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October 19, 2026: Hanks for the Point · Rose City Red Card

• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Rose City Red Card for October 19th, 2026.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: I know every time I say the date, uh, Marissa gives me this look like, wait, what?
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's like September went by so fast.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: It really did.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_03: And it's already October 19th?
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: We're ha over halfway through October.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_03: Damn.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_03: Our last game of the season is on November 1st.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Well, welcome Marissa.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_03: Hey.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, chat.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_03: It's Marissa.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, chat.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_03: I'm here.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_03: I'm queer.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_03: We're ready.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_03: Let's do this.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: That's why we're here is uh to talk the Portland Thor.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_03: That's why we show up.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we were here.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um it was our first match without Wilson.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we watched it uh first of two matches, yeah.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: First of two matches.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Uh she's out with the red card.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: We'll talk a little bit more about uh her and what that means for the team uh a bit later.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: But um what do you how are you feeling?
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: Uh you know, it was it was an interesting game.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_03: I'm feeling disappointed but not surprised.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_03: What have we been doing?
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_03: Like Houston, Boston, now Bay, these are literally the bottom of the table teams, and we just cannot figure it out.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: We keep saying uh this should be, you know, uh an easier game for us at least.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_03: But like the last four games, I remember we were talking about it.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_03: We're like, okay, North Carolina should be the only kind of one that's trouble, but we play them at Providence, you know?
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_03: And now it's like being playing at Providence kind of means nothing.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_03: Like it used to be kind of a fortress, and we're kind of having bad luck there, and yeah, I don't know.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_03: Double Saraquil tonight.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: Well, um, are we blaming the Etsy witches or uh do we need to hire the city?
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_03: I think we need to hire witches.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like we've been kind of joking about it, but like I don't know, witchcraft.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_03: I So I've been watching I watched Tremors and the Craft this weekend.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_03: Nice.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_03: And the craft went south, but we're better people than them.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm not gonna kill anybody, but I am definitely willing to use magic and black magic and witchcraft, white magic, purple magic, gay magic, straight magic, trans magic.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, let's do it.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_03: All magic.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um Brooke is saying uh yes, hire them and quickly.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um so call out to any uh Portland witches out there.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh if you wanna uh slide into our DMs, slide into our DMs, email us uh rose cityredcard at gmail.com.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we need a spell.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: Uh if you could cast a spell on mic for us.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yes um We have money, we have cannabis, we have t-shirts.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, we do, we have hugs, we have good vibes.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_03: You can sit and record with us.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_03: We got 'em.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we tell us what you need, um, and it's gonna be fantastic.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, tell us, because we we need we we need you.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_03: We do now more than ever.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_03: We really, really because we can't fucking depend on the GM or the coach to do dick about dick.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_03: So we need the witchcraft.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: Well, and we need it before Friday.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we need to.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: Because, hey, if we win Friday, we are in the playoffs.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: So we we really, really need that.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: Uh again, we'll talk more about that game because we're so fucking excited for it.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah! It's gonna be a blast.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: But before we get uh to that too much, um let's let's hear a little bit more uh about what happened this last weekend.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Marissa, tell us a little bit about the game.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_03: Alright, Rosity Red Card fans, this is Marissa, and we are talking about the game that just happened yesterday, which is on Sunday, second game of the day.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_03: 2 p.m.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_03: Pacific time.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, we tied barely uh Bay FC.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_03: Um It was a hard one to watch.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_03: Barely.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_03: We I know Okay, so let's just let's just start.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_03: So um I think that this was our best starting defense that we could have.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_03: Best, not great, not great, not great, but good.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_03: Um this was I think like with uh so we got Vignola and Reyes on the outside, and we have Perry and Calzada as the center backs.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_03: Like I said, this is the best options that this is the best that's available for us.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_03: It is strong, but it is not strong enough.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_03: We are about to get into playoffs.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_03: We are going to be playing against insane teams that will just mollywap us.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: We need to be prepared.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_03: We need to be prepared.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_03: Um, like so, yeah, that was the best defense.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_03: Let me just keep talking.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_03: My bad.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_03: So uh we had Flem, Tordan, and Nigestad in the middle, which is really, really solid.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_03: And then up top we had Weaver, Hanks, and Turner.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_03: I think that this is without with obviously without Soaf, this is like our strongest lineup that we have available at this point.