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Speaker 1: Our conversation is going to go here.

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Speaker 2: FC Cincinnati is getting set for the conference semifinal on

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Speaker 2: Sunday of five o'clock kick at TQL Stadium.

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Speaker 1: The great Taylor twelveman on the call.

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Speaker 2: For MLS s'son Pass on Apple TV and always kind

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Speaker 2: enough to join his tailor.

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Speaker 1: It's good to have you. How are you good? How

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Speaker 1: are you Bud doing well?

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Speaker 2: What was your biggest takeaway from FC Cincinnati's Round one

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Speaker 2: win over Columbus?

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Speaker 3: Uh? Nothing that they won with I guess my biggest

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Speaker 3: takeaway for instead of me Ramblin would be they won

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Speaker 3: without a Vander playing at its best. I think, Evander,

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Speaker 3: it's not for Lionel Messi. You can make an argument

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Speaker 3: he's been the best player in MLS over the last

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Speaker 3: two seasons, and so, uh, Cincinnati won without him being great,

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Speaker 3: and that I think says a lot. You know, they

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Speaker 3: they win games by one goal. You guys know this

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Speaker 3: better than anyone watching Pad Newton and its Cincinnati teams. Actually,

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Speaker 3: over the last three years, seventy four percent of their

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Speaker 3: wins are by you know, one goal. So they're completely

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Speaker 3: competent enough to take a lead and survive it. But

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Speaker 3: I think my biggest takeaway is the fact that they

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Speaker 3: won without Evander being great.

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Speaker 1: Can they win on Sunday without Avander being great?

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Speaker 3: No? But I don't think that's the most important thing.

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Speaker 3: And I know that's a weird answer. Evander's got to

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Speaker 3: be really, really good, and I think he's got to

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Speaker 3: be better than what he was against Columbus to beat Miami.

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Speaker 3: But I actually don't think it's one A. I think

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Speaker 3: it's one B for lack of a better way to

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Speaker 3: put it, But Evander's got to be better than what

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Speaker 3: he was against Columbus. I don't think that's that strong

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Speaker 3: of an opinion.

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Speaker 2: All Right, what's at the top of Pat Newtan's list

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Speaker 2: when he starts to figure out what his tactics are

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Speaker 2: going to be for Miami.

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Speaker 3: It's an interesting question because I just listen, Miami's played

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Speaker 3: more games in a calendar year than any team in

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Speaker 3: MLS history. They've only been helped scoreless five times. Two

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Speaker 3: of those games are against Cincinnati. Can you really keep

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Speaker 3: a clean sheet against them again the third time? I

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Speaker 3: just that one to me feels like that's a long shot.

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Speaker 3: If they keep a clean sheet, Cincinnati wins, And I

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Speaker 3: just that's why I say, Evander doesn't have to be

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Speaker 3: great if they keep a clean sheet. If you keep

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Speaker 3: Messy in Miami scoreless again, then someone's going to get

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Speaker 3: a goal for Cincinnati. Just the way Miami plays. Miami

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Speaker 3: more than likely is going to start Luis Suarez, and

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Speaker 3: when he starts, keeping clean sheets is very difficult because

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Speaker 3: you've got Suarez, you've got Messy, and you've got Biscuits.

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Speaker 3: You've got three guys that are older, so their defensive

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Speaker 3: posture isn't going to be what was in the third

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Speaker 3: game against Nashville. So Pat Noonon and his staff are

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Speaker 3: looking at it saying, yeah, how do we keep it

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Speaker 3: clean sheet? I think you, I think you're playing with

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Speaker 3: fire if you go into the game at home, with

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Speaker 3: that environment, which is going to be second to none,

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Speaker 3: and try to sit in and try to be so

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Speaker 3: pragmatic defensively. I think if they come out the way

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Speaker 3: they did against Columbus in the first leg, the first game,

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Speaker 3: so to speak, and be on the front foot and

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Speaker 3: try to get after Miami and be very aggressive, I

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Speaker 3: think that shuits Cincinnati more than trying to come in

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Speaker 3: and saying, listen, if we keep them off the board, great,

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Speaker 3: but we're going to sacrifice us being a little aggressive.

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Speaker 3: Miami's too good to just sit in and try to

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Speaker 3: defend for eighty minutes.

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Speaker 2: I've asked this on a number of occasions as the

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Speaker 2: season is unfolded, and I'll do it now that we

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Speaker 2: have four teams remaining. I got like a minute left obviously, FC,

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati and Miami.

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Speaker 1: The Eastern Conference as a whole, break it down for me.

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Speaker 3: The Eastern Conference as a whole. I said it in

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Speaker 3: July and it remains the same. I think the Eastern

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Speaker 3: Conference champion has to go through Ohio. Now. I said

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Speaker 3: that with Columbus on the verge of signing, you know,

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Speaker 3: a record signing designated player. He ended up being injured

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Speaker 3: for the series against Cincinnati, so it still remains the same.

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Speaker 3: I think the winner of Cincinnati in Miami, I think

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Speaker 3: the winner of that is going to be an MLS Cup.

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Speaker 3: I've felt that all season long. I feel that now

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Speaker 3: Philadelphia's style, for lack of a better way to put this,

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Speaker 3: is great over thirty four games, but they can be

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Speaker 3: caught in a one off game. I think the winner

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Speaker 3: of the Eastern Conference is gonna come from the winner

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Speaker 3: of Cincinnati Miami on Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: Sunday is gonna be awesome. The atmosphere should be incredible.

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Speaker 2: The game itself, I hope, is terrific. And I hope

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Speaker 2: we're talking next week because then it means I have

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Speaker 2: you to talk about the Eastern Conference Final, Taylor, Thanks

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Speaker 2: so much

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Speaker 3: For having me, but