Sarah and Trysta talk footy. Trinity Rodman out indefinitely, Spirit break Pride's 22-game win streak, and Canadian Professional Soccer League takes flight. Plus, Team USA Hockey captures a world championship and we break down what's left of the messy NCAA WBB transfer portal.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, welcome in. It's let her shoot.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Sarah's in a bad mood today, but she's gonna thug
it out. We're gonna talk about some shit first and foremost,
speaking of shit, we're gonna talk about Carson Beck's whack ass.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
All right, episode? What number are we on? This is three?
Episode three? Let her shoot?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
And you're in a different corner of the same room,
and I am yet in a different room once again.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Three episodes, three different rooms.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
And you've been in three different quarters of a four
sided room. So which one are you gonna be in
next week?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I've been in the same corner since last week.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Oh that's the same corner, yep, it looks different to me.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's your corner, the one that you did and you
were having episode episode one that has a little bit
more dimensional demensional.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Tiger's making an appearance in the bag.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I like him walking around.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
All right, he's just gonna he's the third member of
the pod.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I can't really see him.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
You can't really see him. He's just a big fluffy thing.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
No, it's not on camera for this.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Oh, he's right there.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I can't see him.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Would you bring in withy today?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I didn't bring her.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But I did see there's a dog in this workspace
that I'm in named Oyster.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Dog's name is Oyster.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Which is a wild, wild, fucking name. Especially if a
dog was named Oyster. What color do you think it
would be?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
White?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Oysters aren't white, but pearls are.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, but I asked what color? Oysters are not pearls.
If the dog's name was pearl, I would think it
was white. But this girl's color blind. I would have
thought at least gray oysters themselves in the can? Are
the dirty dirty gray dog's white oysters in a can?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, you don't have oysters in a can?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Okay, well they're fire anyway. This dog Oyster Pomerania.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
She's ten and that's my desk neighbor.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And I have a dog, Ma, And the woman's name
is Emma. By the way, here's a spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
The woman at the desk, her name is Emma. And
I said, wow, my name crazy enough. My name is Oyster.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
So we gonna say that.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
I just knew that was gonna be the punchline. Wait,
what color is the dog? I didn't get an answer.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
White?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Oh, so I was.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Right, Yeah, Emma's black and Oyster is white, and Oyster
is the de facto.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
This is where the this is.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Where the pressure of the moment gets very high. So
Oysters actually the workspace is like honorary symbol mascot when
you take your little orientation. Oyster is the photo of
like what the greeting of dogs. So Emma's kind of aggressive.
(02:34):
So if Emma hurts Oyster in any way, it's a wrap.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I'm kicked out.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Emma better be on her best behavior.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, yeah, good news is Emma is a bit. Oyster
is a beta dog, So I think they're good.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Oyster is a beta dog.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You know who's not a beta Hannah Cavender, Hannah Coven,
She's a boss bitch.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Did you see the video?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Okay, so hey guy, by the way, let's go back
and say this is the headlines part of the show.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Okay, I'll just clip it and.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You can double it. I mean, you can use it
here and there.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Okay, should I use your direction to Kai Trump?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Who is Trump? Is that a Trump or real Trump?
Or is it like a real Trump? Point?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
No, no, it's a real Trump if I remember correctly.
She plays golf with Tiger and Woods. Okay, she plays
golf with Tiger Woods.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And what Charlie in what capacity does she play?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
They all live in they all live in Jupiter, Okay,
so what relation.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I just need the relationship to to Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I'm pretty sure that she's his granddaughter granddaughter.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I think it's Junior's daughter.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
A ts no, No, that's no, because is DJ Trump.
It's I think Donald J. Trump is the junior? Is
he not like the president is the junior?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Okay, So Don Junior's daughter.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Don Junior's daughter is apparently friends with the Covenders had
a party, which I'm confused because I thought Kay Trump
was like seventeen.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Great point so much.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I'm gonna google this because because.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I was thinking it was like, what's that person's name
that does all the gossip and he's got like a
fake Nah.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
She's seventeen.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, she's seventeen.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Okay, So then that makes this video even more confusing.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Now Tiger is.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I can see his tail. What is that gossip guy name?
