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Speaker 2: He's on the soccer team. Get back, get back. Help

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Speaker 2: me with these dials. Put it down, put it down.

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Speaker 3: Everybody? I am lunchbox. I know the most about sports,

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Speaker 2: It's says it. I'm from the North, I'm in Alpha Male.

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Speaker 1: But that was but that was because that's insane.

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Speaker 2: Though this goes the whole season and doesn't score a goal.

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Speaker 3: And that's in co Ed on Wednesday nights. Okay, but

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Speaker 1: So when I was younger, you know, when the competition

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I think we're not very good. We're not.

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Speaker 1: I mean, because you're professional, would you would you incentivize me?

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Speaker 3: And I don't think yes, especially the field conditions. It

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Speaker 3: I can't score goal. I'm so old. But I never

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, the announcers, dude, the messy game. I

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Speaker 2: I mean, dude, like five times they said it. I

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Speaker 2: fine defense. Yeah, they're like, whatever, organize this defense, it's amazing.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know what, our coach, he's a great coach.

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Speaker 1: You know, he has been. He's he's renowned for putting

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Speaker 1: But you know, I played him MS my whole career.

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Speaker 1: And clearly, you guys saw the goal he scored. He's

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Speaker 2: Were you involved in it? There was five guys around him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was there. I was a witness.

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Speaker 1: But our coach said it best after the game. Great

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Speaker 2: Did you get a penalty kick?

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Speaker 1: I got subbed out.

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Speaker 3: He took a penalty the game against America.

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Speaker 2: So they didn't they thought there was a better kicker

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Speaker 1: I was just tired, man, I was dead.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. I would never say that ever.

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Speaker 3: All right, hey, coach, I don't want that. I don't

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Speaker 3: He was scared to take a penalty to save his life.

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Speaker 3: He'd always say, no, coach, I don't want it. I

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I would never say that. The minute I said

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Speaker 1: I was chasing around MESSI for a bunch of the game.

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Speaker 1: We had just played like a heavy workload in the tournament.

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Speaker 1: I was starting to fatigue a little bit. And once

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Speaker 1: had nothing to do with penalties. It was more so

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Speaker 1: the game in regulation. But I was bummed that I

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Speaker 1: you know, And what a penalty shootout. You don't watch

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Speaker 1: much of the much of our games, but penalty shootouts,

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Speaker 1: they don't always go to goalkeepers.

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Speaker 3: That's right, okay.

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Speaker 1: I have watched a lot of soccer. I have never

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Speaker 2: When I saw your goalkeeper, the guys like dressed like

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Speaker 2: what the fuck is this? No, I didn't know he

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Speaker 1: Well, it usually you have five of your best players

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because in the US and the women's game, she

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Speaker 1: So usually you know, it doesn't get to goalkeepers, but

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Speaker 2: Alcers did a pretty good job explaining that crap that was.

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Speaker 1: That was a crazy finish to a crazy game.

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Speaker 2: Man. I'm kind of like I liked it. It went

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Speaker 1: I feel like we would have won the game in overtime,

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Speaker 1: and no, man, you can't blame him for anything. Dude,

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, yeah, goalie made a good save.

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Speaker 1: Look, there's for me, there's no blame to go around,

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Speaker 2: This is crazy interviewing you though, because seriously, you guys

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Speaker 3: You know, they were limping it. They were limping like.

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Speaker 2: Well, was somebody to tell me Muktar was like the

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Speaker 2: You're number one. I love dude. Muktar's fast as hell.

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Speaker 1: He's the raining, He's the reigning MVP of the whole league.

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Speaker 2: Had no idea. This guy's been talking about it, but

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Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome to the club man. The guy's the guy's special. No,

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Speaker 1: it's it's one of those things where you know, you

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Speaker 3: League's Cup?

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Speaker 1: Sure, and you don't know what it is.

440
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm like League's Cup. This is usually when

441
00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:40,680
Speaker 3: they're gonna bring up the people from the farm team.

442
00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:42,359
Speaker 3: Get them some you know what I mean that you

443
00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:44,160
Speaker 3: get them some playing time so that you can see

444
00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,879
Speaker 3: what you have on your farm team. Get some younger guys,

445
00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:50,120
Speaker 3: some experience a lot. Some teams don't try to win

446
00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:54,840
Speaker 3: these tournaments. They're just trying to avoid injury, rest players,

447
00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,880
Speaker 3: develop players. If someone has a nagging injury, you sit

448
00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:00,119
Speaker 3: them down because it really doesn't mean much. And then

449
00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:01,680
Speaker 3: all of a sudden you start winning. And I'm like,

450
00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:03,600
Speaker 3: damn it, I should have opted in these tickets. I

451
00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:05,480
Speaker 3: should have opted into these tickets, you know what I mean?

452
00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:09,320
Speaker 3: Because then it goes on sale for the freaking championship

453
00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:11,600
Speaker 3: and it's like, good God, I could have paid. I

454
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Speaker 3: could have paid fifty dollars for my tickets. Instead they

455
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Speaker 3: want ten thousand dollars for my.

456
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Speaker 1: Seats, and I'm like, god, I hate this free market economy.

457
00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,040
Speaker 1: Baby supply and demand. When the when the best player

458
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Speaker 1: to ever live is coming to town and Nashville has

459
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Speaker 1: a chance to win their first championship, it's gonna be expensive.

460
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Speaker 1: But I did I did, you know? I did feel

461
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Speaker 1: bad because it felt like some of our fans couldn't

462
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Speaker 1: go to the game. But again, a lot of people.

463
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Speaker 1: You know what you said, they weren't sure whether to

464
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Speaker 1: opt into the tickets or not. Because you look back

465
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Speaker 1: on it and you probably are saying, well, I regret it,

466
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Speaker 1: but it's hard to It's hard to foresee a team

467
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Speaker 1: making a run to a final and hosting it, right,

468
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Speaker 1: And so, look, I understand that that thought of it.

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Speaker 1: But the did you did you were you? You watched

470
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Speaker 1: it on TV?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

472
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, the atmosphere. The atmosphere was in the stadium.

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Speaker 2: Was no, no? Was that?

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Speaker 3: Okay? Okay, let's not lie. Okay, I paid for the ticket.

475
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Speaker 3: I end up paying for the ticket. That's right, you

476
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Speaker 3: did go. Yeah, and so but my question, the whole

477
00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:12,399
Speaker 3: thing is, is it disappointing as a player to see

478
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Speaker 3: so many damn messy jerseys there?

