Speaker 1: Much.
Speaker 2: We've gone down the Kevin to burn a rabbit hole.
Speaker 2: Time to go to Seattle to catch up with ever
Speaker 2: buddy Nico Moreno, what up, dude?
Speaker 1: What is going on?
Speaker 3: My guy John SDH family. We are somewhat ready to go.
Speaker 3: I was having some issues with myself. I don't know
Speaker 3: why we were talking. I try to jump on. I
Speaker 3: have to reallow microphone and camera things to my because
Speaker 3: I use my phone a lot of times and it
Speaker 3: was giving me some hectic stuff. But I'm here, I
Speaker 3: am excited to go, ready to talk some mls, some numbers,
Speaker 3: some Seattle sounders.
Speaker 4: Perhaps, well, all right, so I want I want to
Speaker 4: start it.
Speaker 2: We started our number one while you were trying to
Speaker 2: get your first cup of coffee and get everybody out
Speaker 2: of the school.
Speaker 4: We spent our.
Speaker 2: Number one staring at the round of thirty two in
Speaker 2: open cup. Oh and it appears the Casey Killer group
Speaker 2: has Portland traveling to Tacoma, Sacramento traveling to San Jose,
Speaker 2: and apparently the path out of the Killer group goes
Speaker 2: through Starfire. Tacoma drew the number one and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: bro warhosting. So if Tacoma beats Portland in the Round
Speaker 2: of thirty two on May six or seven, they would
Speaker 2: host the winner of San Jose and Sacramento to get
Speaker 2: out of there to get into the round of eight.
Speaker 2: That to me, that was one of the storylines for me,
Speaker 2: is that Tacoma is in the group of Chaos as
Speaker 2: the last group announced for the Round of thirty two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been interesting. It's been a ride. It almost
Speaker 3: has fell surreal. I gotta be quite honest. I've watched
Speaker 3: just enough of Tacoma Defiance somewhat know some of the
Speaker 3: players and how they got here. I was supposed to
Speaker 3: go to Starfire for that Oakland Roots game.
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 3: I did watch it on my phone, got delay with
Speaker 3: a couple of things. And if you've ever been a
Speaker 3: Starfire you know that it is as hard to get
Speaker 3: in as it is to get out.
Speaker 1: So I did not make it out there.
Speaker 3: But yeah, man, it's it's kind of crazy because there's
Speaker 3: the potential that the Tacoma Defiance team beats Portland, and
Speaker 3: I think that that would be a historic occurrence.
Speaker 1: And look, this is a team with a lot of spirit,
Speaker 1: with a lot of passion.
Speaker 3: I feel like if there is something that really gets
Speaker 3: this team going is being looked at as the underdog
Speaker 3: against the Roots.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they were necessarily the underdogs, but
Speaker 1: it certainly was.
Speaker 3: A game that they had the lead and then they
Speaker 3: can see the equalizer and you're getting into overtime.
Speaker 1: You're thinking of, I know where this is going.
Speaker 3: And on top of that, you get a guy like
Speaker 3: Cody Baker sent off, and even when you do get
Speaker 3: that second goal in overtime, you're kind of waiting for
Speaker 3: the other ball to drop and find the equalizer and
Speaker 3: it never happens. And I think it is parftly because
Speaker 3: this team is very well coached.
Speaker 1: You know, they're highly motivated.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of talented players, starting with just the
Speaker 3: Rosario who's been not just quality, but he has been
Speaker 3: a big time player for this specific team, that guy
Speaker 3: that you can count on in those big moments to
Speaker 3: get you out, to push you through.
Speaker 1: He's done that.
Speaker 3: I think the defensively, Hawkins and Bernie did a great job.
Speaker 3: Peter Kingston has been a huge storyline here in Washington.
Speaker 3: Uh played for Balor FC, now is with Tacoma. He
Speaker 3: had that beautiful shot a free kick that caught everybody
Speaker 3: of a surprise.
Speaker 1: So this is a team that can do some some damage.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: So I'm excited to see them host Astar Fire Portland FC.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: I mean it's gonna be gonna be interesting how I
Speaker 3: works out with the Timbers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so that was, like I said, that was
Speaker 2: one of the things that that stuck with us this morning.
