Full Transcript for October 19, 2026: Hanks for the Point

this year. Yeah. And, you know, it seemed like they they spent a lot of money for her. Ton of money on her. Mhmm. You know, trying to shore up, some of their weaknesses. Mhmm. You know, maybe that's something that Thorns should think about doing. Yeah. I mean, we haven't made any corrections to our roster. I think we just have some... I don't know if it's the owners, but like the GM, nigga, you cheap as fuck. 00:06:17.004 --> 00:06:21.805 You cheap as fuck. Spend some fucking money. Stop getting these little band aids. 00:06:22.829 --> 00:06:34.990 Okay? Moving on. My bad. I will have a few of those. We also... Okay. So, yeah, let's just talk about the game. So Weaver got her second goal of the season ten minutes in off of We started off this game strong. It was great. 00:06:35.894 --> 00:06:45.495 And the first couple minutes were jarring. We needed to settle. After we settled, we're like, okay. Let's kinda just play our game. We got a really nice Nijstad cross... 00:06:45.495 --> 00:07:04.814 Or not cross, but a really nice assist right to Weaver. One touch right in. Happy birthday, Weaver. Congratulations on that goal. I mean, also happy birthday, Reilyn Turner. Yeah. But, you know Two birthdays on the Yeah. Two birthdays. Yeah. Cool to see. It's exciting. They did have different games. And Weaver got a goal on a birthday. That's exciting. You know? 00:07:06.415 --> 00:07:21.439 Yeah. But also, like, we have an early goal curse. I feel like now when I see the Thorns score early, I'm even more worried. Yeah. It's even, like, worse off. Like, Denver... Like, how many games? Like... 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:30.480 Anyways, so, yes, we do have a little bit of a early girl goal curse. 00:07:31.194 --> 00:07:55.829 That fucking sucks. So we had that ten minutes, we're looking good. Mhmm. And then, you know, even before, anything happens, you know, we're still looking good, and then, there's a penalty. Mhmm. And we're waiting on the penalty. Right. VAR is looking at it. Mhmm. And so what what did you do while this happened? Oh, I saw that there was gonna be a penalty, I removed removed myself and went to go smoke outside. 00:07:56.069 --> 00:07:59.430 Yep. So you, you texted me, I think, fuck. Yep. 00:08:00.204 --> 00:08:08.365 And so then we were waiting and waiting, and then the penalty got overturned, and I texted you, yes. 00:08:08.925 --> 00:08:10.444 And you didn't see it. 00:08:10.925 --> 00:08:39.879 Then you came in, and what what else happened in those, like, two minutes? Well, they scored and so I came in and automatically thought that we scored the PK and I texted Alan back, what's yes, Alan? What's yes? And then I looked and Then you put it together and I was realized...... And like, oh, right, right, right, right, right. There was no PK. There was no PK. They just... They scored right after it anyway, Yep. It looked like it was... There's nobody's fault, but it did look like it was MA's problem again. So... 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:54.634 You know, it's a whole team. Yeah. It's a whole team, but there are these little mistakes. I feel like, what the fuck are we fucking doing? And we'll talk a little bit more about what's wrong in the back. Yeah. 00:08:55.995 --> 00:08:56.794 True. 00:08:58.315 --> 00:09:06.149 That then tied it up. We're going to half tied up, and then Bay scores again. Yeah. 00:09:06.710 --> 00:09:30.384 Fuller scored again. Fuller has been actually doing really well, and this is... Think we... Before we played Bay this last time, I think we were talking about like, or maybe we didn't play them, but I've been talking about them and I'm like, they shouldn't be this low. They have great players. They're... They shouldn't be this low on the totem pole. Like, they're great. 00:09:30.384 --> 00:09:42.210 You know what I mean? And so, yeah, so Fuller scores at the sixty seventh minute, from the top of the box over Arnold because somebody was off their line again. 00:09:43.009 --> 00:09:52.024 Girl, if you're gonna be aggressive, be aggressive, but you can't just be chilling, like, six, seven yards off the line when players... 00:09:52.345 --> 00:10:31.450 Scouting and analytics is real. You don't think all the forwards watch watch you, Maca, game footage of you being off your line and being... Seeing where you are, seeing what you're not good at, teams know it. Yeah. Teams know it, and we're getting punished for it. I mean, like, everybody's getting scouted, but... We even saw it last week on the break. Yeah. She was she was off her line. Yeah. Dude, those... That Germany game was rough. That was really rough. And she's just, yeah, she's just off her line. While she's great, great goal... Great goalie, you know, good goalie now, great goalie a while ago. 00:10:32.090 --> 00:10:34.730 I do think it's time for us to put Messner in. 00:10:36.889 --> 00:10:39.610 Shake it up, move some things around. 