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September 7, 2026: Desperate Beats Tired · Rose City Red Card

0:15
SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Rose City Red Card for September 7th, 2016.
0:21
SPEAKER_01: We're coming off of another painful game.
0:26
SPEAKER_01: We've been talking about how uh Providence Park provides, but this time our first loss there in in quite a while.
0:35
SPEAKER_01: Spirit's first win in Portland ever.
0:40
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Marissa, uh, tell me tell me about it.
0:43
SPEAKER_01: Tell me you were there, you saw it live.
0:46
SPEAKER_01: I saw it, I saw it from Pappy's where we're sitting right now.
0:50
SPEAKER_01: Um Tell me, how was it?
0:53
SPEAKER_00: Um it was it's hard.
0:55
SPEAKER_00: You don't want to lose, obviously.
0:57
SPEAKER_00: Uh especially you don't want to lose at Providence Park.
1:00
SPEAKER_00: Um We lost against a great team.
1:04
SPEAKER_00: Uh we played really well.
1:06
SPEAKER_00: Um the crowd, it's always so electric in Providence Park.
1:11
SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, it was it was a game.
1:15
SPEAKER_00: It was a game.
1:16
SPEAKER_00: It was it was a tough loss.
1:17
SPEAKER_00: Um we'll get into this later, but um, yeah, it was on the basketball.
1:23
SPEAKER_01: Well, it started off really strong.
1:25
SPEAKER_01: We we started off looking really good.
1:27
SPEAKER_01: Um my daughter was at the game, uh, but she's she's young uh and left at halftime, so uh she was very excited uh to hear that uh Portland had won.
1:38
SPEAKER_01: Uh I had to um sadly disappoint her.
1:42
SPEAKER_00: Uh I wish I could have left at halftime and been like the Thor's fucking won.
1:45
SPEAKER_00: Let's go.
1:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, there's there's something about leaving halfway through and being uh blissfully naive.
1:51
SPEAKER_01: To be a child.
1:53
SPEAKER_01: But uh, you know, we played well.
1:55
SPEAKER_01: We really did.
1:56
SPEAKER_01: Um it just you know didn't quite go uh the way we we planned.
2:01
SPEAKER_00: This is this is sports.
2:03
SPEAKER_00: This is sports, baby.
2:04
SPEAKER_00: This is sports.
2:05
SPEAKER_00: Like you're gonna have these games.
2:08
SPEAKER_00: We play I I know we're getting to the match later, but we played an extraordinary 60-70 minutes.
2:17
SPEAKER_00: We played great, our defense was playing great.
2:20
SPEAKER_00: We had control of the game.
2:23
SPEAKER_00: It was it was great.
2:24
SPEAKER_01: Um our defense was playing incredibly well, and our offense was as well.
2:30
SPEAKER_01: We had so many shots.
2:31
SPEAKER_01: Uh 17 shots, seven on target.
2:36
SPEAKER_01: Uh we outshot uh the spirit, but you know, we just we couldn't quite get those those last ones.
2:42
SPEAKER_01: Um you know, we had a beautiful goal.
2:45
SPEAKER_01: Uh unfortunately, they also had a beautiful goal.
2:48
SPEAKER_01: Um and then we almost had another one.
2:52
SPEAKER_01: Uh, and that I think is is the piece that everyone is talking about.
2:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
2:57
SPEAKER_00: Um so we will say, I will say that the referee does not lose you or win you games.
3:05
SPEAKER_00: That is not what happens.
3:07
SPEAKER_00: The referee is not at fault for you losing or winning games.
3:11
SPEAKER_00: But fuck this referee, and we will definitely be talking shit about him the rest of the podcast.
3:18
SPEAKER_01: Well, let's get into it then.
3:20
SPEAKER_00: Let's get into it.
3:26
SPEAKER_01: So in the 68th minute, there was there was something that looked an awful lot like a handball to an awful lot of people, but nothing was called.
3:37
SPEAKER_01: Uh VAR didn't do a check, uh, the ref didn't call it, play went on, and it was a it was a shot on goal, hit by a hand, uh, as an arm was dropping.
3:51
SPEAKER_00: By Tara Rudd, who's the girl that sunk uh the fur the you know the goal for against us.
3:57
SPEAKER_01: So congratulations on her goal, but no congratulations.
4:02
SPEAKER_00: I'm just kidding.
4:02
SPEAKER_00: Tara Rudd, love you girl.
4:06
unknown: Fuck you.
4:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but okay, so tell me more about what happened and you know why why is this not the ref's fault?
4:14
SPEAKER_01: Why can't I uh blame the ref and uh tell them that uh it's entirely their fault?
4:20
SPEAKER_00: Alan, I literally was texting you, I was like, what are the rules to the handballs in the box?
4:26
SPEAKER_00: I c I it was okay, so go a natural position, make her body bigger.
4:35
SPEAKER_00: I I don't understand.
4:39
SPEAKER_01: So the exact uh quoted uh you know uh uh quoted rules is um a deliberate contact or an arm that makes the body unnaturally bigger.
4:54
SPEAKER_01: And unnaturally bigger is defined as an arm position that is not a consequence of or justifiable by the player's body movement for that specific situation.
5:07
SPEAKER_01: So she didn't mean to do it is not a defense.
5:10
SPEAKER_01: If she as long as it happened, it happened whether you know it doesn't matter what the intent was.
5:16
SPEAKER_01: So in the clip that I see, I see her her arm being up, her arm dropping down and uh and slightly out.
5:27
SPEAKER_01: It was not close to her body, it was not close to her body penguin and around, but it was it was a dropping and uh slight extension of the arm, and the arm or the hand comes into contact with the ball and you know seemingly deflects it away from from the goal.
5:44
SPEAKER_01: So, is that making your body unnaturally bigger?
5:48
SPEAKER_01: Uh the ref said that he didn't think it was.
5:51
SPEAKER_01: The VAR didn't call anything.
5:54
SPEAKER_01: Um we did look up the VAR rules as well, and so VAR triggers its own the so there's somebody watching the the VAR or uh, yeah, it's like a room, it's like a room full of people watching screens and slow-mo and stuff, and they're the ones in the ref's ear that are like, hey, you should go review this, go check it.
6:12
SPEAKER_00: And that's when the ref runs to the side of the field and looks at the screen.
