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KickAround #431 - "Everybody's Hero" · The Ticket Sportsradio 1310 and 96.7 FM

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  Speaker 1: It's time for the Kick Around the Tickets weekly show
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  Speaker 2: The ball go into the old Onion Bay, Andy Swift
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  Speaker 2: and Peter Welton.
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  Speaker 1: It's an outlets the bull Mouth.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great run from Ryan Ago.
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  Speaker 1: Well then these helps who instroduce yourselves, I said, AFC
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  Speaker 1: fullmut play out, that's a Premier League play out. The
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  Speaker 1: nineteen year old is go full mouth level single handedly?
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  Speaker 1: What were you doing when you were just nineteen years old?
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  Speaker 2: Not scoring?
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  Speaker 1: I'd to help you once and welcome to the Kick
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  Speaker 1: Around back and comfortably placed in our natural habitat Saturdays
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  Speaker 1: two to four here on the Sport Radio ninety six
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  Speaker 1: seven and thirteen ten the ticket were you? The good
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  Speaker 1: p One takes a break from a week of excellent
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  Speaker 1: day and all that implies. Hi, it's me Peter, into
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  Speaker 1: streaming device. It's the world's most interesting man.
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  Speaker 2: Andy Dalton Swift, Peter So four weeks ago. We've been
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  Speaker 2: doing the show now several weeks in a row.
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  Speaker 1: Svent four or five weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: When we started this streak, this hot streak were on,
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  Speaker 2: you were kind of I would say, pissy at times,
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  Speaker 2: maybe neutral. Then the week that now you're the next
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  Speaker 2: and then in the next week, you know, fair like
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  Speaker 2: average mood. Then the following week a little little step,
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  Speaker 2: little smile.
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  Speaker 1: I quit taking my medication.
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  Speaker 2: Fast forward to this week.
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  Speaker 1: You are.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen you happier. What's going on in your world?
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  Speaker 1: Why suddenly I changed my medications, my mood enhancers.
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  Speaker 2: I think your football clubs, oh, giving you something to route.
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  Speaker 1: For for the first time that might have something to do.
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  Speaker 1: So congrats, yes, and it would also pretend as to
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  Speaker 1: why you have been snippy.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations for your top four finish too.
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  Speaker 1: What's not over?
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  Speaker 2: You're there now. I don't see the way you're playing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see Man United losing their grip on top four.
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  Speaker 2: You can't lose anymore. You don't lose anymore.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna win out. Yeah, okay, well, thank you for that.
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  Speaker 1: Prediction duly noted he accepted too. By the way, lots
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  Speaker 1: of to do today, lots of soccer to do today
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  Speaker 1: and talk about and discuss. I'm excited for this show
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  Speaker 1: for many reasons. One because yes, my team had a
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  Speaker 1: very positive another positive result, and I look forward to
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  Speaker 1: discussing that. I will admit that upfront, I'm not gonna tweet.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie or pretend. I also am excited
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  Speaker 1: about today's episode of World Cup Nerd because we had
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  Speaker 1: some news about mister Polisic that has everybody on edge,
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  Speaker 1: which then got me thinking and saying to Andy Hay,
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  Speaker 1: is this unique to me or the United States or
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  Speaker 1: is this like a commonplace thing. So we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: the specter of injuries in the lead up to a
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  Speaker 1: World Cup on today's episode of World Cup Nerd, and
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  Speaker 1: we will have a special visit from my hero, your hero,
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's hero, the editor and founder of Third degree dot
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  Speaker 1: Net Buzzcarac will check in live from Toyota Stadium. Andy,
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  Speaker 1: we are a mere like eighteen days away from the
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  Speaker 1: start of a major league soccer season. Yes, wow, doesn't wow?
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  Speaker 1: And they're playing a preseason game against New York today
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  Speaker 1: New York Red Bull today up at the stadium, is
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  Speaker 1: up there attending the game. We'll have him check in,
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  Speaker 1: so call in a live call in, and we'll also
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  Speaker 1: have a special announcement. What it's called special Okay, it's
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  Speaker 1: not an August that's not like we're calling a press
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  Speaker 1: conference to announce a.
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  Speaker 2: Death or drug suspension.
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  Speaker 1: It's a special announcement.
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  Speaker 2: Peter Wilton has been suspended for the next three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll get into all that. Let's do the most
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  Speaker 1: important though, Let's do all that. So, yes, Arsenal did
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  Speaker 1: win and shut out Sunderland today three nothing to stay
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  Speaker 1: atop the Premier League. By the end of the weekend
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  Speaker 1: they will be at least at least nine points clear
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  Speaker 1: in the Premier League. Over in La Liga, Barcelona notched
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  Speaker 1: out a three to zero win over Mayorica, but that
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  Speaker 1: was probably really tight. They have a four point lead
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  Speaker 1: over Real Madrid, who play tomorrow between fifty eight and
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  Speaker 1: fifty four points. So uh, and they and they face
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  Speaker 1: it's oh, that's right, it's the Madrid derby tomorrow. Is
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  Speaker 1: it the Madrid Derby tomorrow? No, they play, I'll have
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  Speaker 1: to go back. They played, they played, they played I
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  Speaker 1: think they played a Valencia tomorrow. Anyway, well done, good job,
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  Speaker 1: Real Madrid plays, good reporting. Thank you. I worked very
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  Speaker 1: hard on that they do play Valencia. They do play
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  Speaker 1: valanc Sorry. And then in Italy Scott mccommin, ay, have
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  Speaker 1: you seen the goal?
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  Speaker 2: No, I have not seen the goal.
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  Speaker 1: Holy I scored the winner as Napoli, despite playing down
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  Speaker 1: a man, came back from behind to beat Jenoa today
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  Speaker 1: three to two on a Scottish Scott mcdommin a wonder
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  Speaker 1: strike from outside of the box.
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  Speaker 2: Do you miss him being on your team?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody remembers this. But when he started playing a
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  Speaker 1: lot for United under Maurinho, I was talking about how
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  Speaker 1: much I enjoyed him, mostly because I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: funny because I always felt like he was the one
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  Speaker 1: player on the field. Well, no, that you kind of
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  Speaker 1: felt like Mourinho was the like he was a robot player.
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  Speaker 1: Mourinho was running his controller because he just he was
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  Speaker 1: great and smart and I never felt like United was
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  Speaker 1: using him correctly and I think that was holding him back,
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  Speaker 1: and clearly it was.
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  Speaker 2: He's always to me, he's always been a player that
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  Speaker 2: leaves everything on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he does. We'll see him in a World Cup
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  Speaker 1: by the way, uh boy, we will and maybe maybe
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  Speaker 1: Scotland will pick Dallas as a base camp since that's
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  Speaker 1: still available.
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  Speaker 2: That's still an availability first for the Scots.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and Napoli now in third place, still in third place,
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  Speaker 1: one point behind Milan and six points behind Enter. Both
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  Speaker 1: Milan and Enter play tomorrow and over Indo. Bundesliga real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see Dortmund won toed Ay two to one, which
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  Speaker 1: puts them a mirror now four points, three points behind
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  Speaker 1: Bayern Munich, who played tomorrow against third place Offenheim. So
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  Speaker 1: that gets a little bit more interesting. So at the
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  Speaker 1: top of the Bundesliga table. Moving on to other news,
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday was interesting because we are just you know, months
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  Speaker 1: away from World Cup twenty twenty six and yet Conca
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  Speaker 1: calf Andy's buddies announced yesterday their final plans for World
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  Speaker 1: Cup qualifying.
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  Speaker 2: But that's where we don't know who's going to qualify
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  Speaker 2: yet for the twenty thirty out of Conca calf So
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  Speaker 2: you know, all that starts right after World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a short cycle, and especially because the
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  Speaker 1: World Cup is going to get is it has expanded
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  Speaker 1: and because unlike this time you know, the United States, Canada,
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  Speaker 1: Mexico automatically got to go through. It didn't have to qualify. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the next time, everybody, all the kittens in Conca Calf
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  Speaker 1: have to fight against each other. But it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be much of a fight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because there are how many I might have qualifiers.
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  Speaker 1: Six plus a seventh play in slot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And they came out with the process, and you
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  Speaker 2: gave me a heads up yesterday. I didn't get a
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  Speaker 2: chance to really review it until today, but you were
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  Speaker 2: trying to explain it to me yesterday on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: I got tired head really quickly and tuned you out
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  Speaker 2: until we started talking about the next subject. But now
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  Speaker 2: I'm reading about it, and yes, you asked Canada, Mexico
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  Speaker 2: the path is easier. But that's a factor of the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup increasing to forty eight teams.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so this is the part that I it's just
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  Speaker 1: so many stages that yeah, well, the Hecks, the classic
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  Speaker 1: Hecks that we all got used to and loved is
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  Speaker 1: no more.
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  Speaker 2: No, because every team from the Hecks would qualify, right exactly,
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  Speaker 2: You can't have a hex.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess the question is I'm confused. So is
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  Speaker 1: it four or six three group teams.
