Soccer Down Here 8/26/24: Reaction Monday on ATLUTD, Abe Gordon and Bart Keeler Join

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This has dropped on another Monday here on the SDH Network,
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John here, Abe there. The sorry Abe there. I always
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get my directions mixed up as to where I'm supposed
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to point in these situations. So it's a reaction Monday,
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Hi John here, Abe there, and we'll go through what
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happened on the weekend and especially the extremely horribly late
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night that Abe and that Abe and Garrett got for
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the post. Have you recovered, sir?
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I did recover. I went to bed pretty much as
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soon as League's Cup ended last night. I was literally
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in bed watching on my phone waiting to see a
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penalty kick shootout that didn't happen. Yeah, it was late,
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and like I think we've all been at this stage
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of our lives at some point. But like I wasn't drunk,
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but I start like slurring. I do start slurring my
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words when I get that tired and I'm still like
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forced to be awake. So like, apologies to anyone who
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stayed up for the the the post game show, because
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I was. I was really tired, kind of out of it,
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but we battled through. It was all good.
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Wow, wow, wow, full time report after dark. Yeah, I
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mean it was a late start, it was going up
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against lag You and I talked about it. We talked
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about it going into the week, about you know, expectations
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and the grid and the Eastern Conference. And for sixty
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five to seventy minutes even and we could probably cut
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this in half and say we'll save the offense to
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one side. But for you know, sixty five seventy minutes,
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the def was hanging with the La Galaxy out there
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in Carson, California.
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Yeah. Look, it's a three headed monster in a big
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way for the Galaxy. It became a four headed monster
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when Marco Royce stepped onto the pitch, and it's just
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so tough to deal with that. And you played them fair,
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you played them square. For like you said, sixty sixty
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five minutes, the subs get made. We bring in Miran Chuck,
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nice to see him. They bring in Marco Roys and unfortunately,
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the multiple time Bundesliga Player of the Year was the
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guy that made the difference and assist on the first goal,
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scored the second goal after a putback off a goose save,
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and so that was it. It was always going to
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be so difficult, and you had your opportunities early. You
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were off sides twice on a couple of goals that
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you were able to put in the back of the net.
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And obviously it was the right call, there's no debate
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about it. But they were called back. And so once
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you're into the later stages of the match and they
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can bring in a guy like Royce who look obviously
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over the course of the season he may not be
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coming off the bench. They're still working him in. Maybe
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he will, maybe he will be a super sub. But yeah,
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I mean, look, the Los Angeles Galaxy are the top
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team in the Western Conference. You had to go on
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the road after three weeks off and try and pair
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up with them, and I thought you performed well until
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you didn't. And it's kind of as simple as that.
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So relatively good effort at the start, but obviously it
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fell apart, and you're dealing with a couple of unexpected
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situations too. You know, the form has been what it's been,
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but Tristan Moyanba having to be a late scratch due
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to a hip injury. It kind of does adjust how
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you're able to play defensively in the midfield, and so
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that probably hurts you a little bit. But at the
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end of the day, as we've seen a couple of times,
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just not good enough in the final third, and then
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once the subs were made, you really didn't have much
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going forward at all. It was just defend, defend, defend
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for like thirty minutes.
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You mentioned Alexi midon Chuk and let's get right into it.
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I mean, he looked like he belonged, and you could
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see the artistry that the front office did with his
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time in Syria, and so obviously you know he gets
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this cup of coffee going up against Lag. But in
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the overall, what did you think about how he integrated
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in his debut and trying to sit there and it's like, okay,
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I need to find space, I need to do this,
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I need to do that. What did you think about
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medn Chuk and his debut.
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Yeah, I mean it's so tough to tell because it
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was only a couple minutes before you kind of had
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to adjust your playing style and really get going forward
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as best you could, and that really didn't take either.
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I'm anxious to see him from the start of the
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match where he can play his way into it and
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not step into a kind of already developed match and
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the roles have been set and stuff like that I'd
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like to see him play from the start. I mean,
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we all would write, and we certainly understand why he
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came in when he did. I mean, honestly, I didn't
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think he'd be in as early as he was, because
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when he came over from Italy, he was just ramping
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up in his preseason stage. I mean, this is not
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a guy that has been playing a quarter of a
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season or half of a season like maybe we're used
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to with some some South American players that would come
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in that have been in full form. So he's still
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ramping up. You take the fitness level, combine that with
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familiarity with the teammates and stuff like that. I think
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that Rob Alanquino, it's three training sessions with him there,
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so I mean that's not a ton so to get
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thirty plus minutes out of him, I think it is
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pretty good. Unfortunately, I just didn't get to see much
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from him. It's just so tough to gauge because from
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when he stepped on you just weren't moving forward that much.
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And obviously that has a lot to do with the
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Los Angeles Galaxy and how dangerous they could be. I
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do look forward to him against Charlotte though, because Charlotte
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is very good defensively, they're not necessarily gonna put you
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in a defend, defend, defend, defend, defend mindset. And so
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this game coming up I think is a real opportunity
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for him to really showcase what he can do in
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the midfield, what he can do to help out the attack.
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I just I think it's unfair to grade him based
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on what was going on against La Galaxy. I don't
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think he had much opportunity to show what he could do.
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You know, I don't think he stood out in a
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bad way, but he also didn't really stand out in
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a oh my god, I'm so excited about this guy
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for the rest of the season way either, And I
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understand why. That's all I'm trying to lay out there.
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Is it just the opportunity for that sort of showcase.
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Maybe wasn't there against the Galaxy, certainly not once you
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had gone down a goal. But I think it will
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be there against Charlotte. I'm very excited to see if
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he does go from the start this coming week.
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Yeah, and you mentioned basically what you can stare at
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from Alexi Mdonschuk in a cup of coffee. Basically, it's
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like there were a couple of offensive sets where you
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could see where his brain would go in certain situations
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like that. And to your point, I think that the
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matchup against Charlotte coming up is going to be one
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of those where I think that because of his size
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and his agility and his ability, he can cause problems
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for that back line for Charlotte. I think that the
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the the interesting matchup of say a Midanchuk and a
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Tim Reim, just to see how that integrates. I think
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that that will be in a rivalry game with a
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new piece that is a part of this rivalry on
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both sides, to see how you know, Alexi Midonchuk's imagination
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goes to your point, I am looking forward to a
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matchup in Charlotte where you can make some inroads and
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come out with some points because you know that you
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have to steal some points on the road here in
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the run in to stay in the playoff picture.
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Yeah, and that playoff picture is really tight right now.
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And unfortunately for LANDI United, well, I guess look let's
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start here. Fortunately, right now you're still in the nine seed,
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right and so you're still gonna be in a play
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and round if you can maintain position. Here's the unfortunate
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part where it's punched up is not in front of you,
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it's bunched up behind you. And there's like five or
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six teams all within two points of this nine spot.
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Everybody is yeah, the final, Yeah, Final seven right now,
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nine to the basement, nine through fifteen. Atlanta's at twenty
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eight with seven wins. That's your playoff. Bar Philly, who
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had to go through League's Cup and has to play
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Columbus in the midweek, is right now tenth at six
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wins with a match in hand at twenty seven. Montreal,
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who had an entirely different set of problems going up
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against New England, of all teams, is it twenty seven
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with six wins with twenty six matches played. Then you've
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got New England at twenty six with the win and
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eight and eight wins, so that puts them with two
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matches in hand in twelve. Then Chicago in Nashville have
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the same record, but Chicago is three goals to the
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better in goal difference, and then d C is four
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goals behind Chicago. So that's where we are right now,
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nine to the basement, separated by that many points.
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Well, and here's the difficult part for Atlanta United. Think
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about how many games they're playing against teams above them.
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We talk about Charlotte coming up. You got two against
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the New York Red Bulls, who are the four seed.
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You got a midweek game against Inner Miami, they're the
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one seed. Right now. You end the season with Orlando City,
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and so yeah, you have some Montreal action, you have
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some Nashville action, but again, you're not that dissimilar from
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where they are right now. It is not an easy
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road in what is now an eight game push for
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the playoffs, had been nine leading into it. But it
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is not easy. But I think the point is you
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don't have room to mess around and drop points. And
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when I look at what is ahead of you, Toronto's
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kinda right there, Orlando City's kind of right there. I mean,
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you could go on a crazy run here and only
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jump two spots. I mean, I don't think that realistically
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you can get any higher than seventh based on the point.
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I mean, you're ten points clear of Charlotte, and so
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even if you go on a crazy run, you're only
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jumping two spots. And so this is a situation where
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you cannot drop points on the road and I don't
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care if these teams are above you right now in
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the standings. You just have no wiggle room. You have
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built up no maneuverability because of the teams and quite frankly,
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and we've been pretty hesitant to do this, I think
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to an extent, But now you really start to look
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at the rest of the matches and dole out, all right,
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we need this team to win. There probably best if
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these two teams draw and split a point. Yeah, I
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mean you really start to look at what benefits you
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and what really hurts you in opposing team match is
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we've done that on a minimal scale, but now it's
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pretty much every team in the Eastern Conference unless you're
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looking at the guys at the real top that you
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try and figure out, well, what do we really need
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in this match to benefit Atlanta United? So you've got
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to take care of your business, that's first and foremost.
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But then you do start scoreboard watching and so let
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us do the math on that. I don't need the
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players figuring out at halftime, you know, if they need
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to win by three goals in this game, and let
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them let let let us knuckleheads handle the math and
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probably screw it. Up anyways. But yeah, I mean that's
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the point of the season where you start to look
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at it and you start to figure out six or
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seven matches that all could impact positively or negatively Atlanta
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United along with yourselves. And I was hopeful that you
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could get one point in la You know, look, I've
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been I've said that a couple of times this year,
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and you've come away with three, you know, the Columbus match,
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the Inner Miami road match, and so you know there's
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always that like maybe we'll surprise us for a third
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straight time. That didn't happen. But yeah, you've now put
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yourselves in a position where I don't care that Charlotte
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is significantly ahead of you, Like I still view at
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Lanta United and Charlotte is relatively even, and you've got
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to find points on the road. I mean, look, the
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this is a revenge game too, Like they came into
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your house and embarrassed you. That was the final game,
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if I remember of Gonzale Canada's tenure. You let Leelabona
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score twice and that was it for Canada. And so
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this is a little bit of a revenge match. It's
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also important in the run up and in the standing.
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So I expect that Lanta United to really be in
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the right mindset, be in their best form come Saturday.
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Hey Gordon, nineteen nine in the game, as always, Bett
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and lead off here on a reaction Monday here on
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the Morning Show on the SDH Network. Nothing like having
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to do projections in math with a quarter of your
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schedule remaining or well eight over thirty six. Yeah, that's
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that's about right. Yeah, about nine to thirty six to
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twenty five percent eight so yeah, less than twenty, like
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twenty two percent of your schedule. Nothing like having to
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do math with that much of a runway in front
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of you. Huh.
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Well, the other thing, like if we just translated to
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baseball real quick, like we're looking at what the Mets
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are doing behind the braves and then a little bit
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what the Phillies are doing in front of the brain.
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We're really only focusing on those two teams. But as
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you laid out, and as we do, you're focusing on
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like nineteen now two teams in front of you, plus
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yourselves plus six teams behind you. There's so much, so
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many teams still involved at this point. And look, that's
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great for the MLS, Like you're gonna have, Like you said,
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maybe it's not really starting quite this early in terms
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of like a bona fide push for the playoffs as
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they determine it, but like when you get to like
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five or six matches left, it is like if you
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draw instead a win, you might drop four spots. You
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might go from being in the playoffs at ninth to
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being the worst team in the Eastern Conference. I mean,
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it's really gonna be that crazy. I think you're gonna see,
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hopefully not for Atlanta United, but I do think you're
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gonna see a lot of flip flopping and like there
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could be five weeks and five different teams in that
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nine seed, And that's kind of crazy to think about.
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So again, it's not even that you're you're counting the
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points and figuring, it's that you're having to do it
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for so many different teams. It really is kind of crazy.
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But like I guess that's kind of what the league
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was hoping for when they added these the playing round
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and you know, a play in field postseason field that
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goes to nine teams in each each conference. I mean,
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it is really out there, and I mean even in
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the Western Conference, right it's not quite as crazy, but
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Austin's on thirty four. You've got Dallas in Minnesota one
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point behind them, and so you're you're gonna have three
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or four teams involved in that one too. But yeah,
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I can't remember an Eastern Conference that that's got this
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many teams involved in Essentially no one has been eliminated.
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Six separated by five from six to eleven in the
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Western Conference, So there's there's more playoff spots available in
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that crush at the bottom of the West, whereas everyone
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is chasing after the play in round in the East,
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which is absolutely insane. As we get ready for Charlotte
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on the road in a revenge game coming up this
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week on ninety two nine in the game. So now
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that you have officially recovered, sir, the promo plans are
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going to be out there. But I know it's going
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to be a busy week in the lead in. I
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know that you kind of watched a little bit of
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Leagues Cup to wrap up, So what do you think
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of the tournament that was created by a major league
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soccer in Lega MX as we put a bowl on everything.
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Yeah, I mean I thought League's Cup is cool, and
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like I'm a sucker. Like anything that's for a trophy
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I'll get amped up for and you know me, like,
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I'll watch all sorts of nonsense if there's like a
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big prize at the end of the day. I thought
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it was intense. I thought the way that Leek's Cup
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played out yesterday, especially because and by the way, I
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can't tell you how much more in favor I am
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of just going straight to shoot out like I did,
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especially if I'm hosting a post game show and trying
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to figure out my timing and then it's like, oh,
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forty extra minutes. How exciting. But like in any level,
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like and I'm sure, I'm sure there's plenty of people
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who are opposing in this and would like to see
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the extra time played. Just go straight to shootouts, man,
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like you had ninety minutes. Just go straight to shootouts.
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It's so intense and it's so fun. I'm not one
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of those like I don't like to see a big
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game decided by a penalty shootout, a flip of a
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coin or a guess which nah, man, like, go to shootouts.
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And I was expecting that yesterday, and I was starting
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to get excited for a shootout that would decide Leak's Cup.
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But lo and behold, that was not in the plans
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for Wilford, Nazi and Columbus. An incredible finish to this game.
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I guess we're a lot to spoil it, right, I
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mean two goals in stoppage time. Koucho was outstanding and
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it was just a super super fun game, and it
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did feel like it meant something, right, Like that's always
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the concern when you get to these sorts of games.
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It is like does it feel big? Does it feel important?
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To me?
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Even as a spectator with no rooting interest. It did.
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It felt big, and I think that's what's important for
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the leagues that are involved, is to make it feel
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like something, And to me, it certainly did. I don't
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know about the third place matchup. I don't know how
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much fortitude I would have had to play in that one,
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but I know there's the benefits of winning that one
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as well with Champions Cup and all that stuff. But yeah,
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for the championship match last night, it felt important and
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I thought it was an awesome atmosphere, like obviously having
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it at home in Columbus, and then how it finished
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and you saw the yellow powder and the flair and
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the crowd went crazy. They went absolutely crazy. I think
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it's important for that as well. That cannot be a
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neutral site, bitted out championship game where it's just it
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goes to a rotating Having it at one of the
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homes of that team made the that also aided in
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making it feel big. So I thought it was a
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great environment, super fun match too. I mean, it really
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was super fun.
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Two of the top teams in Major League Soccer chasing
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after an appetizer play, you know, and you get the
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grid going for the Conker Cap champions Cup. How busy
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are you gonna be this week leading into Charlotte, sir, h.
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Busy, but most likely with the other type of football
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Week one college football. I know, I know, I don't
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know what to tell you, but yeah, we're gonna be
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amped up. This is a huge game. I don't think
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we're gonna undersell it, to be honest. I mean, if
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Atlanta United with eight games left and we talked about it,
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they're gonna make a push into the playoffs. This is
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a huge game. It's on the road, but it does
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feel like it's winnable. You're trying to get revenge and
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you're you're you're clinging to life onto that nine seed,
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and we're not gonna undersell it. You have got to
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get a result in this game. At this point, there's
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so many teams breathing down your neck there cannot be
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any slip at all. And so that starts in this
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one because it does feel winnable and you just don't
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want I mean, you're you're where you need to be
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and you cannot slide, you cannot count on jumping team
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team team. You gotta get three points. We got to
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see morn chuck from the start. I mean, this is
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desperate times right now, and so we're not gonna hide that. Man,
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these games mean something. They're very serious. If you want
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to be in the playoffs, the time is now. There's
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no more delay on any of this stuff. So we're excited.
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Six point thirty for the pregame show. Obviously, Mike and
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Jason will have the call. They're shortly after seven thirty,
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and it is going to be a big one in
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the Eastern Conference, there's no doubt about that.
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At Abe Gordon ninety two nine in the game, very
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very busy man is one of the busiest men in
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show business. As always, my friend. Great to have you
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beat and lead off. You are our Ricky Henderson when
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it comes to the morning show here on SDH. Thanks
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a lot, My friend will catch up with you soon.
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We'll see you soon.
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Always swinging for the fences, John, appreciate it.
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That was our catchup with Abe Gordon. Good morning everybody. John,
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hear you there. And we got obviously we got stuff
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to talk about with Landy United, so we'll get into
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it Landy United and lag and what you thought. I
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know that some of you have already put your thoughts
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into the twitch pitch and that will be what is
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you know primary Today. We've got a lot of news
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we'll get into. Probably we'll get into as much of
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it as we can. Transfers those kinds of things. Transfer
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window still open for I think the final week is
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this week overseas. Sven Gordon Erickson passed away this at
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the age of seventy six, and there are a lot
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of other little there's some interesting pieces of news to
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kind of keep an eye on. One indirectly involving Thiagua
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Almada that we'll get into, and it has to do
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more than anything. It's got to do with John Texter
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and so we'll let you know what's going on with that.
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Bart is slated to words from Lutzvan and Steel about
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player selection from outside the United States as to where
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they go inside the United States, and so Lutz Fan
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and Steel had had some quotes that were kind of
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directed toward he was backing up his own city or
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his own city, and he was kind of wagging his
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finger since it is National dog Day. He was wagging
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his finger at the stars that choose other places other
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than Saint Louis, And so there were some pointed comments
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from him there. Bart set to join us at ten o'clock,
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and there's a lot of reffing down here. There's a
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lot of reffing down here to get into, and some
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of it has to do with, I guess what we're
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okay with in the Premier League. Apparently it's all right
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the hog tie folks and not get a card. And
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apparently the definition of handball has decided to go someplace.
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So there's there's that, let's see. So it's the the
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born with handball that we'll get into with Bart. With
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the hog tying by Joe Ellenson that received that received nothing.
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Then there was a lot of red cards this weekend
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in USL Championship and Danny Cruz from lou City was
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in a match. Lou City was in a match with
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Hartford Athletic and after the match was over, Danny Cruz
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let him have it with not just both barrels, but
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I mean it's like he took his barrels. Then he
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grabbed somebody off to the side and he opened up
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those barrels and he let the officials have it. Then
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he saw somebody off to the left who hadn't used
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their barrels yet, and then he decided to use theirs
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as well. So we have that sound from Danny Cruz.
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We've got sound from Endoni Errola, the manager at Bournemouth,
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about what happened in their matchup. And then there was
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an incident and I don't know if you saw it.
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I don't know if you saw it, but in Division
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one Ncuba women's soccer there was a moment between Rutgers
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and UMass that would have made the folks at ae
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W proud because they had all in I think going
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at the same time in London, and so we've got
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that audio as well. So so yeah, we hear from
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mandoni Rola about Bornmouth, we find out about hog Time,
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we find out about USL Championship, and the more philosophical
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discussion that I wanted to have with Bart about referees,
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officials in general and the need for more because right
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now going on in the United States, we have and
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if I've missed anybody, let me know. We have Division
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One with Major League Soccer, We've got USL Championship, USL
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League One, the Super League, and all the colleges going
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on right now. We have all of that activity going
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on at once, and I think on Saturday there were
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seventy matches domestically, and that is I think that was
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probably a conservative number. I don't know how deep that
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went down, but let's just say seventy matches. So you
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have seventy matches on a Saturday, the amount of folks
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that you need would be one hundred and forty minimum.
