Soccer Down Here 11/8/24: MLS Coaching Carousel, Friday Free Kick, Jason on ATLUTD

League Soccer, not so much in the West. Everybody, pretty much everybody in the West is kind of sitting there going, you know, can you kind of gig out of work on here a little bit? You guys, just do your thing. We're gonna sit here. We're gonna heal up and do our We're gonna do our thing.

numbers and everything that's attacked. We've invited everybody else from the week back in, so if anybody wants to wander by and sit there and go, it's Friday, and I haven't had the chance to think about anything over the last however many days it was since they were here in the building. So everybody's got the everybody's got the invite, and we'll see what's on everybody's mind as we go here this morning.

They in turn take ten percent reinvested into cool things and youth initiatives, very very cool stuff from our friends at Kickoff Coffee and Kickoff Coffeeco dot Com. College soccer right now is in their tournament stages you're seeing, and we go over this a lot with the rundown of what to watch, where to watch it, how to watch it.

Some of the stuff is in opening round play, some of it isn't, and some of them are trying to figure out who's going to be attached to the rundowns of every of everything when it comes to who's gonna be making postseason runs and all that kind of stuff.

And we'll keep you posted on stuff here in this footprint involving Division two and all the appropriate conferences there, Fun Belt, etc. Don't know if you had the chance to catch a couple of matches in the acc And when North Carolina and Duke get together on the women's side, you know that North Carolina and do get together in anything. It is one of those kind of must see. You know they're gonna trade haymakers for fifteen rounds and figure

out maybe a winner after ninety minutes. North Carolina was the four seed going into the tournament. Duke the number one seed going into the tournament. Duke took a one miller lead at the halftime break. Cameron Roller got a PK and then Linda Olmark scores from distance to give North Carolina the equalizer in the fiftieth minute.

time is running out. There's there's no extra, clock's running down, and you end up with a moment like you do, and you sit there, you tip your hat and you're just like yep, Stanford and Notre Dame number seven versus number ten, And it comes down to time running out, and I mean time running out. You're looking at like ten seconds and nine in counting down, So leave it.

It leave it to the feet of Dylan Hooper. Dylan Hooper will probably go down in ACC lore anyway for this moment that happened once again courtesy of our friends at the ACC Network and the Atlantic Coast or the All Coast Conference, but now it's the ACCV the Atlantic Coast Conference.

the end of the game end quote. The men's soccer position at Stanford has what we've been kind of tongue in cheek referring to as the tenured professorship. It is the Knowles Family Director of Men's Soccer at Stanford. It is a sponsored title, the Knowles Family Director of Men's Soccer, Jeremy Gunn. So when you become the head coach of the men's soccer program at Stanford, you become the Knowles

Family Director of Men's Soccer. So Jeremy Gunn got the quote as the Knowles Family and literally that is in the release, that is in the post match release for this game. The post match release it was a crazy game of soccer. Knowles Family Director of Men's Soccer, Jeremy Gunseat. So it is a tenured professorship. Good on the cardinal for thinking in three dimensions and if you got to do something, if you got to do something like that,

you do something like that. And so sure enough you end up with with that as part of your part of your DNA when it comes to college soccer. Will Riley, by the way, blast out of the past. So Will Riley got a goal in that match too, so blast from the Past Will Riley is a part of the discussion too.

not quite Energizer Park yet. Ryan Campbell got her fifteenth shut out of the season. Bruins go to the final against Ruggers, and so this is a smart play.

final in Pensacola, Florida. So that was the women's side of things on the UH and so you got to keep an eye on all of that. So what to watch, where to watch it, how to watch it, and we're going to expand it with the colleges and so we'll go there.

let you an employe at two forty five. ESPN two has the English Women's Super League Manchester City and Spurs at two thirty uh.

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Paramount Plus a light day for them. English Championship Friday Night Football Watford Oxford United, that's at three o'clock Syria, and then the Scottish Championship Greenock Morton and Air United at two forty five.

to thirty. Premier League doubleheader will get into those juice boxes as well, being an Espanol's GOT League uh Strasburg, Monico, Lens nonte Anger and PSG and their triple header hon Duran Primiras on BNN Espanol Municipalimagno and Plateense ESPN Deport's Bundesliga at nine thirty LA Liga has eight, ten, fifteen, twelve, thirty in three, so they're all Lalliga all the time. On Tomorrow, Fox Deportees Siria noon in two forty five Guatemala Liga. This is true to generate stuff. Antiga and

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And then the playoffs four, six and eight with FC Cincinnati, NYC, Orlando City and Charlotte Inter Miami Atlanta United four six eight SO four ten six ten eight ten. Next Pro Cup Final North Texas SC in Philadelphia, Union two is at eight thirty. The Plus has a bolt Looatus stuff on Saturday. Airdavizi Bundesliga Bundesliga b Laaliga Laaliga two USL Championship playoffs. We gotta get into that League one playoffs. We've got to get into that there in the semispox.

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Joe Tansey. All right, So the three questions, does Garth call curtain again? Does he even want does he even take the call?

your touch line? That would be my first thought. Second, does Garth call curtain again? That goes back to and I'm going I'm jumping from three back to one. Does he even take the call? I don't know if Jim Jim Curtin takes the call. There there is another there's another opening out there that I think would fit and and taking taking the taking the plastic comment from from you know, taking that to the side, and all the

other shenanigans that go on. And we've discussed Audenfinitem at Dausium about stylistics, philosophy, all that kind of st oh. I know, I know Rich he was being a wrestling heel. I know, and that's and that's part of his persona. He's being a wrestling heel.

I just think philosophically, I don't think it fits because the athlete that Jim Curtin has attached to what he did in Philadelphia, not this past season, but you know, say when they were younger. But that whole idea of the four four two Diamond and the athletes that you currently have in Atlanta, I think that would be square peg,

round hole. And you don't want to do that considering all the money that you've invested in folks like Miranchuk, Saba, et cetera, and that you have all of this stuff waiting for the off season to invest in and trying to find folks to come and be a part of things. I just think philosophically, I don't think it fit. So that would be that would be it for me. The the the Curtain philosophy here with the personnel on hand in Atlanta, I don't think it's I don't think it matches.