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  Speaker 2: There are three stages.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: There's the single elimination of qualifying qualifying, which is all
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  Speaker 2: the teams that are fourteenth ranked or.
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  Speaker 1: Lower in Cocagate or worse in.
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  Speaker 2: Other words, right, single aim nation highest plays lowest, and
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  Speaker 2: out of those you get eleven teams advanced to meet
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  Speaker 2: the fourteen highest or something like that, right to meet
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  Speaker 2: the thirteen highest to create twenty four team pool. Those
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  Speaker 2: are divided into six groups of four, and then the
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  Speaker 2: top two of those qualify into another twelve team pool
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  Speaker 2: divided into three groups of four.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so out of that final round, you have three
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  Speaker 1: groups of four. Yeah, first and second from each of
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  Speaker 1: those three groups of four automatically go to the world, right,
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  Speaker 1: and the last three the four third place teams then
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  Speaker 1: play against each other in a fourth round That would
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  Speaker 1: then the winner of that goes to the international playoff. Correct.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the best two out of the three
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  Speaker 2: third places go through. See what I'll say.
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  Speaker 1: Both, So there's there's two yeah, okay, two teams will.
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  Speaker 2: Go in like this time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I thought there were six automatics in one and
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  Speaker 1: one play in No.
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  Speaker 2: Two into the play in because there'll be six playing
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  Speaker 2: like this time, right crazy, see just explaining.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem is the headline that anybody should take
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  Speaker 1: away from this is the new structure is going to
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  Speaker 1: be set up in a manner that means US and
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  Speaker 1: Mexico are almost certainly not going to play against each
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  Speaker 1: other in the choir unless.
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  Speaker 2: One of them drops out of the top thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: We wouldn't both of them have to oh between now
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  Speaker 1: and then, yeah, because then they could be put in
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  Speaker 1: the same group together out of.
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  Speaker 2: The top thirteen in conker cap not in the world.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's highly unlikely.
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  Speaker 1: Very unlikely. This is the most fascinating story of the
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  Speaker 1: week because I'm curious as to what this portends. But
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: Bayern Munich, going back to them, they've announced that they're
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  Speaker 1: opening an academy out in California. Yeah. Now, I got
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  Speaker 1: a ton of questions about this, Okay, Well, because you know,
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: currently Major League Soccer has a whole set of rules
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  Speaker 1: along with US Soccer pertaining to areas of ownership in
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  Speaker 1: terms of how they can attract youth players to their academies.
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  Speaker 1: So for example, Houston players, it's difficult for them to
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  Speaker 1: come end up playing at FC Dallas because they're from Houston,
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: and some of those rules have changed over the years.
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  Speaker 1: But here's my question. Is FIFA really up for allowing
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  Speaker 1: clubs from one country to open academies. I know there's
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  Speaker 1: a Barcelona, this.
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  Speaker 2: School here, it's done, it's done, but they will just operate.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to be like Byron and Byron Academy
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  Speaker 2: with players from German I mean.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, but I know, But that means now
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be draining players from La and San Diego.
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  Speaker 2: And well, if they're based and where they're based, they're
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: going to be under the same rules, right that all
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  Speaker 2: academy are, so are they? So it's just a new club,
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  Speaker 2: it's a new competitor for the landscape.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well see I was concerned. So are MLS team's
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  Speaker 1: now going to have to fight against the bright and
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  Speaker 1: shiny of a Bayern Munich to attract players to their academies?
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean that that academy, that Byron Academy
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  Speaker 2: will probably use the philosophies and bring some coaches from it,
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  Speaker 2: but it's no different than an academy started like FC
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  Speaker 2: Dallas has competitor academies here locally, and and so do
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  Speaker 2: all MLS clubs right, Okay, isn't it the same?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yes, because they're kind of brand deals. They're a
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  Speaker 1: little bit yeah, they're like, you know, you can use
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  Speaker 1: our name, right.
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  Speaker 2: There are other clubs, European clubs that presently have academies
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  Speaker 2: or affiliated academies here in the US. Some of them
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  Speaker 2: notch it up when it comes to the coaching. Some
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: of them notch it up when it comes they're more
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  Speaker 2: of a branding element. I'm assuming the Byron thing, if
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: you're talking about it, made a splash that it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be this is a.
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  Speaker 1: This is like an official Barron Munich.
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  Speaker 2: But there's some branding element like that. Why do they
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  Speaker 2: want to come.
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  Speaker 1: Because they want better access to American players?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, some of it is they want to brand in
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  Speaker 2: the US as well.
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  Speaker 1: But to your point, there's a difference between like there
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  Speaker 1: used to be a Liverpool club here in town, which
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  Speaker 1: is essentially a brand affiliation deal.
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  Speaker 2: Byron had one in the northeast.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but but actually plunking down a Bayern Munich proper
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  Speaker 1: organized and staff of Bayron Munich people academy is a
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  Speaker 1: different deal.
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  Speaker 2: And and there are other German clubs looking to do
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  Speaker 2: the same.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I'm just curious if we're going to
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  Speaker 1: get to a point where FIFA is going to have
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  Speaker 1: to get involved, because you could see the reason why
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  Speaker 1: you may not want that.
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  Speaker 2: But how do you legally stop that? Well that I
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: don't just create your creative.
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  Speaker 1: FIFA has all kinds of rules that prevents uh, organizations
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  Speaker 1: from one nation doing things in another nation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you just said, like the Red Bull, the
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  Speaker 2: the the or City the City group. I mean they
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  Speaker 2: they're one ownership. They have multiple academies, teams, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: Red Bull does as well.
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  Speaker 1: Something about this feels different to me. Maybe i'm reading it.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you why don't you write a letter sternly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sternly worded letter to the FIFA.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, to the FIFA, to the FIFA, and see what
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  Speaker 2: they say.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll do that. Uh, Christiano Ronaldo Andy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm fascinated with this. Can I ask you?
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  Speaker 1: Do you?
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  Speaker 2: Are you up to speed?
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Pretty much?
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: So he's boycotting his club.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: He's boycotting the entire league, is what he's doing.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: But he's under contract, yes, like a bazillion dollar contract, right, Like.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard somebody or read somewhere the other day
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: that he makes like four million dollars a.
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  Speaker 2: Day a day over and so he's not getting paid.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know about that.
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  Speaker 2: And talking about fan like supporters of national teams having angst.
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  Speaker 2: Does this get in the way of the World Cup
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  Speaker 2: in any way his participation in the World Like, can
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  Speaker 2: FIFA sanction him before?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. So basically, Ronaldo is unhappy because his
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: club Al Nassir he feels so. Got to remember, in
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  Speaker 1: the Saudi League, everything's kind of run by the government
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, the Crown Prince thing, and they specifically control
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  Speaker 1: the four biggest clubs.
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  Speaker 2: The Crown Prince thing. Okay, right, don't ask me.
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  Speaker 1: And despite the fact that Rinaldo is making I think
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: it's one hundred and seventy seven million dollars a year
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: playing over here, he's upset because they haven't given his
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: of the four clubs enough attention.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Right, because they've reached their their spending limit. They're over
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: the top of the cap.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a splending cap, No, there's not. So he
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: has decided that he will fight back by boycotting playing games.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's now missed two games and I read
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  Speaker 1: go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: What I just have a question. Yeah, is it smart
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: to piss off the Saladi Prince? I guess just going
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: back through history and seeing things that have.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Happened, I would I would say probably not, although he
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: is Rinaldo, so it's not like Rinaldo disappeared.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Right exactly. That's a good point. Ronaldo has that leverage
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: his name.
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  Speaker 1: Right exactly. If you're like a bench player for one
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  Speaker 1: of these teams and you want to go after the
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  Speaker 1: Crown Prince, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: They're a Washington Post exactly, Yeah, you can be off.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, yes, exactly. No, I think Rinaldo can probably
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  Speaker 1: pull this up. Now I'm hearing there's some conversations about
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: terminating his contract and they would then go after So
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: that's who their dream player is a replacement or Bruno
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Fernandez are their two dream replacements, and they probably could
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: get both of them for what they're paying Rinaldo.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what you are right, neither of us,
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  Speaker 2: neither of us would be mad if they got our player.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm kind of back in love with
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Bruno these days, okay, So and would also And now
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  Speaker 1: that's led to all kinds of conversations about Rinaldo ending
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: back up playing in MLS. I've heard that La is
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: attached to him. Weirdly enough, Kansas City holds the rights
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: to Rinaldo in MLS. They did the original dip because
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: they were already in the middle of negotiating a deal
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  Speaker 1: with him before he went to Saudi.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Can I call it?