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: We got some great names up there.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_03: We have some great names, which is why we'll get into the negativity and hatred later.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but yeah, this is this was I think best lineup available.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_03: Um uh yeah, like uh we brought up earlier, this is uh game one of two that Sophie's gonna miss.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_03: Um uh Bay was without Claire Hutton, uh, which is one of their best players, if not their best player.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh she's uh yeah, you um midfielder for you the USA team, and she just uh she joined Bay early this year, and uh you know it seemed like they they spent a lot of money for her ton of money on her um you know, trying to shore up uh some of their weaknesses.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe that's something that Thorne should think about doing.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I mean we haven't made any corrections to our roster.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_03: I think we just have some, I don't know if it's the owners, but like the GM, like nigga, you cheap as fuck.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_03: You cheap as fuck.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_03: Spend some fucking money.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_03: Stop getting these little band-aids.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, moving on.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_03: My bad.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_03: I will have a few of those.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_03: Um we also, okay, so yeah, let's just talk about the game.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_03: So weaver got her second goal of the season, 10 minutes in.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: We started off this game straight.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, it was great.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_03: And the first couple minutes were jarring.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_03: We needed to settle.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_03: After we settled, we're like, okay, let's kind of just play our game.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, we got a really nice nod stod um cross, or not cross, but a really nice assist right to Weaver.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_03: One touch right in.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_03: Happy birthday, Weaver.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_03: Congratulations on that goal.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, also happy birthday, Raylon Turner.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: But um, you know, two birthdays on the birthdays.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so cool to see.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_03: No, it's exciting.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we have different games.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_03: And weaver got a goal on a birthday.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_03: That's exciting, you know.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_03: Um, yeah.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_03: But also, like uh we have an early goal curse.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like now when I see the Thorns score early, I'm even more worried.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's even like worse off.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_03: Like Denver, like how many games?
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_03: Like, anyways, so yes, we do have a little bit of a early goal goal curse.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_03: That fucking sucks.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: So we had that 10 minutes, we're looking good.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then, you know, even before uh anything happens, uh uh, you know, we're still looking good, and then uh there's a penalty.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: And we're waiting on the penalty.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_00: Uh var is looking at it.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and so what what did you do while this happened?
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I saw that there was gonna be a penalty, so I removed removed myself and went to go smoke outside.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, so you um you texted me, I think fuck.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um and uh so then we were waiting and waiting, and then the penalty got overturned.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I texted you, yes.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: And you didn't see it.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_00: And then you came in, and what what else happened in the those like two minutes?
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_03: Well, they scored, and so I came in and automatically thought that we scored the PK, and I texted Alan back, what's yes, Alan?
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_03: What's yes?
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_03: And then I looked at it.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: Then I put it together and I was like, oh right, right, right, right, right, right.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_00: There was no PK.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_00: There was no PK.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: They just they scored right after it anyway.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_03: So and it looked like it was there's nobody's fault, but it did look like it was MA's problem again.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: So you know, it it's a whole team.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's a whole team.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_03: But there are these little mistakes.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like what the fuck are we fucking doing?
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and we'll we'll talk a little bit more about uh you know what's wrong in the back.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_00: But um so so that then uh tied it up.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we go into half uh tied up, um, and then bae scores again.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Fuller scored again.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Fuller has been actually doing really well.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_03: Uh and this is rip, I think we before we played Bay um this last time, I think we were talking about like, or maybe we didn't play them, but I've been talking about them, and I'm like, they shouldn't be this low.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_03: They have great players.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_03: They're they shouldn't be this low on the totem pole.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_03: Like they're great, you know what I mean?
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_03: And so yeah, so fuller scores at the 67th minute um from the top of the box over Arnold because somebody was off their line again.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_03: Girl, if you're gonna be aggressive, be aggressive, but you can't just be chilling like six, seven yards off the line when players scouting and analytics is real.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_03: You don't think all the forwards watch watch you, MACA, game footage of you being off your line and being seeing where you are, seeing what you're not good at.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_03: Teams know it.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, teams know it, and we're getting punished for it.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, like everybody's getting scouted, but we even saw it last week on the break.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yo, she was she was off her line.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, dude, those that Germany game was rough.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_03: That was really rough.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_03: And she's just yeah, she's just off her line.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_03: And while she's great, great goal, great goalie.
