Episode 13
Kara
0:15
Welcome to this week's episode of the Queen's Pitch Podcast. I'm Kara. And I'm
Bridget
0:18
Bridget. And we've got six points for the Crown Legacy and Charlotte FC be this weekend. Right.
Kara
0:26
We could send the Columbus crew packing. We beat them in both the games. Crown legacy. 10. How about that? The Crown Legacy is right now, they're undefeated,
Bridget
0:38
right? They are undefeated. Pretty awesome. I mean, pretty substantial, I would think, for their first year, because these guys haven't really played together until this season. Right? Right. Them to go out there and be undefeated. And there was the MLS next teams last year, right? Some of them,
Kara
0:52
because I think St. Louis had one, which is why they're a little bit got a little bit of chemistry. But anyway but yeah, they're undefeated. And those guys are great. I like seeing them out there.
Bridget
1:02
Yeah. So it was like kids day today at Crown Legacy, right. So how was that?
Kara
1:05
That was fun. There was a lot of families there. I think out of the three games that I've been to there, this was probably, other than the first one was one of the most crowded. There was a lot of kids running around, kids with their posters, which I always think that tickles me when you have the little kids with their posters for all the little players out there, and they had bouncy houses, they had a little soccer thing set up, chalk. It was a really good time. And actually, you could probably just leave your kid there, letting them play around within view of you, and you could still watch the game. So that was a good thing. It was like the best of both worlds. And then after the match, they had the autograph, so all the little kids got their autographs, too. So it was a really good day, really good weather. They put on a good match out there and they had a lot of people.
Bridget
1:52
Ajimon. Got his first goal. Congrats to him
Kara
1:55
of his professional careers. I think that's how they say
Bridget
1:58
it. Yeah, I think that's right.
Kara
1:59
Yeah. I can't say his name, so I'm going to just say Ajaman. Oh, I might have said it Ajaman. But he's a really big guy out there. Like, you can't miss him. He's got a huge presence, but he's very aggressive with the ball. He likes to play, and he's really good. I'm proud of him. I think we'll see a lot out of him, and I think the better he grows, I think he's part of the Chic Charlotte FC team, isn't he? We loaned him out. Yes.
Bridget
2:22
Ajimang. Is on a supplemental slot.
Kara
2:24
Yeah. So good for him. So I think that he's going to get some time in. I guess what surprises me about these guys that played on The Legacy today was that if they played today, I guess that means they probably won't play on Tuesday night. And I was hoping some of these guys that were on loan or supplemental, whatever they do, they would get to play Tuesday. But there were some that were not on there. The lineup today was pretty cool. We got to see a new goalie in there today. We got to see Pablo. Pablo showed up again. Look at that. My question here is, okay, so we had. 1s Kaleina come in last week and then you have Pablo this week if you're Sheely, how are you feeling about
Bridget
3:03
that? Well, I think it's more about like right now the first team is ramping up with going into the Open Cup. We've got to get all of our guys ready because what if something happens? You've got to have the secondary guy be just as ready as the first string guy. Right. So I think that's part of the thing is that it was just a back warm up. It's just making sure Pablo is great. And he had a penalty catch today, so I think he looked good.
Kara
3:29
He did. And I'm not saying Pablo is not good. I'm just saying Sheely, that's his spot, right? He was hired to do that job, and every other week you got somebody back to him. I know, but if I got a job, I'm going to do it. I don't want somebody coming and get me. But anyway, he was there. He was happy. I think they boarded him with some award today before the game anyway, so he was there in case it happened. But Pablo did really well. You know what? It was really funny. I found out you know how we talk about how Pablo wasn't as talkative on the back line as Kalina is or Mark's? Well, guess what? He probably hurt us because Pablo was out there talking today or maybe we hadn't seen it. But Pablo is out there communicating a lot today, and I think that's great. We are seeing all of our goalkeepers growing. So that makes me feel really comfortable going into this US. Open because we could use any of the three, and we're probably going to need to use at least two or three of them because I'll be tired. Nobody can play every single game, and you don't want that to happen because we still want to win in the MLS too. We don't want to just give up all hopes there either. So Pablo played today, and then we had Scardinia Neely. 1s Galermo Pedro diop play today, too. That's another one. I was wanting to play on Tuesday, him and Neely. I thought they might get to play Tuesday night, but I think they both played a lot today. So I don't know if we'll see them in the US. Open, but either way, they're doing a great job out there.
Bridget
4:51
Since we got both wins, we're going to rewind it back in time here and revisit our win from last night. Okay,
Kara
4:59
so let's get into the game. We played Columbus Crew. It was one of those games where we were going into it thinking there's no way in heck that we had a chance. But guess what we won tonight. Kara, how about that one? Nothing. I
Bridget
5:13
know. I think everyone just wanted to scream all the way at the end, all the way out. My children kept generating chants in the tunnel and everyone was like, joining in. That atmosphere was really great. And you know what? I did not hear any booze. Heck, yeah. Because I'd come after
Kara
5:28
them and I actually stayed late enough to hear Valare and they actually had the words on the screen so you could sing along. That's
Bridget
5:35
the first time you've been in that.
Kara
5:37
Well, I mean, I don't stay late enough because I was so angry last time. That assured the whistleblower I ran out. My kid probably wanted to go before it was over with. So we didn't stay for the whole thing. We actually stayed tonight. I think we were some of the last people to leave. We had a good time. It was fun. 1s Just leaving wasn't a lot better than normal. And then we saw firework. I don't know if you saw it, but we heard
Bridget
5:59
that we were already walking back. But it
Kara
6:01
was like a little post party, we won type of thing. So that was kind of cool. But anyway, let's get back on the Charlotte FC team. So let's start out with a lineup. We had about the same lineup as last week, except that Mora is hurt. We found out this week that Mora was going to be out for a couple of weeks. Did they say it was a knee injury or something? Knee
Bridget
6:20
injury, but it's not as serious as what has been happening. So that's really great. But two to three weeks is not that bad. Although, granted, we've seen Westwood out now for over a month,
Kara
6:31
right. We have no clue when he's coming back. I don't even know if he's practicing right.
Bridget
6:35
But it is very thankful that Mora is not worse hurt. He didn't deserve that.
