RECAP - 10/20 Utah Royals - Final Home Match

That was two different songs. Just kidding.

And that's the clip for the beginning. Welcome to Casual FC, an Angel City match preview pod, and two certified footy therapists. I'm your host, Angel Morales, with my co host, and from a house divided, Mario Salazar. It's

Hi, everybody. We switched roles for today.

But, but, my partner, my pod partner in crime here is in a house divided, the, the Dodgers have made it to the World Series, and so have the Yankees. Eva,

it's gonna be one hell of a

Eva is an

Can't wait.

East Coaster through and through, this'll be interesting. would

of fun. I think our friends and our co my, my co workers, some of our, the people she plays with are like, are you two gonna be okay? alright? And we're like, yes. we both love our teams, but neither one of us think it's smart to put your relationship on the line because of sports. As much as we both love sports, and that's saying a lot, I'm not, that's not, That's, and the thing is, is that we're both big fans of the sport itself. So like we just want good baseball.

you rather have it done in a sweep, and Amazing sweep, or do you want to go Game 7?

like five games, maybe six. But yeah, I dunno if I could handle a Game seven World Series Both of us are just like,

Both of you just not watching the TV, just like listening, what's going on, what's going on?

okay. Just staring into the like boring into the table.

Well, that's going to be a lot of fun, at least you get some post season action, cause

Yeah.

in it, and we'll get

this is incredibly important. We are one of the few states that allows for a day of registration because we're not, well, California is weird, but we're not like, weird. we're not question your morals

It's

Yeah, just if you haven't registered to vote, still have the ability to do a day of. Just know it's going to take you a little bit longer to fill out some paperwork, but it's really easy. And yeah, it's almost

almost time. yeah, you know, we're probably going to have one No, our next episode comes out after.

Mhm.

No, before!

Ooh.

one more. One more before.

Yes. Before. One more before. I don't know what day it is. Who knows? What's happening? Where

Alright, well,

I don't know my name. We've switched places.

this is our special footy therapy session of our last home match on Sunday, October 20th, that we played at BMO versus Utah. We will get to the thoughts and feelings on that. There is a little bit of some music Chaos Award and News, and tell us why we have a random week off at the end of the season

Yeah. So right before we hit record, Mari and I were both complaining that we don't know why Yeah. There's a week off. what, what is this? What's the point? And then I was like, oh, it's because of the national team game. And he goes, no, it's because of champions cup. No, it's because of this. And I was like, it's a summer cup. It's a challenge cup. It's the thing that we kept forgetting was a thing nobody remembered it was a thing. so yeah, it's that thing. It's a summer cup for me, Neil.

to any other in season tournament that any other league does,

where it impacts, yeah, it impacts your overall, it counts towards regular season and also other cool stuff. just stop

don't, I mean, honestly, when it comes to in season tournaments, things like that, I don't care if it counts for the regular season,

Same.

that's, that's not the point of it.

games that don't mean anything.

Yeah, well, I mean, don't make the, don't make the in season tournament not mean anything, right? it's just, if you're just doing it for, for shits and giggles, like, all you're doing is putting players at risk, right?

Exactly.

but

Exactly.

you're going to do an in season tournament, Make it self contained. Make it an in season tournament. don't do this stupid summer cup ending in October.

Yeah. I don't know. It's weird. I'm just glad it's almost over. But that's why we're having this bi week,

Yeah.

the to last week of the season. I don't know. Whatever. It's, it is what it is.

We'll, we'll send,

not even the Chaos

we'll send, we'll send the NWSL one of those, hang in there kitten poster calendars for 2025. Maybe they can get,

The ones you would get at the Scholastic Book Fair, where it's

yep.

Or from like a insurance agent.

Yeah. Or Cost Plus World Market. it's just these, yeah. So that they can plan their shit out for 2025 and actually do, a well thought out schedule.

honestly, I don't think it should be that hard.

honestly, it's not that hard. Well, okay, it's hard, but still, it's not that hard because that is your job. That's the that's one of the few things you're supposed to do.

as somebody who schedules for a living and deals with many different things, what people are available, trucks, equipment, like all kinds of stuff. I know, I understand

logistics, yes. Yes.

