Speaker 1: So it's Friday.
Speaker 2: We know what that means, and let's see if we
Speaker 2: can actually hit it to where it actually does what
Speaker 2: it says it's gonna do. We hit our magic button
Speaker 2: and go here. Now I hit the wrong one. Let's
Speaker 2: try the short version.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, go.
Speaker 2: For it, dude.
Speaker 4: It's Friday.
Speaker 1: Then.
Speaker 2: Lucas Panzig is a national and he's going, what in
Speaker 2: the wide world of sports have I wandered into bat
Speaker 2: and lead off? Promise this time it actually is happening.
Speaker 2: Lucas Panzig of one of four five on morning?
Speaker 1: Brother? What's going on?
Speaker 5: Morning John? Hope you can hear me all right? A
Speaker 5: little cold, but excited to get the season started.
Speaker 2: Four degrees if I remember correctly, just staring over at
Speaker 2: the big fifty five and they were telling me what's
Speaker 2: going on up there? And hopefully the water the pipes
Speaker 2: did not freeze for or any of your neighbors. You
Speaker 2: kept the spigot on overnight in the furthest bathroom away
Speaker 2: from you, and everything is up and running, wasting no
Speaker 2: time because I know you actually have a job and
Speaker 2: you have to leave there to go to said job.
Speaker 2: Brought you in here to talk about Nashville as we
Speaker 2: always do coming into match week number one. When you
Speaker 2: look back at twenty twenty four and you look at
Speaker 2: the season and all of its transitions and everything and
Speaker 2: ending up with bj Callahi on the touch line. Now
Speaker 2: he gets his first full training camp, summer and winner
Speaker 2: and everything getting into this particular season. What sticks in
Speaker 2: your mind the most as you analyze twenty twenty four, Well.
Speaker 6: It's kind of a fresh start. You know, it's the
Speaker 6: first full season for bj Callahan. Like you said, obviously
Speaker 6: he had the nine games in charge last year, but
Speaker 6: you know that was him coming in inheriting a team
Speaker 6: that was struggling to score goals, struggling to make a
Speaker 6: push for the playoffs, and they had some nice moments,
Speaker 6: but on aggregate obviously ended up in the bottom part
Speaker 6: of the Eastern Conference and missing out for the first time.
Speaker 6: Nashville just had its biggest roster overhaul in an offseason
Speaker 6: that it has ever had, eleven signings boosting the midfield.
Speaker 6: Kind of a blend of veterans with Gaston Brugman and
Speaker 6: Brian Acosta and Eddie Tagsith coming over from Norway, and
Speaker 6: you know, some youth with a Matt Corker and a
Speaker 6: Tryalist from Birmingham Legion who really impressed throughout the course
Speaker 6: of preseason, so they addressed every level of this team
Speaker 6: are much more balanced and much more well equipped to
Speaker 6: play the way BJ wants to play, kind of that connective,
Speaker 6: free flowing, pressing, attack minded style. But again, John, I
Speaker 6: do think it's going to come down to your best players,
Speaker 6: as it does for most every MLS team, and that
Speaker 6: is how much Honeymooktar and Sam Surage can carry the
Speaker 6: load scoring the goals for this team.
Speaker 2: So then if let's play a defensive devil's advocate here.
Speaker 2: So if you and I are going up against this
Speaker 2: squad and we know that the idea is to feed
Speaker 2: Honey and Sam so they can be A and B
Speaker 2: when it comes to scoring goals, if I cut off
Speaker 2: those supply lines in twenty twenty five, who is supposed
Speaker 2: to step up in those spaces to be those influencers,
Speaker 2: to be that middle step to get it to Honey
Speaker 2: and Sam to get it in.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I suppose that's what we're trying to figure out
Speaker 6: in the early goings. Early candidates. Eddie Tagsaf comes over,
Speaker 6: and that's a guy that can play in central hacking role.
Speaker 6: Can play wide, can play between the lines. They really
Speaker 6: like his versatility, his ability to progress the ball, whether
Speaker 6: that's through the dribble or his passing ability, his vision.
Speaker 6: So you know, it's kind of staggered, right. It's an
Speaker 6: Eddie tag set who could pick up some of that
Speaker 6: goal scoring load, or a Guston Brugman who can do
Speaker 6: more of the string pulling from a deeper lying role. Now,
Speaker 6: I don't know that Guston will play on Saturday. He's
Speaker 6: kind of got an issue. It seems like he's further
Speaker 6: away from any of the other guys dealing with something
Speaker 6: right now.
Speaker 5: But they love Guston Brugman.
Speaker 6: Bj Callahan told Mike Jacobs in the offseason that they
Speaker 6: wanted to go find a midfield or a light Guston Brugman,
Speaker 6: and they got deep enough in the process to where
Speaker 6: they said, why don't we just call La and see
Speaker 6: what we can do about bringing the man himself in here.
Speaker 5: And that's what they did. And then to your point,
Speaker 5: I want to.
Speaker 6: Throw in Jacob Schaffelberg's name as well, because obviously he flashed.
Speaker 6: He was a great spark for the Canadian national team
Speaker 6: last year. But you know, he's not sort of a
Speaker 6: bright you know, a spry young guy from Canada that
Speaker 6: you're happy to get a few.
Speaker 5: Moments out of anymore.
Speaker 6: And at this point, the next step for him is
Speaker 6: to turn those international performances into consistency at the club
Speaker 6: level and more goalscoring contributions.
Speaker 2: When you look at the vibe there in town coming
Speaker 2: out of last season and the frustrations that I'm fairly
Speaker 2: certain that to everyone who believes in everyone in featured,
Speaker 2: what has the vibe been like with this transition? Getting
Speaker 2: everybody ready? All of the folks that have come in,
Speaker 2: is it fan base sitting there going okay, I need
Speaker 2: a hello?
Speaker 1: My name is name tag?
Speaker 2: For some of these folks really having to go down
Speaker 2: the Encyclopedia Britannic of Soccer trying to figure out who
Speaker 2: these are? Is what's the vibe been like getting ready
Speaker 2: for twenty five?
Speaker 6: A little bit of that, right, A little bit of
Speaker 6: that when you're talking about guys coming in, you know,
Speaker 6: not new faces to MLS, Brian Acosta and Andy Najara
Speaker 6: right back, those guys have been around, but yeah, you
Speaker 6: know Eddie Tagseth comes in and you know most Nashville
Speaker 6: See fans aren't watching the Norwegian First Division. I'm ed
Speaker 6: Kassem comes over from Sweden as the U twenty two
Speaker 6: initiative signing. He's still in the visa process, so he
Speaker 6: won't be playing Saturday. But but you know, fans see
Speaker 6: these moves and Nashville is taking for.
Speaker 5: They're looking in corners of the globe. They weren't necessarily
Speaker 5: looking before because Gary Smith played obviously a very certain
Speaker 5: style and they just they weren't taking these sort of
Speaker 5: outside the box wings that they are now. So there's
Speaker 5: a lot of excitement there that the club is making
Speaker 5: moves like this. And on the youth side of it,
Speaker 5: Nashville was the oldest roster in MLS last season. Their
Speaker 5: average roster age went from twenty nine and a half
Speaker 5: to twenty six and a half. There is a clear
Speaker 5: directive here where bj Callahan has publicly said we're not
Speaker 5: going to be afraid to play the young guys, whether
Speaker 5: it's eighteen year old homegrown Chris Applewhite or Matt Corkoran
Speaker 5: who I mentioned from Birmingham Legion. So it's sort of
Speaker 5: this blend that makes it exciting for fans that at
Speaker 5: least can count on Nashville being fun to watch. They
Speaker 5: can be fun this year. Will they contend for a trophy?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean, we've seen teams make these turnarounds before, right
Speaker 6: Elly Galaxy is a prime example of it from last year.
Speaker 6: But they will at least fun, and fans are very
Speaker 6: excited for that prospect.
Speaker 2: What about as you analyze the rest of the conference
Speaker 2: and Nashville's place in it. We were kind of getting into.
Speaker 2: But when you analyze the rest of the conference, what
Speaker 2: do you see from your perspective coming into twenty five?
Speaker 6: Man, I can't wait to see who kind of emerges
Speaker 6: as the favorites here because the usual suspects of the
Speaker 6: last couple of years, with the exception obviously of inter Miami,
Speaker 6: who looks to come back stronger. I look at Cincinnati
Speaker 6: and wonder how those pieces will gel together with those changes.
Speaker 6: I look at Columbus Crew, who suddenly has had so
Speaker 6: much of that crazy goalscoring production slashed from the last
Speaker 6: couple of years. I wonder how they'll adapt. And then
Speaker 6: I wonder what team will be able to really take
Speaker 6: advantage of maybe those teams dropping off a little bit,
Speaker 6: whether it's a Charlotte who just continues to ascend under
Speaker 6: Dean Smith or in Atlanta. I loved the offseason Atlanta had.
Speaker 5: If I'm an Atlanta fan.
Speaker 6: It just promises exciting football, and you know, I feel like,
Speaker 6: you know, you can tell me obviously being there. But
Speaker 6: I feel like so much depends on Miranchuck and how
Speaker 6: much he's able to carry the load as that as
Speaker 6: a playmaker consistently throughout the course of a season. But
Speaker 6: if he's able to do that, fans of the Five Stripes,
Speaker 6: I feel like should be really excited for what's to
Speaker 6: come this year, But as usual, it feels like a
Speaker 6: lot of parody and a lot of opportunity, unless you
Speaker 6: know you're Intero Miami and you're obviously the overwhelming favorite
Speaker 6: once again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with the with the Five Stripes in Atlanta United,
Speaker 2: we have we're trying to figure out. I think they've
Speaker 2: settled on the nickname for the attack. I mean, me,
Speaker 2: being an old wrestling guy, I'm sitting there going four horsemen,
Speaker 2: But it looks like it's going to be slam As
Speaker 2: is the acronym this year because of Saba La Telt,
Speaker 2: Midanchuk and al Moron, So there might be some onyx
Speaker 2: being played in Mercedes Benz this year.
Speaker 5: I don't know, I'm into that.
Speaker 6: That's great, No, I mean I love the I love
Speaker 6: just that sort of mix of nostalgia that can help
Speaker 6: the team. Right bringing Amron back that just made too
Speaker 6: much sense and late lotsa it's hard not to get
Speaker 6: fired up about what he can bring, terrorizing back lines,
Speaker 6: running in behind, running right at defenders. So I know
Speaker 6: we got to wait a few weeks for that first
Speaker 6: Nashville Atlanta matchup, but it's a team I'm really excited
Speaker 6: to watch this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: And so we're taking all of our activity today except
Speaker 2: when we duck out and talk about Europa League Champions
Speaker 2: League and the women's national team. We're spending all of
Speaker 2: our time getting ready for the weekend, whip around and
Speaker 2: letting everything go.
Speaker 1: I know, you got a boogie.
Speaker 2: Hit the promo for me about everything going on at
Speaker 2: one oh four five and let everybody know how they
Speaker 2: can keep an ear out for what's going on up
Speaker 2: there in Nashville.
Speaker 5: Sure you can find me on Twitter at Lucaspanzico. Beyond
Speaker 5: the Call.
Speaker 6: Tomorrow night in Nashville hosting New England to open up
Speaker 6: the season seven thirty Central kickoff, and as you guys know,
Speaker 6: on Apple TV, you always have the option to listen
Speaker 6: to the home radio broadcast, So hope you'll check us
Speaker 6: out as I believe Atlanta as an hour before, right,
Speaker 6: so maybe once that Montreal game he wraps up, you
Speaker 6: can kick over and check out what's going on in
Speaker 6: Music City.
Speaker 2: Multiple devices is what we anticipate all season long. Now
Speaker 2: that you have the key to open the door, you
Speaker 2: can crash in anytime. I'm tempted to turn Fridays into
Speaker 2: a free for all. So if anybody literally wants to
Speaker 2: just drop in, give me five minutes and get out
Speaker 2: about their particular matchup perfectly, fine, curve and cool, because
Speaker 2: that's what Friday's for for whip aroun when it comes
Speaker 2: to match weeks, go to work.
Speaker 1: I don't wanted to get you in any trouble. Do
Speaker 1: you need a haul pass?
Speaker 5: D I'm all right. I think I'll manage.
Speaker 6: Let's see if I can make it through with this
Speaker 6: snow and ice still on the ground out here, but
Speaker 6: I just got to make it to tomorrow night.
Speaker 5: Looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: There you go, brother, be safe. We'll catch up soon.
Speaker 5: Thanks, John, talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: That's Lucas Panzica, one of four five the zone up
Speaker 2: there in Nashville, and it's great to catch up with
Speaker 2: him and get his feedback on what's going on. Interesting
Speaker 2: off season for our friends up there four hours away,
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks away, as Lucas said, from that
Speaker 2: matchup with Landy unighted and with Nashville, so wanted to
Speaker 2: get Lucas in to get the perspective of one of
Speaker 2: the region area rivals. We talked to Willie p earlier
Speaker 2: this week, talked to Lucas today and so that's kind
Speaker 2: of where we sit. So our number two is going
Speaker 2: to be the weekend whip around pat and pending trademark
Speaker 2: coming center hopefully rather than later, and we'll go over everything.
Speaker 2: I'm anticipating that Jason's visit weekly visits at ten thirty
Speaker 2: will start in an hour and fourteen minutes from now,
Speaker 2: and we'll go over everything. I want to start with Rooted.
Speaker 2: I want to go through that. I want to go
Speaker 2: through on Side and what we saw there with Apple TV,
Speaker 2: and then I want to get into the matchup. Obviously,
Speaker 2: the news yesterday, we still have a lingering question at
Speaker 2: the back line involving a fitness test. I wanted to
Speaker 2: get Jason's thoughts on the back line, what he thinks
Speaker 2: it's going to look like, and what the attack is
Speaker 2: going to look like, and what he sees against a
Speaker 2: team in.
Speaker 1: CF Montreal that could cause early problems.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think by the end of it, I'll
Speaker 2: want go through the juice boxes too as we go,
Speaker 2: but I think early on, I mean, there is no
Speaker 2: denying And for those of us that have seen Lauren
Speaker 2: Coontrois with his time in MLS Next Pro with Crew two,
Speaker 2: we know what he can bring to the table. And
Speaker 2: there are a couple of players that can cause problems
Speaker 2: for Atlanta United and have done so in the past.
Speaker 2: You have Caden Clark and Bryce Duke for starters. Remember
Speaker 2: Bryce Duke. If it wasn't in Montreal, it was out
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. And with Cad and Clark, we know
Speaker 2: his history as well here in Major League Soccer, so
Speaker 2: past those points. Want to get into that. And you've
Speaker 2: also got George Campbell hanging out at the back too,
Speaker 2: So want to get into Montreal a little bit, want
Speaker 2: to get into Atlanta a lot. Whatever is on your
Speaker 2: mind here on a match week preview on a weekend
Speaker 2: Whip brown on a freestyle Friday. So we've obviously put
Speaker 2: out the bat signal to our friends at Beyond Goals Menering,
Speaker 2: so we'll see if Greg and or Parky can join us.
Speaker 2: In about fifteen minutes, we'll go through what it's like
Speaker 2: to start something anew what their anticipation levels are. If
Speaker 2: you've looked at Greg on his social media this morning,
Speaker 2: he was going through a thirty minute challenge. I want
Speaker 2: to talk to him about that when it comes to
Speaker 2: his mentees, and we'll find out about that, and we'll
Speaker 2: see if Parky's thought out.
Speaker 1: So we'll get into that stuff coming up in about
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: All right, time to cut the promos and get everything
Speaker 2: squared away for you here on a freestyle Friday once
Speaker 2: again we can whip around. Coming up an hour number
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Speaker 2: like that first ever Opening Day? Was that many years ago?
Speaker 2: Over at the Flats, it seems like it was yesterday
Speaker 2: at some points and in other points, yet it does
Speaker 2: feel like it was, you know, that many years ago.
Speaker 1: But it's the beauty of opening day.
Speaker 2: I mean, we discuss it right now with pitchers and
Speaker 2: catchers and your favorite teams and spring training, whether it's
Speaker 2: great further Cactus League, this is where optimism begins anew
Speaker 2: and everything is laid out. Where you've got You've got
Speaker 2: all of your off season transactions. Everything has been put together.
Speaker 2: If you're doing fantasy, set your fantasy leagues and set
Speaker 2: your fantasy rosters. I do not know yet if we're
Speaker 2: having a fantasy league this year, and when we do,
Speaker 2: obviously we'll put out the notifications. So you set your
Speaker 2: fantasy teams, you have your expectations, You've seen what's been
Speaker 2: going on in the off season, and now it's time
Speaker 2: for the rubber to hit the road. Slam it into uh,
Speaker 2: slam it to drive. Squeal the tires like Steve McQueen
Speaker 2: did in Bullet when he missed the turn, back it
Speaker 2: up and go down the intersection, one of the best
Speaker 2: chase scenes ever. Squeal the tire, slam it and drive
Speaker 2: and go. And I know that the optimism is there
Speaker 2: understandably so considering what we've seen in the Eastern Conference
Speaker 2: with transactions and players going from one place to another,
Speaker 2: and here in Atlanta obviously with what Garth Lockerway and
Speaker 2: Chris Henderson and the front office have done scouting department
Speaker 2: and everybody globe trotting and bringing in all these players
Speaker 2: over the last and we'll go ahead and say nine
Speaker 2: to twelve months, and the expectations are there, both in
Speaker 2: house and obviously with you the seventeens, so you have
Speaker 2: all of this material piece together. Tomorrow is when it
Speaker 2: hits for real. And then the sprint which in a
Speaker 2: way it's what it is. It doesn't seem like it,
Speaker 2: but then by the time the season's over, you're like
Speaker 2: man that went by quick, and it kind of does.
Speaker 1: Before you know it.
Speaker 2: It will be September and October and we'll be looking
Speaker 2: at combinations and permutations and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the ride, should be fun, should be a blast.
Speaker 2: Starts tomorrow. Remember, folks, pace yourself both when you go
Speaker 2: to games and just in general, so just pay yourself,
Speaker 2: enjoy it. It's Match Day one coming up tomorrow. We'll
Speaker 2: go over broadcast plans in our number two as well
Speaker 2: when it comes to Atlanta United. But pay yourself, enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2: It's match week one, and I know that a lot
Speaker 2: of you are ready to just slam it in the
Speaker 2: fifth gear and get the twenty twenty five season underway, understandably.
Speaker 1: So so let's have some fun.
Speaker 2: And obviously, starting on Monday programming note there, Monday, we're
Speaker 2: gonna be talking about it all. I will be in
Speaker 2: a hotel room in Thomson, Georgia with you because of
Speaker 2: no actually no, i'll be Tuesday will be when I'm
Speaker 2: in a hotel room in Thompson Georgia. Monday is another
Speaker 2: one of our games of the week, and so after
Speaker 2: the Monday show where we have reaction Monday, Monday's matches
Speaker 2: are going to be in Lincolnton, Thompson and Lincoln County.
Speaker 2: It'll be our first time there to look at the
Speaker 2: up and coming Lincoln County program in Class A in
Speaker 2: high school. And it's a region it's an area arrival.
Speaker 2: It's not a region rival, but it's an area arrival
Speaker 2: and Thompson separated by about twenty minutes, and it'll be
Speaker 2: a good gauge for what's been going on with will
Speaker 2: Homskis and how they've grown the program out there. So
Speaker 2: Monday Reaction Monday, I hop in a car travel to Lincolnton,
Speaker 2: broadcast from Lincolnton on our mixer channel Thompson and Lincoln County.
