Speaker 1: It is a wall past Wednesday recording the great orator
Speaker 1: Joey Tribbiani.
Speaker 2: How you doing, John? Hear you there?
Speaker 1: It is a stacked blanken show. It is a stacked
Speaker 1: blanken show. There is no way to phrase it. We
Speaker 1: got a lot of news to get into and we've
Speaker 1: got the things to get into as well. And like
Speaker 1: I said, plan to get into this morning. And here's
Speaker 1: the guest list. And with the guest list the way
Speaker 1: that it always rolled, it is Tyler Pilgrim. He's going
Speaker 1: to join us from a scarves in Spikes nine point
Speaker 1: fifteen as he traditionally does here for our number one
Speaker 1: in the Atlanta nighted Informational Journalistic Exchange program. And then
Speaker 1: ten o'clock our buddy Dylan Butler from MLS Soccer dot Com.
Speaker 1: He's gonna start our MLS discussion the week that was,
Speaker 1: get into the week that will be. And then at
Speaker 1: ten thirty it is the Triumphant Return, Triumphant Return, I
Speaker 1: tell you, Tyler Terrens from Apple TV and MLS Coverage.
Speaker 1: He's going to drop by for the first time in
Speaker 1: a long time, and we welcome Tyler back to the
Speaker 1: morning show to discuss the things that's the official term.
Speaker 1: So it is today's show wall Pass Wednesday is brought
Speaker 1: to you by the letter Tyler Pilgrim Dylan Butler, although
Speaker 1: there is no Tyler in Dylan and in the word Dylan,
Speaker 1: and then Tyler Arran's joining us at ten thirty. Busy
Speaker 1: night last night on the network. It was forty five
Speaker 1: minute delay at Kennessel Mountain. And I know that I
Speaker 1: know that this will shock each and every one of you,
Speaker 1: but traffic in Atlanta is a pain in the you
Speaker 1: know what. And last night for Senior Night at Kennesaum Mountain,
Speaker 1: New Manchester, coming from Douglas County in a region that
Speaker 1: goes from basically Roame to Douglasville and is like a
Speaker 1: triangle points in between. New Manchester was forty five minutes
Speaker 1: late and everything the Senior Night got pushed back and
Speaker 1: I think we ended up getting off the year about
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock. And so it was a busy night for
Speaker 1: Kennesaum Mountain. They ended up getting the sweep in a
Speaker 1: boys and girls action and they needed it to keep
Speaker 1: the pee, keep the pace on the boys side in
Speaker 1: region play and get into the mix and the discussion
Speaker 1: trying to get into the playoffs on the girls side,
Speaker 1: so a big win for both Kennesaum Mountain on the
Speaker 1: boys and girls sides last night against New Manchester. No
Speaker 1: games today, but at noon we do have soccer as
Speaker 1: in Session and we will catch up with our friends
Speaker 1: at Jefferson and we will catch up with our friends
Speaker 1: in Meta and maybe a couple of others. So we'll
Speaker 1: literally we're on at noon. We'll see who shows up
Speaker 1: and however long they're there, and so we'll discuss everything.
Speaker 1: Soccer's in Session presented by our friends at Kaiser Permanente
Speaker 1: will take the tour of the high school game and
Speaker 1: we'll go from twelve to one. We don't have a
Speaker 1: game today, we do have games tomorrow and we do
Speaker 1: have games on Friday. So here's the rundown as we
Speaker 1: know them for the remainder of the week, guests and otherwise.
Speaker 1: All right, so you know what's happening today now tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Lloyd Hours a technical director from the Marshall Island Soccer Federation.
Speaker 2: He's going to join us at nine oh five.
Speaker 1: He's going to bat lead off and we're going to
Speaker 1: discuss everything going on with their fundraiser and their Kickstarter campaign,
Speaker 1: trying to get folks to invest in the tournament, the
Speaker 1: Outrigger Cup that is planned for August in spring deal
Speaker 1: Arkansas at John Brown University, with the Marshall Islands and
Speaker 1: three other US territories competing for that entire week. You're
Speaker 1: going to have two matches on the fourteenth, championship game
Speaker 1: in a third place game I think on the sixteenth,
Speaker 1: so Thursday Saturday, they're going to be there the whole week.
Speaker 1: Kickstarter campaigns up and running. They're looking for a twenty
Speaker 1: six thousand dollars target. I think they're already a third
Speaker 1: of the way. They are a little more than a
Speaker 1: week and thanks to everybody who has invested to the
Speaker 1: point that they have. And yeah, we're probably going so
Speaker 1: we might be doing the Morning Show from Arkansas in
Speaker 1: mid August. So Lloyd hours at all, probably Matt Webb
Speaker 1: from Marketing Communications joining us as well to kind of
Speaker 1: get the breakdown of everything. We got to find out
Speaker 1: what happened with Lloyd on the last trip. I have
Speaker 1: to find out with Matt, what's going on with the
Speaker 1: Kickstarter campaign, all those things. And that'll be bat and
Speaker 1: lead off tomorrow. Then the Power Hour and Hour number two.
Speaker 1: It's you know, and Nico breaking down going around the
Speaker 1: world in thirty minutes and then getting Nico Modano's thoughts.
Speaker 1: Paulo Riola was put on the season ending injury list.
Speaker 1: What does Seattle do to try to fill that space?
Speaker 1: Are they confident with who they have coming up from
Speaker 1: Tacoma and who's on the roster?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Do they go digging Nico eluded last week into chasing
Speaker 1: after someone with the available game that they have. We'll
Speaker 1: get the update on that tomorrow, get the update on
Speaker 1: Nico Ladero and what it was like for Houston to
Speaker 1: visit Seattle last week, and we'll get all that stuff
Speaker 1: in Hour number two. Then Thursday afternoon and evening. Sorry,
Speaker 1: another visit to Perry for US Warner Robins and Perry.
Speaker 1: The double header is going to be on the network
Speaker 1: at soccer down here dot mixlore dot com. And it
Speaker 1: is also going to be available later on an archive
Speaker 1: and things like that. So Warner Robinson Perry Tomorrow afternoon
Speaker 1: and evening for the network, brought to his buyer friends
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Speaker 1: Friday, it is Glenn Crooks is going to join us
Speaker 1: at nine oh five. Glenn's gonna bat lead off and
Speaker 1: let us know what's going on in the world of NYCFC.
Speaker 1: We'll probably talk a little Georgia football, maybe some Georgia
Speaker 1: basketball with the UGA grad see if our friends from
Speaker 1: Beyond Goals Menering can join us at nine point thirty
Speaker 1: and will break down what's on their minds with what
Speaker 1: happened with the US collapse, Ian Nations League, whatever else
Speaker 1: is on either Michael Parkhurst or Greg Garza or both
Speaker 1: of their minds.
Speaker 2: We've yet to have a show with the both of them.
Speaker 1: I think that'd be kind of cool at at some point,
Speaker 1: maybe at the end of the year, you know, like
Speaker 1: the last show of the year for them, both of
Speaker 1: them come on during the holiday season.
Speaker 2: We talked about it then.
Speaker 1: But hopefully Beyond Goals Menering joining us at nine point
Speaker 1: thirty and then we can whip around pat and pending
Speaker 1: trademark coming center hopefully rather than later. At last hour
Speaker 1: of the week, we go through everything going on. Get
Speaker 1: you ready for the weekend in Major League Soccer. Then
Speaker 1: it is a double header for high school. Actually, well
Speaker 1: it's not a double header. It's two channels going at once.
Speaker 1: It's SDH one and two going Friday night. Drew, Dickinson
Speaker 1: and I will be at the Battle of Five Forks
Speaker 1: Trickham for Parkview and Brookwood, and Jason and the rest
Speaker 1: of the band will be out at Sharp Stadium in
Speaker 1: Covington for a big region matchup north of Kony and
Speaker 1: East Side, and so SDH one and two will be
Speaker 1: fired up on Friday. So it is two channels on
Speaker 1: Friday for high school presented by Kaiser Permanente. The Friday
Speaker 1: Show on the morning to get you ready for the
Speaker 1: weekend with the guests that are there, Glenn Crooks maybe
Speaker 1: Beyond Goals and get you ready for the weekend. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: Marshall Islands and The Power Hour with Nino and Nico, Warner,
Speaker 1: Robinson Perry that evening live from Saint clair Field on
Speaker 1: the campus of Perry High School. So Warner, Robins and Perry.
Speaker 1: Then at noon today once again Soccer's in Session presented
Speaker 1: by Kaiser Permanente. Kaiser Permanente Great Sponsors areing the SDH
Speaker 1: Network and that gets us back to where we are
Speaker 1: right now. Now that's a lot Morning de Graham. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lot here for the week. But that's the
Speaker 1: way we like it, honestly, literally, really looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Very very busy Morning, David, Morning d Graham. And that's
Speaker 1: the way things are right now this time of year. Busy, busy, busy, busy, busy,
Speaker 1: but we like it busy. Once again, the high school
Speaker 1: game we have finally, by the way, you know how
Speaker 1: Jason has the four page schematic of where we would
Speaker 1: like to go and cover things. We finally turned to
Speaker 1: page two. Finally turned to page two, and so you're
Speaker 1: looking at all of that action. And then you have
Speaker 1: Landing United in NYCFC on Saturday night, and then you
Speaker 1: have the twos in Chattanooga, which reminds me we probably
Speaker 1: need to catch up with Chris Nugent and find out
Speaker 1: what's going on with Chattanooga FC as they get ready
Speaker 1: for the matchup with it Lanty United too at the
Speaker 1: Fraction on Sunday night. So yeah, busy week and the
Speaker 1: weekend is going to be just as busy. So once again,
Speaker 1: thanks to all of you folks for being a part
Speaker 1: of it that you always are. And good morning, so
Speaker 1: hopefully you got your caffeine ready to go, and we'll
Speaker 1: discuss the things. That's the real important, the real important
Speaker 1: terminology is the things from our buddy Ben Jacobs and
Speaker 1: for Britzia Romana. We actually do know now the price
Speaker 1: tag that folks are going to be at the price tag,
Speaker 1: but the the hoosy what's it's the payouts that you're
Speaker 1: gonna get for everything going on involving the FIFA Club
Speaker 1: World Cup if you win it, in addition to taking
Speaker 1: the uh not the Interstellar? What was the movie with
Speaker 1: Jody Foster and when she goes through the time portal
Speaker 1: and she it's the spinning the spinning hamster wheel that
Speaker 1: goes three hundred and sixty degrees.
Speaker 2: I can't think of it. What's the Jony Foster movie?
Speaker 1: It's not Interstellar, it's the it's the uh filmography. It's
Speaker 1: the one where she was in outer space or not? No,
Speaker 1: not no, not that no, no, Uh, where's my IMDb
Speaker 1: little help? Jody Foster filmography? Okay, so it was Jody Foster.
Speaker 1: Where's my filmography?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Not Eligium, not Carnage, Motherhood, not Flight plan.
Speaker 2: I don't think it was.
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't flight plan contact and contact was where
Speaker 1: like they had the big spinning wheel and everything. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of like, uh, FIFA met contact to get
Speaker 1: the trophy. And so we know now or we now
Speaker 1: know both are both are still acceptable. I think we
Speaker 1: now know the out for the Club World Cup winner.
Speaker 1: The Club World Cup gets one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: million bones, biggest prize money for a club football tournament
Speaker 1: over a seven game format, according to our buddy Bend
Speaker 1: Jacobs once again June fourteenth through July thirteen, US Manchester
Speaker 1: City and Chelsea thirty two clubs participation prize pool say
Speaker 1: that ten times fast participation prize pool? Is that a
Speaker 1: pledg pin on your uniform participation prize pool? Five hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five million dollars. I'd love to know where
Speaker 1: that money's coming from, considering that the TV contract ain't
Speaker 1: for five twenty five. So we'll bring in Tyler and
Speaker 1: we'll talk Club World Cup to start things off and
Speaker 1: find the.
Speaker 2: Smirk on his face in the green room to start
Speaker 2: Oh brother, uhh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this morning we find out what the payout is
Speaker 1: for the Club World Cup for a billion dollar tournament, sorry,
Speaker 1: an alleged billion dollar tournament, and it is uh it
Speaker 1: is an adventure for it to be shown on over
Speaker 1: the air television, but sure it's a billion dollars and
Speaker 1: the winner of the whole thing ends up getting five
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty.
Speaker 2: Five million dollars.
Speaker 1: Four hundred and seventy five million for sporting performance. This
Speaker 1: covers wins bonuses for each match, the same for every club,
Speaker 1: and so there is actually a minimum participation fee for
Speaker 1: the big guns. According to our buddy Ben Jacobs, Chelsea,
Speaker 1: Manchester City, Real, Madrid, Bayern PSG expected to receive a
Speaker 1: minimum participation fee of almost forty million bucks. Then you
Speaker 1: get the win by win, in the round by round,
Speaker 1: you get more for winning. You get something. For a draw,
Speaker 1: you get like, you know, seven dollars and twenty eight
Speaker 1: cents that you can go to the snack machine and
Speaker 1: get some stuff forward. You get more for a win,
Speaker 1: You get like maybe twelve bucks there, and then you
Speaker 1: get out of group you get more there. You maybe
Speaker 1: get handed to twenty and so the European clubs for participating,
Speaker 1: for packing up their lives and coming over here for
Speaker 1: a month could be anywhere from twelve point eight one
Speaker 1: to thirty eight point one nine million dollars. Commo Ball
Speaker 1: clubs get fifteen to enter Conca Calf Calf and AFCON
Speaker 1: get nine point five five. Ocean You teams get at
Speaker 1: least three point five eight for walking in the door,
Speaker 1: two million for a win, one million for a draw.
Speaker 2: I was off by a couple of bucks.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to figure out if I'm a player,
Speaker 3: how much am I getting?
Speaker 2: What's in it for me?
Speaker 3: That's that's what I want to know.
Speaker 2: What's my payout? Yep, what's in it for me?
Speaker 3: I'll like, if I'm one of the those European clubs,
Speaker 3: uh huh, I need a million minimum.
Speaker 1: It's like I need a meal. It's like, so what's
Speaker 1: this worth? What's this worth? What is this worth to me?
Speaker 3: Forget you know, winning a game and having enough money
Speaker 3: to then go to the varsity. Uh huh, I want
Speaker 3: enough money to then go and buy the varsity.
Speaker 1: Well no, well no, but see but the thing is, though,
Speaker 1: if you end up buying the varsity, then it could
Speaker 1: be spoiled and it would not end up being the
Speaker 1: same varsity that we know and love.
Speaker 3: That's true, So it din't change nothing.
Speaker 1: Well, but where's the joy in that? If you're sitting
Speaker 1: there and you've got money, Like, seriously, think about it.
Speaker 1: If you're if you're like a mega owner of a club,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what mega owner is. Just insert mega owner here.
Speaker 1: And I know that we all have mega owners in
Speaker 1: our brains that we sit there and we reference in
Speaker 1: these situations where it's like, I want all the toys.
Speaker 1: I want to go to FA, I want to go
Speaker 1: to Sharper Image, and I just I want I want
Speaker 1: the levitating chair, I want the vibrating chair, I want
Speaker 1: the lava lamp. I want the remote controlled helicopter. You
Speaker 1: know I want I want the you know, the the
Speaker 1: rotating coat hangers where I can sit there and figure
Speaker 1: out what suit I'm wearing. And you have your own
Speaker 1: like little laundromat deal inside your own house with that.
Speaker 1: For folks that want to go into sharper Image and
Speaker 1: buy all that stuff, you just want to buy it,
Speaker 1: and you want to sit there and go.
Speaker 2: What can I do to change the menu?
Speaker 1: Nothing, leave it alone, nobody, No, But the menu needs
Speaker 1: to be changed. Why Well, because I'm buying it. Therefore
Speaker 1: I want to change the menu to reflect what I want.
Speaker 1: It's not about what you want.
Speaker 3: It's about what they want those people. But I would
Speaker 3: change one thing. I'm sorry I did lie. If I
Speaker 3: if I if I win the Club World Cup or
Speaker 3: participate in it in any way, and I'll buy the Varsity. Oh,
Speaker 3: I'm making it mandatory that every person that enters that
Speaker 3: door gets a little Varsity hat.
Speaker 2: Well true, but here here's what here's.
Speaker 1: What I would mandate if you, if you go to
Speaker 1: the if you buy the Varsity sign on every door
Speaker 1: walking in, doesn't matter which branch office of the Varsity
Speaker 1: you're talking about. Here, here's the menu. The menu you
Speaker 1: post to the outside, you post it on the glass.
Speaker 1: So when you are about to walk in, first thing
Speaker 1: you see is a menu, big sign. Decide what you
Speaker 1: want right here, because nine times out of seven, there's
Speaker 1: always going to be a couple of folks who are
Speaker 1: going to be standing there and literally they're going to
Speaker 1: be like this, They're going to be like uh huh.
Speaker 1: And you have all of those folks that have been
Speaker 1: there for thirty five or forty years and they're yelling
Speaker 1: what do you have?
Speaker 3: And then yeah, they're just like what do you have?
Speaker 3: What do you have? And I know you don't know
Speaker 3: you're freaking doing. This place has been here for one
Speaker 3: hundred years.
Speaker 1: Hurry up.
Speaker 2: And it's like, I don't this is my first time here.
Speaker 2: What do I want? No, that's not how this works.
Speaker 3: It's either a dog or some really greasy fries in
Speaker 3: any rings, like, there's only a couple of options here.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. Ask the guy that has literally
Speaker 3: worked here his entire life, and he will get you
Speaker 3: the best thing on the menu. That's all you gotta do.
Speaker 1: Oh uh what to do? See now, I'm promoting what
Speaker 1: we're talking about here. Uh, when you buy a restaurant,
Speaker 1: and maybe some soccer, maybe maybe some Atlanta United, but
Speaker 1: that but always, I swear, there's when you walk into
Speaker 1: you and you walk into and I say this knowing
Speaker 1: full well that you know, we have been raised here
Speaker 1: and we know protocol and we know what to do.