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But in Division one, Division two, you're talking about four
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man cruise, four individuals who make up Cruise. So you
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have all of these games that are going on, and
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I don't think we have enough officials to properly staff
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that many games across all the different divisions of the
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US Soccer pyramid. So I wanted to kind of get
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into the philosophical discussion about that as well with Bart
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when Bart joins us at the top of the hour
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to get through all of the reffing down here that
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happened on the weekend, and there was plenty of reffing
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down here to discuss on the weekend. Like I said,
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thoughts on Atlanta United, Lag will go over the stats
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and go over that. We mentioned it with Abe. Where
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the race is right now, and Michael, to your point,
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Michael says, I don't think battling for a nine seats
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where this franchise needs to be. No, you're one hundred
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percent correct, and if you ask them they would say
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the same thing. But that is the current situation right now.
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That is where the chaos is. And I mean in
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the East, as we discussed in the Eastern Conference. Right
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now it is beyond crazy. Seven teams separated by two
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points to get into the playoffs legitimately. Coming into the season,
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I thought that the margins were going to be a
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little higher positionally inside the standings where the race was
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going to be. I was thinking it was going to
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be three through nine that was going to be that stacked,
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and not nine through fifteen. But right now as we
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talk about it, Miami once again seventeen wins, fifty six
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points or eight points clear Cincinnati, who's having problems at
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the back, and they have there was a stat about
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giving up a boltload of goals in certain situations, and
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they they had I think they had man advantage in
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the last four matches that they had man advantage. I'm
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trying to remember the stat the last four matches they
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had man advantage. I think they only came away with
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one point. But yeah, so the last four matches that
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Cincinnati has had a man advantage, they have not taken
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advantage of that man advantage. So there you go, using
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the same word twice quickly. FC Cincinnati had an opportunity
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on the weekend, didn't take advantage of it. Not the
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first time that that has or hasn't happened. Eight points
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behind and they are in second place in the Eastern Conference. Columbus,
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by the way, has three matches in hand. They take
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care of business. They're pushing Miami, but one of those
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matches is in the midweek that they have to make
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up against Philadelphia because of League's Cup weekend, and so
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Wednesday we keep an eye on Columbus in Philly. If
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Columbus takes care of business once again, they're only two
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points out of second still with two matches in hand.
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If they went out right now, Columbus would be at
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fifty two points. If Columbus wins out there, at fifty
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two points, there are four points behind Miami with as
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of let's just say right now, eight matches to go
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to even things up. My money's on Columbus, And of
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course I say that, and you know me and my
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record of any kind of selection, of any kind of choosing,
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but yeah, you you don't want me to pick for you.
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But considering what we are seeing with Columbus right now,
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my money's on the on Crew. My money is on Crew,
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and I think that it is if we if we
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haven't done it yet, If we haven't done it yet,
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I think that we need to tip our hat to
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Wilford Nazi and what he has done in Columbus. He
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has assembled a roster that goes with his game plan
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and it is one of the strongest runs we've seen
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in recent memory in Major League Soccer. And all I'm
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gonna say is this, if the Crew front office hadn't
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figured this out that will end up being the notion
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that someone oversees will be knocking on Columbus's door to
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get Wilford Nanci to coach a franchise on the other
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side of the Atlantic. Rightfully so, And I'm checking Wilford
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Nazi's contract situation, but I if you are a club.
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Twenty twenty four, they agreed to a contract extension with
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Tim Bezbachenko announced today a contract extension. Yeah, okay, cool,
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It just mentions contract extension, does not mention how long. Okay,
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so he signed a contract extension this year, but once again,
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how long we don't know. So with everything that they
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have done in Columbus, Columbus is probably going to get
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a fair chunk of change when someone knocks on their
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door and says, hey, we want to talk to your coach.
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But with what Wilford Nancie has done, with the talent
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that has been assembled, And I'm talking and I'm talking
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outside the big guns up top, I'm talking outside Rossi
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and c Ram and you know, Coucho Hernandez, I'm talking
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beside that. I mean, you look at the start just well,
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look at the starting eleven that was assembled and this
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is a starting eleven that he's pretty much rolled all
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the way through. He has taken that competition and any
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competition that's in front of him, and he's just rolled
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over that starting lineup. And that's who it's been, you know,
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save a couple of different dudes, the five three two four,
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two four, whatever you're looking at, Max Arfsten, Moe Farsi,
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Stephen Morera, Rudy Camacho, Malty, Amensen, Sean Zawatsky. And unless
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you were hardcore going in like I said, that's outside
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of Rossi, Sea, Ram Kucco and Driver. That's outside of
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those four. And he had, uh, you know, Nick Hagen
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and net So he has taken guys that have gotten
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used to his system, put them in and just rolled
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them over. A couple of days later you're playing, all right,
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00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:08.279
same dudes. A couple of days later, you're playing same dudes.
556
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It doesn't matter. The competition doesn't matter if it's Major
557
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League Soccer, doesn't matter if it's league's cup. Chelte was
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on the bench because hagen Hagen became the league's cup keeper.
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But on the bench Ya Yaboa, who we've seen him
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with Columbus Crew two developed through their system. Jason Russell Rowe,
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who at one point was supposed to be traded for
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other resources. Then you end up with Tahaa Brune on
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the bench. Another one of the crew Tours Schaberco who
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has come in in defense and done really well. Alexander
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Matton who has found a bit of a renaissance, Dwan
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Jones who was traded from New England. I mean, and
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00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:57.799
that trade puts some folks on their heels. Azy Jackson,
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who we saw with Crew two as he was traded
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from Saint Louis City. So I mean, for me, I
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gotta tip my hat to I gotta tip my hat
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to Wilford Nancy. If I haven't already, I am today.
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Jason Russell Roll scores at ninety plus four. Couchay scored
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at ninety plus two. It was one to one. Couche
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scored in the forty fifth, one nilt to break. Then
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the most handsome man in Major League Soccer got his
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first goal in the fifty seventh and then two goals
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in two minutes at ninety plus Just when you're thinking,
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like heb but it's gonna go to PK's no, but
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Columbus ends up with the the uh the Shrimp cocktail
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appetizer plate. That's what it looks like. League's Cup trophy
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goes to Columbus. They get the win. But yeah, uh,
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tip your hat to Wilford Nanci and do not be
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surprised if Columbus asks for the Moon, the stars, and
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anything else that they can try and grab for the
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Uh for League's Cup and for Columbus. So Columbus gets
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another trophy. They reinforce their position getting into the Triple C.
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The Conker Cap Champions Cup and LAFC goes in, and
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the Rapids go in after beating Philadelphia in PKS. Zach
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Steffen came up big in the penalty kick shootout, saving
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two and so you end up with Colorado Rapids being
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team number three out of League's Cup to go into
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the Triple C next year. And we talked about it
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once again with Chris Armis. If Chris Armis doesn't get
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any consideration for Coach of the Year in Major League Soccer,
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then there are issues there. So Chris Armis comes in
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to Columbua, to Colorado, they invest a little bit. Chris
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Armis has a system, has a system in place. You
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bring in Georgia Mihailovich and that's what you end up
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with right now, with Colorado making a run in League's
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Cup and they get into the Triple See next year.
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So that's what you're staring at with Leagues Cup. And
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it is now back to league play for the remainder
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of the season. So the long national television program known
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as League's Cup has ended its twenty twenty four episodes
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and now it is the race to get all your
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matches in and figure out what's going on in the
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playoff picture. Obviously we talked about it with Abe. I'm
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00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:34.239
kind of skipping over opening kickoff. I haven't even hit
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00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:36.360
opening kickoff yet, so what happens when you bat lead
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00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:41.679
off with Abe? Right now? That Land United. Obviously we
611
00:36:41.719 --> 00:36:48.239
talked about the crush that's the Eastern Conference, and once
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again the story that we discuss is if you get
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the chances that are there early, you are clinical you
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finish them, then you're having possibly different discussions. Like I said,
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I know that we've talked about that before, and Shonda
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Silva was offside a couple of times, and if he
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had been on side once again into the back of
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the net, probably talking about different things. But on the day,
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I think that once again, you look at the debut
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of aleximidn Chuk. He comes in, he gives you his minutes,
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and I think that it was a small for a
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department of redundancy department, a small microcosm of what to
623
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expect from him. You got to see the imagination a
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little bit. You got to see what he's how he
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processes on a couple of possessions. And you know, you're
626
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looking at You're looking at the future with aleximidn Chuk
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as a part of it. And you know, is he
628
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as an attacking midfielder? Does he end up in that
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attacking midfield space? Does he end up you know, drifting
630
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out to the left like we've seen in the past
631
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with Thiaguo Almada at times as he becomes more comfortable
632
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with what we're doing. Uh, when you talk about the
633
00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:11.599
offense with Atlanta United, does Soba go to the left?
634
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Do you have Luke Brennan come in on the right
635
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hand side and Alexi Mitonchuk as you're attacking mid remains
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to be seen probably a matchup at a time as
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to what those answers are. But you know, I think
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you know, you've got to see you got to see
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a handful of minutes with Mindonchuk you got to see
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kind of how how his brain works. After what three
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sessions numbers courtesy a SOFA score Brad obviously with the
642
00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:41.639
penalty save at eight point three on the day and
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with Brad six saves goals prevented two point one two
644
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at one high claim, five saves inside the box. Obviously,
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the one penalty, seventy five percent passing, thirty six touches,
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eleven of seventeen on long balls, and one clearance for Brad.
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So that was that was Brad on the day. And
648
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so you end up with that with Brad, your back
649
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line Pedro Amador on the left hand side, your back
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for Amador, Derek Williams, Stean Gregorson and Brooks Lennon. I
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know that on goal number two, Brad Perry's it, parryes
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it off to his left and obviously both Gregorson and
653
00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:35.239
Williams slow to react, and then the ball goes in
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the back of the net for goal number two. So
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you see Brad Perry and then the two defenders for
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Atlanta United, they're slow to react, and once again La
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puts it in and that was the second goal of
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the night. Bart sleash north of a seven dak McCarty
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a six point five Daxon Jay Fortune getting the start
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in the midfield because of the hip injury for a
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Tristan William Bob that was diagnosed on Friday, but Jay
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Fortune once again putting in a great shift as he
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continues to grow seven point one according to SOFA score.
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He had the one opportunity at XG at point one,
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four expected assists point twenty four, forty seven touches, seventy
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four percent in his passing, one long ball completed and
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one shot off target, one shot blocked, had his one
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dribble on four of seven duels on the ground fouled once,
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had an interception in two total tackles as well, so
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another complete game for Jay Fortune. Then you end up
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with Shandei on the left, Jamal up top Saba on
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the right. Shanday actually grated higher than both Jamal and
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Saba even with the two off side calls that were
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attached on the goal opportunity. Shandy seventy two minutes registered
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in xgn XA, thirty eight touches, eighty four percent passing
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tour twenty one to twenty five, had five key passes
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on the day, one long ball, one shot on target,
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two for two on the dribble, three for eight on
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ground duels fouled once. He had the one off side,
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one interception, one tackle, two dribbles passed. Then Jamal up
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top seven point one compared to seven point three seventy
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two minutes before he was subbed, and he registered the
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one shot on target, twenty two touches, and he was
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only six of eight passing on the day, five of
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six on ground duels, two for three on the ground,
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so total of seven of nine and duels was fouled twice.
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Jamal had two off sides called, one clearance, one interception,
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two total tackles and a dribble passed. And then Saba
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up top on the right hand side, had eighty one
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minutes registered n XGNXA, thirty eight touches, twelve of nineteen
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passing at sixty three percent. Then you end up with
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five shots for Saba and he had one clearance, one pick,
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and one trouble past. And so that's the starter's numbers
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for Atlanta United going up against lag Jared Smith joining
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us on a Monday. What's up, Jared, It's Monday, Yes,
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it is. It is a reaction Monday, no doubt.
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Yeah, well, I mean it's a late night.
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Yeah.
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You played really well for sixty five ish to seventy
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minutes against the team that's leading the West, and then
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you didn't.
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Then you didn't.
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Yeah, and.
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You won't be the last team that they do that
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too this year.
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Yeah.
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But it's disappointing because you left chances on.
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The field in the first half. Two goals that are
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called back correctly outside.
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The second one.
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I think I aggreeated be more because Shanday kind of
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just stood there offside, kind of like a bump on
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a log.
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00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:12.800
Yeah, it was my favorite thing he's done.
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I get back on side, Yes.
716
00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:17.960
Getting on side.
717
00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:20.239
He did not.
718
00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:24.960
It's a good finish, but you left gals there. You
719
00:43:25.360 --> 00:43:30.400
had other chances that you did not convert early in
720
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:33.920
the game. You probably should have been leading at the
721
00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:39.920
halfway point because you created chances. You were really efficient
722
00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:44.199
and structured in playing out and playing on the counter
723
00:43:44.199 --> 00:43:46.480
in the first half, and then when things really got
724
00:43:46.519 --> 00:43:49.079
stressed out in the second half, which those games getting
725
00:43:49.079 --> 00:43:52.920
opened as hell makes for a fun watch, but then
726
00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:55.800
you had mistakes and when when the game gets stretched
727
00:43:55.800 --> 00:43:56.840
out like that and you.
728
00:43:56.719 --> 00:44:00.880
Don't put goals away. Other teams will.
729
00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:05.960
The first ones are really nice finished from Ricky, which
730
00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:09.840
you don't call it Ricky like he's like he's driving
731
00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:12.760
the number ten tide car Winston Cup.
732
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:20.079
It's a really beautiful finish. And then l Roy's one
733
00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:22.280
kind of annoyed me because it's a really.
734
00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:25.719
Good safe for Brady. Yeah, it's great Balba Royce, great
735
00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:28.679
safe from Brad. Once again, everyone just kind of standing
736
00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:30.079
there like bumps on lungs.
737
00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:36.400
And then it's just sacked in and you can't and happy.
738
00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:41.119
Yeah, that one closes down afterwards Brad's not able to
739
00:44:41.119 --> 00:44:44.599
turn it away, falls right to uh marcol Royce and
740
00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:47.079
he puts it away and yeah, that's.
741
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:51.800
All she wrote. Man like they just the la tilted
742
00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:53.400
the field on even the second half. They did a
743
00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:56.039
good job that the Dark Fanny his new slash as
744
00:44:56.039 --> 00:45:01.559
a manager. But we you go on the road, and
745
00:45:01.639 --> 00:45:03.719
we talked about this too in the past.
746
00:45:04.119 --> 00:45:06.639
When you go on the road and you are not
747
00:45:06.719 --> 00:45:10.480
the favorite and you get those opportunities, you have to
748
00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:11.039
take them.
749
00:45:11.280 --> 00:45:11.480
Yep.
750
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:16.039
You know in the first ten minutes when Shanda's coming down.
751
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:19.519
The left hand side and he's got Jamal where he
752
00:45:19.559 --> 00:45:21.400
can play it through where you can play square ball
753
00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:24.719
to stop him, and he shoots and he just puts
754
00:45:24.719 --> 00:45:28.079
it right into the bread basket to keeper can't if
755
00:45:28.119 --> 00:45:31.440
you're gonna shoot, If you're gonna shoot that ball, you
756
00:45:31.519 --> 00:45:33.320
need to pick out a spot or.
757
00:45:33.280 --> 00:45:35.559
You need to lay it off to somebody for even
758
00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:36.559
higher quality chance.
759
00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:40.079
I have no problem with guys blulling up and shooting
760
00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:41.000
at times, especially in the.
761
00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:42.800
Second half when I just it felt like they just
762
00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:48.039
were not doing that. There's just have pop, guys, somebody
763
00:45:48.119 --> 00:45:48.480
just how go.
764
00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:53.760
But if you're gonna be in that situation where it's
765
00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:57.039
it's full on break and defenders are like running backwards
766
00:45:57.039 --> 00:45:59.280
on their views, you don't pull up like that. When
767
00:45:59.320 --> 00:46:01.559
you've got options, you gotta you gotta think that the spot.
768
00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:05.079
But when you do not finish champions on the road
769
00:46:05.159 --> 00:46:06.880
like that, you don't win games.
770
00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:10.559
And credit credit la because like they were not good.
771
00:46:12.239 --> 00:46:16.000
Marco Royce comes on to it's the field and they
772
00:46:16.039 --> 00:46:23.880
barely got the ball foot good runch Um Hum Hunch
773
00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:27.079
was having problems. They're getting the ball, and then when
774
00:46:27.119 --> 00:46:29.320
he did, he was really good on the ball. That
775
00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:33.480
left putting curling a shot might still be curling that
776
00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:34.320
hit the crossbar.
777
00:46:34.519 --> 00:46:35.159
That was very.
778
00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:41.199
Pretty Yeah, man, so Emelio, So yeah, let's do let's
779
00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:43.199
let's talk about these three because they're they're actually a
780
00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:46.079
really interesting case that I wouldn't say Austin has turned
781
00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:49.039
it around. Joshua was and still is.
782
00:46:49.119 --> 00:46:51.599
I think on the hot seat, they are.
783
00:46:51.639 --> 00:46:55.480
They are unnervingly inconsistent.
784
00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:01.199
Austin is still really weird. There's still very and consistent.
785
00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:03.559
They've they overachieved in.
786
00:47:03.480 --> 00:47:05.360
The one year they made the Western Conference Final, like
787
00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:09.719
that was fun, smashing, Josy still a fun player. Last
788
00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:13.360
year was awful. This year has been wildly inconsistent. Like
789
00:47:13.639 --> 00:47:16.719
they'll do what they did with a victory in Nashville
790
00:47:18.400 --> 00:47:20.400
and then they'll go out.
791
00:47:20.440 --> 00:47:22.039
And lose a game at home that they have no
792
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:22.599
business lose.
793
00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:24.719
Yeah, they'll lose the game at home to Minnesota. You know.
794
00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:29.639
Yeah, they're just they're really they're just inconsistent. I would
795
00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:32.840
say the turned did a round.
796
00:47:33.679 --> 00:47:34.360
Colorado.
797
00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:39.159
I am happy for Colorado because I scream to the preseason,
798
00:47:41.519 --> 00:47:43.559
if you're gonna give this to Chris Armas, make it
799
00:47:43.559 --> 00:47:46.719
his project, mm hm, give him time, give him pieces.
800
00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:50.599
And they did that, Like, uh, you have the ownership
801
00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:53.039
who actually spent Colorado.
802
00:47:54.840 --> 00:47:56.960
Colord has been good though, but they all bought into
803
00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:02.440
his system, looking at you turnin not buying into a system. Yeah,
804
00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:06.079
they've been good man. Lag is just.
805
00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:11.880
You dropped nineteen million dollars on paint Sel and Peck
806
00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:14.480
to help out Ricky Pooge and then somehow you found
807
00:48:14.519 --> 00:48:17.320
some Yeah I know. But and so it's like, all right,
808
00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:19.280
this is how it's going to be. We're going to
809
00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:21.880
have the pedal down and you've got to try and
810
00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:27.760
catch us because paint sal runs at nine hundred miles
811
00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:29.760
an hour and a pool is.
812
00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:33.079
Like a walking Orange card and I kind of adore it. Yeah,
813
00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:36.679
he runs in one mode. In that mode is aggrieved.
814
00:48:38.239 --> 00:48:41.559
Ellie was interesting though, and then like go back to
815
00:48:41.599 --> 00:48:44.079
the last couple of years, LA will take these big
816
00:48:44.199 --> 00:48:46.960
wild swings and they've been missing on them.
817
00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:48.440
This year they hit mm hmm.
818
00:48:48.960 --> 00:48:52.039
But they've been swinging big for a while, yeah, missing
819
00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:53.679
This year they hit.
820
00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:59.719
I give them credit, yeah, because it has not swinging
821
00:48:59.719 --> 00:48:59.960
a hit.
822
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:04.400
No, But you had Greg Manny there, who is a
823
00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:09.480
very well guarded manager and who is pretty well respected, and.
824
00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:11.880
His act was against the wall coming into this year.
825
00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:13.280
Buddy was it ever.
826
00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:17.280
Now for Atlanta.
827
00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:19.719
I think you know, to make these comparisons, like you're
828
00:49:19.719 --> 00:49:22.119
looking at Atlanta to you're looking for Atlanta to be
829
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:23.519
that team next year. But the idea of.
830
00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:30.320
Bring up you twenty two spots bringing in a new
831
00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:34.440
manager most likely I know we as Amelia and I
832
00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:37.960
were talking about this earlier is and Garth was on the.