Speaker 2: Uh that you know, they they kind of buried the
Speaker 2: lead a little bit. It's like, Okay, so one of
Speaker 2: the more chaotic environments in all of Open Cup gets
Speaker 2: to host, and they get to possibly host to get
Speaker 2: out to the round of eight. I just wanted to
Speaker 2: I wanted to kick the door in with that this morning. Uh.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: So the other topic before we get into Seattle and
Speaker 2: Western Conference in Major League Soccer is is Kevin de Bruna.
Speaker 2: And he's the big name that's coming across the bow
Speaker 2: and there are a couple teams that are interested. And
Speaker 2: I was trying to break down the financials of how
Speaker 2: it could go down. Who could be interested? Who financially,
Speaker 2: I mean, everybody could be interested. Look, you and I
Speaker 2: could start a team and we'd be interested in Kevin
Speaker 2: de Bruna. That's a no brainer. But the thing is
Speaker 2: is that you've got to have a certain amount of
Speaker 2: AM available.
Speaker 4: You've got to have.
Speaker 2: You know, you've got to make sure that your roster
Speaker 2: spot is there, and you've got to make sure your
Speaker 2: international slots are all locked up. It's not just something
Speaker 2: that you can sit there and try to piece together
Speaker 2: and it's like, uh, oh, I think I'll take this
Speaker 2: piece of paper and this piece of paper and piece
Speaker 2: it together and go here.
Speaker 4: I want Kevin to brune. It doesn't work that way.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, there's a handful of clubs and right
Speaker 2: now I know a lot of folks are looking at NYC,
Speaker 2: which makes sense to keep him inside the city football group.
Speaker 4: They got plenty of AM. Messi and friends have plenty
Speaker 4: of AM.
Speaker 2: Chicago, according to Fabrizio, Romano's trying to piece together the
Speaker 2: deal of deals, but they have virtually no AM to
Speaker 2: speak of, Like on just under four hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: thousand game left. And honestly, if you want to be
Speaker 2: real base about it, where would you want to spend
Speaker 2: the March? Where would you want to spend training camp
Speaker 2: in February and March Chicago, the Bronx or Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I had to pick up picking for
Speaker 1: a lot of.
Speaker 3: But I just I don't know if if he necessarily fits.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he did say a need.
Speaker 3: Uh, it's a very odd one to me when I
Speaker 3: when I heard Chicago, he made sense on the soccer standpoint,
Speaker 3: but then it made no sense on the economic call
Speaker 3: and the measures of how to get him in there.
Speaker 3: So it's it's it's a very puzzling situation with a
Speaker 3: very good player that could potentially come here, and I
Speaker 3: think it's going to be quality regardless of where he goes.
Speaker 3: I think he could still play the game at his age,
Speaker 3: and we both know that the quickest thing about the
Speaker 3: runner is just his ability on the.
Speaker 1: Ball, his mind. He's quicker than everybody there.
Speaker 3: So I do think that he specifically needs a system
Speaker 3: that allows him to play his game in that manner.
Speaker 3: And I don't like any of the teams that you
Speaker 3: just mentioned, to be honest, even New York CITYFC that
Speaker 3: I don't know that they at times look like they
Speaker 3: need the opposite. It's maybe a little bit more rhythm,
Speaker 3: some more amplitude with their wingers, maybe even a better, stronger,
Speaker 3: more potent striker. I mean, there's just so many things
Speaker 3: that New York City as she could use that.
Speaker 1: I don't really know where he fits.
Speaker 3: I ever heard somebody talk about why don't we bring
Speaker 3: him for Seattle another outrageous comments. So it just I
Speaker 3: think people a lot of times see a player and
Speaker 3: they immediately get attracted by the name, and they don't
Speaker 3: realize everything else that you always consistently think of, which
Speaker 3: is how do we bring him in in a salary
Speaker 3: cap structure, and of course the correct international slots and
Speaker 3: the pen slots, how do we work him in? I mean,
Speaker 3: those are the things that really matter. But honestly, none
Speaker 3: of the things that you just mentioned feels.
Speaker 2: To me like a fit well, and I mean legitimately,
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think, like I said, I don't
Speaker 2: think Messi and friends have used their oopsie buy out yet.