There's logistics involved. I get it. But

Look, if you,

something's

if you can't plan this shit out now, what are you going to do when you add two more teams in two years? Like it's just going to get more complicated. So all right,

Now, so this week's Chaos Award, up, I should say, the runner up starts with Sergii, who was the head ref for Sunday. And that just, if you were there, you know, it's, this man could not get out of the way. I don't know if you noticed that too. He was in the way

Oh yeah,

important

yeah, he was,

Every single one for both teams. He just was like, get,

I wanted, I like, we're, we're out of the playoffs. at this point we get a red card, doesn't matter. One last game and okay, whatever. I just, I wanted one of them to just punt that ball at it.

I know I just wanted somebody to yell at him and be like, what are you

I'm not, I, I don't condone violence, refs are humans, they can be shit at their jobs but they're still like, there's no, there's no

some

call for any type of violence. Whatsoever. I heard,

but if they got hit by a ball in the run of play, that's not my

that's not my part.

Because you know what? That means they were in the way.

I heard,

And as somebody who got cussed out by two different people today at work for dumb stuff, Fight me. I'm not, I'm not in

I heard someone in my, around my section, like I, it was, it was stupid banter. almost to the point where I was going to turn around, there was other things that pissed me off about this person. I, I don't think they're, I don't think they were season ticket holders near me cause I don't recognize them. but he said something to the effect of, see you in the parking lot or hope you can walk safe to the parking lot, whatever.

Yeah. And that's

That's that's more of a threat.

in the lobby, that's a WNBA joke. That's not a NWSL joke. It's different. do you know about see

No, I don't know.

I don't think you do. So in, during the Wubble,

Okay.

WNBA season, was staying in the same place. Like they're

Yeah. They,

teams were in,

they're in, in the bubble. Yeah.

During one game, the Phoenix Mercury, and I don't know, I don't remember who they were playing, Diana Terazzi, the GOAT of all GOATs. The Goat of All Goats because she's played for 20 years. We don't know if she's retiring and there's a caveat because I think there's a few different goats at different positions because they don't feel like you can give a goat overall. Anyway, that's my like, don't come at me. But I love DT. But she is known for being very sassy.

Holy crap.

Tema Chawinga has officially scored against all 13 opponents in the single season.

is insane.

players have done it across years, across different seasons, like being on different teams. No, one team, one

First year.

she said, screw all y'all, I'm the best, and just made sure we all knew it, and everybody did, and everybody felt that pain, at

Jeez. Fuck.

times, across

Yeah, one season, one team,

season.

year. Her first year in the league.

I remember watching her that first matchup, like the first opening weekend when Kansas City played in their stadium. I And I was just like, oh, shit. Oh, no. We knew she was so good. Like I talked about it last season, like for the the World Cup and like all this kind of stuff. But it was just like, oh, no. This is so good and somehow so bad.

it's gonna be good for everyone, but also bad for everyone, score wise. And it was.

yeah. She, she has just had a hell of a season. I'm so happy for her. I'm happy for Kansas City fans. Like this is something that, this is one of those moments where I love sports and I love the things like this that happen. Oh, you want to break a record? Sick, sick, sick, sick. This is the best thing. So

mean, technically Orlando can still break their own, they've tied the record, they can still break it with this team. Last game. I mean, they lost again, but still,

But they also didn't play half of their starters. Like they're resting people. They are making,

going to make a push. They're going to make a push.

Yeah. And that's the thing. There's, they don't need to win out. You want, you don't want to go into the playoffs undefeated. In general, you don't. Streaks are made to be broken. Streaks are dangerous when it comes to the postseason. cause everybody's like, Oh, you've won 20 straight games. Not tonight.

Yeah.

Racing, who's had their, this little. We're gonna try and make it to the playoffs, come hell or high

Yeah.

Beat Portland 1 0 to help their hopeful

Yeah. They needed, they needed to win to even have a chance. Yeah.

yeah, so they won 1 0. Bay FC won 1 0 over the Courage. Those two matches are what kicked us out of the playoffs. Thanks, guys. the one timeout we want Portland to win.

