WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:34.679 H l. 2 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:42.920 Well hm hmm, come on, man, helps. 3 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:46.479 Helps good for dude. 4 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:49.159 It's Friday. 5 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:59.439 Day Day. 6 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:05.000 It is in fact Friday, and you show how it's 7 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:08.000 Friday because I forgot to take things out of loop. John, 8 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:10.879 hear you there. It's a Friday. It is a match 9 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:13.599 day Friday. It's a freestyle Friday. At Lanta United getting 10 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:15.480 ready for a trip. Hopefully they can get out of 11 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:18.560 here before the rain starts down to the erector, setting 12 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:22.599 Fort Lauderdale to take on Messi and Friends. Match Day three. 13 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:25.400 Match Day three. Dominant in the Eastern Conference in Major 14 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:28.000 League Soccer, not so much in the West. Everybody, pretty 15 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:29.640 much everybody in the West is kind of sitting there going, 16 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:32.159 you know, can you kind of gig out of work 17 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:35.359 on here a little bit? You guys, just do your thing. 18 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:37.040 We're gonna sit here. We're gonna heal up and do 19 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:38.200 our We're gonna do our thing. 20 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:38.879 We'll watch. 21 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:43.640 That's where we are morning, John, hear you there, And 22 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:45.840 whatever's on your mind as we get you ready for 23 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:50.359 a match day three weekend in Major League Soccer for 24 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:53.400 the MLS Cup playoffs. At Lanta United getting ready for 25 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:56.239 their trip to Fort Lauderdale and we'll go over all 26 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:58.359 the juice boxes, go through all the news and the 27 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:02.040 numbers and everything that's attacked. We've invited everybody else from 28 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:05.920 the week back in, so if anybody wants to wander 29 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:09.560 by and sit there and go, it's Friday, and I 30 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:12.159 haven't had the chance to think about anything over the 31 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:14.479 last however many days it was since they were here 32 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:19.360 in the building. So everybody's got the everybody's got the invite, 33 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:22.039 and we'll see what's on everybody's mind as we go 34 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:23.000 here this morning. 35 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:25.360 We'll go through. 36 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:30.680 Everything in Major League Soccer, everything overseas, news of the am, 37 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:34.800 anything on your mind. We had some interesting stuff happened 38 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:38.120 yesterday during the show where it was announced that Jim 39 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:42.879 Curtin is being relieved of his duties. Mutually agreed to 40 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:48.919 part ways whichever you wish, and then that conversation comes 41 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:49.400 into play. 42 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:52.639 Welcome back, tom and good morning, and we'll we'll. 43 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:54.919 Get into that since that seems to be a topic 44 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:59.639 of conversation as well. So we got all the stuff overseas, 45 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:01.800 we got all that to get into. We've got all 46 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:04.159 this stuff here to get into. Whatever is on your 47 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:06.680 mind to get into, and we'll get you ready for 48 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:08.000 the weekend across the board. 49 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:09.520 So good morning, everybody. 50 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:11.719 Let's get into opening Kickoff brought to us by our 51 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:17.199 friends at Kickoff Coffee and Kickoff Coffeeco dot com. Let 52 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:19.919 me start your day this way from our friends there 53 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:22.599 at Kickoff Coffee and Kickoff Coffeeco dot Com. 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College soccer 60 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:45.840 right now is in their tournament stages you're seeing, and 61 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:48.800 we go over this a lot with the rundown of 62 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:50.439 what to watch, where to watch it, how to watch it. 63 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:52.560 Some of the stuff is in opening round play, some 64 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:55.360 of it isn't, and some of them are trying to 65 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:59.240 figure out who's going to be attached to the rundowns 66 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:04.360 of every of everything when it comes to who's gonna 67 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:06.280 be making postseason runs and all that kind of stuff. 68 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:08.479 And we'll keep you posted on stuff here in this 69 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:13.560 footprint involving Division two and all the appropriate conferences there, 70 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:17.000 Fun Belt, etc. Don't know if you had the chance 71 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:21.360 to catch a couple of matches in the acc And 72 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:25.040 when North Carolina and Duke get together on the women's side, 73 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:27.600 you know that North Carolina and do get together in anything. 74 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:31.639 It is one of those kind of must see. You 75 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:34.920 know they're gonna trade haymakers for fifteen rounds and figure 76 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:39.000 out maybe a winner after ninety minutes. North Carolina was 77 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:41.399 the four seed going into the tournament. Duke the number 78 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:44.480 one seed going into the tournament. Duke took a one 79 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:47.000 miller lead at the halftime break. Cameron Roller got a 80 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:51.920 PK and then Linda Olmark scores from distance to give 81 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:55.000 North Carolina the equalizer in the fiftieth minute. 82 00:04:55.519 --> 00:05:00.839 So that gets us to a moment with ten minutes 83 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:01.199 to go. 84 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:05.759 After going winless in their previous four meetings with Duke Duke, 85 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:10.319 North Carolina had a chance to win their first over 86 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:13.399 their in state rival since September the eighth of twenty 87 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:18.480 twenty two. September eight, twenty twenty two, you get a 88 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.879 moment like this, ten minutes to go, and that's going 89 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:23.879 to go a long way for you, courtesy of our 90 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:27.439 friends at the ACC Network and ACC Extra. 91 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:30.839 The guy with the corner. 92 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:40.959 Away strong, the defects i NW fake Schemiro exaten minutes 93 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:43.800 North Camrolina lege Duke. 94 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:53.439 Well had to be armstrong. 95 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:58.600 How this is the player that's been outstanding tonight defensively 96 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:00.439 doing everything. 97 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:00.800 She has to do. 98 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:05.560 Trinity Johnson's header in the eighty first gets to be 99 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:08.120 the difference. Two second half goals give North Carolina to win. 100 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:11.519 The number one seed is out in the tournament. But 101 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:15.800 there was another moment on the men's side that I 102 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:17.759 don't know if you've had the chance to see. It's 103 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:20.839 probably been on those those top tens that have been 104 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:23.800 all over the place, you know. And when you have 105 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:28.120 a moment like a hail Mary, and I mean literally, 106 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:32.160 time is running out. There's there's no extra, clock's running down, 107 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:34.519 and you end up with a moment like you do, 108 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:38.480 and you sit there, you tip your hat and you're 109 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:44.040 just like yep, Stanford and Notre Dame number seven versus 110 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:49.240 number ten, And it comes down to time running out, 111 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:51.399 and I mean time running out. You're looking at like 112 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:55.600 ten seconds and nine in counting down, So leave it. 113 00:06:55.600 --> 00:07:01.040 It leave it to the feet of Dylan Hooper. Dylan 114 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:06.639 Hooper will probably go down in ACC lore anyway for 115 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:09.360 this moment that happened once again courtesy of our friends 116 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:11.920 at the ACC Network and the Atlantic Coast or the 117 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:14.879 All Coast Conference, but now it's the ACCV the Atlantic 118 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:15.560 Coast Conference. 119 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.319 This moment from Dylan hoops a hail Mary of a 120 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:44.839 shot that on second left. You gotta be kidding me. 121 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:51.639 I've never seen anything like that. Ferguson draws level nothing 122 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:53.120 like that. So there you go. 123 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:57.519 So that was the moment Dylan Hooper from his half 124 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:00.839 as time is running out ACCN Network Extra with the 125 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:01.399 call there. 126 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:03.839 That's what this part of the season is all about. 127 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:05.199 First goal of the season. 128 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:08.120 Stanford got to the second round of the ACC Tournament, 129 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:12.079 advancing to play number two Clemson on the road on Sunday. 130 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:15.759 So Stanford goes to nine to four and four. And 131 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:20.480 we always talk about how you're going to afford programs 132 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:23.439 and things like that. Jeremy Gunn is the head coach 133 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:26.920 at Stanford, and after the match he was asked about it, 134 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:28.519 he goes, it was a crazy game of soccer. Seen 135 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:29.720 a lot and I've been in a lot of games. 136 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:31.439 I don't think I've ever seen anything like that at 137 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:35.519 the end of the game end quote. The men's soccer 138 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:40.879 position at Stanford has what we've been kind of tongue 139 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:44.480 in cheek referring to as the tenured professorship. It is 140 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:50.559 the Knowles Family Director of Men's Soccer at Stanford. It 141 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:56.320 is a sponsored title, the Knowles Family Director of Men's Soccer, 142 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:59.759 Jeremy Gunn. So when you become the head coach of 143 00:08:59.799 --> 00:09:02.440 the men's soccer program at Stanford, you become the Knowles 144 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:07.000 Family Director of Men's Soccer. So Jeremy Gunn got the 145 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:09.559 quote as the Knowles Family and literally that is in 146 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:13.159 the release, that is in the post match release for 147 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.639 this game. The post match release it was a crazy 148 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:19.559 game of soccer. Knowles Family Director of Men's Soccer, Jeremy Gunseat. 149 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:24.159 So it is a tenured professorship. Good on the cardinal 150 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:27.360 for thinking in three dimensions and if you got to 151 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:28.759 do something, if you got to do something like that, 152 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:32.000 you do something like that. And so sure enough you 153 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:37.039 end up with with that as part of your part 154 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:39.720 of your DNA when it comes to college soccer. Will Riley, 155 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:43.039 by the way, blast out of the past. So Will 156 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:48.000 Riley got a goal in that match too, so blast 157 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:49.639 from the Past Will Riley is a part of the 158 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:50.399 discussion too. 159 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:50.600 So. 160 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:53.919 But yeah, so when you got moments like that in 161 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:57.679 the postseason, very very cool to have these kinds of 162 00:09:57.879 --> 00:10:02.279 wild things go down. And since we're there, we'll go 163 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:04.279 ahead and let you know what's going on on the 164 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:08.279 planet as a part of opening kickoff morning, Rich and yes, 165 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:12.879 we are going to talk about Jim Kurt So the 166 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:18.440 women's conference tournament play. Obviously we mentioned the ACC Big ten. 167 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:22.000 UCLA beat Washington two nil in the semis at I 168 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:25.360 guess it's still officially City Park in Saint Louis. It's 169 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:29.240 not quite Energizer Park yet. Ryan Campbell got her fifteenth 170 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:32.360 shut out of the season. Bruins go to the final 171 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:34.639 against Ruggers, and so this is a smart play. 172 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:35.559 Meet in the middle. 173 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:38.399 You're not having folks come from what's left of the 174 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:40.360 Tupac and heading to go all the way over to 175 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:41.840 the East coast. You meet in the middle, you play 176 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:42.440 in Saint Louis. 177 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:42.879 Good call. 178 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:46.919 So shootout winner over USC and the other semi final 179 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:49.320 was Ruggers. All but the Scarlett Knights were former PAC 180 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:51.120 twelve teams playing in their first season in the B 181 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:55.840 one G. South Carolina knocks off Mississippi State. Mississippi State 182 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:59.919 had a fourteen game win streak. Brionna Beams scores two. 183 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:02.799 Catherine Barry, another fifth year player, had her sixteenth of 184 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:05.240 the season. They're going to face Texas Sunday in the 185 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:09.559 final in Pensacola, Florida. So that was the women's side 186 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:14.480 of things on the UH and so you got to 187 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:16.639 keep an eye on all of that. So what to watch, 188 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:18.240 where to watch it, how to watch it, and we're 189 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:20.919 going to expand it with the colleges and so we'll 190 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:21.279 go there. 191 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:22.759 So today. 192 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:27.039 Kind of busy, we'll get you ready for everything being 193 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:30.159 and being an Espanol Marseillan h share it to forty five. 194 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:32.720 If you don't have ben, you can get all the 195 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:36.440 b NS at FINTS, FNTZ dot co slash Soccer down 196 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:40.000 here and you can get all the BNS neuester Tela 197 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:44.000 cedio cdo for the fans, tay say uh lego one 198 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:46.080 max Lego one max Pro, all of the above. You 199 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:47.960 can get it at finaates. Be a true degenerate like 200 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:51.080 the rest of US CBS sports Networks got Siri, I 201 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:53.600 let you an employe at two forty five. ESPN two 202 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:57.080 has the English Women's Super League Manchester City and Spurs 203 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:58.720 at two thirty uh. 204 00:11:58.799 --> 00:11:59.960 Coming up in about a half hour. 205 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:02.759 The league that we neither condone, endorse nor promote has 206 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:05.679 a game on FS two once again, be in a 207 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:09.480 n Espagnol simulcasting. League deport this La Liga Ryle viaconnell 208 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:11.200 Os Palmas at three Fox deport this. 209 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:12.240 This is very, very busy. 210 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:15.240 They have that league that we talk about at nine 211 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:18.440 to forty five, and then at noon Gold TV Portuguese 212 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:21.440 Premier Moro Renz and hil Vicente at three point fifteen 213 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:24.720 Rossing and nacion alaut to Urguay at six thirty. You 214 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:27.240 can catch our buddy at Nino Torres calling a lot 215 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:31.440 of stuff in Portugal this weekend on Goal TV, Amazon Prime. 216 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:34.240 The playoffs are underway in the NWSL. We got to 217 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:37.200 talk about that before we go. Orlando and Chicago at 218 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:42.039 eight Apple TV in season past. Tonight playoffs out West 219 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:46.559 LAFC and Vancouver match Day three at BEMO at ten thirty, 220 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:49.639 which means ten forty listed at ten thirty, so add 221 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:53.240 ten minutes, so ten forty kick with the Vanni Sartini 222 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:55.080 forcing a match Day three and the rest of the 223 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:58.519 white Caps forcing a match day three with LAFC do 224 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:02.600 Zone USA. I have north idea how to get disown USA. 225 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:04.600 I imagine you can dial up Dezone and you can 226 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:08.159 subscribe to it. French Division Ie Feminine, LaHave and Leon 227 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:11.720 at three The Plus we mentioned the Women's super League 228 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:15.960 Bundesligga b Untruk Braunschweigen Hamburg at twelve thirty, while Byaconnellis 229 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:19.519 Palmus at three. Fox Soccer Plus has that noon game 230 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:21.519 in the league that we neither condone, endorse nor promote. 231 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:25.039 Paramount Plus a light day for them. English Championship Friday 232 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:29.639 Night Football Watford Oxford United, that's at three o'clock Syria, 233 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:33.120 and then the Scottish Championship Greenock Morton and Air United 234 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:34.000 at two forty five. 235 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:36.679 So that's that's today. 236 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:40.480 Obviously tomorrow you've got League UH in WSL playoffs on 237 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:45.240 Big CBS Kansas City and North Carolina League One WREXOM 238 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:47.399 if you're up at seven thirty taking on Mansfield Town 239 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:50.559 CBS Sports Network. ESPN two's got the Bundesleague at nine 240 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:53.159 to thirty. Premier League doubleheader will get into those juice 241 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:57.320 boxes as well, being an Espanol's GOT League uh Strasburg, Monico, 242 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:00.399 Lens nonte Anger and PSG and their triple header hon 243 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:06.440 Duran Primiras on BNN Espanol Municipalimagno and Plateense ESPN Deport's 244 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:11.320 Bundesliga at nine thirty LA Liga has eight, ten, fifteen, twelve, 245 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:13.639 thirty in three, so they're all Lalliga all the time. 246 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:17.039 On Tomorrow, Fox Deportees Siria noon in two forty five 247 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:20.799 Guatemala Liga. This is true to generate stuff. Antiga and 248 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:25.200 Shina Bajul at seven. Hon Duran League Nacional Olympia are 249 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:29.320 friends from Olympia from the concak CAF Hemispheric Extravaganza and UPNFM. 