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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're rocking

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Speaker 1: a glow in the dark skeleton onesie every single night

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Speaker 1: on the couch. This month, it's officially Spooky season, y'all.

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Speaker 1: On today's show, I talk to Kansas City current defender

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Speaker 1: Kayla Sharples about what it's really like to get traded

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Speaker 1: mid season, how she orchestrated her own next stop, getting

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Speaker 1: stuck on slack with your old team, and more. Plus

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Speaker 1: Melaurt tonight you fight your dad. It's all coming up

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Speaker 1: right after this. Producer Mish has got your need to

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Speaker 1: know today. Take it away, Mesh.

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Speaker 2: In the WNBA, we promised you an update on the

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Speaker 2: Connecticut Sun Minnesota Links semifinal series, so here we are

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Speaker 2: making good on it. The Visiting Sun one game one,

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Speaker 2: seventy three to seventy in, y'all, Every play was scrappy.

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Speaker 2: The will to win was on full display for both sides.

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Speaker 2: Absolute Cinema Mini was in control for a long in

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Speaker 2: the middle of the contest, answering every run the Sun

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Speaker 2: put together, but a late surge in some clutch buckets

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Speaker 2: from Melissa Thomas in the final minute of action put

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Speaker 1: Front for good. She's just a hooper, y'all Hooper.

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Speaker 2: Thomas finished up with a near triple double again seventeen points,

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Speaker 2: ten rebounds, and nine assists Marina Maybreport. In twentyd Wanna

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Speaker 2: Bonner had ten points and eleven boards, and Dja Carrington

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Speaker 2: and the Fista. Collier was held to just nineteen points

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Speaker 2: after scoring eighty yeah eighty in two games.

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Speaker 1: In Round one. Six.

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Speaker 2: Player of the Year candidate Bridget Carlton added seventeen of

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Speaker 2: In an important note, Dawana Bonner made history when she

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Speaker 2: stepped onto the court for her eighty third yeah you

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Speaker 2: heard me, her eighty third playoff game, breaking the WNBA

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Speaker 2: record for most playoff appearances in league history. Lindsay Whalen

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Speaker 2: held the previous record with eighty two games. Since making

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Speaker 2: her WNBA debut in two thousand and nine, team has

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Speaker 2: made the playoffs every year she has played, from her

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Speaker 2: title run with the Phoenix Mercury as a rookie to

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Speaker 2: five straight semi finals appearances with the Connecticut Sun.

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Speaker 1: That consistency is nuts. Go ahead, dB oh.

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Speaker 2: In another tidbit, in case you don't already love everything

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Speaker 2: about Marina Mayby like I we do. She grabbed herself

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Speaker 2: a little popcord in some soda after the game en

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Speaker 2: route to the press conference, because after you help your

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Speaker 2: team win a game one, it's natural to get a

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Speaker 2: little snacky, too real girl. But in all seriousness, I

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Speaker 2: think it's more than fair to say she's been one

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Speaker 2: of the most impactful midseason trades this league has ever seen.

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Speaker 2: Connecticut needed a player to match the team's intensity and

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Speaker 2: who could get buckets, check and check anyway. Both semifinals

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Speaker 2: series continue tonight. First up is the Aces and the

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Speaker 2: Liberty at seven thirty pm Eastern, with the Liberty leading one.

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Speaker 2: Sun Links tips off at nine thirty. Both games are

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Speaker 2: on ESPN two.

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Speaker 1: A little more WNBA news.

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Speaker 2: We have dats on the expansion draft for the newest

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Speaker 2: wa NBA team, the Golden State Valkyries, who start playing

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Speaker 2: next season. The league announced Monday that the expansion draft

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Speaker 2: will be held December sixth on ESPN.

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Speaker 1: Here's how it's going to work. Each of the.

