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Speaker 1: We've got a lot to do on this busy Friday.
Speaker 1: RSL will not play a match this weekend, but they
Speaker 1: will start their playoff hopefully journey coming up on Tuesday
Speaker 1: of next week in America, first field against Minnesota. Our
Speaker 1: next guest joins us from time to time, one of
Speaker 1: the key decision makers over there, Kurt Schmidt on a
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon, Kurt, Happy Friday, Sir, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm good. How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm good. I have been training and I'm about six feet.
Speaker 1: If you need a center back, I think I could
Speaker 1: probably give you about fifteen or twenty.
Speaker 3: And then I might need a sub.
Speaker 4: Okay, we can, Yeah, we can accommodate that.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, So what are you gonna do? Man?
Speaker 1: Let's start on the back line. My understanding is Philip
Speaker 1: Quinton it's a hamstring. We thought it might be a concussion,
Speaker 1: but thankfully it's not. Obviously, Brian Vera and we talked
Speaker 1: about it. Silliness. You can't do it. Cello hearing isn't fit,
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna ask you. Obviously, Jay Glatd has
Speaker 1: one spot, what are some of the options Pablo has
Speaker 1: for that other center back slot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you went through obviously Vera, you know,
Speaker 4: vera suspension, Philip picking up that injury late. You know,
Speaker 4: another one you missed was Body Hidalgo, who has also
Speaker 4: got an injury issue that he's dealing with right now.
Speaker 4: So you know, look, one of the reasons why we
Speaker 4: brought you know, Javane Brown in was that he could
Speaker 4: play that position, and he and he pinched in there
Speaker 4: pretty pretty well for us in the end of that game,
Speaker 4: and I think that's certainly a spot that he can play.
Speaker 4: You know, you mentioned Marcelo. Marcello's healthy, you know, he
Speaker 4: hasn't played in a while, so certainly mass pickness is
Speaker 4: an issue there as well. And you know, you've got
Speaker 4: Eric Holt who's got a good number of minutes under
Speaker 4: his belt with Monachs at the end of the season there,
Speaker 4: so he's got some mass sharkness also. So there's still
Speaker 4: a good amount of guys that are competing for that spot.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, what did tell me from your vantage point,
Speaker 1: and I was at the vane.
Speaker 3: Always great to see you.
Speaker 1: After Philip went down, What do you make of the
Speaker 1: way Pablo handled You're gonna have to correct me or
Speaker 1: I think he moved to Meccha to right back, moved
Speaker 1: Brown over next to Jay Glad, and then put in
Speaker 1: Nelson maybe at central defensive n I think those were
Speaker 1: the switches, Kurt, I believe, So.
Speaker 3: Tell me what you made of the way Pablo handled that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Nelson came in the middle, and Mecha went to
Speaker 4: right back, where he played a lot of minutes last year,
Speaker 4: and then Javane came over to the left, you know.
Speaker 4: And I think it was something that the staff had
Speaker 4: discussed even prior to the game, just to be prepared
Speaker 4: for these types of situations, and that was that was
Speaker 4: helpful in taking I think a lot of the emotion
Speaker 4: out of the decision that they needed.
Speaker 2: To make in the moment.
Speaker 4: You know, they had a plan, which was great, and
Speaker 4: I think it was just about getting who we felt
Speaker 4: were the best eleven or the most inform eleven guys
Speaker 4: on the field the same time. So you know, Mecca's
Speaker 4: obviously played right back in the past, not a lot
Speaker 4: this year, but the ceiling with Nelson played really well.
Speaker 4: So if we can get Nelson in the game and
Speaker 4: then you know, push a Mecca into another position he's
Speaker 4: comfortable with that, that would be a better group of
Speaker 4: players in the field.
Speaker 1: Tell me from the vantage point of the front office
Speaker 1: and you know, the guy in your seed that makes
Speaker 1: a lot of these decisions, frame the context of what
Speaker 1: it means, if it means anything. I think it does
Speaker 1: of setting a single team, single season record for points
Speaker 1: with fifty nine this year.