Speaker 1: But they're always and I'm guessing that we probably should
Speaker 1: be maybe show a little bit of patience with these
Speaker 1: individuals who are wandering in for the first time and
Speaker 1: they get there, you know, they get their uh plastic
Speaker 1: uh you know varsity server's hat that you know, But
Speaker 1: if you don't know what you want, just back away,
Speaker 1: back away from the counter.
Speaker 3: There's like a hundred registers like just back up until
Speaker 3: you decide and then you can find one that's open.
Speaker 3: I promise, I promise.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Last year in the I think it was in the preseason,
Speaker 3: right before the season started, I I had a I'm
Speaker 3: gonna see if I can find him and I'll share
Speaker 3: them again. But I had AI create some Atlanta United
Speaker 3: Cross Varsity.
Speaker 2: So please tell me that you created a frosted orange kit. There.
Speaker 3: There was a frosted orange kit there. And I actually
Speaker 3: didn't tell it to do that. I got, you know,
Speaker 3: you give you know the prompt for AI, and it's
Speaker 3: you Just I wanted it to do its own thing.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to tell it exactly what to do.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It came up with some some wild ones. Really, I'll
Speaker 3: see if I can find them and share them.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that there was probably something that's akin to
Speaker 1: the onion rings and a stack or the fries.
Speaker 3: And yeah, there was a fry one like the.
Speaker 1: Burned fry eyes on the edges and it ends up
Speaker 1: like it's a white jersey, except it has the burned
Speaker 1: fries on the edges and on everything.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, A.
Speaker 1: See now the frosted the frosted Orange Varsity kit. That's
Speaker 1: got some promise because because you've got the peach you know,
Speaker 1: we we had the Peach Kid early on in the
Speaker 1: lifespan of Atlanta United. But the frosted Orange kit, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's got a lot of promise.
Speaker 3: It does you know? While we're talking, I'll have it.
Speaker 3: Run a frosted Orange.
Speaker 1: You're gonna run an AI frosted Orange kid. Yeah, please
Speaker 1: post it to all of the media that is social.
Speaker 1: I know that we're supposed to talk soccer here a
Speaker 1: little bit, so I guess we should kind of steer
Speaker 1: in that direction. So that was opening Kickoff Brods by
Speaker 1: our friends, Kickoff Coffee and dot Com and the Varsity.
Speaker 2: Well do you have so?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, that once again, it's just stuff that pops
Speaker 1: into our head here on a morning show when you
Speaker 1: look back at what happened with FC Cincinnati and uh wow,
Speaker 1: if you want you want AI to do a Skyline
Speaker 1: Chili kit for.
Speaker 3: Nope, or.
Speaker 1: Or maybe a Hughtie Delight kit. You know, well, but
Speaker 1: that's the thing. It's like, so what kind of what
Speaker 1: kind of beer? What kind of beer do you what
Speaker 1: do you what kind of.
Speaker 2: Beer do you want? Hugh to pole Light? What do
Speaker 2: you call it up there? Yeah, Hughty Delight what?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see I could definitely see a Skyline
Speaker 1: chili kit for f C Cincinnati out of AI. Uh
Speaker 1: so then what would you do for Well, for ny CFC,
Speaker 1: you could probably do a pigeon droppings kit.
Speaker 3: Oh that's not where I was going. I like it
Speaker 3: because why not crap on New York City.
Speaker 2: That's what they call they call themselves the Pigeons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, like an actual skyline Well, hey,
Speaker 3: let's go with the pigeon.
Speaker 1: Dropping So you said it's like the Yank the Yankee
Speaker 1: Stadium U twelve kid or something, and make it, like
Speaker 1: you twelve size the kit to where it's like a
Speaker 1: youth small and that's the only size that comes in
Speaker 1: as kind of a riff on NYC.
Speaker 3: Just making a baseball jersey with the Yankee pinchin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well hey that would probably sell, And that probably
Speaker 1: would and you'd have to do a Mets version for
Speaker 1: when they go and play at City Field, and then
Speaker 1: you'd probably have to do a Red Bulls version for
Speaker 1: when they go play at SI.
Speaker 3: Yeah. This is true.
Speaker 1: So now that you've had a couple of days to digest,
Speaker 1: and I know that you and the fan base and
Speaker 1: the viewership over it to SNS have had the chance
Speaker 1: to kind of digest what happened with f C Cincinnati
Speaker 1: and thanks to our buddy own goal getting a point
Speaker 1: out of it. What are some of your big takeaways
Speaker 1: now that you've had a couple of days to think
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 3: You know, this was a Going into this game, I
Speaker 3: thought it has the potential to raise more questions than answers.
Speaker 3: I really thought, you know, you had you were going
Speaker 3: to see a lot of potential changes in terms of
Speaker 3: like where players you know, did really well where maybe
Speaker 3: they didn't. I thought you had two players that absolutely
Speaker 3: needed to have a big game because it was a
Speaker 3: golden opportunity, and that was Ran Chuck and Shonda Silva.
Speaker 3: Saba getting pushed over to the right. Obviously, that's one
Speaker 3: of the big big stories. I thought, this is by
Speaker 3: far his best game of the season so far. But
Speaker 3: I think as far as like the overall results, I
Speaker 3: think it's fair, if not a little frustrating. I mean,
Speaker 3: you you know, you give up a free kick in
Speaker 3: really dangerous territory, and then to add insult to injury,
Speaker 3: the ensuing deflection comes off the person who committed the
Speaker 3: foul that led to the free kick, and it's a goal.
Speaker 3: It is what it is, though that that happens. I'm
Speaker 3: not super concerned about that. The second goal by Cincinnati
Speaker 3: was a little more frustrating because it was just such
Speaker 3: disorganization by Atlanta United. But then on the other on
Speaker 3: the other hand, I mean, you had a phenomenal heads
Speaker 3: up play by cam In Togashi from Sava and then
Speaker 3: a finish by Lot that was way more difficult than
Speaker 3: he made it look. So you have a really good
Speaker 3: goal by both sides, and then you have, of course
Speaker 3: the on goal at the end to pull the equalizer.
Speaker 3: That was luck. Both teams have a good goal, both
Speaker 3: teams have a kind of a lucky goal. Whatever. I
Speaker 3: think a point is fair for both sides, because I don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think both both teams had moments where
Speaker 3: they probably deserved to win, and both had moments where
Speaker 3: they probably deserve to lose.
Speaker 1: You had a lot of absences for both teams, whether
Speaker 1: it was for injury or international duty or what have you,
Speaker 1: And for Cincinnati it was less absences, but it was
Speaker 1: in key positions, or you didn't have den K, you
Speaker 1: didn't have Miles. Miles of status was kind of up
Speaker 1: in the air because of injury, having been pulled after
Speaker 1: thirty and then his traditional sub Teenahadibi. I don't know
Speaker 1: how Hdibi is going to be in middle age, but
Speaker 1: you know teenage of dB is on national team duty.
Speaker 1: So Alvis Powell playing out of position. Nick Hagland, who'd
Speaker 1: only played a handful of minutes at FC Cincinnati two
Speaker 1: is being thrown into the.
Speaker 2: Fray at the back.
Speaker 1: So there's a There are a lot of dynamics that
Speaker 1: play here for a bunch of different reasons, and it
Speaker 1: came down to those depth minutes and those depth individuals
Speaker 1: that Ronnie Daila, Chris Henderson, Garth Logerway had the trust
Speaker 1: in either coming up through the academy, Will Riley coming
Speaker 1: back as an example of that, Matt Edward's being another
Speaker 1: example of that, or then finding someone like Toga She
Speaker 1: who you come in and I don't know how many
Speaker 1: people have it, you know, compute how heads up a
Speaker 1: play that is.
Speaker 2: We see it a lot of times overseas.
Speaker 1: In play where okay, you know we got to do
Speaker 1: something on the rush, and so someone goes in. You're
Speaker 1: confident even if you didn't touch it. You sit there,
Speaker 1: you're confident that your's you go and make the throw
Speaker 1: and then something keeps going. So to gay She, I
Speaker 1: think did a really underrated thing that we don't see
Speaker 1: a lot of for whatever reason here in the US,
Speaker 1: and it ended up contributing.
Speaker 2: To the goal.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I have been on a like a one man
Speaker 3: came in Togashi hype week based on I mean I
Speaker 3: like Tokushi, I really do not. I mean not just
Speaker 3: because of what he did in this game, but I
Speaker 3: just think the energy and I've said it on here before,
Speaker 3: the energy and kind of discipline that he brings is
Speaker 3: just it's it's kind of refreshing. And I talked about
Speaker 3: it in spaces and then on Sunday after everything, like
Speaker 3: when I see a play like that, it's so simple,
Speaker 3: but it is fundamental soccer. It is something that you know,
Speaker 3: like coaches try to beat into their you know, ten
Speaker 3: or twelve year old's heads literally like over and over
Speaker 3: again when you're a kid, because especially back then, you
Speaker 3: know when you're that age, you look you're trying to
Speaker 3: win the game, and part of winning the game might
Speaker 3: be catching the other team off guard, you know, kind
Speaker 3: of kind of.
Speaker 1: Not working quickly off us as alpha set piece situation,
Speaker 1: playing it short instead of taking the thirty eight minutes
Speaker 1: to sit there and set it up in direct traffic,
Speaker 1: something like that. A quick throw being assertive in those
Speaker 1: kinds of situations, all those quick thinking things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And I mean, you know, Atlanta and most
Speaker 3: teams typically they're gonna have your you know, maybe a
Speaker 3: midfield or full back they could throw in. But it's
Speaker 3: it's one of those things that if the opportunity to
Speaker 3: presents itself, take the throw in, like you see. And
Speaker 3: and also I gotta give credit to him too, because
Speaker 3: I know, excuse me.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and go ahead and hydrate, go for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm about to the throw in. I think there
Speaker 3: were some people saying that it came off you know,
Speaker 3: came in whatever, like you don't wait, played to the
Speaker 3: freaking whistle. So there's another fundamental pick the ball up.
Speaker 3: Take the throw in because you see that Saba is
Speaker 3: making a run and you only have one guy standing
Speaker 3: in front of you. He's wide open. Can't be offside
Speaker 3: on throw in. Take it quickly, let's go. Don't wait
Speaker 3: for Brooks Lennon to work his way up there so
Speaker 3: you can drop the ball to him and then figure
Speaker 3: it out like no, go Like this is this is
Speaker 3: fundamental soccer stuff. And it makes me happy when I
Speaker 3: see a professional player do fundamental things because fundamentals in
Speaker 3: any sport. And I'm not saying that this encapsulates like Cayman,
Speaker 3: but fundamentals can make a an average player way way
Speaker 3: way above average, you know, if you do the fundamentals right,
Speaker 3: and it's simple. Like the fact that we're having a
Speaker 3: conversation about a freaking throw in in a in a
Speaker 3: professional soccer match is is kind of insane because you
Speaker 3: just don't see stuff like that often, like just heads
Speaker 3: up play. I really enjoyed like just his his wherewithal
Speaker 3: to come in, you know, especially kind of coming in cold,
Speaker 3: not too too long before that and and saying hey,
Speaker 3: like let's go, and and so I don't know, I
Speaker 3: just I was really impressed with kind of his work rate.
Speaker 3: But then uh yeah, just his ability to kind of
Speaker 3: know when to continue the tempo and continue to push
Speaker 3: things because there is a time to slow the game
Speaker 3: down and throw in. That's not the time, and so
Speaker 3: I thought he read that perfectly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean when you have I mean, think of
Speaker 1: it like a boxing match. You know, when when you
Speaker 1: have when you're standing in the center of the ring
Speaker 1: and you hit that jab or you hit that uppercut
Speaker 1: and it causes your opponent to go back on their
Speaker 1: heels a little bit. That's not the time to sit
Speaker 1: there and go, Okay, I've got him going back into
Speaker 1: the ropes. I think I'll try and set him up
Speaker 1: with No, that's when if he's backtracking, that's when you
Speaker 1: sit there and you chase after you lunge with the
Speaker 1: straight jab, and you sit there and you try to
Speaker 1: knock him through the ropes and knock him out of
Speaker 1: the ring. That's not something where you're sitting there and
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, oh, what do I do now I've
Speaker 1: got him on his heels. No, that's when you push.
Speaker 1: And you got to see that with Togashi with something
Speaker 1: that is fundamentally unappreciated. I think in being aggressive off
Speaker 1: of three roll in lake to match, when you're chasing
Speaker 1: after an equalizer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like it's it's it's simple things like I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, fundamentals like I'm gonna keep saying it, but
Speaker 3: it's just I think it's just refreshing because you don't
Speaker 3: always see that. And it's not just in Atlanta thing.
Speaker 3: I mean in a lot of professional sports. You know.
Speaker 3: I think sometimes players think that the talent is just
Speaker 3: what can can keep them afloat. But if you take
Speaker 3: talent and then you combine it with just sticking to
Speaker 3: your roots and sticking to the fundamentals, like those two
Speaker 3: things are a deadly combination. But I think so many
Speaker 3: players get so caught up in the work rate part
Speaker 3: of it, like the working side of like being a
Speaker 3: professional athlete, that you go in you know, you get
Speaker 3: in your routine, you go to the gym, you go
Speaker 3: do the drills that you're told to do, and sometimes
Speaker 3: you kind of forget to like think on your own
Speaker 3: like you did when you were a kid, and maybe
Speaker 3: deviate from the plan a little bit because it's it's
Speaker 3: doing something fundamental and almost I think work that out
Speaker 3: of players in the modern game, and I think that's unfortunate.
Speaker 3: So it also says something too about Kyman Togashi with
Speaker 3: you know, he lived in Japan, he played in the
Speaker 3: j League for so long. The cultural differences there are
Speaker 3: a part of it, Like you take something in Japanese
Speaker 3: culture in general. I'm not just talking about soccer, but
Speaker 3: you take something basic and you do it to perfection.
Speaker 3: And I know, I feel like we're making a really, really,
Speaker 3: really big deal about something as simple as a throw in.
Speaker 3: But that's what it's all about, right It's it's about
Speaker 3: being aware of what's going on, about having your focus
Speaker 3: one on the game that's in front of you. And
Speaker 3: if the entire team would have that same mindset about
Speaker 3: focusing for one hundred percent of the game, this team
Speaker 3: would probably be undefeated right now.
Speaker 1: Wallpass Wednesday here on SDHAM and today's Walpass Wednesday is
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Speaker 1: SNS here in our number one and Tyler Terren's joining
Speaker 1: us at ten thirty. Dylan Butler will be joining us
Speaker 1: at the top of the hour to discuss everything as
Speaker 1: we kind of steer our discussion to Major League Soccer
Speaker 1: because of the absences that we had with Atlanta United,
Speaker 1: that meant that folks had to step up and step in.
Speaker 1: Matthew Edwards continued to step in and at right back,
Speaker 1: I mean at right center back. Basically he was part
Speaker 1: of the center back pairing. He was on the right
Speaker 1: hand side inside because no Steon gregorson. And then you
Speaker 1: had Will Riley, whom we've known since his time with
Speaker 1: the twos. You're sitting there and going, Okay, he's gonna
Speaker 1: if he continues his progression, he's really going to turn
Speaker 1: into something. Goes to Stanford, comes back, and by a
Speaker 1: lot of metrics, the conversations out there that it was
Speaker 1: by far one of the best starts that you could
Speaker 1: have seen from anyone in an Atlanta United uniform coming
Speaker 1: up being a young and having that kind of a start.
Speaker 1: Will Riley, by the way, if it wasn't for his
Speaker 1: yellow card, I'm fairly certain he would have had the
Speaker 1: highest soface score rating that went to SABA by the
Speaker 1: way point six. Here's all the different columns that Will
Speaker 1: Riley checked in on other than ninety minutes played, and
Speaker 1: we'll get to that separately. There was actually an XA.
Speaker 1: He did have the possibility of an assist eighty two
Speaker 1: touches eighty two percent passing irony not not escaping me.
Speaker 1: There two key passes one for three on the dribble
Speaker 1: nine of sixteen on his ground duels won, his only
Speaker 1: aerial duel fouled, was fouled five times. Yep, five times.
Speaker 1: Once again with Suinda Mendoza. That's another topic of conversation.
Speaker 1: Two clearances, three blocks, four picks, three total tackles and
Speaker 1: fouled five times. That's hitting it in every single category
Speaker 1: for Will Riley back in the matchup against Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: I thought, honestly, from the moment the opening whistle blue,
Speaker 3: I mean we were doing our watch along at the time,
Speaker 3: so I was watching this, you know, with a handful
Speaker 3: of people, and he was the one I wanted to
Speaker 3: focus on. I mean, you always have to keep an
Speaker 3: eye on the guy that's getting his first m last
Speaker 3: minutes right. And then of course Matt Edwards, which I
Speaker 3: got a really sidebar Matt Edwards, like I thought, he
Speaker 3: actually did a really, really good job. He's gonna get dinged.
Speaker 3: Of course, the story's going to be about the stupid
Speaker 3: free kick. But like when you're you know, fourth or
Speaker 3: fifth guy in line as a center back who's not
Speaker 3: really a center back, even though he's played it before.
Speaker 2: Have you done this before? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, go ahead, even though you're not supposed to
Speaker 3: be there. Technically like whatever, I'm not. I'm not mad
Speaker 3: at Matt at all. I thought he did. He did
Speaker 3: a solid job, made a mistake, got punished on it.