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Speaker 2: Twelve current WNBA teams is allowed to protect a max

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Speaker 2: of six players. All other players will be available for

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Speaker 2: selection in the expansion draft from that unprotected player pool,

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Speaker 2: Golden State will be allowed to acquire the player contract

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Speaker 2: than that. For example, Golden State will be allowed to

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Speaker 2: select a free agent during the expansion Draft. We ask

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Speaker 2: and we're told that any free agent in that situation

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Speaker 2: won't be automatically signed by the Valkyries. Being selected would

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Speaker 2: just mean the Valkyries have the right to core that

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Speaker 2: player and sign them to a super max contract. Otherwise,

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Speaker 2: the player will become an unrestricted free agent when free

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Speaker 2: To tennis, The round of sixteen at the China Open

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Speaker 2: will feature a star studded match today between Naomi Osaka

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Speaker 2: Slam champs have met in more than two years. Their

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Speaker 2: current overall record against each other is tied to two.

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Speaker 2: I'm torn because I love them both, but that's gonna

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Speaker 2: be some grade A tennis. Finally, we want to give

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Speaker 2: a shout out to hockey players Marie Felippe, Pulen and

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Speaker 2: Laura Stacey who got married over the weekend. Guessing Marcus

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Speaker 2: Alex wrote this for me, y'all, and al, I don't

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Speaker 2: get it. So do you care to explain what's going

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Speaker 3: Nothing would give me more joy than telling you about Marcus.

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Speaker 1: We know you love the goss.

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Speaker 3: You know I love the goss. Okay, So here's what happened.

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Speaker 3: Pulein and Stacy both play for Montreal, and at the

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Speaker 3: very beginning of last season, the inaugural season, in the

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Speaker 3: team's first win, Stacy scored a goal and pool An

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Speaker 3: user wrote, quote score a goal and Sally with your

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Speaker 3: fiance now because it's Twitter and there are lots of

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Speaker 3: bozos in the comments, naturally, and her Marcus, who replied

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Speaker 3: him with quote she's gay, Marcus, and it has taken

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Speaker 3: on a life of its own. Polen and Stacey even

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Speaker 2: She's gay, Marcus, she'sa gay.

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Speaker 1: So are we no?

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Speaker 3: Now you know about their lesbian Stacy?

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Speaker 1: Right? No, you don't know about their lesbian Stacy. Oh

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Speaker 1: my no, I know about and they were roommates.

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Speaker 1: So excited? Okay.

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Speaker 3: So at the Tokyo Olympics, the US and Australia met

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Speaker 3: and after the game, Christy Muis and Sam Kerr were

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Speaker 3: There were photos that were posted of them, and somebody

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Speaker 3: named Stacy replied, friendship has no boundaries, win or lose.

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Speaker 3: Friends are still friends. Yeah, totally, And the internet was like, Stacy,

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Speaker 3: they're lesbians.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: You know I've had quite a few of those moments myself.

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Speaker 2: So my shout outs, my heart goes out to everybody

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Speaker 2: who's ever been in that situation, because they are lesbians.

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Speaker 1: Stacy, they are lesbian.

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Speaker 3: She's gay, Marcus, she's gay.

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Speaker 1: She's gay. All right, that's you need to know today, y'all.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, Sarah, thanks me. We got to take

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Speaker 1: a break when we come back. She used to be

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Speaker 4: What's up, Kayla, Hi, Sarah, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: I think I mostly miss your family now that you're gone,

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Speaker 1: You were like prepping for games and playing in them,

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Speaker 4: So I know it was at a little bumm that

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Speaker 4: I never got to join you guys, there are definitely

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Speaker 1: Oh well, it's nice to see a couple at Wrigley.

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Speaker 1: And your brother still lives in my neighborhood, so every

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Speaker 1: the Street. Thank you so much for coming on. I'm

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Speaker 1: so interested to talk to you because I think in

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Speaker 1: who gets traded mid SI and like the side that's

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Speaker 1: You spent all of your professional career with the Red Stars.

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Speaker 4: So yes, I played my first five of professional seasons

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Speaker 4: Every year presented different challenges, and even though it was

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's get to the news of when you're

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Speaker 4: So surprisingly, it actually kind of was all along process.

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Speaker 1: You're all grown up. You're such a mature adult about

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Speaker 4: Yeah right, I mean you're going to see You're going

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Speaker 4: So, even though I knew everything or suspected some things

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Speaker 4: What a great experience to have. But Tuesday, since we

436
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:12,399
Speaker 4: had a game that kind of took up that whole day.

