. It's like I say, 1379 01:16:21.399 --> 01:16:22.840 keep an eye on those kinds of things as we 1380 01:16:22.920 --> 01:16:26.239 go here. Messi and friends in NYC. Obviously Messi and 1381 01:16:26.279 --> 01:16:30.680 Friends that the director said a big favor and NYC 1382 01:16:32.159 --> 01:16:36.720 could be losing. Santi Rodriguez, I wonder once again where 1383 01:16:36.760 --> 01:16:42.439 the goals are going to get scored from. So Messi 1384 01:16:42.520 --> 01:16:45.920 and Friends could rotate to what extent you don't. 1385 01:16:45.760 --> 01:16:50.479 Know, but what I will let me. I want to 1386 01:16:50.520 --> 01:16:54.039 do something really quickly here. I want to look. 1387 01:16:55.640 --> 01:17:01.880 At the minutes that were played in a cold night 1388 01:17:01.920 --> 01:17:04.760 in Kansas City. I want I want to look at them. 1389 01:17:04.840 --> 01:17:06.560 I want to look at the minutes that were played 1390 01:17:06.640 --> 01:17:12.640 by the starting lineup in in that in that rundown. 1391 01:17:13.600 --> 01:17:18.600 So I see a bunch of like I need I 1392 01:17:18.760 --> 01:17:21.239 just need the I just need the layout. How many 1393 01:17:21.279 --> 01:17:24.520 minutes come on? So fine, we'll go to sofa score. 1394 01:17:25.840 --> 01:17:27.760 It's like you see game reports. It's like not you know, 1395 01:17:27.880 --> 01:17:30.279 I want a box score. It's like the last page 1396 01:17:30.319 --> 01:17:33.800 of the last page of the freaking newspaper, like we 1397 01:17:33.840 --> 01:17:35.520 were talking about with Glenn Davis yesterday. 1398 01:17:35.560 --> 01:17:42.199 Okay, so lineups, your lineup, your starters. By the way, for. 1399 01:17:44.239 --> 01:17:49.239 Messi and Friends in this matchup, it was Oscar Ustarian 1400 01:17:49.319 --> 01:17:54.520 net back for Noah Allen, Gonzalo Luhan, Thomas Avulis and 1401 01:17:54.560 --> 01:17:59.960 cell Awaygan midfield, Segovia bisquits, Redondo, Allende and your two fords, 1402 01:18:00.359 --> 01:18:06.079 and Messi, so No and the Fafapico came in with 1403 01:18:06.159 --> 01:18:07.960 a cup of coffee. Kroumowski came in for a cup 1404 01:18:08.000 --> 01:18:10.720 of coffee. Robert Taylor came in at the end. You 1405 01:18:10.880 --> 01:18:16.079 did not see Ryan Sailor, Max Falcone, Ian Fraid, David Ruiz, 1406 01:18:16.079 --> 01:18:23.359 Sante Morales, Julian gressel Leo, Alfonso so Leo, Messi in 1407 01:18:23.479 --> 01:18:25.600 his and he played the full thing. So Messi played 1408 01:18:25.600 --> 01:18:30.159 the full ninety before he gave the the center f 1409 01:18:30.880 --> 01:18:33.039 off the field, before he gave the jersey in Conka CAF. 1410 01:18:33.119 --> 01:18:37.239 Apparently his reprimanded, said referee. Luis Suarez played eighty nine 1411 01:18:37.279 --> 01:18:42.239 minutes before he was pulled. The younger players like today, 1412 01:18:42.279 --> 01:18:50.079 Oiende played seventy three, Redondo played the full ninety. Busschetz 1413 01:18:51.279 --> 01:18:57.159 played the full ninety. Segovia played seventy nine. So Telasco 1414 01:18:57.239 --> 01:19:00.439 Segovie in his first match, played seventy nine minutes. Noah 1415 01:19:00.520 --> 01:19:04.880 Allen played the full ninety, lou Han played the full ninety, 1416 01:19:06.199 --> 01:19:12.239 Ovelus played the full ninety. Cell Awaygant played the full ninety, 1417 01:19:12.279 --> 01:19:14.319 and obviously oscrew sorry played the full ninety So you 1418 01:19:14.439 --> 01:19:17.720 have a lot of folks in this matchup for Messi 1419 01:19:17.760 --> 01:19:20.640 and Friends against Sporting who played the full ninety minutes. 1420 01:19:22.880 --> 01:19:26.159 How many of those folks do you see in this matchup? 1421 01:19:26.199 --> 01:19:29.640 And once again, and the folks that did not play 1422 01:19:29.760 --> 01:19:32.119 or only had a couple of minutes. Pico at seventeen, 1423 01:19:32.159 --> 01:19:36.840 Kroumowski had eleven, Taylor had a cup of coffee, Sailor Falcone, Frey, 1424 01:19:37.039 --> 01:19:41.720 Ruiz Morales, Gressel Alfonso. That was the roster that saw 1425 01:19:42.119 --> 01:19:46.960 either a few minutes or no minutes. There's also no 1426 01:19:47.039 --> 01:19:53.119 mention to Jordi Alba there either. So Messi and Friends rotated, 1427 01:19:53.199 --> 01:19:56.159 probably to what extent. You're probably gonna have Messi and 1428 01:19:56.279 --> 01:20:00.520 Suarez in the starting day eighteen matched eighteen, Probably not 1429 01:20:00.600 --> 01:20:03.640 going to start. How many of the younguns go back 1430 01:20:03.640 --> 01:20:07.239 to back because you still have to focus on the 1431 01:20:07.319 --> 01:20:11.560 return fixture because you're only up though you're only up 1432 01:20:11.640 --> 01:20:15.119 that margin that you're up, so you've got to find 1433 01:20:15.159 --> 01:20:16.960 a way to lock it down. And the key is 1434 01:20:17.159 --> 01:20:21.359 do you want Messi and Suarez and the big guns 1435 01:20:21.359 --> 01:20:24.880 of the Gulfstream galacticas you need them for leg two? 1436 01:20:25.920 --> 01:20:28.279 So probably match day eighteen not starting. I will be 1437 01:20:28.359 --> 01:20:30.479 intrigued what Javier Mascherano does in this matchup. 1438 01:20:31.960 --> 01:20:35.439 Do I think that? Uh? Do I think NYC can 1439 01:20:35.720 --> 01:20:39.880 get a result. I still think that. 1440 01:20:40.000 --> 01:20:43.680 Somewhere, somehow Messi and Suarez coming with twenty or thirty 1441 01:20:43.720 --> 01:20:44.960 to go, they get a goal to get the win. 1442 01:20:46.680 --> 01:20:52.279 Purple Team in Philadelphia, Purple team and Philly, you know, Philly. 1443 01:20:52.399 --> 01:20:54.279 Once again, you wonder where the goals are going to 1444 01:20:54.319 --> 01:21:00.880 come from Orlando at home, you know, you have some 1445 01:21:00.960 --> 01:21:05.279 folks that are away from the twenty four roster. I 1446 01:21:05.439 --> 01:21:09.520 wonder what Bradley Carnell's approach is going to be here 1447 01:21:09.560 --> 01:21:12.439 in match week one. And what I mean by that 1448 01:21:12.680 --> 01:21:17.600 is is he going to be more red Bullseyan? Is 1449 01:21:17.640 --> 01:21:21.760 he going to be Saint Louisy? What's it going to 1450 01:21:21.840 --> 01:21:25.399 look like? What's it going to look like with with 1451 01:21:25.560 --> 01:21:27.520 Bradley Carnell on the touch line? 1452 01:21:27.520 --> 01:21:27.640 Now? 1453 01:21:28.800 --> 01:21:34.720 Is it going to be very pressy with some older individuals? 1454 01:21:35.840 --> 01:21:37.600 Do you and if you're going to press and do 1455 01:21:37.720 --> 01:21:41.199 things a red bullsy in way late in the first half, 1456 01:21:41.359 --> 01:21:43.319 late in the game, would be the chances for Orlando 1457 01:21:43.520 --> 01:21:47.079 to score goals against that defense that will have exhausted 1458 01:21:47.119 --> 01:21:51.119 itself in those forty five minute periods. I think Orlando 1459 01:21:51.159 --> 01:21:53.760 gets it done. Probably not the shiniest game on the board, 1460 01:21:54.800 --> 01:21:57.039 maybe a one goal game, maybe one nil something like that. 1461 01:21:59.399 --> 01:22:02.039 Austin and Sporting Kansas City once again Sporting. 1462 01:22:03.079 --> 01:22:04.800 You look at what they did. 1463 01:22:06.279 --> 01:22:09.760 And Peter Vermese, his lineup was a pulse camp in 1464 01:22:09.880 --> 01:22:17.800 net back for Libold, Voladaire Valencia, Davis in front of them, 1465 01:22:17.960 --> 01:22:22.359 Tommy Rodriguez, Bartlett, Rodoja and Shallowy and Dejon Joviolch up top. 1466 01:22:24.520 --> 01:22:30.800 Dejon Jovolch played sixty two minutes. Eric Tommy played the 1467 01:22:30.840 --> 01:22:39.159 full ninety, Shallowy played eighty three minutes. And your back line, 1468 01:22:39.319 --> 01:22:42.399 just so you know, Jacob Davis played the full ninety. 1469 01:22:43.159 --> 01:22:48.279 Valencia played a half and was subbed out after forty five. 1470 01:22:49.039 --> 01:22:52.680 Left hand side Voldair played the full ninety, and lie 1471 01:22:52.760 --> 01:22:58.039 Bold Tim Leibold played sixty two minutes before being subbed off. Joking, 1472 01:22:58.079 --> 01:22:59.600 Fernandez was the one that came on at the half 1473 01:22:59.640 --> 01:23:04.000 of Valin. Logan and Dembay played thirty minu Garcia played thirty, 1474 01:23:04.640 --> 01:23:08.760 Willia Gatta played thirty. Steven Afrifa played a handful on 1475 01:23:08.920 --> 01:23:14.880 the bench that did not play. Ian James Orhanda, Song, Jansen, Miller, Maga, 1476 01:23:14.920 --> 01:23:19.680 matsulamanoff Elonis Fargus and Mason Toy. So that's what Sporting 1477 01:23:19.840 --> 01:23:23.439 is looking at coming into this matchup. But once again 1478 01:23:23.560 --> 01:23:26.079 Sporting on the road at Austin. Austin is a minus 1479 01:23:26.119 --> 01:23:30.159 one twenty five. Might I want to see what the 1480 01:23:30.159 --> 01:23:33.199 lineup looks like once again having to look for leg two? 1481 01:23:35.119 --> 01:23:37.119 How do you juggle this one? And being a plus 1482 01:23:37.119 --> 01:23:40.880 three zero nine not really a surprise. Houston and Dallas. 1483 01:23:40.920 --> 01:23:43.640 Houston favored of a minus one eleven. Like I said, 1484 01:23:43.640 --> 01:23:45.600 we talked to Glenn Davis and got everything about all 1485 01:23:45.640 --> 01:23:48.560 that firepower that was there, and that's all the changes. 1486 01:23:49.199 --> 01:23:52.600 No kataskiya, noachiach. But you have folks coming in, Jack McGlenn. 1487 01:23:53.600 --> 01:23:55.479 What does Houston look like? What does Dallas look like? 1488 01:23:55.680 --> 01:23:58.119 Is they try to get acclimated with a Costa and 1489 01:23:58.199 --> 01:24:02.920 Musa up top in the attack. Plus three zero one 1490 01:24:03.039 --> 01:24:06.159 for Dallas and Houston. By the way, four other matchups 1491 01:24:06.199 --> 01:24:09.159 that we may get into Nashville and the revs All 1492 01:24:09.239 --> 01:24:12.119 Caps in Colorado, San Jose, RSL, Seattle Charlotte, and then 1493 01:24:12.119 --> 01:24:15.279 the two games on Sunday Portland Vancouver and LAG and 1494 01:24:15.399 --> 01:24:20.000 San Diego. So it's time for while Jared Smith, welcome aboard. 1495 01:24:20.119 --> 01:24:25.960 How are you surviving? Yeah, yeah, yeah, man surviving. That's 1496 01:24:26.000 --> 01:24:29.600 why it's like, that's the baseline today. Okay, we met John. 1497 01:24:29.680 --> 01:24:32.920 As we have said before, we are all day to day, Yes, 1498 01:24:33.359 --> 01:24:33.840 aren't we all? 1499 01:24:34.000 --> 01:24:36.159 Yes? If Jared' day to day, aren't we all? 1500 01:24:37.920 --> 01:24:41.039 As we get into I was running through all the 1501 01:24:41.119 --> 01:24:44.319 matchups and just going through what to keep an eye 1502 01:24:44.399 --> 01:24:50.239 on in these particular things. One of the Bellweather things 1503 01:24:50.319 --> 01:24:52.000 that I have as a marker. As we were going 1504 01:24:52.039 --> 01:24:54.920 through juice boxes and matchups and results, the teams that 1505 01:24:55.000 --> 01:24:58.279 played in the midweek in Conka Calf, who still are 1506 01:24:58.359 --> 01:25:02.239 chasing results coming up the middle of next week, and 1507 01:25:02.560 --> 01:25:05.079 what the lineups look like from the folks that traveled 1508 01:25:05.119 --> 01:25:08.880 and played in conca Caff midweek because Cincinnati traveled forever, 1509 01:25:09.000 --> 01:25:12.920 Seattle traveled forever, but they go home. Keep an eye 1510 01:25:13.000 --> 01:25:15.359 on the clubs that had to play in concor Caff 1511 01:25:15.720 --> 01:25:18.000 in the midweek, even though they may very well be 1512 01:25:18.239 --> 01:25:20.560 favored going into the matchups this weekend. 1513 01:25:22.359 --> 01:25:24.479 Yeah, it's it's something we always have to contend with. 1514 01:25:24.600 --> 01:25:26.319 I think at the start of the season is when 1515 01:25:26.359 --> 01:25:28.920 we get Conca CAFF Champions Cup and then inevitably you 1516 01:25:29.000 --> 01:25:33.920 get like Vancouver had to play some poissa. I think, uh, 1517 01:25:35.359 --> 01:25:36.960 Cincinnati was a Matagua. 1518 01:25:38.079 --> 01:25:42.000 Yeah, this week Seattle at Antigua. 1519 01:25:43.359 --> 01:25:43.520 Man. 1520 01:25:46.720 --> 01:25:50.760 Yeah, it's it's a lot of travel. Yeah, it's uh, 1521 01:25:50.960 --> 01:25:52.640 it's tough, man, it's tough to deal with. 1522 01:25:53.039 --> 01:25:57.760 Yes, And so you know, looking at all of these things, 1523 01:25:58.000 --> 01:26:01.600 there are some numbers of these teams that played in 1524 01:26:01.680 --> 01:26:03.840 Conca calf in the midweek and the Red Bulls game. 1525 01:26:03.880 --> 01:26:05.960 Red Bulls Cincinnati specifically, for me, was one that I 1526 01:26:06.079 --> 01:26:08.760 was looking at because Red Bulls Road or a plus 1527 01:26:08.840 --> 01:26:13.199 two fifty and so, I mean it was intriguing to 1528 01:26:13.279 --> 01:26:17.319 see these kinds of numbers. And so bart Is bart 1529 01:26:17.439 --> 01:26:18.520 is charging in here. 1530 01:26:18.920 --> 01:26:20.000 Well, hi, bart. 1531 01:26:20.560 --> 01:26:24.640 John, that's the day before the season. I'm excited, and 1532 01:26:24.680 --> 01:26:25.199 I'm still. 1533 01:26:25.039 --> 01:26:28.039 Looking at everybody's cashing in ticket, cashing in money in 1534 01:26:28.039 --> 01:26:28.880 the bank left and right. 1535 01:26:29.159 --> 01:26:31.079 But that's what I wanted, you know, I got I 1536 01:26:31.159 --> 01:26:31.920 got off the email. 1537 01:26:31.920 --> 01:26:33.199 I need to get off this morning and sit on 1538 01:26:33.199 --> 01:26:33.800 I'm afraid to talk. 1539 01:26:34.640 --> 01:26:37.239 Well, you know, I had to do actual work. Yeah, 1540 01:26:37.319 --> 01:26:39.720 and so I'm still looking for the piano to put 1541 01:26:39.800 --> 01:26:41.680 my arm on. This time of the week, but the 1542 01:26:41.720 --> 01:26:44.439 piano's not here, so it's like, you know, there's air, 1543 01:26:44.560 --> 01:26:49.319 that's all I'm grabbing into. So, I mean, you know, 1544 01:26:49.399 --> 01:26:51.359 looking at things in looking at things in general. Bart, 1545 01:26:51.399 --> 01:26:53.119 we were talking about the CONCA CAF teams playing in 1546 01:26:53.159 --> 01:26:56.319 the midweek and some chances for folks to get results 1547 01:26:56.359 --> 01:26:58.600 that they may not necessarily even than you look at jothboxes, 1548 01:26:58.600 --> 01:27:00.279 it's a big number. Minnesota is a big number on 1549 01:27:00.319 --> 01:27:02.800 the road with LAFC. Red Bulls are a big number. 