250 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:33.639 That's an interesting blend. Eight thirty goal TV Portuguese, Permira 251 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:37.440 Uruguay Promira, Telemundo's got Lega MX today AND's got Liga 252 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:39.720 MX double header, UNI Versa's got Your double header in 253 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:43.480 the Premier League Lega MX at six Univision simul casting. 254 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:47.960 And then the playoffs four, six and eight with FC Cincinnati, NYC, 255 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:51.919 Orlando City and Charlotte Inter Miami Atlanta United four six 256 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:54.600 eight SO four ten six ten eight ten. Next Pro 257 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:57.559 Cup Final North Texas SC in Philadelphia, Union two is 258 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:00.279 at eight thirty. The Plus has a bolt Looatus stuff 259 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:06.080 on Saturday. Airdavizi Bundesliga Bundesliga b Laaliga Laaliga two USL 260 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:08.840 Championship playoffs. We gotta get into that League one playoffs. 261 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:10.399 We've got to get into that there in the semispox. 262 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:12.639 Soccer Plus has your title game in the Canadian Premier 263 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:17.399 League Cavalry and Forge Golosso Network, Argentina English Championship Syria. 264 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:20.200 The dot com at NBC Sports has your double header 265 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:24.399 simulcast on the Premier League Paramount Plus on Saturday. Argentina 266 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:29.840 English Championship League One Syria NWSL Playoffs. Peacock has everything 267 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:32.679 else in the USL Super League with two matches at 268 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:33.759 seven and one at seven thirty. 269 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:35.360 So that's Friday and Saturday. You want to watch, Where 270 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:36.399 to watch it, how to watch it? 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The question by Tom Rousso this morning the 291 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:34.519 Airborne djit obvious three questions. So I guess we're doing 292 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:37.480 three questions to start. Does Garth call curtain again? 293 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:40.679 One? Does he even take the call this time? Two? 294 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:42.559 And do we even want him? 295 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:42.799 Three? 296 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:45.440 And then Tom goes for is the internece one over 297 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:48.679 Arsenal yesterday? And so all right, so Tom, to answer 298 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:53.360 your three questions. One, does Garth call Curtin again. This 299 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:57.200 comes from Tom Bogert at Gimme Sports and his talk 300 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:01.480 at GMS said that uh in the fall, Earlier in 301 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:04.920 the fall, a couple of months ago, that Atlanta United 302 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:09.559 had reached out to Jim Curtin. Ah, thank you, Rich 303 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:13.240 Rich doing the the public service and letting everybody know 304 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:18.960 about the Union Soccer blog and what's going on through 305 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:23.640 Joe Tansey. All right, So the three questions, does Garth 306 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:25.759 call curtain again? Does he even want does he even 307 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:26.200 take the call? 308 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:26.559 His time? 309 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:30.640 And do we even want him? Let's work backward. Does 310 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:36.720 Atlanta United want Jim Curtin? I would say on a 311 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:40.039 couple of different fronts, And I'm going to take my Vaughn's, 312 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:44.920 my Vaughn's club card and use it. After a comment 313 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:50.680 where he's referring to plastic, I don't know if you 314 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:52.680 want that here unless you want to sit there and 315 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:56.599 bring in the top. Heel to be the guy in 316 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:00.400 charge of what's going on. So when Jim Curtin talks 317 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:02.880 about plastic fans, do you want that guy standing on 318 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:06.960 your touch line? That would be my first thought. Second, 319 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:09.839 does Garth call curtain again? That goes back to and 320 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:14.200 I'm going I'm jumping from three back to one. Does 321 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:15.680 he even take the call? I don't know if Jim 322 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:19.519 Jim Curtin takes the call. There there is another there's 323 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:22.519 another opening out there that I think would fit and 324 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.720 and taking taking the taking the plastic comment from from 325 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:29.880 you know, taking that to the side, and all the 326 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:34.160 other shenanigans that go on. And we've discussed Audenfinitem at 327 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:38.720 Dausium about stylistics, philosophy, all that kind of st oh. 328 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:40.559 I know, I know Rich he was being a wrestling heel. 329 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:43.119 I know, and that's and that's part of his persona. 330 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:44.359 He's being a wrestling heel. 331 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:45.279 I get that. 332 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:49.640 When it comes to if we just take that and 333 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:54.640 put that to the side. Philosophy, I think is the 334 00:18:54.759 --> 00:18:59.000 element here that we have to focus on. When Jim 335 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:01.640 Curtin brings out a four four to two diamond and 336 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:08.359 it is physical and you're trying to figure out, you 337 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:11.920 know where you can you know where your line is 338 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:15.519 when it comes to being physical and you're trying to 339 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:18.039 create short fields, be clinical, all that kind of stuff. 340 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:23.000 I just think philosophically, I don't think it fits because 341 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:29.440 the athlete that Jim Curtin has attached to what he 342 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:33.359 did in Philadelphia, not this past season, but you know, 343 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:35.160 say when they were younger. But that whole idea of 344 00:19:35.160 --> 00:19:38.160 the four four two Diamond and the athletes that you 345 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:42.200 currently have in Atlanta, I think that would be square peg, 346 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:44.240 round hole. And you don't want to do that considering 347 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:49.319 all the money that you've invested in folks like Miranchuk, Saba, 348 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:52.759 et cetera, and that you have all of this stuff 349 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:56.559 waiting for the off season to invest in and trying 350 00:19:56.599 --> 00:19:58.279 to find folks to come and be a part of things. 351 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:01.880 I just think philosophically, I don't think it fit. So 352 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:04.680 that would be that would be it for me. The 353 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:09.119 the the Curtain philosophy here with the personnel on hand 354 00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:12.039 in Atlanta, I don't think it's I don't think it matches. 355 00:20:13.559 --> 00:20:16.400 I think that if you wanted to take him philosophically 356 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:23.799 and apply him to a situation, I think Saint Louis 357 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:31.359 would be more I'm not gonna use the word appropriate, 358 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:33.680 that would fit better. I think that if you had 359 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:37.759 the Saint Louis style of play, I think that would 360 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:44.359 fit Curtain stylistically more than coming to any other opening, 361 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:51.359 because it is that that to me would be where 362 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:56.200 we are here. So someone that is red bullsyan which 363 00:20:56.359 --> 00:20:58.680 is kind of what which is what Saint Louis is 364 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:01.640 with what fun and Steel and Bradley Cornell at the 365 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:03.920 time wanted to create. They wanted to do something red 366 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:07.440 bullsy and where you're pressing short fields, you don't care 367 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:10.279 about possession, those kinds of things, those kind of red 368 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:16.119 bulls light in Saint Louis. But I think philosophically that 369 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:18.599 would fit him better. And I had that John Hackworth 370 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:20.680 would probably sit there and he's probably pressing on the 371 00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:24.279 door that would enter into the training facility for for 372 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:27.279 all caps. You know John Hackworth, like you hear a 373 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:31.359 knock on the door and you know it's it's like, 374 00:21:31.400 --> 00:21:34.960 who's that, Jim Curtin, John Hackworth, nobody here, you know. 375 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:43.400 So I think that Saint Louis would fit Jim Curtin philosophically. 376 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:48.119 So I don't know if you make that phone call again, 377 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:52.799 So that that would be the bigger element in this 378 00:21:54.640 --> 00:22:00.279 for for me looking at things, and I will I 379 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:04.720 will recommend for those of you who might be new 380 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:11.079 to our discussions and too rich and to everyone from 381 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:14.799 the Philadelphia side of things. When this seemed to be 382 00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:21.720 getting to its head, to its you know, to its zenith, 383 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:25.759 when it came to the Philadelphia fan frustration and all 384 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:29.359 of that, we did a deep dive into Philly. So 385 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:32.720 go back into our archive on the app and over 386 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:37.039 its spreaker, we did a deep dive into Philadelphia and 387 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:40.720 it was a really cool deep dive where we analyzed everything. 388 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:45.680 And this was what three four months ago when we 389 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:48.880 could kind of see the riding on the wall where 390 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:53.440 Jim Curtin publicly would be frustrated in postmatch comments and 391 00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:56.680 it would be thinly veiled. Then it wouldn't be so 392 00:22:56.839 --> 00:22:57.759 thinly veiled. 393 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:01.079 And so rich. 394 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:04.240 To your point, Curtin may have had a strength, a 395 00:23:04.279 --> 00:23:05.960 strength in it, but he was also forced to use 396 00:23:06.039 --> 00:23:08.039 formations by the GM and the sporting director. 397 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:09.400 So with the. 398 00:23:09.480 --> 00:23:12.799 Resources he had on hand, he was doing four four 399 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:14.839 to two diamond, et cetera with that personnel and with 400 00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:18.759 what was being developed through the academy system with Philadelphia 401 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:24.079 Union and Union two. Philosophically, I think that he would 402 00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:26.079 be more suited for Saint Louis than he would right 403 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:29.039 now any place else. But go back and listen to 404 00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:32.519 the deep dive that we did on Philadelphia across the board, 405 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:37.680 and it was a look at the ownership the investment 406 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:42.319 where they were focusing more on infrastructure and buildings as 407 00:23:42.359 --> 00:23:46.640 opposed to bringing in people in transfer fees to help 408 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:51.400 things out. Then, so you saw in the twitch pitch 409 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:58.240 the Joe Tansy piece that Rich linked us to. So 410 00:23:58.440 --> 00:24:00.720 Joe Tansy right there at the Union Soccer blog. But 411 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:03.559 I would go back and listen to our in depth 412 00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:06.440 run of Philadelphia. We analyzed pretty much everything we could, 413 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:09.480 and Rich being our eyes and ears up there, kind 414 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:12.039 of helped us out navigate what was going on ownership, 415 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:13.559 front office, et cetera. 416 00:24:14.839 --> 00:24:16.799 Using that as our evidence in hand. 417 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:21.599 Plus Jim Curtin in postmatch comments discussing front office and 418 00:24:22.839 --> 00:24:25.599 all of the extra year of running it back with 419 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:27.839 the same personnel, not getting a whole lot of investment, 420 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:32.359 that kind of a thing. So you have public comments, 421 00:24:32.920 --> 00:24:35.400 and I imagine it was far more heated behind the scenes. 422 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:39.839 So I would say you add one plus possibly one 423 00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:41.920 to come up with two. You just get to this 424 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:44.039 point to where after X number of years, you're just 425 00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:45.799 kind of like, yeah, we probably should just you know, 426 00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:49.200 we should just break up and be friends. So I 427 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:54.799 think that the relationship from that perspective got to the 428 00:24:54.839 --> 00:24:56.720 point to where it was untenable. Because if you have 429 00:24:56.839 --> 00:25:00.079 a head coach who in his postmatch pressers and and 430 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:03.039 any other press conference is sitting there and discussing lack 431 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:06.200 of resources and what have you and displeasure just general 432 00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:08.599 displeasure about the situation and where things are going, it 433 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:10.200 made sense for the two of them to break up. 434 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:14.319 And you know, it's not you, it's me. You know, 435 00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:16.880 I need to focus on me to become a better person, 436 00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:21.039 all those kinds of things. So that's where it just 437 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:25.759 it gets to a point, it gets to it. So 438 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:28.000 that's where we are. So go back and listen to 439 00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:32.799 our breakdown of everything Philadelphia. It's nine point thirty and 440 00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:36.759 we now have that that time where we catch up 441 00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:38.960 with our friends from beyond goals entering. We get to 442 00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:43.559 talk about a couple of different things, including postseason playoffs 443 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:46.759 for a particular mogul in training and find out what 444 00:25:46.839 --> 00:25:48.160 it's like to go on the road. We get to 445 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:50.039 find out and see what happened in the opening round 446 00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:54.519 of the USL Championship and USL Championship playoffs. But before 447 00:25:54.519 --> 00:25:56.119 we do that, we have to run kind of special 448 00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:58.920 opens and things. So we're gonna run a special open 449 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:00.480 and then welcome to somebody to the show. 450 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:15.480 What's happening cap? 451 00:26:16.279 --> 00:26:17.680 Good morning? 452 00:26:19.240 --> 00:26:22.279 So, uh, before we get into two mentoring, did you 453 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:24.319 go to Indianapolis, sir? 454 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:30.279 I sure did, and and it was a lovely experience. 455 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:34.839 Uh yeah, what a what a win? What a game? 456 00:26:35.319 --> 00:26:38.400 I mean it was. It wasn't obviously a great accomplishment 457 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:41.319 to make the playoffs year one uh for an ISFC, 458 00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:46.119 but you know, we we actually felt I felt crazy 459 00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:48.960 confident going into that game, where I'm like, we're a 460 00:26:49.839 --> 00:26:53.279 year one team or the underdogs were the five seed, 461 00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:56.559 but I don't know why. It just felt really confident. 462 00:26:56.599 --> 00:26:58.599 I mean, I guess second half of the season we've 463 00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:00.359 been I think the third best team in you US up. 464 00:27:01.400 --> 00:27:05.720 So yeah, I felt pretty good going into the game 465 00:27:05.759 --> 00:27:08.799 and obviously had a great start to the game, and 466 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:11.000 it was a little hairy of a finish as it 467 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:16.359 always is, but it was it was really really awesome 468 00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:17.960 to be there and experience. 469 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:20.039 It well, you know, and we had the chance to 470 00:27:20.119 --> 00:27:23.839 catch up with with Conno for a one v one 471 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:28.359 before the playoffs started, and to be able to I guess, 472 00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:31.119 just become more acclimated with one another and what you're 473 00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:33.440 trying to sit there, It's like, okay, so I know 474 00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:35.200 that if you do this, I get to do this 475 00:27:35.319 --> 00:27:39.559 in return becoming more more adjusted to each other on 476 00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:41.559 the field, those draws turn into wins. 477 00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:43.200 And it was a four or five. 478 00:27:43.359 --> 00:27:45.519 But obviously you had to go on the road in 479 00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:49.200 that one, and I did not have JJ Williams and 480 00:27:49.319 --> 00:27:51.880 hat trick on my on my bingo card. 481 00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:57.119 By the way, especially not in back to back weeks. No, yeah, 482 00:27:57.200 --> 00:27:59.920 he's been uh, he's been a beast for us obviously, 483 00:28:01.160 --> 00:28:05.400 and when we needed it because you know, Albertico, last 484 00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:09.279 year's league MVP went down with a groin injury a 485 00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:11.839 couple of weeks ago and we thought maybe he was 486 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:14.759 done for the season if it was a hernia, but 487 00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:19.039 you know, he's bounced back. But yeah, now we can't 488 00:28:19.039 --> 00:28:21.119 get him in the lineup because JJ Williams is scoring 489 00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:23.039 six goals in two games. So it's good problems to. 490 00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:26.359 Have, absolutely, And so now you get to to get 491 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:29.319 to advance to a round number two. Are you traveling 492 00:28:29.480 --> 00:28:30.480 this weekend, sir? 493 00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:35.440 Unfortunately not, and it would be only a four hour 494 00:28:35.559 --> 00:28:42.079 drive for me, but I had some plans already lined up. John, So. 495 00:28:43.599 --> 00:28:50.599 Dude, Oh, Eastern Conference semifinals, that's gonna be uh, it's 496 00:28:50.680 --> 00:28:53.720 gonna be fun. Low City and Rhode Island seven thirty 497 00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:57.559 on Saturday night. It's on the plus and so cap 498 00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:00.160 much like everybody else that is not making the four 499 00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:02.640 hour trip from where he is to Louse City and 500 00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:05.319 Lynn family has to watch on his favorite streaming device 501 00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:08.759 and all that kind of stuff. So congratulations on so 502 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:11.160 far what you guys have been able to accomplish this year. 503 00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:15.240 It's been fun to see the growth and the evolution 504 00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:18.440 of the draw Kings and knowing that you're going to 505 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:20.319 be a difficult team to play because a lot of 506 00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:23.519 times it's going to be one point and you're gonna 507 00:29:23.559 --> 00:29:25.440 have to fight in scratching claw for that against Rhode 508 00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:27.319 Island FC, and you end up getting the duke and 509 00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:29.440 you're going up against the team that you beat the 510 00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:31.720 bricks off of. And I thought it was one of 511 00:29:31.799 --> 00:29:33.839 the turning points of the season where you guys just 512 00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:37.319 went in to lend Family and decided to remind him 513 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:39.160 that you weren't going to be a pushover. Earlier in 514 00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:40.000 the regular season. 515 00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:44.039 Yeah, for sure, that was. It was a turning points. 516 00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:44.400 It was. 517 00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:48.680 It really marked the difference between the first half and 518 00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:51.319 second half of the season for us. And so yeah, 519 00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:54.000 hopefully that gives the guys, you know, confidence going in there, 520 00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:57.720 because I think lou City probably lost twice at home 521 00:29:57.799 --> 00:29:58.319 all season. 