He's like A he's like A it's like anir. It's no,
it's like a. Uh. What was her name?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
She did that like thing with Nicole Richie Paris Hilton Perez.
Hilton thought that Kai Trump was like Kai Sinnett and
like a fake Trump. Like you know, if you had
a creator that was a gossip rag, call him in
and they're like, Oh, I'm Ky Trump. I'm gonna combining
these two super viral names. No, that's actually a person's name,
Kai Trump.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
It's a person's name, and she's so. She's seventeen and
for whatever reason, was hanging out with the convenders. I
did not I didn't look into it enough as to why.
So she posts a vlog on something YouTube. Maybe I
mean to be fair.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I just saw the clip of this on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
And Hayley and Hannah are talking to Kai about the
breakup with Miami quarterback Carson Carson Beck one of the
one of the punched out of his What is the
I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
He kicked out kicked his covery.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
He outkicked his coverage. But then there's like over punched,
punched up, punched up. He out kicked his coverage. All right,
we'll just we'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So he out kicked his coverage in nabbing Hannah and
then somehow fumbled the bag. YEP, I don't know what
you're doing. What you're looking at why you're doing it.
I don't know what it means.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Just let it go. It just is like looking into
my soul when you do that.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
So, I mean, apparently it's not just what did she say?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
And I broke up him?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And like all these cheating chicken out?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I know, I didn't break up with them because I
broke up with him because they're like.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Who what? Basically she said, I don't really care that
he was doing all that stuff on Snapchat and I
told him, like, you need to get your snapchat in order.
But really I broke up with him because he's a
piece of shit, really and no and has no friends,
No one likes him, No one likes.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Him, which is, you know, unsurprising.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Do you think she knew that was gonna go on
a vlog when she was saying it?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
There was literally really had the camera out and she's
talking into it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Like I'm talking to you right now, and I'm like, ooh,
this is on Comfy.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, I'm assuming that she would.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I mean, these kids know when cameras are pointed that, yeah,
things are going on the internet, like they say it
for effect on someone.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I love that this is happening to a guy that's
just a piece of shit, like like.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And now he's stuck at Miami.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Meanwhile, meanwhile her sister, could there be any difference between
twins when her sister, Haley Cavender just got engaged to
a Dallas cowboy tight end. And by the way, what
a trope. You don't have to marry athletes. If you're
a woman athlete, you don't have to also date. Why
(07:24):
don't you find yourself a nice guy at Intel?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You know, because where are they going to meet? Where
are they gonna meet?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
They meet in the student cafeteria, they meet in the well,
to be fair, they meet in the dms.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
They meet in the dms. Fine, come on, it goes
down in them. Why why do you have to date athletes?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Find somebody else. There's other influencers that don't use a ball.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That's what I have to say.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
So you have to say about that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
That's really all we I mean, this is just news.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
This is just like, this's just run through it.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
We got a couple other big headlines from today, mostly
in the realm of.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
We should probably let people try know that this was
the headlines part of the show.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Tell me about some of these transfer portal big. I mean,
there's some big names in the transfer portal that moved
around to shuffling around today.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, Jania Barker goes from UCLA to Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
She was at A and M, so she's moved around
a lot. We kind of knew the.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Writing was on the wall when Jania Barker wasn't really
messing around with Lauren Betts. They weren't in the lineup
at the same time. Lauren Betts comes back to play
with her sister Sienna, so she goes to the transfer portal.
You could kind of tell on the Sweet sixteen in
the Elite eight that she was probably out of there.
She goes to Tennessee, which I think is a great
fit for her. She's already been in the SEC before,
and she was the youngest player to ever make the
(08:42):
preseason All SEC team before her sophomore.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Year, so that's her.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
London Jones now goes to USC She transfers from UCLA,
stays in LA. She sets the UCLA record for most
made threes in a season this year. I think that's
an interesting one, not a huge one, but the biggest
one probably.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Is the bucket getter herself.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
With some of the nastiest handles you've probably seen in
the women's game, and that's Kyomi mcmiller and Kimmy mcmiller
played for Rutgers. She's actually a DMV silver Spring kid,
grew up in New Jersey. She plays like she grew
up in New Jersey too, And so when she ended
up leaving Rutgers, well, first and foremost back this up.