1550 01:27:02.880 --> 01:27:04.680 That's the one that I'm really circling. Red Bulls with 1551 01:27:04.720 --> 01:27:07.239 a big number at a plus two fifty going to Cincinnati. 1552 01:27:07.880 --> 01:27:10.039 Uh, look at the Concreict same. 1553 01:27:09.920 --> 01:27:13.479 High period, because I think people are forgetting that Red 1554 01:27:13.560 --> 01:27:18.279 Bulls were in the MLS Cup final last year. And yeah, 1555 01:27:18.359 --> 01:27:20.000 so I'm with you that that's the one that I've 1556 01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:23.319 been looking at all week going. While Cincinnati is my 1557 01:27:23.439 --> 01:27:27.680 favorite for the Eastern Conference, that's a tough start for them. 1558 01:27:27.960 --> 01:27:30.560 M Yeah, so I am. 1559 01:27:30.760 --> 01:27:34.239 I am intrigued with with all of these matchups. There 1560 01:27:34.279 --> 01:27:37.960 are a couple of matchups that I'm sure that folks 1561 01:27:38.000 --> 01:27:40.359 outside of those two particular teams are sitting there going 1562 01:27:41.159 --> 01:27:44.239 ain't no way, and one of those ain't no ways 1563 01:27:44.359 --> 01:27:50.000 is probably Jarrett DC in Toronto, where it's like, basically. 1564 01:27:49.880 --> 01:27:53.239 This is this is this is the game you watch 1565 01:27:54.600 --> 01:27:58.039 because you have an addiction. This is like in a movie. 1566 01:27:58.119 --> 01:28:00.960 This is where you would have that epiphany of oh 1567 01:28:01.039 --> 01:28:02.159 my god, I need help. 1568 01:28:02.399 --> 01:28:03.079 I have a problem. 1569 01:28:03.520 --> 01:28:08.560 Unless you are in the DC area or you are 1570 01:28:09.000 --> 01:28:14.600 of a Southern Ontario persuasion in your life and you 1571 01:28:14.720 --> 01:28:17.119 have an emotional investment in either one of these clubs, 1572 01:28:17.600 --> 01:28:25.319 I cannot recommend or sanction watching this game unless you 1573 01:28:25.439 --> 01:28:27.680 are applying to be one of the siccos. 1574 01:28:28.479 --> 01:28:31.079 So basically what you're saying is you're neither condoning nor 1575 01:28:31.199 --> 01:28:33.920 endorsing that kind of behavior unless you really are a sicko. 1576 01:28:35.479 --> 01:28:38.439 Yeah, that's like an application for him to become one 1577 01:28:38.880 --> 01:28:41.560 is to watch either one of these teams. And I 1578 01:28:41.720 --> 01:28:46.079 stand by like still not sure if Robin Frasier is 1579 01:28:46.359 --> 01:28:49.079 a really good coach or not. And I'm not sure 1580 01:28:49.159 --> 01:28:53.560 will know after Toronto stint either because what he's going 1581 01:28:53.640 --> 01:28:58.640 to have to work with. Man, it's like it's like 1582 01:28:58.760 --> 01:29:00.960 having someone go coach per day would be like are 1583 01:29:01.000 --> 01:29:01.880 they good? I don't know. 1584 01:29:05.119 --> 01:29:09.479 It's Purdue, uh so uh, Jared, Well, I think well, 1585 01:29:09.840 --> 01:29:11.279 I thought that Jared was gonna go take care of 1586 01:29:11.319 --> 01:29:12.960 that large dog that was in the background. 1587 01:29:13.000 --> 01:29:15.520 Well, put the dog on camera. I think he hit 1588 01:29:15.600 --> 01:29:16.960 the wrong button, is what happened? 1589 01:29:17.800 --> 01:29:18.960 Put the dog on camera? 1590 01:29:19.680 --> 01:29:22.279 Yeah, I think that. Literally, I think that Jared hit 1591 01:29:22.319 --> 01:29:24.119 the wrong button. So did you hit the wrong button, sir? 1592 01:29:25.840 --> 01:29:28.520 I guess he did, because he dumped out again he did. 1593 01:29:29.039 --> 01:29:31.800 Unless well, I think what might be happening is, uh, 1594 01:29:33.000 --> 01:29:37.079 are you having audio, sir? Like I bring him in 1595 01:29:37.159 --> 01:29:40.079 and then he dumps out, you know, So I don't 1596 01:29:40.079 --> 01:29:41.960 know what I think Jared is. I think Jared is 1597 01:29:42.079 --> 01:29:44.399 fighting with that dog that we heard in the background. 1598 01:29:45.079 --> 01:29:49.079 Right, No, it's it's it's like Big MLS kicking me 1599 01:29:49.159 --> 01:29:51.680 out for for trash talking to of its clubs. 1600 01:29:52.199 --> 01:29:54.600 Well, I mean you competiably trash talk Nashville and New 1601 01:29:54.640 --> 01:29:55.159 England too. 1602 01:29:58.760 --> 01:29:59.760 I could trash talk Na. 1603 01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:03.079 Well, actually the other parts here. I have to ask 1604 01:30:03.159 --> 01:30:05.399 him if he saw the thing where like Rascal Flats 1605 01:30:05.439 --> 01:30:09.439 tried to sing Sweet Caroline in West Virginia and yeah, 1606 01:30:10.479 --> 01:30:12.159 and they and John I don't know if you saw this, 1607 01:30:12.520 --> 01:30:15.079 they did the Sweet Caroline instead of bob Ba. 1608 01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:15.840 Uh. 1609 01:30:16.119 --> 01:30:21.439 The fans uh shouted, eat blank pit the usual wow. 1610 01:30:22.039 --> 01:30:23.840 Yeah, that's our normal thing that we did. 1611 01:30:24.800 --> 01:30:28.000 That's a standard reaction. This is not a surprise wow. 1612 01:30:29.760 --> 01:30:34.319 But uh, I mean uh yeah. 1613 01:30:34.960 --> 01:30:36.560 For the record, By the way, nachel has signed their 1614 01:30:36.560 --> 01:30:38.840 first round draft pick, whitet Meyer. That is that release 1615 01:30:38.880 --> 01:30:41.359 has come out this morning. The other late games Saint 1616 01:30:41.479 --> 01:30:44.319 Louis City and Colorado San Jose at a plus one 1617 01:30:44.399 --> 01:30:48.039 twenty four hosting RSL. I still think we ought to 1618 01:30:48.079 --> 01:30:51.239 have a hard knock or at least an on side 1619 01:30:51.359 --> 01:30:53.439 in its entirety with San Jose this season. 1620 01:30:54.079 --> 01:30:57.760 Correct, Yeah, gotta have the Seattle. 1621 01:30:58.880 --> 01:31:01.800 Seattle having to travel of six thousand, one hundred and 1622 01:31:01.840 --> 01:31:05.159 eighteen miles back and forth from the airport in San Pedro. 1623 01:31:05.319 --> 01:31:09.199 Sula gets Charlotte that a minus one twenty seven, Charlotte 1624 01:31:09.239 --> 01:31:13.359 plus three fifty, and then we have Cascadia and Portland 1625 01:31:13.399 --> 01:31:16.800 and Vancouver lag in San Diego's the late game on Sunday. 1626 01:31:19.119 --> 01:31:21.680 I look at it. So, Bart, let me ask you 1627 01:31:21.720 --> 01:31:23.920 about San Diego. This is this is where you put 1628 01:31:23.960 --> 01:31:25.920 on your pundit hat. Now I know you're wearing your 1629 01:31:26.079 --> 01:31:27.560 Land United shirt, but you need to put on your 1630 01:31:27.560 --> 01:31:31.239 pundit hat. As you sit from your Atlanta Nied coffee mug, 1631 01:31:32.159 --> 01:31:37.840 when you look at San Diego, Yes there's Chuki Lozano, 1632 01:31:37.880 --> 01:31:41.239 Yes there's Luca Dellatore. What did you see in San 1633 01:31:41.319 --> 01:31:44.039 Diego this year in their in their build up to 1634 01:31:44.479 --> 01:31:48.199 year number one under a MLS's umbrella. 1635 01:31:49.720 --> 01:31:51.760 Well, I think, first off, we need to start with 1636 01:31:51.840 --> 01:31:54.199 what they're produce, what they're giving us as a look 1637 01:31:54.920 --> 01:31:58.760 with their uniforms, which is bland, bland, bland, and I'm 1638 01:31:58.800 --> 01:32:03.359 afraid that is going to transfer to the field because yes, 1639 01:32:03.439 --> 01:32:07.359 you got Chuki, I'm not sure Luca Delatoria will be 1640 01:32:07.399 --> 01:32:10.000 a very good MLS midfielder. I don't think that's like 1641 01:32:10.119 --> 01:32:14.239 a hot take. But I don't really think there's anyone 1642 01:32:14.399 --> 01:32:19.520 else on this roster that is going to help them 1643 01:32:19.600 --> 01:32:25.520 become anything more than an expansion team that doesn't make 1644 01:32:25.560 --> 01:32:29.239 the playoffs. I do not see a playoff path. 1645 01:32:29.079 --> 01:32:30.159 For them this year. 1646 01:32:31.840 --> 01:32:35.880 But that said, it does seem like they are focusing 1647 01:32:35.960 --> 01:32:40.840 on a long term plan. Now that may seem okay 1648 01:32:41.159 --> 01:32:47.920 in some respects, but I think what we we Atlanta United, 1649 01:32:48.359 --> 01:32:51.239 has uh, what we have have told the league is 1650 01:32:51.279 --> 01:32:53.920 you don't need to be patient as an expansion team, 1651 01:32:53.960 --> 01:32:56.359 and you kind of do need to come in guns blazing, 1652 01:32:56.399 --> 01:33:00.239 and I'm afraid they haven't captured that. I don't think, 1653 01:33:01.000 --> 01:33:04.840 you know, a Mexican international player is going to be 1654 01:33:05.000 --> 01:33:07.600 the ticket to their success in the sands or on 1655 01:33:07.680 --> 01:33:09.880 the field. I just I don't think he's good enough 1656 01:33:09.920 --> 01:33:12.319 to just bring that to them. And so for if 1657 01:33:12.359 --> 01:33:15.720 I'm a San Diego fan, I'm worried. If I'm a 1658 01:33:15.760 --> 01:33:19.439 team who has to play San Diego, I'm happy because 1659 01:33:19.479 --> 01:33:21.479 I just I'm telling you, I think it's just going 1660 01:33:21.560 --> 01:33:23.960 to be bland. It's just that's what they're giving from 1661 01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:26.359 a uniform standpoint, and that's what I feel like they're 1662 01:33:26.359 --> 01:33:27.520 going to be giving on the field too. 1663 01:33:28.039 --> 01:33:31.119 Jason drops in for the final twenty plus or until 1664 01:33:31.720 --> 01:33:34.039 uh we send him fleeing into the night. From all 1665 01:33:34.079 --> 01:33:35.720 the topics and conversation that we have. 1666 01:33:37.439 --> 01:33:39.359 Is eight of them more night? 1667 01:33:40.039 --> 01:33:42.039 John's out of control? All righty are you? 1668 01:33:42.600 --> 01:33:45.159 Are you at the Bodo Glimpse game of the Arctic Circle? 1669 01:33:45.319 --> 01:33:46.600 See now that it might be night? 1670 01:33:46.960 --> 01:33:47.319 That was? 1671 01:33:47.479 --> 01:33:47.680 Yeah? 1672 01:33:47.680 --> 01:33:49.520 It might well? Yeah for like days on end. 1673 01:33:50.079 --> 01:33:52.960 Uh, Jason, I don't know to what extent you got 1674 01:33:53.000 --> 01:33:55.680 into this discussion with Maddie last night on six Pack, 1675 01:33:55.760 --> 01:33:58.560 But Sunday Night soccer is going to be unveiled on 1676 01:33:58.600 --> 01:34:02.119 Apple TV and it's La Galaxy in San Diego. It's 1677 01:34:02.159 --> 01:34:05.640 the beginning of everything in San Diego FC. And I 1678 01:34:05.760 --> 01:34:07.720 know that the interview that Maddy did with Dax McCarty, 1679 01:34:07.840 --> 01:34:11.279 Dax wasn't really all that about what San Diego tried 1680 01:34:11.279 --> 01:34:12.479 to do to come out of the field here and 1681 01:34:12.520 --> 01:34:13.479 you're thirty of MLS. 1682 01:34:14.039 --> 01:34:18.159 I'm not either. They're just not well constructed. I do 1683 01:34:18.359 --> 01:34:20.439 like the Chucky Lizano signing. I think he's a very 1684 01:34:20.479 --> 01:34:23.880 good player. He'll sell shirts, He'll he'll sell tickets. He's 1685 01:34:24.000 --> 01:34:27.199 like I get it from that perspective, and sometimes you 1686 01:34:27.319 --> 01:34:30.840 need those signings. Not every club has the fan base 1687 01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:33.760 that Atlanta United does, where you could sign, you know, 1688 01:34:33.880 --> 01:34:36.920 straight out of the gate, a Tito Vijalba, a Miguel 1689 01:34:36.960 --> 01:34:39.279 al Moron who nobody knew at the time, and at 1690 01:34:39.319 --> 01:34:41.399 Joseph Martinez that nobody knew at the time, and you 1691 01:34:41.479 --> 01:34:43.520 could make them stars because you had a fan base 1692 01:34:43.600 --> 01:34:46.439 that could do that. Some markets don't have that, And 1693 01:34:46.640 --> 01:34:48.600 when you're in San Diego and you have to compete 1694 01:34:48.680 --> 01:34:51.960 with Sholos right across the border. You got to capture 1695 01:34:52.000 --> 01:34:55.520 people's attention, and I'm good with that. My issue is 1696 01:34:55.720 --> 01:34:59.119 what's the rest of the team. Like Chucky can't play 1697 01:34:59.560 --> 01:35:04.039 five per They have not built that roster well. And 1698 01:35:04.840 --> 01:35:09.640 what's frustrating is to varying degrees. You know, Atlanta United, 1699 01:35:09.800 --> 01:35:12.319 LAFC came out of the gates and were very good 1700 01:35:12.399 --> 01:35:17.000 straight away. Nashville has been competitive, even if disappointing at times. 1701 01:35:17.279 --> 01:35:20.680 Charlotte has been competitive, even if disappointing at times. Minnesota 1702 01:35:20.720 --> 01:35:22.560 took them forever, but they finally figured it out. 1703 01:35:22.880 --> 01:35:23.399 Good on them. 1704 01:35:24.960 --> 01:35:27.920 It's you don't Austin was good for a minute and 1705 01:35:28.000 --> 01:35:29.840 the bad. Saint Louis was good for a minute and 1706 01:35:29.880 --> 01:35:32.560 then bad. Like you don't have to come in and 1707 01:35:32.720 --> 01:35:35.760 do the old school nineteen eighties expansion team in a 1708 01:35:35.840 --> 01:35:37.359 league and say we're not going to be good for 1709 01:35:37.439 --> 01:35:40.319 five years. That doesn't exist in MLS. With all the 1710 01:35:40.880 --> 01:35:43.680 allocation money and things you get to build a team. 1711 01:35:44.319 --> 01:35:47.720 There's not really an excuse, and it's very frustrating for 1712 01:35:47.800 --> 01:35:50.159 a team that has huge ambition and a team that's 1713 01:35:50.159 --> 01:35:52.199 going to develop a lot of talent. The right to 1714 01:35:52.319 --> 01:35:55.439 dream connection is going to be huge for them. Why 1715 01:35:55.560 --> 01:35:57.840 did they not go out and build a better roster 1716 01:35:58.039 --> 01:36:00.960 for Mike e Varis in year one? It doesn't make 1717 01:36:01.399 --> 01:36:04.600 sense unless they just literally missed on a whole bunch 1718 01:36:04.680 --> 01:36:07.439 of possible additions that they couldn't get over the line. 1719 01:36:07.520 --> 01:36:10.399 It's really disappointing for a team that I think will 1720 01:36:10.439 --> 01:36:12.960 be a big one in MLS, but not in twenty 1721 01:36:13.000 --> 01:36:13.439 twenty five. 1722 01:36:13.680 --> 01:36:16.800 All right, let's get into the discussion about it. Landy United. 