• 10:26
  unknown: Wow.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_03: You know, she good goalie now, great goalie a while ago.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I do think it's time for us to put Messner in.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_03: Um shake it up, move some things around.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_03: She had a great couple games for us at the beginning of the year when uh McKenzie Arnold was at the Asian Cup.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um we haven't seen her play in a while, though.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_03: No, we haven't seen her play in a while, but she played actually really, really well.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_03: And I feel like we know what we're gonna get from McKenzie Arnold.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_03: Like, let's see what we can get.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, obviously, if we're gonna if we make it into playoffs, like we need I don't know if they want to mix that up so much, but I don't know, she just doesn't communicate out there.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_03: She's not controlling her players, her like, you know, like hey, mark, mark, mark, mark, you know, when somebody's open in the box.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_03: Like we're quite sure.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, we'll get a little into that even more uh in our next segment.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um but then uh we hit the 85th minute, and uh that apparently is when uh Hanks' scoring ability turns on.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh we've seen her uh twice this year um score after 85 minutes.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so this this time it was in the 86th minute.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: Uh she follows up on her own rebound uh and scores that tying goal.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_03: And she's our savior.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_03: All right, so yeah.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_03: So Kai Hanks, she's our golden, our golden goose at this point.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_03: She saved us, got us a point this game, and then back on August 15th, she got the game-winning goal in her fucking return match against Orlando.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_03: So Kaya Hanks be saving us left and right, and also like she's only a couple games in.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like she's so fast, she's doing well.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I feel like we're we're just if this would have been like her back.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so good to have her back.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_03: So good to have her back.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_03: Um all right, so let's talk about also DeFeau.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_03: We got Dufoe back.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, it's been a really long time since she's been on the field, and this is, I mean, obviously, besides uh Bella Bixby and Olivia Moultrie, this is the healthiest I feel like our roster's looked.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: We do not have our injury list.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_03: Our availability report is not a paragraph anymore.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_03: So I feel like this is good.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_03: I'm excited.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_03: It is the end of the season, though.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_03: You know, we got a lot.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, we're just in time.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, hopefully we're just in time.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_03: Just in time.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_03: Mr.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_03: Time.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_03: Mr.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_03: Justin Time.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: Mr.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: Justin Time.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_03: Mr.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_03: Justin Time.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, well, let's talk a little bit more about uh what's going on at the back and what we need to uh do to fix it.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_03: Alright.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_03: Defense was not good.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_03: It's been getting better, but it's not good.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: We're still not there.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_03: We're still not there.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_03: Um we need a six and we need a center back.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_00: We got Perry.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_03: But Perry is great.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_03: Perry is also young.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_03: Perry is also slow-ish.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_03: I you can't call a professional athlete slow.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_03: She is fast comparatively us, but comparatively to people running by her, she is slow.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_03: We need somebody seasoned.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_03: We need somebody that is used to being a center back, we need somebody back there with her.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_03: We need a six.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_03: Neistod is not a six.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_03: Tordin is not a six.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_03: We do not have a six.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_03: They're great players.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_03: The six is a defensive midfielder.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_03: A six?
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, also, um, anytime we talk about Sam Coffee in this podcast today, we can drink.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_03: So um Sam Coffee.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: Drink.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_03: Sam Coffey is the reason why our defense didn't look like doo-doo last year, when it should have, because of the same fucking players.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_03: We need a defensive midfielder.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_03: A defensive midfielder is the beginning of our defense.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_03: It's okay, you know, midfield's the the glue that holds offense and defense together.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_03: But the defense midfielder is even, I feel like, more important, especially with somebody that's struggle with our team that struggles with defense.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_03: It is so important.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_03: It's the rock, like, so okay, so look, it's the six defensive midfield, two midfielders, them moving around like that.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_03: That's that's what you need.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_03: I was doing uh you did some hand gestures.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_03: I did some hand gestures, Alan.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: Fairly vulgar, uh, to be honest, but um I think it it I don't know.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: I I don't think the listeners missed uh too much.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_03: Uh we're scissoring on the podcast.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_03: Um but yeah, it just um something something needs to change.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_03: Um we're the owners, not the owners, I'm could that's cool.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_03: They've been doing great with the fire.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for the training facility.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_03: Spend some fucking money and get us some fucking players that we need.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_03: Nina Nightstadt, that's great.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you so much.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for keeping Torden on.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for keeping Raylan on, thank you for keeping Plemm on.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_03: That's great.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_03: Sign some more fucking players.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_03: When's the last time you guys spent a chunk of money?
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: We haven't seen any big changes.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: We've seen people coming off the list.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and I know that all not we not every team needs all-stars or anything, but the last big player that we had was like Sam Coffey, and she's gone.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_03: Sorry, cheers.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_03: But like that's that's it.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_03: Like, and now I really I I made the I made the hard argument that Sofa isn't going anywhere because she is comfortable up here.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_03: This is you like a new place to live, a new city, a new coach, a new coaching style, new this, new this, new this, new this.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_03: But goddamn, if nothing's pointing to this is what's happening.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_03: I think Sofa's leaving.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_03: I think that they found out in the middle of the season, and that's what the ripple is on the team because the team is not there.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_03: Villaham does not have this team.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_03: Like, also, I was I'm trying to be positive, I'm trying to be pro Villaham, but like, nothing good has happened.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_03: Nothing good has happened.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_03: Anything good has happened is because we have a fucking great roster on paper, but he's not making us gel as a team.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_03: It's not happening.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_03: It's and I know he's new to the sea new this year, but god damn.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_03: God damn!