So I don't know if you remember this, but Kyomi
(09:23):
mcmiller had to go on Instagram and say, Hey, Rutgers
is playing USC and Juju Watkins and I am not
gonna be able to play in this game. I've been
sat not I'm like suspended, and there wasn't it was suspended.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
There's not a lot of reasons why she was held
out of the game. So she interesting she ends up
not playing in that game.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Turns out she wanted the green light from Rutgers. Her
coach gave.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Her that green light. When she committed.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Her teammates got a little bit salty that she was
taking so many damn shots and they weren't a good team.
They were never gonna beat me one unless she went
off for like forty points game and average nineteen points
per game in her freshman season, and so then she's
she's a.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Bat of there.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
She only played six more games after that US holdout,
and then we're like, okay, well, where is Kiomi gonna go?
Is she gonna go to like LSU, she gonna go
to South Carolina?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
She gonna go to Texas?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Do you know one of the schools that normally people
who are that good go to. And it turns out
she's going to Penn State, which is to me quite
a surprise.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And now.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
She so I don't remember a lot about her recruitment,
but she was not a heavily recruited player, is that correct.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I don't think she was a five star No, I
mean she was. I think she was a player that
people were after. But the knock on her is kind
of what the knock on her still is, which is
she's not a winning player. She's kind of a selfish player.
She just wants to put buckets up. She's kind of
in the same category as Malaysia four Willy is in
(11:01):
terms of reputation. Just wants to go out there and
put on a show, which I can let's be honest,
I can respect it.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
So does this new spot, this landing spot for her
at Penn State. Does you think that fits in with
her wanting to be the star of the show. I mean,
because Penn State's not you.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Know, there's no there's no there're buns stars there.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, they're buns. And I think ged absolutely had to
do with that. She probably talked to the coach.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
She's like, all right, I want to stay in the
Big Ten, and I want to play Rutgers twice a
year and I want to cook them fools.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And they're like, hey, well we'll let you have the rock.
We'll do.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
What I will allow Caitlin Clark to do is shoot
a bajillion shots per game. Somebody put pointed this out
in my comments on Instagram, which I think is super fair.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Penn State a ton.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Of money in terms of their alumni base, so they
could probably pay Kiomi, you know, quite a bit of
money in order.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
For her to play there. So it's a I was surprised.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I don't think that's the right place for her to be,
but I don't really know what her priorities are either.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Malaysiah ful Wiley. You brought her up. There are some
updates on on where she might go.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, so that now there are reports that Malaysia Malaysia
Ful Wiley is sent to visit Kim Moulki and LSU.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
What do you think of that her infloge together.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, that's a that's a star studded team. That's a
that's a team that I'm not sure how many turnovers
are going to have for a game. How are they
gonna get the shots to everybody? But you're talking about
the number thirteenth overall recruit before going to South Carolina,
and I think Molchi is a great place for guards
to shine. Right, We're seeing that this has occurred. Doesn't
(12:46):
necessarily mean that's going to translate to the w But
in college.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
She's had a bunch of guards that have looked really,
really good.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
If LSU gets Sarah Williams, who is Wisconsin's who's been
visiting campus as well, and Flage, that would be they might.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Be the number one team coming into the next year.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
You'd put them over Yukon.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I mean, they'd be right up there. They'd be right
up there.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
The WNBA on a little bit of a hiatus now
for the next couple of weeks, I mean not totally.