833
00:49:40.239 --> 00:49:43.840
UH. Garth was on the pre game show talking about
834
00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:48.880
the manager. And I think my ip ed on this
835
00:49:48.960 --> 00:49:52.920
is that he is being very cordial and very fair
836
00:49:53.360 --> 00:49:56.440
to Rob by talking about Rob as a candidate for
837
00:49:56.480 --> 00:50:00.440
the next manager, because, as we talked about, you didn't
838
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:03.679
hand him to the pool deck. He can gonzo like Robobu.
839
00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:12.199
He didn't have a deep striker and so he had
840
00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:20.760
them off. But it's it's not the same weaponry. And
841
00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:24.119
now you're kind of everybody has been shook. I swear
842
00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:27.760
to god, everyone has been shook since the Philadelphia where
843
00:50:27.800 --> 00:50:29.000
he blew it too. No need to home.
844
00:50:32.239 --> 00:50:36.559
I I don't know the odds of Rob getting that kid,
845
00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:39.239
but I think the way Guard is going to talk
846
00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:41.320
about it, and I think the way you keep talking
847
00:50:41.320 --> 00:50:46.519
about it is that they're gonna fill the spot, whether
848
00:50:46.559 --> 00:50:48.440
it's with Rob or somebody else, because you're not just
849
00:50:48.519 --> 00:50:49.880
going to say, yeah.
850
00:50:49.719 --> 00:50:51.239
We're gonna bring in some for a bit, somebody from
851
00:50:51.239 --> 00:50:51.960
the outside of Rob.
852
00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:56.360
Just here too, Yeah, because.
853
00:50:54.760 --> 00:50:56.440
You're going to show him more respective that.
854
00:50:58.440 --> 00:51:01.760
Yeah. If you if you lay it out where you're
855
00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:06.519
throwing dirt on the interim manager and publicly not giving
856
00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:10.880
him a chance two show that he's worthy of the
857
00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:15.960
gig under whatever parameters you're looking at, then you know
858
00:51:16.039 --> 00:51:17.760
there's part of that guy that's gonna say, there, what's
859
00:51:17.760 --> 00:51:20.360
the point, you know? And so why why should I
860
00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:22.039
give one hundred percent if they're going to throw dirt
861
00:51:22.039 --> 00:51:22.239
on me?
862
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:30.400
And he's been listening here since Frank was here and
863
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:31.719
has been a.
864
00:51:31.639 --> 00:51:34.079
Part of multiple staffs in the sense that like he
865
00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:39.039
was here when Frank was here, when he came in,
866
00:51:40.199 --> 00:51:41.719
he stayed on as part of that staff, He was
867
00:51:41.760 --> 00:51:43.559
respected enough to stay on as part of that staff,
868
00:51:44.719 --> 00:51:46.800
took over the interim there, stayed on as part of
869
00:51:47.039 --> 00:51:51.920
the staff for conduity, and whether or not he does
870
00:51:51.920 --> 00:51:54.400
anything here going forward, or whether or not, whether or
871
00:51:54.440 --> 00:51:57.440
not it's somewhere else, this is this is his interview
872
00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:01.159
and in action. So I think when they talk manager,
873
00:52:02.280 --> 00:52:04.039
I don't want to get too hung up on like
874
00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:07.480
he's still talking about Rob. He's still talking about Rob. Yes, yes,
875
00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:11.639
because he's going to give him the respect of consideration.
876
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:13.760
You're not just gonna brush him off to the side.
877
00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:17.320
Even if even if they have decided behind closed doors,
878
00:52:17.480 --> 00:52:18.400
we don't know that they have.
879
00:52:18.840 --> 00:52:22.320
But even if they decided behind closed doors that he
880
00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:23.960
is not going to be the guy and they're gonna
881
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:24.920
get somebody.
882
00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:29.199
Else, they're going to talk publicly in a way that
883
00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:32.159
is respectful to Rob. And they should because he is,
884
00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:34.599
like I say, he has been a stewart for the club.
885
00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:42.519
Then he has done what he's been asked for the
886
00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:44.400
club in simple situations before.
887
00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:48.559
And now, yeah, it's a tough situation take over this club.
888
00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:51.119
Right now, because you always are going to have expectations
889
00:52:51.159 --> 00:52:57.239
even in the worst of times, and there's hay expectations
890
00:52:57.239 --> 00:53:02.400
on everybody's have expectations on scouting, coaching, fitness scene, hell
891
00:53:02.480 --> 00:53:06.679
even the second team with the kids. And we're seeing
892
00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:08.920
right now, you're seeing decisions have to get made with
893
00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:11.559
how you how you play this out. So so let's
894
00:53:11.639 --> 00:53:16.280
let's run this, run this scenario out. Because interestingly, in
895
00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:22.559
Bo banged up allegedly possible. Baby Jay Fortune was outstanding.
896
00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:27.840
Tyler and I've talked about it before, Like for me,
897
00:53:27.920 --> 00:53:29.000
Tristan is the odd.
898
00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:31.840
Man out right now that that could change. These are
899
00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:38.679
things that can change. Nothing is set into Obsidian right now.
900
00:53:38.679 --> 00:53:39.920
For me, he's the odd man out.
901
00:53:41.199 --> 00:53:44.000
If you're managing for your job, if you're managing in
902
00:53:44.039 --> 00:53:48.960
a in a interviewing capacity, not just for Atlanta, for
903
00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:51.719
anyone else, I think it'd be really tempting to go
904
00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:54.679
with the veteran guys who can provide stability.
905
00:53:55.639 --> 00:53:58.119
But at the same time, I think there's also pressure
906
00:53:58.199 --> 00:54:06.639
to see what you can get for from your home groups. Ye,
907
00:54:06.760 --> 00:54:10.199
because Jay Fortune has been getting better and better and
908
00:54:10.280 --> 00:54:11.599
better and better and better and.
909
00:54:11.559 --> 00:54:18.960
Better in games, maybe compliment better. Maybe Tristan's ready to
910
00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:21.039
go next week and make you run Tristan and Slee
911
00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:23.480
shout there, Tristan and Jay or you've run it back
912
00:54:23.519 --> 00:54:27.880
the exact same way, because when Mananchoke is healthy and
913
00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:32.119
man check is ready to go, somebody's got to drop
914
00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:32.360
out of it.
915
00:54:32.440 --> 00:54:34.159
If E've been running.
916
00:54:34.920 --> 00:54:40.280
Bartak Uh, Jay, Tristan, Dax in some capacity, three of
917
00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:42.199
the four of them, one of them is gonna drop
918
00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:47.599
for your number ten, who's it gonna be and who
919
00:54:47.639 --> 00:54:49.920
wants to earn this and it's starting, and who wants
920
00:54:49.960 --> 00:54:50.679
to come off the bench?
921
00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:55.440
I love take those situations. I will be very interested
922
00:54:55.480 --> 00:54:56.280
to see how that goes.
923
00:54:56.880 --> 00:54:58.840
And the same thing goes for me personally on the
924
00:54:58.880 --> 00:55:02.039
week where John d hasn't been what you needed him
925
00:55:02.079 --> 00:55:03.519
to be. This if you're outside of a couple of
926
00:55:03.519 --> 00:55:09.280
stretches and I at one point, do you do you
927
00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:12.239
throw it to somebody else like a loop Brennan. I
928
00:55:12.280 --> 00:55:15.000
know Tyler Wolf was first, was the the winger off
929
00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:15.800
the bench along.
930
00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:16.039
With that one.
931
00:55:17.239 --> 00:55:19.079
I'm not gonna lie my eyebrows went up a bit
932
00:55:19.280 --> 00:55:20.920
just because I'm very.
933
00:55:20.800 --> 00:55:23.519
High on the Brennan and what is the first team.
934
00:55:23.639 --> 00:55:27.719
But again, if you're managing for your future, whether it
935
00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:29.880
is here or somewhere else, and you're kind of doing
936
00:55:29.920 --> 00:55:33.880
a live interview in the moment, then yeah, you might
937
00:55:33.920 --> 00:55:36.920
be more inclined to go with more veteran guys.
938
00:55:38.679 --> 00:55:39.079
Yeah.
939
00:55:39.440 --> 00:55:42.440
Yeah, uh. We've cleared the top of the hour, so
940
00:55:42.519 --> 00:55:44.639
that means it is time to bring in Bart Keeler
941
00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:47.760
Hirst to kick off our number two from the soccer
942
00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:51.800
for us PO D and and Bart I had mentioned
943
00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:54.119
in the pre flight that.
944
00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:56.840
For some reason it looked like bart just kind of
945
00:55:57.119 --> 00:55:58.559
levitated into the screen.
946
00:55:58.559 --> 00:55:59.119
I don't know why.
947
00:55:59.800 --> 00:56:02.800
Yeah, he did, because he because he does that, he levitates.
948
00:56:03.239 --> 00:56:06.679
He is a master levitator. Uh, we were going to
949
00:56:06.719 --> 00:56:09.719
do a lot of reffing down here. Before we get
950
00:56:09.719 --> 00:56:14.119
into reffing down here. Is there anything from a a
951
00:56:14.559 --> 00:56:18.320
national team point of view, men's women's Meghan Rapino getting
952
00:56:18.360 --> 00:56:22.639
jerseys retired to put an umbrella on national team stuff,
953
00:56:22.639 --> 00:56:25.360
what's going on in a national team footprint right now? Anything?
954
00:56:26.599 --> 00:56:28.239
I think it just needs to be said that.
955
00:56:30.719 --> 00:56:34.360
Gotham brought on two gold medalists as a sub in
956
00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:39.280
their game weekend, and that is a flex that I
957
00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:41.559
don't think many teams in the world could ever do.
958
00:56:42.480 --> 00:56:44.480
It also helps that when you have like half the
959
00:56:44.559 --> 00:56:53.920
US women's actualty do that, right, Yeah, both gold medal
960
00:56:53.960 --> 00:56:57.039
and Gotham rating chances breakup.
961
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:02.519
That's that's you know, I think that's it.
962
00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:04.760
From the women's side of it's a a Thompson scored
963
00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:06.639
for the first time this year and she broke her
964
00:57:07.960 --> 00:57:10.360
her blockade with two goals, So that's awesome.
965
00:57:11.519 --> 00:57:14.039
Christian politic it's a goal. Uh.
966
00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:20.079
Tyler Adams as we'll discuss uh Born Mothson still not
967
00:57:20.559 --> 00:57:24.840
seeing her, uh nothing, but you know, just.
968
00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:29.719
This is as usual unfortunately.
969
00:57:30.119 --> 00:57:32.639
Yes, so we'll get into we'll get into all of that.
970
00:57:32.840 --> 00:57:37.159
So uh so no patch, no, but and this was
971
00:57:37.199 --> 00:57:42.760
a question that came upon.
972
00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:47.280
I'm just glad he's.
973
00:57:47.119 --> 00:57:47.519
Out of Vane.
974
00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:49.559
I don't have any I don't think it's going to
975
00:57:49.599 --> 00:57:51.880
be I don't know if it will be actually good
976
00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:52.239
for him.
977
00:57:52.599 --> 00:57:53.440
I'm just glad.
978
00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:58.400
Celtic in Scotland and I don't know how much they
979
00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:00.800
were willing to spend, but I know they wanted to
980
00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:06.360
bring him up there. But yeah, yeah, well it's a
981
00:58:06.360 --> 00:58:07.079
fun hip club.
982
00:58:07.159 --> 00:58:10.119
But yeah, they got great gear except for this last
983
00:58:10.519 --> 00:58:11.679
Jersey release which.
984
00:58:11.480 --> 00:58:13.760
There are worth places in the world you could live
985
00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:14.760
true far.
986
00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:18.280
But as far as development, we have seen it with him, right.
987
00:58:20.599 --> 00:58:21.000
Yeah.
988
00:58:21.679 --> 00:58:26.480
Yeah, So I'm glad he's getting a move, hopefully that
989
00:58:26.639 --> 00:58:30.679
either he can develop it leon or he can developed elsewhere.
990
00:58:30.719 --> 00:58:32.320
I actually would have liked the Celtic.
991
00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:32.400
Move for him.
992
00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:33.440
I think that would have been cool.
993
00:58:34.599 --> 00:58:34.840
You know.
994
00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:37.920
I'd like to see a former football player go head
995
00:58:37.920 --> 00:58:40.000
to head in the with some of the men in
996
00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:41.119
the Scottish Premier League.
997
00:58:41.239 --> 00:58:44.480
Yes, well, speaking of which, I just got my email
998
00:58:44.559 --> 00:58:50.400
from West Brom and apparently they are pleased to confirm
999
00:58:50.440 --> 00:58:52.800
the club is completely the signing of midfielder Matt O'Reilly
1000
00:58:52.880 --> 00:58:58.880
from Celtic for an undisclosed fee. So yeah, the ball on.
1001
00:58:58.960 --> 00:59:00.480
This one, the.
1002
00:59:02.000 --> 00:59:04.519
Structure on this was that when Monon Trip was coming
1003
00:59:04.559 --> 00:59:07.239
to Atlanta, they weren't discussing matter. They made like four
1004
00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:10.199
or five bits for Matt o'reiley. They had no business
1005
00:59:10.280 --> 00:59:15.519
not being on the Danish euro squad by the ways outstanding,
1006
00:59:15.880 --> 00:59:17.639
but yeah, they kept trying.
1007
00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:18.760
To the low ball. Celtic.
1008
00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:21.480
After like four or five bits of that, I think Celtic,
1009
00:59:22.199 --> 00:59:24.440
I think Celtic blocked their number and just went down
1010
00:59:24.519 --> 00:59:26.639
to England and said, you know what, just give us
1011
00:59:26.639 --> 00:59:29.400
the twenty five at add Ons almost call the day.
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00:59:29.960 --> 00:59:34.239
Yes, So that's that was where we were with that
1013
00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:38.039
particular move and a full disclosure. I got the email
1014
00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:40.760
and it said embargoed three pm, and I'm trying to
1015
00:59:40.760 --> 00:59:42.760
sit here and do math, and I'm like, okay, embargo
1016
00:59:42.840 --> 00:59:46.840
three pm, fifteen hundred minus five ten o'clock. We cleared
1017
00:59:46.880 --> 00:59:50.239
ten o'clock, so that was okay to say it all right,
1018
00:59:50.280 --> 00:59:55.199
So Bart, I have tape to go with reffing down
1019
00:59:55.239 --> 00:59:59.239
here today. There were a couple of incidents and I
1020
00:59:59.280 --> 01:00:03.880
wanted to discussed them with you. We'll get into the
1021
01:00:03.880 --> 01:00:07.840
philosophical discussion, which I guess means we'll play Danny Cruz. Second,
1022
01:00:08.400 --> 01:00:12.000
we'll start with Bournemouth and there were two incidents and
1023
01:00:12.119 --> 01:00:15.360
Alex made some comments early on in the Twitch pitch
1024
01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:20.440
about them. So the one it's one one late and
1025
01:00:20.440 --> 01:00:22.199
I probably should have pulled the play by play instead
1026
01:00:22.199 --> 01:00:25.320
of just the Eurola sound after the match, one one
1027
01:00:25.400 --> 01:00:30.000
late and it looks like off a corner Bournemouth gets
1028
01:00:30.039 --> 01:00:35.159
a game winner. But then it goes to VR and
1029
01:00:35.440 --> 01:00:39.719
VR was picking up their Taekwonder Roga number two pencil
1030
01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:43.239
and they said, not so fast. My friend with Dongo
1031
01:00:43.320 --> 01:00:49.760
Watara checked for a possible handball and the goal was disallowed. So,
1032
01:00:50.440 --> 01:00:55.519
looking at that particular incident, please explain to the planet
1033
01:00:55.599 --> 01:00:59.079
once again this year, when it comes to the jersey
1034
01:00:59.199 --> 01:01:03.440
in the arm, what it constitutes a handball and how
1035
01:01:03.480 --> 01:01:06.000
far down the arm we go in this situation.
1036
01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:10.199
Right, So, I think the first thing you have to
1037
01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:14.559
understand when you're talking about this specific moment is the
1038
01:01:14.599 --> 01:01:17.679
one thing you are absolutely not allowed to do in
1039
01:01:17.719 --> 01:01:20.719
this sport is score with any part of your hand
1040
01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:24.320
or arm. That is that you are going to be
1041
01:01:24.400 --> 01:01:25.519
more scrutinous.
1042
01:01:25.639 --> 01:01:28.719
Screwtinus it sounds good to me. It's a word.
1043
01:01:29.719 --> 01:01:32.960
You're going to be more scrutinous of a goal when
1044
01:01:32.960 --> 01:01:35.440
it comes to a handball because you're not allowed to
1045
01:01:35.480 --> 01:01:39.400
do that. Right, we know this. That's literally the whole
1046
01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:42.320
point of the sport. That is the thing that differentiates
1047
01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:46.119
us from other footballs is that we actually do play
1048
01:01:46.159 --> 01:01:48.360
with our feet and not our hands, whereas all the
1049
01:01:48.360 --> 01:01:52.639
other footballs for some reason use their hands. And so
1050
01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:55.440
with that, you have to look at this and go, okay,
1051
01:01:55.599 --> 01:02:00.559
if it the jersey is not necessarily the boundary.
1052
01:02:00.679 --> 01:02:04.039
I think that needs to be said. It is a good.
1053
01:02:05.639 --> 01:02:08.199
Easy way to kind of look at it and go, yeah, okay,
1054
01:02:08.320 --> 01:02:12.199
the jersey's there. That's about the edge of the arm pit, right,
1055
01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:14.440
But we look at the armpit, so that.
1056
01:02:14.320 --> 01:02:15.920
Could be here. It could be here.
1057
01:02:16.079 --> 01:02:21.679
It's the armpit, right, we look at it through that lens.
1058
01:02:22.039 --> 01:02:25.280
Sometimes you can use the jersey sleeve as a boundary.
1059
01:02:25.320 --> 01:02:30.159
Sometimes you can't, because every jersey manufacturer makes their sleeves
1060
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:34.920
slightly different, and every player has a slightly different jersey size.
1061
01:02:38.719 --> 01:02:41.639
I think that this was eventually the right call, and
1062
01:02:41.679 --> 01:02:45.599
I'm really sorry Bournemouth fans, but I think it looks
1063
01:02:45.599 --> 01:02:48.840
like it hits at that boundary. Literally, it looked like
1064
01:02:48.880 --> 01:02:52.239
it hit right up that boundary on his sleeve. Congrats
1065
01:02:52.239 --> 01:02:55.760
on having a massive bicep strong enough to fit that
1066
01:02:55.840 --> 01:02:56.840
ball into the goal.
1067
01:02:57.760 --> 01:02:58.960
But it did look.
1068
01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:04.119
Like it it was a handball. And when I watched
1069
01:03:04.119 --> 01:03:05.559
it live, I was like, where was the handball? And
1070
01:03:05.559 --> 01:03:07.559
then you watch it back and go oh, because he
1071
01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:09.360
didn't actually hit it with his head. And that's the
1072
01:03:09.400 --> 01:03:11.320
other thing is he clearly did not hit it with
1073
01:03:11.360 --> 01:03:15.920
his head, and it wasn't on his shoulder shoulder. It
1074
01:03:15.960 --> 01:03:20.039
definitely was somewhere in between shoulder and elbow, and it
1075
01:03:20.079 --> 01:03:23.800
looked like it hit probably on that boundary line, which
1076
01:03:24.360 --> 01:03:27.440
in our case here means it's a handball, and unfortunately
1077
01:03:27.480 --> 01:03:28.400
the goal is disallowed.
1078
01:03:28.639 --> 01:03:31.920
Yes, so here is and Doni Rala, the manager for Bournemouth,
1079
01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:36.559
after the match, doing his spleen venting for about ninety seconds.
1080
01:03:36.559 --> 01:03:38.840
Donny will start with where the game finished, the plenty
1081
01:03:38.840 --> 01:03:39.920
of talking points at the end.
1082
01:03:40.119 --> 01:03:42.119
What was your view of how the game finished.
1083
01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:45.480
I think it's unfair, unfair for the players because now
1084
01:03:46.360 --> 01:03:48.719
with the performance they had, we're just going to talk
1085
01:03:48.760 --> 01:03:52.960
about the visit allowed goal. No, I think it's so
1086
01:03:53.039 --> 01:03:54.920
this is if in the game the goal, it's so
1087
01:03:54.960 --> 01:03:59.760
obvious the mistake that we cannot focus in the other things.
1088
01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:06.320
Think it's they take us another two points. I don't
1089
01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:08.880
understand because the referee cannot do anything else.
1090
01:04:09.039 --> 01:04:09.800
He gives the goal.