Speaker 2: That is Monday night. So Tuesday as well, I'll try
Speaker 2: to recover. I'll be in a hotel room in Thompson,
Speaker 2: Georgia for the morning show and we will break it
Speaker 2: down there Today after all of this finishes up, Jason
Speaker 2: and I mid afternoon are going to try and welcome
Speaker 2: the traffic up I seventy five. We're gonna join it.
Speaker 2: We're gonna head to Dalton, second time this week that
Speaker 2: the Dalton Catamounts have been on the air, and it's
Speaker 2: a boys game seven thirty beyond the air about seven
Speaker 2: to fifteen with your pregame show with Dalton hosting Johnson Gainesville.
Speaker 2: Two great programs here at the end of winter break, decided, Hey,
Speaker 2: let's match up and we'll see where we are. So
Speaker 2: Johnson gains will travels to Dalton seven thirty kick seven
Speaker 2: fifteen ish pregame on our Mixler channel. Let's soccer down
Speaker 2: here dot Mixler dot com. So you'll get a big
Speaker 2: Georgia high school boys matchup tonight seven fifteen to seven
Speaker 2: thirty and then nine thirty and then Jason and I
Speaker 2: head back home. We should have an after the whistle
Speaker 2: posted for postgame of that match Saturday morning for you.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like a primer to get you into
Speaker 2: match week one. So Action Tonight seven fifteen and seven
Speaker 2: thirty pregame and real game, uh the the high school
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Speaker 2: at sdh SO seven thirty match after the whistle tomorrow
Speaker 2: because we got to drive back to Atlanta and I've
Speaker 2: got to let out somebody, but because he will have
Speaker 2: been staring at the door for a handful of hours.
Speaker 2: So that's the broadcast plan today. You've got all the
Speaker 2: content that was put up yesterday. The interview that Maddy
Speaker 2: had with Dax McCarty is up on the network, so
Speaker 2: you can look at that, get Dax's thoughts as he's
Speaker 2: heading into Match week one now with the new gig
Speaker 2: where he's wearing a blazer and Tenney's working for Apple TV.
Speaker 2: Great conversation that Maddy had with Dax that's up on
Speaker 2: the network right now as well. So all of this
Speaker 2: stuff getting you ready for Match week one. Callum Williams
Speaker 2: conversation as well. So all of that material on the network,
Speaker 2: on all of our social media channels. You can view it,
Speaker 2: you can listen to it, all of it once again
Speaker 2: getting you ready for Match week one. But tonight first
Speaker 2: step seven to fifteen pre game seven point thirty kick
Speaker 2: Johnson gains will and Dalton from a harmon chapel up
Speaker 2: in Dalton, and it's going to be fun to be
Speaker 2: up there and see that environment on a Friday night
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Speaker 2: You want the Marshall Island scarf. I send it to
Speaker 2: you because I've got him on the other side of
Speaker 2: this door. Got about fourteen left right now in the
Speaker 2: current shipment. So you can help out the Marshall Island
Speaker 2: Soccer Federation continue to grow. Help the guys in England.
Speaker 2: Actually fly to the Marshall Islands. It's like a twenty
Speaker 2: two hour flight and you can help them out as
Speaker 2: they continue to grow the island and grow the island nation.
Speaker 2: When it comes to the beautiful game, so you can
Speaker 2: help out the Marshall Island Soccer Federation as we have
Speaker 2: with our project. You get to see Maddie's face hold
Speaker 2: up the scarf that we help design with them, and
Speaker 2: I send it to you.
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of it. I send you the scarf.
Speaker 2: Order everything else that comes from England, you get the scarf.
Speaker 1: It comes from me.
Speaker 2: That's how close you are to helping out the Marshall Islands.
Speaker 2: It's a lot less than the mail service coming from
Speaker 2: the other side of the Atlantic. It's just when you
Speaker 2: kick me in the button, get me to the you
Speaker 2: get me to the post office so I can mail
Speaker 2: it to you, so you can help out the Marshall
Speaker 2: Island Soccer Federation by doing that. All right, so we
Speaker 2: do have news. We do have a bunch of things
Speaker 2: to discuss. The matchups are out in Europa Conference League.
Speaker 2: The women's national team last night at Helen Michelle. We
Speaker 2: had Jamie Watson on yesterday to break down the She
Speaker 2: Believes Cup.
Speaker 1: Two goals on the board.
Speaker 2: Capt Maccario and ab and Ali Sentner score in the
Speaker 2: thirty third and the sixtieth one on each half in
Speaker 2: front of an announced crowd of just over fifteen thousand
Speaker 2: and so. Emma Hayes with a bunch of new faces
Speaker 2: that are there, uh Yasmin Ryan, Lily Johannes, all of
Speaker 2: the younger faces were there. We'll go through the grades
Speaker 2: really quickly. Jane Campbell, listed as a five, didn't have
Speaker 2: to make a single save on the day, posted a
Speaker 2: shutout defenders Emily Fox, Emily Sonnic, Tara McEwen Fox a six,
Speaker 2: Sonata five mcew and a six. Jenn and Eiswanger had
Speaker 2: a four on the night. And this is once again
Speaker 2: courtesy of our friends at Soccer America and how they
Speaker 2: view things according to our friends at Soccer America. Apparently,
Speaker 2: according to Theodore Lloyd Hughes TLH, he said that jenn
Speaker 2: and Eiswanger looked uncomfortable at times dealing with Lacy Santos
Speaker 2: Ramirez and and Cayesadam so he gave Niswanger a four
Speaker 2: on the night midfielders Lily Johanna, Sam Coffee, Lindsay Heaps,
Speaker 2: Lily Johannes he gave us seven. Lindsay Heaps of five,
Speaker 2: Sam Coffee got a six. Kat maccario back. You also
Speaker 2: had mccario once again. You had Yasmine Ryan and Alley Center.
Speaker 2: Yasmin Ryan six, Macario and Center got sevens. International debuts
Speaker 2: last night for Giselle Thompson and Michelle Cooper. Thompson goes
Speaker 2: for fourteen minutes, Michelle Cooper goes for twenty seven And
Speaker 2: you also had Lynn Biendelo, Lynn Williams getting a handful
Speaker 2: of minutes, Jadon Shawn, Corbin Albert fives across the board
Speaker 2: according to TLH and Soccer America for Biendelo, Cooper, Thompson,
Speaker 2: Corbin Albert and Jaden Shaw. Your trivia courtesy of Soccer
Speaker 2: America from last night. Lily Johannas at seventeen years, two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty three days old, second youngest player ever
Speaker 2: to appear, and she believes after Brazil's Geo Garbealini back
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one, seventeen years two forty five youngest
Speaker 2: ever to start, as she believes match McEwan Thompson Cooper fourth,
Speaker 2: fifth and sixth players to earn their first caps that
Speaker 2: she believes, following in the footsteps of Rose Level and
Speaker 2: seventeen ad franch in twenty nineteen and Trinity Rodman in
Speaker 2: twenty two, she believes continues with the USWNT tanking on
Speaker 2: Australia in Glendale on Sunday, Your refing crew was a
Speaker 2: Karen Hernandez, Jessica Morales, may Ramra and Amarani Garcia was
Speaker 2: your fourth once again. Shots on the day ten to
Speaker 2: seven to the US, three on target for the United States,
Speaker 2: none for Columbia, one say for Columbia on the day.
Speaker 1: Cornerkicks six total four to.
Speaker 2: Colombia, two to the US twenty six fouls on the
Speaker 2: day fourteen for Columbia twelve to the US six off
Speaker 2: side calls four of those to Columbia possession two to
Speaker 2: one for the United States.
Speaker 1: So that's your.
Speaker 2: Rundown quickly of what happened in she believes and that
Speaker 2: is that's what you're staring at. So I think it
Speaker 2: was supposed to be Greg's turn. You know, Greg obviously
Speaker 2: is globe trotting. Then once again, you follow great through
Speaker 2: social media.
Speaker 1: You know that.
Speaker 2: He's all over the place helping out Major League Soccer
Speaker 2: and trying to grow Beyond Goals, and so we'll see,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to type with Greg through email at the
Speaker 2: same time I'm trying to talk to you, and so
Speaker 2: we may may have a cameo. Greg is obviously he's
Speaker 2: trying to figure out if he can make it. If
Speaker 2: he can't, he can then once again, if he can't,
Speaker 2: then well then we'll obviously we'll pick up party and
Speaker 2: Greg on the flip side with our friends from Beyond
Speaker 2: Goals and the Friday free kick announced early this morning
Speaker 2: through MLS All Caps and the deal is officially official.
Speaker 2: Savannah's Indiana assalv part of the Tormentous System. Indy has
Speaker 2: been sent from All Caps to Philadelphia a million dollars
Speaker 2: in guaranteed gam over two seasons. If you read published reports,
Speaker 2: you would have seen that Indy apparently was not happy
Speaker 2: with his time in Saint Louis and was looking for
Speaker 2: a new address to apply his trade in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 2: Saint Louis and Philadelphia had a conversation, and so Indiana
Speaker 2: Vassilev is now headed to Philly in exchange for four
Speaker 2: hundred thousand in GAM and twenty five, six hundred thousand
Speaker 2: in gam and twenty six, and there could be an
Speaker 2: additional two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in GAM if
Speaker 2: certain performance based incentives are achieved. This is coming straight
Speaker 2: from Saint Louis City sc This morning. Lutzvanensteel came out
Speaker 2: with a couple of sentences and it was two seasons
Speaker 2: before Saint Louis that that Indy was with Messi and
Speaker 2: Friends five plus two and forty five matches played back
Speaker 2: to back seven goal contributions seasons with Saint Louis two
Speaker 2: plus five and twenty three seven goal contributions and five
Speaker 2: assists were career bests. In twenty four he had three
Speaker 2: goals and four assists over twenty over twenty nine matches played.
Speaker 2: So Indiana of asselev now officially official going from Saint
Speaker 2: Louis to Philadelphia. It was reported yesterday Saint Louis now
Speaker 2: has the official ward out that it is Indiana of
Speaker 2: asslev from Savannah heading from Saint Louis to Philly to
Speaker 2: be a part of the Union roster here in what's
Speaker 2: the year what I'm talking about, twenty twenty five, So
Speaker 2: that's what's where we are with the early transactions this morning,
Speaker 2: getting you're ready for match week one. Also we'll get
Speaker 2: into we actually do have Friday Night football tonight and
Speaker 2: it is Lester and Brentford, and there are some stuff
Speaker 2: going on overseas. We'll get into Champions League so we
Speaker 2: can get the Champions League in the Europa League out
Speaker 2: of the way when it comes to matchups and discussions
Speaker 2: and things like that, and we'll say hi to everybody.
Speaker 2: Gets you ready for match week one with weekend Whip
Speaker 2: Brown kicking off at ten o'clock now it is Champions
Speaker 2: League draw is in full and Ricky no doubt it
Speaker 2: is the connection with Bradley Carnell. Carnell liked what he
Speaker 2: saw with Vassilev and so it was an easy dance partner.
Speaker 2: So you end up with the last sixteen. Now officially
Speaker 2: they had the draw this morning. In about Champions League
Speaker 2: and in Europa League PSG and Liverpool obviously not a
Speaker 2: bad matchup if you can have it. So you have
Speaker 2: PSG in Liverpool and they will get the winner of
Speaker 2: Bruges and aston Villa. So you have on the left
Speaker 2: hand side of the bracket. In Champions League you have
Speaker 2: all three Premier League clubs in the eight. On that
Speaker 2: side you have all three Premier League clubs to the left,
Speaker 2: no Premier League clubs to the right, Paris and Liverpool,
Speaker 2: PSG in Liverpool upper left they get the winner of
Speaker 2: Bruges and aston Villa. Low left, realmad Athletico Madrid, hm, gee,
Speaker 2: that won't be any fireworks or nothing, and ps behind
Speaker 2: Hoven and Arsenal. So really the survivor of Real Madrid
Speaker 2: and ATHLETI could end up getting Arsenal, but don't tell
Speaker 2: PSV that right hand side of the bracket Benfica, Barsa,
Speaker 2: Dortmund and Leal, so you kind of see where it
Speaker 2: might be heading there if chalk was to happen, Bayern, Munich,
Speaker 2: Buyer Lever Cusan okay, and then fian Oord and Inter Milan.
Speaker 2: So you do have some interesting subplots in bracket in
Speaker 2: the matchup number three as you go down each particular
Speaker 2: side in the brackets, as you're following along in bracketology,
Speaker 2: you literally have Real and Athlete as matchup three on
Speaker 2: the left hand side, and you have Bayern Munich and
Speaker 2: Buyer Lever Cusan as your third matchup on the right
Speaker 2: hand side. So that's what you're staring at with those matchups.
Speaker 2: March fourth and fifth, eleventh and twelfth, and that is
Speaker 2: when the Champions League gets from the Round of sixteen
Speaker 2: heading toward the round of eight.
Speaker 1: Liverpool and PSG.
Speaker 2: And Arsenal is on the same side of the draw
Speaker 2: as Real Madrid, same mini bracket as Real Madrid. So
Speaker 2: if Arsenal survives, then they get the winner of Real
Speaker 2: Madrid and Atletico Madrid. Gee, thanks for dropping by so
Speaker 2: uh Villa and Bruce is a tough quarterfinal for Unayamri
Speaker 2: as you look forward, but brucees and Villa man round
Speaker 2: of sixteen Real Madrid Atletico Madrid, thanks for coming. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna mention anything about frozen envelopes or anything. Third
Speaker 2: year in a row Arsenal get PSV mckel artetis side
Speaker 2: they've had problems away from home playing at PSV beat
Speaker 2: them four nil on the Emirates back in September twenty three.
Speaker 2: League phase inter have only given up one goal in
Speaker 2: eight matches and that's just insane. Fine order fourth in
Speaker 2: the air to his Ze And so right now, Vincent Company,
Speaker 2: if you look back at the last matchup with the
Speaker 2: Vincent Company had in Champions League, just ask Jared about
Speaker 2: Celtic and how close Celtic was to maybe knocking off
Speaker 2: Bayern Munich. If it didn't happen at the death, you
Speaker 2: would have gone an extra thirty. Then you would have
Speaker 2: seen from there what would have happened. So Jared has
Speaker 2: been ruing what happened in the last round. So you've
Speaker 2: got Byron Shabi Alonzo unbeaten in six against Byron beat
Speaker 2: him to the league title last year. Borusha Dortmann. By
Speaker 2: the way, they're eleventh in the Bundesliga. Right now, you
Speaker 2: get Lel you should advance Benfica and Barsa. If you
Speaker 2: were Juice, if you're looking at juice boxes in this one,
Speaker 2: you probably should take the over.
Speaker 1: Just saying.
Speaker 2: Five to four when they played in January, Barcelona, Benfica
Speaker 2: and Monaco. Remember the insanity of the six gold draw
Speaker 2: there at three to three, winning four to three on aggregate.
Speaker 2: So it's looking like, let's just say you figure Liverpool,
Speaker 2: you know, you figure maybe next round is Liverpool and
Speaker 2: Aston Villa Arsenal in Real Madrid. But Real Madrid, and
Speaker 2: that's lette who you figure Barsa an ter see one
Speaker 2: of the publications overseas is already looking at a Real
Speaker 2: Madrid win over Barsa in the final. So that's what
Speaker 2: you're looking at. With the draw from Champions League this morning,
Speaker 2: we do have news out of the Premier League coming up.
Speaker 2: In a second Europa League draw round of sixteen. You
Speaker 2: got as everybody's heading to bill Bau, Victoria Pilsen and
Speaker 2: Lazzio Bodo Glimpt, remember the craziness that was there in
Speaker 2: Bodo Glimpt trying to advance furious second half comeback. So
Speaker 2: Bodo Glimpt advances, they get Olympiacos i Ax and Eintrach, Frankfurt,
Speaker 2: oz At Alkmar and Spurs. Spurs is still hanging in
Speaker 2: their left hand side of the bracket. Right hand side,
Speaker 2: Roma and Athletic Clube, fender Bache and Rangers. So you
Speaker 2: could have Josie Mourinho and fender Bach taking on Roma
Speaker 2: in the next round of both teams advance FCSB and
Speaker 2: Leyel Rail sociodad in Manchester United. So Manchester United they
Speaker 2: get past Rail sociadd you could end up with Leon
Speaker 2: and then you look at the matchups.
Speaker 1: Dutch fans. Remember when they tried to.
Speaker 2: Go for the west Ham matchup last time around, Remember
Speaker 2: the security problems there. I would anticipate a lot of
Speaker 2: security in that matchup with azy alkmarn Spurs Our Sociodd
Speaker 2: Manchester United. With everything going on with Rubin a Marim
Speaker 2: and Manchester United, there's probably not a lot of optimism
Speaker 2: that Manchester United would get out of this matchup. You
Speaker 2: got folks sitting there saying Rale sociodid And apparently there's
Speaker 2: going to be a three D later today from Drew Dickinson.
Speaker 2: He said it was one of the longest three d's
Speaker 2: that he has ever pieced together. So listen for that
Speaker 2: and we'll post that on the network a little later on.
Speaker 2: But so round of sixteen you could have Roma and
Speaker 2: Fenerbache in a quarterfinal. Now news out of the Premier
Speaker 2: League once again, we're gonna talk about it Land United
Speaker 2: and what's on your mind As we go after this
Speaker 2: and get you ready for the weekend. We'll go through gossip,
Speaker 2: rumor and innuendo. What to watch, her to watch it,
Speaker 2: how to watch it. Then we're gonna spend the rest
Speaker 2: of the time talking about Major League Soccer weekend, Whip
Speaker 2: Brown and catching up with all you. Telegraph article Mike
Speaker 2: McGrath Manchester United staff threatened with the sack if they
Speaker 2: leak in from Chief executive Omar Barata has issued a
Speaker 2: warning in an email as an investigation has been launched
Speaker 2: into a succession of leaks. Warrant staff in a bombshell
Speaker 2: email revealing club information will be considered gross misconduct, which
Speaker 2: could get them sacked. A five hundred and eighty word
Speaker 2: missive McGrath says to employees. As details of the cutbacks
Speaker 2: and redundancies continue at United, staff were told additional measures
Speaker 2: in quotation marks are now being put in place to
Speaker 2: prevent the details of changes being released before official club announcements.
Speaker 2: In the email quote, anyone disclosing information outside of the
Speaker 2: club is breaching their obligations of confidentiality. We are very
Speaker 2: clear that this will be considered gross miss conduct. To
Speaker 2: protect the club and its colleagues. Additional measures are being
Speaker 2: put in place to prevent future breaches of confidentiality and
Speaker 2: also identify any person's responsible end quote. Under government guidelines,
Speaker 2: employees can be dismissed immediately for grossman's conduct if the
Speaker 2: correct procedures are followed. According to McGrath, so far Surgeon
Speaker 2: Ratcliffe has seen over two hundred and fifty staff leaving
Speaker 2: through the redundancy process. Another one hundred now expected. United
Speaker 2: are going to hold a staff meeting Monday when further
Speaker 2: plans are outlined to reduce costs to raise revenues after
Speaker 2: losing more than three hundred million pounds in the last
Speaker 2: three years. And remember earlier this week we said that
Speaker 2: it cost fourteen and a half million pounds to pay
Speaker 2: out Eric Tenhag, his staff and Dan Ashworth.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your service.
