Speaker 1: I'm getting there. It is John, hear you there. It's
Speaker 1: a wall pass Wednesday, which means anything's on the table,
Speaker 1: were stacked, packed and racked. Quoting was it Fred Dalton
Speaker 1: Thompson and the die hard and die hard I stack them,
Speaker 1: pack them and rack them. It's a wall pass Wednesday,
Speaker 1: which means in about ten minutes, Tyler Pilgrim's gonna come
Speaker 1: by from Scarves n Spikes for the Atlanta United Informational
Speaker 1: Journalistic Exchange program that we always have here. Wednesday's about
Speaker 1: nine fifteen. Dylan Butler's going to start off our number
Speaker 1: two talking about Major League Soccer. We'll get into Peter
Speaker 1: Urmes from his perspective, still chasing Daniels Berry from the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Star for the local perspective. Hopefully we can
Speaker 1: have him on tomorrow to talk about it and what
Speaker 1: the future holds for carries of Wagnin the interim head coach,
Speaker 1: for the folks that are there that are playing every week,
Speaker 1: that are on the bench that might want to play
Speaker 1: every week, and what the future might be for the
Speaker 1: roster in general and the build out when it comes
Speaker 1: to Sporting Kansas City. Then we'll go through the rest
Speaker 1: of the week. That was a couple of matchups. Last
Speaker 1: night in Conker caf hemisphic Extravaganza where there weren't a
Speaker 1: whole lot of goals scored, and that was the first
Speaker 1: legs of the quarterfinals. More of those tonight. We'll get
Speaker 1: into the juice boxes there as well. That include Messi
Speaker 1: and Friends traveling to Los Angeles to take on LAFC.
Speaker 1: So that's on the table. Ten thirty, we bring in
Speaker 1: Ryan Figured, one of the play by play voices for
Speaker 1: FC Dallas. He's going to discuss FC Dallas, maybe the sidekicks,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it may be the Tornado. We'll get
Speaker 1: him to talk about Kyle Roach Junior and the Dallas
Speaker 1: Tornado and the Superstars competition. But Ryan Figure it's going
Speaker 1: to join us at ten thirty and it will be
Speaker 1: a discussion in an education on Lucho Acosta, six million
Speaker 1: dollar Man, what he has brought to the table so
Speaker 1: far in the first month plus for FC Dallas, and
Speaker 1: what Ryan's anticipating the matchup for matchup number two and
Speaker 1: three match home stand for Atlanta and I had coming
Speaker 1: up this weekend. So Tyler, Dylan Ryan, that's the show
Speaker 1: this morning. Whatever else is on your mind when it
Speaker 1: comes to wall Pass Wednesday, and you can throw that
Speaker 1: in as you always do, morning, Alex, And so we
Speaker 1: will hang on to that. And just a reminder from
Speaker 1: what happened yesterday in our deep dive about USL, probably
Speaker 1: need to catch up with some folks behind the scenes
Speaker 1: and find out what the proral deal is and if
Speaker 1: they can get a waiver, because not every stadium was
Speaker 1: gonna match fifteen thousand, you know, So we'll see what
Speaker 1: the waivers and the possibilities are. Except unless it's only
Speaker 1: large market teams are the only ones allowed to be
Speaker 1: relegated from the first division USL League One set uptown
Speaker 1: the USL Championship, So we'll keep an eye on that
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Speaker 1: what I would do this morning is since we have
Speaker 1: like nine gazillion things going on, and at the end
Speaker 1: of the show, we'll talk about Barcelona and how much problem,
Speaker 1: how many, how much, how much, how much of a problem,
Speaker 1: how many problems Barca has, And apparently there's a new
Speaker 1: there's a new there's a new problem. I know that
Speaker 1: shocks you all. So last night in the Open Cup,
Speaker 1: we did have the Magic of the Open Cup, by
Speaker 1: the way, and it came out in a couple of
Speaker 1: different forms. And we'll get into the the activity today
Speaker 1: six point thirty. It is a pea hoot Portland Hearts
Speaker 1: of Pine and Hartford Athletic Louden is taking on Who
Speaker 1: is that? Louden's got a home? Who is this? This
Speaker 1: is what happens when you don't have when you don't
Speaker 1: have the actual layout. It's Segrifield and Leesburg Louden United.
Speaker 1: It's playing tonight and they've got oh, Virginia Dream that's who.
Speaker 1: They've got. Greenville and one Knox are playing tonight in
Speaker 1: at Furman it is Chattanooga f C and Chattanooga Red
Speaker 1: Wolves at seven o'clock. That should be mandatory viewing. Mandatory
Speaker 1: viewing for you coming up tonight seven o'clock chattanoogav CEA
Speaker 1: and Chattanooga f C and Chattanooga Red Wolves. I mean
Speaker 1: you've seen the that you have seen the layout and
Speaker 1: the desires of everyone ons. I mean on one side
Speaker 1: of the equation. One side of the equation has just
Speaker 1: been completely and totally just been talking, talking, talking. The
Speaker 1: other side hasn't so.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Ten matches today in a US Open Cup Round two.
Speaker 1: But last night crazy crazy, crazy, So Crew two, by
Speaker 1: the way, started off the evening at six o'clock at
Speaker 1: the death Star Lower dot Comfield. They shut out Lexington
Speaker 1: Sporting Club by the final of three nil. Did not
Speaker 1: necessarily have that cup set on the board. But Crew
Speaker 1: two knocks off lexs C three and il then probably
Speaker 1: one of the wackier matches of the night. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: not necessarily even for the first eighty minutes. It was
Speaker 1: South Georgia Tormenta knocking off four to OSC and four
Speaker 1: to OH. Had control of it pretty much in the
Speaker 1: first ten minutes, but then you end up with the
Speaker 1: chaos that would ensue. Tormento gets a two nil lead,
Speaker 1: you have a penalty call, and honestly, you know, if
Speaker 1: there had been any kind of review the penalty cake,
Speaker 1: the actual penalty kick probably would have been asked to
Speaker 1: have been taken again. But anyway, you go from two
Speaker 1: nil for Tormenta to two to two and then you
Speaker 1: end up with Tormento scoring at ninety plus four I think,
Speaker 1: and there was ten added minutes of this one once
Speaker 1: again hashtag magic of the Open Cup. Tormenta ends up
Speaker 1: getting the duke three to two. It's like tat ato
Speaker 1: nail lead lost the two nail lead. It was two
Speaker 1: to two, and then it's three to two finals, so
Speaker 1: Tormenta advances to the next round. The MIAMIFC knocked off
Speaker 1: Messi and Friends too, so it will be an interesting
Speaker 1: week for them because meeting Messi and Friends too, well
Speaker 1: and technically for the MIAMIFC because of USL Championship activity
Speaker 1: USL Championship activity. For the MIAMIFC. They beat Messi and
Speaker 1: Friends one Neil Messi and friends too come up to
Speaker 1: Atlanta to take on Atlanta United two on Sunday. What
Speaker 1: will they look like, especially after having to play on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: so they go weekend Tuesday weekend with travel, what will
Speaker 1: they look like? That would be an interesting question there.
Speaker 1: Also on the board, Charlotte Independence knocked off Carolina Corps.
Speaker 1: Took a long time, AET took the extra thirty before
Speaker 1: the two to one win there with Charlotte and cor
Speaker 1: Then El fad Alito. What did we say about El Fadlito.
Speaker 1: Don't sleep on the NPSL champions, do not? They beat
Speaker 1: Monterey Bay last night two to one. They had a
Speaker 1: one nil win, They had a one nil lead and
Speaker 1: then it ends up a two to one win, down
Speaker 1: one nill captain subbed off with injury. This is from
Speaker 1: Tim Thomas over at the Cup dot US. Second half,
Speaker 1: you get a Zuluwaga goal and then you're tied at one,
Speaker 1: and then Edgard Cray gets the game winner two to one.
Speaker 1: El Fa Delito advances past Monterey Bay. Then Avy Alta
Speaker 1: advanced out of USL League one, beating LAFC two two
Speaker 1: to one, and that one went ae T as well.
Speaker 1: So late night in the Inland Empire. And so you
Speaker 1: have those matches from yesterday. Now the schedule for today,
Speaker 1: ten more today. What did we do to deserve all
Speaker 1: of this magic of the Open Cup? That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So we have we mentioned those matchups with the Virginia
Speaker 1: Dream and such. So starting off at six thirty tonight,
Speaker 1: Virginia Dream in Loud United at Segre Hertford Athletic one.
Speaker 1: Hearts of Pine so p Hop comes in plays Hartford
Speaker 1: Athletic in Lewiston, Maine at the Franklin Athletic Complex. That's
Speaker 1: also at six thirty. New York Pansiprian Freedoms who had
Speaker 1: a cup set last go round? Do they take on
Speaker 1: Westchester sc Out of League one. That's at seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: It is we mentioned Red Wolves and chattanooguest S one
Speaker 1: NOx in Greenville Triumph, Little Rock Rangers in FC Naples.
Speaker 1: Friend of the Network Jonathan Wardlaw, his group gets to
Speaker 1: go to Naples, Florida to take on FC Naples. At
Speaker 1: seven thirty f C Tulsa Ford Madison Union, Omaha des
Speaker 1: Moines Menace. How many of you are now rooting against
Speaker 1: des moin Menes how many show a hand. Well, they've
Speaker 1: got Little Buhos tonight at Valley Stadium in West Desmondes
Speaker 1: eight thirty. Then Spokane Velocity to coma defiance El Pasol
Speaker 1: Locomotive and Ventura County. And so that that gets you
Speaker 1: moving and getting ready for round three, which is scheduled
Speaker 1: for two weeks time fifteenth and the sixth. But a
Speaker 1: lot of matches tonight. Magic of the Open Cup yesterday
Speaker 1: Chattanooga Red Wolves Chattanooga FC tonight. Mm hmmm, but you
Speaker 1: had cup sets with Crew two last night. I don't
Speaker 1: know what a cup set close call is. Maybe it
Speaker 1: just gets put in the washer or the dishwasher for
Speaker 1: a little. Then once again, Charlotte Independence needed a et
Speaker 1: to knockoff Corps El fad Alito. We had that one
Speaker 1: pegged for you our humble observations of the Open Cup.
Speaker 1: Don't sleep on the NPSL Champs. We did not. For
Speaker 1: those of you who did. You slept late, you lost.
Speaker 1: El fad Alito gots the win last night. Okay, So
Speaker 1: now that we've gone through the magic of the Open Cup,
Speaker 1: and there was plenty of magic in the Open Cup,
Speaker 1: time to break down anything and everything going on in
Speaker 1: the mind of Tyler Pilgrim for the Atlantic Nighted plus
Speaker 1: more Informational Journalistic Exchange Program. Now that he has wiped
Speaker 1: the sleep from his eyes and he's got his coffee
Speaker 1: and he's ready to go. How you doing quite well?
Speaker 1: How are you in coherent? Thank you for asking me too,
Speaker 1: But I mean last night it was there you go
Speaker 1: there it is he broke out the lasso this morning. So, uh,
Speaker 1: we're going over the Magic of the Open Cup in
Speaker 1: opening Kickoff brought to us by our friends at Kickoff
Speaker 1: Coffee and Kickoff Coffeeco dot Com. I guess it's Magic
Speaker 1: of the Open cupcom of Bitches maybe uh yes, and
Speaker 1: Tormenta had a close call last night tonight apparently from
Speaker 1: what I understand, and this was going into last week.
Speaker 1: At least six thousand tickets have already been sold for
Speaker 1: Fort Finley, for CHATTANOOGUEFC and Red Wolves and CHATNUGUFC has
Speaker 1: gone on social media. They have continued to refer to
Speaker 1: Red Wolves as the team from East Ridge. Yep, and
Speaker 1: so depending on your perspective, uh, this is this has
Speaker 1: so many different drops of context and blood feud and
Speaker 1: geography and road construction and blue versus red. Chattanooga is
Speaker 1: insert color here. We will have an answer tonight. Nothing
Speaker 1: like the magic of the Open Cup. Comma bitches, City
Speaker 1: Hall is blue.
Speaker 2: That was that was a great post.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, when you get the mayor, it's a part owner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is true. Be a little biased, just a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm one. I'm wondering if the mayor or if anyone
Speaker 1: attached to the front the the the governmental uh, the
Speaker 1: governmental folks that are it's maybe maybe they're going to
Speaker 1: try and find ways to have rolling roadblocks on on
Speaker 1: twenty four, yeah.
Speaker 2: Or right there before you get to the split.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right at the split, or you know, try and
Speaker 1: find surface street to make sure no one comes through
Speaker 1: the blue the east Ridge Tunnel and just kind of
Speaker 1: slow things down before every everybody's trying to get to
Speaker 1: the match. Excuse me, where are you going? So I'm
Speaker 1: going to the match at Fort Finley And what team
Speaker 1: are you rooting for?
Speaker 3: Sir?
Speaker 1: Well, can't you tell? Yeah? Well, I license and registration please.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, there have been wives tales. There have
Speaker 1: been wives tales about that. In high school football rivalries, yeah, literally,
Speaker 1: there was there's one rivalry in East Georgia where it
Speaker 1: was a wives tale that each counties, each county sheriff's
Speaker 1: department was perched at the county line waiting for fans
Speaker 1: to cross over on a on a game night, and
Speaker 1: then it's like, oh, you have to pull you over,
Speaker 1: you know, cars get pulled over and everything, just to
Speaker 1: kind of slow the fan down because you knew the
Speaker 1: building was going to be packed with the other guy.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering, I'm wondering what it's going to look like
Speaker 1: tonight at Fort Fit.
Speaker 2: I don't think that was a wives tale, honestly happening.
Speaker 1: In East Georgia, without question, absolutely true. So is anybody
Speaker 1: traveling from a SNS to go north and do you
Speaker 1: have any intel or who's who's covering it?
Speaker 2: Do you know as far as like covering it in person? No,
Speaker 2: I know we do have some folks like in our
Speaker 2: in our discord and stuff that are going to be there.
Speaker 2: So I would love to go like, this is a
Speaker 2: this is like a genuine must watch match. It really is.
Speaker 2: You have open cup, you have the Darby uh huh,
Speaker 2: which rarely never gets played right. You can bind those
Speaker 2: two things and that is like lightsaber meets Adamantium. Like
Speaker 2: this is gonna be such a cross room. I am
Speaker 2: so excited, Like, forget the champions Cup, dude, screw that.
Speaker 2: This is the game you need to be watching today, period.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean literally seven o'clock, I mean war just look,
Speaker 1: get your nap in and just get it going because
Speaker 1: it's seven o'clock. It might be a late night. And
Speaker 1: now this little find a device if you're not at home,
Speaker 1: find a a I cannot cut a better promo for
Speaker 1: this one. I mean, this is this is a Rick
Speaker 1: Flair promo from Georgia Championship Wrestling, worthy of a microphone,
Speaker 1: stealing it away from David Crockett and Tony Shavanni and
Speaker 1: going for three minutes in a studio and everybody on
Speaker 1: tech Wood Drive going, yeah, that's what you get with
Speaker 1: this one tonight. I'm thoroughly excited about this one. And
Speaker 1: and what league play looks for the survivor on the
Speaker 1: flip side, Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know our shows tonight around the same time.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right.
Speaker 2: Does throw a little bit of a wrench in exactly
Speaker 2: what I just said. Oh but you know, I think
Speaker 2: like it'll be one of those where a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago, like we had MICHAELA Ganona Ellen and I
Speaker 2: had the game pulled up because that was when De
Speaker 2: Moines was playing, and we were trying to give like
Speaker 2: slight updates about what was going on in the game
Speaker 2: because he's like, oh, right, okay, yeah you can.
Speaker 1: You can't give I don't think, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think if you're like part of the uh you know,
Speaker 1: part of part of the outside world, that you can
Speaker 1: do play by play. Yeah.
Speaker 2: US Soccer might not be happy about that.
Speaker 1: So but if you did, hey, look at this, yeah,
Speaker 1: look at this kind of analysis. So I just saw this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So what was it like with mckaleay.
Speaker 2: He was like, as I mentioned, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, the game start now. He's like, yeah, as
Speaker 2: soon as I get done here, I'm gonna go turn
Speaker 2: it on. He was like, so, who's starting, what's going
Speaker 2: on in it? How's it going. I'm like, well, at
Speaker 2: this point, because it was like thirty minutes in, I
Speaker 2: was like, your boys haven't really progressed the ball to
Speaker 2: the other side of the pitch at this point. So no,
Speaker 2: but I think I think this Chattanooga Darby will be
Speaker 2: much much more entertaining.
Speaker 1: For sure, tremendous I'm so looking forward to it. Uh,
Speaker 1: Like I said, don't sleep on it, becaus you know,
Speaker 1: Tormenta had a close one last night. Yeah, and literally
Speaker 1: it was like, okay, two nil, ten minutes to go,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the hood comes up, the oil drops, and the engine died,
Speaker 1: and it was like, all right, let's try and just
Speaker 1: get this thing over the Let's get this thing over
Speaker 1: the over the finish line, and they did with a
Speaker 1: goal later than later north of ninety.