Speaker 2: So I think the only thing that really would would
Speaker 2: pin them down for you know, the most expensive babysitter
Speaker 2: that Lionel Messi's ever had, or academy Academy instructor Kevin
Speaker 2: de Bruna. Literally, it would be just okay, how do
Speaker 2: we structure the back end of the deal. You bring
Speaker 2: him in, give him a number. It's like, okay, you'll
Speaker 2: do this. You come in for half a year. I
Speaker 2: don't think, to be perfectly honest, I don't think Messi
Speaker 2: and friends really give an ish about fit. I think
Speaker 2: it's about going into sharper Image. You want the vibrating
Speaker 2: You want the vibrating of rocking chair, want the lava lamp.
Speaker 2: You want the radio operated helicopter. You know, you want
Speaker 2: the weird mobile that's got just the all of the
Speaker 2: metal strings attached that do this bit. You want that
Speaker 2: when you wander into sharper Image, you just want the
Speaker 2: entire sharper Image store and you don't care what to
Speaker 2: do with it. You'll figure out where to put it
Speaker 2: in the house later on. You just want to go in.
Speaker 2: You want to buy the whole store out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I agree, And that could definitely be add
Speaker 3: they're thinking longer term. They're maybe even thinking, you know, progressively,
Speaker 3: about two three years from now, like you just said,
Speaker 3: maybe coaching wise, I mean a whole bunch of things
Speaker 3: that just give you that horhead moss steel, because that's
Speaker 3: what he's about, is about the lights, and you know
Speaker 3: the titles.
Speaker 1: Talking about Inner Miami. So that could be it.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I had thought that maybe San Diego would be
Speaker 3: a team that uh would would go after a guy
Speaker 3: like this with one of the open DP spots?
Speaker 1: Uh? But uh?
Speaker 3: But yeah, man, I just I just don't know if
Speaker 3: I can think immediately of a team that could use
Speaker 3: them immediately and have the money to bring him in
Speaker 3: and have the open slots to get him in. Like
Speaker 3: it's it seems like when I look at the teams,
Speaker 3: one has one of the things and not the other.
Speaker 1: Right, it's like for.
Speaker 3: Boxes to check and some have two, some have three,
Speaker 3: but none have four?
Speaker 2: Would you, and I mean all and all I got
Speaker 2: to do when I mentioned in NYC is do you
Speaker 2: look at that you twelve pitch they play? It's like
Speaker 2: if you're if you're Kevin de Bruna and you like
Speaker 2: wide open spaces and you like to create, do you
Speaker 2: want to be playing bumper cars at Yankee Stadium with man,
Speaker 2: it's like you're going to six Flags Magic Mountain and
Speaker 2: you're playing bumper cars. No, you don't want that. You
Speaker 2: want to drive on the Audubond. Brother, that's what you're
Speaker 2: looking for. And if I'm Kevin de Brune, I don't
Speaker 2: want to mess with that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I agree.
Speaker 3: I would not at this particular time not be interested
Speaker 3: to go and play for near your CDFC with all
Speaker 3: due respect.
Speaker 4: Of course, Yeah, all right, Western Conference.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, looking at the week that was as
Speaker 2: we get ready for the weekend, that will be uh
Speaker 2: when you look at everything that went down, you know,
Speaker 2: we'll roll through the we'll roll through the scores and
Speaker 2: lay it all out for folks.
Speaker 4: Uh. It was from just uh.
Speaker 2: There weren't a whole lot of goals early and then
Speaker 2: it's like everybody woke up and it was the Western
Speaker 2: Conference where everything got where everything was scored. Nothing in
Speaker 2: the East, nothing in the East, Nothing in the East.
Speaker 4: What is going on in Vancouver.
Speaker 2: It's like they're they're like a bunch of cyborgs man
Speaker 2: putting up five on Austin. I did not have that figure,
Speaker 2: and I also didn't have Brian White in fantasy either.
Speaker 2: Otherwise I would have made a fortune.
Speaker 1: I know me too. I looked at that and it
Speaker 1: was incredible. Look Vancouver just.
Speaker 3: They seem to know exactly where they need to get
Speaker 3: the ball, and they have players that are willing to
Speaker 3: put it all out there to get to those spots.