Speaker 2: So that's probably the biggest piece of news from the
Speaker 2: Telegraph this morning. And there's a rather large special report
Speaker 2: in the Telegraph about the first year under Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
Speaker 2: As things have laid out, and it's probably easy to
Speaker 2: say that it has not been a fun year for
Speaker 2: anyone who has been associated either in the employee or
Speaker 2: in the fandom at Manchester United, checking really quickly just
Speaker 2: to see if there's anything else that.
Speaker 1: I may have missed.
Speaker 2: When it comes to stuff, probably your deeper you're deeper
Speaker 2: read This morning is over at the Guardian. Has to
Speaker 2: do with the Zambian Federation. Just so you're knowing what's
Speaker 2: going on with what's going on with the calf. You
Speaker 2: had an FA president reelected unopposed. Eight nominees were disqualified
Speaker 2: in the process, and so you have another federation that
Speaker 2: t is in a bit of upheaval. So we'll keep
Speaker 2: an eye on that as well. Okay, let's say hot
Speaker 2: everybody and get you into what to watch or to
Speaker 2: watch it, how to watch it, and all the gossipermer
Speaker 2: in any window once again, our number two. We're gonna
Speaker 2: spend with weekend up around patent pending trademark coming sooner
Speaker 2: hopefully rather than later. Jason should be joining us around
Speaker 2: ten thirty or so. We'll go everywhere from onside and
Speaker 2: rooted forward with Major League Soccer, all those matchups and
Speaker 2: what he looks at in the Eastern Conference, any of
Speaker 2: the other matchups that are there. So your gossip, berumer
Speaker 2: and innuendo for today Like I said, I'm getting all
Speaker 2: this stuff out of the way so we can talk Mlsson
Speaker 2: Atlanta United.
Speaker 1: For the remainder of the show.
Speaker 2: Liverpool look increasingly likely to sell Darwin Nunez, with him
Speaker 2: looking to struggle for playing time at Old traff at Anfield.
Speaker 2: Manchester unitedly the race to sign Crystal Palace midfielder Adam
Speaker 2: Wharton you they remain interested Jack Grealish, Kevin de Bruna
Speaker 2: Bernardo Silva expected to headline an exodus of Manchester City
Speaker 2: players this summer as pept Guardiella rebuilds the squad. Manchester
Speaker 2: City also could look to sell as many as eight
Speaker 2: senior players, according to The Daily Mirror, as they try
Speaker 2: and chase after Florian verts at bayer Levercusan and You've
Speaker 2: a full back Andrea Cambiasso. Guardiella is committed to putting
Speaker 2: things right at Manchester City, according to the Telegraph, but
Speaker 2: if he were asked to leave, the club would not
Speaker 2: stand in his way. If he were to ask to leave,
Speaker 2: the club would not stand at his way. I have
Speaker 2: to get my modifier right. Newcastle prepared to pay Brentford
Speaker 2: fifty million pounds for Brian and Bumo ac Milan ready
Speaker 2: to listen to offers for rafa Al Barcelona Chelsea long
Speaker 2: term admirers Barcicon Admiral they want How are you going
Speaker 2: to pay the man? That's the biggest question. United also
Speaker 2: interested in signing Atalanta's keeper One Muso, currently on Londed
Speaker 2: Athletico Madrid. His concerns grow over Andre Onana's form. It's
Speaker 2: a day that ends in why. Manchester United are also
Speaker 2: weighing up a summer move for ac Milan left back
Speaker 2: tail Hernandez, and Milan is willing to sell. United among
Speaker 2: several European clubs interested in Sporting wing back Giovanni kend
Speaker 2: To seventeen, but have not reached an agreement with either
Speaker 2: club or player. We've been discussing that with Nino Torres
Speaker 2: ever since Amarine got hired. No surprise, Yo Koresh Kenda
Speaker 2: at all looked for that pipeline from Sporting to line
Speaker 2: up to Manchester United. Arsenal's been given encouragement to sign
Speaker 2: Spanish keeper Jean Garcia from Espanol. The Newcastle will sign
Speaker 2: Burnley keeper James Trafford this summer, even if Burnley are
Speaker 2: promoted to the prem Newcastle interested in Bournemouth striker Antoine
Speaker 2: Semeno paid a man Barcelona Byron PSG interested in signing
Speaker 2: Mason Greenwood from Marseille United, would get fifty percent of
Speaker 2: any transfer fee generated by the striker, and Zo Moresca
Speaker 2: maintains the support of his players and the club's hierarchy
Speaker 2: despite his side winning just three of their last eleven.
Speaker 2: Carlos Alcaraz keen to make his move to Everton, where
Speaker 2: he's on loan from Flamengo. A permanent arrangement no clause
Speaker 2: in the contract of Cole Palmer that would allow him
Speaker 2: to leave the club if they failed to qualify for
Speaker 2: the Champions League, and dony Iroola at Bournemouth would be
Speaker 2: spurs preferred candidate to replace Opasta Coglu if onepasta Coglu
Speaker 2: ends up leaving the club in one way or another.
Speaker 2: An Arsenal agreed to a deal to sign young Scottish
Speaker 2: central defender Callan Hamill, fifteen from Saint Johnston this summer,
Speaker 2: fifteen years old. Now gossip Brummer and in the window
Speaker 2: is done. What to watch or to watch it? How
Speaker 2: to watch it? And this is just Friday, because Saturday.
Speaker 2: I know everybody that is probably here in this footprint,
Speaker 2: they're gonna end up being partying at Mercedes Benz getting
Speaker 2: ready for Atlanta United and c F Montreal so Friday,
Speaker 2: Turkish Super League AOPSPOR and bishktas Is at noon. Once
Speaker 2: we're off the air, Ren and Reem in League two
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Speaker 2: helps the network out, helps our network out, helps you out.
Speaker 2: Become a true degenerate that Jason has turned me into.
Speaker 2: I blame him. UAFA Women's Nation's League at three ten
Speaker 2: on CBS Sports Network, France and Norway. FS two has
Speaker 2: a double header going on right now in the league
Speaker 2: that we neither condone, endorse nor promote U twenty Women's
Speaker 2: Championship in CONCACAFT six o'clock on FS two Trinidad and
Speaker 2: Tobago and Bermuda Leicester City Brentford on USA at three
Speaker 2: o'clock at ESPN Deportes has selt the Divigo and Osasuna
Speaker 2: at three, Gold TV Braga nacion Il see if our
Speaker 2: buddy Nino is calling that one at three fifteen two
Speaker 2: to NA Friday Night Football Puebla Tijuana at ten. Universo
Speaker 2: simul casting the Premier League. Three matches in the plus
Speaker 2: the Lalliga match Bundesliga at two twenty Bundesliga B at
Speaker 2: twelve thirty. Fox Soccer Plus has the U twenty Women's
Speaker 2: Championship Guiana Belize. First half is at the half right now.
Speaker 2: Dominican Republican bond Air is at six. NBC Sports dot
Speaker 2: Com simul casting Lester and Brentford at three. You have
Speaker 2: a re air of the draws of the Champions League
Speaker 2: in the Europa League on Paramount Plus coming at noon.
Speaker 2: In twelve thirty Championship a Latte lot Less. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think I got that right, Middlesbrough at two forty five,
Speaker 2: with Bristol City Siria A lech Udines at two forty five.
Speaker 2: The Scottish Championship at two forty five, Greenwick Morton and
Speaker 2: Falkirk Vicks has a double header in Legamaki, Coxhemos at
Speaker 2: Lan and Puebla and Tijuana. So that is what to
Speaker 2: watch today because, like I said, all y'all gonna be
Speaker 2: probably at Mercedes Benz on Saturday, so I wasn't going
Speaker 2: to go that far. Okay, time to say hi to
Speaker 2: everybody and catch up once again.
Speaker 1: Top of the hour.
Speaker 2: We start weekend whip around patent pending, trademark coming. We'll
Speaker 2: go through all the matchups and I want to know
Speaker 2: what you think about all the other matchups in addition
Speaker 2: to Atlanta United and with c F Montreal coming to town. Morning,
Speaker 2: Alex Morning, Ricky, Yes, one more day, one day more,
Speaker 2: absolutely true? And Abby, good morning. Still low on the volume.
Speaker 2: I cannot understand this. I've jacked this up like nobody's
Speaker 2: business Morning, Derek.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 2: Abby personalized her new jersey, same as always as far
Speaker 2: as what it says, but sparkly.
Speaker 1: We always dig sparkly.
Speaker 2: Abby was concerned about missing what happened last night at
Speaker 2: the Moxie that was postponed. It is now Our first
Speaker 2: third Thursday event is March twenty at Moxie Midtown. So
Speaker 2: March twenty, set your calendars appropriately and hopefully the load
Speaker 2: out is cool. Came wait to see what the TFO
Speaker 2: looks like, you know, I needs a t FO Morning
Speaker 2: ropes and let's see morning David. David got halfway through
Speaker 2: his morning Espresso before the Twitch pitch call. Let's see
Speaker 2: Abby and BM Messi and friends having the discussion there.
Speaker 2: Let's see I'm trying to see who else Cafsie grab
Speaker 2: your ticket, come get with it at LX spress. Okay,
Speaker 2: so see now Kessy's gone musical this morning. Let's see
Speaker 2: so and everybody's trying to figure out how to access
Speaker 2: morning Espresso. You can look at the video version on
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Speaker 2: so it gives you all three versions. It's three dimensional
Speaker 2: when it comes to a morning Espresso. Here on the network, pars,
Speaker 2: we are not doing anything tomorrow before the match because
Speaker 2: we're all gonna be busy. Jason is obviously getting ready
Speaker 2: for ninety two nine. I will be in the building
Speaker 2: at two thirty getting ready for everything that you'll see
Speaker 2: on the halo board and all of that.
Speaker 1: I have to be there five hours.
Speaker 2: Early, and since it's the first one, I have to
Speaker 2: be there five hours early so we can get to
Speaker 2: the lighting right and the blocking right and all that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff for halftime. And Maddie is going to
Speaker 2: be busy with ninety two nine as well, and she
Speaker 2: will be on pregame. So Maddy'll be on pregame, and
Speaker 2: I will be doing postgame for home games except for
Speaker 2: a couple of dates where I have conflicts, like with
Speaker 2: the Basketball Championships and stuff like that, so I'll be
Speaker 2: doing postgame with Abe, Maddie'll be doing pregame with Able
Speaker 2: ninety two nine. Jason will be with Mike calling the match.
Speaker 2: Then when postgame is done, then everybody congregates into the
Speaker 2: same room and we talk for fifteen or twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: So we will all be in the building very very
Speaker 2: early doing one thing or another attached to a game
Speaker 2: day for Atlanta Night at either ninety two nine or
Speaker 2: inside Mercedes Benz. For Mercedes Benz, Yes, Ricky rooted was
Speaker 2: great onside like I said, on Side has a moment,
Speaker 2: and for folks that have seen on Side, you can
Speaker 2: put it in the twitch pitch if you wish, or
Speaker 2: you can talk directly to an individual about it.
Speaker 1: But there is a moment in there.
Speaker 2: And we talked to Tyler about it back on Wednesday
Speaker 2: that I wish I'd known it happened in real time,
Speaker 2: but to see it happen after the fact, it adds context.
Speaker 1: And you're like, whoa.
Speaker 2: It was definitely one of those Whoe moments that you
Speaker 2: get in the back of your seat. So definitely Onside,
Speaker 2: very very cool, Ricky Ricardo. Eight years ago, I had
Speaker 2: an entirely different life. You ain't the only one, Okay, Okay?
Speaker 1: Cool? Public service, Ricky.
Speaker 2: After the show's posting a link in the discord to
Speaker 2: a fantasy league if anybody wants to join. And so morning,
Speaker 2: Harry bart is in this morning, one day from the
Speaker 2: start of the season.
Speaker 1: Are you ready? I feel like I should get Triple
Speaker 1: H's drop in here now too. Am I ready? Sure?
Speaker 1: Bring it on?
Speaker 2: I mean, everybody was like, okay, you know, Atlanta United
Speaker 2: exits the playoffs and it was seven weeks ago, and
Speaker 2: everybody was thinking, it's like well, what are you gonna
Speaker 2: do for seven weeks to talk about to get everybody
Speaker 2: ready for twenty five? Seven weeks have past people, seven
Speaker 2: weeks are gone. You got a match at Mercedes Benz.
Speaker 2: You get time to catch up with your friends. Dress
Speaker 2: warmly because I think it's only going to be in
Speaker 2: the fifties, but at least it's not going to be
Speaker 2: like seventeen degrees outside. I picked that number randomly. It
Speaker 2: was not just because of seventeen Bart going over USWNT.
Speaker 2: Jenna had a rough night dealt with most of the
Speaker 2: volatile Columbian attackers. McEwan struggled a bit too. And so
Speaker 2: you've got once again. Twenty third is Glendale? Twenty sixth?
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 2: Snap Dragon? We'll talk to Bart about that our number
Speaker 2: two on Monday. And Ricky, yeah, Villa, it's got a
Speaker 2: great opportunity for them to make it to the quarters.
Speaker 2: KEFSI going to fors a Roma and Ricky with a question,
Speaker 2: do I have a sports ticker behind me?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 8: I do?
Speaker 2: And this is from our friends at Glance led and
Speaker 2: I wish I had the bigger one like over here,
Speaker 2: like over my shoulder. But trying to figure out how
Speaker 2: to suspend it would have been a problem. So right now,
Speaker 2: the ticker that I have has news and information from
Speaker 2: the morning and things like that, but mainly it has
Speaker 2: soccer competitions and times and start times. So yeah, our
Speaker 2: friends at glance led. I saw that and I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: what can I add to the studio space in addition to.
Speaker 1: The boss.
Speaker 2: So what I did when I remember to turn it
Speaker 2: on is picked up the glance Led just as something
Speaker 2: kind of over the shoulder, Like I said, I don't
Speaker 2: we I don't think we have any way to suspend
Speaker 2: the longer ticker board over my left shoulder because that's
Speaker 2: a door that goes to the outside and people would
Speaker 2: hit their heads. So yeah, this is glance Led and
Speaker 2: hopefully some mornings, if you miss information and you're looking
Speaker 2: at things short of having a ticker below me here
Speaker 2: on set, glance Led hopefully can help you out through it.
Speaker 2: And I know I need the bigger one, but I
Speaker 2: just wanted to get something started so I could have
Speaker 2: it here. See that's our friends from glance Led. That
Speaker 2: is a ticker that they have and they have various
Speaker 2: sizes and it's yours in their subscription service.
Speaker 1: Forever you buy the thing and you're in.
Speaker 2: So you buy it, and folks have got like rooms
Speaker 2: with their tickers and everything like that. So I think
Speaker 2: it's three separate sizes for Glance. They've been running deals
Speaker 2: and look on social media and then apply those codes.
Speaker 2: Go directly to the website and you can get your
Speaker 2: glance Led. That is not a That is not a
Speaker 2: paid endorsement, although I wouldn't mind if Glance had LEDs
Speaker 2: for all of us here in our home studios with SDH.
Speaker 2: That's just a flat out endorsement because I'm a geek
Speaker 2: that wanted one of these things in my studio space.
Speaker 2: So no, it's not a paid endorsement at all. Glance
Speaker 2: is not a sponsor. I'd love them for too, I'd
Speaker 2: love for them to be a sponsor, but glance Led
Speaker 2: not a sponsor. But you can get it programmed and
Speaker 2: you can go online once you register the device, and
Speaker 2: you can program the grid to reflect whatever you want.
Speaker 2: For me, it reflects daily news and a lot of soccer,
Speaker 2: So that's a glance Led.
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 2: Kef C about Manchester United doesn't love it. Not ideal
Speaker 2: but firing someone and labeling as Grossman's conduct as well
Speaker 2: gross true. Michael had amazing about to start season number nine,
Speaker 2: hoping for the best time to see if all the
Speaker 2: talk is going to be backed up with the results.
Speaker 2: Kef c Alcoraz look pretty good in the handful of
Speaker 2: matches and rich with the with the note I'm guessing
Speaker 2: that this is the joining of Indiana of Aslev with
Speaker 2: the link. Yes, Indy coming to he come into Philly.
Speaker 2: And by the way, Indy's mustache could not be any
Speaker 2: more snidely whiplash in that promo photo could not could
Speaker 2: not be any more snidely whiplash or rolly fingers. Those
Speaker 2: are your Google searches for today. The handlebar mustache that
Speaker 2: is growing from Indiana Vassala very very strong. When we
Speaker 2: had Indian, when he was up in the Saint Louis,
Speaker 2: we had him for a one v one. He looked
Speaker 2: off my shoulder and he saw this and lost his mind.
Speaker 2: He saw the Tormento scarfin but just about lost his mind.
Speaker 2: PSA from Abbey, effective May seven, for anybody flying everywhere
Speaker 2: Georgia residents eighteen and older have to show a real idea,
Speaker 2: passport or other federally approved idea to board domestic flights.
Speaker 1: Roma and Emelia.
Speaker 2: We were talking about romas like might get a new stadium,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to deal with the politics there in
Speaker 2: town first. And if you're dealing with the politics, and
Speaker 2: Nick can get into this a lot better than any
Speaker 2: of the rest of us can. But if a place
Speaker 2: is looking for a new stadium for a franchise inside Syria,
Speaker 2: you got to go through the local boards and the
Speaker 2: local governments and you got to convince them that you're
Speaker 2: not going on some kind of ground that is thirty
Speaker 2: five hundred years old BC when it started, and that
Speaker 2: you're not tapping into anything historic and you're not uprooting
Speaker 2: the history there in Italy. So it is a tall
Speaker 2: slog and I mean it in the tallest of forms
Speaker 2: for anybody that wants to do anything modern in Syria.
Speaker 2: Like I said, Nick can go on this topic forever
Speaker 2: because he has seen it, so that that's gonna be
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a tall slog for anybody in Syria.
Speaker 2: Roman wants one, don't know if Rome's going to get one.
Speaker 2: And it's going to be an interesting conversation with rich
Speaker 2: and Bart in the Twitch pitch about the about the
Speaker 2: She Believes Cup and what it means.
Speaker 1: So I'd love to know on Monday.
Speaker 2: I want to know the end result of this chat,
Speaker 2: and even if they have some stuff offline where Rich
Speaker 2: wants Bart to sell them on, she believes says it's
Speaker 2: not the all Garb replacement.
Speaker 1: It was supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Feels like it's just an excuse for the US to
Speaker 2: beat up on South Americans for a week. So I
Speaker 2: want to find out what the end of that discussion is,
Speaker 2: and I'll ask Bart about this on Monday. So remind
Speaker 2: me on Monday about that particular as I've sit here
Speaker 2: and pointed the twitch pitch here in my monitor. But uh,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I want to find out what the end
Speaker 2: of the discussion is. All right, ten o'clock hour and
Speaker 2: five minutes, We're going to go through everything in Major
Speaker 2: League Soccer. We'll go through all the juice boxes and
Speaker 2: we will let you know what is going on here
Speaker 2: in am my last for match week number one. So
Speaker 2: biggest thing is Bart. Here's Bart, So here we go.