Speaker 2: Jackson and are you know, like yeah, Jack Hopkins, yeah, Jpop, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: He he was in our discord last night. And the
Speaker 2: range of emotions that this man went through in a
Speaker 2: few minutes because he is obviously a massive Tormenta fan.
Speaker 2: He's covered some of the games for the for the
Speaker 2: site and everything, like the dude, besides Atlanta lives and
Speaker 2: breathes South Georgia, Tormento, and he was like, forget about
Speaker 2: what just happened down in Statesboro, and then like a
Speaker 2: couple of minutes later, twelve minutes later, he's like, never
Speaker 2: her mind.
Speaker 1: Bazini my heart.
Speaker 2: I was like, dude, you're going through it, man, Elizabeth.
Speaker 1: It's a big one. I'm coming and Jackson would have
Speaker 1: to look that reference up on the wood. Uh. Now
Speaker 1: that you've had, you and the audience over at SNS
Speaker 1: and everybody over there have had a couple of days
Speaker 1: to kind of process what has gone on with it?
Speaker 1: Landy United, have you? First off, I guess, have you
Speaker 1: recovered from what happened with it? Landy, Knighted and NYC.
Speaker 1: That's the first question.
Speaker 2: So first of all, neither one of us were there,
Speaker 2: which means one of us is not allowed back in
Speaker 2: the bins apparently.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the answer is no, I have not because so
Speaker 2: obviously I wasn't there at the stadium this time. This
Speaker 2: was like my one obligatory absence of the year. You
Speaker 2: had a lot of stuff going on this We have
Speaker 2: friends of family in town. But I was watching it
Speaker 2: sitting next to a fire pit and a lake, and
Speaker 2: I went, I really, I you know, I'm sitting here
Speaker 2: talking about Jackson. I probably was the same exact way
Speaker 2: on Saturday. I almost threw my phone in the lake.
Speaker 2: I almost threw it in the fire, I almost jumped
Speaker 2: in the lake, almost jumped in the fire. I went
Speaker 2: through all of it. Oh man, I was like I'm
Speaker 2: going to turn this stupid game off. I should be
Speaker 2: enjoying myself right now. I'm not enjoying myself to oh
Speaker 2: this is getting a little bit better. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: It was all over the place. Oh man, full range
Speaker 2: of emotions. It goes up there with with you know,
Speaker 2: that famous twenty eighteen San Jose game is one of
Speaker 2: the wildest, for sure. But I think it, you know,
Speaker 2: it kind of reinforced a lot of the stuff that
Speaker 2: we talked about. I mean, man, I don't even know
Speaker 2: where to start, because.
Speaker 1: Like the beginning is usually a good the beginning.
Speaker 2: Is usually a good chronological place to start. I mean,
Speaker 2: it wasn't great, right, Like the team this season so far,
Speaker 2: it's not always been a tale of two halves. It's
Speaker 2: just been a tale of one. The switch is flipped,
Speaker 2: it seems like. And it was just back and forth
Speaker 2: in the beginning, and then obviously New York gets their goal,
Speaker 2: you know, fairly early on. I loved the first goal
Speaker 2: with Moran Chuck. I love the you know, the kind
Speaker 2: of build up. I love the fact that you got
Speaker 2: all four of your your you know, primetime attackers involved
Speaker 2: in it. Latte Lithe will tell you that was a pass,
Speaker 2: It was not who cares, It still counts as an assist.
Speaker 2: But then, like you know, the the beginning of the
Speaker 2: second half, the way things kind of fell apart, it
Speaker 2: was it was a little concerning. It still is a
Speaker 2: little concerning because you shouldn't have that happen, you know.
Speaker 2: Still now people have asked me multiple times, like what
Speaker 2: about Dom shon Qui. I'm not worried about Dom schon
Speaker 2: Qui in the slightest it He is seventeen years old.
Speaker 2: He got told moments before opening whistle that he was
Speaker 2: going to get the start in front of forty five.
Speaker 1: You're tacked on the shoulder, sir.
Speaker 2: Guess what you're doing now? That is a That is
Speaker 2: a weird, weird place to be for a seventeen year
Speaker 2: old kid. Now, we've watched him all the way through
Speaker 2: preseason and beyond, but I mean, he made a mistake
Speaker 2: that any professional soccer player could make on any given day.
Speaker 2: The one thing that I take out of this match
Speaker 2: that I really want to see Dom improve on, and
Speaker 2: it kind of goes back to some stuff that Dyla
Speaker 2: talked about in the near the end of the preseason
Speaker 2: was his positioning. I think if there's something like specific
Speaker 2: that he needs to maybe just fine tune. It's just
Speaker 2: where to be at any given time. On a team
Speaker 2: that uses their wingbacks as both attack and defense heavily,
Speaker 2: you have to know where you've got to be at
Speaker 2: any given time. And I think that's that's one of
Speaker 2: those things that comes with experience, it comes with coaching.
Speaker 2: He's on the right track. He made a mistake. New
Speaker 2: York City made mistakes. Everybody made mistakes. It is what
Speaker 2: it is. You take away all the mistakes, and Atlanta
Speaker 2: still I think wins this game to one. So as
Speaker 2: far as he is concerned, man, I'm not worried about
Speaker 2: Dom at all. He's fine. He's good to go. Besides that,
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, there's been this back and forth
Speaker 2: about maryon Chuck and where he belongs, and I think
Speaker 2: there are a lot of factors that take into consideration here.
Speaker 2: But I think when you have a team that wants
Speaker 2: to attack, that you're playing against that wants to attack
Speaker 2: a lot, you have to study the midfield somehow, and
Speaker 2: you saw that in the second half. But you also
Speaker 2: saw New York take their foot off the gas a
Speaker 2: little bit, so I think, you know, it's not that
Speaker 2: you have to move a Lexi to be a permanent
Speaker 2: number eight or a connector all the time. I think
Speaker 2: Miggy is a right winger or left winger wherever he
Speaker 2: wants to play. Is smart enough to know, like if
Speaker 2: you tell him, hey, while Alexi's playing as a ten,
Speaker 2: I need you to be more of a whatever. Give
Speaker 2: him space. That'll give you space, It'll give everybody space.
Speaker 2: But then the moment that you might have to do
Speaker 2: that kind of experiment where you're moving Alexi back as
Speaker 2: more of a connector and a build up player from
Speaker 2: the back, then you move Mickey to that central location,
Speaker 2: let him do whatever he wants to do. So it's
Speaker 2: just it's interesting. It's kind of an interesting conundrum that
Speaker 2: Daila has right now with you know, where am I
Speaker 2: going to get the most out of my players? Like
Speaker 2: Saba has looked infinitely better on the right, I don't
Speaker 2: think there's any like question about how much better he
Speaker 2: is over there. But to do all that, you do
Speaker 2: have to tweak some things. So this is a this
Speaker 2: is a I think a period of maybe learning for
Speaker 2: the coaching staff, trying to figure out where they can
Speaker 2: get the absolute most out of out of the players
Speaker 2: at any given time, because it's not just where they
Speaker 2: start at the opening whistle games chain during the game.
Speaker 2: What I know, right, it's just weird, especially when it's
Speaker 2: three to one. Yeah, but yeah, I mean, I think
Speaker 2: I think there's there's just as part of the learning
Speaker 2: process of figuring out like who's who's going to fit
Speaker 2: the way that you want to play the best in
Speaker 2: what positions, that they could still be really good at.
Speaker 1: To your point about Mirnchuk, here's it. Here are his numbers,
Speaker 1: courtesy of our friends at SOFA score Play. The full
Speaker 1: ninety got the goal, fifty eight touches, two incomplete passes
Speaker 1: or two inaccurate passes on forty five attempts, forty three
Speaker 1: of forty five passing on fifty eight touches ninety six percent.
Speaker 1: Three key passes, two crosses, three long balls, one big
Speaker 1: chance created, two shots on target, three of five on
Speaker 1: ground duels, three tackles. That's hitting a boatload of different
Speaker 1: categories for somebody who I have always in vision as
Speaker 1: almost as the conductor of this orchestra because of the
Speaker 1: imagination that he has in the touch that he has.
Speaker 1: But knocking off all of those different categories in this
Speaker 1: match of chaos and going ninety six percent passing. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't just you know fourteen or fifteen or you
Speaker 1: know nineteen and twenty, this forty three or forty five.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not messing around. He had a day
Speaker 1: where he hit a bunch of different categories, did a
Speaker 1: bunch of different things for you as the as the
Speaker 1: maestro there with the baton, you know, making things happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it wasn't that it was like you know,
Speaker 2: backwards passes or lateral passes. I mean he was he
Speaker 2: was hitting some progressive passes, which is what you want
Speaker 2: to see out of your eight or ten. It doesn't
Speaker 2: matter what number you want to give him at the time.
Speaker 2: But I mean, I don't know. I guess he saw
Speaker 2: the rooted in the stripes videos like man excrety people.
Speaker 1: I thought.
Speaker 2: I think the way that he plays, everybody's been really
Speaker 2: hunging up on like is he a ten?
Speaker 1: Is he not?
Speaker 2: I think it's more about where can you give him
Speaker 2: a little bit more space to take that extra split
Speaker 2: second to make the proper pass that's going to benefit
Speaker 2: the team the most, and play and doing that as
Speaker 2: a quote unquote number ten, you're often more in very
Speaker 2: tight spaces where you have to maybe take on guys
Speaker 2: one v one, it's a little bit harder to play
Speaker 2: that through ball or that you know, very very precise
Speaker 2: pass that you want. But if you if you drop
Speaker 2: back a little bit and you you kind of allow
Speaker 2: him to be that conductor or that connector that's kind
Speaker 2: of what I keep calling him. You look at when
Speaker 2: he has just a moment of space and he can
Speaker 2: pick out just about anybody on the field. And I
Speaker 2: think I could be completely wrong with this, but I
Speaker 2: just think it's that maybe that little bit of pressure
Speaker 2: being taken off of his back to say, like, man,
Speaker 2: I've got space and time. He can control the ball
Speaker 2: pretty well, you know, as as like a as like
Speaker 2: a box to box guy. He is not the Almada
Speaker 2: or Moreno, who's gonna go and take on guys one
Speaker 2: v one and like you know, dribbling boy around them
Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff. That's just not his game. Yeah,
Speaker 2: tribly boy, But he he does have that wherewithal I
Speaker 2: mean to almost see somebody behind him on the other
Speaker 2: side of the pitch and then make a pass with
Speaker 2: his non dominant foot right to them. That's that's the
Speaker 2: strength of Alexi Mirn Chuck, and if you can unlock
Speaker 2: that and use it more often, then you, I think
Speaker 2: you're gonna get a lot more out of him. It's
Speaker 2: it's what we've been talking about. I guess kind of
Speaker 2: what Henry wrote about last week and then and then
Speaker 2: now now he's been insufferable since he wrote that article.
Speaker 2: Not really, but it's you know, it's I think it's
Speaker 2: just it does kind of lend itself maybe to taking
Speaker 2: a little bit of the pressure off of him so
Speaker 2: that he can have just a tiny bit more space
Speaker 2: to operate and to think about what he wants everybody
Speaker 2: in front of him to do, and then what he
Speaker 2: can do to feed them.
Speaker 1: So then are we going to be starting starting to
Speaker 1: call Aleximi don't chook the Downtown Connector? Is that? Uh?
Speaker 2: Hey man, I like it.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 2: This fits.
Speaker 1: I mean with the with the kit everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this fit.
Speaker 1: Just just call a M five nine to Downtown Connector
Speaker 1: and you got it all locked and loaded.
Speaker 2: You know, we come up with a lot of things
Speaker 2: in this one once weekly segment that really need a
Speaker 2: lot more credit.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, well, I mean, hey, look, it's you
Speaker 1: know what is it that our boy arn't Anderson used
Speaker 1: to say, or still says, I'm not want toot my
Speaker 1: own hornbit to toot. Yeah, oh yeah. So look, anytime,
Speaker 1: anytime you get the chance to quote the four Horsemen,
Speaker 1: you know you're going to do it.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So you're about you're you're in the process of throwing
Speaker 1: your phone in the water, in the process of drying
Speaker 1: it out in the fire. Once you what you have
Speaker 1: dived into whatever body of water you were next to. Yep,
Speaker 1: and you're down three to one. Chaos continues to ensue.
Speaker 1: Midanchuk is there with you, and then you mentioned not
Speaker 1: you get the own goal from Keaton Parks and you're
Speaker 1: getting all of this momentum and all this stuff from
Speaker 1: the casual perspective from which you were watching. Were folks
Speaker 1: starting to gravitate towards your mobile device as you were
Speaker 1: sitting there and trying to keep your wits about you?
Speaker 1: What was what was on from three two to three three, three,
Speaker 1: three to four three?
Speaker 2: It was because I'm sitting there and I'm watching the game,
Speaker 2: and like everybody's asking me, like, because most of these
Speaker 2: folks are like casual, they landing on the fans like
Speaker 2: you know, they'll they'll watch the show, they'll watch the
Speaker 2: games occasionally, but they're not like hardcore, you know. So
Speaker 2: at the half, I'm like, all right, well, this is
Speaker 2: all right, it's okay, Like you got an equalizer back.
Speaker 2: Now you just got forty five to take the lead,
Speaker 2: get out with three points. And then that second half
Speaker 2: started and I was well saying things that I can't
Speaker 2: say normally.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you just warn us and you sit
Speaker 1: there and we put the E rating up when we
Speaker 1: posted yeah, oh that's all we do.
Speaker 2: I was so frustrated. I was like, man, it is
Speaker 2: this mentality thing, and like, so then we're all having
Speaker 2: these conversations and I'm like, dude, I am so close
Speaker 2: to just like turning this game off and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: watch it again later when I can i can focus
Speaker 2: on it more, and which I did also, but I
Speaker 2: kept watching and and then you know, you get the
Speaker 2: one back and it's like, all right, well that's cool.
Speaker 2: But in the history of Atlanta United and a lot
Speaker 2: of soccer teams like this doesn't have you don't come
Speaker 2: back from this often. If you do, it is drunk.
Speaker 2: It is absolutely drunk. So when it was three to two,
Speaker 2: it was like, all right, well, I mean it was cool. Hey,
Speaker 2: you got it. You got one. Back has channeled the
Speaker 2: on goal gods again, he's done it. But I'm sitting
Speaker 2: there watching and then when it hits three three, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: hang on a minute now. And then that was when
Speaker 2: I kind of jumped up and I was like, let's go,
Speaker 2: and everybody started coming over. And then from that point
Speaker 2: on all the way until the end of the match,
Speaker 2: everybody was glued around. And then the final fifteenth well
Speaker 2: ten minutes or whatever it was, everybody's watching the screen
Speaker 2: and the moment that the Latte Loth goal went in,
Speaker 2: people jumping around, people are screaming. The neighbors probably thought,
Speaker 2: I don't know what they thought. They were like these
Speaker 2: freaking insane.
Speaker 1: You don't care what the neighbors thought.
Speaker 2: I didn't know, like y'all, y'all saw the Atlanta United shirt.
Speaker 2: All right, something good just happened. So we did our
Speaker 2: celebrations and then set back down and then waited with
Speaker 2: baited breath for the last few minutes. And there was
Speaker 2: the goal that was it was clearly offside, but there
Speaker 2: was the goal. And before I had a moment to
Speaker 2: be like, oh, that, well, that was offside, Like that's
Speaker 2: got to be called back. Somebody that was watching was like,
Speaker 2: this is some bulley. I'm like, you have no idea
Speaker 2: because normally that's how this goes down. Thankfully it was
Speaker 2: offside and we were all good to go. So we
Speaker 2: went through the full gamut of emotions. Man, it was insane.