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: God damn, yeah, no, it's been a it's been a rough year.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and yeah, Brooke is pushing back and saying that nothing good has happened is a bit strong.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we are seventh.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we're inside the line.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh one win clinches it.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, again, we we've had some crazy, crazy shit going on where we should have won some of these games and we've just fallen apart.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, let's talk about Sofa a little bit more uh here in a few minutes, but uh let's focus uh right now on uh on the back, on the the defense.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh you said we should put uh Messner in.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um but this is so Arnold has seven clean sheets this year, which is her career high.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_03: Granted, Messner has Messner has two and only played three games.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that that is fair.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: And Arnold has not had a single clean sheet uh in about two months.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_03: Like but also ten players in front of her.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_03: They, you know what I mean.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_03: But also, yeah, some of those goals reach your hand out, girl.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe just fall, drop to the left a little bit.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_03: Put your right hand out.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_03: Or stay on your line, or come out aggressively.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_03: And she has spots.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: And when she comes out aggressively, she is great.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, she's had uh an assistant.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_03: It's confidence, it's confidence, and I feel like sometimes she has confidence, and then sometimes she lacks it.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_03: Like that fucking Boston game.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my god, when we claspsed, we remember we were it was 2-0 and then it was 2-1, and then it was three, and then we got that goal, and then it just just it makes for good drama, but um, okay, so what we've been seeing though is we're still playing well at home.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we're we're giving up a lot more goals away than we are at home.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: We're not winning a lot at home, but we're tying a lot more.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're still doing all right at home.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_03: We've only lost two games at home this year.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_03: It's so spirit and then Boston.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: So does that have anything to do with it?
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: Is it, you know, are we we've talked about the the home versus away issue before, and you know, we do great at Providence Park, but is that something we really need to work on?
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: Is just our away performance, or do we really need to rework our defense?
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_03: We just need to rework our defense.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_03: It doesn't matter where we play, like so Audi, so uh Washington Spirit, Rowdy Audi, that's like second, I think that's the second coolest, probably best environment attendance, everything behind us, Thorns.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_03: And they've been cursed.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_03: Rowdy Audi has been cursed this year.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_03: They have not been doing well at home, and they're still fucking number two or number three in the league.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_03: They just beat Gotham this year, so it doesn't matter where you win, you just need to kind of try to win.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_03: But I will say for Providence, players everywhere know it's loud.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_03: And yeah, when you're trying to get a tactic from somebody, you're like, wait, what?
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like it's you know it's something you have to adjust to if you're not used to it.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_03: So, okay, so it's kind of going on a little random tangent.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_03: So WNBA, uh Valkyrie and the Dream, there, it's like the WNBA finals.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_03: If you guys aren't tuning in, it's tonight.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, or the second game is tonight.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_03: It's so much fun.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: I bet you a lot of you guys have been watching.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_03: But so um after the first game in Valhalla and um in the bay, uh Golden State won.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_03: They beat uh Atlanta, and Gabby Williams is saying she's like, yeah, sometimes it's just like hard to hear.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, we love it, we love it, it's loud, but like it's hard to hear.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_03: So sometimes like it could be a positive and a negative, like like if us thorns are down and we need like tactics and we need to be communicating, maybe that's not so I mean, obviously we're gonna be loud as fuck is Providence.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_03: We're not gonna be trying to be quiet at all, but I'm just saying that like it is jarring for everybody when you can't hear, when you can't hear yourself think, when you're like, what?