Speaker 2: I'll do Bart a public service. So since Bart's looking
Speaker 2: on YouTube, Bart sell me on. She believes Cup anymore,
Speaker 2: not the algar replace it was supposed to be. Feels
Speaker 2: like it's just an excuse for the US to beat
Speaker 2: up on South Americans for a week. Discuss there you go. Okay,
Speaker 2: Now we've got to go over the broadcast teams. We've
Speaker 2: got to go over the officials, we got to go
Speaker 2: over the juice boxes. Got to go over the matchups,
Speaker 2: because it is match week one in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 2: So we look at the matchups themselves, and like I said,
Speaker 2: we'll go over juice boxes. Probably the easiest thing to
Speaker 2: do is go over the matchups themselves, then go over
Speaker 2: the juice boxes, and then go back and go in
Speaker 2: depth into each match so we can read all the
Speaker 2: results in a line, then come back and analyze the
Speaker 2: matches themselves. And like I said, Atlanta United probably gonna
Speaker 2: take up the bulk of the final thirty or thirty
Speaker 2: five minutes of the show. So your matchups here in
Speaker 2: match week one in Major League Soccer for twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: and I'm probably gonna have to be properly high rated
Speaker 2: the entire time. So I apologize if I duck out
Speaker 2: in a matchup in mid information just to get a
Speaker 2: good swing of Soota. All right, One matchup at four
Speaker 2: point thirty LAFC in Minnesota, United that kicks off the week,
Speaker 2: so LAFC, after freezing in Colorado, has to turn around
Speaker 2: and play Minnesota United.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a tough matchup for LAFC.
Speaker 2: Lafc's a minus one twenty draws a plus two eighty
Speaker 2: three in the composite courtesy of our friends at odds
Speaker 2: Portal Minnesota United plus two ninety nine. So basically, Minnesota
Speaker 2: United is a plus three hundred in this matchup against LAFC. Remember,
Speaker 2: LAFC had to freeze in Commerce City, Colorado, midweek, turn
Speaker 2: around and come back for this matchup.
Speaker 1: Minnesota United.
Speaker 2: Eric Ramsey, his quarter zip vest or, his button down
Speaker 2: sweater and his white T shirt did not have to
Speaker 2: so Minnesota United got the chance to watch.
Speaker 1: Keep an eye on that one.
Speaker 2: Minnesota United at plus three hundred draws a plus two
Speaker 2: eighty three at Land United CF Montreal at Landy United
Speaker 2: a prohibited favorite of a minus one seventy five CEF
Speaker 2: Montreal north of plus four fifty. These are at seven
Speaker 2: thirty seven forty on Apple TV Crew and fire Crew
Speaker 2: at a minus two hundred draw with Chicago a plus
Speaker 2: three forty eight at the Death Star and Chicago to
Speaker 2: win a plus four ninety one. Once again, we talk
Speaker 2: about teams that are having to balance a couple of
Speaker 2: different things. Columbus no offense out of the blocks. The
Speaker 2: offense is lacking. Let's put it that way. I won't
Speaker 2: say no because I know that there's going to be
Speaker 2: a lot of folks that might have Jason Russell roll
Speaker 2: on their sheets this year as a leading scorer in Columbus.
Speaker 2: So Columbus once again minus two hundred plus three forty
Speaker 2: eight draw Chicago plus four ninety one DC I did
Speaker 2: minus one nineteen hosting Toronto FC draws A plus two
Speaker 2: seventy three Toronto FC's a plus three oh five Cincinnati
Speaker 2: and Red Bulls. This one will be must see in
Speaker 2: the early block if you're if you have multiple devices
Speaker 2: going Cincinnati plus one oh two draws A plus two
Speaker 2: fifty six Red Bulls A plus two fifty MESSI and
Speaker 2: Friends hosting NYC at the Erector set of minus one
Speaker 2: thirty two draws A plus two eighty nine n y
Speaker 2: c's A plus three twenty six. Purple team hosting Philly
Speaker 2: and Indiana assilev Purple teams of minus one forty three
Speaker 2: or draws A plus three eleven Philadelphia on the road
Speaker 2: to plus three thirty four eight thirties. Austin and Sporting
Speaker 2: Austin a minus one twenty five, Draws a plus two
Speaker 2: eighty six. Sporting is a plus three oh seven Texas
Speaker 2: Darby Houston hosting Dallas. We had Glenn Davis on the
Speaker 2: show yesterday to discuss Houston and has gone on with
Speaker 2: them from twenty four into twenty five. Houston favored at
Speaker 2: a minus one eleven. FC Dallas with Lucho Acosta, Acosta
Speaker 2: and Peter Mussa, They're gonna win you some games. Dras
Speaker 2: a plus two to fifty two, Dallas a plus three
Speaker 2: oh one. Lucas this morning once again Lucas Panzico one
Speaker 2: oh four to five The Zone. Nashville hosting the Revs.
Speaker 2: Nashville favorite at a minus one eighteen, Dras a plus
Speaker 2: two sixty six. Revs are a plus three oh five
Speaker 2: last eight thirty All Caps hosting Colorado. Saint Louis City
Speaker 2: is a minus one oh four, Colorado a plus two
Speaker 2: ninety and the Rapids are a plus two thirty nine.
Speaker 2: Ten thirties. The beginning of Bruce Arena. The beginning of
Speaker 2: Bruce Arena hosting RSL. Santasee's a plus one twenty four.
Speaker 2: DRASA plus two seventy six. RSL is a plus one
Speaker 2: eighty six. Once again, RSL, they don't know what their
Speaker 2: offense is going to look like, so we will keep
Speaker 2: an eye on that last matchup at your ten thirties,
Speaker 2: we talked about Seattle hosting Charlotte with Nico Moreno. That
Speaker 2: conversation is up on the network. It's also on Nico's
Speaker 2: in its entirety on Nico's social media at L Rollo
Speaker 2: ANDW part of the longer conversation that we had about
Speaker 2: the Western Conference. Seattle to minus one twenty seven, Charlotte
Speaker 2: plus is a plus three fifty one. Your draw is
Speaker 2: a plus two to fifty eight. Sunday's matches four o'clock
Speaker 2: Portland hosting Vancouver in an early cascade of Portland to
Speaker 2: minus one oh eight draws a plus two eighty six,
Speaker 2: Vancouver a plus two forty eight. LAG at seven o'clock
Speaker 2: hosting San Diego FC and LAG a prohibitive favorite there
Speaker 2: at a minus two thirteen. San Diego is a plus
Speaker 2: four fifty five, and your draw is a plus three
Speaker 2: eighty eight.
Speaker 1: So uh, those are.
Speaker 2: Your matchups for week number one, referee assignments will go
Speaker 2: through some of the greatest hits. Let you know who
Speaker 2: the man is in the middle for a match Day one,
Speaker 2: Pierre Looke Losieer is going to be the man in
Speaker 2: the middle against for the matchup with the Atlanta and
Speaker 2: c F Montreal. Pierre Looke Loziere has one match in
Speaker 2: the USL Championship involving at Land United two a handful
Speaker 2: of years ago. He has been the man in the
Speaker 2: middle twice for Atlanta United in history. The fourth in
Speaker 2: the matchup is Philip Duyach, and you may remember. You
Speaker 2: may remember Philip Duyach. You may remember Philip Duyach from
Speaker 2: a moment last year. That moment if you missed it,
Speaker 2: un least if I can turn it up in time.
Speaker 2: Philip Duyach, he was the man who was part of
Speaker 2: the however, var, but he's the fourth this particular matchup.
Speaker 2: Ref assignments La in Minnesota Geta Gonzales Junior is the
Speaker 2: man in the middle. Caroline Snard is your var. Pierre
Speaker 2: Look Lozier is your man in the middle. Here lies
Speaker 2: Arfa who I don't know. I think this is his
Speaker 2: first activity inside major League Soccer as an AR of
Speaker 2: any degree. I think he's new here. Ben Pilgrim is
Speaker 2: your second AR. It has now changed. It is now
Speaker 2: Sergei Dimianchuk. Who is the man in the middle. Is no,
Speaker 2: it is not so I took so I played my
Speaker 2: joke and it passed by Sergei. Demionchuk is now your fourth.
Speaker 2: Jeff Gamble is your VR. FC Cincinnati and Red Bulls.
Speaker 2: Lucas so Apala is the the man in the middle.
Speaker 2: Natalie Simon is your fourth. Edvan Jerasevitch is your VR.
Speaker 2: Fotis Bezakas is in the middle for Crew and Fire.
Speaker 2: Soren Stoutschka is your VR. Sergey Boyko DC United Toronto FC,
Speaker 2: Michael Radchuk your v R. Messi and Friends hosting nycfc
Speaker 2: Rosendo Mendoza is the man in the middle. Catherine Nesbit
Speaker 2: is your AR. Is your AR one. Unice Maracci is
Speaker 2: your VR. Purple Team in Philly, Ruby Elvasquez is the
Speaker 2: man in the middle. Kevin Terry Junior is your VR.
Speaker 2: Austin and Sporting Chris Penso is in the middle. David
Speaker 2: Barry is your VR. David Barry, you remember, was var
Speaker 2: for the red card for Brad last season against LAFC.
Speaker 1: So David Berry var.
Speaker 2: Chris Penso your center f for Austin and Sporting Houston
Speaker 2: and Dallas. Armando Viral the man in the middle. Jc
Speaker 2: Rivero's your VR Nashville in New England, Marcus de Elavera
Speaker 2: the man in the middle. Harhy Gonzales your VAR City
Speaker 2: and Rapids, City and Rapids. Sorry, John Freeman, no relation.
Speaker 2: Man in the middle, Kevin Stott your VAR. Malik Badawi
Speaker 2: is the man in the middle for San Jose and RSL.
Speaker 2: Sean Taheney is your VR. Corey Rockwell is your AR
Speaker 2: number one. Philip Duyitch is now been moved to ref
Speaker 2: the man in the middle Seattle and Charlotte and Greg
Speaker 2: Dapka is your VAR Portland and Vancouver. On Sunday, Victor
Speaker 2: Revos is the man in the middle. Kevin Stott your
Speaker 2: VAR there Lag in San Diego, Alan Chapman the man
Speaker 2: in the middle at seven o'clock eastern seven to ten really,
Speaker 2: and then Michael Radchuk is your VAR four that matchup
Speaker 2: with Lag and San Diego. So that is your refereeing
Speaker 2: matchups when it comes to the weekend. All right, let's
Speaker 2: break it all down LAFC and Minnesota. We'll get the Uh. Well,
Speaker 2: ok so we'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: Let's let's do that.
Speaker 2: Let's do uh all right, so let me So Ricky
Speaker 2: is requesting the commentator assignments. So let's see if I
Speaker 2: can because they're traditionally posted. They are traditionally posted. There's
Speaker 2: your article about Sunday Night soccer. There's your season preview
Speaker 2: about the only the Captain rule. Uh, we have matts
Speaker 2: opening weekend, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So.
Speaker 2: Sliding, sliding, sliding, and I'm trying to find the I
Speaker 2: can't find the announcer assignments. It's something that we're used
Speaker 2: to seeing, especially early in the week. Huh okay, hang on,
Speaker 2: all right, So this is once again I feel like
Speaker 2: I need, like hold music or something. Sometimes let's see
Speaker 2: Friday night Baseball announcer schedules. But that went offline twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. Uh, I really do need I really do
Speaker 2: need hold music. Okay, Match Day six and twenty three
Speaker 2: Apple dot Com newsroom with season pass thirtieth sleeve patches.
Speaker 1: By by the way, those look kind of cool. Sunday
Speaker 1: Night soccer man, this is this is odd.
Speaker 2: Traditionally you used to you're used to seeing the announced
Speaker 2: teams posted somewhat regularly, whether it's done by MLS Communications
Speaker 2: or what have you, But I don't see them. Wow,
Speaker 2: I know I could, Derek, I could just tell the
Speaker 2: music to Jeopardy Ropes. I don't know the full I
Speaker 2: don't know the full girl from Epanima. That's my problem
Speaker 2: is that I don't know the the girl from Epanima
Speaker 2: in full. Twenty twenty four Assignments twenty twenty five is
Speaker 2: just listed. So we know who's going to be a
Speaker 2: part of it this year. We know that it's going
Speaker 2: to be a six pack of folks. But the on
Speaker 2: came the on Cam talent this year, just on the whole,
Speaker 2: it is going to be you look at all the
Speaker 2: match talent. It is going to be Taylor Troulman, Diego
Speaker 2: Valerimo Adou Loari, Lindsay Andres Aguya, Tony Cherchi, Danny Higginbotham Kennedy,
Speaker 2: Saint Aubin, Marcelo Balboa, Sammy Sodavnik, Jake Zivin, Keith Costigan, Brunovine, Cangelosi,
Speaker 2: Pablo Ramirez. So that we know about who's going to
Speaker 2: be in this year studio, folks, it's gonna be Kevin
Speaker 2: and Uh Ramsey Sandoval. They're gonna be paired with kayl
Speaker 2: and Kyle Antonella Gonzalez, b w P, Sasha Question, Dax McCarty,
Speaker 2: Geo Savaresa, Miguel Gajardo and uh and.
Speaker 1: Uh Alonso and uh an Azzie Alonzo. So we know
Speaker 1: who's in.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I'm gonna go and ask someone who
Speaker 2: is a lot faster and knows where to look. It
Speaker 2: might be Jason when he pops by. Hey, you know,
Speaker 2: Bart done a lot of play by play this week.
Speaker 2: I had a point, folks, It's like you're doing it,
Speaker 2: and you're doing it, and you're doing it and you're
Speaker 2: doing it. So I think Callum Williams is calling the
Speaker 2: matchup for Atlanta United, Ricky. I think it's Callum Williams,
Speaker 2: And so, man, that is that is odd. Traditionally it's
Speaker 2: posted by Major League Soccer when it comes to who's
Speaker 2: who's doing what, and it's traditionally something that's released by communications.
Speaker 2: You have the graphic up for Major League Soccer. You
Speaker 2: got the Indiana Vassilev deal, And like I said, I'm
Speaker 2: sliding through and everything, but I can't but it doesn't.
Speaker 1: I they don't have it posted.
Speaker 3: That's just strange.
Speaker 1: Man, that's disappointed. That's disappointing. I think it's Callum. I
Speaker 1: think Callum.
Speaker 2: I think Callum Williams is doing play by play for
Speaker 2: uh Atlanta United this weekend.
Speaker 1: So let's let's check.
Speaker 2: Because Callum, by the way, was interviewed by Maddie and
Speaker 2: so you can catch up with that particular interview.
Speaker 1: On the network. So cal.
Speaker 2: Let's see play games this week. Okay, so Calum Callum doesn't.
Speaker 2: Callum doesn't list his call but I think call Like
Speaker 2: I said, I think it's Callum Williams that is calling
Speaker 2: the match for Atlanta United.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they usually do post. It's just odd. I'm
Speaker 1: just glad that I found the referee assignment. That's wild. Okay.
Speaker 2: Uh So if anybody finds it faster than I tried
Speaker 2: to look for it, then uh please post the link
Speaker 2: and we can all get informed together. All right, the
Speaker 2: matchups in depth, and like I said, we'll go through
Speaker 2: these and Jason comes in will get his thoughts. If
Speaker 2: you missed him last night on the six pack on
Speaker 2: the network, you can go back and catch it. We'll
Speaker 2: see if anything is changed from last night to this morning,
Speaker 2: LAFC and Minnesota, I would as a rule, any team
Speaker 2: that had to play in the CONCACAF Hemispheric Extravaganza, I
Speaker 2: would be wary of them this weekend, especially if they
Speaker 2: are a favorite, just because they had to play in
Speaker 2: the midweek and they're having to turn around LAFC less
Speaker 2: so than the folks that really had to go on
Speaker 2: the road, like FC Cincinnati had to go on the road.
Speaker 2: Seattle had to travel three thousand miles to get the Honduras.
Speaker 2: If you fly from Seattle's on pedro silo three fifty
Speaker 2: nine miles. See those kinds of things. So anybody that
Speaker 2: had to travel distance, anybody that had to deal with
Speaker 2: the elements, because we all know how old folks are
Speaker 2: first thing in the morning, especially when it's like nineteen
Speaker 2: degrees outside, bones are a little creaky, I will be
Speaker 2: I will be intrigued about rotation and how the rosters look.
Speaker 1: For the clubs that played in the midweek. How much
Speaker 1: rotation is there.
Speaker 2: How many minutes do folks get if they weren't rotated
Speaker 2: from starting eleven to starting eleven, And keep an eye
Speaker 2: on Like I said, keep an eye on the juice
Speaker 2: boxes in these matchups too.
Speaker 1: LAFC I mean a minus one twenty two.
Speaker 2: Minnesota United a tough team last season under Air Cramsey
Speaker 2: basically to plus three hundred heading to LAFC. Maybe look
Speaker 2: at that, Maybe look at that draw number at plus
Speaker 2: two eighty three as a baseline for what to expect. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Atlanta United a prohibited favorite minus one eighty two in
Speaker 2: the composite. See if MONTREALI plus four seventy six, crew
Speaker 2: and fire same thing. You know, you look at Crewe
Speaker 2: once again, they lose c ramon kuco.
Speaker 1: Who's going to do the.
Speaker 2: Scoring for them, especially early in the years they're trying
Speaker 2: to figure things out. Prohibitive favorite at a minus two hundred.
Speaker 2: But Chicago scores once maybe twice. Not plus four ninety
Speaker 2: one looks like a big number, especially the draw plus
Speaker 2: three forty eight. I think you could see teams that
Speaker 2: played in the midweek get results against them from the
Speaker 2: teams that come into town because of all the activity
Speaker 2: that they had to go through, all the flying, all
Speaker 2: the all the playing, all the miles, having to get
Speaker 2: back region, get the region the next day, maybe a
Speaker 2: day of prep and then bang match day. I gotta
Speaker 2: keep an eye on that stuff. DC and Toronto. I
Speaker 2: mean this as no real slight, but you've got to
Speaker 2: be a hardcore. If you're not, if you're not gonna
Speaker 2: watch your home team game. And traditionally what I will
Speaker 2: do on a on await days when I'm not at
Speaker 2: Mercedes been this all, watch MLS three sixty and Kevin
Speaker 2: and I'll text Kevin during the show, but I'll wait
Speaker 2: till commercial break. DC United at a minus one nineteen.
Speaker 2: I mean, is it probably just because Toronto may be
Speaker 2: worse or more schizophrenic? Toronto coming to town at a
Speaker 2: plus three oh five taking on DC United. If you
Speaker 2: have other matches to watch, I'd probably go watch those
Speaker 2: other matches. At seven forty, that one might be a
Speaker 2: bit of it might be a bit painful. Cincinnati and
Speaker 2: Red Bulls once again, this is another one of those matchups.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati a plus one oh two at TQL, but they
Speaker 2: had to play in the midweek. Yes, they got a
Speaker 2: comfortable win, but it's the travel and it's all these
Speaker 2: things that you have to do to go back. And
Speaker 2: it is a Red Bulls team with a healthy as
Speaker 2: of right now Emil Forsburg and they are far different
Speaker 2: as a healthy Red Bulls team than they are without
Speaker 2: Emil Forsburg. I think that you saw the difference in
Speaker 2: Red Bulls when Forstburg was a part of that lineup.
Speaker 1: And what you saw when he wasn't a part of
Speaker 1: the lineup. So that's uh. That to me.
Speaker 2: Is one of the big differences that's attached to this
Speaker 2: different different with Forstburg in the lineup. Cincinnati has Evander,
Speaker 2: but once again, you're just going to tell Evander match
Speaker 2: week one if you're Pat Noon and Yeguaton run. We'll
Speaker 2: get it all figured out as we go, especially with
Speaker 2: only a couple of days in between matches one in
Speaker 2: Conka calf and then getting everybody back for Major League Soccer.