00:10:39.850 --> 00:11:34.519 She had a great couple games for us at the beginning of the year when Mackenzie Arnold was at the Asian Cup. We haven't seen her play in a while. No. We haven't seen her play in a while, but she played actually really, really well. And I feel like we know what we're gonna get from Mackenzie Arnold, like, let's see what we can get. I mean, obviously, if we're... If we make it into playoffs, like, we need... I don't know if they wanna mix that up so much, but I don't know. She just doesn't communicate out there. She's not controlling her players, her... Like, you know, like, hey, Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark, you know, when somebody's opening the box, like... Well, you know, we'll get into that even more in our next segment. But then we hit the eighty fifth minute, and that apparently is when Hanks scoring ability turns on. Yeah. We've seen her twice this year score after eighty five minutes. So this time it was in the eighty sixth minute. 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:41.815 She follows up on her own rebound and scores that tying goal and... And she's our

savior. 00:11:41.815 --> 00:12:12.715 Alright. So... Yeah. So, Caiya Hanks, she's our golden our golden goose at this point. She saved us, got us a point this game, and then back on August 15, she got the game winning goal in her fucking return match against Orlando. So Caiya Hanks be saving us left and right, and also, like, she's only a couple games in. I feel like she's so fast. She's doing well. Like, I feel like we're we're just... If this would've been, her back. Yeah. So good to have her back. So good to have her back. Alright. 00:12:13.434 --> 00:12:15.995 So let's talk about also Dufour. 00:12:16.315 --> 00:12:36.855 Yeah. We got Dufour back. It's been a really long time since she's been on the field and this is... I mean, obviously, besides, Bella Bixby and Olivia Moultrie, this is the healthiest I feel like our rosters looked. We do not have our... We got people coming off the injury list. Our availability report is not a paragraph anymore. So I feel like this is good. I'm excited. 00:12:37.335 --> 00:12:42.774 It is the end of the season though, you know, we got a lot. Hopefully, we're just in time. Yeah. Hopefully, we're just in time. 00:12:43.335 --> 00:12:47.335 Just in time. Mister time. Mister Justin time. Mister time. 00:12:47.820 --> 00:12:48.620 Justin time. 00:12:49.419 --> 00:12:56.059 Alright. Well, let's talk a little bit more about, what's going on in the back and what we need to, do to fix it. Okay. 00:13:01.740 --> 00:13:02.139 Alright. 00:13:03.115 --> 00:13:10.235 Defense was not good. It's been getting better, but it's not good. We're still not there. We're still not there. 00:13:10.634 --> 00:13:14.634 We need a six, and we need a center back. 00:13:15.514 --> 00:13:21.409 We got Perry, but Perry is great. Perry is also young. 00:13:21.730 --> 00:13:25.330 Perry is also slow ish. I... 00:13:25.490 --> 00:13:32.129 You can't call a professional athlete slow. She is fast compared to yes. But comparatively to people running by her, she is slow. 00:13:32.735 --> 00:13:39.534 We need somebody seasoned. We need somebody that is used to being a center back. We need somebody back there with her. 00:13:39.934 --> 00:13:41.934 We need a six. 00:13:42.335 --> 00:13:53.519 Flem is not a six. Nijstad is not a six. Tordin is not a six. We do not have a six. They're great players. The six is a defensive midfielder. 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:54.399 A six? 00:13:54.720 --> 00:14:01.360 Okay. Also, anytime we talk about Sam Coffey in this podcast today, we can drink. So, Sam Coffey Drink. 00:14:02.875 --> 00:14:10.154 Sam Coffey is the reason why our defense didn't look like doo doo last year when it should have because it's the same with the players. 00:14:11.355 --> 00:14:48.100 We need a defensive midfielder. A defensive midfielder is the beginning of our defense. It's... Okay. You know, midfield's the the glue that holds offense and defense together, but the defense midfielder is even, I feel like, more important, especially with somebody that struggle... With our team that struggles with defense. It is so important. It's the rock, like... So... Okay. So look. It's the six defensive midfield, two midfielders, them moving around like that. That's that's what you need. I was doing a You did some hand gestures. I did some hand gestures, Alan. Fairly vulgar, to be honest, but, I think it it... 00:14:48.340 --> 00:14:51.700 I don't know. I I don't think the listeners missed, too much. 00:14:52.419 --> 00:14:54.500 We're scissoring on the podcast. 