Speaker 4: Kurt, I think it's something that the whole group should
Speaker 4: be really proud of, you know. And it's it's a
Speaker 4: little bit typicalt right now to take.
Speaker 2: That pause and you know and look back.
Speaker 4: Because we still have the playoffs in front of us
Speaker 4: and we want to we want to put together a
Speaker 4: good run there and and try to win the trophy
Speaker 4: that we value the most. But you know, when you
Speaker 4: look back at the season, yeah, fifty nine points is
Speaker 4: is a big milestone for the club, and it's you know,
Speaker 4: it's a new it's a new target for us to
Speaker 4: try and surpass again in the future.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Also, I'll be interested in your thoughts here because you know,
Speaker 1: we have Jason on the show and then trying to
Speaker 1: catch up with Jason a little bit off Mike two.
Speaker 3: I'll let Jason speak for himself. I won't speak for him.
Speaker 1: But it's a six game unbeaten run, okay, heading into
Speaker 1: the postseason, and there's certainly some things to look at
Speaker 1: as far as a few clean sheets here there after
Speaker 1: really giving away points. I mean, I know that is
Speaker 1: you know, it's a tough thing to swallow, but you
Speaker 1: guys let some points on the table with some silly mistakes,
Speaker 1: as we talked about. Feels like that's been cleaned up
Speaker 1: a little bit. So it's six games unbeaten heading into
Speaker 1: the playoffs, which is great, But how would you articulate
Speaker 1: the type of.
Speaker 3: Form you believe you're in right now over the last
Speaker 3: six heading into the playoffs.
Speaker 4: You know, I'd love to be undefeated and you know,
Speaker 4: win every game, but that's not going to happen. So
Speaker 4: I look at it and say, you know, like you said,
Speaker 4: six game unbeaten, playoffs, Soccer and playoffs and maybe a
Speaker 4: lot of sports isn't always sometimes the pinnacle of you know,
Speaker 4: the beat a full game, and you need to find
Speaker 4: a way to get results and be the last man standing.
Speaker 4: So I look at some of the games and the
Speaker 4: results that we've gotten, whether they're you know, the draws or.
Speaker 2: The wins, and and even though.
Speaker 4: They weren't maybe as planned or as we've got those
Speaker 4: results earlier in the season, our ability to kind of
Speaker 4: manufacture goals, to manufacture results and got some of those
Speaker 4: games out, I think is something that we need. That's
Speaker 4: the tool we need in our box for for the playoffs.
Speaker 4: And so I'm happy that we've got that or we've
Speaker 4: shown that ability, and we've honed a little bit of
Speaker 4: that as well as some of the other stuff that
Speaker 4: we've done earlier in the season. So we've got a
Speaker 4: lot in our in our favor going forward.
Speaker 1: Little soccer analysis coming at you. Chie Cho is a
Speaker 1: guy that you need to score goals.
Speaker 3: There you go. You can take notes if you'd like
Speaker 3: it and share it with the group.
Speaker 1: But ultimately, Kurt, I've heard more than a few people
Speaker 1: say they feel like he's playing well without finding the
Speaker 1: back of the net. Do you concur with that assessment,
Speaker 1: because obviously you're gonna need him to look like he
Speaker 1: did when you guys ripped off that fifteen game on
Speaker 1: Beaten Street. To make serious waves in the postseason. So
Speaker 1: where are you at right now with your number nine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, goals are the hardest, most important thing to do.
Speaker 2: In our game, right, They're very rare.
Speaker 4: That's why, you know, that's why our game can be dramatic,
Speaker 4: and that's why sometimes you know, an upset can happen
Speaker 4: in those types of things, and they're also it's also
Speaker 4: why we invented things like expected goals and those types
Speaker 4: of things, because goals are sometimes too rare to really
Speaker 4: quantify everything that's going on. And you know, I think
Speaker 4: obviously Chico, you know, has shown up profens he scored
Speaker 4: a lot of goals, and that's why he's he's leaving
Speaker 4: the line for us in those big games.
Speaker 2: But there's going to be.