Yeah. They can't. So once I,

They,

the few times we needed like Portland to win, we needed Orlando to win. yeah, nah. Thanks. Thanks everyone.

like nah. the Spirit beat the Red Stars two to nothing. Gotham beat Orlando three to one and we played. We'll talk about that a little

And then, just to check out the standings, the playoffs are set pretty much, 7th, 8th, and 9th are still in contention. Thorns and Bay are already on 31 points. Racing has a max of 31 points, so Thorns and Bay, all they have to do is draw in their respective matches and they're through. If either one of them loses and Racing wins, they're through. wins, they go to the tiebreaker. Now the only team that they're doing better with in the tiebreaker is Bay. So if

Ooh,

have a racing has a minus four, Bay has a minus 11. We would have had a better goal differential if I came down to it. Okay. But if the Thorns end up losing, they're most likely going to stay in because of Goal differential, because racing won't be able to make that up. I mean, if they do, holy crap, everybody should be watching that game. But,

15 points.

but if so really the only ones in contention that racing have a possibility of catching would be Bay if Bay loses. Beyond that, racing's virtually out from there and Thorns and Bay are the last two teams. So we have Pride in first place, Spirit in second, Gotham in third. 3rd, The Current in 4th, Courage, Red Stars, and then those two, Thorns in Bay. Now

yeah,

there still can be a little bit of flip flopping in between, but Pride, Spirit, Gotham, and The Current all have home field advantage, so all of their first, first round playoff matches have already been set. And they're still even I was

where they're gonna

Yeah,

Yeah.

NWSL, well, they all play at home and they all, NWSL even posted, well, they all play at home and they all, Gotham vs. TBD, Pride vs. TBD,

Tibideh plays,

for it that just say TBD,

Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully they have a deep bench.

the bright side, we can't win the wooden spoon.

Which, okay. Please let us know know what this means before Mario explains it, because I have literally never heard this term in all the years I've played sports, all the years I've watched sports, everything. never heard I think it's fake.

the wooden spoon is a ceremonial award, mostly ceremonial, there are a couple of leagues that like, literally give a wooden spoon, but it's the award for the worst team in the league, so at this point Dash is, has a, Actually, no, the Wooden Spoon hasn't been awarded yet because the Wave are on 22. The Dash could possibly get 23. So there's a world where the way the Wooden Spoon hasn't even been awarded yet. So it is literally the last place team.

Is he a shitty

He's a shitty owner. He, Precourt is the shitty owner of the Columbus crew that wanted to take the crew to Austin. He, you don't do that.

has a huge, there's a big soccer following in Ohio in

There is, and,

support Cleveland Pro Soccer. Everyone, go

yes, go support, go support Cleveland Pro Soccer. There's actually a really great, Copa 90 documentary on, on how, the fans basically rallied to save, the Columbus crew. And.

Good for them.

Precourt eventually sold the team to local ownership. They kept the team.

You know who else should do that? The owner of the Oakland A's.

Yeah. I mean, dude, like when you can't move Oakland.

No.

my, my big thing about American football too. It's just like the Raiders and the Rams were have been like all over the fucking place. And it's just

Not even, just back and

yeah,

Oakland, L. A., Oakland, L. A., Oakland, L. A., Vegas, and then it's St. Louis, L. A., St. Louis, L. A. That's it.

it's so stupid.

at home.

It's so stupid. So yeah, so and then,

it.

then, yeah. Pre court, one of the reasons he was trying to move the team to Austin is because he got the, he got the franchise or he was going to get the franchise to open in Austin, so he wanted to move his existing team to Austin. I believe that's what it was. Either way, he sold the team, he created Austin FC, in Austin with, McConaughey, and so he's down there, but he's also fucking hated. He's, he's hated the way, I wouldn't say as much. But in the same vein of the McCourts.

about them. Big feelings.

to YouTube to see Angela's reaction live on TV, live on YouTube.

on grumble. Yeah. Woo.

alright, so that's, that's where we're at. go, okay, back to NWSL. Bright Side. There's no way we can win the Wooden Spoon because we're just above that even with our points deductions, whoo! final weekend qualifiers, like I said, Portland and Bay, they're fighting for 7th and 8th place, and, racing can squeak in if something weird happens, there you go. Yeah, even though we got eliminated.

old

Before the game. We got eliminated on Saturday.

Saturday. Everyone was texting me so sad. Are you still going to go to the game? I'm

Yeah.

Duh. I'm an iron fan. want to say it for the first season. I got to be an iron fan. And I'm upset that I didn't, I didn't, I don't think I filled out the survey you're supposed to fill out because I forgot. I don't know. Whoops. But I don't think you should have to fill out a survey. They should just say, hey, are you making the game? We're going to have you do a cool

Yeah.

