WEBVTT - Caught In The Current with Chris Long 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:03.120 Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're making 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.760 snow Angels in the confetti with the NWSL champion Orlando Pride. 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:10.760 It's Monday, November twenty fifth, and on today's show you'll 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.520 hear our interview with Kansas City current owner Chris Long, 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.040 who joined us for a fun live show Saturday morning 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.760 in Kansas City, plus producer Misha and I recap all 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:22.319 the fun of NWSL Championship weekend, two giant upsets in 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.440 the City of Angels and a dynasty unseated. It's all 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:38.480 coming up right after this. Welcome back Orange Slaic says, 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:43.920 here's what you need to know today in NWSL news, 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:47.400 It's all over. The Orlando Pride defeated the Washington Spirit 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:51.200 one nil in Saturday's NWSL Championship game behind a goal 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:55.000 from superstar striker Barbara Banda in the thirty seventh minute. 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.400 With the win, the Pride became the first team since 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:00.360 twenty nineteen and just the third all time to win 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.720 both the NWSL Shield for the best regular season record 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.040 and the NWSL title as well. Band of the game's 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.240 MVP had four playoff goals. That's a new single postseason 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:13.800 NWSL record. It was also the first NWSL title win 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.680 for six time World Player of the Year Marta, who's 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.959 been with the Pride since twenty seventeen. Lots more on 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.080 that game later in the show. In other soccer news, 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.360 Indiana feverstar Caitlin Clark is part of the ownership group 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.920 trying to bring an NWSL expansion team to Cincinnati. The 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.320 ownership group of MLS team FC Cincinnati is leading the bid, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:37.280 competing with groups from Cleveland, Denver, Nashville, and Philadelphia. The 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.160 city chosen for the league's next expansion team is expected 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.160 to be announced before the end of the year. The 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.160 team would begin playing twenty twenty six, joining Boston to 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:48.880 bring the league to sixteen teams. College hoops News All 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.560 eyes were on Los Angeles this weekend, the site of 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:56.080 two Marquee matchups that ended up being two big upsets. 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.120 On Saturday, Number six Notre Dame took out Number three 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.800 USC seven sixty one, handing the Trojans their first loss 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.640 of the season. Hanna Hidalgo and Olivia Miles combined to 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.760 score or assist on sixty three of Notre Dame's points, 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.320 becoming the second pair of teammates in the last twenty 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.880 five years and the first since two thousand and seven 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.120 to each have twenty points, five rebounds and five assists 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:21.040 against an AP Top ten opponent. Then, on Sunday, top 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.359 rank South Carolina and Don Staley put their forty three 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.119 game win streak on the line against number five UCLA 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.959 at Pauley Pavilion, and the Game Cocks watched it fall. 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:35.680 UCLA emerged victorious seventy seven sixty two, beating the defending 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.840 champs and earning the team's first ever win over a 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.640 top ranked opponent. Balanced attack from the Bruins. Senator Lauren 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.959 Betts had eleven points and fourteen rebounds, Guard London Jones 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.320 had fifteen points on five three pointers, and guard Elina 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.960 Arnossalo had thirteen points, four assists, and three rebounds. This 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:57.000 game was completely UCLA's start to finish. They never trailed 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.560 and enjoyed a twenty plus point lead in the fourth. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.840 In fact, the home crowd was channing overrated at the 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.360 Game Cocks in the final minute. Looks like we'll be 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:09.520 getting a new number one in women's college basketball. Finally, 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.200 college field hockey a massive upset in the national tournament 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.720 as number four Saint Joseph's took down undefeated number one 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.000 North Carolina and friend of the Show Aaron Mattson in 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.160 the semi finals on Friday. Carolina's bid for a national 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.120 title three peat ended, while the Hawks earned a spot 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.200 in the finals for the first time in program history. Meantime, 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.400 Northwestern defeated Massachusetts in the other semi to make it 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.440 to the title game, and it was the Northwestern Wildcats 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.119 who defeated Saint Joseph's five nothing to win it all. 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.560 It's the second title for Northwestern, who have played for 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:44.040 the Field Hockey Championship in four straight seasons, last winning 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:48.680 it in twenty twenty one. All right, slices, We're still 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.680 recovering from an epic weekend in Kansas City for the 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:56.880 NWSL championship game. I left Spain, went straight to Kansas 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.920 City and met up with Mesh where we hit the parties, 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:04.600 hit the game, meche ate all the barbecue, and we 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.080 really got a sense for how much the Kansas City 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:10.280 current are ingrained in this city, how much they've been embraced. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.320 It would have been a real blast to see the 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.960 current in this game, the way that those fans rally 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.480 around that team, but ultimately watching mart to win her 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.760 first title with the Pride and getting Meche even though 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.360 they lost. To watch their favorite team in the spirit 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.360 was a pretty good time as well, so meiche Let's 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.000 recap some of the best parts of the weekend. We'll 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:29.760 get to the game at the end, but first a 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.120 couple of things we got to experience before the game 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.320 even happened that were pretty cool. One was the skills competition, 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:37.840 which ended up airing on TV on a delay, so 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.240 we got to see live what I can only describe 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.960 as a chaotically enjoyable mess. Is that accurate to you? 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.760 I think that that's exactly what the script road use. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.920 It was at the Kansas City Current Facility, their practice facility, 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.400 which is a beautiful space. The sunset was gorgeous. It 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.440 looked like they had paid for it to be that 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:02.240 red color in the Kansas City Current logos and Sam 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:07.880 Ewis was hosting Big Golden Retriever Energy hilariously unsure of 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.680 what was going on almost the entire time because the 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.200 scoreboard broke, so she's trying to keep track of the 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.960 scores of the one v ones of the players versus 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:19.040 the keepers. Then this insane game called the Gauntlet and 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.800 then you know, the attempts to hit the crossbar. It 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.800 was a mess, but in the best possible way. And 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.800 I have to admit we've been running around. I haven't 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.479 gotten to watch the TV broadcast. I dvr'd it, but 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.680 I'm curious how they pulled it all together. There were 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.880 a lot of redos. There was a lot of like 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.960 not knowing what was happening. There were calls for var 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:40.360 during his skills competition because multiple times the Black team 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.440 thought they won and Sam was like, not yet, I 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:43.600 don't think you won yet. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:48.919 Craziness, yeah, chaos, very much, chaos, very much cold. I 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.000 was getting clown the entire time because Mary. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.320 Candy was apparently, so I'll. 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:57.360 Take Candy as that's why you were getting clowned. 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.159 I thought I was gonna die. 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:04.119 I was wearing zero jacket, zero hat, zero gloves, totally fine, 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.520 cold drink in my hand, and me, she's your Chicago 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.479 down me she's huddling by a heater. But saw so 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:14.200 many people there was really fun and just really fun. 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.440 You'll hear in our interview later on this week that 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.960 we sat down with Angels City Center back Sarah Gordon 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.440 and we were trying to hype her up, Mesh and 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:26.440 I to pull Rachel Kudnanji and stand on the ball 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.200 in her one v one because she was bemoaning the 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:29.680 idea of having to do a one v one as 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:30.960 a center back. She's like, what the hell am I 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:32.640 supposed to be doing up there? And we're like, oh 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.599 my god, pull a Kundananji stand on the ball, like 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.159 pull the goalie towards you. And she's like, I'm totally 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.200 doing I'm totally doing it. If I don't do it, 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.080 it's because I chickened out. We're like, oh, well, no, 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.240 well no, it's because you chickened out. And she did. 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.320 Yeah, that's fully what happened. Not even once it has 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.080 seemed halfway like she did do it. But that's fine, 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.720 that's okay. It's easy to say as a spectator you 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.200 should do something, and harder to do. 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:56.960 It was a good time, though, and I loved it. 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:58.920 When the winning team was getting their checks, I could 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:03.000 hear Sam Muis yell off Mike barbecues on you, So 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.720 hopefully Sam got that free free barbecue from the winners. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:08.760 Later on that night, we had a great dinner with 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.000 some friends. Lots of laughs, too many laughs, and then 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.080 ended up at the Just Women's Sports party, which went off. 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:16.080 Yeah. 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.600 Not only was there a slide in the party that 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.760 Misha and I both took upon making our exit, but 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:28.440 so many players, so many greats of old Melissa Ethernche. 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.239 We got to meet Grant Hill, we got to meet 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.360 Misha was much more excited to meet Grant Hill's wife, Tama. 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.600 Okay, first of all, let's set the record straight, because 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:38.680 I don't want him to hear this. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:40.560 And be like, uh oh, okay, I do want him 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:41.240 to hear this. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:42.480 It was about both of them. 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.520 I just to Mia has a dance right now to 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.280 a song that I'm trying to learn, and I was 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:48.040 gonna try to. 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:49.720 Coercior and to teach you how to do it. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.080 But by the time the night was over we actually 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.560 got to talk to her. I was in no place 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:55.840 to be trying to learn how to do a dance. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.679 I wish you told me that, because that's like, that's 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:02.400 like the best possible TikTok would be to learn the 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.600 dance from the person who has the dance. Like that 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.480 would have been epic. Shit meishe Why didn't you tell me? 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:06.600 That? 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.320 Was the plan I was trying. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.000 I tried to get you to listen to the song 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.000 It's too loud, listen too loud. 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.360 It was just I told you my plan, which was 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.600 take a photo with Grant Hill and try not to 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.480 tell him I've had sexual thoughts about him for like 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.239 multiple decades. And I accomplished my plan. 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:25.080 You just had to stay fifty feet away at all 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:25.280 the time. 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:26.880 No. I took a photo and I touched him, but 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.440 I managed not to tell him that he still got 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.200 it and always will. 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:32.800 God is Brad listening? 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.520 Brad's always listening, Hi, Brad. Brad would admit Grant Hill 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.400 still got it. So that was really fun. That was 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.160 That was. It was a really fun party. It was 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:42.240 a really cool vibe. 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.080 Oh and we have to mention all of the freaking 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.520 US Women's National Team Team Canada NWUSL grades who just 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:52.160 ended up on the dance floor absolutely sweating their butts off. 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:57.240 I was so happy to see Desi Scott. Yeah, life 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:58.320 of the party, Yeah. 0:08:58.200 --> 0:08:59.560 Moves all of it. That. 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.160 There was folks over there, yeah, the destroyer. So many 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:04.280 folks were over there having. 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:04.600 A great time. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:06.880 Well, I mean, only because you bring that up, I 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.000 have to mention that mische was in her introvert mode, 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.439 being all like, oh, I'm just a little tired. I 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.240 don't know, you know, if my wife was here, things 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:16.880 might be different. But I'm tired. I don't know if 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:18.360 I'm gonna stay. And I'm like, how do you know 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.920 your wife's not here? Look around there's like eight thousand 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.560 hot gay women here and they were like, oh, it's 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.240 not my type. I'm like, what do you mean? There's 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.480 literally every type in here. And then I went away 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.840 to talk to some people, came back like fifteen minutes later, 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.880 and Misha's on the dance were like this, why isn't 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.520 everyone dancing? Why is everyone being some lamp get out here? 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.120 And I'm like, okay, we flipped the switch. Now Mish 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.719 must have found some contenders for WiFi. And now we 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.600 flipped the switch and Misha's in extrovert mode. 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:43.520 Don't do me. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:47.600 What happened was when we first cross Paths, I was 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.440 half a glass of red wine in by the time 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:52.280 we crossed Paths. 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:53.000 The second time. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:55.520 You need liquid courage, is what you're saying. 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.000 Yes, I was in the last throws of my second glass, 0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:59.439 which they were poured them heavy. 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:00.880 And you did tell me that you're a lightweight, so 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.280 you only need I guess two. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.320 Glasses exactly, exactly. 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.640 All right, Well, I'm not gonna say anything except she 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.240 got a number. I'm gonna leave it at that. Oh, 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:15.640 I'm gonna leave it some digits, Okay. So the next 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.880 morning we get up and we've got our live show 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.280 at Westport Cafe, which was the blast. Lots of sponsors 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.320 and brands there and uh some great interviews and just 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.240 some some you know, great time to hang out with. 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.560 iHeart folks and I heart women's sports folks and really 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.040 get the show in fun of some people. We went 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.200 from there to an Auto Straddle party and now let 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.520 them not super familiar with, but a bunch of my 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.400 friends are fans of their content, a lot of queer 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.640 based content. So the party was for queers and allies, 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.959 so I was. I managed to slide in there, and 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:48.160 man if there wasn't a beer pong game going on 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:52.400 that Mesh and I instantly inserted ourselves into mishad first 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.839 DIBs and if you want to see someone who used 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.720 to be a college hooper, start out slow, then get 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.080 into her flow and then start screaming after hitting the 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.079 winning shot like it was the national damn championship. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.240 Because you know why I was screamy because who was. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:13.000 In the room, Sue and Pino. 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.280 I had to lock in my partner, Aaron shout out 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:17.920 to Erin, if you're listening to this, thank you for 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:18.800 being so clutch. 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:21.760 Aaron and I had to lock in a second. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.200 I was like, I'm never gonna get another opportunity to 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.000 do this very specific thing. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.280 I gotta show out in front of the legends. I mean, 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.280 at one point things got real slow as soon as 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.200 they came in, and I'm like, everyone got real tight. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.120 Everyone was like we're in front of the Hall of 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.800 Famers and couldn't hit a damn cup and then. 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:39.600 Mesh for the win. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:46.840 And then hilariously, this very high profile financial investor Capital 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:52.439 Group head comes in adorably and it's like, oh my god, 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:56.040 I've always wanted to play this. It's just like the movies. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.040 And we're like, what, you've never played beer pong? Oh 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.160 I've only seen it on television. And I'm like, all right, 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.040 I'm gonna be your first. So she and I were teammates. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.040 We did our best. Meche did beat us, but the 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:13.120 rules were unclear and tamates in her virgin efforts. So 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.120 I don't consider it an actual loss. It was more 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.880 like a preseason game. And Misha and I will meet again. 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.880 It is what loser's says. It is what loser's saying, 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:25.000 we'll meet again on more even ground. But the auto 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.920 Straddle party was a blast, just a really cool scene. 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.760 And what was great about it too, was like Sue 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.680 Bird on command walks in the room and immediately finds 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:38.360 her remote and puts on the USC basketball game versus 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.800 Notre Dame. And I was like, this is the kind 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:42.520 of party we're at and this is how it should be. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:44.720 And I love also that she didn't waste a second, 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.240 hadn't even gotten a drink it and she was like, 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.280 hold up, let me make sure this party's got things right. 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.840 And when we were in can France over the summer, 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.360 same exact thing we had after ours at our house 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.800 and she immediately used like a full on hookup in 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.000 another country to try to set up so that we 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.960 could watch some soccer women's soccer games. So shout out 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:03.240 to sup Virtues always. 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.640 When I met you at that hotel before we went 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.880 up to the party, I'm watching the game on my phone. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.280 You have to be locked in for a game like that. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.319 You gotta be, you gotta. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:14.560 So that was a good time. We went straight from 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.800 that to the game. And first of all, we had 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.960 not been to the Casey Current Stadium. Obviously we have 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.480 heard so much about it. But what a scene right 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.439 on the river, some really cool details. I hadn't been 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.200 there to see that. They dedicated the press room to 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.960 Grant Wall, who, of course such a voice, such a 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.040 presence for women's soccer for such a long time, and 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.320 his really untimely and tragic death sat with all of 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.480 us so much, and to be reminded of his presence 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:45.640 and to be somewhere that was dedicated to women's soccer 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.080 and a place there has been so much investment and 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:53.520 care to presenting the sport and respecting the sport, it 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:57.240 just made sense to name that after Grant. Also some clever, 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.360 clever moments from the was in charge of the press there. 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.520 Jenna Toanelly, who is a friend of the show, has 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:08.679 oft requested iced coffee on her social media handles. Oh, 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.640 there should always be coffee at every game, and I 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.720 would prefer it to be iced. So they had a 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:17.440 dedicated Jenna Toanelly iced coffee station for that game. We 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.400 love to see We love to see some pr teams 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.920 with a little bit of a wink and you know, 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.480 having a little fun with the media. The game itself 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.680 mesh not that great. 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.840 Yeah, I wanted Sarah thinks I'm insane for this, but 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.160 I didn't think it was too crazy. I wanted at 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.520 least five goals between the two teams. I wanted a 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.160 three two score, give me four to give me something. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.320 And what we got it was cute, but I just 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:46.320 needed more chaos. 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:47.960 And Lindsay Gives made a good point. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:49.680 She was sitting with us high Lindsey, if you're listening 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.840 to this, she made a good point that that's what 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.680 makes certain championships so special because you don't always get that. 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:56.880 Sometimes they're just boring and that's just what it is, 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.160 and more often that's the case. 