Speaker 4: Games for him or any striker or any player where yeah,
Speaker 4: you're playing well, but that that final thing, that final action,
Speaker 4: that goal is not quite falling yet. And so I
Speaker 4: think as long as he's creating chances, making himself think,
Speaker 4: and you're sitting around the box, then I mean we
Speaker 4: know it's going to come. He's too good of a
Speaker 4: player to go too long without scoring goals. He's doing
Speaker 4: everything else that we're asking of him. And that's what
Speaker 4: he's doing right now, and he is the last few
Speaker 4: performances have.
Speaker 2: Been have been really good.
Speaker 4: From him, and he's led the line, he's led the press,
Speaker 4: he's worked hard, he stretched the defense, and those are
Speaker 4: things we want from him apart from him scoring goals,
Speaker 4: and so we know that if he's doing everything else
Speaker 4: we're asking, those goals will come.
Speaker 1: How much of the goal is, you know, streak now
Speaker 1: the current situation where it's just been dry for a
Speaker 1: bit was losing Ondris. I don't know how many of
Speaker 1: Chico's goals were assisted by Gomez. I'm sure Trey has it,
Speaker 1: but certainly those two formed a very dangerous partnership and
Speaker 1: Gomez was responsible for twenty two goals in twenty three games.
Speaker 1: And we've already talked about the transaction. Totally get it,
Speaker 1: and it's a win for the club by every measurable metric,
Speaker 1: But it does seem like and look, maybe it just
Speaker 1: takes time to get used to go and maybe it
Speaker 1: just takes time to get used to Mark Zuo can.
Speaker 3: The new players who are here.
Speaker 1: But how much of Chicho suddenly just not scoring goals
Speaker 1: for a while do you think has to do with
Speaker 1: maybe Andres not being here or attend to that, just
Speaker 1: getting used to new teammates.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it could be a lot of things.
Speaker 4: I think that's like the most obvious thing to key
Speaker 4: in on. But you know, there's any any little detail
Speaker 4: I think can go into this in effect, you know,
Speaker 4: whether or not the ball goes in or doesn't, or
Speaker 4: whether a shot gets off or doesn't. And I think
Speaker 4: Andreas was another weapon in his own right and certainly
Speaker 4: stuck in the field with you know, his own sort
Speaker 4: of I guess gravity you could call it, where defenders
Speaker 4: and teams had to pay attention to him, which maybe
Speaker 4: he gave teach.
Speaker 2: You a little more freedom to move. And when we
Speaker 2: bring in new guys.
Speaker 4: And they don't instantly have that because they haven't quite
Speaker 4: shown that yet, but as they settle in, as Diego
Speaker 4: continues to get minsuner belt and don you know, continues
Speaker 4: to get Minisunder's belt, Diego you know, rounding into form
Speaker 4: and obviously Kirk being dangerous as well like that, those
Speaker 4: guys will will create that as well in Andreas's absence,
Speaker 4: and I think they'll pick up the slack and you know,
Speaker 4: everyone the term gel always comes to mind, and teams
Speaker 4: need to gel and obviously when we add two new
Speaker 4: players into the attack, it's not going to maybe be instantaneous.
Speaker 4: But I think it's coming along and we've seen some
Speaker 4: real promising signs the last handful of games.
Speaker 1: Well, sorry for honing in on the most obvious portion
Speaker 1: of the situation.
Speaker 3: Kurt, My bad. I'll be better and dig a little
Speaker 3: bit deeper. All right.
Speaker 1: So your favorite day yesterday where the MLSPA releases salary figures.
Speaker 1: I know you love that, so you know, to put
Speaker 1: a little context around what you and you got, your
Speaker 1: group has done in the front office, and of course
Speaker 1: ownership always deserves their piece of the credit as well.
Speaker 1: Sixth overall in the shield race this year. I know
Speaker 1: at one point you're in the conversation b maybe atop
Speaker 1: the table. But things happen and suspensions, injuries, we know
Speaker 1: the deal. But according to the figures I have in
Speaker 1: front of me, you were twentieth of twenty nine teams
Speaker 1: and overall spend yet six in the overall shield race
Speaker 1: and one of the top you know, six or seven
Speaker 1: favorites to win the whole thing?
