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S3 Ep11 Lexington 3 - Trinity FC 0 · Pegasus

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: All right, Jesse.
• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Supposedly Taylor Swift came out with some new stuff today.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Not supposed to be.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I didn't realize that you were such a Swifty, and I can't wait to talk about it.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: But instead, we're going to talk about Trinity going to Lexington and losing 3-0.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: Oof.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I have to tell you, you want to know my pregame prediction?
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: You already know it.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: It was 2-1 Trinity.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: And yours was a 2-2 draw.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: I, if I go back in time right now, I will take either of those.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: If you ask me, would you take either of those over a 3-0 loss?
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to say yes.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: So here we are.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: We're at White Rock Brewing Company.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: There's about four of us left here.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: This feels like old times.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: This feels like when we first started doing the podcast, and it was just the two of us, and maybe Karen and Jenna.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: And so yeah, here we are.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: I don't even know what to say, man.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what to say.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: We've set the scene.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: We have.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: T-Swizzle released some tunes.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_01: This was just the cap off the day.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not a Swifty.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you for admitting that.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not a Swifty, but I've got to like keep it up, keep up what's going on.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: Because I like these type of things.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_01: I like pop music, and I'm getting older, and you can't be this type of person who gets stuck in their ways and um think you know, one of those people who think like the only the music that came out in when you're a particular age is the best music.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm always looking for the new thing.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_01: And and and Taylor Swift releasing these four songs was uh was like became like un like ironically good because they're so bad.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_01: But there was nothing like ironically good about Trinity's away performance here tonight.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um well before like let's just do force half.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_01: First half, I think was pretty good.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_01: But the way it is, and we we actually mentioned it, and I think it's a real thing, is like I think it's all it's not the most important thing to do is, or the mo one of the most important overlooked things is how to how you lose.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_01: How you feel when you lose, when you lose, how you lose, and being able to like tell yourself some kind of story about that loss.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_01: And this is just one of those classic losses that isn't ironically good, like Taylor Swift's four bonus tracks she felt she had to share with us uh to today.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't ironically good, it wasn't actually good, there wasn't a whole lot of positives coming from it.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: It was just like kind of shit.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: Well, so a couple of things.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_00: Number one, I want to say one of the things I've always appreciated about you is that you do share my feeling around music in the sense that I really like there are songs that I grew up with as a kid and as a teenager that I never want to hear again.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like I heard them too many times, and I'm always looking and interested in hearing new things.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I always love new music, and I I've always appreciated that about you.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like you dip your toe into that way more than I do, but um I always love to hear new stuff.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: That said, I was really hoping to hear a little bit more of a news song tonight, and and we didn't.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: And and part of that was, and it's and it kind of goes back to what you were saying around like how you lose.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: There are losses that I've experienced, like watching a team where I was proud of the loss that we took.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um and there are losses where I was frustrated that we lost, but I understood it, and I could accept it.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: And and I think tonight there were a lot of frustrating things about it.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um but before we jump into all that, I think we need to go back to the beginning and you know very quickly the lineup kind of reverted to what it kind of was earlier in the season.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, we it it like opposite of last week, we had a bunch of offensive firepower on the bench, and we started with some different folks.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: Tonight we come out kind of what we did a few weeks ago.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: Great starting lineup, of course, but there isn't really like there's not a lot of help on the bench to come off if you're behind.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: And so if we look at the first half, I was pretty happy with the first half.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I felt like we did what the coaches would want us to do.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_00: We controlled the ball.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um when we had the ball, I felt like I felt like we did a good job in possession.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_00: When we were out of possession, I felt like we did a we did a good job on the press.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I thought our press was really effective.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: I thought we limited their chances.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: I mean the possession in the first half was basically 50-50, so we didn't have as much possession as we normally do.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: But but it but I just like I were watching it and I'm like, you know, we missed out on some chances.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um but if you look at both teams, like we had one go off the bar, and granted it went, you know, up and over.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh there they had one that went off the bar that the announcers could not stop talking about, and it went against the bar and back out.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um both of them were misses.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: Just want to put that out there.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: The misses were an inch apart, but they're both misses at the end of the day.