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_03: Like, you know, and so yeah, but I think it's not a Providence Park problem, it's just a us problem.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_03: We just we we need to win everywhere.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_03: Like, we can't just depend on Providence Park to pick up points because at the end of the season it turned that it wasn't a thing.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and you know, we were talking about uh Hutton for Bay earlier.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, they picked her up for 1.1 million.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they saw a problem, they you know got somebody to fill it.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_03: Also basically picked up Paul Green as their director of sports, sporting.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_03: I think Brook and uh I don't know the exact name of that.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_03: Paul Green was in charge at Chelsea for the same thing, the women's Chelsea team, and brought like so many titles to that team.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_03: So he is in charge of like coach, players, everything.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_03: Like everything's kind of underneath him.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_03: Like he does this, Pinocchioing it.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, and also Bay just got Jenna Knife swanger back.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_03: Uh she was she played back over on she play, she crossed the river, the pond, the ocean.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_03: She played for Arsenal, wasn't getting any time over there.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_03: Then she played for Austin Villa, and then on a loan, and Arsenal gave her up, and so now she's back in the States.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_03: And she was she ran rookie of the year with Gotham a couple years ago.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_03: She was she won a gold medal with like the USA.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_03: She was doing so awesome, and then thought she was gonna go to Arsenal.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_03: Played there a year, got zero time, and then went to Austin Villa, so now she's back and with Bay, and I I kind of forgot.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_03: I kind of forgot that she wasn't um I forgot that she was with Bay because I was like, oh, Claire Hutton's the best player.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: It was like, oh no, we have she they have like one of the better defenders than Jenna Nishwanger back, and that's really exciting.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_03: I think that is we are all very excited to have Jenna back on this.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, so that tells us a bit about what's uh wrong on our defense.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but as we've gotten into a couple of times now, uh let's talk what's going on up at the front, and um let's get into our gossip girl mode.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_03: Hey girl, hey, time for gossip hour.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_03: Damn, every time I do that, it fucking spills on me.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, uh, so gossip hour.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_03: I think we've kind of already talked about it through the thing.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_03: Uh a couple episodes ago, I went heavy on this s the fact that so f or anybody for that matter that's trying to make the World Cup roster next year or is on the gonna be on the World Cup roster, the last thing they're gonna want to do is change up their life.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_03: Change of team, change of coach, kit change of weather, change of city, change of friends, change of everything.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_03: Lifestyle, lifestyle, yeah, everything changes.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: Moving to a new team is a big thing.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_03: Moving to a new team is huge.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_03: What does that team want from her?
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: But her uh contract uh only runs through this year.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, and she hasn't re-signed.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_03: And a lot of players have re-signed.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_03: Like Gotham has re-signed their hot heavy hitters, like Sonnet, Rose, um, like KC, everybody's re signing their players, and Sof just hasn't signed.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um She's been with us for all 102 of her NWSL regular season players.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_03: We drafted her.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_03: We won a fucking we won a championship with her, you know?
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_03: Like, she's the only player to win to have double digit goals in every season she's played.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_00: There's all right, so tell me what what's she doing?
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_03: I think that maybe she's shopping around to get more money, and I know that like her husband plays um gridiron football, and he just signed like a$75 million deal.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_03: So I don't know if they're poor, but also I know that like as her, like you want to I want to make as much money as I can.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_03: I don't care what this what he this nigga making.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_03: Sorry, I'm black, by the way.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_03: If you guys didn't know, I'm black.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_03: But anyways, I don't care what this nigga making, I need to make my money, you know, and so maybe she's shopping around because this is her as a free agent.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_03: She hasn't been there, she's been with us, so maybe she's trying to see what's out there.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_03: Alan.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_03: Alan got giddy when I said nigga.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: So you guys I just started laughing at you for trying to justify it.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_03: I know, I know.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, I I'm black.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_03: I'll show up.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_03: I can show my skin color on the next episode.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: You've you've been on our Instagram.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you guys have seen.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not black arms.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's also uh not the first time you said it this episode.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: Uh but you told me you were you were gonna try to start taking it back.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I stopped saying it because Tracy says it all the time, and I'm like, damn, that's person sounds dumb.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, I don't need to be saying this word, but I'm passionate today, I'm feeling it today.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: Own it.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_03: Trigger's in Paris.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_03: Anyways, okay.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_03: Circling back.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_03: Um yeah, we don't know what she's gonna do.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_03: I would think that it would have been announced by now, but also, like we said, this is gossip hour.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_03: Don't listen to us, don't listen to them.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: But that's why they're here is to listen to us drink and talk shit.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, it didn't spill, didn't spill.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_03: There we go.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_03: Um, yeah, so why isn't she re-signed?
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_03: Even if not from route, all of us Thorns players are I don't want to say frothing at the mouth.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_03: That sounds foul and something like male men would do, but I'm like waiting, dripping to hear the news that she re-signed.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_03: Or any news at this if this oh Sophia's going to Mars and starting a new soccer team in Mars.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, just let us know what's going on.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_03: I don't care.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_03: Good, good for her, let us know.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_03: But I don't know.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_03: Also, off topic, kind of, not really, the NWSL season starts in February next year.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's coming up because of the World Cup.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_03: And so, like that's in a couple months.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_03: These girls are gonna get no time off.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_03: They're gonna have December, January, and then preseason starts.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: So So if you're gonna make a change, you gotta do it here very soon.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_03: Or don't change, so stay with us, and or I the owners, like, what are you doing?
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_03: I'll start a GoFundMe.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_03: We'll pay, we can we can all personally pay to get Sof still here.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_03: If every Portland uh resident gives a dollar, uh dude, I even have well so my friend is like in high-end real estate and like sells like really like million-dollar homes and condos, and I was like, Can you like let me know if you see anything by a Wilson family basel?