Speaker 4: Does that?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 3: What does that?
Speaker 4: Do you know?
Speaker 1: When I say that What does that indicate about the
Speaker 1: job you guys have done when you're not spending as
Speaker 1: much money as some of these other teams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, you know, that's that's obviously the salary list,
Speaker 4: and certainly there's another monetary spend that comes into it
Speaker 4: from ownership, and that's the acquisition fees. And you know,
Speaker 4: if you add those into to those figures, I think
Speaker 4: we move up maybe a few spots. I don't think
Speaker 4: we shoot up the entire list. If you look at
Speaker 4: what every team has spent on transfer fees or loan
Speaker 4: fees for their current squad, how's constructed. But it's just
Speaker 4: been really it's been a real positive I think for
Speaker 4: to see the level of investment from ownership in salaries,
Speaker 4: you know, for guys like Chicho and Diogo and obviously
Speaker 4: you know Glad and Kruks who are up there as well,
Speaker 4: and then the transfer fees as well. So you know,
Speaker 4: Dominic Marzuk obviously cost us the money to bring in,
Speaker 4: so did the Ogo, you know, so de Andreas and
Speaker 4: we brought him in. Nelson O hate of these guys.
Speaker 4: So the level of investment required to bring in those
Speaker 4: quality players is a huge, is a huge positive, and
Speaker 4: you know, as long as we can continue to make
Speaker 4: good decisions to find some young players that we can
Speaker 4: develop and hopefully produce those transfer fees on the back end,
Speaker 4: we want to keep that going obviously going forward.
Speaker 1: So put it into context a little bit for those
Speaker 1: not familiar, and I certainly was not familiar with concor
Speaker 1: CALF until we qualified back in twenty ten, I think,
Speaker 1: and had a really entertaining home and home with I
Speaker 1: want to say it was Monterey.
Speaker 3: I'm getting old. That was a long time ago. It
Speaker 3: could be wrong. Umberto Suazo scored.
Speaker 1: The series clinching goal and then there was a great
Speaker 1: Conca CAF run and so I've become a little bit
Speaker 1: more familiar with it. It's a really exciting tournament as a
Speaker 1: result of locking in a top three seed.
Speaker 3: I believe it will be in February, or maybe we.
Speaker 1: Find out the schedule before where it's the CALF Champions Cup.
Speaker 3: What does that mean for the club?
Speaker 1: Unpack kind of the dynamics of that qualification and what
Speaker 1: it will do for you guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a whole new competition obviously where we get
Speaker 4: to compete against the best teams in the region. Right,
Speaker 4: So obviously North America, US and Canada, obviously Mexico, and
Speaker 4: then the Central America countries Underaus, Costa Rica, places like that,
Speaker 4: where we can compete against some of the top clubs
Speaker 4: from those from those countries, and it's just a real
Speaker 4: good it's a real good way to obviously expand our horizons,
Speaker 4: but also to grow our club and our brand and
Speaker 4: become a big club. And if you want to be
Speaker 4: a big club, you've got to got to win things,
Speaker 4: and you've got to be in competitions like this to
Speaker 4: show yourself and prove yourself against that type of competition.
Speaker 1: So yeah, round one, it looks like eleven home and
Speaker 1: away series will be played in February. When when do
Speaker 1: you have any idea when you guys will find out
Speaker 1: the matchup and kind of where you're slotted the draws I.
Speaker 4: Believe to tenth and then they that's when we'll know
Speaker 4: the opponent, and then obviously the schedule as well, the
Speaker 4: earliest games or the beginning of February, the later games
Speaker 4: in the first round or the end of February. So
Speaker 4: I think we'll at least have won probably one game
Speaker 4: under our belt before the actual MLF season gets underway,
Speaker 4: and it'll have some impact on like our preseason start
Speaker 4: date and stuff like that. If we start a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks earlier than the season, we might start preseason
Speaker 4: a couple weeks earlier. But yeah, we hope to see
Speaker 4: some of that stuff coming out soon.