Because you know what I would have loved to do and easily would have cried on the field? Is be, like, be somebody handing flowers to somebody? come on. Pick me, please. Anyway, we played a BMO on Sunday Utah. It was a draw, a 1 1 draw. It was a bonkers ass game for a variety of reasons.

the reasons we really want it to be a Bonkers esque game.

no, it was a bonkers ass game because what was the first half? There were three yellow cards against us because of Sergii, and, Serge needed to chill, because Serge kept getting in the way, and Serge was making dumbass calls, and I don't think he knew for the first half that you could just call a common foul. Just toot toot

Yeah.

and okay, on. Oh no, you breathed on someone different? Yellow card. But then Sarah Gordon kind of bodies, what's her face? her name starts with an L. Hang on, somebody said it. Lacasse. she bodies her into next week. gets stretchered off. Sorry. that was not but also not a yellow

I, yeah, I, I, from where I was sitting, I saw that, that body was shoulder to shoulder, at least from where, I haven't seen the replay or anything, but it, it looked straight up shoulder to shoulder from where I was at.

Yeah. It

The result.

No.

Utah was employing the dark arts from the very beginning. As soon as they scored, they were like You're gonna get CONCACAF today, and they were employing,

That's what it was. It was a CONCACAF match. Yes, that's it. The referee, the shenanigans on the pitch,

yeah, and like, when, when she got bodied, I was like, boom, especially because Sergii didn't, didn't, call it, and I was like, finally, something right, and then we start playing advantage, and then he's oh, no, wait, she's hurt, and then,

Oh,

and then I'm in my seat, and I was like, oh, come on. That's bull. And then they bring up the stretcher and then I'm like, eh,

I'm so sorry.

I hope she's okay.

like that. Yeah.

So

Like, I swear every time I blinked, like I was, I'd be watching, I'd you know, kind of stretch a little bit and take my eyes off the pitch. Somebody fell over.

it was

And we've talked about this before, and I'm, I was gonna wait to talk about it and try to avoid talking about like, legit at this point, there are certain referees in this league that I think need to take like a, are you racist 101 class. Because, and I've seen it in matches not Angel City involved. So, like, I just want to, I'm not just saying this because of Angel City, I'm saying this because it's bullshit. there are teams are not like, that are not predominantly white.

teams with some melanin.

exactly, Gotham, Chicago.

Teams that can play in the sun.

teams that don't have to get reminders to wear, well, they should get reminders to wear sunscreen because some,

Everybody, everybody. Yes. Honestly,

everybody. But, are teams that I have seen just get hammered for playing normal, but they are not predominantly white. And it's like the same few people that do this, the same few referees. So I'm just saying that maybe a formal investigation needs to happen because it's some bullshit and I don't think it's fair for anybody in the league and it's detrimental and stupid.

the, yeah, there was a lot of complaining in the discord. There was a very apparent. obvious calls that he wasn't making and then he was calling other things that were completely stupid. so I think the combination of him plus the dark arts, because like the one that pissed me off so much the, the ball went out, and I,

Yeah.

okay, this happened right in front of me, ball went out,

Yeah.

don't know how, the Utah players still had it, or had it in their, on their foot, like they, they still had the ball, maybe it like just bounced back or something,

just like went.

and she had it in her foot, on her foot, because she had it right there, and they said it was an Angel City throw, Emsley goes right to the spare ball on the side, grabs it and is about to throw it in and the Utah player is just like I still have the ball right here. What are you doing? You can't play this. And,

was so

and that was another moment where I was like, you know, Claire, if your release was a little too late. Yeah.

Sorry, my left like, forgot that it needed to throw and I just threw

sorry. Sorry. We were practicing as goalies, during practice and, and I was in that mode.

yeah. But, Utah scored, how do you say, how do you say her name? Zornoza?

mm hmm, mm

know. I don't know which syllable has the emphasis. But she scored in the 21st minute. I didn't even know that, honestly, I didn't even see the ball going. I thought it had on the side of the goal from the angle I was at, and I was like, wait, what? Why are they celebrating? And Eva was like, wait, that in? Like, we had no, we were shocked. After halftime, we came back out looking like a whole different team. And Syd had an amazing banger of a goal in the 57th minute. I think it was Angel City.

hmm,

up and down it was so good. so good.

