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November 2, 2026: Dash in the Dust, Thorns in the Playoffs · Rose City Red Card

• 0:15
  Alan: Welcome to Rose City Red Card for November 2nd, 2026.
• 0:21
  Alan: We are coming off of Decision Day, the final regular season day.
• 0:28
  Alan: We are back here at our usual home Pappy's recording.
• 0:32
  Alan: We watched the game separately, but it was 2-0 on the road in Houston.
• 0:39
  Alan: Soph scores twice.
• 0:42
  Alan: Bye, Houston.
• 0:43
  Alan: Ah, it was so incredible.
• 0:45
  Marissa: Yeah.
• 0:46
  Alan: We made two club records, 50 points and 50 goals.
• 0:52
  Alan: We're in sixth place now.
• 0:55
  Alan: Yeah, it's just incredible.
• 0:57
  Alan: I am so, so happy for this.
• 1:00
  Alan: And, yeah, we're so excited to see Portland in the playoffs.
• 1:10
  Marissa: Playoffs are starting, baby.
• 1:12
  Marissa: Next weekend, we're fucking going.
• 1:14
  Marissa: I'm so excited.
• 1:15
  Marissa: Yeah, we're playoff bound for the 12th time in the 12th time in Thorns' history and the 10th consecutive season.
• 1:22
  Marissa: We are headed to the fucking playoffs.
• 1:24
  Marissa: Let's get into the game.
• 1:25
  Marissa: I mean, we had already clinched.
• 1:27
  Alan: It could not have been a better game.
• 1:29
  Marissa: We had already clinched before, but this was, I mean, sixth place is better than seventh place.
• 1:34
  Marissa: You know, I feel like I like our odds.
• 1:36
  Marissa: Spirit is my, what am I, I would rather play Spirit than Angel City, Kansas.
• 1:44
  Marissa: playing Kansas City in Kansas at that place they haven't fucking lost in and God knows how fucking long.
• 1:51
  Marissa: Fuck that shit.
• 1:52
  Marissa: I want to play the spirit.
• 1:54
  Alan: Yeah, we're going to next week on the road.
• 2:04
  Alan: So like I said, it was an incredible game.
• 2:07
  Alan: 2-0.
• 2:10
  Alan: We needed it.
• 2:11
  Alan: We needed it so bad.
• 2:13
  Alan: And, you know, we played so well.
• 2:16
  Alan: I watched the game.
• 2:18
  Alan: from a pizza place that had no TVs.
• 2:23
  Alan: At the last minute, my daughter decided that she didn't not want to go to Dingo's, where we'd been planning on going, and that she wanted pizza and said.
• 2:31
  Alan: But none of the pizza places that we normally went to.
• 2:33
  Alan: So I found what I thought had TVs, and they didn't.
• 2:37
  Alan: So I then watched the game on my phone, looked away for a moment to help my daughter with her hot pizza, and missed the first goal.
• 2:45
  Alan: So can you tell us what happened?
• 2:47
  Marissa: Yeah.
• 2:48
  Marissa: So basically the, so basically, yeah, so we win two to zero.
• 2:55
  Marissa: We really needed these points.
• 2:57
  Marissa: Also, we just really need to end the regular season on a high note.
• 3:00
  Marissa: I feel like that's really important.
• 3:02
  Marissa: I think, I mean, we'll get into it later in the match by Marissa's match week roundup, but I feel like every team that was supposed to win this weekend won this weekend.
• 3:11
  Marissa: It really showed like these are the top teams of the league right now.
• 3:15
  Marissa: So we made, okay, so we didn't start M.A. Vignola.
• 3:19
  Marissa: and the defense again.
• 3:22
  Marissa: It worked last week with Sanchez and with Keep a North Carolina quiet and who am I, but a lonely old soul at the bar.
• 3:30
  Marissa: So if it worked then, it worked again, and it did.
• 3:34
  Marissa: It worked.
• 3:35
  Alan: We also didn't start Tordin this time.
• 3:37
  Marissa: Yeah, we also didn't start Tordin.
• 3:39
  Marissa: I was appalled, and then the game kind of starts in the announcers were talking about by Vilahamn or somebody had said that they were just trying to rest her.
• 3:48
  Marissa: So I actually am all for some Tordin rest.
• 3:52
  Alan: That makes sense.
• 3:53
  Marissa: And some ice and some hot baths.
• 3:55
  Marissa: But I feel like Tordin not being starting in our midfield center, high tacking was very obvious.
• 4:02
  Marissa: We looked so lost in the first 25 minutes.
• 4:10
  Marissa: I don't know if they knew where they were positioned because I didn't.
• 4:15
  Marissa: And I don't think they knew where they were positioned.