Speaker 2: I think, once again, as we look at these things,
Speaker 2: red Bulls at a plus two fifty could go to
Speaker 2: Cincinnati and get a result. Draw is a higher number
Speaker 2: than a win, not by much, but still is. I
Speaker 2: think you could end up with a win or a
Speaker 2: result at the very least if your Red Bulls going
Speaker 2: into Cincinnati. Because of the midweek. It's like I say,
Speaker 2: keep an eye on those kinds of things as we
Speaker 2: go here. Messi and friends in NYC. Obviously Messi and
Speaker 2: Friends that the director said a big favor and NYC
Speaker 2: could be losing. Santi Rodriguez, I wonder once again where
Speaker 2: the goals are going to get scored from. So Messi
Speaker 2: and Friends could rotate to what extent you don't.
Speaker 1: Know, but what I will let me. I want to
Speaker 1: do something really quickly here. I want to look.
Speaker 2: At the minutes that were played in a cold night
Speaker 2: in Kansas City. I want I want to look at them.
Speaker 2: I want to look at the minutes that were played
Speaker 2: by the starting lineup in in that in that rundown.
Speaker 2: So I see a bunch of like I need I
Speaker 2: just need the I just need the layout. How many
Speaker 2: minutes come on? So fine, we'll go to sofa score.
Speaker 2: It's like you see game reports. It's like not you know,
Speaker 2: I want a box score. It's like the last page
Speaker 2: of the last page of the freaking newspaper, like we
Speaker 2: were talking about with Glenn Davis yesterday.
Speaker 1: Okay, so lineups, your lineup, your starters. By the way, for.
Speaker 2: Messi and Friends in this matchup, it was Oscar Ustarian
Speaker 2: net back for Noah Allen, Gonzalo Luhan, Thomas Avulis and
Speaker 2: cell Awaygan midfield, Segovia bisquits, Redondo, Allende and your two fords,
Speaker 2: and Messi, so No and the Fafapico came in with
Speaker 2: a cup of coffee. Kroumowski came in for a cup
Speaker 2: of coffee. Robert Taylor came in at the end. You
Speaker 2: did not see Ryan Sailor, Max Falcone, Ian Fraid, David Ruiz,
Speaker 2: Sante Morales, Julian gressel Leo, Alfonso so Leo, Messi in
Speaker 2: his and he played the full thing. So Messi played
Speaker 2: the full ninety before he gave the the center f
Speaker 2: off the field, before he gave the jersey in Conka CAF.
Speaker 2: Apparently his reprimanded, said referee. Luis Suarez played eighty nine
Speaker 2: minutes before he was pulled. The younger players like today,
Speaker 2: Oiende played seventy three, Redondo played the full ninety. Busschetz
Speaker 2: played the full ninety. Segovia played seventy nine. So Telasco
Speaker 2: Segovie in his first match, played seventy nine minutes. Noah
Speaker 2: Allen played the full ninety, lou Han played the full ninety,
Speaker 2: Ovelus played the full ninety. Cell Awaygant played the full ninety,
Speaker 2: and obviously oscrew sorry played the full ninety So you
Speaker 2: have a lot of folks in this matchup for Messi
Speaker 2: and Friends against Sporting who played the full ninety minutes.
Speaker 2: How many of those folks do you see in this matchup?
Speaker 2: And once again, and the folks that did not play
Speaker 2: or only had a couple of minutes. Pico at seventeen,
Speaker 2: Kroumowski had eleven, Taylor had a cup of coffee, Sailor Falcone, Frey,
Speaker 2: Ruiz Morales, Gressel Alfonso. That was the roster that saw
Speaker 2: either a few minutes or no minutes. There's also no
Speaker 2: mention to Jordi Alba there either. So Messi and Friends rotated,
Speaker 2: probably to what extent. You're probably gonna have Messi and
Speaker 2: Suarez in the starting day eighteen matched eighteen, Probably not
Speaker 2: going to start. How many of the younguns go back
Speaker 2: to back because you still have to focus on the
Speaker 2: return fixture because you're only up though you're only up
Speaker 2: that margin that you're up, so you've got to find
Speaker 2: a way to lock it down. And the key is
Speaker 2: do you want Messi and Suarez and the big guns
Speaker 2: of the Gulfstream galacticas you need them for leg two?
Speaker 2: So probably match day eighteen not starting. I will be
Speaker 2: intrigued what Javier Mascherano does in this matchup.
Speaker 1: Do I think that? Uh? Do I think NYC can
Speaker 1: get a result. I still think that.
Speaker 2: Somewhere, somehow Messi and Suarez coming with twenty or thirty
Speaker 2: to go, they get a goal to get the win.
Speaker 2: Purple Team in Philadelphia, Purple team and Philly, you know, Philly.
Speaker 2: Once again, you wonder where the goals are going to
Speaker 2: come from Orlando at home, you know, you have some
Speaker 2: folks that are away from the twenty four roster. I
Speaker 2: wonder what Bradley Carnell's approach is going to be here
Speaker 2: in match week one. And what I mean by that
Speaker 2: is is he going to be more red Bullseyan? Is
Speaker 2: he going to be Saint Louisy? What's it going to
Speaker 2: look like? What's it going to look like with with
Speaker 2: Bradley Carnell on the touch line?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Is it going to be very pressy with some older individuals?
Speaker 2: Do you and if you're going to press and do
Speaker 2: things a red bullsy in way late in the first half,
Speaker 2: late in the game, would be the chances for Orlando
Speaker 2: to score goals against that defense that will have exhausted
Speaker 2: itself in those forty five minute periods. I think Orlando
Speaker 2: gets it done. Probably not the shiniest game on the board,
Speaker 2: maybe a one goal game, maybe one nil something like that.
Speaker 2: Austin and Sporting Kansas City once again Sporting.
Speaker 1: You look at what they did.
Speaker 2: And Peter Vermese, his lineup was a pulse camp in
Speaker 2: net back for Libold, Voladaire Valencia, Davis in front of them,
Speaker 2: Tommy Rodriguez, Bartlett, Rodoja and Shallowy and Dejon Joviolch up top.
Speaker 2: Dejon Jovolch played sixty two minutes. Eric Tommy played the
Speaker 2: full ninety, Shallowy played eighty three minutes. And your back line,
Speaker 2: just so you know, Jacob Davis played the full ninety.
Speaker 2: Valencia played a half and was subbed out after forty five.
Speaker 2: Left hand side Voldair played the full ninety, and lie
Speaker 2: Bold Tim Leibold played sixty two minutes before being subbed off. Joking,
Speaker 2: Fernandez was the one that came on at the half
Speaker 2: of Valin. Logan and Dembay played thirty minu Garcia played thirty,
Speaker 2: Willia Gatta played thirty. Steven Afrifa played a handful on
Speaker 2: the bench that did not play. Ian James Orhanda, Song, Jansen, Miller, Maga,
Speaker 2: matsulamanoff Elonis Fargus and Mason Toy. So that's what Sporting
Speaker 2: is looking at coming into this matchup. But once again
Speaker 2: Sporting on the road at Austin. Austin is a minus
Speaker 2: one twenty five. Might I want to see what the
Speaker 2: lineup looks like once again having to look for leg two?
Speaker 2: How do you juggle this one? And being a plus
Speaker 2: three zero nine not really a surprise. Houston and Dallas.
Speaker 2: Houston favored of a minus one eleven. Like I said,
Speaker 2: we talked to Glenn Davis and got everything about all
Speaker 2: that firepower that was there, and that's all the changes.
Speaker 2: No kataskiya, noachiach. But you have folks coming in, Jack McGlenn.
Speaker 2: What does Houston look like? What does Dallas look like?
Speaker 2: Is they try to get acclimated with a Costa and
Speaker 2: Musa up top in the attack. Plus three zero one
Speaker 2: for Dallas and Houston. By the way, four other matchups
Speaker 2: that we may get into Nashville and the revs All
Speaker 2: Caps in Colorado, San Jose, RSL, Seattle Charlotte, and then
Speaker 2: the two games on Sunday Portland Vancouver and LAG and
Speaker 2: San Diego. So it's time for while Jared Smith, welcome aboard.
Speaker 3: How are you surviving? Yeah, yeah, yeah, man surviving. That's
Speaker 3: why it's like, that's the baseline today. Okay, we met John.
Speaker 3: As we have said before, we are all day to day, Yes,
Speaker 3: aren't we all?
Speaker 1: Yes? If Jared' day to day, aren't we all?
Speaker 2: As we get into I was running through all the
Speaker 2: matchups and just going through what to keep an eye
Speaker 2: on in these particular things. One of the Bellweather things
Speaker 2: that I have as a marker. As we were going
Speaker 2: through juice boxes and matchups and results, the teams that
Speaker 2: played in the midweek in Conka Calf, who still are
Speaker 2: chasing results coming up the middle of next week, and
Speaker 2: what the lineups look like from the folks that traveled
Speaker 2: and played in conca Caff midweek because Cincinnati traveled forever,
Speaker 2: Seattle traveled forever, but they go home. Keep an eye
Speaker 2: on the clubs that had to play in concor Caff
Speaker 2: in the midweek, even though they may very well be
Speaker 2: favored going into the matchups this weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's something we always have to contend with.
Speaker 3: I think at the start of the season is when
Speaker 3: we get Conca CAFF Champions Cup and then inevitably you
Speaker 3: get like Vancouver had to play some poissa. I think, uh,
Speaker 3: Cincinnati was a Matagua.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this week Seattle at Antigua.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a lot of travel. Yeah, it's uh,
Speaker 3: it's tough, man, it's tough to deal with.
Speaker 2: Yes, And so you know, looking at all of these things,
Speaker 2: there are some numbers of these teams that played in
Speaker 2: Conca calf in the midweek and the Red Bulls game.
Speaker 2: Red Bulls Cincinnati specifically, for me, was one that I
Speaker 2: was looking at because Red Bulls Road or a plus
Speaker 2: two fifty and so, I mean it was intriguing to
Speaker 2: see these kinds of numbers. And so bart Is bart
Speaker 2: is charging in here.
Speaker 1: Well, hi, bart.
Speaker 4: John, that's the day before the season. I'm excited, and
Speaker 4: I'm still.
Speaker 3: Looking at everybody's cashing in ticket, cashing in money in
Speaker 3: the bank left and right.
Speaker 1: But that's what I wanted, you know, I got I
Speaker 1: got off the email.
Speaker 4: I need to get off this morning and sit on
Speaker 4: I'm afraid to talk.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I had to do actual work. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so I'm still looking for the piano to put
Speaker 2: my arm on. This time of the week, but the
Speaker 2: piano's not here, so it's like, you know, there's air,
Speaker 2: that's all I'm grabbing into. So, I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: looking at things in looking at things in general. Bart,
Speaker 2: we were talking about the CONCA CAF teams playing in
Speaker 2: the midweek and some chances for folks to get results
Speaker 2: that they may not necessarily even than you look at jothboxes,
Speaker 2: it's a big number. Minnesota is a big number on
Speaker 2: the road with LAFC. Red Bulls are a big number.
Speaker 2: That's the one that I'm really circling. Red Bulls with
Speaker 2: a big number at a plus two fifty going to Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Uh, look at the Concreict same.
Speaker 4: High period, because I think people are forgetting that Red
Speaker 4: Bulls were in the MLS Cup final last year. And yeah,
Speaker 4: so I'm with you that that's the one that I've
Speaker 4: been looking at all week going. While Cincinnati is my
Speaker 4: favorite for the Eastern Conference, that's a tough start for them.
Speaker 1: M Yeah, so I am.
Speaker 2: I am intrigued with with all of these matchups. There
Speaker 2: are a couple of matchups that I'm sure that folks
Speaker 2: outside of those two particular teams are sitting there going
Speaker 2: ain't no way, and one of those ain't no ways
Speaker 2: is probably Jarrett DC in Toronto, where it's like, basically.
Speaker 3: This is this is this is the game you watch
Speaker 3: because you have an addiction. This is like in a movie.
Speaker 3: This is where you would have that epiphany of oh
Speaker 3: my god, I need help.
Speaker 1: I have a problem.
Speaker 3: Unless you are in the DC area or you are
Speaker 3: of a Southern Ontario persuasion in your life and you
Speaker 3: have an emotional investment in either one of these clubs,
Speaker 3: I cannot recommend or sanction watching this game unless you
Speaker 3: are applying to be one of the siccos.
Speaker 2: So basically what you're saying is you're neither condoning nor
Speaker 2: endorsing that kind of behavior unless you really are a sicko.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like an application for him to become one
Speaker 3: is to watch either one of these teams. And I
Speaker 3: stand by like still not sure if Robin Frasier is
Speaker 3: a really good coach or not. And I'm not sure
Speaker 3: will know after Toronto stint either because what he's going
Speaker 3: to have to work with. Man, it's like it's like
Speaker 3: having someone go coach per day would be like are
Speaker 3: they good? I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's Purdue, uh so uh, Jared, Well, I think well,
Speaker 2: I thought that Jared was gonna go take care of
Speaker 2: that large dog that was in the background.
Speaker 1: Well, put the dog on camera. I think he hit
Speaker 1: the wrong button, is what happened?
Speaker 4: Put the dog on camera?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that. Literally, I think that Jared hit
Speaker 2: the wrong button. So did you hit the wrong button, sir?
Speaker 2: I guess he did, because he dumped out again he did.
Speaker 2: Unless well, I think what might be happening is, uh,
Speaker 2: are you having audio, sir? Like I bring him in
Speaker 2: and then he dumps out, you know, So I don't
Speaker 2: know what I think Jared is. I think Jared is
Speaker 2: fighting with that dog that we heard in the background.
Speaker 3: Right, No, it's it's it's like Big MLS kicking me
Speaker 3: out for for trash talking to of its clubs.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you competiably trash talk Nashville and New
Speaker 1: England too.
Speaker 4: I could trash talk Na.
Speaker 3: Well, actually the other parts here. I have to ask
Speaker 3: him if he saw the thing where like Rascal Flats
Speaker 3: tried to sing Sweet Caroline in West Virginia and yeah,
Speaker 3: and they and John I don't know if you saw this,
Speaker 3: they did the Sweet Caroline instead of bob Ba.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: The fans uh shouted, eat blank pit the usual wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's our normal thing that we did.
Speaker 3: That's a standard reaction. This is not a surprise wow.
Speaker 1: But uh, I mean uh yeah.
Speaker 2: For the record, By the way, nachel has signed their
Speaker 2: first round draft pick, whitet Meyer. That is that release
Speaker 2: has come out this morning. The other late games Saint
Speaker 2: Louis City and Colorado San Jose at a plus one
Speaker 2: twenty four hosting RSL. I still think we ought to
Speaker 2: have a hard knock or at least an on side
Speaker 2: in its entirety with San Jose this season.
Speaker 1: Correct, Yeah, gotta have the Seattle.
Speaker 2: Seattle having to travel of six thousand, one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighteen miles back and forth from the airport in San Pedro.
Speaker 2: Sula gets Charlotte that a minus one twenty seven, Charlotte
Speaker 2: plus three fifty, and then we have Cascadia and Portland
Speaker 2: and Vancouver lag in San Diego's the late game on Sunday.
Speaker 2: I look at it. So, Bart, let me ask you
Speaker 2: about San Diego. This is this is where you put
Speaker 2: on your pundit hat. Now I know you're wearing your
Speaker 2: Land United shirt, but you need to put on your
Speaker 2: pundit hat. As you sit from your Atlanta Nied coffee mug,
Speaker 2: when you look at San Diego, Yes there's Chuki Lozano,
Speaker 2: Yes there's Luca Dellatore. What did you see in San
Speaker 2: Diego this year in their in their build up to
Speaker 2: year number one under a MLS's umbrella.
Speaker 4: Well, I think, first off, we need to start with
Speaker 4: what they're produce, what they're giving us as a look
Speaker 4: with their uniforms, which is bland, bland, bland, and I'm
Speaker 4: afraid that is going to transfer to the field because yes,
Speaker 4: you got Chuki, I'm not sure Luca Delatoria will be
Speaker 4: a very good MLS midfielder. I don't think that's like
Speaker 4: a hot take. But I don't really think there's anyone
Speaker 4: else on this roster that is going to help them
Speaker 4: become anything more than an expansion team that doesn't make
Speaker 4: the playoffs. I do not see a playoff path.
Speaker 1: For them this year.
Speaker 4: But that said, it does seem like they are focusing
Speaker 4: on a long term plan. Now that may seem okay
Speaker 4: in some respects, but I think what we we Atlanta United,
Speaker 4: has uh, what we have have told the league is
Speaker 4: you don't need to be patient as an expansion team,
Speaker 4: and you kind of do need to come in guns blazing,
Speaker 4: and I'm afraid they haven't captured that. I don't think,
Speaker 4: you know, a Mexican international player is going to be
Speaker 4: the ticket to their success in the sands or on
Speaker 4: the field. I just I don't think he's good enough
Speaker 4: to just bring that to them. And so for if
Speaker 4: I'm a San Diego fan, I'm worried. If I'm a
Speaker 4: team who has to play San Diego, I'm happy because
Speaker 4: I just I'm telling you, I think it's just going
Speaker 4: to be bland. It's just that's what they're giving from
Speaker 4: a uniform standpoint, and that's what I feel like they're
Speaker 4: going to be giving on the field too.
Speaker 2: Jason drops in for the final twenty plus or until
Speaker 2: uh we send him fleeing into the night. From all
Speaker 2: the topics and conversation that we have.
Speaker 3: Is eight of them more night?
Speaker 1: John's out of control? All righty are you?
Speaker 3: Are you at the Bodo Glimpse game of the Arctic Circle?
Speaker 3: See now that it might be night?
Speaker 1: That was?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: It might well? Yeah for like days on end.
Speaker 2: Uh, Jason, I don't know to what extent you got
Speaker 2: into this discussion with Maddie last night on six Pack,
Speaker 2: But Sunday Night soccer is going to be unveiled on
Speaker 2: Apple TV and it's La Galaxy in San Diego. It's
Speaker 2: the beginning of everything in San Diego FC. And I
Speaker 2: know that the interview that Maddy did with Dax McCarty,
Speaker 2: Dax wasn't really all that about what San Diego tried
Speaker 2: to do to come out of the field here and
Speaker 2: you're thirty of MLS.
Speaker 7: I'm not either. They're just not well constructed. I do
Speaker 7: like the Chucky Lizano signing. I think he's a very
Speaker 7: good player. He'll sell shirts, He'll he'll sell tickets. He's
Speaker 7: like I get it from that perspective, and sometimes you
Speaker 7: need those signings. Not every club has the fan base
Speaker 7: that Atlanta United does, where you could sign, you know,
Speaker 7: straight out of the gate, a Tito Vijalba, a Miguel
Speaker 7: al Moron who nobody knew at the time, and at
Speaker 7: Joseph Martinez that nobody knew at the time, and you
Speaker 7: could make them stars because you had a fan base
Speaker 7: that could do that. Some markets don't have that, And
Speaker 7: when you're in San Diego and you have to compete
Speaker 7: with Sholos right across the border. You got to capture
Speaker 7: people's attention, and I'm good with that. My issue is
Speaker 7: what's the rest of the team. Like Chucky can't play
Speaker 7: five per They have not built that roster well. And
Speaker 7: what's frustrating is to varying degrees. You know, Atlanta United,
Speaker 7: LAFC came out of the gates and were very good
Speaker 7: straight away. Nashville has been competitive, even if disappointing at times.