Speaker 1: And Brian White is a guy right now that you
Speaker 1: know you hear.
Speaker 3: About strikers being streaky or you know, just having moments.
Speaker 1: He's having a moment.
Speaker 3: I mean everything he touched that kings Austin was going
Speaker 3: in the back of the net. He probably should have
Speaker 3: got that PK and would have got five goals instead
Speaker 3: of four. I mean, look, it's it's literally a team
Speaker 3: that has a couple of players that are willing to
Speaker 3: play every minute.
Speaker 1: Of every game.
Speaker 3: I honestly did not think that Petrovita was going to
Speaker 3: start this game. I did not think Coob was going
Speaker 3: to start this game. I did not think Okampa was
Speaker 3: going to start this game. They all started, they all
Speaker 3: came off sure, but I mean the game was already
Speaker 3: done and over with. I think Rios has been really
Speaker 3: good for this team. I think he fits well. Uh
Speaker 3: not only because he's doing the job about creating someone
Speaker 3: that with with his play, but he's also somebody that
Speaker 3: has a really good sense of goal, has a really
Speaker 3: good idea where he needs to be. You have a
Speaker 3: guy like berre Halter coming in and sometimes he starts,
Speaker 3: sometimes he's off the bench.
Speaker 1: He seems to be a guy that could be a
Speaker 1: spark plug anywhere you put him.
Speaker 3: So they're just a very complete team right now to
Speaker 3: just understand how to play the game. And Austin just
Speaker 3: tripped and tripped and tripped and tripped all game long.
Speaker 3: Cannot do anything. And then the one thing that they
Speaker 3: did was a fantastic goal, but Dan el Pereira that
Speaker 3: he didn't even celebrate because the game was done and
Speaker 3: over with. He just went and go ahead and ran
Speaker 3: over to the locker room. I mean, Vancouver is just
Speaker 3: that good, highest XG, highest scoring team in the league.
Speaker 3: Watch out for the White Cousman.
Speaker 4: They look good, all right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna save Seattle and Dallas to the end because
Speaker 2: then that'll get us into the week that will be
Speaker 2: RSL goes to Giotis on the road and loses it
Speaker 2: in Nashville. Colorado had a three zer lead. They hung
Speaker 2: on to beat San Diego three two, LAG got a point,
Speaker 2: LAG got a point. Holy crap, La G and the
Speaker 2: Dynamo drew it. Ones L, a FC and San Jose.
Speaker 2: I think that's under Bruce Arena. I think that Bruce
Speaker 2: and Charundelo, that's going to be a rivalry that's going
Speaker 2: to be building. And then Portland doubles up KC and
Speaker 2: carries a wagn and continues to have the same problems
Speaker 2: that Peter Urmes did. What else happened in the West
Speaker 2: that's stuck with you.
Speaker 3: Well, Santada in their first win under road, of course,
Speaker 3: that's a big one. I think that when you look
Speaker 3: at the standings and you see a little bit of
Speaker 3: how things are playing out for oursel, that continues to plummet.
Speaker 1: I think that San.
Speaker 3: Diego had a really inconsistent game against Colorado. That one
Speaker 3: was a surprise for me there. That's now what broke
Speaker 3: my parlay. By the way, we'll talk about that later
Speaker 3: because I did not take them in my fully perfectly
Speaker 3: structured parlay. But you know, it just still what we
Speaker 3: have been talking about the last couple of weeks. Outside
Speaker 3: from Vancouver, there is no team that looks to be
Speaker 3: a juggernaut and and and that doesn't seem beatable. Laf
Speaker 3: C looks beautible, l a G is barely getting around.
Speaker 3: You know, you look at a team like Austin that
Speaker 3: just got killed. I mean, it just seems that all
Speaker 3: around there's inconsistencies, and that benefits a team like Seattle
Speaker 3: that is used to starting a little bit late, that
Speaker 3: has the hierarchy to eventually figure everything out, put the
Speaker 3: puzzle together. So so far, so good. It just seems
Speaker 3: like it's Vancouver and everybody else in the West.
Speaker 4: No doubt. All right, so what happened in the Seattle match?