479
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Speaker 1: I think it comes with a territory with him. I

480
00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:19,679
Speaker 1: think he is I think he's a player that just

481
00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:24,280
Speaker 1: transcends the game and he transcends the sport, right, and

482
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Speaker 1: so I don't have any issues with it. I think still,

483
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Speaker 1: for the most part, our Nashville fans showed out and

484
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Speaker 1: they proved that they were going to drown out any

485
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Speaker 1: messy fans who were cheering for him, and they did.

486
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Speaker 1: But no, I don't. I don't have any problem with

487
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Speaker 1: it because at the end of the day, players that

488
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Speaker 1: transcend the game, they are always going to have that

489
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Speaker 1: type of following and there's nothing you can do about it.

490
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Speaker 1: You may as well just embrace it and hopefully get

491
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Speaker 1: the best of him. And unfortunately we weren't able to

492
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Speaker 1: do that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you're like you were saying about your defensive

494
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Speaker 3: game plan. I felt like MESSI from watching him when

495
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Speaker 3: he join in Miami. Every game he had so much

496
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Speaker 3: on the ball action. He he dominated on the ball

497
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Speaker 3: against every other team. Against Nashville, I swear to god,

498
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Speaker 3: he maybe had the ball for thirty five seconds. Yep,

499
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Speaker 3: he scored a goal and hit the post. I mean fantastic.

500
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Speaker 3: I mean he's a magician. He is, and I mean

501
00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:22,159
Speaker 3: I love every time he make a run, like he

502
00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:23,879
Speaker 3: would try to do the give and go with the

503
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Speaker 3: guy in the middle, Dax's arms going out grabbing make

504
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Speaker 3: it and try to knock him off the run.

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Speaker 2: Is that touched him up a little bit?

506
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Speaker 3: I mean good. Right at the very beginning, he did

507
00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,080
Speaker 3: a forearm shiver with his first touch, and he was like,

508
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Speaker 3: I'm sending a message. Yeah, well, I know he got

509
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Speaker 3: called name. His name is Ishmael. I think his name

510
00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:51,520
Speaker 3: is what was his name good By? Oh yeah, yeah.

511
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Speaker 3: But here's a funny story about Ishmael. He's from Austin

512
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:56,280
Speaker 3: and I used to play Men's league against him at

513
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Speaker 3: Zilker Park right out after college. Like he would play

514
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Speaker 3: and then he would ref all day long. And dude,

515
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,240
Speaker 3: that dude has a cannon. Yeah, he could rip the ball,

516
00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:05,040
Speaker 3: he can believe it.

517
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a decent ref. I gotta say, when when

518
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:10,720
Speaker 1: we were scouting in er Miami, we were watching some clips.

519
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Speaker 1: The prevailing theme about what I saw was that teams

520
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 1: were giving Messi too much respect, and they were giving

521
00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,040
Speaker 1: him too much time and space to operate and do

522
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Speaker 1: the things that he wanted to do and look, to

523
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Speaker 1: a certain extent, I get it. When you play a

524
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Speaker 1: player of his magnitude, it's easy to kind of get

525
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Speaker 1: lost in the hype and kind of say, well, I

526
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:34,840
Speaker 1: don't want to be embarrassed by him. I don't want

527
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Speaker 1: to get too close because he's still otherworldly when it

528
00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,000
Speaker 1: comes to dribbling and when it comes to his touch.

529
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Speaker 1: But our game plan was, look, let's let's respect what

530
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Speaker 1: he's capable of, but let's not play scared. You know,

531
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Speaker 1: if you play scared, you're already behind the eight ball.

532
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Speaker 1: And so it was a big, big effort from our

533
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Speaker 1: whole team, especially our back line in our midfield, to

534
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Speaker 1: try to condense the space that he likes to work in.

535
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Speaker 1: And look, he scored a great goal and hit the post.

536
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Speaker 1: I don't think you're ever going to stop him from

537
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Speaker 1: doing some of the those things in the game. But

538
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Speaker 1: for the most part, the way we handled how dangerous

539
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 1: he can be, I thought was was really really good,

540
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Speaker 1: and I'm proud of the performance from the guys.

541
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Speaker 3: Is there any trash talk to Messi on the field?

542
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:10,960
Speaker 3: Do you guys say anything to him real or is

543
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,880
Speaker 3: it more you don't want to piss off somebody, because

544
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Speaker 3: I mean there's obviously trash talk.

545
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Speaker 2: In the game.

546
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Speaker 3: Yeah there is, but it's like the superstar players. Do

547
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Speaker 3: you just say, I'm not gonna talk trash to him.

548
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Speaker 1: I think it would have been different if if you know,

549
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Speaker 1: he was chirping or back at us. But he's a

550
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Speaker 1: really quiet, humble guy for how famous and how amazing

551
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Speaker 1: of a player he is, And so in my head,

552
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking I want to stop him. I want to

553
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Speaker 1: play him as close as I possibly can, but I'm

554
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Speaker 1: not trying to piss this guy off, you know what

555
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Speaker 1: I mean. And so, yeah, there was no thought of

556
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Speaker 1: like trying to get in his head with trash talk,

557
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Speaker 1: because he's the type of guy who I just don't

558
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Speaker 1: think it affects him. You know, he's seen everything there

559
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Speaker 1: is to see. He's played professionally for twenty years at

560
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Speaker 1: the highest level possible. I don't think he's gonna be

561
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Speaker 1: too bothered by a little redhead guy in mls' whole

562
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Speaker 1: career bothering him and talking trash to him.

563
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Speaker 2: Was he speaking another language?

564
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Speaker 1: He speaks Spanish? Yeah, I think he. I think he

565
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Speaker 1: understands a little bit of English. I mean, I'm not

566
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 1: too sure, but yeah, he's he mainly speaks Spanish.

567
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Speaker 2: Did you say what up? Or no? No?

568
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:11,200
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, hold on, holdah, We're gonna get to that.

569
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Speaker 3: We're gonna take a break. Do you have time to

570
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 3: stick around form? Yeah, of course, Okay, we're gonna get back.

571
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 3: Because I wake up on Sunday and I see something

572
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 3: on Instagram and I'm like, excuse me, And then now

573
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 3: this dude's all over the papers in England, and we're talking.

574
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Speaker 2: About the game on Saturday. You were up in the

575
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Speaker 2: morning on Sunday.