Speaker 3: So the year end awards were announced.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much this moves the needle for
Speaker 1: a guy like you, but I am curious to get
Speaker 1: your opinion on the award that is named after your father.
Speaker 1: The Ziggy Schmidt MLS Coach of the Year finalists Chris Armis.
Speaker 1: I guess this was decided a few weeks ago because
Speaker 1: they've been not great as of late. The Tatto Martino
Speaker 1: thing has given me some Phil Jackson vibes when you
Speaker 1: coached Michael Jordan, and then Shaq and Kobe, but hey.
Speaker 3: It's inter Miami, so I get it.
Speaker 1: And then the coach from the Columbus crew, Wilfred Nancy.
Speaker 3: Those are your three. Am I being a homer.
Speaker 1: When I say that maybe Pablo should be on the
Speaker 1: list to the award that I was named after your pops?
Speaker 4: No, No, I don't think you're being a homer at all.
Speaker 4: I think it's you know, it's one of these awards,
Speaker 4: like like the MVP Award, where you can have a
Speaker 4: pretty spirited debate about about the criteria and what it
Speaker 4: means to be the coach of the year, you know,
Speaker 4: and like you said, you know, Todd to Martinez come
Speaker 4: in and you know, it's not surprising that Miami's finished
Speaker 4: where they finished, given the quality of players they have,
Speaker 4: and and you say, well, you know, what what did
Speaker 4: he do and how much did he do and how
Speaker 4: hard was that compared with you know, someone like Armis
Speaker 4: or Wilfred or Pablo like you mentioned, And often, you know,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of times where they look at a
Speaker 4: team that kind of did.
Speaker 2: A you know, a worse worse the.
Speaker 4: First or you know, a bottom two near near the
Speaker 4: top kind of performance and sort of defies expectations. So
Speaker 4: it really just depends on kind of how you first
Speaker 4: to find that award. And you know, it's I think
Speaker 4: it's someone that is a is a a top coach,
Speaker 4: someone that's proven it that they can do it in
Speaker 4: a couple of different situations and the job that they've
Speaker 4: done over this season is impressive, and so an impressive
Speaker 4: job could be taking a team that wasn't in the
Speaker 4: playoffs last year and getting them in the playoffs. But
Speaker 4: equally impressive is keeping, you know, managing a talented group
Speaker 4: of players throughout the year and rotations and still achieving
Speaker 4: results at a high level like both Columbus and Miami. House.
Speaker 1: Well, let's hone in on the award where we have
Speaker 1: a little bit of local representation, and I think and
Speaker 1: we had him on the show and he's a delightful
Speaker 1: kid to interview. Diego Luna right now might be in
Speaker 1: my opinion, Kurt, I know you don't want to sing
Speaker 1: anybody out, but he might be in the best form
Speaker 1: of anyone right now. And of course scoring goals always helps.
Speaker 1: The strike he had where he actually didn't score against
Speaker 1: Vancouver after like three stepovers was almost as impressive as
Speaker 1: the goal, which was incredible. Well for the second straight week,
Speaker 1: but we have Diego up for the Young Player of
Speaker 1: the Year. It looks like Diego Gomez from Miami who's
Speaker 1: now on his way to Bourne Mouth for a fifteen
Speaker 1: I think it's fifteen mil if I'm reading that correctly.
Speaker 3: So a nice little.
Speaker 1: Chunk of change for an organization that doesn't need it.
Speaker 1: But okay, okay, thank you, Thank you. So give me
Speaker 1: your thoughts on where we are with Diego right now,
Speaker 1: his form and you think he's got a shot at
Speaker 1: winning this thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I look, I thought Diego Luna should have should
Speaker 4: have won quote unquote or been ranked first in the
Speaker 4: twenty two hundred twenty two list which the league puts
Speaker 4: out as well.
Speaker 2: And you know, the Young Player of the Year.