Speaker 3: It is what it is, Will Riley, though, I thought
Speaker 3: he just it wasn't You know. Sometimes you see players
Speaker 3: come in and their their intro, their debut, and they
Speaker 3: look good based on I think just the sheer adrenaline
Speaker 3: and moment. You know, like they rise to the occasion
Speaker 3: just on their athleticism and their excitement, and they also
Speaker 3: can make mistakes because of those same things. But I
Speaker 3: thought Will Riley, I think he did that. But I
Speaker 3: think he also played very intelligently. He played like a
Speaker 3: mature midfielder and a calm midfielder, which kind of goes
Speaker 3: against what I was just saying. But I think like
Speaker 3: in moments where he needed to make the smoother pass
Speaker 3: or the sometimes the riskier pass, sometimes the safe pass,
Speaker 3: just to kind of play out of pressure, he was
Speaker 3: doing all those things right. I thought that was very impressive,
Speaker 3: because you know, you tend to think all right first
Speaker 3: in a last minutes, this is going to get kind
Speaker 3: of helter skelter, It is gonna get a little crazy.
Speaker 3: But I thought Will throw to a level of maturity
Speaker 3: that I don't think people were expecting. I mean, again,
Speaker 3: we've seen him, you know before, coming up through the
Speaker 3: pipeline standing for everything else. But I think even by
Speaker 3: those standards of like people that have seen him before,
Speaker 3: I thought this was like very impressive by will.
Speaker 1: And you add to that the fact that he gets
Speaker 1: a yellow card in the twenty seventh minute, in the
Speaker 1: decisional chaos that was referred to as Rassindo Mendoza in
Speaker 1: the middle twenty seventh minute, he gets a yellow and
Speaker 1: I know that there was a train of thought that, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's his first start, you know, and outside of listening
Speaker 1: to Ronnie Dila postmatch where diala where coach was like,
Speaker 1: why would I sub him off, I'm sure that there
Speaker 1: was that trepidation by folks. Okay, let's get to the
Speaker 1: half million. Buh has been injured. It looked like Mattea's
Speaker 1: click started to warm up, but it didn't look positive
Speaker 1: and so that wasn't necessarily an option. So you you
Speaker 1: bring in Tokashi is a part of it instead all
Speaker 1: of these mitigating factors that are there and you're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out, Okay, clutch change, gears, hit the gas. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're in second. Now what do we do? Do we
Speaker 1: put it in neutral for a little bit. He played
Speaker 1: sixty two minutes on a yellow card in his first
Speaker 1: start in Major League soccer. I think that you can't
Speaker 1: sit there and ignore either. You mentioned the calmness that
Speaker 1: he approached it with. I mean a lot of folks
Speaker 1: would probably sit there get that yellow in the game
Speaker 1: state that we were in, and you're like, Okay, was
Speaker 1: that yellow? Was it orange? Do I need to do
Speaker 1: I need to back off? Do I need to you know,
Speaker 1: be less of who I am. Will Riley navigated the
Speaker 1: extra sixty minutes, got to the half, and then got
Speaker 1: through the second half, And I mean it was the
Speaker 1: navigation he had also, I thought was stellar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, And I think that's that's part of
Speaker 3: it too, Like I mean, should you have had the
Speaker 3: yellow in the first place, no, whatever, but you got
Speaker 3: one right, and then you got to deal with and
Speaker 3: especially you know, a defender, a midfielder having it yellow
Speaker 3: is a little probably a little more dangerous than maybe
Speaker 3: you know, a striker or a winger because you're gonna
Speaker 3: start getting picked on. And as a guy getting his
Speaker 3: first in last minutes. I think you did see Cincinnati
Speaker 3: maybe push him a little bit, but I thought he
Speaker 3: he kind of merged into it well. I thought he
Speaker 3: handled it very well. And I mean it was just
Speaker 3: like I said, it was very mature performance. And for him, yeah,
Speaker 3: to not let the kind of the monkey on the shoulder,
Speaker 3: yellow card waiting there, you know, kind of whispering in
Speaker 3: his ear like ha ha, you're so close to a
Speaker 3: red not messing with him like he was able to,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of brush the monkey off and say,
Speaker 3: all right, like we're good. I'm just gonna keep playing
Speaker 3: my game and maybe play it a little smarter, because
Speaker 3: I do have to be a little more careful. But
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna let that, you know, I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: let myself overthink it into being ineffective as a midfielder.
Speaker 3: I thought he was still just as effective after the
Speaker 3: yellow than he was before. So I just thought, like,
Speaker 3: you know, sometimes you look at like a game state
Speaker 3: and then you look at a player's game state and
Speaker 3: it kind of does you know, a wave from the
Speaker 3: heartbeat or whatever. I thought will in the best and
Speaker 3: I mean this in the best possible way, it went
Speaker 3: up and then he flat lined and it was just good,
Speaker 3: you know, it was just a good, steady performance all
Speaker 3: the way across. And I thought, I just I was
Speaker 3: truly impressed. Bob, I liked it a lot.
Speaker 2: The Sign of the Times si n Yeah, Sign of
Speaker 2: the Times.
Speaker 1: And keV c in the twitch pitch is mentioning how
Speaker 1: it is not the easiest task to keep a.
Speaker 2: Evander in check. And you had.
Speaker 1: Once again Tristan mulliam Baugh, who was out after forty
Speaker 1: You're having to navigate, Okay, what's the assignment, Who's going where? Who,
Speaker 1: what's the spacing? How are we doing all this? You
Speaker 1: mentioned Matt Edwards. Well, Riley is you know, right there
Speaker 1: in the heart of all of that discussion, and you
Speaker 1: have all of these folks that have been called upon,
Speaker 1: you got tapped, you're in, and I think you navigate it.
Speaker 2: Well, let me go.
Speaker 1: So now that we're on Evander's thought pattern here, let
Speaker 1: me let me check. And with Evander, by the way,
Speaker 1: he ended up with two goals, a nine point eight
Speaker 1: on SOFA score. I don't know, I didn't know if
Speaker 1: that was possible, but okay, nine point eight, two goals.
Speaker 1: But your XG plus x A, your your x output
Speaker 1: was only a point six eight, But you end up
Speaker 1: with a goal off a deflection on a set piece
Speaker 1: and then finding space while folks are trying to figure out, okay,
Speaker 1: do I mark, do you know? Do I push? Do
Speaker 1: I press? Evander finds the space and gets it into
Speaker 1: the net. So four shots on target, two shots blocked,
Speaker 1: the other two technically go in. One of five on
Speaker 1: the dribble. I think that speaks a lot to the
Speaker 1: defense for at Land United. One of five on the dribble,
Speaker 1: eighty two touches, eighty two percent, passing, two key passes,
Speaker 1: only one cross, two long balls. On the day, he
Speaker 1: only wins half of his duels. He was nine of
Speaker 1: nineteen lost both in the air understandably, so nine of
Speaker 1: seventeen on duels on the ground, which I think is interesting.
Speaker 1: Twenty times twenty two zero more than nineteen not quite
Speaker 1: twenty one twenties where you split your hand. Twenty times.
Speaker 1: Evander had possession taken from him by a Land United
Speaker 1: defense in that game on his eighty two touches, so
Speaker 1: that's basically twenty five percent of the time that there
Speaker 1: was a touch. Evander loses possession from Atlanta United's defense.
Speaker 1: Three fouls on the day. He was fouled four times,
Speaker 1: he was offside once, he had four tackles, and he
Speaker 1: had one time where he was dribbled past. So that's
Speaker 1: the numbers for Evander and they still give him a
Speaker 1: nine point eight because of the two goals on the board.
Speaker 3: The scores are so skewed.
Speaker 2: We so let me see here why yes they are.
Speaker 3: Let me see because I'm curious. We you know, when
Speaker 3: we do our our postmatch like our Sunday show or
Speaker 3: reaction show.
Speaker 1: Reaction, Yeah, I want to hear from you, we.
Speaker 3: Use fat mob okay, for no particular reason, but we
Speaker 3: just do. They gave him a nine point two.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: I just think you know, we're going back to Matt
Speaker 3: Edwards as well. You know there's twenty times that he
Speaker 3: was dispossessed or whatever it was. Matt Edwards was the
Speaker 3: reason for quite a few of those. Yes, And I
Speaker 3: thought it was interesting too, you know Avander was. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's playing as your traditional you know, attacking midfielder. He's
Speaker 3: getting involved. I mean in that part he did really well.
Speaker 3: Of course, he conversed the chances great. I mean, he
Speaker 3: did those things right. But after I think it was
Speaker 3: after the first goal, yeap, especially Matt started stepping way
Speaker 3: higher up to kind of go after Evander. And I
Speaker 3: haven't watched the second goal back enough to like determine
Speaker 3: exactly where it all went wrong. It definitely, you know,
Speaker 3: there was a some miscommunication there, but I thought like
Speaker 3: he he made it a point after that first goal
Speaker 3: to kind of put a little bit more pressure. And
Speaker 3: I know a lot of those dispossessions came from him
Speaker 3: kind of getting in Evander's face. And you know a
Speaker 3: guy that is technical as him two to you know,
Speaker 3: be one of five on the dribbles and get dispossessed
Speaker 3: so many times. Like that's like you said, that says
Speaker 3: a lot for Atlanta's defense. And and and again, Matt
Speaker 3: Edwards had a pretty good game minus the one really
Speaker 3: bad acts.
Speaker 2: What did fot Mob give Matt Edwards?
Speaker 3: By the way, fought Mob gave him.
Speaker 2: Because Sofa's care went harsh and gave him a six
Speaker 2: point four.
Speaker 3: Well, Fought Mob was much harsher eight wow. Okay, he
Speaker 3: was unfortunately the lowest rated Atlanta player. The lowest rated
Speaker 3: SENSI player was Powell for obvious.
Speaker 1: Reason six point five here on SOFA score. But uh,
Speaker 1: Pedro Amador was rated lowest on SOFA score to six
Speaker 1: point three. The back line for Atlanta United, just for
Speaker 1: comparison's sake, Amadora six to three, Derek is six point six,
Speaker 1: Matt Edwards with the yellow card dropped to a six
Speaker 1: point four, which to me means that if he didn't
Speaker 1: have the yellow he'd probably be like a six six
Speaker 1: or a six seven, and Brooks Lennon a six point five.
Speaker 1: So the lowest on the back line was Amador according
Speaker 1: to SOFA score.
Speaker 3: Uh pop mob, I mean, of course, like I said,
Speaker 3: Matt with the five point eight and Amador at a
Speaker 3: six point one, so he's pretty low. Then Williams at
Speaker 3: a six y five, Lennon at a six six, and
Speaker 3: then Brad Guzanne getting totally shafted with a six point two.
Speaker 1: Six point eight on soface score. So Brad four saves
Speaker 1: on the day, one punch clear, two saves from inside
Speaker 1: the box, fifty two touches, fifty six percent passing twenty
Speaker 1: five to forty five, eight of twenty six on long balls,
Speaker 1: two clearances for Brad on the day that gave him
Speaker 1: six point eight for SOFA score in the rankings. But
Speaker 1: another topic that I wanted to discuss with you. Was
Speaker 1: Saba on the right, and then because of the absences
Speaker 1: that we had with Atlanta United, that meant that you
Speaker 1: still had a lot of your veteran presence up top.
Speaker 1: Latte a Lot obviously with a goal that I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: I need to go back and look, but it was
Speaker 1: pretty blank and close on the second one that was
Speaker 1: waved off, and that meant that you had miran Chuk,
Speaker 1: Latte Lot and Saba with Shande on the left hand side,
Speaker 1: and because of Shandei on the left, I think Saba,
Speaker 1: don't I don't recall a whole lot of overlap with
Speaker 1: Shanday and Saba. I thought Saba stayed at home most
Speaker 1: of the day. Is my memory right there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think so and so Saba staying on the right
Speaker 2: hand side.
Speaker 1: Highest rated player according to SOFA score with a seven
Speaker 1: point six causing all kinds of havoc on the defensive
Speaker 1: left with Angele who once again in the color of
Speaker 1: your Own Adventure h foul calling and rule book Lucas
Speaker 1: Single got an early yellow and I was saying, okay,
Speaker 1: run at him, run at Lucas Single now now now now, now, literally,
Speaker 1: I'm like you know Mickey telling Rocky to go left
Speaker 1: handed in Rocky two, now, you know, And so Saba
Speaker 1: punches a seven point six active on the attacking right
Speaker 1: and making sure that Nick Hagland, who hadn't had a
Speaker 1: whole lot of minutes an angle on a yellow, really
Speaker 1: couldn't step out to challenge for fear of picking up
Speaker 1: that second yellow or getting fouls in the bad spots
Speaker 1: if your Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that that was always going to be kind
Speaker 3: of one of the keys to this game, right like
Speaker 3: for both teams, like go after the inexperienced guys or
Speaker 3: the guys that are playing at a position or whatever.
Speaker 3: I mean, no, now, yeah, you have to Saba and
Speaker 3: the entire right side I think just was lights out.
Speaker 3: I thought they were really, really good. I mean, we've
Speaker 3: thought about Kayman Tokushi when he came on. He got
Speaker 3: screwed entirely on fop mob by the way, one percent
Speaker 3: he got a six point two. I'm not happy with
Speaker 3: that at all. But you know, I think there was
Speaker 3: a lot of link up, a lot of connection on
Speaker 3: that right side, and then on the left side, I
Speaker 3: feel like it was almost null and void. It just
Speaker 3: didn't it didn't really happen for Shandi and maybe part
Speaker 3: of that is due to Pedro maybe not having the
Speaker 3: best game, and uh, you know, I think there's something
Speaker 3: to be said, maybe maybe Ammador with Riley kind of
Speaker 3: drifting over there a little bit, and then Silva, like
Speaker 3: those guys have had zero time together at all, So
Speaker 3: I think that there's definitely something to be said there.
Speaker 3: I just I wanted to see Shanday just step up
Speaker 3: a little bit more, you know, and like really grab
Speaker 3: that that left wing position and and make his own again.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's not that he had a terrible game,
Speaker 3: he was just kind of not not as effective, not there,
Speaker 3: like I think everybody wanted to see him, yeah, especially
Speaker 3: because like you know, during the week he talked a
Speaker 3: lot about you know, I mean, this is his opportunity,
Speaker 3: this is his moment, you know, to kind of get
Speaker 3: back in. Of course, edone's out for a while, but
Speaker 3: you had your attackers. It's not like it was the
Speaker 3: previous year's traditional trip to Ohio where you have no
Speaker 3: attackers and then maybe one like Sean Day. You had
Speaker 3: your target man, you had your other gual on the right,
Speaker 3: you had your number ten playing like you had opportunities
Speaker 3: to make something happen, and it just wasn't an effective
Speaker 3: down the left. But I think Saba, I think that
Speaker 3: right side just connected really really well. In the future,
Speaker 3: you just have to be a little mindful of not
Speaker 3: letting that become the main way that you attack, because
Speaker 3: then it becomes predictable, right Like, you've got to do
Speaker 3: it down both sides, you've got to do it through
Speaker 3: the middle. So but Saba a best game of the
Speaker 3: season before.
Speaker 1: And we got the news yesterday that right now it
Speaker 1: looks like Tristan is out for three weeks with a
Speaker 1: sprain and a strain.
Speaker 2: That's not the pair that you want when you're playing.
Speaker 2: You know, when you're playing.
Speaker 1: As an athlete, you don't you don't want that kind
Speaker 1: of a you don't want that kind of a pair
Speaker 1: when you're playing athletic poker. That's not the kind of
Speaker 1: pair that you want, a sprain and a strain. So
Speaker 1: you're looking at three weeks, which once again presents opportunity.
Speaker 3: Ah co host, Yeah, she's leaving, so she wanted to
Speaker 3: come say by you say bye.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: You got got some voice out of her today.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: Peace out girl, Scout but I mean it's so, so
Speaker 1: what what does what does the boss think? What does
Speaker 1: the co host think about what happened with Tristan being injured,
Speaker 1: out for three weeks and now creating more opportunities.
Speaker 3: Say, that's not good for Tristan.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know, well that's that well I think I
Speaker 1: think I got it. That's not good for Tristan out.
Speaker 1: I thought that's what I heard.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, it's frustrating from Tristan's perspective because
Speaker 3: he's kind of been in a resurgent, you know, a
Speaker 3: couple of games. This has been an opportunity for him,
Speaker 3: and he's he's been really solid, I think, And I
Speaker 3: mean you saw it when it happened, right like he
Speaker 3: made the tackle and then he went to go get up,
Speaker 3: and he kind of got up like at a weird angle,
Speaker 3: and you just knew when you saw it, like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, at first I thought was his ankle.
Speaker 1: I thought so too, because I thought he reached for
Speaker 1: a different ankle than it was, like the left ankle
Speaker 1: and the right knee.
Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, that's not a good combination.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep. And then but I think, and then when
Speaker 3: you're you're sitting here watching him get carted off. It's like,
Speaker 3: that's that's never a good sign. So, I mean it's frustrating. Thankfully,
Speaker 3: this team does have midfield depth, if they've got any
Speaker 3: depth for sure, And you know, I think you've got
Speaker 3: guys that are they're coming in and you're not missing
Speaker 3: a whole lot, Like they're bringing their strengths, but they're
Speaker 3: not really exacerbating any weaknesses. I think the midfield to me,
Speaker 3: has not been the problem at all for the team
Speaker 3: this season. It's actually been pretty solid in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you look at what we've seen when
Speaker 1: Mattea's click has been healthy with bart and his relationship
Speaker 1: with Click, and Tristan embracing what Ronnie Dila wants him
Speaker 1: to do in those positions, Jay Fortune continuing to evolve.