• 4:17
  Marissa: We looked like a fucking.
• 4:18
  Marissa: mess in the midfield.
• 4:20
  Marissa: And then midfield, like, I don't know if the midfield can't get their shit together, the defense's going to look whack and the offense is going to look whack.
• 4:26
  Marissa: It just was so not good.
• 4:28
  Marissa: I feel like we kind of finally started to settle and we started making more of an attack.
• 4:31
  Marissa: But I was like, what the fuck is going on?
• 4:34
  Marissa: They were just running around jumbled.
• 4:36
  Marissa: And I don't know.
• 4:38
  Marissa: They just, it just didn't look like people knew where they were supposed to be.
• 4:41
  Marissa: And I mean, we did, we ended up getting a goal, a beautiful goal.
• 4:46
  Alan: 34 minutes in Soph Wilson, beautiful goal, as you said.
• 4:51
  Marissa: Yeah.
• 4:53
  Alan: I missed it.
• 4:54
  Alan: I had to wait for the halftime replay to see it.
• 4:57
  Marissa: It was really nice.
• 4:58
  Alan: I then realized that YouTube TV on my phone has a skip back 15 seconds function that I could have used.
• 5:04
  Alan: But, you know, you live and learn.
• 5:06
  Marissa: Live and learn.
• 5:07
  Marissa: That's showbiz, baby.
• 5:08
  Marissa: But yeah, so it was a beautiful goal.
• 5:10
  Marissa: It was at the 34th minute.
• 5:11
  Marissa: Caiya Hanks, dribble.
• 5:13
  Marissa: Big shout out to Caiya Hanks.
• 5:15
  Marissa: She is looking incredible for us.
• 5:18
  Marissa: She is strong.
• 5:19
  Marissa: She is fast, but...
• 5:20
  Alan: She's been playing so well this season.
• 5:22
  Marissa: She's been coming back.
• 5:23
  Marissa: But so she pulled the...
• 5:25
  Marissa: She, like, ran that ball down to the end line, cut in, beat the defender, passed to Reilyn.
• 5:31
  Marissa: Reilyn could have taken some wacky shot, but she didn't.
• 5:33
  Marissa: She back heeled past it right to Soph, right in the goal.
• 5:38
  Marissa: Like, top bins.
• 5:39
  Marissa: It was a beautiful goal.
• 5:40
  Marissa: And also, Jane Campbell is one of, like, the top goalies, like, in the league.
• 5:45
  Marissa: She's good.
• 5:46
  Marissa: She's doing really good.
• 5:47
  Marissa: She used to get regular calls.
• 5:48
  Marissa: the USA team. I'm talking about their goalie. So you got to be kind of, got to have some good shots. But, man, that was, you know, that was amazing.
• 5:56
  Marissa: I, yeah, yeah, Turner is like, so NBS always does their little like award things, pulls.
• 6:02
  Marissa: And Reilyn Turner's assist is definitely in the running for top assist of the weekend. So it was, it was beautiful. Yeah. So then let's go into halftime. Oh, so after, so halftime, we go into half, we're up one zero. After half, we have Vignola.
• 6:18
  Marissa: Weaver and Tordin come on. Weaver is back from her thigh injury, and she definitely, like, kind of eased into the game more as it went on. Uh, are we started to look more in control.
• 6:29
  Marissa: Tordin out there. God damn, Tordin out there, man. She really made a difference for us. And, yeah, I feel like we just kind of started to turn on the Jets, turn on, uh, yeah, just turn it on. Let me just get into a little bit of defense too. So we're doing really well. And of course, Hanks draws a penalty at the 70th minute.
• 6:48
  Marissa: Uh, it's a PK. You can see it blind as day.
• 6:52
  Alan: Energy comes up. You said you needed to leave the room. I had to leave the room. And man,
• 6:57
  Marissa: it was, so it's like Houston's out of the playoffs, but their, their fans are active. You could hear the boos. And I was like, bring on the boos. I loved it. You know, it was great. But so, you know, so sets up to kick it. She kicks not a perfect PK. It's a little bit very centered. You know, she was aiming. She at least picked the side. But it was pretty centered.
• 7:18
  Marissa: and Jane Campbell got to it.
• 7:20
  Alan: And it was the first one she would have missed this year.
• 7:23
  Marissa: The first one she missed it. And then she missed like a replay, like a, you know, like Jane's a decent goalie.
• 7:27
  Marissa: And then that was it. And then VAR, we will say, shout out to the witches that listen.
• 7:33
  Marissa: Shout out to the witches that listen.
• 7:34
  Alan: Thank you, Etsy witches.
• 7:36
  Marissa: Love you guys. You guys are the best. So Witchcraft was afoot and VAR calls it back because one of the Houston defenders encroached on the PK spot before Soph touched it.