576
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Speaker 3: And yeah, I was gonna be able to pull at

577
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Speaker 3: ten am, but it didn't quite have it at ten am.

578
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 3: And so I mean, Dax's McCarty all over the papers

579
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Speaker 3: in England. And I'll tell you why right after this.

580
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 3: See next. We don't really take a break. We just

581
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Speaker 3: sit here. We'll just insert the commercials. So how okay

582
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 3: going into the game, Like did it as a player?

583
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 3: Are you jazzed up because you're about to play the

584
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:52,680
Speaker 3: best of all time or do you have to block

585
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 3: that out and say I'm going to get a championship?

586
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,159
Speaker 3: Like what's the mind is?

587
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: The mindset is I'm going to get a championship, Like

588
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: I don't care who I'm playing against. I want to win.

589
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 1: I mean, that's why you play the game, That's why

590
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 1: you play sports is to win trophies and to win championships.

591
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 1: I think secondary is man we as a team have

592
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 1: the opportunity to do something that a no team has

593
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Speaker 1: done yet, which is beat Interer Miami with MESSI and

594
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Speaker 1: and b. Yeah, you get the chance to go and

595
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Speaker 1: win a trophy and playing a championship game against who

596
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Speaker 1: many people consider and I consider to be the greatest

597
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 1: player to ever live. He just won the World Cup

598
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 1: seven months ago. Like, yeah, it adds a little extra

599
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,640
Speaker 1: fuel to the fire, but you want to win over

600
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 1: over anything else.

601
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Speaker 3: So how did you end up with Messi's jersey? Like

602
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 3: I need to I mean, that is so dude. He

603
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 3: got Messi's game warn jersey. And just so you know,

604
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 3: his wife said, quote smells like cologne.

605
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,919
Speaker 1: So going into the game, that's that's funny.

606
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:47,919
Speaker 2: Uh is this real? Yeah? It is?

607
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So going into the game, there's never you know,

608
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:58,400
Speaker 1: the the tradition of trading jerseys. Yes, it's prevalent in soccer.

609
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 1: It's a sign of either you do it with your

610
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: friends or people you know, or a player that you

611
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 1: think is great, and it's like a mutual sign of respect.

612
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,679
Speaker 1: And I've done it throughout my whole career. I've gotten,

613
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: you know, jerseys from friends of mine, I've gotten jerseys

614
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,400
Speaker 1: from great players, and it's something that when I look

615
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: back on, I think, I want to look at that

616
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: collection and say, I'm really proud of of these people

617
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:19,919
Speaker 1: that I've been able to go toe to toe with

618
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,919
Speaker 1: and so the conversation was. It was actually between me

619
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,879
Speaker 1: and Hanny Muktar before the game a few days before,

620
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Speaker 1: and he was like, hey, do you want to get

621
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 1: Messy's jersey? I was like, well, you know, that's not

622
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 1: at the forefront of my mind. If it so happens

623
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Speaker 1: to come to be where you know, we're close together,

624
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 1: and I asked him to trade and he's willing to

625
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 1: do it, I'm going to ask sure, and Hanni said,

626
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,640
Speaker 1: all right, no problem. You know we play we play

627
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: Miami down in Miami in a week in a week

628
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 1: and all you know, I can trade with him down there.

629
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Speaker 1: So that was kind of how that conversation went. After

630
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 1: the game. You know, you're upset, man, we just lost

631
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 1: in a heartbreaking fashion and we're shaking hands, and then

632
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: it clicked on me, oh, well, MESSI sells is a

633
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,439
Speaker 1: jersey on. You know, no one's gotten it. Let me

634
00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 1: go see if I can get it. So I shake

635
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 1: his hand, I asked him to trade, and he says

636
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: in the tunnel. Let's trade in the tunnel, basically because

637
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: he wanted to celebrate and with his jersey on, right,

638
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: because there's pictures and all kinds of stuff, So fast

639
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: forward thirty minutes. You know, I'm in the tunnel. He

640
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,200
Speaker 1: comes in. We trade. He was really humble, really gracious.

641
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 2: Were you waiting in the tunnel?

642
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: I went back to the locker room.

643
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 3: Would you stay out and watch them lift the trophy?

644
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,159
Speaker 3: Because I know some of the players. I didn't know.

645
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 3: I couldn't see who all was down there, but you

646
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 3: see some of the players and like when you watch

647
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 3: like major League baseball or you know, basketball, or some

648
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 3: of them are the you know, college football, some of

649
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 3: them stay on the bench and watch and just sit

650
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 3: there sad or is it like I want to get

651
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 3: off the field, and kind of I.

652
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 1: Did a little bit of both. We were waiting around

653
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,919
Speaker 1: there after we got our runners up medals, and you know,

654
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 1: obviously it's I think, you know, a sign of respect

655
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,919
Speaker 1: to see the winning team get their medals. And right

656
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 1: when they were about to lift the trophy, a few

657
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: of us started to head back in the locker room.

658
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: So I was a part of that crew. I didn't

659
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 1: stick around for the entire celebration. You know, it hurts, man, honestly,

660
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,880
Speaker 1: it hurts you lose, and it hurts when you watch

661
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: another team celebrate a trophy on your home field right

662
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: because we we had full confidence in belief that that

663
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: was going to be us. So it hurt. Man, it was.

664
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,360
Speaker 1: It was devastating. But go back in the locker room.

665
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 1: Our coach gave a kind of a wrap up, a

666
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: tournament wrap up speech, and he was proud of us,

667
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: and I think we were all proud of each other.

668
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you never want to sit there

669
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: and say you're happy you lost. I mean, everyone's pissed

670
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: off and devastated, but at the end of the day,

671
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: we should have been proud, and we were proud of

672
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 1: our performance. And so after that, I waited about fifteen

673
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 1: twenty minutes. I went to the tunnel with my one

674
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 1: of my buddies, the Kitman, and we were hanging out

675
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 1: while inter Miami was kind of doing their rounds waving

676
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: to their fans. And after about ten fifteen minutes, they

677
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 1: walked back in MESSI had about ten photographers surrounding him,

678
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 1: and he saw me and was like, let's change. And

679
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: that was it. We traded. And I don't know what

680
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: he's gonna do with my jersey. I can't imagine. I yeah,

681
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: I can't imagine. I can't imagine that there's too much

682
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 1: thought about him in that jersey. But yeah, afterwards, I

683
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,679
Speaker 1: took the jersey home. I had some friends and family

684
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: with me, and it was kind of just like laying

685
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: on my dining room table and a lot of yeah.

