Latest / Los Pickups Podcast / Episode 24 MLB Check In, Thoughts on NBA Finals, Way Too Patriotic 2026 World Cup Commentary
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- Los Pick uos: Thank so much for tuning back in to Lowe's Pickups Podcast. Coming to you guys from the Pacific Northwest. As usual, we bring you our day, our weekly dose of the generisms, tisms, and everything in between. We thank you guys again for tuning in with us. Real quick, here's here to my left we got my boy Mimi and to my right fresh and myself. I am a mess up. Thanks again so much. We got so many good and juicy things on the docket for you guys today. ⁓ real a couple things just kind of line up things for you guys to kind of keep in mind. We got baseball on the docket, we got the f the finals, NBA finals ⁓ wrapping up. And then of course what's everybody what's on everybody's mind right now is the World Cup and all the joy and frustrations and overall ⁓ craziness that's coming up at us. So na nothing else to say really about that. Let's check into it right quick. Should we t ⁓ the but but also I just want us go ahead and say that, ⁓ There's a lot of good stuff in the world. It's a good time to be a sports fan. So much going on, whether it be you know, if you're just checking in as a casual or if you're somebody who's a diehard for whatever thing whatever thing with everything going on right now, I think it's easy for us to kind of just check in and be like, ⁓ shit, I fuck with that. Especially with the World Cup. And ⁓ we'll touch on this a little bit more later today, but I I think one of the main things we can all agree on is the World Cup itself actually brings people together, unlike our actual nation's leaders. Shots fired, bang bang. Hootie hoo. So hoody hoop. First things first, ⁓ this is gonna be a quick breeze, but just kinda checking in with the MLB season. ⁓ it's in the full swing. We're about three weeks away from the tread lay ⁓ tread day line slash all star game. ⁓ but really quick, bef before I kinda get into it, anything you guys wanna add about your respective teams? Sorry, ⁓ L B. Yeah, ⁓ L B. ⁓ yeah, I forgot I got more Pinini stickers, so we'll do that after we can do that, yeah. I'll start off with the Mariners. Yes sir. Okay. ⁓ Mariners are currently in a series against the Boston Red Sox. ⁓ I think this is game three four with them. Let me double check here. It's today's Sunday, so yeah, i i this should be wrapping up ⁓ three game set. Yeah, this is the last game okay, so three game set. ⁓ we have been getting our asses kicked the past two games. Honestly, I think the Mariners are dealing so we're at five hundred right now. Thirty nine thirty nine. We're still on top of the division, our division. Yeah. ⁓ but it's not as strong of a hold as we had maybe like a a few weeks ago where we had we're like four four or five games ahead of the next person. For sure. And that was sitting pretty nice. So now at thirty nine thirty nine, we're trying to keep the lead, hold on to the lead, but right now the Mariners have a lot of people that are injured. We're talking about Don Calzon Canzoni, right? R Randy's out I think I saw. Randy's out. We got Cal Raleigh ⁓ barely coming back. I think Luke Rayleigh is still injured. Yeah, yeah. ⁓ so and then like JP Crawford had a move to third base, so we're kinda like moving a bunch of shit around. Yeah. Trying to we're like patching it together as we go. I I honestly think that ⁓ JP Crawford move is a genius move. That way you get a chance to play Emerson and Young both that shortstop at second. Yeah, I mean who on third base to start off the season it was Donovan. Yeah, it it was okay. It was Donovan and Matt Sabroni kind of like in and out. But it didn't seem solid. No. I feel really good at with JP at ⁓ at third. Dude, he's a phen dude, you actually I was watching the game yesterday. ⁓ and he had a phenomenal stop. ⁓ like mind you the infield was shifted to the right. But he actually went ahead, made the stop, a diving stop, beautiful play. He flipped it, he didn't even like transition, flipped it to the second baseman, got the double play out first, were even My man Josh Nealer had to tip his hat in the moment and it's like, fuck, that was awesome. Yeah. Kind of deal. ⁓ so yeah, the guy the guys made the the transition look effortless. I feel like that definitely shores up third base. Mm-hmm. And and possibly our infield too at this point. Absolutely. You know, so ⁓ but anyways, top of the division, all we're still f patching it through with all these injuries. ⁓ it's just unfortunate that it that we're dealing with these injuries, but it is a war of attrition with these ⁓ with any sporting season. still got like a hundred games to go for some shit. You know, so we just gotta we just gotta stay in the mix. We gotta stay in the mix and right now we're staying in the mix with all these injuries. I think we're gonna be A okay. It's just unfortunate ⁓ that we're not able to keep stack them. Right? Absolutely. So that's overall I think people are just wanting people to get healthy again. And honestly just keep them fucking healing up until they're officially good to go. Because we're gonna need them in the last stretch and that's when everything needs to come together. And a lot of times you look at Regardless of the ⁓ of the of the sport, that's all it takes. People getting healthy at the right time to make the right ⁓ the the run. To make a run at the end. We went in deep last time, last playoffs. Yeah. And so it's a longer season that way. You know, it kind of happens, right? With these teams that go deep into the playoffs, they just wear themselves out a lot more and then they start off the season kinda like this. So I'm not really worried about it. ⁓ I'm not like the most probably well versed when it comes to baseball and everything that it takes. But ⁓ I d have been watching sports for quite some time now so I understand how like team sports function, what they need in order to be able to get to where they need to get to. And I'm just not worried about it. ⁓ so long as we keep staying in the mix. And we don't slip. That's the main thing. For sure. Honestly it I feel like this has kind of been the Mariners like like mantra for like the last four or five years. But like the the the division's theirs to lose. Like th they do have a quality roster put together. It's just, you know, ⁓ Murphy's Law kind of kind of a situation where everything that can go wrong will Murphy's Law. Yeah. Be the scientist part. Yeah, it's like no, but I just like I I I like to read sometimes. Okay. But no, it's just one of those things because honestly I it's very comparable to what's going on with Chicago. Like we're the same fucking boat. We'll get to that in a minute. ⁓ but ⁓ overall I think that like I said, the Mariners is their division to lose. As long as they keep doing what they're doing and keeping themselves ab with their heads above water. They'll be alright and and should still be poised to make a deep playoffer. Also the ALS is kind of up for grabs in general. It's the classic Wow Wow West, baby. Wow Wow West. Shout out Will Smith. Here we go. What about you, buddy? ⁓ how do you think about the Dodgers? Or what do you think about the Dodgers? That's what I think about the Dodgers. Yeah. Well here, eat this banana. Motherfucker. Okay, so I I I will add real quick that ⁓ we're testing some we're testing the cameras finally folks. Testing the cameras, testing the microphones. So Waiwee is gonna get a little boingy today. You know he he he loves the camera on him, so he's enjoying the spotlight. Yeah, i everything's looking pretty good. The cameras are looking pretty good so far, I'm not gonna lie. We everybody looks hella sexy. I cannot wait until ⁓ until it's official. And i I I just think it's closer it's closer than we think. Excuse Absolutely. ⁓ call me me. Keep it posted. Dodgers. Yeah. Dodgers were forty nine twenty eight. Los dollars. Vamos. You can't say that. I can't say that? Fuck