6:15
SPEAKER_01: And so it is the ref who makes the decision based on what they see on the screen, but they are not the one who decides that they are going to go over to the sideline and take a look at that screen.
6:25
SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
6:26
SPEAKER_01: They are told, hey, we saw something, you should go check it out.
6:29
SPEAKER_01: And so in this case, the ref didn't see anything on the field, VAR didn't see anything uh on their replays, so they didn't make a call, and play continued on, and we didn't get that goal, and uh we lost 2-0 or 2 2-1.
6:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, 2-1.
6:46
SPEAKER_00: Come on, come on, Alan, come on over there, do your homework.
6:48
SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah.
6:51
SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, um Yeah, the handball's kind of just been people are kind of talking about it, and I would like to just let's just chop it.
7:03
SPEAKER_00: Let's move on.
7:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh we'll talk about like the press earlier, and Nina Neitstad was like, we move on.
7:10
SPEAKER_00: We thinking about the next game, we're not thinking about this game.
7:13
SPEAKER_00: Move on.
7:13
SPEAKER_00: We're pushing forward.
7:16
SPEAKER_00: It was like I said, this is it's the a ref doesn't make or break your game.
7:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it sucks.
7:23
SPEAKER_00: And maybe it should have been called, but it is what it is.
7:26
SPEAKER_00: This is this is sports, you know.
7:28
SPEAKER_01: It is, and I you know, I love that advice uh to just move on and uh you know move to the next thing.
7:35
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
7:36
SPEAKER_01: Uh but as the man on this uh women's sports podcast, uh there was one more thing I wanted to say, so I'm gonna circle back on it, um, which is that we don't necessarily get the best of refs.
7:49
SPEAKER_01: So we were taking another look at this, and there are four different levels of pro to development, uh, which is uh the the organization that uh manages the refs for the NWSL and uh MLS and others.
8:08
SPEAKER_01: So they have D, which is the lowest, that's the entry level, C is their first step, then B and A.
8:15
SPEAKER_01: And B and A are limited numbers of people, and they are the ones who they're like about to get a trial game in the major league.
8:24
SPEAKER_01: Uh so B and A are are are the the best of the best, uh or nearly.
8:32
SPEAKER_01: Uh C is a step below that, uh D is a step below that, and D are eligible for NWSL.
8:40
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, should we should we bump that up to at least C?
8:45
SPEAKER_01: I I don't know enough about uh you know the what these mean to to really be able to recommend, but it feels like we're maybe getting some refs who haven't put in the hours.
8:55
SPEAKER_00: They're a little bit green.
8:56
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
8:57
SPEAKER_00: A little bit green, yeah.
8:58
SPEAKER_00: And we should what how do you get to be a even a D level ref?
9:05
SPEAKER_00: Like, okay, like you've refed a few college games, you've refed, like, what is even to be at the lowest tier?
9:14
SPEAKER_01: That is a good question.
9:14
SPEAKER_01: What is that?
9:15
SPEAKER_01: And I I don't know the answer to that.
9:17
SPEAKER_00: God damn it, Alan.
9:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh I I unfortunately I don't know everything, despite what you uh people think.
9:23
SPEAKER_01: I've been telling people that you do, so and uh Brooke doesn't seem to be listening to us today, so uh I have no fucking idea what's going on with that, but I'll fix it later.
9:32
SPEAKER_01: I don't know shit about fuck.
9:34
SPEAKER_01: Uh she helped us prep well, so uh thank you, Brooke, again, even though you're you're not listening.
9:43
SPEAKER_01: So Marissa, you were there at the game, and on our last episode, you promised us that you were going to go to the the press uh box and uh ask your first question.
9:56
SPEAKER_01: So um I know you you did not make it to the press.
9:59
SPEAKER_01: Uh you you actually had uh other arrangements.
10:02
SPEAKER_01: You you did need to uh go, let's say, console a friend.
10:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
10:07
SPEAKER_00: Um we drink at the bar.
10:10
SPEAKER_01: Uh so you know, I I will give you the that excuse.
10:14
SPEAKER_01: Um however, you did get uh your question swiped, uh, or at least your opportunity to ask a question swiped.
10:21
SPEAKER_01: Uh who asked a question at the the press conference this time?
10:27
SPEAKER_00: A kid reporter.
10:28
SPEAKER_01: A what reporter?
10:30
SPEAKER_00: Uh a kid reporter asked reporter.
10:34
SPEAKER_00: She asked like five questions too.
10:37
SPEAKER_00: If a child if if a kid reporter can do these things, then your girl Marissa needs to pull up her big girl pants and ask some questions.
10:46
SPEAKER_01: Well, luckily we have another opportunity coming up uh this next week.
10:50
SPEAKER_01: We will talk about that later.
10:52
SPEAKER_01: Um but like we said, you you were at the game.
10:56
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
10:56
SPEAKER_01: You got to watch the game live.
10:58
SPEAKER_01: Um tell me tell me what it was like.
11:01
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so um it was it wasn't rainy, but it was a chilly day in Portland.
11:08
SPEAKER_00: I was I got there about an hour and a half before uh kickoff time, and it looked kind of slow.
11:13
SPEAKER_00: The bartender's flashing me.
11:15
SPEAKER_00: Uh so it looked kind of slow, uh it looked kind of empty, but by the time but by the time like kickoffs happened, we it was a full house.
11:29
SPEAKER_00: Um I think we got 19,065 in attendance this game.
11:33
SPEAKER_01: Um it looked good seeing it on TV.
11:36
SPEAKER_01: Like we've talked about this before, but just looking in the stands, our stands look so much fuller.
11:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, especially like watching other games around the league.
11:44
SPEAKER_00: Like, you're like, God damn, you only got a couple thousand people in that stand, you know.
11:48
SPEAKER_00: So it is that's always really nice.
11:50
SPEAKER_00: But um, yeah, it was great.
11:51
SPEAKER_00: Uh as always, everybody is always so awesome there.
11:54
SPEAKER_00: They feed us, we had great food.
11:57
SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, it was it was great.
11:59
SPEAKER_00: Uh the national anthem was beautiful.
12:02
SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, it was it was great.
12:05
SPEAKER_01: Well, and then the game got started, uh, and at the 18th minute we saw an incredible goal uh by Sophia Wilson.
12:13
SPEAKER_01: Um, it was a penalty.
12:16
SPEAKER_01: Um and we've talked a little bit about the game theory of it before and whether you go left or whether you go right, and it was another one of those classic ones.