Speaker 1: So I mean you're looking at that group right there
Speaker 1: and you're like, yeah, okay, at one hundred percent, I'm
Speaker 1: digging that group in the midfield and what Ronnie Dila
Speaker 1: wants them to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I think, yeah, I think one of the
Speaker 3: focuses this year coming into the season. You know, and Dala,
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that. Dallas stated this I'm kind of
Speaker 3: just based on everything we saw in the preseason, everything
Speaker 3: that we did talk to Dyala about, going back to
Speaker 3: the Chattanooga game, play the ball forward, stop playing the
Speaker 3: ball backwards. I think you're seeing maybe a little bit
Speaker 3: more of some of these more attack minded midfielders being
Speaker 3: told like, hey, take a few more risks, play the
Speaker 3: ball forward, play in the guy. Like you have attackers
Speaker 3: up top who are really really good and really really talented,
Speaker 3: play to them. Don't always play the safe ball. And
Speaker 3: I think, like especially a Tristan Mayamba, when he came
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three, that was a breath of fresh
Speaker 3: air because it was like, oh, look at him. He's mobile,
Speaker 3: he's everywhere. He's you know, playing the ball forward. He's
Speaker 3: trying to play the connector does it always come off perfectly, No,
Speaker 3: but he's at least, you know, making those passes forward.
Speaker 3: I'd much rather you turn the ball over when you're
Speaker 3: playing it to your striker then when you're playing it
Speaker 3: back to a center back. So this has kind of
Speaker 3: been like a couple of games of him just being
Speaker 3: really solid, and I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: like three weeks for what we saw on the field
Speaker 3: is actually not that bad, because I was very concerned
Speaker 3: it was gonna be much longer. But then, you know,
Speaker 3: I just hope it doesn't ruin. You know, his his
Speaker 3: kind of flow that he had going on. But then
Speaker 3: the rest of the guys, you know, I mean we
Speaker 3: talked about Will Riley. Do I think you're just gonna
Speaker 3: automatically see him get tons of minutes? No, But I
Speaker 3: think like that was an amazing showing and it shows
Speaker 3: a lot of promise for him to develop, you know,
Speaker 3: going forward, Slish is coming back. I've seen a lot
Speaker 3: of Bartek Slish criticism. I don't know, man, I just
Speaker 3: I think low Ki he's probably been one of the
Speaker 3: better players in the field this season. I haven't had
Speaker 3: a problem with with Bartek. And then I think click,
Speaker 3: Like when he came on in this game, I actually
Speaker 3: thought he wasn't the best. But also he wasn't supposed
Speaker 3: to maybe play as many minutes as he did. He's
Speaker 3: coming off the flu, he's coming off a quadricep injury.
Speaker 3: Like you know, so if you're getting what you're getting
Speaker 3: out of you know, injuries, uh, players being out, you know,
Speaker 3: players maybe playing it half of their their capacity, like whatever,
Speaker 3: take all these factors in in the midfield is still
Speaker 3: not your problem. That's a good sign.
Speaker 1: So yes, I would stipulate to that. And by the way,
Speaker 1: a note from Mike Conti. We now know the man
Speaker 1: in the middle for the match against NYC on Saturday.
Speaker 1: We know that Kyle Atkins is your var and the
Speaker 1: man in the middle for the Pigeons and the Five Stripes. However,
Speaker 1: Philip Duyitch, yes, the man in the middle.
Speaker 3: I hope we get another one.
Speaker 2: Oh man, my favorite.
Speaker 1: Oh that is just that that's out there. So Philip
Speaker 1: Duyach the man in the middle at Mercedes Bens on
Speaker 1: Saturday for Atlanta United and NYC, if you would please
Speaker 1: circut the promo for me. Let me know what else
Speaker 1: is going on at Scarves and Spikes and what you
Speaker 1: guys have going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there, seven o'clock tonight, we'll do the live show.
Speaker 3: We'll be talking about the diala Derby that's coming up
Speaker 3: very nice, and we.
Speaker 2: Will have.
Speaker 3: Tyler Herron's opposite. Kendra des Saint Auban is going to
Speaker 3: be on with us. Okay, she'll be joining live from
Speaker 3: from taking her daughter to soccer practice like she did
Speaker 3: last year with us, which was a go. But yeah, no,
Speaker 3: it's a will have a good show and then I'm
Speaker 3: I'm actually not going to be there this weekend. I'll be,
Speaker 3: you know, keeping eye on the game, but I won't
Speaker 3: be at the Bens. But yeah, we'll just we'll be
Speaker 3: doing our normal coverage. We'll have things coming out and
Speaker 3: then yeah, check out the website.
Speaker 2: Website, what's on it? Yes, what he said.
Speaker 1: Yes, I will have another excused absence as well on
Speaker 1: Saturday because the Boss bought an anniversary present.
Speaker 2: Huh that requires my presence.
Speaker 1: Because if you buy an anniversary gift on only wanting
Speaker 1: shows up, that's not really good for him.
Speaker 3: That's yeah, that tends to not work out so well.
Speaker 1: So yes, so we are going to have a We're
Speaker 1: gonna have date night on Saturday for anniversary because this
Speaker 1: particular event was scheduled before the MLS schedule came out
Speaker 1: and so this is like non negotiable.
Speaker 2: Here's where it is.
Speaker 1: It's an anniversary president, So we're gonna we're gonna have
Speaker 1: that on Saturday. So I'll be, I will be I
Speaker 1: will be doing this as well, uh, you know, at
Speaker 1: the at the venue, kind of keeping an eye on things.
Speaker 1: As we go, but uh, as always my friend. It's
Speaker 1: always great to see you. Great to spend the midweek
Speaker 1: with you and all the variety of co hosts that
Speaker 1: you have at the studio to studio to Pilgrim.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and coming to get her two cents.
Speaker 2: Then, hey, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: I mean she knows that it was it was bad
Speaker 1: news with uh with Tristan. So no, it's a that's good.
Speaker 1: We get that kind of insight from the costa day Pilgrim.
Speaker 1: It's always good. Good to see my friend. Will catch
Speaker 1: up soon. You know, you can crash it any time.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Man, there he goes, and so that's a Tyler. Tyler's
Speaker 1: gonna go get hig and have his coffee. He's gonna
Speaker 1: go do his thing. And uh, he's probably gonna go
Speaker 1: racing out to the driveway and sit there and wave
Speaker 1: it folks on the way out.
Speaker 2: You know. It's like, yeah, we're good to see you,
Speaker 2: thanks for coming into the studio. That's that's and I'm gonna,
Speaker 2: you know, do my thing.
Speaker 1: So uh, Kesey's been in and once again Kefsey had
Speaker 1: an excellent point as well, involving youngins Oh oh okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so Tyler has done a public service and
Speaker 1: now he has shared the varsity kit. Oh oh see
Speaker 1: that is fantastic. That is fantastic. Go to atl Pilgrim
Speaker 1: on the two hundred and eighty character app. Oh good lord,
Speaker 1: it's a cream sickle kit. Well it's a frosted orange kid.
Speaker 1: Who am I kidding? But no, that looks the numbers
Speaker 1: are a little you know, a little dicey because they
Speaker 1: look like some of them are upside down.
Speaker 2: But no, that if they did that for a while,
Speaker 2: warm up Jersey.
Speaker 1: Oh, they could charge like nine thousand dollars and people
Speaker 1: would get that. Oh that's fantastic. Oh my god, that's great.
Speaker 1: KEVC bringing in the point about everybody else that is
Speaker 1: also getting minutes. Also the point with kefs once again
Speaker 1: for the U twenties, Luke Brennan. Knowah Cobb, DCQ all
Speaker 1: getting minutes with the us U twenty national teams in
Speaker 1: the U eighteens as well, but yeah, DCQ getting minutes,
Speaker 1: No a Cob getting minutes, got starts. Luke Brennan got
Speaker 1: a start, and I think he had a goal in
Speaker 1: the tournament early on, this early on, less than a
Speaker 1: week ago. So yeah, Luke Brennan knowah cob DCQ all
Speaker 1: getting minutes for the us U eighteens and U twenties.
Speaker 1: So that's also definitely a part of it. Will would
Speaker 1: buy the varsity and make the burgers bigger, and what
Speaker 1: you want to do, you want to keep them the
Speaker 1: same so people buy more burgers, maybe offer four packs
Speaker 1: and six packs or something like that. That's maybe what
Speaker 1: that's maybe what you would you do something like that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no consensus when it comes to bart and
Speaker 1: recent matches played forty five against Gibraltar and had a yellow.
Speaker 1: But that's the thing I think that uh, that you
Speaker 1: look at someone like with like Bartik Slish and you're seeing, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you're seeing a more physical side. He's not afraid
Speaker 1: to mix it up, not afraid to get in the piles,
Speaker 1: not afraid to sit there and let let everybody know
Speaker 1: what he's thinking.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Also the Chu Chu Darby in the Open Cup April second, Yes, Uh,
Speaker 1: the back and forth there we mentioned Chattanoogae f C.
Speaker 1: The fact that they're playing Red Wolves at Fort Finley
Speaker 1: in the next round of the Open Cup. As we
Speaker 1: mentioned with Kaylor Hodges yesterday, that will be an adventure
Speaker 1: an absolute adventure. Chattanooga FC, Chattanooga red Wolves, next round
Speaker 1: of Open Cup. You want to talk about dividing the
Speaker 1: section of the Southeastern United States, You get that divided,
Speaker 1: all right?
Speaker 2: Our number two and it's.
Speaker 1: Time to bring in our traditional hour number two person,
Speaker 1: Dylan Butler hanging out with us at MLS Soccer dot com.
Speaker 1: And Dylan is lighted. You've got lights on in your set?
Speaker 1: Sound I need to hear you.
Speaker 4: Sorry, it's literally just the sun. It's just natural lighting.
Speaker 2: Oh literally, Okay, I thought that.
Speaker 4: You No, I didn't bring in the special No.
Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't know if you had a key light
Speaker 1: or a fill or anything you had you had a
Speaker 1: key over there in the studio to the Butler.
Speaker 2: But no, that's natural lighting.
Speaker 4: Serial natural lighting.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, now that you are naturally lighted, yeah, uh
Speaker 1: coming up, And I'm not gonna I'm not gonna. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna waste any time.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a NYC coming down here to take
Speaker 1: on at Land United next time around, and and NYC
Speaker 1: away from a home and I guess I can include
Speaker 1: both venues since they've played at both Yankee Stadium and
Speaker 1: at other places not named Yankee Stadium this year for
Speaker 1: home matches. They score at home, but they don't score
Speaker 1: on the road. Is it just as easy as sitting
Speaker 1: there and saying, okay, it's a you know, it's roadies
Speaker 1: and things like that, and it's always tougher on the road.
Speaker 1: Or is there something to it where there's a hiccup
Speaker 1: in the system someplace and they've got to reboot the engine.
Speaker 2: What's going on? Do you think? Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, I don't, I don't. I mean, look, they went
Speaker 4: to they went to Columbus right last week, and they
Speaker 4: were under pressure for so much of the game. So
Speaker 4: credit to them to get not only a point on
Speaker 4: the road, but also a clean sheet, which I think
Speaker 4: it was their first one in fifteen matches. So you know,
Speaker 4: not that I need to tell Atlanta folks about how
Speaker 4: how important clean sheets are because uh, because they've also
Speaker 4: obviously been conceding goals. But yeah, listen, I don't, you know.
Speaker 4: I think it's it's just it's based on the match,
Speaker 4: and I think you know that they will I would
Speaker 4: suspect again be put under pressure by by Atlanta. I think, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, it's the it's the Ronnie Daila. You know
Speaker 4: Darby if you as will.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mm hmm.
Speaker 4: But but it sounds like to just from from from
Speaker 4: you know, I don't know. I mean you you're you're, you're,
Speaker 4: you're uh ground floor of this. But I guess you
Speaker 4: know some mixed reactions to his Atlanta to start.
Speaker 1: I guess, well, but and I think a lot of
Speaker 1: it has to do with the uh, the pressure of expectation.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it has to do with that,
Speaker 1: where you're going, Okay, we know what you've done. We
Speaker 1: know that the front office has spent all of the
Speaker 1: all of the denaro that they have and bringing in
Speaker 1: all of this talent. You drop twenty two in Latte
Speaker 1: lot and he's tied for third and MLS and scoring.
Speaker 1: But then you have all of the other dps that
Speaker 1: you're spending money on, you bring them to tayas click.
Speaker 1: DC United got fleeced because they had to. They had
Speaker 1: no choice in the matter.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Literally, the way that I've phrased it is that Landy
Speaker 1: United went to d C and was like, well we
Speaker 1: got a pack of Marlborough Reds, we have some singers,
Speaker 1: and we've got some big league chew And the front
Speaker 1: office for DC was like, yeah, okay, because they were
Speaker 1: they were over the financial barrel and pretty much had
Speaker 1: to take the sofa pizza that was being offered by
Speaker 1: Landy United's front office to take Mataya's Click off their hands.
Speaker 1: And they're still responsible for all of that, or for
Speaker 1: most of the salary for mateyas Click. And so the
Speaker 1: ex expectations of oh, okay, you're bringing him a taus
Speaker 1: click from DC. We know what he's done in the past, Oh,
Speaker 1: latte lot, We've seen all the highlight videos in the
Speaker 1: huddle tapes of what he did at Middlesbrough. Uh, all
Speaker 1: of these all of this money that's been spent in
Speaker 1: bringing folks in Garth Logerway now and Chris Anderson, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's it's their club. They it's we see what you're doing.
Speaker 1: This is yours. You're putting your stamp on it. So
Speaker 1: that pressure of expectation in adding in all of these pieces,
Speaker 1: I think that that's that's got to be a big
Speaker 1: part of this. It's like, all right, this is your club,
Speaker 1: we see what you're doing. All right, now it's time
Speaker 1: to boogie. And so, you know, the the idea of
Speaker 1: Ronnie Dilly coming in as new head coach. He has
Speaker 1: a philosophy and I and I understand the impatience. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I would sit here and go,
Speaker 1: it's got to have time to cook in game state.
Speaker 1: It can't just be And this is what Daila has said.
Speaker 1: It's like they've known each other for like two weeks,
Speaker 1: I mean two months, been together for two months trying
Speaker 1: to institute a system and a four two three one
Speaker 1: which we really have never seen before formationally out of
Speaker 1: the blocks, you know, when when the whistle blows, so
Speaker 1: that all of these new things that have to come together,
Speaker 1: combined with the pressure of expectation, I think is where
Speaker 1: you're coming from here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they're in a better you know, even
Speaker 4: though there was the results haven't been what fans would
Speaker 4: want early on. I think, uh, I think you know,
Speaker 4: I think, you know, just a little bit of patience
Speaker 4: for for for for folks in Atlanta. I think, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, considering the the roster and the investment made
Speaker 4: and and you know, I liked we talked about this before.
Speaker 4: I've liked Ronnie dila As when he was a coach
Speaker 4: at n CFC. So you know, I think, uh, I think,
Speaker 4: you know, there's thirty clubs in MLS. I think there's
Speaker 4: probably maybe half of those teams at least that that
Speaker 4: kind of wish they had Atlanta's problems right now.
Speaker 1: What is your best Ronnie Dla's story from his time
Speaker 1: up NYC to describe the kind of individual that he
Speaker 1: is and the kind of coach he is and what
Speaker 1: he demands from his players.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'm gonna be fair with you.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 4: So that was, uh, that was at the tail end
Speaker 4: of like of of where I would be like going
Speaker 4: regularly to the training and and and be out at
Speaker 4: their complex every week. But if you remember, like I went,
Speaker 4: that was right at the start of COVID. So I
Speaker 4: went to they had a pre season thing in the city,
Speaker 4: like a media day where I where I got to
Speaker 4: kind of hang out and talk with them. I thought
Speaker 4: it was a really good dude. They played a they
Speaker 4: played a Champions League at the time match at Red
Speaker 4: Bull Arena, and that's when everyone was like looking at
Speaker 4: texts like wait, Tom Hanks, what what COVID? What is
Speaker 4: going on?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And then the world shut down. So after that it
Speaker 4: was everything was virtual. Everything was zooms. So you know,
Speaker 4: he was he was unfortunately and I felt so bad
Speaker 4: for him, right because he had just moved here. He
Speaker 4: was living uh, he and his wife and child, they
Speaker 4: were living over in UH. I think they weren't hoboken
Speaker 4: across the river. Uh, and he was he just wants
Speaker 4: He's like, I can't wait, It's gonna be great New
Speaker 4: York City and then everything shuts down. So so I
Speaker 4: felt bad for him in that sense. Uh, you know,
Speaker 4: and then obviously, you know, it took so long for
Speaker 4: things to open up again. But he was on you know,
Speaker 4: I guess that unfortunately, you know, I, you know, Vieira
Speaker 4: and Christ before him, and Domain, like I had more
Speaker 4: of a personal relationship with them face to face, like
Speaker 4: in person than than than Ronnie, just because of you know,
Speaker 4: a global pandemic.
Speaker 1: It's a little thing called a yes. So from your
Speaker 1: interactions virtual and otherwise, how was he different from the
Speaker 1: predecessors there and dealing with Domain and Jason Christ and
Speaker 1: Patrick Vieira, How was he different? And how long did
Speaker 1: it take everybody do you think up there in the
Speaker 1: tri State to get adjusted to what Ronnie who Ronnie is?
Speaker 1: How he wanted to present things and philosophically, what was
Speaker 1: the level of patience from what you could gather.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean one thing I like, one thing you
Speaker 4: know I did like about him is his honesty. Like
Speaker 4: right away, he didn't pull punches with his players, you know,
Speaker 4: so if there was something he was upset about, or
Speaker 4: a certain player he was upset about a certain way
Speaker 4: they were playing, he called it out straight away, like
Speaker 4: it wasn't you know, he wasn't concerned about egos and situations.
Speaker 2: Like you know he was.
Speaker 4: He was.
Speaker 2: You know, he.
Speaker 4: Held everybody accountable for sure, so but also like you know,
Speaker 4: in a different way like he was. You know, they
Speaker 4: all had their own things like you know, Vieira was uh,
Speaker 4: you know, just like that kind of for lack of
Speaker 4: a better word, like that, you know, sophisticated, you know, European,
Speaker 4: like you know, just we went out to uh some
Speaker 4: French restaurant, I think in Manhattan after one of the
Speaker 4: seasons he had. He had some of the some of
Speaker 4: the reporters out and stuff, and uh yeah, it was
Speaker 4: it was funny because like they brought over food. He's like, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: you know, what.