1091
01:04:10.840 --> 01:04:12.719
He doesn't even have the chance to watch it in
1092
01:04:12.760 --> 01:04:16.519
the in the images, in the TV, in the VR,
1093
01:04:17.719 --> 01:04:21.559
they would say it's something factual after seeing the play.
1094
01:04:21.800 --> 01:04:23.880
Is if everyone thinks it's not a humble if the
1095
01:04:23.880 --> 01:04:27.519
ball goes especially so strong after hitting the shoulder, you
1096
01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:31.719
know it doesn't touch the skin of dango. The only
1097
01:04:31.840 --> 01:04:34.119
chance if you stop the ball earlier or later, so
1098
01:04:34.199 --> 01:04:35.639
you can say no, it's touching the No, you're not
1099
01:04:35.639 --> 01:04:37.480
touching the skin. You see the life, it's not touching
1100
01:04:37.480 --> 01:04:39.679
the link. It's because with the you know and the
1101
01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:41.679
books they give us at the beginning of the season
1102
01:04:41.760 --> 01:04:44.440
is clear. They put on a line here say you
1103
01:04:44.440 --> 01:04:47.159
know this is they this allows that goes against nothing
1104
01:04:47.199 --> 01:04:50.159
on forest because they take the last part of the
1105
01:04:50.159 --> 01:04:52.079
shelder of Louis Cook and they put the lines and
1106
01:04:52.119 --> 01:04:54.000
you have to believe because they put the lines, and
1107
01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:55.280
you say, okay, we have to say it because you
1108
01:04:55.320 --> 01:04:58.079
can square all with the shoulder. This is what happened today.
1109
01:04:58.119 --> 01:05:01.719
And it's the same shelter the past week and this
1110
01:05:01.800 --> 01:05:04.760
week is the same show that you know is and
1111
01:05:04.840 --> 01:05:09.800
it's frustration, frustration. But nobody will remember in two weeks
1112
01:05:09.840 --> 01:05:12.920
and we'll have two points less and they will ask me,
1113
01:05:13.159 --> 01:05:15.760
you haven't won in three weeks or whatever. I willn't
1114
01:05:15.800 --> 01:05:19.840
win difficult games and nothing happens.
1115
01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:20.639
Nothing happens.
1116
01:05:21.719 --> 01:05:26.320
So obviously and Ierola is absolutely correct. In two weeks,
1117
01:05:26.519 --> 01:05:29.480
unless we have another incident, no one remember this incident.
1118
01:05:29.519 --> 01:05:31.559
They're gonna sit there and go, yeah, you've lost three
1119
01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:34.079
in a row. What's wrong? I mean? And that's the
1120
01:05:34.079 --> 01:05:35.599
way it is in the Premier League. By the way,
1121
01:05:36.320 --> 01:05:38.440
Dale Johnson at the Four Letter says that this was
1122
01:05:38.480 --> 01:05:41.000
only the ninth game as VR for Tim Robinson, who
1123
01:05:41.119 --> 01:05:44.400
is a recent appointment to the Premier League list. In
1124
01:05:44.480 --> 01:05:47.199
those previous eight matches, he had only one heir to
1125
01:05:47.239 --> 01:05:50.280
his name. The failure to award a penalty to Nottingham
1126
01:05:50.320 --> 01:05:55.800
Forest against West ham back in February. So, uh, there
1127
01:05:55.840 --> 01:05:56.159
you go.
1128
01:05:56.519 --> 01:05:57.360
I just don't think that.
1129
01:05:57.920 --> 01:05:59.400
I think it's fair to say this is not a
1130
01:05:59.440 --> 01:06:03.320
clear and obvious error. But at the same time, it
1131
01:06:03.599 --> 01:06:08.800
was because there was no I mean, there wasn't a header, right,
1132
01:06:08.880 --> 01:06:10.880
and so I think that would be that it didn't
1133
01:06:10.920 --> 01:06:14.360
hit his shoulder. So from there, it's clear and obvious
1134
01:06:14.440 --> 01:06:17.480
that did not hit a playable, a truly playable part
1135
01:06:17.519 --> 01:06:19.239
of the ball, right, It's not obvious that it hit
1136
01:06:19.280 --> 01:06:20.800
a playable part of the body.
1137
01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:21.599
Uh.
1138
01:06:21.800 --> 01:06:27.079
And to Alex's point, I think he's confusing the guidelines
1139
01:06:27.360 --> 01:06:31.199
for the actual rule. And oh, it doesn't touch a skin,
1140
01:06:31.920 --> 01:06:34.599
Well one, I don't think that's necessarily cut in dry either.
1141
01:06:34.679 --> 01:06:36.920
I don't think you can definitively say it doesn't touch
1142
01:06:36.960 --> 01:06:38.960
a skin. Again, it seems like it hits the bottom
1143
01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:41.719
of the shirt sleeve, which you know by that point
1144
01:06:41.920 --> 01:06:46.840
it probably could touch skin because you know things are malleable.
1145
01:06:46.920 --> 01:06:51.599
Let's just put it that way. Yes, And then further again,
1146
01:06:51.639 --> 01:06:52.079
it's not.
1147
01:06:52.400 --> 01:06:54.519
Just the shirt sleep. That's just a good way for
1148
01:06:54.639 --> 01:06:57.679
us to kind of look at things through a framework.
1149
01:06:57.760 --> 01:07:02.119
It's not necessarily the actual boundary line.
1150
01:07:03.239 --> 01:07:06.679
And I know that confuses some people, but that just
1151
01:07:06.840 --> 01:07:07.400
is what it is.
1152
01:07:07.519 --> 01:07:10.840
It looks like to me, it hits below the armpit,
1153
01:07:11.360 --> 01:07:16.639
which doesn't necessarily mean the skin, right, but I'm sure
1154
01:07:16.679 --> 01:07:19.679
that's how they explained it to the Premier League managers.
1155
01:07:19.719 --> 01:07:22.920
And so that's where he is confused. That said, you
1156
01:07:22.960 --> 01:07:27.000
cannot score with your arm, you cannot score with your hand.
1157
01:07:27.360 --> 01:07:29.280
And so when we have a goal that is scored
1158
01:07:29.320 --> 01:07:33.239
by arm or hand, we're going to be more scrutinous.
1159
01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:37.440
Well but or you know, according to to Alex, screw delicious,
1160
01:07:37.599 --> 01:07:41.280
screw delicious. Yeah, I think that scru delicious is that
1161
01:07:41.400 --> 01:07:45.920
might be another term that we use. So uh so scrutlicious.
1162
01:07:45.159 --> 01:07:46.880
Delicious definition makes it.
1163
01:07:47.360 --> 01:07:50.480
See, yes see that's where going on in here now,
1164
01:07:50.920 --> 01:07:52.320
scrut delicious definition.
1165
01:07:52.400 --> 01:07:55.360
Yeah see, this is this is why we do this,
1166
01:07:55.480 --> 01:07:57.800
so we can expand our vocabulary and we can all
1167
01:07:57.840 --> 01:08:02.880
become smarter. Uh. Incident umber two on on tape and
1168
01:08:02.880 --> 01:08:04.840
we're gonna we're gonna hear from Danny Cruz, the head
1169
01:08:04.840 --> 01:08:08.480
coach at lou City in the USL Championship. And I
1170
01:08:08.519 --> 01:08:11.440
went back to get the full grid in USL Championship
1171
01:08:11.519 --> 01:08:17.279
this weekend this past weekend you end up with a
1172
01:08:17.319 --> 01:08:21.359
red card in FC Tulsa Detroit City. You end up
1173
01:08:21.399 --> 01:08:24.880
with a red card lou City and Hartford Athletic, so
1174
01:08:24.920 --> 01:08:28.279
that's two matches. You end up with red cards for
1175
01:08:28.359 --> 01:08:32.880
both Charleston and Orange County, and it was two nil
1176
01:08:32.920 --> 01:08:36.960
Orange County at the time of their red card. By
1177
01:08:37.000 --> 01:08:38.720
the time it was done, you end up with a
1178
01:08:38.760 --> 01:08:40.720
red card on each team. You finished ten B ten.
1179
01:08:40.840 --> 01:08:44.159
Charleston wins six nils, so that's four reds. You end
1180
01:08:44.239 --> 01:08:47.199
up with a red card in New Mexico United and
1181
01:08:47.279 --> 01:08:50.720
Colorado Springs Switchback, so that's five. Then you end up
1182
01:08:50.760 --> 01:08:53.760
with a red card Monterey Bay and El Paso Locomotive,
1183
01:08:54.119 --> 01:08:59.079
so that's six red cards in five matches this past
1184
01:08:59.159 --> 01:09:04.840
weekend in USL Championship. Now, in the Loose City match,
1185
01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:11.319
Danny Cruz afterward he got the he ended up getting
1186
01:09:12.520 --> 01:09:16.199
a two to one loss to Hartford. So Danny Cruz
1187
01:09:16.920 --> 01:09:21.319
less than happy about what happened in the match. So
1188
01:09:21.479 --> 01:09:26.680
here's what Danny Cruz said post match after the game.
1189
01:09:26.840 --> 01:09:29.159
And there's some pretty damning stuff in here. It's two
1190
01:09:29.199 --> 01:09:32.279
sound bites pushed together by our friends at w DRBTV
1191
01:09:32.439 --> 01:09:35.560
in Louisville, it's about two minutes in nineteen seconds. So
1192
01:09:35.640 --> 01:09:38.840
here's what Danny Cruse said with two questions in his
1193
01:09:38.880 --> 01:09:40.000
post match press conference.
1194
01:09:40.039 --> 01:09:43.000
Yeah, I will say I was I was extremely proud
1195
01:09:43.000 --> 01:09:48.079
of the mentality of the group, the work create. It's
1196
01:09:48.159 --> 01:09:54.079
never easy to be down a man for sixty minutes, obviously,
1197
01:09:54.399 --> 01:09:59.439
you know, I felt certainly that the level tonight from
1198
01:09:59.479 --> 01:10:03.039
the crew, the referee crew, was below the level of
1199
01:10:03.079 --> 01:10:07.279
expectation at the professional league, you know, And this for
1200
01:10:07.359 --> 01:10:10.279
me is a huge problem. I'll tell you. You know,
1201
01:10:10.399 --> 01:10:16.960
you had a referee tell Adrian Perez took golf. I
1202
01:10:17.039 --> 01:10:21.399
got sent off for literally clapping and telling Aiden that
1203
01:10:21.439 --> 01:10:24.119
he done well to earn the foul in the corner.
1204
01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:29.640
I didn't say a word to the fourth official until
1205
01:10:29.640 --> 01:10:33.479
the twentieth minute, twenty second minute, to be exact, and
1206
01:10:33.479 --> 01:10:37.560
got officially warned. And this is not a standard that
1207
01:10:37.640 --> 01:10:41.479
I think is acceptable at our level. At the end
1208
01:10:41.520 --> 01:10:44.239
of the day, I don't ever talk about the referees
1209
01:10:44.800 --> 01:10:46.600
in these press conferences.
1210
01:10:46.640 --> 01:10:47.920
I don't ever want there to be.
1211
01:10:48.199 --> 01:10:52.000
Excuses for a poor result. But I did feel that
1212
01:10:52.359 --> 01:10:55.640
my group left everything they could on the field and
1213
01:10:55.680 --> 01:10:58.760
they were hard done by tonight. There is a process where.
1214
01:10:58.560 --> 01:10:59.399
We go through the report.
1215
01:10:59.479 --> 01:11:02.840
I've had really good dialogue with PRO over the last
1216
01:11:02.840 --> 01:11:06.239
few weeks. I have felt that there's been improvement in
1217
01:11:06.279 --> 01:11:09.840
certain areas, you know. But again, the fourth official tonight,
1218
01:11:10.439 --> 01:11:12.760
twenty minutes into the game, I had not said one
1219
01:11:12.800 --> 01:11:17.199
word to him, and get I get a warning after
1220
01:11:17.279 --> 01:11:20.039
saying asking him about a call. And all that I
1221
01:11:20.079 --> 01:11:22.319
was looking for was communication on what the call was.
1222
01:11:23.439 --> 01:11:27.279
And you know, there was a clear for me, a
1223
01:11:27.319 --> 01:11:29.680
clear penalty in the first half. I've already looked at it,
1224
01:11:29.840 --> 01:11:32.479
looked back at it three times, but it seemed that
1225
01:11:32.520 --> 01:11:35.680
our players couldn't get couldn't get a call tonight, and
1226
01:11:35.800 --> 01:11:38.560
for AR for the AR two to tell a player
1227
01:11:38.560 --> 01:11:41.239
to golf, I have a real problem with that. I
1228
01:11:41.279 --> 01:11:43.680
have a real problem with that. And we're going to
1229
01:11:43.720 --> 01:11:45.760
follow the report. We're going to go through PRO, We're
1230
01:11:45.760 --> 01:11:48.119
going to go through the league, see what comes of it.
1231
01:11:49.159 --> 01:11:54.880
But ultimately, I don't believe that that the crew was
1232
01:11:54.960 --> 01:11:56.399
up to the standard that it needed to be at
1233
01:11:56.399 --> 01:11:59.039
a level like ours.
1234
01:11:59.439 --> 01:12:04.359
So, Jared, for those that may not know about Danny Cruse,
1235
01:12:05.319 --> 01:12:10.840
could you give a bit of an observational bioblast about
1236
01:12:11.000 --> 01:12:13.520
Danny Cruz and lou City and what he's been able
1237
01:12:13.560 --> 01:12:18.039
to do and personality wise, how Danny Cruz operates from
1238
01:12:18.039 --> 01:12:21.920
what you've seen over time from our coverage of USL championships.
1239
01:12:21.960 --> 01:12:24.399
So that's pretty much how Danny Cruse operates right there.
1240
01:12:26.319 --> 01:12:31.039
Danny Cruz is, I think. So what's fascinating to me
1241
01:12:31.079 --> 01:12:33.319
is that, like I think the James O'Connor hire from
1242
01:12:33.399 --> 01:12:35.239
Orlando's to Orlando City.
1243
01:12:35.000 --> 01:12:37.760
From lu City back in twenty eighteen.
1244
01:12:37.960 --> 01:12:43.520
After Jason Price, Yeah, I think that did damage to
1245
01:12:43.600 --> 01:12:46.920
some people's perception of having a manager make that jump.
1246
01:12:49.319 --> 01:12:55.159
But Danny Cruz came in and took over Low City
1247
01:12:55.720 --> 01:12:59.760
as a former player, like pretty young after they had
1248
01:12:59.760 --> 01:13:05.359
won title and the roster the manager left after they
1249
01:13:05.359 --> 01:13:09.560
had won the title with an older roster, came in,
1250
01:13:11.119 --> 01:13:15.239
made some modifications to the style and the game model,
1251
01:13:16.159 --> 01:13:20.000
but turn the roster over to younger style and adapted
1252
01:13:20.199 --> 01:13:23.840
what he had to the players that he had and
1253
01:13:23.920 --> 01:13:27.800
has continued to consistently make the playoffs and challenge for
1254
01:13:27.960 --> 01:13:31.880
trophies and then really really good. Danny Cruz is one
1255
01:13:31.880 --> 01:13:35.720
of my favorite managers in lower division United States soccer,
1256
01:13:36.119 --> 01:13:41.840
and I will hear no slander personally but yeah, that's
1257
01:13:41.880 --> 01:13:45.800
pretty much what you're gonna get from guy's still pretty young.
1258
01:13:46.439 --> 01:13:48.159
Played not that long ago.
1259
01:13:48.399 --> 01:13:52.079
And I think guys like that will go to bat
1260
01:13:52.560 --> 01:14:00.840
very very consistently for their for their players, for their guys.
1261
01:14:01.840 --> 01:14:06.319
And yeah, I don't if all of the allegations are
1262
01:14:06.359 --> 01:14:08.199
what they are, if they are all true, I don't
1263
01:14:08.199 --> 01:14:11.119
blame him for being upset, like if you get if,
1264
01:14:11.800 --> 01:14:14.159
because we are hearing one side of the story, right,
1265
01:14:14.279 --> 01:14:15.239
I mean, yeah.
1266
01:14:16.000 --> 01:14:16.920
And I think that is.
1267
01:14:18.359 --> 01:14:20.840
It's very easy for us to be angry after a
1268
01:14:20.920 --> 01:14:27.159
game with officials, but I think we also do have
1269
01:14:27.239 --> 01:14:30.359
to at times remind ourselves that when a manager gets
1270
01:14:30.359 --> 01:14:33.880
on the podium and just starts cutting the promo, we
1271
01:14:33.920 --> 01:14:36.479
are getting a side of the story. Yes, we are
1272
01:14:36.520 --> 01:14:40.600
not privy to the postmatch report that is written by
1273
01:14:40.640 --> 01:14:43.920
the head official, or any comments or any of that
1274
01:14:43.960 --> 01:14:46.760
sort of thing, unless, of course, you are Jack Cameron
1275
01:14:46.840 --> 01:14:49.680
decide to storm into the referees locker room at the game,
1276
01:14:50.119 --> 01:14:52.439
only get suspended for a couple of games, and then
1277
01:14:52.479 --> 01:14:54.680
bitch and mone your way into a lower suspension.
1278
01:14:55.880 --> 01:14:58.039
Yeah, you could have been you could have been met me.
1279
01:14:59.640 --> 01:15:04.439
I'm sorry, guys, it really could have been.
1280
01:15:05.960 --> 01:15:09.479
I dude, I'm still pissed at like mattan Oscar was
1281
01:15:09.520 --> 01:15:13.600
not given like a bigger like frying pan.
1282
01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:15.159
Over the head from the league.
1283
01:15:15.199 --> 01:15:15.520
All that.
1284
01:15:18.520 --> 01:15:21.359
Also shout out to Cincinnati fans for belly aching all
1285
01:15:21.399 --> 01:15:24.960
week about the referees in Miami because they lost too
1286
01:15:25.000 --> 01:15:28.479
nil to Miami in a game where Miami got a
1287
01:15:28.600 --> 01:15:29.239
red card.
1288
01:15:30.399 --> 01:15:31.640
Uh huh And yeah.
1289
01:15:31.600 --> 01:15:34.279
Still bitching about the officials.
1290
01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:35.840
Yep.
1291
01:15:36.279 --> 01:15:39.760
Yeah, like you are Steph Curry's wife.
1292
01:15:41.640 --> 01:15:44.520
Uh yeah, so so Bart, you got a lot to
1293
01:15:44.560 --> 01:15:48.640
talk about here. Uh. First off, after uh, Danny Cruise,
1294
01:15:48.680 --> 01:15:51.359
we'll get into Miami and Cincinnati. Since Jared brought that up,
1295
01:15:51.359 --> 01:15:52.920
Well that'll be next. Let me write it down so
1296
01:15:52.960 --> 01:15:58.000
I don't forget so Danny Cruz obviously cutting a promo
1297
01:15:58.199 --> 01:16:01.960
like that after a match. Initial thoughts, And I'm sitting
1298
01:16:01.960 --> 01:16:04.960
here and I'm scrubbing the league highlights trying to find out.
1299
01:16:05.039 --> 01:16:08.239
All we see is the red card in the twenty
1300
01:16:08.319 --> 01:16:11.239
ninth minute basically of Adrian Perez. We don't see the why,
1301
01:16:11.640 --> 01:16:16.199
but it looked something dissentish. So that's where we are
1302
01:16:16.239 --> 01:16:20.439
with the red card with thirty minutes in for lou City.
1303
01:16:20.560 --> 01:16:24.800
So what Danny Cruz said in those two sound bites,
1304
01:16:25.359 --> 01:16:27.960
was damming across the board for this crew.
1305
01:16:29.640 --> 01:16:30.760
Yeah.
1306
01:16:31.079 --> 01:16:34.399
I think a lot of times, as Jared said, when
1307
01:16:34.439 --> 01:16:37.199
you hear our coach say something or speak out like this,
1308
01:16:37.399 --> 01:16:42.199
it is one side of the story. Now they're probably
1309
01:16:42.319 --> 01:16:47.479
is basis for a disgruntlement. I do not, sorry, Danny,
1310
01:16:47.720 --> 01:16:50.760
believe that you did not say a single word to
1311
01:16:50.920 --> 01:16:54.159
the fourth official or any official by the way, because
1312
01:16:54.159 --> 01:16:54.920
it doesn't.
1313
01:16:54.640 --> 01:16:55.399
Just have to be directed.
1314
01:16:55.439 --> 01:16:57.119
There took silence part.