12:23
SPEAKER_01: Uh, I I loved seeing it.
12:25
SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, when it's uh when it's your team scoring, it's it's beautiful when the the keeper jumps the wrong way and it just goes right on in.
12:35
SPEAKER_00: And so it kind of worried me because we've seen Sof shoot.
12:39
SPEAKER_00: I mean, okay, let's also bring up Sophie, Sof Wilson is 10 out of 10 PKs this this season.
12:45
SPEAKER_00: That's right up.
12:46
SPEAKER_00: Second player to do that behind and Ashley Sanchez, 10 out of 10 goals.
12:50
SPEAKER_00: Also, are the goalies not paying attention?
12:53
SPEAKER_00: Sof goes right every time.
12:56
SPEAKER_00: And the goal, but like you were talking about game theory, the goalies know that a percentage, like the higher percentage of players, go left.
13:03
SPEAKER_00: And so they're always gonna like the odds are if they just jump that way, they're gonna get it.
13:07
SPEAKER_00: But I'm like, where's your writing on your water bottle?
13:11
SPEAKER_00: You know how some goalies have like a bunch of writing on their water bottles, but sof goes right.
13:15
SPEAKER_00: But it was also she went top bins too.
13:17
SPEAKER_00: It was a really nice PK.
13:18
SPEAKER_00: It was really nice.
13:19
SPEAKER_00: I also had to turn around.
13:21
SPEAKER_00: So anytime a PK gets shot or whatever, I completely turn around and don't look at the game at all.
13:28
SPEAKER_00: And I was sitting next to somebody, I forget who they were.
13:30
SPEAKER_00: They were from the Willamette, the Willamette.
13:33
SPEAKER_00: Um I don't know, but they were really, really cool.
13:35
SPEAKER_00: They were sitting next to me and we were chatting actually, and I just completely turned around and looked away during the PK, and they looked at me and they were like, I get it.
13:45
SPEAKER_01: But sometimes, you know, uh it might be a superstition, but you gotta do it in it.
13:50
SPEAKER_00: I just don't want to look.
13:51
SPEAKER_00: I just don't want to look.
13:52
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to look at it.
13:53
SPEAKER_00: Um don't have this.
13:55
SPEAKER_00: Involve me.
13:56
SPEAKER_00: Do your thing, Wilson.
13:58
SPEAKER_01: But it was great, and uh, you know, that first half, uh, like I said, um, yeah, we we were ahead uh 1-0 going into the half.
14:06
SPEAKER_01: Everything was looking good.
14:07
SPEAKER_00: I mean, so we controlled that game for 60 or 70 minutes.
14:13
SPEAKER_00: Uh we looked great.
14:14
SPEAKER_00: That it was the I don't know, everyone says a tale of two halves, but it really was.
14:19
SPEAKER_00: We were phenomenal.
14:20
SPEAKER_00: Uh Spirit didn't look ready.
14:23
SPEAKER_00: Um actually, I don't know if I want to say Spirit didn't look ready, or we just looked good.
14:27
SPEAKER_00: You know, like I don't want to say the Spirit weren't great because Spirit are an amazing team, but everyone seems to be playing hard that day.
14:34
SPEAKER_00: Really, really good.
14:35
SPEAKER_00: I mean, this is also the healthiest our rosters looked all year.
14:39
SPEAKER_00: Like, I understand we have a lot of season ender, we have some season ending injuries, but Hanks, Turner, Weaver, we're we're looking really good.
14:48
SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, uh Weaver and Turner starting was really awesome.
14:52
SPEAKER_00: I feel like fan favorites back to it.
14:57
SPEAKER_00: Um they were really great for the attack, and it was also really good to have actual wingers back on because they are really good at maintaining the width width, width, width, with the picture.
15:12
SPEAKER_00: Anyways, they're actual natural ringers, so they maintain width and they also have the speed.
15:16
SPEAKER_00: So that was really, really great to see.
15:18
SPEAKER_00: Also, we got the same starting four defenders again, third game in a row, hell yeah, consistency back there.
15:27
SPEAKER_00: We had Perry, Calzata, Hyatt, and Vignola.
15:33
SPEAKER_00: They played really well together.
15:36
SPEAKER_00: Uh, they look solid.
15:38
SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, it was great.
15:40
SPEAKER_00: Uh, Nigestad, Turner, and Plemm in the middle.
15:43
SPEAKER_00: They played together really well.
15:45
SPEAKER_00: Also, sooner or later, this might just become a Nina Nigestad pop like fan podcast, because holy shit girl.
15:53
SPEAKER_00: She and she's she's also new to this league.
15:56
SPEAKER_00: She's only ever played in a Dutch league.
15:59
SPEAKER_00: She's new to this, how we play it here in the NWSL.
16:02
SPEAKER_01: She's new to the league, she's new to the country, and that's it.
16:05
SPEAKER_01: But she's just killing it out there on the field.
16:08
SPEAKER_00: And we'll we'll bring it up later, but in the press conference, people were asking, like, hey, how is it playing for like how is it?
16:13
SPEAKER_00: And she's like, take some getting used to, but she loves the girls, like, she's getting involved, like it it's it's really cool to see.
16:20
SPEAKER_00: Um cool.
16:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
16:22
SPEAKER_00: And then uh Yeah, uh, so Calzada kept uh Trinity Rodman relatively quiet, not all the way quiet because Trin had an assist, but to shut to kind of keep one of the best players in our league slash the world quiet, it's pretty exceptional, and we did really well.
16:42
SPEAKER_00: Like, once again, hats off to our defense.
16:45
SPEAKER_00: We were we've been doing really well with our defense.
16:48
SPEAKER_01: Um at the 59th minute, like you said, uh at we had the first hour or so under control, but at that 59th minute, uh there was a video review and a penalty uh kick awarded, and Spirit scored their first goal off of that penalty.
17:05
SPEAKER_01: Um and that I think is where things started to turn around.
17:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
17:08
SPEAKER_01: And like we said, you know, that was the first video review, and then we didn't see a video review a little bit later.
17:15
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
17:16
SPEAKER_00: I I literally texted you, I was like, because I was at the game, I can't, I don't I can't hear, I can't see a replay, and I was like, Alan, what's a replay?
17:22
SPEAKER_00: Was that in the box?
17:23
SPEAKER_00: And you go, yep, and I go, fuck.