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_00: No goal.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it I was I was really happy with the first half.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh not happy, but just like I'll take it.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's just kind of a it was a classic kind of like a way.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, just looking at like looking at it, like we were pretty level on shots.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: We had six shots, they had five in that first half.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_01: We forced two sh two saves.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um Nika Purcell only had to make one save in that first half.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_01: It's like you mentioned, it's it was even on possession, and and I think if we had I think the feeling of the match was you know, maybe we had a little bit more possession in their half, maybe even more possession um penning them in of their f to their third, to their defensive third.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_01: But we just couldn't couldn't make it make it happen.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_01: But so you go into it like um you know, nil-nil into the first half.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um it was alright.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: I think if if if there was a couple things that I was you know maybe wanting more of in that first half was Jamie Shepherd came back into the lineup after a couple matches out if to to uh partner with Sofia Sedeno in that midfield too.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_01: She couldn't get into the match, like really at all.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: Really that first two the the the first half kind of bypassed the midfield, frankly, a lot of it.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: I think like the thing that I recall most about that first half is our soph is our um mid Sofia Sedeno picks up a yellow card in that first half, and you know, okay, fine.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: So we can't get our midfielders into the match.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_01: We can't get, you know, kind of dictate play and and really unlock um what Lexington was doing.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: And the this is my only thing where I'll say something nice about Lexington is the one thing they did do really well is when they lose the ball, they're really set up well to not give up anything.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever they're doing, or their structure whenever they lose the ball is really superb.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: We we try to counterpress, we try to work real hard and catch them off the ball.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_01: We can never quite beat what they had at any time.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: And that was really that's a that's a main difference as to why we couldn't ever find a a goal in this match.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: Because we got a lot of we won a lot of possession.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um we tried to move the ball quickly, but we just couldn't get it past them.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's almost like it past them.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's almost like um you're playing a team that can spend a lot of time on the front foot, but at the same time act like they're just a low block team that's just that's just just they they just have a wall back there.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, so anytime we would get close to their final third, they've got literally everybody on the team back, and they are all in shape.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: It was early.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: It was early, and they've got all ten players behind the ball.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_01: No, it isn't but it was wild.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: They've got BCB.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_01: They've got BCB behind the ball.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_01: Like, so we've got we're we've we're in possession in their third, and Cadbury is is locked on to you know, they just they're it's between the lines.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: They c they have they have such a tight structure and they're so organized, they're just not letting anything through.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: So it's let Sierra have the ball, let Sophia have the ball, let Mila Brewer have the ball.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: And they're not stepping out.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: And that's you know, they're the champions, so you gotta hand it to them, I guess, whatever.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: But but they will and they do really well of like when they lose the ball, they snap right into it, into their shape, and into their cover.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: They're they're not gonna get beat unless something really great happens, and we just couldn't make anything great happen.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean I think that's really we had we had some moments where it just didn't come off, and and and and it really, and that's the thing that we haven't seen the past few matches.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: Is we've been in the final third in the past few matches, and when we have those chances, we've been able to take advantage of them and put them in the net.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: And in that first half, we had some great chances.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: We weren't able to do that.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: Part of it is the shape of Lexington and the way they could get back into that you know block where they've got everybody back there.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but at the same time, like there were just things that just didn't work for us and shots that didn't come off the right way.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, so in that way it felt very last season in the way that we just couldn't finish.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um but but I but I was impressed in the first half with our control.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_00: I was impressed with the way we really did limit their chances, and so defensively, you know, I I felt like we did a really nice job in that first half.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: So at 45, whistleblows, no stoppage time at all, which is another one of those mind-boggling things about this league where it's like, look, there was at least a minute of stoppage.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_00: I know it wasn't a lot, but like it like, trust me.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: She spent the the referees spent like 30 seconds really early in the match just talking to one player, Sarah Griffith, about like her earrings.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, it was like a good 30 seconds.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: They got her off the field, but it was like it was this whole thing, and that was just one incident.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: And we and there's no stoppage in the first in the first half, and like zero.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_00: I and I think that's I think that's crazy.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: I in the second half, there was only two minutes of stoppage, which is also crazy.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: But like you said in the moment, that was a mercy for us, so I'll take it.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: Although they let it drag out to almost three minutes.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and and it was like, and I'm s and as that's going, I'm sitting there going, why?