Speaker 1: So the and the four to three go, well, I
Speaker 1: guess first off, let's still you know, discuss the the
Speaker 1: set piece where you see both Latte Lot and Miggy
Speaker 1: jump out of the gym and Miggy and MIGGI gets
Speaker 1: there first. I'm like, okay, uh good, good to see
Speaker 1: that Miggy's got hops when requested. It's like, uh, like
Speaker 1: you're saying, I like an order of hops from mister elmern. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I mean Migi got hops man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm almost a little disappointed. And that goal be
Speaker 2: only because I'm saying this for a reason. I don't
Speaker 2: think it did MIGGI justice. Now I wasn't there, so like,
Speaker 2: I do regret a little bit the fact that I
Speaker 2: didn't get to see his first goal back. However, however, however,
Speaker 2: perfect ref for that. By the way, however, I think
Speaker 2: there was so much confusion around who got to it
Speaker 2: initially that I think it maybe pulled a little bit
Speaker 2: of the that extra oomph. And it's not taking anything
Speaker 2: away from Latte laugh, but everybody's been waiting on that
Speaker 2: one because he almost had that one shot that was
Speaker 2: kind of a weak shot, like a little bit earlier. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that would have been that the place would have blown up,
Speaker 2: because that's one of those where it's like, hey, all Miggie,
Speaker 2: he did his thing, he got on the ball, took
Speaker 2: the shot. But because this header was just kind of
Speaker 2: like who got that, I think maybe it took a
Speaker 2: little bit of the air out of like what could
Speaker 2: have been that Meggie explosion. So in my head, I'm
Speaker 2: pretending that like this weekend, he'll get one that's like
Speaker 2: a full on open play, like he just ate somebody's
Speaker 2: soul and then scored and then the place is gonna
Speaker 2: blow up to make myself feel better about missing the
Speaker 2: first one. But it was either way, Matt Edwards unsung
Speaker 2: hero of that sequence. For sure, I thought he he
Speaker 2: did really well and then playing it over to shanday,
Speaker 2: who you know, you might try that same little chip
Speaker 2: a million times and not get it right, but he
Speaker 2: did it, and thankfully he had two guys waiting there
Speaker 2: and one of them was able to get on the
Speaker 2: end of it.
Speaker 1: I'll put a bookmark in Matt Edwards and we'll talk
Speaker 1: about Matt in a bit. But then, you know, to
Speaker 1: just have a night of chaos like we had with
Speaker 1: it Landy United, and to have it end on one
Speaker 1: of those moments where Matt Freeze is being summoned apparently,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, bro, come on out. I'm shepherd,
Speaker 1: I'm shielding and shepherding for a reason. So I'm requesting
Speaker 1: your assistance sir, and grabbing and grabbing this, grabbing this
Speaker 1: bouncing soccer ball away from the player. And I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is about strikers being inside the eighteen
Speaker 1: and moments are weird. But we've had We've had Grand theft, Jamal,
Speaker 1: We've had We've had Papa shot from Latte Lot and
Speaker 1: it's just sure, you just kind of throw up your
Speaker 1: hands after after all these years you said to go yes, sure,
Speaker 1: why not?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why not go ahead?
Speaker 2: Whatever?
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: We we kind of got into like a little bit
Speaker 2: of a debate on on him as Monday about this,
Speaker 2: like was it was it Matt Freeze, was it Martin's Who?
Speaker 2: Like what? Who was it? And I don't think you
Speaker 2: can put the blame on either one of them solely.
Speaker 2: I think like it's both, like they they've got to
Speaker 2: figure it out. Man, you can't make that mistake. And
Speaker 2: I saw, you know, the the Twitter thread Bill Hamid
Speaker 2: got involved. Bill's giving his opinions.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, there's the comments. There are plenty of comments
Speaker 1: that I'm just gonna not come.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm like, you know, the easy thing to
Speaker 2: do there is just send send the ball out for
Speaker 2: a freaking corner or throw in. So I totally agree
Speaker 2: with that. You gotta do something. Yeah, also go keep However,
Speaker 2: it's your box, man, like you got to you gotta
Speaker 2: make a decision. So whatever, it's both of them. But
Speaker 2: then on top of that, because that's been the argument,
Speaker 2: I feel like Latze a Loth has not gotten enough
Speaker 2: credit for this goal, like not not only did he
Speaker 2: run down this ball like a freaking gazelle, and which
Speaker 2: I think was maybe part of the confusion. Honestly, I
Speaker 2: think Martin's thought he had maybe a little bit more time,
Speaker 2: Freeze thought maybe had a little bit more time, But
Speaker 2: Latte lath is sneaky fast, Like you don't realize until
Speaker 2: he turns on the eighteenth gear or whatever that he
Speaker 2: has that he's coming like he's coming in hot, and
Speaker 2: I think he was there before they realized it. And
Speaker 2: for him to get in between them kind of win
Speaker 2: the ball and then chip the ball at that angle
Speaker 2: over the top of the goalkeeper with enough Ford momentum
Speaker 2: to not allow another defender to run in and kick
Speaker 2: it out. That is like Chef's kiss level striking. That
Speaker 2: was beautiful, So like he needs a lot of credit
Speaker 2: for that. It wasn't just the fact that the goalkeeper
Speaker 2: and the captain completely had a day. M lat deserves
Speaker 2: a lot of credit also Martin's as a captain. And
Speaker 2: that was some crappy reaction. I don't care whose fault
Speaker 2: it was. Don't do that, Yeah you can't. I mean,
Speaker 2: I get be a pissed.
Speaker 1: The gesticulations of Thiego Martinez.
Speaker 2: He was. He was quite upset, Yes, he.
Speaker 1: Was quite upset. Well, when you have this happened, I
Speaker 1: could understand why. Yeah, for sure, Atlanta was down three
Speaker 1: one at the hour mark and I've come back to equalize.
Speaker 1: Sand playing over the top for lante Van over his
Speaker 1: head for his and what te what steals it chucks
Speaker 1: it into the head.
Speaker 3: Scores at Lanta United has come back from two balls
Speaker 3: down to take the lead.
Speaker 1: Incredible layer play New York's not wrong.
Speaker 2: No what a ball a boy?
Speaker 1: Brad by the way, oh see, and this is this
Speaker 1: is a thing that I have and I'm not the
Speaker 1: only one here. Where's the assist I know that's that's
Speaker 1: horse crap? Where is the assist for for Brad Gazanne?
Speaker 1: Because I needed the points in Fantasy to at least
Speaker 1: close my margin a little bit going into Sunday.
Speaker 2: I won Fantasy. I didn't change anything. I won by
Speaker 2: two points. This weekend. I got so lucky.
Speaker 1: Anyway, my my, I went with Red Bulls defense, going
Speaker 1: up and thinking that you know, New England wasn't going
Speaker 1: to score. And so the two guys I had combined
Speaker 1: for a one point total. One of the guys I
Speaker 1: had actually punched a negative.
Speaker 2: That's happened to me twice this season so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I had I had a negative punched in
Speaker 1: two and a minus one. I should have stuck with
Speaker 1: Vancouver on defense, where I hit oliochmed and he had
Speaker 1: a plus nine. Oh, by the way, here's the other version,
Speaker 1: courtesy of our buddy Tyler Terrence, who is well on
Speaker 1: his way to having his his ten vigit ten visit
Speaker 1: punch card.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean he's like, he's three visits already, three visits
Speaker 1: in a week for Tyler. So here's the other Tyler.
Speaker 1: So here here's his version once again for those of
Speaker 1: you who may have forgotten, courtesy of our friends at
Speaker 1: Apple TV and Major League Soccer. It is that center
Speaker 1: back roll partines Tannski Freeze to come get it, confuse you.
Speaker 1: It's another costly error for New York City, and the
Speaker 1: comeback is Chi just to not complete Friendsland. That's the
Speaker 1: short version. But yes, that was That was Tyler's call,
Speaker 1: and I texted because I, like you, was not at
Speaker 1: the Bends, and so I'm gathering intail as we go.
Speaker 1: I was with the Boss on a date night and
Speaker 1: because we were close to an anniversary, which was Monday,
Speaker 1: by the way, Uh yes, first date anniversary sixteen years ago.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, we're we're that couple. We celebrate that
Speaker 1: in addition to anniversaries, and so do we I.
Speaker 2: Mean to a degree, like it always gets recognized every year, but.
Speaker 1: We have we have what we referred to as First
Speaker 1: Day Aniversary. And so that was Monday, and so Saturday
Speaker 1: we went to the Jasonisbel concert at the Fox, and
Speaker 1: so I was in a building where I could get
Speaker 1: no cell service whatsoever because of the brick and everything
Speaker 1: that is encased inside the Fox Theater. I guess that's
Speaker 1: their way of saying, focus on what you're watching, don't
Speaker 1: focus on your you know. And there were about five
Speaker 1: or six people that were trying to record bits and
Speaker 1: pieces of the concert, and the folks at the Fox
Speaker 1: were none too pleased with that and telling folks to
Speaker 1: put their phones away, yep, because you're not supposed to
Speaker 1: do that, yep. But yeah, I was. I was going
Speaker 1: full disclosure. I was texting back and forth with Tyler
Speaker 1: and not you, the other Tyler, Tyler Tarrems. I was
Speaker 1: texting back and forth with him and I'm like, Tyler,
Speaker 1: what happened? And so he broke it all down for
Speaker 1: me with four to three. But so, yeah, you had
Speaker 1: that kind of chaos. I wanted to put a bookmark
Speaker 1: in Matt Edwards so I could bring up the topic
Speaker 1: of Matt Edwards. Now third position he's played on the
Speaker 1: back line this year. Yeah, and it's just like, you know, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: tell me what I got to do, I'll go out
Speaker 1: and do it. And you're you're continuing to see that
Speaker 1: from Matt Edwards and how he's adjusting to life with that.
Speaker 1: Landy knighted in the first.
Speaker 2: Team, Yeah, put me in, coach. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I thought he looked confident, like really confident, and I
Speaker 2: don't know if maybe it was the moment they kind
Speaker 2: of spurred him on a little bit, but I just thought,
Speaker 2: like the confidence in which he played, especially, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not just that goal that you know was the
Speaker 2: past that Silva Silva did some little things and then
Speaker 2: chipped it in, but like, I think it was just
Speaker 2: where he was talking about positioning, where he was positioned,
Speaker 2: taking guys on one v one, not being afraid to
Speaker 2: do it, taking risks. I just thought, like, hey man,
Speaker 2: you you had one game in the beginning of the season,
Speaker 2: first game where it was it was it was a
Speaker 2: little bit of a struggle. Then you absolutely destroyed a
Speaker 2: Premier league striker winger for forty five minutes, and then you,
Speaker 2: among others, had a mistake right that that led to
Speaker 2: a goal. But you've kept at it and you haven't really.
Speaker 2: I mean he even told us at the trading ground, like,
Speaker 2: you know, I just I put it behind me. My
Speaker 2: teammates they helped me through it, you know, as they should,
Speaker 2: and so I'm good. And he's just kept chugging along.
Speaker 2: And he got thrown in as a center back and
Speaker 2: did his thing. And I mean, like, is he playing perfect? No,
Speaker 2: But like I think for what he's been through in
Speaker 2: such a short time this season, a lot of guys
Speaker 2: would have absolutely lost confidence by this point, and he's
Speaker 2: just doing his thing and this I think he looked really,
Speaker 2: really good in this one, and he helped Spur on
Speaker 2: a comeback.
Speaker 1: And I think that speaks a lot to at least,
Speaker 1: you know, what we're seeing so far in the first
Speaker 1: two months of this group being together, where the players
Speaker 1: are trying to understand what Ronnie Dila wants and then
Speaker 1: you're adjusting to what's going on. And Ronnie has said, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, after a loss, the first thing I got
Speaker 1: to do is look at myself. I got to figure out, okay,
Speaker 1: you know, was it this was it?
Speaker 3: This? Was it?
Speaker 2: This?
Speaker 1: How do we address these issues and first time that
Speaker 1: you've gone you know that you've been down to in
Speaker 1: a long time. I think everybody goes back to the
Speaker 1: chaos in San Jose in MLS after dark when you
Speaker 1: when you have these kinds of matches, and you know,
Speaker 1: the these kinds of matches can go one of two
Speaker 1: ways for you emotionally. You can sit there and ride
Speaker 1: that wave and sit there and go, Okay, we're capable
Speaker 1: of doing X, or you know, we escaped. And I
Speaker 1: think that it's okay to have both of those in
Speaker 1: concert when it comes to your your emotional wherewithal going forward.
Speaker 1: Just you know, let one be more positive than the other,
Speaker 1: but don't forget the second emotion that's attached to this
Speaker 1: whole thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I that's kind of been one of the
Speaker 2: one of the points that I was hitting on when
Speaker 2: we did our reaction show.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 2: You have to celebrate this game because there's a lot today.
Speaker 2: And it's not just the fact that you won. It's
Speaker 2: not even just the fact that you came back. It's
Speaker 2: the fact that you you got all of your attackers
Speaker 2: that you've you know, admittedly paid so much money for
Speaker 2: involved in multiple ways, like Alexi getting his goal and
Speaker 2: being very involved in the game and affecting the game
Speaker 2: the way that he did, especially after you know the
Speaker 2: criticism that he's received. You know, Saba, who who should
Speaker 2: have two goals at this point or at least to assist. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but he's he's making that happen right just and and
Speaker 2: don't take away any credit from him with like the
Speaker 2: first touch to get around the you know, defender, like
Speaker 2: everything that he did to build up that own goal,
Speaker 2: that's what you needed there for lat Lath with the assist,
Speaker 2: with the goal the game winner, like that's what you
Speaker 2: paid paid the money for. And then of course Meigi
Speaker 2: doing doing what Niggi does, being involved everywhere Like this
Speaker 2: is I think the first game where you've gotten all
Speaker 2: of it kind of come together. Now, it would have
Speaker 2: been nice if it like came together and you just
Speaker 2: spanked New York City out of the bends, but whatever,
Speaker 2: it doesn't always go down that way. But you're seeing,
Speaker 2: you know, the chemistry that we're always talking about kind
Speaker 2: of maybe coming together a little bit at this point.
Speaker 2: And you can see that Dayla is tweaking things and
Speaker 2: fine tuning things and moving guys around and making the
Speaker 2: chess moves and out of your coach. That's what you
Speaker 2: want to see as well. So like there's a lot
Speaker 2: just kind of behind the scenes that happened in this
Speaker 2: match that needs to be celebrated. But of course then
Speaker 2: you got to go back and you have to look
Speaker 2: at the silly mistakes, like again the dom chon Quei thing.
Speaker 2: Give a seventeen year old if you put into the
Speaker 2: starting lineup at the last minute in front of forty
Speaker 2: five thousand people, I would be more shocked if he
Speaker 2: didn't make a mistake or two. I'm not worried about
Speaker 2: that at all. It is what it is. And and
Speaker 2: kudos to Derek and Brad for not chewing his rear
Speaker 2: end off. I think he doesn't need that. He knows
Speaker 2: what happened. He doesn't need Dad Tom's two screaming at
Speaker 2: him for making a mistake. It is what it is,
Speaker 2: so you know, and then then the other mistakes, there's
Speaker 2: definitely some stuff to be had there, but like, celebrate
Speaker 2: what you what you've progressed in, and celebrate the win,
Speaker 2: go back and take a look at the film and say,
Speaker 2: all right, we've got to get these mistakes under control,
Speaker 2: like immediately, because we can do that and with the
Speaker 2: goals that we'll put in win, we're gonna be all right.
Speaker 1: And now you get to uh face coming up this weekend.
Speaker 2: If dude, if anybody loses an aerial duel against Luco Acosta,
Speaker 2: I might jump out of the press box.
Speaker 1: So you have you, I just.
Speaker 2: Don't please don't do it. It's like this past weekend
Speaker 2: Sydney was saying the same thing about maxim morales, like
Speaker 2: don't don't you dare. But Luco Acosta unfortunately has a
Speaker 2: knock on wood, has a thing with Atlanta United. Hopefully
Speaker 2: he's lost that now that he's joined another team, but
Speaker 2: that is that is a concern for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, you you have someone like Luco
Speaker 1: who is a certifiable pain in the you know what,
Speaker 1: and he just finds ways to get open. I mean
Speaker 1: he you know, it's he's got dudes who are five
Speaker 1: six inches taller than he is setting picks. You know,
Speaker 1: you get lost in traffic, you find that extra space.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, it's like it's like that point guard
Speaker 1: that we see in basketball where you're running, you're running
Speaker 1: the motion offense, and then he senses that opening and
Speaker 1: he just wants to kind of just kind of shave
Speaker 1: off of the outside shoulder off of one of the picks,
Speaker 1: and he gets himself some space and that's all he
Speaker 1: needs to launch a three. And that's what I've I've
Speaker 1: you know, we have. I've always kind of noticed with
Speaker 1: Luco Luco, it's like he's in the he's in the motion,
Speaker 1: he's in the weave, and it's like, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: cut this pic. I'm gonna cut coming off of this
Speaker 1: pict short to give me some space. And yeah, Public
Speaker 1: Enemy number one Lucoco coming up this weekend with with
Speaker 1: Atlanta United. So uh, after you know, after this weekend,
Speaker 1: I know that you've got show tonight. Who's your guest tonight?
Speaker 2: By the way, Uh, Max Bretos, we're actually doing like
Speaker 2: a pre pre recorded type. Yeah, this was it came
Speaker 2: about very late this week. Yeah. By the way, by
Speaker 2: the way, April Fools has it sucked?
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be but I you know, and I've
Speaker 1: kind of outlawed I don't it. Look, I'm too old
Speaker 1: to try to think of April Fools things to do.