Speaker 2: Do you have?
Speaker 4: You can make this right? And and uh I like yeah,
Speaker 4: of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's like we're gonna have that you guys are gonna
Speaker 4: try this, You're gonna like it, so you know, and
Speaker 4: then you hear the stories like when he left, you know,
Speaker 4: getting buying staff like you know, watches and things like that,
Speaker 4: Like just a different kind of guy, don't domein was
Speaker 4: the was you know, drinking wine and and and listening
Speaker 4: to jazz, going to jazz clubs in the city kind
Speaker 4: of guy. And and and Ronnie, you know, like he
Speaker 4: seemed like that guy that you probably really you know,
Speaker 4: have enjoy a couple of beers with, right Like, but again,
Speaker 4: didn't didn't have that opportunity. But I but it's you
Speaker 4: got the sense that the players definitely enjoyed playing for him.
Speaker 4: I think they also enjoyed his honesty as well, right Like,
Speaker 4: when when you're a straight shooter, you know, like you
Speaker 4: know exactly where you are, where things stands, You're you're
Speaker 4: not worried about different messaging. You know, he was pretty
Speaker 4: straightforward with all that.
Speaker 1: And that was the phrase that popped into my head
Speaker 1: when you were breaking all of this down, was straight shooter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's it's interesting to hear him in his press
Speaker 1: conference opportunities discuss Okay, you know, we need to be
Speaker 1: open and honest, and at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: if there are things that have gone wrong in a match,
Speaker 1: he's going to be the first person to stand up
Speaker 1: and sit there and say, Okay, then I need to
Speaker 1: look at me as well, because it starts with me,
Speaker 1: and I need to look at me and how just
Speaker 1: as much as looking at the players and how things
Speaker 1: were implemented, it starts with me, and I've got to
Speaker 1: look at myself here. I thought that was refreshing as well.
Speaker 4: I one hundred pent I agree. I agree with that.
Speaker 1: How rare is that these days where you have a
Speaker 1: manager's coaches whatever, sit there and say, first and foremost
Speaker 1: out of the blocks, all right, it's Harry Truman buck
Speaker 1: stops here and it's on my desk, and if something's wrong,
Speaker 1: I'm going to openly sit here and say it starts
Speaker 1: with me, and that's where we got to look. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't see folks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you hear it, well, you do hear that phrase,
Speaker 4: but it's almost like a like a tongue in cheek
Speaker 4: way they say it, you know, like I think back
Speaker 4: to you know, maybe some like Caleb Porter talk where
Speaker 4: you know, he'll say, you know, I guess, I guess
Speaker 4: I've got to do better or you know where he's
Speaker 4: not like straight up saying yes, you know, the buck
Speaker 4: stops at me. It's like, uh, you know, so you
Speaker 4: hear a roundabout way of some managers or coaches saying that, yeah,
Speaker 4: I got I have to coach better, you know, like
Speaker 4: it's on me. Like ultimately it's you know, it's a
Speaker 4: what's the what's the other cliche? It's a it's a
Speaker 4: results based business.
Speaker 2: Result driven business.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So that's a dollar in the jar if
Speaker 1: ever there was. I mean all the literally, if if
Speaker 1: you reference yourself in third person, it's a fiver. If
Speaker 1: a reporter does the how does it feel without acknowledging
Speaker 1: that you're doing that, you're asking how does it feel?
Speaker 2: Question?
Speaker 1: Out of the blocks, and you know, because I literally
Speaker 1: will sit there and say, I know it's a dollar
Speaker 1: in the jar by asking this, but how does it
Speaker 1: feel to do blank? So because I know instead or
Speaker 1: you know, talk to me about talk to me about this.
Speaker 2: Well, no I don't want it. I'm just waiting for that.
Speaker 1: Like Nick saban as a as a coach, I would
Speaker 1: have well, I would have wondered that one day well,
Speaker 1: coach talk to me about Well, no, I don't want it.
Speaker 2: I'm just waiting for that.
Speaker 4: That's phrased by the I never ever say, talk to
Speaker 4: me about. There's a good friend of mine is like
Speaker 4: a like a legend in high school sports broadcasting up here,
Speaker 4: my quick and that was, uh, he teaches broadcast journalism
Speaker 4: and that's like his biggest pet peeve, Like don't ever
Speaker 4: ask the question with talk to me about like just
Speaker 4: you just don't do it. So like when you say that,
Speaker 4: like it's like fingers on a chalkboard and hear.
Speaker 2: Him it is.
Speaker 1: It is When we look back at the week, that
Speaker 1: was how many more questions have been added to your
Speaker 1: dossier of questions so far? Are and has anything been
Speaker 1: reinforced coming out of the week, because oh, we haven't
Speaker 1: talked about we haven't talked about what happened in Montreal
Speaker 1: with what happened with Laurent Courtois. I went on a
Speaker 1: bit of a rant about it yesterday.
Speaker 4: Was it in French?
Speaker 2: I wish?
Speaker 1: I mean, if there was a French translator available to
Speaker 1: us here.
Speaker 2: At the network, I probably would have would have welcomed it.
Speaker 1: But you look at what's going on with Courtois, and
Speaker 1: everybody I think is pointing their finger once again at
Speaker 1: Joey Saputo, who is turning into George Steinbrenner if he
Speaker 1: hadn't already been George Steinbrenner.
Speaker 4: And when is he just gonna go ahead and take over?
Speaker 2: Like well, I mean to coach, well, who's gonna want
Speaker 2: that gig?
Speaker 1: Because of what we continually see out of c F
Speaker 1: Montreal and more specifically Joey Saputo about managers and things.
Speaker 1: It's like literally, when you win your twelfth match, that's
Speaker 1: when he grows tired of you and then you're gone.
Speaker 1: Who in their right mind is going to go and
Speaker 1: coach at CF Montreal that isn't already on the staff,
Speaker 1: that wasn't let go when Laurent Curtois was was let
Speaker 1: go to go oh and five out of the out
Speaker 1: of the blocks. Kefci, you are not wrong yet, KESI,
Speaker 1: you know, busting out the French. You know not wrong.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not going to I'm not gonna repeat it.
Speaker 1: But for those on the video side, it would have
Speaker 1: earned us our explicit rating, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: But who's gonna want that gig?
Speaker 1: You're oh and five your first seven are on the
Speaker 1: road because you can't play at the Big O because
Speaker 1: the umbrella's busted and you'd either have to bring in
Speaker 1: grass or you'd have to play on that nineteen seventies
Speaker 1: Welcome Matt imported from Riverfront or three River Stadium, and
Speaker 1: it's you're on the road, you're oh and five, you
Speaker 1: run out of gas in the fifty something minute and
Speaker 1: you get thumped. You're oh and five, you get impatient,
Speaker 1: you fire your manager. Who wants that gig?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 4: I don't know. But it's unfortunate because it's such a
Speaker 4: great city, right, it's one of my uh favorite road
Speaker 4: cities in MLS.
Speaker 1: Great crowds. Dot Suputo traditionally a really tough place to play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know, you you have that that kind
Speaker 4: of club partnership with Bologna and in Italy, so you
Speaker 4: know you can you can get some loans there the.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you figured that that cross relationship. That was
Speaker 1: the easy part with Bologna is like Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: loan you to Bologna or I'm gonna grab somebody from Bologna.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a multi club model.
Speaker 2: I get it. Yeah, that's gonna be there.
Speaker 4: But you're right, it's uh the owner of that.
Speaker 1: How much ish are you willing to put up with
Speaker 1: as a coach, knowing at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: what you may want, you're not gonna have happened because
Speaker 1: of the folks looking over your shoulder.
Speaker 2: The dude looking over your shoulder.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think ultimately it's it. It's the it's the
Speaker 4: it's the MLS assistant. I guess that wants to get
Speaker 4: head coaching, you know, get get take that next step
Speaker 4: into head coaching. I suppose maybe or you know a
Speaker 4: guy that coaches youth or or academy or decon division
Speaker 4: like somewhere else that wants to. But you're right.
Speaker 1: You know you had Tierryan Reed, you had Wilfred Nazi,
Speaker 1: and you scared both of them.
Speaker 2: Well, you didn't scare them away.
Speaker 1: You basically they basically were just like, yeah, I'm out, fam,
Speaker 1: I ain't playing with this. And it's just I mean,
Speaker 1: to your point, it's gonna have to be someone who
Speaker 1: is gonna sit there and see the opportunity for what
Speaker 1: it is, look at the brass ring and go, yeah,
Speaker 1: I need to I want to. I want a head
Speaker 1: coaching gig on my resume. I can put up with
Speaker 1: all the ish. So you're gonna have to have a
Speaker 1: strong personality going in, and you're gonna have to win
Speaker 1: the press or have a strong personality. Know that you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to put up with the owner who's gonna
Speaker 1: be constantly chirping in your ear. He probably goes to
Speaker 1: the same ownership classes as Jerry Jones. And and you
Speaker 1: know what, George Steinbrenner, did you know, It's like, it's
Speaker 1: just to me. It is a great city, it is
Speaker 1: a great football town. But you have to put up
Speaker 1: with the ish of this owner. And I've just you're
Speaker 1: gonna and I said this yesterday, and I will remind me.
Speaker 1: I will remind folks again. You have two more matches
Speaker 1: on the road, and it is Chicago and it is.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, who's the other one?
Speaker 1: Uh? Hang on, but I but what I said was
Speaker 1: I said, if if c F Montreal wins either of
Speaker 1: those two matchups, then I will drink diet doctor. I
Speaker 1: will drink diet mountain dew.
Speaker 4: On the air, it's Columbus.
Speaker 2: Is the other one? Columbus? Thank you?
Speaker 1: So it's Chicago and Columbus. If you get full points
Speaker 1: in either one of those matches to avoid going your
Speaker 1: first seven without a win, I will drink diet mountain
Speaker 1: dew in the air, and people know how repulsed I
Speaker 1: am at diet mountain dew.
Speaker 4: I mean, considering the clubs there, I think you're in
Speaker 4: good shape.
Speaker 1: Well from your lips. I mean, it's just you know,
Speaker 1: from your lips to on high. But it's just and
Speaker 1: you probably could barring something unforeseen. You know, when you
Speaker 1: get that run of home matches, when you're back in
Speaker 1: your building because of the snowfall that is finally being
Speaker 1: pushed off to the side and maybe dumped inside the
Speaker 1: big o' because nothing else can go on in there,
Speaker 1: you're you're right in the season off. I would think
Speaker 1: after the first seven matches, I would say, wouldn't you
Speaker 1: are you done? Or because there are nine you look
Speaker 1: for nine and you figure out what the difference is.
Speaker 4: I know, I mean it's a good argument. Again. You know,
Speaker 4: whenever there's teams that are trying to climb up from
Speaker 4: the bottom, I always try to ask the follow up question,
Speaker 4: which is and who's dropping down? And you're you're you're
Speaker 4: not seeing that you're seeing improvement from from teams that
Speaker 4: have been around that same area. Chicago has made improvements
Speaker 4: this year. Charlotte appears to be taking that next step
Speaker 4: forward as well, right into into probably the upper tier
Speaker 4: of the East. We've talked about Atlanta before. They're going
Speaker 4: to be better. The two New York's are gonna be good.
Speaker 4: Cincinnati once they get you know, they are any center
Speaker 4: back back, they're gonna be better. So yeah, so like
Speaker 4: so to move up, someone has to drop down. And
Speaker 4: I don't see anyone else. You know, it looks like it's, uh,
Speaker 4: it's the Canadians right now combined, you know, Montreal and
Speaker 4: Toronto that that are destined to to be well below
Speaker 4: that table.
Speaker 1: Oh well, and then I mean Toronto since since we're
Speaker 1: talking about since we're talking about Canada, I think Van
Speaker 1: Vancouver to me is the stunner of the three where
Speaker 1: and for the good reason that they came out of
Speaker 1: the blocks. You dispose of Vanny Sartini, which to me
Speaker 1: was a shock. And I think Vanny's I think, just
Speaker 1: chilling right now staring at the boats going up and
Speaker 1: down the Western seaboard. And you bring in a manager
Speaker 1: and everybody's like, oh, I don't know about this, but
Speaker 1: your offense didn't change and he hasn't messed things up yet.
Speaker 1: So Vancouver to me was the shock out west, but
Speaker 1: in the east Toronto where you had fans who were
Speaker 1: expletive deleted referencing in sigie, you put him in the
Speaker 1: lineup and then you end up getting some offense. But
Speaker 1: Robin Fraser is in just as tough a situation, if
Speaker 1: not tougher, just because of the the mishmash of a
Speaker 1: mess that is there in Toronto FC. One of the
Speaker 1: good guys in the league, and he's stuck too.
Speaker 4: Yes, he certainly is, and it's through no fault of
Speaker 4: his own, just it's it's the cards that he was
Speaker 4: dealt right, like it was, you know, here's you know,
Speaker 4: they were so top heavy on their offster with you know,
Speaker 4: multiple year deals that Yeah, it's you know, it's hard
Speaker 4: to kind of climb out of that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 1: That you look at it and you're going, man, you've
Speaker 1: got all this, you have some talent here, there's some firepower,
Speaker 1: but it's like, I don't know, it's like make trying
Speaker 1: to make a dagwood sandwich with everything that you've got
Speaker 1: in the fridge that you're trying to make sure that
Speaker 1: you use before the expiration dates all sit there and
Speaker 1: unify on you, and you sit there and you have
Speaker 1: the sandwich, and you take the first bite of the
Speaker 1: dagwood and you're like, what did I do here? That's
Speaker 1: what that looks like to me. It looks like a
Speaker 1: dagwood sandwich with an expiration date that just passed. That's
Speaker 1: Toronto for me? Who else? Who else is on? Who
Speaker 1: else is on your ish list? Right now? When when
Speaker 1: it comes to issues, the issues in the ish list
Speaker 1: for you coming out of week number five.
Speaker 4: Coming out of the week, well, New England didn't play,
Speaker 4: so they didn't lose.
Speaker 1: True, And uh, the the NWSL franchise has a new name,
Speaker 1: by the way, that came out this morning.
Speaker 4: I didn't see that.
Speaker 2: What is Boston Legacy FC.
Speaker 4: The Legacy o FC.
Speaker 2: Of course, Boston.
Speaker 1: Legacy FC, so that they are no longer a Boston
Speaker 1: Nation they are now a Boston Legacy Okay, And uh,
Speaker 1: I mean, San Jose, we kind of knew what we
Speaker 1: were getting. I think you're gonna score a lot up
Speaker 1: You're going to score a lot of goals, or you're
Speaker 1: going to give up a lot of goals. We've seen
Speaker 1: both sides of that so far with Bruce Arena.
Speaker 4: It seems like that shine maybe came off them a
Speaker 4: little bit right it it came out, it was like
Speaker 4: it was early and people were like, hang on, you know,
Speaker 4: like who have they played.
Speaker 2: And what do they do on the road.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and now it's a little bit more back to reality,
Speaker 4: it seems like.
Speaker 2: For them, Yes, just a bit.
Speaker 1: But no, I think that if you're for fantasy, I
Speaker 1: think you go for their offensive players and you don't.
Speaker 2: Touch their defensive player. I think that's the big thing here. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh what else is going on with you and MLS
Speaker 1: Soccer dot Com and bylines and things that we all
Speaker 1: need to know about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, more of the same for for MLS. You know,
Speaker 4: we're gonna have uh CCC coming up right around.
Speaker 2: The corner Conka caf Hemispheric Extravaganza.
Speaker 4: Yes, so that'll probably Actually I think I'm not on
Speaker 4: for those, which is a positive because I think they're
Speaker 4: like super late starts.
Speaker 2: Okay in the week. I'm right there with you, okay.
Speaker 4: So and actually it was funny. I was telling my wife,
Speaker 4: this is not involving anything of significance here, but well.
Speaker 2: This is the morning show so you're all good.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So, as you know, I'm a big Rangers fan
Speaker 4: and has not been a good season for them. So
Speaker 4: they played last night in La right ten thirty eastern start.
Speaker 4: So I'm driving home. I had my first lacrosse broadcast
Speaker 4: of the year of the of the spring last night
Speaker 4: and Hassett and Shore them waiting River. So I'm driving
Speaker 4: home listening to the first period of the game. And
Speaker 4: I get home and like, my wife's a big Islander fan.
Speaker 4: She'll stay up for those West Coast games.
Speaker 2: About that.
Speaker 4: Not yeah that well, you know, not me though. I
Speaker 4: just I'm like, all right, time for bed, So wake
Speaker 4: up this morning. I'm like, oh, let's see how they did.
Speaker 4: They lost three to one, and it's almost like you're like, oh,
Speaker 4: thank god, I didn't see that, right, Like I'm happy
Speaker 4: I missed that one. Like, you know, I got to sleep,
Speaker 4: which was good.
Speaker 1: Well, as always, my friend, it's great to see you,
Speaker 1: and do not be a stranger.
Speaker 2: Come back it.
Speaker 1: You know, we be back next time and we'll talk. Well,
Speaker 1: I want to talk Sam Rosan. I want to have
Speaker 1: a Sam Rosan discuss. At some point we got to
Speaker 1: We've got to talk about the greatest so yes, uh
Speaker 1: with with you and we'll discuss stuff about great play
Speaker 1: by play voices. So my friend, you know, you can
Speaker 1: crash it anytime. It's great to see you, and uh
Speaker 1: go get hydrated and enjoy your natural lighting there in
Speaker 1: the studio space. Yeah, cheers, all right, see you know
Speaker 1: what's the mug? Oh Saint John John's Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we.
Speaker 2: Gotta get into that. We'll get into Patino too. Enjoy
Speaker 2: your caffeine.
