Speaker 1: Blueberry hot sauce. Yay or nay.
Speaker 2: I don't usually nay until I taste it, but the
Speaker 2: description leads me to a nay, like I'm on the road.
Speaker 2: I'm on the I'm on the road.
Speaker 1: Tonay, Okay, I understood.
Speaker 3: I mean, I am readily an individual that I am
Speaker 3: not into hot food. I'm into hot sauces. I'm not
Speaker 3: into hot food. I mean full disclosure. Last night for dinner,
Speaker 3: the Boss made dinner.
Speaker 1: In the kitchen.
Speaker 3: We actually ate in the kitchen and we had we
Speaker 3: had chicken breasts and salads and things. And there is
Speaker 3: a high school football coach friend of mine who he
Speaker 3: has been experimenting on rubs and hot sauces because he's
Speaker 3: a big he's a big griller and he any fishes
Speaker 3: and hunts and those kinds of things, and so what
Speaker 3: he likes to do is he likes to go down
Speaker 3: the grilling path and try to come up with a rub.
Speaker 3: It literally took him fourteen years to perfect the rub
Speaker 3: that he got and it is insane and it is
Speaker 3: so hot for me that I barely can stand it,
Speaker 3: but it works very very well. I didn't That is
Speaker 3: one of the rare hot things that I will have
Speaker 3: in my kitchen, and there are plus ones that actually
Speaker 3: do make their own barbecue.
Speaker 1: Hot sauce too that we have as additions.
Speaker 3: Is I am not a hot food person, so I
Speaker 3: didn't know how random off the wall sauces would fit
Speaker 3: in your purview either.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I'm thinking, you know, blue you get
Speaker 2: some sweetness right from the blueberry, so almost like a
Speaker 2: hot honey type of feel to it. I guess right.
Speaker 3: Right, yes, And so that was where That's kind of
Speaker 3: where I was going with that this morning. And now
Speaker 3: since Tyler mentioned it, and I figured I would go
Speaker 3: ahead and bring it through with you and find out
Speaker 3: how you work with hot food. Speaking of which, how
Speaker 3: are you with things?
Speaker 1: Uh? Club World Cup? Yeah, your name sounds like the.
Speaker 2: First time, I think for the first time, I'm yeah,
Speaker 2: just because it's here. You know, it was it was
Speaker 2: always like this tournament of like six teams or eight
Speaker 2: teams and you knew two of them and it was
Speaker 2: in the middle of the night somewhere in Tokyo or like.
Speaker 1: It wasn't.
Speaker 2: Like it didn't appeal. But I think the fact that
Speaker 2: it's here, that that it's that has expanded, you know,
Speaker 2: group stage to kind of model the World Cup. I I, uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: let's see, let's see. I think I think it's interesting.
Speaker 3: And we were going over like some of the teams
Speaker 3: to look at and uh, just the novelty factor of
Speaker 3: having like Auckland and ol Sign and and River Plate
Speaker 3: and Boca Juniors and botha Fogo and all of these
Speaker 3: folks outside of you know, those of its that follow
Speaker 3: the game in Europe will say. I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: we've got some you know, you know, inter is a
Speaker 3: part of it, those kinds of things. So I think
Speaker 3: the novelty for me is part of the attraction to
Speaker 3: it all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think like the Benz has a few matches, right,
Speaker 2: I think I think that should be buzzing.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: We have Messi and Friends in Porto, we have Chelsea
Speaker 3: and lafc is the first one on the sixteenth, Then
Speaker 3: we have Messi and Friends in Porto on the nineteenth,
Speaker 3: and then we have in group stage man City and
Speaker 3: all Ayen is the late night match on the twenty second,
Speaker 3: and then we have three in the knockouts after that.
Speaker 1: So six total.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, So I think, yeah, like I'm not I
Speaker 2: think again, I think the novelty of it being an
Speaker 2: expanded tournament here. Yes, yeah, like, let's see, I'm interested.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, So All Star voting is going on
Speaker 3: for get another week. It closes a week from today.
Speaker 3: I wanted to get your storylines.
Speaker 2: I did. I did mine too. You know what I
Speaker 2: should have coordinated with you? I have like a screen
Speaker 2: grab you. Yeah, is there any way I could share that?
Speaker 1: You should?