We're still going to hear little bits and pieces coming
out of training camps, coming out of you know, press conferences,
intros to the teams. But our focus is really switching
now mainstream to soccer ANDWSL, which.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
The season started, you know, about a.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Month ago now and it's still early on in the season,
but the my Washington Spirit are already looking I mean,
they're looking burnt down, but they're also looking a little
bit tough.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
So I'm happy about that.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Phenix like the Phoenix rising.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
The phoenix rising from the ashes, like literally, that's what's
happening right now. The other day they announced Trinity Rodman
out indefinitely.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
That kind of crazy. That's kind of crazy though, because
it kind of left it felt and it felt you know.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
The thing that I thought was super interesting was the
way that it came out was like really very under
the radar. It came out on a Friday, on a
slow news day, and it was just like, oh yeah,
Trinity's not gonna play against Orlando and oh yeah. Like
the second tweet was like, also, she's out indefinitely, and
then like the third one was like, oh yeah, also
(14:24):
she's in She's in London right now at Ben Shelton's
Like tennese.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Was actually Munich, was actually in Munich, Okay. But her
doctor wasn't.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Like, I got it. So she's over the pond, She's
over the pond.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
She's over there.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, And so at first I was kind of like, oh,
this is kind of like a little like hiatus, almost
like when you say my neck, my back, my neck
and my back, and it's like you just really want
to support your man. And but it didn't really make
sense because they were playing the defending chance. But who knows, right,
And then it was like, oh, yeah, no, she's out indefinitely.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Right, And you know, I remember, I didn't even know
that she was out until I saw the picture of
her at Ben Shelton's game, and I went, there's a
there's a game today, and it's it's not in Germany.
I can tell you that it was in Orlando. So
I don't really understand what our starting forward is doing
sitting in a stadium in Munich watching By the way,
(15:20):
By the way, a little bit of a theory. Did
you notice in that video she's got no braids. She
took her braids out, shook the pink braids out. Yeah,
I did, which I wonder if it was a little
bit like, was she trying to be like fly under
the radar, like no one because you see pink braids,
you're gonna know it's Trinity Rodman.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Definitely. I think anytime you're a celebrity.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Of that magnitude, you probably want to fly under the
radar if you haven't had messaging about what you're gonna
do with your injury. And I don't know if she
was saying that she was ready to announce that. That's
kind of interesting too.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
And I'm curious. I mean, we don't know, We have
no idea. Is this indefinite leave of absence?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Is it is it a week?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Will she be back training with the team, you know,
in two weeks from now? Or is this we're not
going to see her the rest of the Is this
a season ending injury? Now that we don't We've got
to fill this role in Washington, uh, for the rest
of the year, which is a long season at And
you know.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
What's really interesting too, is like you mentioned, she's the
starting forward, but she hasn't been starting. She's been coming
off the bench in every match that she's played in
so far this year, which I thought was precautionary, but
maybe her back was worse than we really thought it was.
She said in that friendly that they just played, the
(16:37):
national team just played, that everything.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Was against Brazil.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Against Brazil, excuse me that essentially she's been fined for
a while now and that she's feeling good.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
It does make you wonder a little bit about like,
what's going I mean, what's going on in Washington here,
because they've had they have eleven players on the injured
list right now, which I mean elevin out of a
you know, a full NWSL roster is anywhere from twenty
two to twenty five players, So they have almost half
(17:09):
the team out right now with injuries, which is astronomical.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
And to me, as someone who doesn't really follow the
NWSL as closely as you but follows other leagues, what
you can say when an entire team or there's a
bunch of players that go down with injury, You're like, well,
what's going on with this training staff exactly? And do
I feel confident if I'm Trinity Rodman, who, by the way,
(17:35):
this isn't even more what I was thinking about until
just right now. Trinity Rodman, she's on an expiring yes,
so she's has the ability to go wherever she wants
to go after this season.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Mean theoretically we could never see her play for Washington again.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Correct, So if I'm true, right, and she's the future
face current face of the sport, and say, Trinity Rodman's
not feeling the Washington Spirits training staff and she just
decides to I don't know, kind of like Kawhi Leonard did.
So by the way, real side note, there's this guy
Kawhi Leonard in the NBM NBA and.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yeah, he's the one that has the funny laugh.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah he has a ha ha ha. I've heard that
that's the one.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
And so he had a thigh issue which turned into
like a knee issue which became very systemic, and the
team that he was playing for, the San Antonio Spurs,
he thought that they were not managing his injury well enough.