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: And then Miami.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Ill Benfico with Mourinho.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, that's an interestack home, Yeah, that's an interesting one.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Crazy stuff. So Rinaldo's throwing a hissy fit, that's not
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: necessarily breaking news. Okay, there you go, there your headlines
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: around the globe. When we come back, let's get into
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: the day in the Premier League? Are SNOL has yet
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: won again? Next? On the Kick Around, we somehow it
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: got past me yesterday Andy that yesterday was the birthday
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: of one Lars Sibbertston.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Lars.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Lars. I guess my iPad's not turned up,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: las Lar. That's all I really wanted. So Lars's birthday
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: was yesterday. So when I realized that this morning, I
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: sent him a WhatsApp message where I taught him some
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: ticket vernacular. MM you know what I mean, Like, what
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: do other p ones wish each other on their birthday, right,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I did that.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I don't recall you ever sending me a birthday wish, or.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: You don't like birthday, aren't you one of these? I
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: don't like my birthday people.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. I just don't make a
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: deal out of it like others.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Well, anyway, my point being is I wished Lar's a
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: happy birthday in a ticket manner, and I did so,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: curious as to what his reaction would be.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Right, well, doesn't he listen? Is he a p one
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: other than our show?
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I think he pops in every
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: once in a while.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: If you would know, right clearly, well listen.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: With any regularity, Yes, you would know what that phrase meant,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: or you know it before it's.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Set on the ticket. I don't know why you're trying
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: not to say it.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, I hope she woke you up in that special
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: of ways. And so I said that to Lars and
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: he wrote back, haha, good one. I was like, I
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: couldn't tell it. And oh, by the way, he in
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: this particular moment, he's visiting his lady friend.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, so he's there's been a few So you tell
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: me that I don't know which country.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday large. Hey all you kick around pe ones,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: please go on social media and wish Lars a happy birthday.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: He deserves it. He will be here in not too
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: much time. He will be living in our midst for
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: two months here soon.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: So maybe at the studios, maybe we pull up a car.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Just live in the studio.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: That'd be awesome, because you know, like staying in Dallas,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Fort Worth anywhere around here during World Cup.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be so nuts for sure. Okay, we'll talk
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: a little bit more about that here a little bit
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: later on. All right, let's get into the day's action
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: of the Premier League. Arsenal hosted Sunderland and man, I
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: was so disappointed because when that Arsenal won this game
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: three nothing, and by and large they deserved it. It
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: was a great win. Yorkerez with a brace coming off
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: the bench. This is the first time he has scored
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: in two consecutive Premier League games for Arsenal. I still
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: think that goal celebration is stupid, but you know what,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: credit to him. He scored a few nice goals and
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: by the way, with this win, before the end of
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: this weekend, they'll at least, depending on how the City
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Liverpool game goes, be nine points clear, and that is
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the largest lead they have had as a Premier League
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: leader since the last day of the three four season
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: when they won the title.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: They're nine points clear. Now if City beats Liverpool, they'll
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: be six.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: No, they're actually twelve points clear right now. If City
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: beats Liverpool, then they would be the nine points is
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: how I counted it.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I would look up at the table, okay, and see
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: if you can do math and get back.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Back that's possible. I did math wrong? Me math bad.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Now let me make a comment about watching this game.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Did you did you get a chance to watch?
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Yes? I watched parts of the game.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Sunderland I still admire greatly.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: I was going to ask you that you are you
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: still I thought that, you know, when it was one nothing,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Sunderland had more of the ball for an extended period
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: of time.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: They were pushing Arsenal again looked weirdly edgy and this
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: felt like a game. And this was really the big
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: disappointment for me is that Shaka was still out with
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: an injury, and it just felt like if Sunderland had
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: a player like Shaka, they had a real shot of
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: getting something out of this game. Plus we would have
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: gotten to see Shaka play against Arsenal at the Emirates,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: which would have been balld.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that would have been Do you do you have
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Arsenal friends?
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I do many.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like they still have angst about this
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: whole thing? Yeah, to a man, yeah.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I don't have a single one who are like, oh
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: we got this.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: So I don't know if you go to the Farmer's
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: market or not, you know the shed where they have
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: the stalls. And I met a guy from North London
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: who's an Arsenal fan. I was wearing a Liverpool something
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: or another and he's like, oh, Liverpool farmers Market, dude,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: the shed, okay man, your standards but so well. So
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: we started talking and and and he's like rolling his
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: eyes that I'm Liverpool. I'm like, I go, what are
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: what are you United? He's like, oh no, please, no,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I'm not United. I'm from North London. I'm like, oh, man, congrats,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: you're you gotta be on like cloud nine.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: And then he told you he's from Tottenham.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: No no, no, he say you could tell him and
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: he's like no, man, He's like they could all fall apart.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm like, dude, so gunshot, Yeah to a to
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: a person, they are gunshot. And I get it. I
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: get it. It's been a long time, man, I totally
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: get it. So Arsenal end up winning three nothing today
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: and uh, looking good, there you go. Uh and Yorker
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: is just scoring so good for them. The early morning
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: game I was concerned about. I'm just gonna be honest.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Tottenham had beaten United multiple times over the last while. Uh,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: you know, things were just going a little bit too
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: good for one Michael Carrick, and.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: So recap the game and then I have a follow
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: up question for you.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: United end up winning the game to nothing.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: The game was very tight up until good Lord Romero.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, that is the most self destructive human being
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: in the Premier League, an absolute goofy at. Oh well,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: actually I got a question for you. Was was the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Romero tackle on Casamaro that resulted in a straight red?
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Was that a reputation red?
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: You wouldn't You don't think that.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: So if that had been if that had been making.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: You know, but that happens, I think because what happens
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: the psychological aspect of who it was in sports. It happens.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Right, He's the first player of the season to get
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: two reds in the Premier League. This is his uh second,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I said second this year, fourth in the Premier leage.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I don't think it was an like a bad call
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: like I think it was.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I agree. I just am curious if you think if
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: it had been a lesser like somebody without his reputation,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: would they would they have given maybe a yellow and
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: then varr would have said, no, it's a red. Anyway,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: it's his six total red as.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: A small player. Well it was good for you.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Well it changed the game and United ended up winning
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the game to nothing goals from Mimbuelo, who scored again,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: and Bruno Fernandez. By the way, Fernandez now has had
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: two hundred goal involvements in all of his time, in
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: three hundred and fourteen games. That is up. He got
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to two hundred and three hundred fourteen games. The only
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: player in United history that is faster than that was
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Wayne Rooney. Your favorite player, Wayne Rooney?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Right, No, not Wayne Rooney. Hey, So this is my question.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: When United beat City Michael Carrick's first game, I'm like, oh,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Michael Carrick for life, and You're like no, too early, man.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: And then they beat Arsenal and I'm like, okay, you
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: beat City, you beat Arsenal. They got to hire him,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: And you said, and this was last show because they
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: played on Sunday last week, so we hadn't you said
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: the following, No, what I need is a result or
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: two against in fear opposite opposition. I need him to
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: beat bad teams right before I start talking about KRC
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: being handled or hired full time.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: So since then they beat Fulham and they beat Spurs
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Fulham and we said Fulham is a decent side. Okay, okay,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Spurs sucks.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Spurs is a Champions League team into the knockouts.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: So are we ready?
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: No, I'm not going to be ready until the end
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: of the season. What in the world was that I
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: was a toilet? Oh? No, I am not. Look. Let
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: him play out the season. I want to see what happens.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna I'm not. I'm not getting
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: baited into that hook man. No, I love it. I'm
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: so happy about it.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: He's a club here.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: It looks great on the sideline. Did you see the
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: smile on his face when they scorned that set piece winner?
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Just so it is wrong.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Why not just do it because it's too early, because
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: that's what we did under Ola, and it bit us
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: in the.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Ass because he because you got Ronaldo, that's what happened.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: We did get Ronaldo.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: That's the problem.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Then, yeah, I feel bad for Thomas Frank. Let me
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: you know, Lars is one hundred percent done with Thomas Frank.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: He was a while back.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: But let me say, before the red card, Thomas Frank
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: had set this team up with again with three in
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: the back. He was doing this really interesting thing with
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Paulinia playing as one of the back three, pulling into
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: the midfield. They were giving United a little bit of trouble.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying it was, but they were playing positively.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: The game was in the balance, and I thought he
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: had done some really good things. And then his own captain,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: who by the way, earlier in the week caused a
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: whole lot of controversy by going on going on social
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: media and making a lot of noise about how pissed
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: off he was about the club not signing enough players.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: And now he went out and got a really unnecessary
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: red card. Reminder, this is his second red card, so
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: it's not a three game suspension. It's a four game suspension.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Does when he comes back, will Frank still be the
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: coach the gaffer?
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Oh that's a great question.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I say no.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Their next four games at host Newcastle, the North London Derby,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: oh wow, at Fulham and hosting Palace. So they're going
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: to miss all those games. You'd think The Fulham game,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the Palace game are games they would potentially have something
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: at and hosting Newcastle.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: If they get hosed in the derby, he's out. Where's
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: that game?
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: The North London Derby? It's at Spurs and they're better
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: on the road than they are at home.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: This season, they lose at home in a bad way.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But see, here's the thing. I don't know where
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: you two, who else is going to do anything better
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: with this collection of players. They're all They've got the
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: deepest injury list in the league, and they've not only
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I mean more importantly than that, it's the deepest list
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: of important starter level players injured. And now their captain
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: is out for four games because he's an idiot.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I just feel bad for Frank and I feel like
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: they're going to cut their nose off despite their face,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna regret one day firing him because I
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: still think he's a really good manager.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Maybe United can pick him up once he gets fired,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: just hire him full time for next year next send
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: kerk on his way.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: That good okay, all right?