I think that if you wanted to take him philosophically and apply him to a situation, I think Saint Louis would be more I'm not gonna use the word appropriate, that would fit better. I think that if you had the Saint Louis style of play, I think that would fit Curtain stylistically more than coming to any other opening, because it is that that to me would be where

we are here. So someone that is red bullsyan which is kind of what which is what Saint Louis is with what fun and Steel and Bradley Cornell at the time wanted to create. They wanted to do something red bullsy and where you're pressing short fields, you don't care about possession, those kinds of things, those kind of red bulls light in Saint Louis. But I think philosophically that

would fit him better. And I had that John Hackworth would probably sit there and he's probably pressing on the door that would enter into the training facility for for all caps. You know John Hackworth, like you hear a knock on the door and you know it's it's like, who's that, Jim Curtin, John Hackworth, nobody here, you know. So I think that Saint Louis would fit Jim Curtin philosophically.

So I don't know if you make that phone call again, So that that would be the bigger element in this for for me looking at things, and I will I will recommend for those of you who might be new to our discussions and too rich and to everyone from the Philadelphia side of things. When this seemed to be getting to its head, to its you know, to its zenith, when it came to the Philadelphia fan frustration and all

of that, we did a deep dive into Philly. So go back into our archive on the app and over its spreaker, we did a deep dive into Philadelphia and it was a really cool deep dive where we analyzed everything. And this was what three four months ago when we could kind of see the riding on the wall where Jim Curtin publicly would be frustrated in postmatch comments and it would be thinly veiled. Then it wouldn't be so thinly veiled.

now any place else. But go back and listen to the deep dive that we did on Philadelphia across the board, and it was a look at the ownership the investment where they were focusing more on infrastructure and buildings as opposed to bringing in people in transfer fees to help things out. Then, so you saw in the twitch pitch the Joe Tansy piece that Rich linked us to. So Joe Tansy right there at the Union Soccer blog. But I would go back and listen to our in depth

run of Philadelphia. We analyzed pretty much everything we could, and Rich being our eyes and ears up there, kind of helped us out navigate what was going on ownership, front office, et cetera.

we should just break up and be friends. So I think that the relationship from that perspective got to the point to where it was untenable. Because if you have a head coach who in his postmatch pressers and and any other press conference is sitting there and discussing lack of resources and what have you and displeasure just general displeasure about the situation and where things are going, it made sense for the two of them to break up.

And you know, it's not you, it's me. You know, I need to focus on me to become a better person, all those kinds of things. So that's where it just it gets to a point, it gets to it. So that's where we are. So go back and listen to our breakdown of everything Philadelphia. It's nine point thirty and we now have that that time where we catch up

with our friends from beyond goals entering. We get to talk about a couple of different things, including postseason playoffs for a particular mogul in training and find out what it's like to go on the road. We get to find out and see what happened in the opening round of the USL Championship and USL Championship playoffs. But before we do that, we have to run kind of special opens and things. So we're gonna run a special open and then welcome to somebody to the show.

So yeah, I felt pretty good going into the game and obviously had a great start to the game, and it was a little hairy of a finish as it always is, but it was it was really really awesome to be there and experience.

It's been fun to see the growth and the evolution of the draw Kings and knowing that you're going to be a difficult team to play because a lot of times it's going to be one point and you're gonna have to fight in scratching claw for that against Rhode Island FC, and you end up getting the duke and you're going up against the team that you beat the bricks off of. And I thought it was one of the turning points of the season where you guys just went in to lend Family and decided to remind him

that you weren't going to be a pushover. Earlier in the regular season.

on that. Where are most of your mentees these days when it comes to their own self identification.

big success in anything, really. And one of the things that I try and get across is you can be a little bit different on the field than you are in life and in the locker room, right, you can be and toe that line, maybe a little bit over on the side of cocky out on the field, and yet still be a you know, a great human being off the field and easy to talk to and get along with and all that stuff.

but a good arrogant. So yeah, it's it's definitely something that we talked to them about a lot, because I think some of them are too afraid of being confident and showing up people and and I get that, and that's a that's typically a good thing, but sometimes you have to have that killer instinct out in the field and really take ownership. And so sometimes that can help with.

mister badass extraordinaire. But then remember that once you go back after a match is over and you're out, you know, you're out in the parking lot or you're hanging out at dinner, that person.

lot of people. And that's a big challenge for younger professionals or you know, high level youth athletes where maybe they already are confident and do really well in that area, yet in the locker room or out in just life in general, they need to understand, like some people just don't care, right just because you're a great soccer player, you know, that doesn't mean anything when you're out and about in life doing other things, like you still have

a responsibility to be a good human being, and nobody cares that you can kick a soccer ball really well, or that you're a gifted sixteen year old or seventeen year old, whatever it is. It doesn't go that far. So that's that's tough though, because sometimes they get in this world of like, oh, I'm the man or I'm the woman, and I'm everybody bowed down to me because I'm so good, and yet you know, away from the soccer field, nobody cares.

kids their own age or maybe a year older. But if you then step into an arena where you're playing with players that are four years old or five years older than you, things change. And those guys don't care if you're on a full ride or you know you're coming from an MLS academy. They don't, right, They know that they probably aren't going to turn pro, but they

want to enjoy the heck out of their college career. So, yes, you're a teammate, but yes you're also a competition, and yeah, I'm going to show you your place because you're so much younger than me. And in a good way. That builds humility and you know, it builds like responsibility within players, and you could see it in a professional locker room. You could see the guys that went to college, even if it was for a year, so it was it's

part of the growth. And that's exactly how they have to view it when you do get a dose of reality that this is just part of growth and it's necessary and in the long run, good for you. But yes, in the short run, take it in and try and see it from their perspective. Use what you can from it. But yes, of course that doesn't change anything about how you are as a soccer player out in the field, so hopefully it doesn't. It doesn't hurt confidence, that's not

the purpose of it. It's more just growth as a player in person.

school soccer. So you got that in high school where all of a sudden, you're a ninth grader and you're playing with eighteen year olds who are at the time, you're thinking like, holy shoot, that guy's a man, right, Like these guys are big, they're strong, or I'm like, I'm like ninety five pounds and not mature at all yet physically, And yes, that was I got it in high school a little bit, but for sure you get it in college too, because yeah, I was recruited obviously

in expect I had expectations when I showed up at wake but at the same time, you could tell like these guys were like, you better rise up to those expectations like we're depending on you type thing in that situation, so I got a lot of support from the team. I also kind of fell into a good situation where a couple of players got kicked off the team for issues right before I arrived, and there were both defenders,

so I kind of worked in my favor. But so, but I definitely went through that in high school a little bit more than college.