off, dude. You know why, asshole. Anyways, as you were saying? As as I was saying, we're doing really well. ⁓ we're up ten versus the Padres in our division, so I'm kinda stoked about that. We're struggling the Orioles. Yeah. I I guess we can I guess when you when you have a bot payroll like that you can round up I guess. Well it it's gonna be forty nine and twenty nine. So they're gonna be losing to the Orioles. they'll be losing Forty nine and twenty nine. That's yeah, so it'll it'll be like nine games ahead instead of like ten, like you said, right? Mm-hmm. That's that's crazy. I can yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's not like I have the shit you want to fucking. You know what? Actually, you know what? Dodger boy. You might guess my ass? Dodgery. You would love that. Dodger boy, I'll give credit where credit is due. Yes, you guys are playing phenomenal baseball. Because we expect you guys to be Yoshi's back. Yoshi's back. He's throwing. Yes, he's he is as good as advertised. He's doing great. I just gotta talk about this right now because I can't stand the motherfucker. And I don't know what it is about fucking Dodger catchers. I hate them motherfuckers, bro. Fur like Will Smith is one thing, not my Will Smith, but Cow Tier Will Smith. But he's good. I love Will Smith. My Will Smith senpai. Yeah bro, Brock Purdy is your daddy? That that you you're the one the w want to talk right now? Shut up. Shut ⁓ my god. Dalton Rushing. ⁓ In my humble opinion, w without being a hater He's a dick. Y'all need to get that fucker off of y'all roster. Like he is bad for basically. Like a cl a closing run. ⁓ I think it was a double arm yet. Yeah, like the game ⁓ two games right where the game before he tried to take out the second baseman? Yeah. ⁓ nice. Cool. So you want that on you two? No. Alright, well then please he didn't help us win game one. Mm-hmm. He's not in and he's still a young buck, which is makes which makes it infantily like infantry on the Is that the right word? Infantily infantily infantily. It's very hard to like him because a lot of other players on his bench avoid him. So you gotta show a even showing it. Show has Terrified of him, bro. What do you No, he's ⁓ Shoei's like running away from showing. Shoe does not want to fuck with him. Like Shohe felt a disturbance in the force with that game. That's terrible. Shout out to Shohei, he's leading pitch he's second in pitches and then also second in hitting. That's fucking boss, honestly. That's good to see. He's fucking fantastic. That's why he makes the muladu. That's why he makes the move. But I'm excited. We'll see how this season ends. But What? No. You're tapping. Okay, we're we're we're working out the cane. It's fine. Really? Yeah, it was vibrating. What? Well well the It's connected by wires. And the yeah, it's it's already kind of ⁓ stressed. I think it's you're Morse coding the camera over there. ⁓ okay. Yeah, yeah, do your best then situation. We're on camera now so we've Perfect. But also you gotta look directly at the camera when you do that. Here doing it. That's quality shit. So at some point one of us has got a short B, ⁓ then I gotta stretch. ⁓ We gotta wait till it further. They'll be baffled by what you have underneath there. It's my pinky. So final thoughts on your Dodgers, Lowe's Dodgers. Are you worried? Are you worried? I'm not worried. Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't be looking I'd better be worried either. I cool. On a more somber note So yeah, my Chicago Cubs. I honestly don't know what the fuck's going on. it's like they're hot and then they're fucking cold at one point. I have this is the only time in my life. A little bit, actually. Yeah. ⁓ this is the only time in my life that I can recall I can vividly recall where my team not does it puts together not one but two separate ten game winning streaks in the same season as they put together a ten game losing streak. And here we are. It's like when the Cubs are playing well, they're fucking awesome. Like I you cannot change my mind. We have top three defense in the league. Like it it doesn't get any better than that. I'm talking from like all all nine positions. Even our field our pitchers field their positions well. But on the flip side when our pitchers are pitching well There's a difference for you folks back home. We just get rocked. Like it's just insane. And simultaneously, these same bats that put up, you know, on average seven to six or six to seven runs per game go dormant. Like we like we've had in the last twenty games, I think we've had at least four or five games, we don't even put up a single run. Yeah. Which is absurd. Considering that now I've been giving this guy a lot of shit. But the Cubs are top five in payroll now too, so I don't really have any excuse. I guess we just paid the wrong guys. That's not true. I love every single one of you guys. But that being said, we we gotta fucking perform. Like it's just th there's no way around it. We we're the way the roster is constructed right now, we have to win now. Fuck. Mind you, yes, we have like we've had at least twelve pitchers go on the inju ⁓ on the injury list since the beginning of the year. A couple pitches we've already lost. Twelve? A couple a couple pitches that we lost for the year already. We're still waiting on Justin Steele to get back from his Tommy John surgery from last year. ⁓ we're helping just f a little bit after the all-star break, so stay tuned. But that being said, we just gotta pick up a slap. So we'll see. ⁓ we lost an ugly one yesterday against Toronto. That puts us at ⁓ looks like 40, ⁓ 40 and 37. We're seven games outside of first place in our division. At the rate we're going, I don't actually think we're actually gonna win the division. It's gonna be a it's gonna be a tough stretch, but we should at the very least snag one of the wild card spots. And then that's fine. We we we snug a wild card spot last year and we made a decent run. So as long as we get ourselves to the big dance, that's all I can really ask for. But shout out PCA. Yeah, how about that how about that for being overrated? He's not. He's he's playing awesome. He's playing phenomenal. Did somebody call him overrated? ⁓ it was during the St. Louis ⁓ series a couple of weeks back. It was ⁓ it was fucking majestic. the entire crowd was shouting at him during his at bats, overrated. And then of course, next thing we know he hi he hits a a a big bomb to put us ahead. ⁓ and we end up winning this the series. It feels so good to do shit like that. It's it was it's ⁓ it doesn't get any better than that. It's just beautiful. Shut him up there. Exactly just Yeah, a at Bush Stadium, which is dope. But don't disrespect Bush, but yeah. Bush the beer company just for just for disclosure. And I love Bushlights, ⁓ Yeah, I like Court's Banquet. So wait, that's not even the same thing. You know what I'm trying to say. My bad. Anyways, but that's basically where we're at with our teams right now. The MLB season, like I said, is still underway. Aslan ⁓ mentioned it earlier, we're about any from from anywhere from like ninety to a hundred games still to go in the season. So we still got plenty of time to ⁓ make some moves or catastrophically fail. But we won't know yet for a couple of weeks. So stay tuned. Moving right along. Now we're changing sports, right? We're changing sports. Alright, well let's do something fun. ⁓ shall we do the Panini second episode? The Pitter Patter Panini? Panini stickers. Panini stickers. Do you guys wanna do it or do you to do it for the second episode? Yeah, second episode. That makes more sense? Yeah, it's little fun thing. Yeah, because we still got your section and your section for the second episode. And I got an email. And we got emails! And emails. We got and you just Can you just okay? Really? Can you? And email. Thank you. Okay. Stay tuned. We got so much good stuff on the docket for guys. But as I said, transitioning over to I can't do them wrong because