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.480 So I didn't say. I didn't say you were crazy 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.720 for wanting that. I said you were crazy for thinking 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.680 that's what was going to happen, especially against an Orlando 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.960 Pride team with the defense that they had, and especially 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:11.080 in a title game where it is most often going 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.840 to be a little bit more of a tight game 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:15.920 where you're trying not to make the mistake that sets 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.120 up the other team, particularly when you've got a Barbara 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.200 Banda out there that is such a tremendous playmaker. It 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.200 would be the same in reverse if Trinity Rodman was 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:24.720 at one hundred percent. But when you know you have 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:26.520 someone that can break a game on a single mistake 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.040 with the speed of Barbara Banda, you're going to try 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.440 to keep it pretty cagy and that's what they did. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.240 And it was a physical game, a lot of yellow cards. 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.240 It just it never got into a flow, i think, 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:41.800 and the defensive style to avoid getting burned really just 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.280 made it so it wasn't as exciting as, for instance, 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.720 the semis. Those were great semi final games, and so 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:48.600 the championship isn't always going to live up to that. 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.160 But you know, the Spirit had more chances in the 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.200 first a better first half. But then all it takes 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.480 is that one play over the top to Banda where 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.520 she has to beat her defender, give a little deep 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.240 and then to be fair, you know, afterwards there was 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.360 a lot of people trying to take credit slash blame 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.720 for what happened on that goal because she beat multiple 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:15.720 defenders once she beat her original mark and then Aubrey Kingsbury, 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:20.120 fantastic keeper. The angle she beat her on probably shouldn't 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.040 have probably shouldn't have gone in, And afterward Kingsbury did 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.760 say she just felt bad that they had twenty five 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.120 I think shots and couldn't put one in and on 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.760 one of the few opportunities that the Pride had they 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.560 did manage to score, but it was a great angle 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:37.000 from Banda. And you know, the thing with the Spirit 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.600 Meshe is that those twenty five chances, very few of 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.520 them were on target exactly. They got looks, but they 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:43.240 weren't good looks. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.000 We felt like none of their attacks stream anything together, 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.880 the passes, the runs. It just didn't feel like I 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.120 think I told you and lindsay, everything feels a step 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:51.680 out of sing. 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.600 I thought the first chunk of the first half. 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.400 They did a great job possessing the ball, but again 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.480 weren't advancing up the field at all, and just there 0:16:59.520 --> 0:16:59.880 was no one. 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:01.560 You mentioned Trinity Rodman. 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:03.680 She had little bursts here and there, but you could 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.000 tell it took a lot out of her when she did, 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.400 and then you know, it just kind of fell apart 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.080 at the end. Ran out of time, didn't have the 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:15.000 energy left. So unfortunate, but I got actip my hat 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.840 to the spirit because the pride, it was written in 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.320 the stars, right, it was written in the stars all. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.960 Season for them. And I'm just so happy for Marts. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.600 I'm happy for Barbara Benda, I'm happy for Emily and 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.000 Kylie who he had on the show, all those folks. 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.439 Yeah, Trinity Rodman was clearly not herself. Clutching her back 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.840 was almost potentially like a decoy. I thought out there. 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:41.080 She wasn't pushing forward, she wasn't leading chargers, but she 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.360 would wait for moments to try to pursue and go 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.399 hard and set things up. And she was the focal 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.040 point of a lot of the moments where they did 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:49.720 have a chance, whether she was sending it in or 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.359 making a move. But you have to wonder if it 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.359 would have been better to have someone else, especially late 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.560 in the game, that was one hundred percent, someone that 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.639 could go hard on every single ball. And you just 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.159 feel for Trinity in that moment, and you wonder how 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.520 much what you said about they're not just being the 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.040 click the chemistry there might have to do with her 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.199 not being top speed. How does that affect how the 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.159 rest of the players are used to sending in balls, 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.840 hitting the attack, Like Casey Kruger had two chances that 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.000 felt super rushed, and you wonder whether they just never 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:21.960 felt like they had a chance to set up, so 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.760 when they did have any opening, they were forcing and 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.960 they weren't using their timing. You know, that's a team 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.600 that didn't have Kreybathoun, didn't have Andy Sullivan. You just 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.720 don't know what that would have looked like if the 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.359 Spirit had had their best players out there. But at 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.760 the same point, who knows if they would have won anyway, 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.920 because that Orlando team, to your point, felt almost inevitable 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:47.040 all season long, almost went without a loss, took too 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.320 late in the season when they'd already secured the shield. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.240