Kara
6:40
Then he played left back and he brings a very good defensive stance to it that we definitely need. And so anyway, they replaced him in the lineup with my Fave. Just kidding. They replaced him with burn. Nathan Byrne. So we see that he gets to start on that back line and then. 1s We didn't start Lindsay this week, we started a fool. So a fool has been playing about every game now, and I think that I heard today when we were talking after the game, a fool can play as much as they want him to play, but he just has to do part of his job is scouting. So as long as he does his scouting parts during the week, he can play as much as they want to play
Bridget
7:19
him. Oh, that's great, because I didn't know it went into that. That's what they were saying in one of the Twitter after shows. I asked about that. So anyway, that was the lineup we had. At the front, we had Camille and Capetti, and on the outside, we have Vargas. And I think Vargas is doing a great job, by the way. I didn't think he could keep playing 90 minutes every game, but he's hanging in there and he's playing every game. He's hanging in there. He's doing
Kara
7:43
well. He definitely is. So in the midfield, we had Ronnico and Jones, which pretty much that's what we're going to have till we figure out something else. Carol yes. Well, carol but I don't think he was in the was he in the midfield? Because I really think tonight and we'll talk about this later, I think at some points we were playing a four four two. I'm
Bridget
8:00
going to come into that maybe a
Kara
8:01
little. Okay, so anyway, on that note, we had Carol in the middle, and then you had Bronco and Jones, our CBS. We had Melonda and we also had Bill. And then we had marks in the goal, which we didn't know because everybody was like, is Kalina going to be in the goal or is Mark's going to be in the goal? And thank goodness lady made the correct decision and put marks in the goal tonight. So with that said, we won one to nothing. It was one of those games where you held your breath till the end of the game, obviously, but we pulled it out somehow. Yeah, it was, I mean, unbelievable. And you know what, kudos to Willie P and Jessica Charman because they did not curse the announcer at the end. He didn't say anything about it being the first home win until after the, like, yes. So I was really excited about that because I was like, no, don't
Bridget
8:50
curse it. Right. I was just like, everyone shut up and hold your breath and keep cheering these last ten minutes or whenever that whistle blows. I about harassed everyone in my section because I was like, get up. Like, we have this long. We need to be that 12th man and bring this home. And that's when it got most dangerous, too. Well, it
Kara
9:07
always does, and I think I was saying that, too. For the Panthers, we were the cardiac cats, but it feels like we're carrying that over to Charlotte FC two. We do well. And then the last two minutes of the game, it's just like you legit have to hold your breath because you have no clue. They did score on us. Luckily, with the VAR, I'm going to have to say I'm not going to give the VAR our favor, but we should probably do that because that was a very questionable little offsides. It could have went either way, and luckily, yeah,
Bridget
9:33
it could have went either way. We got lucky.
Kara
9:35
Yeah, it did, because I was actually arguing with the person sitting beside me about whether it was offsides or not. And luckily I won that bet. So it worked out in my favor and it helped Marks out too. So she got a clean sheet. 2s I saw it, it was kind of like a kid that's angry, you know what I mean? Just pouting. And he slams his hands down on the ground. And that was like I cannot blame him. I mean, I wanted to do that, too, about through my phone all the way down there on the field with him. I was probably going to get kicked out if I did that, but luckily, I didn't. I just threw it into my bag. A lot of people say it's because of Enzo arguing with the ref to do the VAR, and so we can give Enzo a hard time a lot, but that actually worked in our favor tonight. Enzo gave him the official such a hard time that he went and looked at the VAR and we won it. So we ended up winning one to nothing. Yay.
Bridget
10:25
And I think the assistant also flagged it, too. Like,
Kara
10:28
hey, either way, it worked in our favor. We got the three points. Three points. I actually have a favor today. Do you want to go into the favors? All right, go for it. Yeah. Well, my first favorite, I'm going to shock everybody in the whole world. Okay. And no, I did not hit my head tonight, and I did not drink, so that's amazing. I'm going to be my first favorite of bill, and I give bill such a hard freaking time. And my daughter, earlier today, we were talking, we were making bets, and I said, who's going to score today? And she said, it's going to be bill. And she was making fun of him, saying he was going to have an own goal, which she has no room to talk because let's just say her goal keeping skills this week were hard, but we're going to just not talk about that. But she said bill. And so tonight there was actually a place where bill almost scored for us in the right goal. And I looked at her and said, oh, my gosh. But to me, I was really paying a lot of attention to him, especially in the second half when they were right in front of me. But there was a lot of times if it weren't for him, marks would have probably got scored on and saved his butt a couple of times. So I'm very happy about that. Bill was where he needed to be for the most part. I know there were a couple of times he made a mistake, but for the most part, he was exactly where he needed to be. And I think I listened to his interview this week. I think I've been giving the guy kind of way too hard of a time. I'm going to keep doing it, so I'm not going to stop. He really is trying. I think he cares and he's been making mistakes, but like everybody says, he doesn't have that chemistry. He's trying to find that chemistry. He's worked with two different goalkeepers since he's been on our team. So just with that being said, I have to give him a little more grace. But tonight, I really think without him, george would have had a lot harder of a time. So tonight my favor is going to go to Bill. I thought his offensive touches generated a little more this game, and I also thought he commanded more leadership and direction and just smart choices because he does have that challenge header. It doesn't go on. He actually generates the pass around the 37th minute forward
Bridget
12:28
to Yusuiak, to Carol for the goal. So he was the secondary assist on that one. Oh, I didn't know that. And so that made a difference, obviously, because that was part of our goal. It was just that great delivery. 1s To Yusuiak to pass it off to Carol. So yeah, I thought he had. He's a solid one now. I can't necessarily knock him versus Milanda. I think Melonda also had a good, pretty solid game and there's been times where he had a forward pass. So I think the really nice important point is that they are starting to germinate more chemistry and more communication then who knows if they're speaking French out there, but we can all just guess, right? Probably a little bit of something. Let's
Kara
13:15
hope not, because I don't know if Mark knows French. He might. Whatever they're doing is great. I just didn't look at Milanda as much because I was focused on Bill for reasons. I wanted to see what he did and see if I was being overly critical this week. So I was paying a lot of more attention to Bill. There was one time that Marks did miss the ball and or did something with it and Bill was in the goal and he kicked it out. There was a time that a fool did that for him too. So Bill is actually stepping up and I think that gives March a little bit more confidence too. And something that lady had said in his interview too, was that after Mark's mistake last week, they were all supporting him as well. And so I think Bill and them had his back a little bit more this week. I wish they'd have it more every week, but I think they stepped up their game to have Marks his back a little bit more too, in my opinion. So whatever it happened, Bill, keep it up. How about your favor? You got me a favor this
Bridget
14:09
week, so mine's going to go to the birthday boy. Camille. Yusuiak. Camille. Yay. Happy birthday, Camille. Let me just say, he likes cheesecake, and Queen Cara does make an excellent cheesecake. I can do a New York style. That's killer. And Oreo, the only two I've attempted, but entirely homemade and they are amazing. And just saying, Camille, if you want one. Hit me up. I will make you a cheesecake if you want. You probably won't play as well after because that's my weakness, too. I do love some cheesecake. So it needs to be like, off season.