• 7:49
  Alan: So it goes again.
• 7:51
  Marissa: So it comes again. Who am I to not trust a computer?
• 7:55
  Marissa: That's, I don't know if that's going to land well.
• 7:57
  Marissa: But anyways.
• 7:59
  Marissa: And then so Soph steps up again to take it.
• 8:01
  Marissa: And you've got like mentally, you've got a, okay, don't fuck this up or like what's going on, you know, like what's in her head.
• 8:10
  Marissa: And then the goalie, is she going to still go to that same side or is she going to go to the other side?
• 8:15
  Marissa: And Soph went to her same spot, knocked it a lot better than the first.
• 8:19
  Marissa: first one. And Jane dove the other way. And it was really funny after the game, Jane Campbell and Soph Wilson, they were like chuckling and like kind of just laughing it off together because while Jane didn't get a medal, she was a stand in keeper. So they all, they went to Paris Olympics a couple years ago. And while Jane didn't get a medal, the team did win a gold medal.
• 8:38
  Marissa: So they got to experience that. So they're friends, you know. So it was, I love watching them churped up after the game, not during the game. I want you all being best fucking friends while the game's going on. But after the game, slap your butts. You know.
• 8:49
  Alan: the things we love about this league. Trade the jerseys. I love it.
• 8:53
  Alan: Like this, it was our back to back, back clean sheets.
• 8:58
  Alan: Arnold's ninth, club's 11th. It's, yeah, it was an incredible game. So that brings us to some of the incredible records that we broke this season. Like I said earlier, 50 points.
• 9:18
  Alan: We ended up sixth in the league and we got 50 match points.
• 9:22
  Alan: That is our team record. We also got 50 goals. Another record.
• 9:31
  Alan: 14 wins, which ties our 2017 record.
• 9:35
  Alan: Yeah. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. It's just, it's such a good season.
• 9:42
  Alan: And then some of our players have had incredible, some of our players have had incredible seasons on their own.
• 9:48
  Alan: Wilson missed all of last year on maternity leave.
• 9:52
  Alan: This year she comes back, scores 15 goals, 20 contributions, both club records.
• 10:01
  Alan: I, it's incredible. And then we've got Fleming, Iron Woman. Yeah. All 30 games every minute
• 10:14
  Marissa: played. 2,700 minutes. Oh, Captain Canada. My Captain Canada. My Captain Canada.
• 10:23
  Alan: I, it's incredible. Like, that is so much time in there. We don't talk about her nearly as much as we should.
• 10:30
  Marissa: We really don't. Because she's always out there and we take her for granted. Yeah. Because she's, she never messes up or she's, I don't want to say that she doesn't do anything fantastic. But she, I feel like she's in the middle of just great, solid all the time. So you're right. You don't, we kind of don't see her. Like, because she doesn't make mistakes. Because she's just so solid that she just is perfect all the time that you don't really notice her.
• 10:52
  Marissa: because she's just always doing well.
• 10:54
  Marissa: She's always there. She's such a rock for us.
• 10:56
  Alan: And you can see how well as she gets along with every single player.
• 11:00
  Alan: Like she's always in there, you know, cheering everybody on, celebrating all of their accomplishments.
• 11:05
  Alan: And, yeah.
• 11:06
  Marissa: I'm glad that she's our captain.
• 11:08
  Marissa: I know, no offense to Sam Hiatt, but like, God, I'm glad that we're over that home.
• 11:13
  Marissa: Sorry, Sam.
• 11:15
  Marissa: Hopefully, I don't know, but, you know, teams change as they go.
• 11:20
  Marissa: Flem is our captain.
• 11:21
  Marissa: You know what I mean?
• 11:23
  Alan: She's such a great captain.
• 11:26
  Alan: We then have Tordin.
• 11:26
  Alan: Sorry.
• 11:27
  Marissa: And last thing about Flem, like, captaining your club team is one thing, but captaining your country's team, that's like special.
• 11:35
  Marissa: I mean, club is special in big two, but I'm just, she's, she knows how to lead.
• 11:38
  Marissa: Like, she's a leader.
• 11:40
  Marissa: And, yeah.
• 11:40
  Alan: She is.
• 11:41
  Alan: And you see it out there.
• 11:42
  Alan: It's so good.
• 11:44
  Alan: And then we had Tordin, who finished on nine assists.
• 11:47
  Alan: You know, it's pretty incredible.
• 11:50
  Marissa: Yeah.
• 11:51
  Marissa: She's.
• 11:52
  Marissa: So a lot of people were calling it jail, Gale.
• 11:55
  Marissa: Gale jail last year, because for some fucking reason, he wouldn't play her.