522 00:29:58.480 --> 00:30:01.559 I don't know, ye beat the breaks off a loose city, sir. 523 00:30:01.880 --> 00:30:04.200 Yeah, Let's hope it doesn't give them a false sense 524 00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:05.599 of like, oh, we're going to go out there and 525 00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:08.559 put five up on them again, But hopefully it does 526 00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:10.920 give them confidence to go in there and say, hey, yeah, 527 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:11.480 we can do this. 528 00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:12.359 Okay. 529 00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:14.680 So then let me use that as our entry point 530 00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:17.960 when it comes to mentoring and the wide ranging conversations 531 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:23.880 that we always have confidence versus cockiness when it comes 532 00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:29.839 to dealing with mentees. How do you when it comes 533 00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:33.079 to younger athletes specifically, do you find them to be 534 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:38.319 more cocky when it comes to your first conversations and 535 00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:41.119 you have to dial them back into being confident or 536 00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:45.079 are they confident in understanding the balance or do you 537 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:48.200 have to try and find confidence and have them focus 538 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:50.559 on that. Where are most of your mentees these days 539 00:30:50.599 --> 00:30:53.440 when it comes to their own self identification. 540 00:30:54.119 --> 00:30:56.279 When it comes to who they are on the field. 541 00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:59.720 The majority are in the last two buckets. They're either 542 00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:08.680 confident yet very wary of getting too confident, or they're 543 00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:13.440 not confident enough. And I think that, and it's something 544 00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:17.519 I talked to about a lot, is there is a 545 00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:22.440 very very fine line between two cocky and uber confident, 546 00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:24.519 and you need to toe that in order to have 547 00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:31.279 big success in anything, really. And one of the things 548 00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:33.039 that I try and get across is you can be 549 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:36.039 a little bit different on the field than you are 550 00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:39.039 in life and in the locker room, right, you can 551 00:31:39.880 --> 00:31:43.319 be and toe that line, maybe a little bit over 552 00:31:43.559 --> 00:31:45.880 on the side of cocky out on the field, and 553 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:50.160 yet still be a you know, a great human being 554 00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:52.400 off the field and easy to talk to and get 555 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:53.640 along with and all that stuff. 556 00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:55.640 And you know, I. 557 00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:00.799 I didn't toe it as much as I try and 558 00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:06.359 tell mentees, although I was very confident. I mean maybe 559 00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:10.480 I was. Maybe I was actually looking back, quietly confident 560 00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:14.359 and a little bit cocky in myself. But two guys, 561 00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:17.440 two examples of guys that did it better than anyone 562 00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:21.440 else I ever saw or played against, were Clint Dempsey 563 00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:26.799 and Joseph Martinez. Yeah, just unbelievable and really good guys 564 00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:32.759 and yet just so so confident and cocky on the field, 565 00:32:33.400 --> 00:32:39.359 but a good arrogant. So yeah, it's it's definitely something 566 00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:41.839 that we talked to them about a lot, because I 567 00:32:41.880 --> 00:32:45.279 think some of them are too afraid of being confident 568 00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:48.720 and showing up people and and I get that, and 569 00:32:48.799 --> 00:32:53.039 that's a that's typically a good thing, but sometimes you 570 00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:55.000 have to have that killer instinct out in the field 571 00:32:55.200 --> 00:33:00.559 and really take ownership. And so sometimes that can help with. 572 00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:03.599 That because you've got to figure out and I imagine 573 00:33:03.640 --> 00:33:05.799 this obviously comes with agent experience, You've got to figure 574 00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:07.400 out when to turn it off, when to turn it on, 575 00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:11.720 and make sure that that on the field persona doesn't 576 00:33:11.799 --> 00:33:14.319 carry over into the off the field you and I 577 00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:17.079 would think that that's it's a delicate balance to try 578 00:33:17.119 --> 00:33:19.480 to figure out. It's like, Okay, I know that when 579 00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:22.440 I step across that line, I have to be, you know, 580 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:26.599 mister badass extraordinaire. But then remember that once you go 581 00:33:26.799 --> 00:33:29.039 back after a match is over and you're out, you know, 582 00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:31.039 you're out in the parking lot or you're hanging out 583 00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:32.759 at dinner, that person. 584 00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:33.680 Has to be put to the side. 585 00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:36.480 I mean, you have to take these multiple personalities and 586 00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:39.960 understand where to where to turn it off, turn it on, 587 00:33:40.279 --> 00:33:42.799 and then put it in the closet and not have 588 00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:44.759 it be there as that part of your aura the 589 00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:45.480 whole time. 590 00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:49.160 Totally, totally, And that's that's a big challenge for a 591 00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:52.640 lot of people. And that's a big challenge for younger 592 00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:58.200 professionals or you know, high level youth athletes where maybe 593 00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:02.880 they already are confident and do really well in that area, 594 00:34:03.839 --> 00:34:07.039 yet in the locker room or out in just life 595 00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:11.599 in general, they need to understand, like some people just 596 00:34:11.639 --> 00:34:14.159 don't care, right just because you're a great soccer player, 597 00:34:14.440 --> 00:34:17.039 you know, that doesn't mean anything when you're out and 598 00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:20.760 about in life doing other things, like you still have 599 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:23.840 a responsibility to be a good human being, and nobody 600 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:25.679 cares that you can kick a soccer ball really well, 601 00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:27.880 or that you're a gifted sixteen year old or seventeen 602 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:31.840 year old, whatever it is. It doesn't go that far. 603 00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:36.360 So that's that's tough though, because sometimes they get in 604 00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:39.280 this world of like, oh, I'm the man or I'm 605 00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:42.719 the woman, and I'm everybody bowed down to me because 606 00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:45.880 I'm so good, and yet you know, away from the 607 00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:47.039 soccer field, nobody cares. 608 00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:52.800 Then there's that moment where they get that first dose 609 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.519 of reality or the dressing down, or it's a blowout 610 00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:58.360 or however you want to phrase it, and then that 611 00:34:58.519 --> 00:35:02.280 confidence gets shaken in that moment. It's like, well, I 612 00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:04.960 you know, I guess I'm not who I thought I was, 613 00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:07.599 or I'm not to that level or to that extent 614 00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:09.199 of an individual who I thought I was. 615 00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:12.280 How do you help navigate them to remind them? Look, 616 00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:13.320 that's just a one off. 617 00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:18.559 Don't let that you know, dwell, understand what happened, learn 618 00:35:18.639 --> 00:35:21.159 from it, move on and get to the next step. 619 00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:24.840 Don't let that weigh you down to take away from 620 00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:26.360 who you are and who you want to be. 621 00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:31.480 Yeah, for sure, And that's that's tough. And before I 622 00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:35.000 talk about that, it's it's one of the main reasons 623 00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:38.199 why throughout my career you could see a huge difference 624 00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:40.400 between somebody that went to college and somebody that didn't, 625 00:35:41.719 --> 00:35:45.000 because you get that dose of humility when you step 626 00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:48.719 on a campus and you play with guys, especially nowadays 627 00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:52.800 where players don't play high school soccer and a lot 628 00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:55.320 of them anyways, I know, some still do, but a 629 00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:58.719 lot of them don't, and so they're always playing with 630 00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:02.480 kids their own age or maybe a year older. But 631 00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:06.440 if you then step into an arena where you're playing 632 00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:09.000 with players that are four years old or five years 633 00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:13.880 older than you, things change. And those guys don't care 634 00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:17.199 if you're on a full ride or you know you're 635 00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:20.559 coming from an MLS academy. They don't, right, They know 636 00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:22.599 that they probably aren't going to turn pro, but they 637 00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:25.840 want to enjoy the heck out of their college career. So, yes, 638 00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:28.719 you're a teammate, but yes you're also a competition, and yeah, 639 00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:30.880 I'm going to show you your place because you're so 640 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:33.800 much younger than me. And in a good way. That 641 00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:39.559 builds humility and you know, it builds like responsibility within players, 642 00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:43.440 and you could see it in a professional locker room. 643 00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:45.840 You could see the guys that went to college, even 644 00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:48.800 if it was for a year, so it was it's 645 00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:51.679 part of the growth. And that's exactly how they have 646 00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:54.320 to view it when you do get a dose of 647 00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:57.840 reality that this is just part of growth and it's 648 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:02.559 necessary and in the long run, good for you. But yes, 649 00:37:02.679 --> 00:37:06.440 in the short run, take it in and try and 650 00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:10.039 see it from their perspective. Use what you can from it. 651 00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:13.480 But yes, of course that doesn't change anything about how 652 00:37:13.639 --> 00:37:15.559 you are as a soccer player out in the field, 653 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:18.960 so hopefully it doesn't. It doesn't hurt confidence, that's not 654 00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:21.079 the purpose of it. It's more just growth as a 655 00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:22.719 player in person. 656 00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:25.960 So when did you get that first wake up call 657 00:37:26.079 --> 00:37:29.079 on a college campus when you first wandered into the door. 658 00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:31.039 Yeah, it was. 659 00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:36.960 It was a little bit different for me and a 660 00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:39.639 lot of players my generation because we all played high 661 00:37:39.639 --> 00:37:42.719 school soccer. So you got that in high school where 662 00:37:43.159 --> 00:37:46.800 all of a sudden, you're a ninth grader and you're 663 00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:50.320 playing with eighteen year olds who are at the time, 664 00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:52.840 you're thinking like, holy shoot, that guy's a man, right, 665 00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:55.760 Like these guys are big, they're strong, or I'm like, 666 00:37:56.159 --> 00:38:02.119 I'm like ninety five pounds and not mature at all 667 00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:07.679 yet physically, And yes, that was I got it in 668 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:10.039 high school a little bit, but for sure you get 669 00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:14.840 it in college too, because yeah, I was recruited obviously 670 00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:18.880 in expect I had expectations when I showed up at 671 00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:23.960 wake but at the same time, you could tell like 672 00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:27.559 these guys were like, you better rise up to those 673 00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:33.039 expectations like we're depending on you type thing in that situation, 674 00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:36.199 so I got a lot of support from the team. 675 00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:39.760 I also kind of fell into a good situation where 676 00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:42.320 a couple of players got kicked off the team for 677 00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:47.039 issues right before I arrived, and there were both defenders, 678 00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:51.960 so I kind of worked in my favor. But so, 679 00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:54.320 but I definitely went through that in high school a 680 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:55.639 little bit more than college. 681 00:38:56.320 --> 00:38:59.519 And that obviously set you up because when you're a 682 00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:02.760 ninth grade or here in some states you could be 683 00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:05.239 an eighth grader because middle school didn't exist, and you 684 00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:07.639 get to see somebody who's a full head taller than you, 685 00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:10.760 might outweigh you by thirty or forty pounds, and those 686 00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:13.760 get to be those first challenges of Okay, he's a 687 00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:16.519 lot bigger than I am. How do I attack this 688 00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:21.000 and how do I reinforce my own skill set in 689 00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:23.760 these kinds of things. So, you know, I definitely can 690 00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:26.760 see the idea of Okay, I had that in high school. 691 00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:29.280 I can take that experience and apply it now that 692 00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:31.400 I'm having to go through it all over again from 693 00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:33.800 freshman and seniors in college. 694 00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:38.360 Yeah, and that's John's sorry interpreted that that's part of 695 00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:41.239 the growth and the challenge of Okay, maybe you're not 696 00:39:41.480 --> 00:39:44.400 a freshman or whatever, maybe you're a new player to 697 00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:48.519 a team, But how do you find your place within 698 00:39:48.599 --> 00:39:52.440 the team, understand the dynamics of a team, and yet 699 00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:55.639 still play with that cockiness arrogance of like, yeah, I'm 700 00:39:55.679 --> 00:39:59.639 a baller, right, That's that's sometimes the challenge, right, because 701 00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:02.960 there are players that, especially if they're old school players, 702 00:40:03.039 --> 00:40:06.679 that don't really love that type of player. But if 703 00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:08.480 that's what you need in order to play well, you 704 00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:11.119 don't want to lose that. So how do you play 705 00:40:11.239 --> 00:40:14.519 with it and yet still show respect for your teammates 706 00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:18.239 and especially the older players and find your way within 707 00:40:18.280 --> 00:40:19.440 the locker room or a new team. 708 00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:23.800 How long did it take you to find your way 709 00:40:24.079 --> 00:40:27.480 where it's like, Okay, this is who I am. I 710 00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:29.880 still get to learn from these upper classmen. I get 711 00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:31.719 to add that to my skill set. But how long 712 00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:35.119 did it take you to adjust as that freshman either 713 00:40:35.239 --> 00:40:36.400 high school or college? 714 00:40:36.679 --> 00:40:37.639 And was that different? 715 00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:40.320 You know, was the level of adjustment different in high 716 00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:42.480 school versus college? How long did it take you to 717 00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:47.320 adjust to become a part of the collective? Was it 718 00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:49.559 like a full season, you think just it's under to 719 00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:53.960 understand the dynamic that was in play a little. 720 00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:57.079 Bit less for me because I played, And I think 721 00:40:57.119 --> 00:40:59.119 that if you're a freshman that doesn't play a lot, 722 00:40:59.239 --> 00:41:04.360 it probably takes a whole year just to feel confident 723 00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:08.039 around the entire group and sure of yourself and on 724 00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:11.159 and off the field. It can be tough because I 725 00:41:11.320 --> 00:41:15.159 was playing every game and a lot, like you get 726 00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:17.039 a little bit closer and guys depend on you a 727 00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:19.519 little bit. But even in that sense, like as a 728 00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:23.800 center back, I didn't feel uber confident telling a twenty 729 00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:25.920 two year old what to do when I was eighteen, 730 00:41:26.840 --> 00:41:29.400 you know, as a college freshman, and even though I'm 731 00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:31.320 playing center back in the middle of a three and 732 00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:34.280 should be the guy that's, you know, organizing most of 733 00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:36.960 the team, like it was, it's a weird dynamic and 734 00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:39.719 it takes a lot of confidence to think like, okay, 735 00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:42.800 age doesn't matter here, it's it's I'm trying to help 736 00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:44.480 the team win. But even in that regard, it took 737 00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:45.519 me a little bit of time. 738 00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:45.760 For sure. 739 00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:49.760 But then there's the senior who is, you know, either 740 00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:52.920 four or five years older than you, and they have 741 00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:56.360 to put their pride or whatever word you want to 742 00:41:56.440 --> 00:41:59.599 use a side because there's someone who's a lot younger 743 00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:02.159 behind trying to tell them what's going on. It has 744 00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:04.000 to be on that older person. They've got to be 745 00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:08.320 willing to listen and understand that you're not just being 746 00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:10.960 that eighteen year old you know, kaky, you know what, 747 00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:13.519 trying to tell you know, a twenty two year old 748 00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:16.159 look do this. No, it's like, look, do this and 749 00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:18.800 we'll all be fine. That's that's got it, that two 750 00:42:18.880 --> 00:42:20.840 way streak coming from the older player back to the 751 00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:23.320 younger player. That's got to be an adjustment too, you 752 00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:24.480 know for sure. 753 00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:30.320 And there's no doubt about it that you can have 754 00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:35.239 this attitude out in the field or arrogance or ability 755 00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:38.960 to talk to older players and they will be more 756 00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:41.280 receptive of it based off of who you are in 757 00:42:41.360 --> 00:42:43.960 the locker room, what you do off the field, right, 758 00:42:44.079 --> 00:42:46.519 do you do things the right way? Do you respect people? 759 00:42:46.760 --> 00:42:48.800 Like all that stuff, And that's why that's so important 760 00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:51.679 because that way when you get on the field and like, 761 00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:53.440 if a younger player is telling me what to do, 762 00:42:53.719 --> 00:42:55.400 if I know what's coming from a good place, that's 763 00:42:55.400 --> 00:42:57.320 helped the team win. And this guy's not just being 764 00:42:57.320 --> 00:42:59.760 an a hole and thinks he knows better than me 765 00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:02.400 or whatever. It is, right, because I know and I 766 00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:05.320 see on a daily basis what he's doing to prepare himself, 767 00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:07.320 that he takes the game seriously and all that stuff. 768 00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:10.000 But if he's a last guy in the locker room, 769 00:43:10.079 --> 00:43:12.800 first guy out, barely does anything in the gym and 770 00:43:12.840 --> 00:43:14.039 all that stuff, and then you're gonna come on the 771 00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:16.400 field and tell me what to do. That's not gonna work. 772 00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:21.960 How much reorienting do you have to do for men 773 00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:25.760 tees and dress them down and set them, set them 774 00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:29.079 straight about their their attitudes? Are they are those more 775 00:43:29.159 --> 00:43:30.559 outliers in a bell curve? 