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: Because we're down 3-0.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: If we'd nicked one at that point, I wouldn't even felt good about the consolation goal.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm glad our players are still trying, but at the but at the end of the day, like if she'd have whistled it right at two minutes, I'd have been okay with it.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: The thing about these shit losses is that if we'd got one back, it's worth something because we've not really been we've not really done well in the past with goal difference.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: So if that's one thing.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um I don't know, like the let's start with their first goal.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm of the mind of their first goal of like it's my thing that I always go to.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: So so what the home team scores.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna score at so much.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, I mean, you would expect them to get one at home.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_01: You expect it.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_01: Again, what's our answer?
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: And we never had an answer.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: We never really did.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_01: We had a lot of chances that we weren't we had a couple chances that we didn't take.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: But it didn't amount to an answer.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: And okay, fine, they go down one.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: The second goal comes.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: Well, but even before we but even before we get to that second goal.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: So before that second goal comes, you've got a ball that we kick back towards goal.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: I think it was us, but even if it was them, there's a ball coming back.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_00: Brewer is casually going towards it.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um Catbury jumps.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: So Mila Mila plays a ball.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's kind of it was kind of a language.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, this is.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not talking about the goal.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: What I'm talking about is there's there's the ball.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: So Brewer's like she's going toward the ball, but she's not really put on the gas.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: Catbury gets on it.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um at that point, it's like there's a little bit of jostling to try to get there, but she takes the shot.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Purcell does a really good job of like taking a good like she takes a good angle on it, sticks her foot out, but she she would not have stopped it if Catbury had actually put it on net.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like Catbury shoots it wide.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: And we were fortunate, we were fortunate that it didn't go 2-0 then.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: But then we get to the second goal.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: No, yeah, you're right.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: The it was really a moment of being turned off.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: It was really good goalkeeping to close off the angle on that one.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: But you're right, that was really a a warning for the second when you think about it.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, again, you know, we let in one, okay, now what?
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like you're saying, like there's these other chances that the that that the home team is creating.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, are we gonna learn from them?
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: Are we gonna try to adjust?
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: Are we gonna try to be switched on?
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_01: We're not gonna do that.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: But the second comes from, like you just mentioned, is like, is, is, is But wasn't the wasn't the second one the handball?
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: Or was that the third?
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's the third, you're right.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: That's the third.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm mixing up those two Cadbury goals.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: The second one, Mila plays a ball back to Sophia Braun so so we can retain possession.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know what our captain does.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like, she's just not switched on.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: She doesn't cut across.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: She doesn't cut across Catbury, she doesn't try to win the ball, she doesn't try to close off the angle from Catbury.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: I just don't think she knows she's coming.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: I really don't.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: She's got her back to her.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: At that point, Rich, she's coming all match.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: She's coming the whole match.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: I agree, but it's like I just like I I think she was switched off or unaware because Catbury overtook her and it was over.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: No, it was over.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: And okay, so then 2-0.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: 2-0 happens, and I thought, I thought, you know, obviously it's game over.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: But now we get on to the idea of how do we are we losing in a way that we can all come away from something and be alright with.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: And even just at that at 2-0, I was not happy with how we were losing this match.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: We were missing chances, we weren't creating creating good chances.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: We had a a a number of chances that are that we've been not fortunate.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: We've had the quality to put away previously, but we didn't ratchet up pressure to increase the quality to get goals in those moments.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um let me ask you a question.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: Would would you if we if if we had gone up, if we'd gotten a goal and it ended 2-1, would you have been happy with how the game like would you would it would you be happier?