• 11:59
  Marissa: And this season, you're like, what the fuck?
• 12:03
  Marissa: She's amazing.
• 12:05
  Marissa: She got her first senior call a cap for the USA, and she got some playing minutes, not a lot, but towards the end of the game.
• 12:12
  Marissa: And she was making an effect, albeit small.
• 12:15
  Marissa: She was out there pushing, and like, and we'll get into it later.
• 12:19
  Marissa: But the Concacaf Preliminary, big roster just came out.
• 12:21
  Marissa: So we'll talk about at the end.
• 12:23
  Marissa: But, like, fucking Tordin.
• 12:25
  Marissa: Let's go, Tordin.
• 12:26
  Marissa: Let's go, Tordin.
• 12:28
  Alan: Well, and then getting back to Soph for a bit, though, we still haven't seen what's going on with her.
• 12:35
  Alan: She still hasn't signed.
• 12:37
  Alan: We said previously, you know, her last Providence Park game may have already happened.
• 12:42
  Alan: She got that red card, sat out a couple of games.
• 12:47
  Alan: I don't know.
• 12:48
  Alan: Is there going to be, is she going to sign with us?
• 12:51
  Alan: Is she going to become?
• 12:51
  Marissa: back? You know, I can't worry about that right now. I need to focus on the game ahead.
• 13:00
  Marissa: I think that she's going to stay. For me, everything is saying that she's going to move, like, body language, weird stuff. Why hasn't she re-signed already? The season starts again in two months. Why hasn't she resigned? But for me, I feel like I just need to keep it composed and keep thinking that we have Soph, Soph is a thorn. Because I remember when we found out Sam Coffey was leaving and you hear her talk, she's like, yeah, they started talking to me last year.
• 13:31
  Marissa: And I was like, last year, you know you're going to leave us last year? And so mentally, I can't take it.
• 13:36
  Alan: So I'm just, you know, these decisions can happen so far in advance. Choose peace.
• 13:44
  Marissa: There we go. Choose peace.
• 13:45
  Marissa: Hey, cheers.
• 13:49
  Marissa: Sorry, I got a little emotional there.
• 13:52
  Alan: All right.
• 13:53
  Alan: that brings us to a very special Decision Day version of Marissa's Match Week roundup.
• 14:01
  Marissa: Brought to you by Marissa.
• 14:06
  Marissa: All right. So this weekend, I have never been more fucking mad than I was this weekend.
• 14:15
  Marissa: Decision Day. This is the last regular season game.
• 14:20
  Marissa: Games, games of the entire season for everybody.
• 14:24
  Marissa: They played all.
• 14:26
  Marissa: fucking eight games at 2 p.m. on a fucking Sunday.
• 14:31
  Marissa: All at the same time. All at the same fucking time.
• 14:33
  Marissa: You couldn't watch them. You couldn't watch them all. And people were like, oh, just throw up on the four screens. It was like, you can't focus. I have to focus. I'm trying to watch my game.
• 14:40
  Marissa: I want to watch the flow. I want to watch. Oh, they, like, you know, they're big, oh, like these two, these two players are going at it. That's a yellow car. You know, I want to watch the game. I can't just You want to see the details. Put on a bunch of screens, you bunch of fucking assholes
• 14:51
  Alan: online. You might as well just be looking at a score sheet at that point because you can't pay more
• 14:56
  Marissa: mention that. And like I follow the women's game, Sam Mewis podcast, and her and Becky Sauerbrunn, who works for the Thorns now, she was actually in the team picture. It looked really cool. But they were trying to do the same thing. And I was like, because I tried to watch theirs after the game. I was like, okay, I need to try to like ingest because I didn't get to watch the game. So I was like, let me try to ingest like what happened.
• 15:15
  Marissa: God damn. It was the worst fucking live I've ever seen from them. You guys are great. But like, they were like, oh, this, so I'm on. And then games are, they're at different times. Like, it was just Not good. And Sam Mewis was definitely trying to watch Gotham. And Becky was trying to watch Portland, which was great. But it was just, like, chaotic. And they can't do it. And, you know, so anyways, fucking stupid. You fuck, congratulations, Kalashi. Kashi. You fucking asshole, fucking bet pieces of shit. All right. So everything is DraftKings. Let's, let's get back to it. I, since all the games are at the same time. Okay, sorry. Priscilla is yelling at me. Bartenders yelling at me again. The disrespect.
• 15:55
  Alan: I mean.
• 15:56
  Alan: It wouldn't be a recording at Pappy's if we didn't get yelled at at least once.