686
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 3: That's messy jersey. And he walks in the house and

687
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 3: just tosses it on the table like I'll get that

688
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 3: in the morning.

689
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's also an athlete and a professional. It's not

690
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,959
Speaker 2: like us getting it, I know, but still it's still funny.

691
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 1: You know what's funny about that statement is that that's true.

692
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 1: But at my core, like I'm a fan of the game, right,

693
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 1: and even though I play professionally, I still I probably

694
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 1: watch more games than I've ever played in Like, I

695
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: watch soccer religiously. I love the game. I love everything

696
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: about it. I am about to I'm a fan of

697
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: greatness and I'm a fan of great players, and so

698
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: at my core, like I'm a messy fan, no question

699
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: about it. When I'm playing against him, he's my he's

700
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,239
Speaker 1: my my competition. I'm trying to win. I'm trying to

701
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: beat him. I'm trying to do whatever I can to

702
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: win the game. But then after it's all said and done,

703
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: there's no question that he is a guy who like

704
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: he's worth being a fan of, Like he's that good.

705
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: And so the jersey's on the table. I think one

706
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: of my buddies picked a jersey up and was like, man, like,

707
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: it kind of smells like cologne and so, and he

708
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: didn't go like like pick it up and sniff it

709
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: right away. It's just he kind of held it out,

710
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: you know, and he kind of got a waft. And

711
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: so if you watch MESSI play at least right now,

712
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: you see him walk around the field for majority of

713
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: the game a lot, and then he turns it on

714
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: when he gets the ball and when he needs to sprint.

715
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 3: But he's always moving. And that's what if you watch soccer,

716
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 3: that's what's amazing is I realize that when I'm playing

717
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 3: my cod game, I'm like, man, I should always be moving.

718
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 3: So I'm like moving my place into spots, you know

719
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 3: what i mean, Like back in high school when I

720
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 3: had all the energy in the world. Now I'm like, huh,

721
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take catch my breath right here and stand here,

722
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 3: and then the ball goes over there. I'm like, damn,

723
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 3: I should have been walking that way. You know what?

724
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, and.

725
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: So so he look, MESSI conserves energy because his job

726
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: is to score goals and to attack. His job is

727
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: not to defend. And so I think he probably you

728
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: know what, Yeah, maybe he sweat here and there during

729
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,959
Speaker 1: the game, but honestly, he's conserving energy more than he's running.

730
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: And so I don't know if he if it was

731
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: cologne before the game, if he wears Colone during the game,

732
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: who knows, man honestly, with that guy. But is funny

733
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: because everyone kind of started laughing, like, how does it

734
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: smell like Colonne? Like my wife like has smelled my

735
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: jersey after a game. If it's a special jersey, I'll

736
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: bring it home and it isn't. Wah, She's like, get

737
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: that out of our room. It smells awful, you know

738
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: what I mean. And so for me, it just kind

739
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: of was a funny thing. And she ended up like

740
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: tweeting something out, like a picture of it or something.

741
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 1: And you have to know my wife, and you have

742
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: to know our type of humor and our banter. It's

743
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: very sarcastic, and so this tweet, it was a response

744
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 1: to someone who was like, Hey, are you gonna hang

745
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: that up? And she was like, ah, maybe like it

746
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 1: smells like cologne, like it's only messy that could do

747
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 1: that or something like that. And it just like took off,

748
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: like it's getting picked up by all these like British tabloids,

749
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting there thinking like what the hell is

750
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: going on right now? And people are I think, maybe

751
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: taking it out of context a little bit as as

752
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: something where it's some sort of weird fetish thing, and

753
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, come on, people, like, let's be honest, look

754
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 1: anything for a story. I know how the tabloids work.

755
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: I get it, but it is a little bit funny, uh,

756
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: to look back on and say, all right, like I

757
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: get it. It's a funny story. You know. People are

758
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: gonna take it however they want to take it. But

759
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: it's a joke, you know what I mean. My wife's

760
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: messing around and I can't really actually believe that it

761
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: has made the headlines that it's made.

762
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 3: I mean, you look everywhere it's like, oh, wag of

763
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 3: soccer player Dax McCarty and.

764
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: Which she absolutely despises that moniker. By the way, my

765
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: wife is my wife is actually the opposite of a wag.

766
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: Like I don't it's a term it's well done. Perfect there.

767
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 3: I knew like they have baseball wives, but I didn't

768
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 3: know they called them like, is it a bad thing

769
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 3: to be a wag? Like to be a wife of

770
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 3: a soccer.

771
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: For me, to me, it is a it is a

772
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: very like British term that English media kind of invented

773
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: to describe women who were wives and girlfriends of soccer players, right,

774
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: And it is like the connotation surrounding it is more, oh,

775
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: like this is just a girl who doesn't want to

776
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: work and just wants to be taken care of. Right,

777
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,959
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's not the best connotation. And like

778
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: my wife is the absolute opposite of that, Like she's

779
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: got she started her own business, she is an entrepreneur,

780
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: like she does a million different things in our life.

781
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: And so it is a little bit of a term

782
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: that she is not too fond of. And I gotta

783
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: say I don't blame her for being a little bit

784
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: perturbed by being called that.

785
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 3: Okay, we're gonna get off MESSI after one more. What

786
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 3: what would have been more devastating losing in the peaks

787
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 3: or that last player regulation that I don't know what,

788
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened I still have I still

789
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 3: don't know if he was off sides or.

790
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: Not, like he was on I think he was on side.

791
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: It was it was a weird play right, Shack falls

792
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: on the opposite end. I mean I saw it. I

793
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: saw it happen.

794
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 3: Shack falls down, gets up, he chips it over Panico,

795
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 3: and then Shack falls down again and then he slides

796
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 3: it on me.

797
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: Crazy. I think in general, losing in penalties is devastating always,

798
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: but it would have been more devastating in that moment

799
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: to lose on that play because that was They didn't

800
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: have hardly any chances in the second half, Like literally

801
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: they hit the post with MESSI that was it, and

802
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: that was it, and so the last kick of the game.

803
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: If we lose on a fluke play like that, I

804
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: think we're a lot more devastated and heartbroken than losing

805
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: in a penalty shootout, which man, that was one for

806
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: the ages. There's nothing to be ashamed of with the

807
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: way that we took our penalty kicks and the way

808
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: that we played, but that last play was just bananas.