1315
01:16:57.479 --> 01:16:58.439
Yeah, I'm sorry.
1316
01:16:58.520 --> 01:17:01.039
I don't buy that it took twenty minutes before you
1317
01:17:01.079 --> 01:17:02.399
started talking to the referees.
1318
01:17:02.600 --> 01:17:04.239
I really, I just don't. I'm sorry.
1319
01:17:04.279 --> 01:17:08.039
I've been around this game long enough. The coaches start
1320
01:17:08.119 --> 01:17:14.159
chirping before the damn game. Don't don't pee on my
1321
01:17:14.239 --> 01:17:15.439
shoe and tell me it's raining.
1322
01:17:15.600 --> 01:17:16.000
Okay.
1323
01:17:16.319 --> 01:17:18.000
You could have said that's okay.
1324
01:17:19.800 --> 01:17:22.800
Im the filters, Yeah, don't puss on my shoe and
1325
01:17:22.800 --> 01:17:26.600
tell me it's raining. Atlanta United Guards bloggery telling me
1326
01:17:26.920 --> 01:17:27.640
that to us right now.
1327
01:17:28.039 --> 01:17:29.119
But there you go.
1328
01:17:31.119 --> 01:17:36.000
There are Obviously, if if a referee told a player
1329
01:17:36.119 --> 01:17:41.640
to f off, yes, that is a problem because obviously
1330
01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:44.399
a referee would not be a player would not be
1331
01:17:44.439 --> 01:17:46.079
allowed to say that to a referee, and a referee
1332
01:17:46.079 --> 01:17:47.640
should not be saying that to a player. If that
1333
01:17:47.720 --> 01:17:49.920
is true, if that happened, which at this point is
1334
01:17:49.920 --> 01:17:52.199
that he said and not even he said he said,
1335
01:17:52.199 --> 01:17:56.640
it's just that he said, right, then if that did happen,
1336
01:17:56.720 --> 01:17:59.960
then yes, that referee deserves to be punished in some way,
1337
01:18:00.079 --> 01:18:06.159
shape or form, probably suspended, and you know, reevaluated for
1338
01:18:06.319 --> 01:18:14.000
their fit and competence for this level. That said it,
1339
01:18:15.920 --> 01:18:18.279
referees are going to have bad nights. Players are going
1340
01:18:18.359 --> 01:18:20.880
to have bad nights. Coaches are going to have bad nights. Right,
1341
01:18:22.840 --> 01:18:28.600
you lost two to one on the road. I'm sure
1342
01:18:28.640 --> 01:18:31.800
you feel some type of way about your loss, which
1343
01:18:32.000 --> 01:18:35.800
is valid. You're allowed to be mad about your loss.
1344
01:18:35.800 --> 01:18:40.880
Something that I do feel strongly about, though, is when
1345
01:18:40.920 --> 01:18:47.840
you lose and you are even if you Referees do
1346
01:18:47.960 --> 01:18:51.720
not just give red cards. Okay, they just don't. I'm sorry.
1347
01:18:51.800 --> 01:18:55.800
I know this defeats this entire narrative he's bringing up.
1348
01:18:58.239 --> 01:19:04.399
Players put themselves in positions to receive some sort of
1349
01:19:05.720 --> 01:19:11.119
admonishment and punishment from referees by word or act. They
1350
01:19:11.159 --> 01:19:13.560
do this to themselves. I know this is shocking to
1351
01:19:13.600 --> 01:19:15.119
everyone who's ever played.
1352
01:19:16.920 --> 01:19:18.239
To this to.
1353
01:19:18.239 --> 01:19:23.720
Themselves And as much as I want to, I think
1354
01:19:23.800 --> 01:19:26.119
again you need to investigate.
1355
01:19:25.520 --> 01:19:30.159
The report that a referee curse at a player that
1356
01:19:30.319 --> 01:19:34.000
is uncalled for. You should not be doing that.
1357
01:19:34.079 --> 01:19:37.319
If that happened, this referee needs to be completely removed
1358
01:19:37.359 --> 01:19:41.239
from USL competition for a period of time that they
1359
01:19:41.319 --> 01:19:49.840
deem correct. But believe it or not, when you lose
1360
01:19:49.880 --> 01:19:53.560
a soccer game, it is most likely your own damn fault.
1361
01:19:56.000 --> 01:19:58.880
Go down a man In the twenty ninth gold gets
1362
01:19:58.880 --> 01:20:01.399
scored in the eighty second. Danny Cruise, by the way,
1363
01:20:01.479 --> 01:20:03.520
did get a red card in the sixty sixth minute,
1364
01:20:03.960 --> 01:20:04.279
so he.
1365
01:20:04.560 --> 01:20:06.319
Only said one who words the referee the whole night?
1366
01:20:06.359 --> 01:20:07.159
What are you talking about?
1367
01:20:07.239 --> 01:20:09.439
Yeah, so he got he got a red in the sixties.
1368
01:20:09.880 --> 01:20:12.680
Was yes, Well that's the other thing, Jared, right, Like,
1369
01:20:12.720 --> 01:20:17.199
I mean, yeah, yeah, right, you're a.
1370
01:20:17.239 --> 01:20:19.439
Hundred percent right, though, I mean it depends on what
1371
01:20:19.479 --> 01:20:19.840
was said.
1372
01:20:19.920 --> 01:20:21.960
I mean, if if if you say nothing all game,
1373
01:20:22.000 --> 01:20:24.039
but all of a sudden you start, you know, your
1374
01:20:24.079 --> 01:20:27.439
one word as an expletive or a then yeah you're
1375
01:20:27.439 --> 01:20:28.439
gonna get a red card.
1376
01:20:29.319 --> 01:20:32.119
Yeah, you're you're quoting a menu at a French restaurant
1377
01:20:32.199 --> 01:20:37.079
back yet yeah, as you're yellow, sir. Yeah. Uh then uh,
1378
01:20:37.119 --> 01:20:41.000
before we get into Miami and Cincinnati, I have incident
1379
01:20:41.119 --> 01:20:45.399
number three and this comes from the College Ranks. I
1380
01:20:45.439 --> 01:20:47.880
don't know if you knew about this one, but this
1381
01:20:48.119 --> 01:20:54.359
is women's soccer from the weekend Rutgers and you Mass.
1382
01:20:54.960 --> 01:20:56.880
I don't know if you know about this one, but
1383
01:20:57.079 --> 01:20:59.760
this saw the video. Okay, so you saw the video,
1384
01:20:59.800 --> 01:21:02.119
so you know what happened. Here here's the play by
1385
01:21:02.199 --> 01:21:06.600
play call from the A ten match Rutgers and U Mass,
1386
01:21:06.640 --> 01:21:09.520
once again courtesy of our friends at ESPN Plus, among
1387
01:21:09.560 --> 01:21:11.399
other plays mentioned earlier today as well.
1388
01:21:11.399 --> 01:21:15.199
In the first half that the half is one light
1389
01:21:15.279 --> 01:21:18.560
today with Madison Richard formerly Madison Tiernan and oh boy,
1390
01:21:18.800 --> 01:21:23.560
we've got fisticuffs on the far side as a couple
1391
01:21:23.560 --> 01:21:28.479
of players are fighting here and a big on the
1392
01:21:28.560 --> 01:21:33.319
far side and now a lot on the shoulders of
1393
01:21:33.399 --> 01:21:44.399
this referee. All eyes on Stephanie McFarland, and this might
1394
01:21:44.439 --> 01:21:49.039
take some figuring out. Here's a look at what happened.
1395
01:21:50.840 --> 01:21:53.680
Clear foul committed on the far side by German UMass
1396
01:21:53.760 --> 01:21:56.760
trying to take it quickly, and it's Lamond and German
1397
01:21:56.800 --> 01:21:59.199
who are getting into it. Oh boy, punch is thrown
1398
01:21:59.319 --> 01:22:02.800
in both the including an upper cut there and oh
1399
01:22:02.840 --> 01:22:03.520
boy that is.
1400
01:22:05.239 --> 01:22:06.720
Yeah, so you.
1401
01:22:06.720 --> 01:22:08.760
End up uppercuts.
1402
01:22:08.159 --> 01:22:12.960
And no, no, don't what you ended up with was
1403
01:22:13.239 --> 01:22:15.399
uh For those that didn't see the video, you ended
1404
01:22:15.479 --> 01:22:19.159
up with a foul from behind. Then you end up
1405
01:22:19.319 --> 01:22:24.880
with a player for U mass returning to the one
1406
01:22:24.920 --> 01:22:27.960
on one situation. So foul by Rutgers from behind you
1407
01:22:28.079 --> 01:22:31.479
mass player goes down U mass player. Another U mass
1408
01:22:31.479 --> 01:22:34.720
player comes in to have a discussion with the Rutgers player.
1409
01:22:35.319 --> 01:22:37.680
You end up with you know, pushing and shoving, and
1410
01:22:37.720 --> 01:22:41.800
then the Rutgers player with a belly to belly suplex
1411
01:22:42.760 --> 01:22:46.640
of the U mass player onto the ground there in
1412
01:22:46.680 --> 01:22:49.439
the match. And so you end up with that kind
1413
01:22:49.479 --> 01:22:52.159
of chaos after a foul, so player sticks up for
1414
01:22:52.560 --> 01:22:55.000
U mass player sticks up for U mass player gets
1415
01:22:55.000 --> 01:22:57.439
a belly to belly suplex for their troubles with punches
1416
01:22:57.479 --> 01:23:00.000
and all this kind of stuff. What is what was
1417
01:23:00.199 --> 01:23:04.199
the wildest situation that you've ever had that you had
1418
01:23:04.279 --> 01:23:07.079
to take control of. I don't know if it rivaled that,
1419
01:23:07.279 --> 01:23:09.279
but what was the wildest situation you ever had?
1420
01:23:09.520 --> 01:23:14.399
I haven't had a judo overbody throw like that in
1421
01:23:14.439 --> 01:23:14.840
a game.
1422
01:23:15.079 --> 01:23:19.880
But no, we listen, you referee.
1423
01:23:19.560 --> 01:23:23.359
Enough, you get fights. We had one this weekend and
1424
01:23:23.680 --> 01:23:29.680
you sixteen, fifteen or sixteen game. I forget how old
1425
01:23:29.680 --> 01:23:34.359
the dumb asses were, but you know, you get into
1426
01:23:34.640 --> 01:23:37.600
a sport and you've got people running around their at
1427
01:23:37.640 --> 01:23:43.159
heart rates are elevated, and their awarenesses and sences are
1428
01:23:44.039 --> 01:23:44.840
at high alert.
1429
01:23:45.840 --> 01:23:47.640
People start fighting with each other.
1430
01:23:48.439 --> 01:23:54.600
Yes, I've seen is what I love that it's immediately
1431
01:23:54.600 --> 01:23:56.680
where you went, like fifteen or sixty whatever the dumb
1432
01:23:56.720 --> 01:24:00.239
asses were correct, because we were all fifteen or sixteen. Yeah,
1433
01:24:00.279 --> 01:24:04.760
we were all almost certainly dumbasss uh huh.
1434
01:24:04.840 --> 01:24:09.199
Listen, I do almost exclusively fifteen to nineteens. So which
1435
01:24:09.560 --> 01:24:11.720
dumb assy do you want me to talk about? Because
1436
01:24:11.880 --> 01:24:15.119
it happens on a weekly basis, you know, Well, the.
1437
01:24:15.079 --> 01:24:17.640
Fact that the fact that anybody makes it it's twenty
1438
01:24:17.640 --> 01:24:20.399
in one piece and has it's like accolutently killed themselves.
1439
01:24:20.640 --> 01:24:24.800
He is a minor miracle. Yes, you should be celebrated.
1440
01:24:25.479 --> 01:24:29.880
You know, we're lucky for the advances in medical treatments. Uh,
1441
01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:32.199
because some of these people are actively trying to hurt
1442
01:24:32.199 --> 01:24:37.359
themselves by fighting with other people. You know, I think
1443
01:24:38.079 --> 01:24:39.920
I've had the benches clearing thing.
1444
01:24:40.039 --> 01:24:40.720
I've had.
1445
01:24:42.199 --> 01:24:45.720
A dasl is bad because you know, everyone has to
1446
01:24:45.720 --> 01:24:47.720
stick up for the brother and I'm like, no, your
1447
01:24:47.720 --> 01:24:48.880
brother did a dumb thing.
1448
01:24:48.920 --> 01:24:50.159
You don't have to stick up for him.
1449
01:24:50.199 --> 01:24:53.279
He was being done, you know, but they you know,
1450
01:24:53.279 --> 01:24:55.520
you got to clear the benches for that because you know,
1451
01:24:57.319 --> 01:24:59.239
and then you got to then you gotta sort through, like, okay,
1452
01:24:59.239 --> 01:25:01.600
we are recruding every single person who left the bench,
1453
01:25:01.640 --> 01:25:04.359
because then we're not gonna be playing a soccer game
1454
01:25:04.359 --> 01:25:08.159
after this? Do you give a red card to every
1455
01:25:08.159 --> 01:25:10.520
single player who was involved? So like, in this incident,
1456
01:25:10.680 --> 01:25:14.079
obviously the Redgers player deserves a red card, I mean
1457
01:25:14.199 --> 01:25:18.880
a standing ovation, but also a red card. The UMAs
1458
01:25:18.920 --> 01:25:22.279
player who initiated that probably also should get a red
1459
01:25:22.279 --> 01:25:26.920
card too, because you know, they were the one who
1460
01:25:26.960 --> 01:25:28.119
started that confrontation.
1461
01:25:28.319 --> 01:25:30.680
I think I think you ended up with a side
1462
01:25:30.680 --> 01:25:31.600
by the time it was over.
1463
01:25:31.760 --> 01:25:33.800
Yeah, and then I don't think there was anyone else.
1464
01:25:33.840 --> 01:25:36.279
I think this one was rather isolated to the two players.
1465
01:25:36.279 --> 01:25:39.199
I don't think anyone else truly deserved any real misconduct.
1466
01:25:39.239 --> 01:25:41.920
But uh yeah, this was this was I've never seen this.
1467
01:25:42.000 --> 01:25:46.000
I've never seen an uppercut and a sumo our judo
1468
01:25:46.079 --> 01:25:47.800
throw that was that was new.
1469
01:25:48.159 --> 01:25:52.840
Yeah, and that brings me to my my overarching question here.
1470
01:25:53.199 --> 01:25:59.319
With all of the different leagues and levels going on
1471
01:25:59.439 --> 01:26:04.680
right now, and if I'm not mistaken, it's Major League Soccer,
1472
01:26:05.359 --> 01:26:09.119
it is USL Championship, it's USL League One, it's USL
1473
01:26:09.239 --> 01:26:13.439
Super League, it's college both men's and women's, and a
1474
01:26:13.479 --> 01:26:17.079
lot of different divisions going at it in the NCAA
1475
01:26:17.079 --> 01:26:21.880
and NAIA pyramid. How much of a concern is it
1476
01:26:22.039 --> 01:26:26.640
for you that there are not enough officials slash qualified
1477
01:26:26.680 --> 01:26:31.560
officials that are there to call all of these matches
1478
01:26:31.600 --> 01:26:33.960
which are great for the game. Do not misunderstand where
1479
01:26:34.000 --> 01:26:36.920
I'm going here. It's fantastic that we have all of
1480
01:26:36.960 --> 01:26:41.680
these different levels going on right now. You pro all
1481
01:26:41.720 --> 01:26:45.560
the way down the pyramid, fantastic cities, great universities, all
1482
01:26:45.600 --> 01:26:47.920
of these different matchups. How much of a concern is
1483
01:26:47.920 --> 01:26:50.720
it for you and your fellow officials that there aren't
1484
01:26:50.840 --> 01:26:54.479
enough officials and enough qualified officials to call all of
1485
01:26:54.479 --> 01:26:57.359
these matches that are going on, not just right now,
1486
01:26:57.760 --> 01:27:00.439
but as the year goes on to actually when you
1487
01:27:00.479 --> 01:27:02.239
get into the high school game after the turn of
1488
01:27:02.279 --> 01:27:04.279
the calendar. How much of a concern is it right now?
1489
01:27:05.800 --> 01:27:08.479
Yeah, I mean I think that is something that we
1490
01:27:09.399 --> 01:27:11.000
deal with on a weekly basis.
1491
01:27:11.479 --> 01:27:16.880
People who want to be part of the game.
1492
01:27:19.039 --> 01:27:22.640
Well, okay, how do I want to move.
1493
01:27:22.479 --> 01:27:25.880
Into that complaint? Anyway, we need referees.
1494
01:27:26.039 --> 01:27:26.920
That's just the end.
1495
01:27:26.920 --> 01:27:30.960
I'll be all of it, because the problem is, you
1496
01:27:31.199 --> 01:27:34.720
have a lot of the way the refereeing kind of
1497
01:27:34.720 --> 01:27:38.359
works as you have players who are referering. Right, So
1498
01:27:38.399 --> 01:27:41.520
you have the fourteen through eighteen year old kid whose
1499
01:27:41.640 --> 01:27:43.359
mom and dad wants them to make some gas money
1500
01:27:43.399 --> 01:27:45.960
because they're tired of, you know, giving them twenty bucks
1501
01:27:46.279 --> 01:27:49.560
forty bucks now every time they leave the house. So
1502
01:27:49.720 --> 01:27:53.279
you have that level of kid most of the time.
1503
01:27:53.439 --> 01:27:55.079
Now this has changed a little bit because I did
1504
01:27:55.079 --> 01:27:57.840
referee with several college kids this past weekend, But a
1505
01:27:57.920 --> 01:27:59.399
lot of times you go to college, well you're not
1506
01:27:59.399 --> 01:28:01.399
refereing anymore. And to be quite honest, that is the
1507
01:28:01.479 --> 01:28:07.399
perfect age to referee the younger high level use games,
1508
01:28:07.479 --> 01:28:12.039
right if you're talking like the academy to like you fifteen,
1509
01:28:12.800 --> 01:28:17.199
those college kids are perfect because they are experienced enough
1510
01:28:17.239 --> 01:28:20.399
at referering fit enough to keep up with all the gameplay,
1511
01:28:20.880 --> 01:28:23.640
but also they're still growing, but they need good games
1512
01:28:23.680 --> 01:28:29.000
to continue to grow. And then you have older guys. Now,
1513
01:28:29.039 --> 01:28:31.239
there are a number of us who have been refereeing
1514
01:28:31.319 --> 01:28:35.239
for a good long while, but it is I'm an
1515
01:28:35.239 --> 01:28:38.800
anomaly in the refereeing world where I started at fifteen
1516
01:28:38.800 --> 01:28:40.880
and I'm still doing it now. I even took a
1517
01:28:40.920 --> 01:28:43.640
six year break because I was obviously playing.
1518
01:28:43.960 --> 01:28:46.319
So you're twenty two, is what you're saying.
1519
01:28:46.800 --> 01:28:51.319
Yeah, but no, I mean I've been doing this for,
1520
01:28:51.800 --> 01:28:54.439
you know, in theory, twenty years, and that is a
1521
01:28:54.600 --> 01:28:59.760
very that is not something that is typical within our
1522
01:29:00.039 --> 01:29:03.079
free community because a lot of people stop after the
1523
01:29:03.079 --> 01:29:04.600
age of eighteen because they go.
1524
01:29:04.439 --> 01:29:05.399
On to college. And I get it.
1525
01:29:05.439 --> 01:29:06.600
You know, the last thing you want to do is
1526
01:29:06.600 --> 01:29:08.560
wake up at nine am on or be at a
1527
01:29:08.560 --> 01:29:10.840
field at nine am on Saturday or Sunday when you're
1528
01:29:10.840 --> 01:29:14.439
in college, because you're probably hungover and you deserve to be.
1529
01:29:14.479 --> 01:29:15.560
So that's what college is for.
1530
01:29:16.159 --> 01:29:19.399
But you know, I used to referee a lot in Athens,
1531
01:29:20.960 --> 01:29:22.199
which I don't know if you know this, John, but
1532
01:29:22.239 --> 01:29:23.760
there's a big university in Athens.
1533
01:29:23.920 --> 01:29:26.119
Yeah, and I've heard, Yeah.
1534
01:29:25.720 --> 01:29:29.000
We didn't really have a lot of UGA kids refereeing.
1535
01:29:29.039 --> 01:29:30.399
We had some grad students.