these kinds of things. So, you know, I definitely can see the idea of Okay, I had that in high school. I can take that experience and apply it now that I'm having to go through it all over again from freshman and seniors in college.

that don't really love that type of player. But if that's what you need in order to play well, you don't want to lose that. So how do you play with it and yet still show respect for your teammates and especially the older players and find your way within the locker room or a new team.

little bit. But even in that sense, like as a center back, I didn't feel uber confident telling a twenty two year old what to do when I was eighteen, you know, as a college freshman, and even though I'm playing center back in the middle of a three and should be the guy that's, you know, organizing most of the team, like it was, it's a weird dynamic and it takes a lot of confidence to think like, okay, age doesn't matter here, it's it's I'm trying to help

the team win. But even in that regard, it took me a little bit of time.

look do this. No, it's like, look, do this and we'll all be fine. That's that's got it, that two way streak coming from the older player back to the younger player. That's got to be an adjustment too, you know for sure.

Like all that stuff, And that's why that's so important because that way when you get on the field and like, if a younger player is telling me what to do, if I know what's coming from a good place, that's helped the team win. And this guy's not just being an a hole and thinks he knows better than me or whatever. It is, right, because I know and I see on a daily basis what he's doing to prepare himself, that he takes the game seriously and all that stuff.

But if he's a last guy in the locker room, first guy out, barely does anything in the gym and all that stuff, and then you're gonna come on the field and tell me what to do. That's not gonna work.

how they show people who you are. Like I make these videos and I talk about these things all the time, Like you see, for example, Hector Herrera spit at the feet of a referee. You know, it's it's attitudes things, and you know, we see it at the highest highest level, So of course we're going to see it at the

youth level. But if that's a high school kid that does it in a game, any scout that's watching is a permanent X. A permanent X, there's no chance you get recruited, right, And so it's yes, these who you are and how you carry yourself and your actions and reactions and how you communicate with guys on the field. It's noticed. It is absolutely noticed, and it will overshadow anything you.

the two hundred and eighty character app, and he is at m F Parkers on the two hundred and eighty character app.

and this is not worth it. And so if we're saying that, there's no doubt about it that college coaches are saying it too. They don't want to deal with a parent that's going to helicopter, going to call every week, right, going to be on the sidelines, go nuts. It can affect your athlete's chances here and there, And I think that's important for them to understand because they have the best for their children, but sometimes they're unable to control themselves or see the bigger picture.

point considering what's at stake? I mean, how do you how do you balance those notions of pressure in a situation where it seems to be the pressure might have flipped to the favorite now because of what you've been able to do? How do you handle pressure in a situation like this where it's win.

know you're playing with house money. No one expected there to even be a game. Three MLS brass is probably over there pooping themselves thinking, holy smokes. The only reason why they're not actually is because it's Atlanta and at Atlanta goes through, like I guess they wouldn't have a home.

Let's shock the world here, and let's give a good performance. And if we lose, like hey, let's at least feel proud about like what we go out there and show. And so you're still going to feel pressure because you understand that you know you can do something crazy, and yeah, you don't want to lose and you don't want your season to be over. So there's going to be pressure.

But I think that in this situation, the the possibilities and the dream I think overshadow the the pressure and the nervousness come kick off where I think it's the opposite for Miami. I mean outside of the stars.

But I have this I have this thought pattern those younger players might be really tight, and you have those that have been there before and the ones that are really tight, and there doesn't there probably isn't some kind of an in between, and it's gonna make for an it makes for an interesting, uh staring contest for those younger players that you're going to be playing against.

way to play. So if I would land on land anytime I got a one on one, like, I'm just going after these guys because you know, just put them under pressure.

I don't know. It's a little iffy. And to do that, like that's a little bit of pressure, right, same thing with Dax, right, you don't want your career to end here. And so yeah, I'm happy for him. He's putting in some good performances.

it looks like Sergei Busquet is out again. Morning Harry and morning four Cards. So there we are this morning, and it's it's yeah in four Card. It's really cool. Four Card says he loves having Cap on the show

on Fridays. It's great to be able to pick Greg Garz's brain, in Michael Parkhurst's brain about how they're impacting folks through beyond goals mintoring and to be able to share their wisdom and apply it to not just mentoring student athletes and that kind of stuff, to the every day because these lessons also apply to all of us in our data day. So in a way, when they're not traveling the planet and bettering humanity as they do, it's a chance for us almost to get our own

mentoring session. And I've always thought that to be very very cool to be able to understand where talented professional athletes are coming from and how it can apply to us in the day to day.

that information and turn it toward others. So in a way, it's like I said, it's like our own mentoring session, and then we can take the information and spread it to others and we can continue to just you know, touch others with what Michael and Greg get to teach us on Fridays at nine thirty. So it's always cool to have the Friday free kick and see what's going on there. Okay, So yeah, Jordan good vibes on a five strip Friday with Parky and you know four card.

We've got juice boxes to look at. We've got the officials to look at in this weekend, and so what we'll do now we'll go over the assignments for the weekend, the match day three assignments courtesy of our friends at PRO and you can go to Pro Referees dot com and you can see them. But here's the rundown of who's doing what this weekend. For tonight LAFC and Vancouver at BEMO ten forty start. Joe Dickerson is the man in the middle, reserving comment. Jeremy Keiso is your AR one,

Kylie Smith your AR two. Your fourth is Armando via Real. Chris Penso is your VA R. T j Z A BLOCKI is your A v R. So you have Chris Penso at VAR. You have Joe Dickerson in the middle. Tonight in Los Angeles, reserving comment tomorrow the three matches tomorrow, FC Cincinnati and NYC four o'clocks of four ten at t q O. Drew Fishers is in the middle. Logan Brown and Michael Barwagon are your ars. Pierre Looke Loosier

is your fourth. Your VR is Kevin Stott, Tom Supple is your A v R. And what you're seeing in these situations with var and a v ar. As you're seeing these pairings consistent, and I think that that's just as important when you have the experienced referees that know how to to calm things down and read temperatures of rooms.

You have the pairings for your var and your av ar, they are consistent as well going forward, so you don't have a different avar with a var, so you know what the conversations are like, you know how someone might respond in a situation like that. And something that just kind of hit me the other day. Oh, they're having consistent lineups in the booths as well, and so it's not just one or the other.