So he ended up getting his own training staff, which
kind of appears what is Trinity Rodman is doing? Like, Yo,
I don't really trust these mofos. I'm gonna go to
(18:37):
London and see a specialist. And I think even Emma Hayes,
the US women's national team, was connected to this specialist,
at least what I've read there's very little information.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
No, that would I mean, that would make sense because
she spent the last of her career in Chelsea.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
So Chelsea, so Kawhi Leonard gets his own specialist, ends
up forcing his way out of San Antonio and going
somewhere else only because of the way that they handled
his injury. So if I'm a Washington Spirit fan and
I see that the Spirit are down eleven players and
the face of the sport is one of them out indefinitely,
she could spend the entirety of the season in London
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working on her back.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Which, by the way, is an much closer proximity to
some of the squads over there that are fighting for
her contract next year right now, like Arsenal and Manchester United.
And if she's got a doctor in London that she
really trusts to take care of her back, I mean,
it's gonna be hard for her to say, no, I'm
gonna go back to Washington. If I were Michelle Kang,
(19:38):
I would be on the phone with that doctor right now.
I'd be getting his visa paperwork lined up to bring
him and his entire family to the States so that
Trinity Rodman can have whatever doctor she wants agreed.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think she's too important for you to let her go.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You can't, I mean you can't.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I mean I know that stats wise, you know the
there are forwards better with better stats than her.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
There are faster, there are more accurate there or whatever.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
But Trinity Rodman right now is the face that would
be like allowing Pagebeckers to just walk out of the WNBA.
She's too important. She's too important to putting people in
the stadium. I mean, I know she's not selling out
arenas like Caitlin Clark or Pagebackers, but she's selling jerseys.
She is garnering interest. There are people who are watching,
(20:28):
who are coming to games for her. Pagebackers went to
a Spirit game to watch Trinity Rodman play crazy. I mean,
you can't allow her to walk out?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
No, And I thinks what's fascinating just kind of spinning
it forward? Is at least the one thing that I
will say is a positive if you're a player like hers,
is when you know that the team's holding you down,
why you're gone.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
It's not all on her?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Right, So those Spirit snapped the Orlando's twenty two game
win streak and they're now second in the Power ranking.
So that's just an encouraging loss. One loss, just an
encouraging sign for a team that is without their starting
forward who's out in definitely and down eleven players in total.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
And it's not just her that's out.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
I mean, you have you have Kroy Bethune, who's been
out I mean, I want to say for over a
year now, if even that, I mean it might. I
mean they keep saying she's coming back, but we've yet
to see her actually play. So Lacy Santos, who has
I mean, she has been a really clutch goal scorer
(21:38):
for Washington since they got her. And hal hirsch Felts
out too, which is she's not a goal scorer, but
she is. I mean, she's scored important goals at important moments,
but she is a solid piece of the defense that
they're They're just depleted kind of all over the field
right now, and so they're making really some really interesting
moves I think to keep them alive and keep them
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second in the power rankings right now, which is kind
of a miracle. But they signed this girl. I love
this story. So in order to make up for this,
these consistent losses, I mean, now they're not down eleven
players every single week, but they are consistently down. I
think they have five out on season ending injuries, and
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then they have you know, like Trinity and Croy that
are just indefinite that we don't really have an end
date on. So they brought in a lot of you know,
recent signings, including this Nigerian player, and she has probably
one of the best names that I've ever heard in sport.
Her name is Gift Monday. It's the best best name.
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I read that and I went, is this her? Is
this her actual name? Is this not a real name?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
By the way, by the way, by the way, because
we already know what time it is with our girl,
our girl from Kentucky, Georgia amore in the deal with
Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I don't know if you remember the name of Russell
Westbrook's brand.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Do you remember it. It's called Honor the Gift. Oh
my god, Oh my god. Could you imagine Gift Monday
with the.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Gift the Gift?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Come on, bro, Yeah, that would be great. So so
Gift Monday signs end of March. She gets signed from
Liga F which is the Spanish and I will butcher
the name of the team if I try.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
To say it.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Uh, can I get a can I get a spell
check from the in house research or.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
A TEF Grenadia tan refa like that, we're gonna go.
So she's basically I think she's from Is that like
a Granada team?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
No, No, that's that's in Liga F. Is that she's
she's Nigerian.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah, she's Nigerian, but Granada is in Spain.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Oh I'm sorry, Yes, I understand the question.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I thought you were asking if she was from Granada
and I was like, no, she's from Nigeria.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, we got that straight. I got that.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I just want to know whether she was playing in Granada.