1723 01:36:16.880 --> 01:36:20.000 Jarrett, your first question for Jason here on a pre 1724 01:36:20.239 --> 01:36:22.439 match day match week one here in twenty twenty five. 1725 01:36:24.640 --> 01:36:24.840 Yeah. 1726 01:36:24.920 --> 01:36:29.760 Sure, So we know Joseph Martinez has gone, Roncutoy is 1727 01:36:30.760 --> 01:36:33.640 going into another year of Montreal and Jason, we've talked 1728 01:36:33.640 --> 01:36:37.079 about this that God only knows when Joey Supputo runs 1729 01:36:37.079 --> 01:36:40.000 a club what the timeline looks like. But what does 1730 01:36:40.079 --> 01:36:43.159 the attack look like from Montreal? That would concern you. 1731 01:36:44.159 --> 01:36:46.960 Caden Clark and Bryce Duke. I really like the dual 1732 01:36:47.000 --> 01:36:49.319 Tends the way that they play. It's a unique kind 1733 01:36:49.359 --> 01:36:52.000 of system that you don't get to prepare for very 1734 01:36:52.079 --> 01:36:55.720 often the three four three, but it's more of like 1735 01:36:55.920 --> 01:37:00.720 a three two wing backs, a box and ann and 1736 01:37:01.079 --> 01:37:04.319 that's not always the way a three four to three 1737 01:37:04.359 --> 01:37:06.680 plays out, So you're gonna have to deal with where 1738 01:37:06.720 --> 01:37:09.760 Clark and Duke are in dangerous spots. They pressed well. 1739 01:37:09.880 --> 01:37:11.600 This is a team that will take a lot of chances, 1740 01:37:11.760 --> 01:37:14.000 especially in this one, because I think they're gonna be 1741 01:37:14.039 --> 01:37:17.560 a little depleted with injury. Jayalen Neil a question mark. 1742 01:37:17.680 --> 01:37:20.760 JACOMOVRIONI who will be up top A question mark. A 1743 01:37:20.800 --> 01:37:25.479 lot of questions about Montreal. And while I think Laurent 1744 01:37:25.560 --> 01:37:29.359 Courtois is a very good manager, I really like the 1745 01:37:29.720 --> 01:37:32.760 aggressiveness that he brings the team with. I like that 1746 01:37:32.840 --> 01:37:35.199 they're bold. I like that he it doesn't play in 1747 01:37:35.359 --> 01:37:37.680 any way scared, even though he's got less talent than 1748 01:37:37.720 --> 01:37:40.479 a lot of teams. You can only do so much, 1749 01:37:40.760 --> 01:37:44.319 and I think in a game like this one for Montreal, 1750 01:37:44.680 --> 01:37:48.239 Clark and Duke are gonna have to be outstanding. You're 1751 01:37:48.279 --> 01:37:51.319 gonna have to cause turnovers. You're gonna have to win 1752 01:37:51.399 --> 01:37:53.720 the ball high up the field and get in behind immediately. 1753 01:37:53.760 --> 01:37:57.640 If you're Montreal, I think they could do that once 1754 01:37:57.760 --> 01:37:59.880 or twice. I don't think they can do that enough. 1755 01:38:00.399 --> 01:38:02.760 And then the flip side is defensively, especially if they 1756 01:38:02.760 --> 01:38:06.079 don't have Jalen Neil. George Campbell is poised for a 1757 01:38:06.159 --> 01:38:09.479 big year with Montreal. He's gotten into the national team picture. 1758 01:38:09.600 --> 01:38:11.560 There's a lot of openings at center back. So if 1759 01:38:11.560 --> 01:38:16.399 George Campbell can have a big eighteen months here, don't 1760 01:38:16.439 --> 01:38:19.000 be surprised. Don't be surprised. I said it a long 1761 01:38:19.079 --> 01:38:21.920 time ago about George Campbell as a possible US men's 1762 01:38:22.000 --> 01:38:24.039 national team player. The move to Montreal was a good 1763 01:38:24.039 --> 01:38:25.800 one for him. He's gotten a lot of playing time. 1764 01:38:26.279 --> 01:38:29.199 He's a very very good player. He's one of three 1765 01:38:29.239 --> 01:38:32.680 center backs. Joel Waterman very very solid. He's two of 1766 01:38:32.760 --> 01:38:34.840 three center backs. Here's the other one going to be 1767 01:38:34.880 --> 01:38:38.079 if Neil can't go. The wingbacks I do like in 1768 01:38:38.279 --> 01:38:42.640 Pierce and Marshall Ruddy. I think central midfield. Saliba is 1769 01:38:42.720 --> 01:38:44.800 one of the more underrated players in the league. Samuel 1770 01:38:44.840 --> 01:38:47.840 piet very solid, also a few years older than he 1771 01:38:47.960 --> 01:38:50.159 used to be. You can get at him, you can 1772 01:38:50.199 --> 01:38:53.279 get in behind him. Can he run with Saba? Can 1773 01:38:53.359 --> 01:38:57.159 he run with Miguel al Maron? Can he defend Alexei Moranchuk. 1774 01:38:57.760 --> 01:38:59.279 I think it's going to be a wide open game. 1775 01:39:00.319 --> 01:39:03.159 What scares me is Duke and Clark in wide open moments. 1776 01:39:03.840 --> 01:39:07.760 What excites me on the Atlanta side is Montreal not 1777 01:39:07.880 --> 01:39:11.520 being able to run consistently in those wide open moments. 1778 01:39:11.560 --> 01:39:13.079 The other way, it could be a lot of back 1779 01:39:13.119 --> 01:39:13.479 and forth. 1780 01:39:14.399 --> 01:39:17.439 Bart Keeler, your question for Jason involving on the field 1781 01:39:17.520 --> 01:39:18.960 with Atlanta and CF Montreal. 1782 01:39:19.720 --> 01:39:23.159 You did touch on the massive US men's national team 1783 01:39:23.239 --> 01:39:27.680 rooting interest for Montreal, but outside of that, I do 1784 01:39:27.920 --> 01:39:31.000 have to question what the point of. 1785 01:39:33.279 --> 01:39:33.319 It. 1786 01:39:33.399 --> 01:39:35.439 Seems like a youth movement, but not a real like 1787 01:39:36.199 --> 01:39:38.399 we're going full into the youth movement, if that makes 1788 01:39:38.439 --> 01:39:42.239 any sense. When you look at the Montreal team with 1789 01:39:42.880 --> 01:39:46.239 what feels like a lack of experience, especially in MLS, 1790 01:39:47.520 --> 01:39:50.279 where are they going to be able to navigate or 1791 01:39:50.319 --> 01:39:51.600 how are they going to be able to navigate this 1792 01:39:51.760 --> 01:39:56.880 MLS season, specifically starting with I've re energized Atlanta team, 1793 01:39:57.560 --> 01:39:59.920 fan base and a whole bunch of people in STI 1794 01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:01.359 out of a dome that's going to be real out. 1795 01:40:01.880 --> 01:40:03.760 Yeah. I think for them it's down to the way 1796 01:40:03.800 --> 01:40:05.560 that they play. That's how they're going to have to 1797 01:40:05.640 --> 01:40:09.560 bridge the gap of talent and experience. I think they're 1798 01:40:09.640 --> 01:40:12.760 decent in experience. I mean, Duke and Clark are young guys, 1799 01:40:12.960 --> 01:40:15.279 but they've they've got enough they should be Okay. 1800 01:40:15.439 --> 01:40:16.960 Campbell's passed it at that point. 1801 01:40:17.000 --> 01:40:19.279 I think he's a veteran guy in MLS with the 1802 01:40:19.319 --> 01:40:23.079 amount of games he's gotten. Waterman and Pied are both 1803 01:40:23.239 --> 01:40:26.760 very good. Saliba's still on the rise but getting it's 1804 01:40:26.880 --> 01:40:28.159 kind of in that Duke and Clark. 1805 01:40:28.760 --> 01:40:30.439 I feel like where they are. It's not so much 1806 01:40:30.479 --> 01:40:31.840 that they have no experience. 1807 01:40:32.000 --> 01:40:37.000 It's that you have Duke, Clark, Saliba, but Marshall Ruddy 1808 01:40:37.039 --> 01:40:39.800 into this as well as the right wing backs. I 1809 01:40:39.840 --> 01:40:42.920 think Campbell's passed it. But those four you're in that 1810 01:40:43.720 --> 01:40:47.079 you've got enough games now to be a regular Rock, 1811 01:40:47.760 --> 01:40:50.680 are you? And that's a valid question. I think with 1812 01:40:50.720 --> 01:40:53.600 all four of those guys. I'm really high on Bryce Duke. 1813 01:40:53.600 --> 01:40:56.720 I always have been. I think he's a very very 1814 01:40:56.840 --> 01:40:59.600 good player. Can he take that jump to being in 1815 01:40:59.760 --> 01:41:03.119 the Georgia Mihailovitch kind of class because he's got the ability. 1816 01:41:03.279 --> 01:41:05.920 Payton Park same thing, he's got the ability. Can he 1817 01:41:06.039 --> 01:41:09.159 be that guy? That's the next step for those guys. 1818 01:41:09.279 --> 01:41:10.960 But the way that they bridge the gap of just 1819 01:41:11.119 --> 01:41:15.279 not having as much they're gonna have to be extremely aggressive. 1820 01:41:15.319 --> 01:41:20.039 They're gonna have to be extremely high risk taking. They're 1821 01:41:20.039 --> 01:41:21.520 gonna have to play high up the field. They're gonna 1822 01:41:21.520 --> 01:41:23.199 have to try to turn you over, and they're gonna 1823 01:41:23.239 --> 01:41:23.760 get exposed. 1824 01:41:23.800 --> 01:41:24.199 Sometimes. 1825 01:41:24.680 --> 01:41:27.720 I feel like they're a team that could win some 1826 01:41:27.880 --> 01:41:31.760 games that shock everybody three nil, and they're gonna have 1827 01:41:31.880 --> 01:41:34.119 some bad losses where they lose five nil. Like I 1828 01:41:34.399 --> 01:41:37.239 really think it's gonna be all or nothing kind of stuff. 1829 01:41:37.800 --> 01:41:40.079 And if you're ready for that, if you're Joey Supputo 1830 01:41:40.159 --> 01:41:43.600 and you're you're strapped in and ready to go okay cool, 1831 01:41:44.239 --> 01:41:46.840 if you start to get antsy about some bad losses, 1832 01:41:47.039 --> 01:41:49.520 then you're gonna pull the plug sooner than you should. 1833 01:41:49.560 --> 01:41:51.800 If you have an issue with that. Give Laurent courtois 1834 01:41:51.880 --> 01:41:54.479 more talent, he doesn't have enough, so he's got to 1835 01:41:54.520 --> 01:41:57.000 find a way to take some chances to bridge that gap. 1836 01:41:57.880 --> 01:42:01.000 Jareded for Jason at Landy United see Montreal coming up 1837 01:42:01.000 --> 01:42:01.479 tomorrow night. 1838 01:42:02.439 --> 01:42:04.359 So we talked about how they get forward, you know, 1839 01:42:04.439 --> 01:42:08.199 how they can cause problems for you. So how do 1840 01:42:08.279 --> 01:42:10.800 you manage this? If you're Atlanta, Let's say you are 1841 01:42:11.159 --> 01:42:14.640 up of this game and you know the game kind 1842 01:42:14.720 --> 01:42:17.359 of hits a little bit of a lull where you're 1843 01:42:18.800 --> 01:42:22.439 allowing Montreal to have a little bit of the ball 1844 01:42:22.479 --> 01:42:24.319 while not necessarily control of the game. How do you 1845 01:42:24.520 --> 01:42:27.119 manage those lulls in the game differently than you did 1846 01:42:27.159 --> 01:42:27.640 a year ago. 1847 01:42:28.760 --> 01:42:31.880 You get behind the ball in moments where you have 1848 01:42:32.079 --> 01:42:34.840 to and then you break out with pace, which you 1849 01:42:34.920 --> 01:42:37.880 didn't have as much of last year. I think you 1850 01:42:37.920 --> 01:42:39.840 know the way Rob Valentino had to play it down 1851 01:42:39.880 --> 01:42:43.439 the stretch last year without a nine that was at 1852 01:42:43.479 --> 01:42:45.359 starting level, without Latte lot, you know. 1853 01:42:45.439 --> 01:42:47.920 I mean, Jamaltira played very well. I think Daniel Rios 1854 01:42:47.960 --> 01:42:48.359 played well. 1855 01:42:48.640 --> 01:42:50.720 You got what you could get out of guys who 1856 01:42:50.800 --> 01:42:53.720 were twos and threes on the depth chart, they weren't one. 1857 01:42:54.039 --> 01:42:56.479 You got a one now and you got a star one, 1858 01:42:56.720 --> 01:42:59.199 and you got a star one on the wing and 1859 01:42:59.319 --> 01:43:01.960 I think Saba it's turned into that as well. So 1860 01:43:02.159 --> 01:43:05.880 now you've got the ability when needed and I don't 1861 01:43:05.920 --> 01:43:09.199 think it's Plan A, don't think it's Plan B, but 1862 01:43:09.399 --> 01:43:12.000 when needed, and a team is having those moments where 1863 01:43:12.000 --> 01:43:14.840 they've got the ball and they're knocking it around and okay, 1864 01:43:15.680 --> 01:43:17.199 get behind the ball a little bit. You're in a 1865 01:43:17.239 --> 01:43:20.000 four two three one, so you can drop six deep easily. 1866 01:43:20.279 --> 01:43:23.079 Saba and Al Maroon are gonna defend, so it can 1867 01:43:23.159 --> 01:43:24.640 turn into a four to four to one one. When 1868 01:43:24.680 --> 01:43:27.840 it needs to get behind the ball, win it back. 1869 01:43:28.520 --> 01:43:31.800 And when you do in those moments to change the momentum, 1870 01:43:32.800 --> 01:43:34.760 look for the quick ball over the top. You know, 1871 01:43:35.159 --> 01:43:37.239 it's It's not something that this team is going to 1872 01:43:37.319 --> 01:43:40.479 do all the time. I think there's so much conversation 1873 01:43:40.640 --> 01:43:43.920 about like what Ronnie Dilo wants to do, and some 1874 01:43:44.039 --> 01:43:45.960 of the things he said that I think are really 1875 01:43:46.039 --> 01:43:50.640 getting twisted into like their own National Inquirer magazines at 1876 01:43:50.640 --> 01:43:53.600 this point about being bored in a first preseason game 1877 01:43:53.640 --> 01:43:56.640 about passing backwards. They're going to have to pass backwards occasionally. 1878 01:43:57.359 --> 01:44:01.159 I do think they will look to get four faster 1879 01:44:02.039 --> 01:44:03.920 than previous Atlanta United teams. 1880 01:44:04.039 --> 01:44:04.239 I do. 1881 01:44:05.119 --> 01:44:06.319 But you're not gonna be reckless. 