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Then aston Villa good enough for Spurs but not good
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: enough for my club. Okay, I see that's fair Aston Villa.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Now this is starting to This is the culmination of
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: a long running thing with Lars who has been trying
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: to tell everybody that Aston Villa may not be as
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: good as their record in the CADS.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Where do you stand on that? I think they're a
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: well coached club.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I think they're a fantastically coached club. But that said,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: they end up getting a one lead on the road
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: at Bournemouth today. But oh my gosh, we used the
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: goal call as the opener today Rayon Ryan Ryan, I
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: guess they pronounced it. The young eighteen or nineteen year
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: old Brazilian they got from Vosco de Gama for thirty
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: four million dollars. He scored twenty goals in fifty games
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: last year for Vosco and now he's with Bournemouth and
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: on his debut picked up the ball in Villa's half
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: of the field and went straight to goal and hit
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the most interesting little finish at the near post.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Did the seas open up for him? There a little bit?
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: It did, But you're nineteen in your debut in the
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Premier League.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it was great.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, how many kids do that and go I
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: gotta get the ball away?
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's this?
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I don't want this?
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: But they kept giving him space and he was like
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: until he was four yards from the goal. Did you
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: see it?
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I Anyway, it's an interesting deal. Villa, now, by
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the way, have only won one game and they're one
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: two three last five, only two of their last six,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: and they've lost three of their last two of their
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: last four. So Villa's form has taken a spill of late.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Emmy Martinez had to make seven saves in this particular game.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: So there you go. Bournemouth. Uh still, I know, but
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: that they've you know now they got somebody chasing them.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Cherry's eleventh right at thirty four point.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, correct, Cherry's just reloading. Man. They sell off some
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: meno and they take a fraction of that money and
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: converted into a nineteen year old Brazilian wonder kid.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Some people were saying Bournemouth was going to go down
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: this year because they lost so many people.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: And look at them, who, by the way, looks like
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: a full, full on grown ass man at the age
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: ninth Ryan. Yes, believable, Holy cow. All right, it's time
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: to take a break. HEA's very mad at me for
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: going over. Let's take a break. We come back, let's
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: get into the best game of the day Newcastle and Brentford.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Next on the Kick Around, with the disturbing news that
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: mister Polissick has an injury. Let us to today's episode
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: of World Cup nerd the specter of injury leading into
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: a World cuple do that here in about fifteen minutes
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: on the old Kick Around. Welcome back on Peter. He's Andy.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: We are in the middle of reviewing the day's action
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: in the Premier League.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: So before we talk about the other games, we do
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: have a resident gunner with us, one Michael Dixon. Why
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: don't we just ask him?
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: All right, so, mister Dixon, our resident newsman, Yes, what's
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: all this angst?
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: The last few years City Liverpool they set a ridiculous
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: pace and going back to the last and full of years,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: it feels like ninety five points is what you need
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: to get to to win.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: And you also you you stand by Andy's assertation that
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: I was wrong about the standings in point spread. Yes,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: this point difference.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: And I knew that because we'll tell everybody what it is.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: It's it's nine after today and if City went to Mortal,
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: go back to six.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, so it's nine.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: City have a game in hand.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: That game is at Liverpool.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: So Andy was right and Peter was wrong.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: That's what he really want. Yeah, that's what he wants
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: you to say, is Andy.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: But I got to communicate with Dixon through you. We
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: rarely converse with each other, but that's okay. You know
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: radio dynamics. Sometimes people don't really get to see what
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: happens behind the scenes.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Right exactly. All right, Well, you hold your water, mister Dixon.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Everything's going to be just fine. I'm here to tell
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: you actually, of all the things, I.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you, mister Dixon.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: The best game of the day was the last one,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: which was Newcastle hosting Brentford. Now I didn't know this,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: but halfway through the second half, the whoever was doing
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: play by play announced this fact that I didn't do.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: You know that the Brentford Newcastle pairing is what is
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: like I think he said, it's the it's the one
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: pairing that's the highest average goals per game in the
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Premier League. It's the average four goals a game year.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: It didn't he didn't give a time for him. He
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: just said in the Premier League. Interesting, which is crazy.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Well, we saw it today, didn't we?
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Boy did we? Ever? Goodness gracious, Newcastle took a
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: one goal lead, had the lead, and it just and
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: it just kind of went back and forth from there.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: It was. It was really I mean, I just I
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: gotta say Newcastle fans just have to be completely frustrated.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: But Lars insists that Eddie Howe does not have this
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: hotest seed as you think he does.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: And I wonder why that is because expectations after Newcastle
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: changed in a row now, yeah, and after they changed ownership.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Has it been four years now when the Saudis that
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: the country of Saudi Arabia essentially bought Newcastle. Our expectation
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: was that they would become one of the one of
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: the powers, right, one of the what was it six
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: then now seven clubs, and they would always be competing
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: for European spots. So when they would dip to twelfth
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: midway through a season, you would think that the coach
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: would then be in trouble. So why why are we not? Like?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Why is Newcastle Nation not up in arms about this?
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: With all them?
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's more uh, maybe they're more upset about
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: it than you, and I realized now I should say this.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Brentford ended up. This game was two to two for
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: a while, and then in the eighty fifth minute Atara
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: scored and Brentford won the game three two. And look,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Brentford now have the second best form over the last
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: three games in the Premier League. They are six two
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: and two.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they sit seventh right now.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: It's and this great story.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: This is a club that all the pundits were picking,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: or not all the punnit but a lot of people
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: were picking them to get relegated. They lost their coach.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: The coach that got hired in his place was an
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: assistant coach. People weren't happy about that, but ultimately Brentford
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: just goes back to the way they run. They stick
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: to their system, They rely heavily on analytics. Almost doesn't
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: matter who the coach is. The coach just has to
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: handle things in the in the locker room and just
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: run their system. That's how they acquire players. That's how
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: that strategies they use in game. Strategy they use is
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: dependent on analytics and it works. This club is a
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: small club that keeps doing really well in the Premier.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: League and they keep adding players.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, but they're really good about being efficient with
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: their dollars.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, so question if Brentford end up in a European spot,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: let's just let's say that yes or conference whatever. Sure,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: so right now they're in eleventh.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: No, they're in seventh.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm looking at the wrong table. No, no, no,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: I was looking at the I looked at Born with
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: the set of Brentford. It's my dyslexia. So now they're
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: in seventh. If they end up in the Europa League
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: not Conference league, is Keith Andrews manager of the Year?
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Well do you base it on that? Would that would
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: mean that they finished top six in EPL? Right, like
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: independent of the Europe thing.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm saying if they qualify. If they end up
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: in six and qualify.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: For Europe, but they finished top six EPL, that's I
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: think that's all you have to say.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, fair, Yes, Okay, So even if Arteta wins the Premier.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: League, yes, because yes.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: See I agree, so like if Sunderland, if Sunderland continues
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: to play as well as they had been and ended
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: up in six, that to me is more deserving of Manager.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Of the Year. So as the manager of the year,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: the one that guides his team to the title every year,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, I.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Think that it's a popularity contest. I suspect to some
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: degree and Arteta, after this entire journey finally winning the
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Premier League, you could kind of see a compelling case
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: for that. But I'm like.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Where they have one of the favorites heading end.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: But I'm like you, I'm like, what is the actual
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: hardest achievement as a manager, And it would be Sublin
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: or Brentford for sure, one hundred percent agree with you
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: on crazy. The only thing Brentford did wrong in this
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: game is they didn't wear their brown kits. They should
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: have Warren Brown today, poor que because it would have
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: looked better instead of a light.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Blue Jim James, Yeah, but you don't like those.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I mean they're nice, but I like the brown ones
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: better and that would have been more visually interesting today. Yes,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: we'll keep an eye on what happens with Newcastle. Crazy stuff.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Good game, Okay, let's run through this real quick. West
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Ham got another win. They are sneaking up on Newcastle.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Not Newcastle, excuse me, Nottingham Forrest. They won over Burnley
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: today to nothing. By the way, mister Smmerville, this is
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: his fifth straight game with a goal. Prior to this
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: he had only scored once for the Hammers and now
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: he's on a five games streak. And Toddy Costianos the
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: former NYC but with a brilliant patter to score. Fulham
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: lost at home today after going up to one to Everton.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Now Everton is now unbeaten in their last five. Yes,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: and old man Moys has got him up there. I
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: don't know if you saw the winning goal. I don't
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: know how you let an opposing player on a corner
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: kick eventually body up next to your goalkeeper because Leno
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: came in to try to clear it and the Beverage
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: player just kept him from getting to it and he
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: essentially just knocked it into his own goals. So there
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: you go. Fulham now've lost three or of the last four.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Chelsea Resenior now has won five of his six games
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: as manager of Chelsea. I think that's ready. It's either
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: five or six of six or seven. Whatever it is is.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: They beat the worst team in the league, which are cooked,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: three to one.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Last week we said man Wolves aren't as bad as
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: their eight points, but today they looked fully as bad
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: as their eight points.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Crazy note out of this game, mister Cole Palmer had
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: a natural first half hat trick. I don't know if
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: you saw this, but they announced that that means that
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: with this hat trick, he is now the Chelsea leader
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: of all time for hat tricks.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Wow, young, but yeah, Frank Lamper also became the first
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: one in Premier League history. Did you read this one
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: or hear about this one? To score three first half
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: hat tricks?