OK, it was a beautiful goal. I'm not taking anything away from this goal, because you know, we, you know me, we love, we love us some, some Syd.

Yeah. It

It wasn't quite a karate kick because she didn't extend, but she did jump up in the air and then,

Yeah,

it. And then, you know.

a half a chip, half a banger. Like it was, it was a banger because it was cool. That's, that's also, bangers can also just be cool.

Okay,

was cool, but it was a little bit of a chip, but it was just a little bit of a cool goal. like, what do you call a cool goal besides cool?

it's a cool goal. It's a cool chip.

But it

It's

it was like a, it was a big chip. It was like when you first open the bag of chips, you get like that big fat one that's like the size

the one from the middle of the potato.

exactly.

a

Um.

cut. That's what it's called. It's gonna be called, no,

Oh my

off the rails. Okay,

Uh,

there were other good things that happened in this game. How,

good things.

why, why Vin,

it was, you couldn't even see from the east side of the stadium, you couldn't see anything that

no. And then the, the performer come, comes out through a, just like a wall of smoke. Like you can't see shit. I'm surprised. They were able to see anything.

I'm I'm concerned. I don't understand what was happening pre game. I know we were supposed to have a live performance of the walkout song. That was not live.

It never is.

I'm not saying it needed to be, but you could just, that's when you say a performance. Performance of this, not, not, because live means the mics are hot. This mic is hot, those mics were not.

yeah, it's,

No, and it, it,

it's a great song. My, my daughter was like, I, she even commented after the game that she really liked the song that the, that the players came out on. She liked that song, so I'm like, alright, yeah. It is a, that's, it slaps. It's a banger.

It

It's a

It's a

It's a B Jesus. It's a center cut. That's what it is.

But no, it was fantastic. Toosie Prescott, the acknowledgement.

ass jersey with the 100 on it.

yeah, 100 Jersey. Tobes was there. Uh, her dad and her sister who just got married last weekend, which is super cool. A big weekend for the Press family. yeah. But yeah, congratulations. It's a feat, especially, she should be closer to 150 now,

It, yeah. Given,

course of

yeah, she would've hit, she would've hit this milestone, like first the, by the end of the first year. That was the first season.

first

yeah.

but we are where we are. And I'm so happy for her because it means that she's back and it happened. And that's the important part. After Oh God, I'm gonna cry.

I, I,

weekend

I, saw the re

for anyone who's followed

I saw the retirement announcements and all I can think about was. One, that we're going to be doing a retirement retrospective again.

Big season,

and, and

I'm just

two, just like the emotion that is going to go through you. Because again, I'm newer to NWSL, so like a lot of these players, them retiring, I don't know their history. I didn't know

Right.

Merritt's history. I didn't know that she's basically been here for the entirety of the NWSL. So

Yeah,

was, you Cool to learn and be like, holy shit.

moment. Yeah, and there's so much about Merritt that people love or people hate, and for various reasons, know people who love her as a person can't stand to watch her play. I know people that don't like her vibe but love to see her pitch. Like, there's, she is polarizing in the best way. Because a player like that has to be good in order for people to feel emotions like that. They're not just fine.

We posted it up at one point. I think we did.

And

I think we did. Yeah.

and we're not going to do it again. We're not going to do it again, out of respect, but a lot of her retirement was not by choice, and it was very apparent. A lot has happened this season, a lot happened with her last season, and her body was not responding to getting better due to diagnoses. Like it was just one of those things insult and injury and illness and then we do it again and we do it again and we do it again been in that cycle and walking away like that sucks.

Yeah.

It's unfinished business for the rest of your life. Honestly.

does. It does feel when. It feels, I think it would feel horrible for that forced retirement, that, that, you know, the, the idea of leaving on a high note and end on your best joke,

Yeah.

you don't get to do that, then, you know, there, there's a little bit of, of resentment, but I'm, I hope that,

I walked away 18 years ago and I hate it to this day.

I, I just hope that these players have found. Some, sense of closure, some self, some sense of,

peace

peace with it. I mean, it's something that, because it was, because for various reasons, medical, you know, whatever, body breaking down, whatever it may be, um, It's something that didn't happen yesterday. Right? It wasn't like they tore their ACL yesterday and was like, Oh, well, shit, there goes the year. Or there goes my career.