Speaker 3: There should be a way to sit there and we'll
Speaker 3: just put up on your thing. All right, we can
Speaker 3: walk through the individual names because the top fives I
Speaker 3: think are posted. We can just walk through it that way.
Speaker 3: If you can't screen grab and post it, if you
Speaker 3: can just sit there and flip it on your on
Speaker 3: your just should be like a screen sharing function. I'm
Speaker 3: getting see me telling you about technology.
Speaker 1: This is rich.
Speaker 2: Oh I see share screen Yes.
Speaker 1: There you go. Yes, so uh get the document up. Yes,
Speaker 1: there you go.
Speaker 3: And so you get the get the document up, and
Speaker 3: so we'll walk through your your All Star ballot plus
Speaker 3: all of your other storylines that you have attached at
Speaker 3: the halfway point of Major League Soccer. So as you are,
Speaker 3: as you are attempting to share your screen, what are
Speaker 3: some of your big storylines so far here at the
Speaker 3: halfway point.
Speaker 2: Holy hell, no, it's like asking me to record this
Speaker 2: computer screen and audio.
Speaker 1: And that that what. We'll just walk through it. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll talk it through. How about that?
Speaker 3: No, no skin off of my nose. Me and technology.
Speaker 3: I try not to tempt I try not to tempt fate.
Speaker 2: All right, I was gonna hit cancel on this whole,
Speaker 2: this whole, So.
Speaker 3: We'll walk through it. Storylines here at the halfway point
Speaker 3: of the season for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think obviously it starts with Vancouver, right,
Speaker 2: like obviously the surprise favorites for the Shield at this point,
Speaker 2: I think you probably could have named four different teams
Speaker 2: who would who would be the favorites preseason that are
Speaker 2: in Vancouver. I don't know, I don't know where maybe
Speaker 2: tenth or so. Maybe preseason you would have had Vancouver
Speaker 2: in the Shield race. But yeah, here they are, right,
Speaker 2: and they've showed consistency, which is rare in MLS. It's
Speaker 2: it's so rare to get a team consistently good over
Speaker 2: multiple competitions, despite injuries, despite travel, and they've done that.
Speaker 2: So of course, now the question mark is Champions Cup, right,
Speaker 2: like can.
Speaker 1: Hey what the hell happened last week against Chrissul.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, you know, And and there's got to
Speaker 2: be now credit to Columbus last year because I do
Speaker 2: remember I was on their next match, which was at NYCFC,
Speaker 2: the first one back from from losing in the final.
Speaker 2: Uh and they won that match, and I think they
Speaker 2: went on on a bit of a run after that,
Speaker 2: and and they showed, you know that they were a
Speaker 2: championship caliber team. Uh And and they they managed that
Speaker 2: disappointment And it's such a it's such I think it's
Speaker 2: probably more mental than physical, although the physical part comes
Speaker 2: in too because again of all of everything that we
Speaker 2: mentioned about it.
Speaker 1: But the.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's now the question for Vancouver, right
Speaker 2: like what do they look like, you know, post run
Speaker 2: to to a to a final that where they fell
Speaker 2: so flat?
Speaker 3: Yes, and you wonder if the international break is a
Speaker 3: good thing for them so they can just kind of
Speaker 3: catch their breath a little bit for the second half
Speaker 3: of the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got Seattle coming up on what is that Sunday?
Speaker 2: But yeah, then then then a little bit of a
Speaker 2: break after that for sure. But then that's I think
Speaker 2: it's at a perfect time definitely.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh then if we're talking about Vancouver, then when I
Speaker 3: mentioned La g and just how crazy it has been
Speaker 3: to stare at them and go, you've got to be
Speaker 3: kidding me with this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and and and them too, like you gave him
Speaker 2: a little bit of a of the leeway, Like yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, Cup was incredible. We get it. You've you've
Speaker 2: lost some guys, you have some injuries. It'll take a
Speaker 2: little bit of time, but you know, not sixteen games
Speaker 2: worth of of not a half seasons worth of time, right, So.
Speaker 3: It's just it's you give up thirty six you find
Speaker 3: schlepp rocky in ways to lose matches. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: just it's you sit there and it's like, okay, so
Speaker 3: how you losing this one? You know, an og off
Speaker 3: of Yamane's back when he's not looking those kinds of things.