Kara
14:48
He did a great job tonight, though. I think he's stepping up his game. I
Bridget
14:53
love to see it. I love to see it. And for all the Uswack fans out there, shout out to you guys. Keep hanging in there and all you. I guess people who hopefully other people have been convinced about how well he's doing. But he had a great chance. He had the assist. His defense is excellent. He had some successful dribbles. I think the one thing that went against him a bit earlier today was the fouls where at the beginning he had like, three or four fouls called on him and one of them was the one that generated sand for Columbus being escorted off on a stretcher now, I don't think it was too much in it. So I do not think Yusufia caused this problem. It's a foul, but it's a normal
Kara
15:36
foul. It didn't look like he touched him. It's a
Bridget
15:39
bit of a small push, small hip. I just think the guy already had something wrong with his knee and he landed wrong. I don't think there's anything ugly in this, but it is a small foul, so love luckily, he didn't get a yellow for any of this. And he kept his cool after two. He kept trying those aerial duels where, like, they would bump and it just wouldn't quite land. Right. He's
Kara
16:01
a very defensive guy. He's not scared to go after the ball. They do double team him a lot, I noticed that. So I think that might be why he gets he gets called for a little bit more fouls, but I thought he was going to get a yellow, so I was just glad he didn't get a yellow. And I think
Bridget
16:13
one of the reasons why Latanzio kept him on so long is because he was work horse in that whole match. And I think that's one of the reasons, not just for some of the end results. I think he gets it for just being an overall around. Like he gets the positives on both offensive and defensive and just didn't let up on either of those things. And so for that, I think that's the reason why he got the man of the match. Also, good, accurate passing.
Kara
16:36
He's had that in the last couple of games, hasn't he? Like, I know last game he had the best stats on the team, I think, as far as that's concerned. So right now, I think he stepped up his game. I don't know if he heard everybody talking crap or what, but whatever it was, it worked. And I think that we need to keep it going. That Polish powerhouse duo, I don't know if we need to throw SoBo in there, but that powerhouse duo, I think when they're on, they're on, and you definitely need to keep them together. 1s They work together. So it's one of those things they feed off each other.
Bridget
17:09
So do you have a second favor?
Kara
17:10
Do I? Yeah, I do. Okay. So my second favor is going to go to I wrapped him last week, I'm going to give him my favorite this week, and it's Marks, of course. I was really scared. Everybody was talking about how Marks probably wouldn't start this week because it's a mistake last week, which I thought was an absolute dumb reason not to have him start because obviously everybody makes mistakes. But Marks, I was kind of worried also about the pressure he had because he knows that his starting lineup is on or his job is on the line as far as being the starter, because Kleena is getting back. To form and no matter what, we know. And I was thinking about this today Kleena gets paid 300 and some odd thousand dollars. And marks get paid 60,000 or something. I'm just using figures that they put out on the inner webs and. 2s It. Common sense says that Kleena probably should be the starter if we're paying them that much money. So I understand where Lady's coming from that we need cleaner back. And so I know Mark's had a lot of pressure this week, especially after that, and I was kind of worried for him. But he came back out there and he's got that mentality, and I really like it. He didn't let it slow him down. I actually think he was more vocal today than he was. I think he had new gloves on, too. Bigger gloves, maybe stickier loves, I don't know. But that one save he had that he was like, in the air and his hand hit it. I know you say Spider George, Spider George, but I mean, he legit, like extended himself. I don't care if he's five foot nine, six foot two. He extended himself and he hit that out of the save of the match, and he came back. He did what he had to do. And yeah, that one, that was off. We could say it was offside. I mean, he was super angry about that one. But like what Latanga said after the match, he thought he learned from his mistake last week, and I think that you could tell he was thinking exactly what he wanted to do. His footwork was on and he bounced back. And that just shows us, shows the people that look up to him, the kids that look up to him, that you can have a bad game, don't let it mess you up, but come back out there and prove it. And he did that for me, so he's going to get my favor this week.
Bridget
19:16
I 100% agree. I think they went into this week's game with him practicing those choices of, like, punches, although stats don't say that they're punches, but to me, that was like a punch. He tried to punch it out, to just try and clear it as opposed to last,
Kara
19:32
I think. Yeah, so that was really great. And then he also had a point blank save there when the defense kind of fell apart a little bit, which I'm going to get to a little later. But overall, I mean, he came back from that. The whole point was a lot of people kind of were down on him and given him harsh criticism, but this was a learning opportunity. Same thing. Interestingly enough, Coach Latanzio said, so he learned from that. He was always going to be harder on himself to come out there and practice. And I think the goal against him, I know you just favored Bill, and this is not a bat against Bill, but Bill cheats forward, drawing that defensive lineup, and then they just happen to call that with his shoulder leaning offside from where the touch is. He does wait for it, but he's already off and his shoulder is off. So luckily, Bill cheated forward. But also that could have been very bad. It could have gone either way. Yeah. Good
Bridget
20:29
old Bill. George had no he was caught caught in his own web. So it wasn't a
Kara
20:33
George error? See, I thought it was just a George error. I thought he was just too far up at that point and you know what I mean, he just made the wrong choice. But you're saying it wasn't necessarily that it was a Bill move? I
Bridget
20:46
think he was trying to close down the goal from how close that was, and it just doesn't. 1s He tries, but,
Kara
20:54
hey, he did it. It didn't count. He got a clean sheet. Our first clean sheet, I think, of the year. Isn't that right?
Bridget
21:00
Yes. And for him, too.
Kara
21:01
Yeah, and for him. And he was so happy after the game. He was super excited. I think it just shows that those guys, I mean, they really do care, you know what I mean? They want the best for the team. I also
Bridget
21:14
liked his distribution tonight. He had one really awesome pass, especially those there at the very end. Long cross to Capti just at his feet.