776 00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:32.440 How is that for you? 777 00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:35.280 When it comes to talking to those men tees? It's 778 00:43:35.320 --> 00:43:36.719 like how many how many times have you had to 779 00:43:36.760 --> 00:43:39.679 sit there and really reel somebody in and give them 780 00:43:39.719 --> 00:43:42.039 the the you know, the the dunk of the cold 781 00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:43.880 water glass over the top of the head and go 782 00:43:44.039 --> 00:43:44.960 now it's not gonna work. 783 00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:47.119 Yeah, those are outliers. 784 00:43:47.199 --> 00:43:47.960 But it occurs. 785 00:43:48.159 --> 00:43:52.039 And you know, every team has has a player or 786 00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:56.119 too probably that could use it. Some players some teams 787 00:43:56.159 --> 00:44:01.360 have more uh and and sometimes it's the parents that 788 00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:05.880 just can't get through to them, or sometimes it's egged 789 00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:10.400 on by the parents honestly. Uh and and again it's 790 00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:16.159 it's that balance of like not killing confidence, but understanding 791 00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:20.320 how important it is who you are as a human 792 00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:23.039 being and what your actions are off the field and 793 00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:27.159 how they show people who you are. Like I make 794 00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:29.719 these videos and I talk about these things all the time, 795 00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:33.639 Like you see, for example, Hector Herrera spit at the 796 00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:38.119 feet of a referee. You know, it's it's attitudes things, 797 00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:41.880 and you know, we see it at the highest highest level, 798 00:44:41.960 --> 00:44:43.119 So of course we're going to see it at the 799 00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:45.639 youth level. But if that's a high school kid that 800 00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:49.599 does it in a game, any scout that's watching is 801 00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:54.159 a permanent X. A permanent X, there's no chance you 802 00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:57.599 get recruited, right, And so it's yes, these who you 803 00:44:57.800 --> 00:45:00.360 are and how you carry yourself and your actions and 804 00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:03.320 reactions and how you communicate with guys on the field. 805 00:45:04.159 --> 00:45:09.800 It's noticed. It is absolutely noticed, and it will overshadow 806 00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:11.119 anything you. 807 00:45:11.199 --> 00:45:12.039 Do with the ball. 808 00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:15.000 You'd have to be the best player in the country 809 00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:16.960 if you're going to be in a hole and still 810 00:45:18.440 --> 00:45:20.480 go to a college or get drafted to a team 811 00:45:20.559 --> 00:45:24.079 because honestly, for most organizations, it's not worth it. It's 812 00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:25.239 not worth the headache. 813 00:45:26.079 --> 00:45:28.519 Michael Parkers Beyond Goals Mentoring, hanging out with us on 814 00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:31.280 the Friday free kick before maybe a round of golf, 815 00:45:31.880 --> 00:45:34.800 maybe going back into the bunker to look at tape 816 00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:36.880 for Rhode Island FC as they get ready for a 817 00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:39.079 trip to lu City this weekend in the Eastern Conference 818 00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:41.400 Semifinals gets to hang out with us every once in 819 00:45:41.440 --> 00:45:44.199 a while and ask and gets questions asked about mentoring 820 00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:46.360 and mentees with all the work that he and Greg 821 00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:48.800 Garza do at Beyond Goals Mentoring at BG Mentoring on 822 00:45:48.840 --> 00:45:50.519 the two hundred and eighty character app, and he is 823 00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:52.360 at m F Parkers on the two hundred and eighty 824 00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:52.960 character app. 825 00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:55.000 When it comes to. 826 00:45:56.840 --> 00:46:01.840 Dressing somebody down and you mentioned parents, how much of 827 00:46:02.199 --> 00:46:04.960 an issue I'm not going to say problem. How much 828 00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:09.719 of an issue are parents these days in steering their 829 00:46:10.199 --> 00:46:13.599 student athletes in one direction before you get to try 830 00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:16.880 and over correct them and make sure that the parents 831 00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:19.440 understand that there's something larger at play here. How much 832 00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:23.119 intervention I guess maybe how much over correcting or how 833 00:46:23.199 --> 00:46:25.199 much correcting have you had to do when it comes 834 00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:26.400 to your mentees. 835 00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:29.960 A little bit here and there. It's a fine line, 836 00:46:30.039 --> 00:46:35.159 of course, right, parents are doing their best and they want. 837 00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:38.440 Them, But then there are sometimes where parents turn into 838 00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:42.639 like the dad who was the manager of the Yankees 839 00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:45.079 and Bad News Bears, the Vic Morrow character, where you 840 00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:47.920 get that kind of a stereotype. I mean, so they're 841 00:46:48.039 --> 00:46:49.960 out there, but I would imagine, as you said, that 842 00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:54.280 they're the edges of the bell curve. And thankfully they're 843 00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:57.880 not more closer to the middle of that bell curve 844 00:46:57.960 --> 00:46:58.760 in these situations. 845 00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:02.039 Yeah, one of the most important things that parents of 846 00:47:02.159 --> 00:47:08.239 youth athletes need to understand is they can affect the 847 00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:13.480 child's ability to make a team or a school or something. 848 00:47:14.639 --> 00:47:16.760 And I don't know if I've told you on the 849 00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:20.280 show before or not, but we were we recruited, not recruited. 850 00:47:20.360 --> 00:47:23.960 We went and saw a player for Rhode Island FC, 851 00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:29.719 a young teenager and play, and we decided not to 852 00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:33.280 pursue him because we could see that the dad was 853 00:47:33.320 --> 00:47:36.360 going to be a real pain in the you know what, 854 00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:40.960 and this is not worth it. And so if we're 855 00:47:41.039 --> 00:47:44.199 saying that, there's no doubt about it that college coaches 856 00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:46.679 are saying it too. They don't want to deal with 857 00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:49.920 a parent that's going to helicopter, going to call every week, right, 858 00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:53.079 going to be on the sidelines, go nuts. It can 859 00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:57.119 affect your athlete's chances here and there, And I think 860 00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:00.239 that's important for them to understand because they have the 861 00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:04.360 best for their children, but sometimes they're unable to control 862 00:48:04.440 --> 00:48:06.199 themselves or see the bigger picture. 863 00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:09.199 Pressure in a deadline situation. 864 00:48:11.039 --> 00:48:14.800 Uh, there's a team that you played for that they 865 00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:19.719 are in a winter go home situation, and it's not 866 00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:21.440 the first time in a row that they're in a 867 00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:27.960 winter go home situation in recent history. They win last day, 868 00:48:28.119 --> 00:48:30.480 the last match of the opening of the regular season, 869 00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:35.199 they win the eight to nine to advance, and right 870 00:48:35.360 --> 00:48:39.119 now they are a win away from knocking off the 871 00:48:39.239 --> 00:48:41.360 number one seed in the Eastern Conference. 872 00:48:43.880 --> 00:48:44.079 Is it? 873 00:48:44.280 --> 00:48:48.639 How when you're in a situation like this where everyone's 874 00:48:48.719 --> 00:48:53.119 kicking dirt on you and you keep proving everybody wrong. 875 00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:55.559 You prove them wrong, you prove them wrong. Everything's coming 876 00:48:55.599 --> 00:48:58.280 together and you are you're at the you're at the table, 877 00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:01.280 and you're you're running sevens elevens. I mean, you are 878 00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:05.639 just rolling everything and everything's great. How do you in 879 00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:11.000 a in a situation like this balance the idea of 880 00:49:11.239 --> 00:49:15.000 good pressure and is there any bad pressure at this 881 00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:18.519 point considering what's at stake? I mean, how do you 882 00:49:18.679 --> 00:49:22.400 how do you balance those notions of pressure in a 883 00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:25.159 situation where it seems to be the pressure might have 884 00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:27.840 flipped to the favorite now because of what you've been 885 00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:29.559 able to do? How do you handle pressure in a 886 00:49:29.599 --> 00:49:30.960 situation like this where it's win. 887 00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:31.280 Or go home. 888 00:49:32.599 --> 00:49:34.800 Yeah, You're gonna feel pressure, no doubt about it. It's 889 00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:39.079 a playoff game, it's a big one, so you're going 890 00:49:39.199 --> 00:49:42.840 to feel pressure. But that's okay. Uh pressure, I talk 891 00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:45.760 about it all the times, okay, And it can be 892 00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:47.840 perceived as a good thing. And then for at Lanti 893 00:49:47.880 --> 00:49:53.559 United situation, absolutely it's a good thing because Miami face 894 00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:57.360 much more pressure than at Lanni United in this game. 895 00:49:57.920 --> 00:49:58.480 I think. 896 00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:03.639 At Miami's fragile right now. I think they are, and 897 00:50:03.800 --> 00:50:05.199 you can see that they get frustrated. 898 00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:06.599 They you know, sowar as. 899 00:50:06.639 --> 00:50:10.880 This body language is brutal sometimes and I really think 900 00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:14.239 if they can get to halftime zero zero or even 901 00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:19.960 wherever it might be, Miami or fragile like, they will 902 00:50:19.960 --> 00:50:21.599 be on top of each other in the locker room. 903 00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:24.719 They'll be starting to freak out and things open up, 904 00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:27.639 and you know, Atlanta have shown that they can score 905 00:50:27.679 --> 00:50:31.519 against Miami. That's not a problem, So you know, I'd 906 00:50:31.599 --> 00:50:34.519 look at it. It's such such an awesome opportunity to 907 00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:40.039 knock out the clear favorites of MLS Cup and you 908 00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:42.519 know you're playing with house money. No one expected there 909 00:50:42.559 --> 00:50:45.760 to even be a game. Three MLS brass is probably 910 00:50:45.800 --> 00:50:49.360 over there pooping themselves thinking, holy smokes. The only reason 911 00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:53.079 why they're not actually is because it's Atlanta and at 912 00:50:53.079 --> 00:50:56.119 Atlanta goes through, like I guess they wouldn't have a home. 913 00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:57.480 Game likely, but they're done. 914 00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:03.559 Yeah, so yeah they're themselves. And so I would take 915 00:51:03.679 --> 00:51:07.920 that and really embrace it. Yeah, of course you're gonna 916 00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:12.159 feel some pressure, but I mean, no one expected it. 917 00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:14.119 So you're really playing with house money here. 918 00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:18.880 When what's that feeling like in a locker room where? 919 00:51:19.800 --> 00:51:21.400 And like I said, you can go back as far 920 00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:23.599 as high school and college or pros or if there 921 00:51:23.679 --> 00:51:27.440 was any example for you when you're in a situation 922 00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:31.639 like this and it is a house money situation, do 923 00:51:31.880 --> 00:51:35.639 you I mean you're playing freer. I would imagine but 924 00:51:35.800 --> 00:51:38.440 how much freer are you playing knowing that you can't 925 00:51:38.519 --> 00:51:39.679 just kind of yolo. 926 00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:41.199 Everything and go out there. 927 00:51:41.480 --> 00:51:45.159 But obviously the you're sitting there and you're stared at 928 00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:47.800 the other guy in a staring contest, and you're going, okay, yeah, 929 00:51:47.840 --> 00:51:50.400 all right, I'm ready. You know, what's that kind of 930 00:51:50.559 --> 00:51:52.760 confidence like in a situation like that? 931 00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:55.840 Yeah, I think the best example for me person is 932 00:51:55.880 --> 00:52:00.039 probably like Champions League games, right, where you're playing in 933 00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:03.400 Champions League. So there's pressure, right, you want to perform well, 934 00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:05.880 you don't want to get embarrassed, you want to show well. 935 00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:10.840 But we are a minuscule team compared to playing against Chelsea, 936 00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:14.280 Juventus and Shack Tar, right, no one expects us to 937 00:52:14.880 --> 00:52:17.840 come even close in these games. Right, So you're kind 938 00:52:17.880 --> 00:52:20.360 of out there like, hey, let's show them what we got. 939 00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:23.599 Let's shock the world here, and let's give a good performance. 940 00:52:23.639 --> 00:52:25.679 And if we lose, like hey, let's at least feel 941 00:52:25.719 --> 00:52:28.039 proud about like what we go out there and show. 942 00:52:29.320 --> 00:52:32.880 And so you're still going to feel pressure because you 943 00:52:33.199 --> 00:52:39.000 understand that you know you can do something crazy, and yeah, 944 00:52:39.079 --> 00:52:40.639 you don't want to lose and you don't want your 945 00:52:40.679 --> 00:52:42.440 season to be over. So there's going to be pressure. 946 00:52:43.039 --> 00:52:49.679 But I think that in this situation, the the possibilities 947 00:52:49.880 --> 00:52:54.960 and the dream I think overshadow the the pressure and 948 00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:57.679 the nervousness come kick off where I think it's the 949 00:52:57.760 --> 00:53:01.599 opposite for Miami. I mean outside of the stars. 950 00:53:02.440 --> 00:53:05.639 And especially the young kids in that situation who are 951 00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:09.199 on that roster, surrounded by the gulf stream galacticos, and 952 00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:12.599 it's just like, you know, you don't want to let 953 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:16.559 the big names down, but there's that pressure, that internal 954 00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:19.480 pressure of okay, you know, I'm kind of like almost 955 00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:21.920 on eggshells here because I don't want to mess up. 956 00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:25.920 But I have this I have this thought pattern those 957 00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:30.079 younger players might be really tight, and you have those 958 00:53:30.119 --> 00:53:32.119 that have been there before and the ones that are 959 00:53:32.159 --> 00:53:34.840 really tight, and there doesn't there probably isn't some kind 960 00:53:34.840 --> 00:53:37.519 of an in between, and it's gonna make for an 961 00:53:37.639 --> 00:53:41.360 it makes for an interesting, uh staring contest for those 962 00:53:41.440 --> 00:53:43.719 younger players that you're going to be playing against. 963 00:53:43.840 --> 00:53:46.400 Totally, and that's why I'm surprised, honestly that Gresslow hasn't 964 00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:49.960 played much for Miami. I mean, I'm surprised I brought 965 00:53:50.039 --> 00:53:53.639 in the Kumashki player. You know, he's a good young player, 966 00:53:53.719 --> 00:53:55.639 but he makes a mistake that leads to Atlanta's goal. 967 00:53:56.599 --> 00:53:58.760 You know, they're late in the game trying to take 968 00:53:58.800 --> 00:54:01.480 that ball down, and you don't think he's going to 969 00:54:01.480 --> 00:54:03.199 be a little tense here going into game three. 970 00:54:03.320 --> 00:54:03.440 Right. 971 00:54:03.639 --> 00:54:06.199 That's to be on the back line or to be 972 00:54:06.239 --> 00:54:08.679 a midfielder and not be one of the big guys 973 00:54:08.760 --> 00:54:13.079 on the team. It's very difficult, right, because you're expected 974 00:54:13.119 --> 00:54:15.079 to be perfect and if you're not and you end 975 00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:19.400 the season, you end messy season, right, You're going to 976 00:54:19.480 --> 00:54:22.360 feel brutal. Right, So you're like, man, I don't want 977 00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:24.599 to make a single mistake and that's a really tough 978 00:54:24.679 --> 00:54:26.920 way to play. So if I would land on land 979 00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:28.800 anytime I got a one on one, like, I'm just 980 00:54:28.920 --> 00:54:31.480 going after these guys because you know, just put them 981 00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:32.079 under pressure. 982 00:54:33.159 --> 00:54:35.719 And then what's it like to see a bald polar 983 00:54:35.760 --> 00:54:38.440 bear at the age of forty where life begins and 984 00:54:38.599 --> 00:54:40.480 you're a man? According to Mike Gundy, what's it been 985 00:54:40.559 --> 00:54:42.280 like for you to see Brad come through all of 986 00:54:42.360 --> 00:54:44.239 this and just be out of his mind to time? 987 00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:46.320 Yeah, I send him a text after game one and 988 00:54:46.360 --> 00:54:49.039 I'm like, dude, stop acting like you're tired, You're a 989 00:54:49.119 --> 00:54:58.360 sicking goalkeeper, Like come on. So he responded and said 990 00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:01.360 he was dead tired, and then like, come on, man. 991 00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:04.519 I'm sure that you've used other words other than yeah, 992 00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:05.079 come on now. 993 00:55:05.440 --> 00:55:12.400 Yeah, yeah, it's it's crazy. I mean, I can't imagine 994 00:55:12.440 --> 00:55:14.360 how my body would feel if I was still playing. So, 995 00:55:15.400 --> 00:55:17.599 I mean, I know he's a goalkeeper, but you know, 996 00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:20.719 even what he does, you know, at the end of 997 00:55:20.760 --> 00:55:26.599 the season, and to have those performances, yeah, that's that's 998 00:55:26.639 --> 00:55:28.679 a lot. And to know, like, hey, you're kind of 999 00:55:28.719 --> 00:55:31.440 on the brink, right, I know he wants to play 1000 00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:35.320 again next year, but there's no contract there, I don't think, so, 1001 00:55:36.039 --> 00:55:37.880 I don't know. It's a little iffy. And to do that, 1002 00:55:38.159 --> 00:55:40.480 like that's a little bit of pressure, right, same thing 1003 00:55:40.519 --> 00:55:42.559 with Dax, right, you don't want your career to end here. 1004 00:55:43.079 --> 00:55:45.960 And so yeah, I'm happy for him. He's putting in 1005 00:55:46.039 --> 00:55:46.880 some good performances. 1006 00:55:47.159 --> 00:55:49.679 Well, he told he did tell Saba. Saba's got a 1007 00:55:49.679 --> 00:55:51.519 bet with him that if they win MLS Cup he's 1008 00:55:51.559 --> 00:55:53.840 coming back. So and that bet still is in play. 1009 00:55:54.199 --> 00:55:56.559 So so you got to talk to Saba and Dax 1010 00:55:56.559 --> 00:55:58.440 about that one. What's going on with you and beyond 1011 00:55:58.519 --> 00:55:59.360 goals and Greg. 1012 00:56:02.559 --> 00:56:05.719 What is going on? Just doing a lot of videos. 1013 00:56:05.880 --> 00:56:10.719 We definitely are on the hunt now for the right 1014 00:56:10.840 --> 00:56:16.480 fit to add to our team in a former female, 1015 00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:23.320 well current female female. I meant former college athlete. So yeah, 1016 00:56:23.400 --> 00:56:25.760 we'll see. We want to expand and bring a female 1017 00:56:25.800 --> 00:56:28.400 on and that's a that's a high priority between now 1018 00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:28.960 and jen One. 1019 00:56:29.719 --> 00:56:32.400 Very very cool as always, Cap It's great to see you. 1020 00:56:33.079 --> 00:56:34.960 What are the planes this weekend that you're not able 1021 00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:36.960 to go to Louisville? You're playing golf? You want to 1022 00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:37.719 you want to scramble? 1023 00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:37.880 What? 1024 00:56:38.599 --> 00:56:44.039 No, John, it's not that exciting poorly timed triple date 1025 00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:48.519 that's been in the works for a while and going 1026 00:56:48.559 --> 00:56:51.239 to a comedy show and staying at a hotel and 1027 00:56:51.800 --> 00:56:54.519 so it'll be fun, no doubt about it. Just just 1028 00:56:54.599 --> 00:56:55.159 poor timing. 1029 00:56:55.480 --> 00:56:58.239 Can you shift the comedy show to UH to Louisville, 1030 00:56:58.320 --> 00:56:59.760 make it make a weekend out of it with the 1031 00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:02.239 trip date? Have just get everybody in like a like 1032 00:57:02.360 --> 00:57:05.239 a like an uber or like a jeep wagonear or 1033 00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:07.440 something and take everybody to hey field trip, We're gonna 1034 00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:07.719 go here. 1035 00:57:08.199 --> 00:57:10.239 Well, I don't know if the comedian is gonna find 1036 00:57:10.280 --> 00:57:11.960 it too funny if I'm watching the game on my 1037 00:57:12.880 --> 00:57:15.159 phone as he's up there performing, he or she. 1038 00:57:15.679 --> 00:57:18.199 Hey, well, I mean you get the comedian to sit there, 1039 00:57:18.239 --> 00:57:20.320 and you could be a fodder for the comedian. 1040 00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:24.039 I'm busy, I'm an owner here, and then you can 1041 00:57:24.119 --> 00:57:27.559 get into the discussion with the comedian. As always, my friend. 1042 00:57:27.599 --> 00:57:29.079 Great to see you, great to catch up with you, 1043 00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:31.239 Great to find out what's going on with Beyond Goals minnering, 1044 00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:33.760 and always fantastic to pick your brain about these situations 1045 00:57:33.800 --> 00:57:35.960 and how you and Greg and everybody are impacting folks. 