• 16:00
  Marissa: Yeah. Yeah. All right. So, let's get into it. Okay. So I was going to say first of the weekend when they all just happen the same time. So let's just shoot. I'm sorry. We're ready. We're ready. We're ready here. We're ready at Rose City Red Card. All right. So we got Gotham versus Utah.
• 16:15
  Marissa: Gotham wins two to zero. They clinch the shield. Congrats to Gotham.
• 16:20
  Marissa: I, Gotham is like my second favorite team. They have had, they've been rocked by injuries this year.
• 16:29
  Marissa: And somehow they're like that meme that's like, we're still held onto it.
• 16:32
  Marissa: We're still going. Like, Bell ain't rang yet. And they're just crawling them way, their way forward.
• 16:38
  Marissa: And they keep doing it. And they won the shield. So congrats. Seriously, congrats to Gotham. You guys are awesome.
• 16:44
  Marissa: Second game that we got was Houston versus Portland. We win two zero.
• 16:50
  Marissa: Bye, Houston. Bye. See you next year.
• 16:56
  Marissa: Next up, we got Angel City versus Boston. Angel City wins in dominant fashion, 4 to 1.
• 17:01
  Marissa: Bye, Boston. Bye. Also, congratulations on your first year. You didn't, welcome to the league.
• 17:08
  Alan: Congrats on a great inaugural year. Hey, you know, you got to start somewhere.
• 17:12
  Marissa: You didn't finish last. You did not finish last. And you guys beat the shit out of us at Providence Park.
• 17:17
  Marissa: So congratulations to Boston. Welcome to the league.
• 17:20
  Alan: There's not a lot of teams that can say that.
• 17:21
  Marissa: There's not a lot of teams that can say that. So welcome to the league. But bye, Boston. Bye.
• 17:26
  Marissa: All right. So next we have Bay City. Every fucking time. We have Bay FC versus San Diego.
• 17:35
  Marissa: San Diego wins one to zero. I mean, Bay put up a fight, it seems like. One zero is, you know, it's a pretty tight score. But bye, Bay. See you guys next year. Love you guys. Bye.
• 17:50
  Marissa: Next, we have North Carolina versus Denver.
• 17:54
  Marissa: North Carolina wins 1-0 because fuck you, Denver.
• 17:58
  Marissa: Both teams are eliminated. So bye Denver. Bye, North Carolina.
• 18:03
  Marissa: Also, huge congratulations to Ashley Sanchez.
• 18:08
  Marissa: She is your 2026 golden boot winner.
• 18:13
  Marissa: She had 20 goals this year.
• 18:16
  Alan: She deserved it.
• 18:17
  Alan: She's played so well.
• 18:19
  Marissa: the ultimate record. It is such a fucking shame that their team is out of the playoffs. Like, how are you going to? And there's a crazy stat. Chicago, as a team, got 17 goals this year.
• 18:33
  Marissa: Ashley Sanchez got 20. So shout out to Ashley Sanchez.
• 18:37
  Marissa: That's, yeah. But bye, Denver.
• 18:40
  Alan: That's a team that might need some work.
• 18:41
  Marissa: Bye, North Carolina. She's doing some great work for them. Yeah. And she's a shoeing on the USA team.
• 18:46
  Marissa: Like after she scored in that Spain game, like, shout.
• 18:49
  Marissa: big shouts to Ashley Sanchez.
• 18:52
  Marissa: Next up, we got Seattle versus Orlando.
• 18:55
  Marissa: Seattle wins and clinches the last spot in the playoffs.
• 18:57
  Marissa: 1-0.
• 18:58
  Marissa: Bye, Orlando.
• 18:59
  Marissa: Bye. See you next year.
• 19:02
  Marissa: I don't know if Marta's going to retire or what, but bye.
• 19:05
  Marissa: See you guys next year.
• 19:06
  Marissa: Hopefully you guys get a coach.
• 19:08
  Marissa: Bye.
• 19:09
  Marissa: Then we have Racing versus Kansas City.
• 19:12
  Marissa: Kansas City wins two to one.
• 19:14
  Marissa: I didn't see the game because I fucking hate everything.
• 19:18
  Marissa: But bye.
• 19:19
  Marissa: racing. Bye, see you guys next year. And then we have Spirit versus Chicago. Spirit wins two to zero. It, I, this was a game that I tried to kind of pay attention to the most. Because as the fault, the standings kind of fell, that's who we, like by the middle, by half time, by half time, we knew that's who we were going to be playing next weekend. So I try to try to pay attention to a little bit more to the Spirit Chicago game. Spirit did not look like.
• 19:49
  Marissa: They have been playing kind of middle of the season. They look a little bit tired.
• 19:55
  Marissa: They look a little bit scattered.
• 19:57
  Alan: They still won.