Speaker 2: And then even there too, like some some of their
Speaker 2: ogs were like spectacular, like like you couldn't if you
Speaker 2: try to have a a better og, like like they've
Speaker 2: managed to find the best possible ogs, like the most
Speaker 2: aesthetically pleas of the ogs.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Uh So, I mean you look at what you're seeing there,
Speaker 3: you know, Minnesota, who has you know? Like I said
Speaker 3: with Eric Ramsey, ball's got cooties, we don't care. And
Speaker 3: your third and you're only two points out of first
Speaker 3: San Diego, who I think a lot of folks were
Speaker 3: sitting there going, Okay, you're an expansion team.
Speaker 2: I'm not. Yeah, that's the that's the other one, right,
Speaker 2: like you you're asked me about like sort of surprises,
Speaker 2: that's the that's the other I think you you you,
Speaker 2: I think you include l A G obviously a bad surprise, right,
Speaker 2: but like I think they Coouver is a pleasant surprise.
Speaker 2: And and San Diego is the other biggest one in
Speaker 2: that there wasn't a lot of knowns before, Like everyone
Speaker 2: knew knew Chooky, but like who are these other guys? Right,
Speaker 2: who's this dryer guy? We don't know?
Speaker 1: You know, like you started a hunter in the nineteen eighties,
Speaker 1: that's what he.
Speaker 2: And uh, you know, but in a in a it's
Speaker 2: weird to say, because they're they're they're they've been struggling
Speaker 2: this year, but in a Saint Louis type of way.
Speaker 2: They established the way they wanted to play very early, right,
Speaker 2: and they and they stuck to that they got the
Speaker 2: pieces to play that way, and they've been great. They've
Speaker 2: been great through this first half of the season. So
Speaker 2: that definitely, you know another team that's been a big surprise. Uh,
Speaker 2: in a in a good way and and in a
Speaker 2: in a in a sort of after arc drunk socceryway.
Speaker 2: So hes San Jose, Right, they've been great. Yes, they
Speaker 2: lead the West, and goals for they're one of the most.
Speaker 2: And goals against. Why the hell not go over on
Speaker 2: the juice boxes every time they play a thing?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Absolutely true? Uh did Saint Louis? Did all Caps fire
Speaker 3: o luft Melbourg too soon?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: So you thought it was that bad even after fifteen matches? Yes, okay,
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you have to take a mulligan, I think with
Speaker 2: some of these.
Speaker 3: Well, but then all right, so we talked to the
Speaker 3: folks at ball watching in Saint Louis last week and
Speaker 3: we went down this, we went down this rabbit hole.
Speaker 3: But then how many mulligans does a guy like Lutzpan
Speaker 3: and Steel get. I'm with you on that, because you know,
Speaker 3: you bring in Carnel and rookie pitch your first time
Speaker 3: through the league, you know, you see what happens. You
Speaker 3: find out systemically that you're good in a one off,
Speaker 3: but in the best three you get found out. Then
Speaker 3: you come back season two and you come off to
Speaker 3: the slow start, You wig and you let Carnell go,
Speaker 3: and then you go through the rest of that year
Speaker 3: with injuries and such, and you don't make the playoffs.
Speaker 3: And now here in year three you're bringing all off
Speaker 3: Melbourg and he only lasts fifteen matches. How much of
Speaker 3: a leash does Fon and Steel get, Now.
Speaker 2: That's a great question. I think it will. I think
Speaker 2: it'll depend on what they look like going forward. And uh,
Speaker 2: you know, I get. I guess he's unless it's a
Speaker 2: very short leash, he's certainly gonna be in the in
Speaker 2: in the decision making process and a big way for
Speaker 2: the for the next.
Speaker 1: Coach, right you would think so.
Speaker 2: But that's where I think the short least comes in. Right,
Speaker 2: So we're gonna give you another chance hire this next guy.
Speaker 2: But that that's got a hit right away, I think.
Speaker 3: And speaking of Carnell, all of a sudden, he's in
Speaker 3: Philly and it is the Bradley Carnell Show, taking over
Speaker 3: for Jim Curtin, and you're four points clear of everybody
Speaker 3: else at the halfway point.
