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Apple TV and MLS. He will be joining us for the first time ever, and we'll try and do everything and be on our best behavior, make sure that he does not run off into the sunset and sit there with arms failing and go what have I gotten myself into? And then we met have a special guest coming up at ten thirty, so like after ten thirty, we're anticipating

perhaps being joined by a fourth individual. So it's gonna be Jamie Watson, hopefully our friends from Beyond Goals, Mintoring, Chris Whittingham and a special guest and an unnamed anticipated special guest star coming up at ten thirty. So that's

the rundown. Obviously, we got to get through Major League Soccer, get to get through all your your juice boxes, go through all the news of the morning, and we got to be out by like eleven ten because at Laney Unity two is hosting their press conference their MD minus two with head coach Steve Cook and Ryan Carmichael, and we got to dump out for that so we can

be ready for the game. Remember Crew two and Laney United two on Sunday is going to be on ninety two nine in the game in the Odyssey app we're gonna have special pregame on the SDH network seven o'clock. Then we'll dump out by about seven to twenty seven twenty five ish on ninety two nine in the game. It'll be Maddie and Jason. They're gonna kick things off there ninety two nine in the game like seven twenty five, kick seven thirty three, and then we'll have a bit

of a post game after that. So kind of a hybrid on Sunday looking at everything that's gonna be attached to everything in MLS Next Pro. It's the one time of the year where ninety two nine does an MLS Next Pro match. Maddy and Jason will have that for you coming up on Sunday night. All right, officially a no Dilly, no Dally zone, because you know what that means. It's time for us to rock and roll. And uh, last time that Jamie was with us, he was out

on the Lanai. You know, we're trying to hear like trains and things and birds dive bombing him and things like that. And so now he is, he is indoors, he is in a calmer environ morning.

So it's like where at Mercedes Been Stadium, had to close the roof, had to come inside, get rid of the elements, and we're in here chatting with you, John. But what an action packed show you've got today. Man, I cannot wait. And Chris woodiam great, great friend of mine. The special guest you've got is a big one. Can't believe you pulled that one off. So I'm very excited about that. And yeah, either guards are a park here. You can't go wrong with either one of those guys.

How much of a challenge was it for you to learn what you could learn about all these clubs in the Club World Cup and dance as fast as you could and calling all these matches?

the production for. And then we had the US Domestic Zone broadcast, which was incredible, And so we went to the wonderful, beautiful studios in Atlanta and we were able to do some games. It was great being in Nashville. I was only four hours away, so it was awesome. So got a chance to have my family there for

a little bit of time. But everything was absolutely first class to a degree that I didn't know existed in broadcasting, with how they took care of us and looked after us and the big unsung heroes to this entire project were the countless people that working behind the scenes to make it all happen. We were ultimately the end product the broadcasters, but you know, Sean Brown was the one that really put us all together, helped put the team along with and that was there. They were producing, art

was doing the studio. They'd turned the whole inside the NBA studio into the daily FIFA Club World Cup show. It was incredible. But we had some incredible help with getting our information each and every day for the matches. We have a great company they work with True Media, Steam Swailowski and Paul Carr. Each day would would fill your inbox with all the information you could possibly want

on these teams. So I can't wait to dive more into it with you of how we would figure it all out, because each and every day, if it weren't for the news and notes that were delivered in the backgrounds of us, it would have been impossible to be able to cover this. So it really did take a village, and this was the coolest village to be a part of.

is a part of it. And I got to call a couple of other games which was really really cool, and some big ones PSG. Athletico Madrid and you know, yeah, Bodafogo. There were some teams in there that John I had I had imposter syndrome. I'm like, what am I doing calling this? Man? It's incredible. And then so total teams.

There's nine Flamengo ten, Chelsea eleven. That was it from Group D into Milan twelve, Monterey thirteen, River Plate fourteen, Uraba Red Diamonds fifteen. Now we get to Group F Dortmund sixteen Fluminence they got them in the knockout. Seventeen I think so Mamlodi Sundowns. Mamlodi Sundowns from South Africa. They were incredibly fun. They just threw tactics right out the window.

works great ones. Cal Williams from Apple TV, Tony Husband as well Andy Bishop, who does a lot of stuff with Sky's European based in Chris Sharples as well. Those are my four that I got a chance.

So this is what you'll see some people use. That's fantastic and it's really good.

headsets like what you have. That's more common in broadcasting, isn't it, John, And so when you're when you're talking to get your hands freen A lot of times you can kind of hand motion right, you can like point you all right, like you go next, or I'll go But you know, Cal Wood has a system where he's talking, he's talking, and then he'll go like exaggerated, like put his microphone down. It's it's so funny the little nuances of broadcasting that everybody has.

good man. There was there was just so many quality broadcasting people, both on camera and behind the camera doing this, and it's like it felt like broadcasting sports camp heaven because every day you just walk into the bullpen and be like, oh, there's Andre's Cantur, who's next to Luis Garcia who was on the desk that day with Juan Pablo and hell and you know, oh yeah, Devontor Bergertov would walk in along the way and Alex Scott was

hosting Katie with them. Was incredible at hosting Laurene of Bars. I mean, it was like a who's who every day. Moe Adams was incredible, Brian Dunseeth so man, it was it was so fun and we just had a great time and I could be more grateful to get to experience it all and get to kind of recap with you. It's not even done yet. We still have the final on Sunday, but.

wait and they'll pass around. Miami saw that into Miami, saw that at Mercedes Benz Stadium'm sure a lot of your listeners would have been there because that was one of the premier matches, you know, to be able to see in to Miami in the knockout stage, Messy versus PSG again. But ma'am, I think if Chelsea can keep this close and keep it respectable, you know, I think

that the uglier. I said this the other day when I was getting a chance to do a show with Serious X. Sam said the day before we were pregame, or the day of we were previewing it in the morning and it was you know, if Real Madrid can make it an ugly game, they have a better chance. But it's like, right now, with PSG, I'd equate it to going into the ring with Mike Tyson in his prime and standing there and just trying to throw punches with them. You can't do that. It's not going to

go well for you. You've got to make it as ugly as possible and if you if you do, I guess you'd give yourself the best chance. But ma'am, I think it could be PSG, and I think it could be PSG comfortably on Sunday.