' ten. Nick Yurannga, Jeffrey Greeson your ar. Sergey Boyco is your fourth. Ismael l Fath is your var. Jonathan Johnson is your avar. And I think that that is just as important in a VAR setting as it is a center ref setting, where you have someone with experience who knows how to read a room and those kinds

of things. To have an Ismael l Fath. As much as I enjoy having Ismail el Fath and Jayramrufo outside, I think it's just as important to have Ismael el Fath if you can't be outside and in the middle, have him in a VAR position where he knows what it's like to be in high pressure situations and things like that for an elimination game in an opening round of a playoffs. Here then for Messi and Friends in Atlanta United in Fort Lauderdale, the erector set Lucas Sapala

is in the middle. Corey Rockwell Andrew Bigelow. Corey Rockwell has been voted in the past year Ar the Year. Rockwell and Bigelow your ars. Tory Penso is your fourth. Jose Carlos Rivero is your VR, Mike camp Minor is your AVAR. So that's where they are in the booth. And you've got Lucas z Apala as your center F for this match day three. And let me double check Michelle Kaufman to see what she has to say, because Jordan with what you mentioned involving who is and who isn't.

So Michelle Kaufman, let's see if she has a break down the playoff series. Boosy and Bright status NIMA and so it looks like Boosy and Bright were the two that were not engaged earlier in the week when it came to practice and they were trying to There was one day where Bousy and Bright were not available in the opening visual session where the media could be on the field and they could see all of the early

rondos and things like that, Boosy and Bright were not around. So, uh, you're looking at Lepeers and I'm gonna like I'm scanning the article. So uh, with Michelle Kaufman's article quote, other Miami players have to step up. Last game, the team was missing Busketts due to illness. He's like an assistant coach on the field, making smart decisions directing others to

do the same. His leadership was missing. Busqutt's absence was even more noticeable in the second half after Yannick Bright, one of the team's most reliable, defensive minded midfielders, left the game with a hamstring injury. And this goes back to what we were talking about. Neither Buskets nor Bright was that the open media training session Wednesday morning, and their availability for Saturday's game is unknown whether they play or not. Teammates fowed to win at home move on

to the next round. Fredericka Rodondo quoted beautiful thing about soccers that it doesn't matter what happened in the past.

confident heading into the clinching game at home. Rodondo adds that the loss of Yanick Bright was a big one. Yanick is an extra quote. Janick is an extraordinary player who helps us so much defensively. He's a tireless worker on the ball, very disciplined. Having him on the field next to you makes you better. We would miss him

if he can't play this weekend. Heading into Saturday's game, Intermiami players motivated to live up to expectations, Redondo quoted minlest is a very unique league because any team can beat any other team. We're seeing that with Atlanta. They barely got into the playoffs while we came in as the top team. We've been the best all season, and they're making this series very complicated for us. I think that's a good thing about this league that any team

can pull off a surprise. So that's the questions are boosy and bright. Traditionally I would think that those to have a holiday that's boosy and bright. That seems like something that's more Christmasy than November the ninth. But we will all be down there. Maddie and I will be down there, Jason obviously, and Mike will be down there. Remember broadcast is on Star ninety four because the Hawks are on ninety two nine in the game, So the

Hawks are on ninety two nine. The game Atlanta United with Mike and Jason five Stripes Countdown starts at seven, kickoff at eight ten.

so be ready for all of that tonight. As we mentioned, it is LA and Vancouver, and you wonder which LAFC team is going to be there at BEMO Obviously it is a massive home field advantage for them at Bemo Field Remo Stadium, Bemo Stadium because BEMO Field is in is in Toronto, Ontario for Toronto FC and they are not in the playoffs, so at home this season, LAFC

at home eleven two and four. The only team that was better than them at home in the Western Conference lag At thirteen one and three at LAFC eleven two and four at BEMO this year away from home, they're fairly you know, they're fairly normal. They were eight six and three in the regular season away from home. And you're looking at a team in Vancouver that's riding in is an eight seed, and they're just like, yep, okay, we got them three nil at home, and you know,

we're we're cool. We're gonna go in there, We're gonna do our thing and we are going to make life trouble for LAFC. You remember Nico Moreno yesterday said that, uh, you know, Olivier Gerroux hadn't been all that since he's been there at LAFC. So, uh, it will be interesting to see what LAFC does. Obviously, you get that push, and we all know about that home field push and what it's gonna You know, you look at bu Wanga and Bogush and all of these weapons that they have

at LAFC. Hugo lures between the sticks, all of air, all of these weapons that they have and and they have been fantastic this season, sixty three goals scored. They were third in the Western Conference. Actually fourth in the Western Conference, so they were fourth, but not by much. And it was the two teams at sixty five with RSL and Portland, and then you had LAG at sixty nine goals. But LAFC at home tremendous in their eleven

two and four run. You look at the juice boxes in this one and no real surprise, you had the two. You have the two games on Saturday leading up to Atlanta United and Messian Friends, where the I think, I think the juwice boxers just got kind of a little lazy and oh no they changed things. Okay, so LAFC juice boxes minus won sixty seven LAFC to win ninety minute draws, A plus three thirty four. Vancouver went outright, so a plus four hundred in the composite three ninety nine.

That's courtesy of our friends at odds Portal and Odds Portal. What they do is they have, I have a list of fourteen different in this case, they have fourteen different juice box purveyors, and they take all the numbers Adam together come up with an average and that's where we are. So you end up with Vancouver in La. Vancouver basically is a plus four hundred. No real surprise that the

number is like that. You get Ryan White, you get to Bryan White from Ryan gauld and Armstrong and taka Oka who has been on he has been between the sticks. He has been hard to take advantage of at home, and so a team that was two games over five hundred on the road this year gets to go back home and try to take advantage of things Vancouver.

on the year. So how do they respond being on the road? Sorry I had that reverse. They were better at home, I mean they're better on the road. They were one game above five hundred on the road. This year, I had that flipped. So seven six and four on the road, six seven and four at home, so I had that flipped. They were better by one match, by one win on the road than they were at home. So we'll see what happens. But you know, Beny Sartini once again, uh, not afraid of anybody, and that one

eight is going to be tonight. That one to eight is tonight. Then the three matches tomorrow, Cincinnati and NYCFC. And in this one, you know, mentioning the juice boxes and how things are and how things might have been a little different. Initially, all week long, you could take the Cincinnati favorite number and the Orlando City favorite number and double it and you end up with inter Miami's number to minus two fifty six. That changed a little bit.