Speaker 2: In the East, another surprise. You know you thought Gazdag goes,
Speaker 2: selling curtain goes. It's gonna be a team that's gonna
Speaker 2: rely on largely on the on the academy, filtering up
Speaker 2: good players, and we're gonna we're gonna go on the
Speaker 2: cheap and see where that brings us. And Typeribo has
Speaker 2: been one of the best forwards to this point. Right,
Speaker 2: a Golden Boot contender had a red Hot Star. He's
Speaker 2: a guy who has a lot of like he scores
Speaker 2: his goals in bunches, so like when he gets on
Speaker 2: a run, he gets scored like eight goals and like
Speaker 2: a five game span. Right, So the young guys have
Speaker 2: all played too high levels. They've got some of the
Speaker 2: best eleven I think in a few different spots.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Kaive Wagner continues to be one of the best outside
Speaker 2: backs in the league. And and they're playing you know,
Speaker 2: they they've they've put all their cards in on energy
Speaker 2: drink soccer and it's and it's really benefited them.
Speaker 3: Well, so now then you look at Messi and friends
Speaker 3: and literally you don't know which one of them you're
Speaker 3: gonna get you're gonna get the you're gonna get angry,
Speaker 3: messy where you just basically take Columbus out back and
Speaker 3: sit there and uh, you know, lock the door and
Speaker 3: have them stuck in the backyard and the rainstorm and
Speaker 3: then no way to get back in the house. Or
Speaker 3: they're the club that gives up four or five and
Speaker 3: it turns into absolute chaos.
Speaker 1: Where are you leaning with them?
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's going to be sustainable with
Speaker 3: this kind of a pace, with the defense that we've seen,
Speaker 3: especially in a playoff series.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think with Miami, the one of the
Speaker 2: things they need to do.
Speaker 1: Stop scory that yeah.
Speaker 2: Is, uh, is to not be as messy dependent as
Speaker 2: they've been. Right. So it's not like, you know, like
Speaker 2: when Lebron was at his best, Right, It's it's like,
Speaker 2: give the ball to Lebron, clear out and let him
Speaker 2: do his thing. This is a sport with a much
Speaker 2: bigger field and and and and more than double the
Speaker 2: players as an NBA court, Right, So you can't just
Speaker 2: give the ball to Messi and then let him be magical,
Speaker 2: even though he can do that, right, Like, you've gotta
Speaker 2: you've got to not always force feed him the ball,
Speaker 2: I think, which is something that they've been doing a
Speaker 2: lot of, right, So I think I think that's that's
Speaker 2: one and you did mention another another important valuable for them.
Speaker 1: So let people score as much.
Speaker 3: Bill but soccer dot Com drop and by as he
Speaker 3: always does on Wednesdays. Okay, your top vote getters, Uh
Speaker 3: no no screen no screen saving needed. Yeah, sorry about
Speaker 3: that having different categories. And this is from first and foremost.
Speaker 3: Stop playing league all Star teams. Uh, from outside of
Speaker 3: your own league. Play yourself, make it, make you know
Speaker 3: the whole.
Speaker 1: Look.
Speaker 3: I just that that bugs me more than anything else.
Speaker 3: It's like, look, make it, make it your league, showcase,
Speaker 3: your players, have it be. You know, we we fixed
Speaker 3: the All Star Game back to back years and turned
Speaker 3: it into Royal Rumble and made it fun. And you
Speaker 3: know you're not sitting there and you know, raging about
Speaker 3: the format and what's going on.
Speaker 1: Top vote getters.
Speaker 3: We have the top fives with a week to go
Speaker 3: left before July twenty third, at Q two in front
Speaker 3: of a too small a crowd, And I do want
Speaker 3: to talk to you about Chicago and that news that
Speaker 3: came out yesterday before you get out of here. We
Speaker 3: have our top fives in the categories for top vote getters,
Speaker 3: and there are seven different categories.
Speaker 1: We'll start at the back and work our way forward.
Speaker 3: Keeper top five Gallesse Saint, Clair taka Oka, Martin Paz
Speaker 3: and Carlos Coronell.
Speaker 1: What say you, Dylan Butler?
Speaker 2: None of those other guy I picked?
Speaker 1: Who'd you pick?
Speaker 2: Matt Freeze?
Speaker 1: Ah? Okay, understood? Okay? And why sir?