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_03: Like let me know.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_03: Trying to get that inside you.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like put your because I mean that's what reporters do.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_03: We ain't are we?
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe we are reporters, but like that's what we do.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_03: Boots on the ground.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna find out.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_03: Not anything personal information.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_03: I won't.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_03: Should we cut this?
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_03: Jesus, I'm talking about finding no, yeah.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_03: Fuck it.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna find out, Soph.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_03: Don't be selling your house.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_03: Stay here.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_03: We love you.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh we'll fire Villaham.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_03: Get rid of Villaham.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_03: Keep you, Sophie.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_03: We don't need a coach.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_03: What about Sarah Loudoun?
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_03: She was great.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_03: She's and the only reason we didn't sign Sarah Loudoun is because she was next in line, like fucking Rob Gale, and Rob Gale sucked dick so fucking much.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_03: There's nothing wrong with sucking dick.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_03: But from my point of view, sucking dick's not cool.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_03: Not not in, not something we want to do.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_03: So he sucked dick.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_03: And he would wear these fucking like five-piece suits when it's 90 degrees and he's just sweating like a motherfucking idiot.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_03: Put a fucking t-shirt on, you fucking piece of shit.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, moving on.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the NBA where every uh everyone on the sidelines is wearing suits.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you fucking loser.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Brooke is uh doing uh their her hot take on you uh and saying that uh Sof uh exercised a$1 million player option for 2026, which was an NWSL record.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_00: So good luck, Marissa.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I'd wait for the Houston uh November 1st before you start the GoFundMe.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_03: Also, the next one is she was like, you guys should definitely cut that out.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, she that's fair.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: Brooke has.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_03: Also, because I named my friend also, that's like the realtor.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we'll bleep out your friend's name.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: And we'll leave the rest in.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, because we'll find out.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_03: So we'll find out.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I think that's enough uh gossip for today.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so let's uh find out kind of what's what else is going on uh on the table.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_03: Alright, and now everybody's favorite segment.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_03: Well, personally mine, and actually this isn't Alan's favorite second.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_03: Uh oh.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_03: No, I love this segment.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_03: No, he told me it's not his favorite.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_03: It's fine.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, see?
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_00: I who said that?
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: I I'm not sure.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_03: I hear some background noise.
• 29:12
  unknown: I'm gonna buy the cry.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_03: Anyways, okay, so let's go.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: People on Reddit said they love this segment, uh, which I agree because I couldn't watch this many games, so I'm very glad you did.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_03: It is hard, especially now with the WSL back.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_03: I literally watched five games yesterday starting at 4 30 in the morning.
• 29:31
  unknown: Whew.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's hard.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's a long day, long day.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's it's crazy when you don't have a life.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_03: Alright, okay.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_03: So here we go.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_03: We have Marissa's match week roundup.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_03: Presented by Marissa.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so we got first game was on Friday.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_03: We had Boston versus Racing.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_03: Boston beats Racing 2-1.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_03: It was a decent game.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_03: Um, it's kind of it was it's kind of a game that doesn't matter.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_03: Uh it does matter in your heart.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_03: In your heart, it matters.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: But as far as standings.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_03: But as far as standings in the rest of the league, it kind of didn't matter.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_03: Still, it's still fun to watch some soccer.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_03: It was still a good game.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I'm really interested to see what racing does, if they're gonna be a team next year, or what fucking's going on.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, that was the only game on Friday.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, Saturday, woohoohoo, hoo! Saturday we had um geez, yeah, goddamn, we did have four games on Saturday.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, so first game was Spirit versus Gotham.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_03: Spirit beats Gotham 1-0.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_03: It was a really, really good game.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_03: Um it was a really, really good game.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_03: I was pretty impressed.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_03: I think that we're watching two of the top teams.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_03: Uh uh Trinity Robbins body language, it looks a little bit rough at times.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_03: I think I had the same comment about when she was playing for the USA this past week.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but yeah, and uh Gotham is just they're limping to the fucking finish line.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_03: Uh it'll be interesting to see if they actually do win the shield.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_03: I think we're gonna find that out this weekend or decision day, which is the weekend after that.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, so um, yeah, so Spirit beats Gotham.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_03: Congratulations, Spirit.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_03: 1-0.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_03: Uh next game on Saturday was Utah versus Kansas City.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_03: Kansas City beats Utah.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_03: Utah's been kind of on a decline, not a decline, but kind of like us.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I guess they're higher in the standings, but they were looking like no one was gonna stop them for a while.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_03: And I feel like they kind of just gone down and down.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like injuries are really rough.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_03: I at this point, like, like when I'm watching like hockey playoffs or something, or I'm just like, okay, well, the healthiest team is gonna win.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_03: Like, who's got players left?