They are a machine. And I saw a story where apparently Luis en Rique was interviewing for the Chelsea gig when it was open before they gave it to Pochettino, and he comes in with this fantastic presentation of what you know Luis en Rique does, and he breaks everything down to its finest little part and they were like, no, thanks, we're not interested, and they went with Pochettino. I'm I want to see how this goes with Luis and Rique on the weekend.

you're it's one thing. When you're watching it and you hear a couple of people different say it, it's it's all well and good. But when I had when I had to try to say some of these names like that. That was one of the ones that I was going to bed the night before being like, all right, said my said my prayers, called the wife and kids, and

then I was like, okay, Kavar Scalia. It was like I was counting sheep, trying to make sure I could say this name wrong, you know, and broadcasting nightmares right there.

interesting viewpoint of getting some of these teams. And I won't say for which teams, which games and whatnot, but there was definitely some of the games that were not necessarily the marquee. Once you know, the big ones, you're not gonna you're not going to see somebody go from one of the top teams in Europe right now that's in their prime to you know, they gonna leave Madrid to come that you're not scouting those games, but some of the other teams from some of the other continents

in other countries. I would be shocked if you didn't see some players make the leap to Major League Soccer from some of those teams after the exposure that some of these other leagues got, which was one of the cool aspects of the FIFA club woke up.

he got the forward to like to jump. He was so convincing, and then he moved in about ten to fifteen steps forward and he shot and he bangs us in anything that just moves and swerves different directions. And I was on the call with Andy Bishop for that one and we both looked at each other like he faked a shot and the guy respected the shot so much. He was just from midfield and then he stepped inside and scored this banger. But yeah, that's a great shot

right there. A player like that, he was incredible. He's the name Nelson Diosa that I would not be shocked if people in Major League Soccer were trying to ask, mantery, how much do you want for this guy? He was so so good.

And our buddy Neo Taurus from Goal TV, who calls the Portuguese league, was giving us the rundown of all that, and I mentioned Diosa, and I also mentioned Mehi coming from Famalikao to Atlanta United as a whole, as a part of this whole dynamic, and Diosa is attracting a figure that's like ten million right now, transfer marked Hedham at like eight to nine, and so Sporting was looking at like ten from on today, we were tempted to lock the doors and Mercedes Benz Stadium when monterday was

playing to assure ourselves that Diosa could not leave. He's not good, not allowed to leave there, and not afraid to shoot from twenty like you like you had in your match, but just in general, he had three shots from twenty outside the eighteen and he didn't blame. He didn't think twice about it. He was ready to go.

the biggest stadiums. They walk inside a Mercedes Benz stadium and they're like, oh, so this is what a billion and a half dollars looks like.

on the call. Oh my goodness, I'd.

and he was fantastic. He was as good as you could imagine meeting him, you know, it was it was such a surreal experience the whole time.

some of the teams. You know, it's interesting because every team has a different need and different price point right of who you want to spend, and so you know, I'm trying to think of some of the smaller teams that we watched, Like.

really difficult to kind of tell. But you know, some names of Papa, like Kaku who used to play for the New York Red Bulls. He was there, so it was kind of cool seeing the MLS connections throughout. Mikael who used to play for Houston. You know, he's for Palmettish as well, so as Kundo Torres. You know, I

think there were some really good players. And I'm going to skate around the question a little bit because the reason I will say this is there were a lot of people that I really enjoy working with on the scouting side of Major League Soccer that was reaching out and I did give them some specific names but out of sort of respect to that, I don't want to say which ones, but I think you said this John

and Nelson Dials. I was almost worried that he would have been on too high of the pay structure and transfer fee command, so I didn't say his name on purpose. But he was probably the one player that if I could really pinpoint on the higher side, that probably has the realistic, you know, top end major League soccer price tag. I think that he might be a player like that, but it's just tough. I don't know what teams would

be willing to spend. So I just gave. Each time I would get a text, I would say, here's a good name, here's a good player, and I would move moving on from there.

that we've got going here. We're breaking down soccer at a high level and also making sure our four year old doesn't yell at us because I'm a girl dad and she's amazing. She's the best. She's got me wrapped around her. I think bj Allien did an amazing job, by the way, in the studio, he was so good. They put him on the big board and and he

was breaking things down. You could see how his mind just operates differently as as a coach, and it was I absolutely stole a lot of things that he said, and the immediately went and said it on the broadcast. But he was great. I think that he's There is a complete about the way Nashville, as see plays. There's two different players that can hurt you. Because Nashville fans

will know this. The Nashville one point zero era was all about Honey and Atlanta fans will know this because Honey saved his some of his best performances for Lanti United fans along the way. But you knew if you could stop Hanny, you could stop Nashville. Now you also have Sam Surge that's contributing. You've got Hanny that's contributing. You've got some really hard working players in the middle of the park that continue to run into press and

to repress. And that's where in remind me have broken down their their struggles is the repress. Okay, yes, ma'am, there's breaking down the repress. Oh, I think she's gonna make it zuccher.

Do you sign him as an AM player pro rated for half a season and then do you sit there and go, Okay, you're AM this year, and then we'll try to DP you or go high AM next year, and then buy down Jordi Alba, buy down Bousquettes, figure out what you want to do. Because your three dps all have contracts that are ending at the end of this season. So I'm guessing he's a pro rated AM

this year. Luis Suarez goes home to run the club and that gets your your AM slot there, and so you sign it to a Soarezi and kind of a deal, and so he's probably a high AM or maybe a DP and you buy down Jordia Alba or something like.

spend it all even if he tried. I wonder if at the end of the season, he also says, I want this to get better, so I will drop my salary requests down and almost, you know you don't you say, like the hometown discount right? Well, now it's it's almost like, is it the you know them trying to think of a clever name?