I mean, some

Yeah. But knowing that this might be the eventuality, hopefully that's something that they kind of came around to. So I'm hoping. Also, I mean, the team, like you said, she's a big Respected and loved member of, of Angel City and of, on the team side and from the fan side, the entire team basically did dress as your favorite Merritt

Yeah.

their,

Yeah. Like, what's your favorite Merritt outfit? Which was fantastic.

go back, if you haven't seen it, go back to the, to the Angel City Instagram and, and look at those pictures. They're, they're great. They're amazing.

Yeah. But aside from that, the other reason I cried, kind of, um, thank you to everyone who decided to run around the stadium during halftime to FC meetup behind section Like, yeah. It was silly. It was crazy. I was overwhelmed. And then I was trying not to cry. And I just, I love it. That's

was, it was really great to. Thank you so to see people, especially since we, threw it out there, that morning, Sunday morning, when we were like, should we do this? We didn't even know what the section number was. We had to look it up to be like, this open space right here. So it was very much an impromptu thing, and for everybody that was able to make it, thank you so much. We got to see familiar faces, met new faces,

met some people in

in, in real life,

in person,

met, met a really nice woman that took our picture and I keep her stickers. so it was, it was just a really awesome time and, thank you, honestly, like we're, we're going to get gushy on a like recap of the season and end of the year,

on a different day when I've like already

yeah.

So just like come in with the sniffles and like swollen eyes. No, Ethan gave me a hug and just said thanks for letting me be weird. And I was like, okay. I like it when people are weird.

And speaking of weird, Let's get into our thoughts and feelings about this last one. the prompt was, We didn't lose our last match, so Is there a bright side? And I think I left it kind of vague in the, What the, we didn't lose our last match was the right side or what were other bright sides? So any way you answered was the correct way to answer. And Ethan comes in, our funny, weird haiku master, in response to something Angela said on the discord about, we're going to the championship,

are going to the ship.

in reference to

about

Dodgers. he said one, one day the, we are, we'll be Angel City. One day, if

Exactly. And he's

I'm not wrong,

I fully

we, we have the talent, it's there and we will find our way, it's, it's all good. so our haiku for this last home game, all the hope was lost, Bay was a sub, taking dives, next year, taking names.

Honestly, I think there will be an official casualty ref shit list based on what everybody, like our collective

Throw up the red,

as a

throw up the red flag whenever we see that announced, ah, crap. Get, get ready with your booze, people. All right, Katy, lovely pod friend Katy. I love that 20, 000 people showed up for our last game regardless of playoffs and our sucky season. Also, suck it, ref. Looking at you, Sergii. yeah. Zach said, we didn't lose. Spicy words for the ref. We gave away way too many balls. And Syd equals banger boop scoop. There you go. It's a boop scoop. I'll accept boop scoop instead of center cut.

Yeah. It's a boob scoop.

Jordan came in with a fun second half, refs notwithstanding, and then sad face.

Is that a sad face or a side

a sad face. No, it's a sad face. It's like a, hmm.

oh, I, I consider that like,

Mmm. all right. Myrna came in with just Syd's amazing goal. That's it. And then Jeff came out with a lovely, nostalgic, check the DMs. and Brightside, question mark, Leroux keeps making only goals that she can make. The Thompson sisters,

true.

cooking. And they were on one yesterday, like they, or Sunday, they were just, they were in twin mode, like twin superpower mode, where it was just like, we can talk to each other.

playing on the same side, they were just

Yeah,

froop, froop, just weaving. And I'm like, I need more this. Like pump it in

they were doing this, the super sister thing where they're like, we have our own language with our eyes and our eyebrows and we know what we're doing. Alright, so yeah, Thompson sisters kept cooking, Press getting extended minutes making the play better on the pitch, and Gordon bodying opponents never gets old. DeeDee made some great saves that kept us in, but between all that though, the play and the tactics was not that of coaches and players fighting for a job next season.

I think it was players fighting for a job. I don't think it was

Yeah,

I will make that caveat.

yeah. Ruby came in with the amount of new friendships made and memories created around the season. Around our angels and soccer has been absolutely amazing. Warms my bitter, dark soul created by stupid ass refs.

Yeah,

So that's the bright side for Ruby. And then, okay, Jen,

I have no idea. I just want to preface this, but I don't know.

I have a note right here asking Angela, if she knows how to decipher this. Okay.