Speaker 1: And I got too we got too much other stuff
Speaker 1: to talk about for me to sit there and go, hey,
Speaker 1: by the way, you know when when say this is closed,
Speaker 1: you know you know? Nah, So how did you get
Speaker 1: victimized by April fools?
Speaker 2: You know what's so frustrating about it is it wasn't
Speaker 2: even that it was an April fool's joke. It was
Speaker 2: just life said, hey, even though you're trying to avoid
Speaker 2: April fools, I'm going to April fools you except it's
Speaker 2: not actually April. I'm really gonna do this to you
Speaker 2: in one day yesterday, Okay, I had a brand new
Speaker 2: lawnmower break and I spent four hours trying to figure
Speaker 2: out how to get it repaired, slash fixed, slash replaced
Speaker 2: because it is brand new. Okay, still haven't got an answer, answer.
Speaker 1: See, I mean do well. First and foremost, my first
Speaker 1: question is do you know that this was, in fact
Speaker 1: a new lawn mower.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I was the one that bought it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, but I mean it's like it wasn't like
Speaker 1: you bought it off of the showroom floor or everything.
Speaker 1: It was like in the box.
Speaker 2: It was in the box. I put it together. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: one hundred percent like came out the box. I put
Speaker 2: a couple of bolts in, put the oil in the
Speaker 2: whole nine yards Okay, so yeah, that happened. And when
Speaker 2: that happened, I was like, all right, well, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: at least go use the weed eater. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: do my little you know stuff around the house. Went
Speaker 2: to go crank up the weed eater, and right when
Speaker 2: it was about to crank up, the string broke. And then.
Speaker 1: Third piece of equipment.
Speaker 2: And then that night last night, my wife was trying
Speaker 2: to do some work. We're getting our oldest kind of
Speaker 2: getting some college stuff prepared, and she goes to open
Speaker 2: up her laptop and the hinge on the laptop just breaks,
Speaker 2: like the screen just broke been there, which thankfully we
Speaker 2: have two very capable children who were able to get
Speaker 2: it back kind of together and put a screw in
Speaker 2: there and it's working. But I'm like, dude, what is
Speaker 2: going on today? This is absolute garbage. So I'm grateful
Speaker 2: that April Fool's is over, And yes it is. It is,
Speaker 2: Max Bretos. You can get on later because I'm done.
Speaker 2: I'm done with April first.
Speaker 1: Yes, one Florida state or two another. It will be
Speaker 1: good to have, good to have Max talking. Yes, good
Speaker 1: to have him on the show. Yeah. I mean literally
Speaker 1: everybody was trying to figure out all the April foolsy
Speaker 1: and stuff. You know, has had a thing with Formula
Speaker 1: one where they're they've got a new sponsor, and everybody's like, oh,
Speaker 1: are we sure about that? Yeah, that that wasn't no
Speaker 1: April Fools. But it takes entirely too much effort for me.
Speaker 1: It's like cutting a promo. The best promos are the
Speaker 1: ones that have that are that are shrouded in truth,
Speaker 1: and it's like you sit there and you have a
Speaker 1: point of view, but there's still there's still some truth
Speaker 1: bombs in there. Those are the Those are the best
Speaker 1: April Fools notifications that you get, you know. But for
Speaker 1: me to try and formulate something like that with everything
Speaker 1: that we have going on, it would take entirely too
Speaker 1: much time out of my day to sit there and go, well, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, wink wink April fool No, it's just no,
Speaker 1: it's look, with all the news going on and all
Speaker 1: the stuff we got to talk about, No, I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't waste any time on that kind of a shenanigan.
Speaker 1: I really can.
Speaker 2: Yeah, on the day before my wife was like, are
Speaker 2: you gonna do anything for scribes and spikes for April Fools?
Speaker 2: And I was like I kind of thought about it,
Speaker 2: like just what what could I do? But I couldn't
Speaker 2: put that much like mental energy into it, and I
Speaker 2: just ended up being like, you know what it is,
Speaker 2: what it is. I'm not like, I don't even like
Speaker 2: this holiday whatever. I don't like this day. It's so.
Speaker 1: It is not a national holiday that people like it.
Speaker 2: Like something came to me, I'll participate, right, So yeah,
Speaker 2: I was just like, dude, I can't. I can't do it.
Speaker 2: And then and then I got April fooled by life?
Speaker 1: And then but is that an April fool though? If
Speaker 1: life does what life does, that's I mean.
Speaker 2: I felt like a fool. I felt like a fool.
Speaker 1: April first, you feel like a fool? Okay, I get it.
Speaker 2: I do gotta say really quick because I don't know
Speaker 2: if that was an April Fools thing or not. Did
Speaker 2: you see the Hawks thing last night? What happened the dude?
Speaker 1: The dude blew here He allegedly blew out his a
Speaker 1: c L. Yeah, I saw that piece of video and
Speaker 1: I had, you know it looked pretty bad. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: had the empathy pain. Yeah, because you know, there there
Speaker 1: are certain actions that we'll see in movies or athletics
Speaker 1: and as as a as a as a male, you'll
Speaker 1: sit there and you'll you'll get that sympathy pain, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw I saw that moment last night. Dude's going
Speaker 1: for a layup and he wiped out and he's grabbing
Speaker 1: his knee and everything, and I'm like, yeah, I had
Speaker 1: the sympathy pain for that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that one was rough. And then we're right after that.
Speaker 2: I saw this is like the first time I meant
Speaker 2: on social media all day for multiple reasons being one
Speaker 2: of them. But I saw the Miggi and Hernandez with that,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh my gosh, this man, the
Speaker 2: A C. L Demon was there to get somebody. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and this man took the sacrifice, so is okay. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but thankfully it didn't get Miggy.
Speaker 1: Well, but you saw Miggy go backwards off of the
Speaker 1: plateau was on and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, ah, I know it was still trying to get him.
Speaker 2: It was still trying to get him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not happening, all right, my friend, seven o'clock tonight,
Speaker 1: you and Max Max on tape and everybody, uh, yep,
Speaker 1: yep cool. Then there you go. It'll be it now
Speaker 1: that you've survived April one, welcome to April two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: enjoy your coffee because there goes Tyler. And so that's
Speaker 1: it for hour number one. So we do the hot tag,
Speaker 1: we do the launch into the corner and dive and
Speaker 1: do the hot tag and we bring in Dylan and
Speaker 1: so this is where we bring in Dylan Butler. Yo,
Speaker 1: what's up? You tell me? Is the parade for all
Speaker 1: of your Newcastle folks? You had what nine million people
Speaker 1: show up for your parade.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you it's been they play today and I'm like,
Speaker 3: it feels like about a month and a half since
Speaker 3: they last played. It has just been party city. And
Speaker 3: as someone who's been in Newcastle on a Friday and
Speaker 3: Saturday night, I can attest to uh the wildness that
Speaker 3: it is. And that was not even with a trophy
Speaker 3: to celebrate.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 3: It has no doubt been madness up there.
Speaker 1: And I mean that's uh, I'm waiting for you to
Speaker 1: get that scarf and add it to your background.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder. Well, the problem a little bit here
Speaker 3: is it's a pretty well established background, so I would
Speaker 3: need to like get rid of something.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, you just get another You
Speaker 1: end up getting another shower rod and you're string it across.
Speaker 3: These are just all up on the on the wall.
Speaker 3: But see like I have some over there too. See
Speaker 3: like I got uh in that corner. That's the corner
Speaker 3: you don't usually see here.
Speaker 1: We don't usually see that corner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I have a little bit of room there.
Speaker 1: There's your Campion's Cup one. Yeah, nicely done.
Speaker 3: Little All Star Game two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: Oh see now that's strong though. That's good a right, Toronto,
Speaker 1: I think that was That's a good one. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but no, you just you just need to get a
Speaker 1: bigger You need bigger studio space. That's the that's the
Speaker 1: biggest thing there. So biggest news that came from the
Speaker 1: week was the dismissal of Peter Urmes, mutually agreeing to
Speaker 1: part ways after seventeen years as coach. One of the
Speaker 1: pieces of the fabric that is Sporting Kansas City. And
Speaker 1: that's where I wanted to start off with you this week.
Speaker 1: I know that for the longest time it was like
Speaker 1: he's gone, He's staying he's going, he's staying, he's going,
Speaker 1: he's staying. Oh, they had a really bad start, but
Speaker 1: now they turn into zombie Sporting and they come out
Speaker 1: of lane eight, they make the playoffs, they make a run,
Speaker 1: do this, do that, mid season acquisitions and they get
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, all this kind of stuff, and I
Speaker 1: mean it finally just got to the point to where
Speaker 1: Dallas puts you in your seat and it was time
Speaker 1: for Peter Vermes to go. I mean, Sporting is Sporting's
Speaker 1: hurting right now. And that's kind of where I wanted
Speaker 1: to start, was with Sporting and Peter Urmes and your
Speaker 1: thoughts about Vermes on the whole, what he's meant to
Speaker 1: Sporting Kansas City and now that he's gone, now.
Speaker 3: What Yeah, So a lot to a lot to dig
Speaker 3: into there. But first for the legacy part, you know,
Speaker 3: I I I want MLS to get to the point
Speaker 3: where like there's more people, more fans who respect and
Speaker 3: understand the history.
Speaker 1: Of the league.
Speaker 3: Right Like I've been around for the beginning, but so
Speaker 3: many fans and look, you guys, you know you're you
Speaker 3: you you understand it. You know when your city enters
Speaker 3: into it. That's kind of where you start, a lot
Speaker 3: of people don't go backwards with that, you know. So
Speaker 3: for Atlanta, you know, you start with with Meggie and
Speaker 3: Joseph and and that whole crew, and like that's your beginning.
Speaker 3: You're launching off point for for your MLS sort of understanding,
Speaker 3: if you will, right, And the same happened in Seattle, right,
Speaker 3: the same happened in Portland. But I say this because
Speaker 3: I think you understand more about what Peter Remise has
Speaker 3: meant to Kansas City and that organization more when when
Speaker 3: you understand the past, right, Like, this is a guy
Speaker 3: like I don't know if there's a I mean I
Speaker 3: should I would, I should say I'd imagine at some
Speaker 3: point the stadium would be built, right, But like, I
Speaker 3: don't know if a stadium gets built without Peter Remise
Speaker 3: doing what he does there, right, Like, they don't become
Speaker 3: a club that had how many straight shutouts? And I'm
Speaker 3: sorry sellouts? How many you know that that was?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: It became a venue for the US national team. The
Speaker 3: culture that was built there, so much of that is
Speaker 3: is on Peter Remise, right, Like for him to have
Speaker 3: his run as long as he did is remarkable. There's
Speaker 3: no doubt about it, right, So I think he deserves
Speaker 3: his plaudits. And uh yeah, you know, it's it's it.
Speaker 3: We We've said it a couple of years ago. I
Speaker 3: think I think sort of the beginning of the end
Speaker 3: is when he uh you know, doesn't refresh that roster
Speaker 3: quick enough. You know, now now you're now it's becomes
Speaker 3: more difficult, right like and and you're kind of swimming
Speaker 3: upstream a little bit. And and that was the case
Speaker 3: I think with them, and they had to take a
Speaker 3: few swings at a few players, and some misses and
Speaker 3: injuries and all kinds of things that happened. But listen,
Speaker 3: he should go down as a legacy guy, no doubt,
Speaker 3: for sporting. Now to the second part of your question.
Speaker 3: Because of all of that I just said, because.
Speaker 1: He was so.
Speaker 3: Ingrained and he was so sporting Kansas City, right, he
Speaker 3: was mister sport in Kansas City, the what next becomes
Speaker 3: so much harder. Like if he was just the coach
Speaker 3: for a couple of years, all right, Well, you just
Speaker 3: find a new coach and you figure out a new
Speaker 3: way to do things. But when it's a guy who's
Speaker 3: been there for so long, who you know, look, you
Speaker 3: knew when you when Peter Remi stepped out that they
Speaker 3: were playing in a four to three three you know
Speaker 3: they were pressing, you know, you know, you know you
Speaker 3: ran for a game. Also, he had, you know, those
Speaker 3: different roles, right, he wasn't just the head coach. And
Speaker 3: I think in today's MLS world, I think if you
Speaker 3: put I think that's why you don't see a lot
Speaker 3: of technical directors last head coaches around, right, there's only
Speaker 3: a handful or less than a handful, because you know,
Speaker 3: when you put all your eggs in that one basket
Speaker 3: and then you've got and they break, you know, that's
Speaker 3: a big mess.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's a big mess.
Speaker 3: I don't know where they go from here, to be.
Speaker 1: Honest, like, yeah, because Carrie's a Wagne is going to
Speaker 1: take over as the innerm I imagine for the rest
Speaker 1: of this season unless there's that guy that is out
Speaker 1: there that they sit there and go ooh. And but
Speaker 1: do you as a manager who would be coming into
Speaker 1: this situation, as we always say, you don't want to
Speaker 1: be the guy that replaces the guy. Yeah, you want
Speaker 1: to be the guy that replaces the guy that replaces
Speaker 1: the guy. So then do all of the names that
Speaker 1: we would have circling through our head. Wait until twenty
Speaker 1: six and see, you know the success rate of carries
Speaker 1: the Wagnin and or does someone sit there? I would
Speaker 1: I would think of it this way. If there is
Speaker 1: a young coach that wants to go ahead and get
Speaker 1: that gig, they think they're ready for that first major
Speaker 1: league soccer gig or that first Division one gig, that
Speaker 1: young coach is gonna want to jump the line with
Speaker 1: all the experience guys who are just going to kind
Speaker 1: of wait and see what the offseason is with sporting. Hey,
Speaker 1: I can work with this group. Young coach who wants
Speaker 1: to jump the line would be there for whenever they
Speaker 1: feel that carries the Wagnin's run is okay, you're cool.
Speaker 1: But I would think a lot of the experience names
Speaker 1: would wait things out until after this season is over.
Speaker 1: And that's a long wait. That's November, man, and yeah,
Speaker 1: you're dealing with this this kind of dynamic here. The
Speaker 1: experienced guys are gonna want to wait. Then they're gonna
Speaker 1: want to get conversations with the front office and promises
Speaker 1: and such. I think the young coach that wants to
Speaker 1: jump the line is gonna sit there and say I
Speaker 1: can work with this group. I think that's where you're
Speaker 1: looking here in the interim with Kansas City outside of
Speaker 1: Kerry's a Wagden taken over.
Speaker 3: And of course too though you know, look this this
Speaker 3: has been thought. This wasn't a knee jerk reaction, right,
Speaker 3: this has no doubt been thought about for a while.
Speaker 3: You don't just think about like you think of it too.
Speaker 3: If you're someone in that position, you don't think about,
Speaker 3: all right, we have to get rid of him. It's
Speaker 3: we get rid of him, then what is next? So
Speaker 3: I don't know if they've already had these conversations, but
Speaker 3: certainly probably internally they have a board of potential people there.
Speaker 3: And there's no shortage of MLS experienced people out there, right,
Speaker 3: I mean some of the bigger names too, Jim Curtin,
Speaker 3: Bob Bradley, Like, there's people there who have you know,
Speaker 3: as much experience in the league, you know, or almost
Speaker 3: as much. I think Vermeis goes back to today one, Yeah,
Speaker 3: in this league as as vermeistos, So.
Speaker 1: Who and uh, I'm I'm gonna look at transferm marked here.
Speaker 1: So I guess we'll kind of workshop this as we
Speaker 1: go I mean you mentioned names that are out there.
Speaker 1: You've got it. You've got a Bob Bradley that's out there.
Speaker 1: Geo Sevaes is out there, he's working. So I mean
Speaker 1: there there's there are plenty of folks that we know
Speaker 1: that would be the ones that are the common sense
Speaker 1: names of Okay, yeah, I could see that individual, but
Speaker 1: I would think that with this group, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to look at ages and things like that when it
Speaker 1: comes to who's available and contracts and things like that,
Speaker 1: So contracts at the end into this year that you
Speaker 1: have to think about Eric, Tommy Leamania, Rodoya, Libold Fernandez
Speaker 1: who's currently injured, Rosero, Kyrie Shelton who's thirty one, Memo
Speaker 1: Rodriguez who's twenty nine, Andrew Brody who is injured, Voladaire
Speaker 1: and Dembay the Song, Mason, toy A Goatta, Pulls Camp
Speaker 1: Miller A Friifa, and Showy that's that's night, thank you.
Speaker 1: Five Wait hang on, all right, let me count the
Speaker 1: number of dudes here five nine, any that's like thirteen
Speaker 1: or fourteen dudes that you're staring at here, two four, six,
Speaker 1: eight nine to get to Voladair twelve fifteen seventeen. Dudes,
Speaker 1: you've got to make contract decisions on whose contracts are
Speaker 1: out at the end of this season. So if you
Speaker 1: were a manager that looked at that group and was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: SHALLOWI has shallow He's there till the end of twenty six,
Speaker 1: same with Suleimanov. Manu Garcia is a twenty seven, Jovolich
Speaker 1: is a twenty seven, Jake Davis is a twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Court Camp Bartletney and James are twenty seven. So there
Speaker 1: are and I'm gonna kind of say this, and there
Speaker 1: are pieces that are there past this season, Shallowy, Jovolich.