Speaker 4: I think is slightly different criteria because I think I'm
Speaker 4: various Gomez had he still been here, would have been
Speaker 4: up for Young Player of the Year, but not not
Speaker 4: twenty two hundred and twenty two. But I think, you know,
Speaker 4: I think Diego should have should have been number one
Speaker 4: in that given the amount of minutes he's put in
Speaker 4: this year in his production. And I you know, I
Speaker 4: feel the same way about this award. I think you're
Speaker 4: hard pressed to find a young player that contributed as
Speaker 4: much to his team's success and and you know, contribute
Speaker 4: as much to a successful team success as as Diego has.
Speaker 1: This year they give away MLS Assistant Referee.
Speaker 3: Of the Year awards. What what do we do? Okay,
Speaker 3: Who's gonna win that?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 3: Kyle Atkins, Logan Brown or Jeremy Hanson.
Speaker 4: Oh man, I you know, I let the coaching staff,
Speaker 4: you know, vote on that one, right, they get to
Speaker 4: pick the guy they dislike the least.
Speaker 2: I guess I don't know that's fair.
Speaker 4: I couldn't pick them. I couldn't pick one of those
Speaker 4: guys out of a lineup.
Speaker 3: So yeah, well that's that's a waste of time.
Speaker 1: Stop stop making these people feel better about themselves when
Speaker 1: they do such a horrific job. Rant over all, Right, Kurt,
Speaker 1: I want to move over here because I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna be really this.
Speaker 3: I'm really interested in.
Speaker 1: Asking this because Pablo last week prior to the Vancouver game,
Speaker 1: hopped on the show and I basically said, look, as
Speaker 1: a result of the scheduling, uh, you know, chaos and
Speaker 1: some clusters here there three you know, three games in
Speaker 1: one week, over and over because of League's Cup and
Speaker 1: then players coming in going international duty, suspension, injuries, what
Speaker 1: have you.
Speaker 3: He's had to get creative with his lineups. And so last.
Speaker 1: Week, you know, assuming as close to full health as possible.
Speaker 1: You referenced body earlier, and obviously Vera not available. He'll
Speaker 1: be back for the second leg against Minnesota. I asked Pablo,
Speaker 1: we're going to see basically a first choice eleven, and
Speaker 1: he said, yes, that's.
Speaker 3: What we're gonna see.
Speaker 1: So as we walk through this, Zach appears to have
Speaker 1: you know, re emerged and won his job, so to
Speaker 1: the Vet going into the postseason, and then left to
Speaker 1: right Catronis, Quinton, Glad Brown, Quintin's hurt, central, mid Annellia,
Speaker 1: and of course so Haita, then Diego left, Crooks central
Speaker 1: and Diego right, which I found interesting. Diego actually said
Speaker 1: on the show, like, wherever I play, I'm going to
Speaker 1: essentially find myself centralized because those are my tendencies. Then
Speaker 1: obviously Chicho as the nine, so it's different. Now I'm
Speaker 1: assuming we'll see a Mecca at right back and then
Speaker 1: Brown in the middle with Glad. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: do you feel like that's as close to a first
Speaker 1: choice eleven as you And I know this is Bablo's call,
Speaker 1: but I'm just interested in your opinion on what Pablo
Speaker 1: said was going to be as close to a first
Speaker 1: choice eleven as we were going to see.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'll give you the cliche, like, you know,
Speaker 4: the whatever whatever lineup we put out there is the
Speaker 4: first choice eleven on that day so from that standpoint,
Speaker 4: you are correct, you know, yeah, it's pretty early to
Speaker 4: see what we're gonna look, what we're going to have
Speaker 4: going into Tuesday. I know, you know, we've got some
Speaker 4: ideas and what I could look like and certainly how
Speaker 4: we we shaped up after the you know, so Quentin
Speaker 4: had to come out is you know, makes a lot
Speaker 4: of sense. I think, you know, Diego is a player that, yeah,
Speaker 4: no matter what position he plays in in that attacking setup,
Speaker 4: you know, does a does an excellent job of getting
Speaker 4: on the ball, getting himself involved, finding his touches and
Speaker 4: creating problems. So you know, from that standpoint, whether he's
Speaker 4: on the right or the left or central, which we've
Speaker 4: seen at times this year, like he's going to impose
Speaker 4: himself on the game. So that's great, And then you
Speaker 4: know it's it's competition, right, and that's what we want
Speaker 4: out of this out of these guys, because the guy
Speaker 4: you did mentioned is Dominant, who I think has put
Speaker 4: in some good performances lately as well, and and he
Speaker 4: came off the bench and contributed, and I think he's
Speaker 4: gonna have something to say about getting into that that
Speaker 4: team also, So I you know, I think the more.
