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Carlos Mauricio Ramirez on RSL's strong start, RSL vs Houston tonight, World Cup a month away, 49ers offseason + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Who we were your tune to The Shan O'Connell Show
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  Speaker 1: for the Murdoch Chevrolet Studio of PSPN seven hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ninety two to one a half m to me, Welcome
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  Speaker 1: back to the Shan O'Connell Show. Welcome in for the
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  Speaker 1: first time.
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  Speaker 2: Carlos Mauricio Ramirez. You can find him on Apple TV.
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  Speaker 1: Doing MLS play by play English and Spanish Olympic studio
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  Speaker 1: host over at Telemundo. Forty nine Ers Giants, a's analysts
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  Speaker 1: for NBC Sports Bay Area. If I have my way,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be talking with Carlos quite a bit, especially when
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  Speaker 1: we get into football season.
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  Speaker 2: Carlos, Welcome to the show for the first time. How
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  Speaker 2: are you?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you? Thank you for having me, happy to do it,
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  Speaker 3: and yes, whenever the forty nine ers are back, I
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  Speaker 3: will be happy to join you guys, So my pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to the forty nine ers here in just
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  Speaker 2: a second.
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  Speaker 1: But if I'm doing my job the right way, RSL
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  Speaker 1: Houston Dynamo tonight at America First Field World Cup Soccer
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  Speaker 1: coming right around the corner, we got to dive into
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  Speaker 1: some of this a little bit. Let's start with RSL
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  Speaker 1: and a strong start to their MLS season. How much
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  Speaker 1: have you seen of RSL and are you Are you
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  Speaker 1: a believer so far that this is a team that
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  Speaker 1: can actually contend for a Cup this year.
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  Speaker 3: I've called a couple of games, and I think there's
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  Speaker 3: enough there for them with with a move or two,
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  Speaker 3: with an addition or two, to be a really dangerous
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  Speaker 3: team in the Western Conference. And consistency is a big word.
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  Speaker 3: I think this team, which is in my estimation coach
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  Speaker 3: but one of the better coaches in the league in
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  Speaker 3: Pablo Mastriani. It's a new system with three in the back.
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  Speaker 3: The Gozo experiment as a wing bad has convinced some
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  Speaker 3: There's some others who don't like it as much. I
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  Speaker 3: personally like it. If we see the Goso version of
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  Speaker 3: what we saw against Portland a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: I was in Salt Lake hauling that game for Apple,
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  Speaker 3: so I love the base. I do think the biggest thing,
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  Speaker 3: or if I were to, you know, if I were
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  Speaker 3: to give real Salt Lake fans a wish, or if
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  Speaker 3: I think Pablo Masrendi was submitted to a lie detector
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  Speaker 3: and you would ask him, what would you like or
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  Speaker 3: what did you need for this team, I would think
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  Speaker 3: you would say a nine, a proper goal scoring nine.
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  Speaker 3: Sergi Salons has done a great job in terms of
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  Speaker 3: hbilitating passes, pivoting, connecting all it. Tun Gi is a
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  Speaker 3: physical specimen in the best of ways. He's a freak.
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  Speaker 3: He's a really athletic player. But they're not bonafide goal scorers,
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  Speaker 3: or at least they haven't been this season. And when
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  Speaker 3: you have the production of Diego Luna and Xavy of
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  Speaker 3: Gozo and the level geep behind a proper nine with
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  Speaker 3: spears in Kaliscan being what they are in the midfield,
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  Speaker 3: that's what I think will now separate Real Salt Lake
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  Speaker 3: from the Vancouvers, the Elliotcu, the Seattles and even the
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  Speaker 3: same those ays of the world. So I do see
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  Speaker 3: there's enough there. If they go out in the in
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  Speaker 3: the winter or the World Cup break and sign a
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  Speaker 3: proper nine, that to me changes everything for Real Salt Lake.
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  Speaker 1: You just mentioned the World Cup break, and it's something
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  Speaker 1: that you know, we've We've been kind of like I've
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  Speaker 1: been laying it out.
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  Speaker 2: I've been preparing where we have adopted.