Speaker 1: There's some stuff there.
Speaker 3: I think the ones you mentioned too are the more
Speaker 3: cordy core pieces as well. Yeah, like the ones that
Speaker 3: are that are go beyond twenty five.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, So the those core pieces, the Shallowy
Speaker 1: and Joviolch, you know, part of your your scoring output.
Speaker 1: That So there's some stuff that you can work with here.
Speaker 1: There's some clay that you can mold an art class.
Speaker 1: If you're that manager that wants to come in with
Speaker 1: this group after this season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. And I don't think of all those
Speaker 3: that you mentioned that you've got to come to a
Speaker 3: contract decision on like there's a host you could just say,
Speaker 3: piece out two and there's probably a few that you can. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't think, you know, I don't think a lot
Speaker 3: of those are big money parts, right.
Speaker 1: So no, I mean Yoviolich. So let's let's check market
Speaker 1: values here and I hit that button now everybody who
Speaker 1: is so, I'll just deal with those that are going
Speaker 1: to be contracts out at the end of this season.
Speaker 1: And this is value, this is not contract. So a
Speaker 1: God has got a value of two and a half
Speaker 1: million euro, Eric Tommy's at two million euro, Brody is
Speaker 1: at a million and a half, Fernandez is at a
Speaker 1: million twenty, Memo Rodrigue is a million twenty. A lot
Speaker 1: of folks are in that million range. And then you
Speaker 1: know the ones that are valued at less than a
Speaker 1: million that are out this year Libel, Toy, b Song, Shelton,
Speaker 1: Poll's Camp and the God bless you, Keeper Shi Wei
Speaker 1: and Jansen mill So, and you got a couple of
Speaker 1: college you know, Court Camp Bartletney and James Bartlett and
Speaker 1: James thank you for your support.
Speaker 2: Here you go.
Speaker 1: Uh So, there's a lot of dudes that are you know,
Speaker 1: it's like the manageable with their values and probably even
Speaker 1: more manageable with their salary figures. So I mean, this
Speaker 1: is this is something where if they let you cook,
Speaker 1: I think you could be well if you were, if
Speaker 1: you were an experienced manager with all of the with
Speaker 1: all of the space that you would have with just
Speaker 1: roster space. Coming into the twenty sixth seeds.
Speaker 3: I agree, and I think I would imagine management too
Speaker 3: would be would be uh, you know, willing to spend.
Speaker 3: You know, I think I think they they they proved
Speaker 3: that a little bit with with going out and splashing
Speaker 3: a cash on polito. Obviously that kind of experiment didn't
Speaker 3: go the way they hoped it would because of the injuries,
Speaker 3: but you know they before that they were very frugal.
Speaker 3: So you know, I think I think, especially when you
Speaker 3: make a change like this, a cultural shift, if you will,
Speaker 3: because again of Vermes' tenure, I think you need to
Speaker 3: also back it up with you know, opening up the
Speaker 3: check book.
Speaker 1: Now in the West, Lag, you know, Lag is getting
Speaker 1: paintsil back. He was on the bench last week and
Speaker 1: then you had Conker caf hemispheric extravaganza this week, and
Speaker 1: you know, you still don't have Ricky Pooge. I know
Speaker 1: the expectation is there for Marco Roys and Diego Fa
Speaker 1: Gundez at ali E at ali e to you pick
Speaker 1: up the slack in the interim, I you know, anybody
Speaker 1: that's calling for Greg Vanny is you know? No? Because look, dude,
Speaker 1: one MLS Cup and he's dealing with things right now,
Speaker 1: and he's also in multiple competitions. The one that I
Speaker 1: would circle would be Houston because of expectations and such
Speaker 1: and lack of goal scoring.
Speaker 3: But I don't know how much that's on Olsen, like
Speaker 3: and and we're you know, we're not part of these
Speaker 3: conversations obviously, right, but like you we talked about it before.
Speaker 3: You lose two hugely influential midfielders, you don't really replace
Speaker 3: those guys and you knew, so like, is that on
Speaker 3: Olson or is it on on Stad?
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah, I mean you don't have a you
Speaker 1: don't have Kataskia. You didn't replace them, and the goals
Speaker 1: aren't there. I'm just I'm just wondering. And I posed
Speaker 1: this more as a question out of keeping up with
Speaker 1: the Joneses and hitting panic buttons more than anything else.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to attach logic to it.
Speaker 3: It is mos after all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we've already had one firing that wasn't attached
Speaker 1: to logic in Montreal. Color me shocked. Then you have
Speaker 1: the one in Kansas City, which you know, you just
Speaker 1: I think you kind of you hit that point where
Speaker 1: it's just kind of like, yeah, after all of the
Speaker 1: you know, the ups and downs, it's probably just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we probably should.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's slow burn the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: And then you end up now with teams that you
Speaker 1: were right now, Like I said, Lag in Houston, they're
Speaker 1: the ones at the bottom of the table in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference, and you're sitting there going, okay, Lag. You know, look,
Speaker 1: if Lag wigs out, then something really ain't right because
Speaker 1: I would think that Vanny's got enough of an extension
Speaker 1: court after you know, winning MLS Cup that you shouldn't
Speaker 1: be concerned with what you're seeing with them right now.
Speaker 1: And so by process of elimination, I know that we
Speaker 1: had Caleb Porter on the list, Robin Fraser, depending on
Speaker 1: your how you gauged your panic button in Toronto, I
Speaker 1: think Robin Fraser was just given a crappy car and
Speaker 1: he's trying to get to work to it every day.
Speaker 1: It's like I told you it was.
Speaker 3: It was that house that was you know, like it
Speaker 3: was mark valued at nine hundred thousand and it was
Speaker 3: lower to five hundred thousand, and you're like, this is
Speaker 3: a great deal. Why is it so cheap?
Speaker 1: Uh oh, I see yes. And then Tom Hanks and
Speaker 1: Shelley Long come into the house and they sit there
Speaker 1: and it's like and you know, things fall through upper
Speaker 1: floors and things like that. You're going, uh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: need to bring in Chip and Joanna on this one
Speaker 1: to renovate this house. Caleb Porter would be I think
Speaker 1: on the list for me, even still, even as they
Speaker 1: knocked off Red Bulls this past week. So I mean,
Speaker 1: right now, as you look at things Houston and this
Speaker 1: is just slow starts. I mean you're looking at Houston,
Speaker 1: you're looking at Toronto, and you're looking at New England.
Speaker 1: But I think that Toronto is just kind of keep
Speaker 1: just putting up with Robin Fraser's like, Robin, do whatever
Speaker 1: you can with it, and you know, you're you're fine
Speaker 1: for the interim. But I'm still looking at New England
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm not looking logically, but I'm looking
Speaker 1: at Houston too.
Speaker 3: And I think in New England, right, like I think
Speaker 3: I forgot who I want to give credit. I want
Speaker 3: to say maybe Donny. Donny might have had it. I
Speaker 3: was listening in on on on their show, he and
Speaker 3: he and Meola a couple of days ago, and I
Speaker 3: think he said Porter's record was identical to Vermeise's record,
Speaker 3: like over that course of games, like you know, until
Speaker 3: until until this winning as Red Bulls, so like over
Speaker 3: I think the thirteen games or whatever it was that
Speaker 3: you know, you go back into last year with Porters.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know it was that? Was that
Speaker 3: a was that a stay of execution?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: How much more time does he have? My guess, yeah.
Speaker 1: That it is. I mean if we if we go
Speaker 1: walking down this road with New England and you're one,
Speaker 1: three and one, you've only scored three goals by the.
Speaker 3: Way, three well, you've only scored two, I think what
Speaker 3: the the opposition helps you out with one of them.
Speaker 1: Yes, so your second leading scorer in New England is
Speaker 1: own goal. Who is hell of an MVP season, by
Speaker 1: the way, I mean og across the board in League soccer.
Speaker 1: Fantastic work in the Golden Boot race. Uh, so you've
Speaker 1: got if you're New England, you go to Cincinnati, you
Speaker 1: come here to Atlanta, then you get NYC at Gillette
Speaker 1: on the nineteenth, and then you go to Charlotte. So
Speaker 1: three of your next four on the road Cincinnati, Atlanta's
Speaker 1: Charlotte and you and you host NYC. That's the month
Speaker 1: of April for you. If you're Caleb Porter.
Speaker 3: And you only have Carlos Heel as your goal scorer.
Speaker 1: Uh huh yeah, and uh I think Campana is still
Speaker 1: out for another solid couple of weeks. So I mean
Speaker 1: basically you pin. I mean, then what the Carlos Heel
Speaker 1: goal was off a set piece? Yeah, so it was
Speaker 1: a chance to leave Carlos Hill by himself, to have
Speaker 1: him you know, imagine what's going on? Ah, I mean
Speaker 1: I would, I would. I would put it in the
Speaker 1: stay of execution category where Caleb Porter is concerned.
Speaker 3: I think his seed is the hottest right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, so then if if he if he is the
Speaker 1: uh if he is the hotter than hot sauce, what's
Speaker 1: the show where they they have the celebrities asking questions,
Speaker 1: ask questions and they eat wings and.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I've never seen this show.
Speaker 1: No, that's it's it's it's like an online thing. It's uh,
Speaker 1: you're you're eating wings and asking and being asked questions.
Speaker 3: Uh, celebrities who ride in cars and drink coffee and wings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's something. It's something like that Hot oneans hot ones,
Speaker 1: hot ones, Okay, hot ones Uh. YouTube talk show with
Speaker 1: Shawn Evans and Chris Shawn Berger, and it is basic
Speaker 1: premise involves celebrities being interviewed over a platter of increasingly
Speaker 1: spicy chicken wings.
Speaker 3: So it starts out like not so hot, and then
Speaker 3: like that it gets hotter again.
Speaker 1: Yes, and so two streaming awards. Basically celebrity guests eat
Speaker 1: ten chicken wings or a vegetarian vegan alternative based on
Speaker 1: the guest's preference, each prepared to the progressively hotter hot sauce.
Speaker 1: Evans states the show's taglin at the beginning of each episode,
Speaker 1: the show with hot questions and even hotter wings. The
Speaker 1: first sauce presented it's like free Rocha, which has a
Speaker 1: rating of twenty two hundred Scoville units. Then there was
Speaker 1: one in season twenty two that had a Scovell rating
Speaker 1: of more than two million Scoville. Guests are encouraged to
Speaker 1: put a minuscule extra amount of the last dab of
Speaker 1: the two million scobll on the final wing. It's not required,
Speaker 1: but most guests have to do so, even when already
Speaker 1: struggling with the heat of the previous wings. After each wing,
Speaker 1: Evans usually asked the guest an interview question. Starting with
Speaker 1: softball questions, wings get hotter. The questions are more deeply
Speaker 1: resched and personal and so so that's so he starts
Speaker 1: off with with mild wings and mild questions, and then
Speaker 1: as he goes the wings get hotter, and the celebrities
Speaker 1: have issues and sweat, Yeah, trying to answer questions and
Speaker 1: they're dying, and they're trying to figure out if it
Speaker 1: needs to be milk or if it needs to be water.
Speaker 3: What's your what's you are?
Speaker 1: Mild?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean I can go a medium, but I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to higher than that.
Speaker 1: No, I can't. I'm just I'm not wired that way.
Speaker 1: I'm not one to sit there. I want to enjoy
Speaker 1: the food, yeah, And I can't enjoy the food if
Speaker 1: I'm dealing with something that has a two million plus
Speaker 1: Scoville unit. You know, It's like you're sitting there and
Speaker 1: you're trying to figure out if your tongue is still
Speaker 1: attached to your person. You're you're trying to reach for
Speaker 1: liquid to try to sit there, and you're you're not
Speaker 1: even drinking the liquid. You're just submerging your tongue in
Speaker 1: it so your tongue doesn't die and you don't die.
Speaker 1: I look, I am, I am, and you can ask
Speaker 1: Jason or Jarrett or Nick or Maddie or anybody here
Speaker 1: at the network. I am the least flavored individual when
Speaker 1: it comes to food. If the food can't do it
Speaker 1: on its own natural juices and cooking progression, then why
Speaker 1: do I feel like I should add stuff to it
Speaker 1: to make it better?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: Ok fair?
Speaker 1: I'm I mean I'm also seven hundred and twelve years old,
Speaker 1: so that would make sense when it comes to my
Speaker 1: food choices. So what about you? Are you? Are you
Speaker 1: a spicy or you?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, I guess I would I would go. I think
Speaker 3: if I was out with my boys and we were
Speaker 3: a some wings, I would go a medium, like I
Speaker 3: would go just a step ahead of mild, but not
Speaker 3: beyond that.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's just yeah, I can't. You know, I still
Speaker 1: want to function when I'm eating. I don't want to
Speaker 1: sit there and go. You know, this is so bad,
Speaker 1: the pain, the pain, the pain. I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: can't do that, Like.
Speaker 3: I think usually what you do is like, uh, you
Speaker 3: know my group of friends like, well we'll do uh,
Speaker 3: we'll do whatever, like depending on how many of it,
Speaker 3: like we'll do half medium like and it would you
Speaker 3: like barbecue as the other craft you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, Uh, this upcoming week, a couple of this seems
Speaker 1: like it's uh the top of the table and the
Speaker 1: bottom of the table. You've got uh RSL and L
Speaker 1: A G. You've got Crew in Montreal, Cincinnati and the
Speaker 1: Revs Red Bulls in Chicago. Fire. We haven't even talked
Speaker 1: about Burholter yet this year, Yeah, and what he's and
Speaker 1: what he's doing with Chicago and you know, hey, Hugo
Speaker 1: Kuipers has found apparently Hugo Kuiper's and so uh so
Speaker 1: Chicago out of the blocks and Burrholter. Did you expect
Speaker 1: that it was going to be like this for for
Speaker 1: Chicago and Burholter so far?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I I i'mmagine I wasn't sure, you know,
Speaker 3: like I I I thought he could potentially have success.
Speaker 4: But if that's just.
Speaker 3: It feels like one of those locations that you know,
Speaker 3: you're every year you're like, you know, what if Chicago
Speaker 3: was good?
Speaker 1: You know, like what if Chicago was good?
Speaker 3: You know, like and I feel like the league is
Speaker 3: better when it is like it's such a great market.
Speaker 1: It's one of the the Raiders or the Yankees. Like
Speaker 1: when the when the Oakland is good, or when the
Speaker 1: Yankees are good, or when the when the Yankees and
Speaker 1: the Dodgers and the Cubs are good, then the league
Speaker 1: is a better place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so, you know, and and you know,
Speaker 3: I mean they it feels like every couple of years
Speaker 3: like they're like, well this is uh Chicago fire, like
Speaker 3: you know, we we they made the big announcement about
Speaker 3: moving to Soldier Field again like all right, great, you
Speaker 3: know it's a great move. Move downtown and now we
Speaker 3: have a new crust like okay, great, how about the
Speaker 3: saw Like we're gonna a little bit here and he's
Speaker 3: kind of missing yeah uh. And they have dressed they
Speaker 3: have they have addressed that this year, you know, and
Speaker 3: the and the early the early uh, early preeople, here
Speaker 3: is a good one from from Baltar.
Speaker 1: So the early precinct reporting right now, they're they're two
Speaker 1: points out of first and yeah, which is with a
Speaker 1: match in hand. So uh, you know, so we'll continue
Speaker 1: to see that. And they're one of the highest scoring
Speaker 1: teams in the Eastern Conference so far.
Speaker 3: U huh, playing like their pants are on fire.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 1: Well, it is a contract year for around like they
Speaker 1: had a lot of hot wings. Yes, I mean it's
Speaker 1: another contract year for Luis Moozy and for Oscar Pereja,
Speaker 1: so you know that. I think that that's another question
Speaker 1: as we go into the off season with the Purple team.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you've hit your ceiling with this
Speaker 1: front office coat and head coach combination. Do you think
Speaker 1: you can do better or do you think you need
Speaker 1: to do different? That to me, what you and and
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna have some You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: have some turnover. I would think that you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to look at keeper because Gallesse is not getting any
Speaker 1: younger and you've given up. You know, we mentioned them
Speaker 1: having the best offense in the U in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: They're tied for the worst defense in the Eastern Conference
Speaker 1: with Toronto. That's just.
Speaker 3: Yes, but that means they're fun to watch, not denying
Speaker 3: that you're a neutral at least, right.
Speaker 1: Yes, So I mean right now you're the worst in
Speaker 1: goal difference, you're you're seventh if you're the purple team.