The margins grew to where it's minus one eighteen and one nineteen and inter Miami Messi and friends are now to minus two fifty six to win at home. We bring in Jared for our number two.

out of the damn animal. All this to say, they haven't put the tiger on the field in a.

stay on the field. We don't do that anymore. The governor said, I want a tiger on the field and LSU said no, So he went and ordered a tiger from out of state. It's a tiger named Omar from Florida. This is just going to end poorly for everybody. Also, the person who apparently this tiger has actually like gotten out before. The tiger has a record of escaping. They're just good, but they're gonna put the damn animal on

the sideline. And John, if they lose Alabama with a fake tiger on the sideadline, they might impeach the governor tomorrow morning. Oh my god, like that might be what happens Sunday morning. The governor doesn't have a job anymore, yeap, because he just decided to yolo it.

the the superstition and pageantry that is college football. If this goes poorly, LSU fans are going to shit a chicken because somebody will have brought it out of state tiger that isn't their own tiger into their stadium and they will have all of the questions known to mankind. The Mike the Tiger Twitter account has already started sub tweeting all of this, like, I love this sport for all of the wrong reasons. This is going to get

somehow dumber before it doesn't. And just to get there, we still have to again go through MLS playoffs for whatever reason.

to make. But when you sign these kinds of players and you're an LA Galaxy, an LAFC, an Inner Miami some other clubs in the league have done this before too, you have to have everybody on the same page and you have to figure out how the best to use that player. I think the Galaxy have figured out how to use Marco Royce very effectively. I think he was

on board with it. I don't know what the situation is with LAFC, but I think it's pretty clear that this team is best with Matteos Bogush up top, and they need to do that in an elimination game, and if they don't, they're giving Vancouver an opportunity to pull an upset. I think LAFC wins. I don't think it's pretty I think it's going to be a long night in general, because even in Game one, Vancouver made it

a kind of long night. The score line was a little flattering because the Vancouver goal came at the very very end. But LAFC should win this. They need to make the right choices in the lineup and if they do, they'll they'll win. If they don't, they open up the door to chaos.

Robin Johnson hasn't gotten younger, he didn't find the fountain of youth in Central Florida. Rodriguo Schlegel is a downgrade from Antonio Carlos and it's a team that you can get at, and Atlanta did with two goals early and it was enough. Charlotte's got to be more aggressive, and I think they've got to start Patrick Agumon and they've got to get him in behind, and it's it's doable, but you have to be brave, and I just don't

know if they will. If you're not, then you need Christian Kalina to stand on his head, which he has before. I mean, it can happen. You probably will need to get through in penalties, which you can and you have, you've done it before last game. But this is an Orlando team that you can beat even in their building. They're very good. They're very good attack wise, and you

have to respect that. But I think what we're seeing play out in these playoffs, and I think just the theory that I subscribe to you, when you have teams like Miami and Orlando that are tilted, they're much better offensively than they are defensively. The easy way to try to deal with that is to be defensive, to try to take away their attack, and then hope that a limited attack will beat their limited defense. I think the

best way is the opposite. I think you go at them, you break them, you score goals on them, and then you put the pressure on their offense, which is very good, and you can look. You can start aggressively and if it doesn't happen in fifteen twenty thirty minutes for you and it's going to be a slog, okay, then you can bunker down for the log and you can be defensive. But I think you have to try to exploit their weakness first rather than try to take away their strength.

That's the approach in my opinion. And I just don't know if Charlotte.

get through this NYC team. I just don't think NYC has really progressed over the past couple of years. I think Cincinnati's got enough on both sides of the ball, and they should get it done. I think they will. I think they'll advance. I think it'll be like a three to one kind of game. It's not going to be a blowout, but I think it will be a semi comfortable win for Cincinnati. All right, Jared, go for it.

half step behind Miami Columbus. Now Columbus, you have questions, do they keep Kucho or Nandez if they don't got to get that replacement right or you're not in that same tier. Miami's going to be a year older. Questions obviously about how that affects them, because you never know when father time reaches up and slaps you in the face. Atlanta's going to be better than they were this past year.

They're gonna have a better roster, and we know that for a minut You're going to have other teams in the East that are going to be aggressive and go out and try to make their roster better. So NYC has to do that, and if they don't, I don't think it really matters who the manager is. I think Cushing is a very good manager. I think he'll get the best he can out of what he has to work with. But he's got to have more to work

with to be a contender in the East in my opinion. Okay, since Jarrett went there, I'll go there and fill in the other holes. Yesterday, actually the news broke during the show for a change, Jim Curtin out in Philly, and then Bruce Arena the night before is going back into the coaching business in San Jose with multiple titles. What do you think about those two? Bruce Arena to San Jose. He'll make them better. I don't like the multiple titles thing.

I think even if you are that, in reality, I don't think it's a good look because it's two full time jobs and I think it's very hard to do it. And that's why maybe Sporting Kansas City has had some limitations with Peter Vers, he's surely being the only one to do that. I think Greg Burheld is going to

have these same issues in Chicago. You have to again, even if you are the ultimate decision maker, I think I would not want it to be put out there that I am the sporting director and the technical director alongside being the manager. Would I want somebody in that role that I vibe with and I can direct, absolutely, But don't put that on me. Like put that on somebody else and I'll tell them what to do behind

the scenes. Like that to me, you just set yourself up for lots of criticism on two different fronts as opposed to just one. But I think Arena will make them better. He is a very competent manager. He did very well in New England before the wheels fell off.