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  Speaker 1: We are a soccer market here now in Salt Lake City,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people were bummed, myself included. Although it's
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  Speaker 1: understandable that, you know, not a host city for the
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  Speaker 1: North American World Cup, but a lot of people have
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  Speaker 1: already made their travel plans. I've spent I think too
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  Speaker 1: many segments probably talking about transportation and ticket prices for
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  Speaker 1: the premier sporting event every four years in the world.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the big questions people have is will
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  Speaker 1: Real Salt Lake have any representation on the international ultimate stage.
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  Speaker 2: Will the moon Man be on the.
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  Speaker 1: US men's national team when the deadline comes in three weeks.
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  Speaker 3: I think he will. I think he should. When you
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  Speaker 3: look at that loster and when you dice it up,
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  Speaker 3: there's no player that does what Diego Luna can do
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  Speaker 3: in the sense of tempo management, connection with forwards, being
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  Speaker 3: able to change the rhythm and the pace of a
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  Speaker 3: soccer match. Polistic can do what he can do. No
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  Speaker 3: one else can do as well inside the microcosm of Pusay.
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  Speaker 3: But what Diego Luna brings is he might not be
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  Speaker 3: going back to the physical specimen or the physical freak
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  Speaker 3: that some players are at this stage. He might not
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  Speaker 3: be that. What he is, though, is a He is
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  Speaker 3: the conductor of a midfield up on it. You can accelerate,
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  Speaker 3: you can come from behind, connect the dodge with either
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  Speaker 3: musa or a ballagoon or prolific or whoever you want
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  Speaker 3: to put on the top. And I understand you need
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  Speaker 3: some muscle behind them with mackenzie and that that will happen, Right,
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  Speaker 3: We'll let some mckennie. That'll happen. But I do my
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  Speaker 3: expectation is that Diego Luno, when it's all sat and done,
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  Speaker 3: will be picked between the twenty six players that Portatino
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  Speaker 3: will bring to the World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that would be that there would be
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  Speaker 1: enough reason for the casual fans, like the kind of
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  Speaker 1: the people on the bubble, so to speak, to tune
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  Speaker 1: in a little extra, maybe maybe add a little more
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  Speaker 1: intrigue to the low maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe push someone over the hump. I'm like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: I am going.
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  Speaker 1: To travel to San Francisco, Houston or LA to go
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  Speaker 1: watch a US men's national team game.
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  Speaker 2: And look, you've been closer to this than I have.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, do you get a sense And we've seen all
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  Speaker 1: the articles, We've seen some rollback in prices transportation. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there was like the bus ticket was going to cost
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty bucks. People got mad about it,
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  Speaker 1: so they've reduced the cost on that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Is FIFA and the World Cup sort of community? Are
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  Speaker 1: they responding the right way to some of the concerns
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  Speaker 1: on making this thing accessible to fans, not just North
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  Speaker 1: American fans, but the fans that are making the trip
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  Speaker 1: from Europe, from Africa, from South America to try to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy this once in every four years event.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good question, and that is the main
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  Speaker 3: concern with prices is how do we afford this? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: how do we how do we get there? I mean
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  Speaker 3: not just the visa and all those issues that are
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  Speaker 3: you know, ingrained with going to the United States and
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  Speaker 3: you're a foreign citizen or if you're just a tourist,
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  Speaker 3: which are a concern. But even when the government gets
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  Speaker 3: involved and you have US lawmakers seeking transparency you know
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  Speaker 3: from from ticketing, that's that's an issue in and of itself.
