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Speaker 1: Now thirteen minutes to stop a shot. There it is

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Speaker 1: de Gray seven. Next, we're a disasterrous second hag here

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Speaker 1: Basing Seattle, and then go in the ninety with Bennett

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Speaker 1: plus nine sends t Grays on to the quarterfinals and

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Speaker 1: for a third straight year, Champions Cup tens.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Masseray the call from Tommy g last night down

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Speaker 2: the Dial on ESPN fifteen thirty. FC Cincinnati falling five

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Speaker 2: to one in the second leg of the Conkakaff Champions

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Speaker 2: Cup Round of sixteen in Monterey eliminates the Origin Blue

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Speaker 2: from the two match series on aggregate score. They've been

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Speaker 2: outscored eleven to two. This week. For more on that

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Speaker 2: and what is unfolding with the Origin Blue, let's welcome

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Speaker 2: in from Queens City Press Laurel Faylor. Laurel, how are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing okay? Last night it was a long night,

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Speaker 3: but I think I've recovered. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if the fan base, as we'll get

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Speaker 2: into that in a second, explained for maybe the fringe

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Speaker 2: fan who's listening right now, it wasn't as much losing

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Speaker 2: five to one. It was the fifth goal. Explain why

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Speaker 2: that was the gut punch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So in the first leg, f you, since I

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Speaker 3: actually looked really strong. They came out and beat t

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Speaker 3: in the series. So aggregate scoring, you're you're adding up

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Speaker 3: the scores, you know, from both games, and the difference

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Speaker 3: if once it got to once it was four nothing FC,

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Speaker 3: since I just needed to score one goal to have

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Speaker 3: so that one goal was going to make the difference.

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Speaker 3: They were going to advance until that breakdown in the

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Speaker 3: it is tough winning game for MS teams. It's been

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Speaker 3: So no, I don't think anyone would have faulted them

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Speaker 3: just the way it happened. You know, they were on

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Speaker 2: Outscored eleven to two this week, there's growing fan unrest.

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Speaker 2: You asked the question to Pat noon and after the match.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to the Q and A. The

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Speaker 4: Hi, just just given how the league games have gone

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Speaker 4: are you concerned you've lost the fan base? What would

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Speaker 4: you know, what more you could do with this team?

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Speaker 5: Have I lost the fan base? I don't expect anybody

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Speaker 5: on performances. So whether that's accurate or not, you know,

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Speaker 5: my focus is to try to get the team playing better,

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Speaker 5: and that's not the case right now. So certainly they're

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Speaker 2: Laurel. If we go back a month or so, did

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Speaker 3: I would say you've got to look back to last

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Speaker 3: it was there were signs last year. They won a

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Speaker 3: But then they go and in MLS, you've basically it's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and this will be a loaded question, but does

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Speaker 3: Right now, it seems like it's all of that. I mean,

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Speaker 3: But then yeah, just the personnel. They did lose two

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Speaker 3: And then just right now, I think the big concern

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Speaker 3: and you just have to wonder what is going on.

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Speaker 2: Tell everybody about Queen City Press, your coverage and how

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Speaker 3: So yeah, check it out.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on all you're getting done, and it really means

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Speaker 2: a lot. I know you have plans tonight and you

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Speaker 2: were able to squeeze me and I very much appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for the insight and have a great weekend,

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Speaker 2: no problem.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. Lance