17:26
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
17:27
SPEAKER_01: I mean I was lucky enough uh that I was watching the game here and I had it on two different TVs uh with a 10-second delay between them.
17:36
SPEAKER_01: So I I got your text uh and I missed it on the first TV, but then I was able to look over and catch the replay on the second TV.
17:43
SPEAKER_01: And so you know sometimes that delay can be fantastic.
17:46
SPEAKER_00: So Turner was available for the last game and she didn't play any minutes, which we thought was like okay, you know, it's gonna take some time.
17:53
SPEAKER_00: But she went from not playing any minutes to starting this game.
17:56
SPEAKER_00: Turner is great for us.
17:59
SPEAKER_00: She's so fast, she knows her position, and she also helps out so much on defense with getting back.
18:04
SPEAKER_00: And that's why when Mueller came on for her in the 63rd minute, like you can kind of almost look side by side to when we started kind of faltering with our defense.
18:15
SPEAKER_00: And it was, I mean, like I said, Mueller's a great player, but her coming in for Turner definitely changed things on that side.
18:22
SPEAKER_00: People weren't she wasn't getting back.
18:23
SPEAKER_00: Also, she's Turner's fast as fuck, boy.
18:26
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, she wasn't getting back, and yeah, that that is where you can kind of pinpoint.
18:32
SPEAKER_00: There's there's always like a kind of we're in the turning goals, you know, like oh, stoppage of play, halftime, you know, beginning a game.
18:40
SPEAKER_00: You could always kind of see like, oh, what just happened there?
18:43
SPEAKER_00: And that seemed like that was kind of big what happened.
18:46
SPEAKER_00: Love Marie Mueller, hell yeah, go Germany.
18:49
SPEAKER_00: Fuck yeah, girl.
18:50
SPEAKER_01: It was just it was an energy point.
18:52
SPEAKER_01: You could definitely see, yeah.
18:53
SPEAKER_00: And we got gassed.
18:54
SPEAKER_00: Like that's that goal that we took our foot off the gas, we looked gassed.
18:59
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if it was like the fans, like we were the yeah.
19:05
SPEAKER_01: Well, that does bring us uh yeah to the 80th minute, uh, where Melissa Betty uh scored a goal, uh, assisted by Trinity Rodman.
19:14
SPEAKER_01: Um and uh uh you know, we're we're not uh uh a spirit podcast, uh, but uh she's been in the news a bit lately.
19:23
SPEAKER_00: Um, Trinity Rodman?
19:26
SPEAKER_00: Uh in the news?
19:27
SPEAKER_01: Who could have guessed?
19:28
SPEAKER_00: What do you mean?
19:29
SPEAKER_01: No, she's just as she's almost as scary as soph, like even yeah, yeah, that that second goal really turned things around and it felt like we were we were just on we were on the back our back foot, we were asleep, you know, whatever you want to say.
19:45
SPEAKER_01: Um uh I I think at one point uh it was maybe a little earlier in the game, but I texted you that uh they looked desperate and we looked tired, and desperate beats tired every time.
19:57
SPEAKER_00: Yep, mm-hmm.
19:58
SPEAKER_00: Exactly, exactly.
19:59
SPEAKER_00: Especially like what you were saying earlier, like they've never won in Providence Park.
20:05
SPEAKER_00: Ever.
20:06
SPEAKER_00: So they've got that on them, and also like I remember this was a while ago, I think this was last season.
20:12
SPEAKER_00: Uh the camera was zoomed in on the spirit players, and they were at Providence, and Hal Hirschfeld looks to the side and she goes, Wow, it's loud.
20:19
SPEAKER_00: Like, I'll have to pull it up to you.
20:21
SPEAKER_00: This is these are facts, Brooke, so don't come at us.
20:24
SPEAKER_00: But she goes, It's loud, you know, because it's we are such a community team.
20:31
SPEAKER_00: Especially with like so between us and the spirit, like they call them it's rowdy outie.
20:36
SPEAKER_00: They are loud, and no one's better than the Thorns, no one's better than Providence Park, you know, the our fans.
20:43
SPEAKER_00: But Rowdy Audi gives us a run for our money.
20:45
SPEAKER_00: They definitely show up for their team and they go hard.
20:49
SPEAKER_01: So absolutely.
20:51
SPEAKER_01: Well, that then brings us to uh what else is happening uh with our team uh and what's coming up next.
21:02
SPEAKER_00: Rolls City Red Card brought to you by Marissa and Alan.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's go.
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SPEAKER_01: That's right.
21:12
SPEAKER_01: That brings us back to talking about uh what's going on with the team.
21:17
SPEAKER_01: Uh we we said it is the healthiest roster we've seen all year.
21:22
SPEAKER_01: Uh like you were saying, our defense uh has been really consistent.
21:28
SPEAKER_01: Um the transfer window is closing today.
21:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the transfer window closed today.
21:33
SPEAKER_00: Uh we we don't spread rumors here at Roe City Red Card.
21:37
SPEAKER_00: But if we were to spread rumors, we would think that Dena Caseranos have an excused absence, being at the game but not dressing.
21:46
SPEAKER_00: She was in a hoodie, she looked very comfortable.
21:47
SPEAKER_00: I saw her on the field.
21:49
SPEAKER_01: It was right before the game that we found out she was not going to be playing.
21:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was a late availability update.
21:54
SPEAKER_01: And all they said was that it was an excused absence.
21:57
SPEAKER_00: So And normally when that happens in the league.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: Somebody is waiting to go through medical to join their next team.
22:03
SPEAKER_01: We talked about briefly last week.
22:06
SPEAKER_01: Um and but yeah, the it closes today, and it is currently 6 30 p.m.
22:13
SPEAKER_01: uh on September 7th.
22:15
SPEAKER_00: And Marissa keeps checking the news and I'm trying to keep updated and nothing as of 6 30 p.m.
22:21
SPEAKER_00: So Pacific time.
22:22
SPEAKER_01: We'll see if uh something happens after uh we record, but so far um you know it looks like it might be something else.
22:29
SPEAKER_01: So uh you know what does that mean?
22:30
SPEAKER_01: What happens if uh Castellanos stays?
22:33
SPEAKER_01: What happens if she goes?
22:34
SPEAKER_01: Uh what does it mean for us?
22:36
SPEAKER_00: Um she has been doing better the last couple of games.