00:14:54.980 --> 00:15:11.115 But, yeah, it just, something something needs to change. We're... The owners... Not the owners. I'm... That's cool. They've been doing great with the fire. Thanks for the training facility. Spend some fucking money and get us some fucking players that we need. 00:15:11.970 --> 00:16:09.355 Nina Nijstad, that's great. Thank you so much. Thank you for keeping Tordin on. Thank you for keeping Reilyn on. Thank you for keeping Flem on. That's great. Sign some more fucking players. When's the last time you guys spent a chunk of money? We haven't seen We haven't any big changes. We've seen people coming off the list. Yeah. And I know that not we... Not every team needs all stars or anything, but the last big player that we had was like Sam Coffey and she's gone. Sorry. Cheers. But, like, that's that's it. Like... And now, I really... I I made the... I made the hard argument that Soph isn't going anywhere because she is comfortable up here. This is... You'd... Like, a new place to live, a new city, a new coach, a new coaching style, new this, new this, new this, new this. But goddamn, if nothing's pointing to this is what's happening, I think Soph is leaving. I think that they found out in the middle of the season and that's what the ripple is on the team because the team is not there. Vilahamn does not have this team. 00:16:10.500 --> 00:16:28.835 Like, also, I was... I'm trying to be positive. I'm trying to be pro Vilahamn, but, like, nothing good has happened. Nothing good has happened. Anything good has happened is because we have a fucking great roster on paper, but he's not making us jealous as a team. It's not happening. It's... 00:16:29.075 --> 00:16:35.235 And I know he's new to the seat... New this year, but goddamn. Goddamn. 00:16:35.794 --> 00:16:46.919 Goddamn. Yeah. No. It's been a it's been a rough year. And, you know, Brooke is pushing back I know. Saying that nothing good has happened is a bit strong. We are seventh. Yeah. We're inside the line. 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:48.840 One win clinches it. 00:16:49.559 --> 00:17:06.414 But, you know, again, we we had some crazy crazy shit going on where we should've won some of these games, and we've just fallen apart. And so, you know, let's talk about Soph a little bit more here in a few minutes, but let's focus right now on the back, on the defense. 00:17:07.569 --> 00:17:17.410 Mhmm. You said we should put Messner in, but this is... So Arnold has seven

clean sheets this year, which is her career high. Mhmm. 00:17:18.049 --> 00:17:21.410 Granted, team has... Two Messner and only played three games. 00:17:22.154 --> 00:17:30.474 Okay. That that is fair. And Arnold has not had a single clean sheet, in about two months. Yeah. Like... But also, 10 players in front of her. 00:17:31.994 --> 00:17:35.194 They... You know what I mean? But also Yeah. Some of those goals... 00:17:35.434 --> 00:17:44.420 Reach your hand out, girl. Maybe just fall, drop to the left a little bit. Put your right hand out or stay on your line or come out aggressively. 00:17:44.819 --> 00:17:57.835 And she has smart she comes out aggressively, she is great. Like, you know, she's had, an assist this year. It's confidence. It's confidence. I And feel like sometimes she has confidence and then sometimes she lacks it. Like that fucking Boston game. 00:17:58.154 --> 00:18:08.369 Oh my god. When we collapsed, we remember we were... It was two zero, and then was two one, and then it was three, and then we got that goal. And then it just just... It makes for good drama, Okay. 00:18:10.769 --> 00:18:24.525 So what we've been seeing though is we're still playing well at home. We're we're giving up a lot more goals away than we are at home. Mhmm. We're not winning a lot at home, but we're tying a lot more. We're we're still doing alright at home. 00:18:24.765 --> 00:18:28.365 We've only lost two games at home this year. Yeah. It's... 00:18:28.605 --> 00:18:30.365 So...... Spirit and then Boston. 00:18:31.244 --> 00:19:01.075 So does that have anything to do with it? Is it, you know, are we... We've talked about the the home versus away issue before, and, you know, we do great at Providence Park. But is that something we really need to work on is just our away performance, or do we really need to rework our defense? We just need to rework our defense. It doesn't matter where we play. Like, so Audi... So Washington Spirit, Rowdy Audi, that's like second... I think that's the second coolest, probably best environment attendance, everything behind us, Thorns. 00:19:01.315 --> 00:19:51.244 And they've been cursed. Rowdy Audi has been cursed this year. They have not been doing well at home, and they're still fucking number two or number three in the league. They just beat Gotham this year. So it doesn't matter where you win. You just need to kinda try to win. Do you know what I mean? But I will say for Providence, players everywhere know it's loud. You know what I mean? It is. Yeah. When you're trying to get a tactic from somebody, you're like, wait. What? You know? Like, it's... You know? Like It's something you have to adjust to if you're not used to it. Yeah. So... Okay. So it's kinda going on a little random tangent. So w... WNBA, Valkyries and the Dream. There... It's like the WNBA finals. If you guys aren't tuning in, it's tonight. Yeah. Or the second game is tonight. It's so much fun. I bet you a lot of you guys have been But... So after