Kara
21:25
Oh, it was perfect. And he's
Bridget
21:26
able to pass it off to Swadersky. It doesn't end up going off because Swedesky it's his pocket picked. But oh, man, that was just so beautiful. And so I really appreciated some of the things he did there. I mean, no one's perfect, but no one on this team is perfect. No. He has good sword work if they don't backpass it. And Laddie lets them actually let him kick it, you know what I mean? But I think I'm realizing that lady lets his goalkeepers kind of determine what they want to do if they think that they should backpack not backpack, but if they think they should pass it close or if they should kick it. And I think that Lady's finally trusting Marks more to do what he thinks is right in the moment, that's only going to build marks'confidence. Think so? Go, Marks. Keep it up. 1s I hope we keep seeing him. I know that they say he's not going to get to play in the US. Open, which is fine with me because he just played today and he's to rest. But I really hope that Latonza gives Marks a fair shot at continuing to be the starter once Polina is back,
Kara
22:28
but we'll see. So who's your second rat or second favor this week? My
Bridget
22:32
second favor is going to be strange. It is going to be the duo of Carol and Enzo, because this I agree with lottie that he said this after the game, but I was also, like leaning this way was that that was the best connection we have seen from Carol and Enzo yet. Why? Because even though Carol is supposed to be being sort of cam in today's role, he's finally, like you said, it's like a four four two, where as it was really kind of hard to pick out the exact four four two. But Carol is in this role today. He's finally acting like a shadow striker to Enzo, and it really makes sense. So sometimes when Enzo is out of the box and you see him as a winger, carol's definitely there in the box being Enzo. And then so you saw their connection just so much strengthen. 1s If that doesn't just straight up get better for the rest of the season, I feel like I'll eat people say they'll eat their hat. I feel like I want to eat something absolutely ridiculous because it just has to it has to land better for them too, to have chemistry. And tonight we really saw some of that coming together and it is just so pleasing. I think they were
Kara
23:41
actually happy for each other. Last week it was a little weird. Or the two weeks ago it was a little weird. The reactions after Carol scored, I know I pointed that out. But this week it was totally different. When Carol scored, Enzo actually went and patted him on the back, gave him like, hey, what's up? Good job, brother. And then also, I don't know if you saw it, but it was on the other end of the field. But I think it was Carol and Enzo, they were all doing something down there. But I think Enzo passed it to Carol and then Carol did his little kick back. He does that pass where he kicks it backwards, which is the coolest thing for me because I'm like, oh, my God, I didn't know they could do that. And he does it all the time. But Enzo kicked it to Carol. Carol does this little back pass kick to somebody and it was just the coolest little move. I don't know if you saw it, but for them to work together like that, 1s like you said, there's so much potential. And on that note, I also saw both of them talking more to the team overall. I know I pointed that out to you. Enzo was communicating with Vargas a lot. We know they have a good connection. They understand each other. So Enzo was over there talking to Vargas. You saw Carol talking to everybody. He was pointing, telling them to do there, do that. So I think what Latango was asking, leadership, step up. I think these two are finally maybe he did what I said last week and he got them together and said you two are going to play together. I'm going to make it. You are going to do this. Like you know how your parents did when you and your brother didn't want to play and they just stuck you in a room and said you're going to do it. And I think maybe that's what was done because these two, if they're on and they do that together, it's amazing and you can just see it. And I think the other people on the team feed off that. That's what they're supposed to do. They get paid the most to do that, right.
Bridget
25:19
This is the one connection we've really needed to land. I mean, so far that's been out there, game in, game out. I don't think Carol is still at his highest yet. I think he is still on the upward trend because with the goal like beautiful goal, first of all. Second of all, I love how he goes out and rouses the crowd after, like, all the way down the side on the bench. He was just trying to celebrate that goal and really connect with the fans, which I think he needs to do. And I think in those kind of roles, he was trying to be a leader. But you're right where there's one where bronco steals the ball with a really great steal and he passes it to Carol who like, twirls and then lands it off to Copetti through a beautiful through pass, and he just gets a heavy touch. And so there are things where it's still not landing. I thought Enzo, he still doesn't have too many accurate passes, but they didn't look as bad in how they handed it off to me. To me. If he hands it off, he's usually handing it off to their back line as opposed to losing it completely in the middle somewhere. And so that was also good. But both of them had more attempts. Enzo had a steal off a keeper at the but he just doesn't flip and bury it and he, like, needed to. Yeah, everyone had those kind of things, but I thought they both had chances better. It's just not 100%, but it's building. And the fact that you can see that connection is extremely exciting.
Kara
26:49
So I have a question. My kid, she was frustrated. Why was Enzo on the wing so much? If Enzo is, like, supposed to be in the middle, right, why was he on the wing so much tonight? Is that just something that he does and he's just playing the way other team plays or he just likes it? I don't like him going to the wing, to be honest, because I'm not a big fan of his passes. But he keeps going to the wing a lot or to the outside. 1s Is that where he's supposed to be? So
Bridget
27:18
part of it is he's that very top one, and he's kind of being a loner up there for the most part because he's there to catch the ball and defend it. He's there to lean into the defense and protect the possession until he can pass it off to a Charlotte player. And so that you see that, but you also see him getting into space. And I think that's the thing with Enzo and Carol is like, you can't always depend. Like today we saw that revolve more, and I think each of them tried to revolve into different spaces. And so if Enzo is on the wing, carol knows he needs to stay in the middle because there's no one else there, right? Other than maybe some midfield coming up. But he's trying to give him someone. And so that's some of the things that they're working on. I also thought Enzo's defense was a little like he was all over the field today.
Kara
28:08
He did good defensively. I think his heat
Bridget
28:10
map is just like, where didn't this man play at some point? He was definitely in some sort of defensive positioning.
Kara
28:19
I thought he pulled a yellow at that one point. I honestly thought he pulled a yellow, and I was like, Please, dear God, do not. And he's done good. He's got two games without it like he's went two games without a yellow. How about that? Maybe that's what he needed.
Bridget
28:35
I thought we were at three now
Kara
28:37
or three. I know he can't get another one, right?