22:41
SPEAKER_00: We need better, we need better than has been doing better.
22:45
SPEAKER_00: Uh I think we I don't know.
22:50
SPEAKER_00: I I I I really don't know.
22:51
SPEAKER_00: I feel like we could just do with thank you, Calvin.
22:55
SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Calvin, roasted.
22:56
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna bring you some more announcements, okay?
22:58
SPEAKER_00: Okay, thank you, Calvin.
22:59
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
23:01
SPEAKER_00: All right.
23:02
SPEAKER_00: And this is why we record at the bar.
23:04
SPEAKER_00: We literally this is also sorry, sidetrack, but this is Alan and I's home base.
23:09
SPEAKER_00: We fucking love this place.
23:10
SPEAKER_00: It's amazing.
23:12
SPEAKER_00: This is literally right we record here is because people will be sitting down next to us.
23:16
SPEAKER_00: Chatting this up.
23:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
23:17
SPEAKER_00: Also, we're making a this is a woman's sports bar basically.
23:21
SPEAKER_00: So on the case.
23:22
SPEAKER_01: We're turning it into one at least.
23:23
SPEAKER_00: Hell yeah, we are.
23:24
SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, so with Dania, um I think that we could do better.
23:32
SPEAKER_00: And we will find out.
23:34
SPEAKER_00: I don't we don't know what's going on, the rumor mill, but that that's kind of what it is.
23:39
SPEAKER_01: All right.
23:40
SPEAKER_01: Well, so the other big thing that we've been talking about um is Sophia Wilson.
23:45
SPEAKER_01: Is she gonna stick around?
23:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
23:47
SPEAKER_01: She still hasn't signed yet.
23:49
SPEAKER_01: Uh you texted me and said uh it looks like she's not going anywhere uh with a link to her podcast or a podcast uh that she was on, uh Tobin Heath's podcast.
23:59
SPEAKER_01: Uh I listened to it as well, um, and it sounds like you know, she's loving Portland, she's loving the people.
24:05
SPEAKER_01: Uh she didn't say she's sticking around.
24:07
SPEAKER_00: So one of the quotes, that's why I texted you, is like one of the quotes that I took from it was that she like so Tobin Heath brought up the Ballendor, which is one of the most coveted women's most coveted football awards you can get ever.
24:22
SPEAKER_00: Also, it's a fucking award given by a French magazine.
24:27
SPEAKER_00: It is a joke.
24:31
SPEAKER_00: Sorry, it's not a joke.
24:32
SPEAKER_00: Congratulations to the Ball and Dor winners and the nominees in the past.
24:35
SPEAKER_00: But also, but it is heavily European.
24:38
SPEAKER_00: Americans do not win it.
24:39
SPEAKER_00: You have to figure out it's it's very European based.
24:43
SPEAKER_00: And so basically, Tobin was like, So, you know, like if you want to build in Ballon d'Or, you have to go over there.
24:48
SPEAKER_00: And Soph was like, I don't really care about that stuff.
24:51
SPEAKER_00: She cares about her family, Gigi, and then she taught started talking about how because all the time you hear players, even coffee, all these players are like, Well, I just felt comfortable, I wanted to be uncomfortable to move up.
25:02
SPEAKER_00: And Soph was like, I don't think you have to be uncomfortable to do better.
25:06
SPEAKER_00: She was like, I would actually say that you might want to be comfortable sometimes, and so that's what got me into thinking that Sof's not gonna leave.
25:14
SPEAKER_00: Also, I have my own little tangent after this, but Soph has a new baby.
25:19
SPEAKER_00: These players know her child, they are hanging out with her child.
25:23
SPEAKER_00: She is comfortable here with the space, she's comfortable with the our new training facility, brand.
25:29
SPEAKER_00: The new training facility that is.
25:31
SPEAKER_00: For moms.
25:32
SPEAKER_00: I think that also, I do not think we're gonna get any national team players that are gonna move in this next year.
25:41
SPEAKER_00: You want to be comfortable with your team.
25:44
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna like you move it to a new team.
25:45
SPEAKER_00: You could be the best player in the world.
25:47
SPEAKER_00: Uh not best player in the world, but let's say uh Allie Sentinor getting traded from Utah to Kansas City to LA.
25:53
SPEAKER_00: Um Allie Sentinor's been with LA for Angel City for a couple of games, and she's just now starting to crack.
25:59
SPEAKER_00: It fucking takes time to get used to stuff.
26:02
SPEAKER_00: And you can use this season too, but we only got one more season, which is next at the beginning of next spring before the World Cup.
26:10
SPEAKER_00: I don't think we're gonna get a lot of we might get some lower tier movement.
26:14
SPEAKER_00: Not to say these players are lower tier, but we're not I think we're gonna get some movement like that, but I don't think you're gonna get the main national team players moving around.
26:21
SPEAKER_00: I don't think they want to fuck up their juju, I don't think they want to fuck up their familiarity.
26:25
SPEAKER_00: But I I think that Soaf is going to stay put for at least two years.
26:31
SPEAKER_00: Because we got the World Cup next summer, and then after that, we got the Olympics.
26:35
SPEAKER_00: So I feel like those are two big years.
26:38
SPEAKER_00: Also, her uh husband just signed like a huge deal with the care with because he plays uh in the N the NFL, which is a uh men's sport.
26:47
SPEAKER_00: It's American football.
26:49
SPEAKER_01: Amer American Yeah.
26:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't know.
26:52
SPEAKER_00: They call it American football, but they play with their hands.
26:55
SPEAKER_00: Lots of CT.
26:56
SPEAKER_00: Anyways, but so I would like to think like maybe there's some continuation.
27:00
SPEAKER_00: Like also, they play he she plays in the summer.
27:05
SPEAKER_00: He's off during the summer.
27:06
SPEAKER_00: I feel like it's easy.
27:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, their schedules don't conflict.
27:09
SPEAKER_00: Also, maybe I'm just hail maring.
27:12
SPEAKER_00: I don't believe, but maybe I could believe in JC for this.
27:15
SPEAKER_01: So I had my uh that is that is quite the uh the sacrifice that you were uh willing to make there.
27:22
SPEAKER_00: Well, earlier in the season I did say I was gonna start sleeping with men if the Thorns would win.
27:26
SPEAKER_00: Luckily I didn't have to do that.
27:28
SPEAKER_00: It's true.
27:28
SPEAKER_00: Uh I mean we'll see.