the first game in in in the bay, Golden State won, they beat Atlanta. 00:19:51.325 --> 00:20:19.545 And Gabby Williams was saying, she's like, yeah. Sometimes it's just like hard to hear. I mean, we love it. We love it. It's loud, but, like, it's hard to hear. So sometimes like it could be a positive and a negative, like like if us Thorns are down and we need like tactics and we need to be communicating, maybe that's not so... I mean, obviously, we're gonna be loud as fuck as Providence. We're not gonna be trying to be quiet at all. But I'm just saying that like it is jarring for everybody when you can't hear when you can't hear yourself think, when you're like, what? Like... 00:20:20.664 --> 00:20:40.259 You know? And so... Yeah. But I think it's not a Providence Park problem. It's just a Us problem. We just... We we need to win everywhere. Like, we can't just depend on Providence Park to pick up points because at the end of the season, it turned that it wasn't a thing. Yeah. And, you know, we were talking about, Hutton for Bay earlier. You know, they picked her up for 1,100,000. 00:20:40.259 --> 00:21:11.589 You know, they saw a problem. They, you know, got somebody to fill it. Also Do we need to do the same thing? Seemed like it. Paul Green as their director of sports... Sporting. I think Brooke and, I don't know the exact name of that. Paul Green was in charge at Chelsea for the same thing, the women's Chelsea team, and brought, like, so many titles to that team. So he is in charge of, like, coach, players, everything. Like, everything's kind of underneath him. Like, he does this. Pinocchio ing it. 00:21:13.375 --> 00:22:09.470 So Bay about the hand gestures today. Yeah. And also Bay just got Jenna Nighswonger back. She was... She played back over on... She play... She crossed the river, the pond, the ocean. She played for Arsenal, wasn't getting any time over there, then she played for Aston Villa, and then arse... On, like, on a loan, and Arsenal gave her up. And so now she's back in The States. And she was... She run rookie of the year with Gotham a couple years ago. She was... She won a gold medal with, like, The USA. She was doing so awesome and then thought she was gonna go to Arsenal, played there a year, got zero time, and then went to Aston Villa. So now she's back. And with Bay... And I I kinda forgot I kinda forgot that she wasn't, I forgot that she was with Bay because I was like, oh, Claire Hutton's our best player. I was like, oh, no. We have... She... They have, like, one of the better defenders and Jenna Nighswonger back, and that's really exciting. I think That is. We are all very excited to have Jenna back on this. 00:22:10.565 --> 00:22:14.484 Alright. So that tells us a bit about what's, wrong on our defense. 00:22:14.805 --> 00:22:23.525 But as we've gotten into a couple of times now, let's talk what's going on up at the front, and, let's get into our gossip girl mode. 00:22:28.940 --> 00:22:31.660 Hey, girl. Hey. Time for gossip hour. 00:22:35.420 --> 00:22:44.644 Damn. Every time I do that, it fucking spills on me. It's covered in vodka. Okay. So gossip hour. I think we've kind of already talked about it through the thing. 00:22:45.765 --> 00:22:49.045 Couple episodes ago, I went heavy on this... 00:22:49.125 --> 00:23:09.134 The fact that Soph or anybody for that matter that's trying to make the World Cup roster next year or is on... Gonna be on the World Cup roster, the last thing they're gonna wanna do is change up their life. Change of team, change of coach, change of weather, change of city, change of friends, change of everything. Lifestyle. Lifestyle. 00:23:09.134 --> 00:23:35.924 Yeah. Everything changes. To a new team is a big a new team is huge. What did that team want for with us, you know, for a while, but her drafted her. But her contract only runs through this year. Yeah. Yep. And she hasn't re-signed. And a lot of players have re-signed. Like, Gotham has re-signed their hot heavy hitters, like Sonnett, Rose, like, Casey, everybody's re-signing their players, and Soph just hasn't signed. 