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  Speaker 3: So we've heard members of Congress responding to the tickets
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  Speaker 3: for the World Cup, So that is an issue. Most
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  Speaker 3: of the games, or at least tickets for most of
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  Speaker 3: the games, and the remember there's sixteen North American cities
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  Speaker 3: that will host the World Cup. Some tickets have gone
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  Speaker 3: over ten thousand dollars. Right, That's that's obsressive, that's excessive.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean even upset if if you have ten
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars in your back pocket for a sporting event,
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  Speaker 3: good for you. I mean you're doing something I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: But and then FIFA releases sament saying that they're focused
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  Speaker 3: on ensuring fair access to a game for existing but
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  Speaker 3: also prospective fans. Right, and they're saying there's some tickets
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  Speaker 3: are available at sixty dollars. Those were long gone. And
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  Speaker 3: then the other problem that FIFA has to address is
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  Speaker 3: the resale marketing, and that's another conversation to have, but
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  Speaker 3: it is a problem. Some cities have recorded and reported
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  Speaker 3: some issues with with hotels, saying that they would have
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  Speaker 3: expected at this stage. We're twenty nine days away from
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  Speaker 3: the World Cup starting and some cities have yet to
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  Speaker 3: at least record or notify increase in hotel accommodations and
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  Speaker 3: people not recording or not getting their either airbnbs or
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  Speaker 3: hotel rooms at different rate, So they're not seeing an
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  Speaker 3: increment in hotel accommodations and bookings regarding or compared it
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  Speaker 3: to other summers, which is alarming for those markets. I
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  Speaker 3: think it'll go up. I think as days go buy
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  Speaker 3: and people, you know, see what money they have saved
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  Speaker 3: to go to the World Cup, that will increase. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: I'm just being naive, but it has been an issue
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  Speaker 3: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: I think it is going to go up, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that part of the reason they'll get the more
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  Speaker 1: bookings is I think that these airbnb hosts and the hotels,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the stadiums themselves, they're realizing, like, man, we
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  Speaker 1: actually can't gouge the prices as much as we have been.
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  Speaker 1: I'm realistic, Carlos. I understand that we're talking about a
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  Speaker 1: premier sporting event here and there's a cost associated with that.
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  Speaker 2: It should be maybe twice as much, maybe three times
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  Speaker 2: as much as a normal ticket. The five and ten
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  Speaker 2: x thing just doesn't make a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 1: And for FIFA to pretend, oh, we want to address
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  Speaker 1: the resale market, we want to make it accessible while
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  Speaker 1: also taking a fifteen percent cut of every ticket re sold.
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  Speaker 1: That you're talking out of both sides of your mouth there,
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  Speaker 1: you're not actually trying to serve the fan base. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, They're not alone. There's plenty of sports
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  Speaker 1: organizations that do this. I wonder if we're ever going
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  Speaker 1: to get to the point though, where we truly price
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  Speaker 1: fans out, especially like you just said, the prospective fan,
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  Speaker 1: and people just truly do get sick of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the problem is when when you have
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  Speaker 3: people who are willing and able to pay ten thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars for your I don't know Portugal, Columbia, imagine Miami,
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  Speaker 3: how do you explain it? Well, is there's someone able
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  Speaker 3: and willing to do it, then we'll keep putting it
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  Speaker 3: out there. So it is an issue. It is a
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  Speaker 3: problem again, president A, FIFA President Johanny and Fantino saying
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  Speaker 3: that World Cup tickets price at US market rate is naive.
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  Speaker 3: It did start that way months ago, but those tickets
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  Speaker 3: were sold out within hours of them being on the market.
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  Speaker 3: The tickets for most of the FIFA World Cup group games,
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  Speaker 3: per Infantino, remain or ranging from thirty three hundred and
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  Speaker 3: eighty dollars to five dollars, so anywhere from four hundred
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  Speaker 3: bucks to four thousand bucks. That is what's happening right now.
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  Speaker 3: And they say we have FIFA says they have a
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  Speaker 3: twenty five percent of group state tickets that can be
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  Speaker 3: bought for less than three hundred dollars, which is not
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  Speaker 3: be I mean, that is not an insane price. I
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  Speaker 3: understand that that that to me sounds reasonable for a
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  Speaker 3: World Cup ticket, if it's under three hundred. I would
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  Speaker 3: ask that Infantino would find me those tickets, because I
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  Speaker 3: have yet to see someone at this stage saying yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I found a ticket for I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: Jordan versus Algeria in San Francisco for under three hundred. Sure,
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  Speaker 3: but I just I mean, I haven't seen it at
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  Speaker 3: this point.
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Maurcio Ramirez is our guest here talking about a
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  Speaker 1: World Cup soccer.
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  Speaker 2: On the shot of Connell's show.
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  Speaker 1: One thing, all of my complaining in my handbringing aside,
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  Speaker 1: one thing that we will pay for in the United
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  Speaker 1: States is we'll pay to.
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  Speaker 2: Watch a winner.
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  Speaker 1: And if the US men's national team could make a
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  Speaker 1: run those ticket prices, people will pay whatever it is
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  Speaker 1: to watch elimination rounds.