1882 01:44:06.680 --> 01:44:10.239 You're not gonna tell, you know, Ronald Hernandez, Matt Edwards, 1883 01:44:11.039 --> 01:44:14.840 Noah Cobb, Stean gregorson, Derek Williams, Luisa Brom You're not 1884 01:44:14.880 --> 01:44:20.359 gonna say, don't pass backwards ever, just bombing. No, this 1885 01:44:20.520 --> 01:44:25.600 isn't nineteen eighty four, you know, Camden FC. Okay, this 1886 01:44:25.800 --> 01:44:29.359 is gonna be still based on creating good opportunities and 1887 01:44:29.399 --> 01:44:34.039 getting guys forward in organized ways. You're gonna have that 1888 01:44:34.159 --> 01:44:37.239 ability this time though, when you get your head up 1889 01:44:37.680 --> 01:44:40.800 and you see Al Maroon in the starter's blocks on 1890 01:44:40.840 --> 01:44:43.000 the right side of the field, and you see Latte 1891 01:44:43.119 --> 01:44:46.560 lat crouched ready to sprint in the middle of the field, 1892 01:44:47.520 --> 01:44:50.079 you're gonna have those abilities early in a game where 1893 01:44:50.119 --> 01:44:51.760 teams are kind of getting at you a little bit, 1894 01:44:51.880 --> 01:44:54.560 keeping the ball, maybe frustrating you a bit, You're gonna 1895 01:44:54.560 --> 01:44:58.680 have that ability to hit one long ball and have 1896 01:44:58.840 --> 01:45:01.560 those guys take off out of it cannon, and then 1897 01:45:01.600 --> 01:45:05.159 the other team says, oh crap, we got to deal 1898 01:45:05.199 --> 01:45:08.439 with that, and then they start to have to change 1899 01:45:09.439 --> 01:45:11.000 and they're gonna have to drop off more and they're 1900 01:45:11.000 --> 01:45:13.239 not gonna be able to be as aggressive. Then that 1901 01:45:13.399 --> 01:45:16.359 creates space for you to play in. I want to 1902 01:45:16.359 --> 01:45:18.840 see if Atlanta does that from time to time this season, 1903 01:45:18.960 --> 01:45:21.439 where you need to change the momentum, you need to 1904 01:45:22.319 --> 01:45:25.119 throw a sucker punch at the opponent. Yeah, hit a 1905 01:45:25.159 --> 01:45:26.920 fifty to fifty long ball, let me go, all go Chase, 1906 01:45:27.199 --> 01:45:29.399 let''t say a lot to go chase. They don't get it, 1907 01:45:29.479 --> 01:45:32.000 that's fine. You can then press, but also you put 1908 01:45:32.079 --> 01:45:34.039 you plant that seed any other teams like, hey, I 1909 01:45:34.079 --> 01:45:37.079 can't play a high line. Hey that guy can run 1910 01:45:37.159 --> 01:45:38.600 past me in twenty yards. 1911 01:45:38.840 --> 01:45:39.439 I can't do that. 1912 01:45:40.079 --> 01:45:42.279 Now you start to scare them. Now you start to 1913 01:45:42.359 --> 01:45:45.880 then they drop off. You try to get in behind, 1914 01:45:45.920 --> 01:45:48.279 but they drop off. You have space for Miranshuk, you 1915 01:45:48.359 --> 01:45:51.640 have space for Click, you have space for Saba coming inside. 1916 01:45:51.760 --> 01:45:53.359 You have a lot more space to work in. But 1917 01:45:53.439 --> 01:45:54.600 you have to do that to create it. 1918 01:45:55.760 --> 01:45:59.119 Jared Smith, myself and Mark Keeler Soccer for USPOD catching 1919 01:45:59.199 --> 01:46:00.760 up with Jason. Here's to get ready for a Land 1920 01:46:00.880 --> 01:46:03.920 United and to see if Montreal seven forty. I think 1921 01:46:03.960 --> 01:46:07.119 they're still taking the tenth minute in the pregame on 1922 01:46:07.199 --> 01:46:09.199 Apple TV. Who's calling the game on Apple TV by 1923 01:46:09.199 --> 01:46:11.600 the way, it is Callum Williams and Kayln Carr. We 1924 01:46:11.760 --> 01:46:14.840 have a one v one with Callum on the network 1925 01:46:14.960 --> 01:46:17.840 as of now. Madison Crease caught up with Callum yesterday. 1926 01:46:18.239 --> 01:46:20.279 Talked a lot about the game obviously, but talked a 1927 01:46:20.319 --> 01:46:22.399 lot about MLS Season thirty as well. 1928 01:46:23.119 --> 01:46:26.039 So Bart Keeler Soccer for us POD your next question 1929 01:46:26.119 --> 01:46:28.880 for Jason. As we preview, so we. 1930 01:46:28.920 --> 01:46:31.319 Talked about youth movement with Montreal and they do have 1931 01:46:31.439 --> 01:46:33.800 a lot of young national team. It feels like with 1932 01:46:33.880 --> 01:46:36.560 that landing United, our young guys are going to struggle 1933 01:46:37.159 --> 01:46:41.159 to find a way into the starting lineup, let alone 1934 01:46:42.319 --> 01:46:45.880 fine minutes. You know, while I think most people will 1935 01:46:46.159 --> 01:46:49.359 look at that as a negative, what are the positives 1936 01:46:49.520 --> 01:46:54.560 of you know, still providing our youth players, maybe outside 1937 01:46:54.600 --> 01:46:57.319 of Noah Caaba Efri and Morales, but like they're not 1938 01:46:57.479 --> 01:47:00.319 expected to cut hopefully hopefully hopefully. 1939 01:47:01.479 --> 01:47:01.880 This year. 1940 01:47:01.880 --> 01:47:03.600 They're not expected to come in and have to be 1941 01:47:04.439 --> 01:47:07.880 key contributors like we've had to use them in years past. 1942 01:47:07.960 --> 01:47:12.239 I mean, obviously this is let's have no injuries, but 1943 01:47:12.920 --> 01:47:15.039 you know, it does feel like we're not relying on 1944 01:47:15.760 --> 01:47:17.920 a U twenty two guy this year like we have 1945 01:47:18.159 --> 01:47:20.000 to we have had to in the past. How does 1946 01:47:20.079 --> 01:47:21.039 that help with this team? 1947 01:47:21.520 --> 01:47:23.560 Well, I mean you kind of express the conundrum in 1948 01:47:23.600 --> 01:47:27.600 the question, like you can't I feel like some of 1949 01:47:27.640 --> 01:47:32.000 the conversation at times around the city you can't have 1950 01:47:32.119 --> 01:47:33.920 your cake and eat it too, you know, like you 1951 01:47:33.960 --> 01:47:36.000 want to develop young players absolutely, and they need to 1952 01:47:36.000 --> 01:47:38.479 play to do that. But you can't sign the best 1953 01:47:38.479 --> 01:47:41.279 players in the world if you're gonna play kids, if 1954 01:47:41.319 --> 01:47:44.000 you'm your academy in those spots, you know, like like 1955 01:47:44.119 --> 01:47:47.119 Luke Brendan's a prime example. I think Luke Brendan's a 1956 01:47:47.199 --> 01:47:50.159 very talented player. I think he still has to produce 1957 01:47:50.239 --> 01:47:52.399 more in the final third. That's the step for him. 1958 01:47:52.479 --> 01:47:55.760 And you know, now's the time. But who's going to 1959 01:47:55.840 --> 01:47:58.359 win you more games right now in twenty twenty five, 1960 01:47:58.479 --> 01:48:02.520 Luke Brennan or Miguel Almerome Like, It's it's not a conversation, 1961 01:48:03.800 --> 01:48:06.199 you know, an academy forward or lat Day Lot Like, 1962 01:48:06.920 --> 01:48:09.359 that's the reality of wanting to be a big club. 1963 01:48:09.720 --> 01:48:13.640 So you can't you can't do both in the same 1964 01:48:13.800 --> 01:48:17.760 way all the time. It's impossible Montreal is gonna play 1965 01:48:17.800 --> 01:48:20.039 younger players because they don't have al Mirom, they don't 1966 01:48:20.039 --> 01:48:22.680 have Latte Lot, they don't have those guys. They're not 1967 01:48:22.880 --> 01:48:25.680 spending on those guys. Colorado makes decisions in the same 1968 01:48:25.720 --> 01:48:28.880 way Dallas has made decisions historically, in the same way 1969 01:48:29.199 --> 01:48:32.720 Philadelphia has made decisions in the same way. You you 1970 01:48:32.920 --> 01:48:36.720 can develop young players in this model as well, and 1971 01:48:36.800 --> 01:48:40.319 we've seen it in Atlanta Look. Injuries happen, guys breakthrough. 1972 01:48:40.720 --> 01:48:45.479 Bellow Wiley Chonqui's coming, you know, don't know when he's 1973 01:48:45.840 --> 01:48:48.560 gonna get time. He's gonna be on a first team 1974 01:48:48.600 --> 01:48:53.239 deal next year. Those young guys have to push. And 1975 01:48:54.119 --> 01:48:56.279 I mean, I think we have this conversation honestly in 1976 01:48:56.359 --> 01:49:00.600 any field, any any job that we do. It's this 1977 01:49:00.800 --> 01:49:05.399 balancing act of developing talent while retaining really good talent. 1978 01:49:05.960 --> 01:49:09.159 It's this balancing act of that really good talent wanting 1979 01:49:09.159 --> 01:49:12.920 a pay raise, wanting more money, and you either pay 1980 01:49:13.000 --> 01:49:17.159 them or you don't because you're giving an opportunity to 1981 01:49:17.199 --> 01:49:20.520 somebody younger who's going to be cheaper. You have these 1982 01:49:20.560 --> 01:49:24.039 conversations every day in every walk of life. So Atlanta 1983 01:49:24.119 --> 01:49:27.439 United this year, and this has been, in my opinion, 1984 01:49:27.640 --> 01:49:31.000 the feeling from the fan base for a few years. 1985 01:49:31.199 --> 01:49:35.479 They want to win, Okay, you want to win. Who 1986 01:49:35.640 --> 01:49:38.720 gives you a better chance of winning in the starting 1987 01:49:38.800 --> 01:49:42.720 lineup on opening day? Someone who has scored double digit 1988 01:49:42.800 --> 01:49:46.319 goals in three different seasons, two of them in English Championship. 1989 01:49:47.159 --> 01:49:49.159 Somebody's got two hundred and twenty games in the Premier 1990 01:49:49.239 --> 01:49:52.920 League with Newcastle, who's coming back to you somebody like 1991 01:49:53.000 --> 01:49:57.359 matash Klik, who has fifty sixty caps with the Polish 1992 01:49:57.439 --> 01:49:59.680 national team, a whole bunch of games in the Premier 1993 01:49:59.760 --> 01:50:03.960 League and the Championship. Who is gonna give you a 1994 01:50:04.039 --> 01:50:07.000 better chance on paper those guys or young guys from 1995 01:50:07.039 --> 01:50:10.239 your academy. I think, if you know me and you 1996 01:50:10.359 --> 01:50:12.560 know what we've done on SDCH over the years, you 1997 01:50:12.760 --> 01:50:15.000 know how much I believe in the talent coming out 1998 01:50:15.000 --> 01:50:19.399 of this academy, how important I believe that is. But 1999 01:50:20.279 --> 01:50:23.640 if the demand is win now, you got to play 2000 01:50:23.720 --> 01:50:26.000 guys that have been there and done that, and that's 2001 01:50:26.079 --> 01:50:29.640 where Atlanta United is right now. But when that door opens, 2002 01:50:29.680 --> 01:50:32.279 and it will, somebody's gonna pull a hamstring, somebody's gonna 2003 01:50:32.279 --> 01:50:35.039 have an injury, hopefully all minor stuff. It's just it's life. 2004 01:50:35.239 --> 01:50:37.119 You're not gonna have the starting lineup play all thirty 2005 01:50:37.159 --> 01:50:40.319 four games. Impossible, You're not gonna start that way already, 2006 01:50:40.439 --> 01:50:41.279 like it's not gonna happen. 2007 01:50:41.439 --> 01:50:43.560 So you have to deal with that. 2008 01:50:44.159 --> 01:50:47.199 And that means Dominic chon Que maybe it left back. 2009 01:50:47.359 --> 01:50:49.479 He's gonna get some time Jay Fortune last year. Look, 2010 01:50:49.479 --> 01:50:51.319 he's a starting level player. He might not start as 2011 01:50:51.359 --> 01:50:53.680 much this year, but he showed last year he can 2012 01:50:53.760 --> 01:50:56.039 be that. Noah Cops showed he can be that. Maybe 2013 01:50:56.079 --> 01:50:58.239 he's the third guy. Maybe he's the fourth guy center back. 2014 01:50:58.600 --> 01:51:01.319 If Ryan Morales is his time, he's done everything he 2015 01:51:01.399 --> 01:51:04.760 can with the time that he's gotten. Luke Brennan same thing. Like, 2016 01:51:05.239 --> 01:51:07.640 these are all guys who have good ability, who have 2017 01:51:07.760 --> 01:51:10.760 done as well as you can do so far. And 2018 01:51:10.880 --> 01:51:14.760 George Campbell's the prime example. If you're Atlanta and you 2019 01:51:14.840 --> 01:51:18.920 want to win now, you might have to go get 2020 01:51:19.000 --> 01:51:21.960 somebody who's further along in their development. That means your 2021 01:51:22.039 --> 01:51:24.880 young guy might get to a point and then they 2022 01:51:24.960 --> 01:51:27.199 might be worth nine hundred thousand dollars in allocation money 2023 01:51:27.760 --> 01:51:30.239 and go to another spot that is good for them 2024 01:51:30.680 --> 01:51:32.600 and good for you in the return that you're getting. 2025 01:51:33.119 --> 01:51:35.800 You know, that's the reality. You can't play more than 2026 01:51:35.840 --> 01:51:38.520 eleven guys, and if you want to win now, you 2027 01:51:38.640 --> 01:51:40.720 got to play guys with more experience to give you 2028 01:51:40.800 --> 01:51:41.640 a better chance. 2029 01:51:41.800 --> 01:51:42.159 Right now. 2030 01:51:42.600 --> 01:51:45.800 If your long term and your DC and you give 2031 01:51:45.880 --> 01:51:49.119 designated players away and you say, look, we're not really 2032 01:51:49.239 --> 01:51:51.600 going to try to compete this year and might get 2033 01:51:51.600 --> 01:51:54.800 our coach fired, but oh well, then you can play 2034 01:51:55.000 --> 01:51:57.039 your guys out of your academy and you already. 2035 01:51:56.800 --> 01:51:58.039 Have low expectations. 2036 01:51:58.680 --> 01:52:00.199 I don't think you can get away with that here, 2037 01:52:00.199 --> 01:52:01.479 and I think we've seen it over the last few 2038 01:52:01.560 --> 01:52:03.000 years with the reaction you want to win. 2039 01:52:04.640 --> 01:52:04.920 Jared. 2040 01:52:05.159 --> 01:52:06.880 For Jason, what else is on your mind this morning 2041 01:52:06.920 --> 01:52:08.920 as we get ready for it landy night and see Montreal? 2042 01:52:09.279 --> 01:52:10.720 Well, this would be the last one for me, But 2043 01:52:10.800 --> 01:52:14.479 I want to ask about the bite in this team. 2044 01:52:15.279 --> 01:52:18.560 I think we saw it last year for me, Jason. 