And look, we had the same conversation about Arena going to New England. You know, remember this was the exact same conversation about well, you know, why is he going to New England? They're not going to spend? Well, they did, and I don't think he would have went there if they didn't spend. Robert Kraft opening up the checkbook is very different than San Jose's ownership group opening up the checkbook because you can actually believe that it'll happen in

New England and it has. I don't see that happening to the same extent, even in the ballpark, at the same extent in San Jose. So will he make them better? Yeah. Can he get them into the playoffs? Absolutely? Do they need more talent to be a true contender? Yeah, And I don't think they go get it. And otherwise you're gonna ask your academy to develop it for you, and that's gonna take time. They have a good academy, They've developed talent. I just think they're gonna be better, but

not that great. And I think ultimately it's not gonna last for Arena. And the other question because we saw it in New England. You know, he took his core guys were there to go do that job. Well, one of his core guys in some way turned his back on him. And now who are his core guys. Who's gonna go to San Jose with him, Who's gonna to help him do all the things that need to get done. I don't know. I'll be really curious to see how that plays out. Jim Curtin and Philly. I was really

surprised about the way that it went down. I remember saying, this is not look I've I've been outspoken about not liking the style of play and not liking some of the comments and not liking some of the ways that the team has played not style of play, some of the more cynical aspects that we've seen from Philadelphia over the years. I don't take any of that back. That's how I feel. I do think that with Jim Curtin, he was never really treated fairly by the ownership group

and by the sports leadership at Philadelphia. You know, I remember being very critical of their decision when I think Ernest Tanner took over of just giving him a one year contract at that point basically a show and prove. He had shown and proved, and I thought that was really putting him through an exercise that wasn't fair, And in a way, I think it shows maybe what they thought of him all along, which again is not fair.

I think in terms of the amount of talent that he was given, he punched above his weight for a while. And we're never gonna know exactly how it went down behind the scenes about bringing guys back for another year when maybe it was time to move on, trusting the young players or not trusting the young players. We're never gonna truly know exactly how that played out. But in terms of the quality of the roster and in terms of the results, Jim Curton punched above his weight for

a long period of time. Some of that is down to the style. Some of that is down to a style that isn't really as reliant on star players. I'm surprised with what he did in very recent history. This year's really the first blip. I'm really surprised that they handled this the way that they did because I don't know if you're going to for what they're going to give their manager, I don't know if you're really going to get any better. So we'll see. It's another group

that kind of like San Jose. You can put whoever you want in the dugout and in charge of the team on the field, but if they don't have enough weapons to work with, the ceiling's low, and you know, I don't like to see it become an arms race of who's going to spend the most, But that's how you guarantee success the easiest way. Otherwise you're gonna have to be really creative. You're gonna have to be really savvy in how you manage things with honestly less talent

than the opposition you're going to be playing. So we'll see. With Philadelphia, I think he deserved better on the way out. I thought he would get the chance to walk before they would push him out, especially after essentially one year of a dip where that roster's old and probably needs to be overhauled. He's not going to be the one to do it. I don't know who is, all right, Jared, go for it, all right.

took him out. Yeah, if Busquets is unable to go, how do you piece together that midfield if you're Miami, so you do not get absolutely massacred on the counter, because, yeah, Miami's going to dominate the ball almost certainly, But there are moments in any game where you cannot dominate the ball for one hundred percent of it.

not really a liability. I think he's been very good for this team. And when you have a team that is so top heavy like Miami, you got to hit on guys like Janick Bright, whether it's from the draft or from the league or what have you, and they did well. He's going to be out, according to I can't remember which player talked about it. He's not gonna play. So how do you deal with that? I don't think there's an easy answer, because you know, we haven't seen

Julian Gresseol in this playoff series. You can't put him there and ask him to defend in that way. And Tota Martinez has played him as a central midfielder, but he's a liability defensively and we've seen that throughout his career. Who else can you put their David Ruiz is out, so that would be another player that you could have put there. He's not available. You're gonna have to put somebody there and ask them to do a job that they don't do. You know, can Benjamen Kramowski do that

job to an extent? He can run, he can do things, but he's not a six. He's not a defensive midfielder. Do you put a Noah Allen in there? You played no Allen as the central of three center backs in the last game, which was crazy to me. It worked, Okay, I don't think Atlanta exploited it enough. But can you move him up and bring another center back into the group. Maybe.

But this is where MLS rosters can bite you at various points where you have limited depth, and you're gonna have to make decisions on where that depth is limited when you construct a roster. Miami made a decision to have really three guys who can play the sill to varying degrees, and all of them might be unavailable. So how do you handle it? If you're Miami? I think you have to handle it by going out and trying to score ten goals. Yeah, I don't think you can

handle it in another way. So it's gonna be fascinating because that's generally not taught to Martino's moo in these games. When you get to the stage of the season and you get to these kinds of big games, he gets more conservative than usual. I don't think he's gonna have that luxury. And if he does, look, he's gonna have to find something in someone that we haven't really seen. And I don't think it's gonna get talked about. I think he's just gonna get glossed over and you know,

we'll be talking about it on the radio. Because if he plays David Martinez in that role, for example, does he have the characteristics to be able to be a six? Yeah, I think he does. He's never really played it. I'm sure there's some point where he played it for River or played it at Defensi Houstisia, but he's not a six. Can he be a six for a game for you

because you don't have another six. That's where you're down to the experience and the qualities of tota Martino and can he find that or is his option gonna be unorthodox for him and say well, we're just gonna get hit there and we're gonna concede goals, but we can score more goals than them at home with the offensive talent we have. I don't know what his answer is going to be without Janick Brighton, Sergio Busquez, and we.

I think that that ratchets things up also emotionally for Inner Miami, no matter how they line things up.

Tomas Abules, David Martinez have to handle this moment. And the thing about it when you really dig into how this game can flow. If Atlanta scores early, how does Miami respond? If Atlanta keeps Miami off the board for a period of time and at zero zero for a long way, how does Miami respond? How do the young players respond to the crowd getting antsy? How do the young players respond to that feeling of oh crap in the stands. I don't know. The veterans will handle it.

The veterans will be fine with it, but how do those young players handle that. I think it's more of that than you know, this idea of it's not Argentina in the World Cup in twenty twenty two or Copa America in twenty twenty one, where the young players did not want to let Lionel Messi down. That's different. You're talking about a cultural icon and one of the last opportunities that they're going to have to win something. This

is not that. I don't think Ben Jim and Kremowsky has that exact same feeling about Lionel Messi, he's going to be one of the closer one. Some of the other South Americans are going to have that to an extent, but it's not the same. This is more of the individual to me of how do you handle being a front running team but not being able to run out front? How does that get dealt with? And I don't know

what the answer is going to be. And these are the moments where you learn a lot about individual character. And we'll see. I think we've seen from Atlanta in these moments as of late that they have risen to the idea of being that underdog and that's what they've rallied around, and they have handled those moments very well.

Miami hasn't been in these moments very much as a group, and we'll see what happens with them without potentially Sergio Busquet's and Yonick Bright sounds like neither one train today. It's going to be a big ask for them to be able to go. If anybody can handle that, it's Boo gets because of his his history and his intelligence, but Kenny run because intelligence doesn't make those legs move any faster. How does Miami handle not having an ideal six.