Speaker 1: But still, I mean, that's uh stuff to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on as we go. What's going on with you,
Speaker 1: my friend? What are you? What are you describing? What
Speaker 1: are you doing? What do you are you observing? Are
Speaker 1: you riding? What? It's up?
Speaker 3: Just finished a was it Monday? I think it was
Speaker 3: for lacrosse games in seventies this season, So a little
Speaker 3: bit of a break now until Tuesday is my next game.
Speaker 1: Far City Media on the YouTube's by the way.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep, by the way all time name. I didn't
Speaker 3: get the chance. I was trying to figure out, like
Speaker 3: you know, you and I we were similar, like you know,
Speaker 3: you want to have fun with the broadcast.
Speaker 2: So like.
Speaker 3: I had a call the other day like this, This
Speaker 3: kid's name was Alex Bauer and he scored a goal.
Speaker 3: So I said, Bauer brings the power. There's a there's
Speaker 3: a kid. Tommy Leader on Manhasset, so I said, follow
Speaker 3: the leader. So there's a kid on cold Spring Harbor
Speaker 3: whose name is Jeep Pace. I'm like, I gotta get
Speaker 3: something out of Jep Pace. I didn't in the first game,
Speaker 3: but I will, I will, I will endeavor to do.
Speaker 1: So I got one, all right, I got one for
Speaker 1: you that that he is, that he is the wrangler
Speaker 1: for cold Spring Heart maybe yeah, Jeep Pace, he's a
Speaker 1: wrangler and he's.
Speaker 3: A And it's like he's a he's not an attacking player,
Speaker 3: so he's not on the ball a lot, right, Okay,
Speaker 3: So like they have a they have a defender, Hunter Ulico.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, he's hunting right, like he's the hunter.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: But Jeep Pace, he's another guy, has that long.
Speaker 1: Pole running around something, keeping the pace. Yeah, keeping the pace.
Speaker 1: He's a wrangler for him. I see, I see where
Speaker 1: you can go here. Yeah yeah see. Ryan figured the
Speaker 1: play by play guy for re FC Dallas. He's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll might use that one later. So thank you, my friend.
Speaker 1: It's great to be with you and great to talk
Speaker 1: about Peter Burmes and everything going on in the Kansas
Speaker 1: City and the hot seats and the Hot Wings and
Speaker 1: all the TV series. We'll catch up with you soon,
Speaker 1: my friend. Thanks for Oh Dad, he's the buddy, He's
Speaker 1: the dad this week and we mentioned the hot tag,
Speaker 1: so it's time to to bring in yet another premiere.
Speaker 1: I don't have trumpets and I don't have like gold
Speaker 1: horns attached from venues and things like that. Ryan might
Speaker 1: have to help us out here. First time visit for
Speaker 1: the hometown guy for FC Dallas. There's where we get
Speaker 1: our FCD intail. Ryan, Thanks for dropping by. How are you,
Speaker 1: my friend?
Speaker 4: How's it going? Man? How's it going? We're gonna have
Speaker 4: to get who Let the Dogs Out ready for any
Speaker 4: future FC Dallas appearances, because that's our new goal song
Speaker 4: this year, as part of a whole new era and
Speaker 4: a new mentality that Eric Quill has been bringing to
Speaker 4: the squad. So who Let the Dogs Out is our
Speaker 4: new goal song in place of you know you guys
Speaker 4: got the horns and everything like that, which I love.
Speaker 4: But no, that's our new thing. So thanks for having
Speaker 4: me on the show.
Speaker 1: Excited, No worries, Friend of the network Edwin Pintour in communications?
Speaker 1: Is he lurking off camera? Is he behind a door
Speaker 1: that you've gone to go high.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've locked myself in this closet like office just
Speaker 4: to keep any edwin comments from sneaking.
Speaker 1: On the riff wrap out from e exactly. I see
Speaker 1: how this works. First and foremost, for those that may
Speaker 1: not know, you're a hometown guy, getting to call for
Speaker 1: your hometown team. What's that like for you to be
Speaker 1: a part of things now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's literally a dream come true. I started broadcasting,
Speaker 4: you know, seven years ago now in college. I went
Speaker 4: down to college at Trendy University. But I'm originally from Dallas,
Speaker 4: grew up going to games, grew up listening to Mark
Speaker 4: Followill Steve Davis who's now my partner on the broadcast
Speaker 4: every week, so you know, when I started broadcasting, obviously,
Speaker 4: you know, calling MLS games is a huge goal, and
Speaker 4: to be able to accomplish that with my hometown team
Speaker 4: has been has been a dream come true. And and
Speaker 4: to do shows like this and be part of, you know,
Speaker 4: the outreach for the club as well as the voice
Speaker 4: of the team is amazing. So just really enjoying it
Speaker 4: so far. It's been a lot of fun, kind of
Speaker 4: being a part of the new energy I was with
Speaker 4: the team before in a different capacity, and I still
Speaker 4: do some social media stuff as well, but you know,
Speaker 4: coming in and sort of being the voice of this
Speaker 4: new era with Eric quill Is is a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: What's your first FC Dallas memory.
Speaker 4: I would say opening Day against Philadelphia Union. It was
Speaker 4: somewhere in the Oscar Pere hot era, so twenty twelve
Speaker 4: to twenty sixteen, somewhere in there. Came to Opening Day
Speaker 4: with my family. They the team scored, and they ran
Speaker 4: to the corner and celebrated in a row boat where
Speaker 4: they all sat one in front of each one in
Speaker 4: front of each other, rowing the boat, which I just
Speaker 4: that's always stuck with me growing up, going to games
Speaker 4: with friends, watching Kenny Cooper, who's now a good friend
Speaker 4: and a member of the front office, is one of
Speaker 4: our ambassadors score, you know, ripped the shirt off, swinging around,
Speaker 4: all those things. Those are some of the earliest memories
Speaker 4: for sure. Come to Toyota Stadium back when it's Pizza
Speaker 4: Hull Park.
Speaker 1: So are you rowing the boat in the booth when
Speaker 1: Lucho scores? Is that what you're doing? Now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we're gonna have to get coordinated goal
Speaker 4: celebrations in the booth. I know, you guys do a
Speaker 4: great job over at Atlanta United with the Booth camp,
Speaker 4: which I think is something we might implement down the road.
Speaker 4: And if we do, you know, we got we gotta
Speaker 4: go viral, we gotta we got to bring the attention. So,
Speaker 4: you know, goal celebrations, coordinated goal celebrations with our with
Speaker 4: our or Man booth. We'll get creative with it.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to that, let me ask you what's it
Speaker 1: been like to see the first first couple of matches
Speaker 1: under the Eric Quill administration. What kind of energy has
Speaker 1: he brought in and how is it How is it
Speaker 1: different with Quill now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think I have a little bit of
Speaker 4: a unique perspective because I got to travel with the
Speaker 4: team to Portugal for preseason and that was the first
Speaker 4: you know, they had a week before that, and but
Speaker 4: that was the first real sort of getting into the
Speaker 4: meat and bones of it with Eric Quill. The tactical ideas,
Speaker 4: the amount of running and the amount of fitness that
Speaker 4: they were doing, which was more than I'd ever seen
Speaker 4: previously with Niko Stevez, RPD Husain, so the intensity. But
Speaker 4: also you know, I think Eric does a really good
Speaker 4: job of focusing on what's important and not getting distracted
Speaker 4: by you know, small things. He knows how to bring
Speaker 4: the group together. He knows how to inspire the team.
Speaker 4: He really values hard work from the whole dogs thing
Speaker 4: that I mentioned when I first came on. He wants
Speaker 4: the team to be eleven dogs and fight for the
Speaker 4: bad and fight for the fans. And bringing that mentality
Speaker 4: has sort of alongside bringing a whole host of new players,
Speaker 4: has definitely made for it completely changed FCY Dallas team
Speaker 4: this year and in the past when we went on
Speaker 4: the road, it was like, you know, if we could
Speaker 4: grab a draw, that'd be great. For the past couple
Speaker 4: of seasons. Last year we had one road win, and
Speaker 4: this year it's already so different. We have seven points
Speaker 4: on the road from three games, and now we go
Speaker 4: into these road games with the real, you know mentality
Speaker 4: that we could go and get a win at any
Speaker 4: point at any venue. And that's what I think makes
Speaker 4: for an exciting matchup this weekend.
Speaker 1: New faces coming in obviously we'll talk about Luco in
Speaker 1: a sec. But you've got the integration with folks like
Speaker 1: Leo Chu and Luco Acosta with Pedro Musa, where is
Speaker 1: that Where is that integration, Where where is that coming
Speaker 1: together and the melding of ideas with the new faces.
Speaker 1: Where do you think that is right now?
Speaker 4: I still think it's early. First of all, we came
Speaker 4: into things with the idea of playing in a four
Speaker 4: to two three one, defending in a four to four two,
Speaker 4: and then we signed Luco Acosta, and you know, ideally
Speaker 4: you think he fits right into that number ten position,
Speaker 4: but I think we saw in the first couple of
Speaker 4: weeks that defensively it wasn't working and they weren't finding
Speaker 4: Lucco in the spots that we needed to find him,
Speaker 4: that he was having to pop out wide or drop
Speaker 4: deep to receive the ball. So the last couple of
Speaker 4: weeks the team changed to having an extra midfielder in there,
Speaker 4: sort of a diamond. The team calls it a four
Speaker 4: to three to one two, but basically having at number
Speaker 4: six whose job is just to win the ball back,
Speaker 4: that's Ramiro, and then having two number eights there to
Speaker 4: support Luco has really allowed him to get into more
Speaker 4: dangerous positions. And you know, he has been instrumental in
Speaker 4: the last in this little two game win streak here
Speaker 4: at RSL and then home against Kansas City, and he's
Speaker 4: popping up in areas where he can actually hurt the opposition,
Speaker 4: you know, combining with Musa really well. I think the
Speaker 4: Musa Luco combination has gone, you know, swimmingly. I think
Speaker 4: it's gone much quicker than I expected those two players
Speaker 4: to tell. It's been who's going to be the number,
Speaker 4: the third guy, kind of the second forward in the formation.
Speaker 4: That's what we're trying to figure out. Anderson Julio has
Speaker 4: been amazing since he came over, but he's missed the
Speaker 4: last three weeks. He had to go get his green card,
Speaker 4: so we actually haven't seen him in this new formation.
Speaker 4: I expect that he's probably gonna be the starter, but
Speaker 4: we haven't seen that yet, and so that chemistry is
Speaker 4: going to have to come as well. He'd been playing
Speaker 4: on the left wing for majority of preseason in the
Speaker 4: first couple of weeks as well, so I think that's
Speaker 4: the ideal front three. Leo Chio's got the last two starts,
Speaker 4: Logan Farrington's an option as well. Padrinho has a goal
Speaker 4: on the season, so there's options. But I think it's
Speaker 4: going to be Julio and that's going to be, you know,
Speaker 4: something they're gonna have to build as he's back this week.
Speaker 4: He's back in full training and hopefully and involved against Atlanta.
Speaker 1: For Lucho so far eight shots four on target and
Speaker 1: those four on target, three of them have gone to
Speaker 1: the back of the net. With the next g if
Speaker 1: you believe in those kinds of things, that just over
Speaker 1: two at two point oh six. So you mentioned that
Speaker 1: front all things being equal in a perfect world for
Speaker 1: eric Quill, how do you envision the starting eleven in
Speaker 1: this matchup coming up against Atlanta night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the front three. If Julio is fit
Speaker 4: and ready to go, I think he'll come into play
Speaker 4: alongside Usa in the two striker formation, and then Lucho
Speaker 4: behind them the midfield. I don't expect a ton of change.
Speaker 4: I think Patrickson leget As the two number eights will
Speaker 4: probably hold their position and Ramiro has been really solid
Speaker 4: coming over from Brazil in the offseason. Is one of
Speaker 4: eighteen new players I think in total. Back four, we've
Speaker 4: had one change recently, Marco Farfan. We had to announce
Speaker 4: this week he's going to have surgery, so he's been
Speaker 4: the starting left back homegrow Nolan Norris is involved now
Speaker 4: he's played you know, left back for the youth national teams.
Speaker 4: He's the captain of the you twenties, so he this
Speaker 4: is his first real opportunity at the MLS level to
Speaker 4: play that position and sort of make it his own
Speaker 4: over the next month to six weeks. So that'll be
Speaker 4: one to watch at left back. And obviously you guys
Speaker 4: have some pretty lethal options in the attack, so he's
Speaker 4: gonna get a tough matchup, whether it's you know, up
Speaker 4: against Almi Roan. I love Janite whoever it is on
Speaker 4: the right for Atlanta, but I think the one player
Speaker 4: that I want to you know, sort of spread the
Speaker 4: gospel about when I go on shows like this is
Speaker 4: Assasier Roghide, our new center back who came over from
Speaker 4: the French Second. He's He's just phenomenal. This guy. He
Speaker 4: has all the tools to become a top level center
Speaker 4: back if he isn't already in Major League Soccer. He's
Speaker 4: got the physicality, the recovery speed, he's got line breaking passing,
Speaker 4: he's got the smarts to think through the game as well.
Speaker 4: He's been such a fantastic addition for us, and thinking
Speaker 4: back to when Dallas played Atlanta in preseason. He was
Speaker 4: not there yet neither and Musa wasn't there. There's some
Speaker 4: other pieces that weren't there in that game, but particularly
Speaker 4: when Latte Lot came off the bench in that game
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh my god, this guy's pace
Speaker 4: is phenomenal. This is going to be a problem when
Speaker 4: we see him in just a couple of months. But
Speaker 4: I think Osase has that speed as well. I think
Speaker 4: if we get a foot race between those two, it's
Speaker 4: going to be Olympic standard, Like we're gonna need to
Speaker 4: hand out a gold medal between the two of those
Speaker 4: after the game, because that's the level of athlete that
Speaker 4: he is. And I know you guys have taken to
Speaker 4: Latte a Lot very well, and he's taken to the
Speaker 4: team very well. So I think that's going to be
Speaker 4: a matchup to watch. Besides that, I think not a
Speaker 4: ton of changes beside Tulio coming into the lineup in
Speaker 4: Norris continuing sort of deputizing a left back.
Speaker 1: How do you think formationally or philosophically, Norris will get
Speaker 1: protected Considering that you're already anticipating and if he's at
Speaker 1: left back, you know that down the right hand side
Speaker 1: it's going to be Brooks, it's going to be Saba,
Speaker 1: it's going to be Switches. How do you anticipate he's
Speaker 1: going to be protected or is there a level of
Speaker 1: confidence there that he can be left on an island
Speaker 1: for a while and he can navigate things one B
Speaker 1: one Okay.
Speaker 4: I think he's a very smart player. I think his
Speaker 4: biggest weakness and the reason that he hasn't got this
Speaker 4: opportunity yet in the past couple of years is his pace,
Speaker 4: and so that is a concern up against Atlanta, who
Speaker 4: is a running team. I think you guys are in
Speaker 4: the top three and pretty much every running metric and
Speaker 4: obviously have a ton of pace. So I think the
Speaker 4: cover is going to have to come from sort of
Speaker 4: the left number eighth, the left center mid, which is Patrickson.
Speaker 4: He's a young Ecuadorian player who is really good box
Speaker 4: to box, gets involved defensively as well as going forward,
Speaker 4: So he's going to have to cover him from, whether
Speaker 4: it's Lenen on the overlap, whoever it is. And then
Speaker 4: Ossase Arguide, who already mentioned was excellent and just helping
Speaker 4: Dolling through that first start against Kansas City and helping
Speaker 4: put out fires on that side, So I think he
Speaker 4: has a good support network around it, but he's there's
Speaker 4: going to be moments in the game where he's going
Speaker 4: to have to stand up one B one and be counted,
Speaker 4: and you know, we have a lot of faith in them,
Speaker 4: and it's on to him to repay that faith.
Speaker 1: Right now, as things stand in the West, six matches in,
Speaker 1: three wins to the good goals and goals goals allowed
Speaker 1: dead even at nine and nine. So smack dab mid
Speaker 1: middle of activity right now, three points obviously out of
Speaker 1: first with early returns. How would you grade what you've
Speaker 1: seen so far from the booth six matches in which
Speaker 1: is what six over thirty four? It's maybe twenty percent
Speaker 1: or something like that. At the twenty percent mark, where
Speaker 1: would you see? How would you grade FC Dallas so
Speaker 1: far with all of these new faces and a new
Speaker 1: head coach, How would you grade what you've seen?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think other teams around the league that have
Speaker 4: had this, you know, this amount of change are struggling,
Speaker 4: and I think it's understandable to struggle with that amount
Speaker 4: of change. But we brought in a ton of quality.