My nephew was teaching English in Granada.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So I had a little vested steak. I actually had
real quick.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I had an Arabian b issue in Granada where I
had bedbugs.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Never forget, had to move out.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I did not care for my one time that I
went to Spain.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You didn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I worked.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, that's what I mean by not doing anything.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Okay, well I still worked the whole time.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
How would you know if you liked the environment, if
you didn't enjoy anything other than work.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Fair enough, we'll move on. Give money to move on,
fucking be gives funny about her.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
So she so she gets signed. She gets signed end
of March, March twenty fifth. I want to say she
shows up first practice like April eighth, and then plays
one game.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
She comes in like in the seventieth minute.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
What's that April third? She arrived on April third.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
April third, thank you, I wrote that down and I
even can't read my own note. So she arrives on
April third, then gets her She came on as a
sub April eleventh. She gets limited playing time, just a
few couple minutes, just to get her. What you want
to pat on the back because you.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Read the note that I put in correctly.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Okay, little golf clip, go ahead, little golf.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Club for you. By the way, we need to get
rid of the golf clap clapping and golf.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
To be like and we need to get rid of
getting the hole. What do you mean get in the hole?
Are you a fucking idiot? It cannot get in the
whole five hundred yards away? Are you fucking stupid? Are
you fucking like slow? What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
That's the that's the frat boys.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Fucking sird you fucking squands, get out of here.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
That's the stoolies.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, like, you guys are so lame, there really are.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So anyway, Gift Monday.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
So she gets she gets there on April third, she
makes her first minutes on April eleventh, and then this
past week, first start, sixtieth minute, gets her first end
USL goal. It's the only goal of the game, snapping
Orlando's twenty two game win streak. They're no longer undefeated.
We will we love so which is you know, there's
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been sort of this like kind of budding rivalry between
the two teams lately. Which is you know, I'd like
to say that's me because I started as a as
a Pride fan. What Yeah, that's why I don't know,
because I switched allegiances.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
So so therefore.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
The fact that you became an Orlando Pride fan with
DMV roots is blasphemy.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Well, because I didn't live in the DMV.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
You had it and then it came away. Yes see,
I camera just lose you.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
So it's because when I moved to Orlando, there was
no NWSL, that didn't exist, So I didn't never lived
in DC with the NWSL until twenty twenty two got
it twenty fourteen to twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I lived in Orlando.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Watched them play, well, we both watched them play in
some sort of commissioner's exhibition game to start the season.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I don't really know what that's about.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I know it doesn't really count, but anyway, it looked
like it counted.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Yeah, and they it was a rematch of the last
year's championship, which was Spirit versus Orlando. And you know,
they got the best of the Pride got the best
of the Spirit in the first matchup last year in
the championship, vice versa in this one, they felt like
they were approving their point. So now it's sort of
like two to one Washington.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Yes, I have a random question as a non Floridian.
Is Orlando pro LGBTQ? Is that a little like is
that like a little safe space for the LGBTQ community
or No?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Let me take you on a little history lesson. So,
I don't know if you remember this. You probably probably do,
I'm assuming, but do you remember the Pulse night club attack? Yes,
so that was right in the heart of Orlando. Orlando
is very It's Disney. It's a lot of college students
that live there for Disney who come and work internships.
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It's a lot of which you know, typically, Yeah, you
have a.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Lot of people from a lot of different backgrounds.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
With that, I would say Orlando is kind of a
safe place, but I would say that there's not a
lot of like homegrown lesbians there.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
After the Polse shooting, I.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Would say that it became a safe place for the
gay community in Orlando because it became so like everyone
sort of just put like a shield around the gay
community there because it was like a no one messes
with our community type of thing, and that includes the
gay community. So now since twenty sixteen, since Donald Trump,
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I don't know, it's a little bit different down there.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
You know. That's why I don't live there anymore.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Okay, So my ignorant ass is just wondering why Orlando
thought they should get the name Pride.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
If anything, it should need a Portland Pride.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
So Portland's a big LGBT Washington Pride, big like gay community.