Bridget
28:40
Yeah, but I thought we're at three where he hasn't gotten a yellow. This is number three. Is it three? Yeah. Oh, heck yeah. Then look at you, dude. I'm going to give you props for that. I keep thinking he's going to get one and he's not. I feel like that's a lot for him. I think that is a lot. He's doing good with his composure and keeping it in, like. 1s Fighting just enough to walk that line and keep himself from getting that. And I think, like you said, it took Carol a while last year to get to where that flopping around mess stopped and he didn't flop. I mean, he did flop within the first 30 seconds. I'm not going to lie. He flopped it down, but he popped right back up and he didn't really wasn't on
Kara
29:21
the ground much today other than, I think one or two other times it I was impressed with him. Some of his
Bridget
29:26
statistics, like, on paper, they don't look great because he's supposed to be a forward, so he's supposed to be doing forward things. But I don't think you can evaluate him this way. Honestly. I think he is playing that tank role, which involves offense and defense, similar to I mean, Yusuiak kind of does some of this, but not in the same way. But the fact that he had less momentum in the offense area where things didn't land or he didn't get an assist or a goal and I think that would have pushed him over the edge. And you'd gone like, oh, well, he'd done great. I can't be upset at him for this game. Honestly, I feel like he is doing his job. You're just not seeing that come out on the
Kara
30:08
paper. I did notice he is very much more of a defensive player. I thought he'd be more of a strike or taking more shots, but he's. 1s Right now in his position in Charlotte. I see him, he's defending a lot more. And I don't know when lady was talking about he wanted carol to be like a defensive player, too, from the back or whatever. I think maybe that's what he's talking because carol was way more defensive today, I think, as well. So I think that's what lady is trying to say is that he wants these guys to also play defense up front and not just wait till the ball goes to the back line and expect them in the back to do it. And Enzo is a big part of that. Like you said, getting triple teamed or double teamed, and he pulls open a lot of other spaces we just got to work on. When he does pull those other guys, how do we transition that into scoring? Because we still have an issue where we get in that box and we just don't do it. But I think that we're seeing a lot of good things.
Bridget
31:03
He was pulling two defenders at times. They were holding his arms. At one point, I was like, is everyone going to not hold his hand or his entire arm and body? And so I think he isn't getting those calls. So I hope he does start to get some of those calls because it's making it unfair. But I'm really glad that he's taking the hint, not going with them. So do you have any wrath for this game? Even though we won, we
Kara
31:26
won. So it's hard to wrath and I raft pretty much everybody on the whole darn team last week. So who else is there to wrath? If I raft today and it's my eternal wrath, it's just going to be my eternal wrath forever. And I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but byrne is just he burns me up, man. He really does. And seeing his face on the freaking lineup burns me up, too. I don't know what it is. I expect so much more out of him and he's out there. I mean, he made a couple of good saves, like good plays today, but 1s he's just not producing. He's not producing what I think that he should. I think Lindsay is just as good as burn. 2s I did notice that there was a couple of times where you had to be like, burn, hurry him get back where he's supposed to be at. Luckily he did. He did help marks out like one or two times, but 1s he's just not what I'm thinking should be there. And I'm not saying he's an awful player because he obviously gets paid way more than me and he's there, but I just think lindsay could start instead of him and so out of everybody could raft today, he's going to be my wrath. And it's a little baby wrath. Well, it's an eternal flame wrath, but you know what I'm saying today is the baby part of it. It's like
Bridget
32:46
a little matchstick, maybe a small candle.
Kara
32:48
Yeah, it's just like the flickering of the flame today. I'm sure he'll ignite it back next week and it'll be a full on furnace. But today it's just a little flicking wick candle. Yeah,
Bridget
32:59
I mean, we're cutting down on options. 1s I didn't think Byrne had a great game. 1s But I don't think he had a bad game either, which is saying something. So I feel like he did keep getting beat on that one side from yaryaboa, from columbus, and him and jones, though, because it was just kind of like a rotation. So he kept going all the way down and being able to dribble almost into the inner box right up to george. And so those things yeah, something wasn't right there. And there's one point where I make a note where I'm like, our defense is, like, the world's tiniest box. What are we doing? Why are we ceding so much of the rest of the box to columbus? And so that gave me a heart attack, but we managed to come out of
Kara
33:49
it. There was a time that I saw where burn, I don't know, they kept getting eat up on that side, and then I saw that milanda came up and had to step up for burn, you know what I mean? But milana is like, four times as big as burn, too, so burns like a little dude out there, and milan is huge. There was a couple of times I saw that, like you said, they would just like, columbus could just run right towards marks from that one side. No one would stop him. And luckily, we had Melonda in there, and bill helped a lot today, but I just don't think that should happen when moore was out there. He would rather stop him and get hurt, you know what I mean, than let them just go to the bot. So burn, I feel like he's just out there, and 1s I don't know, I think everybody else plays, like 100% today, but I just didn't see that from him. Like you said, there's not much options
Bridget
34:42
right about that time that gaines comes in, it's right around 60 something, 70 minutes. That's when the defense starts contracting. And so, ideally, I think if you have an option to replace burn, you do. But we didn't have that option because our depth at left and right back is just not great right now. So I do think in the perfect world, that that does happen because I can see him flagging there, and that's why it's just again and again and again. And the difference between columbus, like and this is MLS stats, so the difference between RXG from, like, halftime for columbus against us right around that point is like, one point eleven, and they had went into it zero point 56. So they double their xg in some of that time, and it's by that repeated just. 1s Shooting down that flank with Burn.
Kara
35:38
Well, I noticed that at one point too that A Fool and Burn were switching sides a little bit. Yeah, I didn't know your left back and your right back did that, but they were like switching sides and at one point I thought that it was because A Fool wasn't trusting Burn to cover his side. So A Fool was like, if you're not going to do it, I'm going to do it. I'm sure that's not what it was, but that's just how I felt. That surprised me a little bit because the whole game they were doing that, they were just switching it up and I was like, wait, who's on what side? Where are they at? I didn't know they did that, but I chalked it up to A Fool was trying to save the day and he did. A fool had a couple of saves too. It's
Bridget
36:13
so funny. One of the sites rated A Fool like the highest star player period on our team. And I was like, well, okay, I didn't feel like he had a bad game, but why is this why?