Speaker 7: Charlotte has been competitive, even if disappointing at times. Minnesota
Speaker 7: took them forever, but they finally figured it out.
Speaker 1: Good on them.
Speaker 7: It's you don't Austin was good for a minute and
Speaker 7: the bad. Saint Louis was good for a minute and
Speaker 7: then bad. Like you don't have to come in and
Speaker 7: do the old school nineteen eighties expansion team in a
Speaker 7: league and say we're not going to be good for
Speaker 7: five years. That doesn't exist in MLS. With all the
Speaker 7: allocation money and things you get to build a team.
Speaker 7: There's not really an excuse, and it's very frustrating for
Speaker 7: a team that has huge ambition and a team that's
Speaker 7: going to develop a lot of talent. The right to
Speaker 7: dream connection is going to be huge for them. Why
Speaker 7: did they not go out and build a better roster
Speaker 7: for Mike e Varis in year one? It doesn't make
Speaker 7: sense unless they just literally missed on a whole bunch
Speaker 7: of possible additions that they couldn't get over the line.
Speaker 7: It's really disappointing for a team that I think will
Speaker 7: be a big one in MLS, but not in twenty
Speaker 7: twenty five.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into the discussion about it. Landy United.
Speaker 2: Jarrett, your first question for Jason here on a pre
Speaker 2: match day match week one here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sure, So we know Joseph Martinez has gone, Roncutoy is
Speaker 3: going into another year of Montreal and Jason, we've talked
Speaker 3: about this that God only knows when Joey Supputo runs
Speaker 3: a club what the timeline looks like. But what does
Speaker 3: the attack look like from Montreal? That would concern you.
Speaker 7: Caden Clark and Bryce Duke. I really like the dual
Speaker 7: Tends the way that they play. It's a unique kind
Speaker 7: of system that you don't get to prepare for very
Speaker 7: often the three four three, but it's more of like
Speaker 7: a three two wing backs, a box and ann and
Speaker 7: that's not always the way a three four to three
Speaker 7: plays out, So you're gonna have to deal with where
Speaker 7: Clark and Duke are in dangerous spots. They pressed well.
Speaker 7: This is a team that will take a lot of chances,
Speaker 7: especially in this one, because I think they're gonna be
Speaker 7: a little depleted with injury. Jayalen Neil a question mark.
Speaker 7: JACOMOVRIONI who will be up top A question mark. A
Speaker 7: lot of questions about Montreal. And while I think Laurent
Speaker 7: Courtois is a very good manager, I really like the
Speaker 7: aggressiveness that he brings the team with. I like that
Speaker 7: they're bold. I like that he it doesn't play in
Speaker 7: any way scared, even though he's got less talent than
Speaker 7: a lot of teams. You can only do so much,
Speaker 7: and I think in a game like this one for Montreal,
Speaker 7: Clark and Duke are gonna have to be outstanding. You're
Speaker 7: gonna have to cause turnovers. You're gonna have to win
Speaker 7: the ball high up the field and get in behind immediately.
Speaker 7: If you're Montreal, I think they could do that once
Speaker 7: or twice. I don't think they can do that enough.
Speaker 7: And then the flip side is defensively, especially if they
Speaker 7: don't have Jalen Neil. George Campbell is poised for a
Speaker 7: big year with Montreal. He's gotten into the national team picture.
Speaker 7: There's a lot of openings at center back. So if
Speaker 7: George Campbell can have a big eighteen months here, don't
Speaker 7: be surprised. Don't be surprised. I said it a long
Speaker 7: time ago about George Campbell as a possible US men's
Speaker 7: national team player. The move to Montreal was a good
Speaker 7: one for him. He's gotten a lot of playing time.
Speaker 7: He's a very very good player. He's one of three
Speaker 7: center backs. Joel Waterman very very solid. He's two of
Speaker 7: three center backs. Here's the other one going to be
Speaker 7: if Neil can't go. The wingbacks I do like in
Speaker 7: Pierce and Marshall Ruddy. I think central midfield. Saliba is
Speaker 7: one of the more underrated players in the league. Samuel
Speaker 7: piet very solid, also a few years older than he
Speaker 7: used to be. You can get at him, you can
Speaker 7: get in behind him. Can he run with Saba? Can
Speaker 7: he run with Miguel al Maron? Can he defend Alexei Moranchuk.
Speaker 7: I think it's going to be a wide open game.
Speaker 7: What scares me is Duke and Clark in wide open moments.
Speaker 7: What excites me on the Atlanta side is Montreal not
Speaker 7: being able to run consistently in those wide open moments.
Speaker 7: The other way, it could be a lot of back
Speaker 7: and forth.
Speaker 1: Bart Keeler, your question for Jason involving on the field
Speaker 1: with Atlanta and CF Montreal.
Speaker 4: You did touch on the massive US men's national team
Speaker 4: rooting interest for Montreal, but outside of that, I do
Speaker 4: have to question what the point of.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 4: Seems like a youth movement, but not a real like
Speaker 4: we're going full into the youth movement, if that makes
Speaker 4: any sense. When you look at the Montreal team with
Speaker 4: what feels like a lack of experience, especially in MLS,
Speaker 4: where are they going to be able to navigate or
Speaker 4: how are they going to be able to navigate this
Speaker 4: MLS season, specifically starting with I've re energized Atlanta team,
Speaker 4: fan base and a whole bunch of people in STI
Speaker 4: out of a dome that's going to be real out.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I think for them it's down to the way
Speaker 7: that they play. That's how they're going to have to
Speaker 7: bridge the gap of talent and experience. I think they're
Speaker 7: decent in experience. I mean, Duke and Clark are young guys,
Speaker 7: but they've they've got enough they should be Okay.
Speaker 1: Campbell's passed it at that point.
Speaker 7: I think he's a veteran guy in MLS with the
Speaker 7: amount of games he's gotten. Waterman and Pied are both
Speaker 7: very good. Saliba's still on the rise but getting it's
Speaker 7: kind of in that Duke and Clark.
Speaker 1: I feel like where they are. It's not so much
Speaker 1: that they have no experience.
Speaker 7: It's that you have Duke, Clark, Saliba, but Marshall Ruddy
Speaker 7: into this as well as the right wing backs. I
Speaker 7: think Campbell's passed it. But those four you're in that
Speaker 7: you've got enough games now to be a regular Rock,
Speaker 7: are you? And that's a valid question. I think with
Speaker 7: all four of those guys. I'm really high on Bryce Duke.
Speaker 7: I always have been. I think he's a very very
Speaker 7: good player. Can he take that jump to being in
Speaker 7: the Georgia Mihailovitch kind of class because he's got the ability.
Speaker 1: Payton Park same thing, he's got the ability. Can he
Speaker 1: be that guy? That's the next step for those guys.
Speaker 7: But the way that they bridge the gap of just
Speaker 7: not having as much they're gonna have to be extremely aggressive.
Speaker 7: They're gonna have to be extremely high risk taking. They're
Speaker 7: gonna have to play high up the field. They're gonna
Speaker 7: have to try to turn you over, and they're gonna
Speaker 7: get exposed.
Speaker 1: Sometimes.
Speaker 7: I feel like they're a team that could win some
Speaker 7: games that shock everybody three nil, and they're gonna have
Speaker 7: some bad losses where they lose five nil. Like I
Speaker 7: really think it's gonna be all or nothing kind of stuff.
Speaker 7: And if you're ready for that, if you're Joey Supputo
Speaker 7: and you're you're strapped in and ready to go okay cool,
Speaker 7: if you start to get antsy about some bad losses,
Speaker 7: then you're gonna pull the plug sooner than you should.
Speaker 7: If you have an issue with that. Give Laurent courtois
Speaker 7: more talent, he doesn't have enough, so he's got to
Speaker 7: find a way to take some chances to bridge that gap.
Speaker 2: Jareded for Jason at Landy United see Montreal coming up
Speaker 2: tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: So we talked about how they get forward, you know,
Speaker 3: how they can cause problems for you. So how do
Speaker 3: you manage this? If you're Atlanta, Let's say you are
Speaker 3: up of this game and you know the game kind
Speaker 3: of hits a little bit of a lull where you're
Speaker 3: allowing Montreal to have a little bit of the ball
Speaker 3: while not necessarily control of the game. How do you
Speaker 3: manage those lulls in the game differently than you did
Speaker 3: a year ago.
Speaker 7: You get behind the ball in moments where you have
Speaker 7: to and then you break out with pace, which you
Speaker 7: didn't have as much of last year. I think you
Speaker 7: know the way Rob Valentino had to play it down
Speaker 7: the stretch last year without a nine that was at
Speaker 7: starting level, without Latte lot, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jamaltira played very well. I think Daniel Rios
Speaker 1: played well.
Speaker 7: You got what you could get out of guys who
Speaker 7: were twos and threes on the depth chart, they weren't one.
Speaker 7: You got a one now and you got a star one,
Speaker 7: and you got a star one on the wing and
Speaker 7: I think Saba it's turned into that as well. So
Speaker 7: now you've got the ability when needed and I don't
Speaker 7: think it's Plan A, don't think it's Plan B, but
Speaker 7: when needed, and a team is having those moments where
Speaker 7: they've got the ball and they're knocking it around and okay,
Speaker 7: get behind the ball a little bit. You're in a
Speaker 7: four two three one, so you can drop six deep easily.
Speaker 7: Saba and Al Maroon are gonna defend, so it can
Speaker 7: turn into a four to four to one one. When
Speaker 7: it needs to get behind the ball, win it back.
Speaker 7: And when you do in those moments to change the momentum,
Speaker 7: look for the quick ball over the top. You know,
Speaker 7: it's It's not something that this team is going to
Speaker 7: do all the time. I think there's so much conversation
Speaker 7: about like what Ronnie Dilo wants to do, and some
Speaker 7: of the things he said that I think are really
Speaker 7: getting twisted into like their own National Inquirer magazines at
Speaker 7: this point about being bored in a first preseason game
Speaker 7: about passing backwards. They're going to have to pass backwards occasionally.
Speaker 7: I do think they will look to get four faster
Speaker 7: than previous Atlanta United teams.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 1: But you're not gonna be reckless.
Speaker 7: You're not gonna tell, you know, Ronald Hernandez, Matt Edwards,
Speaker 7: Noah Cobb, Stean gregorson, Derek Williams, Luisa Brom You're not
Speaker 7: gonna say, don't pass backwards ever, just bombing. No, this
Speaker 7: isn't nineteen eighty four, you know, Camden FC. Okay, this
Speaker 7: is gonna be still based on creating good opportunities and
Speaker 7: getting guys forward in organized ways. You're gonna have that
Speaker 7: ability this time though, when you get your head up
Speaker 7: and you see Al Maroon in the starter's blocks on
Speaker 7: the right side of the field, and you see Latte
Speaker 7: lat crouched ready to sprint in the middle of the field,
Speaker 7: you're gonna have those abilities early in a game where
Speaker 7: teams are kind of getting at you a little bit,
Speaker 7: keeping the ball, maybe frustrating you a bit, You're gonna
Speaker 7: have that ability to hit one long ball and have
Speaker 7: those guys take off out of it cannon, and then
Speaker 7: the other team says, oh crap, we got to deal
Speaker 7: with that, and then they start to have to change
Speaker 7: and they're gonna have to drop off more and they're
Speaker 7: not gonna be able to be as aggressive. Then that
Speaker 7: creates space for you to play in. I want to
Speaker 7: see if Atlanta does that from time to time this season,
Speaker 7: where you need to change the momentum, you need to
Speaker 7: throw a sucker punch at the opponent. Yeah, hit a
Speaker 7: fifty to fifty long ball, let me go, all go Chase,
Speaker 7: let''t say a lot to go chase. They don't get it,
Speaker 7: that's fine. You can then press, but also you put
Speaker 7: you plant that seed any other teams like, hey, I
Speaker 7: can't play a high line. Hey that guy can run
Speaker 7: past me in twenty yards.
Speaker 1: I can't do that.
Speaker 7: Now you start to scare them. Now you start to
Speaker 7: then they drop off. You try to get in behind,
Speaker 7: but they drop off. You have space for Miranshuk, you
Speaker 7: have space for Click, you have space for Saba coming inside.
Speaker 1: You have a lot more space to work in. But
Speaker 1: you have to do that to create it.
Speaker 2: Jared Smith, myself and Mark Keeler Soccer for USPOD catching
Speaker 2: up with Jason. Here's to get ready for a Land
Speaker 2: United and to see if Montreal seven forty. I think
Speaker 2: they're still taking the tenth minute in the pregame on
Speaker 2: Apple TV. Who's calling the game on Apple TV by
Speaker 2: the way, it is Callum Williams and Kayln Carr. We
Speaker 2: have a one v one with Callum on the network
Speaker 2: as of now. Madison Crease caught up with Callum yesterday.
Speaker 2: Talked a lot about the game obviously, but talked a
Speaker 2: lot about MLS Season thirty as well.
Speaker 1: So Bart Keeler Soccer for us POD your next question
Speaker 1: for Jason. As we preview, so we.
Speaker 4: Talked about youth movement with Montreal and they do have
Speaker 4: a lot of young national team. It feels like with
Speaker 4: that landing United, our young guys are going to struggle
Speaker 4: to find a way into the starting lineup, let alone
Speaker 4: fine minutes. You know, while I think most people will
Speaker 4: look at that as a negative, what are the positives
Speaker 4: of you know, still providing our youth players, maybe outside
Speaker 4: of Noah Caaba Efri and Morales, but like they're not
Speaker 4: expected to cut hopefully hopefully hopefully.
Speaker 1: This year.
Speaker 4: They're not expected to come in and have to be
Speaker 4: key contributors like we've had to use them in years past.
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously this is let's have no injuries, but
Speaker 4: you know, it does feel like we're not relying on
Speaker 4: a U twenty two guy this year like we have
Speaker 4: to we have had to in the past. How does
Speaker 4: that help with this team?
Speaker 7: Well, I mean you kind of express the conundrum in
Speaker 7: the question, like you can't I feel like some of
Speaker 7: the conversation at times around the city you can't have
Speaker 7: your cake and eat it too, you know, like you
Speaker 7: want to develop young players absolutely, and they need to
Speaker 7: play to do that. But you can't sign the best
Speaker 7: players in the world if you're gonna play kids, if
Speaker 7: you'm your academy in those spots, you know, like like
Speaker 7: Luke Brendan's a prime example. I think Luke Brendan's a
Speaker 7: very talented player. I think he still has to produce
Speaker 7: more in the final third. That's the step for him.
Speaker 7: And you know, now's the time. But who's going to
Speaker 7: win you more games right now in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 7: Luke Brennan or Miguel Almerome Like, It's it's not a conversation,
Speaker 7: you know, an academy forward or lat Day Lot Like,
Speaker 7: that's the reality of wanting to be a big club.
Speaker 7: So you can't you can't do both in the same
Speaker 7: way all the time. It's impossible Montreal is gonna play
Speaker 7: younger players because they don't have al Mirom, they don't
Speaker 7: have Latte Lot, they don't have those guys. They're not
Speaker 7: spending on those guys. Colorado makes decisions in the same
Speaker 7: way Dallas has made decisions historically, in the same way
Speaker 7: Philadelphia has made decisions in the same way. You you
Speaker 7: can develop young players in this model as well, and
Speaker 7: we've seen it in Atlanta Look. Injuries happen, guys breakthrough.
Speaker 7: Bellow Wiley Chonqui's coming, you know, don't know when he's
Speaker 7: gonna get time. He's gonna be on a first team
Speaker 7: deal next year. Those young guys have to push. And
Speaker 7: I mean, I think we have this conversation honestly in
Speaker 7: any field, any any job that we do. It's this
Speaker 7: balancing act of developing talent while retaining really good talent.
Speaker 7: It's this balancing act of that really good talent wanting
Speaker 7: a pay raise, wanting more money, and you either pay
Speaker 7: them or you don't because you're giving an opportunity to
Speaker 7: somebody younger who's going to be cheaper. You have these
Speaker 7: conversations every day in every walk of life. So Atlanta
Speaker 7: United this year, and this has been, in my opinion,
Speaker 7: the feeling from the fan base for a few years.
Speaker 7: They want to win, Okay, you want to win. Who
Speaker 7: gives you a better chance of winning in the starting
Speaker 7: lineup on opening day? Someone who has scored double digit
Speaker 7: goals in three different seasons, two of them in English Championship.
Speaker 7: Somebody's got two hundred and twenty games in the Premier
Speaker 7: League with Newcastle, who's coming back to you somebody like
Speaker 7: matash Klik, who has fifty sixty caps with the Polish
Speaker 7: national team, a whole bunch of games in the Premier
Speaker 7: League and the Championship. Who is gonna give you a
Speaker 7: better chance on paper those guys or young guys from
Speaker 7: your academy. I think, if you know me and you
Speaker 7: know what we've done on SDCH over the years, you
Speaker 7: know how much I believe in the talent coming out
Speaker 7: of this academy, how important I believe that is. But
Speaker 7: if the demand is win now, you got to play
Speaker 7: guys that have been there and done that, and that's
Speaker 7: where Atlanta United is right now. But when that door opens,
Speaker 7: and it will, somebody's gonna pull a hamstring, somebody's gonna
Speaker 7: have an injury, hopefully all minor stuff. It's just it's life.
Speaker 7: You're not gonna have the starting lineup play all thirty
Speaker 7: four games. Impossible, You're not gonna start that way already,
Speaker 7: like it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So you have to deal with that.
Speaker 7: And that means Dominic chon Que maybe it left back.
Speaker 7: He's gonna get some time Jay Fortune last year. Look,
Speaker 7: he's a starting level player. He might not start as
Speaker 7: much this year, but he showed last year he can
Speaker 7: be that. Noah Cops showed he can be that. Maybe
Speaker 7: he's the third guy. Maybe he's the fourth guy center back.
Speaker 7: If Ryan Morales is his time, he's done everything he
Speaker 7: can with the time that he's gotten. Luke Brennan same thing. Like,
Speaker 7: these are all guys who have good ability, who have
Speaker 7: done as well as you can do so far. And
Speaker 7: George Campbell's the prime example. If you're Atlanta and you
Speaker 7: want to win now, you might have to go get
Speaker 7: somebody who's further along in their development. That means your
Speaker 7: young guy might get to a point and then they
Speaker 7: might be worth nine hundred thousand dollars in allocation money
Speaker 7: and go to another spot that is good for them
Speaker 7: and good for you in the return that you're getting.
Speaker 7: You know, that's the reality. You can't play more than
Speaker 7: eleven guys, and if you want to win now, you
Speaker 7: got to play guys with more experience to give you
Speaker 7: a better chance.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 7: If your long term and your DC and you give
Speaker 7: designated players away and you say, look, we're not really
Speaker 7: going to try to compete this year and might get
Speaker 7: our coach fired, but oh well, then you can play
Speaker 7: your guys out of your academy and you already.
Speaker 1: Have low expectations.
Speaker 7: I don't think you can get away with that here,
Speaker 7: and I think we've seen it over the last few
Speaker 7: years with the reaction you want to win.
Speaker 1: Jared.
Speaker 2: For Jason, what else is on your mind this morning
Speaker 2: as we get ready for it landy night and see Montreal?