Speaker 3: Stuck with you, oh Man Masowski scoring. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: what don't really came out of this. Not the perfect game,
Speaker 3: not brilliant, Still lots of things to get better at
Speaker 3: for this Seattle Sounders team. But whenever you don't have
Speaker 3: a win on the road and you can get one,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter how it comes, if it's pretty or not.
Speaker 3: You just get the win and you run home with it.
Speaker 3: And that's what they essentially did. I think this that's
Speaker 3: more about FC Dallas than it does about Seattle, to
Speaker 3: be quite frank, I think FC Dallas is not a
Speaker 3: good team. They're not a bad team either. They're just
Speaker 3: mid and they have been able to get results because
Speaker 3: of their defense because they make things kind of slow
Speaker 3: and difficult. And in this one, Seattle man have a
Speaker 3: lot of opportunities and they could have probably put a
Speaker 3: couple more on this Dallas team. In terms of Seattle,
Speaker 3: Parra had a better game, not a great game. Clearly,
Speaker 3: the importance of getting another or you know, yes, another
Speaker 3: clean sheet is important that the team that's always taken
Speaker 3: pride in that defensive ability, but I think the fact
Speaker 3: that they do that in this one helps that confidence
Speaker 3: moving forward. But it's all about what's gonna continue to happen.
Speaker 3: I asked brand s Menster this week. He sounds like
Speaker 3: Albert Rusnak, Jordan Morris and Alex Rodan, who all had
Speaker 3: not will be available for this one. Don't know if
Speaker 3: they'll start, but though they're all good news going into
Speaker 3: the next week. But overall, I think Seattle it still
Speaker 3: doesn't quite know what the best grouping is. But getting
Speaker 3: a win while you're still trying to figure that out
Speaker 3: is all you can ask for at this time.
Speaker 2: All Right, you know what time it is. It's time
Speaker 2: to dial it up and figure out what is on
Speaker 2: your mind. When it comes to the weekend that will
Speaker 2: be and we got some odd start times and things
Speaker 2: like that that'll have us on the hot when it
Speaker 2: comes to filling out our fantasy team. It's a one
Speaker 2: forty five Eastern kick and it's the first match of
Speaker 2: the weekend, and that is Austin FC at home hosting
Speaker 2: LAG under normal circumstances, I'd sit there and I'd be like, Yeah,
Speaker 2: this one's gonna be this one's gonna be wild and crazy.
Speaker 2: But right now LAG's almost a plus three hundred, Austin
Speaker 2: is minus one eighteen.
Speaker 4: But Austin ain't scoring any goals.
Speaker 2: All this money that they've spent on dudes, and you're
Speaker 2: not getting return on your investment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that the problem with the La Gatcha
Speaker 3: right now is that Ja sheet us out. You got
Speaker 3: another defender out because of the red card. I guess
Speaker 3: if there are good news is that Marco Royce should
Speaker 3: be available. It sounds like Greg Vanni said that he's
Speaker 3: been all in and practice this week. So how does that,
Speaker 3: you know, hopefully help you out. So there is some
Speaker 3: things that make you want to go LAG. Not good
Speaker 3: enough for me. I'm not touching this with a ten
Speaker 3: foot poll, but definitely a game that would be interesting
Speaker 3: depending on how it essentially plays out. But I'm with you,
Speaker 3: I don't trust Austin Tuscore. I don't trust him to
Speaker 3: be a consistent team. And LAG just seems to be
Speaker 3: a team that has a whole bunch of talent hasn't
Speaker 3: been able to put it together.
Speaker 1: But Greg Vanny. I gotta give him credit. He looks
Speaker 1: so confident so on the ball.
Speaker 3: It seems like he knows what he has and I
Speaker 3: think he'll eventually figure it out.
Speaker 1: This one could be a momentum shifter for LAG.
Speaker 3: I'll say that if they're able to get a good
Speaker 3: win or just a win in general, I think that
Speaker 3: that could potentially spark their season in the right direction.
Speaker 2: All right, So are you going to just be watching
Speaker 2: when Messi and friends go to Columbus or are you
Speaker 2: going to be watching more intently than normal.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be watching more intently. I want you to
Speaker 1: tell me what the.
Speaker 3: Goal composers for that specific game.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm looking at.