809
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 3: Are you a fan of any other sport besides soccer?

810
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 3: Do you watch other sports?

811
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of a bunch of sports.

812
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 2: Man.

813
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: I'm a fan, A big fan of tennis. I love.

814
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: I'm an Orlando Magic fan since I'm from Orlando, so

815
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: like I was, like Penny Hardaway was my favorite athlete

816
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: growing up. So I still follow the NBA and I

817
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: play fantasy football. So if I didn't play fantasy football,

818
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't watch the NFL, but I do. I

819
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: watch the NFL, I watch the NBA, and I love tennis.

820
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 2: That's like my sport, Dude, Tennis right now with Alcatraz

821
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 2: and Freaking Joker, that's We're gonna see that for the

822
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,479
Speaker 2: next five years. It's those two in every final.

823
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: And I think it's cool, like what Netflix has done

824
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: kind of telling stories of athletes a little better, like

825
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: with the One series and now with tennis. I think

826
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: it's called like break Point or something. I started watching

827
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: it and like it just hooks you in. Man, it's cool.

828
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: You get to see the other side of like athletes

829
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: and their stories, and that's something that I think is

830
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 1: really cool. And I think we're gonna see a lot.

831
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 2: More of that film an MLS one.

832
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. I don't have any inside information.

833
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 2: The guy out of the Jersey cologne guy.

834
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: I know, I don't have any inside info, but I would.

835
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: I would, but.

836
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 3: You have connections, Like if that's an idea, you don't

837
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 3: take that to Apple TV and be.

838
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: Like, oh, look, god, guys, I think I mean, I'm

839
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,399
Speaker 1: sure these have been these ideas have been thrown out there.

840
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: I mean, look, you you'd have to be crazy to

841
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 1: think that Apple is not trying to do some sort

842
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: of documentary on MESSI coming to n LS. I'm certain

843
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:39,760
Speaker 1: that will eventually be released.

844
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,439
Speaker 2: I think they've already been filming it. They said he's

845
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 2: getting followed by cameras. I don't know, but yeah, did

846
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 2: you see the amount of press that was there? Like

847
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 2: it was crazy.

848
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: I actually think the best sports related content out there

849
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: is still Hard Knocks.

850
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 3: Yes, I agree with you on like they did that

851
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 3: Quarterbacks on Netflix and I watched it, but Hard Knocks

852
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 3: is better, so much better. Yeah, and it's so entertaining

853
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 3: and I mean, just I still remember, I mean, I

854
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 3: don't even remember the guy's name, but seven to eleven

855
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 3: was on the show and he was always open. That

856
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 3: was his name in training camp, and I don't even

857
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 3: know I think it was the guy that went and

858
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 3: played in the cross Hogan. Yeah, and I'm just like,

859
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 3: it's so fascinating to see the ins and outs and

860
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 3: the interaction and then it's sad to see him get cut.

861
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 3: But that's part of the sport and it's it's.

862
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: Why as part of the human interest, right, because you see,

863
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: I think these shows have helped humanize athletes a lot more. Right.

864
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: They're not just the name on the back of the

865
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 1: jersey or part of an organization. You see, they have

866
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: lives off the field. You see, we bleed and sweat

867
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: like everybody else does. And you know what like the

868
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: human side of it, Like athletes, you know, we're not robots,

869
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: we're not perfect, we make mistakes and you know, it's

870
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: just you're in such a heightened atmosphere with fans always

871
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: seeing everything you do. It's nice for people to be

872
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: able to see the other side of people and kind

873
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: of humanize that element of them a little bit more.

874
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 2: And a truck driver, I mean he has a truck driver.

875
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 2: Truck driver hasn't worked out in a freaking month, dude,

876
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 2: and then you guys work out pretty much every day. Now,

877
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 2: that's what they realize honestly from these shows. Oh there's

878
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 2: other people that do sprints and stuff. Well, I'm just

879
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 2: in my sprinter van.

880
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 3: When you go on vacation, do you work out?

881
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 2: Oh?

882
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: Man, depends on the vacation, depends on how close it

883
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: is to preseason. If it's vacation right after the season's over,

884
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: I'm not touching a weight or running for a few weeks.

885
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: If it's vacation, that's like within a few weeks of preseason,

886
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: I'm running.

887
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 2: Because I saw a Dame. I saw a Dame in

888
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 2: the middle of the summer though, so he was straight

889
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 2: up vaca. He was in the Dominican Republic. Damian Lillard

890
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 2: just chilling.

891
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: You gotta rest man athletes. We I mean, especially soccer.

892
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: If you look at a European season, they have the

893
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: players that play the longest seasons. They have legitimately they

894
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 1: play eleven months out of a year and they have

895
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: six weeks. That's it. That's their vacation time. So US

896
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: we have a little bit of a longer break. We

897
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: have closer to like eight weeks. But the seasons are

898
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: so much longer in soccer than they are in any

899
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: other sport. You have to find time to rest.

900
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 3: So you said your goal was to play over in Europe.

901
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,439
Speaker 3: What is the difference, the biggest difference between soccer over

902
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 3: there and MLS.

903
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: Well, that's not my goal anymore because I'm thirty six

904
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: and I don't think anyone in Europe's touching me with

905
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: a ten foot pole. When I was younger, it was

906
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: definitely a goal of mine and I had a few

907
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 1: opportunities here and there to maybe go over there. But

908
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: there's a lot that has to go into it to

909
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: play in Europe, right, I mean, the biggest difference for

910
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: me is is I think promotion and relegation, which obviously

911
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: people talk about a lot over here with THEA As

912
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: a player, I would love promotion and relegation over here, right.

913
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: I think that it's a very exciting version of soccer.

914
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: I think that it raises the stakes a little bit.

915
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:41,439
Speaker 1: But again, promotion and relegation it comes with very high

916
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: highs for teams that get promoted, and it comes with

917
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: very low lows for teams that get relegated because those

918
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: teams they lose a ton of money. They've got a

919
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:50,800
Speaker 1: cut budget, they've got a cut players, they've got to

920
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: cut staff. Like it's not all you know, roses and

921
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,439
Speaker 1: sunshine for promotion relegation, Like, I understand why MLS hasn't

922
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: adopted it. We haven't been in a place financial to

923
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,720
Speaker 1: be able to afford to do that, and so look,

924
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,280
Speaker 1: I would love to see it. Do I think it's realistic.