27:29
SPEAKER_01: We'll we'll see how the rest of the season goes.
27:33
SPEAKER_01: But that does bring us to uh what's happening in the rest of the league and where our s where we are standing uh in the standing in the standings.
27:42
SPEAKER_01: Standing in the standings.
27:44
SPEAKER_01: Standing in the standings.
27:45
SPEAKER_01: Something like that.
27:46
SPEAKER_00: Something like that.
27:53
SPEAKER_00: Yes! We have arrived at everyone's favorite segment.
27:57
SPEAKER_00: Woohoo! Pew pew pew.
28:03
SPEAKER_00: Alright, so match week 20 was electric.
28:07
SPEAKER_00: We are getting closer and closer to the end of the season.
28:10
SPEAKER_00: Every game counts.
28:12
SPEAKER_00: The teams that are at the bottom of the table are still fucking shut up for teams at the top of the table, and that's that's why I love this league.
28:19
SPEAKER_00: Like, especially uh the end the WSL just started this weekend, and you get the same teams who are always the best, and blah blah blah blah blah.
28:29
SPEAKER_00: And shit's boring.
28:30
SPEAKER_01: That's that's one of the things we love about this league.
28:33
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the parody.
28:34
SPEAKER_00: We got we got a bunch of shit going on.
28:35
SPEAKER_00: All right.
28:36
SPEAKER_00: So let's get into it.
28:38
SPEAKER_00: Pew pew pew pew.
28:39
SPEAKER_00: Sorry, I guess you have a button for that now.
28:41
SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, so okay, uh Marissa's match week roundup 20.
28:50
SPEAKER_00: All right, so Friday we had Boston and Utah.
28:55
SPEAKER_00: Boston beats Utah two to one.
29:00
SPEAKER_00: I didn't see that coming, but also good for Boston.
29:03
SPEAKER_00: They're not a bad team.
29:07
SPEAKER_00: They have their moments, they're not going down without a fight.
29:10
SPEAKER_00: They're also an expansion team.
29:12
SPEAKER_00: Every expansion team deserves a little bit of grace.
29:14
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, Boston, Boston beats Utah 2-1.
29:18
SPEAKER_00: It was actually, I got to watch that game.
29:20
SPEAKER_00: It was pretty fun.
29:21
SPEAKER_01: I missed that one, but it seems like it was a good one.
29:23
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you know what?
29:24
SPEAKER_00: Next next week we can watch all hundred million games in a week.
29:27
SPEAKER_00: We'll get them all.
29:28
SPEAKER_00: Don't worry, yeah.
29:29
SPEAKER_00: And then the next Friday game was uh Kansas City and Bay FC.
29:34
SPEAKER_00: Uh Kansas City beats Bay FC two to one.
29:38
SPEAKER_00: We said this in the last podcast.
29:40
SPEAKER_00: Wake the fuck up, Bay City, or Bay FC.
29:44
SPEAKER_00: You guys are better than this.
29:46
SPEAKER_00: Be better, be strong.
29:48
SPEAKER_00: You guys have such a solid like roster.
29:52
SPEAKER_00: Come on.
29:53
SPEAKER_00: It was against Kansas City, who's one of the better teams, but like you guys should not be where you are on the table, you know?
30:01
SPEAKER_00: Uh so that's it for the Friday games.
30:03
SPEAKER_00: Uh Saturday had only one game.
30:08
SPEAKER_00: And anyways.
30:10
SPEAKER_00: Anyways, Saturday only had one game.
30:13
SPEAKER_00: It was Angel City and Racing Louisville.
30:17
SPEAKER_00: Angel City beats racing two to one.
30:22
SPEAKER_00: It was the only match of the game.
30:24
SPEAKER_00: I was kind of busy, didn't get to watch a lot of it, but I don't know.
30:29
SPEAKER_00: Racing was on a tear for a minute, uh, and yeah, that's that's all I got on that.
30:36
SPEAKER_00: That's all I got to say about that.
30:39
SPEAKER_01: I missed that one as well, unfortunately.
30:41
SPEAKER_00: But and then to Sunday, where we had five games, which was crazy.
30:45
SPEAKER_01: That's a lot more.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh, so the first game on Sunday was Denver versus Gotham.
30:52
SPEAKER_00: This was for me crazier than Boston beating Utah.
30:57
SPEAKER_00: Denver beats Gotham 3-0.
31:02
SPEAKER_01: That is 3-0.
31:03
SPEAKER_01: Insane.
31:04
SPEAKER_01: Gotham's streak is ended.
31:06
SPEAKER_01: Number one, they have been playing so well.
31:10
SPEAKER_00: Top to bottom, they've been the greatest.
31:15
SPEAKER_01: Um, and it was it was just over by the time I got.
31:19
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
31:19
SPEAKER_00: And it's and and that's the thing is like, so Gotham looks mortal.
31:25
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
31:26
SPEAKER_00: Like, when we tied them when they played here a couple weeks ago, like a month ago at this point, I was like, they're kind of looking mortal.
31:35
SPEAKER_00: You know, and also they are extremely points, but they are also they are very much missing Rose Lavelle in the middle.
31:43
SPEAKER_00: She's uh uh out due to concussion protocol, but she's out with the she's still she's practicing with the team.
31:48
SPEAKER_00: I expect that she'll be back, but I also am really glad that our league takes concussions and head injuries seriously because a concussion is a head injury.
31:56
SPEAKER_00: It is, it is, and she looked really dazed out of that uh that game a while ago.
32:01
SPEAKER_00: But um, yeah.
32:02
SPEAKER_00: So then moving on to the other game is North Carolina versus Chicago.
32:11
SPEAKER_00: North Carolina Molly Wapped?
32:15
SPEAKER_00: Wally walked?
32:16
SPEAKER_00: North Carolina beat the shit out of Chicago 6-0.
32:20
SPEAKER_00: God, poor Chicago.
32:23
SPEAKER_00: Can we should I should I lace up my boots?
32:25
SPEAKER_00: Should I get out there?
32:26
SPEAKER_01: They've they've not been having a good game.
32:28
SPEAKER_00: It's not, it's not.
32:29
SPEAKER_00: You know, and they have Mal out, they have it's just not looking good.
32:33
SPEAKER_00: But also, with that game, after my in my notes, it says sad face for the stars.
32:39
SPEAKER_00: But uh Ashley Sanchez hat trick.