That's what I want to do. So it'll be interesting to see if or does MLS come in and do they alter some of the rules and change it and go four dps right, And I wouldn't be shocked, and I wouldn't you know, You've got World Cup winners that want to come over now at thirty one years old and clubs that are willing to pay reportedly up to twenty million dollars.

let's let's not sugarcoat here. This is a top you know, twenty team in the world, five team in the world. And so you say, okay, this is you know, a player that can start there if a club wants to acquire, and we need to figure out a way to not stand in the way of it with our rules.

see that Jamie's trying to do TV. He's trying to do TV and he's trying to get stuff squared away. So Jamie's gonna go be a dad, and it's always great to have Jamie Watson come down and see what's going on with him. So Chris Whittingham set to join his Top of the Hour and we'll break everything down

major League soccer. We'll find out a little bit about Chris, considering it's his first time on the show, and I wanted to kind of peel back the curtain a little bit because Chris has called a lot of different leagues and so my lead off with Chris is going to be, Okay, how many leagues have you called this year? How many leagues have you called? Do you remember them all? So we'll get into that discussion with Chris, talk about major

League soccer, all the things. Great to catch up with Jamie. Obviously, like I said, Jamie's got FS one this weekend where he gets messy in Friends and Nashville, and so we'll catch up with that. Obviously, we've got a couple of things to talk about with Atlanta United. We'll go here with one of them. And obviously it's it has been in social media for quite some time and if you were to follow this particular individual on his social media,

you would know that he's wearing the gear. He's posing in rooms with sofas and things, flexing, muscles and so on. It is official Atlanta United his loan Edwin Musquette to me Andario So the Columbian First Division through the end of next year. So it is a year long loan for Edwin Musquetta with an option for a permanent transfer. So fast, Eddie is going to be spending the next calendar year on loan two millionaios and so for contract.

And we'll go ahead and go through contract numbers and contracts and things like that, and so we'll double check Edwin Mosquetta's status. Plus we will double check his salary figure according to our friends at the MLSPA and with ed Win. Let me see if we can find him really quickly or did they already punch him out? Wow that might have been. That was fast, okay, let's see so Margaret value uh toga she Ronald Derek Jamal Tristan William Baugh. Wow they already did. Wow, that was fast. Okay.

So Edwin Musqueta it's no longer a rumor market value of four hundred thousand euro but they had him rumored to Atletico naci Ana and so Edwin under contract with Atlanta United and I thought, yes, now what they wasted no time with this? Okay, so transfer marked officially has him flipped. Okay, so joined, yet they have him joining yesterday. Actually so joining yesterday transfer marked and it is a basically it's a year long loan until the June thirtieth

to twenty six option to buy. Current market value listed at four hundred thousand euro according to our friends at transfer Marked and so from the MLSPA. When it comes to the salary guide in resources which you really should have bookmarked, I don't, but I should from a salary perspective, it was Edwin was making four hundred and twenty five thousand base four sixty two guaranteed compensation. So that is

that was the rundown of Edwin Mousqueta. The thing about think about Edwin, Edwin needs reps, and I think that he needs to be in a place where he can get constant playing time. He wasn't getting that with Atlanta United. You saw with Edwin that you know, the speed is there and the imagination is there, as evidenced by the one goloasso at Mercedes Been Stadium. That sticks into my head.

But he needed, he needed regular reps and it was a chance for Atlanta United to send him to a place where he gets regular reps once again option on a permanent transfer. So it is a loan for a year and a twelve month loan short of the ten days or the eleven days that we're here in July and twenty five. So Edwin Mosquette alone to me in Arios. He had been posing on social media wearing their gear last couple of days. And so Edwin is down there now and he's got to work as the first touch

needs to be worked one a little bit. But the speed is there, talent is there, the imagination is there. He just needed a place to have regular reps and so he gets that at Meg Andario's and he will be down there on loan with an option for a permanent transfer. Now, the other stuff that we need to get into, obviously with Atlanda United, outside of on the field is the off the field. And yesterday we found out that Garth Loggerway is now in a cancer bout

and it is an indefinite leave of absence. This came out a little after a little before two o'clock yesterday afternoon. And I know that you guys have been mentioning it in the twitch pitch this morning, right now, the way that it is, the way that it was released by it Land United indefinite leave of absence after recently being diagnosed with cancer has begun treatment. No timetable for his return.

Prognosis of a complete recovery is encouraging. In the interim, Chief Soccer Officer Chris Henderson, Chief Business Officer Skate Knopsinger, Senior VP of Strategy, Demetrius if Stoth. YOUU continue to lead the day to day ops and will provide regular reports to Garth and to Rich McKay, CEO of AMBS during the absence. You've got a statement from Arthur Blank. A statement from Rich Garth's quotation in the release. I've made the difficult decision to step back from Atlanta United

to tackle my cancer treatment head on. I'd like to express my profound gratitude to Arthur Blank for not only his support, but by doing everything in his power to make this process as painless as possible for me and my family. I could not possibly work for a better organization than AMBS. Atlanta United has a high performing leadership team in place on the business and soccer sides of

the club. Chris Skate and Demetrios are experienced and talented leaders, and I have full confidence in their abilities to lead our club in my absence. In the meantime, I'm looking forward to seeing our fans again sun at Mercedes Been Stadium. I shall return. End quote. And with that, obviously, you want Garth to focus on getting back to fighting this, and you want this. I'm gonna phrase it this way. Anytime anyone is and I'm gonna break the fourth wall

here for a little bit. I hate cancer and I know I'm not alone in that lost my dad to cancer and it was just over fifteen years ago. And anytime I hear that anyone is fighting a cancer battle, you want them to have the resources available. You want them to fight, you want them to focus. You want to make sure that this ass of a beast that is known as cancer. And I probably could earn the explicit rating discussing cancer in and of itself. I hate it.

I hate what it does to people. I hate what it does to families, to relationships and to the lives that you're trying to construct. I'm hoping that actually, let me rephrase, I hope Garth kicks its ass, and I have no qualm about that. Whatsoever. I want Garth, I want the Loggerways, I want ABC, I want it Lanta United to kick cancer's ass from one end of the field to the other. And in Garth's statement, you saw that,

you heard that. You know, he is blessed to work for a place like a MBS and we are blessed here in this market to have someone who cares for individuals as much as Arthur Blank does. So whatever it takes for Garth and the Loggerways and Atlanta United to kick cancer's ass, go do it. Because I hate cancer with every fiber of my being and probably every fiber of my family's being on top of my own. So we've got Skate, We've got Chris, We've got d You've

got Hobby on the analytics side. You've got a lot of talented people. They'll work on the business side, and they'll continue doing what they do on the business side of things. And I hope that Garth realizes. And it was on social media yesterday a lot yesterday afternoon and last night, the support that Garth has from all of us seventeens media, what have you? You know, whatever you know

envelope or pronoun you want to apply that to. I hope that the logger ways feel it every day, the support that they have from people they know and people they don't about kicking cancer's ass. We probably should print up a T shirt kick Cancer's ass today and every day. So that's the latest with Garth. That came out yesterday