00:23:36.724 --> 00:24:29.575 She's been with us for all 102 of her NWSL regular season games. We drafted her. We won a fucking... We won a championship with her. You know? Like, she's the only player to win... To have double digit goals in every season she's played. There's... Alright. So tell me what what's she doing? I don't know. I think that maybe she's shopping around to get more money, and I know that, like, her husband plays, gridiron football, and he just signed, like, a $75,000,000 deal. So I don't know if they're poor, but also I know that, like, as her, like, you wanna... I wanna make as much money as I can. I don't care what this what he this nigga making. Sorry. I'm black, by the way, you guys didn't know. I'm black. But anyways, I don't care what this nigga making. I need to make my money, you know. And so maybe she's shopping around because this is her as a free agent. She hasn't been there. She's been with us. So maybe she's trying to see what's out there. Alan. 00:24:30.855 --> 00:24:45.069 Alan got giddy when I said niggas. You guys... I just started laughing at you for trying to justify it. I know. Know. I'm like, I'm black. I'll show up. I can show my skin color on the next episode. You've you've been on our Instagram. Yeah. You guys have seen. Yeah. I've black arms. 00:24:45.470 --> 00:25:04.174 It's also not the first time you said it this episode, but you told me you were you were gonna try to start taking it back. I know. Well, I stopped saying it because Tracy says it all the time and I'm like, damn, that person sounds dumb. He's like, I don't need to be saying this word, but I'm passionate today. I'm feeling it today. 00:25:06.894 --> 00:25:08.575 So own it for yourself. Niggas in Paris. 00:25:11.349 --> 00:25:12.549 Anyways, okay. 00:25:13.109 --> 00:25:14.150 Circling back. 00:25:15.509 --> 00:25:36.855 Yeah. We don't know what she's

gonna do. I would think that it would have been announced by now, but also, like we said, this is gossip hour. Don't listen to us. Don't listen to them. But that's why they're here, is to listen to us drink and talk shit. Oh, it didn't spill. Didn't spill. There we go. 00:25:37.255 --> 00:25:37.815 Yeah. 00:25:38.134 --> 00:25:58.434 So why hasn't she re-signed? Even if not from a route, all of us Thorns players are... I don't wanna say frothing at the mouth. That sounds foul and something like male men would do, but I'm, like, waiting, dripping to hear the news that she re-signed. 00:25:59.234 --> 00:26:09.309 Or any news at this... If this... Oh, Soph is going to Mars and starting a new soccer team in Mars. Okay. Just let us know what's going on. I don't care. Good good for her. Let us know. But I don't know... 00:26:10.829 --> 00:26:23.174 Also, off topic, kind of, not really, the NWSL season starts in February next year. That's... Coming because of the World Cup. And so, like, that's in a couple months. 00:26:23.414 --> 00:26:30.694 Girls are gonna get no time off. They're gonna have December, January, and then preseason starts. 00:26:30.775 --> 00:26:39.960 So So if you're gonna make a change, you gotta do it here very soon. Yeah. Or don't change, Soph, stay with us and... Or... 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:42.920 Owner's like, what are you doing? 00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:45.400 I'll start a GoFundMe. 00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:49.160 We'll pay... We can we can all personally pay to get Soph still here. 00:26:50.414 --> 00:26:54.974 If every Portland resident gives a dollar... Mhmm. 00:26:55.295 --> 00:27:06.519 Dude, I even have... Well, so my friend is like in high end real estate and like sells like really like million dollar homes and condos and I was like, can you like let me know if you see anything by a Wilson family being sold? 00:27:08.039 --> 00:27:13.079 Like, let me know.... Inside you. Yeah. Like, put your... Because I mean, that's what reporters do. We... 00:27:13.720 --> 00:27:58.640 Are we? Maybe we are reporters, but like that's what we do. Boots on the ground, I'm gonna find out. Not anything personal information. I won't... Should we cut this? Jesus. I'm talking about finding... No. Yeah. Fuck it. We're gonna find out, Soph. Don't be selling your house. Stay here. We love you. Yeah. We'll fire Vilahamn. Get rid of Vilahamn. Keep you, Soph. We don't need a coach. What about Sarah Lowdon? She was great. She's... And the only reason we didn't sign Sarah Lowdon is because she was next in line like fucking Rob Gale and Rob Gale suck dick so fucking much. There's nothing wrong with sucking dick. But from my point of view, sucking dick's not cool. So not not in, not not something we would wanna do. So he suck dick. Maybe not you. And he would wear these fucking like five piece suits when it's 90 degrees and he's just sweating like a motherfucking idiot. Put a fucking t shirt on you fucking piece of shit. 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:06.799 Anyways, The moving NBA where every... Everyone on the sidelines is wearing suits. Yeah. You fucking loser. 00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:19.015 Brooke is doing her hot take on you and saying that Soph exercised a $1,000,000 player option for 20 Yeah. 26 which was an NWSL record. 00:28:19.255 --> 00:28:21.015 So good luck, Marissa. 