32:41
SPEAKER_00: Sanchez is at 18 goals for the season so far.
32:46
SPEAKER_00: The most from any American in a single season at NWSO.
32:51
SPEAKER_00: She's truly she's she's doing something special with the season, and I hate to be another person talking about the national team call-ups, but if Ashley Sanchez doesn't deserve a call-up, then who the fuck does?
33:02
SPEAKER_00: Like, I fully expect her to be on the roster for when we play Spain next month.
33:06
SPEAKER_01: Like, she is 18 isn't it?
33:09
SPEAKER_00: She's our she's the MVP of this league.
33:11
SPEAKER_00: Right.
33:11
SPEAKER_00: I mean, for me personally, like a hat trick, 18 goals, 18 goals in the season?
33:18
SPEAKER_00: With still like seven fucking games to go.
33:20
SPEAKER_00: She's she's playing incredible.
33:22
SPEAKER_00: She's uh she's just playing incredible.
33:25
SPEAKER_00: Um and then uh Spirit and the Thorns play.
33:33
SPEAKER_00: Spirit The Thorns, two to one.
33:36
SPEAKER_00: My notes say, whatever, boo.
33:38
SPEAKER_00: I hate this sport, I hate everything.
33:39
SPEAKER_00: Die die.
33:41
SPEAKER_00: You told me that you had to cut a lot of the I had to cut so much out of my notes before I sent them to you, Alan.
33:47
SPEAKER_01: But you know, this is where we're at, and you know, this is where we're you also had to apologize for using caps lock throughout the entire uh note document.
33:57
SPEAKER_01: Uh it was apologized in the email uh subject, uh, but the email subject was also all in caps lock.
34:04
SPEAKER_01: So um I'm not quite sure how much you meant it.
34:07
SPEAKER_00: There's a there's a light that says that the caps lock is on, but I was just like, fuck that light.
34:12
SPEAKER_00: Shooting from the hip.
34:13
SPEAKER_00: We going.
34:14
SPEAKER_01: Just do it.
34:15
SPEAKER_00: Just do it.
34:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so blah blah blah blah, spam breathe of thorn, nah nah nahm nah.
34:20
SPEAKER_00: Uh the other another game that happened, or the fourth game that happened on Sunday was Houston versus Orlando.
34:26
SPEAKER_00: Orlando win three to one.
34:29
SPEAKER_00: Orlando aren't going down without a fucking fight.
34:32
SPEAKER_00: They, I don't know, they're very hot and cold, and I know beating Houston isn't supposed to be, isn't like some huge thing, but Orlando's they're still pushing.
34:42
SPEAKER_00: There's they're still doing well.
34:43
SPEAKER_00: Also, where the fuck is Marta?
34:46
SPEAKER_00: Is Marta injured?
34:47
SPEAKER_00: We should bring that up in the next episode.
34:49
SPEAKER_00: Like, where's where's Marta?
34:54
SPEAKER_01: Um, so she's uh had six starts and then six off the bench.
34:59
SPEAKER_01: So this season?
35:01
SPEAKER_01: Uh that's what I'm seeing here.
35:03
SPEAKER_01: So um I don't know if that's correct.
35:05
SPEAKER_01: We'll uh either say it's correct or we'll fact check it in post uh cut this.
35:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
35:12
SPEAKER_00: And then the last game on Sunday, which was actually it was so nice.
35:16
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's really nice after a Thorns game to have like some other games to kind of like mouthwash it through.
35:26
SPEAKER_00: That was a noise I did.
35:27
SPEAKER_00: You should cut that.
35:28
SPEAKER_00: But anyways, kind of like a nice like uh, you know, after something sad, it's like, okay, well let's end this with a happy fact, you know, and so not a happy fact for San Diego, but the last game on Sunday was Seattle versus San Diego Wave.
35:42
SPEAKER_00: Seattle win 1-0.
35:46
SPEAKER_00: Mimi Van Zatten, who for me is personally rookie of the year, she's fucking incredible.
35:51
SPEAKER_00: She got a red card for the wave at the 13th minute.
35:55
SPEAKER_00: So they played a lot of the game, majority of the game with 10 players down.
36:02
SPEAKER_00: They still looked great, they still had some opportunities, but you're one player down, and Laura Harvey, as much as fuck Seattle, Laura Harvey's a decent coach, and so she knows that she was like, okay, let's see what we can do with this.
36:14
SPEAKER_00: Let's see what we can do with this, you know?
36:16
SPEAKER_00: And so, yeah, Seattle comes away with the win one-zero.
36:21
SPEAKER_00: And that's it for Maritz.
36:23
SPEAKER_00: Marissa Maritza's.
36:25
SPEAKER_00: What's my name, Al?
36:26
SPEAKER_00: Can you what what was my name again?
36:27
SPEAKER_01: What what was your name?
36:28
SPEAKER_01: Um Marissa.
36:30
SPEAKER_01: Marie.
36:30
SPEAKER_00: And now for Marisa's.
36:33
SPEAKER_00: This is the end of Marissa's match week 20 roundup.
36:42
SPEAKER_01: So that brings us to next week.
36:45
SPEAKER_01: Um, as I said, we are both going to be able to be there this time.
36:49
SPEAKER_01: Uh, it's gonna be be a blast.
36:51
SPEAKER_01: Uh, my second time there uh as press.
36:55
SPEAKER_01: And um, like we said, we're gonna ask some questions, aren't we?
36:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we are.
37:00
SPEAKER_00: First of all, cheers, Alan.
37:01
SPEAKER_00: Cheers.
37:01
SPEAKER_00: This has been a great episode.
37:03
SPEAKER_00: We're killing it.
37:08
SPEAKER_01: We're keeping that in.
37:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
37:09
SPEAKER_00: Also, the bartender that just said we suck says, What's your shirt say, Priscilla?
37:14
SPEAKER_02: Thick girls taste better.
37:15
SPEAKER_00: Thick girls taste better.
37:16
SPEAKER_00: That's the bartender that just yelled at us.
37:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
37:21
SPEAKER_00: See, this hello.
37:23
SPEAKER_00: We are loved at the bar.
37:24
SPEAKER_01: We are.
37:25
SPEAKER_01: Everybody loves us here.
37:26
SPEAKER_00: Also, we're like sprawled out at a bar with like podcast equipment.
37:29
SPEAKER_00: It kind of takes an eye, you know.