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_03: And so, yeah.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, so Utah beats, or no, uh, yeah, Kansas City beats Utah 2-0.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_03: Kansas City when healthy is scary.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, Corey, Cory Bethune back, Cooper's back.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_03: It's it's really scary when they're healthy.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_03: Um, third game was North Carolina versus San Diego.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_03: Shout out to the wave.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_03: The wave beats North Carolina 2-1, keeps us in seventh place.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, San Diego Wave.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, San Diego.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, the San Diego Wave.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_03: Um, it was a good game.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, Sanchez did not break the record, which we were all, everyone's waiting for it to happen.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_03: She still tied at 20 goals with uh Temwa?
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_03: Temo Schwinger or Barbara Banda?
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_03: We will find out soon.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but yeah, so that was a really good game.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_03: Um uh the there was a late goal in the game.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Sanchez could have, because it was two to one, and so Sanchez could have easily, not easily, could have tried to make like a hard shot in, but she did the unselfish thing, passed it off to her teammate, and the teammate made the goal, so that was two to one.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so it's Temois' goal.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_03: Temois record, so she's tied with 20, so did not break that.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_03: We hopefully hope she does not break that.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_03: Also, next weekend when they play us.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, last game on Saturday was Denver versus Angel City.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_03: Angel City beats Denver 3-2.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_03: Angel City's on a fucking run.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_03: They have been killing it lately.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_03: I've been chatting it up.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_03: Also, they came back from a 2-0 deficit.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_03: Hell yeah, Ali Settenor, Lindsay Heaps.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_03: If you want to retire from the USA team and only focus on club, we would all say that's okay, girl.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_03: You do what you gotta do.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_03: Be good for your club.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_03: That's okay.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_03: The USA ladies are gonna be okay without you if you so choose to do that.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: If if it's time.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_03: If it's time, I think it's time.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_03: I think last year was time, but that's none of my business.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not Emma Hayes.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, moving on to Sunday's games.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_03: First game was Houston versus Orlando.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_03: Orlando beats Houston two to one.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_03: It was a good game, but it kind of sucks because later on in like Houston was like, I mean, I bet Orlando's like, fuck yeah, we won.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_03: We need these points.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_03: And then a couple hours later, they get eliminated by uh Seattle.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_03: We will we'll get to that.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_03: That's a couple in a couple minutes.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, so sorry, Orlando.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_03: It's good season.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_03: See ya next year.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_03: You guys also they fired their coach that has been their coach for so long, that won them a championship.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: So that throws things off and it's been a whizzy wacky time.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: They'll they'll see what that decision brings them, but it's a hard one mid-season.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, wizzy wacky time.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_03: Uh second game of the day was Thorns versus Bay.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_03: Uh was a tie two to two.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_03: And third game of the day was Chicago versus Seattle.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_03: Seattle wins three to one.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_03: It looked kind of good at first.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_03: Chicago had some bright spots, but then all found.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_03: Chicago, Chicagoed, and they lost three to one versus Seattle.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_03: So um Seattle winning was gonna be scary if we didn't get that extra point.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_03: So they did not jump us in the the standing.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_03: So they are at eighth right now, and we're at seventh.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_03: So I don't know how we made it off the weekend.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_03: Also, it was funny.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_03: Even if we did win that game, we still would have been at seventh, but we would have been tied with three, it would have been a three-way tie at seventh.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_00: We would have uh it would have been a big difference, but it's it's crazy how close things are.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_00: We've been talking about it, and the standings, you know, this whole season have just been neck and neck.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, the table looks absolutely crazy.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_03: And we will be uh discussing the table uh as soon as this loads.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, it's loaded.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so we now let's get on to the standings.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_03: Uh we are going to dip into one through ten.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_03: One through eight are make the playoffs, but it's just so fucking close that we're gonna dip into ten.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_03: Also because ten is Denver and they are still technically in playoff contention.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_03: They still could make it.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_03: So every yeah, all right, so we got Gotham at 55 points, number one, Sando Sandy, Sando, San Diego number two at 54 points.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_03: That is close, that is so close.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Washington Spirit at 52 points, Kansas City Curran at fourth with 47 points, Angel City, fifth with 46 points.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_03: Sixth place is Utah with 46 points.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_03: So they have tied with points, but not in the standings because goal good differential.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_03: We've learned this lesson.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_03: We've learned this lesson.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_03: Uh seventh is the Portland Thorns with 44 points, and eighth is Seattle at 43 points.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_03: Ninth is North Carolina at 42 points, and tenth is Denver Summit with 38 points.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_03: So it could Denver get some wins, some and then some losses in there.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_03: They could be a fucking expansion team that makes the fucking playoffs.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_03: That would be exciting.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be a crazy game.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_03: As long as it doesn't come to our expense.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh exactly.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_03: Um yeah, so yeah.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_03: Um there's two games left.