we're on reflections. Perfect. The NBA finals has come to a conclusion. Now can I just say that was just like awesome because I feel like the NBA finally got some give me a second. Let me say it from this standpoint. Yeah. It was awesome because people are I were actually tuned in and like following what the fuck was going on. Yeah. And I feel like especially last year 'cause the fucking Oklahoma Oklahoma City Thunder fucked it up winning. No one really cared. Now, here we are. People are time are tuning in and are are are kinda with it. Like what exactly is going on and ⁓ all the drama and the storylines that followed through the NBA finals. So ⁓ really quick before I kinda go on with that, give me your guys' thoughts. ⁓ I I know basketball is not your main sport And you follow. But I feel like you guys got some entertainment out of it. Well I'll go first because I probably have the least to contribute ⁓ in in this conversation. Or at least least the least mm basketballly inclined. But you have a lot of wild takes and we're here for it. So please let us have it. Thank you for the respect. Yes. ⁓ you're right. I do have incredible takes. So we'll start off by saying it was a very amusing file like entertaining finals. Yep. I I I will say that. ⁓ I think it was pretty obvious though I still am curious how ⁓ O K C versus Knicks would have been. Okay. I still think that those that finals would probably have been a little bit more interesting. Let's expand on that a little bit 'cause I disagree but I wanna know your thoughts. Right now? Yeah. Expand okay. That's what we do today. Well, I just think O K C was is battle hardened. And I think they probably wouldn't have cracked under the pressure the way that the Spurs ended up. ⁓ those those final those final moments in those big games. Los Well we're getting into it, but like losing the fucking big league, that wouldn't have happened. And I'm curious how the Knicks would have overcome the ticky tackiness. I still think that the Knicks I think the Knicks were destined this year. Honey's twenty twenty prophesies. And honey tight is twenty twenty, but I don't think ⁓ anybody was gonna stop them. Once you get Madison Square Garden in the finals, you can't really get much better. They probably haven't. pass to fuck that Yeah, they actually fucked that up in nineteen ninety nine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. ⁓ but I mean this year I feel like they were very well put together. ⁓ the way that they were playing they played with they played with intent. You can tell, right? Because so yeah, no, as far as the OK C Nick's conversation, that's why I think maybe the maybe OK C would have performed a little bit better because they know what it takes and I don't think they would have made those mistakes that the Spurs made. Fair enough. Riley. I thought it was a fun watch. Mm ⁓ nonetheless. But your thoughts on Nick's fine ⁓ OK C specific. Like hi I'm like hypothetically. I think that it could have been expanded more, ⁓ just due to the history of the OKC. I think that maybe would have Yeah, I'm a gamer yeah game or something. Yeah. Yeah, I think OK C would have gotten away with a couple of games. Facts. ⁓ and it would have been a longer series, but I I honestly think it would have been a shit show also. ⁓ a lot of more complaints too on the O K C side, so it's not good for basketball. Especially for the fan base. Like every single fan base hated OK C's overall. Yeah. So they hated their fan base, they hated their players, they hated the way that the NBA was treating so and it it and helping them out as far as treatment goes. Yeah. But I think overall that Do you think it would have been a better finals? No, I just a longer finals. It's just would've been a longer series. Sure. It would have been expanded, I think. What about you, Papa? I think it I honestly have a hard time saying it would have been better series, mainly because if we look at every single game, all five games between San Antonio and New York, San Antonio was up by double digit di by double digits in every single game. Yeah. They just come in close. So like they were there. They sh they showed why they belonged. But they also showed like their youth. Yeah. That's all that was. Yeah. They showed their youth. That's all it was. But not just youth. Youth is a bad word. I'd say inexperience. And I know KC has that experience because OKC is also young. Mm yeah, but they've already been through it. Especially after one year of like just one year of going through the N ⁓ deep playoff run like they did the year prior, that makes a world difference. So to your point, yeah, the experience is gonna make a big like it's gonna be noticeable. But I honestly think, and I hate to be the guy to say this because I think he's already done he's he's already had this shit like circling the internet and he's basically on like he's being headhunted at this point. But if they didn't have the Aaron Fox, they probably would have won the series. Fuck dude. I'm I'm gonna let Aaron Fox help them get there. I recall making big plays in the playoffs. He made a few, but he was also injured for the first part of the season. So and they still maintain them their their best record like, you know, a top two record in the in the the NBA West. Poor Darren Fox. Bro, like it's honestly the craziest thing because even I was like, dude, why are you not running the clock? It's like bro, exactly, thank you. And for those of you guys listening at home, i it was game it was game four, Madison Square Garden. The Knicks were up. ⁓ mind you, they had just given up the twenty nine point lead. Spurs were up. ⁓ but sorry, the Spurs were up. They had just given up the twenty nine point lead, but they still had like a two or three point lead with like forty seconds to go or some shit. They think it was one. They came up with a huge stop, got the turnover, and instead of playing no it was like yeah, it was like fifteen seconds to go. Instead of which was enough to run that out. Either run it out or make them foul you. Right. ⁓ But instead of doing so, he tried to play hero ball and get take the ball all the way to the cup, thinking he was gonna gonna outrun OG, OG and Ananobi. OG comes up with a monster block and next thing we know it sets up his tip in at the buzzer. So that is fucking in Which is which mind you, shout out to OG because dude he came up with a stop and he also won the game with that put back like a as time expired. So shout out OG. Like that was fucking the stuff of legend. For real, for real. But now you're talking about instead of the series being tied two two, we're going back to San Antonio down three to one with New York in favor. And fast forward to game five, what happens? San Antonio pulls away with a fourteen, fifteen point lead, and then somehow they fucking choke that shit up again. Yeah. But and where's De'Aaron Fox in the midst of all this? He has he's shooting like two or three for seventeen or some shit. Yeah. He's not he's not effective. Like he like he's not playing winning basketball. Mind you, it it can happen to anybody. Anybody can have a bad game. I feel like it's also the youth of the coach too. But if you come thank you. Thank you for bringing that up. How the fuck ⁓ as ⁓ Mitchell Johnson, the head coach of the San Antonio Squares, you have Harrison Barnes on your team. Yeah. The veteran the only veteran presence on your team who's won a championship with Golden State, mind you, yeah, and you don't play him. Let put him out there for fucking ten minutes, twelve minutes. He's a he's a wing player. So he's not taking away from from Wemby. He's not taking away from the from Dylan Harper or from Stefan Castle. Dude, let him be the grounding force. Calm calm calm these fuckers down. Yeah, that'll go. Bro, and and yeah, it would a Because you could you could tell Well okay, so now we're getting to s the actual series. ⁓ Yeah. You could tell at times the Spurs were getting jumpy. Yep. Like they were just like the