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, obviously, 3-0's terrible, but like like would you feel like, well, that was an okay loss?
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I mean, uh so it depends.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: So if we just got a goal, maybe not.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: If it was just ended in 2-1.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: But give you an example.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_01: How how Fort Lauderdale lost last week, right?
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_01: They can tell themselves that they they they pushed on at the end.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: I would agree, but still lost.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: If we'd got a goal and we had pinned them back and had them still trying to get that second.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_01: You know, us pushing to get the second, that's a different story you could tell yourself.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: So, goal, no, not by itself, but that's a way to lose, to allow yourself to say, come away from something to say, um, to carry something forward, to be have some confidence.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like, look, we we took Lexington to the mat and we we made it hard for them.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think we made it hard for them, really.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: I think we made it hard in the first half.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: I think in the second half, I feel like they really took over.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: And the handball that wasn't a handball, like honestly, that third goal didn't change my feeling around the game.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: It was just a frustration more than anything.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: And the other thing that I would say about this, the game, and particularly in the second half, because this is where it happened just almost constantly, was the broadcast feed just kept going out.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_00: And so, so like, number one, you're losing.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: And there were, and there were several sequences where we're in there, final third, doing things, and we can kind of hear on the announcement that there's stuff going on, and we've got some attempted shots, but we don't even see it.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we don't even know like what we were really doing, and so I feel like that made it feel even more disjointed, and there might have been some moments in there that were quality that we don't know about because we're watching a roller coaster at Universal Studios uh saying that the broadcast is coming back, which is just so unconscious.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: It will resume shortly.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: It will resume shortly, and it's like no, it hasn't stopped.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's still the game is still happening.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: They don't tell the players, hey, the broadcast went out, you guys hang out for a while.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: And so it was just very disjointed with that, too.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like it was there were so many levels of frustration tonight.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I'm trying to say.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I mean that was throughout the second half, and really like it really m starts to make you question like what you're doing, and that's a really bad place to be.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: No, it is.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and it's bad.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: I I feel bad for thinking that way, but it's it's my it's like what I feel and what I was thinking.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, why would I come out to this?
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: I can just experience this at home.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um other people.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_01: But at the same time, you know, like this is just serious.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: Like, are is this serious?
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: We talked about earlier, like the league scheduling uh a competitive match on a Tuesday at 11 local time for for DC and Fort Lauderdale earlier in the week.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like that's just not serious.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: Just like get real.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: In the second half today, uh watching, trying to watch this match, the broadcast uh cutting out, like what are we doing?
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: Or like what are we like, is this serious?
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: Should I be investing my time to to because while I love everyone, I love you, I love the everyone that made it out to the match, we're all coming together around this thing, right?
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's not gonna grow and it's not.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: It would be helpful to see it.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it is it's not it's not gonna grow and it doesn't help anyone's argument.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: So, like the team, losing in a way that can help losing in a way that can we can carry forward if the if the league continuously does this where they uh put on this thing that is uh subpar, it's not doesn't seem serious uh i that's another thing that just like detracts from what you're doing and And and and I don't know how do you how do you sell that?
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: How do you sell that?
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: I I honestly think to go to just from the broadcast standpoint, because I do agree.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and this was one of my biggest complaints in game number one, we're at Tampa, and it's like somebody's shooting it on their iPhone, right?