• 19:58
  Marissa: They still won, but I think the first goal was in like the 60th minute. And then it was 2-0.
• 20:04
  Marissa: So they still won 2-0 because, you know, it doesn't matter who has the ball, whatever. You still get it on the board.
• 20:09
  Marissa: But they did not win in as such a dominant fashion. So I do have, I do like the look of that because we do play them next weekend.
• 20:17
  Marissa: and also Hal Hershfelt is just added to the SEI list, the season ending injury list and with an ACL injury.
• 20:28
  Marissa: and, geez, Hal, like, hope you get better soon, like, be healthy, our gay, I love you, our queer gay icon, love you, girl.
• 20:38
  Alan: She's out for the playoffs.
• 20:38
  Marissa: But she's out for the playoffs. And she's a huge reason why Spirit has had such a dominant and solid midfield this year.
• 20:45
  Marissa: And so I feel like her being out.
• 20:47
  Marissa: is kind of, you know, it's, it's, it's, yeah, it's, it, I don't want to say good for us.
• 20:55
  Marissa: Like, that's fucking terrible. You know what I mean? But I feel like that's, that's something to think about. I mean, fuck, when other teams playing us, they're like, well, we're not fucking mulchery, you know, so, yeah, they don't have Hal. So, I mean, that's big. Fair enough. Well, that does bring us to next week's game. Oh my God, it's like, we set this up.
• 21:18
  Alan: All right. So, as you said, we are playing Washington Spirit.
• 21:22
  Alan: next week, Sunday, November 8th, noon here in Pacific Time.
• 21:28
  Alan: We're going to be playing at Audi Field.
• 21:32
  Alan: Tell me about it.
• 21:34
  Marissa: So, yeah, so we've, we split points with Spirit this year.
• 21:39
  Marissa: We won an Audi, Rowdy, Audi. They won at Providence Park.
• 21:43
  Alan: That's just crazy.
• 21:44
  Marissa: It is crazy.
• 21:45
  Alan: We both won away.
• 21:46
  Marissa: It is crazy.
• 21:47
  Marissa: And we're shooting, we're shooting positive today.
• 21:52
  Marissa: I'm, There's no haterade in my belly.
• 21:56
  Alan: Glad to hear it.
• 21:57
  Marissa: I think, I think Hanks, Turner, and Soph are going to rock the fuck out of Esme and Rudd back there.
• 22:04
  Marissa: I'm sorry, like, we're going to turn and burn them.
• 22:07
  Marissa: I think if our defense and our midfield can hold up, we have a huge chance.
• 22:11
  Marissa: We have a huge chance of winning.
• 22:12
  Marissa: Like, they're not so protected in Rowdy-Outy.
• 22:16
  Marissa: Like, they have kind of had not the best luck at Rowdy-O-D-Dy.
• 22:19
  Marissa: And, yeah, they've also, but also Spirit.
• 22:22
  Marissa: been in the last two finals, the last two years, and they've come up short. And the finals this year are, they, it's being played in their stadium.
• 22:31
  Marissa: In this same stadium. So you kind of got to know that they have a lot to fight for, you know, and also they're injured player, you know, they have a lot to fight for and a lot to push for.
• 22:39
  Marissa: But I think, I think that we could pull this off. I feel like a lot of our players, like the SEI, the season injuring list comes out every weekend and you got to kind of get to see.
• 22:51
  Marissa: And some teams, you're like, Jesus, you can make an entire.
• 22:52
  Marissa: a roster off your list. And some, we only have two players, Bella Bixby and Olivia Moultrie.
• 22:58
  Alan: We're looking the healthiest we've been.
• 22:59
  Marissa: In I think two seasons, this is the healthiest we've been. And we are firing. Like, I'm telling you, Hanks is our answer. She's been just so solid. I feel like we're about to rock Washington. And I think a lot of, it's going to surprise a lot of people. I think we're peaking at the right time. I hate to use
• 23:15
  Alan: the word peaking because, you know. Well, this is a bit of a rematch of last year.
• 23:22
  Alan: We were in the playoffs last year, and this is actually the same team that knocked us out.
• 23:27
  Marissa: Yeah, they knocked us out with semis.
• 23:29
  Alan: You watched that game.
• 23:31
  Alan: This is before I was really into the NWSL.
• 23:34
  Marissa: Before he drank the Kool-Aid.
• 23:35
  Alan: Before I drink the Kool-Aid.
• 23:36
  Marissa: The Lagunitas.
• 23:39
  Alan: We still need to get a good Portland to be here.
• 23:41
  Marissa: I know.
• 23:42
  Marissa: It's never going to happen.
• 23:43
  Alan: Tell me, how was it watching that game last year, and what do you think will be different this year?