about two o'clock yesterday afternoon. So Garth is now undergoing Garth is undergoing transfer cancer treatments and we don't have a Yeah, an Abby, that's absolutely true with Darren fighting it too. Darren fighting it over at Newcastle, Garth fighting it here. It does, Abby says, between Garth and Darren Eil's good friends both having a cancer diagnosis sucks. Ye, it does. So fight it, kick its ass and we'll

see you when we see you. Come out, you know, come out and see games casually, trusting those around you and know that we're here for you in whatever aspect you You want to apply that sentence in that sentence rusure kick cancer's ass today and every day. That's your T shirt. Damn that pisses me off, But anyway that had to be you know, we had to talk about that considering what happened yesterday with the announcement with Garth and so lengthy statement from Atlanta United came out yesterday

afternoon and laying that out. So I'm going to keep an eye on that too. Once again. Chris Whittingham set to join us top of the hour, tell you what, let's go through juice boxes and everything in Major League Soccer. Let you know what the numbers are. Chrystill join us. It'll be his first time, like I said, hopefully he won't go running off into the running off into the night, hands failing in the air after the segment's over. And then we are planning a special guest coming up at

ten thirty, so we'll see. We'll see what happens with special guest. And like I said, we've got to be out a little after eleven five because we've got to get ready for the twos and Columbus Crew two coming up this weekend at ninety two nine in the game and the Odyssey app okay, excuse me, juice boxes this weekend involving all of the action in Major League Soccer. We will also let me I will give you the juice boxes for the Club World Cup Final at the

meto lands. Now that I'm thinking about it, let me go down and drop that number. So Club World Cup Final it is on Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. PSG's a minus one sixty four. Chelsea's a plus four fifteen. Ninety minute draws a plus three twenty six. So there you go. I think the safest play in the world is to go with PSG. Nod your head, move on, tip your cap to Luis Enrique and that's a show, all right. So the seven forties on Saturday night and it will be oh wow, it'll be another one of

those where it is two four, six, eight ten. You'll have another ten box in the goo hour over at MLS three sixty. Here's what's going on, Charlotte and NYC. Charlotte favored of the plus one oh four against NYC, who's a plus two twenty five. Your ninety minute draws a plus two seventy eight. Dean Smith, apparently the head coach Charlotte FC, did not want Patrick Agyemong to go.

The salary demands were rather large by his agent, according to Dean Smith, and Dean Smith decided to let everybody know, or let everybody think anyway, that in his mind, the EFL Championship is right there, even with the folks in Major League Soccer. Dean Smith on contract negotiations with Patrick, if it came down the money, it's always money. Back in January, thought the club made a fair offer. His representatives had a totally different idea that was way out,

way out of the ballpark for this club. Feels that Pat's move is more of a push from his reps than Patrick Godgemong. He adds that Dean Smith feels like the Championship isn't much different than Major League soccer. Tim Reemans back from international duty, Wilson back from suspension, so in Dean Smith's mind. Dean Smith adds, he feels like the EFL Championship isn't much different than Major League Soccer.

I would wholeheartedly disagree with him, because you don't have half of the clubs in Major League Soccer trying to stay above water and paying more than ninety five percent of your economics to your salaries. Thirteen of the twenty four teams that were in the EFL Championship last time I looked at at least ninety five percent of their budgets going to salaries if not more. Look, you had teams that were like at one hundred and thirty percent

of their economics being paid to salaries. That's not how it works here in Major League Soccer. And the fact that Dean Smith feels he wants to deny an opportunity. Look, if Patrick Augiemong isn't getting minutes in a system where he is allowed to flourish, why wouldn't he look for another place? Why wouldn't he? And the fact that Darby wants to pay roughly was at seven point two for Patrick Ajimong. That's seven point two more million dollars that

Charlotte gets to spend on other folks. But to compare the EFL Championship to Major League Soccer, that is a big gap in logic and I would disagree. So you got that. Good on you, Dean Smith. Hell Is reel is also at seven point forty. That's Cincinnati favored at a plus one seventeen, cruise a plus one ninety seven

draws a plus two eighty one. Intrigued at that one, uh, I'm looking at the draw to plus two eighty one Purple team in Montreal, Purple team of minus two fifty set your fantasy teams appropriately if you did not set your team up for a double week cf. MONTREALI plus five ninety six and the composite courtesy of our friends at Odds Portal draws A plus three eighty six. Philadelphia minus one twenty two hosting Red Bulls, who are a

plus three to fifteen. Your draws A plus two seventy Toronto and Atlanta Toronto a plus one forty one draws a plus two to fifty two Atlanta United a plus one seventy seven. We'll get Chris Whittingham's thoughts on it in the Atlanta United season coming up in a bit. Jamie, as he said, he's calling Messian Friends and Nashville and Messi and Friends of minus one eleven draws a plus three hundred Nashvilles a plus two fifty two. Take the over, find the over, Take the over. Let's look for the

over here for a second. Because of the back line of Messi and Friends going up against the scoring that Nashville seems to be putting up under bj Callahan, three and a half is a plus one twenty two. I'd take that four and a half a plus two eighty five and a half a plus five sixty three, So I like the three and a half obviously to get

things started. But if you're really into totals, that's where I would go with that one eight thirty eight forty Austin without Brandon Vasquez for the rest of the rest of the season, minus one zero four at home against the Revs. Revs are a plus two sixty one at Q two in your draws A plus two sixty eight. Chicago hosting San Diego. San Diego is a road favorite, slight the road favorite of the plus one forty six draws.

A plus two to eighty. Chicago is a plus one fifty four loons in San Jose minus one ten for the home side. San Jose's a plus two to fifty two, and your draws basically a plus three hundred eight forty sporting in Seattle sporting a plus two hundred. That number has gone up in the last twenty four hours. Seattle a plus twenty eighteen. Your draws a plus two seventy

three nine forty stars. Colorado hosting Vancouver, Colorado A plus one sixty Vancouver favored slightly on the road of the plus one fifty six in the composite draws a plus two to fifty four RSL at home even money plus one hundred, Houston visiting at A plus two to fifty draws A plus two sixty three LAFC minus two fifty FC Dallas on the road of plus five eighty seven in the composite draws A plus four hundred LAG hosting DC United with out their former head coach Troy Lasain,