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: It was terrible.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: And so I do, I do I know we we've we've gotten beyond that, and I do think that the broadcast the the presenters are better.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: I think that I think that overall, like the camera work and things have gotten a little bit better, but it is I I I wish it was less incremental when it comes to the quality of what the league, and this is this is Game Bridge, what they're trying to present and what they're trying to sustain and grow.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're gonna sustain and grow a league, your broadcast signal has to be, and in this day and age, in this day and age, like this is not that hard.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm just I'm just I'm just I'm like putting it out there, like no lie, it's not that hard.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: I broadcast a program once or twice a week, uh, with the not the greatest Wi-Fi in the world.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: And granted, it's not it's not this level of production, but it goes out every week.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: And and so if I can do it, I think uh an entire league can do it.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: And so that's very frustrating.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_00: To get back to the match, though, I think the other thing that frustrates me is Lexington as a team, like the way they play, I really appreciate and I respect.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: I I respect the discipline.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um the things that frustrate me are at the beginning of halftime, our coach is talking to the fourth official, their coach has to jump in and interject, to the point that the referee comes over and makes him go back to his bench.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um there are like there are fouls called, and even when they're up 3-0, there's a foul called, and one of their players is in the in the face of the ref, in the face of our player, and it's just like I like I understand disagreeing with a call or whatever, but like it just it's a bit much for me.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: And it's what like I like Lexington's always been in that villain category for me, and this is one of the reasons why.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: No, like a part a part of that, so like the cherry on this like not so great Sunday, this broccoli sundae, whatever you want to call it.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, broccoli sundae.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_01: Broccoli can be pretty good.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's pretty good.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: You got a recipe.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: A little balsamic on there, some Emmentoler.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: You roast it, maybe.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: But look, on top of the Sunday was getting what like one of the worst penalty calls, except for except for one.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_01: There's only one that's worse.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: Except for one that's worse, and guess where, where it was.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: I think it was in Lexington.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: I think it was in Lexington, and guess which box also?
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_01: The same place, the same box.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that go that penalty, that handball penalty.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_00: The non-existent handball, the one that didn't exist.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: Never saw an angle of it.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: Never, like, what are we talking about here?
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like, the ball.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: I I didn't see Beckman's shape of her body or like anything that was like.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_00: The look of surprise on her face around that and her questioning the ref, like, it truly was like art, like really, like, are you kidding?
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like down her back?
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: Because she was focused on like she was facing in a she was facing in a different direction.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: In a different direction and like trying to get away.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_00: It fell between the her back, fell between her back and an offensive player that was behind her.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: If it hit anybody's hand, it was a Lexington player's hand.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't think it hit any hands, though.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: Well, and the fact that it always did, but but like, how do we get a penalty from this?
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_01: Think of how many times we've been awarded a penalty.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: Think about it.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_01: These this team has been awarded a penalty in that same box, in that same place, in like really conspicuous circumstances, twice.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I can freaking see them in my mind.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, what are we doing here?
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: What what is this?
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_00: If this if that penalty had been the had led to the only goal of this game, I would have been as furious as the opponents after the last like the fakest.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: But you're doing a contextual thing, but like on its own, it's a horrendous penalty call.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: Terrible call.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_01: It was just it's just bad.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_01: Add on the broadcast issues, add on, again, take some responsibility for our own club and our own performance today about not losing well.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_01: It just like it just all added up.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we have these matches.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: We have these matches.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_01: I think more, I I don't have stats on it or anything, but I feel like we have these matches more than any other uh any other club in the league where we go away.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: I will say last season was was brutal on that side.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: Where we go away, yeah.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_01: We go away and we have these matches where we're losing 3-0, we're losing 4-1, we're doing own goals, all the hits, we're stepping on all the races.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_00: 6-0 helps you out a lot.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_01: Was there a 6-0?