00:28:21.734 --> 00:28:28.089 I'd wait for the Houston, November 1 before you start the GoFundMe. Also, the next one is she was like, you guys should definitely cut that out. 00:28:29.049 --> 00:28:29.609 I... 00:28:29.930 --> 00:28:35.609 Yeah. She... That's fair. Brooke has... Also, because I named my friend also that's, like, the realtor. 00:28:36.089 --> 00:28:41.609 We'll bleep out your friend's name Okay. And we'll leave the rest in. Yeah. Because we'll find out. So we'll find out. 00:28:43.394 --> 00:28:46.355 Alright. Well, I think that's enough, gossip for today. 00:28:46.914 --> 00:28:51.075 So let's, find out kinda what's... What else is going on, on the table. 00:28:56.660 --> 00:28:57.539 Alright. 00:28:57.859 --> 00:29:13.575 And now everybody's favorite segment. Well, personally mine, and actually, this isn't Alan's favorite segment. Oh, no. I love this segment. No. He told me it's not his favorite. It's my least favorite. Oh, yeah. See? I... Who said that? I... I'm not sure. I heard some background noise. Anyways... 00:29:14.454 --> 00:29:27.974 Okay. So let's go. People on Reddit said they love this segment, which I agree because I couldn't watch this many games, so I'm very glad you did. Yeah. It is hard, especially now with the WSL back. I 00:29:27.460 --> 00:29:36.980 30 in the morning. It's hard. A long long day. Yeah. It's it's crazy when you don't have a life. 00:29:38.500 --> 00:29:48.585 Alright. Okay. So here we go. We have Marissa's match week roundup presented by Marissa. Okay. 00:29:50.825 --> 00:29:55.625 So we got... First game was on Friday. We had Boston versus Racing. 00:29:56.069 --> 00:30:14.664 Boston beats racing two one. It was a decent game. It's kind of... And it was... It's kind of a game that doesn't matter. It does matter in your heart. In your heart, it matters. But as far as standings But as far as standings and the rest of the league, it kinda didn't matter. Still... It's still fun to watch some soccer. It was still a good game. 00:30:15.065 --> 00:30:23.339 I'm really interesting to see what racing does, if they're gonna be a team next year or what fucking is going on. That was the only game on Friday. Saturday... 00:30:23.339 --> 00:30:26.299 Saturday, had... 00:30:27.740 --> 00:30:30.619 Jeez. Yeah. Goddamn. We did have four games on Saturday. 00:30:30.859 --> 00:30:33.900 Yeah. So first game was spirit versus Gotham. 00:30:34.460 --> 00:30:40.244 Spirit beats Gotham one zero. It was a really, really good game. 00:30:40.644 --> 00:30:47.125 No. No. It was a really, really good game. I was pretty impressed. Think that we're watching two of the top teams. 00:30:48.589 -->

00:30:56.029 Trinity Rodman's body language, it looks a little bit rough at times. I think I had the same comment about when she was playing for The USA this past week. 00:30:57.150 --> 00:31:16.410 But... Yeah. And Gotham is just... They're limping to the fucking finish line. It'll be interesting to see if they actually do win the shield. I think we're gonna find that out this weekend or decision day, which is the weekend after that. But... Yeah. So, yeah. So spirit beats Gotham. Congratulations, spirit. One zero. 00:31:16.650 --> 00:31:21.769 Next game on Saturday was Utah versus Kansas City. Kansas City beats Utah. 00:31:22.089 --> 00:31:26.089 Utah has been kind of on a decline, not a decline, but kind of like us. 00:31:26.089 --> 00:31:46.180 I mean, like, that's... They're higher in the standings, but they were looking like no one was gonna stop them for a while. And I feel like they kinda just gone down and down. I feel like injuries are really rough. I... At this point, like like, when I'm watching, like, hockey playoffs or something or I'm just like, okay. Well, the healthiest team is gonna win. You know what I mean? Like, who's got It makes a big difference. Left. 00:31:46.579 --> 00:31:52.019 And so... Yeah. So... Yeah. So Utah beats... Or no. Yeah. Kansas City beats Utah two to zero. 00:31:53.085 --> 00:31:59.805 Kansas City when healthy is scary. Croix, Croix Bethune back. Cooper's back. It's it's really scary with their healthy. 00:32:00.365 --> 00:32:03.164 Third game was North Carolina versus San Diego. 00:32:03.484 --> 00:32:05.164 Shout out to the wave. 00:32:05.244 --> 00:32:29.174 The wave beats North Carolina two one. Keeps us in seventh place. Thank you, San Diego wave. Thank you. Thank you, San Diego. The San Diego wave. It was a good game. Sanchez did not break the record, which we were all... Everyone's waiting for it to happen. She's still tied at 20 goals So close. With Temwa? Temwa Chawinga or Barbra Banda? We will find out soon. 00:32:29.734 --> 00:32:31.734 But, yeah, so that was a really good game. 00:32:33.174 --> 00:33:01.505 The... There was a late goal in the game. Sanchez could have because it was two to one. And so Sanchez could've easily... Not easily, could've tried to make, like, a hard shot in, but she did the unselfish thing, pass it off to her teammate, and the teammate made the goal. So that was two to one. Yeah. So it's Temwa's goal... Temwa's record. So she's tied with 20, so did not break that. We hopefully hope she does not break that. Also, next weekend when they play us, last game on Saturday was Denver versus Angel City. 00:33:01.744 --> 00:33:12.690 Angel City beats Denver three to two. Angel City's on a fucking run. They have been killing it lately. I've been chatting it up. Also, they came back from a two zero deficit. 00:33:12.930 --> 00:33:36.160 Hell yeah, Ali Sonnett, Lindsey Heaps, if you wanna retire from the USA team and only focus on club, we would all say, that's okay, girl. Do you do