Speaker 3: Look Columbus, although they don't have the finishing product and
Speaker 3: the punch that they had with Christian Ramirez and Couchure
Speaker 3: Hernandez for obvious reasons. There's no team that gets for
Speaker 3: work pretty well. But defensively they have not been a
Speaker 3: sharp I mean, you look at that game against Saint
Speaker 3: Louis City and Luke Shulte was big because San Louis
Speaker 3: City had plenty of opportunities.
Speaker 1: To put that game away and they were unable to
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 3: I expected to be against in Miami a similar sense,
Speaker 3: where Columbus is going all out. They're working in transition,
Speaker 3: they're getting a lot of numbers forward, but at the
Speaker 3: same time they're probably going to take a lot of
Speaker 3: heat from this inn Miami team.
Speaker 1: So what's the compost on the goals?
Speaker 4: Three and a half is a plus one thirty. That's
Speaker 4: where it flips.
Speaker 1: Give me four, what's four four and a half?
Speaker 4: Well, let's say four and a half is a plus
Speaker 4: three zho two.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, it might be a little bit much. It
Speaker 1: could be a little bit too rich for my blood.
Speaker 3: But maybe I think that this one could have a
Speaker 3: lot of goals, and I think that this one could
Speaker 3: be one of those games where it's the first half
Speaker 3: and perhaps it's already two too. So in Miami themselves,
Speaker 3: they've had some issues holding onto teams and really managing games.
Speaker 1: So hey, I think this one could be a high
Speaker 1: scoring fiesta.
Speaker 3: But I really don't know who would win, So I
Speaker 3: would take the goals and not pick a winner in
Speaker 3: this one.
Speaker 2: All right, So your first half goals plus one and
Speaker 2: a half plus one twenty six two and a half
Speaker 2: and first half goals is a plus four h two,
Speaker 2: by the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: So the other seven thirties that we have include the
Speaker 2: two matches that we're gonna end up talking about at
Speaker 2: the end, so we'll hang on to those. We'll hang
Speaker 2: on to those other those two seven thirties, that will
Speaker 2: be the two last ones that we discussed. But the
Speaker 2: other activity going on, CF Montreal and Orlando City. Purple
Speaker 2: Team resigned Oscar Pereja for another three years. Charlotte's gonna
Speaker 2: host San Diego FC REVS and NYC Red Bulls DC United.
Speaker 2: A lot of that stuff, man, it's ninety minutes of
Speaker 2: your life that you take it your own peril. Chicago
Speaker 2: and Cincinnati, Houston and Colorado Minnesota and FCD Saint Louis
Speaker 2: City hosting Vancouver. Vancouver is a road dog at a
Speaker 2: plus one ninety three.
Speaker 1: Ooh wow, that's gonna be interesting matchup. Good look like
Speaker 1: I said, some Lewis look good.
Speaker 3: I think that Pompeyu had a good game offensively and
Speaker 3: not so much defensively. I think Kloud's finally breaking his
Speaker 3: streak of like three hundred in fifty minutes without a goal.
Speaker 1: It's big for that team. Uh, Bacher had to get game.
Speaker 3: I think that they really have something going uh that
Speaker 3: they're in Saint Louis, aside from the terrible wordsrope choice
Speaker 3: by their their head coach, but but I really do
Speaker 3: think that they have something going on.
Speaker 1: This would be an interesting one. But they said that
Speaker 1: as a draw.
Speaker 3: I did that as a game where both teams are
Speaker 3: going to take a long time to really decipher themselves
Speaker 3: and by the time, by the time they're ready to
Speaker 3: go ninety minutes. So I can see this one being
Speaker 3: just a very low draw.
Speaker 4: In this one plus two five to two on the draw.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I like that all right.
Speaker 2: RSL hosting Toronto, watching your own peril. Portland hosting l
Speaker 2: a f C. Portland is favored at the plus one.
Speaker 1: This is a good one.
Speaker 4: L a FC is a plus one eighty one. Your
Speaker 4: draw is a plus two four five.