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Oh? Wow, that's a crazy Nobody's done that to me.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: I just when I heard that, he instantly already is
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: the club leader with that club and some of the
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: you know hazard and I mean some of the players.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah he did. Okay, does that ruin it for you?
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: The hat trick? Do you not count?
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: All?
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Right? Tomorrow the games are of importance. Excuse me? Brighton
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: is hosting not yeah, Brighton is hosting Crystal Palace in
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: the eight o'clock game, and then the big one? Andy,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: are you ready for this? Liverpool hosting man City at tenth? Am?
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: I ready? What do you mean? Am I ready for
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: the big loss? Am I emotionally ready for I'm gonna
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: there's a when? Give me? Maybe you've looked this up.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: When was the last time?
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: When was the last.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Time City beat Liverpool twice in league play in one year?
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Like the League double?
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know that.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Nineteen thirty six thirty seven. So so if they if okay,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: the last time City beat Liverpool twice in league play
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: in one year was thirty six thirty seven.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: So you're saying Liverpool is going to win.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: This well, if the streak stays alive, if City, if
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: City beats Liverpool, it'll be the first time in like
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: almost one hundred City win the first one.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Three zero?
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Oh that's right?
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I didn't get my type feil for it. Okay,
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: you got me so clearly this is the City's zero
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: for Liverpool. But I just found it hard to believe
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: that City hasn't done like all those great teams that
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: they had and the teams and notts and whatever.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Right, Yes, I'm curious to see how this I'm really
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: fascinated to see how this game goes, mostly because, uh,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: you know, City's got this whole back line thing going on.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: They haven't been playing well.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Up to sell teams have a whole back line thing
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: going on, Peter, well like in terms of having to
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: do stuff to fix a leaky back line. Okay, is
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: that what you mean by.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Uh No, What I'm saying is City has won one
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: game in their last six once and.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: How many Liver? How many has Liverpool won in their
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: last six? Look it up, one one exactly. Get out
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: of here with your stuff.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: But you're gonna be fine, Andy, I'm trying to make
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: you feel better about your.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Eight points ahead of Liverpool. City is if Liverpool the
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: gold differential twenty six plus twenty six for City plus six.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: For Liver if Liverpool finishes.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: I am hoping for a draw.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Really, two, you're hoping for your draw?
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Mighty Pep City vine for first chasing Arsenal Lars Oh.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: By the way, breaking news, Lars is convinced Pep is
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: out after the season.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: He's going to retire for a personal decision.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Most people are saying that Dixon. You're rooting for Liverpool
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: right because this will help your club. Absolutely there, Thank you,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Steve Man. Dixon and I found new connection today. We
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: are connecting today, connecting today.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Such BFFs. I got your back, Peter, I love you,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you. You're the one. You're like a big old bear.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: I just need somebody to hug.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: You're rooting for City because you need Liverpool exactly.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: You are right.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: I mean in terms of what.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: You need to keep liver a pool down.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: No, you want top four.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I need to keep Liverpool away. Yes,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: stay away from my top four spot, right bird?
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: And if Liverpool ends up beneath United at the end
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: of the Premier League season.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: We cancel the show. There's no more kicked around, no
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: reason to talk Premier League moving forward. If that happens,
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: we are doing more. Andy Dixon will go out on top,
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Arsenal will win it all. Why do we need to
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: continue at that point? Oh?
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Very good, Okay, We're going to take a break. That's
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: it for the day in the Premier League. When we
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: come back, let's do some World Cup nerd the of
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: injury next on the Kick Around, believe it or not,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: the new season of Major League Soccer and FC Dallas
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: is nigh around the corner. In fact, as we speak,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: they are playing a preseason game up at Toyota Stadium
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: against New York Red Bull and checking in from the
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: stadium will be our friend Buzzcarrick to tell us all
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: about it, and we'll also make a special announcement here
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: in about fifteen twenty minutes here on the kick around
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: in Germany. That's time for our favorite.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: You got Granada World Cup ner, Norway, Turkey, Finland.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, I know, Andy, I know, I know all the country.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Stop it all right. First off, I want to ask
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: a question. Can somebody, Andy, you explain to me how
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: we now live in a universe, a soccer world where
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: a European club has decided they need an American striker
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: with a broken arm more than they need forty four
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: million dollars. That makes blown no sense.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: I think collectively, US soccer nation was amazed with that
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: decision by PSV to no, we're not gonna sell him
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: after all.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: So, for those who don't know, Fulham wanted to buy
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: Ricardo Peppi, who is out with a broken forearm, for
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: I think another six weeks. Okay, PSV the Dutch club
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: that owns him, who doesn't even play him on the regular,
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: They can't now, well, they weren't when he broke his arm,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: even though he was scoring goals for him, He wasn't
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: their starter. They have a seventeen point lead, they've dropped
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: only seven points all year, and yet they've decided they
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: would rather have Ricardo Peppy than forty four million dollars.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: FC Dallas is affected by this too, right, because they
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: got don't.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Trickle down money money. Yes, I'm sure Clark is putting
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: in a phone call for sure.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: So I guess your point was they're rolling the dice
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: for a World Cup, and.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: That's the only explanation is that they think if he
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: plays for the US and scores a goal, yeah, and
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: suddenly now is worth fifty four million dollars. I just,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: to me, being in a longtime American fan, the idea
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: we live in a universe that that's actually a thing
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: just seems so improbable to me and remarkable. It's nuts.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Now that leads me into this whole thing about injuries,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: because obviously, I hope everybody is aware Christian Polisic has
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: not been playing for Milan because of a recent injury
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: battling I think a presides sack in his hip or
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: something like that. As now, I've read several things indicating
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: that he may be back enough to feature for them
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: against Pisa tomorrow. Okay, there's still some question as to
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: whether or not goes, but I every.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Time, are you hopeful? Like, maybe don't play them? Yeah?
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Could you guys just lay off on the Christian Polisic overuse, please?
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: Christian, can you maybe just pretend you're hurt a little
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: bit more than you really are?
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Right, because we now are in that very critical window
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: of time where you begin to look at the men's
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: US men's national team roster and you realize, Okay, Tyler
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Adams critical piece is fighting to come back from an
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: MCL injury. Ricardo Peppi is a broken arm. Now, Christian Polisic,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: oh no, just when you think the poor guy can
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: keep himself healthy, he's hurt again.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: And the timing of these injuries is key because we've
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: had cases where players go down for national teams right
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: ahead of the World Cup, like the week before the
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: last friendly. That is really impactful. An injury that happens
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: in January not as critical because you have a little
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: bit of time for recovery. Bull a sick. I think
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: it's in an okay time frame. Now, I would assume
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: I'm more worried about Tyler Adams and recovery, yes, and
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: form and form due to the nature of his injury.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Because he will have gone several months without playing.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: Right exactly, and the position requires that PEPPI the least
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: worried broken arm.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: You know, he although he was in an interesting run
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: of vein of a run of form, so that he's
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: gonna have to regain that.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, I mean it's worried. Welcome to
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: following a national team heading into a World Cup. I mean,
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: I you know, I don't know what country that has
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: played in a World Cup hasn't had to face these
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: kind of similar issues.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was. There was a period of time where
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: I never had considered that, even in the early days
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: of when I was regularly watching the sport. And the
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: one thing that will never I will never forget this.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: So my wife and one of the the very first
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: time my wife and I ever went overseas to go
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: watch soccer included a trip initially to go to the
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: first Manchester Derby in forever. It was the first season
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: City was back in the.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: Premier League and it would have been the first there.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: Well, we were going to be there, but United had
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: progressed far enough from the Champions League that that game
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: got bumped and we ended up being at the famous
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Champions League game against Deportivo La Coruna. Famous because David
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Beckham went down with an injury before the end, before
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: the end of the first half, and it was in
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: April of two and I so I had never been
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: to Old Trafford before. It was an absolute electric scene
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: on like anything I had ever experienced in my life.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: And I will never forget as he comes off the field,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: how the mood just completely went the other direction. Now
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: remember kids, this is before smartphones. So at halftime I
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: will never forget watching all the people like run to
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: tell visions to see if they could figure out what's
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: going on. And I turned to somebody and I said,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: what's going on? They're like, it's the World Cup, mate,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: he may not get to play on the World Cup. Now,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: remember this would have been the World Cup after his
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: disastrous red.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: Card and by now he was he was a top
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: top player for the national team. I mean, he was
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: kind of it free kick specialist, and this is heading
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: into the two World Cup in Japan, South Korea.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, and so they were very It was the first
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: time I had ever really put any hard consideration into Oh,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: that's right, the World Cup's coming up. People don't need
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: to be getting hurt.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and do players like let I had a
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: similar personal experience. For me, it was, you know, my
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: my idol growing up in soccer as Zico and Xico
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: part of the eighty two World Cup team, Brazilian team
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: that didn't win the eighty two World Cup, considered the
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: best team not win a World Cup. But in eighty
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: six they were going to again field a pretty good
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: team with a decent chance of winning that World Cup.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: And Zico got injured a few weeks leading up to
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: the World Cup, his knee. He had had any search,
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: any cry, and so that was a lot of angst
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: and it ended up hurting Brazil. I mean, Brazil probably
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: would have advanced to the final if they beat Maradona
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: in the final or not, who knows. I mean they
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: lost to France and the quarters on pks. But you
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: know that Zeko going down gave the Brazilian populace a
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: lot of angst.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah you know.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: Pele though got injured in group play in the sixties
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: and the sixty two World Cup in Chile. Now this
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: isn't at the group stage. This is after they won
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: in fifty eight, So the whole country's up in arms.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: What happens they win? Anyway, some player named Garensha became
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: the new hero. And so depth matters a lot. And yeah,
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: so if you're the US national team, it's.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: The number one thing we talked about.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, you know, Johann Kroif missed the seventy eight World Cup.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: His team got to the final, so that wasn't as
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: impactful because that team had a lot of depth. Now
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: do you remember one Nedved what was this his first name?