Speaker 2: Oftens Pablo has at his disposal.
Speaker 4: You know, the better, the better team will be able
Speaker 4: to put on the field at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: So if I ask you, if Dominic starts out right
Speaker 1: and Diego goes back left, you're just gonna tell me.
Speaker 3: We'll see. It's up to Pablo, is it is?
Speaker 2: Well, it is up the pump.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, but you're a smart guy, Kurt.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to learn about this stuff.
Speaker 4: No, you know, you got to you got to see.
Speaker 4: It depends on matchups, it depends on tactics. You know,
Speaker 4: Minnesota has been been one of the teams has come
Speaker 4: a US with, you know, defended a state essentially with
Speaker 4: like a mid or lower block kind of five man
Speaker 4: back line, which has been a little more I don't
Speaker 4: know that they go a little more man demand against
Speaker 4: us in terms of how we attack. So you know,
Speaker 4: for sure we have to find some different solutions and
Speaker 4: in terms of how to break them down. And that
Speaker 4: could be obviously tactics in terms of how we attack,
Speaker 4: but that could also be personnel in terms of who
Speaker 4: we starting who and when we make those subs. So
Speaker 4: that's fatastically out in front of us.
Speaker 1: Okay, you kind of just answer the question because you're
Speaker 1: good at this. But I'll follow up with just a
Speaker 1: little bit more of an expanded thought before and I'll
Speaker 1: set you loose after this. Uh, Minnesota two matches this year,
Speaker 1: both draws one to one in Minnesota nil.
Speaker 3: Nil here in Utah.
Speaker 1: It did look like that they were afraid of you,
Speaker 1: to be honest, they didn't not come out and engage
Speaker 1: in either match. I was listening to Donnie kind of
Speaker 1: break this down earlier on the pod. He thinks they're
Speaker 1: probably gonna park the bus and try to get a
Speaker 1: lucky counter goal no matter what.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know much about him. I just
Speaker 3: know what I've seen.
Speaker 1: So what are the dynamics that come into play for
Speaker 1: getting off to a good start Tuesday at home and
Speaker 1: hopefully finishing them in Minnesota.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look there there, we can't underestimate them.
Speaker 4: They're a good team, They're in good form. They you know,
Speaker 4: they pushed themselves from from outside the playoffs with the
Speaker 4: late season serves to to you know, firmly and in
Speaker 4: then even skipping the playing games, so they're certainly in
Speaker 4: good form. They know how they want to play. But
Speaker 4: as you said, we drew both games with them. I
Speaker 4: thought on the road we were a bit unlucky to draw.
Speaker 4: To be honest with you, it was a it was
Speaker 4: a difficult.
Speaker 2: Game, and they tied it up late ish.
Speaker 4: So it's something that you know, I think we can
Speaker 4: we feel confident going into their place in game two
Speaker 4: and getting.
Speaker 2: Result and then yeah, at home, I thought.
Speaker 4: They frustrated us. And I think that was a game
Speaker 4: that the staff has been able to analyze and and
Speaker 4: you know, come up with a few different ideas about
Speaker 4: how to break them down and create some chances when
Speaker 4: they're if they're going to sit back and do something similar.
Speaker 1: Kurt, thanks for the time, but have a good weekend
Speaker 1: and I'll be out there, so I'll come say on.
Speaker 3: Tuesday, all right, awesome, see you soon, all right, Kurch Schmidt,
Speaker 3: technical director for RSL.
Speaker 1: The lads are at action on Tuesday in a little
Speaker 1: playoff action against Minnesota seven o'clock Mountain Time on Apple TV.