925
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: It's never gonna happen in my time playing. Maybe in

926
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: fifty years it'll happen. But I think the biggest difference

927
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: is the promotion relegation. These leagues are established, they've got history,

928
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: they've got culture. MLS has only been around for you know,

929
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: thirty years, right, and these other leagues have been around

930
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: for you Do you.

931
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 3: Realize you've been in the MLS, like you're longer than

932
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 3: half of it? Its existence is that weird?

933
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: It's weird. And one of my buddies told me before

934
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,479
Speaker 1: the season, He's like, Dax, you realize you turned pro

935
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: at eighteen. You're turning thirty six this year. Half of

936
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: your life will you will have spent as a pro

937
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: soccer player at MLS. And when you think about it

938
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: in that context, it's kind of hard to believe. Man,

939
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: really it is. And it sucks because you snap your

940
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,839
Speaker 1: fingers and it goes by so quickly. I can't believe

941
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,959
Speaker 1: I'm already in year eighteen, and I'm like, possibly thinking

942
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,760
Speaker 1: about what comes next? Scary?

943
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 3: At what age We'll take a break and I want

944
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,240
Speaker 3: to talk about like different things you learn in soccer

945
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 3: that I know it's part of the game, but drive

946
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 3: people nuts. Flopping, the laying down.

947
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 2: We'll look it.

948
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 3: We'll talk about it right after this. At what age

949
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 3: do you learn to roll around on the ground? Because

950
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 3: I mean I played soccer, and I mean we weren't

951
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 3: very I mean we I mean I played you know

952
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 3: whatever high school and that was it, Like it wasn't

953
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 3: competitive that way. But at what age did you learn

954
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 3: to roll around the ground because we wouldn't gone next

955
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,959
Speaker 3: team Carlos he must have played for a different club

956
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 3: team than I did, because he would roll around and

957
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 3: all the crowd. Oh no, he's fine, guys, he's faking it.

958
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 3: Don't worry.

959
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 2: Don't worry.

960
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 3: Like, how do you guys learn how to say?

961
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 1: I gotta say I think it's ingrained in you from

962
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: a young age through coaching. I was never never taught that,

963
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: and I've never done it in my career. I don't flop,

964
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: I don't embellish, I don't exaggerate injuries. If I'm injured.

965
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: I'm injured and it's gonna hurt, and I'm gonna tell

966
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: my trainer, but I'm not. It's called gamesmanship, right, And

967
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: I think more sports it's funny because I don't like it.

968
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: I don't approve of it. But it is part of

969
00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: the game of soccer. It always will be, it always

970
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 1: has been. It's funny. I think American sports are actually

971
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 1: adopting it more so now, like you see it in

972
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: the NBA Monogeno. We brought it to the NBA, you

973
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: see it in the NFL even it has in Like,

974
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I don't approve of it. I

975
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:16,280
Speaker 1: would never do it. But as far as players doing

976
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: whatever they need to do to win the game, like,

977
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,760
Speaker 1: what is towing that line between playing within the rules

978
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: and doing something that's legal and then cheating? Right, Like,

979
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: I don't ever think embellishing an injury would be considered cheating.

980
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: But is it a little bit dirty?

981
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:29,879
Speaker 2: Yeah?

982
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 1: I think it is. But I was never taught that,

983
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: so I don't do that.

984
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,280
Speaker 3: What about when a ref makes a call and everybody

985
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 3: on your team has to surround the damn ref and no, no, no, no, no, no,

986
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 3: that's not right. That's not right.

987
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: D Look, man, that's part of games I do. And

988
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 1: the thing about professional sports is the emotions are so

989
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,919
Speaker 1: heightened and the stakes are so high. So, first of all,

990
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: refereeing is the hardest job, and not only in sports,

991
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: but I think pretty much anywhere.

992
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:01,399
Speaker 3: It's the worst thing ever.

993
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: You can't please everyone. You're going to eventually you're like

994
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: you have human beings making subjective decisions about games that

995
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: are happening at a million miles an hour. There will

996
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 1: be mistakes, right, and there's ways that sports have introduced

997
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: to try to mitigate those mistakes, but you're still going

998
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: to get bad calls. And so in the heat of

999
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,879
Speaker 1: the moment when players surround the ref, it doesn't look good.

1000
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: It's not a good look. But it's just players that

1001
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 1: are angry and they want to win the game, right.

1002
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: And so as I've gotten older, I think I've calmed

1003
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: down a lot and I don't do it as much

1004
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: as I used to. But look, any way, you can

1005
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: try to get in the ref's ear to tell him, hey, man,

1006
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: I think you made a bad call there, Please, like

1007
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 1: you know, reconsider it next time you're thinking about making

1008
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: a call like that. You always want to try to

1009
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: sway them, right, and that that's just a reality of

1010
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: professional sports, right You just you want to get favorable

1011
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: calls that go in your team's direction.

1012
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, they respect you though, because you've been around for

1013
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 2: a while.

1014
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 1: And they respect you. And I think they respect the

1015
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: way that you approach them. If you approach them and

1016
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 1: you tell them to f off and f your mother

1017
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: like they're good, they're not going to appreciate that, you know.

1018
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: But if you say, hey, listen, I think you made

1019
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: a bad call, you know, and you're not berating them

1020
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: with hand gestures, I think they respect that. And so

1021
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: that's kind of how I've tried to approach referees in

1022
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: my older years.

1023
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 3: What when I'm trying to see how like when players,

1024
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 3: so you go up and you put your hands behind

1025
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 3: your back, is that why you just show you because

1026
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 3: you walk they walk up and they put their hands

1027
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,879
Speaker 3: behind their back, trying to act like, hey, I'm not confrontational.

1028
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: It's diffusing. It diffuses the situation because if you're like smart,

1029
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: demonstrative and you're like throwing fingers and hands in their face,

1030
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: I don't think they appreciate that. I think they're much

1031
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: more likely to give you a yellow card than actually

1032
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: listen to you.

1033
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 3: Do all refs speak English?

1034
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, they said us.

1035
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if it's universal, but I think look,

1036
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: I think English for the most part would be probably

1037
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: considered a universal language. And so all the refs in

1038
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 1: MLS speak English. Maybe in Europe a couple of them don't,

1039
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure.

1040
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 3: And then when people are laying around on the ground

1041
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 3: and you do you ever walk up to get the

1042
00:42:59,120 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 3: get up?