Kara
36:25
I saw what Bronco had the highest rating anyway. What's your wrath? Do you have a wrath for us
Bridget
36:30
today? So my wrath is going to go to Derek Jones. While I love him, and I don't necessarily think he had a bad game either, I saw some things where I would want specifically to want to improve. So in the first couple of minutes of the match, or maybe like it's like 17 minutes, there's like a shaky moment in defense where the midfield, which I think is Jones, he doesn't cover up the back line holes, allowing Columbus to thread through and attack George at point blank range. And so I think later on they do start to get it together and fill in those gaps and communicate. But Columbus has a dangerous corner right there and when our momentum had largely been forward that first half, those two parts were dangerous and we're going to need to keep plugging those holes and eliminating those spaces in that same way. So I didn't like that. I also thought that his challenge where he gets a card was a foul that wasn't really particularly worthy of a card. 1s I mean, he gets one, I don't think it's his fault necessarily, but we could have done without it. Doesn't
Kara
37:39
he have three yellows now? I think he's got three. He's about to move up there with Enzo.
Bridget
37:43
He's got some time, he's got some time, I
Kara
37:46
know, but he's going to have to chill out. He's getting one a game now. Again,
Bridget
37:48
I don't think he deserved that one. So that he gets a little bit of a baby rasp, that even though it's really not his fault, but he doesn't keep his leg down on the slide getting the ball. So if he'd have done that, I think it would have been better but overall, Charlotte had a relatively free yellow card game, which is amazing. So that's also good. Look
Kara
38:08
at us. Look at us. I mean, we are going forward. Yeah.
Bridget
38:13
Overall, I think we're better with Jones on the pitch than off. But I did not like how Yoboa kept able to penetrate on that side with burn and then Jones. So I think there's just some improvements that need to be made there. Do you have any other wrath for this evening? I don't
Kara
38:29
really know if it's a wrath or necessarily the game as a whole. It's more of, like, an issue. I don't really know how to address it. So it's kind of towards like what you said, the midfield. And we're at a situation now where we don't really have a midfield. Okay? We do, we have Bronco and we have Jones and that's pretty much it. And so basically I don't really know what's going on with Shinoshiki and Santos, we can't say. I just know that in the press conference this week that LaTanza said that there were some personnel issues and that they weren't playing on the team right now. So we really don't know what beyond that is happening. So I can't wrath what happened, but I'm wrathing the fact that we don't have them anymore. So within a week we lost two of our, I would think two of our best midfielders and now we're stuck with Westwood Hurt, we have Bronco and Jones who there's no other option to start. I mean, you could start Bender, but Bender is being used in Carol's spot and as kind of a striker. And then you have Hagar who doesn't have a lot of minutes. So we're going to stick somebody in another newbie in that we are already complaining about. And then you have, I think, Private, right? They move Private up from the legacy two to have the backup. So my raft is going to be the fact that we have no midfield and I don't know what happened. 2s I'm sure there was a real good reason, the fact that Shinichiki and Santos aren't playing, but we put ourselves in this very bad situation. We were already having issues with our defensive line and knowing what we were going to do, we were struggling with getting the front line to actually work together in chemistry and then all of a sudden we blow up our entire midfield. At one point I thought the only thing we had was midfield and we had too many midfielders and now it's like oh bam. So anyway, I don't really know how to say that wrath, but my wrath is the fact, I guess it's the midfield section and everything going on with it. We need to get that under control. Whatever it is, whatever happened, I don't like it. I want it fixed. I want our midfield to get back together.
Bridget
40:40
Well, it's not ideal that Westwood is out and I think they really depended on him being a key piece in this midfield. I don't necessarily think that Santos and Andre are the ideal midfield because I don't think either of them have shined entirely in those positions. Not the same way that Carol has in the past or even the first half of Westwood playing, what was it against Orlando was like incredibly pretty football. I would have watched that footy again. So I think if he comes back, I think we do sit a little steadier, but I do think you're right and that this is shaky and we really needed we don't have that same depth for Swadowski anymore. I don't think anybody is going gee, we want to bring on Bender every time on for Carol. No, Bender is not doing bad. He's just not as on point when he starts.
Kara
41:32
He's young though. He's going to make mistakes. Like, glad. He says the young ones make mistakes. Yeah.
Bridget
41:38
I don't love him just shooting it randomly from almost half. Because it allows pressure back on us again at the end. But he doesn't do a bad job here. I think he tries, and he keeps a good attitude. And yeah, there's just some things where he needed to lay it off. But the fact of not having the experience for andre, he's been an MLS since 2019, when he was rookie. Right. So that is great experience that we actually did need. We did need that leadership. And it just sounds like that we're missing that. And then nuno, it was almost like we saw him do really amazing things. There were flashes of brilliance, but he never got to shine either. And so if that's something that we don't get to see anymore of, I mean, who knows, really? But I'm just sad. I'm just sad about that whole situation that crushes me a little bit. I thought both of them had talent, but if they're not being who the team and who the coach needs to be, then here we are.
Kara
42:36
Yeah. And like I said, we don't know what's going on with them. I just don't like the situation that we're in. Because all of a sudden, here we are. You know what I mean? We already had enough issues, and then all of a sudden, here
Bridget
42:46
we are. There was going to be questions. There already was questions. That's a big gap. And and usually if it's an injury, he'd address it. Right. So the fact that it's something aside of those things, it's not a good sign. And we knew that last week, but it's just gotten worse. And I have a bad feeling about this.
Kara
43:04
Yeah. They did say nunos practicing with a legacy, so maybe we can see him play with them, maybe we won't. I don't know. You know how we are as moms. We just want the best for everybody. We don't know what happened.
Bridget
43:18
That's not what we wanted to see. It's not the outcome we wanted to have.
Kara
43:21
Right. And with andre, with what happened with walks, I know he had some grief, and it's got to be hard for all the team, but for some of those that were really close, it's hard. So I just hope that whatever it is, whatever happened, I hope that it all gets situated, that we pray that they can come back soon. We pray that they will. It doesn't look like it anytime soon, but we hope that it will. And either way, I think that, like you said, we'll bounce back. We have with all the other issues we have. It's just midfield was one of those areas that I didn't think we needed to look at. And now, guess what? Here we are.
Bridget
43:56
Which explains some of that rumors about jack
Kara
43:59
byrne. Yeah, but that doesn't sound like it's happening either.
Bridget
44:02
We've got a week, so I guess we'll just see what magic may or may not be able to happen. But yeah, I think that's one of the reasons why that surfaces this week, because we're like, oh, wait, whoa. We need some more depth now.