Speaker 3: You can go to RSL dot com for single game tickets.
Speaker 1: All Right, We're out here at Infinity, tim Dally Infinity.
Speaker 1: It's forty five ninety four South State Street. And I
Speaker 1: was unaware I was gonna see an old friend today.
Speaker 1: My guy, who Kim, How are you man?
Speaker 5: I'm good. It's like a mini reunion. It's been a
Speaker 5: long time.
Speaker 1: I was telling Jackie, our salesman, I think I've known
Speaker 1: you like twenty five years.
Speaker 3: We got way back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember the RSL days asking you guys for tickets.
Speaker 3: Awesome. How's life man? You're good, it's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So you're you're the GM out here GM out here.
Speaker 5: Yeah all right, and you know we're trying to get
Speaker 5: promote these new QX eighties. But our biggest mantra here,
Speaker 5: unlike any other dealership, we want to make sure we
Speaker 5: have a culture. When a customer comes in, we're just
Speaker 5: gonna rub their backs. Oh that's easy. We'll take care
Speaker 5: of that. That's easy. We'll take care of that. And
Speaker 5: that's our biggest goal here. If you come to Tim
Speaker 5: Dally Infinity, we're gonna make it feel like it's an
Speaker 5: easy purchase, assle free and uh. With the mindset of
Speaker 5: rubbing their backs, making sure it's an easy process.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 1: And then that doesn't surprise me because you've always been
Speaker 1: that type of guy.
Speaker 3: You know, how to take care of people.
Speaker 1: I wish I knew you were running a show out
Speaker 1: you I just got a new car, man, I would
Speaker 1: have called you because these are great cars, man, they are.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're like the latest and greatest car there. See
Speaker 5: the people that are trading their cars in for these
Speaker 5: QX eighties, they're trading in a navigators, are trading in suburbans,
Speaker 5: or trading in Lexis, gxs, Lexus lx's, they're trading in
Speaker 5: BMW's like everything. Like all these Conquest cars we never
Speaker 5: thought we were going to get, but people are trading
Speaker 5: those in to get these cars. And little did I
Speaker 5: know that QX eighties are a really popular car here
Speaker 5: in the.
Speaker 2: State of Utah.
Speaker 5: But with these new models that came out, they're actually
Speaker 5: even putting us on a bigger map and bigger platform
Speaker 5: because of the new revamped style.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're good looking cars. So tell me about the
Speaker 1: forever warranty. What does that mean?
Speaker 2: KUD?
Speaker 5: Basically, your power trains covered for life as long as
Speaker 5: you have its service and it's you buy it with
Speaker 5: under sixty five thousand miles, right, it's going to be
Speaker 5: covered for you. The power trains covered for life for life.
Speaker 1: That's pretty rare, is it. I'm not in the business,
Speaker 1: but I don't hear that very often.
Speaker 3: It's pretty rare.
Speaker 5: And the truth is, it's one of those things where
Speaker 5: it's not a money maker. We actually lose money on it,
Speaker 5: but it's I'm sure we make money on the fact
Speaker 5: that we're bringing people in. It's not one of those
Speaker 5: things where it's like, oh, are they really giving us
Speaker 5: a fair warranty? It's a real deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then I don't know that I zero zero
Speaker 1: point nine APR. Yeah, are we really talking zero point
Speaker 1: nine APR? Yeah, I don't want to tell you what
Speaker 1: I got on my vehicle.
Speaker 3: Okay, so that sounds pretty cool to me.
Speaker 5: Well, the funny thing is, like people will other dealers
Speaker 5: will will promote zero point nine, but it'll go to
Speaker 5: like thirty six months, maybe forty two months or something
Speaker 5: like that. On some of our vehicles, it'll go all
Speaker 5: the way up to seventy two months.
Speaker 3: Nice. So nice, a real deal.
Speaker 1: Well, good to see you, man, we'll chat again, all right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's my guy who Kim Man. I didn't even know
Speaker 1: he's out here, and I've known him like twenty five years.