Speaker 2: I think he's been nycfsc's best player and you don't,
Speaker 2: which also probably speaks to why they're they're middling in
Speaker 2: the middle of the of the Eastern Conference. You don't
Speaker 2: want your goalie to be your best player, but he
Speaker 2: has been. He's been excellent.
Speaker 1: Uh. So.
Speaker 3: Left back Jordi Alba, Kai Wagner, Max Arfsten, Ryan Hollingshead,
Speaker 3: Daniel Love.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, I've got Max Arsten there.
Speaker 1: Okay, understood? Uh?
Speaker 3: Center backs Tristan Blackman from Vancouver, Michael Boxall from Minnesota,
Speaker 3: Jacob Glesnis, Miles Robinson and Ranko Vesselnovitch.
Speaker 2: I've got black men and less okay?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Right back, and this one to me seemed like a
Speaker 3: bit of a slam dunk, although it did kind of
Speaker 3: as a Laine eight pick from the beginning of the year,
Speaker 3: Alex Freeman, Andy Nahar Mo, Farcie Griffin, Dorsey, Alex rolled
Speaker 3: on yeah Freeman, Yes, I had Freeman for me and
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I wonder how he is, uh
Speaker 3: you know, on on a on a vert route, you know,
Speaker 3: I wonder how he defends that way.
Speaker 2: And by the way, just as a disclaimer, yes for mine,
Speaker 2: MESSI didn't need my vote. Yeah, these guys needed my vote. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's let Messi's not part of my eleven.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Hey, look with with the understanding, he will be part
Speaker 2: of the eleven.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, he'll be like the special wildcard, kind
Speaker 3: of like when Johnny and Fantino announced Team thirty two
Speaker 3: in the Club World Cup, the world was shocked. Attacking
Speaker 3: mids Evander, Diego Luna, Christiana Spinosa, Lucco Acosta, Pep Biel.
Speaker 2: So the first team you mentioned those of my two Evander.
Speaker 1: And Luna, Okay, why over the others.
Speaker 2: I think a Vander, I think a Vander is in
Speaker 2: a MVP conversation and he's only going to get better.
Speaker 2: I think on that team, and Diego Luna is the
Speaker 2: best version of Diego Luna that we've seen. I think
Speaker 2: he's he's taken that next step to elite.
Speaker 1: So he's been awesome on a.
Speaker 2: You know, on a team that you would call bad.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 3: For ours, I was gonna say, yeah, four, ten and
Speaker 3: three at the halfway point. They've scored sixteen goals this year,
Speaker 3: and Diego Luna, I imagine, has had goal actions attached
Speaker 3: to most.
Speaker 1: If not all of them.
Speaker 3: Sixteen goals, twenty five allowed in seventeen matches, So that
Speaker 3: is a goal difference of seventeen and twenty five is
Speaker 3: one eight over seventeen. It's like one point five to
Speaker 3: five somewhere in there. But they're not even scoring a
Speaker 3: goal match and Diego Luna is When RSL is on
Speaker 3: and Diego Luna gets to show you the Diego Luna
Speaker 3: that we know is there, it's a fun watch. But
Speaker 3: for the most of the time this season RSL has
Speaker 3: not been a fun watch at all. Forwards, you mentioned
Speaker 3: the guy that doesn't need really anybody's vote, Baribou, Brian White,
Speaker 3: Danny Bologa, Onders Dryer.
Speaker 1: Where else did you go?
Speaker 2: I've got White, I understood, I've got I've got Barribo okay,
Speaker 2: and I've got Bowanga.
Speaker 3: Okay, uh, And I mean Dryer for me, got off
Speaker 3: to a hot start in San Diego, but he's kind
Speaker 3: of come back to the rest of the pack a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Inasmuch as San Diego has continued to be successful, Dryer
Speaker 3: has not helped me out in fantasy as much as
Speaker 3: he did at the beginning of the season that he
Speaker 3: has recently.
Speaker 2: So I think those front three, I think the front five,
Speaker 2: if you will, like those three positions of two attacking,
Speaker 2: those are the hardest. I don't think you mentioned, by.
Speaker 1: The way, because that's coming up next. Actually, uh.
Speaker 3: Sebastian bar Halter, Sergei Busquets, Jepe Taverskov, Darlington, Nagby.