who was dismissed yesterday after technically after their late night Open Cup loss where you had a two nail legue and you lose five to two. LAG Hosting DC United lag minus one sixty seven, d C north of plus four hundred draws A plus three twenty six and SNS Sunday Night Soccer seven ten All Caps hosting Portland in Saint Louis, plus one twenty for Saint Louis City SC draws a plus two seventy eight. Portland is a plus

one ninety eight. So Cap Charlotte favored Cincinnati, Favored Orlando on the minus side, big favorite Philadelphia on the minus side. Favored against Red Bulls Toronto plus one forty one favorite against Atlanta. Messi and Friends on the minus side. Favored against Nashville, Austin on the minus side, favored against New England, San Diego favored on the road at Chicago. Slight Minnesota

minus side favored against San Jose. Seattle on the plus side, favored at Sporting Colorado, Vancouver pretty much throwing a blanket over the whole thing. Vancouver slightly favored in the composite over Colorado RSL even money plus one hundred, favored at home against Houston, LAFC big favorite against Dallas at home. LAG big favorite at home against DC United. Obviously the juice box purveyors looking and sitting there thinking that there's not going to be any new coach bump involved at DC.

And then Saint Louis City favored at home against Portland on Sunday night. So that's how it looks Abby posting in the Twitch Pitch Mega Tifo this weekend. Also going to do a banner for Garth and all her fighting cancer. Help is needed, anyone can come and help. No photos where stuff you don't mind getting pain on. And she has also posted the link to the sign up Genius link,

so don't take any pictures, but go help out. They're doing two separate tefos one to show support for Garth and one for the beginning of three matches in eleven days as Chicago comes to town middle of next week. There is a bit of a surprise that we will let you in on early next week involving the Chicago Atlanta match. It's a cool surprise. It's SDH based, somewhat SDH adjacent. But next week we'll let you in on that story coming up. Michael not looking forward to the

match this weekend. Let's say, let's see you who's here this morning, so we can say everybody, Morning Alex, Morning Abby, Morning David, and let's see morning Michael, Kefzi, Morning Kefzi, and let's see morning Ricky with the news on Mousqueta, and morning Sharif who is back. And let's see. So there is Ricky, there is Michael, there is Abby, and once again the sign up genius, which I'm leaving up

for a minute, morning ropes. So that's the rundown for everybody here that is keeping an eye on things in the twitch pitch, looking forward to, looking forward to, looking forward to the visit for Chris Whittingham coming up here in a couple of minutes. The Cosmos returning in name League One. They're playing in Jersey. They're playing at Hinchcliffe Stadium in Patterson, New Jersey. Stadium's got about eight thousand seats coming twenty twenty six. Here's how they laid it out.

Past President Cosmos. I feel like you need finger pistols or something like that, Past Present Cosmos. So it's interesting there. There's some transfer news that we'll get into toward the tail end of the show. Morgan Gibbs White is now and is he or isn't he? Nottingham Forest is mad about how things were handled. Brentford is getting Jordan Henderson apparently from IAX on a free So you've got a

lot of moving and shaking going on. Remember, thirteen days before the trance, the secondary transfer window opens up for Major League Soccer. You can talk about all the things you want inbound, and nothing can happen officially and be officially official until the twenty fourth, and then that's about a month worth of activity, and so you can talk

about all the things you want. Now, we'll talk about all the things we want inbound coming up here, you know, for the next thirteen days or so, but the twenty fourth. Starting the twenty fourth, it could be very very entry sting when it comes to folks. So, uh, let me see if I can spell. I always have a problem spelling Chris's name because it's like there's a no, that, there's a there's agent a y, and it's like ancient dum. I'm all over the place with it. I really am. Uh.

I believe all of the all of the things. That's where we are. See, you try and sit there and you spell something and you're trying to be nice about it, and you always screw it up. So that's that's the way it is. No, it's like, no, it's like cutting paste. I just want cutting paste. I'm not asking for much twenty first century problems. Time for a debut. It's our number two. I may fill a buster for another forty five seconds just so it's right at ten o'clock. No,

I'm not gonna do that. Uh. Like I said the first time, that Chris Whittingham is here with us on the show, and we're gonna talk because if we talked about other things, it might be a little off the rails, but you know, with the show talks about everything off the rails anyway, So we welcome Chris Whittingham to the show. Good morning, sir, Welcome to the Morning Show and the Chaos and the Hour of Chaos, specifically as we call it here on Fridays.

and we would do those kinds of things. I have my monthly calendar like that you slide, you know, underneath the glass, like the dude that would deny you the interest rate on your on your thirty seven dollars and twenty eight cents for your savings account when you're thirteen

years old. You know, I've gotten that to go under glass. Yeah, I've got the calendar on the fridge because the boss and I have conflicting schedules in the fall m hm, and we do it in different colors, so it's like on this time, you're gone, this time, Oh we have a gap space. We're neither put anything on the calendar. So this is where that's where that goes. So yeah, there's I have four separate calendars, and the fourth one

is the Google calendar. That I look at last because I don't know how to access it.

and in doing that, yeah, get the plug in. But I really do think it's kind of instructive because the it is kind of from the beginning you're covering everything. So you start in segment A with the club Woral Cup, and segment B you talk of the women's zeros, and segment C you're talking MLS and and segment D you're talking about some big story about next European club season, and then some news and so it just necessitates it. So I'm a big reader. I read as much as

I can. I do it the two thousand and seven way. I have a bunch of RSS feeds that that that I pull from, so I try and read as much as I possibly can. And and YouTube is actually an incredible service for me because look, to be honest, I cannot watch every major European game, every major MLS game, every major Cluboral Cup game, and so I spend a lot of time watching YouTube highlights and and and catching up on things to make sure I at least know

the big things. And then when a really big game comes round, or it's on when I'm in the office, or it's on when I have free time, then I will put the actual full game on. But it really is just kind of taking in as much information as you possibly can and making sure that there are things that you know for certain, right you know who the players are a real Madrid and Barcelona on PSG, on the absolute big teams you talk about every single week, and then the rest you kind of use as preps.