1536
01:29:31.159 --> 01:29:32.960
Like one of the guys used to referee a lot
1537
01:29:33.000 --> 01:29:37.359
with He was an athletic training athletic training some sort
1538
01:29:37.359 --> 01:29:40.319
of medical something within sports grad student. He and I
1539
01:29:40.359 --> 01:29:44.479
worked together a lot, but he you know, we didn't
1540
01:29:44.520 --> 01:29:47.399
We just didn't have a whole lot of UGA kids,
1541
01:29:47.680 --> 01:29:51.000
if you will, Yeah, refereeing in Athens. Now, this past
1542
01:29:51.000 --> 01:29:54.840
weekend I had some Georgia State kids refereeing here in
1543
01:29:54.920 --> 01:29:58.479
at Iner Atlanta. And I've had some like tech or
1544
01:29:58.520 --> 01:30:01.079
state kids referee with me. But but it's it's not
1545
01:30:01.239 --> 01:30:04.119
a lot, especially in the city where we have it
1546
01:30:04.119 --> 01:30:10.119
feels like twenty seven universities and higher education facilities. You know,
1547
01:30:10.159 --> 01:30:13.039
we have a lot, right and we just don't have that.
1548
01:30:13.119 --> 01:30:16.800
So there is a gap in the you know, let's
1549
01:30:16.800 --> 01:30:20.439
say eighteen to thirty year old age group where you
1550
01:30:20.520 --> 01:30:25.359
are kind of peak fitness and also young enough maybe
1551
01:30:25.640 --> 01:30:27.920
you know, to relate still to the kids and not
1552
01:30:28.039 --> 01:30:30.479
feel like every single time someone talks to you they're
1553
01:30:30.520 --> 01:30:33.960
being disrespectful. As I say, some of my older colleagues
1554
01:30:34.039 --> 01:30:37.439
kind of kind of get we have a lot of
1555
01:30:37.479 --> 01:30:40.079
people who we have a lot of needs for referees.
1556
01:30:40.119 --> 01:30:42.239
But the reality also, John, is we have a lot
1557
01:30:42.239 --> 01:30:44.920
of needs for everything in the soccer landscape. And this
1558
01:30:45.039 --> 01:30:48.279
is where I'll get on my soapbox and say if
1559
01:30:48.319 --> 01:30:51.319
all you do is get on Twitter and complain about soccer,
1560
01:30:51.399 --> 01:30:54.359
complain about us soccer, Complain about pro roll, complain about
1561
01:30:54.399 --> 01:30:57.399
pay for play, complain about this, complain about that. But
1562
01:30:57.479 --> 01:31:00.520
all you're doing is complaining on Twitter. You're not helping anything.
1563
01:31:01.279 --> 01:31:04.159
Where the hell are you because we need your help
1564
01:31:04.399 --> 01:31:06.600
at every level of this game.
1565
01:31:06.680 --> 01:31:08.640
Be it signing up to be a referee.
1566
01:31:08.640 --> 01:31:10.439
You get paid to do that. It's kind of fun,
1567
01:31:10.479 --> 01:31:12.520
you get to stay in shape, you get paid. We
1568
01:31:12.560 --> 01:31:15.720
need help with coaching. I'm sure some of the coaches
1569
01:31:15.760 --> 01:31:17.520
in the chat will attest to that as well.
1570
01:31:17.560 --> 01:31:20.319
You know, we need help at every level.
1571
01:31:20.359 --> 01:31:22.279
It can be as simple as just volunteering to be
1572
01:31:22.319 --> 01:31:25.279
the field marshal for the day or volunteering to help
1573
01:31:25.560 --> 01:31:26.319
cut grass.
1574
01:31:26.479 --> 01:31:26.600
You know.
1575
01:31:27.720 --> 01:31:29.640
And Atlanta, we're lucky that we have a lot of
1576
01:31:29.720 --> 01:31:32.000
the infrastructure is kind of taking care of for us.
1577
01:31:32.000 --> 01:31:34.359
But there's a lot of places in this country, John,
1578
01:31:34.880 --> 01:31:37.399
where I'm not joking, You've got to have someone go
1579
01:31:37.399 --> 01:31:39.079
out there and cut the grass. You got to go
1580
01:31:39.119 --> 01:31:40.800
have some and you gotta have parents to go out
1581
01:31:40.800 --> 01:31:41.640
there and line the fields.
1582
01:31:41.680 --> 01:31:43.159
You don't need to have to be a parent. There's
1583
01:31:43.199 --> 01:31:45.600
a local soccer club near you who probably needs help
1584
01:31:45.640 --> 01:31:46.079
with something.
1585
01:31:46.720 --> 01:31:48.079
Go help.
1586
01:31:48.479 --> 01:31:51.359
It's not just referees, it's not just coaching, it's everything.
1587
01:31:52.720 --> 01:31:56.760
And this sport in this country will only be good
1588
01:31:56.880 --> 01:31:58.680
enough as it has.
1589
01:31:58.479 --> 01:32:00.000
The support from the normal people.
1590
01:32:00.560 --> 01:32:03.199
Okay, if you want to complain about Cyndi, Carlo Cohene
1591
01:32:03.199 --> 01:32:05.760
and JT. Batson and Matt Crocker and all these people
1592
01:32:05.800 --> 01:32:08.119
who are dealing with a whole lot of stuff. If
1593
01:32:08.119 --> 01:32:10.319
you want to deal about X Y Z A B
1594
01:32:10.560 --> 01:32:13.520
C E C N L R p L A S
1595
01:32:13.520 --> 01:32:16.079
A p L league, right, all these people complained about
1596
01:32:16.079 --> 01:32:19.279
why I got all these many different leagues. You're not
1597
01:32:19.439 --> 01:32:22.079
doing anything if all you're doing is getting online and complaining.
1598
01:32:24.399 --> 01:32:27.199
And I'll be honest, a.
1599
01:32:27.159 --> 01:32:29.119
Lot of these people don't even go to support the
1600
01:32:29.119 --> 01:32:31.960
local soccer club, even though they rail against MLS and
1601
01:32:32.039 --> 01:32:35.920
the you know some and they think pro rail is
1602
01:32:35.960 --> 01:32:39.920
some sort of silver bullet for everything that's ever been
1603
01:32:39.920 --> 01:32:41.840
a problem. They don't even do as much to go
1604
01:32:41.880 --> 01:32:44.840
support their local soccer team in support of the promotion
1605
01:32:44.960 --> 01:32:48.239
relegation argument. So if you're in this chat and you
1606
01:32:48.239 --> 01:32:52.199
feel like you need to do something, you know, see
1607
01:32:52.199 --> 01:32:54.359
if your local club needs a volunteer of some sort.
1608
01:32:55.359 --> 01:32:56.920
But that's that also, John, there are some ways that
1609
01:32:56.960 --> 01:33:01.079
we need to restructure. And this is the problem how
1610
01:33:01.119 --> 01:33:05.000
we look at the refereeing landscape because a lot of
1611
01:33:05.039 --> 01:33:10.479
clubs have to have a certified referee for these under
1612
01:33:10.560 --> 01:33:14.159
ten games. And I gotta be real honest, John, you
1613
01:33:14.199 --> 01:33:17.279
don't need me there. You know what they're doing, you know,
1614
01:33:17.439 --> 01:33:21.159
nine eight nine six ' four. You're herding cattle.
1615
01:33:21.359 --> 01:33:24.840
Yeah, yeah, you know it's a rugby scrum.
1616
01:33:25.199 --> 01:33:27.399
Yeah, And so what where are we doing there? We're
1617
01:33:27.439 --> 01:33:30.479
not calling fouls, you know, because half the time it's
1618
01:33:30.520 --> 01:33:33.760
not even a foul. Someone just falls over, you know.
1619
01:33:34.520 --> 01:33:36.479
But the fact that we a lot of clubs need
1620
01:33:36.520 --> 01:33:39.760
that because some parent gets pissy because their kid got
1621
01:33:39.840 --> 01:33:41.840
hurt in a game because have and forbid they get
1622
01:33:41.920 --> 01:33:44.159
hurt by go and play a contact sport. And now
1623
01:33:44.159 --> 01:33:45.600
all of a sudden, we got to have a referee,
1624
01:33:45.680 --> 01:33:47.560
a certified referee there, and it's just like this is
1625
01:33:47.600 --> 01:33:49.319
a waste of my time. It's a waste of my
1626
01:33:49.319 --> 01:33:52.960
skills to waste my money that I put in too,
1627
01:33:53.239 --> 01:33:55.760
you know, become a referee. And so you know, I
1628
01:33:55.760 --> 01:33:57.279
think one of the solutions that we've seen in at
1629
01:33:57.279 --> 01:34:00.239
a lot of clubs is having junior referee programs. You
1630
01:34:00.279 --> 01:34:03.439
have a twelve, thirteen, fourteen year old kid who goes
1631
01:34:03.439 --> 01:34:05.800
down and referees the U eight and below because again
1632
01:34:05.960 --> 01:34:09.279
you're just there to point kids in the right direction,
1633
01:34:09.359 --> 01:34:11.279
make sure they're scoring on the right goal on occasion
1634
01:34:11.279 --> 01:34:15.239
and saying you know that kind of stuff. If you
1635
01:34:15.319 --> 01:34:17.479
want a referee to be in charge of a U
1636
01:34:17.600 --> 01:34:22.079
eight game, then we're.
1637
01:34:21.600 --> 01:34:22.560
Vastly off course.
1638
01:34:22.920 --> 01:34:27.000
Yeah, and so that's the other thing is we need
1639
01:34:27.039 --> 01:34:30.920
to reevaluate how do we get referees into the pool
1640
01:34:32.159 --> 01:34:33.439
and how do we use them wisely.
1641
01:34:33.600 --> 01:34:39.359
But yeah, I mean, look, the reality is we are
1642
01:34:39.479 --> 01:34:40.640
behind the reason.
1643
01:34:41.720 --> 01:34:45.279
Okay, I've mentioned it that twice already, so we're just
1644
01:34:45.279 --> 01:34:46.520
going to talk about it. If you want to talk
1645
01:34:46.560 --> 01:34:50.359
about promotion relegation, right, which I think whether or not
1646
01:34:50.399 --> 01:34:52.760
you're four or against it, the reality that you need
1647
01:34:52.800 --> 01:34:57.560
to understand is the infrastructure is not there, and by
1648
01:34:57.600 --> 01:35:00.159
the way, it doesn't magically get there. If you just say, hey,
1649
01:35:00.199 --> 01:35:03.399
we have promotion relegation all of a sudden the next day,
1650
01:35:03.479 --> 01:35:06.880
we don't have seven hundred newly qualified referees to take
1651
01:35:06.880 --> 01:35:10.359
on all of the professional level matches within that pyramid.
1652
01:35:10.600 --> 01:35:14.479
We don't suddenly have enough qualified coaches to not only
1653
01:35:14.560 --> 01:35:19.000
just be at the top coaching the first teams, but
1654
01:35:19.079 --> 01:35:21.920
also all the subsequent academy teams that you supposedly think
1655
01:35:21.960 --> 01:35:23.840
are just gonna also pop up out of nowhere.
1656
01:35:23.840 --> 01:35:25.840
Because we suddenly make promotion.
1657
01:35:25.600 --> 01:35:33.800
Relegation a reality, there is not enough support to make
1658
01:35:35.000 --> 01:35:40.159
soccer work at a large scale right now in this country,
1659
01:35:40.600 --> 01:35:42.079
because we need people.
1660
01:35:42.399 --> 01:35:45.560
Who love the game to stay involved.
1661
01:35:45.880 --> 01:35:48.439
We talk about we have the highest number of youth
1662
01:35:48.479 --> 01:35:50.960
soccer participants in this country, more than any other country
1663
01:35:51.000 --> 01:35:51.439
in the world.
1664
01:35:51.600 --> 01:35:53.000
Right that is a.
1665
01:35:53.079 --> 01:35:55.680
Stat that people throw out a why why can't our
1666
01:35:55.720 --> 01:35:58.279
men's soccer team with their third choice U twenty three
1667
01:35:58.359 --> 01:36:01.640
squad not make it farther in the Olympics. We got
1668
01:36:01.680 --> 01:36:05.159
a million kids playing soccer every day, this is, or
1669
01:36:05.159 --> 01:36:06.840
whatever the stat they want to say, We got more
1670
01:36:06.920 --> 01:36:09.000
kids playing you soccer than Morocco.
1671
01:36:08.640 --> 01:36:11.239
Has people, whatever stat they always like to throw out.
1672
01:36:11.960 --> 01:36:14.520
Problem is we don't keep these kids past sixteen, seventeen,
1673
01:36:14.560 --> 01:36:17.439
eighteen years old. Maybe they play high school and they're
1674
01:36:17.439 --> 01:36:20.119
done after that. They're not even involved in coaching, they're
1675
01:36:20.119 --> 01:36:22.680
not involved in referring. Most of them aren't even playing
1676
01:36:22.680 --> 01:36:27.399
in adult leagues. They're done. Until we fix that problem.
1677
01:36:27.560 --> 01:36:32.960
Your little pro rel fantasy doesn't work, all.
1678
01:36:32.960 --> 01:36:36.880
Right, No, no, no, it's no. That's why I wanted
1679
01:36:36.880 --> 01:36:40.800
to because of all of the different levels that we
1680
01:36:41.039 --> 01:36:46.199
had discussions on this morning, the professional, the collegiate, and
1681
01:36:46.520 --> 01:36:49.000
the second division. That was why I wanted to with
1682
01:36:49.359 --> 01:36:49.960
Super League.
1683
01:36:50.119 --> 01:36:52.760
Sorry, Alex, I have to I have to tell Alex.
1684
01:36:52.800 --> 01:36:54.560
Though we had a I played a game. It was
1685
01:36:54.600 --> 01:36:56.760
like you twelve, maybe I was still playing like it
1686
01:36:56.800 --> 01:36:59.600
was a select game. Like we're talking academy levels, tough
1687
01:37:00.039 --> 01:37:03.399
played out in Monroe where they have like skydiving. You
1688
01:37:03.399 --> 01:37:06.399
want to talk about the chaos, and no soccer was
1689
01:37:06.439 --> 01:37:08.600
being played at this point during this game because we
1690
01:37:08.640 --> 01:37:09.520
had a skydiving.
1691
01:37:11.920 --> 01:37:14.560
It was the funniest thing. I like, it was amazing.
1692
01:37:15.039 --> 01:37:20.079
But yeah, like at some point you're just like soccer
1693
01:37:20.119 --> 01:37:22.439
is not the most important thing going on at that point,
1694
01:37:23.000 --> 01:37:24.199
and that's fine.
1695
01:37:24.640 --> 01:37:28.920
Yeah, yeah, especially at that age. I forgot to discuss
1696
01:37:29.000 --> 01:37:33.000
with you the Joellenton hog tying incident, h where it
1697
01:37:33.079 --> 01:37:36.319
was called a clothesline on the air, But uh, you
1698
01:37:36.439 --> 01:37:41.760
had Joelenton buzzing by Neto and basically just kind of
1699
01:37:41.760 --> 01:37:44.399
does the professional tackle kind of thing and slows him down,
1700
01:37:44.680 --> 01:37:46.920
kind of hog ties him and spins him a little bit,
1701
01:37:46.960 --> 01:37:48.720
and folks were saying that that should have been a
1702
01:37:48.760 --> 01:37:53.039
red for unsporting behavior and you got no red card
1703
01:37:53.119 --> 01:37:55.880
from Joelenton on Neto. What was your thought on that one?
1704
01:37:58.319 --> 01:38:00.439
As he thinks, Yeah, I think this is one of
1705
01:38:00.479 --> 01:38:03.800
those where I understand why there's not a red card.
1706
01:38:05.560 --> 01:38:10.560
I think there's just there's a lot of just it's
1707
01:38:10.600 --> 01:38:14.720
a continuum, right, It's not a it's not necessarily always
1708
01:38:14.720 --> 01:38:19.680
a step on the ladder, and I think you just
1709
01:38:19.760 --> 01:38:23.079
try to You're also remembering that red cards and yellow
1710
01:38:23.079 --> 01:38:27.640
cards are forms of managing a match. So I think
1711
01:38:27.680 --> 01:38:29.960
I understand maybe why I read card wasn't given.
1712
01:38:30.840 --> 01:38:36.920
Maybe should it have been on the referee? Yeah, it
1713
01:38:37.000 --> 01:38:40.359
does FC Cincinnati and Miami and know that that was
1714
01:38:40.399 --> 01:38:42.159
going to be a part of the discussion quickly here
1715
01:38:42.199 --> 01:38:45.800
as well. H You know, there there are some parts
1716
01:38:45.920 --> 01:38:51.279
of the Messian friends roster that are very very physical
1717
01:38:51.439 --> 01:38:54.880
in their application of the the laws of the game,
1718
01:38:55.640 --> 01:38:59.880
and for some strange reason, you could get a you know,
1719
01:38:59.880 --> 01:39:02.119
you get two quick yellows, it turns into a red
1720
01:39:02.159 --> 01:39:04.479
and Cincinnati still can't take advantage of it. Last four
1721
01:39:04.520 --> 01:39:06.800
times that they had a man advantage, they only scored
1722
01:39:06.840 --> 01:39:08.920
one goal and didn't get a whole lot of points
1723
01:39:08.960 --> 01:39:10.800
out of those last four matches. But you end up
1724
01:39:10.840 --> 01:39:15.760
with another situation where Thomas Avelis ends up getting two
1725
01:39:15.800 --> 01:39:18.199
yellow cards quick succession, which he seems to be very
1726
01:39:18.239 --> 01:39:21.319
good at, and go a man down.
1727
01:39:21.680 --> 01:39:28.239
Yeah again, two yellow cards is usually not the referee's fault.
1728
01:39:28.960 --> 01:39:32.000
Things strange.
1729
01:39:32.039 --> 01:39:34.800
I know, we can talk about like we're both the serve,
1730
01:39:34.920 --> 01:39:38.319
but most of the time they both were. And if
1731
01:39:38.359 --> 01:39:40.640
you want extra grace after you've already been given a
1732
01:39:40.680 --> 01:39:42.840
yellow card, I'm sorry, you've used up your grace.
1733
01:39:44.800 --> 01:39:49.920
Yep. And so let's see. Avelis ends up getting yellow
1734
01:39:49.920 --> 01:39:52.079
in the eleventh and then he gets his second yellow
1735
01:39:52.079 --> 01:39:54.079
thirty minutes later, and he's out in the forty second
1736
01:39:54.119 --> 01:39:57.880
and so yeah, so thirty minutes apart, Thomas Novelis once
1737
01:39:57.920 --> 01:39:58.920
again gets.
1738
01:39:58.760 --> 01:40:01.319
That is that a second or third time?
1739
01:40:01.359 --> 01:40:01.680
This year.
1740
01:40:01.880 --> 01:40:04.399
I want to see that's his I want to say third,
1741
01:40:05.680 --> 01:40:08.000
because he had one like almost the first or second
1742
01:40:08.000 --> 01:40:10.640
match week, if you like. So he's said his standard
1743
01:40:10.680 --> 01:40:14.359
pretty pretty early on in the season.
1744
01:40:14.680 --> 01:40:17.880
Why yes he did. I mean that's you're you're that
1745
01:40:18.000 --> 01:40:20.119
right back. So let's say match log. Let's see if
1746
01:40:20.159 --> 01:40:22.279
we can. Let's check the match log before you get
1747
01:40:22.319 --> 01:40:26.560
out of here, and let's see I do.
1748
01:40:26.720 --> 01:40:29.239
I do want to say, though, John, I think if
1749
01:40:29.279 --> 01:40:33.039
you're looking at referees and using that as some sort
1750
01:40:33.079 --> 01:40:36.399
of outlet for your frustration about Miami or the LA
1751
01:40:36.520 --> 01:40:40.680
teams getting what is very clearly preferential treatment from the league,
1752
01:40:40.720 --> 01:40:41.279
I'm sorry.
1753
01:40:41.479 --> 01:40:42.079
It just is.
1754
01:40:43.640 --> 01:40:47.359
Same with like Manchester City, right one that was a
1755
01:40:47.600 --> 01:40:48.279
penalty kick?
1756
01:40:49.520 --> 01:40:51.760
You know, would that have made Luton a winner? No?
1757
01:40:52.000 --> 01:40:52.560
Or not Luton?
1758
01:40:52.600 --> 01:40:52.840
Sorry?