I don't know, and Atlanta has to try to exploit that if that's.

like it was on Saturday night. In my opinion, then that opens the door, honestly for Messi and Suarez to do what they can do, but it opens the door for other Atlanta players to try to win their battles. And the opposite side is an interesting one because if if you go with the same group for Atlanta and you play Saba as a wing back, and it's Saba dealing with Jordi Alba up and down the field, Okay, the other side, you're not going to ask Pedro Amador

to exactly do the same things as Saba. You're gonna ask him to do a decent bit of them. And Marcela Wagan is not Jordi Alba. So can you exploit that side more in the run of play. I think so, and you're gonna have to be smart with it. Look in another issue here that is definitely flying under the radars Jay Fortune. He's banged up, he didn't train fully. Yesterday Rob Valentino talked about it and he took a knock and also a roll of the ankle in the game.

Rob said it was pretty surprising that he was able to do as much as he did for as long as he did in that match, and he had a huge play on Messi late at the top of the eighteen. That was vital in Atlanta getting the opportunity to go win it to be able to do the things that you want with Saba and Amador getting forward and exploiting Miami's want to get forward from their fullbacks, You've got to have central midfielders that can run in those moments.

You don't have another one like Jay Fortune on the bench, Tristan Milliam, Bob's not the same player. You're gonna then have to reconfigure your midfield a little bit. If it is Mulliam, bah McCarty and Sleish. Sleish can do it, but he's one person. He's already doing it on one side, So how do you handle that if you're Atlanta. It's a more subtle issue in the central midfield than not having a dedicated six or asking Ridondo or asking a

center back to play it. But it is going to have an impact, and it's going to potentially affect how much Amador and or Saba can get forward to make that fullback from Miami have to defend more. I think it's gonna you're probably gonna have to make the trade off a little bit more. You're gonna have to deal

with Alba more. I mean, look, if you're thinking about which weapon am I more afraid of, Jordi Alba over Marcella Wagan, So you're probably gonna have to have Sleish to that side of the field to help deal with that just in case. And that's what we've seen and I think that is fine. But then Amador's gonna have to adjust to Mullyambah not being able to cover as much ground as Jay Fortune and help as much and

maybe stay home a little bit more at times. So it's gonna be really interesting, like those little chess matches in this game are gonna determine it. And I think it's been a fascinating series so far and it's only gonna get more fascinating in Game three. What about other injuries. I know that Steaan was back at practice yesterday. Yeah, I don't know if he's good enough to start. I don't know. You obviously would love to have him back because I thought he has been really good down the

stretch once he got healthy and got consistent games. Derek Williams has been outstanding. I thought he had his best game for Atlanta in the Game two, and that's not just because he scored. He was really well organized, really good at leading the line and stepping out when he needed to step out and closing down that space at the top of the eighteen, I thought he was great. You're gonna need that from him, and Luisa Bram has been very good in the moments we've seen him against Miami.

You're gonna need that as well. I don't if if Stian can go, I think it's gonna be hard for him to go ninety. Do you want him to close it? Do you want him to start it? I don't know how deep he can go and do it. So that then potentially gives you the ability to change up your shape though, if you want to or change up how you organize it. Because with Saba as a wing back, because you've played Ronald Hernandez as a central as a center back, do you want Hernandez as a wing back

to try to defend Jordi album more? Maybe not be able to get forward as much, but does that give you the ability to go to more of a five two two one uh three four three three four two one, whatever you want to call it. Think of al Marim and what he's done with Sporting and what he's probably

gonna do with Manchester United. Do you want Saba and maranchuk as those two tens behind and tra which we would assume would start and in front of two central midfielders, or do you want three central midfielders and then have to sacrifice somebody or do you keep Hernandez in? Like again, see lots of questions. And that's the thing when you add gregorson back in, is it just straight up for a bram or does it give you the ability to move other pieces around? If it doesn't from the start,

it might at some point in the game. And that's what I kind of come back to you with this one is Game two. The way that it played out, you really didn't have to make a dramatic change in the shape until the very end, and you didn't really have a clear cut option when fortune had to come off. You went aggressive with Silva and it paid off. I don't think you start wide open aggressive here, but do

you have to turn to that at some point? And does it give you the ability getting Gregor's and back even with potentially losing fortune or having a limited fortune, does it give you the ability to get more of a three front or a one in front of two, which can expand to three depending on how you want it to look. Yeah, it does, but I don't know if you start that way. So to answer the questions about the lineups and the individuals, I don't know how

it starts. I think Rob Valentino has been really crafty and how he's put this team together in these games. I don't think there's a guarantee that it's different than the team started against Miami in Game two, but I do think you see more evolution of how the team finishes between the start and between the final whistle. All right, Jered, go for it. What else is on your mind?

off here? The longer this game stays scoreless or tied, you know, how do how does everybody deal with that and deal with the pressure of you know, if you're the home team, I don't you want this to go to penalties, especially with Brad Guzan deciding to I don't know, enter his avatar state in the last uh in the

last month or so. But the longer it goes, you know, how do you how do how do players deal with it, not just the young players, but even the veteran players, of that pressure of we got to get something, we got to get something.

I don't know how they handle that. I don't know how they handle backs against the wall, struggling to score goals. I don't know I will I don't know how that fan base will handle it. I don't know how the stadium will handle it. I don't know how it will feel in the building. You guys know what a feeling of that anticipation is in a building. You know it from your roles. I know it from my role. It's different in how it affects you on the field and does it make you try to do too much? Does

it make you scared? Does it make you too tentative? Does it in some For some players it makes them rise to the occasion. I don't know. With some of these guys, Messi, Suarez, Alba, They've risen to the occasion so many times in these situations and they very well could. And even if the young players around them struggle and fall apart, Messi's good enough to win this, Like that's just real talk. You have to try to take that

away from him. If you try to take Suarez away in albow way, and that's three guys you got to try to take away. But all them are capable of rising to that occasion. The question is going to be is the rest of the group capable? And even if they can't rise to the occasion, can they prevent making the mistake that ends up sending shockwaves to this league? Because look, it's a it's not a question about who the league office wants to win this game. And that

doesn't mean something's going to get tilted. That doesn't mean, there's going to be a bad call here and a bad call there. Those happen on their own, but everything is against Atlanta United and they know that thought. Brad Gazan's question about if there had been any punishment for Miami coming out late for the second half was very interesting because I think it gives you the mentality feeds

into the FBA attitude, doesn't it. That's something that Lanta United's gonna feed on when those moments happen in the game, and they will again it happens in a normal game in May, it's gonna happen in this game too. There's gonna be a bad call, There's going to be a call that you think is a bad call. There's gonna be something that drives you crazy for Atlanta that's going to fuel them. I think, I really do so. I'm not worried about the effects of those sorts of moments.