2045 01:52:18.640 --> 01:52:21.760 One of the watershed moments was the Nashville home game 2046 01:52:22.560 --> 01:52:24.760 where you got knocked around in that game and you 2047 01:52:24.880 --> 01:52:29.000 didn't show the fight that I expected to see. And 2048 01:52:29.560 --> 01:52:32.319 after that it seemed like they had a choice to 2049 01:52:32.399 --> 01:52:34.159 either lay down or stand up, and they stood up. 2050 01:52:34.720 --> 01:52:37.359 But go back to Sea on gregorson getting one of 2051 01:52:37.399 --> 01:52:40.560 the Red Bulls players set off but kind of getting 2052 01:52:40.600 --> 01:52:44.079 stuck into fights, and how much we'll see of that 2053 01:52:44.520 --> 01:52:46.760 this year, not necessarily just trying to buy trying to 2054 01:52:46.920 --> 01:52:49.720 you know, bait people into fights, but having that. 2055 01:52:51.239 --> 01:52:54.760 Responsible edge to you way more of that this year. 2056 01:52:55.239 --> 01:52:59.319 I've seen it in preseason so far, starting with just 2057 01:52:59.439 --> 01:53:02.880 committing in transition more regularly, like if you're gonna be 2058 01:53:03.640 --> 01:53:06.039 aggressive with counter pressure, you gotta know when you're beat 2059 01:53:06.079 --> 01:53:08.760 and you gotta know, Okay, I can take a foul here, Okay, 2060 01:53:08.840 --> 01:53:11.279 I might have to take a yellow card here. You're 2061 01:53:11.279 --> 01:53:14.399 going to do more of that. You're gonna have those 2062 01:53:14.439 --> 01:53:18.760 incidents where somebody Waylay's al Marone or takes a shot 2063 01:53:18.760 --> 01:53:20.800 at last a lot, and I think you've got guys 2064 01:53:20.880 --> 01:53:22.319 in this team that aren't going to stand for it. 2065 01:53:22.720 --> 01:53:26.159 And that's that's good. It's what's been needed. It's been 2066 01:53:26.199 --> 01:53:31.680 an issue I think for a while. You know, it's 2067 01:53:31.760 --> 01:53:35.199 okay to be a team that gets a lot of 2068 01:53:35.279 --> 01:53:37.479 yellow cards. It's okay to be a team that commits 2069 01:53:37.520 --> 01:53:41.079 a lot of fouls. That doesn't mean you're a bunch 2070 01:53:41.119 --> 01:53:44.319 of bad guys. You have to be ready to take 2071 01:53:44.359 --> 01:53:46.600 that stuff. And you know you don't want to see, 2072 01:53:46.680 --> 01:53:49.640 especially for Philadelphia, I see it. Okay, No, no, no, no, 2073 01:53:49.840 --> 01:53:52.760 that's that's the difference I'm making because you don't want 2074 01:53:52.800 --> 01:53:55.319 to be cynical about it and you don't want to 2075 01:53:55.359 --> 01:53:58.720 do the dumb time wasting things about it. Like you 2076 01:53:58.800 --> 01:54:01.760 want to win games. Sometimes your way to win games 2077 01:54:02.000 --> 01:54:05.439 is somebody beats you when you're pressing Fallum. You know, 2078 01:54:05.600 --> 01:54:09.399 somebody decks your star player deck them like, these are 2079 01:54:09.479 --> 01:54:13.079 all elements of it, and you want to do it 2080 01:54:13.279 --> 01:54:16.079 with the goal of winning a game, not trying to 2081 01:54:16.199 --> 01:54:19.159 be the new broad Street bullies. Like there's a difference 2082 01:54:19.359 --> 01:54:21.479 and it all has to point to winning games. I 2083 01:54:21.520 --> 01:54:23.640 think at times this team didn't win games in the 2084 01:54:23.720 --> 01:54:26.319 past because they didn't have as much of that edge 2085 01:54:26.359 --> 01:54:26.680 to them. 2086 01:54:27.000 --> 01:54:28.760 I don't think that's going to be a problem this year. 2087 01:54:30.039 --> 01:54:32.720 The back line right now, we're still waiting on the 2088 01:54:33.319 --> 01:54:34.800 late fitness test for Derek Williams. 2089 01:54:34.920 --> 01:54:36.680 Yes, as far as I know. 2090 01:54:36.800 --> 01:54:40.359 Yeah, So if Derek is in, how does the back 2091 01:54:40.439 --> 01:54:44.079 line look in your in your opinion, if Derek doesn't 2092 01:54:44.119 --> 01:54:46.399 pass the fitness test, how do you anticipate it looking 2093 01:54:46.439 --> 01:54:49.880 I guess well. I think the question is between Stean 2094 01:54:49.920 --> 01:54:55.319 Gregorson who played forty five midweek from last Wednesday, so 2095 01:54:56.119 --> 01:54:58.800 ten days ago, played forty five there, played forty five 2096 01:54:58.800 --> 01:54:59.960 against Dallas on Saturday. 2097 01:55:01.319 --> 01:55:02.680 That would make you think that he could play. There 2098 01:55:02.720 --> 01:55:05.039 hasn't many setbacks that I know of that he could start. 2099 01:55:05.279 --> 01:55:07.119 You know, can he finish? I don't know, but can 2100 01:55:07.239 --> 01:55:08.800 he start? Yeah, he should be able to get you 2101 01:55:08.840 --> 01:55:12.359 at halftime easily. Luisa Brom's been very good in pre season, 2102 01:55:12.520 --> 01:55:14.479 so I think he can. He can go wherever you need. 2103 01:55:14.560 --> 01:55:17.159 No a Cop can go wherever you need. Derek Williams 2104 01:55:17.520 --> 01:55:20.159 is I guess day to day is the best way 2105 01:55:20.199 --> 01:55:22.760 to put it right now. If he can't get you 2106 01:55:22.800 --> 01:55:26.720 at halftime, then he doesn't start. And I think it's 2107 01:55:26.760 --> 01:55:29.279 a little easier in this case with a Brom on 2108 01:55:29.359 --> 01:55:31.640 the left and Gregorson on the right, because Gregorson starts 2109 01:55:31.680 --> 01:55:32.760 if he's healthy enough. 2110 01:55:34.159 --> 01:55:34.720 We have seen it. 2111 01:55:34.800 --> 01:55:36.840 We saw it against Dallas where Gregorson didn't start. It 2112 01:55:36.920 --> 01:55:38.880 was Williams on the right, and it was a Brom 2113 01:55:38.960 --> 01:55:41.279 on the left, which you know they're both lefties. That's okay, 2114 01:55:41.319 --> 01:55:45.079 you can do that. My guess would be that A 2115 01:55:45.159 --> 01:55:48.840 b and Gregorson if Williams can't go. If Williams can go, 2116 01:55:49.520 --> 01:55:53.319 then it's the question between a Brom and Gregorson and Williams. 2117 01:55:53.920 --> 01:55:57.159 Who are the two fittest who are probably ready to 2118 01:55:57.239 --> 01:55:59.000 run a good bit because Montreal is gonna try to 2119 01:55:59.000 --> 01:56:02.000 play over the top. Who's ready to do that? And 2120 01:56:02.960 --> 01:56:04.880 I think all three are, along with Noah Cop, I 2121 01:56:04.920 --> 01:56:07.159 think they're all ready to go. But my guess would 2122 01:56:07.199 --> 01:56:12.000 be what we saw last week with Gregorson in place 2123 01:56:12.159 --> 01:56:15.239 of one of the two. So I think Gregorson and 2124 01:56:15.359 --> 01:56:17.399 either a Bram or Williams would be my hunch. 2125 01:56:18.720 --> 01:56:21.039 But you know, I have I have a follow up 2126 01:56:21.079 --> 01:56:24.439 to that, and this is like galaxy brain. So I apologize. 2127 01:56:24.600 --> 01:56:28.840 Oh boy, here we go with Brooks Lennon out and possibly, 2128 01:56:29.399 --> 01:56:31.880 you know, one of your starting center backs out. Could 2129 01:56:31.920 --> 01:56:35.520 you see possibly a three back at least. 2130 01:56:35.479 --> 01:56:39.000 In possession or no, you don't, well, in possession, different conversation. 2131 01:56:39.760 --> 01:56:42.640 That's different because I could see like starting a right 2132 01:56:42.760 --> 01:56:46.359 back as Noah Cob for you know, and then it 2133 01:56:46.880 --> 01:56:48.720 didn't play okay. 2134 01:56:48.800 --> 01:56:51.000 Did not play there at all in preseason and he 2135 01:56:51.159 --> 01:56:53.079 was asking. But I know that came up in the 2136 01:56:53.159 --> 01:56:56.960 off season. I think that was before Ronnie Dila was here. 2137 01:56:57.079 --> 01:57:00.000 And I think Daila sees Cobb as a center back, 2138 01:57:00.359 --> 01:57:02.800 no question, does not see him as a possible right. 2139 01:57:02.800 --> 01:57:05.760 Back, you know, in a pinch? Is it possible? Sure? 2140 01:57:06.000 --> 01:57:07.680 I don't think it's how you start, like if you 2141 01:57:07.760 --> 01:57:10.520 get late in the game, and you know, especially in 2142 01:57:10.600 --> 01:57:13.680 this case, if Williams and Gregorson are not fully ninety 2143 01:57:13.720 --> 01:57:16.239 minutes ready to go, and you know they're they're gassed 2144 01:57:16.359 --> 01:57:19.359 and can't finish the game and you've got to move 2145 01:57:19.399 --> 01:57:22.560 pieces around. Is there a configuration where Cobbin's up at 2146 01:57:22.640 --> 01:57:26.319 right back? Yeah, I could see that, but not to start, Okay, 2147 01:57:26.399 --> 01:57:27.720 I think I think I was just I was. 2148 01:57:27.840 --> 01:57:29.760 Trying to figure out, like, Okay, you got this guy 2149 01:57:29.840 --> 01:57:31.880 out and possibly this guy maybe out, and this guy 2150 01:57:31.960 --> 01:57:34.119 possibly out, Like how do you put together a back 2151 01:57:34.239 --> 01:57:35.479 line that makes you know? 2152 01:57:36.239 --> 01:57:37.239 I think it's pretty simple. 2153 01:57:37.319 --> 01:57:39.399 I mean we saw and you go back to last Saturday, 2154 01:57:39.560 --> 01:57:41.640 which was not a dress rehearsal but kind of sort 2155 01:57:41.680 --> 01:57:43.680 of you saw Matt Edwards at right, and you saw 2156 01:57:43.800 --> 01:57:45.039 Ronald Ornandez at left. 2157 01:57:45.920 --> 01:57:48.439 Ronald Ornandez is ready to go wherever you need him. 2158 01:57:48.439 --> 01:57:49.279 That's just who he is. 2159 01:57:49.359 --> 01:57:51.279 You want him at full back rather than center back, 2160 01:57:51.359 --> 01:57:53.159 but you had to play him at center back. You 2161 01:57:53.199 --> 01:57:57.319 could too, you don't. You're covered there right now. I 2162 01:57:57.399 --> 01:57:59.600 think Matt Edwards has had a really good preseason and 2163 01:58:00.000 --> 01:58:02.079 and we had the chance to sit down with him 2164 01:58:02.079 --> 01:58:04.920 Madison and I yesterday. You'll hear that here shortly as 2165 01:58:04.920 --> 01:58:10.800 well on the Network exclusive Plugs. Matt is a guy 2166 01:58:11.000 --> 01:58:15.399 who Ronnie has spoken about consistently as a top defender, 2167 01:58:16.880 --> 01:58:19.439 very good in the shutdown defending. Kind of think back 2168 01:58:19.479 --> 01:58:21.840 to Miles Robinson a little bit when the conversation early 2169 01:58:21.920 --> 01:58:25.720 on in twenty seventeen, before you really saw him early 2170 01:58:25.800 --> 01:58:28.279 twenty eighteen, when we were seeing him with Atlanta United 2171 01:58:28.319 --> 01:58:32.600 two and others, weren't everybody talked about Miles being such 2172 01:58:32.640 --> 01:58:34.520 a good defender. It was the other elements of the 2173 01:58:34.560 --> 01:58:36.880 game that they wanted to see improve that the soccer iq, 2174 01:58:37.119 --> 01:58:40.000 the tactical know how you know it, being better on 2175 01:58:40.079 --> 01:58:42.880 the ball. Those are the things that Matt as well 2176 01:58:43.159 --> 01:58:44.079 needs to improve. 2177 01:58:44.359 --> 01:58:45.079 But he can defend. 2178 01:58:45.920 --> 01:58:48.960 So if you go into it with Edwards, with Hernandez 2179 01:58:48.960 --> 01:58:51.920 who can defend and Edwards, Ornandez can get forward too. 2180 01:58:52.239 --> 01:58:54.720 Edwards got forward against Dallas too. I liked both of 2181 01:58:54.760 --> 01:58:57.239 them at fullback in that game. Ernanda's got an assist, 2182 01:58:57.359 --> 01:58:59.640 Edwards took advantage of the space that album Rone created 2183 01:58:59.680 --> 01:59:03.720 coming in side. I think you're good with that without Lennon, 2184 01:59:03.760 --> 01:59:06.439 without Amador. Amador hopefully coming back into the team for 2185 01:59:06.520 --> 01:59:09.560 training next week. Uh so that'll be a process to 2186 01:59:09.640 --> 01:59:14.560 get him back. I think you have those swing guys 2187 01:59:15.119 --> 01:59:18.119 in case of emergency or to finish games out in 2188 01:59:18.319 --> 01:59:21.640 a Brom on the left and Cob on the right. 2189 01:59:22.239 --> 01:59:25.239 You can if you have to, but I think more 2190 01:59:25.319 --> 01:59:27.760 in terms of the way you play, they're gonna defend 2191 01:59:27.800 --> 01:59:30.079 in a four to four to two because the way 2192 01:59:30.119 --> 01:59:33.239 you're gonna see it is al Maron and Saba drop 2193 01:59:33.640 --> 01:59:36.359 to create that line of four. Miranchut goes up high 2194 01:59:36.439 --> 01:59:39.399 with the forward. It's then gonna look at times like 2195 01:59:39.479 --> 01:59:41.239 a four to two four in the way that you press, 2196 01:59:41.520 --> 01:59:44.960 but your defensive shape is going to be that. Offensively, 2197 01:59:44.960 --> 01:59:46.479 you're gonna build up with three a lot, but it's 2198 01:59:46.479 --> 01:59:48.880 gonna be the central midfielders dropping. You know, you're gonna 2199 01:59:48.880 --> 01:59:51.239 want to get those fullbacks high, and it's gonna be 2200 01:59:51.399 --> 01:59:55.199 combinations of sleash and click and William Bah and fortune 2201 01:59:55.239 --> 01:59:57.960 when when they're in that are gonna drop into those spots. 2202 01:59:58.119 --> 02:00:00.399 And we've talked about it a lot lot in the 2203 02:00:00.479 --> 02:00:03.239 Chattanooga game because the team worked on it very specifically 2204 02:00:03.279 --> 02:00:05.600 in the week leading up to it. It's been consistent 2205 02:00:05.640 --> 02:00:08.319 throughout the preseason and it's probably time to follow back 2206 02:00:08.399 --> 02:00:13.600 up on it. You're gonna see as often potentially as 2207 02:00:13.760 --> 02:00:16.880 you saw the old school six drop between the two 2208 02:00:16.920 --> 02:00:19.279 center backs and build up to create three. But it's 2209 02:00:19.319 --> 02:00:22.119 not three center backs. You're going to see that, but 2210 02:00:22.239 --> 02:00:25.000 you're going to see the six. One of the six 2211 02:00:25.199 --> 02:00:27.079 is you can call the two central mids whatever you 2212 02:00:27.159 --> 02:00:29.920 want to call them. It's a double pivot. You're going 2213 02:00:30.000 --> 02:00:32.319 to see one of them drop to the side of 2214 02:00:32.439 --> 02:00:35.359 the center backs quite a bit. It's something that I 2215 02:00:35.520 --> 02:00:37.920 really liked seeing the drill, and I want to see 2216 02:00:37.960 --> 02:00:41.359 it more in activity, where for example, you go to 2217 02:00:41.399 --> 02:00:44.000 the right side, you play a let's say it's Edwards tomorrow, 2218 02:00:44.000 --> 02:00:46.159 you play to Edwards, tire up the field, nothing do 2219 02:00:46.279 --> 02:00:49.600 and you come back and you then come back to 2220 02:00:49.680 --> 02:00:53.279 the center back and over to the defensive midfielder on 2221 02:00:53.359 --> 02:00:55.840 the opposite side of the play to then break out 2222 02:00:55.840 --> 02:00:56.359 into space. 