437
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,760
Speaker 4: Couldn't pack, couldn't do anything. Wednesday, Kansas City wanted me

438
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,440
Speaker 4: in town by Wednesday. I said I need at least

439
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,920
Speaker 4: one more day because I have to pack. So basically

440
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 4: packed all day from Wednesday, and I did it all

441
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:30,159
Speaker 4: night or which I haven't done since college. Maybe had

442
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:33,880
Speaker 4: like fifteen minutes of sleep, and pulled an all nighter.

443
00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 4: Got on a plane Thursday morning very early, like five am,

444
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 4: landed in Kansas City, went to bed right away at

445
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 4: like five pm, woke up, and then had training Friday

446
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 4: morning with Kansas City and met everyone, and then we

447
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 4: flew out to North Carolina midday. So yeah, it happened

448
00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:56,639
Speaker 4: very very quickly.

449
00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 1: How do I you ship it?

450
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,160
Speaker 4: Or that was my packing for twenty four hours. Yeah,

451
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 4: I shipped everything into boxes, brought them to ups and

452
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 4: then actually I had some teammates that helped me because

453
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,359
Speaker 4: those boxes are sixty pounds. Now, yeah, a professional athlete, but.

454
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,399
Speaker 1: I once did the whole put all the books in

455
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 1: one box thing.

456
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:16,880
Speaker 4: Never never again.

457
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 1: It's just such a rookie move space. Okay, so your

458
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 1: teammates help you pack all the boxes, you send everything

459
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 1: what happens with things like your rent. Is that something

460
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 1: the team handles? Is that something you had to figure out?

461
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 4: So right now, the NW cell provides team housing, and

462
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 4: so that's what I was in. So we get you

463
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 4: can either get a stipend from the league and then

464
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 4: you can get your own apartment or place. But I

465
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 4: decided to just do team housing so I don't have

466
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,720
Speaker 4: to actually give money straight to a landlord and whatnot

467
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 4: and do all those intricacies. The team handles it for me.

468
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 4: And also a good thing about team housing is that

469
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 4: furniture is provided. Everything's already set there. You don't have

470
00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,159
Speaker 4: to worry about it in case you get traded and

471
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 4: things like that. That causes an extra layer of chaos

472
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 4: and stress when you're moving and you have to sell everything,

473
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 4: all your furniture whatnot. So that was a good thing.

474
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 4: I actually had like a little garage sale on my things.

475
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 4: I ended up though it was at like ten pm

476
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 4: at night. The girls had to get up early. So

477
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,400
Speaker 4: only like a few girls came over and I said,

478
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 4: all right, who wants this? Who wants this? Before taking

479
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 4: my toilet paper, my dishwashing pods, like then you go.

480
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 1: It's other than throwing it out. I love that you

481
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: didn't just throw it out.

482
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 4: Yeah, so what about that?

483
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 1: What about like your Bay jerseys or anything that was

484
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,400
Speaker 1: team branded or you branded.

485
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, also I just put in an order TODAYFC

486
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 4: they have some cool years, so I actually put I

487
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 4: paid some with my own money. I got like a

488
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,680
Speaker 4: few weeks before, so I only got maybe one way

489
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 4: out of them, so that was a little unfortunate. I

490
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 4: did give some of that stuff to my teammates. I

491
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 4: want them to be able to wear it.

492
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,199
Speaker 1: But jersey, you can also keep it for when your

493
00:24:58,280 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: career is done. You should have a little bit of

494
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:00,640
Speaker 1: f each place.

495
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 4: I like a little memorabilia, like that's the plan where

496
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 4: I have it in my study or something. Absolutely so

497
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 4: like I didn't get rid of any of my jerseys.

498
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 4: I actually since I knew this was going to happen.

499
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 4: I think on that Tuesday night right for the game

500
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 4: or Wednesday at training, when I packed up my locker,

501
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 4: I brought in my white jersey, my home and my

502
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 4: home and away kit, and all the girls on the

503
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 4: team signed up for me.

504
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 1: Oh nice.

505
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 4: So that was really that was really sweet and something

506
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 4: you know, I'll cherish forever, just because they were awesome teams.