1759
01:40:52.880 --> 01:40:59.840
Ipswich. Yes, no, there's no guarantee that.
1760
01:41:00.079 --> 01:41:03.680
Had the referees I don't know been nicer to Cincinnati,
1761
01:41:03.760 --> 01:41:05.319
I don't know, maybe they would have given a red
1762
01:41:05.319 --> 01:41:10.319
card per se to a Miami player. Oh wait, that
1763
01:41:10.920 --> 01:41:14.159
this game would have played out differently, right, But using
1764
01:41:14.199 --> 01:41:16.079
the referees as.
1765
01:41:18.560 --> 01:41:21.600
The conduit for your anger about the.
1766
01:41:21.560 --> 01:41:27.119
League allowing Miami and the LA teams to have some
1767
01:41:29.680 --> 01:41:38.840
creative accounting, creative bookkeeping, some great storytelling on their expense reports,
1768
01:41:38.880 --> 01:41:42.560
if you will. That is not the place to put
1769
01:41:42.600 --> 01:41:46.319
that was dealing with this situation the other day. There's
1770
01:41:46.600 --> 01:41:50.960
a club that, in their defense, they're trying to give
1771
01:41:51.039 --> 01:41:53.720
kids a chance to play. This is and that's where
1772
01:41:53.920 --> 01:41:58.119
as a referee at this level, I have problems with
1773
01:41:58.199 --> 01:42:01.159
being super high policing of it. But essentially they have
1774
01:42:01.279 --> 01:42:03.279
like twenty three players on a match day roster. Well,
1775
01:42:03.279 --> 01:42:05.800
you're only allowed eighteen, I'm saying. But now I got
1776
01:42:05.840 --> 01:42:07.560
to cut, you know. I'm like, hey, coach, you can't
1777
01:42:07.600 --> 01:42:10.720
have like I just checked in, twenty players. You can't
1778
01:42:10.720 --> 01:42:12.560
have twenty players. You got to cut eighteen. You know,
1779
01:42:12.600 --> 01:42:14.680
you gotta cut two to get down to eighteen. And
1780
01:42:14.720 --> 01:42:16.479
now I look like the bad guy because I'm telling
1781
01:42:16.560 --> 01:42:18.159
this coach that he's got to pick two players who
1782
01:42:18.159 --> 01:42:22.640
can't play. These teams that are trying to play outside
1783
01:42:22.680 --> 01:42:26.800
of the rules need to be held accountable. But it's
1784
01:42:26.800 --> 01:42:29.520
not the referees job to hold Miami accountable because they
1785
01:42:29.520 --> 01:42:33.960
have give or takes, seven designated players. You know, it's
1786
01:42:33.960 --> 01:42:38.880
not the referees' job to hold LA Galaxy accountable because
1787
01:42:38.920 --> 01:42:42.840
Marco Royce and Ricky Puge and all these other players
1788
01:42:42.840 --> 01:42:45.199
who may or may not be at a designated player
1789
01:42:45.279 --> 01:42:49.399
level are considered whatever they're considered.
1790
01:42:50.760 --> 01:42:54.439
High tam Hi, Yeah, high tam Oh. By the way,
1791
01:42:54.640 --> 01:42:59.479
Tomas Ovolos second time this year? Okay done? It was
1792
01:43:00.079 --> 01:43:04.840
June sixteenth against Philadelphia in a win for Messian Friends,
1793
01:43:05.279 --> 01:43:07.760
and he was there for eighty four minutes before it happened,
1794
01:43:07.760 --> 01:43:10.199
So he spent twice as much time getting his friend
1795
01:43:10.640 --> 01:43:14.239
back in June than he did against Cincinnati where it
1796
01:43:14.279 --> 01:43:14.640
was done.
1797
01:43:14.680 --> 01:43:16.319
What I think it was was maybe that early season
1798
01:43:16.399 --> 01:43:18.600
one was where he didn't get anything called and we
1799
01:43:18.600 --> 01:43:19.800
were like, what the hell happened here?
1800
01:43:19.880 --> 01:43:22.600
Yeah, that's what it was.
1801
01:43:22.840 --> 01:43:24.920
Whatever that nasty challenge from behind it was.
1802
01:43:25.600 --> 01:43:27.880
It might have actually been the Atlanta Martage back in
1803
01:43:28.119 --> 01:43:29.800
May where that happened.
1804
01:43:29.800 --> 01:43:30.760
I think it was that one.
1805
01:43:31.159 --> 01:43:32.760
Well, then it could Let's see, so let's look at
1806
01:43:32.800 --> 01:43:34.800
his reds a, let's look at his yellows. So was
1807
01:43:34.840 --> 01:43:38.479
May twenty sixth against Vancouver, it was May thirtieth against
1808
01:43:38.800 --> 01:43:42.960
Inner Miami, against Atlanta. Then it was against Charlotte on
1809
01:43:43.279 --> 01:43:45.840
July fourth, So those are the other three instances where
1810
01:43:45.840 --> 01:43:48.960
Thomas Obolis got yellow cards but no second yellow cards.
1811
01:43:49.000 --> 01:43:54.199
So there you go. You're tomos Obilis card update. Yeah.
1812
01:43:56.079 --> 01:43:59.960
Anyway, Yes, the LA and Miami teams get special treatment
1813
01:44:00.039 --> 01:44:02.840
from the league. I don't I'm not saying anything I
1814
01:44:02.840 --> 01:44:04.560
think controversial.
1815
01:44:05.880 --> 01:44:08.159
Just because I don't think you're in a minority opinion.
1816
01:44:08.239 --> 01:44:12.079
Yeah, but that doesn't that doesn't necessarily mean the referees
1817
01:44:12.119 --> 01:44:14.600
are giving them special treatment. I mean, I'll speak again
1818
01:44:14.640 --> 01:44:16.880
to the Man City thing. The referee didn't give Man
1819
01:44:16.920 --> 01:44:18.680
City a penalty. They had to use VAR to get
1820
01:44:18.720 --> 01:44:20.800
back to it. But there was one in the third
1821
01:44:20.840 --> 01:44:24.039
minute on Holland that probably also could have been a
1822
01:44:24.079 --> 01:44:27.640
penalty kick if you really wanted to be super policing
1823
01:44:27.640 --> 01:44:30.840
of it. And sometimes, you know, there's just a lot
1824
01:44:30.880 --> 01:44:33.000
of players running around at a very high speed, and
1825
01:44:33.039 --> 01:44:35.680
sometimes things happen that you can't always get to.
1826
01:44:36.119 --> 01:44:38.000
Yes, you know, that's why we do have VAR for.
1827
01:44:38.000 --> 01:44:41.159
Those clear and obvious errors. Not everything's clear and obvious.
1828
01:44:41.439 --> 01:44:42.960
A lot of it is a lot of gray area.
1829
01:44:43.279 --> 01:44:45.840
Yes, So what's going on with soccer for us PO D.
1830
01:44:46.000 --> 01:44:48.000
Well, we were going to record last week, but then
1831
01:44:48.039 --> 01:44:52.680
Potch wasn't signed, so we didn't want to record about
1832
01:44:52.760 --> 01:44:56.119
just theorizing about it happening, but I do have it
1833
01:44:56.119 --> 01:44:58.600
on good authority that there will be a roster dropping
1834
01:44:58.720 --> 01:45:01.479
this week for the US men national team.
1835
01:45:01.640 --> 01:45:04.399
As you know, John, they do play games next weekend.
1836
01:45:04.760 --> 01:45:09.319
Yes, so next Saturday, the seventh, and the tenth, So
1837
01:45:09.399 --> 01:45:11.119
that roster will be coming out this week. So we'll
1838
01:45:11.159 --> 01:45:14.000
be recording that kind of reaction episode. We know that,
1839
01:45:17.079 --> 01:45:18.960
and blanking on the name of the U twenty coach
1840
01:45:19.039 --> 01:45:25.439
now is going to be Mikey Marris, the Mikey virus
1841
01:45:25.479 --> 01:45:27.720
will be coaching the team during the September window, which
1842
01:45:27.760 --> 01:45:31.520
was probably gonna happen regardless, just because as much as
1843
01:45:31.560 --> 01:45:37.640
I don't like wasting the window, you weren't likely to
1844
01:45:37.640 --> 01:45:40.279
get a coach in place by the September window ready
1845
01:45:40.319 --> 01:45:42.840
to physically coach the team.
1846
01:45:42.960 --> 01:45:50.680
That said, Todd, pay up. They do a service to
1847
01:45:50.760 --> 01:45:51.279
your country.
1848
01:45:51.520 --> 01:45:55.359
Pay the man. Pay up. Yeah, figure out, Yes, Bully
1849
01:45:55.399 --> 01:45:58.439
clear Lake, get it figured out. As always, my friend,
1850
01:45:58.439 --> 01:46:00.880
it's great to catch up with you on on Monday,
1851
01:46:00.920 --> 01:46:02.840
to go wandering through the world of what it's like
1852
01:46:02.960 --> 01:46:05.760
to have cards in your pocket and a whistle around
1853
01:46:05.760 --> 01:46:07.920
your neck and what you think about certain calls and
1854
01:46:07.960 --> 01:46:10.600
things like that, and national team news and all that
1855
01:46:10.640 --> 01:46:13.079
kind of stuff. Obviously looking forward to seeing the roster
1856
01:46:13.159 --> 01:46:15.760
drop with Mikey Barris and what it's gonna look like
1857
01:46:15.920 --> 01:46:19.000
as they get ready for Canada and the other matchup
1858
01:46:19.039 --> 01:46:22.039
that's attached next in New Zealand. So yeah, it'll be
1859
01:46:22.199 --> 01:46:24.479
it'll be a hoot to see how it looks, and
1860
01:46:24.560 --> 01:46:26.960
you will discuss as you always do. Thanks as always,
1861
01:46:26.960 --> 01:46:29.600
my friend, and we will catch up with you soon, unless,
1862
01:46:29.640 --> 01:46:31.680
of course, I put up the bat signal and go,
1863
01:46:31.760 --> 01:46:33.439
oh my god, I need you to come in on
1864
01:46:33.520 --> 01:46:35.880
an emergency basis because this happened.
1865
01:46:35.920 --> 01:46:37.560
I mean, I feel like we're just waiting for that
1866
01:46:37.720 --> 01:46:40.479
news to happen, that potch is signed, you know. I
1867
01:46:40.479 --> 01:46:42.239
think the thing is the reporting is done. They're like, well,
1868
01:46:42.279 --> 01:46:43.600
we just got to wait for them and Chelsea to
1869
01:46:43.640 --> 01:46:45.640
get it. Figure it out, and then once that happens,
1870
01:46:46.399 --> 01:46:46.840
we're good.
1871
01:46:47.399 --> 01:46:48.119
Figure it out.
1872
01:46:48.399 --> 01:46:49.920
Yeah, figure it out, Todd.
1873
01:46:50.319 --> 01:46:52.800
I keep Okay, I'm sorry I have to say this
1874
01:46:53.399 --> 01:46:56.239
out loud whenever we talk about Todd or Todd Bowley
1875
01:46:56.359 --> 01:46:58.479
and like specific to death or like you know, pay
1876
01:46:58.479 --> 01:47:00.600
the man, Todd, get it done, Todd. Just keep going
1877
01:47:00.640 --> 01:47:03.720
back to the national lampoo and Christmas vacations.
1878
01:47:04.079 --> 01:47:09.640
Why is the carpet all wet Todd? I don't know, Margo.
1879
01:47:10.760 --> 01:47:12.920
Anyway, So you're saying, I need to get that drop,
1880
01:47:13.000 --> 01:47:13.640
is what you're saying.
1881
01:47:13.640 --> 01:47:16.760
Maybe maybe why.
1882
01:47:17.279 --> 01:47:21.720
Is the carpet wet? Todd? All right? So all right,
1883
01:47:21.760 --> 01:47:25.920
so yeah, anything involving Chelsea, sorry, Michaelhead will be Why
1884
01:47:25.960 --> 01:47:28.399
is the carpet wet? Todd? All right? Let me go
1885
01:47:28.439 --> 01:47:29.760
through all the news of the day before we get
1886
01:47:29.760 --> 01:47:31.359
out of here at eleven o five. Thanks. It's always
1887
01:47:31.399 --> 01:47:33.960
my friend, all right, all right, that's Bart. He's gonna
1888
01:47:34.000 --> 01:47:36.399
drink coffee and he's out the door. So it's always
1889
01:47:36.439 --> 01:47:38.079
great to catch up with Bart. All right, news of
1890
01:47:38.119 --> 01:47:40.880
the day and other stuff that we need to get
1891
01:47:40.920 --> 01:47:45.000
into about people. And this was the other thing Man
1892
01:47:45.039 --> 01:47:48.640
we could have We could have gone forever with Bart.
1893
01:47:48.840 --> 01:47:55.439
So uh speaking of uh, John Herdman and the Canadian
1894
01:47:55.479 --> 01:47:59.880
men's national team. Now it appears that there is a
1895
01:48:00.119 --> 01:48:09.079
discussion that possibly and this is from Joshua Clokey. Now
1896
01:48:09.119 --> 01:48:14.439
you have yet another discussion that is on the board,
1897
01:48:15.399 --> 01:48:21.079
and so Joshua Cloakey and it's in an article about
1898
01:48:21.119 --> 01:48:25.720
the drone scandal and how we got here. About halfway
1899
01:48:25.760 --> 01:48:30.159
down the article, Joshua Clokey over at The Athletic slash
1900
01:48:30.159 --> 01:48:36.079
in White Times, multiple sources, speaking anonymously to protect relationships,
1901
01:48:36.079 --> 01:48:38.840
told The Athletic that ahead of the July ten first
1902
01:48:38.920 --> 01:48:42.760
leg of the Canadian Championship semi final between Toronto FC
1903
01:48:42.880 --> 01:48:46.199
and the Canadian Premier League's Forge FC, a drone was
1904
01:48:46.199 --> 01:48:49.079
spotted above Tim Horton's field and Hamilton during a forged
1905
01:48:49.119 --> 01:48:53.600
training session. One person familiar with the incidents, who will
1906
01:48:53.600 --> 01:48:57.840
remain anonymous to protect relationships, told The Athletic that Forge
1907
01:48:58.039 --> 01:49:00.840
made Canada Soccer aware of possible drone usage, but the
1908
01:49:00.840 --> 01:49:03.760
team did not lodge an official complaint. It is not
1909
01:49:04.000 --> 01:49:06.680
clear who is responsible for this drone, which was spotted
1910
01:49:06.720 --> 01:49:10.000
before the first reported drone incident at the Olympics on
1911
01:49:10.159 --> 01:49:16.199
July nineteen. Quote. Over the last few weeks, we've been
1912
01:49:16.199 --> 01:49:18.840
made aware of speculation regarding this type of activity. That
1913
01:49:18.880 --> 01:49:21.720
information has been forwarded to the independent third party investigator
1914
01:49:21.720 --> 01:49:24.920
who is leading the external reviews at Paulo Senra, chief
1915
01:49:24.920 --> 01:49:28.680
Communications Officer for Canada Soccer. A disciplinary process for this
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tournament is in place to adjudicate and sanctioned violations of
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the Canada Soccer Code of Conduct or tournament regulations if
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that is required. Obviously, Forge in Toronto of C declined
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to comment to Cloak. Forge would go on to win
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the first leg two to one. Second leg of the
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semifinal is on August twenty seven. In addition, Canada Soccer
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will eventually release the findings of the independent review. One
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more lingering question from Cloak that the review could attempt
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to answer is how potentially systemic in quotation marks usage
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became prevalent within Canada soccer, particularly on the men's side,
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and what should change to ensure it does not happen again. So,
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just when you thought we weren't gonna hear anymore about
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drones and usage in Canada, pray tell Joshua Cloke from
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the Athletic slash ny Times and I love how now
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everything from the Athletic has an Nay Times URL. So
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it appears that Canada Soccer will be half will have
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to be looking into perhaps yet another incident involving a
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drone shooting video of Forge FC's practice, which, if it
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was to benefit Toronto FC, did them no good because
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they lost the first leg of that particular section of
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the can champ. So even if, even if this drone
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can be tied to Toronto FC, the information that was
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pulled from the footage that the drone allegedly shot, or
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the alleged footage that the alleged drone allegedly shot, was
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translated poorly and did not work for Toronto FC. So
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there's that to hang on to. With John Herdman also
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on the board, we mentioned Leon, and we mentioned Leon
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because of John Texter and because of everything that he
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is going through right now where he is trying to
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make sure that he can dispose of his holdings in
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Crystal Palace so he can then turn around and buy Everton.
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So so you've got that to pay attention to. But
1948
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our friends at World Soccer Talk are letting us know
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that John Texter is not the most well when it
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comes to Leon. Let's put it this way. John Texter
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right now and his situation at Leon is not all
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that great. He's nearing the agreement on the Everton takeover.
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And then la Keep came out with a story stating
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that Texter was scrambling to raise one hundred and twelve
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million dollars through player sales to comply with FFP if
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you want to call it that financial regulations from the
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French soccer regulatory body, the DNCG. Texter refuted the report,
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telling Reuters we do not have sales targets and we
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are not required to sell one hundred million euro of
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players as there may be other ways to bring in
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revenues to maintain financial sustainability. Every company in France has
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the same challenge. At the end of the year, negative
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equity has to be restored. It's no different in football.
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If it's a slow transfer window, then we hold players
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until the next window. It's as simple as that. Leon
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investing in folks like Abner and Niakate wanted to try
1967
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and have a competitive squad in Legue Oh. They suffered
1968
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a three nil loss against Ren in the first match
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and then they lost two nil at home to Monaco
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on Saturday. Key players that could help Leon boost the revenue,
1971
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Ryan Cherkey is one of them. Cherkey declined a proposal
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from Fulham that have brought twenty two million into Leon.
1973
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So is is John Texter in financial trouble? Is he?
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Because the la Keeps story basically said that dude needed
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to have every player on the market to try and
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work out that one hundred and twelve million pound hole.
1977
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Texter of course refuted it, as we said, so we
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don't quite know. Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle.
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But yeah, you end up with Uhla keep saying he's
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got to put everybody on the market. Texter is like, nah,
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I don't So truth might be somewhere in the middle,
1982
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but we'll find out. Also involving players and locations and
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uh where folks like to go and where they don't.
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I mentioned uh Luke's fawn and Steel and what he
1985
01:55:13.920 --> 01:55:24.439
was saying about locations for players coming to America, and
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he was he was not too happy about folks that
1987
01:55:29.720 --> 01:55:35.199
were kind of skipping Saint Louis and heading to other places.
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So he was not a fan of Let me see
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if I can spell fun and steel. I yell, uh huh.