what you gotta do. Be good for your club. That's okay. The USA ladies are gonna be okay without you. If you'd so choose to do that. If if it's time. If it's time. I think it's time. I think last year was time, but that's none of my business. I'm not Emma Hayes. 00:33:36.400 --> 00:34:00.904 Okay. Moving on to Sunday's games. First game was Houston versus Orlando. Orlando beats Houston two to one. It was a good game, but it kinda sucks because later on in... Like, Houston was like, oh, I mean, I bet Orlando's like, fuck. Yeah. We won. We need these points. And then a couple hours later, they get eliminated by, Seattle. We will... We'll get to that. That's a couple... In a couple minutes. 00:34:01.305 --> 00:34:03.065 So... Yeah. So sorry, Orlando. 00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:20.045 It's good season. See you next year. You guys... Also, they fired their coach that has been their coach for so long that won them a championship. So That throws things off, and so It's been a wiser, wacky time. They'll they'll see what what that decision brings them, but it's a hard one midseason. Yeah. Whizzy wacky time. 00:34:20.364 --> 00:35:24.894 Second game of the day was Thorns versus Bay. It was a tie of two to two. And third game of the day was Chicago versus Seattle. Seattle wins three to one. It looks kind of good at first. Chicago had some bright spots, but then Chicago Chicagoed, and they lost three to one versus Seattle. So, Seattle winning was gonna be scary if we didn't get that extra point. So they did not jump us in the the standing. So they are at eighth right now and we're at seventh. So I don't know how we made it off the weekend. Also, was funny. Even if we did win that game, we still would have been at seventh, but we would have tied with three... It would have been a three way tie at seventh. We would have, you know, it would have been Crazy. A big difference, but Mhmm. It's it's crazy how close things are. We've been talking about it, and the standings, you know, this whole season have just been neck and neck. Yeah. No. The table looks absolutely crazy, And we will be discussing the table as soon as this loads. 00:35:27.135 --> 00:35:29.855 Okay. It's loaded. Okay. So we... 00:35:29.934 --> 00:35:53.974 Now let's get on to the standings. We are going to dip into one through 10. One through eight are make the playoffs, but it's just so fucking close that we're gonna dip into 10. Also because 10 is Denver, and they are still technically in playoff contention. They still could make it. So every... Yeah. Alright. So we got Gotham at 55 points, number one. Sando... Sandy... Sando. 00:35:53.974 --> 00:35:57.974 San Diego, number two, at 54 points. That is close. 00:35:57.974 --> 00:35:59.014 That is so close. 00:35:59.494 --> 00:36:01.735 Washington Spirit at 52 points. 00:36:02.219 --> 00:36:08.539 Kansas City Current at fourth with 47 points. Angel City fifth with 46 points. 00:36:08.780 --> 00:36:16.139 Sixth place is Utah with 46 points. So they have tied with points, but not in the standings because goal differential. 00:36:16.474 --> 00:36:19.355 We've learned this lesson. We've learned this lesson. 00:36:19.755 --> 00:36:30.635 Seventh is the Portland Thorns with 44 points, and eighth is Seattle at 43 points. Ninth is North Carolina at 42 points, and tenth is Denver Summit with 38 points. 00:36:31.195 --> 00:36:43.630 So it could It's close. Denver gets some wins, some... And then some losses in there. They could be a fucking expansion team that makes the fucking playoffs. That would be exciting. It's gonna be a crazy next couple doesn't come to our expense. 00:36:43.789 --> 00:36:44.429 Exactly. 00:36:47.125 --> 00:36:48.644 Yeah. So... Yeah. 00:36:49.605 --> 00:36:50.965 There's two games left. 00:36:51.284 --> 00:37:00.369 Hopefully, we can get a get... Win against North Carolina. Actually, we fucking will be winning against North Carolina next fucking Friday. 00:37:00.690 --> 00:37:08.449 That's right. That's right. And that brings us, to, our next, section. What is coming up, in this next week? 00:37:14.644 --> 00:37:22.244 So it was funny. Alan was trying to tell me to stop talking, but I thought he was high fiving me, so I was air high fiving him across the floor. 