youth jumpiness adrenaline, everything was going. And y and they weren't playing they weren't executing. Not just that and you need a general attack. And and and and this is and this is my my harshest critique of Wemby, who mind you, is the face of the league. For anybody listening at home, I don't give a fuck. Victor Wembyama is the face of the league. Sit on it, I don't care. My my biggest critique of Victor is the fact that bro, you're up by double digits. Why are you s hanging out on the perimeter? Why are you jacking up three point shots? Get your big ass, big lanky ass down on the block, draw a fucking foul and s and get easy buckets. Yeah. Why are you hucking up threes with a big ass lead? Yeah. There's absolutely no reason. And anybody with half a brain cell who's played the game of basketball knows. If you play with a big lead and you start hucking up long jump shots, it means long rebounds. What does that mean? The other team gets an easy counter-transition back there. Okay. He's a baby. He's 22. Brings me back to my previous point. Mitchell Johnson, why the fuck aren't you playing Harrison Barnes to help get him in his fucking year, tell him to settle the fuck down. Yeah. Come on now. I hear you. But Back to the original question, which was what would an OK C New York. I feel like we're past that episode. I don't think it'd be a good I don't think it'd be a good series simply because we are opening the door for OKC to piss off the rest of the world again because they're still in it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that's really what it is. It is. And and and then th you're giving them an opportunity for them to still be relevant and You still giving it giving them a chance to fucking for shit to go s even further sideways. What if they win again? Yeah. They go back to back. Yeah. I don't want that. I don't either. Nobody in America besides OK C wants that shit. No. So absolutely not. and God, if I had to see fucking if I had to see see Chet Homegrim for another fucking series, I was I was probably gonna shoot myself. R with a water gun. With a water gun. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But ⁓ it's ⁓ 'cause the bro's made out of fucking water. Yeah, the dude's made out of eighty percent water and twenty percent skeleton. Yeah, dude. Basically. I I don't know what you're trying to do. I don't know what you're trying to ride the banana crust set, but ride it. Mobbing is saddled. Let's go, guys. Hey, hey. Hey podcast set, dude. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Fuck you, maybe I wouldn't boss this shit. Hey. No, we did. But we're hey we're doing good shit, bro. But ⁓ was that your final thoughts on the Final thoughts in the NBA finals. the off season's gonna be very interesting. ⁓ we won't get into it. We'll save it for another episode. But the finals was good for basketball. Finals are good for basketball. ⁓ but you guys Wanna talk about the negative connotations about like what happened in New York City? Or do you wanna fuck it, let's get into that. I mean that's more of like a social aspect. Do you wanna save instead of the city? We can save Or are we or are we dragging this too too ⁓ too much on? Nah, we're half an hour in yeah, let's get to the World Cup. Yeah? Yeah. Let's get to the World Cup because I think Episode two will talk about how ⁓ New York City is overrated and needs to chill the fuck out. Yes. I w ⁓ w with that closing thoughts on that episode twenty six. I slan apologizes too much. That being said, everybody apologizing. No, we're not apologizing for that one. They did it to themselves, they're fucking clowns. So the World Cup is in full swing. The World Cup is bringing people together. We're all here. Our teams are doing well so far. Yeah. ⁓ I'm gonna turn it over to my boy Riley real quick, Bobby Fresh. You're the soccer expert. Please. Give us give us a little something. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi, oi, oi! Oi, oi, oi! Aussie's on the banda. Trump's a sex phenomenal. That was actually wild. Dude, that's a crazy chance. That was good. FBI's tapping into the camera. ⁓ damn. Well we're all we're all going to jail. Same with a thousand or a b million other people, but whatever. Thousand millions. Say lobby show. Say Lobby. I think you can. I have no idea. I think people just don't do it because th they're not getting paid to. Well, I'm like pretending I'm an athlete who can't show the Gatorade logo as I'm giving you a Gatorade Take the mix of the fucking shit. Get the fuck out of here. Those pickups. Those pickups. Those pickups he's not drinking because he's trying to be a father. Here we go. No. I'm just not drinking because I wanna, you know. ⁓ what do you guys think so far? I mean I think having you lead it off. Don't ask us ask us after you've given us some information. I mean, it's fun though. Like Jameis Winston is freaking living his life, dude. He really is, but let's leave that for the other episode. ⁓ are we gonna do that on the social? Argentina. Yeah, no, let's talk about actual results in the episode. Okay, Argentina, hat trick messy, let's fucking go. You know what? Actually okay, let me touch on that. Touch. Touch bull. ⁓ but a great test. Great test. Phenomenal test. I see it. Good fucking ball. I see it. So, dude, okay. It's so hard to talk shit about Messi not being the goat when he fucking puts a hat trick in the game of the fucking side. Yeah, I did it against Algeria. Bro, I swear. Every time I talk Dude, Ronaldo can't even fucking do it against the Ronaldo did it against fucking Spain, who was number two in the world at the time, so shut the fuck up. Hey. So, not recently. Look. It's I guess fucking Congo. ⁓ we're really doing this right now? Look what we did. So first of all, Messi should've been fucking throwing out the fucking game. No, he fucking should- He motherfucker He There is no viewers! There is no fucking viewers! He coped him! Hold up! Doesn't matter! It's not force! It to be insects of force! Necron doesn't even know what what the fuck we're talking about. ⁓ sorry. Let's chill the fuck out for a second. Alright? Finish my thoughts. Okay. Fuck you. So, we'll get to that. We'll get to that. You don't know. Shit! You don't know shit. ⁓ they're alleging that Messi should have gotten a red card. That's w the topic of conversation, but we're not there good. We're not gonna go there yet. I was gonna say, yeah, it's Algeria, but I swear that every fucking time I talk about a team, you guys are like, they're not that bad. No, Chechia's not that bad. Well, fuck Chechia, they got their asses kicked. ⁓ the coast of Ivory's not that bad. Man, everybody who fucking loses if you lose. If you lose, you're a bum. That easy as that. Don't tell me that Swed Sweden is not that bad. Sweden. They their asses kicked by the Netherlands. But they also kicked their ac the they won big the first game before that game. Who against who? I forgot, give me a second. Fucking Madagascar? They're not in the World Cup, but I like where your head's like what are we talking about? What the fuck is Tunisia? Move it, move it. No, ⁓ let's see. Tunisia. What is Tunisia? But can we we have How many people are in their population? Let's be respectful of these foreign countries because they are our friends. I am being respectful by saying their name. By even uttering their name. Yeah. Look. Stupid American. Yeah, it's always stupid. Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. And if you're actually a Tunisia fan, you we can get you on the podcast and can tell me We can tell you can tell me how you actually think you have you stand a chance. Because I don't think you'll ever stand a chance in the pocket world. ⁓ I wonder why. I wonder why. But every I swear every team I like bring up I'm like Haiti. ⁓ Haiti's not that bad, it's blah blah blah. And it's like, Well what Haiti do the World Cup so far? You know? No, the twenty forty eight. Anyways I don't know. ⁓ it's hard to talk smack about Messi when you score in a hat tricks. Even if it is against Algeria that's the world that's the world stage, it's the world cup. I'm not saying Messi's the greatest of all time. I think that's Rafa Marquez. You literally just said the goat. I'm also Rafa Marquez. Hugo Sanchez, Hugo Sanchez. Or Jorge Campos. I he's a ke he was a keeper. But either way. Greatest amongst Carlos Teres. ⁓ Forgeti! Let's go. ⁓ fuck it up, bump up. Yeah, that's what that was my thoughts on ⁓ Argentina. Are you wanting to finish up your thoughts? How is Argentina doing We we really didn't get anywhere. No, I guess so. Talk about Argentina. Talk about the how they're leading the group and they're fucking getting calls and how you think you're gonna be winning the They're getting calls. I they haven't gotten any fucking calls, dude. You mean get you mean you're not getting away with calls? Talk about You're not even getting away with calls because I wasn't even a fucking call and a million fucking people stink so tell us how Argentina's been performing. Shut the fuck up about it. And let me explain. If that was true, not explaining shit. We're talking about Argentina and how you think that they're doing and how they will do that. I think they're gonna win the group. Have they not already? No, they've only played one game. They've only played one game, they've played tomorrow seconds tomorrow, right. Well against Austria tomorrow. Yeah. Austria? Yeah. Who won their first game? Who won their first game barely? Against their grandpas? No, they b no they beat Jordan. Yeah, they barely beat Jordan, so I feel like that should it should be an easy matchup for us. It's gonna be a physical matchup because Austria always plays physical. But it's gonna be They probably taller too. Yeah, no. They're not as tall. We have some really tall players, but Yeah, 'cause we got like Germans and Italians and Or Austrians. Or Austrians that migrated to Argentina. But who's Chinatio? So you think Argentina's gonna win? Messi another hat trick? No. No, no, no. It's gonna be a tighter game this time around. Sure. ⁓ It's hard to it's hard to say in the World Cup, dude. Like you never know what's gonna fucking happen. Curaçao fucking tied Spain out of all fucking teams. See, that's my issue with soccer. Everybody's too much of a realist. Where's the fucking just blind pride? Ignorance. That's why I sound like no no one w no one wants to be blatantly ignorant on purpose. Either you're ignorant. Yeah that's why Americans are important to soccer That's literally the ⁓ my god. And you call it this this is what you're fucking doing? Okay, why the fuck are we why are you talking like that? I can think that's gonna blow them out of the water. Why isn't that your mentality? You got the greatest player of all time, alleged by like half the fucking world. Why aren't you saying fuck them? I gotta stay fucking humble, dude. Since when has Austria been relevant in anything? I think it's still and they fucking lost that shit. They got good boxers, a wrestling. Dude, in the who's a boxer from Austria? I can't say it right now, but I forget it's not off the top of my head. And what else? Wrestling. Wrestling in the twenty. Gunther man. Fuck you. Gunther, fuck you. ⁓ the ring generator. In the twentieth. Twenty twenty two fuck you. In the twenty twenty two World Cup. Yes. Fucking Argentina lost to Iran. In twenty twenty two? In twenty twenty two. They lost the first game to Iran. Yeah. And then ⁓ before that. And then in twenty eighteen they lost they basically it felt like a loss, but it was a tie. But they tied to Iceland. Who the fuck? Iceland hasn't been in the fucking World Cup ever. Okay, that's the fire I need. Iceland has this argument. So like Yeah, Iceland does. I learned something today. No, yeah. No. I mean we beat him this we actually beat ⁓ in a friendly recently. ⁓ that's cute. That's almost weird. I mean Tina beat Iceland in a friendly recently, but I'm just saying stop being such a gentleman, dude. Fucking talk your shit. No. I I will talk my shit when I need to talk my shit. I'll talk my shit after No, I'll talk my shit after the game. You were waiting to rip my head off just because I told you that he deserved a fucking red card. Yeah! Fuck you! There it is. Because he did it! Motherfucker! And he fucking refereed! Did it! He clipped it! ⁓ my god! He's literally under investigation! Yes! Yes, and they said there was no force. Yes. There's not enough force. He freaking clipped him with his fucking knee and accidentally fucking stepped on his fucking calf. With and then pulled off. You don't pull off. How do you pull off on excessive force? Messi to me is always gonna be the fakest nice guy on the fucking pitch ever. ⁓ my god. I'm sorry, I've s I've seen too many clips. You're not gonna change my mind. Do I respect this game? Absolutely. The g the the gu the guy is phenomenal. He's a he's a talent. As far as a pl as a person goes, he's a bitch. No And he got fat PEDs, so he can make him grow two fucking inches. So I don't care. You lost respect for me. I got it. Yeah? He's talking about how Argentina's making him feel and what he thinks Argentina's gonna do in the World Cup. Finish your thoughts. Then we'll go to Mexico and USA. You cannot hold on. I'm sorry. They're gonna go far in Can we please both agree on this one thing? You can't rile us up and then try to be the fucking voice of reason out of nowhere. What the fuck is that? You're literally getting us together to go ahead and get go at each other's throat, trying to get him get all stuffed up. I haven't fucking mentioned once the calls. Are you listening to what I'm saying? You want him to be passionate? I'm getting him riled the fuck up. And then the moment I do, you telling me to shut the fuck up. ⁓ Am I right? Yeah. I'm telling both of you to shut the fuck up. And just stick to the fucking topic again and we'll get to the fucking emotional fault. I'm telling him to stop being a gentleman. I'm not telling you to stop being a gentleman because I know that you can't you have that shit unlocked. Argentina has another chance to fucking repeat. There we go. Say it again. They have another chance to fucking repeat. Okay, so stop Fucking saying Usher's gonna give you a challenge. Fucking blow sideways. They won a shit since World War One. This is gonna blow up horribly when they fucking tie and we have to talk this shit next week. That's why I need to stay humble. Because I think we're taking that shit. I think they could tie you guys in the finals. That's how I feel. I think Usher could tie it, but we might eat him at the round of sixteen. I don't think we see him in the finals. But that's beside the point. If it's not Manhattan, you would say I'd continue as going down. Okay. Hm, sure. Yeah, more goals by USA. We we will both shut up. Final thoughts. Abkividina. I well I freaking said it, but like Yeah, but why? Like but why why? Yeah, why's just a bit? Well I was explaining it but then you guys started. I'm sorry. No. You're fine. I think just their touch on the ball is way it is better than most teams in this World Cup. Mhm. Their passing, their movement is incredible. Messi's just playing out of his mind. At the moment Is there anybody else besides Messi that we should be like, ⁓ wow, that guy is legit. Ulian Averez. Julian Julian Lavarez. Julian Averez. ⁓ I think he could step up to be that next player. He hasn't shown it this last game around, but I feel like just because it was it felt like the messy show, all like and it was just all messy, like he got kind of shadowed. But I think Julian Navares is gonna be Really good in this World Cup. Enzo Fernandez. Enzo Fernandez, he's gonna be a a stout midfielder. Christian Romero, he's gonna be fucking a beast in the back. he's he's always played aggressive. I've said it before, he's played aggressive overall. like e every single time he's played, he's played aggressive. ⁓ Okay, so Ju Julio Marays, Julio Narvez, Romero, Alessandro ⁓ Lessandro Martinez. It is really crazy that I think that Argentina is set up to still be good after Messi. gotta youth yeah yeah you gotta get talented. For sure. They I mean even during mm some s during the Olympics we do well. ⁓ like because we have in the men's Olympics you can't be twenty one and over. You have to be y under twenty one to play in the Olympics. So that up that actually like tracks for the youth to play super well. And they s play really well during that time. there's like there's new guys like Fankuno Marina. He's he's been starting in the lineup. Same with Melina. ⁓ he's also been starting in the lineup but he's been pulling pretty well. Our youngest player is Nico Paz, who's who plays for Como. ⁓ he's twenty-one. And Barco, Valentin Barco, he's he doesn't look Argentinian but he's he's super white, ginger. What does ⁓ an Argentino look like? But that that's hard to describe. What is that? It's it's like it I would say 'cause we can't olive skin. That's cap. That's not true. ⁓ respectfully. 