1046 00:57:36.840 --> 00:57:39.519 Enjoy your triple date, and I know that you're gonna 1047 00:57:39.559 --> 00:57:40.920 have a I know that you're gonna ask for a 1048 00:57:41.000 --> 00:57:41.719 table in the back of. 1049 00:57:41.719 --> 00:57:43.159 The room so you can sit there and watch what's 1050 00:57:43.159 --> 00:57:46.039 going on with Lucy, no doubt about it. All right, 1051 00:57:46.119 --> 00:57:48.039 be good, friend, Yeah, all right, be good. 1052 00:57:48.760 --> 00:57:53.239 That's Michael Parkers, everybody, and so Cap is on a roll, 1053 00:57:54.639 --> 00:57:58.360 Rhode Island, f C, Atlanta United, all the points, all 1054 00:57:58.440 --> 00:58:01.119 the points. So he's a very busy time and it's 1055 00:58:01.119 --> 00:58:02.719 always great to catch up with our friends at Beyond 1056 00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:04.840 Goals mentoring and find out what's going on. Okay, So 1057 00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:09.119 who's here this morning? Tom Russo is here, Rich Ransom 1058 00:58:09.239 --> 00:58:14.000 is here, Michael Head is here, and for Card is here. 1059 00:58:14.039 --> 00:58:18.360 Good morning, four Card, Morning Jordan, and apparently according to Jordan, 1060 00:58:18.440 --> 00:58:22.920 it looks like Sergei Busquet is out again. Morning Harry 1061 00:58:23.159 --> 00:58:25.840 and morning four Cards. So there we are this morning, 1062 00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:28.079 and it's it's yeah in four Card. It's really cool. 1063 00:58:29.760 --> 00:58:31.440 Four Card says he loves having Cap on the show 1064 00:58:31.480 --> 00:58:34.440 on Fridays. It's great to be able to pick Greg 1065 00:58:34.519 --> 00:58:39.679 Garz's brain, in Michael Parkhurst's brain about how they're impacting 1066 00:58:39.760 --> 00:58:42.960 folks through beyond goals mintoring and to be able to 1067 00:58:43.480 --> 00:58:52.840 share their wisdom and apply it to not just mentoring 1068 00:58:53.199 --> 00:58:56.159 student athletes and that kind of stuff, to the every 1069 00:58:56.239 --> 00:58:59.000 day because these lessons also apply to all of us 1070 00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:03.559 in our data day. So in a way, when they're 1071 00:59:03.599 --> 00:59:07.039 not traveling the planet and bettering humanity as they do, 1072 00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:10.639 it's a chance for us almost to get our own 1073 00:59:10.719 --> 00:59:13.760 mentoring session. And I've always thought that to be very 1074 00:59:13.920 --> 00:59:20.400 very cool to be able to understand where talented professional 1075 00:59:20.440 --> 00:59:22.519 athletes are coming from and how it can apply to 1076 00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:23.559 us in the day to day. 1077 00:59:24.199 --> 00:59:24.519 So that. 1078 00:59:26.039 --> 00:59:30.320 Was that's a thing, a cool thing for me to 1079 00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:33.360 be able to have this kind of pick your brain 1080 00:59:33.599 --> 00:59:36.199 half hour with the two of them and find out 1081 00:59:36.239 --> 00:59:38.800 how things are in professional soccer, and how things are 1082 00:59:38.960 --> 00:59:41.239 with the up and coming student athlete, and how they 1083 00:59:41.280 --> 00:59:44.039 are with not just athletes but young folks, and how 1084 00:59:44.119 --> 00:59:46.039 we can learn from that, and how we can take 1085 00:59:46.079 --> 00:59:52.320 that information and turn it toward others. So in a way, 1086 00:59:52.519 --> 00:59:54.760 it's like I said, it's like our own mentoring session, 1087 00:59:55.360 --> 00:59:57.639 and then we can take the information and spread it 1088 00:59:57.679 --> 00:59:59.400 to others and we can continue to just you know, 1089 01:00:00.199 --> 01:00:03.480 touch others with what Michael and Greg get to teach 1090 01:00:03.599 --> 01:00:05.840 us on Fridays at nine thirty. So it's always cool 1091 01:00:05.880 --> 01:00:09.519 to have the Friday free kick and see what's going 1092 01:00:09.559 --> 01:00:12.440 on there. Okay, So yeah, Jordan good vibes on a 1093 01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:15.840 five strip Friday with Parky and you know four card. 1094 01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:16.039 Oh. 1095 01:00:16.039 --> 01:00:18.559 I actually get to see the emojis now, Okay, So 1096 01:00:18.679 --> 01:00:21.119 because there were times where with the old software you 1097 01:00:21.119 --> 01:00:23.400 couldn't see the emojis when they're when they're popping up. 1098 01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:26.079 But now apparently you can see the emojis as they go. 1099 01:00:27.119 --> 01:00:31.079 All right, So we've got all of the stuff to preview, 1100 01:00:31.880 --> 01:00:34.119 We've got juice boxes to look at. We've got the 1101 01:00:34.199 --> 01:00:37.760 officials to look at in this weekend, and so what 1102 01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:41.639 we'll do now we'll go over the assignments for the weekend, 1103 01:00:41.719 --> 01:00:44.440 the match day three assignments courtesy of our friends at 1104 01:00:44.480 --> 01:00:47.800 PRO and you can go to Pro Referees dot com 1105 01:00:47.880 --> 01:00:49.679 and you can see them. But here's the rundown of 1106 01:00:49.760 --> 01:00:55.480 who's doing what this weekend. For tonight LAFC and Vancouver 1107 01:00:55.599 --> 01:00:58.280 at BEMO ten forty start. Joe Dickerson is the man 1108 01:00:58.360 --> 01:01:06.039 in the middle, reserving comment. Jeremy Keiso is your AR one, 1109 01:01:06.199 --> 01:01:09.400 Kylie Smith your AR two. Your fourth is Armando via Real. 1110 01:01:09.559 --> 01:01:12.920 Chris Penso is your VA R. T j Z A 1111 01:01:12.960 --> 01:01:16.559 BLOCKI is your A v R. So you have Chris 1112 01:01:16.639 --> 01:01:19.039 Penso at VAR. You have Joe Dickerson in the middle. 1113 01:01:19.079 --> 01:01:26.119 Tonight in Los Angeles, reserving comment tomorrow the three matches tomorrow, 1114 01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:29.880 FC Cincinnati and NYC four o'clocks of four ten at 1115 01:01:29.920 --> 01:01:33.280 t q O. Drew Fishers is in the middle. Logan 1116 01:01:33.360 --> 01:01:36.400 Brown and Michael Barwagon are your ars. Pierre Looke Loosier 1117 01:01:36.639 --> 01:01:41.119 is your fourth. Your VR is Kevin Stott, Tom Supple 1118 01:01:41.239 --> 01:01:44.039 is your A v R. And what you're seeing in 1119 01:01:44.159 --> 01:01:47.119 these situations with var and a v ar. As you're 1120 01:01:47.119 --> 01:01:51.719 seeing these pairings consistent, and I think that that's just 1121 01:01:51.800 --> 01:01:56.320 as important when you have the experienced referees that know 1122 01:01:56.440 --> 01:01:59.679 how to to calm things down and read temperatures of rooms. 1123 01:01:59.719 --> 01:02:02.960 You have the pairings for your var and your av ar, 1124 01:02:03.199 --> 01:02:05.199 they are consistent as well going forward, so you don't 1125 01:02:05.239 --> 01:02:08.079 have a different avar with a var, so you know 1126 01:02:08.199 --> 01:02:10.960 what the conversations are like, you know how someone might 1127 01:02:11.039 --> 01:02:14.079 respond in a situation like that. And something that just 1128 01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:16.280 kind of hit me the other day. Oh, they're having 1129 01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:20.360 consistent lineups in the booths as well, and so it's 1130 01:02:20.440 --> 01:02:21.719 not just one or the other. 1131 01:02:21.920 --> 01:02:23.920 So it's not just random dude, Oh, who do you 1132 01:02:23.960 --> 01:02:24.320 want to have? 1133 01:02:24.519 --> 01:02:26.480 Yeah, it's like, oh, okay, so we'll have that this 1134 01:02:26.639 --> 01:02:30.239 dude paired with center var. So you're having these folks 1135 01:02:30.840 --> 01:02:32.800 line up with each other throughout the season. It just 1136 01:02:33.000 --> 01:02:35.119 literally it was like I was today years old. So 1137 01:02:35.280 --> 01:02:39.719 til you know, til you pay your var and your 1138 01:02:39.760 --> 01:02:43.199 avar throughout most of the season and especially in the postseason. 1139 01:02:43.840 --> 01:02:46.639 I think that's what the kids do. Is til Or 1140 01:02:46.719 --> 01:02:51.280 a purple team, and Charlotte in Middle Florida is mere 1141 01:02:51.320 --> 01:02:53.000 Pek Mitch is the man in the middle at six 1142 01:02:53.079 --> 01:02:57.360 ' ten. Nick Yurannga, Jeffrey Greeson your ar. Sergey Boyco 1143 01:02:57.519 --> 01:03:01.000 is your fourth. Ismael l Fath is your var. Jonathan 1144 01:03:01.079 --> 01:03:06.039 Johnson is your avar. And I think that that is 1145 01:03:06.280 --> 01:03:11.280 just as important in a VAR setting as it is 1146 01:03:12.039 --> 01:03:16.000 a center ref setting, where you have someone with experience 1147 01:03:16.039 --> 01:03:18.519 who knows how to read a room and those kinds 1148 01:03:18.559 --> 01:03:20.320 of things. To have an Ismael l Fath. As much 1149 01:03:20.320 --> 01:03:23.920 as I enjoy having Ismail el Fath and Jayramrufo outside, 1150 01:03:24.639 --> 01:03:26.880 I think it's just as important to have Ismael el 1151 01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:29.440 Fath if you can't be outside and in the middle, 1152 01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:33.840 have him in a VAR position where he knows what 1153 01:03:33.960 --> 01:03:36.159 it's like to be in high pressure situations and things 1154 01:03:36.280 --> 01:03:38.280 like that for an elimination game in an opening round 1155 01:03:38.280 --> 01:03:41.440 of a playoffs. Here then for Messi and Friends in 1156 01:03:41.440 --> 01:03:45.199 Atlanta United in Fort Lauderdale, the erector set Lucas Sapala 1157 01:03:45.360 --> 01:03:49.599 is in the middle. Corey Rockwell Andrew Bigelow. Corey Rockwell 1158 01:03:49.639 --> 01:03:51.760 has been voted in the past year Ar the Year. 1159 01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:56.079 Rockwell and Bigelow your ars. Tory Penso is your fourth. 1160 01:03:56.639 --> 01:04:00.880 Jose Carlos Rivero is your VR, Mike camp Minor is 1161 01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:05.599 your AVAR. So that's where they are in the booth. 1162 01:04:05.880 --> 01:04:09.159 And you've got Lucas z Apala as your center F 1163 01:04:09.320 --> 01:04:13.320 for this match day three. And let me double check 1164 01:04:14.599 --> 01:04:19.599 Michelle Kaufman to see what she has to say, because 1165 01:04:19.880 --> 01:04:25.239 Jordan with what you mentioned involving who is and who isn't. 1166 01:04:26.320 --> 01:04:33.719 So Michelle Kaufman, let's see if she has a break 1167 01:04:33.800 --> 01:04:38.480 down the playoff series. Boosy and Bright status NIMA and 1168 01:04:38.719 --> 01:04:42.079 so it looks like Boosy and Bright were the two 1169 01:04:42.159 --> 01:04:45.239 that were not engaged earlier in the week when it 1170 01:04:45.360 --> 01:04:49.079 came to practice and they were trying to There was 1171 01:04:49.239 --> 01:04:54.760 one day where Bousy and Bright were not available in 1172 01:04:54.840 --> 01:04:58.320 the opening visual session where the media could be on 1173 01:04:58.440 --> 01:05:00.800 the field and they could see all of the early 1174 01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:05.559 rondos and things like that, Boosy and Bright were not around. So, uh, 1175 01:05:05.880 --> 01:05:11.199 you're looking at Lepeers and I'm gonna like I'm scanning 1176 01:05:11.239 --> 01:05:17.639 the article. So uh, with Michelle Kaufman's article quote, other 1177 01:05:17.719 --> 01:05:19.800 Miami players have to step up. Last game, the team 1178 01:05:19.920 --> 01:05:22.599 was missing Busketts due to illness. He's like an assistant 1179 01:05:22.639 --> 01:05:24.840 coach on the field, making smart decisions directing others to 1180 01:05:24.920 --> 01:05:27.559 do the same. His leadership was missing. Busqutt's absence was 1181 01:05:27.559 --> 01:05:30.480 even more noticeable in the second half after Yannick Bright, 1182 01:05:31.519 --> 01:05:34.440 one of the team's most reliable, defensive minded midfielders, left 1183 01:05:34.480 --> 01:05:36.639 the game with a hamstring injury. And this goes back 1184 01:05:36.679 --> 01:05:39.360 to what we were talking about. Neither Buskets nor Bright 1185 01:05:39.519 --> 01:05:42.159 was that the open media training session Wednesday morning, and 1186 01:05:42.199 --> 01:05:45.800 their availability for Saturday's game is unknown whether they play 1187 01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:48.639 or not. Teammates fowed to win at home move on 1188 01:05:48.719 --> 01:05:51.920 to the next round. Fredericka Rodondo quoted beautiful thing about 1189 01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:53.840 soccers that it doesn't matter what happened in the past. 1190 01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:54.920 You have to win in the present. 1191 01:05:55.639 --> 01:05:57.760 Everything we did in the past is for not If 1192 01:05:57.840 --> 01:06:00.159 we don't win this week, I hope Saturday we did 1193 01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:02.000 the first game and are able to win in advance. 1194 01:06:02.840 --> 01:06:05.400 Redondo is asked why Atlanta is such a tough matchup. 1195 01:06:06.199 --> 01:06:08.519 They're always a difficult opponent. They are very tough. We 1196 01:06:08.639 --> 01:06:10.519 have to go at them, and they have a goalkeeper 1197 01:06:10.559 --> 01:06:12.719 who in these past two games has played great between 1198 01:06:12.760 --> 01:06:16.079 the posts. David Martinez said the team remains calm and 1199 01:06:16.159 --> 01:06:20.039 confident heading into the clinching game at home. Rodondo adds 1200 01:06:20.079 --> 01:06:22.000 that the loss of Yanick Bright was a big one. 1201 01:06:23.079 --> 01:06:26.119 Yanick is an extra quote. Janick is an extraordinary player 1202 01:06:26.119 --> 01:06:28.760 who helps us so much defensively. He's a tireless worker 1203 01:06:28.840 --> 01:06:31.119 on the ball, very disciplined. Having him on the field 1204 01:06:31.599 --> 01:06:34.400 next to you makes you better. We would miss him 1205 01:06:35.360 --> 01:06:39.119 if he can't play this weekend. Heading into Saturday's game, 1206 01:06:39.159 --> 01:06:43.440 Intermiami players motivated to live up to expectations, Redondo quoted 1207 01:06:45.719 --> 01:06:48.039 minlest is a very unique league because any team can 1208 01:06:48.079 --> 01:06:51.639 beat any other team. We're seeing that with Atlanta. They 1209 01:06:51.679 --> 01:06:53.639 barely got into the playoffs while we came in as 1210 01:06:53.679 --> 01:06:55.599 the top team. We've been the best all season, and 1211 01:06:55.639 --> 01:06:58.559 they're making this series very complicated for us. I think 1212 01:06:58.599 --> 01:07:00.840 that's a good thing about this league that any team 1213 01:07:00.920 --> 01:07:06.760 can pull off a surprise. So that's the questions are 1214 01:07:07.079 --> 01:07:10.719 boosy and bright. Traditionally I would think that those to 1215 01:07:10.880 --> 01:07:14.320 have a holiday that's boosy and bright. That seems like 1216 01:07:14.400 --> 01:07:18.400 something that's more Christmasy than November the ninth. But we 1217 01:07:18.480 --> 01:07:21.719 will all be down there. Maddie and I will be 1218 01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:24.760 down there, Jason obviously, and Mike will be down there. 1219 01:07:24.840 --> 01:07:30.039 Remember broadcast is on Star ninety four because the Hawks 1220 01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:32.760 are on ninety two nine in the game, So the 1221 01:07:32.840 --> 01:07:35.000 Hawks are on ninety two nine. The game Atlanta United 1222 01:07:35.079 --> 01:07:38.400 with Mike and Jason five Stripes Countdown starts at seven, 1223 01:07:38.519 --> 01:07:39.559 kickoff at eight ten. 1224 01:07:40.239 --> 01:07:41.760 That's going to be on Star ninety four. 1225 01:07:42.920 --> 01:07:45.599 SDH will be down there as a matter of fact, 1226 01:07:46.920 --> 01:07:51.159 flying down tomorrow morning and we'll be down there getting 1227 01:07:51.159 --> 01:07:54.920 in early afternoon and we will be there. You'll just 1228 01:07:55.440 --> 01:07:58.320 set your notifications on social media for me and Maddie 1229 01:07:58.360 --> 01:08:00.719 and Mike and Jason and everybody. You know what's going 1230 01:08:00.760 --> 01:08:03.360 on down there in Fort Lauderdale at the Erector Set, 1231 01:08:03.960 --> 01:08:07.480 So set your notifications on all of our social media platforms. 1232 01:08:07.599 --> 01:08:12.639 SDHILL be down there for the decision, the decider Game three, 1233 01:08:13.519 --> 01:08:18.520 so be ready for all of that tonight. As we mentioned, 1234 01:08:19.680 --> 01:08:26.640 it is LA and Vancouver, and you wonder which LAFC 1235 01:08:26.760 --> 01:08:29.279 team is going to be there at BEMO Obviously it 1236 01:08:29.399 --> 01:08:32.600 is a massive home field advantage for them at Bemo 1237 01:08:32.720 --> 01:08:36.920 Field Remo Stadium, Bemo Stadium because BEMO Field is in 1238 01:08:38.159 --> 01:08:41.359 is in Toronto, Ontario for Toronto FC and they are 1239 01:08:41.439 --> 01:08:49.079 not in the playoffs, so at home this season, LAFC 1240 01:08:50.399 --> 01:08:54.520 at home eleven two and four. The only team that 1241 01:08:54.760 --> 01:08:58.439 was better than them at home in the Western Conference 1242 01:08:58.880 --> 01:09:02.920 lag At thirteen one and three at LAFC eleven two 1243 01:09:02.960 --> 01:09:07.239 and four at BEMO this year away from home, they're 1244 01:09:07.279 --> 01:09:09.479 fairly you know, they're fairly normal. They were eight six 1245 01:09:09.560 --> 01:09:12.239 and three in the regular season away from home. And 1246 01:09:12.920 --> 01:09:16.960 you're looking at a team in Vancouver that's riding in 1247 01:09:17.079 --> 01:09:19.119 is an eight seed, and they're just like, yep, okay, 1248 01:09:19.199 --> 01:09:22.279 we got them three nil at home, and you know, 1249 01:09:22.439 --> 01:09:24.640 we're we're cool. We're gonna go in there, We're gonna 1250 01:09:24.680 --> 01:09:28.239 do our thing and we are going to make life 1251 01:09:28.399 --> 01:09:33.399 trouble for LAFC. You remember Nico Moreno yesterday said that, uh, 1252 01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:37.760 you know, Olivier Gerroux hadn't been all that since he's 1253 01:09:37.760 --> 01:09:41.319 been there at LAFC. So, uh, it will be interesting 1254 01:09:41.399 --> 01:09:44.920 to see what LAFC does. Obviously, you get that push, 1255 01:09:45.039 --> 01:09:48.199 and we all know about that home field push and 1256 01:09:48.399 --> 01:09:50.439 what it's gonna You know, you look at bu Wanga 1257 01:09:50.520 --> 01:09:53.439 and Bogush and all of these weapons that they have 1258 01:09:53.560 --> 01:09:57.159 at LAFC. Hugo lures between the sticks, all of air, 1259 01:09:57.279 --> 01:10:00.439 all of these weapons that they have and and they 1260 01:10:00.520 --> 01:10:04.520 have been fantastic this season, sixty three goals scored. They 1261 01:10:04.520 --> 01:10:08.319 were third in the Western Conference. Actually fourth in the 1262 01:10:08.359 --> 01:10:10.920 Western Conference, so they were fourth, but not by much. 1263 01:10:11.840 --> 01:10:13.760 And it was the two teams at sixty five with 1264 01:10:13.920 --> 01:10:16.640 RSL and Portland, and then you had LAG at sixty 1265 01:10:16.760 --> 01:10:21.439 nine goals. But LAFC at home tremendous in their eleven 1266 01:10:21.520 --> 01:10:24.319 two and four run. You look at the juice boxes 1267 01:10:24.439 --> 01:10:28.159 in this one and no real surprise, you had the two. 1268 01:10:28.960 --> 01:10:32.159 You have the two games on Saturday leading up to 1269 01:10:32.239 --> 01:10:35.000 Atlanta United and Messian Friends, where the I think, I 1270 01:10:35.079 --> 01:10:36.920 think the juwice boxers just got kind of a little 1271 01:10:37.000 --> 01:10:41.680 lazy and oh no they changed things. Okay, so LAFC 1272 01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:46.279 juice boxes minus won sixty seven LAFC to win ninety 1273 01:10:46.319 --> 01:10:49.600 minute draws, A plus three thirty four. Vancouver went outright, 1274 01:10:49.680 --> 01:10:53.199 so a plus four hundred in the composite three ninety nine. 1275 01:10:54.680 --> 01:10:58.159 That's courtesy of our friends at odds Portal and Odds Portal. 1276 01:10:58.840 --> 01:11:00.520 What they do is they have, I have a list 1277 01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:04.119 of fourteen different in this case, they have fourteen different 1278 01:11:04.199 --> 01:11:07.279 juice box purveyors, and they take all the numbers Adam 1279 01:11:07.319 --> 01:11:09.199 together come up with an average and that's where we are. 1280 01:11:10.159 --> 01:11:13.520 So you end up with Vancouver in La. Vancouver basically 1281 01:11:13.600 --> 01:11:16.359 is a plus four hundred. No real surprise that the 1282 01:11:16.479 --> 01:11:22.159 number is like that. You get Ryan White, you get 1283 01:11:22.199 --> 01:11:26.079 to Bryan White from Ryan gauld and Armstrong and taka 1284 01:11:26.159 --> 01:11:30.800 Oka who has been on he has been between the sticks. 1285 01:11:30.840 --> 01:11:33.760 He has been hard to take advantage of at home, 1286 01:11:35.079 --> 01:11:38.199 and so a team that was two games over five 1287 01:11:38.359 --> 01:11:40.840 hundred on the road this year gets to go back 1288 01:11:40.920 --> 01:11:43.600 home and try to take advantage of things Vancouver. 1289 01:11:44.279 --> 01:11:46.399 Honestly, get this. 1290 01:11:47.439 --> 01:11:49.479 Vancouver at home this year was only one game over 1291 01:11:49.560 --> 01:11:52.039 five hundred in the regular season seven six and four. 1292 01:11:52.119 --> 01:11:54.520 How were they on the road? One game under five hundred. 1293 01:11:54.680 --> 01:11:56.560 That's how you end up at thirteen thirteen and eight. 1294 01:11:56.680 --> 01:11:59.600 Literally one game above five hundred at home, one game 1295 01:11:59.640 --> 01:12:03.720 below five hundred on the road. Fairly tight plus three 1296 01:12:03.760 --> 01:12:05.680 in goal difference. They scored fifty two on the year 1297 01:12:06.000 --> 01:12:10.319 in the regular season, so thirty four and fifty two 1298 01:12:10.720 --> 01:12:13.520 is eighteen, so almost a goal and a half average 1299 01:12:14.800 --> 01:12:18.439 on the year. So how do they respond being on 1300 01:12:18.520 --> 01:12:23.319 the road? Sorry I had that reverse. They were better 1301 01:12:23.479 --> 01:12:25.159 at home, I mean they're better on the road. They 1302 01:12:25.159 --> 01:12:27.199 were one game above five hundred on the road. This year, 1303 01:12:27.439 --> 01:12:30.560 I had that flipped. So seven six and four on 1304 01:12:30.680 --> 01:12:34.319 the road, six seven and four at home, so I 1305 01:12:34.399 --> 01:12:37.199 had that flipped. They were better by one match, by 1306 01:12:37.279 --> 01:12:39.119 one win on the road than they were at home. 1307 01:12:39.279 --> 01:12:41.279 So we'll see what happens. But you know, Beny Sartini 1308 01:12:41.359 --> 01:12:45.760 once again, uh, not afraid of anybody, and that one 1309 01:12:45.920 --> 01:12:49.159 eight is going to be tonight. That one to eight 1310 01:12:49.319 --> 01:12:53.800 is tonight. Then the three matches tomorrow, Cincinnati and NYCFC. 1311 01:12:55.079 --> 01:12:57.920 And in this one, you know, mentioning the juice boxes 1312 01:12:58.199 --> 01:13:01.520 and how things are and how things might have been 1313 01:13:01.560 --> 01:13:06.840 a little different. Initially, all week long, you could take 1314 01:13:08.479 --> 01:13:11.840 the Cincinnati favorite number and the Orlando City favorite number 1315 01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:15.359 and double it and you end up with inter Miami's 1316 01:13:15.439 --> 01:13:18.439 number to minus two fifty six. That changed a little bit. 1317 01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:23.319 The margins grew to where it's minus one eighteen and 1318 01:13:23.560 --> 01:13:26.560 one nineteen and inter Miami Messi and friends are now 1319 01:13:26.680 --> 01:13:28.800 to minus two fifty six to win at home. We 1320 01:13:28.920 --> 01:13:30.279 bring in Jared for our number two. 1321 01:13:30.319 --> 01:13:31.039 How are you, my friend? 1322 01:13:31.239 --> 01:13:32.079 I'm okay, how are you? 1323 01:13:33.079 --> 01:13:36.279 It's a it is it is a Friday, and everyone 1324 01:13:36.720 --> 01:13:38.560 is is dialed in as. 1325 01:13:38.439 --> 01:13:42.000 We say, I mean, yeah, we got uh, we got 1326 01:13:42.079 --> 01:13:47.800 two days of game threes coming up. Yeah, the state 1327 01:13:47.840 --> 01:13:50.960 of Louisiana might implode. 1328 01:13:52.239 --> 01:13:54.560 Okay, So for those that haven't heard, go ahead and 1329 01:13:54.640 --> 01:13:56.520 tell that story, because that one's a piece of work. 1330 01:13:56.760 --> 01:14:00.159 Okay. So, a long time ago, in a galaxy are 1331 01:14:00.239 --> 01:14:04.479 far away, Louisiana State universities fighting tigers used to put 1332 01:14:04.560 --> 01:14:11.560 their tiger mascot on the field before games. So the 1333 01:14:11.680 --> 01:14:14.840 legend goes to my understanding is that if the tiger 1334 01:14:15.079 --> 01:14:18.239 roared for every roar, it would be a touchdown for 1335 01:14:18.319 --> 01:14:20.760 them that day. So it was like a good omen Uh. 1336 01:14:21.039 --> 01:14:25.319 This led to them, as my understanding, antagonizing the beasts 1337 01:14:25.600 --> 01:14:28.600 and making it roar more, trying to coax more touchdowns 1338 01:14:28.720 --> 01:14:33.600 out of the damn animal. All this to say, they 1339 01:14:33.680 --> 01:14:36.000 haven't put the tiger on the field in a. 1340 01:14:36.159 --> 01:14:39.560 Long ass time, in a decade, I think, I believe. 1341 01:14:39.680 --> 01:14:42.840 So they have a if you ever go to LSU, 1342 01:14:42.960 --> 01:14:46.039 they have a very lovely enclosure for Mike the Tiger 1343 01:14:47.439 --> 01:14:51.760 that he basically just lives in, just living his best 1344 01:14:51.800 --> 01:14:59.800 life over there. That being said, the Governor of Louisiana, 1345 01:15:00.479 --> 01:15:03.199 who has never met a controversy he does not like, 1346 01:15:04.079 --> 01:15:07.039 has decided to to He wanted the tiger on the 1347 01:15:07.079 --> 01:15:13.319 sideline for Alabama. LSU this week, ls you said, now 1348 01:15:13.920 --> 01:15:18.319 we're good. They said, no, he lives there, he doesn't 1349 01:15:18.359 --> 01:15:21.119 stay on the field. We don't do that anymore. The 1350 01:15:21.239 --> 01:15:24.039 governor said, I want a tiger on the field and 1351 01:15:24.239 --> 01:15:27.960 LSU said no, So he went and ordered a tiger 1352 01:15:28.119 --> 01:15:31.920 from out of state. It's a tiger named Omar from Florida. 1353 01:15:33.520 --> 01:15:38.239 This is just going to end poorly for everybody. Also, 1354 01:15:38.439 --> 01:15:42.399 the person who apparently this tiger has actually like gotten 1355 01:15:42.479 --> 01:15:49.319 out before. The tiger has a record of escaping. They're 1356 01:15:49.439 --> 01:15:51.840 just good, but they're gonna put the damn animal on 1357 01:15:51.960 --> 01:15:58.640 the sideline. And John, if they lose Alabama with a 1358 01:15:58.720 --> 01:16:02.640 fake tiger on the sideadline, they might impeach the governor 1359 01:16:02.680 --> 01:16:05.920 tomorrow morning. Oh my god, like that might be what 1360 01:16:06.039 --> 01:16:09.920 happens Sunday morning. The governor doesn't have a job anymore, yeap, 1361 01:16:10.079 --> 01:16:12.079 because he just decided to yolo it. 1362 01:16:12.479 --> 01:16:14.560 And I just had this vision of the Billy Nunguess 1363 01:16:14.560 --> 01:16:18.560 are sitting there and leading that charge. It is so 1364 01:16:18.800 --> 01:16:23.239 literally what they're doing is they are they have gone 1365 01:16:23.399 --> 01:16:24.119 out of state. 