37:31
SPEAKER_01: Everybody asks what we're doing.
37:33
SPEAKER_00: I know, which is also funny because we know everybody, so they kind of know.
37:37
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
37:37
SPEAKER_00: Alright.
37:38
SPEAKER_01: But spin that.
37:40
SPEAKER_01: What's happening uh at the game next week?
37:42
SPEAKER_00: Alright, so we play Chicago at home.
37:45
SPEAKER_00: Um we all want good things for Chicago, but the Thorns, we're gonna play we're gonna we're gonna be pissed off.
37:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
37:55
SPEAKER_00: We just lost at home.
37:56
SPEAKER_00: The Thorn the Chicago Stars are gonna have to feel the wrath of a pissed-off Portland Thorns in Providence Park home game.
38:07
SPEAKER_00: I don't think it's gonna fare well for them, but we will see.
38:11
SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, also let's bring it into the rest of our games that we have for this year.
38:16
SPEAKER_00: We have a pretty, I don't want to say easy, because who knows?
38:20
SPEAKER_00: Boston beats Utah, Denver beats Gotham, who knows what can fucking happen.
38:25
SPEAKER_00: But the end of our season looks pretty.
38:28
SPEAKER_00: We're playing bottom like the lower of the table teams.
38:31
SPEAKER_00: So yes, we play the Chicago Stars in Portland on Sunday the 13th.
38:38
SPEAKER_00: We play Orlando Pride Saturday, September 19th in Orlando.
38:45
SPEAKER_00: We play we play Houston Dash in Portland on September 26th.
38:54
SPEAKER_00: Then we play Boston Legacy in Portland on October 3rd.
39:00
SPEAKER_00: Also, in the middle, I'm sorry, I gotta say, it is really exciting to host these uh expansion teams in our city.
39:07
SPEAKER_00: Like Boston Boston first ever Boston team in a women's sport to play in our like it to play at Professor Park.
39:14
SPEAKER_00: That's really cool.
39:14
SPEAKER_00: That is really cool.
39:15
SPEAKER_00: I feel like we don't give enough shout-out to these expansion teams.
39:18
SPEAKER_00: Like, it is so fucking cool.
39:19
SPEAKER_00: Our league is growing.
39:21
SPEAKER_00: It it's really exciting.
39:22
SPEAKER_01: We're getting new teams, we're getting new fans, we're getting new players.
39:25
SPEAKER_00: So new fans, it's so awesome.
39:27
SPEAKER_00: Okay, back to business.
39:29
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, and then uh we play Bay FC October 8th in the bay.
39:36
SPEAKER_00: Then we play, I think this is gonna be kind of the hardest, one hardest of our games at the last leg.
39:42
SPEAKER_00: And we play North Carolina, but we do play them in Portland.
39:45
SPEAKER_00: And Alan, you don't know this because you're pretty new, but North Carolina is like our like so it's Buildabon Fire, Build-A-Bon fire, put Seattle at the top.
39:55
SPEAKER_00: North Carolina goes in that fucking middle.
39:57
SPEAKER_00: Like, literally, North Carolina, like we were talking about earlier, we were discussing shield winners, who like can you wield the sh win the shield and win the championship?
40:07
SPEAKER_00: And North Carolina fucking did it two goddamn years in a row.
40:10
SPEAKER_00: It was 2018, 2019.
40:12
SPEAKER_00: 2019, yeah.
40:14
SPEAKER_00: And North Carolina used to boss people around in this league.
40:18
SPEAKER_00: No, no more.
40:19
SPEAKER_00: I mean Ashley Sanchez.
40:20
SPEAKER_00: And then, sorry, got distracted because of friendship, you know.
40:24
SPEAKER_00: But our last campaign regular season game is against the Houston Dash in Houston on November 1st.
40:33
SPEAKER_00: So we do, I don't want to say easy because this league be fucking people left and right, but it seems like we have player we're playing the lower level teams besides North Carolina.
40:48
SPEAKER_01: Well, and just looking at the standings, you know, we're we're not playing people who are up uh, you know, competing for the SHIELD.
40:54
SPEAKER_01: Um we're playing, you know, some of the teams that are not doing as well, but we've talked about the parody, and so it's still anything could happen.
41:02
SPEAKER_01: Anything could happen.
41:03
SPEAKER_01: We still need to, you know.
41:04
SPEAKER_00: Utah beat us 5-1.
41:06
SPEAKER_00: Boston just beat Utah 2-1.
41:09
SPEAKER_01: Like it can go either way.
41:12
SPEAKER_00: This league is like a box of chocolates.
41:16
unknown: Delete your water bottle.
41:17
SPEAKER_01: You never know what you're gonna get.
41:20
SPEAKER_01: Took me a moment on that one.
41:24
SPEAKER_01: Well, one thing I do want to mention is that uh next week is your birthday week, so we are gonna go and uh see the game together and go celebrate your birthday.
41:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm excited.
41:36
SPEAKER_01: It'll be fun.
41:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
41:37
SPEAKER_00: I'm never worried about my age.
41:38
SPEAKER_00: I don't give a shit.
41:39
SPEAKER_00: Like, whatever it is, what it is.
41:41
SPEAKER_00: I'm black, I look young, you know, that's life.
41:43
SPEAKER_00: Melanin be melanin for me.
41:45
SPEAKER_00: But this age, I'm definitely like what?
41:49
SPEAKER_00: It's it's not rough, but it's like something I'm paying attention to.
41:53
SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna drink more water, hydrate, smoke a lot of weed.
41:59
SPEAKER_01: As you do.
41:59
SPEAKER_00: Just take care of myself.
42:00
SPEAKER_00: My body's a temple.
42:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
42:02
SPEAKER_01: And you gotta pay attention to what your body needs.
42:05
SPEAKER_01: And you know, I'm approaching uh a big birthday as well uh next year, and so um I I feel you're there.
42:12
SPEAKER_01: And uh are we gonna survive?
42:14
SPEAKER_01: Uh on that note, uh, I think it is time uh to once again say cheers.
42:19
SPEAKER_00: Fuck yeah.
42:23
SPEAKER_01: And I will uh finish off my beer uh as you say, uh as you always do.
42:29
unknown: What was the number?
42:31
SPEAKER_00: All smiles, no injuries, fuck Seattle.
42:34
SPEAKER_00: Let's go Thorns.