507
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,480
Speaker 4: The girls made it that much better. One of the

508
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 4: most close knit teams I've been a part of. And

509
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 4: of course it's the first season of BFC and to

510
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 4: be able to be a part of history and all

511
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 4: of those first I wanted to have it into one thing,

512
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 4: a compilation, and so that was that jersey. I'll definitely

513
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,920
Speaker 4: be framing that. Yeah, and of course I kept some

514
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 4: some other things too, just because I think it's just

515
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 4: such a cool part to be on the side of history.

516
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 1: Not just playing Bay the first season, but y'all were

517
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: the ones who played the Red Stars at Wrigley Field,

518
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 1: so you have that memory, that history, which for a

519
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: Chicago native is especially awesome. What about is there anything else?

520
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 1: I know, in like football, it's always the very like

521
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 1: proverbial turn in your playbook? What about anything proprietary? Is

522
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: the are their computer programs or logins or like I

523
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: just know I have friends who have been like, oh,

524
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: I got fired today, and like they just deleted my

525
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 1: email with like no warning. I couldn't go message people

526
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: and tell them they couldn't reach me anymore, like all

527
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: that stuff. What about any of that?

528
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 4: Actually? No, so I was still on the threads. I

529
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 4: think we had slack or something, so I was still

530
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 4: into the team threads getting some information, some information I

531
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 4: probably shouldn't have seen by Tay to close it out

532
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 4: real quick, and then within a few days they had

533
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,879
Speaker 4: removed me from it. So I still was though in

534
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 4: the player group chat, and unfortunately I had to remove myself,

535
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 4: which is, you know, it's a bit sad. There's that

536
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 4: at the heartstrings a little bit. But yeah, so I

537
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 4: had a those are really the only things that you

538
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 4: would have to remove yourself on.

539
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 1: Okay, So you and I got coffee right before you

540
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,679
Speaker 1: were leaving to go out west. You were really psyched

541
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: for the Bay Area. How do you reset your expectations

542
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 1: and pivot to Kansas City both as a team and

543
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: a place mid season because you don't have the off

544
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: season to get geared up for it.

545
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been a little bit challenging. I think what

546
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 4: the most challenging part has been, I was in this

547
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 4: limbo for so long of not knowing if I'm going

548
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 4: anywhere right that takes its own toll mentally, and then

549
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 4: everything happening so quickly. But then I need to be

550
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 4: integrated right away because I don't have any off season.

551
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 4: I didn't have the Summer Cup that we just had

552
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 4: to prepare integrate into the team. I'm actually very happy

553
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 4: that they decided to travel me to North Carolina like

554
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 4: that day I arrived basically to integrate with the team,

555
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 4: to be around the girls, around the staff, really see

556
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 4: what they're all about, what they want to do on

557
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 4: the field, be there in a game, and actually see

558
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 4: it firsthand before I partain to pay it. So I

559
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 4: think that was really good right off the bat. And yeah,

560
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 4: it's hard. I think I'm a talkative person. I like

561
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 4: to ask questions. I'm curious, So I think that's helping

562
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,239
Speaker 4: me right now because everything's so new and I need

563
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 4: to get up to speed, and the only way to

564
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 4: do to do that is if I'm active in it,

565
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 4: proactive and asking those questions. So everyone has welcomed me

566
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 4: with open arms and have been great answering all those things.

567
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean there's not a lot of leeway

568
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 4: right now, and we're playing a lot of great teams

569
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 4: right now, top four teams, and I was kind of

570
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 4: I was actually talking to coach Blaco today when we

571
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 4: had a little meeting right after training, just talking about

572
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 4: how it's going so far things that you know, I

573
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 4: might need to improve on things I'm doing really well.

574
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 4: Just how am I settling in? And I was saying,

575
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,239
Speaker 4: you know, it would have been nice to maybe come

576
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 4: a little bit earlier, get those games in the Summer

577
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 4: Cup feel a little bit more sound. But hey, I'm

578
00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,479
Speaker 4: thrown right into it. It's high stakes. Maybe there's pressure

579
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 4: and things like that, but I'll rise to the occasion.

580
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 4: The team will rise to the occasion. Right now, with

581
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 4: where we're at in the standings and just we got

582
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 4: to get through it. There's a little little room for

583
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 4: error at this point.