Speaker 3: This is a good one. Man at Portland. Lafc's always
Speaker 3: a great matchup. It's always high scoring, and you know,
Speaker 3: just my early recollection, I could see laf C getting
Speaker 3: a good win against a pretty good Portland team, at
Speaker 3: least offensively. That Sporty Kansas City game kind of showed
Speaker 3: you a little bit about what Portland's about. They're still
Speaker 3: having some issues at controlling the game at midfield. I
Speaker 3: think that a lot of times they're very gappy, and
Speaker 3: if there's something that LAFC can do is beach between
Speaker 3: those those hashes, between those those gaps. So I think
Speaker 3: that LAFC Portland is going to be a good one.
Speaker 3: What's the the three and a half in different for goals?
Speaker 3: But I'm taking l a f C. And I'm taking
Speaker 3: some goals.
Speaker 1: Attention.
Speaker 2: Let's get the three and a half on the board
Speaker 2: here for the total. Three and a half is a
Speaker 2: plus one sixty eight.
Speaker 1: Oh how about four and a half?
Speaker 4: Four and a half is a plus three eighty eight.
Speaker 3: Look, I'm gonna go crazy. I'm gonna go down. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna take that, and I'm gonna take LAFC. This one's
Speaker 3: going to be a I score. I don't know why
Speaker 3: these two games always seem to have that. I should
Speaker 3: have put that same number in this particular City Portally
Speaker 3: game and I didn't. I'm gonna go with this one.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna miss my chance at this one.
Speaker 1: I'm taking that all right.
Speaker 2: In the San Jose's and minus one twelve hosting Sporting
Speaker 2: and carry Z's second match as interim head coach Okay
Speaker 2: Seattle Nashville back to seven thirty Eastern times seven to
Speaker 2: forty kick Seattle and minus one one Nashville's a plus
Speaker 2: three eighty six draws the plus two sixty six.
Speaker 4: Is this a get right for Seattle.
Speaker 3: I think it's a get rut draw. I like the
Speaker 3: two sixty six. I think they'll have a good game.
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be quality. But as much as
Speaker 3: I think that Nashville plays to seattle strengths, I think
Speaker 3: that Seattle has a very good idea on how to
Speaker 3: play the mook tart types the exact same way they
Speaker 3: were able to play the general costa types, same search
Speaker 3: the type of forward strikers physical that.
Speaker 1: The positioning that he needs on the ball.
Speaker 3: I feel like he plays the Seattle strings, but I
Speaker 3: don't know about the Sounders attack just yet. Like I
Speaker 3: said Jordan Morris, I'm guessing he's probably gonna come off
Speaker 3: the bench. He was partially in training on Tuesday, was
Speaker 3: full on years today. I'm guessing he'll be full on today.
Speaker 3: Albert Russnack as well, that was interesting one because he
Speaker 3: had an a doctor I thought he'd be out a
Speaker 3: little bit longer, but he's back on. But I'm getting
Speaker 3: all those guys are gonna be coming off the bench.
Speaker 3: So how does Massovski He's able to resolve some of
Speaker 3: those issues.
Speaker 1: He gotta go.
Speaker 3: That's, you know, essentially give you the confidence to now
Speaker 3: score a couple more. I'm just not sure. I'm really
Speaker 3: not sure. Pedro del Vega has been upstanding. I think
Speaker 3: it's gonna be him and Pereira playing under the nine
Speaker 3: in this one particularly, But I just don't know if
Speaker 3: it's enough to get over the hump.
Speaker 1: The Nashville will be because this is a quality team.
Speaker 3: Look, Bicky Callahan has done a very good job at
Speaker 3: structuring a good team with the ball. They want to
Speaker 3: keep a session, they know what to do it. They
Speaker 3: playhol Tra ball, they really do, so they do a
Speaker 3: good job on it. I was surprised that they were
Speaker 3: fourth in XG in MLS, but you know, you go back,
Speaker 3: you look at some of those games. They did do
Speaker 3: create a lot of opportunities. They put a lot of
Speaker 3: balls in the eighteen. So there's gonna be a fun one.
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna go with the draw.
Speaker 2: All right, And so We're saving Atlanta and Philly for
Speaker 2: you for last. Philly plus one oh six, that Atlanta
Speaker 2: is a plus two to twenty nine draws a plus
Speaker 2: two six four.
Speaker 4: What do you think?
Speaker 1: I am so upset at Atlanta.