1366 01:16:24.720 --> 01:16:27.039 Yep. And apparently this dude. 1367 01:16:28.319 --> 01:16:35.239 Is like he rents out this tiger, and the governor 1368 01:16:35.520 --> 01:16:38.119 is like, Okay, well I'm going to rent a tiger 1369 01:16:38.920 --> 01:16:41.560 and I'm going to I wonder it's you know, it's 1370 01:16:42.079 --> 01:16:43.000 kind of like renting a car. 1371 01:16:43.279 --> 01:16:44.920 Literally, it's like you call the dude up. 1372 01:16:45.199 --> 01:16:47.600 It's not quite tiger King, but it's also not not 1373 01:16:47.800 --> 01:16:48.640 quite tiger King. 1374 01:16:49.159 --> 01:16:54.960 Yeah, and literally the this tiger has escaped twice from 1375 01:16:55.039 --> 01:16:57.159 his handler and his real estate. 1376 01:16:57.520 --> 01:16:59.760 Yeah, so you have this. 1377 01:17:00.920 --> 01:17:05.560 This doesn't really bode well at all with this animal 1378 01:17:05.680 --> 01:17:11.279 feline history of escape at a night game in Baton 1379 01:17:11.399 --> 01:17:13.640 Rouge involving Alabama. 1380 01:17:14.159 --> 01:17:17.239 What It's functionally an elimination game. By the way, LSU 1381 01:17:17.760 --> 01:17:23.159 and LSU and BAMA both cannot afford to lose this 1382 01:17:23.359 --> 01:17:25.520 game if they even want to keep their hopes of 1383 01:17:25.640 --> 01:17:31.119 playoff berths alives. This is functionally an elimination game. Also 1384 01:17:31.319 --> 01:17:35.560 functionally a how much does Kaitlin want to Kaylen de 1385 01:17:35.600 --> 01:17:37.920 Bor want to have to replace the glass in his 1386 01:17:38.079 --> 01:17:41.479 house if it gets shattered after this game, even though 1387 01:17:41.479 --> 01:17:45.640 it's on the road. Yeah, man, like not even like 1388 01:17:45.760 --> 01:17:48.520 the animal welfare of it all, but like because of 1389 01:17:48.760 --> 01:17:54.359 the the superstition and pageantry that is college football. If 1390 01:17:54.439 --> 01:17:58.039 this goes poorly, LSU fans are going to shit a 1391 01:17:58.119 --> 01:18:03.159 chicken because somebody will have brought it out of state 1392 01:18:03.239 --> 01:18:07.600 tiger that isn't their own tiger into their stadium and 1393 01:18:07.720 --> 01:18:10.399 they will have all of the questions known to mankind. 1394 01:18:11.560 --> 01:18:15.159 The Mike the Tiger Twitter account has already started sub 1395 01:18:15.239 --> 01:18:21.399 tweeting all of this, like, I love this sport for 1396 01:18:21.680 --> 01:18:27.279 all of the wrong reasons. This is going to get 1397 01:18:27.600 --> 01:18:31.319 somehow dumber before it doesn't. And just to get there, 1398 01:18:31.399 --> 01:18:36.520 we still have to again go through MLS playoffs for 1399 01:18:36.720 --> 01:18:37.640 whatever reason. 1400 01:18:38.760 --> 01:18:40.720 And Rich makes the point, it is a Florida Tiger, 1401 01:18:40.800 --> 01:18:43.640 So let's bring in Jason. Uh So, you see where 1402 01:18:43.640 --> 01:18:51.159 our conversation started. The timeline JAREDTT basically led into us 1403 01:18:51.800 --> 01:18:55.479 about five minutes ago discussing artificial tigers in SEC football. 1404 01:18:56.279 --> 01:18:57.199 It's a fake tiger. 1405 01:18:57.920 --> 01:19:00.720 It's not it's not a fake tiger. It's a real tiger. 1406 01:19:01.079 --> 01:19:03.119 But it's not Mike the Tiger that is the official 1407 01:19:03.199 --> 01:19:06.279 mascot of LSU. It's an import from Florida. 1408 01:19:07.640 --> 01:19:11.000 Oh that's not good. Oh it's not. 1409 01:19:11.680 --> 01:19:15.119 Also, the Mike the Tiger Twitter account, like the Twitter 1410 01:19:15.159 --> 01:19:17.479 account of the Tiger that I guess like one of 1411 01:19:17.520 --> 01:19:21.920 his handlers, probably Runs, has started subtweeting everything possible about 1412 01:19:22.039 --> 01:19:23.279 the imported tiger. 1413 01:19:23.520 --> 01:19:28.359 Mm hm, fair enough. Yes, this has gotten exceptionally stupid. 1414 01:19:28.840 --> 01:19:32.000 Yes, well yeah, like I told them, this is functionally 1415 01:19:32.039 --> 01:19:35.119 an elimination game for Alabama and LSU. The loser is 1416 01:19:35.159 --> 01:19:37.840 not going to make the playoff, so it's even funnier. 1417 01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:44.760 Could you imagine Paul finebaumb on Monday. They don't want 1418 01:19:44.800 --> 01:19:47.880 to that's I mean, that's where we are with this. 1419 01:19:48.119 --> 01:19:49.800 Oh yes, Zat's Tigers. 1420 01:19:50.560 --> 01:19:54.520 Yes, it's a real fake tiger. Again, it's not quite 1421 01:19:54.600 --> 01:19:57.399 Tiger King, but it's also not not Tiger King. 1422 01:19:57.680 --> 01:19:58.079 Correct. 1423 01:19:59.239 --> 01:20:02.720 Anyway, there are there are actual soccer games, including tonight, 1424 01:20:02.840 --> 01:20:05.079 that we should probably discuss as well. Everybody can pay 1425 01:20:05.079 --> 01:20:06.159 attention to the tiger later. 1426 01:20:06.399 --> 01:20:07.359 Yes that's tomorrow. 1427 01:20:07.640 --> 01:20:11.720 So yes, so Jason, before we get into uh inner 1428 01:20:11.800 --> 01:20:17.600 Miami and Atlanta United tonight tonight tonight. Quoting Genesis H 1429 01:20:17.720 --> 01:20:20.840 Phil collins Brand, we have a we have a game 1430 01:20:21.079 --> 01:20:23.640 where Vancouver as an eight seed as a plus four 1431 01:20:23.760 --> 01:20:28.159 hundred going to LAFC in an elimination game. Uh, not 1432 01:20:28.279 --> 01:20:30.399 that you've really spent a whole lot of time focusing 1433 01:20:30.479 --> 01:20:32.600 on that one, considering there's one that's far more important. 1434 01:20:32.640 --> 01:20:35.239 But thoughts on the one eight dare you three? 1435 01:20:35.359 --> 01:20:38.920 I know Danny Sartini will find you eat your liver. 1436 01:20:40.159 --> 01:20:42.960 Vanny Sartini will be very happy if LAFC plays the 1437 01:20:43.000 --> 01:20:45.840 wrong lineup. And that's what this skits is gonna come 1438 01:20:45.920 --> 01:20:49.079 down to, you know, and said it. When they signed 1439 01:20:49.119 --> 01:20:52.279 Olivier Erude, did they need him? Did he make them 1440 01:20:52.359 --> 01:20:57.640 better by adding to that roster? Not really, and he 1441 01:20:57.800 --> 01:21:03.399 potentially created some very complicated situations like this one. They're 1442 01:21:03.640 --> 01:21:07.640 better without him in the starting lineup, but they have 1443 01:21:07.800 --> 01:21:10.479 to make the decision to leave a World Cup winner 1444 01:21:11.000 --> 01:21:14.239 on the bench, and that's look not an easy decision 1445 01:21:14.279 --> 01:21:17.760 to make. But when you sign these kinds of players 1446 01:21:17.840 --> 01:21:21.239 and you're an LA Galaxy, an LAFC, an Inner Miami 1447 01:21:22.720 --> 01:21:24.640 some other clubs in the league have done this before too, 1448 01:21:25.560 --> 01:21:27.760 you have to have everybody on the same page and 1449 01:21:27.840 --> 01:21:29.359 you have to figure out how the best to use 1450 01:21:29.399 --> 01:21:32.159 that player. I think the Galaxy have figured out how 1451 01:21:32.199 --> 01:21:34.600 to use Marco Royce very effectively. I think he was 1452 01:21:34.680 --> 01:21:37.600 on board with it. I don't know what the situation 1453 01:21:37.760 --> 01:21:40.000 is with LAFC, but I think it's pretty clear that 1454 01:21:40.119 --> 01:21:43.760 this team is best with Matteos Bogush up top, and 1455 01:21:44.159 --> 01:21:46.720 they need to do that in an elimination game, and 1456 01:21:46.760 --> 01:21:49.239 if they don't, they're giving Vancouver an opportunity to pull 1457 01:21:49.279 --> 01:21:52.319 an upset. I think LAFC wins. I don't think it's 1458 01:21:52.399 --> 01:21:55.840 pretty I think it's going to be a long night 1459 01:21:56.000 --> 01:21:59.159 in general, because even in Game one, Vancouver made it 1460 01:21:59.279 --> 01:22:01.880 a kind of long night. The score line was a 1461 01:22:01.880 --> 01:22:04.199 little flattering because the Vancouver goal came at the very 1462 01:22:04.319 --> 01:22:08.800 very end. But LAFC should win this. They need to 1463 01:22:08.800 --> 01:22:10.479 make the right choices in the lineup and if they do, 1464 01:22:10.560 --> 01:22:13.039 they'll they'll win. If they don't, they open up the 1465 01:22:13.079 --> 01:22:14.039 door to chaos. 1466 01:22:15.000 --> 01:22:18.279 And we enjoy opening up doors to chaos. Jarrett, your 1467 01:22:18.279 --> 01:22:20.880 first question for Jason here on a freestyle Friday. 1468 01:22:21.319 --> 01:22:24.640 Yeah, And to Jason's point, LAFC did this the year 1469 01:22:24.680 --> 01:22:28.520 they won the Cup when they brought in they brought 1470 01:22:28.560 --> 01:22:30.079 in the golfer extraordinair. 1471 01:22:30.680 --> 01:22:32.720 But they figured out he was the bench, didn't they 1472 01:22:32.800 --> 01:22:34.880 They did, But it took him like two months. 1473 01:22:36.039 --> 01:22:38.079 It took him like two months of trying to shoehorn 1474 01:22:38.119 --> 01:22:40.199 his ass and to line up before going He needs 1475 01:22:40.239 --> 01:22:41.880 to come off the bench and we'll win a cup 1476 01:22:42.439 --> 01:22:44.880 than they did. And it was kind of complicated. Sorry, Rich, 1477 01:22:45.279 --> 01:22:48.239 but they took him a lot to figure that out. 1478 01:22:48.279 --> 01:22:48.840 That you can't do. 1479 01:22:49.000 --> 01:22:49.640 This isn't FIFA. 1480 01:22:49.720 --> 01:22:53.560 You can't just shoehorn players in and just expect to 1481 01:22:53.760 --> 01:22:56.279 hit a button in it magically works. I actually want 1482 01:22:56.319 --> 01:22:57.880 to ask you about one of the other games before 1483 01:22:57.920 --> 01:22:59.560 we get to Atlanta is on the East Coast. We 1484 01:22:59.600 --> 01:23:03.840 have another game three. I think someone from Charlotte deemed 1485 01:23:03.920 --> 01:23:08.439 this operation Bugs Bunny that it is up to Atlanta 1486 01:23:08.520 --> 01:23:11.520 and Charlotte to do the bugs Bunny jiff of sowing 1487 01:23:11.560 --> 01:23:14.600 the state of Florida off. Charlotte has to go try 1488 01:23:14.680 --> 01:23:18.119 and saw Orlando in Orlando. What's your thoughts on that 1489 01:23:18.239 --> 01:23:18.880 one coming up? 1490 01:23:19.800 --> 01:23:23.159 How did Atlanta go into Orlando and be the only 1491 01:23:23.239 --> 01:23:26.159 team to beat them in their building in the last 1492 01:23:26.880 --> 01:23:30.680 five or six games. They were aggressive off the jump. 1493 01:23:31.079 --> 01:23:35.039 What has Charlotte's issue been all season under Dean Smith? 1494 01:23:35.319 --> 01:23:40.359 They've been defensive? They have to be aggressive this Orlando team. Look, 1495 01:23:40.399 --> 01:23:43.279 there are some similarities between Orlando and Miami. I think 1496 01:23:43.319 --> 01:23:48.000 both teams are substandard defensively. Orlando has pretty much the 1497 01:23:48.039 --> 01:23:51.119 same group defensively that they've had for a long time. 1498 01:23:51.319 --> 01:23:54.399 Robin Johnson hasn't gotten younger, he didn't find the fountain 1499 01:23:54.439 --> 01:23:58.439 of youth in Central Florida. Rodriguo Schlegel is a downgrade 1500 01:23:58.439 --> 01:24:01.079 from Antonio Carlos and it's a team that you can 1501 01:24:01.119 --> 01:24:03.520 get at, and Atlanta did with two goals early and 1502 01:24:03.560 --> 01:24:07.159 it was enough. Charlotte's got to be more aggressive, and 1503 01:24:07.199 --> 01:24:09.479 I think they've got to start Patrick Agumon and they've 1504 01:24:09.560 --> 01:24:14.640 got to get him in behind, and it's it's doable, 1505 01:24:15.359 --> 01:24:18.039 but you have to be brave, and I just don't 1506 01:24:18.199 --> 01:24:20.800 know if they will. If you're not, then you need 1507 01:24:20.920 --> 01:24:23.439 Christian Kalina to stand on his head, which he has before. 1508 01:24:23.640 --> 01:24:26.479 I mean, it can happen. You probably will need to 1509 01:24:26.479 --> 01:24:28.880 get through in penalties, which you can and you have, 1510 01:24:29.359 --> 01:24:33.800 you've done it before last game. But this is an 1511 01:24:33.880 --> 01:24:35.720 Orlando team that you can beat even in their building. 1512 01:24:35.720 --> 01:24:37.960 They're very good. They're very good attack wise, and you 1513 01:24:38.199 --> 01:24:42.000 have to respect that. But I think what we're seeing 1514 01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:46.720 play out in these playoffs, and I think just the 1515 01:24:47.039 --> 01:24:50.119 theory that I subscribe to you, when you have teams 1516 01:24:50.239 --> 01:24:54.079 like Miami and Orlando that are tilted, they're much better 1517 01:24:54.199 --> 01:24:59.079 offensively than they are defensively. The easy way to try 1518 01:24:59.159 --> 01:25:01.399 to deal with that is to be defensive, to try 1519 01:25:01.479 --> 01:25:04.239 to take away their attack, and then hope that a 1520 01:25:04.359 --> 01:25:07.600 limited attack will beat their limited defense. I think the 1521 01:25:07.680 --> 01:25:10.239 best way is the opposite. I think you go at them, 1522 01:25:10.800 --> 01:25:14.119 you break them, you score goals on them, and then 1523 01:25:14.159 --> 01:25:16.560 you put the pressure on their offense, which is very good, 1524 01:25:17.359 --> 01:25:19.840 and you can look. You can start aggressively and if 1525 01:25:19.880 --> 01:25:23.159 it doesn't happen in fifteen twenty thirty minutes for you 1526 01:25:23.680 --> 01:25:25.279 and it's going to be a slog, okay, then you 1527 01:25:25.359 --> 01:25:27.640 can bunker down for the log and you can be defensive. 1528 01:25:28.159 --> 01:25:31.039 But I think you have to try to exploit their 1529 01:25:31.239 --> 01:25:34.600 weakness first rather than try to take away their strength. 1530 01:25:35.399 --> 01:25:37.640 That's the approach in my opinion. And I just don't 1531 01:25:37.680 --> 01:25:38.680 know if Charlotte. 1532 01:25:38.319 --> 01:25:41.600 Will do it, okay, So I'll ask about FC Cincinnati 1533 01:25:41.640 --> 01:25:43.880 and NYC, So then Jared can start the questions with 1534 01:25:44.199 --> 01:25:47.079 Atlanta United and Inner Miami, FC Cincinnati and NYCFC. 1535 01:25:47.239 --> 01:25:50.600 What do you think Cincinnati should do it? I think 1536 01:25:50.720 --> 01:25:55.319 NYC is about who they are, like when you look 1537 01:25:55.319 --> 01:25:56.920 at where they are in the table, you look at 1538 01:25:56.960 --> 01:25:58.920 the quality of that team, you look at what they've 1539 01:25:59.000 --> 01:26:01.239 done this season, I think they've pretty much gotten what 1540 01:26:01.319 --> 01:26:04.479 they should get out of that group, and even a 1541 01:26:04.640 --> 01:26:08.159 Cincinnati group that is not as good as they were 1542 01:26:08.239 --> 01:26:10.800 in the first half of the season before injuries affected 1543 01:26:10.840 --> 01:26:13.800 their center back room, they still should be able to 1544 01:26:13.840 --> 01:26:17.680 get through this NYC team. I just don't think NYC 1545 01:26:18.039 --> 01:26:21.439 has really progressed over the past couple of years. I 1546 01:26:21.520 --> 01:26:24.199 think Cincinnati's got enough on both sides of the ball, 1547 01:26:24.359 --> 01:26:28.000 and they should get it done. I think they will. 1548 01:26:28.359 --> 01:26:30.840 I think they'll advance. I think it'll be like a 1549 01:26:31.640 --> 01:26:33.279 three to one kind of game. It's not going to 1550 01:26:33.319 --> 01:26:35.119 be a blowout, but I think it will be a 1551 01:26:35.880 --> 01:26:39.039 semi comfortable win for Cincinnati. All right, Jared, go for it. 1552 01:26:39.520 --> 01:26:41.079 All right, I'm gonna break the rules. I'm gonna ask 1553 01:26:41.119 --> 01:26:43.239 you a question about NYC because their coach has been 1554 01:26:43.239 --> 01:26:48.119 in the news recently with Nick Cushing. It sounds like 1555 01:26:48.159 --> 01:26:51.359 he's going to be back at NYC. I know it's 1556 01:26:51.520 --> 01:26:53.239 like a move that I thought he would be a 1557 01:26:53.279 --> 01:26:54.960 guy who I did not think he would survive twenty 1558 01:26:55.000 --> 01:27:01.279 twenty four. They stabilized, they were fine, but move to 1559 01:27:01.560 --> 01:27:05.279 keep him and does it limit their ceiling potentially by 1560 01:27:05.359 --> 01:27:07.359 doing so. I know that's like not really a fair question, 1561 01:27:07.439 --> 01:27:08.319 but I'm asking you anyway. 1562 01:27:09.279 --> 01:27:11.079 I think he's a fine coach. I don't have an 1563 01:27:11.079 --> 01:27:12.920 issue Nick Kushing is a coach, so I don't think 1564 01:27:12.960 --> 01:27:15.039 he limits their ceiling. I think they just need a 1565 01:27:15.079 --> 01:27:18.319 better roster. I don't think they have a good enough 1566 01:27:18.640 --> 01:27:23.239 roster to get into that top tier in the East. 1567 01:27:23.600 --> 01:27:26.039 And you know, look at the right this season, that 1568 01:27:26.159 --> 01:27:31.159 top tier has been Miami, Columbus, Cincinnati. I think Orlando 1569 01:27:31.319 --> 01:27:34.600 is a step down. Cincinnati, you could say, is a 1570 01:27:34.680 --> 01:27:38.439 half step behind Miami Columbus. Now Columbus, you have questions, 1571 01:27:38.880 --> 01:27:41.359 do they keep Kucho or Nandez if they don't got 1572 01:27:41.399 --> 01:27:43.640 to get that replacement right or you're not in that 1573 01:27:43.800 --> 01:27:46.960 same tier. Miami's going to be a year older. Questions 1574 01:27:47.039 --> 01:27:49.640 obviously about how that affects them, because you never know 1575 01:27:49.760 --> 01:27:52.119 when father time reaches up and slaps you in the face. 1576 01:27:54.199 --> 01:27:57.680 Atlanta's going to be better than they were this past year. 1577 01:27:57.680 --> 01:27:59.399 They're gonna have a better roster, and we know that 1578 01:27:59.600 --> 01:28:02.239 for a minut You're going to have other teams in 1579 01:28:02.319 --> 01:28:03.880 the East that are going to be aggressive and go 1580 01:28:04.039 --> 01:28:06.800 out and try to make their roster better. So NYC 1581 01:28:07.079 --> 01:28:09.600 has to do that, and if they don't, I don't 1582 01:28:09.640 --> 01:28:12.359 think it really matters who the manager is. I think 1583 01:28:13.000 --> 01:28:16.479 Cushing is a very good manager. I think he'll get 1584 01:28:16.920 --> 01:28:19.199 the best he can out of what he has to 1585 01:28:19.319 --> 01:28:21.319 work with. But he's got to have more to work 1586 01:28:21.399 --> 01:28:24.640 with to be a contender in the East in my opinion. Okay, 1587 01:28:24.720 --> 01:28:26.439 since Jarrett went there, I'll go there and fill in 1588 01:28:26.479 --> 01:28:29.159 the other holes. Yesterday, actually the news broke during the 1589 01:28:29.199 --> 01:28:31.479 show for a change, Jim Curtin out in Philly, and 1590 01:28:31.560 --> 01:28:34.159 then Bruce Arena the night before is going back into 1591 01:28:34.239 --> 01:28:37.520 the coaching business in San Jose with multiple titles. What 1592 01:28:37.560 --> 01:28:40.560 do you think about those two? Bruce Arena to San Jose. 1593 01:28:41.119 --> 01:28:45.239 He'll make them better. I don't like the multiple titles thing. 1594 01:28:45.680 --> 01:28:49.520 I think even if you are that, in reality, I 1595 01:28:49.680 --> 01:28:52.199 don't think it's a good look because it's two full 1596 01:28:52.279 --> 01:28:55.560 time jobs and I think it's very hard to do it. 1597 01:28:56.239 --> 01:28:58.800 And that's why maybe Sporting Kansas City has had some 1598 01:28:58.920 --> 01:29:01.159 limitations with Peter Vers, he's surely being the only one 1599 01:29:01.239 --> 01:29:03.600 to do that. I think Greg Burheld is going to 1600 01:29:03.640 --> 01:29:07.399 have these same issues in Chicago. You have to again, 1601 01:29:07.560 --> 01:29:10.520 even if you are the ultimate decision maker, I think 1602 01:29:11.399 --> 01:29:13.279 I would not want it to be put out there 1603 01:29:13.319 --> 01:29:16.119 that I am the sporting director and the technical director 1604 01:29:16.239 --> 01:29:20.199 alongside being the manager. Would I want somebody in that 1605 01:29:20.439 --> 01:29:24.600 role that I vibe with and I can direct, absolutely, 1606 01:29:25.119 --> 01:29:28.680 But don't put that on me. Like put that on 1607 01:29:29.119 --> 01:29:31.239 somebody else and I'll tell them what to do behind 1608 01:29:31.239 --> 01:29:34.000 the scenes. Like that to me, you just set yourself 1609 01:29:34.079 --> 01:29:37.840 up for lots of criticism on two different fronts as 1610 01:29:37.880 --> 01:29:40.520 opposed to just one. But I think Arena will make 1611 01:29:40.560 --> 01:29:45.239 them better. He is a very competent manager. He did 1612 01:29:45.479 --> 01:29:47.960 very well in New England before the wheels fell off. 1613 01:29:47.920 --> 01:29:50.520 And schedule the New England game right now? 1614 01:29:51.279 --> 01:29:53.600 Yeah, I mean look in the season with it. I'm 1615 01:29:53.640 --> 01:29:56.279 fine with it. I don't know what happened exactly. There's 1616 01:29:56.279 --> 01:29:58.920 all kinds of conjecture and there's all kinds of whispers 1617 01:29:59.119 --> 01:30:04.039 like is it somebody in Richie Williams who knew he 1618 01:30:04.199 --> 01:30:07.439 wasn't going to come back, who found his escape hatch 1619 01:30:07.680 --> 01:30:11.439 to stay in a role which they had a bad 1620 01:30:11.560 --> 01:30:13.840 year renewing the revolution too, But doesn't look like he's 1621 01:30:13.880 --> 01:30:15.920 going anywhere? Is it? 1622 01:30:16.039 --> 01:30:16.079 That? 1623 01:30:16.560 --> 01:30:16.760 Is it? 1624 01:30:17.439 --> 01:30:17.600 You know? 1625 01:30:17.800 --> 01:30:20.319 Arena said things that he shouldn't have said, even if 1626 01:30:20.359 --> 01:30:24.399 they were in private company. Is it Arena being an 1627 01:30:24.560 --> 01:30:28.079 old man who probably is speaking out a turn for 1628 01:30:28.359 --> 01:30:31.359 what twenty twenty four going into twenty twenty five is 1629 01:30:32.199 --> 01:30:36.479 probably all of the above. Honestly, he's a good coach. 1630 01:30:36.840 --> 01:30:39.199 He's going to go there and make them better. But 1631 01:30:39.720 --> 01:30:42.000 kind of go back to the same idea, like what's 1632 01:30:42.039 --> 01:30:45.840 the ceiling for San Jose. It's not very high because 1633 01:30:45.960 --> 01:30:49.479 you have an ownership group that isn't really going to spend. 1634 01:30:49.840 --> 01:30:52.720 And look, we had the same conversation about Arena going 1635 01:30:52.760 --> 01:30:55.159 to New England. You know, remember this was the exact 1636 01:30:55.239 --> 01:30:58.359 same conversation about well, you know, why is he going 1637 01:30:58.399 --> 01:31:00.479 to New England? They're not going to spend? Well, they did, 1638 01:31:00.840 --> 01:31:02.159 and I don't think he would have went there if 1639 01:31:02.199 --> 01:31:06.359 they didn't spend. Robert Kraft opening up the checkbook is 1640 01:31:06.560 --> 01:31:09.600 very different than San Jose's ownership group opening up the 1641 01:31:09.680 --> 01:31:12.720 checkbook because you can actually believe that it'll happen in 1642 01:31:12.800 --> 01:31:17.319 New England and it has. I don't see that happening 1643 01:31:17.520 --> 01:31:20.199 to the same extent, even in the ballpark, at the 1644 01:31:20.199 --> 01:31:24.560 same extent in San Jose. So will he make them better? Yeah. 1645 01:31:24.880 --> 01:31:27.680 Can he get them into the playoffs? Absolutely? Do they 1646 01:31:27.720 --> 01:31:30.119 need more talent to be a true contender? Yeah, And 1647 01:31:30.159 --> 01:31:32.600 I don't think they go get it. And otherwise you're 1648 01:31:32.600 --> 01:31:34.840 gonna ask your academy to develop it for you, and 1649 01:31:35.000 --> 01:31:37.520 that's gonna take time. They have a good academy, They've 1650 01:31:37.640 --> 01:31:40.680 developed talent. I just think they're gonna be better, but 1651 01:31:40.840 --> 01:31:44.560 not that great. And I think ultimately it's not gonna 1652 01:31:44.600 --> 01:31:47.319 last for Arena. And the other question because we saw 1653 01:31:47.359 --> 01:31:49.399 it in New England. You know, he took his core 1654 01:31:49.520 --> 01:31:52.760 guys were there to go do that job. Well, one 1655 01:31:52.800 --> 01:31:55.359 of his core guys in some way turned his back 1656 01:31:55.439 --> 01:31:58.479 on him. And now who are his core guys. Who's 1657 01:31:58.479 --> 01:32:00.119 gonna go to San Jose with him, Who's gonna to 1658 01:32:00.159 --> 01:32:02.199 help him do all the things that need to get done. 1659 01:32:02.399 --> 01:32:03.920 I don't know. I'll be really curious to see how 1660 01:32:03.960 --> 01:32:06.560 that plays out. Jim Curtin and Philly. I was really 1661 01:32:06.600 --> 01:32:11.159 surprised about the way that it went down. I remember saying, 1662 01:32:11.199 --> 01:32:13.479 this is not look I've I've been outspoken about not 1663 01:32:13.720 --> 01:32:16.840 liking the style of play and not liking some of 1664 01:32:16.920 --> 01:32:20.079 the comments and not liking some of the ways that 1665 01:32:20.199 --> 01:32:23.560 the team has played not style of play, some of 1666 01:32:23.640 --> 01:32:26.720 the more cynical aspects that we've seen from Philadelphia over 1667 01:32:26.800 --> 01:32:29.680 the years. I don't take any of that back. That's 1668 01:32:29.720 --> 01:32:33.800 how I feel. I do think that with Jim Curtin, 1669 01:32:34.079 --> 01:32:38.560 he was never really treated fairly by the ownership group 1670 01:32:38.640 --> 01:32:41.239 and by the sports leadership at Philadelphia. You know, I 1671 01:32:41.359 --> 01:32:45.560 remember being very critical of their decision when I think 1672 01:32:45.800 --> 01:32:48.560 Ernest Tanner took over of just giving him a one 1673 01:32:48.680 --> 01:32:51.479 year contract at that point basically a show and prove. 1674 01:32:52.319 --> 01:32:55.359 He had shown and proved, and I thought that was 1675 01:32:55.439 --> 01:33:00.199 really putting him through an exercise that wasn't fair, And 1676 01:33:01.039 --> 01:33:03.640 in a way, I think it shows maybe what they 1677 01:33:03.760 --> 01:33:07.640 thought of him all along, which again is not fair. 1678 01:33:07.880 --> 01:33:10.000 I think in terms of the amount of talent that 1679 01:33:10.079 --> 01:33:14.520 he was given, he punched above his weight for a while. 