Speaker 1: We'll see you soon, all right, say it, all right,
Speaker 1: that's a tag out all right now. In the in
Speaker 1: the beez, we always talk about the hot tag. You know,
Speaker 1: there's always the face in peril that's getting beaten up
Speaker 1: in the corner and he finds a way to sit
Speaker 1: there and duck under all of the right hands and
Speaker 1: he finally gets the summersault and he makes the big
Speaker 1: dive and he gets the tag, and you get the
Speaker 1: fresh face, you get the fresh energy coming in rock
Speaker 1: and roll. Express used to have that a lot. So
Speaker 1: Dylan has tagged out and for the triumphant return. I
Speaker 1: don't have I don't have trumpets. I don't have a
Speaker 1: trumpet fanfare. But it has been quite some time since
Speaker 1: since this show is being brought to us by the
Speaker 1: letters Tyler that Tyler Terren's has been on the program.
Speaker 1: And so now what we do is we tag in
Speaker 1: and go hot tag Tyler. It has been entirely too long,
Speaker 1: my friend. Great to see you, Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Morning Show.
Speaker 2: I can't even.
Speaker 5: Remember the last time that I was on the show
Speaker 5: with you, but I'm glad to be here. I'm pumped
Speaker 5: to talk some soccer and I'm pumped to come back
Speaker 5: to the atl and too.
Speaker 1: The Bens no doubt about it. So, like I said,
Speaker 1: it has been entirely too long. And what we what
Speaker 1: I have told the powers that are with the with
Speaker 1: the league, it's like, look, anybody that we invite in,
Speaker 1: they now have that studio link. So if they're bored
Speaker 1: in a hotel room Friday, because literally from Friday, our
Speaker 1: ten o'clock hour on Friday is mass hysteria where we
Speaker 1: preview everything. And so literally now that you have the
Speaker 1: golden key to come in and hang out at any time. Literally,
Speaker 1: if you're in a hotel room, board out of your
Speaker 1: mind in the ten o'clock you can come in, say
Speaker 1: your piece, duck out, and there's no repercussion oh, Tyler,
Speaker 1: and he said something it's like I'm out, then you leave,
Speaker 1: so then you do the Irish goodbye. So that's all good.
Speaker 1: So you now have the golden key so you can
Speaker 1: come in at any time.
Speaker 2: I love it, and I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5: You must be reading my mind or at least you've
Speaker 5: been talking to too many MLS season past people, because
Speaker 5: getting bored Friday in the hotel room is that is
Speaker 5: way way too.
Speaker 2: Much of an occurrence recently.
Speaker 5: But no, I love it, and I certainly am going
Speaker 5: to take you up on that because I love just
Speaker 5: being able to pop in on these sorts of shows
Speaker 5: and really dig your show. And yeah, I'm certainly going
Speaker 5: to take you up on it.
Speaker 2: Excellent sir, We thank you for that.
Speaker 1: All right, So what since this is your first time
Speaker 1: here this season, let me go and we'll talk the GBU,
Speaker 1: the good, the bad, and the ugly and the different.
Speaker 1: So what so far for you in this season classifies
Speaker 1: itself as the good, the bad, the ugly. And I
Speaker 1: was talking with Dylan Butler from a soccer dot com
Speaker 1: and the ugly already is in Montreal and the difference.
Speaker 1: So take the gb UD and address if you would please, sir,
Speaker 1: what is sticking in your mind after the first month
Speaker 1: of match days.
Speaker 5: So the good I mean, I think that you immediately
Speaker 5: gravitate towards one team in the East, one team in
Speaker 5: the West. That's Bradley Carnell in the Philadelphia Union. I
Speaker 5: don't think anybody really thought much of this group and
Speaker 5: sort of what he was going to be able to
Speaker 5: do with him. But if we know two things about
Speaker 5: Bradley Carnell is going to bring a lot of energy
Speaker 5: and he's able to operate on a tight budget, and
Speaker 5: that's what you need in order to succeed in Philadelphia.
Speaker 5: And then obviously the Vancouver white Caps, and I was
Speaker 5: fortunate enough to be on the call for their second
Speaker 5: leg win on the road quote unquote, you know, in
Speaker 5: a different stadium because Matterrey got pushed out of their
Speaker 5: own stadium for a Shakira concert. And Yespra Sorenson, hits
Speaker 5: do not lie. Okay, this guy is a pleasure to
Speaker 5: talk to. He used to work in the media and
Speaker 5: he clearly has this team cooking in some type of
Speaker 5: way and were able to, you know, get a result
Speaker 5: before the Chicago loss with some guys injured, and they've
Speaker 5: been really really fun to watch.
Speaker 2: So those are the two good. The bad, I.
Speaker 5: Would say is a team like Toronto. I would say
Speaker 5: a team like I don't know the Portland Timbers, even
Speaker 5: though they just picked up a win over the weekend,
Speaker 5: and sort of trying to figure out exactly what they are.
Speaker 5: And then, as you mentioned, the ugly, I think two
Speaker 5: Canadian sides cea of Montreal and then Toronto as well.
Speaker 5: I saw Toronto on the road against de f C
Speaker 5: Cincinnati that was one of the worst Major League OCRA
Speaker 5: sides I've seen rolled out in a long long time.
Speaker 5: And to be fair to Montreal, I actually think that
Speaker 5: everything that's gone on so far this year is no
Speaker 5: is no fault of Lauren Courtoise, is no fault of
Speaker 5: the players to not invest in a DP transfer since
Speaker 5: twenty fourteen. Is put out by our good friend Tommy
Speaker 5: scoops Tom Bogert over to give me sport. That is
Speaker 5: truly the ugly and God bless all of the coaches
Speaker 5: who have come through, and that's twelve coaches now going
Speaker 5: to be in fourteen years on Montreal's existence. They are
Speaker 5: quite literally doing the Lord's work to be able to,
Speaker 5: you know, take the job and say yes and know
Speaker 5: that you're probably gonna get fired within eighteen months regardless
Speaker 5: of what your results look like. Unless you're Wilford Nanci.
Speaker 5: I don't know who would say yes to that job
Speaker 5: at this point because it's a death sentence.
Speaker 1: I think you, like I said, you get to twelve wins,
Speaker 1: no matter how many matches it takes to get you
Speaker 1: to twelve wins. That seems to be the marker for
Speaker 1: Joey Saputo, which is MLS's version of Watford. Literally, that's
Speaker 1: what popped into my head. It's like, you're Watford. I
Speaker 1: get it now, and you used to be Wolves, but
Speaker 1: it's Watford. Yeah, And it's just it's mind blowing to
Speaker 1: me because it is it's a great city, it's it's
Speaker 1: a great soccer town. It's a great football town and
Speaker 1: Statsuputo when it's rocking is a difficult place to play.
Speaker 1: But now, and this has been part of the discussion
Speaker 1: we had yesterday when it was announced and when Tom
Speaker 1: Bogert came on the Birthday Boy and he announced it,
Speaker 1: and we looked at on social media and everything.
Speaker 2: Who's going to take that gig get to.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, you had Wilford Nanci and you had
Speaker 1: Tierry on, you had them as managers.
Speaker 5: Now you just who's gonna take that game. But to
Speaker 5: be fair, to be fair, Tierrianrie left because of personal reasons.
Speaker 5: Said it was during COVID and a strange time in
Speaker 5: the world, and we're not gonna fault him for that.
Speaker 5: And I will for Nanci certainly saw the writing on
Speaker 5: the wall that's painted with Joey Saputo, you know whatever
Speaker 5: on it. And he ends up taking a great job
Speaker 5: in Columbus and has the backing and the resources, and
Speaker 5: that's a huge step up, even though it's in our
Speaker 5: own league. Now you're left with this crazy situation and
Speaker 5: like you look up and down the roster and they're
Speaker 5: like Prince Owusu, a guy who wasn't even supposed to
Speaker 5: start in Toronto, is your big off season get I mean, like,
Speaker 5: what are we talking about here? I was talking to
Speaker 5: the French commentators for MLS season pass of Frederick Lord
Speaker 5: and Vincent Vincent de Touche, and Vincent actually wrote a
Speaker 5: book it's only in French unfortunately, on c F Montreal
Speaker 5: and the history of the club, and chatting with him,
Speaker 5: it's just like, you know, that's the team that they
Speaker 5: quote unquote you know, follow around at least from a
Speaker 5: commentary standpoint, and it's just like, it's just truly unbelievable
Speaker 5: to look at the lack of resources and the lack
Speaker 5: of investment from the club. And I'm not even talking
Speaker 5: about John, like, I'm not even talking about just money,
Speaker 5: but just flat out like knowing what it takes to
Speaker 5: be a good sports owner. And I've seen plenty of
Speaker 5: owners in this league who have been too patient and
Speaker 5: don't get rid of the sporting director and don't get
Speaker 5: rid of the coach and don't do the right thing.
Speaker 5: But this is just like it's too much, man, And
Speaker 5: Vancouver deserves to stay in Vancouver, and they deserve to
Speaker 5: have an owner who's going to want to be in
Speaker 5: charge of that club or whatever they're going to sell for.
Speaker 5: And I hope that they stay at BC Place, and
Speaker 5: I hope they stay in British Columbia or maybe they
Speaker 5: can get their own stadium. BC Place is a different story.
Speaker 5: But for montrealog, You're just like, blow the whole thing up, man,
Speaker 5: I mean, this is crazy at this point.
Speaker 1: Literally, you look at Montreal sadly and you go bruh,
Speaker 1: Literally that is the is the poster child of BRUH
Speaker 1: Right now, when you're looking at what's going on, uh
Speaker 1: all right. Part of the reason that we have you
Speaker 1: here is to discuss what's going on with Atlanda United
Speaker 1: since we are based here. Even though we are you know,
Speaker 1: we look at ourselves as a national content. But when
Speaker 1: you look at Atlanta United, the investment, this is Garth's
Speaker 1: and Chris's club. They brought in Ronnie Dila. What did
Speaker 1: you think about the off season changes As you have
Speaker 1: a team trying to understand what Ronnie Dila wants them
Speaker 1: to do in game state on a weekly days.
Speaker 5: I'm still trying to figure it out. I mean like
Speaker 5: when I when I saw the headlines coming across and
Speaker 5: everything like that, I sort of was like, okay, Like
Speaker 5: I don't want to say this makes sense, but you're
Speaker 5: putting some good pieces and success, some successful pieces in
Speaker 5: Major League soccer into place for what should be a
Speaker 5: banner year for Atlanta United or or you know, at
Speaker 5: least on paper whatever that means. The Ronnie Dila higher
Speaker 5: itself I've found to be interesting, not because he's not
Speaker 5: a good coach, but just because of where he's been
Speaker 5: and sort of his steps going to standard Liege, maybe
Speaker 5: not necessarily having the success that he wanted to and
Speaker 5: then taking the other job and now coming back to
Speaker 5: Major League Soccer, and I was just sort of like
Speaker 5: I would have loved to have been a fly on
Speaker 5: the wall in the conversations and the people who interviewed
Speaker 5: for that job and then how they came to the
Speaker 5: how they came to the conclusion on Roddy Dialub to
Speaker 5: be the best person to put in charge of this
Speaker 5: project at this point in time with the club, anything
Speaker 5: Garth touches typically turns to gold. So like I'm not
Speaker 5: I'm never going to question arguably like the godfather of
Speaker 5: the front offices and in Major League Soccer, And still
Speaker 5: so much to sort out in terms of what this
Speaker 5: team is actually going to look like. And I'm sure
Speaker 5: we'll get into that. But like my first it wasn't
Speaker 5: a head scratcher necessarily. It was just like I would
Speaker 5: love to like hear the conversations and Ronnie Dila, you know,
Speaker 5: I was a huge fan of the football at NYCFC
Speaker 5: was playing, and you know, and keep in mind that
Speaker 5: that was a group that hadn't gotten past the conference
Speaker 5: semifinals in five straight years and then he brings them
Speaker 5: to an MLS Cup and wins against the good Portland
Speaker 5: side on the road and we'll never forget, you know,
Speaker 5: the late goal and the whole thing. But yeah, just
Speaker 5: very very interesting higher and very interesting makeup of this group.
Speaker 5: And in terms of previous MLS success, you.
Speaker 1: Add latte a lot coming in from Middlesbrough for twenty plus.
Speaker 1: You add that to the mix where you have an
Speaker 1: Alexi Mirunchuk, you've got Saboo Jenize, you bring in a
Speaker 1: mateas Click, and like I said, I made the joke
Speaker 1: earlier in the show that basically you go to d
Speaker 1: C United and it's like I got a pack of
Speaker 1: Marlborough Reds zingers in a packet of Big League chew
Speaker 1: and DC's like okay, you know, and that's what you
Speaker 1: end up and they still have to pay most of
Speaker 1: Mattea's Click's work.
Speaker 2: Uh, you're getting a.
Speaker 1: Lot of pieces assembled once again, mixing with what you
Speaker 1: got from the academy and all of the younger players
Speaker 1: that are here, and they're hitting on some pieces and
Speaker 1: I think that there's a lot of intrigue about Okay,
Speaker 1: how long is it going to take for all this
Speaker 1: stuff when healthy to get together and then what's it
Speaker 1: going to look like?
Speaker 2: In the anticipation there is obviously huge.
Speaker 5: It's huge, and I think that the probably the frustrating
Speaker 5: thing for Atlanta United fans is going to be there's
Speaker 5: no there's no date on this on when it's going
Speaker 5: to come good and if it's going to come good.
Speaker 5: I don't think that it's an if. I do think
Speaker 5: it's a when. And kinder d St Auburn and I,
Speaker 5: my broadcast partner, having this conversation in the middle of
Speaker 5: the Sporting Kansas City LAFC game. Because Sporting obviously are
Speaker 5: off to a bad start, I would throw them into
Speaker 5: the bad category as well. And I love Peter for me,
Speaker 5: He's always great with us, and I do wish that
Speaker 5: club success because I think it's an important club in
Speaker 5: Major League Soccer. But we were talking about how like,
Speaker 5: when do you really start to look at the sample
Speaker 5: size and at what point during the season do you say, Okay,
Speaker 5: this is what this team is all about. And I
Speaker 5: wanted to say probably Week ten, But Sporting Kansas City
Speaker 5: was a good example of how you can't do that
Speaker 5: because two years ago they went winless in their first
Speaker 5: ten and then they end up being the best side
Speaker 5: of Major League Soccer from May fourth until the end
Speaker 5: of the season, knocking off Saint Louis in the postseason.
Speaker 5: So for Atlanta, I'm looking at it and I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 5: I was like thinking about it today while I was
Speaker 5: cooking breakfast. I was like, Miguel Almron, why hasn't it
Speaker 5: looked like it should for Miggy playing on turf? Getting
Speaker 5: used to playing on turf again. I mean, and I'm
Speaker 5: not saying that my men's league in Cincinnati is any
Speaker 5: comparison to Major League Soccer, but I was playing It's not.
Speaker 5: It's not breaking news, it's just not. But we did
Speaker 5: we do have a plus fourteen goal differential through our
Speaker 5: first two games. Ye shout out to real associate dads
Speaker 5: in Cincinnati. But I like playing on turf comparatively to
Speaker 5: playing on the playing on whatever surface you're gonna play
Speaker 5: on in the Premier League. I think that that's something
Speaker 5: he's gonna have to readjust to. I think that the
Speaker 5: front line in the front four in particularly because you
Speaker 5: invested so much money in it, Atlanta fans are going
Speaker 5: to be impatient, to say the least, if it's not
Speaker 5: going to come good in the first several weeks, but
Speaker 5: I do think that that's going to come good at
Speaker 5: some point in time when I have no idea, but
Speaker 5: like being patient with that, getting Brooks Lenin healthy because
Speaker 5: I do think that. I mean, like, look at the
Speaker 5: goals that Latte Lata is scoring. Like Brooks Lennon is
Speaker 5: one of the best delivers of the ball in Major
Speaker 5: League soccer, you know, like maybe a step below Julian Gressel,
Speaker 5: but you just got to give him time. You got
Speaker 5: to give everybody time to figure it out. And like John,
Speaker 5: for the life of me, this international window in March,
Speaker 5: like five weeks into the season, like just oh god,
Speaker 5: I'm so sick of it. And I'm it's just so
Speaker 5: I don't get in trouble. Greg Borhalter is the one
Speaker 5: who's you know, was going on record and saying it,
Speaker 5: just like why are we playing in this international window?
Speaker 2: He said it, he said it.
Speaker 5: I didn't. I'm just I'm just sticking with triple G here.
Speaker 5: But it's just like it, what what a frustrating you
Speaker 5: know two weeks because it's because we have no idea
Speaker 5: what the player availability is going to be for those
Speaker 5: guys who are coming from com the boll who are
Speaker 5: coming from all over the place AFCN, and it's at
Speaker 5: Afcon two weeks without some of your best players and
Speaker 5: getting punished for having international like just miss me with
Speaker 5: that whole thing.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but it's just it's tired. Well.
Speaker 1: And to your point about Miguel al Marone, there's always
Speaker 1: the self imposed pressure of returning and being the idea
Speaker 1: of the prodigal Sun, where he's someone who is as
Speaker 1: loved and as admired as he was in round number one.
Speaker 1: He goes to Newcastle, has all the success, wants to
Speaker 1: come back, and there's always that pressure on the inside
Speaker 1: about okay, I'm back.
Speaker 2: I've got to I have to perform, I have to
Speaker 2: produce here.
Speaker 1: And I think that to your point about playing on
Speaker 1: turf as part of it as well, but I think
Speaker 1: that just that self imposed pressure that the rail as
Speaker 1: sociodads have as well, try to keep that goal difference up.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that the pressure is there and it gives
Speaker 1: him a you know, his own little bit of odditive
Speaker 1: that he's got a work pass.
Speaker 5: I couldn't agree more And and I don't know if
Speaker 5: that's necessarily an excuse, but more so just a reality.