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  Speaker 2: How realistic is a nice run? I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 2: winning the World.
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  Speaker 1: Cup here, but is there a ceiling in your mind
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  Speaker 1: for this men's national team?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's Group D, it's USA, Paraguay, Australia, and Turkey.
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  Speaker 3: That Team USA should advance I mean winning the group.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I hope so advancing sure. I would
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  Speaker 3: even say it's mandatory for Team USA to advance within
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  Speaker 3: the confines of Group D. Then it's well, do you
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  Speaker 3: have to knock out? Rounds are really hard to predict.
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  Speaker 3: If they win their group, and that's Group D, they
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  Speaker 3: would play July first in San Francisco against the third
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  Speaker 3: team out of either Group B, E, F, I or G.
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  Speaker 3: And now you're just you know, flipping a coin, right.
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  Speaker 3: It could be anyone. I mean not literally anyone, but
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  Speaker 3: let's say Group B if they're for if they're the
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  Speaker 3: number one seed out of Group D. Group B is Canada, Bosnia,
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  Speaker 3: Qatar in Switzerland. So it could be USA, Canada, It
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  Speaker 3: could be USA, Switzerland, it could be USA Bosnia. Anyone
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  Speaker 3: who comes out of that group in the third spot
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  Speaker 3: could be there. Let's go to Group E, which could
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  Speaker 3: also be paired there. Well, it's Germany, curisl Ivory Coast
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  Speaker 3: or Ecuador. Well, Germany or Ecuador I think will bring
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  Speaker 3: that group. So maybe it's Ivory Coast. Well, it could
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  Speaker 3: also be a good Group F. That means it's it's
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  Speaker 3: the third team from Netherlands, Japan, Sweden and Tunisia. Well,
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  Speaker 3: it could be either Japan or Sweden that comes out
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  Speaker 3: of that group on the third spot. Then it could
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  Speaker 3: be Group BY and you're seeing a training here. I'm
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  Speaker 3: just I'm just giving you names. France, Senegal, Iraq or Norway.
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  Speaker 3: Well it's either Iraq or Senegal that's third because France
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  Speaker 3: and Norway are going to fight for group supremacy. And
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  Speaker 3: then the final one and please bear with me, it's
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  Speaker 3: Group J. That's how I say this World Cup will
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  Speaker 3: be and that could be Argentina, Algeria, Austria and Jordan.
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  Speaker 3: So you're seeing here a trend of teams that are
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  Speaker 3: not you know, world beaters or world thumpers who would
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  Speaker 3: face Team USA. If tm USA wins Group D and
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  Speaker 3: if they do that, then I'm not gonna boy you
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  Speaker 3: with the other combinations because they're infinite. They would move
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  Speaker 3: to the round of sixteen. So all all to say,
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  Speaker 3: I think that the flour for Team USA should be
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  Speaker 3: at least a round of thirty two and then I
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  Speaker 3: can see them advancing and beating one of those teams
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  Speaker 3: making it to the round of sixteen, and then all
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  Speaker 3: bets are off, right, because if if that happens, then
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  Speaker 3: they would face the winner of Group G, and that
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  Speaker 3: Group G would be Belgium, Egypt, Iran, or New Zealand,
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  Speaker 3: so it could be tam Usa against Belgium. All thats
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  Speaker 3: are off, so I could see them at least make
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  Speaker 3: it into the round of sixteen, at least.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, Before I let you go, I want to
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  Speaker 1: ask you a little inside baseball question. I do play
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  Speaker 1: by play myself on combat sports, not on soccer, not
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  Speaker 1: yet on football, which is where I'd like to be
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  Speaker 1: at some point. But you do English and Spanish play
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  Speaker 1: by play commentary, and I have a deep admiration for
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  Speaker 1: people who are multi lingual, and especially in a professional setting.
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  Speaker 1: The ability to switch back and forth, to do an
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  Speaker 1: English game on a Monday, a Spanish game on a Friday,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, that's a different level. My question for
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  Speaker 1: you is is one more fun than the other? Because
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  Speaker 1: there's a different there's a different sound, there's a different formality,
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  Speaker 1: there's a different formatics to the way English sports are
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  Speaker 1: done and Spanish sports are done, and Portuguese and Japanese. Right,
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  Speaker 1: each language kind of has its own rhythm and its
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  Speaker 1: own pace. Is one more fun than the other when
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  Speaker 1: you're doing English or Spanish commentary?