1680 01:33:15.119 --> 01:33:19.439 And we're never gonna know exactly how it went down 1681 01:33:19.520 --> 01:33:23.880 behind the scenes about bringing guys back for another year 1682 01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:26.880 when maybe it was time to move on, trusting the 1683 01:33:27.000 --> 01:33:30.159 young players or not trusting the young players. We're never 1684 01:33:30.279 --> 01:33:33.920 gonna truly know exactly how that played out. But in 1685 01:33:34.079 --> 01:33:37.000 terms of the quality of the roster and in terms 1686 01:33:37.039 --> 01:33:39.600 of the results, Jim Curton punched above his weight for 1687 01:33:39.680 --> 01:33:41.760 a long period of time. Some of that is down 1688 01:33:41.800 --> 01:33:43.319 to the style. Some of that is down to a 1689 01:33:43.399 --> 01:33:48.399 style that isn't really as reliant on star players. I'm 1690 01:33:48.479 --> 01:33:53.520 surprised with what he did in very recent history. This 1691 01:33:53.680 --> 01:33:57.279 year's really the first blip. I'm really surprised that they 1692 01:33:57.359 --> 01:33:59.720 handled this the way that they did because I don't 1693 01:33:59.840 --> 01:34:02.199 know if you're going to for what they're going to 1694 01:34:02.279 --> 01:34:05.439 give their manager, I don't know if you're really going 1695 01:34:05.520 --> 01:34:09.119 to get any better. So we'll see. It's another group 1696 01:34:09.239 --> 01:34:12.399 that kind of like San Jose. You can put whoever 1697 01:34:12.600 --> 01:34:15.239 you want in the dugout and in charge of the 1698 01:34:15.279 --> 01:34:17.880 team on the field, but if they don't have enough 1699 01:34:17.960 --> 01:34:22.479 weapons to work with, the ceiling's low, and you know, 1700 01:34:22.760 --> 01:34:25.560 I don't like to see it become an arms race 1701 01:34:25.640 --> 01:34:28.800 of who's going to spend the most, But that's how 1702 01:34:28.920 --> 01:34:32.560 you guarantee success the easiest way. Otherwise you're gonna have 1703 01:34:32.680 --> 01:34:35.319 to be really creative. You're gonna have to be really 1704 01:34:36.960 --> 01:34:42.520 savvy in how you manage things with honestly less talent 1705 01:34:42.600 --> 01:34:45.399 than the opposition you're going to be playing. So we'll see. 1706 01:34:45.560 --> 01:34:49.159 With Philadelphia, I think he deserved better on the way out. 1707 01:34:49.319 --> 01:34:51.680 I thought he would get the chance to walk before 1708 01:34:52.439 --> 01:34:56.479 they would push him out, especially after essentially one year 1709 01:34:56.680 --> 01:34:59.319 of a dip where that roster's old and probably needs 1710 01:34:59.359 --> 01:35:02.920 to be overhauled. He's not going to be the one 1711 01:35:02.960 --> 01:35:05.479 to do it. I don't know who is, all right, Jared, 1712 01:35:05.560 --> 01:35:06.960 go for it, all right. 1713 01:35:07.039 --> 01:35:08.439 I want to ask you a question while we get 1714 01:35:08.600 --> 01:35:11.880 as we get into Atlanta and Miami finally and satisfy 1715 01:35:11.920 --> 01:35:16.319 people's requests. Something we talked about after the game, Jason, 1716 01:35:16.760 --> 01:35:19.760 was the change that Miami made at halftime or after 1717 01:35:19.840 --> 01:35:23.079 halftime where they you know, Sushio Busquets wasn't available, you 1718 01:35:23.239 --> 01:35:25.760 had a more defensive minded midfielder in the game, you 1719 01:35:25.920 --> 01:35:31.399 took him out. Yeah, if Busquets is unable to go, 1720 01:35:32.000 --> 01:35:34.960 how do you piece together that midfield if you're Miami, 1721 01:35:35.439 --> 01:35:40.199 so you do not get absolutely massacred on the counter, because, yeah, 1722 01:35:40.239 --> 01:35:43.920 Miami's going to dominate the ball almost certainly, But there 1723 01:35:44.000 --> 01:35:47.159 are moments in any game where you cannot dominate the 1724 01:35:47.239 --> 01:35:48.399 ball for one hundred percent of it. 1725 01:35:49.199 --> 01:35:52.560 You don't have an answer. You flat out don't have 1726 01:35:52.640 --> 01:35:56.600 an answer in that position with what we have really seen, 1727 01:35:56.800 --> 01:36:00.439 because Sergio Busquets and Yonick Bright not training this morning. 1728 01:36:00.479 --> 01:36:03.439 According to reports out of South Florida, Janick Bright is 1729 01:36:03.560 --> 01:36:06.960 the more defensive midfielder of the rest of them, after 1730 01:36:07.119 --> 01:36:10.399 Sergio bus Getz, Who's such an important element for that 1731 01:36:10.520 --> 01:36:12.079 team in the way that they play, in the way 1732 01:36:12.119 --> 01:36:15.960 that they stay organized, even though defensively he's a liability, right, 1733 01:36:16.319 --> 01:36:19.279 not really a liability. I think he's been very good 1734 01:36:19.479 --> 01:36:21.600 for this team. And when you have a team that 1735 01:36:21.720 --> 01:36:24.680 is so top heavy like Miami, you got to hit 1736 01:36:24.880 --> 01:36:27.239 on guys like Janick Bright, whether it's from the draft 1737 01:36:27.399 --> 01:36:29.479 or from the league or what have you, and they 1738 01:36:29.520 --> 01:36:33.079 did well. He's going to be out, according to I 1739 01:36:33.119 --> 01:36:36.760 can't remember which player talked about it. He's not gonna play. 1740 01:36:37.359 --> 01:36:41.760 So how do you deal with that? I don't think 1741 01:36:41.840 --> 01:36:45.560 there's an easy answer, because you know, we haven't seen 1742 01:36:45.640 --> 01:36:49.359 Julian Gresseol in this playoff series. You can't put him 1743 01:36:49.399 --> 01:36:51.680 there and ask him to defend in that way. And 1744 01:36:51.920 --> 01:36:54.600 Tota Martinez has played him as a central midfielder, but 1745 01:36:54.800 --> 01:36:57.920 he's a liability defensively and we've seen that throughout his career. 1746 01:36:59.760 --> 01:37:02.239 Who else can you put their David Ruiz is out, 1747 01:37:02.439 --> 01:37:04.079 so that would be another player that you could have 1748 01:37:04.159 --> 01:37:06.600 put there. He's not available. You're gonna have to put 1749 01:37:06.640 --> 01:37:08.399 somebody there and ask them to do a job that 1750 01:37:08.479 --> 01:37:11.680 they don't do. You know, can Benjamen Kramowski do that 1751 01:37:11.920 --> 01:37:16.079 job to an extent? He can run, he can do things, 1752 01:37:16.239 --> 01:37:19.039 but he's not a six. He's not a defensive midfielder. 1753 01:37:19.840 --> 01:37:22.439 Do you put a Noah Allen in there? You played 1754 01:37:22.479 --> 01:37:25.119 no Allen as the central of three center backs in 1755 01:37:25.159 --> 01:37:28.520 the last game, which was crazy to me. It worked, Okay, 1756 01:37:29.119 --> 01:37:32.680 I don't think Atlanta exploited it enough. But can you 1757 01:37:32.800 --> 01:37:36.880 move him up and bring another center back into the group. Maybe. 1758 01:37:38.039 --> 01:37:43.239 But this is where MLS rosters can bite you at 1759 01:37:43.399 --> 01:37:48.560 various points where you have limited depth, and you're gonna 1760 01:37:48.640 --> 01:37:51.600 have to make decisions on where that depth is limited 1761 01:37:51.680 --> 01:37:55.560 when you construct a roster. Miami made a decision to 1762 01:37:56.079 --> 01:38:00.680 have really three guys who can play the sill to 1763 01:38:00.800 --> 01:38:04.880 varying degrees, and all of them might be unavailable. So 1764 01:38:06.720 --> 01:38:10.600 how do you handle it? If you're Miami? I think 1765 01:38:10.640 --> 01:38:12.359 you have to handle it by going out and trying 1766 01:38:12.399 --> 01:38:15.640 to score ten goals. Yeah, I don't think you can 1767 01:38:15.720 --> 01:38:20.560 handle it in another way. So it's gonna be fascinating 1768 01:38:21.479 --> 01:38:26.119 because that's generally not taught to Martino's moo in these games. 1769 01:38:26.760 --> 01:38:28.520 When you get to the stage of the season and 1770 01:38:28.640 --> 01:38:31.159 you get to these kinds of big games, he gets 1771 01:38:31.239 --> 01:38:35.319 more conservative than usual. I don't think he's gonna have 1772 01:38:35.439 --> 01:38:39.399 that luxury. And if he does, look, he's gonna have 1773 01:38:39.600 --> 01:38:45.520 to find something in someone that we haven't really seen. 1774 01:38:46.319 --> 01:38:48.000 And I don't think it's gonna get talked about. I 1775 01:38:48.039 --> 01:38:49.880 think he's just gonna get glossed over and you know, 1776 01:38:50.000 --> 01:38:51.680 we'll be talking about it on the radio. Because if 1777 01:38:51.680 --> 01:38:55.159 he plays David Martinez in that role, for example, does 1778 01:38:55.239 --> 01:38:58.840 he have the characteristics to be able to be a six? Yeah, 1779 01:38:58.880 --> 01:39:01.680 I think he does. He's never really played it. I'm 1780 01:39:01.720 --> 01:39:03.439 sure there's some point where he played it for River 1781 01:39:03.560 --> 01:39:07.560 or played it at Defensi Houstisia, but he's not a six. 1782 01:39:07.960 --> 01:39:10.039 Can he be a six for a game for you 1783 01:39:10.159 --> 01:39:13.359 because you don't have another six. That's where you're down 1784 01:39:13.439 --> 01:39:16.279 to the experience and the qualities of tota Martino and 1785 01:39:16.399 --> 01:39:20.279 can he find that or is his option gonna be 1786 01:39:20.479 --> 01:39:24.479 unorthodox for him and say well, we're just gonna get 1787 01:39:24.560 --> 01:39:27.039 hit there and we're gonna concede goals, but we can 1788 01:39:27.119 --> 01:39:29.720 score more goals than them at home with the offensive 1789 01:39:29.760 --> 01:39:31.880 talent we have. I don't know what his answer is 1790 01:39:31.920 --> 01:39:35.880 going to be without Janick Brighton, Sergio Busquez, and we. 1791 01:39:35.960 --> 01:39:39.560 Had Michael Parkhurst on in our number one, and we 1792 01:39:39.640 --> 01:39:44.079 were discussing pressure in elimination games. And you have the 1793 01:39:44.520 --> 01:39:48.239 younger players that are there at the Kramowsky age and 1794 01:39:48.640 --> 01:39:50.960 the pressure that's going to be on them in this 1795 01:39:51.239 --> 01:39:53.880 match with the older players that have been there before, 1796 01:39:54.279 --> 01:39:57.359 Messi Suarez, Geordie al But et cetera. Mixing that with 1797 01:39:57.439 --> 01:40:00.880 the younger players who haven't been in that situation. The pressure, 1798 01:40:01.000 --> 01:40:03.760 the emotional pressure of not wanting to mess this up. 1799 01:40:04.560 --> 01:40:07.560 I think that that ratchets things up also emotionally for 1800 01:40:07.800 --> 01:40:09.880 Inner Miami, no matter how they line things up. 1801 01:40:11.359 --> 01:40:13.720 Yeah, I don't know if the younger players are gonna 1802 01:40:13.760 --> 01:40:18.840 necessarily think about it that way. I think it's just pressure. 1803 01:40:19.199 --> 01:40:22.720 I don't know if they're worried about letting somebody down 1804 01:40:22.880 --> 01:40:29.199 in these moments and that kind of stuff. I'm really curious. 1805 01:40:29.239 --> 01:40:31.600 I mean, Federico Rodondo would be the other one, but 1806 01:40:31.640 --> 01:40:33.800 you're gonna ask him to stay home a lot more 1807 01:40:34.319 --> 01:40:36.640 and try to figure that out. But Rodondo's got to 1808 01:40:36.680 --> 01:40:41.640 handle this moment. Diego Gomez has got to handle this moment. 1809 01:40:42.239 --> 01:40:46.479 Tomas Abules, David Martinez have to handle this moment. And 1810 01:40:48.159 --> 01:40:53.880 the thing about it when you really dig into how 1811 01:40:54.000 --> 01:40:58.159 this game can flow. If Atlanta scores early, how does 1812 01:40:58.239 --> 01:41:01.880 Miami respond? If Atlanta keeps Miami off the board for 1813 01:41:01.960 --> 01:41:03.800 a period of time and at zero zero for a 1814 01:41:03.880 --> 01:41:07.920 long way, how does Miami respond? How do the young 1815 01:41:08.039 --> 01:41:14.039 players respond to the crowd getting antsy? How do the 1816 01:41:14.159 --> 01:41:20.119 young players respond to that feeling of oh crap in 1817 01:41:20.600 --> 01:41:24.760 the stands. I don't know. The veterans will handle it. 1818 01:41:24.840 --> 01:41:27.119 The veterans will be fine with it, but how do 1819 01:41:27.199 --> 01:41:30.880 those young players handle that. I think it's more of 1820 01:41:31.000 --> 01:41:35.640 that than you know, this idea of it's not Argentina 1821 01:41:35.760 --> 01:41:37.840 in the World Cup in twenty twenty two or Copa 1822 01:41:37.880 --> 01:41:40.600 America in twenty twenty one, where the young players did 1823 01:41:40.680 --> 01:41:44.279 not want to let Lionel Messi down. That's different. You're 1824 01:41:44.319 --> 01:41:48.840 talking about a cultural icon and one of the last 1825 01:41:48.920 --> 01:41:52.399 opportunities that they're going to have to win something. This 1826 01:41:52.680 --> 01:41:55.560 is not that. I don't think Ben Jim and Kremowsky 1827 01:41:55.840 --> 01:41:58.960 has that exact same feeling about Lionel Messi, he's going 1828 01:41:59.039 --> 01:42:00.520 to be one of the closer one. Some of the 1829 01:42:00.600 --> 01:42:02.680 other South Americans are going to have that to an extent, 1830 01:42:03.359 --> 01:42:06.239 but it's not the same. This is more of the 1831 01:42:06.359 --> 01:42:13.680 individual to me of how do you handle being a 1832 01:42:13.880 --> 01:42:17.520 front running team but not being able to run out front? 1833 01:42:18.359 --> 01:42:22.079 How does that get dealt with? And I don't know 1834 01:42:22.159 --> 01:42:23.920 what the answer is going to be. And these are 1835 01:42:23.920 --> 01:42:26.680 the moments where you learn a lot about individual character. 1836 01:42:27.319 --> 01:42:29.680 And we'll see. I think we've seen from Atlanta in 1837 01:42:29.800 --> 01:42:33.640 these moments as of late that they have risen to 1838 01:42:34.159 --> 01:42:36.720 the idea of being that underdog and that's what they've 1839 01:42:36.840 --> 01:42:41.319 rallied around, and they have handled those moments very well. 1840 01:42:42.880 --> 01:42:45.920 Miami hasn't been in these moments very much as a group, 1841 01:42:46.640 --> 01:42:51.840 and we'll see what happens with them without potentially Sergio 1842 01:42:51.920 --> 01:42:55.119 Busquet's and Yonick Bright sounds like neither one train today. 1843 01:42:55.600 --> 01:42:57.479 It's going to be a big ask for them to 1844 01:42:57.560 --> 01:42:59.720 be able to go. If anybody can handle that, it's 1845 01:42:59.720 --> 01:43:03.399 Boo gets because of his his history and his intelligence, 1846 01:43:03.520 --> 01:43:08.560 but Kenny run because intelligence doesn't make those legs move 1847 01:43:08.600 --> 01:43:14.720 any faster. How does Miami handle not having an ideal six. 1848 01:43:15.680 --> 01:43:18.359 I don't know, and Atlanta has to try to exploit 1849 01:43:18.399 --> 01:43:18.960 that if that's. 1850 01:43:18.880 --> 01:43:19.399 The case. 1851 01:43:21.479 --> 01:43:24.479 And shift sides to the field now because I do 1852 01:43:24.600 --> 01:43:27.600 want to get to the flanks. Something we talked about 1853 01:43:27.680 --> 01:43:32.600 as well is that Savola needs to might not actually 1854 01:43:32.840 --> 01:43:36.800 have an empty sign on his tank, and the way 1855 01:43:37.079 --> 01:43:40.760 he played and the way he moved kind of trying 1856 01:43:40.880 --> 01:43:44.640 to stalemate Jordi Alba to where they're kind of even 1857 01:43:45.000 --> 01:43:48.319 even if they're canceling each other out. I wanted to 1858 01:43:48.319 --> 01:43:50.800 ask on you know, how you see that potentially playing 1859 01:43:50.800 --> 01:43:51.720 out in a game three. 1860 01:43:52.840 --> 01:43:55.159 Jordi Alba is the player for Miami that scares me 1861 01:43:55.239 --> 01:43:57.920 the most. I know that's sacrilege on a team with 1862 01:43:58.079 --> 01:44:01.199 Messi and Suarez, but if Jordi Alba went the side 1863 01:44:01.239 --> 01:44:04.199 of the field, he's the one who can change everything 1864 01:44:04.640 --> 01:44:08.600 because then you're getting something it's not unexpected, but it's 1865 01:44:08.640 --> 01:44:12.600 coming from an unexpected place to tilt the game, and 1866 01:44:12.920 --> 01:44:16.399 he tay. If that's the case, he's probably eliminating Saba 1867 01:44:16.600 --> 01:44:21.319 from joining the attack for Atlanta. So that's the battle 1868 01:44:21.399 --> 01:44:23.880 to me that determines the game if it's a stalemate 1869 01:44:24.000 --> 01:44:26.760 like it was on Saturday night. In my opinion, then 1870 01:44:26.880 --> 01:44:30.039 that opens the door, honestly for Messi and Suarez to 1871 01:44:30.079 --> 01:44:31.560 do what they can do, but it opens the door 1872 01:44:31.600 --> 01:44:33.960 for other Atlanta players to try to win their battles. 1873 01:44:34.119 --> 01:44:37.880 And the opposite side is an interesting one because if 1874 01:44:38.119 --> 01:44:40.039 if you go with the same group for Atlanta and 1875 01:44:40.159 --> 01:44:42.399 you play Saba as a wing back, and it's Saba 1876 01:44:42.520 --> 01:44:45.199 dealing with Jordi Alba up and down the field, Okay, 1877 01:44:45.960 --> 01:44:48.199 the other side, you're not going to ask Pedro Amador 1878 01:44:48.279 --> 01:44:51.880 to exactly do the same things as Saba. You're gonna 1879 01:44:51.880 --> 01:44:54.119 ask him to do a decent bit of them. And 1880 01:44:54.399 --> 01:44:59.279 Marcela Wagan is not Jordi Alba. So can you exploit 1881 01:44:59.439 --> 01:45:04.399 that side more in the run of play. I think so, 1882 01:45:05.239 --> 01:45:07.079 and you're gonna have to be smart with it. Look 1883 01:45:07.119 --> 01:45:09.800 in another issue here that is definitely flying under the 1884 01:45:09.880 --> 01:45:14.840 radars Jay Fortune. He's banged up, he didn't train fully. 1885 01:45:15.000 --> 01:45:19.880 Yesterday Rob Valentino talked about it and he took a 1886 01:45:20.039 --> 01:45:23.880 knock and also a roll of the ankle in the game. 1887 01:45:24.359 --> 01:45:27.199 Rob said it was pretty surprising that he was able 1888 01:45:27.279 --> 01:45:28.840 to do as much as he did for as long 1889 01:45:28.880 --> 01:45:31.079 as he did in that match, and he had a 1890 01:45:31.359 --> 01:45:33.880 huge play on Messi late at the top of the eighteen. 1891 01:45:33.960 --> 01:45:36.319 That was vital in Atlanta getting the opportunity to go 1892 01:45:36.399 --> 01:45:40.119 win it to be able to do the things that 1893 01:45:40.199 --> 01:45:44.239 you want with Saba and Amador getting forward and exploiting 1894 01:45:44.840 --> 01:45:49.199 Miami's want to get forward from their fullbacks, You've got 1895 01:45:49.319 --> 01:45:51.640 to have central midfielders that can run in those moments. 1896 01:45:52.079 --> 01:45:56.439 You don't have another one like Jay Fortune on the bench, 1897 01:45:56.600 --> 01:45:59.920 Tristan Milliam, Bob's not the same player. You're gonna then 1898 01:46:00.319 --> 01:46:03.319 have to reconfigure your midfield a little bit. If it 1899 01:46:03.520 --> 01:46:07.159 is Mulliam, bah McCarty and Sleish. Sleish can do it, 1900 01:46:08.119 --> 01:46:10.199 but he's one person. He's already doing it on one side, 1901 01:46:10.840 --> 01:46:14.199 So how do you handle that if you're Atlanta. It's 1902 01:46:14.239 --> 01:46:17.600 a more subtle issue in the central midfield than not 1903 01:46:17.840 --> 01:46:21.479 having a dedicated six or asking Ridondo or asking a 1904 01:46:21.600 --> 01:46:24.359 center back to play it. But it is going to 1905 01:46:24.439 --> 01:46:29.479 have an impact, and it's going to potentially affect how 1906 01:46:29.680 --> 01:46:34.880 much Amador and or Saba can get forward to make 1907 01:46:35.000 --> 01:46:38.760 that fullback from Miami have to defend more. I think 1908 01:46:38.800 --> 01:46:40.680 it's gonna you're probably gonna have to make the trade 1909 01:46:40.720 --> 01:46:43.159 off a little bit more. You're gonna have to deal 1910 01:46:43.199 --> 01:46:46.319 with Alba more. I mean, look, if you're thinking about 1911 01:46:46.399 --> 01:46:49.840 which weapon am I more afraid of, Jordi Alba over 1912 01:46:49.920 --> 01:46:52.960 Marcella Wagan, So you're probably gonna have to have Sleish 1913 01:46:53.279 --> 01:46:55.319 to that side of the field to help deal with 1914 01:46:55.520 --> 01:46:57.720 that just in case. And that's what we've seen and 1915 01:46:57.800 --> 01:47:02.159 I think that is fine. But then Amador's gonna have 1916 01:47:02.279 --> 01:47:05.560 to adjust to Mullyambah not being able to cover as 1917 01:47:05.640 --> 01:47:08.319 much ground as Jay Fortune and help as much and 1918 01:47:08.520 --> 01:47:10.880 maybe stay home a little bit more at times. So 1919 01:47:11.359 --> 01:47:14.119 it's gonna be really interesting, like those little chess matches 1920 01:47:14.159 --> 01:47:17.159 in this game are gonna determine it. And I think 1921 01:47:17.199 --> 01:47:19.319 it's been a fascinating series so far and it's only 1922 01:47:19.399 --> 01:47:23.319 gonna get more fascinating in Game three. What about other injuries. 1923 01:47:23.359 --> 01:47:26.600 I know that Steaan was back at practice yesterday. Yeah, 1924 01:47:26.640 --> 01:47:29.600 I don't know if he's good enough to start. I 1925 01:47:29.680 --> 01:47:33.399 don't know. You obviously would love to have him back 1926 01:47:33.560 --> 01:47:36.840 because I thought he has been really good down the 1927 01:47:36.920 --> 01:47:40.600 stretch once he got healthy and got consistent games. Derek 1928 01:47:40.640 --> 01:47:42.920 Williams has been outstanding. I thought he had his best 1929 01:47:42.960 --> 01:47:46.079 game for Atlanta in the Game two, and that's not 1930 01:47:46.239 --> 01:47:50.800 just because he scored. He was really well organized, really 1931 01:47:50.920 --> 01:47:52.960 good at leading the line and stepping out when he 1932 01:47:53.039 --> 01:47:55.159 needed to step out and closing down that space at 1933 01:47:55.199 --> 01:47:56.880 the top of the eighteen, I thought he was great. 1934 01:47:57.760 --> 01:48:00.279 You're gonna need that from him, and Luisa Bram has 1935 01:48:00.359 --> 01:48:03.600 been very good in the moments we've seen him against Miami. 1936 01:48:03.720 --> 01:48:06.039 You're gonna need that as well. I don't if if 1937 01:48:06.079 --> 01:48:08.479 Stian can go, I think it's gonna be hard for 1938 01:48:08.560 --> 01:48:12.720 him to go ninety. Do you want him to close it? 1939 01:48:12.880 --> 01:48:15.039 Do you want him to start it? I don't know 1940 01:48:15.159 --> 01:48:17.720 how deep he can go and do it. So that 1941 01:48:18.039 --> 01:48:21.279 then potentially gives you the ability to change up your 1942 01:48:21.319 --> 01:48:24.279 shape though, if you want to or change up how 1943 01:48:24.439 --> 01:48:28.399 you organize it. Because with Saba as a wing back, 1944 01:48:29.359 --> 01:48:32.640 because you've played Ronald Hernandez as a central as a 1945 01:48:32.720 --> 01:48:35.760 center back, do you want Hernandez as a wing back 1946 01:48:35.920 --> 01:48:38.840 to try to defend Jordi album more? Maybe not be 1947 01:48:38.880 --> 01:48:41.000 able to get forward as much, but does that give 1948 01:48:41.039 --> 01:48:44.520 you the ability to go to more of a five 1949 01:48:45.039 --> 01:48:48.279 two two one uh three four three three four two one, 1950 01:48:48.319 --> 01:48:50.760 whatever you want to call it. Think of al Marim 1951 01:48:50.960 --> 01:48:52.960 and what he's done with Sporting and what he's probably 1952 01:48:53.000 --> 01:48:56.319 gonna do with Manchester United. Do you want Saba and 1953 01:48:56.479 --> 01:49:01.399 maranchuk as those two tens behind and tra which we 1954 01:49:01.399 --> 01:49:04.720 would assume would start and in front of two central midfielders, 1955 01:49:04.920 --> 01:49:09.399 or do you want three central midfielders and then have 1956 01:49:09.600 --> 01:49:12.680 to sacrifice somebody or do you keep Hernandez in? Like again, 1957 01:49:12.800 --> 01:49:15.640 see lots of questions. And that's the thing when you 1958 01:49:15.720 --> 01:49:18.239 add gregorson back in, is it just straight up for 1959 01:49:18.319 --> 01:49:20.720 a bram or does it give you the ability to 1960 01:49:20.800 --> 01:49:24.000 move other pieces around? If it doesn't from the start, 1961 01:49:24.680 --> 01:49:28.479 it might at some point in the game. And that's 1962 01:49:28.680 --> 01:49:30.439 what I kind of come back to you with this 1963 01:49:30.600 --> 01:49:34.920 one is Game two. The way that it played out, 1964 01:49:35.079 --> 01:49:38.960 you really didn't have to make a dramatic change in 1965 01:49:39.039 --> 01:49:42.880 the shape until the very end, and you didn't really 1966 01:49:43.039 --> 01:49:45.800 have a clear cut option when fortune had to come off. 1967 01:49:46.319 --> 01:49:50.520 You went aggressive with Silva and it paid off. I 1968 01:49:50.560 --> 01:49:55.439 don't think you start wide open aggressive here, but do 1969 01:49:55.520 --> 01:49:57.680 you have to turn to that at some point? And 1970 01:49:57.800 --> 01:50:00.479 does it give you the ability getting Gregor's and back 1971 01:50:00.760 --> 01:50:03.800 even with potentially losing fortune or having a limited fortune, 1972 01:50:04.760 --> 01:50:07.000 does it give you the ability to get more of 1973 01:50:07.079 --> 01:50:10.319 a three front or a one in front of two, 1974 01:50:10.439 --> 01:50:12.720 which can expand to three depending on how you want 1975 01:50:12.760 --> 01:50:14.640 it to look. Yeah, it does, but I don't know 1976 01:50:14.680 --> 01:50:18.520 if you start that way. So to answer the questions 1977 01:50:18.560 --> 01:50:22.439 about the lineups and the individuals, I don't know how 1978 01:50:22.560 --> 01:50:24.960 it starts. I think Rob Valentino has been really crafty 1979 01:50:25.039 --> 01:50:27.800 and how he's put this team together in these games. 1980 01:50:28.439 --> 01:50:31.279 I don't think there's a guarantee that it's different than 1981 01:50:31.600 --> 01:50:35.760 the team started against Miami in Game two, but I 1982 01:50:36.000 --> 01:50:40.079 do think you see more evolution of how the team 1983 01:50:40.520 --> 01:50:46.880 finishes between the start and between the final whistle. All right, Jered, 1984 01:50:46.920 --> 01:50:48.119 go for it. What else is on your mind? 1985 01:50:49.359 --> 01:50:51.640 I just realize we're running Jason up against the clock here, 1986 01:50:51.640 --> 01:50:56.199 and we're making work over time to your point about 1987 01:50:56.399 --> 01:50:58.119 not just the kids on the roster, but even the 1988 01:50:58.199 --> 01:51:00.439 veterans on the roster, And we talk about this in 1989 01:51:00.479 --> 01:51:02.359 all the playoff games, So why not just finish it 1990 01:51:02.439 --> 01:51:09.319 off here? The longer this game stays scoreless or tied, 1991 01:51:10.159 --> 01:51:12.880 you know, how do how does everybody deal with that 1992 01:51:13.239 --> 01:51:16.640 and deal with the pressure of you know, if you're 1993 01:51:16.720 --> 01:51:18.680 the home team, I don't you want this to go 1994 01:51:18.800 --> 01:51:23.119 to penalties, especially with Brad Guzan deciding to I don't know, 1995 01:51:23.399 --> 01:51:25.880 enter his avatar state in the last uh in the 1996 01:51:25.960 --> 01:51:30.439 last month or so. But the longer it goes, you know, 1997 01:51:30.479 --> 01:51:32.520 how do you how do how do players deal with it, 1998 01:51:32.600 --> 01:51:34.640 not just the young players, but even the veteran players, 1999 01:51:34.680 --> 01:51:36.800 of that pressure of we got to get something, we 2000 01:51:36.880 --> 01:51:37.520 got to get something. 