'Cause I mean the same shit can happen with us Mexicanos. Like you would look at me and you would never guess I'm Mexicano. I mean you might have some traces, sure. Yeah, I I feel like that's hard to s Is it when he's brown looking? He doesn't look like an Argentina. no, that's dope. Yeah, you guys do have a lot of young yo young potential that I think could take the mantle over Messi and I don't think you guys are gonna be completely ass once Manson, you know. ⁓ any final thoughts before we carry on to Mexico and the US? No. I think they'll make it they could have a chance to repeat. ⁓ again. For years to come. For years to come. Emphasis on cum. Yeah. C U L. C U L. Yes. Alright, Ahmad. United States, Mexico. Come. Huh? I'm gonna s I'm gonna sidestep that. Why are we mentioning Canada? I'm sidestepping that Aslan, go for it. ⁓ you have a bit you have a bit more alliance with both Mexico and the US as opposed to more I'm more like s like one hundred percent Mexico. Yeah. So take it away. Wha what what what have you seen so far that you like? Things that might worry you? Yeah, ⁓ so yeah, I I am I am aligned with both Mexico and the United States. ⁓ so I started off with Mexico. Mexico's always gonna be number one for me. I'm always gonna go if it's Mexico USA, it's always Mexico. It's like no if, ands or buts. ⁓ that's how I grew up. I always had Mexico Mexico jerseys. I had USA jerseys, but when it came down to it it was always Mexico and at that time it was fucked USA. ⁓ not like the country but like the team. Back to football. When it comes to Yeah, so I had to take a step back from soccer. and so I haven't been paying too much of attention too much attention to the World Cup ⁓ this World Cup. 'Cause I don't even I didn't even watch last World Cup at all. And Manguin didn't come out the world stage. ⁓ the group stage. Yeah they did. Did we get out the group stage? Yeah we got knocked out by these fuckers. In Qatar? Yes. Why do you think I'm so fucking bitter? Well good thing I didn't watch it. ⁓ no, okay. So Mexico I think they've been ha look, I was talking to a couple actually I was talking to one of Riley's friends who was also ⁓ from Argentina. And I think somebody else had a bar. Mexico has not been winning pretty. Mexico has not been winning gracefully. But we're getting it by any fucking means necessary. Right. But I've been learning about the head coach from Mexico is that he takes teams and he makes sure that they perform perform soundly. Not great, not bad. Balanced. Soundly. So that can be a recipe for success. Until you need a ⁓ you know, compared to other sports, you need a playmaker to make a play. Right? But at this point we're just depending on people to make mistakes. What happened this past fucking yeah? True. Right against South Korea. Very much so. They made a mistake and very fucking capitalized on And we took and and we c capitalized on it. The South the own goals have been happening in the World Cup this year. ⁓ it seems to be a pretty frequent thing compared to most other years. There's been a lot more this year than I've ever mean it's like a win is a win. Like nobody fucking two World Cups in the future is gonna rem be like, that ain't fucking count. South the South Korea was fucked up bro, fuck you. Like that a win is a winner we got off the group stage. That's all that matters to me. The other thing I wanna preface this conversation by as far as my part is I get insanely patriotic when it comes to this shit. With Mexico or with USA. So when it comes to that's why I was trying to get Riley all riled up, 'cause I'm like I am not a gentleman when I talk about my team my my especially my country. You know? Like when it comes to Mexico, fuck everybody else. South Korea, that's barbecue chicken right there. We g that's in the past. That's in Korea. Nah, nah, nah. You were trying to give Austria props. No, I'm trying to You were trying to say you were gonna tie with the why would you ever say you would tie with the team? Fuck that. Okay. I would rather I'd rather I would Okay. But that was one of the things that I had to learn about soccer. Was that draws are beneficial. Seems kind of stupid to me. I'd rather win the game, but ⁓ I guess I could see how a draw is beneficial if you're winning through points. I mean in in this particular case, because you compare it to boxing. Floyd Mayweather was a points master. Yeah. He would win by points, being technically sound. Everybody hated him for it. So it doesn't make sense for me in soccer to win technically. Because you drew three times and then you won one game, which put ahead of it. Mayweather a goat. No, I don't. Fair enough. I don't. I I I I I I rest my case. For many other things. So, including that though. Anyways, Mexico has won two games. There's nothing for me to complain about. ⁓ I will say I was on Twitter the other day and I saw the highlights from France and Argentina in the past World Cup. I'm a little worried. The touch that they had on the ball on that both teams. Both teams was in fucking sane. The like The touch that they had stretching across the field. You can tell there's levels to this shit. Yeah. But with that being said, Mexico's taking it all. And I have no fucking doubts about that. I like. And I ⁓ respect who do we lose? We got ⁓ we lost Mora? Montes for the red coat. I like Edzel Edsen Álvarez. Do dude did you that save? He's a fucking that save. Holy shit. And he's a fucking dog. Yeah. I think Mexico my whole thing is like with Mexico specifically, because I've watched a lot of ⁓ Mexico football. There's this fucking like trope in in soccer right now where you gotta send your y the best players of your country, you gotta send them to Europe. Europe is we're gonna learn a la la. Europe you g they gotta need experience in Europe to be anything in the fucking blah blah blah. Europe is the best players of all players. It pisses me off so much because I remember being in middle school and everybody, all these Mexicanos kids would have Barcelona jerseys, Real Madrid, Manchester. What the fuck do you have in connection with those people? Other than maybe Chicharito on Manchester? Yeah. Right? Yeah. That makes sense 'cause there's a fucking connection. That makes sense 'cause there's a connection there. And now in retrospect it makes sense because they're a fan of the sports and they're watching the best of the best over in Europe. But It's like you look at the Brazilians, right? There's a Brazilian way to play football. It's a little lost now. But if you look back at the Ronaldinho days, Ronaldo days, back in Brazil, even fucking Neymar, there's a special way that they play football. And they and they took pride in that. Even if their players went into Europe, it's still the Brazilian, South American way to play football. It's different. It's more creative. Right? Mm-hmm And you should take pride in that. And I think Mexico should take pride in playing football the Mexico way. I think that's with a little bit of attitude. Players like Ethanalarez, Rafa