Speaker 5: And I think for Miggy, you know, he left in
Speaker 5: such a strange time in terms of like the transition
Speaker 5: of Major League soccer, and like he's been gone for
Speaker 5: what four or five years, Like major League soccer has
Speaker 5: evolved into another era since he's left. So I think
Speaker 5: that getting maybe getting used to a slightly higher level
Speaker 5: of play, getting used to the turf. And I see
Speaker 5: the comments in the chat that like Atlanta's turf isn't
Speaker 5: like anybody else's turf, but no turf is like actual
Speaker 5: real grass every single weekend in the Premier League. So
Speaker 5: I get that, But but I'm with you. I think
Speaker 5: that there's a level of that. And right now, what
Speaker 5: do you guys have two goal scorers in in Edwin
Speaker 5: Mosquera and and Latte Lot Like nobody else has scored
Speaker 5: a goal up until this point. So you got to
Speaker 5: get everybody clicking on, you know, and get the confidence
Speaker 5: right because there is so much expectation behind this team.
Speaker 5: There has been a historic amount of money invested into
Speaker 5: this front line. Of course, that's going to come with pressure,
Speaker 5: particularly in a league where you know it's meant to
Speaker 5: try to sort of bring you back down to reality
Speaker 5: where you're not able to invest in other parts. But
Speaker 5: Atlanta have clearly done such a good job. And Garth,
Speaker 5: you know, put his magic wand on this whole thing.
Speaker 5: So I only think it's a matter of time.
Speaker 2: I really do.
Speaker 1: I just have this vision now of him with the
Speaker 1: top hat sitting there and he's a wand over the
Speaker 1: top and he tops the hat. You know, to your
Speaker 1: point about Sporting Kansas City, how does you know? And
Speaker 1: I've had this conversation on the show before, where how
Speaker 1: does Peter Vermes have a conversation with Peter Vermes about
Speaker 1: Peter Urmes?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: Is is it in a room with two chairs, kind
Speaker 2: of like Judge Smails and Danny Noonan where he's in
Speaker 2: both roles. Yeah, it's it's it's something along those lines.
Speaker 1: Peter, Peter, Peter, we need to have a talk what
Speaker 1: about Yeah, Peter, we need to have a talk about you.
Speaker 1: And he just runs from one seat to the other
Speaker 1: to have the conversation. That's the only thing I can figure.
Speaker 5: Well, there's one more voice in the room now, and
Speaker 5: that is Mike Burns, who theoretically is the sporting director.
Speaker 5: I'm not exactly sure what the hierarchy looks like. Of
Speaker 5: like if Mike technically answers to Peter, if they're on
Speaker 5: the same playing field and they both answer to the
Speaker 5: ownership group, I have no earthly idea.
Speaker 2: I went behind the bar.
Speaker 1: Basically, it's like, yeah, I have a talk with you,
Speaker 1: and it's like dodge, let's do yeah over here.
Speaker 5: What I do know is that they haven't won since
Speaker 5: mid September. What I do know is that Children's Mercy
Speaker 5: Park is not nearly as full as it should be.
Speaker 5: What I do know is that there's groans from the
Speaker 5: crowd when they are running through the same pattern of
Speaker 5: play over and over and over again and not be
Speaker 5: able to break down back lines. What I do know
Speaker 5: is that this group should be playing better. And I'm
Speaker 5: not just saying because of the money that they invested in.
Speaker 5: And if we're going to go with the same logic
Speaker 5: of Atlanta United, I'm going to go with the same
Speaker 5: logic as Sporting that it is going to need some time.
Speaker 5: And I would have to imagine that Peter Formies has
Speaker 5: not been given a long leash, but at least there
Speaker 5: is a leash, right because you can't invest the most
Speaker 5: amount of money if you've invested in the club since
Speaker 5: twenty twenty and then get rid of him at the
Speaker 5: first sign of danger. Who's going to take a little bit.
Speaker 5: But again, Kindred and I were having this conversation, does
Speaker 5: he change formations? Does he mix it up a little
Speaker 5: bit in terms of their approach? Do they really need
Speaker 5: to have the ball seventy two percent of the time
Speaker 5: against LAFC, a team that you knew was going to
Speaker 5: sit in and just try to hit you on the counter.
Speaker 5: Probably not, because you could have played one hundred and
Speaker 5: eighty minutes of that game and you weren't going to score.
Speaker 5: It was just one of those nights. So that one's
Speaker 5: ahead scratcher for me in terms of how long that
Speaker 5: ownership group is going to wait to potentially fire a
Speaker 5: guy who's been there for seventeen years and not for nothing, John,
Speaker 5: but he just made his seven hundredth appearance, either as
Speaker 5: a coach or a player. He is an institution within
Speaker 5: that club and to get rid of him is a
Speaker 5: delicate matter. And I hate to say that, and I
Speaker 5: know that, Like I'm a big Liverpool fan and a
Speaker 5: lot of you know, fans will sometimes get upset at
Speaker 5: the fact that we don't treat legends the right way
Speaker 5: at Liverpool, but they clearly are doing the right thing
Speaker 5: in terms of setting themselves up for success with the
Speaker 5: future of the club and now with Sporting Kansas City
Speaker 5: and how embedded he's been, not only from a coach,
Speaker 5: sporting director, minister of culture, whatever you want to call
Speaker 5: him over there.
Speaker 2: It's it's a delicate.
Speaker 5: Manner if you are going to move on from him,
Speaker 5: because he has been Sporting Kansas City for so long.
Speaker 1: He is the minister of kwan at Sporting Kansas City.
Speaker 1: All right, So I'll ask Trent Alexander Arnold to Real Madrid.
Speaker 2: What's your gut?
Speaker 1: Oh he's gone? What do you what do you think
Speaker 1: now that he is out the door? And uh Arnest
Speaker 1: Arnest Lutts has proven that he's okay, he's alight in
Speaker 1: the Premier League. But losing Trent Alexander Arnold, what is that?
Speaker 1: What does that do to your starting eleven per se?
Speaker 1: Or are you just going to throw more money at
Speaker 1: a problem bring somebody in.
Speaker 2: No, I think that you start Connor Bradley.
Speaker 5: You obviously need some death because Joe Gomez can't stay
Speaker 5: healthy for the life of him. And as long as
Speaker 5: we don't lose Verge. I'm even okay, okay losing Mo
Speaker 5: at this point in time, and I think not okay
Speaker 5: with it. I've I've come to terms with it. I've
Speaker 5: sat with it, I've meditated on it, you get it.
Speaker 5: I've cried over it, Yeah, I've. I've I've the loss
Speaker 5: of Mohammed sala already in my head, sort of like
Speaker 5: Roman from Succession. I think that I've pre grieved, but
Speaker 5: like I'm probably gonna be a mess on the day
Speaker 5: that his transfers announced. But anyway, yeah, I Trent, we
Speaker 5: can live without, right, I do think that from a
Speaker 5: set piece and that big diagonal ball which has become
Speaker 5: such a big thing of Liverpool's and the metrics behind that,
Speaker 5: but we need to keep Verge. I consistently think that
Speaker 5: Verge is the most important player, not maybe necessarily the
Speaker 5: best player on Liverpool, but the most important player to
Speaker 5: what Liverpool are able to do in the Premier League
Speaker 5: and Champions League.
Speaker 2: How underrated is Selman keller Her between the sticks? Underrated?
Speaker 5: But like I was arguing with somebody on serious six
Speaker 5: M the other day, they were like, Kellerher should be
Speaker 5: the starter for the rest of the season. I was like,
Speaker 5: don't for a second think that Allison isn't the best
Speaker 5: goalkeeper in the world. They just happen to have the
Speaker 5: best number two who would start on two thirds of
Speaker 5: Premier League teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And so I think that.
Speaker 1: When you're on a team that is as great as
Speaker 1: the run that Liverpool is having right now, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have those dudes that when you're you got to step
Speaker 1: up because once again the expectations there and the novel
Speaker 1: the four knowledge is there that we know you're good.
Speaker 1: So you know, in the Gummy Bear Cup competition, when
Speaker 1: we need you, go ahead and you know, do your best,
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, a second a second leg where
Speaker 1: you know it's a blowout city and you're okay and
Speaker 1: you just take care of business and everything's cool.
Speaker 2: I know we're up against it with you. Hit the
Speaker 2: promo for me. What's going on on your planet with you?
Speaker 1: And by the way, Kendra d Saint Alban, that's all
Speaker 1: one word last time I checked, right, yes, the whole thing. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's not just Kendra or Kendra beat d St.
Speaker 2: Alban. Literally it is one, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: Hit the promo for me, what's going on obviously on
Speaker 1: the call for Atlanta and NYCFC this weekend, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be with kendry D Saint Auban God, bless you, thank
Speaker 1: you very much becausez intit and we will be on
Speaker 1: MLS Season pass. Uh.
Speaker 5: I've got Cocka Cap Champions Cup coming up with Fox
Speaker 5: Sports one second week of April, doing second leg of
Speaker 5: Materrey against krus Asoul and or not not Krussool? God?
Speaker 2: Who am I thinking of? Is it cru as well?
Speaker 1: I don't know right, it's up right hand section of
Speaker 1: the bracket, right, sure, something like that. Yeah, I've got
Speaker 1: two weeks. I got two weeks to be able to
Speaker 1: prep for that. It'll it'll, it'll come to me at
Speaker 1: some point. My brain is still mushed with first round
Speaker 1: of US Open Cup action and those one camera shows
Speaker 1: for Portland Hearts of Pine and such. But no, you
Speaker 1: can find me at TA and Terrans on Twitter and Instagram.
Speaker 1: I don't post all that much, but if you want
Speaker 1: to go do it, go ahead.
Speaker 2: By all means. It's probably gonna be dog content at.
Speaker 1: This point in time, well, dog content and monopoly content
Speaker 1: on the IG the grammar of the insta or whatever
Speaker 1: the kids call it these days, but it's a Klubamedica
Speaker 1: and cruise us SOLDI.
Speaker 2: There you go, ye, there you go in the quarters. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But anyway, Yeah, it's been awesome. John. I appreciate you.
Speaker 5: I appreciate the show, and I am most certainly when
Speaker 5: I'm bored Friday night, maybe maybe this Friday, and when
Speaker 5: I'm in Atlanta because my one friend who I was
Speaker 5: supposed to hang out with he bailed on me to
Speaker 5: go to a wedding to.
Speaker 2: Believe that selfish Was it his own or is it
Speaker 2: someone else.
Speaker 5: Somebody he doesn't even care about? And he's just like,
Speaker 5: I'm going to go to this wedding. And I was like,
Speaker 5: all right, I guess I'll just hop on John Show.
Speaker 2: Again on Friday. Hey, that's what we're here for. Uh
Speaker 2: so we need to So then we need to get
Speaker 2: you eating recommendations. I guess yes. Please. Hey, look look
Speaker 2: I have I have.
Speaker 1: Listened and seen the broadcasts where you have gotten into
Speaker 1: discussions about food.
Speaker 5: So I know that food is a major topic for you. Yeah,
Speaker 5: what you've heard me talk about ice cream nachos before?
Speaker 5: Is that what you've heard me talking about?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: And then there's also did you hear about the s'mores
Speaker 1: nachos and Huntsville No, Huntsville City is unveiling I think
Speaker 1: twelve hundred calories worth of s'mores nachos this season in
Speaker 1: MLS Next Pro. I swear to god, it looked like
Speaker 1: one of those hot dog eating competitions where you get
Speaker 1: the sixth the six foot long hot.
Speaker 2: Dog and you've got to eat it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, you know, Kobeyashi and Joey Chestern are
Speaker 1: like na fam not happening. And so in Huntsville, No Lie,
Speaker 1: Huntsville City Football Club and MLS Next Pro has s'mores
Speaker 1: on nachos.
Speaker 5: I'm frightened interesting one or the other. I'm cool together
Speaker 5: not so much, But are you are? Have you had
Speaker 5: ice cream nachos or how do you feel about that?
Speaker 2: I can?
Speaker 1: I can have one of the but not both. See
Speaker 1: I had the ice cream nachos. And apparently, apparently because
Speaker 1: I only got to Chicago in twenty twenty when they
Speaker 1: moved from Sea Geek to Soldier Field, supposedly, the ice
Speaker 1: cream nachos at Soldier Field are far inferior to those
Speaker 1: at Sea Geek Stadium. I've never had the ones at
Speaker 1: Seakeeke Stadium before. But I'm like, it's ice cream nachos.
Speaker 1: You take a bunch of salty tortilla chips and you
Speaker 1: throw an ice cream Sunday on top of it. How
Speaker 1: much better could it possibly be. I'm just like, I
Speaker 1: still don't think it's going to taste good, and it
Speaker 1: just it's like how I feel about, you know something,
Speaker 1: Skyline Chili has actually been kind to me, and it's
Speaker 1: going to ask yeah in Cincinnati Skyline Chili. Yeah your name, Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: I guess. But like it's deemed as I can notice
Speaker 1: Steak and Shake and get it chili three way.
Speaker 2: No no no no no no no no no.
Speaker 5: See, that's you're gonna get in trouble with stuff like that.
Speaker 5: I would never say something like that ever, because I people,
Speaker 5: people know where I live here, people know where I
Speaker 5: live here, and I can't I can't just say you
Speaker 5: can go get it in Steak and Shake. I am
Speaker 5: pro Skyline Chili. The only time that I've had it
Speaker 5: and that I enjoyed it was after a few beverages
Speaker 5: at a Cincinnati Bengals game, watching Joe Burrow and Jamar
Speaker 5: Chase link up for like three touchdowns. I think that
Speaker 5: that's when you're supposed to have it. I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: go and get it for dinner tonight, but sure it's
Speaker 5: it's fun.
Speaker 1: I mean Skyline chili and some Hutie Delight and you know,
Speaker 1: or maybe go to the Sunset Beach Club off of
Speaker 1: the UC campus and modulate.
Speaker 5: I don't know, and meditate on Mohammed Salah potentially leaving Liverpool.
Speaker 2: Correct. Yes, the belly full of Skyline chili.
Speaker 1: Man, that's just like nine thousand calories staring right at me,
Speaker 1: and I would have to actually go out onto.
Speaker 2: You see, my playing days are long gone.
Speaker 1: I'm good at standing on sidelines and ranting and gesticulating
Speaker 1: and looking like I'm actually saying something of impact.
Speaker 5: Are you ranting or you yelling or is that a
Speaker 5: nice way of saying that you're you're barking at officials
Speaker 5: or barking at people who you enjoy watching play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And there's no real rationale behind it. It's just
Speaker 1: you know, I'm cutting I'm cutting a heel promo basically
Speaker 1: on the side. You're sitting here and just like doing
Speaker 1: this kind of bit and the center reflix A mean
Speaker 1: is like bruh bang you know, shut.
Speaker 2: Up, you know one of those kind of things. I see.
Speaker 1: That's that's how I would be in a situation like that.
Speaker 1: I could, I could have the skyline, but you'd have
Speaker 1: to have the Hugy Delight or the whatever, and you know,
Speaker 1: work at that. Well, like I feel like I need
Speaker 1: to plan my whole week around the skyland, like the
Speaker 1: following like thirty two to forty eight hours after I
Speaker 1: had that. And I'm not saying it's because of the alcohol,
Speaker 1: but like I was, like I had a different gym
Speaker 1: regiment like at it because I just simply couldn't be
Speaker 1: put in a position where like my body was getting
Speaker 1: ramped up too much if you feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Not to get too graphic, I know there's a family show,
Speaker 1: but anyway, yeah is it? When is this a family shit?
Speaker 5: When you give off a family like patriarchal vibe, you
Speaker 5: just seem like the guy at the head of the
Speaker 5: Thanksgiving table who's gonna make a nice toast before we
Speaker 5: all dig in. You're a middler, as Larry David would say,
Speaker 5: You're somebody could sit in the middle of the table
Speaker 5: and chat with everybody.
Speaker 1: No, this like an I am a Sternum poker if
Speaker 1: ever there was. Oh boy, I'm literally the guy that
Speaker 1: goes like this. Yeah, and just because that could be
Speaker 1: a good thing, I'm not. I'm not going fat head
Speaker 1: and it's here on the set. Doesn't mean that I'm
Speaker 1: the that I'm a middler. But I'm not saying you're
Speaker 1: like Ted Lasso Hunky Dori and everything's filled with rainbow
Speaker 1: and butterflies. I'm not saying you're that guy. But you
Speaker 1: bring a lot, You're you're a glue guy in the
Speaker 1: locker room. You're gonna keep everything together, even if you're
Speaker 1: gonna poke basically everybody at the table.
Speaker 2: I'm the glue guy in the locker room that encourages chaos. Yes,
Speaker 2: sometimes you need that guy. What what well? What happened?
Speaker 2: I don't know. They just they went off on a rant.
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: I was just there.
Speaker 2: They started talking. I let them go. That's just how
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And then the coach asked you, hey, hey, John,
Speaker 5: can you can you reel them back in now? Like,
Speaker 5: I know you did your whole bit, but can you
Speaker 5: can you bring them back to the planet.
Speaker 1: No? No, No, it's like they're on their own boss.
Speaker 1: You know, I tried my best and they they went
Speaker 1: off and they're running. I mean, that's just how it goes,
Speaker 1: all right, So you need what probably barbecue recommendations.
Speaker 5: Sure, uh whatever, whatever you think that I should be
Speaker 5: going to eat on a Friday night in Atlanta, just
Speaker 5: give it to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, then we got to work on that. So okay,
Speaker 1: tell you what if you come in and crash on
Speaker 1: on the Friday morning in the ten o'clock hour, we'll
Speaker 1: go over this. So you've given the audience a couple
Speaker 1: of days to think about it. Deal, so you come
Speaker 1: back in in the ten o'clock hour. Who whatever else
Speaker 1: chaos is there, will go over all the other matches.
Speaker 1: We'll talk at Landy and night, and we'll talk about
Speaker 1: food choices and how much time you have on the table.