Speaker 4: Liuto Costa obviously paramount in that discussion, So I think
Speaker 4: I would give it, you know, a high B because
Speaker 4: I think the results have been really solid, and particularly
Speaker 4: the road results those home The first two home games
Speaker 4: were disappointing, but I think the performances and the tactical
Speaker 4: ideas and the game model have a ton of room
Speaker 4: to grow. And that is what excites me because in
Speaker 4: the past, when Dallas wasn't up for a game, they
Speaker 4: just weren't going to get a result. And this version
Speaker 4: of FC Dallas under Eric Quill, with almost an entirely
Speaker 4: new lineup, is going to fight for a result even
Speaker 4: when they're not at their best, and even when the
Speaker 4: tactical matchup feels like it's going against them, They've been
Speaker 4: able to claw back from behind. They've won the most
Speaker 4: points from losing positions of anyone in Major League Soccer
Speaker 4: in the opening six weeks, which I think is a
Speaker 4: testament to the mentality. And now if we can see
Speaker 4: the growth on the tactical side, then that's just going
Speaker 4: to bring the quality to the forefront.
Speaker 1: What was the level of xpect for the supporters coming
Speaker 1: into this year, knowing that there was a coaching change,
Speaker 1: knowing the frustrations from last year, what was the I
Speaker 1: guess the level of expectation and the level of patients
Speaker 1: from the fans coming into twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: It's such a hard one, right because of just the
Speaker 4: sheer amount of change, and you know, the stadium looks
Speaker 4: different this year. We're going through renovation, so there's a
Speaker 4: little bit of a weird cloud over things in that way.
Speaker 4: But I think to his credit, from day one, eric
Speaker 4: Quile came in and said, we want to be fighting
Speaker 4: at the top of the table, we want to be
Speaker 4: fighting for championships, and he wasn't afraid to put his
Speaker 4: name alongside those statements. And that's for a club that's
Speaker 4: never won MLS Cup, and that's his paramount goal is
Speaker 4: to bring the first MLS Cup to Dallas. And not
Speaker 4: to say that the fan expectation immediately rose to that level,
Speaker 4: but I think they sort of stood up and said, okay,
Speaker 4: now let's see it. In the first couple of home games,
Speaker 4: it was disappointing. But now against Kansas City, you get
Speaker 4: the home form right, and you've shown that you can
Speaker 4: win on the road. So I think expectations are steadily climbing.
Speaker 4: And obviously when you bring into Lucho Acosta, you're expected
Speaker 4: to fight in the playoff positions at the bare minimum,
Speaker 4: and he's going to help you get there, and he
Speaker 4: already has. I think he's won six seven points all
Speaker 4: on his own with his goals so far this season,
Speaker 4: so I think that'll continue over the course of the year.
Speaker 1: How would you break down how Eric is stylistically and
Speaker 1: philosophically as a coach for someone who hasn't seen him
Speaker 1: on the touch line, for someone who hasn't seen him
Speaker 1: at practice, how would you break down the kind of
Speaker 1: coach that Eric is both emotionally and tactically when it
Speaker 1: comes to how he wants to have things out there
Speaker 1: on the pitch.
Speaker 4: Well, first and foremost, you're going to notice the bright
Speaker 4: red hat that he rocks on the touch line. That's,
Speaker 4: you know, that's become his trademark. He tried the white
Speaker 4: hat against Vancouver and we lost, and I don't think
Speaker 4: we're going to see the white hat again. So the
Speaker 4: red hat has been a trademark of his reign so far.
Speaker 4: But no, I think on a more serious note, he's
Speaker 4: a player, he's a player's coach, but he's also a
Speaker 4: really strong motivator in that he knows how to get
Speaker 4: the best out of guys. He really values work on
Speaker 4: the training ground. He's going to give opportunities to people
Speaker 4: who train well, and he's going to take opportunities away
Speaker 4: from people who you know don't put in one hundred
Speaker 4: percent on the training ground. So I think he really
Speaker 4: values hard work. And that's what we've seen, you know,
Speaker 4: so far through the opening six weeks. Is anytime that
Speaker 4: someone's done well in training, they're going to get that opportunity,
Speaker 4: whether it's from the start or off the bench. And
Speaker 4: I think it's become even more of a meritocracy where
Speaker 4: players don't have they can't feel comfortable, you know, they
Speaker 4: they don't feel like their name is written in pen
Speaker 4: unless you're maybe Moussa Lucho Acosta. But those guys are
Speaker 4: Those guys are top professionals and they train well every day.
Speaker 1: And that's you know.
Speaker 4: Eric Quiles told us that he's fiery on the touch line.
Speaker 4: He's gonna let the other coach have it even more
Speaker 4: so than the referee, which I think you know is
Speaker 4: more common with last game, he's up against one of
Speaker 4: his good friends and Peter Vermiz, somebody who's played with
Speaker 4: in his playing career. Going back to the Kansas City
Speaker 4: Wizards and they're getting into it on the sideline. He
Speaker 4: got into it on the sideline with US Restaurants and
Speaker 4: for Vancouver as well. So An he's you know, he's
Speaker 4: he's a fiery character. And I think that's what this
Speaker 4: team needed, was somebody who's going to lead the team emotionally,
Speaker 4: with energy and and sort of get them going from
Speaker 4: the sideline. And that's been fun to see.
Speaker 1: So for someone who is going to be looking at
Speaker 1: FC Dallas for the first time this year, at Mercedes Benz,
Speaker 1: whether it's listening to you on the call, listening or
Speaker 1: watching on Apple or in person, Mercedes Benz, you're drawn
Speaker 1: to the big names. You're drawn to the Peter Mooses,
Speaker 1: You're drawn to the Lucco Acostas. For things to go
Speaker 1: well for FC Dallas, give me one of those second
Speaker 1: level guys. Give me a foot soldier instead of a
Speaker 1: star at the front. Who in the foot soldiers has
Speaker 1: to do well? And it might even be somebody that
Speaker 1: you call in off the bench, you know, late, if
Speaker 1: you need that, you need to who would you gravitate toward.
Speaker 1: That would be those second level dudes. To see the
Speaker 1: successes for FCD.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the midfield battle in this one is
Speaker 4: going to be really interesting because I know, you know,
Speaker 4: there's been some conversation with Atlanta about the best position
Speaker 4: from Miranchuk, the best combination in midfield. I think for Dallas, Ramiro,
Speaker 4: our new number six, Brazilian, very experienced in Brazil's top
Speaker 4: flight one Copa lebdadoris with Grimy in the past, he
Speaker 4: has come to the team and just given us that rock,
Speaker 4: that anchor at the base of midfield. And when we
Speaker 4: were playing in sort of a double pivot before, it
Speaker 4: didn't suit his game as much, just because he's not
Speaker 4: a huge ground cover, he doesn't have a ton of mobility.
Speaker 4: But now that we've moved into that single number six,
Speaker 4: he's done a really good job of shielding the back
Speaker 4: line over the last two games. And I think something
Speaker 4: that we're still yet to see from this midfield, this
Speaker 4: new midfield diamond shape for Dallas is just consistent ball
Speaker 4: progression up the field that they've been really good in
Speaker 4: the moments when they've been able to hit quickly on
Speaker 4: the counter. They've been really good when they've been able
Speaker 4: to force turnovers, but when the other team is pressing them,
Speaker 4: they haven't found the answers so far to playing out,
Speaker 4: So I think that's going to come down to Ramiro
Speaker 4: finding the passes Sebastian Legett and there as well as
Speaker 4: longside Patrickson Delgado in that midfield three. Can they progress
Speaker 4: the ball up the field when Atlanta is putting them
Speaker 4: under pressure and as opposed to just hitting on the counter,
Speaker 4: because ultimately that's not going to be sustainable over the
Speaker 4: course of ninety minutes or over the course of the
Speaker 4: season to just be up and down the field and
Speaker 4: then back defending, you know, for for a large majority
Speaker 4: of the game. So can they find some sustained possession,
Speaker 4: particularly if they get a lead at the Bens this weekend?
Speaker 1: All right, what's study hall like for you for the
Speaker 1: rest of the week getting ready for this one?
Speaker 4: Well, I'll be I'll be tuned into your show, So
Speaker 4: I'd like to listen to some of the Atlanta podcasts
Speaker 4: as well. Always do some opposition scouting that way, just
Speaker 4: to just to get a vibe how this goes exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: Definitely do some opposition scouting and just make sure you know,
Speaker 4: familiar with the team, be out at training and catch
Speaker 4: any sort of any developments, any tactical ideas that they're
Speaker 4: going to try and implement. Talk to Eric Quill on Friday,
Speaker 4: and then we'll be in the booth at Toyota Stadium
Speaker 4: calling it. I wish I was there at Mercedes ben Stadium.
Speaker 4: That's a bucket listen one to to catch for sure
Speaker 4: at some point. But we'll be in the booth at
Speaker 4: Toyota Stadium calling it for for our fans on the
Speaker 4: Fcadouts radio network.
Speaker 1: Satan. Now, you hit the promo for me on the
Speaker 1: way out the door, so I didn't have to ask
Speaker 1: that question. You were looking at my notes, Ryan as always.
Speaker 1: You know you can crash. Yeah, you have the keys
Speaker 1: to the kingdom now. So if there's anything that you
Speaker 1: ever want to talk about on a Friday when we're
Speaker 1: in the hour of chaos at ten eastern and it's
Speaker 1: like I got two minutes, I want to come in,
Speaker 1: I want to say my piece, I want to jet
Speaker 1: you can. So, like I said, it's great to see it.
Speaker 1: Great to have you added to the stacks here. Say
Speaker 1: hi to everybody there in the office and we'll catch
Speaker 1: up with you soon. My friend, don't be a stranger.
Speaker 1: Great to have you in the morning show.
Speaker 4: Awesome, John, thank you so much, have a good one.
Speaker 4: We'll see this weekend.
Speaker 1: There you go, it's Ryan Ryan Figured. The play by
Speaker 1: play voice FC Dallas app by the way, is where
Speaker 1: you can catch up with Ryan and great to have
Speaker 1: him added to the stacks with us, and it was
Speaker 1: really cool to get the education when it comes to
Speaker 1: everything going on with FC Dallas. That's what we're going
Speaker 1: to try and do this season is when the opposition,
Speaker 1: you know, when obviously the opposition's there, we know who
Speaker 1: we can grab on to and we'll see if we
Speaker 1: can get them on to discuss what's going on. And
Speaker 1: if it's in the middle of the week or early
Speaker 1: in the week and they want to come back later
Speaker 1: in the week with updates, more power to him. Like
Speaker 1: I said, when I send the invite out, it is
Speaker 1: a studio link and its keys to the kingdom and
Speaker 1: everybody can drop in and sit there and let me
Speaker 1: shoot Tyler Terrence. Like I said, Tyler dropped in three
Speaker 1: times in a week, so he's got the keys of
Speaker 1: the kingdom. He's a dangerous man, so I Bryan Figured.
Speaker 1: Good to catch up with Ryan the hometown guy in
Speaker 1: his first season calling games for FC Dallas on the
Speaker 1: FC Dallas app and for FC Dallas. So that's the
Speaker 1: rundown there. All right, let me say hid everybody and
Speaker 1: we'll get through what's on your mind on a wall pass.
Speaker 1: Wednesday morning, Alex Morning, Pars Morning, keVs, KEVSI already has
Speaker 1: the layout for Open Cup, Pome Panciprian Tonight morning, David
Speaker 1: Morning four card Uh yeah, and Ronnie is not worried
Speaker 1: about DCQ either, and Shreif. I hope that the code
Speaker 1: that I gave helps because Finates they got a boatload
Speaker 1: of stuff that you can watch. Roberta d'oris sud Americana.
Speaker 1: Let's see all the b ns, and I mean all
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Speaker 1: say Lega one Max Lega one Max Pro. It's all there.
Speaker 1: You can watch on Finates, FNTZ, dot Co, slash Soccer
Speaker 1: down here. It helped step the network, it helps out us,
Speaker 1: and hopefully it helps that you continue to be a
Speaker 1: true degenerate when it comes to watching leagues around the world.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, Derek Brad did get robbed on the
Speaker 1: assist I don't know how he hasn't gotten one yet.
Speaker 1: And I could have still used the fantasy points morning.
Speaker 1: Jordan Apparently, Yes, someone in Twitch pitches to participating in
Speaker 1: the FIFA Club World tryouts this weekend. Apparently they're trying
Speaker 1: out volunteer. So Jordan's going to be part of the
Speaker 1: tryouts this weekend. Yes, and Jordan is gassed up ready
Speaker 1: to go for this weekend as well. And apparently in
Speaker 1: a similar situation with the lawnmower, Jordan's dad's lawnmower's blade.
Speaker 1: Lawnmower's blade broke. Man it must have hit a rock
Speaker 1: or something. And so yeah, Eric got a yellow last
Speaker 1: yellow card last match against Sporting Kansas City. So the
Speaker 1: Eric Quill fourth official Ronnie Dila back and forth, that
Speaker 1: one's going to be intriguing, as the kid say, it'd
Speaker 1: be very embeti intadeste to see Eric Quill can't miss
Speaker 1: him on the touch line apparently because of the lid.
Speaker 1: And so the back and forth with Quill the fourth
Speaker 1: and Ronnie Dila looking forward to that. All right, So
Speaker 1: Open Cup tonight sounds like a show. Open Cup tonight.
Speaker 1: We mentioned all the matchups. Let's see if the juice
Speaker 1: boxes are out in this one. I think they are.
Speaker 1: They are okay, so juice boxes tonight for the matchups
Speaker 1: loud in the A minus twelve to fifty hosting Virginia Dream.
Speaker 1: Hartford Athletic is favored on the road at Pea Hop
Speaker 1: and Lewiston, Maine at a plus one forty three. Portland
Speaker 1: Heart's a Pine a plus one seventy three. CHATTANOOGAFC favored
Speaker 1: at a plus one twelve at Fort Finley. Like I said,
Speaker 1: it looks like there's gonna be six thousand folks there
Speaker 1: for Red Wolves tonight. That is your viewing. That is
Speaker 1: your must watch on the US Soccer YouTube channel tonight.
Speaker 1: Greenville favored at home at Furman against one Knox at
Speaker 1: a plus one forty eight. West Chester's a minus three
Speaker 1: twelve against New York pansipri and who got the cup
Speaker 1: set lane time out of a plus six fifty six.
Speaker 1: FC Naples favorite at a minus one ten, hosting Little
Speaker 1: Rock Rangers ninety minute draws the same at a plus
Speaker 1: two forty seven. Ford Madison at Breeze Stevens a plus
Speaker 1: one forty hosting FC Tulsa a plus one five six.
Speaker 1: Des moin Menace a big underdog hosting Los Bus The
Speaker 1: murder owls from Union Omaha at a minus one thirty
Speaker 1: three menace or a plus two seventy two to come
Speaker 1: at Defiant to minus one oh nine at Starfire hosting
Speaker 1: Spokane Velocity to plus two sixteen ninety minute draws a
Speaker 1: plus two eighty five. Ventura County is a dog hosting
Speaker 1: El Paso Tonight Locomotive a plus one twelve. Ventura County
Speaker 1: is a plus one ninety and the ninety minute draw
Speaker 1: is a plus two five two. Nottingham Forest won yesterday
Speaker 1: in the Premier League and they're winning their third right
Speaker 1: now in the Premier League. All the home teams won yesterday.
Speaker 1: Wolve's got a big win against west Ham, Arsenal beat
Speaker 1: Fulham by the score of two to one. So today
Speaker 1: handful of man starting all except for one of them
Speaker 1: at two forty five Born with big favorite at the
Speaker 1: Vitality at a minus two sixty three hosting Ipswich Bright
Speaker 1: and a plus one seventeen hosting Villa at a plus
Speaker 1: two twenty two. Manchester City big favorite at home at
Speaker 1: of minus five twenty six against Leicester to plus eleven
Speaker 1: fifty eight Newcastle and minus one thirty seven hosting Brentford
Speaker 1: of the plus three eighteen Southampton. If they get a
Speaker 1: certain point combination this weekend, they could be relegated this soon.
Speaker 1: Southampton a plus four ninety two hosting Crystal Palace at
Speaker 1: a minus one seventy five. Liverpool and Everton. Liverpool in
Speaker 1: the Merseyside Derby minus two o four Everton a plus
Speaker 1: five seventy nine if you're near a if you're near
Speaker 1: a monitor or a broadcasting type device, three o'clock Liverpool
Speaker 1: and Everton at a minus two o four. So uh, gossip,
Speaker 1: Brumer and Uendo, What to watch, where to watch it,
Speaker 1: how to watch it? And uh? Is Conker Calff available
Speaker 1: on finaates? I don't. I think Conky caf is available
Speaker 1: on finats, so it would have to be on Uh,
Speaker 1: it would have to be on like f S two.
Speaker 1: Let me check and see where it is tonight, or
Speaker 1: the Spanish speaking channels if you have that. I have
Speaker 1: the Super Hypermega Cable Sports package plus the the Spanish
Speaker 1: speaking package, and so that's where I watch. I'll either
Speaker 1: watch on TWUDA NA or on UniMas or wherever it's available.