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_01: That could be.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_01: Like, we have these in us, and um but what but and and I don't want to say like let's play a different way so we avoid them.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_01: That's like some chicken shit bullshit.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like, like we should play our way, but we have to be able to come away from the the uh like any match feeling like we're gonna be alright.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: And and you come away from this match after winning three in a row, and it feels like you're just back at square one.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_00: So, number one, I I I I disagree with that a little bit, in the sense that I underst like this this loss feels terrible, but when I look back at the goals, the first the first goal is legit in like I saw that goal coming, but I and there are things I wish we'd have done differently, but it was a good goal, they scored it, and they took advantage of a chance and put it in net.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_00: The second goal was a a lapse on our part, and you just you can't do that against a team that's good.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the penalty that wasn't a penalty, that's crap.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_00: And so I look at those last two goals and I'm frustrated by both of them in completely different ways.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_00: But when I think about the team and the way they played and the way they pushed, um, I really appreciate how hard they worked and and they continued fighting till the end, and I don't feel like I don't feel like last year I felt like when we went down a goal, it was heads down and we're not coming back from it.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: This time I didn't feel that way.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: I felt like it was gonna be a pretty hard task just because of the way Lexington defends, but you know, it wasn't the second goal, I'm like, that's that's the game, it's over.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_00: But the third goal's not our fault.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's just not.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: And and it it like it's it it seasons this, it makes it feel that way.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: But all that to say, I'm gonna take this broccoli Sunday, and maybe there's some roasted broccoli in there.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_00: There's a little balsamic.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_00: We got some good cheese going, Jesse.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like, like it's not as bad.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's not a like it looks bad.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's not as bad as it looks, I promise you.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_01: Bring your bring your best broccoli recipe.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_01: We'll put on cooking.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: I'm doing a broccoli.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_00: I am doing a broccoli.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: We are making this.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: You and I, we both love to cook.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_00: We are both we're gonna do a broccoli Sunday competition.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: And that's what an away match should be.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_01: It's like you're eating your broccoli the best way possible, and we did not eat our broccoli the best way possible.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't the best way possible, but as we turned it to mush.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_00: As frustrating and as as terrible as the loss was, I really, I really feel like if you put it all into perspective, we played well for most of the match.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um we let in a goal that you're gonna let in it away.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't take advantage of the chances that we had, and then there were two goals that really, if we'd done what we should have done, one of them it was we should have done something different.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: The other one was it should have never been a goal.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_00: And that's just the way it is.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_00: We should have lost the game regardless.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_00: I don't disagree with that.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um and credit to Lexington for the way they played.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_00: But I I I don't walk away from this thinking this sets us back to the beginning of the season.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's a setback, but like I said to you before this match started, if you if you asked me at the beginning of the season, are we winning Lexington away?
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_00: I would have said no.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_01: You it's it's but you still want to come away with it with some something to carry forward.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_01: And there's just I don't know what you carry forward from this game.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what you carry forward from the four bonus tracks that Taylor Swift released today.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: There's a line in there.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um there's a line in there when the fever turns a dreamer into a pathetic ghost.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_01: Uh there's something in there.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_01: There's something that sounds smart that might be smart, but it's it's a lot of empty calories, this match.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I think above all, it's this idea of like we you win three matches in a row, and you kind of feel like instead of having that fight and have having that thing of like we can come away and we lost in the right way and in a good way, you're coming away with it like, you know, we we didn't we we didn't do the best version of ourselves.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: And um it's just it just makes it harder.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_01: So you've got so so the so then add on to it, you've got two a two-week break.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_01: So you have a two-week break to chew on this.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: So it's two weeks to going away to Brooklyn.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to New York.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_00: So maybe that's been waiting for you.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to New York.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to New York.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: So going back to Good Taylor, you know, maybe that's that's that's it, that's what it'll do.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_01: But but yeah.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we'd get around to Good Taylor eventually, Jesse.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_01: Get back to Good Taylor.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_01: Just get get it back to to uh to pre-Travis Taylor.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_00: So so maybe just that the defining line?
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_01: No, I think it is.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: But we can talk about it.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: Good to know.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: We'll talk about that on the other.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_01: But but no, like so it's like you lose this way, and then you have two weeks off to think about this and then go to Brooklyn.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um so okay, it's Brooklyn, but you know, you know like Brooklyn away is dicey for us, or wasn't it?
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_01: Brooklyn beat Jacksonville.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: You know, so so anything can happen.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_00: Anything can happen.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's just it's just it's just frustrating.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_01: The whole second half was frustrating from the league, from the from our own um players and our own choices and our own performance.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um from the referee, all of it just stacked up, and we've got to live with it for two weeks, and we will.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: We have no choice.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_00: Well, all that to say, uh, Tay Tay, if you've heard this, uh please contact me, Rich at Scardellocheese.com.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, uh, I'm Rich, this is Jesse, and we'll see you next time on the Pegasus Postmatch.