Speaker 1: You're looking for a good you're looking for a good
Speaker 1: brunch on Saturday before you head to Mercedes Bend.
Speaker 5: Look, nothing nothing heavy, nothing heavy the day of the game.
Speaker 5: We can't be doing that, John, you know, and you
Speaker 5: know why, yes I do. Even though even though the
Speaker 5: bathroom in the booth of the Benz is right is
Speaker 5: right in the booth, we just can't. We can't be
Speaker 5: having those sorts of problems if it's the Houston Dynamo
Speaker 5: at Shell Energy Stadium. Pal Okay, now we're talking. That's
Speaker 5: a wholes of a different color hell. There's a reason
Speaker 5: we call it a hell and a shell. Sir, Oh
Speaker 5: my goodness, I mean like the empty gatorade bottles. And
Speaker 5: now when you have a female broadcast partner, you can't
Speaker 5: be doing that. Like when I was working with Devin Kerr,
Speaker 5: I could potentially get away with that in the sweltering
Speaker 5: heat of the summer in July, after I went for
Speaker 5: a run for whatever reason and I drank seventeen gallons
Speaker 5: of water, and it's like halftime. I got three minutes
Speaker 5: I can execute, we can get it done, or Devin
Speaker 5: can cover for you in a false sure and he's
Speaker 5: acting as sort of like the partition between me and
Speaker 5: the rest of the universe. Now as a female broadcast
Speaker 5: partner and God blessed kinderd Saint Auban, but we can't
Speaker 5: be doing this nonsense. So anyway, I don't know how
Speaker 5: we got here. This is a family show.
Speaker 1: I apologize this whole family show thing that you're talking about.
Speaker 1: I know not of what you speak sir. By the way,
Speaker 1: we have an intruder. My dog has decided, oh he's
Speaker 1: not getting enough. Intention all, we see an open door,
Speaker 1: and yes, there you go, there's John. This is not
Speaker 1: a family show. No, I don't know who misled me
Speaker 1: on that well. And also, by the way, here underneath
Speaker 1: the left hand table is the rowdy man, and he's
Speaker 1: in charge, and he is owt he is out interesting.
Speaker 1: He is the guard who's in charge of it all.
Speaker 1: And so once again you see how the show degrades.
Speaker 1: I am the king of the tangent. Literally, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh squirrel, you know, I'm you know, that's all good.
Speaker 5: All good hosts have a healthy, if not debilitating version
Speaker 5: of Addabilitating is probably the worst. By the way, what
Speaker 5: is what am I seeing in the chat? Because because
Speaker 5: I think I might be headed to the airport to
Speaker 5: the ten o'clock so bomb biscuits on Highland and Fred's
Speaker 5: Dylan Butler. See, okay, you're gonna have to stop right
Speaker 5: there with the chetik notts. It's cheese steak, Fox Brothers barbecue.
Speaker 5: But I can give you other barbecue.
Speaker 2: David.
Speaker 1: David is giving you Fox Brothers barbecue. Can give you
Speaker 1: another couple of barbecue joints that can add. But it
Speaker 1: depends on your uber range and your travel, So that is,
Speaker 1: are you renting a car or are.
Speaker 5: You uber now ubering? And I don't really like to
Speaker 5: go further than like ten or fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know why. I just like it's
Speaker 2: just the rule that I have with the hotel.
Speaker 5: By the way, why are we recommended cheese stakes in
Speaker 5: a city other than Philadelphia Because I grew up in Jersey,
Speaker 5: my dad went to my dad went to a college
Speaker 5: and in Pennsylvania, in Philly, and like I'm a I'm
Speaker 5: a true cheese steak kind of guy.
Speaker 2: Okay, don't say it, don't be like this is different,
Speaker 2: don't do it.
Speaker 1: No, but we do hear in town have Woodies, which
Speaker 1: is from Philly. Woodies is a Philadelphia based, an origined
Speaker 1: cheese steak joint.
Speaker 2: At launch, though you.
Speaker 5: And I both know that those things don't travel. Just
Speaker 5: because the place in Cincinnati says New York Bagels, it
Speaker 5: ain't New York Bagels. And that's I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5: There's anything that I'm struggling with living in Cincinnati, it's
Speaker 5: it's the pizza and bagels.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 5: I can't do it, and then their best deli with
Speaker 5: their sandwiches. It's just not I can't. I can't do it. John,
Speaker 5: I'm from Jersey originally. I just need to go back
Speaker 5: where the water is pure and where and by pure
Speaker 5: I mean like what.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say pure.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you no, but the water in New
Speaker 5: York is actually the cleanest water in the United States.
Speaker 2: Did you know that? I was not aware of this.
Speaker 2: It comes there's the longest tunnel. Listen to this.
Speaker 5: The longest tunnel on planet Earth is actually the pipeline
Speaker 5: that they have running from the Catskill Mountains ah running
Speaker 5: down into New York City. So it's really just one
Speaker 5: off water and it's fantastic. But anyway, Okay, so aggressing I.
Speaker 1: Would recommend so Fox Brothers, I would say, is a
Speaker 1: part of the discussion. Fat Mats for barbecue. Okay, so
Speaker 1: fat Matt's Ribshack. Go hungry for both of those. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we can definitely get you oriented when it comes to food.
Speaker 1: And so Friday would have to be the heavier meal
Speaker 1: of the two. Saturday would have to be something brunchy,
Speaker 1: probably Martins for breakfast.
Speaker 2: Or somewhere in there.
Speaker 1: So okay, so we've got forty eight hours to think
Speaker 1: about it or forty fine, we'll be fine. We'll figure
Speaker 1: it out. So if you're crashing on Friday once again,
Speaker 1: that'll be the main topic. Where does the man eat?
Speaker 2: Deal?
Speaker 1: And so go, spend time with Go, spend time with Nala,
Speaker 1: and definitely keep an eye on things. Great to see
Speaker 1: my friend. Don't be a stranger, and we'll see you
Speaker 1: whenever you crash, and if it happens to be in
Speaker 1: forty seven hours, so.
Speaker 2: Be it all right. Appreciate you, John, great family shown.
Speaker 1: Yes, I look, get out Tyler. Terren's putting up with
Speaker 1: the nonsense here in the morning show. And uh so,
Speaker 1: now here's what I think.
Speaker 2: I think. I think that Nala opened the door.
Speaker 1: If you noticed, Tyler was in his studio space, he
Speaker 1: was in the he was in the studio to Tyler,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you see the door open.
Speaker 1: Nala has a fantastic sense of when it's time to
Speaker 1: go out, time to go your guest spot was only
Speaker 1: supposed to be twenty minutes. We went sideways with it.
Speaker 1: You were there, you're sitting there, You're over time. You
Speaker 1: went through the first ot period, the first fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: It's time for the coaches to to recongregate after the
Speaker 1: first fifteen to get ready for the second fifteen. Nala's like, nah, fam,
Speaker 1: we're done, You're you're out. Time to go out for
Speaker 1: a walk, dude, that's you know, and like and and
Speaker 1: I can see Tyler in the green and he's still,
Speaker 1: you know, he's still kind of hovering and trying to
Speaker 1: see what else is going on here for the last
Speaker 1: handful of minutes here on the show. But no, it
Speaker 1: is mass nonsense hysteria. And we try to talk a
Speaker 1: little soccer. That's just kind of how we work. But no,
Speaker 1: I think, I think once again, much like the rowdy
Speaker 1: man under here, who is literally rowdy, came in at
Speaker 1: about nine twenty and he's got a bed under the table.
Speaker 1: For those unfamiliar, he has a bed under one of
Speaker 1: the tables here in the office. He's just like, I'm out,
Speaker 1: you know, you move. I hear the leather chair move.
Speaker 1: Then I know it's time for me to get up.
Speaker 1: And that means either food or a road trip, one
Speaker 1: of the two. Time to go outside. That's how Rowdy's wired.
Speaker 1: He hears the leather shift here in the office and
Speaker 1: he knows it's time to boogie. Nahla opens doors. That
Speaker 1: is how talented she is. She opens doors, I mean no,
Speaker 1: And the thing is, she didn't even bang on the door.
Speaker 1: It's just like I'm gonna open the door. The door
Speaker 1: didn't make any noise. She was stealth about it. I
Speaker 1: mean seriously, it took me a second to realize what
Speaker 1: was going on because Tyler is in his studio and
Speaker 1: you can go back and watch this on YouTube later,
Speaker 1: and this is me recollecting what we've just had happen.
Speaker 1: So literally, Tyler's in his in his space, he's in
Speaker 1: the studio to Tyler, Nala open the door, like no,
Speaker 1: no sound, no nothing, no creaking, no like dark shadows, noise,
Speaker 1: Friday the thirteenth, stuff, nothing. Literally, she opens the door,
Speaker 1: comes around from the back and I can guarantee you
Speaker 1: she's off to Tyler's left, and she's like, you know, literally,
Speaker 1: she's like Saba of Janizza.
Speaker 2: Literally she's like this, it's Nala time out. We gotta go.
Speaker 1: Literally, that is how I perceive what happened at the
Speaker 1: Costa de Tyler in the studio to Tyler, so you
Speaker 1: now have forty seven hours to figure out where Tyler
Speaker 1: is going to eat, what he's going to eat. Give
Speaker 1: him as many suggestions as humanly possible. Oh oh, Frisbee time.
Speaker 1: I was not aware of this, and Tyler's in the
Speaker 1: DM chat he says, frisbee time. Okay, now I get it.
Speaker 1: Go spend go, spend time with knowledge, Go go, go Frisbee,
Speaker 1: Go Frisbee, have fun. An elite scene out Tyler. I'm
Speaker 1: tempted to bring Tyler in, but I know that Nolin's
Speaker 1: gonna get mad because once you're in the green room,
Speaker 1: until you either do an Irish goodbye yourself or I
Speaker 1: dump you, you're still there and you can still have conversations.
Speaker 1: But it apparently she's an elite athlete. There goes Tyler. Okay,
Speaker 1: apparently a frisbee time, an elite athlete in Cincinnati. So
Speaker 1: once again, full credit to Tyler for hanging out for
Speaker 1: as lung as he did. That's crazy, absolutely nuts. Okay,
Speaker 1: gossip brooming and you w indo what to watch, where
Speaker 1: to watch it, how to watch it? Before we come
Speaker 1: back here to eleven o'clock and we get to let
Speaker 1: you know what's going on on the high School, ranks
Speaker 1: Field trips to both Metdter and Jefferson as a part
Speaker 1: of the show and efforting others, said David correct Murphy's
Speaker 1: in Virginia Highlands, Lazy Lazy, Betty Micheline recommended near downtown
Speaker 1: Poppy's Cuban.
Speaker 2: And yeah, so you know Fred's cheese steak.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I would go Woodies if you're gonna
Speaker 1: go cheese steak because it is actually Philly cheese from Philly.
Speaker 1: So that's where we are. But yeah, we went off
Speaker 1: the rails in no shock. But it's good to have
Speaker 1: Tyler Beck as a part of the the cadre of
Speaker 1: folks that can come and crash it at any time.
Speaker 1: All right, So now gossip, brumerd and you Windo what
Speaker 1: to do? Athletico Madrid interested in signing Christian Romero from Spurs.
Speaker 1: Everton set to begin talks with Jared Branthwaite over a
Speaker 1: new deal. United Only are going to pursue a summer
Speaker 1: deal for Branthwaite if Harry Maguire leaves. Arsenal set to
Speaker 1: offer Gabriel a new deal to deter interest in him
Speaker 1: going to Saudi Arabia. Real Madrid also interested in William Saliba,
Speaker 1: the center back partner at Arsenal. Arsenal joined Liverpool in
Speaker 1: the race to sign nineteen year old Netherlands defender Joel
Speaker 1: Hatto from i ax I Tolanta put an asking ice
Speaker 1: of fifty million pounds on Adamola Luckman. I'm made interest
Speaker 1: from Manchester United. In Newcastle Villa have begun talks with
Speaker 1: Bubbacark Kamara over a new deal. Barcelona's buyback clause with
Speaker 1: Francisco Trencow, who has been linked with Manchester United, Arsenal
Speaker 1: and Newcastle ended in June of twenty twenty four, so
Speaker 1: he's free and clear to go and wander as he wishes.
Speaker 1: And Crystal Pallaceer progressing in new talks and talks over
Speaker 1: a new deal for Oliver glosnermid interest in our from
Speaker 1: RB Leipzig Now What to watch or to watch it?
Speaker 1: How to watch it once again? Our friends at Soccer
Speaker 1: America with the full grid today on a season pass.
Speaker 1: MLS Next Pro at ten and ten thirty activity out
Speaker 1: West Ventura County, Dynamo Dos Timbers two in the town,
Speaker 1: MLS Nextpro, dot Com, Crown Legacy and OCB at seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: Women's Women's Champions League on his own USA one forty
Speaker 1: five at Leon and Byron Arsenal and Real Madrid at
Speaker 1: four and on the three it was at four o'clock
Speaker 1: this morning Brisbane and Melbourne City for our buddy I
Speaker 1: am who might have been missing a little touch of
Speaker 1: home light. Again on Thursday, there's some action in League
Speaker 1: One on Paramount Plus, Liga on the ESPN Plus and
Speaker 1: then once again Women's Champions LEA.
Speaker 2: That's your Thursday.
Speaker 1: So once again you've got less than two days to
Speaker 1: figure out what Tyler is going to do for eating
Speaker 1: and that'll be fun to carry all of that stuff through.
Speaker 1: So once again, thanks to Tyler for dropping back in
Speaker 1: and being a stranger when it comes to anything and
Speaker 1: everything going on here on the Morning Show. Thanks to
Speaker 1: all of you folks. I'm trying to see if there's
Speaker 1: any headlines that we might have missed. Once again, we
Speaker 1: talked about the big headline and the paydays for the
Speaker 1: clubs that are going to be in the Club World Cup.
Speaker 1: News from US Soccer this morning. Within the hour, US
Speaker 1: Soccer and CBS a multimedia rights agreement for twenty five
Speaker 1: and twenty six for the Open Cup All Open Cup
Speaker 1: matches are going to stream live on Paramount Plus from
Speaker 1: the third round to the final select matches airing on
Speaker 1: the CBS Sports Network and Golosto Network, So keep an
Speaker 1: eye on that as well, and so once again keep
Speaker 1: an eye on all the news that's going on. We're
Speaker 1: definitely going to be keeping an eye on everything going
Speaker 1: on around the clock. Tomorrow, once again we catch up
Speaker 1: with our friends from the Marshall Islands, Lloyd Hours Technical
Speaker 1: Director and find out about the Outrigger Cup that's bat
Speaker 1: and lead off Nina and Nico the Power Hour and
Speaker 1: Hour number two, and we're heading to Perry for Warner
Speaker 1: Robbins and Perry and that is going to be on
Speaker 1: the network tomorrow Tomorrow afternoon and evening Warner Robinson Perry
Speaker 1: the double header that is Thursday. So coming back a
Speaker 1: little less than an hour, we're going to talk high
Speaker 1: school stuff and we're gonna do that with Molly McCarty,
Speaker 1: the head coach at Jefferson, and we're also going to
Speaker 1: find out what's going on at Meta and track down
Speaker 1: a bunch of folks and find out what's going on
Speaker 1: when it comes to soccer being in session presented by
Speaker 1: our friends at Kaiser permanente. So before we get out
Speaker 1: of here, let me say hi to everybody that might
Speaker 1: have joined an hour number two. I know that Shooter did,
Speaker 1: and he's a hot He's a hot mess having to
Speaker 1: do with New England Revolution. I'm hoping that we'll caught
Speaker 1: up by playing the show at double speed.
Speaker 2: So let's see.
Speaker 1: There's Shooters, rant, there's KEVC. Yep, we mentioned Boston Legacy FC,
Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens once again, Shooter going off
Speaker 1: on rants and the CF Montreal dismissal. We had a
Speaker 1: thrasher's reference from Derek. You did remind me of Bob Hartley,
Speaker 1: Bob Artley, Bob Artley getting dismissed after first and full
Speaker 1: of matches. Listening to him talking was like listening to
Speaker 1: Boom Boom. Jeff Frown was so awesome. Love Bob Hartley.
Speaker 1: And yeah, first division title on a playoff berth and
Speaker 1: then you end up with a slow start and a
Speaker 1: quick trigger. Morning Loakeville, Bam, Good morning from sunny Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Well done, Bam is only three hours behind in set
Speaker 1: A sixteen ahead. Richie Williams is available, nice and then
Speaker 1: the Morning Abbey Morning, David Oh Crog Street.
Speaker 2: Yes, Crog Street. Definitely go to crog for a Fred's Chief.
Speaker 1: Let's see Cuban, Murphy's and Virginia Highlands up and down.
Speaker 2: The Martl line. So there you go.
Speaker 1: But I think Uber would also work there as well. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's the suggestions for Tyler Terrence as he comes
Speaker 1: into town here. Coming up in two days time, kender
Speaker 1: d s Nobin is going to be joining our buddies
Speaker 1: at Scarves and Spikes thanks to the show brought to
Speaker 1: us by the letters Tyler Tyler Pilgrim or in our
Speaker 1: number one Dylan Butler Tyler Terrence.
Speaker 2: As we went off the rails in hour number two.
Speaker 1: Once again tomorrow Marshall Island's on the Power Hour with
Speaker 1: you Know and Nico back once again at noon to
Speaker 1: talk about everything in the High School Game.
Speaker 2: That's a show. Catch your breath.
Speaker 1: We'll be back in a little bit to discuss what's
Speaker 1: going on here region play Fast and Furious in the.
Speaker 2: High School Game and the GHSA.
Speaker 1: So once again, thanks to the Tyler's, thanks to Dylan,
Speaker 1: and thanks to you for being a part of the
Speaker 1: morning show here in this DH played safe everybody. Since
Speaker 1: it's the end of the show. That means I get
Speaker 1: to do this back at it in about forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: See you here in a bit