So I do think that there are certain things you kind of have to have as base knowledge that are inside your brain, not that you need to recall from memory or that you need to take notes on or whatever, but actually know. And that's kind of the beginning of it for me.

and I'm discovering I used to be. I'm of the NFL Red Zone generation, which is to say that I grew up on I was probably seventeen or eighteen years old when I watched for the first time, and it was like discovering a new world. And so I love the NFL red Zone and the whip around style. I have come to realize over time that if you need depth, it's not as useful as I wish it was, meaning like you see the key moments of the game, but

you don't really get a sense for the game. And so I do think that there are times where I am sacrificing a little bit more, taking in more tonnage in exchange for taking in things at a little bit more quality. So if there are four games on, I might have two of them on, but I would prefer to have one of them on because if I'm really going to take in anything about any of the game, I need to pay attention to it. So two is

kind of my maximum. And I even kind of figured out, like, all right, if if I have two games on, let's say on a Friday at CBS, it's a Bundesiga game and the SETIAG game, I'll kind of watch each in five minute intervals, So I'll watch five minutes here and then five minutes there. In the five minutes, so I'm trying to get some sense of the essence of the game and not just you know all there is a

goal scored in the thirty eighth minute. You're actually getting an actual, real sense of what's going on.

She would always be the end, she'd be the anchor lag and it was always the P block.

the senior superlatives right now. Biggest surprise for you at this point of the Major League Soccer season here in twenty twenty five would be blank.

But he stuck it out with a new coach, and all of a sudden he's the Golden Boot leader. And he scored two more goals in the Open Cup in midweek, and Nashville I think could be well on their way to win that trophy. Actually, actually that actually could be a really good semi final. Should Philadelphia advance ahead of the Red Bulls when they make up that game. But Nashville Philly are right now the top two in the East, and it would be two of the top three in

the East. It would be a really good game. So having just seen them at Yotis Park, I think that Nashville are the surprise of the season, given how good they've been and kind of how little expectation we had for them. I was going through for preseason predictions and because I had Nashville Philly this past weekend, Nashville was predicted to finish tenth and Philly was predicted to finish twelfth, And so honestly, you could pick one of those two

teams as the biggest surprises. But I do think that Nashville and Sam Surreig as the Golden boot leader in a league with Lionel Messi in it is certainly a big surprise.

plane and developing a style. And I appreciate that San Diego, if anything, has more assets, as it were, to kind of go at the Major League soccer season, but to put that all together, to have some players that you're getting a ton out of college draft picks, even Chris McVeagh at center back. I'm going San Diego and Mikey Varrus because it's not just that they're good, which is

hard enough as an expansion team. And I appreciate that that Saint Louis were first in the West under Bradley Carnell, and that some expansion teams have come int the league

and done well. I still think though, that to not just be that good, but it has such a clear sense of who they want to be, their style of play, and honestly be one of the best footballing teams in the league from day one, when you're kind of throwing it all together and figuring out answers and you have no prior information on how it's all going to work, is incredibly impressive, especially considering I do think that that

appointment was probably considered to be a bit underwhelming. I appreciate he was the under twenty national team coach, but I'm not certain he kind of came away from that with a huge amount of credit, So it was a bit of a risk. Everyone there has been taking risks in San Diego, but it's all paid off. And honestly, if I lived in southern California, I'd want to go to every game because it's it's entertaining, it's fun. Even though they lost last weekend in Houston, it's a four

to three game, it was awesome. So I think the how defined they are in their identity is well deserving of the credit for me of Coach of the Year.

It just hasn't come off. There's something about the combination of players about Lati, Lata, al Midan and Midanchuk that just isn't working U And even last week they played DC United a playout on nil all draw. That wasn't a brilliant game there. I think relying too much on pieces that aren't delivering for them right now when based off of expectations, I don't there's a team that's underperformed to that level, and honestly, it would be hard. You'd be hard pressed to see them in a playoff spot

this year. So considering that they're thirteenth in the East, they won four out of their twenty games, I just can't see anyone else as being the answer to this question. And I still kind of think that there's a team somewhere in there, but you're getting to the point of the season where you're kind of having to write it off.

There are a lot of mitigating circumstances there. It still is the champion going from, you know, winning everything to be playing some of the best soccer in the league. Two wins in the whole season, So I definitely agree with you, but I think we were kind of expecting, with the number of key players that left, for them to take at least a little bit of a step back.

I still thought that'd be a playoff team, and I thought pack and Payn's so he could carry the day, but they haven't quite so I do think that Galaxy are certainly an enormous disappointment, But I still think that man Atlanta, and part of that is sort of the money spent and you can kind of get lost in off season headlines, but Galaxy are certainly up there. But for me, Atlanta's that a little bit bigger of a disappointment.

There's ten thirty on a Friday, and beyond when we're putting the last half hour of the weekend, you can come in, sit there and say I want to get this off my chest and turn off your microphone, turn off your microwave because apparently your breakfast is ready or something.

with the Jersey mics. I'm so familiar with the airport, but yes, I've never actually walked out of it, so I have no idea what I'm gonna do. Uh, let's see, So Doug, Well, the thing is is that when you walk out of Douglas, you actually since it's like fifteen to twenty, literally you're flying into Douglas and it's like trees. You see downtown often the distance and you're, yeah, I need to go there, and you're flying.

and go. I disagree circle gets the square with Dean Smith and comparing the EFL Championship to Major League Soccer. But there so there's some there's some subtexts and things going on in Charlotte within MYYC coming to town. What do you when you're looking at it from thirty thousand feet as you're landing in Douglas, what do you see?

most MLS teams. But I do think that the worst team in that league is significantly worse than the worst MLS team, and so I do think that for Charlotte and for Dean Smith making that comparison, I think if you were going to Sheffield United, if switch one of the teams that you would expect to be competing for promotion to the Premier League, that is a higher level. Darby County was in League One two seasons ago, was promoted ahead of last season, and last year finished nineteenth

in the Championship. I think that is a lateral move, if not maybe a bit of a step down from playing for Charlotte. So I do think that Dean Smith has a good point in that respect. It's not just about the league, it's about do you have kind of that upward mobility. You would have to have a great season there to maybe get a move to one of those top championship clubs to then maybe get to the

Premier League. At some point you're kind of several years away from being where you want to be in European football, and I do think that there is a temptation now with as much as we talk about Europe, Europe, Europe, eure up Europe for American players to not kind of smell the rosen and go well, is there an actual path to development or an actual path to where I want to get to by going to Darby County as opposed to an actual club that can offer that kind

of on the flip side within the same club, but deals in Milanda is being Lenkel with a move to PSV. That's different because you're playing at the top of the Dutch League. They won the Dutch League last year. They're playing in the Champions League, and so if you want to move to the Champions League, that's a different thing than moving to the team that finished nineteenth in the Championship.