2223 02:00:57.239 --> 02:00:59.560 That is something that is a different way of build up. 2224 02:00:59.600 --> 02:01:01.520 Some teams do it. We've seen PEP teams do it. 2225 02:01:01.520 --> 02:01:02.319 We've seen others do it. 2226 02:01:02.840 --> 02:01:06.239 I really like it with this group with fleash and 2227 02:01:06.600 --> 02:01:09.079 or click in those kinds of positions to then drive 2228 02:01:09.199 --> 02:01:11.920 forward into space. You almost use the initial ball as 2229 02:01:11.960 --> 02:01:14.399 a diversion. You bring it back and you hit the 2230 02:01:14.479 --> 02:01:16.720 midfielder on the opposite side who had dropped into the 2231 02:01:16.760 --> 02:01:17.199 back line. 2232 02:01:17.279 --> 02:01:18.439 They go that. 2233 02:01:18.800 --> 02:01:24.800 That's kind of when you are going to look at 2234 02:01:24.800 --> 02:01:27.920 this team from say those heat maps or the past maps. 2235 02:01:29.560 --> 02:01:32.319 I'm not envisioning something and you've talked about formations. I'm 2236 02:01:32.319 --> 02:01:35.000 not envisioning something that looks drastically different than what we 2237 02:01:35.079 --> 02:01:36.520 saw with Paneda. 2238 02:01:36.720 --> 02:01:39.800 Obviously, I mean general use. 2239 02:01:40.159 --> 02:01:42.439 But what you just described is how I think we're 2240 02:01:42.439 --> 02:01:46.680 going to see a little bit more eagerness to actually 2241 02:01:46.760 --> 02:01:50.079 go forward. Is that a fair distinction between. 2242 02:01:51.760 --> 02:01:55.359 I don't Yeah, I think I don't think Gonzalo wanted 2243 02:01:55.399 --> 02:01:56.520 the team to not go forward. 2244 02:01:56.680 --> 02:01:58.119 No, no, no, But like it was more of a 2245 02:01:59.279 --> 02:02:01.199 we were looking for a little bit. We will be 2246 02:02:01.279 --> 02:02:04.680 looking for it sooner you'll force it more now. Yeah, okay, 2247 02:02:05.079 --> 02:02:06.560 I think is maybe the way to put it, and 2248 02:02:06.600 --> 02:02:09.520 that's what Dyla's going to demand. And it's down to 2249 02:02:09.600 --> 02:02:12.479 field position, you know. I mean field position we talk 2250 02:02:12.520 --> 02:02:15.640 about in American football all the time. I've really leaned 2251 02:02:15.640 --> 02:02:18.800 into talking about it in soccer a lot over the 2252 02:02:18.840 --> 02:02:20.479 past couple of years. Have you been watching my youth 2253 02:02:20.479 --> 02:02:23.560 thirteen games? Because goodness gracious, it feels like the team 2254 02:02:23.600 --> 02:02:26.239 that gets the kickoff gets the positions. 2255 02:02:27.079 --> 02:02:30.760 So important, and it's something that you know, I'm sure 2256 02:02:30.800 --> 02:02:34.399 there's somebody out there with you know, yell and footy 2257 02:02:34.479 --> 02:02:37.920 at me about it. But it's an important element and 2258 02:02:38.399 --> 02:02:40.600 Dyla's talked about it a lot in preseason. He wants 2259 02:02:40.640 --> 02:02:42.840 to play in the attacking half. He doesn't want to 2260 02:02:42.880 --> 02:02:45.239 play in his own half that much. So it's not 2261 02:02:45.439 --> 02:02:48.880 so much that they didn't want to go forward before. 2262 02:02:49.039 --> 02:02:52.319 I think it's that it's that Dyla's going to demand 2263 02:02:52.479 --> 02:02:55.640 of them to get into the attacking half. Quicker, knock 2264 02:02:55.680 --> 02:02:58.600 the ball around there and find the open man. That's okay, 2265 02:02:58.720 --> 02:03:01.159 don't knock the ball around in your own half as much. 2266 02:03:01.840 --> 02:03:04.119 So there's gonna be a remit to get into that 2267 02:03:04.199 --> 02:03:09.319 attacking half much faster this year. That's gonna be a 2268 02:03:09.399 --> 02:03:11.600 work in progress. I think we've seen it in preseason 2269 02:03:11.720 --> 02:03:14.279 where you know, you have habits, you have muscle memory, 2270 02:03:14.399 --> 02:03:16.359 you you know, you decide at times. 2271 02:03:16.439 --> 02:03:18.680 I'm gonna keep it and I'm gonna be patient. 2272 02:03:19.600 --> 02:03:24.760 Now the demand is no, if you come back, if 2273 02:03:24.920 --> 02:03:26.960 what you're gonna have to, I just I don't want 2274 02:03:26.960 --> 02:03:29.600 to see the situation where we start like getting anxious 2275 02:03:29.600 --> 02:03:33.239 about a pass backwards. It happened in twenty seventeen and eighteen. 2276 02:03:33.840 --> 02:03:36.279 It happened then with Frank Ruwer got killed for a 2277 02:03:36.319 --> 02:03:38.560 team that had to be more conservative because they lost 2278 02:03:38.600 --> 02:03:43.560 their legs. Defensively, we cannot do this. Passing back to 2279 02:03:43.840 --> 02:03:48.039 go forward is a good thing. Have to explain it properly. 2280 02:03:48.199 --> 02:03:50.640 I do not want to see headlines about this nonsense 2281 02:03:50.680 --> 02:03:56.239 all season. I already know we will. It's about coming back. 2282 02:03:56.359 --> 02:03:58.520 So go back to that scenario of you play up 2283 02:03:58.520 --> 02:04:01.359 the right side to Edwards at field. He's boxed in, 2284 02:04:01.560 --> 02:04:04.000 there's nowhere to go. Do you just give it away? No, 2285 02:04:04.399 --> 02:04:06.920 you come back to the center back that's closest to you. 2286 02:04:07.840 --> 02:04:11.279 The thing is when you do that in the past, 2287 02:04:11.840 --> 02:04:14.600 maybe it was all right, reset, keep the ball, cycle it, 2288 02:04:14.720 --> 02:04:17.920 let's let's stay organized. Now it will be get the 2289 02:04:18.039 --> 02:04:22.039 ball forward from that spot. Now, don't go back again. 2290 02:04:22.520 --> 02:04:27.039 Go to the opposite side and go That's what you're 2291 02:04:27.119 --> 02:04:30.560 looking for now. The passback has to trigger getting forward, 2292 02:04:31.039 --> 02:04:33.960 not just to keep the ball and then look for 2293 02:04:34.000 --> 02:04:34.760 an opportunity. 2294 02:04:34.920 --> 02:04:36.520 It's come back to get forward. 2295 02:04:37.199 --> 02:04:39.760 That's what Yeah, the real question is can that translate 2296 02:04:39.840 --> 02:04:42.840 from the U thirteen size field to a regular field? 2297 02:04:42.880 --> 02:04:46.279 But I guess it does. I mean look like, I 2298 02:04:46.399 --> 02:04:48.840 feel like where the game's evolved is. You know, we 2299 02:04:49.039 --> 02:04:51.880 we talked for a long time, just because the way 2300 02:04:51.960 --> 02:04:56.600 we think about this game is constantly evolving. We thought 2301 02:04:56.640 --> 02:05:02.039 for a long time possession numbers showed, and they can, 2302 02:05:02.880 --> 02:05:07.520 but not by themselves. You know, it's about field position, 2303 02:05:08.000 --> 02:05:13.439 which also doesn't entirely show control. You can always point 2304 02:05:13.520 --> 02:05:15.560 to the game where a team has one shot on 2305 02:05:15.680 --> 02:05:17.439 target and they win the game one nil. You can 2306 02:05:17.479 --> 02:05:21.720 always point to that game. That's an outlier generally, and 2307 02:05:22.119 --> 02:05:26.079 I feel pretty safe about saying this. Generally, if you 2308 02:05:26.159 --> 02:05:27.920 have more of the ball, you're gonna create more chances, 2309 02:05:27.920 --> 02:05:30.119 which gives you a better chance to win. If you 2310 02:05:30.399 --> 02:05:32.640 play more of the game in the attacking half, I 2311 02:05:32.680 --> 02:05:36.359 think that's even more of an indicator of your more 2312 02:05:36.560 --> 02:05:37.119 likely to win. 2313 02:05:37.479 --> 02:05:40.560 You're not guaranteed, but you're more likely to win. If 2314 02:05:40.600 --> 02:05:44.279 you have the ball higher up the field more often, 2315 02:05:44.960 --> 02:05:46.359 it gives you a better chance. 2316 02:05:46.439 --> 02:05:49.760 And that's what this game's about. It's not purely possession. 2317 02:05:50.600 --> 02:05:54.319 It's more of where you're having the majority of your possession. 2318 02:05:55.000 --> 02:05:58.279 And I think that's where Ronnie Daila is on board 2319 02:05:58.319 --> 02:06:01.840 with that kind of model. I think Hansei Flick is 2320 02:06:01.880 --> 02:06:03.920 somebody who is very much on board with that sort 2321 02:06:03.960 --> 02:06:06.840 of model. A lot of Pep Guardiola and Hanse Flick, 2322 02:06:06.920 --> 02:06:09.520 and I think Barcelona's been really interesting to watch this 2323 02:06:09.640 --> 02:06:12.239 year because there's some elements that are very very different. 2324 02:06:12.560 --> 02:06:15.359 But there's a lot of similarities. PEPs teams press. 2325 02:06:15.239 --> 02:06:18.760 Really well and they do those things defensively, not right 2326 02:06:18.840 --> 02:06:20.960 now because they don't have Rodery and they've gotten older, 2327 02:06:21.399 --> 02:06:25.159 but in general, yeah, they're about defending first. Where they 2328 02:06:25.199 --> 02:06:28.359 want to defend in your defensive third. They want to 2329 02:06:28.399 --> 02:06:30.079 defend up there. They don't want to defend in their 2330 02:06:30.119 --> 02:06:33.359 own half. That's kind of where Ronnie Daila is. That's 2331 02:06:33.399 --> 02:06:36.479 where he wants to be. I think it's about field position. 2332 02:06:36.640 --> 02:06:38.680 It's about where you have the ball. It's about where 2333 02:06:38.760 --> 02:06:40.880 you defend, and you want that to be as far 2334 02:06:40.920 --> 02:06:42.039 away from your goal as possible. 2335 02:06:43.000 --> 02:06:47.119 All right, Jason, anything else that is we have not addressed, 2336 02:06:47.199 --> 02:06:49.239 that is still on the table before we get the 2337 02:06:49.319 --> 02:06:51.600 plug for everything at ninety two nine. 2338 02:06:51.640 --> 02:06:54.000 I'm sure there's a million things to still talk about. 2339 02:06:54.399 --> 02:06:56.159 If you guys have any more questions, fire them off. 2340 02:06:56.199 --> 02:06:59.399 Otherwise I'm going to go study Montreal Someimore. Yeah, work 2341 02:06:59.439 --> 02:07:03.760 of my French Yeah, yes, absolutely true. So broadcast plans 2342 02:07:03.760 --> 02:07:08.520 for ninety two nine on the weekend, So well, let's 2343 02:07:08.560 --> 02:07:11.520 start before ninety two nine. Tonight it will be in Dalton, 2344 02:07:11.640 --> 02:07:16.920 Georgia for Soccer Town USA. Dalton Catamounts hosting the Johnson 2345 02:07:17.000 --> 02:07:18.520 Knights could be one of the best boys games in 2346 02:07:18.520 --> 02:07:20.840 the state of Georgia this year. Dalton went to Gainesville 2347 02:07:20.920 --> 02:07:23.840 last year beat them two one nights. Coming off of 2348 02:07:23.880 --> 02:07:26.720 a loss they lost to North Forsyth over the midweek 2349 02:07:26.880 --> 02:07:29.000 to nil. Dalton had a huge win down at Peach 2350 02:07:29.119 --> 02:07:31.920 Tree City three nil. Really looking forward to that one 2351 02:07:32.079 --> 02:07:35.039 seven fifteen ish. We'll start on the network seven point 2352 02:07:35.039 --> 02:07:38.560 thirty for kickoff that is this evening. Then I will 2353 02:07:38.600 --> 02:07:40.279 be in the studios at ninety two nine in the 2354 02:07:40.319 --> 02:07:42.920 game tomorrow morning. This is becoming like a yearly tradition. 2355 02:07:43.039 --> 02:07:45.840 For whatever reason, I fill in on opening day a lot. 2356 02:07:46.840 --> 02:07:50.000 I will be there seven to eleven tomorrow morning with 2357 02:07:50.119 --> 02:07:53.760 Sam Crenshaw. You will hear from Madison Cruise. During that show, 2358 02:07:53.880 --> 02:07:56.840 you will hear a lot of clips of audio from 2359 02:07:57.520 --> 02:08:03.279 Dax McCarty, from Callum Williams, from Matt Edwards, from Rodnie 2360 02:08:03.319 --> 02:08:08.159 Dila from Brad Kazan from Miteyo's click from Saba Loo Genezza, 2361 02:08:08.159 --> 02:08:10.880 You're gonna hear a lot of audio throughout the show 2362 02:08:12.119 --> 02:08:14.479 seven to eleven. We're gonna talk other sports too, but 2363 02:08:14.720 --> 02:08:15.920 you know how it is when I'm there on a 2364 02:08:16.239 --> 02:08:18.600 match day, I'm gonna kind of, you know, kick a 2365 02:08:18.640 --> 02:08:21.399 soccer ball in the the match on match day man 2366 02:08:21.520 --> 02:08:22.920 a lot. There's gonna be a lot of stuff we're 2367 02:08:22.920 --> 02:08:24.479 gonna talk about there. So that takes you up to 2368 02:08:24.520 --> 02:08:27.000 eleven o'clock, then you can catch your breath. Georgia State's 2369 02:08:27.079 --> 02:08:28.680 men have a spring match. If you want to go 2370 02:08:28.760 --> 02:08:31.159 over to the facility and watch that one, that's at noon. 2371 02:08:31.239 --> 02:08:34.119 That's a good pregame warm up. And then six point 2372 02:08:34.119 --> 02:08:37.039 thirty five strikes countdown on ninety two ninety game the 2373 02:08:37.079 --> 02:08:39.960 Oudyssey app. It'll be Abe Gordon and Madison Cruz getting 2374 02:08:40.000 --> 02:08:44.319 you started with everything before seven, probably about six fifty five, 2375 02:08:44.880 --> 02:08:47.399 myself and Mike Conti will have Garth Loggerway with us 2376 02:08:47.439 --> 02:08:50.319 in the booth. We'll talk about everything kind of off 2377 02:08:50.439 --> 02:08:53.039 the field leading into the opener and then kick off 2378 02:08:53.159 --> 02:08:55.880 seven forty and then full time report with Abe and 2379 02:08:56.359 --> 02:08:59.359 that guy up there in the corner, John Nelson starting 2380 02:08:59.439 --> 02:09:02.479 the post game show, tons of audio from the locker 2381 02:09:02.560 --> 02:09:05.479 room afterwards, and then all of us will be jumping 2382 02:09:05.520 --> 02:09:08.279 on microphones and talking about how things concluded. You can 2383 02:09:08.359 --> 02:09:10.159 listen to that on your way home ninety to nine 2384 02:09:10.199 --> 02:09:13.479 the game and the Audissey app. And if you're watching 2385 02:09:13.520 --> 02:09:15.399 at home, you're not going to the bends. You can 2386 02:09:15.479 --> 02:09:19.079 listen to our game call on Apple tv mL Season Pass. 2387 02:09:19.199 --> 02:09:21.880 Go to the audio menu, choose home team radio and 2388 02:09:22.359 --> 02:09:24.239 send them requests. If you want to listen to us 2389 02:09:24.279 --> 02:09:26.840 on the road, they just need to plug us in. 2390 02:09:27.199 --> 02:09:29.000 But we're one of the only ones who travel, so 2391 02:09:30.600 --> 02:09:32.880 other teams need to travel, and Apple needs to give 2392 02:09:32.920 --> 02:09:35.840 the visiting radio and option, and we will do that 2393 02:09:35.920 --> 02:09:36.079 for you. 2394 02:09:36.159 --> 02:09:38.039 Otherwise, you can listen on the Odyssey app and sink it. 2395 02:09:38.199 --> 02:09:40.000 And it's not that hard. I did a lot of 2396 02:09:40.039 --> 02:09:41.920 thinking last year and it's pretty close. It's not too 2397 02:09:41.960 --> 02:09:42.560 difficult to do. 2398 02:09:43.039 --> 02:09:46.680 Yeah, because literally all it is is taking a separate 2399 02:09:46.800 --> 02:09:47.680 audio cable. 