584
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, just a couple weeks left. What about soccer wise?

585
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: So you just kind of mentioned it, But like strategically,

586
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: what's the toughest part of joining a team mid season?

587
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 4: I think the philosophy, like on the field, figuring out

588
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 4: their defensive principles, what they like to do in attack,

589
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 4: figuring out the players around you and their tendencies. You

590
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 4: might have a player that wants to ball behind and defeat.

591
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 4: Maybe they're showing into seam too, like right in front

592
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 4: of you, but like they actually don't want it there,

593
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 4: they want it somewhere else. Getting all those things in

594
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 4: alignment is difficult. I mean, honestly, at Bay we were

595
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 4: six seven months in and we were still trying to

596
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 4: figure that out. So it's something that every team in

597
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 4: the beginning and season always struggles with because you have

598
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 4: a new group of women and a new team. But yeah,

599
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 4: that's something on the field that you really have to

600
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 4: just prepared, and the only way to prepare is by

601
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 4: doing it and practicing it and getting that actual time

602
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 4: and minutes in.

603
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, personally and emotionally too, you have to

604
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: find your place. You've got Vanessa d Bernardo. She's an

605
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: old teammate from Chicago and the Red Stars, so you've

606
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: got that person on Casey's roster. But other than that,

607
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: you're just the new kid dropped into this whole group

608
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: for the last seven to eight weeks of the season.

609
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: No matter how high functioning a team is, there's still

610
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: clicks and groups and people who are best friends, people

611
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: who don't hang out as much. Where do you even

612
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: begin to start trying to figure out, like, is it

613
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: just oh, well, I guess my other defenders are my

614
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: people a.

615
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 4: Little bit, right, No, actually, I have a former Northwestern

616
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 4: teammate also on the team, Reagan Styebletter. So she was great,

617
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 4: especially that first trip in North Carolina we were roommates.

618
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 4: She was kind of giving the lay of the land,

619
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:57,959
Speaker 4: you know, what works with the team, the team culture,

620
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 4: things do and don't, just kind of helping me through it.

621
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 4: And so that was really great help me make that

622
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 4: transition a little bit easier. So I'm really grateful for

623
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 4: her for that. And of course I knew V two,

624
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 4: So just having a familiar face is it's it makes

625
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 4: it a little bit easier. But yeah, it will take

626
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 4: some time for me to find my people. I had

627
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 4: a lot of you know, my friends and former teammates

628
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 4: and family members when I was making that transition, being like, Okay,

629
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 4: are you got to be yourself? Bring the light that

630
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 4: you have all these things. I'm like, yeah, but I'm

631
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 4: a little crazy. Sometimes I got to eat into it

632
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 4: because I don't want to scare these people. But no,

633
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 4: I'm opening up for sure. It didn't take me that

634
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 4: much time because again, I'm quite social. I'm out there,

635
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 4: I could be a lot. So everyone's been Yeah, it's

636
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 4: been great. A lot of the girls on the team

637
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 4: are just freaking funny there. Yeah. They Yeah, they're just

638
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 4: great humans and they make me laugh. Then it's a

639
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 4: great environment to be in because you can have that

640
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 4: lighthearted side, but also when you know it's time to

641
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 4: grind and get out of win and be six, well

642
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 4: they know what it takes.

643
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: Casey's had a great season. So being in both places

644
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: in the same season. Is it talent? Is it chemistry?

645
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: Is it coaching? Is it luck? Is it injuries?

646
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 2: Like?

647
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: What is the difference in the outcomes that you've been

648
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: able to see from being in both places?

649
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 4: The firepower? I want to almost say this team is

650
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 4: super talented on all levels, so defensively, mid in the midfield,

651
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 4: you have some of the best midfielders, forwards. I mean,

652
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 4: it's so great. As soon as I knew I was

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Speaker 4: Helene is on my team now? Like she is so

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Speaker 4: incredibly hard to defend. You think you have her and

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Speaker 4: And I think that's what makes them so dangerous, is

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Speaker 4: fine tune those things, especially going into playoffs, which I

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Speaker 1: luck and we'll be uh. I keep telling people all

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