Speaker 3: Well, this would be the last one for me, But
Speaker 3: I want to ask about the bite in this team.
Speaker 3: I think we saw it last year for me, Jason.
Speaker 3: One of the watershed moments was the Nashville home game
Speaker 3: where you got knocked around in that game and you
Speaker 3: didn't show the fight that I expected to see. And
Speaker 3: after that it seemed like they had a choice to
Speaker 3: either lay down or stand up, and they stood up.
Speaker 3: But go back to Sea on gregorson getting one of
Speaker 3: the Red Bulls players set off but kind of getting
Speaker 3: stuck into fights, and how much we'll see of that
Speaker 3: this year, not necessarily just trying to buy trying to
Speaker 3: you know, bait people into fights, but having that.
Speaker 1: Responsible edge to you way more of that this year.
Speaker 7: I've seen it in preseason so far, starting with just
Speaker 7: committing in transition more regularly, like if you're gonna be
Speaker 7: aggressive with counter pressure, you gotta know when you're beat
Speaker 7: and you gotta know, Okay, I can take a foul here, Okay,
Speaker 7: I might have to take a yellow card here. You're
Speaker 7: going to do more of that. You're gonna have those
Speaker 7: incidents where somebody Waylay's al Marone or takes a shot
Speaker 7: at last a lot, and I think you've got guys
Speaker 7: in this team that aren't going to stand for it.
Speaker 7: And that's that's good. It's what's been needed. It's been
Speaker 7: an issue I think for a while. You know, it's
Speaker 7: okay to be a team that gets a lot of
Speaker 7: yellow cards. It's okay to be a team that commits
Speaker 7: a lot of fouls. That doesn't mean you're a bunch
Speaker 7: of bad guys. You have to be ready to take
Speaker 7: that stuff. And you know you don't want to see,
Speaker 7: especially for Philadelphia, I see it. Okay, No, no, no, no,
Speaker 7: that's that's the difference I'm making because you don't want
Speaker 7: to be cynical about it and you don't want to
Speaker 7: do the dumb time wasting things about it. Like you
Speaker 7: want to win games. Sometimes your way to win games
Speaker 7: is somebody beats you when you're pressing Fallum. You know,
Speaker 7: somebody decks your star player deck them like, these are
Speaker 7: all elements of it, and you want to do it
Speaker 7: with the goal of winning a game, not trying to
Speaker 7: be the new broad Street bullies. Like there's a difference
Speaker 7: and it all has to point to winning games. I
Speaker 7: think at times this team didn't win games in the
Speaker 7: past because they didn't have as much of that edge
Speaker 7: to them.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to be a problem this year.
Speaker 2: The back line right now, we're still waiting on the
Speaker 2: late fitness test for Derek Williams.
Speaker 1: Yes, as far as I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So if Derek is in, how does the back
Speaker 2: line look in your in your opinion, if Derek doesn't
Speaker 2: pass the fitness test, how do you anticipate it looking
Speaker 2: I guess well. I think the question is between Stean
Speaker 2: Gregorson who played forty five midweek from last Wednesday, so
Speaker 2: ten days ago, played forty five there, played forty five
Speaker 2: against Dallas on Saturday.
Speaker 1: That would make you think that he could play. There
Speaker 1: hasn't many setbacks that I know of that he could start.
Speaker 7: You know, can he finish? I don't know, but can
Speaker 7: he start? Yeah, he should be able to get you
Speaker 7: at halftime easily. Luisa Brom's been very good in pre season,
Speaker 7: so I think he can. He can go wherever you need.
Speaker 7: No a Cop can go wherever you need. Derek Williams
Speaker 7: is I guess day to day is the best way
Speaker 7: to put it right now. If he can't get you
Speaker 7: at halftime, then he doesn't start. And I think it's
Speaker 7: a little easier in this case with a Brom on
Speaker 7: the left and Gregorson on the right, because Gregorson starts
Speaker 7: if he's healthy enough.
Speaker 1: We have seen it.
Speaker 7: We saw it against Dallas where Gregorson didn't start. It
Speaker 7: was Williams on the right, and it was a Brom
Speaker 7: on the left, which you know they're both lefties. That's okay,
Speaker 7: you can do that. My guess would be that A
Speaker 7: b and Gregorson if Williams can't go. If Williams can go,
Speaker 7: then it's the question between a Brom and Gregorson and Williams.
Speaker 7: Who are the two fittest who are probably ready to
Speaker 7: run a good bit because Montreal is gonna try to
Speaker 7: play over the top. Who's ready to do that? And
Speaker 7: I think all three are, along with Noah Cop, I
Speaker 7: think they're all ready to go. But my guess would
Speaker 7: be what we saw last week with Gregorson in place
Speaker 7: of one of the two. So I think Gregorson and
Speaker 7: either a Bram or Williams would be my hunch.
Speaker 4: But you know, I have I have a follow up
Speaker 4: to that, and this is like galaxy brain. So I apologize.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, here we go with Brooks Lennon out and possibly,
Speaker 4: you know, one of your starting center backs out. Could
Speaker 4: you see possibly a three back at least.
Speaker 1: In possession or no, you don't, well, in possession, different conversation.
Speaker 4: That's different because I could see like starting a right
Speaker 4: back as Noah Cob for you know, and then it
Speaker 4: didn't play okay.
Speaker 7: Did not play there at all in preseason and he
Speaker 7: was asking. But I know that came up in the
Speaker 7: off season. I think that was before Ronnie Dila was here.
Speaker 7: And I think Daila sees Cobb as a center back,
Speaker 7: no question, does not see him as a possible right.
Speaker 1: Back, you know, in a pinch? Is it possible? Sure?
Speaker 7: I don't think it's how you start, like if you
Speaker 7: get late in the game, and you know, especially in
Speaker 7: this case, if Williams and Gregorson are not fully ninety
Speaker 7: minutes ready to go, and you know they're they're gassed
Speaker 7: and can't finish the game and you've got to move
Speaker 7: pieces around. Is there a configuration where Cobbin's up at
Speaker 7: right back? Yeah, I could see that, but not to start, Okay,
Speaker 7: I think I think I was just I was.
Speaker 4: Trying to figure out, like, Okay, you got this guy
Speaker 4: out and possibly this guy maybe out, and this guy
Speaker 4: possibly out, Like how do you put together a back
Speaker 4: line that makes you know?
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty simple.
Speaker 7: I mean we saw and you go back to last Saturday,
Speaker 7: which was not a dress rehearsal but kind of sort
Speaker 7: of you saw Matt Edwards at right, and you saw
Speaker 7: Ronald Ornandez at left.
Speaker 1: Ronald Ornandez is ready to go wherever you need him.
Speaker 1: That's just who he is.
Speaker 7: You want him at full back rather than center back,
Speaker 7: but you had to play him at center back. You
Speaker 7: could too, you don't. You're covered there right now. I
Speaker 7: think Matt Edwards has had a really good preseason and
Speaker 7: and we had the chance to sit down with him
Speaker 7: Madison and I yesterday. You'll hear that here shortly as
Speaker 7: well on the Network exclusive Plugs. Matt is a guy
Speaker 7: who Ronnie has spoken about consistently as a top defender,
Speaker 7: very good in the shutdown defending. Kind of think back
Speaker 7: to Miles Robinson a little bit when the conversation early
Speaker 7: on in twenty seventeen, before you really saw him early
Speaker 7: twenty eighteen, when we were seeing him with Atlanta United
Speaker 7: two and others, weren't everybody talked about Miles being such
Speaker 7: a good defender. It was the other elements of the
Speaker 7: game that they wanted to see improve that the soccer iq,
Speaker 7: the tactical know how you know it, being better on
Speaker 7: the ball. Those are the things that Matt as well
Speaker 7: needs to improve.
Speaker 1: But he can defend.
Speaker 7: So if you go into it with Edwards, with Hernandez
Speaker 7: who can defend and Edwards, Ornandez can get forward too.
Speaker 7: Edwards got forward against Dallas too. I liked both of
Speaker 7: them at fullback in that game. Ernanda's got an assist,
Speaker 7: Edwards took advantage of the space that album Rone created
Speaker 7: coming in side. I think you're good with that without Lennon,
Speaker 7: without Amador. Amador hopefully coming back into the team for
Speaker 7: training next week. Uh so that'll be a process to
Speaker 7: get him back. I think you have those swing guys
Speaker 7: in case of emergency or to finish games out in
Speaker 7: a Brom on the left and Cob on the right.
Speaker 7: You can if you have to, but I think more
Speaker 7: in terms of the way you play, they're gonna defend
Speaker 7: in a four to four to two because the way
Speaker 7: you're gonna see it is al Maron and Saba drop
Speaker 7: to create that line of four. Miranchut goes up high
Speaker 7: with the forward. It's then gonna look at times like
Speaker 7: a four to two four in the way that you press,
Speaker 7: but your defensive shape is going to be that. Offensively,
Speaker 7: you're gonna build up with three a lot, but it's
Speaker 7: gonna be the central midfielders dropping. You know, you're gonna
Speaker 7: want to get those fullbacks high, and it's gonna be
Speaker 7: combinations of sleash and click and William Bah and fortune
Speaker 7: when when they're in that are gonna drop into those spots.
Speaker 7: And we've talked about it a lot lot in the
Speaker 7: Chattanooga game because the team worked on it very specifically
Speaker 7: in the week leading up to it. It's been consistent
Speaker 7: throughout the preseason and it's probably time to follow back
Speaker 7: up on it. You're gonna see as often potentially as
Speaker 7: you saw the old school six drop between the two
Speaker 7: center backs and build up to create three. But it's
Speaker 7: not three center backs. You're going to see that, but
Speaker 7: you're going to see the six. One of the six
Speaker 7: is you can call the two central mids whatever you
Speaker 7: want to call them. It's a double pivot. You're going
Speaker 7: to see one of them drop to the side of
Speaker 7: the center backs quite a bit. It's something that I
Speaker 7: really liked seeing the drill, and I want to see
Speaker 7: it more in activity, where for example, you go to
Speaker 7: the right side, you play a let's say it's Edwards tomorrow,
Speaker 7: you play to Edwards, tire up the field, nothing do
Speaker 7: and you come back and you then come back to
Speaker 7: the center back and over to the defensive midfielder on
Speaker 7: the opposite side of the play to then break out
Speaker 7: into space.
Speaker 1: That is something that is a different way of build up.
Speaker 1: Some teams do it. We've seen PEP teams do it.
Speaker 1: We've seen others do it.
Speaker 7: I really like it with this group with fleash and
Speaker 7: or click in those kinds of positions to then drive
Speaker 7: forward into space. You almost use the initial ball as
Speaker 7: a diversion. You bring it back and you hit the
Speaker 7: midfielder on the opposite side who had dropped into the
Speaker 7: back line.
Speaker 1: They go that.
Speaker 4: That's kind of when you are going to look at
Speaker 4: this team from say those heat maps or the past maps.
Speaker 4: I'm not envisioning something and you've talked about formations. I'm
Speaker 4: not envisioning something that looks drastically different than what we
Speaker 4: saw with Paneda.
Speaker 1: Obviously, I mean general use.
Speaker 4: But what you just described is how I think we're
Speaker 4: going to see a little bit more eagerness to actually
Speaker 4: go forward. Is that a fair distinction between.
Speaker 1: I don't Yeah, I think I don't think Gonzalo wanted
Speaker 1: the team to not go forward.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, But like it was more of a
Speaker 4: we were looking for a little bit. We will be
Speaker 4: looking for it sooner you'll force it more now. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: I think is maybe the way to put it, and
Speaker 4: that's what Dyla's going to demand. And it's down to
Speaker 4: field position, you know. I mean field position we talk
Speaker 4: about in American football all the time. I've really leaned
Speaker 4: into talking about it in soccer a lot over the
Speaker 4: past couple of years. Have you been watching my youth
Speaker 4: thirteen games? Because goodness gracious, it feels like the team
Speaker 4: that gets the kickoff gets the positions.
Speaker 7: So important, and it's something that you know, I'm sure
Speaker 7: there's somebody out there with you know, yell and footy
Speaker 7: at me about it. But it's an important element and
Speaker 7: Dyla's talked about it a lot in preseason. He wants
Speaker 7: to play in the attacking half. He doesn't want to
Speaker 7: play in his own half that much. So it's not
Speaker 7: so much that they didn't want to go forward before.
Speaker 7: I think it's that it's that Dyla's going to demand
Speaker 7: of them to get into the attacking half. Quicker, knock
Speaker 7: the ball around there and find the open man. That's okay,
Speaker 7: don't knock the ball around in your own half as much.
Speaker 7: So there's gonna be a remit to get into that
Speaker 7: attacking half much faster this year. That's gonna be a
Speaker 7: work in progress. I think we've seen it in preseason
Speaker 7: where you know, you have habits, you have muscle memory,
Speaker 7: you you know, you decide at times.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it and I'm gonna be patient.
Speaker 7: Now the demand is no, if you come back, if
Speaker 7: what you're gonna have to, I just I don't want
Speaker 7: to see the situation where we start like getting anxious
Speaker 7: about a pass backwards. It happened in twenty seventeen and eighteen.
Speaker 7: It happened then with Frank Ruwer got killed for a
Speaker 7: team that had to be more conservative because they lost
Speaker 7: their legs. Defensively, we cannot do this. Passing back to
Speaker 7: go forward is a good thing. Have to explain it properly.
Speaker 7: I do not want to see headlines about this nonsense
Speaker 7: all season. I already know we will. It's about coming back.
Speaker 7: So go back to that scenario of you play up
Speaker 7: the right side to Edwards at field. He's boxed in,
Speaker 7: there's nowhere to go. Do you just give it away? No,
Speaker 7: you come back to the center back that's closest to you.
Speaker 7: The thing is when you do that in the past,
Speaker 7: maybe it was all right, reset, keep the ball, cycle it,
Speaker 7: let's let's stay organized. Now it will be get the
Speaker 7: ball forward from that spot. Now, don't go back again.
Speaker 7: Go to the opposite side and go That's what you're
Speaker 7: looking for now. The passback has to trigger getting forward,
Speaker 7: not just to keep the ball and then look for
Speaker 7: an opportunity.
Speaker 1: It's come back to get forward.
Speaker 4: That's what Yeah, the real question is can that translate
Speaker 4: from the U thirteen size field to a regular field?
Speaker 7: But I guess it does. I mean look like, I
Speaker 7: feel like where the game's evolved is. You know, we
Speaker 7: we talked for a long time, just because the way
Speaker 7: we think about this game is constantly evolving. We thought
Speaker 7: for a long time possession numbers showed, and they can,
Speaker 7: but not by themselves. You know, it's about field position,
Speaker 7: which also doesn't entirely show control. You can always point
Speaker 7: to the game where a team has one shot on
Speaker 7: target and they win the game one nil. You can
Speaker 7: always point to that game. That's an outlier generally, and
Speaker 7: I feel pretty safe about saying this. Generally, if you
Speaker 7: have more of the ball, you're gonna create more chances,
Speaker 7: which gives you a better chance to win. If you
Speaker 7: play more of the game in the attacking half, I
Speaker 7: think that's even more of an indicator of your more
Speaker 7: likely to win.
Speaker 1: You're not guaranteed, but you're more likely to win. If
Speaker 1: you have the ball higher up the field more often,
Speaker 1: it gives you a better chance.
Speaker 7: And that's what this game's about. It's not purely possession.
Speaker 7: It's more of where you're having the majority of your possession.
Speaker 7: And I think that's where Ronnie Daila is on board
Speaker 7: with that kind of model. I think Hansei Flick is
Speaker 7: somebody who is very much on board with that sort
Speaker 7: of model. A lot of Pep Guardiola and Hanse Flick,
Speaker 7: and I think Barcelona's been really interesting to watch this
Speaker 7: year because there's some elements that are very very different.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of similarities. PEPs teams press.
Speaker 7: Really well and they do those things defensively, not right
Speaker 7: now because they don't have Rodery and they've gotten older,
Speaker 7: but in general, yeah, they're about defending first. Where they
Speaker 7: want to defend in your defensive third. They want to
Speaker 7: defend up there. They don't want to defend in their
Speaker 7: own half. That's kind of where Ronnie Daila is. That's
Speaker 7: where he wants to be. I think it's about field position.
Speaker 7: It's about where you have the ball. It's about where
Speaker 7: you defend, and you want that to be as far
Speaker 7: away from your goal as possible.
Speaker 1: All right, Jason, anything else that is we have not addressed,
Speaker 1: that is still on the table before we get the
Speaker 1: plug for everything at ninety two nine.
Speaker 7: I'm sure there's a million things to still talk about.
Speaker 7: If you guys have any more questions, fire them off.
Speaker 7: Otherwise I'm going to go study Montreal Someimore. Yeah, work
Speaker 7: of my French Yeah, yes, absolutely true. So broadcast plans
Speaker 7: for ninety two nine on the weekend, So well, let's
Speaker 7: start before ninety two nine. Tonight it will be in Dalton,
Speaker 7: Georgia for Soccer Town USA. Dalton Catamounts hosting the Johnson
Speaker 7: Knights could be one of the best boys games in
Speaker 7: the state of Georgia this year. Dalton went to Gainesville
Speaker 7: last year beat them two one nights. Coming off of
Speaker 7: a loss they lost to North Forsyth over the midweek
Speaker 7: to nil. Dalton had a huge win down at Peach
Speaker 7: Tree City three nil. Really looking forward to that one
Speaker 7: seven fifteen ish. We'll start on the network seven point
Speaker 7: thirty for kickoff that is this evening. Then I will
Speaker 7: be in the studios at ninety two nine in the
Speaker 7: game tomorrow morning. This is becoming like a yearly tradition.
Speaker 7: For whatever reason, I fill in on opening day a lot.
Speaker 7: I will be there seven to eleven tomorrow morning with
Speaker 7: Sam Crenshaw. You will hear from Madison Cruise. During that show,
Speaker 7: you will hear a lot of clips of audio from
Speaker 7: Dax McCarty, from Callum Williams, from Matt Edwards, from Rodnie
Speaker 7: Dila from Brad Kazan from Miteyo's click from Saba Loo Genezza,
Speaker 7: You're gonna hear a lot of audio throughout the show
Speaker 7: seven to eleven. We're gonna talk other sports too, but
Speaker 7: you know how it is when I'm there on a
Speaker 7: match day, I'm gonna kind of, you know, kick a
Speaker 7: soccer ball in the the match on match day man
Speaker 7: a lot. There's gonna be a lot of stuff we're
Speaker 7: gonna talk about there. So that takes you up to
Speaker 7: eleven o'clock, then you can catch your breath. Georgia State's
Speaker 7: men have a spring match. If you want to go
Speaker 7: over to the facility and watch that one, that's at noon.
Speaker 7: That's a good pregame warm up. And then six point
Speaker 7: thirty five strikes countdown on ninety two ninety game the
Speaker 7: Oudyssey app. It'll be Abe Gordon and Madison Cruz getting
Speaker 7: you started with everything before seven, probably about six fifty five,
Speaker 7: myself and Mike Conti will have Garth Loggerway with us
Speaker 7: in the booth. We'll talk about everything kind of off
Speaker 7: the field leading into the opener and then kick off
Speaker 7: seven forty and then full time report with Abe and
Speaker 7: that guy up there in the corner, John Nelson starting
Speaker 7: the post game show, tons of audio from the locker
Speaker 7: room afterwards, and then all of us will be jumping
Speaker 7: on microphones and talking about how things concluded. You can
Speaker 7: listen to that on your way home ninety to nine
Speaker 7: the game and the Audissey app. And if you're watching
Speaker 7: at home, you're not going to the bends. You can
Speaker 7: listen to our game call on Apple tv mL Season Pass.