There's other places that should have pride other than fucking Orlando.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yeah, it's Allion's Pride.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
How about we do a trade. The Portland Thorn trade
their name to the Orlando Pride and so now it's
the Orlando Thorn and it's the Portland Pride.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
It's because most of the teams are named kind of
to coincide with the men's professional team, because apparently we
can't have women without men.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
So what's the But it's Magic, Orlando Magic.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
That's that's the basketball team.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Oh got it? The what's the MLS team? Obviously not
important enough for us.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
It is, Well, it's that it's Orlando City Soccer. It's
hold on, I have to go back to it. So
Orlando City Soccer. I don't to be fair, I don't
know why their mascot isn't a a lion, but I'm
assuming that in some capacity, and they think that it's
like the Lion's Pride. So it's the Orlando Pride. The
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women's team is somehow like under the watch of the
men's team.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I don't really undertre the no.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I mean it's a valid thing.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
I think that I have more issue with it because
it's so linked to the men's team. Like, but to
be fair, so is the Portland team.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Well timber Timber is is a plant.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
It's wood, right, It's just like it's cut down trees
and thorns are just on plants.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
You don't have to cut them, they're just on them.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Is it the city of Roses, Yes, Portland, the City
of Roses. Oh well then that's why, Yes, because it's
every rose has its thorn.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah. So it has really nothing to do with the timbers.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Okay, well that's fair.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
But regardless, I don't think that they're gonna be able
to give a name.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Away, all right, So that's just my I mean, you can.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Think about it, but I wouldn't say.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Speaking of giving things away.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Giving things away, speaking of Trinity Rodman and going to
the UK to play.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Another reason she might go.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Is the money, because unless, unless something really changes, it's
gonna be a while before the NWSL is giving out
the salaries that arguably they the players deserve. So and indubitably,
Lindsay Heaps a la Haran because I will still always
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in my head refer to her as Lindsay Horan.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
It's just, you know, it's been too long calling her that.
Every time I see Heaps, I'm like who.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
So anyway, she said in a press conference or to
reporters earlier this week that the reason this camera, the
reason that so many players top of my head, Naomi Germa,
Emily Fox, Jenna night Swanger.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Did you say Naomi Germa?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I did?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Did you say Naomi Grima?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I said Naim did?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I not? You did? But did you did? I? Somebody did?
Somebody mention Naomi Gurma.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Oh you're just excited because you heard Naomi Gurma's name.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, Batty so battie.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Naomi Gurma, Emily Fox and who's also a battie.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I mean, listen, the batties.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
They get, the baddies are getting their bread.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
The batties are going. The patties are getting their bread
in the UK. So in Britain, Batty's getting their bread
in Britain. Yeah, I mean, that's that's what it boils
down to. And you know, I think there's a lot
of validity within that statement that you can get paid
more in the UK, So why not go there? I mean,
the NWUSL salary cap right now is only three point
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five million dollars a year for each team.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Did I tell you I don't believe in a salary cap.
I don't believe in it. Fair enough, I don't believe
in I don't I think.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I think, especially when you're talking about trying to build
out the sport, and you've got people who.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Have a lot of money that think very high.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Of their ability to create profitability in a growing sport,
like Michelle Kang is doing with the Washington Spirit. If
you opened it up and said, Michelle Kang, you can
pay Trinity Robmin even if it was like one player
on your roster, unlimited salaries, just one. And if you
said that to her sheet, then you wouldn't have Naomi
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Grima moving to Chelsea. You wouldn't have Emily Fox and
Jen and I Swang are going over to Arsenal.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
So that's crazy to me.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
So the fact that you have a salary cap at
three and a half million dollars for an entire team
for a twenty twenty six players, and one of them
is getting half a million dollars a year, and that's
under getting underpaid. We got real problems here with the NWSL.