2001 01:51:37.920 --> 01:51:40.079 I think on the Atlanta side, they'll handle it fine. 2002 01:51:40.359 --> 01:51:44.159 They're they're not going into to play for that. They're 2003 01:51:44.239 --> 01:51:47.960 going in to play to win. It's a ninety minute game. 2004 01:51:48.800 --> 01:51:52.239 It might not be wild risk taking early, but they're 2005 01:51:52.239 --> 01:51:54.640 going in to win the game. I do not think 2006 01:51:54.680 --> 01:51:57.560 they're going in to defend and hold on. They're gonna 2007 01:51:57.560 --> 01:51:59.199 pick their spots, they're gonna be smart about it, but 2008 01:52:00.039 --> 01:52:03.439 they're looking for ways to win the game. For Miami. Yeah, 2009 01:52:03.439 --> 01:52:06.279 I don't know how they handle that. I don't know 2010 01:52:06.319 --> 01:52:10.680 how they handle backs against the wall, struggling to score goals. 2011 01:52:12.359 --> 01:52:14.600 I don't know I will I don't know how that 2012 01:52:14.680 --> 01:52:15.920 fan base will handle it. I don't know how the 2013 01:52:15.920 --> 01:52:17.520 stadium will handle it. I don't know how it will 2014 01:52:17.560 --> 01:52:23.279 feel in the building. You guys know what a feeling 2015 01:52:23.600 --> 01:52:26.880 of that anticipation is in a building. You know it 2016 01:52:27.039 --> 01:52:31.439 from your roles. I know it from my role. It's 2017 01:52:31.720 --> 01:52:35.279 different in how it affects you on the field and 2018 01:52:35.800 --> 01:52:37.800 does it make you try to do too much? Does 2019 01:52:37.840 --> 01:52:40.239 it make you scared? Does it make you too tentative? 2020 01:52:40.880 --> 01:52:44.479 Does it in some For some players it makes them 2021 01:52:44.560 --> 01:52:47.479 rise to the occasion. I don't know. With some of 2022 01:52:47.520 --> 01:52:52.680 these guys, Messi, Suarez, Alba, They've risen to the occasion 2023 01:52:52.720 --> 01:52:55.359 so many times in these situations and they very well could. 2024 01:52:55.560 --> 01:52:58.319 And even if the young players around them struggle and 2025 01:52:58.520 --> 01:53:02.840 fall apart, Messi's good enough to win this, Like that's 2026 01:53:03.039 --> 01:53:05.479 just real talk. You have to try to take that 2027 01:53:05.520 --> 01:53:07.319 away from him. If you try to take Suarez away 2028 01:53:07.359 --> 01:53:08.880 in albow way, and that's three guys you got to 2029 01:53:08.920 --> 01:53:11.279 try to take away. But all them are capable of 2030 01:53:11.399 --> 01:53:14.319 rising to that occasion. The question is going to be 2031 01:53:15.439 --> 01:53:18.239 is the rest of the group capable? And even if 2032 01:53:18.279 --> 01:53:21.079 they can't rise to the occasion, can they prevent making 2033 01:53:21.159 --> 01:53:25.000 the mistake that ends up sending shockwaves to this league? 2034 01:53:25.319 --> 01:53:31.359 Because look, it's a it's not a question about who 2035 01:53:31.399 --> 01:53:34.520 the league office wants to win this game. And that 2036 01:53:34.560 --> 01:53:36.720 doesn't mean something's going to get tilted. That doesn't mean, 2037 01:53:36.760 --> 01:53:38.159 there's going to be a bad call here and a 2038 01:53:38.199 --> 01:53:43.560 bad call there. Those happen on their own, but everything 2039 01:53:43.640 --> 01:53:48.199 is against Atlanta United and they know that thought. Brad 2040 01:53:48.239 --> 01:53:50.720 Gazan's question about if there had been any punishment for 2041 01:53:50.800 --> 01:53:53.960 Miami coming out late for the second half was very 2042 01:53:54.039 --> 01:53:56.640 interesting because I think it gives you the mentality feeds 2043 01:53:56.640 --> 01:54:00.399 into the FBA attitude, doesn't it. That's something that Lanta 2044 01:54:00.479 --> 01:54:03.000 United's gonna feed on when those moments happen in the game, 2045 01:54:03.039 --> 01:54:06.560 and they will again it happens in a normal game 2046 01:54:06.880 --> 01:54:09.239 in May, it's gonna happen in this game too. There's 2047 01:54:09.279 --> 01:54:10.600 gonna be a bad call, There's going to be a 2048 01:54:10.640 --> 01:54:12.199 call that you think is a bad call. There's gonna 2049 01:54:12.199 --> 01:54:15.119 be something that drives you crazy for Atlanta that's going 2050 01:54:15.199 --> 01:54:19.640 to fuel them. I think, I really do so. I'm 2051 01:54:19.680 --> 01:54:21.760 not worried about the effects of those sorts of moments. 2052 01:54:21.920 --> 01:54:25.680 I am worried on the Miami side of how that 2053 01:54:25.880 --> 01:54:32.319 back line defends when their offense isn't getting goals, and 2054 01:54:33.159 --> 01:54:36.159 I don't think they handle it well. But Atlanta then 2055 01:54:36.439 --> 01:54:39.560 has to topple them over and they have to find 2056 01:54:39.600 --> 01:54:44.359 a way to be attacking enough and in the right 2057 01:54:44.479 --> 01:54:48.520 spots to punish Miami. If Miami comes out with the 2058 01:54:48.560 --> 01:54:51.199 same group and No Allen's at center back, Atlanta has 2059 01:54:51.279 --> 01:54:53.399 to find a way to get Crosses into Jamal Tira 2060 01:54:53.560 --> 01:54:57.479 matched up with no Allen and if then things move around. 2061 01:54:57.520 --> 01:54:58.960 I like No Allen as a player, He's just not 2062 01:54:59.000 --> 01:55:03.880 a center back. If Miami's able to adjust and get 2063 01:55:04.479 --> 01:55:09.720 Martinez or Aviles matched up on tra in those moments, 2064 01:55:10.079 --> 01:55:11.960 then Atlanta has to find the cut back to the 2065 01:55:12.000 --> 01:55:15.399 top of the eighteen, and it's gotta be Moranchuk coming 2066 01:55:15.479 --> 01:55:18.479 back across or one of the other central midfielders making 2067 01:55:18.520 --> 01:55:20.039 a run in. It very well could be a Tristan 2068 01:55:20.079 --> 01:55:22.439 Milliam Bah who I think finds those space as well. 2069 01:55:22.800 --> 01:55:25.680 You've got to exploit that. That is where Atlanta can 2070 01:55:25.760 --> 01:55:29.560 beat Miami. The flip side. You know how Miami can 2071 01:55:29.600 --> 01:55:34.079 beat Atlanta. It's talent. It's sheer talent with that attacking group. 2072 01:55:34.960 --> 01:55:37.159 It's finding that space at the top of the eighteen. 2073 01:55:37.239 --> 01:55:39.640 Atlanta has to be so dedicated to taking that away, 2074 01:55:39.840 --> 01:55:42.680 making Messi go wider to try to find opportunities, making 2075 01:55:42.760 --> 01:55:44.920 Suarez drift away from the middle to go try to 2076 01:55:44.960 --> 01:55:48.239 find opportunities, try to prevent Jordi Alba from killing you 2077 01:55:48.840 --> 01:55:52.119 and make it be one of the other seven guys 2078 01:55:52.159 --> 01:55:54.560 on the field. Try to take those three away as 2079 01:55:54.600 --> 01:55:56.920 best as you can. A lot of teams have tried it, 2080 01:55:57.239 --> 01:56:00.000 very few have done it over three games. We'll see 2081 01:56:00.000 --> 01:56:02.720 if Atlanta can do that. But in my opinion, the 2082 01:56:02.800 --> 01:56:06.000 other way is what we'll decide it. For Atlanta. They score, 2083 01:56:06.880 --> 01:56:09.279 it's gonna be hard for Miami to handle that. If 2084 01:56:09.439 --> 01:56:11.479 Atlanta can hold on for a long time. But if 2085 01:56:11.520 --> 01:56:15.359 Atlanta gets a goal, I think Miami's going to struggle 2086 01:56:15.399 --> 01:56:19.680 to handle that. Atlanta's gotta find ways to attack, not 2087 01:56:19.840 --> 01:56:23.439 all the time, not with abandon but in very intelligent 2088 01:56:23.520 --> 01:56:28.359 ways and punish this weak defensive group for Miami, and 2089 01:56:28.520 --> 01:56:30.880 we'll see if they can do it. Broadcast plans one 2090 01:56:30.920 --> 01:56:35.560 more time partner seven o'clock for the five Strips Countdown 2091 01:56:36.279 --> 01:56:39.319 eight ten. Allegedly, if Miami shows up on time for 2092 01:56:39.439 --> 01:56:44.119 the kickoff in Fort Lauderdale at Chase Stadium, we will 2093 01:56:44.159 --> 01:56:47.159 be on Star ninety four on your radio, ninety four 2094 01:56:47.199 --> 01:56:51.319 point one FM on the Odyssey app. Type in start 2095 01:56:51.359 --> 01:56:53.720 ninety four not hard to find. You won't be able 2096 01:56:53.760 --> 01:56:55.720 to listen to us on Apple. You'll have to sync 2097 01:56:55.840 --> 01:56:58.800 that up. Not too hard, you can handle that. Make 2098 01:56:58.840 --> 01:57:01.840 sure you're following Soccer down here on all of your platforms, 2099 01:57:01.880 --> 01:57:05.680 because we're going to have a ton of content. Barring 2100 01:57:05.800 --> 01:57:10.039 some late changes of things, we are sending the most 2101 01:57:10.279 --> 01:57:14.880 media to Fort Lauderdale to cover Atlanta United, maybe some 2102 01:57:15.079 --> 01:57:18.560 of the most media in terms of sheer numbers to 2103 01:57:18.800 --> 01:57:22.840 cover any Atlanta United postseason match in the club's history. 2104 01:57:23.640 --> 01:57:27.239 It doesn't happen without you guys consuming the content. It 2105 01:57:27.359 --> 01:57:31.880 doesn't happen without all of us being borderline insane. It 2106 01:57:32.119 --> 01:57:36.159 doesn't happen without the support that we have gotten from 2107 01:57:36.199 --> 01:57:40.359 you guys, from people like Kaiser Permanente, from Scott Flood, 2108 01:57:40.600 --> 01:57:44.119 you know, finding those partnerships for us. It doesn't happen 2109 01:57:44.239 --> 01:57:48.319 without the dedication of the people that are doing all this. 2110 01:57:48.600 --> 01:57:52.119 So there's going to be a lot of content starting 2111 01:57:52.319 --> 01:57:54.720 in the middle of the afternoon from Fort Lauderdale, all 2112 01:57:54.760 --> 01:57:58.359 over your Soccer down Here platforms. So hopefully you enjoy it. 2113 01:57:58.520 --> 01:58:01.399 Hopefully you are with it in spirit if you're not 2114 01:58:01.479 --> 01:58:05.560 in Fort Lauderdale, and it is an epic kind of 2115 01:58:05.640 --> 01:58:08.279 night in the history of this club. So I hope 2116 01:58:08.359 --> 01:58:09.720 that all of you enjoy it wherever you. 2117 01:58:09.760 --> 01:58:11.800 Are, all right, partner, I know the fourth held up 2118 01:58:11.800 --> 01:58:12.880 the lightboard a long time ago. 2119 01:58:12.920 --> 01:58:15.239 We'll see you down there in Fort Lauderdale. Audios. 2120 01:58:15.399 --> 01:58:18.439 All right, that's Jason. Jason has to like hop on 2121 01:58:18.520 --> 01:58:19.880 a plane and head south. 2122 01:58:21.680 --> 01:58:22.119 Four card. 2123 01:58:22.199 --> 01:58:25.039 Yes, there is no borderline. Yeah, we are all insane. 2124 01:58:25.159 --> 01:58:29.880 That is absolutely true. So yeah, we're we're sending the 2125 01:58:30.000 --> 01:58:35.319 SDH Army down to down to Fort Lauderdale. My flight lands, 2126 01:58:35.399 --> 01:58:37.359 I think Maddie's on the same flight that I'm on, 2127 01:58:38.439 --> 01:58:41.239 but my flight I think is either late morning or 2128 01:58:41.239 --> 01:58:43.319 early afternoon, and get down there about two thirty and 2129 01:58:43.760 --> 01:58:46.680 from that point, when we can get our plane phones 2130 01:58:46.680 --> 01:58:51.720 off of airplane mode and get to normal transmitting, that's 2131 01:58:51.760 --> 01:58:52.520 when things will start. 2132 01:58:52.600 --> 01:58:54.319 So we'll be down there for the whole experience. 2133 01:58:54.399 --> 01:58:57.439 And I'm still got to go and get a cover 2134 01:58:57.640 --> 01:59:00.560 and a protector for the new phone because I got 2135 01:59:00.600 --> 01:59:02.279 the wrong one. So I got to go to Best 2136 01:59:02.319 --> 01:59:05.720 Buy at some point today and get something that protects 2137 01:59:05.840 --> 01:59:09.000 the new phone because yeah, all that stuff that we 2138 01:59:09.119 --> 01:59:12.479 went through last night, Jarrett, and trying to get a 2139 01:59:13.159 --> 01:59:15.079 get a protective device, wrong wrong. 2140 01:59:14.960 --> 01:59:16.760 Size, wrong model. 2141 01:59:17.640 --> 01:59:20.399 Would you get the oh you got the nine. Did 2142 01:59:20.439 --> 01:59:21.880 you get like a nine instead of a nine pro 2143 01:59:22.039 --> 01:59:22.720 one nine? 2144 01:59:22.800 --> 01:59:27.720 It's the nine pro XL. Yeah, and so literally on 2145 01:59:27.880 --> 01:59:30.760 the on the box that is the that has. 2146 01:59:30.720 --> 01:59:34.119 The this is pixel. He's not buying an iPhone nine. 2147 01:59:34.359 --> 01:59:36.319 No, no, no, no, this is yeah, this is this 2148 01:59:36.479 --> 01:59:41.399 is Google Pixel nine Excel pro. This is me getting 2149 01:59:41.479 --> 01:59:45.319 into the twenty first century when it comes to phone manufacturers. 2150 01:59:45.359 --> 01:59:48.399 I went from Motorola to Google Pixel. 2151 01:59:49.399 --> 01:59:52.800 And so look, if you want a non bloat weird android, 2152 01:59:52.880 --> 01:59:55.199 Pixel is a good one for that. It's not gonna 2153 01:59:55.199 --> 01:59:57.319 have blot where it's going to have a clean copy 2154 01:59:58.319 --> 02:00:00.840 of the Android, and you're gonna get secured updates before 2155 02:00:00.920 --> 02:00:02.920 most other people do, so you'll be fine. 2156 02:00:03.119 --> 02:00:06.399 Yeah, so yes, in theory, So I go to best 2157 02:00:06.439 --> 02:00:10.479 Buy last night and I'm trying to find it. Literally, 2158 02:00:10.600 --> 02:00:13.079 I'm carrying my case that has the name of my 2159 02:00:13.319 --> 02:00:16.439 phone with me. So I'm not getting like the wrong 2160 02:00:16.439 --> 02:00:19.399 because Pixel nine versus Pixel nine XL and pro and 2161 02:00:19.439 --> 02:00:23.159 all these different things. Literally to the letter. I wanted 2162 02:00:23.199 --> 02:00:24.079 to know what I had. 2163 02:00:24.640 --> 02:00:27.039 Yeah, they over complicated it this year with their new 2164 02:00:27.119 --> 02:00:29.760 release and yeah, like a new model. 2165 02:00:30.880 --> 02:00:34.359 And so I go into best Buy with the information 2166 02:00:34.520 --> 02:00:36.520 that was on the box that had my new phone 2167 02:00:36.840 --> 02:00:38.840 that I pulled said new phone out of and have 2168 02:00:38.960 --> 02:00:44.520 been wandering around the house with and still got the 2169 02:00:44.600 --> 02:00:48.479 wrong carry case because it did not have the charging 2170 02:00:48.640 --> 02:00:50.000 It did not have the charge. 2171 02:00:49.960 --> 02:00:51.800 Port on the underside. 2172 02:00:52.920 --> 02:00:55.199 Even though it said it was the right box and 2173 02:00:55.279 --> 02:00:58.000 the right model, it did not have the charger entry 2174 02:00:58.079 --> 02:01:00.439 point on the casing. So I I have to go 2175 02:01:00.720 --> 02:01:08.760 back to Best Buy, exchange the case and start all 2176 02:01:08.800 --> 02:01:09.199 over again. 2177 02:01:09.479 --> 02:01:10.600 So yay me. 2178 02:01:10.880 --> 02:01:13.960 So I got to do that before Tonight's Carver Atlanta 2179 02:01:13.960 --> 02:01:16.960 Hatepril Charter game on GPBA, and it's going to be 2180 02:01:17.000 --> 02:01:20.479 a street fight. Yeah, and we'll be at Banneker at 2181 02:01:20.479 --> 02:01:24.479 seven point thirty seven region titles still to be decided tonight. 2182 02:01:24.520 --> 02:01:26.600 There's fifty one games in the state, about twenty five 2183 02:01:26.600 --> 02:01:28.239 percent of the schedule, and this is all of the 2184 02:01:28.359 --> 02:01:33.439 Hurricane Helene pushback that was postponed and eradicated bye weeks 2185 02:01:33.479 --> 02:01:37.399 and things like that, and so yeah, so I've got 2186 02:01:37.479 --> 02:01:39.720 to go there before I go to Bannaker, before I 2187 02:01:39.800 --> 02:01:42.039 hop on a plane tomorrow and we all head down 2188 02:01:42.079 --> 02:01:44.800 to Fort Lauderdale to get you ready for match Day 2189 02:01:44.840 --> 02:01:49.560 three involving Atlanta United and Messian Friends at the Erector set. 2190 02:01:49.720 --> 02:01:55.560 So we have we mentioned MLS bet Noods, FC, Cincinnati's 2191 02:01:55.560 --> 02:01:58.119 and minus one eighteen Purple Teams of minus one nineteen, 2192 02:01:58.239 --> 02:02:01.039 and they've upgraded Messian Friends to minus two fifty six 2193 02:02:01.079 --> 02:02:03.399 at Landy United by the way to win in ninety 2194 02:02:03.479 --> 02:02:06.079 minutes a plus five nine zero. 2195 02:02:07.920 --> 02:02:10.119 Sure, why not? You got some? You got some extra 2196 02:02:10.199 --> 02:02:11.479 juice boxes? You sit there now? 2197 02:02:11.520 --> 02:02:13.279 How much sure Halloween candy? You can throw a hundred 2198 02:02:13.279 --> 02:02:13.800 grand bar on. 2199 02:02:13.840 --> 02:02:18.119 That, absolutely absolutely true USL Championship. You're down to the 2200 02:02:18.159 --> 02:02:21.640 final eight out West Colorado Springs of minus one ninety 2201 02:02:21.680 --> 02:02:24.079 two hosting Orange County lou City of minus one forty 2202 02:02:24.119 --> 02:02:26.840 seven hosting Michael Parkhurst and his Rhode Island FC at 2203 02:02:26.840 --> 02:02:29.119 a plus three zho nine, New Mexico on the plus 2204 02:02:29.199 --> 02:02:32.399 side against Vegas in the one four in the in 2205 02:02:32.520 --> 02:02:35.479 that in that matchup plus one nineteen, Vegas of plus 2206 02:02:35.560 --> 02:02:38.640 one ninety two. Charleston and Tampa Bay at Patriots Point 2207 02:02:38.760 --> 02:02:43.199 on on Sunday. Charleston's minus one thirty two Tampa Bay 2208 02:02:43.279 --> 02:02:45.960 on the road is a plus two eighty five. So 2209 02:02:46.279 --> 02:02:50.039 you've got uh, you've got that there. USO League One. 2210 02:02:50.079 --> 02:02:53.039 They're down to the final four, Union Omaha and Greenville 2211 02:02:53.079 --> 02:02:56.079 on the left hand side, Union Omaha minus one eighteen. 2212 02:02:56.159 --> 02:02:59.279 Greenville's a plus two sixty seven. Spoke Can the seventh 2213 02:02:59.319 --> 02:03:02.479 seed that got the upset in the opening round knockt 2214 02:03:02.600 --> 02:03:07.039 off Northern Colorado at four rivers Spokane on the road 2215 02:03:07.119 --> 02:03:09.119 at Ford Madison is a plus four to twenty five. 2216 02:03:09.239 --> 02:03:13.199 Ford Madison is a minus one seventy nine. Ninety Minute 2217 02:03:13.279 --> 02:03:16.680 Draw is a plus two to ninety two. The MLS 2218 02:03:16.800 --> 02:03:19.680 Next Pro Cup And if you missed the interview with 2219 02:03:19.800 --> 02:03:21.880 Matt Denny the GM at North Texas SC that is 2220 02:03:21.920 --> 02:03:24.560 on the network, North Texas favored. It's at Toyota. It 2221 02:03:24.680 --> 02:03:27.199 is not at Chalktaw. If you go to Chalktaw you'll 2222 02:03:27.199 --> 02:03:30.840 be the only person there. It's at Toyota, North Texas 2223 02:03:30.960 --> 02:03:33.439 s C A plus one to eight. Hosting Philadelphia Union two, 2224 02:03:33.880 --> 02:03:36.239 who is at a plus two twelve. 2225 02:03:36.399 --> 02:03:38.760 So that real fun story out of Philly two, well 2226 02:03:38.920 --> 02:03:44.439 not fun, but really inspiring story out of Philly with 2227 02:03:44.640 --> 02:03:48.039 the tragedy that fulfilled that club for them to make 2228 02:03:48.079 --> 02:03:48.479 this run. 2229 02:03:48.880 --> 02:03:54.239 Yes, Orlando, it is a minus three seventy in the 2230 02:03:54.359 --> 02:03:57.640 NWSL taking on Chicago Red Stars only for the rest 2231 02:03:57.680 --> 02:04:00.680 of this season. Red Stars tonight or a plus eight 2232 02:04:00.760 --> 02:04:04.439 twenty seven. Orlando with the incredible run they had this year, 2233 02:04:04.439 --> 02:04:07.279 They're a minus three seventy Tomorrow at noon on Big CBS, 2234 02:04:07.399 --> 02:04:10.119 Kansas City Current at home of minus two thirteen hosting Courage, 2235 02:04:10.560 --> 02:04:13.840 who are a plus four seventy one. Trying to see 2236 02:04:13.840 --> 02:04:15.680 if there are any other leagues that I might have 2237 02:04:15.840 --> 02:04:19.600 missed while I was bouncing around looking at juice boxes. 2238 02:04:19.960 --> 02:04:21.319 USL Super League. 2239 02:04:21.359 --> 02:04:25.279 Tomorrow Carolina Santa minus one sixty nine hosting Spokane Zephyr 2240 02:04:25.800 --> 02:04:28.960 and Dallas Trinity, and minus one twenty eight at Lexington, 2241 02:04:29.239 --> 02:04:32.039 who is a plus two to seventy two. On Sunday, 2242 02:04:32.159 --> 02:04:35.199 Fort Lauderdale's a plus one fifty hosting Tampa Bay Sun, 2243 02:04:35.199 --> 02:04:38.199 who's a plus one sixty two. I think short of 2244 02:04:38.239 --> 02:04:40.359 the Premier League, that's all the news that's fit to print. 2245 02:04:40.399 --> 02:04:41.880 What else is on your mind before we get out 2246 02:04:41.880 --> 02:04:42.279 of here. 2247 02:04:42.640 --> 02:04:47.119 That's pretty much it. Yeah, it starts tonight at eleven 2248 02:04:47.119 --> 02:04:51.159 o'clock because MLS doesn't believe in reasonably timed games for 2249 02:04:51.199 --> 02:04:56.600 the East Coast. Yea god, let's have some. Let's have 2250 02:04:56.680 --> 02:05:00.600 some playoff chaos. Let's knock out some one seeds and 2251 02:05:00.880 --> 02:05:04.319 let's get weird with this. That requires Atlanta to do 2252 02:05:04.439 --> 02:05:06.119 their job, and it's going to be tough for them. 2253 02:05:06.279 --> 02:05:12.439 But you know, they've they've been playing against It's funny 2254 02:05:12.479 --> 02:05:15.960 they've been playing against They've been playing against the Grain 2255 02:05:16.079 --> 02:05:18.079 for the last month. And it's a club who for 2256 02:05:18.199 --> 02:05:20.159 most of their history has gone in as kind of 2257 02:05:20.199 --> 02:05:23.000 the favorites and the darlings. And now they've they've had 2258 02:05:23.039 --> 02:05:25.840 the shoe put on the other foot and they've embraced it. 2259 02:05:26.359 --> 02:05:28.920 I don't know how long that lasts. Like going into 2260 02:05:29.000 --> 02:05:33.039 next year, that roster, by all accounts, should be turned 2261 02:05:33.119 --> 02:05:38.239 over with more talent and be a favorite. So with 2262 02:05:38.479 --> 02:05:42.760 you becoming a favorite next year, this might be your 2263 02:05:42.840 --> 02:05:46.399 last chance to be able to play this card. But 2264 02:05:46.880 --> 02:05:50.560 you still got to play not completely reckless, but you know, 2265 02:05:51.159 --> 02:05:54.239 loose and kind of care free about it. Of you know, 2266 02:05:54.319 --> 02:05:57.840 we this is on you to lose, Miami, like we're 2267 02:05:57.880 --> 02:06:00.520 going to try and take it. You got to Atlanta 2268 02:06:00.560 --> 02:06:02.840 gets to go try and win this game. Miami gets 2269 02:06:02.880 --> 02:06:06.279 to go try and not lose it. It It kind 2270 02:06:06.319 --> 02:06:10.840 of has that feel of what could have happened in 2271 02:06:10.920 --> 02:06:13.600 the World Series if the Yankees knew how to field 2272 02:06:13.640 --> 02:06:17.079 a fly ball or a ground ball or And I'm 2273 02:06:17.159 --> 02:06:20.840 still not mad at Anthony Rizzo as much as I 2274 02:06:21.000 --> 02:06:27.079 am as much as I am Garrett Cole for not 2275 02:06:27.239 --> 02:06:31.920 covering first base. Everybody mad at everybody who was strictly 2276 02:06:32.000 --> 02:06:36.239 mad at Anthony Rizzo never had to do pitching fielding practice. 2277 02:06:36.640 --> 02:06:41.199 And it shows so much because if you had, you'd 2278 02:06:41.279 --> 02:06:44.039 know the pitcher sprinting to the line like that he 2279 02:06:44.119 --> 02:06:46.520 needed to get his ass up the line to cover 2280 02:06:46.680 --> 02:06:49.840 the bag and at least make himself an option. But 2281 02:06:50.319 --> 02:06:57.039 what you could have had is a situation where you 2282 02:06:57.239 --> 02:06:59.600 go back to LA and you put all the pressure 2283 02:06:59.640 --> 02:07:02.039 on that, where it becomes a LA has to just 2284 02:07:02.119 --> 02:07:04.960 try not to lose. Well, right now, it feels like 2285 02:07:05.079 --> 02:07:08.279 Miami has to try not to lose this series. 2286 02:07:08.640 --> 02:07:08.840 Yep? 2287 02:07:08.960 --> 02:07:11.159 Can they do that? We'll find out together, all right? 2288 02:07:18.920 --> 02:07:20.359 You know how we've been keeping an eye with Michelle 2289 02:07:20.439 --> 02:07:23.359 Kaufman and her two hundred and eighty character app what 2290 02:07:23.600 --> 02:07:29.199 happened training update, per Tozzo, Martino, Bousquets, Bright and Ruiz 2291 02:07:29.399 --> 02:07:34.239 all out. Busquet's a contusion the first playoff game led 2292 02:07:34.239 --> 02:07:39.399 to pneumonia like issues his return timetable is unknown. Johnick 2293 02:07:39.479 --> 02:07:43.760 Bright might be back next week if they advance. So 2294 02:07:44.720 --> 02:07:48.720 no Busketts, no Bright, no Ruiz for this matchup. 2295 02:07:49.439 --> 02:07:50.720 Okay, well. 2296 02:07:52.279 --> 02:07:56.359 Look everybody, yes, so that is the that's your update 2297 02:07:56.399 --> 02:07:57.960 before we get out of here. Like I said, well, 2298 02:07:58.000 --> 02:08:00.520 I'll be down there in Fort Lauderdale. It all out 2299 02:08:00.600 --> 02:08:03.720 for you. So that's your inner Miami update. Let's see 2300 02:08:03.720 --> 02:08:05.600 who the six is, Let's see who the back line 2301 02:08:05.760 --> 02:08:09.840 is as it Landy United makes their way down south. 2302 02:08:10.039 --> 02:08:12.560 So Jared, you know, it's that time on a Friday, 2303 02:08:12.640 --> 02:08:15.520 so that means, uh, we got to say goodbye, but 2304 02:08:15.600 --> 02:08:19.279 we got to say goodbye in a particular manner safe. 2305 02:08:19.319 --> 02:08:22.319 Everybody will see you from Fort Lauderdale. It's uh, it 2306 02:08:22.479 --> 02:08:24.960 is that day of the week, so we got to 2307 02:08:25.000 --> 02:08:28.520 go this way, see you later and maybe if I, oh, 2308 02:08:28.600 --> 02:08:30.760 I don't know, that's great. You know, you sit there 2309 02:08:30.800 --> 02:08:32.840 and you tease up everything and you forget to move 2310 02:08:32.920 --> 02:08:36.840 the volume up. Good job by me. Way to go, Nelson, 2311 02:08:37.560 --> 02:08:40.600 all these teases and you screw that damn thing up. 2312 02:08:41.359 --> 02:08:44.319 So let's try that again. Let's see if it recycled itself. 2313 02:08:44.399 --> 02:08:46.159 I doubt that it did, but once again, we'll see 2314 02:08:46.159 --> 02:08:48.239 it from Fort Lauderdale. We'll see you here on the cheese. 2315 02:08:52.039 --> 02:08:53.880 Stick it into our fingers. 2316 02:08:55.800 --> 02:09:04.560 Equipment, questions, papers sent electric shocks just through our body, 2317 02:09:04.800 --> 02:09:08.359 like a cattle prod out in the warehouse. The trucks 2318 02:09:08.800 --> 02:09:13.159 kept banging into the docks, not even thinking about stopping. 2319 02:09:13.680 --> 02:09:18.439 Our frail bodies were strapped to the chairs. 2320 02:09:18.359 --> 02:09:21.359 And our chairs were chained to the desks. 2321 02:09:22.600 --> 02:09:30.039 Our please for justice were ignored, and the end seemed near. 2322 02:09:31.800 --> 02:09:39.079 But we busted our save drivers, little bitty balls we've 2323 02:09:39.359 --> 02:09:43.079 judged high. Their breakftress the streets. 2324 02:09:43.600 --> 02:09:46.359 Our hearsty guys. 2325 02:09:47.359 --> 02:10:02.319 Yes, Friday, Fridayday, Fay Day, you didn't