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Petro Nedved or Pavel Nedve, Czech Republic, the dark horse
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: to win the six World Cup. He gets injured right
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: before that World Cup, leading up to one of the
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: last friendlies they played, and the team really wasn't They
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: didn't even get up at group stage. So that shows
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: you when you're not a brazil or a Germany or
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: a Argentina and you miss your star player, it really
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: is impactful.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: It is and this is something to think about because
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: while the United States is a far deeper squad in
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six than it ever has been before, it's
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: not like England deep or Argentina deep, and you know
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: you lose a Christian Polisic.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: Or a Tyler Adams or Tyler I think those are
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: the two more important players they have. And Chris Richards
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: now who's shown himself to that.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's yeah. I guess if there was one player
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: currently right now the US could not bear to lose,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: it's probably Polisic. Yeah, don't you think is that fair?
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Or it's all about how much of a drop
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: off to next up in line? And is there more
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: of a drop off at the Sixthler Adams and I
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: think there's a pretty decent drop off there, so they
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: tests Yeah, okay, fair? By the way, I think what
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: adds to your angst and all those with this is
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: a next This is a World Cup, and this national
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: team that has the highest expectations we've had for a
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: national US national team in a long long time. It
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: used to be like we qualified, let's hope we got
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: out of group stage. Now it's no, we got to
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: get out of group stage in advance and advanced well
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: into the second round, and missing players like this definitely
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: impacts that, and I think that's creating a little bit
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: more angst.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just kind of running through and thinking
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: about other national teams who are like freaking out about
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: players being injured, and I'm sure there's a long list
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: of them currently running right now that people are like,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: could we couldn't bear to lose? Well?
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I also think players, I mean, this.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: Is like Jude Bellingham's injury current right, you know, like, yeah,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: Osaka is not one hundred percent right, you know that
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: for England, Naymar with Brazil, we don't even know if
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: he's going to play with Brazil.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: And remember what happened to Neymar when he got injured
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: during the World Cup and how devastating that was for
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: the fan base for the team. They just they bombed out.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: Do players hold back a little bit like certain star players?
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: I would assume that when you get towards end of
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: your league season and you know you're lining up to
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: go join your national team for the World Cup, especially
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: if you're on a club team that has nothing to
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: play for.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: What about if you're a veteran player. It's going to
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: be your last World Cup. You've already got all the
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: skins on the wall club wise. Yeah, and you got
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: to watch what you do because you're older to right
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: Van Dyke.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's not that's not a bad show. Mohammed Sola.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: Why No, you just wonder they're human, right, I mean
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: even if it's subconscious.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I completely agree with you. Yes, it makes me
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: wonder if Earling Holland may just kind of like, you know,
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: if they don't think they're going to win a lot
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: this year and he's he wants he does not want
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: to miss out for Norway. You know, you just begin
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: to wonder. I would hate to put that on any
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: one guy, right, But like you said, they're human. Real
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: quick question before we go. I got to meet my
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: soccer hero once. Did you get to meet Zek's soccer
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: hero ted Ek Did you get to meet account?
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: I met Zeko through one paston Pomakle really yes, because
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: he's at the All Star the World All Stars, and
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: he sat next to Zico on the bus and he
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: said hi for me.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: So you've never met Zico?
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: I mean there I did, I saw him.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: Zeico's still alive?
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, Well, I don't know. Yeah, okay, yeah,
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: Oh are you gonna is this a Christmas wish? You're
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: gonna give you.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Super super late? All right, we're gonna go. All right.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna get him on the phone,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: our hero Buzzcaric and live from Toyota Stadium. We'll talk
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: all about f C Dallas next year on the Kick Around.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: We have breaking news Andy, Oh, this is important for
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: all nervous soccer loving p ones. Via Twitter from p
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: One Macho Nadal, Hello boys, just an f y. I
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: I just now got an email from FIFA notifying me
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: that I won two tickets to a Netherlands game in
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: Houston and a four ticket pack to the Japan game
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: at AT and T. And my buddy just won tickets
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: to four games three here one in l A good
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: luck to everybody. People really do win, Andy, Yes, ticket
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: tickets are going out. Ticket announcements for the third round
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: or getting.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: The third round, Yes, the lottery.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: So Andy, did you get an email from FIFA?
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: I checked my email immediately once you read that Twitter.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: And did you? Andy Swift?
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you that I got an email from FIFA,
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: that says Andy Swift congratulations, we are pleased to inform
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: you that your ticket application was partially successful. So I did,
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: I did. I did win the lottery. I guess which
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: means I get to pay.
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my favorite party is he's calling this winning tickets
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: when he's got probably a three thousand dollars credit card.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: I have the right to buy now.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: I think I have bought, because I think once you
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: enter that you have to buy one here.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: And then I checked my email and I said, Peter,
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: did you get an email? Sorry, Peter, no email from FIFA.
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: Just keep trying, Just keep trying, and one day.
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: To soothe my aching heart, let's go to the Diamond
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: Factory ticket hotline and live from Toyota Stadium. It's my hero,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: your hero, everybody's hero. Editor, founder of third degree dot
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Net and the original soccer influencer himself, buzz Carick Howdy,
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: buzz hey.
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: Fellas too can leave. You did the whole things here
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: on the tation.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well you deserve it, man. How's uh the you
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: believe it in MLS seasons right around the corner.
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just up here in the sunshine and joined
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty five minutes of soccer with some
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: construction going on.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: Wait wait one hundred and thirty five minutes.
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, three forty five minute periods preseason scrim soccer. It's hockey, soccer, yes, soccer,
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: whatever it is. How is uh eight minutes ago?
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: How does Toyota Stadium look with its massive reconcial reconstruction projects.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: Oh beautiful. I mean it looks amazing. It's not even
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: close to halfway done. But the roof part looks fantastic.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: It's got all the soccer vibes and all that stuff. So, hey,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: buzz looks fantastic.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Hey buzs Hey any.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: Hey, So is the roof like completely built and you
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: can get a sense of how the sound will be improved?
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Or is that atmosphere?
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the atmosphere, Yeah, the roof.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: The roof is completely structurally built. The tarts are only
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: half in place. But there was only about you know,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: five thousand people here today, so it's not like there
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: was a lot of good crowd noise to be bouncing
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: around the stadium. Maybe not even five thousand anyone.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: But in your expert opinion, as you've been too many
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: tech stadia, is it legit? Are we? This is something
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: to really look forward to now, oh.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: Yes, it's fantastic. I mean when they once they finished
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: fielding in the structure, that roof and then eventually they
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: have a sadicals are going to you know, hold the
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: sound in and I think if you've been to any
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: sort of European soccer stadium, you will feel right at
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: home with the vibes here with this. He feels like
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: a soccer It doesn't feel like a dome. It feels
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: like a soccer stadium with the with the overhang and
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: then and the harps and all the stuff coming down
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: off of it. Yeah, it feels legit awesome.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: Well, then probably would be appropro to since the season
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: is about to start there they what is that the
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: twenty first is the first game against Toronto? Is that correct? Oh?
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: That sounds right off the top of my head. Up,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 4: Sorry but yeah, but yeah.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: So, uh, they played in New York Red Bull today
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: and I don't know if the game is still going on.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: How does the team look so far to your veteran eyeballs.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: Well, Peter Mussa was out. He missed some training this week.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: He's not hurt. It was just like I believe it
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: was a personal matter.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: So they didn't play an I think I think somebody's
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: trying to hold back a little bit with the world.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, no, I lie, I lie, I like I lie, I.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: Like, yeah, I'm on your Hanson was kicking up a
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: d so, so he was not around. So basically we
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: got starting eleven. It was it was sort of the
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: dudes left over from last year without any of the
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: star players. So it looked a lot like the mediocre
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: parts of last year, to be honest, because you're missing
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: some of the key editions and you're missing some of
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: your best pieces. Today Delgado didn't start. You know, you
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: had a Kayit, Capus, Ramiro triple midfield. So build out
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: of the bat was pretty rough.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: Who played the ten out of those three?