2400 02:09:48.479 --> 02:09:51.039 It's running it end of the travel truck. Yeah. 2401 02:09:51.119 --> 02:09:51.279 Yeah. 2402 02:09:51.279 --> 02:09:53.439 It's the reason why you can't do it for teams 2403 02:09:53.479 --> 02:09:56.399 that don't travel, is like we had this issue in 2404 02:09:56.439 --> 02:09:59.840 twenty seventeen when we didn't travel, and it's very difficult 2405 02:10:00.000 --> 02:10:03.399 because you've got to sync the audio and the natural 2406 02:10:03.439 --> 02:10:04.720 audio with your audio. 2407 02:10:05.239 --> 02:10:05.760 Very hard to do. 2408 02:10:05.800 --> 02:10:07.920 They're not going to do that, but if you're on site, 2409 02:10:08.079 --> 02:10:10.560 it's literally running a cable through the wiring of the 2410 02:10:10.600 --> 02:10:12.680 stadium into the truck, and that's what they do for 2411 02:10:12.720 --> 02:10:16.319 the home team radio. So it's doable. It's just doing 2412 02:10:16.439 --> 02:10:19.319 it and providing that option. They do it for I 2413 02:10:19.479 --> 02:10:23.479 believe their Major League Baseball coverage on Apple, so it's 2414 02:10:23.520 --> 02:10:25.920 not impossible to do. It is doable. The fact is 2415 02:10:26.439 --> 02:10:33.640 it's US, it's Red Bulls, it's NYC, it's Colorado, Philadelphia. 2416 02:10:36.640 --> 02:10:41.640 That might be it that travel consistently. There's others who 2417 02:10:41.680 --> 02:10:42.119 travel some. 2418 02:10:43.600 --> 02:10:47.880 I'm trying to think if there's anybody Cincinnati travels consistently. 2419 02:10:51.399 --> 02:10:55.640 That's sad that that's about it, and I think we're 2420 02:10:55.680 --> 02:10:58.199 really lucky to get this opportunity to do it. The 2421 02:10:58.279 --> 02:11:00.159 reason why we get the opportunity to do it is 2422 02:11:00.239 --> 02:11:02.760 we're very fortunate to have a club that values it 2423 02:11:03.359 --> 02:11:05.600 and has valued it from day one, and we're very 2424 02:11:05.680 --> 02:11:07.640 lucky that a lot of people listen and look. If 2425 02:11:07.680 --> 02:11:10.520 they don't, then it's very easy to cut travel and 2426 02:11:10.640 --> 02:11:12.119 have a stay at home and call it from the studio, 2427 02:11:12.520 --> 02:11:14.439 which we would do and we would kill it as 2428 02:11:14.479 --> 02:11:16.520 best as we could, but it's a lot harder to 2429 02:11:16.600 --> 02:11:20.039 do it that way. So we're very, very thankful that 2430 02:11:20.640 --> 02:11:24.119 it's year nine of Atlanta United and we're getting to 2431 02:11:24.199 --> 02:11:27.880 call these games and amazing venues like Mercedes Benz Stadium. 2432 02:11:28.199 --> 02:11:30.119 We're getting to travel, we're getting to tell the story 2433 02:11:30.159 --> 02:11:35.119 of this club, and tomorrow is the start of a really, 2434 02:11:35.319 --> 02:11:39.199 really exciting new season. So everybody who has listened, everybody 2435 02:11:39.239 --> 02:11:42.600 who does listen, thank you for giving us jobs and 2436 02:11:42.720 --> 02:11:45.840 opportunities to do this, and we'll do our best to 2437 02:11:45.880 --> 02:11:46.920 tell that story this season. 2438 02:11:47.159 --> 02:11:47.319 Yep. 2439 02:11:47.399 --> 02:11:49.239 Six to one and one in home openers across the 2440 02:11:49.279 --> 02:11:52.600 board for Atlanta United heading into year nine, and Ricky says, 2441 02:11:53.119 --> 02:11:55.199 you're going to do a four hour radio show the 2442 02:11:55.279 --> 02:11:56.800 same day you're doing the game. 2443 02:11:58.000 --> 02:11:58.199 Yep. 2444 02:11:58.600 --> 02:12:00.479 Won't be the first time, won't be the last time. 2445 02:12:02.039 --> 02:12:06.239 I'm doing a game tonight too. Mm hm, yes, maybe 2446 02:12:06.359 --> 02:12:08.399 I don't know. There's other people who worked pretty hard 2447 02:12:08.479 --> 02:12:10.239 last Saturday. I did a game and a half and 2448 02:12:10.359 --> 02:12:13.640 ended two high school games that night. So and they 2449 02:12:13.680 --> 02:12:18.800 both went to penalties, so that it was Look, I'm lucky, man, 2450 02:12:19.359 --> 02:12:25.319 I'm lucky. I think it's really important in whatever role 2451 02:12:25.680 --> 02:12:29.520 cachet value I bring to the table doing Atlanta United games. 2452 02:12:29.600 --> 02:12:31.760 It's really lucky to reflect that or I'm really lucky 2453 02:12:31.800 --> 02:12:33.439 to do it. I think it's really important, and it's 2454 02:12:33.479 --> 02:12:36.520 a responsibility to reflect that back on the community. And 2455 02:12:37.359 --> 02:12:41.800 if that means popping in and talking soccer on the 2456 02:12:42.079 --> 02:12:45.880 biggest sports talk radio station in the Southeast and including 2457 02:12:45.920 --> 02:12:49.359 soccer in that conversation, which no other market in the 2458 02:12:49.479 --> 02:12:53.000 United States does on a regular basis. All Right, Seattle 2459 02:12:53.039 --> 02:12:55.680 and Portland are great soccer towns, LA New York, Chicago, 2460 02:12:55.760 --> 02:12:56.600 great soccer towns. 2461 02:12:57.479 --> 02:12:59.399 They're leading sports talk stations. 2462 02:12:59.479 --> 02:13:03.159 Will not have the soccer content throughout the show, throughout 2463 02:13:03.199 --> 02:13:05.960 the day, throughout their programming like Atlanta does. 2464 02:13:06.439 --> 02:13:10.439 It doesn't happen. It just does not. They're soccer people, 2465 02:13:10.439 --> 02:13:13.319 don't get the host like I do. It doesn't happen. 2466 02:13:13.960 --> 02:13:17.880 So we're very fortunate to have that and it's very 2467 02:13:18.000 --> 02:13:21.000 important in my mind, and it's even more important as 2468 02:13:21.039 --> 02:13:23.079 we go into a Club World Cup the summer, a 2469 02:13:23.199 --> 02:13:27.680 World Cup next summer. The Atlanta United side is critical 2470 02:13:27.760 --> 02:13:30.279 and important. The national team side is critical and important, 2471 02:13:31.119 --> 02:13:33.000 but this high school game in Dalton, Georgia is critical 2472 02:13:33.039 --> 02:13:36.319 and important. You know, these youth mini fields being built 2473 02:13:36.319 --> 02:13:39.399 all over the area of critical and important. Parents driving 2474 02:13:39.399 --> 02:13:41.560 their kids to games tomorrow morning and then go into 2475 02:13:41.560 --> 02:13:46.720 the bends tomorrow night. It's all very very important. Everybody 2476 02:13:46.760 --> 02:13:49.960 who refs, everybody who coaches, everybody who has kids playing, 2477 02:13:50.399 --> 02:13:53.439 everybody who's part of it. It's all very very important. 2478 02:13:53.600 --> 02:13:58.600 And you can get in your feelings about like I 2479 02:13:58.680 --> 02:14:00.239 want it to be bigger or I want this, I 2480 02:14:00.279 --> 02:14:00.479 want that. 2481 02:14:00.560 --> 02:14:01.880 You can do that, and that's fine, and we all 2482 02:14:01.920 --> 02:14:04.000 do it and hopefully it leads to good things growing. 2483 02:14:04.920 --> 02:14:08.800 But man, take a step back and think back to 2484 02:14:08.880 --> 02:14:12.680 when you know, people our age were kids. We didn't 2485 02:14:12.680 --> 02:14:14.239 have Atlanta night of games to go to at night. 2486 02:14:14.600 --> 02:14:16.359 We didn't have games on the radio to listen to. 2487 02:14:17.119 --> 02:14:20.239 We didn't have the level of soccer that we have now. 2488 02:14:20.319 --> 02:14:22.520 We didn't have all the opportunities to work in the 2489 02:14:22.600 --> 02:14:26.720 industry and b role models to the next generation. 2490 02:14:26.840 --> 02:14:27.319 We didn't have that. 2491 02:14:28.159 --> 02:14:31.239 So I know there's things we want to be better. 2492 02:14:31.319 --> 02:14:33.000 I know we want our teams to win every game. 2493 02:14:33.359 --> 02:14:35.039 I know we want the national team to win the 2494 02:14:35.079 --> 02:14:37.640 World Cup. I know we want all these things we do, 2495 02:14:37.840 --> 02:14:41.239 and that's good, but man, don't let that distract you 2496 02:14:41.319 --> 02:14:43.359 from how good it is right now. It's never been 2497 02:14:43.399 --> 02:14:46.640 as good. Hopefully five years down to road, ten years 2498 02:14:46.640 --> 02:14:49.079 down the road, it'll be even better. But right now 2499 02:14:49.239 --> 02:14:52.680 it has never been as good as volume us, as 2500 02:14:52.760 --> 02:14:55.199 anything as soccer is in this country right now, never 2501 02:14:55.640 --> 02:14:58.920 not even close. It's amazing where we are and I 2502 02:14:59.000 --> 02:15:02.479 can't wait for this year to officially officially start tomorrow. 2503 02:15:02.960 --> 02:15:06.600 No doubt, I will bring the throat coat tea. I 2504 02:15:06.640 --> 02:15:09.359 will have that. Stuff's gross. I don't need that. That's 2505 02:15:09.439 --> 02:15:13.680 gross is not gross. Throat coat tea is gross, not gross. 2506 02:15:13.920 --> 02:15:16.359 I have drank it two times in my life and 2507 02:15:16.399 --> 02:15:17.800 I wanted to vomit afterwards. 2508 02:15:18.239 --> 02:15:20.560 Dang, Jason, I didn't expect you to have a bad 2509 02:15:20.600 --> 02:15:21.319 food take like this. 2510 02:15:22.039 --> 02:15:25.079 Throat throat I will when I have a sore throat, 2511 02:15:25.359 --> 02:15:27.800 when I need to go tea, I will go lemon 2512 02:15:27.880 --> 02:15:32.399 ginger with honey. That gives me elements of throat coat 2513 02:15:32.479 --> 02:15:35.439 that I need honey. I've back in twenty seventeen. That 2514 02:15:35.520 --> 02:15:37.199 was the worst I was during a season I think 2515 02:15:37.199 --> 02:15:39.840 I was still getting used to all this. I had 2516 02:15:39.880 --> 02:15:42.319 a couple of games where I took a spoonful of 2517 02:15:42.399 --> 02:15:45.760 honey in the break before kickoff and in the last 2518 02:15:45.800 --> 02:15:48.800 break a halftime to get through that forty five minutes. 2519 02:15:49.720 --> 02:15:52.319 But in general, I've been all right knocking on wood 2520 02:15:52.720 --> 02:15:55.000 in terms of getting a sore throat and dealing with it. 2521 02:15:56.239 --> 02:15:58.000 You learn some tricks about how to talk, and you 2522 02:15:58.159 --> 02:16:00.800 learn some tricks about how to call a game when 2523 02:16:00.840 --> 02:16:03.840 you do have a sore throat, and pick your spots. 2524 02:16:04.279 --> 02:16:05.399 Save it for the end of the game if you 2525 02:16:05.479 --> 02:16:08.359 blow your voice out, because then you can just sign 2526 02:16:08.399 --> 02:16:09.000 off and be good. 2527 02:16:09.279 --> 02:16:11.800 But no, no throat coat t That stuff's gross. Don't 2528 02:16:11.800 --> 02:16:12.800 bring it anywhere near me. 2529 02:16:13.000 --> 02:16:15.640 And I will have tea if I need it tomorrow. 2530 02:16:15.720 --> 02:16:17.520 But I'm in pretty good shape. We'll see how the 2531 02:16:17.560 --> 02:16:20.000 game goes tonight. All right, I'll see this afternoon on 2532 02:16:20.079 --> 02:16:22.560 our way up to Dalton. We'll catch up on the road. 2533 02:16:23.159 --> 02:16:28.119 Adios, everybody. All right, there goes Jason. And it's always 2534 02:16:28.199 --> 02:16:32.879 fun to have Jason come in and discuss things. You know, 2535 02:16:34.000 --> 02:16:37.600 we we are really in a blessed space, and it's 2536 02:16:38.239 --> 02:16:41.879 to have everything going on on all the different levels 2537 02:16:42.079 --> 02:16:45.920 across the board. It's it's fun to be able to 2538 02:16:46.040 --> 02:16:50.159 be a part of it in our small way, you know. So, Uh, 2539 02:16:50.520 --> 02:16:54.680 I'm glad that Jason was able to give us the 2540 02:16:55.639 --> 02:16:59.360 the uh, the the big pep talk going into the 2541 02:16:59.479 --> 02:17:02.040 twenty twenty five season. Last things from you barred anything 2542 02:17:02.040 --> 02:17:03.079 else on your mind before we go. 2543 02:17:03.799 --> 02:17:06.079 Well, I've got I've got a couple of pieces of 2544 02:17:06.120 --> 02:17:09.719 content hopefully coming your way. John and Jason working on 2545 02:17:09.840 --> 02:17:14.840 a blog for the site ranking the MLS twenty twenty 2546 02:17:14.879 --> 02:17:18.920 five kits using the Taco Bell sauces as oooh, Patrick, 2547 02:17:20.000 --> 02:17:21.920 there is one kit that may or may not be 2548 02:17:22.159 --> 02:17:25.120 receiving a sauce at all. Who knows if they even 2549 02:17:25.159 --> 02:17:29.000 asked for it from the counter, I don't know, And 2550 02:17:29.159 --> 02:17:34.280 then also recorded an episode earlier this week talking about 2551 02:17:34.319 --> 02:17:39.879 the USL League Division One. John, I'll be honest, we 2552 02:17:39.920 --> 02:17:43.319 weren't high on it, just the idea that the idea. 2553 02:17:44.440 --> 02:17:46.399 We asked the question why are they doing it? And 2554 02:17:46.559 --> 02:17:50.920 none of us on the call could figure out, outside 2555 02:17:50.959 --> 02:17:54.239 of money, what the real motivation would be. But that 2556 02:17:54.360 --> 02:17:57.040 will hopefully be coming to you today John, as well everyone, 2557 02:17:57.920 --> 02:17:59.840 because I will hopefully be editing it today. 