00:37:22.324 --> 00:37:42.360 I had to be like, no. No. I know. Know. Let's pause. Two two is no. And I'm like, hell yeah. High five. He's like, nope. Because I'm chatty Cathy. Nobody sure to start. So, yeah. So we have two games left, in the season. We have North Carolina coming up. This is our last home game. Last home game. Last home of the season. 00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:48.085 And then on November 1, we play Houston. 00:37:48.085 --> 00:37:54.965 Houston. Yep. November 1, it's a k a decision day. That should be the end of it for regular season. 00:37:55.364 --> 00:37:59.199 When we find out what's happening. It's huge. 00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:17.974 Like, day is crazy, but now it's even crazier with how tight the fucking playoff race is. It's gonna come down to goals and goal differential, which is so scary, but like, that's... It's... We're all so close. You know what I mean? Well, and on decision day, all eight matches kick off together. 00:38:18.054 --> 00:38:31.190 They are all played at the same time, which makes it really hard to watch, but, it's kinda fun for, you know, the drama of the sport in that, you know, whatever's gonna happen, you kind of learn everything at the same time. Yeah. 00:38:32.070 --> 00:38:36.070 I'll let... You give me a fucking water tech. Yeah. Yeah. It might be too much. 00:38:38.125 --> 00:38:44.844 Yeah. So the next game is coming up this Friday, and we are gonna be there. It is gonna be such a good time. 00:38:45.085 --> 00:38:45.644 Yeah. 00:38:46.684 --> 00:38:49.804 We are bringing three friends of ours. 00:38:50.764 --> 00:38:57.639 We've That's right. We planned on two, but we got somebody else who's joining in, so it'll be five of us. Yeah. 00:38:57.960 --> 00:39:26.179 Like you

said earlier, we have Rose City Red Card t shirts now. So all five of us will be wearing those, hanging out in the supporters section, and just having a great time. And I'm gonna make a bold claim now. If you guys see us in Rose City Red Card shirts, come see us and we will buy you a pub beer. Yeah. We will buy you a pub beer. If you come and be like, hey. You guys are the drunk... 00:39:26.260 --> 00:39:33.940 Guys are the drunks that talk about the thorns. Right? Not drunks. That sounds negative. You guys are the people that... No. No. No. I think that's that's it. 00:39:35.835 --> 00:39:41.355 Use the passphrase, you drunks, and we will buy you a drink. 00:39:48.090 --> 00:39:52.329 Also, out to Alan for giving me access to the soundboard. 00:39:52.329 --> 00:39:57.369 I think he regrets it, but I don't. So... Oh, we both need it. It's obviously... 00:40:03.985 --> 00:40:05.025 I'm I'm done. 00:40:08.545 --> 00:40:11.905 So, we will be at the game. It's gonna be so funch fun. Yeah. 00:40:12.224 --> 00:40:13.664 Heart hands to you as Mhmm. 00:40:14.144 --> 00:40:32.914 But, yeah, what else is happening? So if if we win this game, we're in the playoffs. Yeah. Seattle is playing against Utah half an hour before us, so right before the end of our game, if we remember to check our phones, we'll know what happened with Seattle. 00:40:34.034 --> 00:40:42.034 Doesn't really affect us too much, but you know... Mean, if they win, they jump us, and if we lose and they win, they jump us. 00:40:42.514 --> 00:41:10.994 Alright. So it does matter. It does So, matter. Yeah, we'll we'll check it during that, but, you know, like you said, we're gonna be there and we're gonna be having a great time, and it's gonna be so much fun. You said this is your first game you're attending not as media this year. Yeah. It's been a while... I think I went to two home games before before we started this fun journey together. But, yeah, I've... It's been... I've been in the in the press box. It's so cool to be up there. I wanna be with the fans. I can't even... 00:41:11.719 --> 00:41:14.920 We're gonna be in the supporters section. We're gonna be screaming. 00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:40.065 Screaming. Yeah. Over the... With the Riveters and all the fans. It's... Oh, it's gonna be so great. It's... I... And also, like, this is the last home game we have. Like, if we make the playoffs, we're not gonna get a home game. So this is it. Like, you guys show up, tell us the code, we'll buy you a pub beer, we're gonna have a fucking blast. Like, let's let's show up. Let's show up. I know it's been negative and we're negative. 00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:57.585 That's life. But like, let's show up for our Thorns. Like, this is like, this is our city. It's supposed to be an actually nice day. Like, it's gonna be... Like, let's It's be so much get hyped. Let's go fucking Thorns. Let's go Thorns. So Yes. You know, that brings us to the end of our episode. 00:41:57.824 --> 00:42:10.920 Oh my god. It's went so by so fast. It has. But we will talk to you all next week. Mhmm. And as as always, no injuries, all smiles, fuck Seattle. 00:42:11.320 --> 00:42:15.400 Let's go Thorns. 00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:18.199 Let's go Thorns.