Kara
44:16
Yeah. Well, do you have any more wrath? I do have some final notes, because that was kind of shared, I feel like that last one. Yeah. So I don't think Gaines had a bad game when he came on. I think he did fine. I think there were some moments where he made some good choices. I don't think you could see the full quality of a fool out there today. As much as some other things, but I thought he had some great interceptions. He was able to read some of the plays really well, and I don't think that may be part of it. I think he had some great moments, and I really liked his communication with Vargas and Gaines about telling them position wise where to be. And so that reading of the game I thought was really valuable to have on the pitch today. And, oh, I didn't have anything against Ronnico. I thought he had played a solid game as well as Vargas. I think Vargas
Bridget
45:08
was a positive influence out there as well. I just don't think he made anything enough happen, but still solid. Like, I wouldn't take him off. Vargas is
Kara
45:16
always a ball because I could see him on my side especially a lot in the first half with them coming that way. He was very aggressive on the line. When the ball comes towards the line. He's very good at being tactical about getting it to bounce off of the other team and go out of bounds. He's very good at trying to keep the ball inbounds. So I did notice that about him today. I don't know if I agree with you on Bronco. I didn't really see a lot out of him. Not that he did bad, but what happened that time when Gaines it was games that got the ball and then just went all the way down the field. All the way down the field. Just dribbled it all the way down the field and then pass it to was it Carol? And then nothing happened. I didn't see what happened down there. Did you see that one? I
Bridget
45:56
saw it, but I'm trying to remember.
Kara
45:58
I think it just was one that Carol shot and it went somewhere. But I think that's when lady decided that Carol was tired and took him out. I think that was what made him do that. But Gaines did have like gaines had some awesome speed. He just took off up the field and dribbled. I mean, he just dribbled it all the way to the I wish he would have just shot it, you know what I'm saying? It
Bridget
46:16
was capeti. It was a nice attempt by Gaines to cross. And he gets around his man and he crosses it to Capetti. And Capetti tries to head it, but he can't head it to
Kara
46:24
goal. Okay, so I didn't see what happened down there. I just know that Gains had an awesome and Carol and Capetti had the same color shoes. So it was tripping me out because I couldn't see down on the other end who's, who. Because I don't have good eyesight and I don't wear my glasses like I'm supposed to. So I got out of shoes. So they both have the same shoe color. But I did see that. Gaines did too, actually. But anyway, Gaines is a little beast. He can just, like run. He's like a little like that little coyote, 1s but he took off. When he's on, he's on. I wish he would have shot that, though. I really, really do. Well, on that note, do you have any more? I brought both my children today, and they had such a fun time. I was so excited that they finally got to see the first one at home. So that meant a lot to me and to have them both enjoy it and shout out to our lovely Carol Walton, because she was like, bring bring binoculars. And let me tell you, when I could not occupy my kid with popcorn and drinks and donuts and mac and cheese, he had those binoculars. And then the other time, he was just, like, bebopping around like a little electron and just I was like, you're going to break something. One point, he almost broke my hand. But he was I mean, for such a late game, for such excitement, he was free. Zing. They had a great time and would not shut up after just cheering for Charlotte FC. So I hope everyone else, because there was a lot more kids, I thought tonight, too, there really was. What a
Bridget
47:45
great game that we got to see win. Right. We didn't
Kara
47:47
see the beer showers as crazy because obviously there was only one at the beginning.
Bridget
47:51
And when the goal got called off, yeah, it
Kara
47:53
was like a crew sort of
Bridget
47:57
left it with the beer.
Kara
47:59
But there were a lot of kids there. I know there was a bunch of little boys. I think they were like eight, nine year olds behind us, and they decided to take all their shirts off at one point. They were getting into it. It was really cute. Yeah. I don't know, my daughter thought, yeah, they were a little too young, but anyway, but they were all having a good time. The one thing I really like, and I think I said it last time, is like, peppa started where it was just the supporter section doing it, but now it's like the entire stadium does it. And it tickles me because there were some new people in our section that you could tell this is one of their first games, and they would just get so tickled that everybody is turning around doing that. And I just think that the atmosphere, the fans, and I've seen them, it seems like the teams appreciate the fans more when they come out the beginning. They're giving the fans a lot more claps. They're showing a lot more attention to the fans. And I think that helps the fans feel a little bit more appreciated vice versa. And then the fact that they won, it just takes a lot off their pressure, a lot of pressure off their shoulders because they won finally at home in front of their fans that deserved it. And then the fact that the fans got to go home and we weren't crying or we weren't feeling like even though it was a draw last week, it literally felt like a loss. So tonight we actually got to go home. We have to breathe. My daughter kept saying, we actually won. Actually won. Walking to the car was fun, so it was great. And I think the fans did better this week. I didn't see any stupidness with the beer showers like last week. So I'm glad that the fans stepped up. They did a better job. Seems like the supporter section's got their stuff figured out with who's going to sit where, when they're going to come in. But now that we're through a couple of games, I think we're actually getting a better situation at home, and it feels better. Next week we play away at DC. Well, first we play Tuesday in the US open, which is a big deal. Then we play next weekend at DC. I'm actually going to try to go up there, depending on if it rains out my daughter's game or not. I think I'm going to make it, though. But it should be a very good game. I think DC. Is not that great. I don't want to say that we're going to go in because we have a hard time, but we're doing better on the road this year. So I think that we have a good game ahead of
Bridget
50:10
us. So far my track record is just be like, we're going to lose and then see what happens. I've had a good thing being like this and coming in with no expectations and then, wow, my socks off. So what's really exciting is that we are up to 11th place in the table now. I think there is a match that has to be played tomorrow. I think one of them is Atlanta. So, I mean, I forget who else they were playing, but it's really funny that. Also, Montreal pulls out a win, don't they? Yes they
Kara
50:39
did. And St. Louis tied and Galaxy won. They beat Austin. How about them apples? Wow. Yeah, I know. That was a big thing. Galaxy won in a bit. They were worse than us. So they actually pulled off a win tonight and beat Austin, which is huge in their book. So looks like this weekend was a good weekend for some upsets and I'm not hating that. We're moving our way up the standings. There's a lot more games left.
Bridget
51:07
Nine points. We finally made it to nine points, but we're like neck and neck with like right in the middle of the pack here. So let's just keep moving it up. Doing well. DC is at eleven points and we are at nine. So we need to take some points
Kara
51:23
here. So it ought to be a good game. We need to stop them and we need to do that. And I think I've heard DC has got a great stadium. So I'm excited to see that, excited to see our guys go up there and play this weekend. We obviously won't know a lot till after Tuesday night with the US open on who's going to be our goalie next weekend.