Speaker 1: And our tour. Those are the top five right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, And obviously with what he has been able
Speaker 3: to do, he has taken national team spots away from
Speaker 3: other folks, and understandably so with the hot.
Speaker 1: Year that he has been having.
Speaker 3: So uh, that is the top vote getters, and how
Speaker 3: Dylan has coordinated his ballot as we go with a
Speaker 3: week to go left in the voting, it's according to
Speaker 3: the league, it's not too late to submit your picks
Speaker 3: and then they give you a link on the two
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty character app to do so before you
Speaker 3: leave us. This week, the new stadium deal that was
Speaker 3: announced in Chicago, we led with that yesterday on a
Speaker 3: bunch of different fronts. Joe Mansweto continues to invest in
Speaker 3: Chicago Fire. They've had to rearrange some dates away from
Speaker 3: Soldier Field and having to play I think three matches
Speaker 3: now in the remainder of their schedule at bridge View
Speaker 3: because of not you're not allowed to have matches within
Speaker 3: a certain window in and around a Bears game. So
Speaker 3: Joe Mansueta now sees this plot of land and now
Speaker 3: wants to invest I think in the neighborhood of six
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty million dollars to build a new stadium
Speaker 3: that I think is too small. He's looking at being
Speaker 3: at twenty two thousand. I think it needs to be
Speaker 3: closer to thirty. It would put him middle of the
Speaker 3: pack when it comes to capacity in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 3: I love the idea, I don't like the size.
Speaker 2: You said that about the you need a Dylan Butler
Speaker 2: states as well.
Speaker 1: Yes, you need to be thirty.
Speaker 3: I think you do if you want to in this
Speaker 3: day and age, in this day and age. When it
Speaker 3: comes to Major League soccer and the growth of it,
Speaker 3: I think it needs to be thirty thousand, I think,
Speaker 3: Dylan Butler estates, I think that your construction crew is
Speaker 3: selling yourself too short. And I think that the same
Speaker 3: right now is going on in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I honestly do. I think you've got to be thirty.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I can see both ways. I think
Speaker 2: thirty helped for a a Darby match, right, No doubt
Speaker 2: any of those international friendlies that will come in. But
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, like.
Speaker 2: Portland on a Wednesday night, you know you'll see more
Speaker 2: empty seats than I think the ones that are that
Speaker 2: are filled. So yeah, I could see it both ways.
Speaker 3: Okay, So here's here's here's here's my here, here's my
Speaker 3: empirical evening.
Speaker 2: And I don't think they come with I'm sure there's
Speaker 2: meetings and board rooms and charts and all kinds of
Speaker 2: xgsque type things that they get to that number. I
Speaker 2: don't think it's just dollars and cents thing.
Speaker 3: I think, Oh, I'm sure that it has to do
Speaker 3: with surface area and square footage and lining up everything
Speaker 3: and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So PayPal Park is.
Speaker 3: At eighteen, Subaru is at eighteen to five, Alliance is
Speaker 3: nineteen six, Audi is twenty lower, dot Com is twenty
Speaker 3: thousand and eleven.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the eleven. I don't know who
Speaker 1: came up with that one.
Speaker 3: Sandy Utah Rio Tinto's twenty thousand, two thirteen. Frisco right
Speaker 3: Now is at twenty thousand, five hundred before the renovation.
Speaker 1: Q two is twenty.
Speaker 3: Thousand and seven thirty eight, Stad Suputo is twenty thousand
Speaker 3: to eight oh one, Children's Mercy is twenty one. The
Speaker 3: Erector set is twenty one five point fifty before they
Speaker 3: move into Freedom Park, Bemo is twenty two, Helena Schelle
Speaker 3: is twenty two thousand and thirty nine, Energizers twenty two five,
Speaker 3: and Harrison, New Jersey is twenty five thousand.
Speaker 2: I like to twenty five. I think that's a good
Speaker 2: number for.
Speaker 3: You know, I can stipulate to twenty five. I just
Speaker 3: think that when they built in Saint Louis, I thought
Speaker 3: it was too small. But looking at the crowd last
Speaker 3: night for the probably hyperpriced Women's Friend with the upper
Speaker 3: deck was empty, and I mean it was, I mean
Speaker 3: it was m P empty that. I mean literally those
Speaker 3: two letters, capital letters. It was an empty it was
Speaker 3: an empty joint last night and Helena Sheell we talked
Speaker 3: to Glenn Davis before, and you got to attract folks
Speaker 3: to your products.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of leaving Houston out to the edges. BMO.