Marquez. Play with some fucking pride. Some grit. Some grit. Yeah. Get it by any fucking means necessary. I think that's what we displayed the past game. Any means necessary we got there. Which it was Montes's replacement that scored the fucking goal. No. ⁓ Edsen replaced Montes as a starter in in the lineup. Romo, who has been honestly, I I think we can all agree ⁓ that he's been underperforming. ⁓ for for the national club for some time now. Yeah. That was his first goal in God knows how long. Like be before he even did anything. I will add, it seems like half the people in last election, mm-hmm, right? Are playing for Chi Bus. There's a good chunk of them, yeah. I won't add to that. ⁓ We got the flag in the back. a win is a win though, so I won't complain. USA, I feel like they showed up and they showed up. ⁓ I think maybe they they watched a lot of the videos of people giving them shit, ⁓ saying that, you know, they're the most privileged USA team ever, that they're the USA team that's been given everything, right? And they're coming in and they've punched all the t they punched both those teams in the mouth. Yeah. They've punched them both in the mouth. And they're playing with pride. That's the most important thing is I hate when fucking teams call it in. I think that's what disappoints me most about draws. They're playing like Americans. I think that's what disappoints me most about draws is that you're phoning it in. You're calling it in, you're just defensive. This is benefits us in the score, in the rankings. Let's shore it up and let's and and let's win by points. And I have thoughts on that too. But it but it should be fucking take it. You gotta grab it and you gotta take it. Right? Yeah. ⁓ that reminds me. I would like to go over the UFC Y part of that one. Absolutely at some point. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ you want his input on Mexico? ⁓ Yeah, ⁓ I'm gonna finish. Yeah, but ⁓ but but I feel like you have something to say w w when he when he mentioned something about the US before I speak my piece. ⁓ okay. He mentioned something about the US, you wanted to chime in with something I feel like about. Yeah, that's what it was. But if we talk about the US US you're right, they played with Friday. ⁓ They've gotten a lucky they've gotten lucky a couple of times, but sometimes like you guys said with May you go, that's all you need. Really? USA has gotten lucky and they fucking capitalized and they reigned on. Yeah, yeah. And I will say the first the first goal of the Australian game, the guy the defender had no other choice to like have a touch on the ball because he had Balogun right behind him, ready to freaking pouch off the ball. But we've rained on them after. No I I agree w I I see what what you're saying, but I feel like that that first goal that set the tone for the rest of the match because like you can change or you can see the change in body language from the Australians after that goal because like they they were they said for for those first ten minutes they were playing aggressive. Yeah, they were. that own goal was just like fuck because a anybody who's played the sport yeah at once in their life it's happened. Bro like fuck it like that that is liter th that's to me, that's the picture perfect example of what is unlucky when it comes to soccer. Football. Yeah. ⁓ it's like bro, like he did everything he was supposed to. It just it was a shit spot to be in. Like he like there's no way around it. It it's either try and get a foot on it or dude's right behind him. He's gonna just Tap that shit in. Right. he's He's just gonna nail it with his left foot. So so it's like so like my final go ahead. Yeah, sorry. Your final thought. My final thoughts. I'm proud of both teams. I'm proud that Mexico's gotten to where it's at. ⁓ I'm proud that Mexico's playing soundly, right? I don't think that there's any glaring weaknesses other than I think obviously we can improve with the touch on the ball a little bit, but we've won both games, there's nothing for me to complain about. I I just revert back to combat sports. Yeah. You gotta get it by any means necessary, even if it doesn't look clean. And so they got both wins. Nothing for me to complain about. USA's got both wins, nothing for me to complain about. I think they're both playing with a lot of pride right now, especi and I'm happy to see it because we are on home turf to watch these games in Estadio Azteca. To watch these games in that ⁓ in that study in in Guadalajara is is fucking beautiful. To hear the crowd is awesome. I Fucking regret not getting a ticket to watch at least USA and Seattle. That doesn't make no sense for me to not be there, right? I mean But ⁓ very happy about that. I will say my final thought is I think we can't c call Polisic Captain America if he missed a fucking game through due to a hamstring injury. That doesn't make no sense to me. I think Polisic's title is up in the air. I know Riley doesn't like Polisic. But But there's no way you miss a World Cup game at home because you got a fucking phony ass hamstring injury. ⁓ Shoot that shit up. I've been running on sp shin splints. Softball. They call me Captain America. I'm taking whatever I can to get on the Bro, I'm gonna stay with my kit and my boys and my lads. You're constantly running. Sprinting. You're sprinting. But like you don't even like Policic. Why are you defending it? No, but you're I'm not trying to but you'll be realistic though. Yeah. Nah fuck that shit. Polisic can limit it's if you're Your hamstring your hamstring does all the heavy lifting when you're sprinting. The game itself is all sprinting. I Polisic's been there for the US time and time again. It has shown and and the his physicality and his Okay. And if I don't e I don't even like ballistic, but I gotta be realistic. My point my opinion right now is distorted. And so don't I see that. No. So don't think it's me personally. No. This is we know this is my personal It's part of the podcast. This is my personal This is so don't think I'm a dumbass. This is but that motherfucker should have been there. ⁓ Hey, drink is my dog. They got needles. This is my head. Shoot that shit up with stem cells. Kane Manning came back from a neck injury. You talk about confidence. You talk about Performance in the Thinking that they're gonna win of that. They thought they could fucking win without Policy. And they did. Yeah, they lost they won without Politics, so that's what they thought they could do in that game. So they were gonna give them any rest in this game. And they'll probably give them another rest against Turkey because they're already advanced. So if they if they think that they can beat Australia without Policy, I don't wanna hear Australia might give them a run for the money. Fuck them! If they can beat Australia without Policic, what the fuck are we talking about? Why the fuck would we give Australia any flowers? They just got beat! They got sent back down under! Yeah. Without Captain America! Yeah. Wait. Buffaroo Bunji! They got put on the Bobby! In Seattle! Dang, man, hey man, you don't you mention crocodile Dundee next, bro? I'll smack you. ⁓ what what did it say? Ooh, look at that. Well, the other the other crocodile. ⁓ that's that's Steve Irving, rest in peace. Rest in peace, Steve Urber. Awesome father. Your your son's doing amazing work. Your son's doing amazing work. Unfortunately your soccer team does not USA USA USA USA Wait, do you even like USA? Yeah we just talked about Argentina but I thought it would be like Argentina, Germany and fucking Austria. It's Argentina Italy. USA Italy too. Yeah. Argentina, USA, Italy, Germany. No, you were talking in Apple No, he was talking in apples, he was saying Argentina, Germany, Italy, USA. In Adam. I never no, I said USA second. He got you on Apple. No no no no no. I said USA second. He's fucking lying. I smell a little fishy. I smell a little fishy over here. ⁓ anyways, I'm proud of both teams how they're playing. This World