Speaker 7: Go to the audio menu, choose home team radio and
Speaker 7: send them requests. If you want to listen to us
Speaker 7: on the road, they just need to plug us in.
Speaker 7: But we're one of the only ones who travel, so
Speaker 7: other teams need to travel, and Apple needs to give
Speaker 7: the visiting radio and option, and we will do that
Speaker 7: for you.
Speaker 1: Otherwise, you can listen on the Odyssey app and sink it.
Speaker 1: And it's not that hard. I did a lot of
Speaker 1: thinking last year and it's pretty close. It's not too
Speaker 1: difficult to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because literally all it is is taking a separate
Speaker 2: audio cable.
Speaker 1: It's running it end of the travel truck. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: It's the reason why you can't do it for teams
Speaker 7: that don't travel, is like we had this issue in
Speaker 7: twenty seventeen when we didn't travel, and it's very difficult
Speaker 7: because you've got to sync the audio and the natural
Speaker 7: audio with your audio.
Speaker 1: Very hard to do.
Speaker 7: They're not going to do that, but if you're on site,
Speaker 7: it's literally running a cable through the wiring of the
Speaker 7: stadium into the truck, and that's what they do for
Speaker 7: the home team radio. So it's doable. It's just doing
Speaker 7: it and providing that option. They do it for I
Speaker 7: believe their Major League Baseball coverage on Apple, so it's
Speaker 7: not impossible to do. It is doable. The fact is
Speaker 7: it's US, it's Red Bulls, it's NYC, it's Colorado, Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: That might be it that travel consistently. There's others who
Speaker 1: travel some.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to think if there's anybody Cincinnati travels consistently.
Speaker 7: That's sad that that's about it, and I think we're
Speaker 7: really lucky to get this opportunity to do it. The
Speaker 7: reason why we get the opportunity to do it is
Speaker 7: we're very fortunate to have a club that values it
Speaker 7: and has valued it from day one, and we're very
Speaker 7: lucky that a lot of people listen and look. If
Speaker 7: they don't, then it's very easy to cut travel and
Speaker 7: have a stay at home and call it from the studio,
Speaker 7: which we would do and we would kill it as
Speaker 7: best as we could, but it's a lot harder to
Speaker 7: do it that way. So we're very, very thankful that
Speaker 7: it's year nine of Atlanta United and we're getting to
Speaker 7: call these games and amazing venues like Mercedes Benz Stadium.
Speaker 7: We're getting to travel, we're getting to tell the story
Speaker 7: of this club, and tomorrow is the start of a really,
Speaker 7: really exciting new season. So everybody who has listened, everybody
Speaker 7: who does listen, thank you for giving us jobs and
Speaker 7: opportunities to do this, and we'll do our best to
Speaker 7: tell that story this season.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Six to one and one in home openers across the
Speaker 2: board for Atlanta United heading into year nine, and Ricky says,
Speaker 2: you're going to do a four hour radio show the
Speaker 2: same day you're doing the game.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 7: Won't be the first time, won't be the last time.
Speaker 7: I'm doing a game tonight too. Mm hm, yes, maybe
Speaker 7: I don't know. There's other people who worked pretty hard
Speaker 7: last Saturday. I did a game and a half and
Speaker 7: ended two high school games that night. So and they
Speaker 7: both went to penalties, so that it was Look, I'm lucky, man,
Speaker 7: I'm lucky. I think it's really important in whatever role
Speaker 7: cachet value I bring to the table doing Atlanta United games.
Speaker 7: It's really lucky to reflect that or I'm really lucky
Speaker 7: to do it. I think it's really important, and it's
Speaker 7: a responsibility to reflect that back on the community. And
Speaker 7: if that means popping in and talking soccer on the
Speaker 7: biggest sports talk radio station in the Southeast and including
Speaker 7: soccer in that conversation, which no other market in the
Speaker 7: United States does on a regular basis. All Right, Seattle
Speaker 7: and Portland are great soccer towns, LA New York, Chicago,
Speaker 7: great soccer towns.
Speaker 1: They're leading sports talk stations.
Speaker 7: Will not have the soccer content throughout the show, throughout
Speaker 7: the day, throughout their programming like Atlanta does.
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen. It just does not. They're soccer people,
Speaker 1: don't get the host like I do. It doesn't happen.
Speaker 7: So we're very fortunate to have that and it's very
Speaker 7: important in my mind, and it's even more important as
Speaker 7: we go into a Club World Cup the summer, a
Speaker 7: World Cup next summer. The Atlanta United side is critical
Speaker 7: and important. The national team side is critical and important,
Speaker 7: but this high school game in Dalton, Georgia is critical
Speaker 7: and important. You know, these youth mini fields being built
Speaker 7: all over the area of critical and important. Parents driving
Speaker 7: their kids to games tomorrow morning and then go into
Speaker 7: the bends tomorrow night. It's all very very important. Everybody
Speaker 7: who refs, everybody who coaches, everybody who has kids playing,
Speaker 7: everybody who's part of it. It's all very very important.
Speaker 1: And you can get in your feelings about like I
Speaker 1: want it to be bigger or I want this, I
Speaker 1: want that.
Speaker 7: You can do that, and that's fine, and we all
Speaker 7: do it and hopefully it leads to good things growing.
Speaker 7: But man, take a step back and think back to
Speaker 7: when you know, people our age were kids. We didn't
Speaker 7: have Atlanta night of games to go to at night.
Speaker 7: We didn't have games on the radio to listen to.
Speaker 7: We didn't have the level of soccer that we have now.
Speaker 7: We didn't have all the opportunities to work in the
Speaker 7: industry and b role models to the next generation.
Speaker 1: We didn't have that.
Speaker 7: So I know there's things we want to be better.
Speaker 7: I know we want our teams to win every game.
Speaker 7: I know we want the national team to win the
Speaker 7: World Cup. I know we want all these things we do,
Speaker 7: and that's good, but man, don't let that distract you
Speaker 7: from how good it is right now. It's never been
Speaker 7: as good. Hopefully five years down to road, ten years
Speaker 7: down the road, it'll be even better. But right now
Speaker 7: it has never been as good as volume us, as
Speaker 7: anything as soccer is in this country right now, never
Speaker 7: not even close. It's amazing where we are and I
Speaker 7: can't wait for this year to officially officially start tomorrow.
Speaker 1: No doubt, I will bring the throat coat tea. I
Speaker 1: will have that. Stuff's gross. I don't need that. That's
Speaker 1: gross is not gross. Throat coat tea is gross, not gross.
Speaker 1: I have drank it two times in my life and
Speaker 1: I wanted to vomit afterwards.
Speaker 4: Dang, Jason, I didn't expect you to have a bad
Speaker 4: food take like this.
Speaker 7: Throat throat I will when I have a sore throat,
Speaker 7: when I need to go tea, I will go lemon
Speaker 7: ginger with honey. That gives me elements of throat coat
Speaker 7: that I need honey. I've back in twenty seventeen. That
Speaker 7: was the worst I was during a season I think
Speaker 7: I was still getting used to all this. I had
Speaker 7: a couple of games where I took a spoonful of
Speaker 7: honey in the break before kickoff and in the last
Speaker 7: break a halftime to get through that forty five minutes.
Speaker 7: But in general, I've been all right knocking on wood
Speaker 7: in terms of getting a sore throat and dealing with it.
Speaker 7: You learn some tricks about how to talk, and you
Speaker 7: learn some tricks about how to call a game when
Speaker 7: you do have a sore throat, and pick your spots.
Speaker 7: Save it for the end of the game if you
Speaker 7: blow your voice out, because then you can just sign
Speaker 7: off and be good.
Speaker 1: But no, no throat coat t That stuff's gross. Don't
Speaker 1: bring it anywhere near me.
Speaker 7: And I will have tea if I need it tomorrow.
Speaker 7: But I'm in pretty good shape. We'll see how the
Speaker 7: game goes tonight. All right, I'll see this afternoon on
Speaker 7: our way up to Dalton. We'll catch up on the road.
Speaker 2: Adios, everybody. All right, there goes Jason. And it's always
Speaker 2: fun to have Jason come in and discuss things. You know,
Speaker 2: we we are really in a blessed space, and it's
Speaker 2: to have everything going on on all the different levels
Speaker 2: across the board. It's it's fun to be able to
Speaker 2: be a part of it in our small way, you know. So, Uh,
Speaker 2: I'm glad that Jason was able to give us the
Speaker 2: the uh, the the big pep talk going into the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five season. Last things from you barred anything
Speaker 2: else on your mind before we go.
Speaker 4: Well, I've got I've got a couple of pieces of
Speaker 4: content hopefully coming your way. John and Jason working on
Speaker 4: a blog for the site ranking the MLS twenty twenty
Speaker 4: five kits using the Taco Bell sauces as oooh, Patrick,
Speaker 4: there is one kit that may or may not be
Speaker 4: receiving a sauce at all. Who knows if they even
Speaker 4: asked for it from the counter, I don't know, And
Speaker 4: then also recorded an episode earlier this week talking about
Speaker 4: the USL League Division One. John, I'll be honest, we
Speaker 4: weren't high on it, just the idea that the idea.
Speaker 4: We asked the question why are they doing it? And
Speaker 4: none of us on the call could figure out, outside
Speaker 4: of money, what the real motivation would be. But that
Speaker 4: will hopefully be coming to you today John, as well everyone,
Speaker 4: because I will hopefully be editing it today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: As always, Bart, thanks for crashing in and being the
Speaker 2: first example of the Friday free for all and coming
Speaker 2: in in all the Q and A that we plan
Speaker 2: when it comes to at Lanty night and everything else
Speaker 2: going on in Major League Soccer. So Bart Keeler from
Speaker 2: the Soccer fos pod the first person to come in
Speaker 2: on a free for all Friday and be a part
Speaker 2: of the party line.
Speaker 4: So you John, it is exciting. We have a season
Speaker 4: starting tomorrow. I look forward to seeing some of y'all
Speaker 4: at the game and seeing your big face on the
Speaker 4: jumbo tron tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and no makeup. So by last day, last
Speaker 1: thing you want is me with makeup.
Speaker 2: Thank you Bart. So there goes Bart. Bart's gonna have
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff up. So once again, everybody, thanks
Speaker 2: for dropping by morning four card Morning cats. By the way,
Speaker 2: morning Katie, we are uh so uh. I've just grown
Speaker 2: accusted everybody's talking about throat coat. How it's gross. It isn't, Katie.
Speaker 2: I've just gotten used to it. I guess, she says,
Speaker 2: one hundred percent throat throat coat is gross. No, I've
Speaker 2: just gotten used to it. I guess it's not.
Speaker 1: Really, it's not really gross for me, Derek.
Speaker 2: You know, back in the day indoor soccer on TBS,
Speaker 2: I had indoor soccer in the USA network I had
Speaker 2: when I was in this This will really date me.
Speaker 2: We had here in Atlanta the Georgia Generals. Jeff Bourne
Speaker 2: had stayed from his time with the Chiefs and the
Speaker 2: Dallas Tornado when he was done in the North American
Speaker 2: Soccer League. We had here the Georgia Generals. And somewhere
Speaker 2: in my stacks I have the remade the Georgia General's
Speaker 2: logo and T shirt. So of course, you know, knowing me,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have something like that. Back in nineteen eighty two,
Speaker 2: the Georgia Generals played in the ASL and it was
Speaker 2: star spangled soccer at the CAAB Memorial Stadium in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty two.
Speaker 1: That's what we had.
Speaker 2: After the North American Soccer League, you had the Attack,
Speaker 2: you had you know Chiefs indoor in the late seventies,
Speaker 2: you had the Ruckus is a part of it.
Speaker 1: My first exposure to the sport was in eighty two.
Speaker 2: And it was the star spangled soccer of the Georgia
Speaker 2: Generals at the CAAB Memorial Stadium and Jeff Bourne and
Speaker 2: the match that sticks in my head is one of
Speaker 2: the best team names ever, the Oklahoma City Slickers. I
Speaker 2: don't even think they made the entire season, but it
Speaker 2: was the Georgia Generals and the Oklahoma City Slickers. And
Speaker 2: I have the program somewhere. I've got the ticket and
Speaker 2: I have the program somewhere in all of the stuff
Speaker 2: that I've saved over the years. That was my first
Speaker 2: exposure to the sport, and to go through the ruckus
Speaker 2: at Adams Stadium and talking to folks like Michael Sabattel
Speaker 2: at the time and doing live shots and discussing what
Speaker 2: was going on with the men's and the women's team
Speaker 2: at the time. So you go from Memorial to Adams
Speaker 2: to what we've seen with the beat in the WUSA
Speaker 2: and the WPS to where we are now and the
Speaker 2: fact that we got uh yeah, I think it was
Speaker 2: before the Billy Crystal movie for card all right, So
Speaker 2: if Star Spangled Soccer was in eighty two City Slickers,
Speaker 2: we'll see if we can get IMDb to answer the question.
Speaker 1: For me, I want it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ninety one was the movie with Billy Crystal. So
Speaker 2: like I said, for me, it's nineteen eighty two at
Speaker 2: the KEB Memorial Stadium, then going from there all the
Speaker 2: way to where we are now, where you go to
Speaker 2: Mercedes been Stadium, state of the art facility with seventy
Speaker 2: thousand of your friends, and you get to root for
Speaker 2: a team that has been assembled to flat out win
Speaker 2: and just slam it into fifth gear every single time
Speaker 2: they can think about this offseason for Atlanta United. Ronnie Diila,
Speaker 2: Chris Henderson, you bring back Mickey, you bring in Latte Lot,
Speaker 2: You're bringing Mattea's click for what, a pack of Enthal's,
Speaker 2: some zingers in a mood ring from DC United. All
Speaker 2: of these players that have been assembled, the youth movement
Speaker 2: that is going through the academy. Getting to see somebody
Speaker 2: like DCQ Dominic Chun Quick continue to improve, guy like
Speaker 2: Matt Edwards who's impressed in the preseason, Noah Cob, ephranm Morales,
Speaker 2: all the all the young guys that we've covered here
Speaker 2: at SDH with as much time as we've spent with
Speaker 2: the twos, so you know what's going on with this
Speaker 2: club when somebody steps in. You've known about Noah Cobb
Speaker 2: ever since day one. You've known about George Campbell ever
Speaker 2: since day one that they were a part of the
Speaker 2: fabric of what's going on here. All of you get
Speaker 2: to go to Lot seventeen tomorrow. I think it's going
Speaker 2: to be in the fifties and I.
Speaker 1: Think Ricky the Hoff and I might be going out there.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the plan is for the for
Speaker 1: the uh.
Speaker 2: The piece about that you'll see on the board, getting
Speaker 2: everybody acclimated to match day all over again, the welcome
Speaker 2: back piece.
Speaker 1: I don't know what our plans are yet. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen a rundown, but.
Speaker 2: It'll be good to see anybody and everybody when we
Speaker 2: do we get to leave the building, and or when
Speaker 2: we're in the building in the hallways and things like that.
Speaker 2: And seriously, you see me running around, just yell at
Speaker 2: me and say hi, good to hear your voice, good
Speaker 2: to see it. Seven weeks went by like that. Like
Speaker 2: I said, everybody who's worried, what are you gonna talk
Speaker 2: about for seven weeks? Well you've certainly found out a
Speaker 2: lot to talk about. You've got Alexi Midanchuk with a
Speaker 2: full training camp under his belt, Saba finally got some rest.
Speaker 1: Well, I'd say, lot Miggy.
Speaker 2: Click sleechh all of these guys that are assembled, and
Speaker 2: it all starts again tomorrow in Major League Soccer, and
Speaker 2: it will go by in a flash. So enjoy the
Speaker 2: ride the entire time. That's all I can tell you.
Speaker 2: Enjoy each other, enjoy the game, enjoy all of the
Speaker 2: other aspects of it, because I've seen in the twitch
Speaker 2: pitch that some of you have to get up really
Speaker 2: early on Saturday and Sunday mornings for year U fives,
Speaker 2: twelves and thirteens. It's because you love what you love
Speaker 2: what you're doing associated with the sport, and you love
Speaker 2: those that are involved in it and want to have
Speaker 2: fun and enjoy it, and you get to spread that.
Speaker 2: You get to spread that love and that wisdom forward
Speaker 2: every single time that you're out there. And like Jason said, tonight,
Speaker 2: we're going to Dalton for Johnson Gaines on the Catamounts.
Speaker 1: Four card.
Speaker 2: Good to see you. It'll be good to see it.
Speaker 2: So just enjoy the ride on all of the levels
Speaker 2: that you're interacting in. Because as Jason said, you got
Speaker 2: a clip World Cup this year coming to Atlanta. You
Speaker 2: have the World Cup coming what sixteen to fifteen months
Speaker 2: from now to Atlanta probably, and you're gonna have the
Speaker 2: National Training Center in suburban Atlanta. In theory, you're gonna
Speaker 2: have the Women's World Cup here in thirty one, then
Speaker 2: obviously with the National Training Center, you're going to have
Speaker 2: matches in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: All of this stuff.
Speaker 2: Going on right now, and for me going back to
Speaker 2: the early nineteen eighties and seeing where it is now
Speaker 2: and what you can do now, we are in a
Speaker 2: tremendous spot right here. So we can't thank you guys
Speaker 2: enough for everything that's associated with what we do on
Speaker 2: a daily basis. The fact that you guys listen as
Speaker 2: much as you do, that you spread the word as
Speaker 2: much as you do, that you're showing support and being
Speaker 2: a part of the family as much as you are,
Speaker 2: and we're incredibly grateful for that.
Speaker 1: We can do what we couldn't be doing any of
Speaker 1: this without you. And we're all gonna walk forward.
Speaker 2: And match week one here in twenty twenty five tomorrow
Speaker 2: Lot seventeen side Mercedes Benz and yes, the pop when
Speaker 2: number ten will be introduced, it's gonna be huge, It's
Speaker 2: gonna be a fun moment. So for Jared, for Nick,
Speaker 2: for Maddie, for Jason, I'm just John. It's Friday, and
Speaker 2: so we got to end it in the Friday way.
Speaker 2: So once again, just be safe. We'll see it a bit.
Speaker 2: Welcome to twenty twenty five MLS season. Have a good Friday, everybody.
Speaker 2: We'll see it either in Dalton tonight listening to Jason
Speaker 2: on the radio in the morning, or we'll see it
Speaker 2: Lot seventeen and at Mercedes Benz. Have a good weekend, everybody.
Speaker 2: This is how we always close it up. Have fun,
Speaker 2: play safe, mucha platy.
Speaker 3: The keys.
Speaker 9: Kept sticking into our fingers, The dictating equipment started asking
Speaker 9: us questions and our papers sends. Electric shocks just threw
Speaker 9: our body like a candle prod out in the warehouse.
Speaker 9: The trucks kept banging into the docks, not even thinking
Speaker 9: about stopping. Our frail bodies were strapped.
Speaker 2: To the chairs and our chairs.
Speaker 8: Were chained to the desks. Our please for justice were ignored,
Speaker 8: and the end seemed near.
Speaker 9: But we busted our slave drivers, little bitty balls. We've
Speaker 9: charged higher, break fortress the streets. Our hearsty guys yets
Speaker 9: Friday five, he