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: Well none really, It was more like a single Pitot
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: was two and eight, you know, playing in a flat
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: line most of the time, so you know, I think
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: on paper they might have claimed Capus did, but he
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: was back there in flat line with everybody else. You know,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: it was a whole lot of this back five with
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: three in front sitting deep. What they always do. They're
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: getting out played in like eighty percent of all the
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: phases of the game, and yet they're winning three nothing, because,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: as they always do, they sit in that shape and
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: then they turn you over and transition you and get
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: down forty five yards down with Berniy Comingo or with
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: Logan Farrington and they steal a goal and this three nothing.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: So you know, it's not sexy, beautiful soccer, but it's effective.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 4: I guess I'm going.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: To dare to ask. Was there a Paxton palmercall sighting today?
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: No, not even in any kicked the ball around warm
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 4: up capacity, that's zero.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: You know, Paxton even here.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: In street close because I was looking where Mussa was
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: sitting and he was not with them.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: So yeah, you know Paxton met Zico before I didn't.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, An he is still all these years bitter
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: about Paula call.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: Uh anything else? Forward to look to this upcoming like
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: what's the word on them signing a ten? Are they
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: going to get that done before the start of the season.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: Well, it doesn't really seem like much is happening fast.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: You know, there have been a couple of reports of
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 4: you know, connections and toxin with various people. Some of
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: them aren't necessarily DP caliber players, some of them are
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: kind of young, so you know, we're kind of all
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: this waiting to see what happens. I don't know how
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: effective some twenty year old kid coming in would be
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: necessarily who might not be a DP And honestly, it's
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: pretty quiet. You know, we've now seen a couple of
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: games this spring where they're playing a shape but doesn't
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: have a ten, so they may be planning on not
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: having one the start of the season.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 4: The other side of that coin is Logan Ferrington. Looks
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: absolutely fantastic and I think if things go the way
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 4: they are right now, he's going to have a heck
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 4: of a season with a good amount of assists to
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: go with a solid amount of goals and support of
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: Peter Mussin.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: All Right, we got two other things to talk about,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to give you sixty seconds to preview
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: the twenty six season for the good p one and
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping you'll do so. And like, who's like the
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: one player everybody should have their little beady eyeballs out
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: looking for.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: Well, I already maybe spoiled that for you because I
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: think it's actually Logan Ferrington. I think he's going to
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: have a breakout. You know, ten goal, ten assists the
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: season and put himself up there and conversations for one
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: of the great offstrikers in the league, the beaver the
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: Beaver Green. Yeah, you know, he he's gotten better every
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: single season, and honestly, this is the first season he's
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 4: come in as thus starter. Even last year. You remember
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 4: they're playing assistant with a couple of wings that he
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 4: wasn't getting on the field at the beginning. So he's
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 4: now going to be the guy with Musa full time
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: and Moss attracted so much attention, I think Logan Ferrington's
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: due for a in realtive terms, breakout seasons.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: All right, awesome? Uh So on your website third degree
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: dot Net, the number three rddegree dot net. The other day,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: your core cohort Dan Crook once again put out his
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: prediction of the new FC Dallas kit and buzz, I
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: think it's finally happened. I think you and I are
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: finally getting the dream FC Dallas kit we have wanted
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: ever since they switched to FC Dallas.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, from the people that have said something to meet today,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: apparently Dan's prediction is very very close, and so yes
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 4: and me we were finally getting the dream red and
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: blue hoops. Obviously, we don't love necessarily the fact that
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: there's a back panel that keeps it from being a
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: real hoop, as you would say, right in the modern world,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: this is the hoop that you're going to get. It
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: looks absolutely fantastic. It has all the white highlights making
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: it give it a little pop. Don't get the white
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 4: shorts who want it, but this is absolutely gorgeous. Gorgeous
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 4: jersey they're going to have this season.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: Are they going to be able to continue to use
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: last season's throwback archive burn jersey this year is like
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: a third kit.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 4: Well, the news sort of came around today that that
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: was not going to be happening, that they're the league
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: is not letting anybody keep those special kits from last
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: year for this season. So the word is not that
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 4: one hundred percent like an announcement the league, but that's
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 4: the word that circulated today, is that that's not going
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 4: to be happening. It's a shame because that is an
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 4: happeningly beautiful jersey as well.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: That would be a real disappointment if they put out
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: that product and they only got to wear it what
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: three times?
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 4: I think it was a little more than that, but yeah,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: half of the season basically is yeah, they're going to
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 4: have gotten out of it. That would be a shame because,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 4: as you say, it's that throwback burn jersey is one
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 4: of the best jersey jerseys in club history. But I
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: think this new one here is pretty commonly going to
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 4: be in the same short of conversation, all.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: Right, before we go Monday night last week, we were
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: recording Buzz's podcast, The Third Degree of the Podcast, which
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: I've been doing with Buzz and Dan Crook, which is
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: a very dfw FC Dallas centric podcast, and unbeknownst to me, Buzz, now,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: this is something I've known was in the works for
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: a while, but I didn't know he was going to
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: do this. Buzz used that as an opportunity to announce
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: to his followers that Buzz is moving.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, he's not. As unlive. You come to
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: it a point where for family reasons, you need to
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: move to another part of the US, And for my
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 4: wife's family, we are my life and I'm moving up
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 4: to Spokane, Washington, to the Northwest. But you know, we
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 4: live in a world now where every game of every
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 4: team I cover is streamed and I can see it,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 4: you know, on the net. Whether it's archive or live,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 4: and then every press conference is on a zoom, so
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 4: I can get on there and listen to the coaches
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: talk and ask questions, and you'll do pretty much everything
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 4: I do remotely, and a lot of people will do
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: that in this day and age, and we have a
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 4: lot of people that help contribute to the website.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: So I think, so there is nothing for us to
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: worry about. I would be like Buzz say it ain't so,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: but things just go on as normal, because Buzz, what
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: you've meant to the club and your coverage since almost
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: day one is really, really, I don't.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: Know, it's unprecedented, it is.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: And for somebody that worked at the club the first
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: eight ten years of the club, how important you were
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: to our success and to our growth and development as
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: a as a franchise and a brand and all that it.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: People don't realize because we had nothing then. We you know,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: talk no talk radio, and very little coverage. It was
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: Buzz's daily reporting.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: You guys used to take him in pre season trips.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: This is how their countries, this.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: Is how important Buzz's coverage was for us. Buzzy, I
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: know you know what I'm gonna say. We went to Chili. Chili,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: My my, my, one of my home countries. Two years
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: for preseason. I went one year. The second year, we
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: had a little bit amount of seats and I thought
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: it was really important that Buzz go and and cover
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: the team on a daily basis during preseason, so I
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: gave him my seat to go.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: Holy Es, I did not know this story. Yeah, you
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: gave up as to go to your motherland. Yes, so
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: Buzz could go in your place, right, did you know that, Buzz?
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how important I felt as the GM that
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: his coverage was to the club. Unreal because fans couldn't
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: get coverage of preseason. Yeah any other way.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, I realized that Buzz's website and his social
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: media presence and our podcast that we do is going
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: to continue. But Buzz not being here and daily interactive
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: with the club is just it's gonna be different for me.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: And Buzz is my lifelong I've known Buzz for thirty years.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: I love talking soccer with him. So the reason why
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: I talk about this is that we found out on
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: Monday that he was telling everybody publicly he's leaving, which
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: left me mere days to scramble to put something together.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: So I am letting everybody know right here, right now,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: Monday night at Petticolas Brewery down in the Design District.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: Doors open at six o'clock, which, by the way, Michael
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: Pettacolas couldn't be cooler because they're closed on Mondays. He
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: is letting us have the facility. He's not charging us
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: any money, although we're charging five dollars at the door
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: to help cover the cost, you know, give some money
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: to the bartender and the staff.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: We're going to do that, and we're recording Degree the
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: podcast live in front of a live audience for the
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: first time.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: I hope Andy you'll be there, yep. And so Buzz,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: Dan and I are going to record the podcast. And
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: he gives everybody who loves Buzz as much as I
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: do an opportunity to wish him well as he moves on,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: but moves on in the sense of changing locations anything
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: dealing with coverage. Is that fair, Buzz, Yeah, that's fair.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 4: You know, there's people that have gotten involved that are
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 4: around more day to day, like Dan Crooks picking up
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 4: some of the weight, you know, in terms of being
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 4: around the actual facility and that kind of thing. And
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 4: Andy's right when you know, you guys know that I
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 4: work in media, and when I started this whole endeavor,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 4: it is because nobody was covering the DAAs Byrne, you know,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: and I wanted somebody to cover him, so we created
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 4: that thing. And you know, over the years, other people
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 4: have gotten involved in start there's you know, covering the team,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: and so maybe it does not as much of a
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: hundred percent need for us as there used to be,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 4: but you know, you still think and what you would
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 4: call sort of the major normal coverages, there's just not
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 4: the day to day coverage that I think this sport
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 4: deserves that compared to the other teams of the pro
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 4: teams in the metroplex yet or even other pro soccer
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 4: teams in the markets get you know, it's just not there.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 4: So I've done what I could, you know, and and
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 4: we're going to continue to do we can. And there's
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 4: a bunch of more teams coming to this market, and
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 4: we're adding people to their coverage teams so we can
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: pick up a slack on all those other teams too,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 4: you know. So I feel like there's a lot of
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 4: people are now involved that can help carry some of
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 4: that slack, and it's okay, time wise for me to
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 4: step off, you know, for my family to another part
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 4: of the United States. So you know, I'm a miss
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 4: senior guys, I'm a miss pulling out the games. But
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: I'll be able to watch them on TV and we
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 4: can still chat on the interweb.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: It can still be crushed emotionally at the end of
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: a season together.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know, and maybe if i'd have gotten
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 4: that email from Andy with my dad my World Cup
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 4: tickets in it, you know, maybe something.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: Well, where do you choose Addle matches now or do
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: you choose US matches? I mean Dallas matches?