Cup's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun to have the World Cup here. ⁓ in I hate North America. one hat no one hates you. Mellon hates you, Riley. It's part of the podcast. ⁓ here, one second. One second, one second. so now Ernesto is gonna I'm giving a very patriotic, a very ignorant opinion on my soccer teams, my country soccer teams. Yeah. I'm being ignorant and stuff, but I did grow up watching L three. Like I can't stress that enough. I had jerseys up to ass. Yeah. I watched like the South Africa World Cup, I was just a little boy. That's like what I can that's the first World Cup I can remember. Yeah. Like I love El Tri. I just had to take a step back because it pained me so. Right? It pained me so, dude. It hurt. I I mean f brother, you're talking to a couple Last time I watched it was like fucking Linez and shit. Through like And these motherfuckers aren't even playing anymore. ⁓ So yeah, I haven't been I haven't been keeping in touch. But you you're never not supporting your country's physical. Never never not never. You know what I'm saying? Right. So shout out. In our realness, I'm happy the World Cup's going up. What what were you gonna say? So with that said that's what are your thoughts on Andre. So there are a lot of things that both of you guys said that I have to agree with that I'm I'm of the same mind and it makes a lot of sense. First and foremost, I'll say this. In the words of the great Dominic Torretto, it doesn't min matter if you win by an inch or by a mile, winning is winning. Winning is winning. ⁓ So right now, Docero México, Arila México cabrones. And here we are. But to be honest Viva México we've a México wey. No. So the real thing is, honestly, while I do respect Jose Agere's coaching style, he he wants a balanced, consistent attack whether it comes to controlling the ball. almost even parking the bus if you will. Yeah. ⁓ which is literally what happened after we got that first goal. Yeah. We got that first goal and we parked the fucking bus. That's what it was. While I understand the logic behind it, we're playing safe. At the same time I think we have we have players on in our lineup right now that we need to let let them let them flourish. Like Ryan Gutierrez, Romo, Alvarado. Alvarado's been playing great in my opinion. Like he I I was not expecting him to play as well, he's been playing. He's create creating opportunities for us. Raul is gonna be Raul, he's gonna knock in goals when it matters most. So I'm not worried about that. It's been p phenomenal to see. But as far as like for like what I mean by letting these guys flourish, like especially Gutierrez and Lira i in the midfield, let them fucking be creative. Let them create. Yeah. That that's literally what it is. We have the skill, we have the wherewithal to go ahead and get ourselves some more goals. But we can be aggressive. We can afford to be aggressive. So what I'm really looking forward forward to is this next week on Wednesday when we play Turkie. Like I really want us to take advantage. I don't want us to Turkey. ⁓ I sh ⁓ Chechia, my bad, I misspoke. All these these forty teams, guys, I'm sorry. So goes to show that not every team matters to you. I mean, especially when Turki already already got fucking eliminated and so did Sheshia. But that's beside the point. So especially in this game against Sheshia, I really want these guys to go ahead and be Let loose. Go ahead. We're already gone. Have at it. We're we're in the next round already. Yes, I I understand seeding matters. We we want to get it as high the highest seed as possible. We so we have a a more favorable matchup. I agree completely. But all right, let's say if we're gonna fuck around Let's do it right now. This is the time. Yeah. If there was a time for us to go ahead and put on the young kids to get experimental, this is the game. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I couldn't agree. ⁓ so like l let's do this, let's go ahead and and show show what the what the world show the world that we're not the same team that's been here. Yes. ⁓ we we we've made it to the knock out stage. That's kinda been our whole thing. We've only made it to the knockout stage and we haven't gotten any further. ⁓ I mean, not to drudge up the past, but like That Netherlands game has haunted me for as long as I can remember 'cause that's that was the most pain w the most painful Mexico game I have endured in my adult life. Like it it was like si foi penale because the puta madre, fuck you guys. That's the tough part. Yeah, it's like No, they lost to Espana. No, they lost to the Netherlands. No. Who won that cup? In twenty fourteen? Yeah. Germany? I guess that's right, Duna? I thought the Netherlands got to the finals that one. No. No, Croatia and France got to the finals in twenty eighteen. And then for Croatia, another country that's fine. Well they got to the final, so. I don't think the Netherlands haven't gotten to the final since like the nineteen hundreds. Mexico ever got to the finals at any. So we can't say shit. ⁓ Yeah, we can't talk shit like that. So, anyways, back to my original Croatia has shitty food. I think overall no they are beautiful women. That's all I'm gonna say about that before I expand. So that's all I'm gonna say. Anyways, Mexico I think they have the makings to make it actually further. I think they're gonna get out of the sixteenth. After that, only God knows what's gonna happen. Bro, if we make it past the sixteenth, I'm gonna be like Wemby coming out of the going into the final. Start the fucking gray, motherfuckers. Let's go. Berserk Titan on you motherfuckers. Let's go. That's gonna be like Niners beating Philadelphia type. Bro, I'm I'm gonna go crazy. I'm gonna go fucking crazy. I hope I'm there. I'm I hope we're together. I I'm gonna buy both I'm gonna buy both jerseys. Hey look, I like I like USA. But Mexico's number one for me. I hope you know. You and I and and I understand like yes, I I am US born for those of you guys watching at home. And you should be like, ⁓ you should gonna look at me differently. You you should you should be I'm gonna look at you a little differently. But does but No, so like I I understand, yes, I I do love I do love being a US citizen. I do love where I'm from. I I I like dude, I I live, breathe and bleed Chicago. Like that's that's home. I get that. But for me the affinity is always gonna be where my parents brought brought their culture, their upbringing, their their way of living has been instilled to me and to me that's always gonna be the Durango Mexico. And bro, it just doesn't doesn't compare. That's literally what I'm saying. No, I and and that's great. I I'm I'm I'm I'm just speaking for myself. I'm not speaking for you or You said you'd look at me differently though. That was a joke. It was Was it a joke? A little bit. Like seventy percent. What's the party ripper? And you ripper Nancy, get the fuck out of here. So that's rather you gotta mute. So that being said, no, it's been a really fun World Cup. We've had a lot of great like surprises, a lot a lot of things that have happened that have been us go Whoa. And a lot of things it's gonna be like, whoa, what hap what happened there? But that being said that's what the whole point of this World Cup is. And more than more so than anything, I'm just like as we're kinda wrapping up this segment, yeah. I just want to say I think it's such a beautiful thing that this this this event is bringing people together and overall just making, you know, life a little bit less sucky and kinda kinda distracting us from all the bullshit in the world. ⁓ so that's been really cool. And yeah, that being said Viva Mexico Cabrones and we'll see you guys in the next round. ⁓ Viva cabrones Any final any final thoughts on your guys' time ⁓ guys' end? It's a Mexico. Viva Mexico. Argentina? Yeah yeah yeah. No, respectfully I'll clink that. And Germany and Austria, I guess, but whatever. World War Two. 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