• 23:47
  Marissa: Okay, so first, before the Washington game, you got quarterfinals, and we played San Diego at Providence Park. And it was magical. Like, we won 1-0, Reilyn Turner, perfect header goal.
• 24:03
  Marissa: It was amazing. Then I just bring this up because the story does not end magically at all, actually, and it ends part of dark. But so we beat San Diego and then we go to play Washington at Rowdy-O-D-Youty. Last year, we played them in the semifinals. We lost 2-0 to the spirit Rowdy-O-D-D-Youty.
• 24:24
  Marissa: Because nobody deserves to lose, but we were not the better team. They smoked us. They out-hustled us. They were just the better team. They really wanted it. It was a really great game, but they just out-hustled us. They outplayed us.
• 24:43
  Marissa: Yeah, but I think the times are a turning. The times are a changing. Oh, yeah. Oh, fuck. Okay, yeah. So where I watch the game at, holy shit.
• 24:53
  Marissa: So me and my friend Erica, my roommate, we went to Goal in Portland to go watch it. We showed up an hour before because I was like, we need to get there early and we made it an hour because we're like, okay, at least we'll get seats. We were, we grabbed the last two seats at this place, at goal. Their line for alcohol and food was a line for the entire game. And only like literally at the end when like the game was over, there was still like three or four people in line because they're like, well, fuck I'm standing here. And like, it.
• 25:23
  Marissa: It's actually really sad. I said the story was going to get dark because gold just actually caught fire like a month or two ago, and it's still closed indefinitely.
• 25:32
  Alan: We're wishing the best for them.
• 25:33
  Marissa: Yeah, because we were talking about where we're going to try to watch this next game, and we're trying to get some fresh juju in it, like both of these places that we normally watch at, kind of don't have the best juju.
• 25:46
  Marissa: Alan's house, my house, Pappy's, Dingo's, Dingo's, those four places we will not be going to watch this game.
• 25:53
  Alan: But, you know, last week, we were in new places, and we did well.
• 25:57
  Alan: So we're going to try a new place this time as well.
• 26:00
  Marissa: Yeah, I was at home, though, but I was doing some, I did, I was holding rocks, and I was drinking my moon water, and I was doing a lot of stuff.
• 26:09
  Marissa: So maybe that's just it.
• 26:16
  Alan: All right.
• 26:16
  Alan: So that brings us to the end of our show.
• 26:18
  Alan: But before that, you had some extra news you wanted to talk about.
• 26:23
  Alan: Breaking news as of, what was it, noon today?
• 26:26
  Marissa: Noon today, yeah.
• 26:27
  Alan: Six hours ago.
• 26:28
  Alan: All right, tell us what you found.
• 26:30
  Marissa: So, chat, the 2026 Concacaf W Championship preliminary rosters have been revealed.
• 26:37
  Marissa: This is, this is exciting.
• 26:39
  Alan: You got to tell me a little bit more.
• 26:40
  Alan: What does that mean?
• 26:41
  Alan: You just said a bunch of words.
• 26:42
  Marissa: Oh, yeah, I know.
• 26:43
  Marissa: I'm talking at you.
• 26:44
  Marissa: Also, because we didn't even discuss this kind of even before we recorded, because this is, this is breaking news, Alan.
• 26:49
  Alan: Breaking news.
• 26:50
  Marissa: Beepo, pew, pew.
• 26:52
  Marissa: Can't make it through an episode without pew, pooing.
• 26:54
  Marissa: All right.
• 26:55
  Marissa: So, the eight, there's eight participating.
• 26:58
  Marissa: national teams have submitted their preliminary rosters ahead of the November 27 kickoff tournament to be played in Mansfield and Houston, Texas, from November 27th to December 5th with FIFA Women's World Cup 27 and Los Angeles 2008 Summer Olympics qualification at stake.
• 27:20
  Marissa: This is huge.
• 27:21
  Alan: To break that down for those of us who still didn't quite get it, I think what you're saying is these, this is the list of our girls who are on the list to potentially be playing for our country.
• 27:35
  Alan: Is that right?
• 27:36
  Alan: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
• 27:37
  Alan: Okay, so Concacaf.
• 27:38
  Marissa: So we are Concacaf.
• 27:40
  Marissa: We are, so Concacaf is, there's eight participating nations in Concacaf.
• 27:44
  Marissa: Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Haiti, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, and the United States.
• 27:52
  Marissa: So Concacaf is like a certain, like, subset of the world.
• 27:59
  Marissa: So UEFA is the European, like, their thing.
• 28:02
  Marissa: There's also, so the Asian Federation is also has Australia part of theirs.
• 28:07
  Marissa: So every little bit of these little subsections plays qualifying.