Bridget
51:41
Yes, you may or may not get an episode out of us from that mini episode. Who knows, right?
Kara
51:47
You never know with us. We got a lot going on. I don't think I've had a night I haven't had a night without soccer between my daughter's games and this, the Charlotte FC and the Legacy, I don't think I've had a night I haven't had an had a wedding thrown in. I haven't had a night off since last Sunday. So it's going to be good times this weekend. It continues on through Wednesday, I think. 1s Yeah. So it's going to be good. I'm a soccer mom for reals, for reals this year. And I asked my daughter last week, I said, what did we do before Charlotte FC. Came to town because we didn't really get into soccer as much. And I mean, she played but she said, oh, we were just losers. We didn't have nothing to it to do. So I'm glad that in her eyes we're not losers anymore. Well, we're not losers because we actually go to the soccer games and we're not losers because we won. So, Hala. Look at us. Anyway, on that note, we probably should wrap it up because I'll just keep talking. Our next game is on Tuesday night. We play in the US open cup. It's our first round. Everybody's excited and a lot of people I guess this is my new I'm new to the US open cup kind of world, MLS world. But someone said that the US. Open cup is more important to them than maybe some of these MLS games. Is that the true? Is that how we look at
Bridget
52:55
it? I think that depends on who you're talking to. Honestly. But it's a unique thing in that the different levels of us soccer can play each other for an actual hardware. Right. So it's pretty special. And so we're playing South Georgia Tormenta, and this is the first time we're going to get to meet up with them because of course, the Independence will meet up with them in the season. So who are we thinking is going to be out there on the pitch? Well,
Kara
53:26
I'm thinking for sure that Kalina is going to be NGO. That's what I've been told. Old so I'm going to go ahead and let my little heart go ahead and accept that we're going to see Kleena out there. Because Marks played this week, and we're going to wait and hold Marks till next week. So that's what I'm going to say. But so I hear that we're going to probably have clean out there, which is fine. I'll take it. I wonder, are we, like we don't put our starters in, right? So are we going to put in, like, the backup guys, but we don't really have a lot of backup midfielders. I think
Bridget
53:52
there could be a great argument for having Silbosinski Lindsay, some of the guys that we were on our bench earlier this week. So Hagart, along with maybe Cambridge Scardine, already played, so possibly Private will play. Bender is going to get some more minutes. He did some, but he'll get to play
Kara
54:10
Tuesday. We just have to use Tuiluma and Milanda. We have to use them because we have no other center back. Well, we can use SoBo,
Bridget
54:17
right? Yeah, I just said sobasinski,
Kara
54:20
but there's no other one. So those are our three is what I'm trying to say. Those
Bridget
54:23
are our three. So I do think there is a chance that someone else could play from whoever we put on the roster, but I can't tell you who. 1s That's what I was about to say. It would be interesting to see who from the first team of the starters gets the nod Tuesday as well, because that's extra minutes on those legs. I
Kara
54:45
just couldn't see if Enzo playing a full night 2s won't play. Do you think he will? No,
Bridget
54:52
I'm just
Kara
54:52
saying. I don't know. 1s Against South Georgia tormenta. No. Maybe when we play an MLS club, like Red
Bridget
55:01
Bulls again, if they're
Kara
55:02
not there, will they be on the bench? So
Bridget
55:04
remember how we talked about earlier where they had to submit, like, a certain man roster eligibility? It's whoever's on that. Okay. So I would guess that Copetti gets paid way too much money to be on that, but I guess we'll
Kara
55:17
see. Well, eventually down the road, we'll want them to be in it, right? If we make it to the end, we'll want to have Capetty playing,
Bridget
55:23
right? Well, I don't know how much change can be in those roster rules. Someone else much smarter than us. We'll have to figure that out.
Kara
55:30
Well, that for sure. Because then my next question is going to be if Shinoshiki and Santos were put on that roster for some weird reason and then now they're not on that roster, do we get to fill in those two extra spots or because they're still on our actual payroll and they're still on the team? Do we just have to suck it up, Buttercup, and we got two spots that are we're just Mia, like we just can't use now because we don't have these two
Bridget
55:54
guys? That remains to be seen. Yeah,
Kara
55:56
but I'm just saying we probably won't see them Tuesday is my point. I'm wondering if they're not on that roster, if we can fill those in or do we? That's a question, too. Maybe we have to look into that this week, too. But
Bridget
56:07
you also noticed that Armor didn't play this time, right? It's going to be him and Lindsay
Kara
56:12
for sure. I think that'll be great. And I think they'll have some maybe first teamers or something as backup or maybe like Hamadi or something who already played. But we'll see. Hagard.
Bridget
56:20
Well, yeah, but not as a left or right back spare.
Kara
56:23
No, but I'm just saying I think we're going to see him in there because DJ and Bronco had a lot of time and I don't see them just full on because they're the only ones we got, so let's not hurt them up. And Westwood's not probably starting, so. I can just see Hagart and maybe Private Bender in the mid and then Mellow, maybe, and Gaines.
Bridget
56:42
Yeah. I think McKinsey played last year, so I think that could be a good spot. I'm
Kara
56:48
trying to think of anybody else that might start. I think those are the only ones that I could think of. I mean, other than our first string, obviously. Romero and Bertimas are coming back tomorrow from the US. Camp. So you could see them, potentially. I don't think it's too far fetched. No. 2s Romero is a midfielder, and we need another midfielder, so
Bridget
57:13
I'd really like to see him play
Kara
57:15
again. 2s If we don't use Camille, who else is on the outside? And Vargas. If we don't have Camille and Vargas, who do we have other than Gaines? Well, we
Bridget
57:24
have Cambridge, who'll be playing up there, I thought. Right. Okay. It says he's a midfielder, but he's been playing that a winger slot for a bit. Right. Or Scardina one of them, too.
Kara
57:34
Okay. Well, Scardina played today the Legacy game, so I don't know. Oh, yeah. We'll see. It'll be interesting to see, though. I'm excited about it. We're going to be there. Hopefully everybody will be there. It starts at 730 on Tuesday night at the Matthews Sports Plex. We're hoping to do maybe a little brief wrap up of that game. It'll probably be like a midweek episode if we can get that together. We're very busy, so we're going to try to do that. This will be very short, but we hope to see you all out there on Tuesday. Until then, have a great week. Stay safe
Bridget
58:03
and for the crown.