1043
00:42:59,680 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 2: Come on?

1044
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 3: Sometimes sometimes is there a trash talk to the person

1045
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 3: that's eb if.

1046
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: You know, like let's say you get called for a

1047
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: foul and you know that you fouled the guy, but

1048
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: you know it wasn't that bad and you know they're

1049
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 1: not injured. Yeah, it's gonna be a little frustrating seeing

1050
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: them roll around on the ground and try to get

1051
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: a ref to, uh, maybe give you a yellow card

1052
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 1: or call a penalty. And so, yes, there is trash

1053
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:22,399
Speaker 1: talking in that sense. But I gotta be honest. I mean,

1054
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: for the amount of games and the amount of time

1055
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: that is played, the embellishment stuff, I think it's blown

1056
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 1: out of proportion. It really doesn't happen as much as

1057
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: people say it does.

1058
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 3: Because I think people don't realize when they get hit,

1059
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 3: like when you guys get hit like it hurts. Yeah.

1060
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 3: I mean, those are some big studs coming in and

1061
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 3: it may not look bad to you, but when it

1062
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 3: breaks across that foot, there's nothing they're protecting it.

1063
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:44,720
Speaker 1: I agree, yeah, I agree.

1064
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 2: Right, you got any question, But I was gonna say,

1065
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,439
Speaker 2: you don't necessarily jump in the air in real life

1066
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 2: if that happened. But also when you watch the report

1067
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 2: drop a book on your foot, do you jump up

1068
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 2: in the air not that high? These guys you bounce

1069
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 2: like you bounce on one foot.

1070
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 3: FeH, you bounce on one foot for a minute. I

1071
00:43:58,160 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 3: guarantee it like you step on a lego.

1072
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 1: Here's a difference. You're you're getting a book dropped on

1073
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: your foot or step on a lego. You're not running

1074
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: at twenty miles an hour, right, you know. And so

1075
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 1: when these plays happen most of the time, it's like

1076
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: a miniature car crash, right, It's not like the NFL

1077
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: where guys are smashing each other. But like, yeah, you're

1078
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: running fast and look the body is not meant to

1079
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: be contorted or you know, hit in certain ways and

1080
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: it hurts, man, But sometimes. Yeah, of course there's embellishment

1081
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: and guys are trying to take advantage of the ref

1082
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: and that's just always going to be a part of

1083
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: the game.

1084
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 2: After the game, you guys have the next day off

1085
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 2: or do you practice at all?

1086
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a few days off. It's been a

1087
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,760
Speaker 1: long tournament, man, you know, we've played. We played seven

1088
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,399
Speaker 1: seven games in three three and a half weeks, I think,

1089
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: which is a that's a heavy load for any team

1090
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 1: that plays. And so, yeah, our coach is very I

1091
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: think our coach is very cognizant of managing bodies, managing minutes.

1092
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: And yeah, we got a couple of days off to

1093
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,399
Speaker 1: lick our wounds. And it still hurts, I gotta be honest,

1094
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: It still hurts that that we didn't win the trophy,

1095
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 1: still hurts that we lost. But again, I'll go back

1096
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 1: to the same thing I said at the beginning. I'm

1097
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 1: so proud of the way that our team played and

1098
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: the way that we performed, not just in the final,

1099
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: but throughout the whole tournament. I think everyone on our

1100
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:10,720
Speaker 1: team should be proud and our city should be proud

1101
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:13,320
Speaker 1: about how they they showed up for that semi final,

1102
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: in that final some of the best atmospheres I've played in.

1103
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:19,280
Speaker 3: How do you turn it off? Like competitor, so angry

1104
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 3: you lost, and then you go home and because you

1105
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 3: have a wife, kids, like is it immediate?

1106
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 2: Like?

1107
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 3: Oh, he you know.

1108
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: It's a good question. I tried to diffuse. I tried

1109
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 1: to decompress in the car a little bit going home.

1110
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: So I live about five to ten minutes from Giotis Park,

1111
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: depending on traffic.

1112
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 3: Do you drive your cell phone? Does your wife drive home?

1113
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 2: No? No?

1114
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:41,399
Speaker 1: No, I drive. I drive myself home.

1115
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 3: Well I didn't. I didn't know if you call the game.

1116
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: Look, I was the last one.

1117
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 2: I was.

1118
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: I was the last guy to leave the stadium that night,

1119
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: And you know it's it's you're you're trying to reflect

1120
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: on things you could have done better, trying to reflect

1121
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 1: on what went wrong, and in the car. You know,

1122
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: I've learned as I've gotten older, the stuff that happens

1123
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 1: on thee, especially when you have a family, the stuff

1124
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: that happens on the field, it's never a good idea

1125
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 1: to try to bring that home, and to try to

1126
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: bring that into the home your disappointment, your frustration, because

1127
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: that manifests itself in different ways. Around your kids. I mean,

1128
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 1: I've got two kids and they were sleeping by the

1129
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: time I got home. But I had my best friend

1130
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 1: in his family in town. I had my wife, I

1131
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,279
Speaker 1: had my parents and my brother in town. You just

1132
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: you want to put on a brave face and you

1133
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: want to make sure that yeah, like, Okay, you're disappointed,

1134
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: you're upset you lost, but you're proud of of you know,

1135
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: what you represent and how you played. And that was

1136
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: kind of how I tried to handle it.

1137
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 3: And when you walk in the house, do you guys

1138
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 3: talk about the game or do you talk about what's

1139
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:38,959
Speaker 3: going on in a big brother or like a TV show,

1140
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:39,399
Speaker 3: like do.

1141
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: You chase when it's a final? And especially when it's

1142
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: a final played against you know, Inner Miami who have

1143
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: Messi and Bousquettes and Jeordie Alba, it's kind of hard

1144
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: not to talk about that. And I think in general,

1145
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 1: you know, your family just wants to, you know, be

1146
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: that kind of support system, right, they want to be

1147
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,359
Speaker 1: that crutch if you are upset, and so, yeah, there

1148
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: was a little bit of time talk about the game.

1149
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 1: There was a little bit of talk about hey, like

1150
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: should we stay in, should we go grab a beer

1151
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: to like, you know, celebrate a little bit a good tournament,

1152
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: and so there's all all kinds of calculations and permutations

1153
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: going on when you get home. But uh, I think

1154
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: the overriding feeling was just I'm glad my family was

1155
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: there to rep to witness such a great game, sad result,

1156
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:23,839
Speaker 1: disappointing outcome, but ultimately there's a lot of pride that's

1157
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: involved in that.