Speaker 3: I think that you've created supply and demand. I think
Speaker 3: that with twenty two thousand, you're creating a a ticket
Speaker 3: to get to because of what you've created on the field.
Speaker 3: Oh la la, LAFC.
Speaker 2: I hate it is so I was such a big
Speaker 2: fan of and I get it they needed to do it,
Speaker 2: but I was such a big fan of pre BMO
Speaker 2: Field renovation. Yeah, because you can see the CN Tower
Speaker 2: from the from the press box side, Yes, it was awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then they put the second stands in and you couldn't
Speaker 2: see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And so now BEMO Field is listed at thirty thousand,
Speaker 3: nine ninety one in Toronto. That's expandable to forty and
Speaker 3: I think that that's where they're going with that go round.
Speaker 3: But Lafc's right now is at twenty two or twenty one,
Speaker 3: at twenty two Children's Mercy Park. It depends. I think
Speaker 3: that with the crowd that you have in Kansas City,
Speaker 3: I think that they'll fill it when they're good. So
Speaker 3: twenty one for me, I get it. But I think
Speaker 3: that in this day and age, I think that you've
Speaker 3: got to be bigger because of wanting to bring folks
Speaker 3: in to see your product, wanting to continue to grow
Speaker 3: the game, have the space for friendlies and internationals and
Speaker 3: competitions and all those kinds of things. And so that's
Speaker 3: why I maintained that Dylan Butler Estates is too small,
Speaker 3: and I maintain that right now in its current form,
Speaker 3: the new Joe Mannsweto Estates is too small in its
Speaker 3: current in its current form, So, like I said, that's
Speaker 3: just me venting my spleen. I want the game to grow,
Speaker 3: and I want it to be in venues where you're
Speaker 3: not creating supply and demand issues all the time or
Speaker 3: thinking that you've got to have the live work play
Speaker 3: environment right up against the freeway and moving train tracks
Speaker 3: and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that that's forever balance, right, like the
Speaker 2: supply and demand versus Wow, there's a lot of empty
Speaker 2: seats here tonight, Yes, Like did we build this too big?
Speaker 1: You kind of like Energizer Park in St. Louis after
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 3: So are you do you get a high school weekend
Speaker 3: off to do more lacrosse and things or are you
Speaker 3: on the desk this weekend for the half schedule?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So my lacrosse broadcast thing is I have like one,
Speaker 2: like a one like a late June showcase. But done? Okay,
Speaker 2: good to go. We did. We did nine games last week.
Speaker 1: So massive ending of the Dylan Butler lacrosse three.
Speaker 2: Different classifications, semi finals, finals, thankfully all we're at Hopstra,
Speaker 2: which is a terrific It's become a terrific one of
Speaker 2: the best lacrosse specific facilities in the in the country,
Speaker 2: so great press box, the whole thing that comes with it.
Speaker 2: So that ended on Saturday. So I did. So I
Speaker 2: had three lacrosse game Saturday. First game it was like
Speaker 2: a ten in the morning that one goes to overtime
Speaker 2: then h then after that I come home and do
Speaker 2: my Saturday MLS shift, which included of course the l
Speaker 2: a f C Clube America game. So Sunday I was
Speaker 2: mostly shot. Wasn't on Sunday, so no no broadcasts, no
Speaker 2: Saturday night shift this week.
Speaker 1: Yay.
Speaker 2: So I will I will be on Sunday though.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you got you got the Sunday shift. As always,
Speaker 3: my friend, great to see you, Great to catch up
Speaker 3: with you. Obviously we get out of the international window,
Speaker 3: we'll start talking about stuff coming up next week and
Speaker 3: especially Atlanta United heading to uh the the sand Pit,
Speaker 3: the sandbox, the U twelve pitch playing next Thursday as
Speaker 3: Atlanta United goes it takes on the Matt Freeze led NYCFC.
Speaker 3: As always, my friend, great to see you. Reach out anytime.
Speaker 3: You know that you've since you've got the keys to
Speaker 3: the front door in the garage door opener, you know
Speaker 3: it can crash it anytime.
Speaker 1: It's always great to see in, my friend,