I don't know, and I think we should put it to the

Okay,

in, like, an Instagram

okay,

on Wednesday.

I'll do it tonight before it goes out, but yeah,

No, no, after so they know what

okay, so J'Anthony came in with, a sword or dagger,

A sword.

and then a girl, and then salad. A salad bowl.

I have no idea. I'm like, sword. girl Like, what is that? Is, is it just a girl eating a salad, it, like, with a sword? I don't know.

a sword fighting vegan? J

I don't know. See, this is why we need to put it to

Anthony, you,

And, like, Janthony, give it

you, yes, please give it a day. Please tell us, but give it a day. and yes, oh, and we'll share, J Anthony, I will share with you in the Discord. All the responses we get for this,

Yeah. And we'll, we'll post it because it's gonna be so good. It's

yeah.

fun.

and then he also came in with, First half, we looked terrible and shaken up. And that didn't change after LaCasse went, went off injured. But it did change second half, and I never figured out why. They stopped trying to overload Jazz and started trying to overload Gisele. Gisele was on fire that night.

I, I completely agree. The first half was

Yeah.

Like, it, it didn't make sense. The way we were playing.

And I want to say, Janthony's, Janthony's like our resident other, casual expert here. he, he breaks down these things really well to the point where I'm like, All right. I think I understand what was going on a bit more.

J'Anthony. Yeah.

So thank you, Janthony, for everything you've been doing all season. Thank you for everyone who's been responding and talking to us all season. It's been really fun. So that is our footy therapy session for today. Unfortunately, we have run out of time.

It takes a big swing from his casualty branded hydroflask. If you want any of these stickers, please let us know. I have this many, Mario has

I do. I have more.

we have a truckload of stickers. Please

Yeah.

some. And we're probably gonna make none of these have new things. But we gotta figure out who's gonna be on the team next season. There's a lot of things

I'm, I'm,

few

I'm holding to see what happens with Syd to do something with the, Yuru, Yuro logo.

Yeah, we're

We're gonna do something with it.

It's

okay, well,

All right, everybody. So

it's not a day.

super crazy decision

want a day, okay? NWSL, take note. Leave Decision Day what it is. Even though this year, everything's already fucking set. it doesn't matter.

basically.

Leave Decision Day,

It's

The way it is, look, honestly, Decision Day would be wild knowing that Bay, Portland, and Racing are playing all at the same time. As it is, I don't know what the schedule looks like, but essentially they're gonna know, you know, beforehand. bring back Decision Day. It brings chaos and it's fun.

Exactly. Uh, Angel City will be hosting a watch party at both 33 TAPS locations in Culver City and Silver Lake. Party's gonna start at 6, kickoff's at 7. Get there early. I have been to a watch game at the Culver City location. I have been there regularly when there's not a watch party. Get there early, get a table, get your food order in, get your drink order in, and find a place and park there's no place to move around. We pack it out. It's super fun.

Yeah.

is hard guys. the Discord. It is now my favorite place on the internet to hang out and talk about really, really weird stuff along with soccer and Angel just a handful of people. I would love to get us up to 50 people

Oh.

the end of the

Oh, that'll be fun.

almost at 30. Tell your friends. We've got enough people. Legit, I'm gonna be harassing people, but please join my Discord. So Brian, if you're listening, join the Discord. I sent you a DM during the game. Don't forget. He sits behind me. I know he listens. other than that, the best ways to support the pod is to like, and comment on episodes, on posts you see on social media, review us on your listening platform, all that normal engagement stuff. It's free.

Very, very much. Feed the algorithm.

Exactly. If you like any of the merch you've seen, check out shop. casualfc. Like Mario's stickers right now that he's showing on screen. we will have an abundance of new merch next season once we know who's on the team and what's going to happen and all that good stuff. So we'll have stuff. Ready and waiting for you once the roster drops, because I don't think we're going to know too much before then.

think,

it makes my day

I think my favorite one was for the wow mark.

Yep. Yeah. It's, it's the best. So tell a friend about the podcast. It's what makes the world go round. It's the last chance to do it this season before we send the angels off to Portland. bank up all this, all these well wishes and good luck and all the good things. Send it off to the team. So know what to do is send it our way. Thank you for riding this season out with us. One more game. Don't forget to vote. And if you have questions, feel free to DM us. I got

All right. Bye everyone.

Bye.