1158
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 2: Did you get them all tickets?

1159
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:26,720
Speaker 3: Yep?

1160
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: Dope, yep, they there were. There were some tickets that

1161
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: had to be paid for, but I don't think hopefully

1162
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,839
Speaker 1: the club was so gracious and able to to help

1163
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 1: us get tickets that were at you know, fairly reasonable prices.

1164
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 3: That's awesome. Yeah, and then the rest of the season,

1165
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 3: I mean now it starts back up. I mean the

1166
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 3: race for the cut. I mean now we're trying to

1167
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 3: win it all.

1168
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: Dude, that's it. Yeah. MLS Cup is the focus we've got.

1169
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: We've got ten games left in the regular season, five home,

1170
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 1: five on the road. We have such good momentum I

1171
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 1: think heading into the last ten games and we're confident, Like,

1172
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: I love the place that our team is in right now.

1173
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 1: I think we're in a good mood. I think we

1174
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 1: have a lot of confidence, and you know, we want

1175
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs first and foremost, and then once

1176
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: you get in the playoffs, anything can happen. We're going

1177
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 1: to win MLS Cup.

1178
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 2: What are you guys in the standings? Oh?

1179
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: Man, So there were a few games that happened on Sunday.

1180
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,479
Speaker 1: I think we're like fifth, fifth or sixth, top eight,

1181
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: top nine, make it we're I think we're you know,

1182
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: we're three points out of second place.

1183
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 3: So so we beat Charlotte this weekend on Saturday, then

1184
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,359
Speaker 3: we beat Miami on Wednesday, Boom, We're in second place, no.

1185
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: Problem, yep. So we'll see how it goes. Man. We're

1186
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: just we're going to attack the second half of the

1187
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 1: season with with with the goal of making the playoffs

1188
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:41,959
Speaker 1: and trying to win a cup.

1189
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 2: Hey, does does in or Miami make the playoffs?

1190
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: That's a that's a spicy question.

1191
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 2: They got to win.

1192
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: I think I think they got to win more than that.

1193
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,839
Speaker 1: I think I got twelve games left. I think they

1194
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: probably need to win nine or ten.

1195
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 2: And I mean there's no way, there's no way.

1196
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,799
Speaker 1: I mean, you never look at the risk of you know,

1197
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: fan boying too hard over MESSI you never want to

1198
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: count him out because he is truly great, great player.

1199
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: But I think it's probably too tall of a task

1200
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: right now for them to make the playoffs.

1201
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 3: Because like like on Saturday, a tie would have done

1202
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 3: them no good, right they get in that turnack and

1203
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 3: a tournament, you can they can tie, and they can

1204
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 3: go to a shootout in the l they get a

1205
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:23,879
Speaker 3: point and that does not help them. They need three

1206
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 3: points every single time out, so that that that hill

1207
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 3: they got to climb is very steep.

1208
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: I would say, I would say they you know, they

1209
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: won League's Cup, they won, they won a trophy. They

1210
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 1: are in the semi final of the US Open Cup,

1211
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: which they play against Cincinnati is on tomorrow, so Wednesday.

1212
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 1: I would say that if they win that game and

1213
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 1: they end up winning US Open Cup, that you know

1214
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: this season is a wash, they'd be very happy with that.

1215
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, And the emotion, I don't know how

1216
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 3: you guys, How do you guys maintain the emotional because

1217
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 3: the emotional letdown, you got to get back up for

1218
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 3: the that's a that's at it's huge.

1219
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 1: It's not easy. It's not easy, and you know you

1220
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: still think about what could have been quite frankly with

1221
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 1: hosting a final and winning the championship. But you just

1222
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: have to move on. I mean professional sports. I think

1223
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: the best players they're able to have a short memory.

1224
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:11,839
Speaker 2: Right.

1225
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: It's like quarterbacks, you gotta if you throw an interception,

1226
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:16,839
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta have a short memory. You gotta

1227
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: figure it out and move on. So that's what we're

1228
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: gonna do. I think we're gonna be proud of how

1229
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 1: we performed. We can be sad that we lost, but uh,

1230
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,360
Speaker 1: I think it's a good stepping stone for us to

1231
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 1: go in these last ten games and go try to

1232
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 1: win a trophy.

1233
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 3: That's why, that's why we're not professional athletes, right, because

1234
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 3: I watch a game and the Cubs lose and you know,

1235
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 3: game five, and I'm like, oh, it's over, there's no

1236
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 3: way they can win. And then they win the next game.

1237
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 3: I'm like, how did they do that?

1238
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:40,359
Speaker 1: We're back.

1239
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,800
Speaker 3: The Spurs are like, they get blood, the shot of

1240
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 3: the butzer. There's no way they're gonna be able to

1241
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 3: oh and they recovering they win this game.

1242
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,879
Speaker 1: It just makes no sense, you guys, No, no, no, no,

1243
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: we saw the I saw the video of him on

1244
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: the field, but they get no, it's great.

1245
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 3: I loved it.

1246
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 1: I thought it was great, But my.

1247
00:50:56,320 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 3: Giddy my question is like, why do these people went, dude,

1248
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 3: thank you, that's my quest. Reese Witherspoon. They're all there,

1249
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 3: but they don't wear Nashville SC stuff like Kobe call

1250
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 3: singing the Nationalism were in Nashville s C. Jersey. It

1251
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 3: drives me insane that Giannis is a minority owner of

1252
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 3: the team and I supposedly he was wearing a jersey later,

1253
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 3: but when he's out on the field, dude, rock a

1254
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 3: freaking jersey, Like it drives me insane, Like why do

1255
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 3: more owners and people not take their cues from Mark

1256
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:31,800
Speaker 3: Cuban to be the reason you're a fan or I

1257
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 3: would think the reason you have the team is you're

1258
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,959
Speaker 3: a fan. And where the jersey? Where the gear? Wear

1259
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 3: a hat? Why do we wear suits? Why do we wear

1260
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:45,359
Speaker 3: Nike sweatpants instead of Nashville SC gear? Okay, thank you,

1261
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 3: all right, Dax, I'm sorry, thank you for coming into.

1262
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,399
Speaker 1: Really that was a good rant to end the pod

1263
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: Man Yeah, all right, make it easy. Thanks guys,