So I think at that point it is interesting. And then with Charlotte and the overall dealing with that in the middle of a pretty rough losing streaker or a winless run, a run where they have not been good for more than a month now, I think that's kind of difficult for Dean Smith to sort out. You go back to their last game against Orlando, they're tuneil up and they're unable to hang on to a lead at home,

which is a difficult spot to be in. I think Orlando are better than Charlotte right now, so you can understand why. But Charlote got to figure out how to close out results because I had them in Kansas City.

defend even at home? They have thirty three percent possession last week against Orlando. I think that's a figure that has to go up. They have to try and control games a bit more through midfield and with the ball, So I think there's definitely some things for them to figure out.

it is. So I think it's interesting that that whole motivation of everyone must get to Europe now is maybe not quite the same thing, because not all European clubs are the same. Go to Uventus is a much different thing than going to I don't know, go Ahead Eagles in the Dutch Air divis or something like that.

he's comfortable. And it's something you run into a lot of times with players is if they're not comfortable, they need to be somewhere where they are, Yeah, and if that's not going to be here, then you need to get him somewhere and look for for all of the all of the like gravel Road that has been this club for the last number of years, they've done a pretty good job of taking care of guys, you know, even going back to the Carls Caromona thing in twenty eighteen.

You know, through different players through the years. If someone's got to go for personal reasons, they've done a pretty good job of that. Even Edwins everyone was a weird one when he was at bah God back in twenty twenty two. I think when he was in or twenty three when he was in UH defense that he was DC and Argentina alone. They canceled alone and Atlanta took him back and it created that U twenty two backlog were uh uh or Franco Abada got shipped out to Toronto.

But it was a weird situation then because you can't like once the EJA cancels the loan. Yeah, you you don't really have room for him, but you kind of have to take him back because if you don't, then you know, what you're doing by doing that is you're maintaining the relationship with them. You're you're not You're trying not to, you know, burn down a forest, right, and it puts you in a weird spot, but you maintain a more essional relationship with them. But you you're also

trying to take care of guys. You So if it's not working for him, you're bringing him back from somewhere where it's not working and it might be impacting him on a personal level. So now you're he he is. I think he's made overtures on social media to wanting moves well.

This is for me personally. This is kind of a we're checking the nerves right now to see if there's any life left where we're seeing if there is any twitch, any electricity running through this brain of this season, because damn things.

mean like I would love to eat Crow. I'd love for them to pull like a twenty, like a twenty seventeen twenty eighteen Sounder kind of vibe.

kind of where we are. You'll lose this game, and I don't know, man, Like it's I don't know where you don't what's whatever's below bedrock? Just depending on how the game goes, Like, if you lose it one nothing on like a deflection or a weird penalty that sucks the most he gets out of hand, then yeah, then you have you have found something below bedrock. But until they play the game, Yeah, there's no way to know for sure, man. Yeah.

and fun to talk to. And this always kind of gets into the thing where when people start getting antsy about sports jobs of wanting wanting people done. Because I felt this way about Carlos and Darren and Douw Garth as well, I promise you these guys don't want to fail. For Garth, this is a This was a taking it to the sporting side of it for a minute away from the human side. We'll get to that. This was

a different challenge for Garth. Like he had been that technical director before, this was him taking on a spot that was a step higher where he had the final say on things. And this was going to be a very different and more broad chapter in his career as

an executive. And hopefully that career is not done in terms of, like you know, hopefully he's hopefully he is able to recover to the point where he's comfortable coming back in and doing his job, because I promise he was a tense, stressful, draining kind of job, especially at a club like Atlanta that has expectations and money and

desires left right at center right now. I hope Garth isn't worrying about that, even though he will, yes, even in the pressers like he's going to be getting information from Demetrios and Chris and yeah, it's like, you know, he's going to get updates. You know, he's gonna be asking for updates.

don't burn everything down when they are bad times. Right, Those don't last forever.

the place. It was Nashville, right, Okay, good memory, Jess, and so like for them to be able to travel and the embedded reporter was telling me they had traveled some from Tunisia, from Dubai, from France, from Canada, like because it's such a worldwide team. I just think for people to spend their money to come watch their soccer team is a beautiful.

of it. I mean, as someone that witnessed peta Check getting absolutely steamrolled by Stephen Hunt, these things happen, and nine times out of the ten it's the goalkeeper that's worth for where But when the goalkeeper gets worth for where everyone says it was an accident, or is their momentum, or they couldn't stop their running, or they jumped over the keeper and they tried. But when it's the goalkeeper making the mistake, there's not the same.

that you want. And that's not a football move, you know, if football takes place in full speed where people are making last ditch moments and if anything, I thought maybe the defender had a role in like the way that he shielded the ball made it really awkward, But no one's blaming the defender.

best you know, dominating their box. But you also want them to have better footwork than your midfielder, like chill out, like what a goalkeepers meant to be?

it Land and Charleston. They played behind closed doors in Kennesaw. The only two voices you could hear in that stadium, Lauder Clear was Brad yelling and on and on in the stand. Leandro Pirez was not playing in the game, but he was sitting in the stand and you could hear that hoarse voice of his yelling at everyone on the field.

and all this kind of stuff. What did you think about Noyer and Frankly, the sporting director for Bayern saying what they said, throwing Donor Ruma under the bus for And I understand, I get the whole team thing and trying to be supportive, but they went over the line I thought when it came to what they were saying post match, blaming don Ruma for the whole thing.

you're the hero maybe one in a million times. So that goalkeeper Union thing is huge, and I think that in that moment, you can say I was shocked about the tackle, but I understand these things happen in the speed of the modern game or something like that. But it leaves a poor taste in my mouth yet again, because the more you look at it, the more I

just don't think it's a malicious thing. And Okay, the guy's hurt, that sucks, but we can't claim that it's malicious without really knowing or being the only person that knows that is the goalkeeper involved.

the stereotype. And some of the English audience might not have liked it because they're used to people say Martin, what do they say in England Martinez or whatever?

in as a part of Major League Soccer. Who are some of your standouts from some clubs?

score the goal, So you said, Balily fantastic. I do think it was kind of hard that he got that yellow card. I don't think it was a penalty. For me, simulation needs to be like a true dive, not over selling it, do.