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  Speaker 3: That's a great question. I'll put it this way. I think,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think. I know. I know that there's a
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  Speaker 3: level of energy and excitement that is not just allowed,
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  Speaker 3: but expected of one when you call any sport in Spanish,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's football and I've been the voice of Sunday
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  Speaker 3: Night Football for tell them Window I did it in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty one leading up to the Bengals and ram
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl, or whether it's what I'm going to do
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  Speaker 3: now here. I'm in Seattle right now, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: call the Seattle Sounders and Sanders a game tonight for
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  Speaker 3: Apple and Spanish. Whatever the sport, there's not just license,
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  Speaker 3: but an expectation that you should be loud, raucous, boisterous
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  Speaker 3: and demonstrative when you do play by play. Not doing
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  Speaker 3: it is pretty much anti cultural. Well, the opposite happens
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  Speaker 3: in English. I mean, I can't call a game in
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  Speaker 3: English the way I call in Span I would be
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  Speaker 3: I get fired. No one would be able to handle
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  Speaker 3: ninety minutes of soccer the way do it in Spanish.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's it's just different, it's it's culturally different. Fun
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  Speaker 3: is different because what I like about English play by
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  Speaker 3: play is you have these pockets, and you have this
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  Speaker 3: linguistic licenses and tools that English has that Spanish doesn't. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: there's a way you can phrase and construct and use
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  Speaker 3: certain terminology that Spanish doesn't have, especially in sports like
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  Speaker 3: baseball or football. So I would definitely say soccer is
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  Speaker 3: way more fun in Spanish. But I would also say
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  Speaker 3: sports like football are more fun in English. So I
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  Speaker 3: would say it depends on the sport. I would rather
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  Speaker 3: call a game or a soccer game in Spanish. But
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  Speaker 3: I've also been able to blend or bring in or
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  Speaker 3: read some of the Spanish calls or energy on the
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  Speaker 3: English side, and what I've found is that fans really
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  Speaker 3: appreciate it. You really like it when you when you
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  Speaker 3: give that energy without going overboard, without going over too much,
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  Speaker 3: because that's that's not accepted or or even tolerated, because
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  Speaker 3: you know it just it doesn't. So that's the best way.
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  Speaker 3: That's a long winded way of saying that I think
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  Speaker 3: both are fun and I love doing both. And I
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  Speaker 3: appreciate your comment and thank you for that well.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's great that you're able to do both
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  Speaker 1: and I like the over the top nature of Spanish calls,
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  Speaker 1: so I would like that to be integrated more into
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  Speaker 1: the English side of things, and it sounds like you're
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  Speaker 1: doing it. So we're gonna catch some games and we'll
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  Speaker 1: be talking more with Carlos Mauricio Roverrez as the World
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  Speaker 1: Cup approaches, and then into football season when he's working
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  Speaker 1: on the Niners and in baseball pre and postgame with
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  Speaker 1: the Giants in the A's. I can't wait to keep
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  Speaker 1: picking your brain. Carlos, thanks for your time today.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Thank you appreciate it. It's a pleasure talking to you guys.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Love Salt Lake City, love the market. I was there,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: like I said a couple of weeks ago, for your
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: RSL game against Portland. It should be a fun game
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: tonight against Houston, a Houston team that beat loc pretty
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: badley over the weekend with Ben Elson doing a great
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: job with those dudes, with Mataos Bogus and company. So
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: if you're out there in Salt Lake and Sandy, go
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: to the game. It's a World Cup year. So soccer
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: mania has taken over a beautiful nation. It support your
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: local team where the gear. I think that RSL has
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: perhaps the most intriguing promising US soccer talent right now
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: in the league with Bolarue from San Jose, and that
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: is Sep year Goozo, so go and watch him. He's
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: a Utah native, so go watch him while you can,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: because I promise you this kid will not last long
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: in MLS. He has a bright future ahead of him,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: so you should go out and see him play every
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: time you can
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Well, stated Carlos Mauricio Ramirez