2558 02:18:00.120 --> 02:18:00.719 Yeah, there you go. 2559 02:18:01.680 --> 02:18:04.280 As always, Bart, thanks for crashing in and being the 2560 02:18:04.360 --> 02:18:07.840 first example of the Friday free for all and coming 2561 02:18:07.879 --> 02:18:11.000 in in all the Q and A that we plan 2562 02:18:11.479 --> 02:18:13.239 when it comes to at Lanty night and everything else 2563 02:18:13.280 --> 02:18:15.159 going on in Major League Soccer. So Bart Keeler from 2564 02:18:15.159 --> 02:18:17.920 the Soccer fos pod the first person to come in 2565 02:18:18.879 --> 02:18:21.079 on a free for all Friday and be a part 2566 02:18:21.120 --> 02:18:21.799 of the party line. 2567 02:18:21.840 --> 02:18:24.200 So you John, it is exciting. We have a season 2568 02:18:24.280 --> 02:18:26.680 starting tomorrow. I look forward to seeing some of y'all 2569 02:18:26.840 --> 02:18:29.280 at the game and seeing your big face on the 2570 02:18:29.600 --> 02:18:30.559 jumbo tron tomorrow. 2571 02:18:30.719 --> 02:18:36.399 Yeah yeah, and no makeup. So by last day, last 2572 02:18:36.440 --> 02:18:37.600 thing you want is me with makeup. 2573 02:18:37.639 --> 02:18:40.799 Thank you Bart. So there goes Bart. Bart's gonna have 2574 02:18:40.799 --> 02:18:43.719 a lot of stuff up. So once again, everybody, thanks 2575 02:18:43.760 --> 02:18:45.959 for dropping by morning four card Morning cats. By the way, 2576 02:18:46.040 --> 02:18:49.280 morning Katie, we are uh so uh. I've just grown 2577 02:18:49.319 --> 02:18:55.479 accusted everybody's talking about throat coat. How it's gross. It isn't, Katie. 2578 02:18:55.639 --> 02:18:57.479 I've just gotten used to it. I guess, she says, 2579 02:18:57.479 --> 02:19:01.760 one hundred percent throat throat coat is gross. No, I've 2580 02:19:01.799 --> 02:19:03.159 just gotten used to it. I guess it's not. 2581 02:19:03.280 --> 02:19:05.799 Really, it's not really gross for me, Derek. 2582 02:19:06.159 --> 02:19:08.440 You know, back in the day indoor soccer on TBS, 2583 02:19:08.559 --> 02:19:11.239 I had indoor soccer in the USA network I had 2584 02:19:11.760 --> 02:19:14.200 when I was in this This will really date me. 2585 02:19:15.840 --> 02:19:24.079 We had here in Atlanta the Georgia Generals. Jeff Bourne 2586 02:19:24.959 --> 02:19:28.360 had stayed from his time with the Chiefs and the 2587 02:19:28.440 --> 02:19:33.680 Dallas Tornado when he was done in the North American 2588 02:19:33.760 --> 02:19:39.680 Soccer League. We had here the Georgia Generals. And somewhere 2589 02:19:39.680 --> 02:19:43.920 in my stacks I have the remade the Georgia General's 2590 02:19:44.200 --> 02:19:46.280 logo and T shirt. So of course, you know, knowing me, 2591 02:19:46.440 --> 02:19:50.479 you're gonna have something like that. Back in nineteen eighty two, 2592 02:19:52.639 --> 02:19:58.680 the Georgia Generals played in the ASL and it was 2593 02:20:00.159 --> 02:20:05.239 star spangled soccer at the CAAB Memorial Stadium in nineteen 2594 02:20:05.239 --> 02:20:05.639 eighty two. 2595 02:20:07.200 --> 02:20:08.600 That's what we had. 2596 02:20:09.239 --> 02:20:12.719 After the North American Soccer League, you had the Attack, 2597 02:20:12.879 --> 02:20:15.280 you had you know Chiefs indoor in the late seventies, 2598 02:20:15.719 --> 02:20:17.639 you had the Ruckus is a part of it. 2599 02:20:18.280 --> 02:20:21.360 My first exposure to the sport was in eighty two. 2600 02:20:23.200 --> 02:20:25.600 And it was the star spangled soccer of the Georgia 2601 02:20:25.639 --> 02:20:29.239 Generals at the CAAB Memorial Stadium and Jeff Bourne and 2602 02:20:29.440 --> 02:20:33.399 the match that sticks in my head is one of 2603 02:20:33.440 --> 02:20:39.040 the best team names ever, the Oklahoma City Slickers. I 2604 02:20:39.079 --> 02:20:42.399 don't even think they made the entire season, but it 2605 02:20:42.479 --> 02:20:44.799 was the Georgia Generals and the Oklahoma City Slickers. And 2606 02:20:44.879 --> 02:20:49.360 I have the program somewhere. I've got the ticket and 2607 02:20:49.479 --> 02:20:52.799 I have the program somewhere in all of the stuff 2608 02:20:52.840 --> 02:20:56.920 that I've saved over the years. That was my first 2609 02:20:57.000 --> 02:21:03.079 exposure to the sport, and to go through the ruckus 2610 02:21:03.159 --> 02:21:06.120 at Adams Stadium and talking to folks like Michael Sabattel 2611 02:21:06.200 --> 02:21:10.600 at the time and doing live shots and discussing what 2612 02:21:10.760 --> 02:21:14.440 was going on with the men's and the women's team 2613 02:21:14.799 --> 02:21:19.440 at the time. So you go from Memorial to Adams 2614 02:21:21.719 --> 02:21:26.120 to what we've seen with the beat in the WUSA 2615 02:21:26.280 --> 02:21:31.040 and the WPS to where we are now and the 2616 02:21:31.159 --> 02:21:35.079 fact that we got uh yeah, I think it was 2617 02:21:35.200 --> 02:21:39.000 before the Billy Crystal movie for card all right, So 2618 02:21:39.280 --> 02:21:46.840 if Star Spangled Soccer was in eighty two City Slickers, 2619 02:21:47.159 --> 02:21:49.479 we'll see if we can get IMDb to answer the question. 2620 02:21:49.639 --> 02:21:50.280 For me, I want it. 2621 02:21:50.360 --> 02:21:55.000 Yeah, ninety one was the movie with Billy Crystal. So 2622 02:21:56.200 --> 02:21:59.319 like I said, for me, it's nineteen eighty two at 2623 02:21:59.319 --> 02:22:03.280 the KEB Memorial Stadium, then going from there all the 2624 02:22:03.319 --> 02:22:07.760 way to where we are now, where you go to 2625 02:22:10.200 --> 02:22:14.000 Mercedes been Stadium, state of the art facility with seventy 2626 02:22:14.040 --> 02:22:18.680 thousand of your friends, and you get to root for 2627 02:22:18.959 --> 02:22:23.559 a team that has been assembled to flat out win 2628 02:22:25.879 --> 02:22:28.159 and just slam it into fifth gear every single time 2629 02:22:28.200 --> 02:22:35.319 they can think about this offseason for Atlanta United. Ronnie Diila, 2630 02:22:35.920 --> 02:22:43.760 Chris Henderson, you bring back Mickey, you bring in Latte Lot, 2631 02:22:44.360 --> 02:22:48.760 You're bringing Mattea's click for what, a pack of Enthal's, 2632 02:22:48.840 --> 02:22:54.079 some zingers in a mood ring from DC United. All 2633 02:22:54.159 --> 02:22:56.959 of these players that have been assembled, the youth movement 2634 02:22:57.040 --> 02:23:00.280 that is going through the academy. Getting to see somebody 2635 02:23:00.319 --> 02:23:04.200 like DCQ Dominic Chun Quick continue to improve, guy like 2636 02:23:04.280 --> 02:23:08.639 Matt Edwards who's impressed in the preseason, Noah Cob, ephranm Morales, 2637 02:23:09.680 --> 02:23:12.600 all the all the young guys that we've covered here 2638 02:23:12.639 --> 02:23:15.239 at SDH with as much time as we've spent with 2639 02:23:15.319 --> 02:23:18.760 the twos, so you know what's going on with this 2640 02:23:18.920 --> 02:23:24.120 club when somebody steps in. You've known about Noah Cobb 2641 02:23:24.399 --> 02:23:29.440 ever since day one. You've known about George Campbell ever 2642 02:23:29.479 --> 02:23:33.000 since day one that they were a part of the 2643 02:23:33.280 --> 02:23:36.559 fabric of what's going on here. All of you get 2644 02:23:36.600 --> 02:23:39.000 to go to Lot seventeen tomorrow. I think it's going 2645 02:23:39.040 --> 02:23:41.120 to be in the fifties and I. 2646 02:23:41.520 --> 02:23:46.319 Think Ricky the Hoff and I might be going out there. 2647 02:23:46.360 --> 02:23:48.600 I don't know what the plan is for the for 2648 02:23:48.719 --> 02:23:49.200 the uh. 2649 02:23:51.600 --> 02:23:54.239 The piece about that you'll see on the board, getting 2650 02:23:54.280 --> 02:23:57.079 everybody acclimated to match day all over again, the welcome 2651 02:23:57.159 --> 02:23:57.520 back piece. 2652 02:23:57.559 --> 02:23:59.000 I don't know what our plans are yet. I haven't 2653 02:23:59.000 --> 02:24:01.079 seen a rundown, but. 2654 02:24:01.120 --> 02:24:03.040 It'll be good to see anybody and everybody when we 2655 02:24:03.159 --> 02:24:05.399 do we get to leave the building, and or when 2656 02:24:05.399 --> 02:24:07.079 we're in the building in the hallways and things like that. 2657 02:24:08.120 --> 02:24:11.000 And seriously, you see me running around, just yell at 2658 02:24:11.040 --> 02:24:14.479 me and say hi, good to hear your voice, good 2659 02:24:14.479 --> 02:24:18.159 to see it. Seven weeks went by like that. Like 2660 02:24:18.239 --> 02:24:20.000 I said, everybody who's worried, what are you gonna talk 2661 02:24:20.000 --> 02:24:21.760 about for seven weeks? Well you've certainly found out a 2662 02:24:21.799 --> 02:24:28.639 lot to talk about. You've got Alexi Midanchuk with a 2663 02:24:28.680 --> 02:24:33.079 full training camp under his belt, Saba finally got some rest. 2664 02:24:35.079 --> 02:24:37.000 Well, I'd say, lot Miggy. 2665 02:24:38.280 --> 02:24:43.840 Click sleechh all of these guys that are assembled, and 2666 02:24:43.920 --> 02:24:51.159 it all starts again tomorrow in Major League Soccer, and 2667 02:24:51.360 --> 02:24:54.840 it will go by in a flash. So enjoy the 2668 02:24:55.000 --> 02:24:57.959 ride the entire time. That's all I can tell you. 2669 02:25:00.120 --> 02:25:06.639 Enjoy each other, enjoy the game, enjoy all of the 2670 02:25:06.760 --> 02:25:08.959 other aspects of it, because I've seen in the twitch 2671 02:25:09.000 --> 02:25:10.799 pitch that some of you have to get up really 2672 02:25:10.920 --> 02:25:14.000 early on Saturday and Sunday mornings for year U fives, 2673 02:25:14.000 --> 02:25:17.399 twelves and thirteens. It's because you love what you love 2674 02:25:18.120 --> 02:25:20.559 what you're doing associated with the sport, and you love 2675 02:25:20.600 --> 02:25:22.840 those that are involved in it and want to have 2676 02:25:22.920 --> 02:25:25.000 fun and enjoy it, and you get to spread that. 2677 02:25:25.239 --> 02:25:27.239 You get to spread that love and that wisdom forward 2678 02:25:27.319 --> 02:25:32.159 every single time that you're out there. And like Jason said, tonight, 2679 02:25:32.200 --> 02:25:36.120 we're going to Dalton for Johnson Gaines on the Catamounts. 2680 02:25:37.559 --> 02:25:38.040 Four card. 2681 02:25:38.079 --> 02:25:40.000 Good to see you. It'll be good to see it. 2682 02:25:42.680 --> 02:25:47.639 So just enjoy the ride on all of the levels 2683 02:25:47.680 --> 02:25:50.840 that you're interacting in. Because as Jason said, you got 2684 02:25:50.840 --> 02:25:53.520 a clip World Cup this year coming to Atlanta. You 2685 02:25:53.600 --> 02:25:57.399 have the World Cup coming what sixteen to fifteen months 2686 02:25:57.440 --> 02:26:03.280 from now to Atlanta probably, and you're gonna have the 2687 02:26:03.319 --> 02:26:09.159 National Training Center in suburban Atlanta. In theory, you're gonna 2688 02:26:09.159 --> 02:26:12.239 have the Women's World Cup here in thirty one, then 2689 02:26:12.280 --> 02:26:14.360 obviously with the National Training Center, you're going to have 2690 02:26:14.479 --> 02:26:16.319 matches in Atlanta. 2691 02:26:18.719 --> 02:26:20.000 All of this stuff. 2692 02:26:21.440 --> 02:26:25.520 Going on right now, and for me going back to 2693 02:26:26.360 --> 02:26:30.319 the early nineteen eighties and seeing where it is now 2694 02:26:31.000 --> 02:26:34.000 and what you can do now, we are in a 2695 02:26:34.120 --> 02:26:40.360 tremendous spot right here. So we can't thank you guys 2696 02:26:40.520 --> 02:26:45.600 enough for everything that's associated with what we do on 2697 02:26:45.680 --> 02:26:48.319 a daily basis. The fact that you guys listen as 2698 02:26:48.399 --> 02:26:53.280 much as you do, that you spread the word as 2699 02:26:53.360 --> 02:26:56.000 much as you do, that you're showing support and being 2700 02:26:56.040 --> 02:26:58.159 a part of the family as much as you are, 2701 02:26:58.319 --> 02:26:59.600 and we're incredibly grateful for that. 2702 02:26:59.639 --> 02:27:01.280 We can do what we couldn't be doing any of 2703 02:27:01.319 --> 02:27:04.840 this without you. And we're all gonna walk forward. 2704 02:27:04.600 --> 02:27:07.319 And match week one here in twenty twenty five tomorrow 2705 02:27:07.799 --> 02:27:13.879 Lot seventeen side Mercedes Benz and yes, the pop when 2706 02:27:15.479 --> 02:27:19.719 number ten will be introduced, it's gonna be huge, It's 2707 02:27:19.760 --> 02:27:23.840 gonna be a fun moment. So for Jared, for Nick, 2708 02:27:23.959 --> 02:27:28.520 for Maddie, for Jason, I'm just John. It's Friday, and 2709 02:27:28.639 --> 02:27:30.520 so we got to end it in the Friday way. 2710 02:27:31.079 --> 02:27:34.319 So once again, just be safe. We'll see it a bit. 2711 02:27:35.440 --> 02:27:38.680 Welcome to twenty twenty five MLS season. Have a good Friday, everybody. 2712 02:27:38.879 --> 02:27:42.760 We'll see it either in Dalton tonight listening to Jason 2713 02:27:42.799 --> 02:27:44.920 on the radio in the morning, or we'll see it 2714 02:27:45.040 --> 02:27:48.120 Lot seventeen and at Mercedes Benz. Have a good weekend, everybody. 2715 02:27:48.319 --> 02:27:50.360 This is how we always close it up. Have fun, 2716 02:27:50.719 --> 02:27:51.799 play safe, mucha platy. 2717 02:27:56.360 --> 02:27:57.319 The keys. 2718 02:28:00.159 --> 02:28:06.360 Kept sticking into our fingers, The dictating equipment started asking 2719 02:28:06.520 --> 02:28:12.559 us questions and our papers sends. Electric shocks just threw 2720 02:28:12.680 --> 02:28:16.479 our body like a candle prod out in the warehouse. 2721 02:28:16.559 --> 02:28:20.959 The trucks kept banging into the docks, not even thinking 2722 02:28:21.000 --> 02:28:26.239 about stopping. Our frail bodies were strapped. 2723 02:28:25.799 --> 02:28:28.479 To the chairs and our chairs. 2724 02:28:28.440 --> 02:28:35.079 Were chained to the desks. Our please for justice were ignored, 2725 02:28:35.879 --> 02:28:38.760 and the end seemed near. 2726 02:28:40.520 --> 02:28:47.840 But we busted our slave drivers, little bitty balls. We've 2727 02:28:48.079 --> 02:28:56.479 charged higher, break fortress the streets. Our hearsty guys yets 2728 02:28:57.360 --> 02:29:00.200 Friday five, he