Speaker 2: I had a perfect right, the only one, brother, I'll
Speaker 2: tell you that right now.
Speaker 1: I had a perfect probably, bro.
Speaker 3: Look, we called the tie, the draw between Chicago and
Speaker 3: interer Miami. We called the Cincinnati. We called seatles win.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was so perfect five games. The only
Speaker 3: one that missed was Atlanta was Atlanta, and I could
Speaker 3: not believe it that that they were able to just
Speaker 3: honestly blow that game. Look, they started so good. They
Speaker 3: they It's so hard to watch al Morone and lots
Speaker 3: of Lot create so much offense and create some manyw opportunities.
Speaker 1: I love what Lennon was doing.
Speaker 3: All game long with the boss he was putting in
Speaker 3: the way, he was getting forward. Martin Chuck himself was,
Speaker 3: you know, doing some creativeness and getting some shots in.
Speaker 3: But he felt like, after all, Morone's goal gets uh
Speaker 3: called off because of I suppose you know outside.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, don't get started on that. That's another rabbit.
Speaker 3: It all went downhill. So can they get it together.
Speaker 3: Philadelphia doesn't look great either. I thought that they looked
Speaker 3: awful against New York City FC this past weekend.
Speaker 1: He seems like they downgraded from Gostak to.
Speaker 3: Indiana us Leaf and the team just doesn't have any
Speaker 3: power up top.
Speaker 1: They kind of wake up at the end of that game.
Speaker 1: But I feel like this is.
Speaker 3: Gonna be a draw. It's gonna be a draw. It's
Speaker 3: not gonna make anybody happy. Atlanta fans are gonna be upset.
Speaker 3: Philadelphia fans are going to be upset. I'm gonna be upset.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm not touching it because I just whenever
Speaker 3: you burn me like that, I need a week, need
Speaker 3: a week.
Speaker 1: But I think there's going to be a draw.
Speaker 4: You need some time. It's not you, it's me. That's basically, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's absolutely not you, it's me.
Speaker 2: All Right, what's going on in pulsar sports and it's
Speaker 2: sounder at heart when you're lobbing water balloons at folks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a really good week of you know, uh,
Speaker 3: several good uh interviews with Christian Rodan with Bryan Smetzer.
Speaker 3: Brian talks about a variety of things that are very
Speaker 3: interesting moving forward.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: One of the big news this week is that that
Speaker 3: Jackson Reagan will be at four to six weeks. But
Speaker 3: Kim Ki, he a experience holder center back, has looked
Speaker 3: really good all week long, and so we talked to
Speaker 3: Brian about some of those options to replace Jackson Reagan.
Speaker 3: There James Bell himself, so go ahead and check that out.
Speaker 3: We also have two exclusives in Spanish, one with Jamargomez Andrade,
Speaker 3: one with Ovid vargas U. Yamar talks a little bit
Speaker 3: about his desire to be in the MLS All Star Game.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: He says he's not, you know, not a main objective,
Speaker 3: not something that he's gonna be taking out all you know,
Speaker 3: month long, but he does kind of want the chance
Speaker 3: to be there, you know, with some of the best
Speaker 3: in MLS. So that was interesting to go ahead and
Speaker 3: check that out. And of course Loving's Courts on Monday,
Speaker 3: Loving Coaches kickoff. We will not have what we learned
Speaker 3: this week with Jeremiah tomorrow because my guy is taking
Speaker 3: some time off.
Speaker 1: He's in Mexico.
Speaker 3: Uh, but I am not he but I'm going to
Speaker 3: have an open space at five pm Pacific today. I
Speaker 3: already have a scheduled in so if you guys want
Speaker 3: to come in, talk whatever you want. We don't touchdown
Speaker 3: to you can talk Atlanta, we talk juice boxes, whatever
Speaker 3: you want to talk about. I'm going to do an
Speaker 3: X space at five pm Pacific today.
Speaker 2: Boy eight o'clock Eastern and five o'clock it's spaces with
Speaker 2: Nico as always my friend. Great to see. I love
Speaker 2: you very much. Be safe, have a fantastic weekend. We
Speaker 2: will catch up with you next week doing Demama.
Speaker 1: Man, take it easy