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_03: Uh hopefully we can get a get win against North Carolina.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, we fucking will be winning against North Carolina next fucking Friday.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_00: And that brings us uh to uh our next uh section.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_00: What is coming up uh in this next week?
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_03: So it's funny.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_03: Alan was trying to tell me to stop talking, but I thought he was high-fiving me, so I was air high-fiving him across the bar.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_03: Across the car.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_00: I know, I know.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_00: Let's pause.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_03: Two is no, and I'm like, hell yeah, high five.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_03: And he's like, nope, because I'm chatty Kathy and I was trying to start.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_03: So um, yeah, so we have two games left um in the season.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_03: We have North Carolina coming up.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_03: This is our last home game.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_03: Last home?
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_03: Last game of last home game of the season.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, and then on November 1st, we play Houston.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_00: Houston, yep.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_03: November 1st.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_03: It's aka decision day.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_03: That should be the end of it for regular season.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_00: That's when we find out what's happening.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's when we find out what's happening.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_03: It's huge.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_03: Like decision day is crazy, but now it's even crazier with how tight the fucking playoff race is.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_03: It's gonna come down to goals and goal differential, which is so scary, but like that's it's we're all so close.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_00: Well, and on decision day, uh, all eight matches kick off together.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_00: They are all played at the same time, which makes it really hard to watch, but uh, it's kind of fun for you know the drama of the sport in that uh you know, whatever's gonna happen, you kind of learn everything at the same time.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_03: Give me a fucking Juanatech.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_00: It might be too much.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so the next game is coming up this uh Friday, and we are gonna be there.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: It is gonna be such a good time.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we are bringing uh three friends of ours.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we've that's right.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we planned on two, but we got somebody else who's joining in.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: So uh it'll be five of us.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um like you said earlier, we have Rose City Red Card t-shirts now.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_00: So uh all five of us will be wearing those, uh hanging out in the supporters section and just having a great time.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_03: Uh and I'm gonna make a bold claim now.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_03: If you guys see us in Rose City Red Card shirts, come see us and we will buy you a pub beer.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_03: We will buy you a pub beer.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_03: If you come and be like, hey, you guys are the drunk or you guys are the drunks that talk about the thorns, right?
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_03: Not drunks, that sounds negative.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_03: You guys are the people that No, no, no.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's it.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um use the passphrase uh you drunks, um, and we will buy you a drink.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_03: Uh also shout out to Alan for giving me access to the soundboard.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_03: I think he regrets it, but I don't.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_00: So we both need it.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's obviously I'm done.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_00: So we will be at the game.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be so funch fun.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh heart hands to you as well.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_00: But um, yeah, what else is happening?
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_00: So uh if this if we win this game, we're in the playoffs.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um Seattle is playing against Utah half an hour before us.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: So right before the end of our game, um, if we remember to check our phones, we'll know what happened with Seattle.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh doesn't really affect us too much.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but you know.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it if they win, they jump us.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_03: And if we if we lose and they win, they jump us.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_00: So it does matter.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_00: It does matter.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_00: It does like So, yeah, we'll we'll check it uh during that.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_00: But uh, you know, like you said, we're gonna be there and we're gonna be having a great time.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_00: And it's gonna be so much fun.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_00: You said uh this is your first game you're attending, uh not as media this year.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_03: It's been a while.
• 40:59
  SPEAKER_03: I think I went to two home games before before we started this fun journey together.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, I've it's been I've been in the in the press box.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_03: It's so cool to be up there.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_03: But I want to be with the fans.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_00: I can't even We're gonna be in the supporter section.
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna be scriming.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_03: Scriming.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_00: Over the word Riveters and all the fans.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_00: Ah, it's gonna be so great.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_03: It's I and also like this is the last home game we have.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_03: Like, if we make the playoffs, we're not gonna get a home game.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_03: So this is it.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_03: Like, you guys show up, tell us the code, we'll buy you a pub beer.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna have a fucking blast.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_03: Like, let's let's show up.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_03: Let's show up.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_03: I know it's been negative and we're negative.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_03: That's life, but like, let's show up for our thorn, Thorns.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_03: Like, this is like this is our city.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_03: It's supposed to be an actually nice day.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_03: Like, it's gonna be like let's get hyped.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_03: Let's go fucking Thorns.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go, Thorns.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_00: So uh, you know, that brings us to the end of our episode.
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_03: Um, it's went so by so fast.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_00: It has, uh, but we will talk to you all next week.
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, and as always, no injuries, all smiles.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_03: Fuck Seattle, let's go, Thorns.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_01: Let's go, Thorns.