Speaker 1: B In has Copa, Lberta d'oris Tonight, Vella Sarsfield pay
Speaker 1: you roll at six Universe Atario River played at eight thirty.
Speaker 1: I thought to go Naci and Ala Nacional at ten o'clock.
Speaker 1: LAFC and and Messi and Friends eleven thirty on FS one.
Speaker 1: So if you've got Basic cable or Foxsports, Fox sports
Speaker 1: dot Com, I think you can register for an account
Speaker 1: there and then you might be able to. I think
Speaker 1: you can watch either through your provider or if you
Speaker 1: have a Fox dot com Fox sports dot com log in.
Speaker 1: If you don't have, but LAFC and Messian Friends eleven
Speaker 1: thirty tonight, that's on FS one. FS two has the
Speaker 1: King Cup and that is at two o'clock. They also
Speaker 1: have the Conca CAF Hemispheric Extravaganz at nine to thirty.
Speaker 1: Vancouver and Pumas on FS two, So the layout Vancouver
Speaker 1: and Pumas on FS two at nine to thirty, Messian
Speaker 1: Friends going to LAFC at eleven thirty. That's on FS one.
Speaker 1: Premier League Manchester and Leicester say that ten times fast.
Speaker 1: Manchester City Leicester City at two forty five's on USA
Speaker 1: being an Espanol simul casting their three Labertadoris matches ESPN
Speaker 1: deport This the COPA del Rey, Atletico Madrid and Barsa
Speaker 1: that's at three thirty. Fox deport this the French Cup
Speaker 1: conen Raem at three Gold TV, Benfica Fenz at three
Speaker 1: point fifteen. I think our buddy Neo Torres is on
Speaker 1: that one that's on Gold TV. In the Portuguese Premira
Speaker 1: two to NA simul casting the two matches in Conca
Speaker 1: calf Tonight, Universo simul casting the prem The Plus has
Speaker 1: Airdavizi at two o'clock. German Cup had a big upset
Speaker 1: yesterday with Armenia BILAFELD Stuttgart. Leipzig's at two thirty, and
Speaker 1: they also have the Copa del Ray at three thirty.
Speaker 1: Fox Soccer Plus has connin Riem at three o'clock. Nbcsports
Speaker 1: dot Com has Manchester and Leicester, Paramount Plus has Copa Italia,
Speaker 1: the Milan, Darby ac and Enter at three. Peacock has
Speaker 1: all of your Premier League matches born with Ipswich, Brighton Villa, Newcastle, Brentford, Southampton,
Speaker 1: Crystal Palace, Liverpool and Everton. Vikes also has Champions Cup
Speaker 1: tonight as well. YouTube US Soccer channel on YouTube has
Speaker 1: all the matchups tonight, all ten of them starting at
Speaker 1: six thirty. Once again, cannot impress it upon you enough.
Speaker 1: Must watch Chattanooge FC Chattanooga Red Wolf six thousand at
Speaker 1: least in the door at Fort Finley. If you're going,
Speaker 1: get there early. If you're going get there early. Women
Speaker 1: Conkakafu seventeen qualifier, Honduras and USA's at four o'clock from
Speaker 1: Couva at FS two. Fox Soccer Plus has Costa Rica
Speaker 1: and Mexico at five o'clock. USL Super League Dallas in
Speaker 1: DC at eight o'clock tonight. That is what to watch,
Speaker 1: where to watch it, and how to watch it now. Gossip,
Speaker 1: rumor and innuendo, and to let you know what else
Speaker 1: is going on in and around the planet, to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on confidence in Saudi Arabia that most slaws
Speaker 1: open to joining the league, that we neither can, don't
Speaker 1: endorse nor promote once his deal expires. This summer, United
Speaker 1: stepped up their interest in Liam d Lapp, who's rated
Speaker 1: at forty million pounds four letter paper. Take the information
Speaker 1: at your own peril. Newcastle remain interested in a summer
Speaker 1: deal for Burnley's keeper James Trafford. Brighton to put one
Speaker 1: hundred million pound price tags on Joel Pedro and Carlos
Speaker 1: Balleba to fend off interest from Liverpool, Newcastle and Chelsea.
Speaker 1: Bernardo Silva wants to leave Manchester City this summer in
Speaker 1: search of a challenge away from the Premier League. Arsenal, Newcastle,
Speaker 1: Chelsea and United keen on Dusan Vlahovich, who is set
Speaker 1: to leave Youve this summer. Newcastle plotting a move for
Speaker 1: Liverpool's Harvey Elliott, Chelsea considering a move worth forty million
Speaker 1: euro for Via Ral strike, Tiero Barrett Tierra No Berry
Speaker 1: that's from Fieshahes. Arsenal, Newcastle and Forrest morning Abbey are
Speaker 1: among the clubs interested in Roma defender Evan Inditchka, who
Speaker 1: is rated at forty million euro. Crystal Palace as Oliver
Speaker 1: Glasser remains a candidate to take charge of Arbie Leipzig
Speaker 1: after the German side held talks with his reps. Palace
Speaker 1: could also make a move for Hugo at Katke if
Speaker 1: Jean Felipe Matete leaves the club this summer. So that's
Speaker 1: your gossip rumor innu window. Now the activity and the
Speaker 1: stories and everything else that's come across the desk before
Speaker 1: we get out of here once again, thanks to Thanks
Speaker 1: to everybody who'd dropped in this morning. Ryan Figured from
Speaker 1: FC Dallas, Dylan Butler from MLS Soccer dot Com and
Speaker 1: Tyler Tyler the other Tyler Tyler Pilgrim from Scarves and
Speaker 1: Spikes from ember Tonight seven o'clock they have their show
Speaker 1: plus Max Bretos on tape, so we'll be able to
Speaker 1: listen to that. Let's see the scores that happen yes yesterday.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to see if there's any news that has
Speaker 1: come across the desk, and I'm trying to see it
Speaker 1: does not look like there's been a whole lot of
Speaker 1: news yet this morning. So oh, we got to get
Speaker 1: into Barcelona before we go. We definitely have to get
Speaker 1: into Barcelona before we know. Manchester United Women's said coach
Speaker 1: Mark Skinner, signed a new deal to June twenty seven,
Speaker 1: with the option of an extra year. Carlo Ancelotti is
Speaker 1: in his tax fraud trial, quoted in Cortus saying I
Speaker 1: never realized something wasn't right. Keep an eye on that now.
Speaker 1: We probably should catch up with Jessica Charman on a
Speaker 1: bunch of different things, but specifically reading and things are
Speaker 1: looking pretty Dicey and Dodgy. Right now, the club has
Speaker 1: a deadline of Saturday from the EFL to agree to
Speaker 1: a sale. Rob Kuhig has rejected an off from current
Speaker 1: owner Die Young. Kuig says he wants to see a
Speaker 1: legally binding document. This is inexclusive by Matt Hughes. Now
Speaker 1: Rob Koig once again rejecting a proposal to lift his
Speaker 1: security over the stadium and the training ground. Redding have
Speaker 1: sent a legal letter to Kuig offering to play some
Speaker 1: of the proceeds from the proposed sale to Robert Platek
Speaker 1: in a frozen Escro account, pending the result of his
Speaker 1: High Court claim for twelve million pounds scheduled for July.
Speaker 1: Kuig is suing Reading for loss of opportunity after Die
Speaker 1: Young withdrew from a sale agreement last summer, with a
Speaker 1: hearing at London's Commercial Court last month confirming his mortgages
Speaker 1: against the club's property assets remain in place. Redding's offer
Speaker 1: is an attempt to resolve the impasse before a deadline
Speaker 1: of Saturday for the club to be sold, which is
Speaker 1: the result of the decision to disqualify Die Young as
Speaker 1: a director back in February. The EFL board will meet
Speaker 1: on Thursday to discuss the next steps if the sale
Speaker 1: is not imminent. Options include suspending Redga, preventing them from playing,
Speaker 1: which would have implications in the League One promotion race.
Speaker 1: Rob Kogg's lawyers are understood to have applied to Redding
Speaker 1: with a rejection, which increases fears the club could be
Speaker 1: suspended in inter administration. Kuwig said, I told my lawyers
Speaker 1: to respond with comeback when it's real. I have very
Speaker 1: little faith in them. Frankly. I had twenty five documents signed,
Speaker 1: I spent over a million on legal and transaction fees,
Speaker 1: came to England for a week. Money was my account
Speaker 1: ready to go. Nothing to talk about until they come
Speaker 1: to me with a binding agreement. I want to see
Speaker 1: a legally binding document signed by both seller and buyer.
Speaker 1: That's when we'll have an agreement. Kuig still has aspirations
Speaker 1: to buy Redding despite taking this approach to negotiations, reluctant
Speaker 1: to hand the club to plot Tech, the co head
Speaker 1: of global credit at private equity firm BDT and MSD Partners.
Speaker 1: We all know about MSD and Michael Dill. Kuwig formally
Speaker 1: owned Wickham, claims that Redding violated the terms of his
Speaker 1: purchase agreement by entering exclusive talks with plot Tech. Is
Speaker 1: extremely reluctant to suspend retting one point outside the playoff spots,
Speaker 1: but need evidence that the standoff can be resolved if
Speaker 1: it's going to extend this week's deadline. Club said in
Speaker 1: a statement back on the twenty first of March, mister
Speaker 1: Dye remains committed to working with the EFL to sell
Speaker 1: the club and secure it's long term future. I know
Speaker 1: that Jess is not enjoying life right now, but we
Speaker 1: do need to catch up with Jess and find out
Speaker 1: what the latest is and find out what's going on
Speaker 1: there with that now to get into Barcelona before we
Speaker 1: get out of here this morning. You remember, and it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's almost like a bit of a running gag.
Speaker 1: You know, hansi Flick has them right now in the
Speaker 1: hunt for three trophies. But the financial situation, like I said,
Speaker 1: the financial situation, we sit there and we go, you know,
Speaker 1: we'd really like for something to happen here to where they, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, can pay bills and bring in players
Speaker 1: who knows. Marc Andre Trustegan resumed training, defying the fear
Speaker 1: that the knee injury suffered in September would end his season.
Speaker 1: But it came out this morning and I want to
Speaker 1: go back to what went down when it came to
Speaker 1: and no, that was not what I hit. So here's
Speaker 1: here's the rundown from this morning. The story from Paul Balous,
Speaker 1: the FC Barcelona correspondent for the Athletic. It is right
Speaker 1: now pretty bad. La Leguas say Barcelona are not meeting
Speaker 1: financial fair play rules and have reported to the authorities
Speaker 1: an auditor of the club employed for four days. It's
Speaker 1: like you want to gig for four days. Here, you
Speaker 1: want to gig for four days. We need you as
Speaker 1: an auditor to do this. So Paul Bolous and more,
Speaker 1: when you have multiple dudes who are writing a story,
Speaker 1: is what is it we always say about the deadlines
Speaker 1: blouse at all at the Athletic. LaLiga says Barsla not
Speaker 1: meeting FFP rules and have reported to the authorities and
Speaker 1: auditor to the club employed for four days, which played
Speaker 1: a vital role in them being allowed to use Dannielmo
Speaker 1: and Poe Victor in the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: According to LaLiga, the unnamed auditor was appointed by Barcelona
Speaker 1: on the last day of the calendar year last year,
Speaker 1: December thirty first, and provided a certificate to the league
Speaker 1: which confirmed the sale of vip seating to Middle Eastern
Speaker 1: investors worth one hundred million euro to the club was
Speaker 1: properly accounted for as income in the club's p and
Speaker 1: L statements for twenty four to twenty five. It was
Speaker 1: this sale that allowed Barsa to meet financial regulations granted
Speaker 1: permission from the Spanish government in January to play Danny
Speaker 1: Omo and Po Victor for at least three months. This
Speaker 1: is while according to Balus, the Conseiljo Superior did deport
Speaker 1: this the Superior Sports Council, the government's high sports council
Speaker 1: that reviews LaLiga and national team decisions, to de register
Speaker 1: the two players, which was due to Barcelona's late filing
Speaker 1: of financial documents regarding the sale of the vip seating.
Speaker 1: The ruling is expected to be delivered honor before Monday.
Speaker 1: The latest issue, according to the Oliga, is that Barsa
Speaker 1: have reported three auditors to LaLiga in the space of
Speaker 1: three months, and the other two have not included the
Speaker 1: sale of the vip seating and their statements to the
Speaker 1: league three auditors. One said yet these seats were sold,
Speaker 1: the other two that were employed did not. Grant Thornton,
Speaker 1: was acting for Barcelona up until the end of the
Speaker 1: calendar year, filed an interim financial statement with no mention
Speaker 1: of the VIP seating and crow has been in place
Speaker 1: since the unnamed auditor and filed a limited review report
Speaker 1: to La Liga. LaLiga argues that the according to the
Speaker 1: IFS filed by the statement filed by Grant Thornton, that
Speaker 1: Barcelona did not nor does it currently have any positive
Speaker 1: balance or registration capacity publicly known as fair play to
Speaker 1: register Danny Omo and Poe Victor. The league has informed
Speaker 1: of Barcelona that their squad cost limit has been reduced
Speaker 1: by the amount of the sale of the VIP seating
Speaker 1: based on the submitted statement that was the ifs. LaLiga
Speaker 1: has also shared with the High Sports Council and intends
Speaker 1: to file a formal complaint with Spain's Institute of Accounting
Speaker 1: and Auditing against the unnamed auditor employed by Barcelona for
Speaker 1: four days, literally between December thirty first and January third,
Speaker 1: four days. This auditor comes in says, yeah, you're cool.
Speaker 1: They sold these suites to Middle Eastern investors and everything's
Speaker 1: on the up and up. The other two auditors were like, well, no,
Speaker 1: it's not. Quote from Joan Laporta. Barcelona currently on a
Speaker 1: nineteen game unbeaten an unbeaten rung run rung a nineteen
Speaker 1: match unbeaten run, top of Litiga Champions League quarters, second
Speaker 1: leg Copa deel Ray semi tonight against Athletico Madrid. Donny
Speaker 1: almost played twelve times, Victor has played three. Barcia has
Speaker 1: not commented. Grant, Thornton and Crow have been approached for
Speaker 1: comment by The Athletic. So remember the running gag that
Speaker 1: we have here on the show. Literally, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: every single time that so and so is interested, Barcelona
Speaker 1: is interested in so and so, and we always sit
Speaker 1: there and say, well, you know, I don't think right now,
Speaker 1: we're back to the how's Barcelona going to pay for
Speaker 1: these bills? We should know more by Monday, but this
Speaker 1: looks like a mess and a half. One auditor says, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're good. The other two are like, well, no, so
Speaker 1: it got reported. We'll know more on Barcelona on Monday.
Speaker 1: Coming up at noon, it's going to be Soccer's in session.
Speaker 1: We're going to run through all of the scores from
Speaker 1: last night, get you ready for the matchups today, and
Speaker 1: go through the rankings according to our friends at Scoreboard,
Speaker 1: and then maybe we'll see you down in Fayette County
Speaker 1: for a really cool presentation involving US soccer this afternoon.
Speaker 1: A lot of us from You're going to be down
Speaker 1: there for that reporting on that, and we'll have stuff
Speaker 1: on all of our socials and all of our platforms
Speaker 1: coming up later today and tomorrow as we go. And
Speaker 1: we've got a really cool one v one coming up,
Speaker 1: and it's about challenging yourself as a young person and
Speaker 1: going over to Saudi Arabia to do it. There's a
Speaker 1: young Georgian who is doing exactly that. We're going to
Speaker 1: catch up with that individual at one o'clock on tape
Speaker 1: and we'll have that one released to the network coming
Speaker 1: up in a little bit. So once again, noon soccer's
Speaker 1: in session and we will break everything down there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so Open Cup tonight, Premier League this afternoon. Action going on,
Speaker 1: and it is also going to be really fun to
Speaker 1: see how things continue to go on the high school game.
Speaker 1: We've got a doubleheader on Thursday. Still waiting to see
Speaker 1: what the latest is on our matchup on Friday and Thursday.
Speaker 1: We will be in two locations Toombs County at Hebron
Speaker 1: Christian Dutchtown at Trinity Christian. So that'll be the matchups
Speaker 1: on SDH one and two. On Thursday. Soccer's in session
Speaker 1: coming up at noon. Soccer down here one v one.
Speaker 1: We're taping this afternoon and we'll be down in Fayette
Speaker 1: County this afternoon as well. So thanks as always to
Speaker 1: Ryan Figgered, thanks to Dylan Butler, thanks to Tyler Pilgrim,
Speaker 1: and thanks to all of y'all for dropping by as
Speaker 1: you always do. Back at it again a little less
Speaker 1: than twenty two moucha ploty all played safe see at
Speaker 1: the top of the hour since it is the end
Speaker 1: of the show that means I get to do this
Speaker 1: see you in forty eight minutes.
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