I am worried on the Miami side of how that back line defends when their offense isn't getting goals, and I don't think they handle it well. But Atlanta then has to topple them over and they have to find a way to be attacking enough and in the right spots to punish Miami. If Miami comes out with the same group and No Allen's at center back, Atlanta has to find a way to get Crosses into Jamal Tira matched up with no Allen and if then things move around. I like No Allen as a player, He's just not

a center back. If Miami's able to adjust and get Martinez or Aviles matched up on tra in those moments, then Atlanta has to find the cut back to the top of the eighteen, and it's gotta be Moranchuk coming back across or one of the other central midfielders making a run in. It very well could be a Tristan Milliam Bah who I think finds those space as well. You've got to exploit that. That is where Atlanta can beat Miami. The flip side. You know how Miami can

beat Atlanta. It's talent. It's sheer talent with that attacking group. It's finding that space at the top of the eighteen. Atlanta has to be so dedicated to taking that away, making Messi go wider to try to find opportunities, making Suarez drift away from the middle to go try to find opportunities, try to prevent Jordi Alba from killing you and make it be one of the other seven guys on the field. Try to take those three away as best as you can. A lot of teams have tried it,

very few have done it over three games. We'll see if Atlanta can do that. But in my opinion, the other way is what we'll decide it. For Atlanta. They score, it's gonna be hard for Miami to handle that. If Atlanta can hold on for a long time. But if Atlanta gets a goal, I think Miami's going to struggle to handle that. Atlanta's gotta find ways to attack, not all the time, not with abandon but in very intelligent ways and punish this weak defensive group for Miami, and

we'll see if they can do it. Broadcast plans one more time partner seven o'clock for the five Strips Countdown eight ten. Allegedly, if Miami shows up on time for the kickoff in Fort Lauderdale at Chase Stadium, we will be on Star ninety four on your radio, ninety four point one FM on the Odyssey app. Type in start ninety four not hard to find. You won't be able to listen to us on Apple. You'll have to sync

that up. Not too hard, you can handle that. Make sure you're following Soccer down here on all of your platforms, because we're going to have a ton of content. Barring some late changes of things, we are sending the most media to Fort Lauderdale to cover Atlanta United, maybe some of the most media in terms of sheer numbers to cover any Atlanta United postseason match in the club's history. It doesn't happen without you guys consuming the content. It

doesn't happen without all of us being borderline insane. It doesn't happen without the support that we have gotten from you guys, from people like Kaiser Permanente, from Scott Flood, you know, finding those partnerships for us. It doesn't happen without the dedication of the people that are doing all this. So there's going to be a lot of content starting in the middle of the afternoon from Fort Lauderdale, all over your Soccer down Here platforms. So hopefully you enjoy it.

Hopefully you are with it in spirit if you're not in Fort Lauderdale, and it is an epic kind of night in the history of this club. So I hope that all of you enjoy it wherever you.

There's fifty one games in the state, about twenty five percent of the schedule, and this is all of the Hurricane Helene pushback that was postponed and eradicated bye weeks and things like that, and so yeah, so I've got to go there before I go to Bannaker, before I hop on a plane tomorrow and we all head down to Fort Lauderdale to get you ready for match Day three involving Atlanta United and Messian Friends at the Erector set.

So we have we mentioned MLS bet Noods, FC, Cincinnati's and minus one eighteen Purple Teams of minus one nineteen, and they've upgraded Messian Friends to minus two fifty six at Landy United by the way to win in ninety minutes a plus five nine zero.

on on Sunday. Charleston's minus one thirty two Tampa Bay on the road is a plus two eighty five. So you've got uh, you've got that there. USO League One. They're down to the final four, Union Omaha and Greenville on the left hand side, Union Omaha minus one eighteen. Greenville's a plus two sixty seven. Spoke Can the seventh seed that got the upset in the opening round knockt off Northern Colorado at four rivers Spokane on the road at Ford Madison is a plus four to twenty five.

Ford Madison is a minus one seventy nine. Ninety Minute Draw is a plus two to ninety two. The MLS Next Pro Cup And if you missed the interview with Matt Denny the GM at North Texas SC that is on the network, North Texas favored. It's at Toyota. It is not at Chalktaw. If you go to Chalktaw you'll be the only person there. It's at Toyota, North Texas s C A plus one to eight. Hosting Philadelphia Union two, who is at a plus two twelve.

for the last month. And it's a club who for most of their history has gone in as kind of the favorites and the darlings. And now they've they've had the shoe put on the other foot and they've embraced it. I don't know how long that lasts. Like going into next year, that roster, by all accounts, should be turned over with more talent and be a favorite. So with you becoming a favorite next year, this might be your

last chance to be able to play this card. But you still got to play not completely reckless, but you know, loose and kind of care free about it. Of you know, we this is on you to lose, Miami, like we're going to try and take it. You got to Atlanta gets to go try and win this game. Miami gets

to go try and not lose it. It It kind of has that feel of what could have happened in the World Series if the Yankees knew how to field a fly ball or a ground ball or And I'm still not mad at Anthony Rizzo as much as I am as much as I am Garrett Cole for not covering first base. Everybody mad at everybody who was strictly mad at Anthony Rizzo never had to do pitching fielding practice.

And it shows so much because if you had, you'd know the pitcher sprinting to the line like that he needed to get his ass up the line to cover the bag and at least make himself an option. But what you could have had is a situation where you go back to LA and you put all the pressure on that, where it becomes a LA has to just try not to lose. Well, right now, it feels like Miami has to try not to lose this series.

Everybody will see you from Fort Lauderdale. It's uh, it is that day of the week, so we got to go this way, see you later and maybe if I, oh, I don't know, that's great. You know, you sit there and you tease up everything and you forget to move the volume up. Good job by me. Way to go, Nelson, all these teases and you screw that damn thing up. So let's try that again. Let's see if it recycled itself. I doubt that it did, but once again, we'll see

it from Fort Lauderdale. We'll see you here on the cheese.