I liked watching Hugo Lauris play again, and it was kind of cool to know that I commentated Juru's last game for LAFC, so I guess that was kind of a cool moment as well.

in and becoming a darling. Right now, I work for the league, Obviously, I see it from a slightly different perspective, so be careful here, but I think that it's so nice to see that MLS slander kind of have to take a pause because Into Miami was more resilient and put up more of a fight against PSG that I'm kind of happy to watch PSG dominate everything and they just play exciting fun soccer.

number three. So Greg Burholters probably fed up with me, to be honest, he's a gentleman, he's lovely, and.

really inspired me to It's funny. I had this call yesterday and now I feel like that's like I'm gonna steal his motto from San Diego and just take it to my life that I want to be an and broadcaster where hey, she's really good at goal calls and she understands the flow of the game, or she's really really well informed on the team and she's able to control the tempo of the match, those kind of things. So we need more and people in our lives and

less butt people. So I think it's like a mic drop moment, honestly.

going for five straight wins. Look, Nashville's the hottest team in the league right now and is the top is at the top of your do not want to play list? What BJ Callahan does done is absolutely outstanding work. When when when Gary got fired last year, they were very much in the woods.

resources to work with in BC. And I don't know what to make of what Troy La Saying can be as a manager in the same sense that like even Robin Fraser going to Toronto, I don't know what to make of Robin Fraser as a manager. I'm not gond because like you can tell me, like, like, Fraser had that one good year and since in Colorado and then

you know, it fell apart and it wasn't good. And like, if I'm not gonna judge him strictly off this Toronto season, yeah, I'm not, because he has been he's been handed a really weird hand and now he's lost to his DPS. Now maybe the chemistry and that team picks up.

he's still trying to find himself as a manager. But yeah, man, like Trolo saying and Robin Fraser, both are guys that I can't I'm not going to sit here and damn them as managers because what they've been handed.

me thing, this is not an SDH thing. I'm as if not more critical of the players on the roster because going back over a calendar year now, I've watched guys on this roster not be able to lock in consistently. They did it under they did it under Rob Valentino. Go back to the Nashville game, which was kind of the that was kind of the full crumb of Rob's

time as his second stint as interim manager. Because go back to when Atlanta lost to Nashville at home and embarrassed by a Nashville team that had not turned the corner yet and got physically dominated and pushed around and didn't fight back. I have watched this roster just look like they don't have that dog in them. Yeah, And because because like here's the thing, it's not always going to be roses. You're gonna have to fight through. This

is to to blend your analogies. I think it was John Smoltz once talked about, you know, you only have your A plus stuff on the mound, what like three or four times a year. The rest of it, you're you're grinding it out. You're only gonna have your most teams. Most teams are only gonna have their like three four five goal a game, beautiful champagne styles a couple times a year that it's gonna line up. You're gonna have

to grind out the rest of them. Right now, this this roster does not feel like maybe individuals do feel like. I'm not going to speak for all the individuals as a collective. This roster does not have that grind mentality on them to grind out those tough times, to grind out those tough games. So will Dala be judged, Yes, because he's the manager of this team, and God bless him,

he is trying different things. God knows he has run out eighty five thousand different combinations, different ideas, different formations, different setups, you know, different instructions to try and find something that works. But look, everyone most scatters already.

scared man like. And when I say play scared, I mean like when Atlanta gets into the final third, it's it's like they're afraid to drive at someone, and it's like they're afraid to take chances. And I it's it's for me, John, it's it's exhausting because I'm I am expecting this team to be more like what we saw in preseason, which was aggressive in the final third, trying to make that line splitting pass, playing that more dangerous ball, because when you do it your own in the final third.

That's fine. The the insanity of this team is that the risk taking is so often in front of their own goal. And you know, whether that's Miguel Almaron, who is all over God's creation dropping back everywhere to get on the ball and then misplaying passes. Almost gave up a goal against DC the same way you gave one up against red balls Migual Amaron dropping way back into the back right and then playing the ball across the middle. That was just ill advised and poor to hit. Like

that's where you're taking risks. Now, No, take some damn risks in the attacking half. Get into the final third and take a risk, play a ball over the top, like, try and get creative, you know, don't just get it out to Brooks. Learn ask him to pump in a line cross. Don't just ask Pedromador to hit an early cross. Take some chances placing through balls, try and combine, try and pick out that pass to break a team over your knee. And they have not shown that bravery in

the attacking half. And I'm flabbergasted.

Riley out there to fight. If I got to call a short term now that I'm down a winger, if I got to call a short term a moistista blante and I tell him, Hey, I need you to play too stupid to be afraid ball and because want will drive that you like man is insane, you know, Looke, I need, I need more Luke Brendon minutes the I need Caman toga sheet mm hmm, like driving at people and pressing people and getting stuck in a quarter of a second late, because if you're starting eleven, because a

lot of times what will happen as a manager get stuck into the not stuck into but into the idea of I'm gonna run my starting eleven out there because there's tension on the job right now and we need to win, and these guys are giving me.

Toronto FC is saying ten, Atlanta United saying nine to thirty in their releases, so early Saturday morning, keep an eye out for that nine thirty ten o'clock somewhere in there at Lanty United's unified Toronto FC's unified first match for them since twenty nineteen. So I think the Jason and the Hoff will have the call on that one up at Demo U. Then on Sunday ninety two nine, in the game in the Odyssey app, Maddy and Jason will have the twos and Columbus Crew two on the network.

We'll have pregame on SDH about seven o'clock, go for about twenty minutes. Then we will yield the balance of our time and then about seven to twenty five, Maddy and Jason will come in and it'll be Maddie and Jason on the call ninety two nine in the game for the twos and Crew two. I'll be on for halftime, We'll have postgame and we'll let you know what's going on with that. So very very busy weekend at ninety two nine the game in the Odyssey app for it

Lanty nighted First Team Unified. You can watch that on Socials and on the twos as well on Sunday night from the fraction, so you get your get your action from the fraction and you can have a mo at BEMO on Saturday. So very very full weekend across the board. Jared as always my friend. Now it's nine to twelve on a Friday morning, thanks for as always dropping by, no problem. It is time. Since it is a Friday,

we have to play. We have to make sure that the whistle, the Friday, the Friday Whistle plays in its entirety. So for jareded for Jess, for Chris Whittingham, and for Jamie Watson, for everybody else here at SDH. It was a fun show. It was a full show. We always like it when that happens on a Friday. So a played safe. Everybody, enjoy your weekend. Be safe. We will catch up with you again before you know it. Saturday, Sunday. Back here on Monday, and because it is Friday, this is where we go.