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I want to get my quotes right. But yeah, he
1991
01:55:54.439 --> 01:56:04.840
was not a happy man, saying that European stars that
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go to places like Messi and friends to go hang
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out with him or go to Los Angeles, they're here
1994
01:56:12.560 --> 01:56:15.399
to vacation. That goes back to the old MLS one
1995
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point zero, where you're bringing in the high priced talent
1996
01:56:18.399 --> 01:56:23.479
for cups of coffee and what have you. City got
1997
01:56:23.520 --> 01:56:26.560
six new players, five through the transfer market, one through
1998
01:56:26.600 --> 01:56:30.680
a trade. Fine Steel said, we wanted to do it,
1999
01:56:30.760 --> 01:56:33.800
we wanted to improve. Club only brought in two players
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last summer, and he admits that they had to make
2001
01:56:37.960 --> 01:56:41.640
a lot of moves with injuries and such strategic signings
2002
01:56:41.640 --> 01:56:44.680
with an eye on twenty five like Hartel, Tukert, Bescher,
2003
01:56:45.279 --> 01:56:52.119
Henri Quesler, Giannis Horn. Obviously, the challenge from Martina Alceeva
2004
01:56:52.199 --> 01:56:55.399
World Soccer Talk challenge facing the City Park side remains steep,
2005
01:56:56.560 --> 01:56:58.479
having to win a lot of games to get into
2006
01:56:59.159 --> 01:57:02.479
the playoffs in the West. While discussing the challenges of
2007
01:57:02.479 --> 01:57:06.279
building a competitive squad, fine and Steele says, I'm going
2008
01:57:06.359 --> 01:57:09.479
to be blunt here. If a player wants to play
2009
01:57:09.479 --> 01:57:11.960
in MLS but only wants to play in La Miami
2010
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and New York, then they're just here for a holiday
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end quote. Obviously, Saint Louis, you get to see Saint
2012
01:57:20.079 --> 01:57:22.840
Louis as you're flying to Los Angeles from New York,
2013
01:57:24.319 --> 01:57:25.880
kind of get to wave at City Park on the
2014
01:57:25.880 --> 01:57:32.199
way by. Of course, the references, according to al Shavas
2015
01:57:32.239 --> 01:57:36.479
that it could be a dig about Marco Royce. Saint
2016
01:57:36.520 --> 01:57:41.880
Louis apparently did pursue Marco Royce. Royce ended up at
2017
01:57:42.000 --> 01:57:47.560
lag tom Tommy Scoops basically said Marco Royce and his
2018
01:57:47.600 --> 01:57:53.680
wife didn't love Saint Louis. Bogart said that All capsle
2019
01:57:53.720 --> 01:57:58.159
was a distant third in the midfielders considerations for a
2020
01:57:58.239 --> 01:58:03.720
home in Major League Soccer. So we have drones with
2021
01:58:03.880 --> 01:58:11.560
John Hurdman possibly probably maybe perhaps being investigated. And so
2022
01:58:12.000 --> 01:58:14.720
you've got that to look at when you thought you
2023
01:58:14.760 --> 01:58:22.039
were done and you're not. Once again, no real surprise. Well,
2024
01:58:22.039 --> 01:58:25.760
obviously we'll catch up with Christian Jack before the matchup
2025
01:58:25.880 --> 01:58:30.479
against Canada with the United States, We'll catch up with
2026
01:58:30.520 --> 01:58:34.359
Christian Jack before the matchup, and we'll find out what
2027
01:58:34.680 --> 01:58:39.279
how life is up north, So gossip, bermer and you
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01:58:39.319 --> 01:58:40.840
window what to watch, where to watch it, how to
2029
01:58:40.840 --> 01:58:42.800
watch it, all that kind of stuff. Let's let's get
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01:58:42.800 --> 01:58:49.920
into that today with your soccer on TV. If I
2031
01:58:49.920 --> 01:58:51.640
can click the right day and they'll let you know
2032
01:58:51.680 --> 01:58:54.800
what the schedule is. Should be pretty light except for
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01:58:54.920 --> 01:59:01.560
possibly college. ESPN Deporte says Olga at three thirty, Virel
2034
01:59:01.600 --> 01:59:05.079
and Celta Divigo Gold TV. If you don't have Gold TV,
2035
01:59:05.159 --> 01:59:07.359
you can pick that up at Finates FNTZ dot co
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01:59:07.640 --> 01:59:09.680
slash Soccer. Down here you can catch up with our
2037
01:59:09.720 --> 01:59:13.800
buddy Nino Torres and the matches that he calls. Uruguay
2038
01:59:13.840 --> 01:59:19.199
Primira at seven, Peru Premira at nine, Wheniverso has Aliga
2039
01:59:19.279 --> 01:59:22.640
MX Feminial for their Monday night football. Guadalajara and CRUs
2040
01:59:22.640 --> 01:59:25.479
Osul at eleven o'clock. Union two and Crew two is
2041
01:59:25.520 --> 01:59:30.119
at six on Apple TV at MLS Season Pass, ESPN Plush,
2042
01:59:30.680 --> 01:59:34.840
ESPN Plus, ESPN Plush Sells Carpets probably v arel Celta,
2043
01:59:34.880 --> 01:59:38.640
Vigo LaLiga two, Cartagena and Zaragoza is at one Golosso
2044
01:59:38.680 --> 01:59:41.640
Network as a double header in Syria, Kyliery and Como
2045
01:59:41.680 --> 01:59:44.000
at twelve thirty Hells Farona Uve eight two forty five
2046
01:59:44.560 --> 01:59:49.039
Paramount Plus simulcasting Syria and adding the Argentina Premira to that.
2047
01:59:49.399 --> 01:59:52.800
Baraka Central the Lasars Field at three is studiantesen Boca Juniors.
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01:59:53.399 --> 01:59:57.960
Is it eight? So that's your h what to watch,
2049
01:59:58.000 --> 02:00:01.520
how to watch it and where to watch it. The
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02:00:01.920 --> 02:00:05.520
gossip in and of itself. Liverpool are planning for life
2051
02:00:05.560 --> 02:00:09.399
after Allison with what looks like a thirty million pound
2052
02:00:09.399 --> 02:00:12.920
deal for Georgian keeper Georgie Mamar desh Vili at Valencia.
2053
02:00:14.800 --> 02:00:17.600
So that will be a way of looking to the
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02:00:17.640 --> 02:00:21.680
future for Liverpool as they continue to go forward under
2055
02:00:21.760 --> 02:00:27.119
Arnest slut Let's see, Victor Osman has not a package
2056
02:00:27.159 --> 02:00:31.680
to be shipped away according to his agent, as the
2057
02:00:32.279 --> 02:00:37.720
agent dismisses a link to Saudi Arabia and playing there.
2058
02:00:40.279 --> 02:00:42.960
Chelsea was looking to find a way to add Oceman
2059
02:00:43.000 --> 02:00:48.079
to the squad. Hey the man Todd Lakaka monopoly for
2060
02:00:48.119 --> 02:00:50.239
twenty five million has opened the door for Chelsea to
2061
02:00:50.279 --> 02:00:53.439
try to chase after ossmhen A Seeman has rejected a
2062
02:00:53.479 --> 02:00:56.800
transfer to Saudi Arabia. Financial package required to sign him
2063
02:00:56.800 --> 02:01:00.479
as supposed to be pretty big long term target for
2064
02:01:00.520 --> 02:01:02.760
Chelsea as far back as November forty eight goals in
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all comps his last two campaigns. Rahim Sterling apparently is
2066
02:01:07.079 --> 02:01:12.119
being looked at by aston Villa still because remember with
2067
02:01:12.159 --> 02:01:15.680
all of the ends you gotta have out we mentioned
2068
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matt O'Reilly to Brighton twenty five million on a five
2069
02:01:18.279 --> 02:01:22.640
year deal. Ferdy Cataolu could soon follow given permission from
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02:01:22.640 --> 02:01:28.720
Fenerbauchi to travel to Brighton on Friday, so it appears
2071
02:01:30.159 --> 02:01:37.920
that Chelsea could swap Rahim Sterling for Jaden Sancho. That's
2072
02:01:37.920 --> 02:01:40.039
what will Unwin is saying at the Guardian. By the way,
2073
02:01:40.960 --> 02:01:46.079
the Blues have a bloated squad sentence after mentioning Rayhim Sterling,
2074
02:01:46.640 --> 02:01:49.439
but the recruitment team have a cunning one in and
2075
02:01:49.479 --> 02:01:54.399
one out policy now so the five hundred thousand pounds
2076
02:01:54.399 --> 02:01:57.640
per week wage demands on ossim Han make it look tricky,
2077
02:01:58.000 --> 02:02:01.159
so the alternative looks like it could dominant. Calvert Lewin.
2078
02:02:02.279 --> 02:02:05.680
Sorry to all of our resident Evertonian fans. O Seeman
2079
02:02:05.680 --> 02:02:08.279
also a potarget for alac Lee, but remember his agent's like, nope,
2080
02:02:08.319 --> 02:02:10.920
not doing it. Looked like Eddie and Ketche was heading
2081
02:02:10.920 --> 02:02:13.920
to Forest Crystal Palace entered the race. Looks like Forrest
2082
02:02:13.960 --> 02:02:16.840
and Ketcha can't come up with a deal. A knock
2083
02:02:16.880 --> 02:02:18.680
back for Forrest has led them to put in another
2084
02:02:18.680 --> 02:02:23.720
bid for Sante Jimenez. Dutch Club rejected an opening offer
2085
02:02:23.800 --> 02:02:26.199
last week, but Nuna wants some more firepower and it
2086
02:02:26.199 --> 02:02:28.600
looks like it could be in the range of thirty million.
2087
02:02:29.399 --> 02:02:32.399
Manchester City are thinking long term and have identified Copenhagen
2088
02:02:32.439 --> 02:02:37.760
teenage striker ari Oskarson as an understudy to Holland, valued
2089
02:02:37.800 --> 02:02:41.199
at twenty million euro at nineteen years old. Potential departure
2090
02:02:41.199 --> 02:02:43.520
on the cards as city looks like they might be
2091
02:02:43.560 --> 02:02:48.039
selling Matteas Nunez, especially with the addition of l K Gundawan.
2092
02:02:48.880 --> 02:02:51.960
Fine art keeper Justin Beelow was an emotional figure after
2093
02:02:52.000 --> 02:02:54.319
the one one draw. Looks like he's heading to Southampton,
2094
02:02:55.159 --> 02:03:00.439
and we mentioned Matt O'Reilly and his now sign with
2095
02:03:00.520 --> 02:03:05.039
Brighton as of ten o'clock this morning, So that's what
2096
02:03:05.079 --> 02:03:09.199
you're staring at with the gossip, rumor and innuendo at
2097
02:03:09.279 --> 02:03:11.159
least so far. Let me double check all of my
2098
02:03:11.239 --> 02:03:14.279
folks here. Osieman wants to stay in Europe and catch
2099
02:03:14.319 --> 02:03:16.680
his set to join Crystal Palace. According to Ben Jacobs
2100
02:03:16.680 --> 02:03:22.960
from forty minutes ago, Gabriel Heinz as Sesel Luis Merrilow
2101
02:03:23.079 --> 02:03:24.880
is reporting is not going to be the new coach
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at Argentino's juniors. Gringo thanked the club for its interest
2103
02:03:28.960 --> 02:03:31.159
but told him for now he wants to continue living
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in Madrid, so he is not going to be the
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02:03:34.119 --> 02:03:37.359
coach for Argentino's juniors going forward. At least not right
2106
02:03:37.439 --> 02:03:40.720
now anyway. Kurt Zuma set to sign with a Saudi
2107
02:03:40.800 --> 02:03:44.960
side Jaden Anthony undergoing a Burnley medical Hannas Rodriguez to
2108
02:03:45.079 --> 02:03:47.840
Ryo Viacano. That happened this morning early in the show
2109
02:03:47.880 --> 02:03:51.079
as well. Sterling offered to Aston Villa, but it's not
2110
02:03:51.159 --> 02:03:53.520
expected to develop due to the overall cost of the deal.
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Once again, according to Jacobs, Chelsea will present him with offers,
2112
02:03:58.199 --> 02:04:00.840
but he's not speaking directly to anyone yet. Him and
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02:04:00.880 --> 02:04:07.279
Az confirmed by Jacob's thirty million from Nottingham Forest and Liverpool.
2114
02:04:07.359 --> 02:04:11.159
It's a thirty plus five with Valencia for Mamo Deshvilli
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02:04:11.479 --> 02:04:15.159
six year deal loaned back to Valencia this year, joining
2116
02:04:15.199 --> 02:04:18.319
Liverpool in twenty five. Allison stays is the number one,
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02:04:18.359 --> 02:04:22.399
which was always the plan. Let's see, am I missing
2118
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anybody else? This morning Sven gorn Erickson passed at the
2119
02:04:27.000 --> 02:04:30.359
age of seventy six. That's a big loss for the
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sport and his valiant fight with cancer. I hate cancer
2121
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and I'm not the only one. We'll say it. There's
2122
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video out of Everton players being abused at a London
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train station over the weekend. Everton furious with players after
2124
02:04:50.960 --> 02:04:53.560
they were demolished four nil by Spurs in North London.
2125
02:04:54.319 --> 02:04:57.000
Have now lost both Premier League matches this year, giving
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out seven without scoring. At Houston State, supporters were filmed
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confronting the players as they boarded the train. Neil Mopey
2128
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found himself taking a volley of vitriolic abuse. This is
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from our friends at talkSPORT. As the players ran the
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gauntlet to get on the carriages, the striker appeared to
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02:05:15.359 --> 02:05:19.720
react to the shouts of f off from one particular supporter.
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02:05:22.720 --> 02:05:25.560
Reposting the video on social media, Mopey said, imagine another
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job where it's normalized to get abuse like this, hanging
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02:05:28.680 --> 02:05:30.600
around at a train station to scream at men are
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02:05:30.680 --> 02:05:35.000
trying their best. Everton rock Bottom after the first two matches,
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02:05:35.000 --> 02:05:38.600
Sean Daich says, it's a strange situation here. We kind
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of built something and then we have to go down
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02:05:40.079 --> 02:05:44.880
the hill and build it again. And so Texter still
2139
02:05:44.920 --> 02:05:48.920
confident about a takeover and that's where a toffee's facing
2140
02:05:48.960 --> 02:05:51.960
Doncaster and EFL Cup on Tuesday before born with Saturday
2141
02:05:52.960 --> 02:05:57.800
at Goodison in a Premier League play so Texter revealed
2142
02:05:57.840 --> 02:05:59.720
how he failed in an attempt to take majority control
2143
02:05:59.720 --> 02:06:02.880
itself park now having turned his attention to Everton strong
2144
02:06:02.880 --> 02:06:05.560
indications from qualified buyers to complete a sale of his
2145
02:06:05.720 --> 02:06:08.840
palace shares. So that's from that's from our friends that
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talks sport and apparently the video is out about like
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02:06:12.840 --> 02:06:16.479
Neil Bok, Mopey and others getting yelled at. Looks like
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Burnley might be set for a triple deal and mcdonmoney
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might be heading outside of the Premier League. Kurtzuma. It's
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al Auroba having a medical for that. We mentioned Eddie
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and Ketche mentioned triple deal. Hannibal Mabry, Jeremy sarmientto Jayden Anthony,
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I all believe to be at turf More for medicals
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ahead of a move to the Championship club. Anthony joining
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for Bournemouth on a loan with a ten million pound
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obligation to buy Scott Parker Scottie too haughty, the head
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coach of Burnley looking for incomings after seeing likes of Odebart,
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Sanderberger and Darrah O'Shea leave in recent days. So there's
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that activity. Like I said, I'm just buzzing through everything
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that I'm staring at and we will catch up. Give
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me sports, says Brentford's Ivan TONI needs to give a
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final answer on whether he's prepared to join Alackley. On Monday,
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Danny Rust and Ben Jacobs over at GMS and let's
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see a statement from Sveen Goren Erickson's children, Lena and Johann.
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Our father fell asleep peacefully in his home at Buorkafor's
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outside sone this morning. He has for a long time
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fought bravely with his illness, but now it came to
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an end, so Spen Goren Erickson. That's the first paragraph.
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At the age of seventy six, Dad told us at
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the beginning of this year about a serious illness. Received
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an amazing response from friends and football fans around Europe.
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He was invited to several football teams in England, Italy,
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Portugal and Sweden. They shared their love for football and
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for Dad it was unforgettable for both him and us.
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He expressed his appreciation and joy and stated that such
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beautiful words are usually only uttered when someone has died. Quote.
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I get to hear it while I'm alive, and I'm
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incredibly grateful for that. The heart beats twice and the
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tears come. I've had the best job in the world,
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and I was happy every day for long periods. It's
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been fantastic, his children continued. We've shared his gratitude and
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got to experience the wonderful meetings between him, football and
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all his friends. We thank everyone for these positive memories
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and your support during his illness. We hope that you'll
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remember Svennis as the good and positive person he always was,
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both in public and at home with us. And the
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one thing that I will always remember is the recent
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conversations with sven Goren Erickson where he's mentioning just smiling,
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and it's just smile, something as simple as that to
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get you through your day. Don't be sorry, smile. That's
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what sveen Gore and Ericson, a positive guy trying to
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do everything he could do, said he had a good life.
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In the Amazon Prime documentary which now I'm probably going
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to have to go, Ericson says he's had a good life,
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telling viewers don't be sorry, smile before saying thank you
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for everything. Coaches, players, the crowds. It's been fantastic. First
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foreign coach to manage England that decided quarterfinals of the
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two and six World Cups, in the four Euros, so
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it's Finn Goren Ericson leaves this at the age of
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seventy six. Tomorrow we'll go over everything else in Major
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League Soccer, everything else that's going on around the planet,
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catch up with the news of the day. Obviously, thanks
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to Bart for dropping by for extended coverage on a Monday,
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because there was a lot to talk about. It was
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a lot to talk about. And uh oh, I gotta
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say hi to everybody before we go. So let's see.
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So who is here this morning? And I know that
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there were a lot of you who were getting into
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discussions about Atlanta United, and I'm thankful that you guys
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do that every day. Morning Alex, Morning, Michael, Morning Harry,
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Morning Hutch, Morning Emilio. And uh, let's see morning Alex
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getting into the handball discussion. Let's see morning Wiley. He said,
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I'm trying if I and if I miss somebody, I
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am profoundly sorry. Uh let's see morning to me as
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I'm going back and forth. Morning four card. Yeah, Michael, Yeah,
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this absolutely is true. Michael says the Athletics gotten very
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sly on their annual renewal since the takeover by The
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New York Times. They absolutely have and I have and
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I did it on multiple email addresses, and so I
2219
02:10:35.520 --> 02:10:37.640
try to log into the app with the email address
2220
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it's not attached to, that's attached to the subscription, that's
2221
02:10:41.239 --> 02:10:42.920
no longer attached to the subscription, and they're like, go
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02:10:42.960 --> 02:10:45.239
ahead and subscribe, and I'm like, no, switch my email address,
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and they won't let me do it on the app.
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So so fun with the Athletic now that they're with
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The New York Times. Apparently the EPL. I haven't heard
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02:10:53.760 --> 02:10:57.319
of any charter flights four card. I haven't heard of
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02:10:57.319 --> 02:11:00.720
any charter flights in the EPL. It takes like trains
2228
02:11:00.800 --> 02:11:06.359
and things. But at the same time, I'm Manchester City.
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02:11:06.399 --> 02:11:08.800
Why does Manchester City and charter flights stick in my head?
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I would have thought that they did, even if it's
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02:11:11.680 --> 02:11:13.239
like a forty five minute hot flight. I've seen the
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pictures from inside Manchester City planes and Forkard and kidd
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02:11:16.960 --> 02:11:20.640
a Forest Smart. All right, So we are way to
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ish over and I apologize for that, but there's always
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02:11:23.399 --> 02:11:25.039
stuff to talk about, and we always end up having
2236
02:11:25.039 --> 02:11:26.560
more stuff to talk about at the end of things.
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02:11:26.560 --> 02:11:29.039
But yeah, we'll be back in less than twenty two
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and we'll go over everything. That happened in the MLS yesterday.
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Over the weekend, we'll get you ready for the weekend.
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Any other guests that pop in on your Tuesday, Oh tomorrow,
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we will have Carolina Coy's Carolina Cores Roy Lassiter, Maddy's
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02:11:44.079 --> 02:11:47.000
gonna catch up with coach Lassiter and that will be
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02:11:47.159 --> 02:11:50.920
lead off tomorrow because Carolina Core and Atlanta Unity two
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02:11:51.840 --> 02:11:56.000
twos go out to Carolina Wednesday night kick seven thirty
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02:11:56.159 --> 02:11:59.479
three on the Network, So pregame is at seven. We'll
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02:11:59.520 --> 02:12:01.600
catch up with Steve Cook and we'll get you ready
2247
02:12:01.600 --> 02:12:04.920
for the matchup with Carolina Core and Atlanta United two.
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02:12:04.960 --> 02:12:08.079
Big matchup as both teams are trying to climb into
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the playoff picture in the Eastern Conference. So Carolina Core
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head coach Roy Lasseter will be on the network bett
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and leadoff. Maddy's going to catch up with him and
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02:12:18.920 --> 02:12:21.279
that'll be our lead off tomorrow as we get you
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ready for everything else going on around the planet. So
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for everybody here, for Jarrett, for Nick, for Maddie, for me,
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I'm just John for Jason as well. Thanks for dropping
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by here on a Monday, and we will catch up
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02:12:34.000 --> 02:12:35.640
with you guys in a little less than twenty two
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02:12:35.680 --> 02:12:37.439
and I didn't even get to do an opening kickoff,
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02:12:37.479 --> 02:12:41.520
that's how fast we were flying this morning. So everybody
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be safe, be well, and we will catch up with
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you tomorrow and a little less than twenty two. Since
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it is the end of the show, it means I
2263
02:12:49.119 --> 02:12:52.039
get to try and whistle us out because I can
2264
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still never find the Gary Shandling instrumental. Joe Walsh singing
2265
02:12:57.199 --> 02:13:00.000
got that, I just need the instrumental. See you tomorrow
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by etting
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From the Temple Book from the