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 4: Well, I chose uh not through my credit card. I
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 4: had a chance to apply for some tickets, and I
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 4: went ahead and applied in Seattle on Vancouver try get
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 4: a ticket or something. But I haven't heard yet on
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 4: any right.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: Very good, well, Buzz. I hope every I hope everybody
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: comes out Monday night at Petacolas down in the Design District.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: Doors open at six o'clock. We'll start recording the podcast
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: episode shortly thereafter and everything. Please do yes and come
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: wish the great buzz Carrick well Man, I thank you
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: for coming on today and sharing that stuff. You know,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: I love you and I look forward to Monday night
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: with you.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're welcome coming on and I would ford it
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 4: on that too.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: If we'll get to see everybody there, Yes, that would be fantastic.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: The great Buzzcaracter, third degree dot Net. Thank you, dude.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: We will take a break when we come back. We
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: will do our final segment known as the Dribble next
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: here on the kick around. All right, very good man.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: I'm still reeling from that factorid you just dropped on
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: me about giving Buzz your seat on the plane to Chile.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: Love me away. Thanks for sharing that, Andy.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that big statement, right.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: No, it's awesome.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, a big statement about buzz.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: Buzz in the time and all that stuff. I completely
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: agree with you. It's really great. Let's do America's favorite
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: soccer segment, known as the drill All Dribble theme song
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: right here on the ticket.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: You do, I have it.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: I have it. Sorry about that, that's my paulton. I
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: thought you had it. I have it, all right. Some
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: interesting developments on other fronts and the soccer professional soccer
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: landscape here in the Dallas area. I think this is
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: huge news. Dallas Trinity and Tegna announced this week the
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: broadcaster Tegna, which owns Channel eight and several other stations,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: announced that Dallas Trinity games will be airing on KFAA
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: twenty nine, the same channel mav games are shown on
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: and Wings games and also streamed for free on WFAA
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: plus on the app. On the app. So they played
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: tonight in Fort Lauderdale. I think it's at seven point
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: thirty that game will be streamed on WFAA plus. Next
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: week's game will be on both the streaming platform and
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: broadcast on Channel twenty nine. I think that is a
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: huge development for ye.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: No, that's great. I mean, second year in this new
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: women's professional league and by the way, they're in third
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: now because they were out of the playoff picture for
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: a while and they've gotten some results lately.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: They've got a new manager, yeah, the new manager the
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: other So all the games had been and have continue
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: to be available on Peacock, but you got to pay
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: for a subscription. This is free, so I think this
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: will be a boost for them. I'm really excited and
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: pleased about that. Atletico Dallas on February the twelfth is
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: going to reveal and they're having a party over at
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: happiest hour where they will reveal their very first manager.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: February twelve. What day of the week is that.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: I think it's Thursday, This Thursday, okay, yeah, Thursday, Yes, Okay,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: they're very first manager. That's a huge development for a
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: club that is not that far away from kicking their
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: first ball.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is next season, a year ahead of when
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: USL officially becomes a division ie league, right, that's in
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight. Yeah, and these guys kick off in
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven when you're ahead.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll be playing in the second Division championship and
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: then we'll find out what happens with the Premier Division
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: when it finally all gets final.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: Any leaks on who that manager may be.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: Well buzz for a long time throughout this crazy conspiracy
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: theory rumor. So there is a guy involved in the
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: ownership group and the management of it, Corcoran, who has
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: been in US soccer circles forever. His son played for
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: FC Dallas. His college roommate was Caleb Porter. Oh noted
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: MLS manager. Wow, who would be does it currently? I
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: think have a job. I don't think that because if
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: you hire somebody like Caleb Porter for a USL team,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: you are screaming ambition, and that's a big paycheck to
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: pay for this level. I would be shocked if it's
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: Caleb Porter. I think it's going to be somebody probably
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: a tier a little bit lower than that.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: But I can see maybe Caleb Porter down the line
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: one day at the club is successful and the Division
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: one thing works and.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: The friendships are a big deal. Yes. The other thing
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: that happened this week is, you know, the Olympics are
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: coming to the United States in twenty twenty eight. In
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: lay Well, they announced that the soccer part competition of
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: the Olympics is going to be played in six different
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: US cities. Dallas is not one of them. New York, Wow,
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: Columbus now to New York's. They're going to play in
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: Red Bull Arena, the New York f C place in
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: the Queens is going to be done. They're playing there, Columbus, Nashville,
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: Saint Louis, San Jose, and San Diego.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: And they do this in Olympic soccer. Now they whenever
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: the Olympics are held, Summer Olympics are held and the
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: soccer takes place, they do it in multiple venues. Not
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: necessarily all the venues can be not all games can
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: be staged than where that city is having the Olympics,
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: so they have to spread them out in other parts
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: of the country. By the way, quick question for you.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: You know what the impetus was for the US being
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: considered a World Cup host in nineteen ninety four.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: Venue?
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: You know this story.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: I would assume it's because we had a bunch of
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: high volume capacity venues.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: It was the six that Olympic Soccer had in nineteen
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: eighty four at the La Olympics. And how well those
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: tickets sold. Oh really, and FIFA noticed, and the ball
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: started rolling for the US to host the ninety four
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: World Cup.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: Well, we were a few a little while ago. We
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: were talking about the fact that FIFA is starting to
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: send out announcements that if you were selected in the
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: lottery for tickets, and they've begun charging your credit cards
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: at a very hefty rate. The other thing that I
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: think is quietly gone under the radar is because a
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: lot of people have been questioning how hard it's going
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: to be for people to get into the country, and
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: US Soccer has announced, along with the government, that they
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: now have a FIFA prioritized appointment scheduling system for people
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: trying to come into the country to make it easier
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: for people coming here for the World Cup to get
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: their visas cleared. And I think that's a significant development
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: for a lot of people who are really freaked out
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: that the World Cup is going to be an utter
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: failure because people aren't going to be able to get
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: in here.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: By the way, we talk about each World Cup game
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: being like a like a like a super Bowl mini
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: super Bowl. You know what the cost of the average
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: cost of a ticket lower price tickets for the Super
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: Bowl are four to six thousand dollars.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: Cryst al mighty. I'm just saying, yeah, right, I mean yeah, yeah,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: So a lot of people think that they're you know,
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: people trying to get into the country from some of
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: them the State Department list. There's a detail on that
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of people have forgotten. The pause on this
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: applies to the issuance of immigration visus only, not on
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: non immigration visus like tourist visas for athletes, family and
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: met media professionals.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: Right, and so for those countries that are coming to
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: the World Cup that are on that list. Yeah, there's
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: a bunch of yeah, but Brazil is one of them,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: and there was that worry. What this actually means is
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: that because the visa types, the immigrant visa types are
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: are suspended, those that are now in line or having
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: appointments for visas to come as tourists, for example, to
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: come to the World Cup, their appointments are actually happening
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: faster now because the the immigration visas are on hold
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: and they're not taking up time at the consulates.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: That makes sense, Yeah, totally makes sense. Yeah. So uh
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: you know again, this is my confidence that this thing
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: is going to go off very well. I think the
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: World Cup is going to be a huge says a
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: huge banger. Yes, all right, very good. We've gotten here, Andy,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: You holding it together there, Peter, I am holding it okay.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: I'll see you on Monday, I hope.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, it would be nice if.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: If you would be there. We're going to raise the beer.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: We raise a beer, all right.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you to mister Dixon for doing tickers. Thank you
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: to EA for producing. Thank you to Promil for running
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: of the show so very well. Thank you to Buzz
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: for checking in today. Hope to see everybody out of
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: Pedacolist tomorrow night. We'll be back next week for another
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: consecutive show. Pe Ones We Love Anadoria, going out there,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: get stuck in, and when your fifties