• 28:11
  Marissa: And so the best of those groups.
• 28:13
  Alan: Okay, so this is the people who'd be playing for the U.S. in the qualifiers.
• 28:17
  Marissa: Yes, in the qualifiers.
• 28:18
  Marissa: Yeah, yeah, yeah, like, which is playing, yes, which is huge.
• 28:22
  Alan: Yeah, so it's like the best of the best in the country.
• 28:24
  Marissa: Best of the Best Americans, because a lot of these players play overseas.
• 28:29
  Marissa: Oh, yeah.
• 28:29
  Marissa: So this is just Best USA Girls, and it's, the roster is, so the roster is 50 players.
• 28:36
  Alan: 50 players.
• 28:37
  Marissa: So the roster is 50 players and only 23 will get pulled.
• 28:41
  Marissa: But like we were, like Alan just said, this is 50 of the top USA players anywhere, like whether they play in France, whether they play in like England, Germany, Austria, wherever.
• 28:54
  Marissa: they fucking play, the United States, wherever they play.
• 28:57
  Alan: All the NWSL players, plus anybody playing anywhere else.
• 29:00
  Alan: Yes, exactly.
• 29:01
  Alan: All right. So out of those 50, how many are Thorns?
• 29:05
  Marissa: We have four Thorns out of this 50.
• 29:09
  Marissa: And I, dude, I'm excited.
• 29:11
  Marissa: Okay, so let's, okay, so first we got Soph Wilson, of course, one of the best players in the fucking world, of course.
• 29:17
  Marissa: And then we have three of some thorn, young intern, the youngans that are coming up.
• 29:24
  Marissa: fucking strong. We have Caiya Hanks, Pietra Tordin, and Reilyn Turner on this list of 50.
• 29:32
  Alan: Congratulations, ladies. That is so fucking cool.
• 29:38
  Marissa: I'm like cheesing over here, you guys. Like this is, this is huge. Like, no one's saying they're going to get on the final roster, but they are now on this 50-person pool. This pool will always get looked at. Like, okay, say, let's say Tordin, Turner, and Hanks.
• 29:54
  Marissa: don't make this roster, like, in, like, this World Cup roster this next summer. The next World Cup after this summer is going to be in the USA in 2031. They're only going to be four years older. This means our players are still going to be, these three are still going to be 28, 27, 29. Like, this is insane. They are for, they are a part of the pool now. They are always going to get looked at. They are always going to be first choice. Like, this is huge.
• 30:25
  Marissa: I'm fucking ecstatic. Like, I'm so happy to see their names on there. Like, Pietra, we were just talking about her. She had, like, such a great year with assists and just being so great. And she just got her first USA national team call up, like her cap. Like, she got a call up. And she got to play some minutes a little bit during, with Spain. But she, I don't know. It's just, I'm, I'm so stoked. Like, I feel like we're trying to have, like, a very positive episode. And this is, I just thought that this would be a really great way to kind of end it. It's so exciting. You know, like, yeah, we have these playoffs and we have NWSL stuff, but right around the corner, we have to qualify. Like, granted, we will probably qualify, but we still need to qualify for the World Cup. And that's coming up, like we just said, in like the next year. Yeah, no, no, the World Cup's next year, but the qualifications are November 27th through December 5th. So we'll definitely be putting out some, we'll definitely be. Less than a month away. Yeah, less than a month away. And it'll be cool, too, because we have our qualifiers, but also, like the last FIFA break, everyone goes in place. So we'll get to see some Müller. We'll get to see some other players playing their games. And it's, I'm really excited. It should be a lot of fun. So, yeah.
• 31:39
  Alan: We have a couple of weeks of playoffs and finals to look forward to. And now we have even more to look forward to after that. Yeah, we do. So, you know, we are going to keep recording. You know, we might not be talking about the Thorns games specifically, but we're going to keep covering the Thorns players and all the amazing things that are going on. Well, let me tell you what's going to happen,
• 32:02
  Marissa: Alan. We're going to beat Spirit. Of course. And then, because Utah's going to beat San Diego, we're going to beat Utah. Okay. And then in the finals, we're going to beat Seattle four to zero. So I'm putting it out there now. Etsy witches. We're calling on you. We're fucking taking it. Every four years, the Thorns win a chip. And this is it. We're fucking ready. We're hot. We're peaking. I don't like that word. I'm sorry. But we're fucking on it. Like, it's, it's our fucking time. Let's
• 32:32
  Alan: fucking go, Thorns. Let's fucking go Thorns. That brings us to the end. So as always.
• 32:39
  Marissa: All smiles, no injury. Fuck you, Seattle. I can't believe you fucking weaseled your fucking way into playoffs. Let's go Thorns. Let's go.