If we really want to grow it, you got to
open it up and allow them to give these girls
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their bread.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Well, you've got probably half the team making minimum wage.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
That yeah, I think I think I saw one of
the Washington Spirits players serve and Ben's Chili at the
Ben's Chili Bowl.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
You really hate Ben's Chili Bowl.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
I'm just saying that's what I thought.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
You really have to cause Ben's Chili bowl drama wherever
you go.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I just thought I saw it.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Okay, Well, I don't think you did.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
But I think the point stands that forty eight thousand
dollars a year, which is the indeed wage is crazy,
which is minimum wage of sport of of NWSL players
is not livable, not in this economy. It's forty eight
thousand dollars a year is not a livable wage.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
They're gonna have to live like uh, like teenagers are
living probably living four to an apartment and Sharon rent
and you're a pro soccer player and you could go
over to the UK and make a couple million dollars,
it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Well, look at where these teams are La San Francisco, Chicago, DC, Boston,
New York. You can't afford life in any of those
cities making forty eight thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
That's just not reasonable. I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Do you know what happened with Angel City last year
with the salary cap?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Oh, I think I heard they would. They were penalized
for going over to So.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
They got a two hundred thousand dollars fine, their GM
got suspended, their president got suspended. All of this because
they went fifty thousand dollars over the salary cap. And
the reason they went fifty thousand dollars over the salary
cap was because, I mean, now, given they were doing
some shady things, and the shady things weren't.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
They were shady.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
They were shady to the lead.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Okay, it was not shady to the players in my opinion.
So what happened was they signed these like side little
contracts away from the salary cap, away from what the
team was responsible for, and to pay childcare for five
or at least they know. Nothing has really ever been
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made public, but Sid LaRue posted about something, Sarah Gordon
posted about something. Both of them have kids, both of
them play for the Angel City. They've both kind of
hinted towards what happened, and it sounds like that the
team paid for like flights, transportation, childcare on away games,
and all of that.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
That shouldn't go towards the salary cap.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
By the way, No, but the NWSL's argument is it's
included in the salary cap, and I think that teams
get like and I could be totally wrong on this,
but I want to say it's something like five thousand
dollars a player towards, like is what they're allotted essentially
five thousand dollars a player for childcare, which anyone who's
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ever tried to raise a child would tell you that
five thousand dollars a year cannot pay for childcare.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
And did I tell you my national athletes?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Did I tell you?
Speaker 2 (36:54):
My mom asked me the other day, I didn't if
I wanted to freeze my eggs, and I said, in
this economy, I can't afford to freeze my eggs, let alone.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Pay for the kid if I ever have to have
the kid.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
When it's five thousand dollars a month for childcare, let
alone five thousand dollars for an entire season for these players, yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
I mean, it's it's they don't some of them have
multiple kids. I mean, and not to mention like it
shouldn't be about that. It should be about that you're
providing a living wage for people who work for your.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Brand, a brand that and by that I mean.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Angel City, who I think was evaluated at like two
hundred and eighty million dollars last year. So you're telling
me that a company, an organization that is evaluated over
I mean at least over two hundred and fifty million
dollars cannot pay for one of their.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Players to have childcare is valuated valuate. Okay, sorry, Trandy
Rodman is to have a baby soon.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Because here's the thing. Remember when Kaitlyn Clark came into
the league. I don't know if you remember this, but
before Kaitlyn Clark came into the league, the New York
Liberty wanted to have chartered flights for all their players.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Oh yes, And then the.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
League came down and they fined the New York Liberty
a bunch of money. I think it was five million
dollars or something, and they threatened to take draft picks away.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
It was huge. It was a big deal. And then
the Aces wanted to do it.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
I think the owner of the Aces or the owner
of the Liberty said hey, we'll just pay for everyone
to get on chartered flights.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
And they said nope.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
The league was like, Nope, can't do that. That's not
part of the collective bargaining agreement. And then a couple
of years later, Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Comes into the league and she's like.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Hey, you know, obviously face the sport transcendent talent. And
she's like, hey, you know when I was at Iowa,
we flew chartered flights, so this is kind of wild.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
And then the next day and then the next day
they all had chartered flights.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
So if Trinity Rodman has a baby and she's like
me and Blake Shelton can't take our baby on.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
That not her boyfriend's name. What's his name, Ben Shelton.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Ben Shelton.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
She's not dating Blake Shelton.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Blake Shelton's the country.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
That would be a story if Trinity Rodman made some grand.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Debut with Blake Shelton. I think the world would have
a lot of plass.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Listen, listen. I was on a roll. Okay, you were.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
I'm sorry. I just couldn't let that love that.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
I love that. That was a big error.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Blake Shelton is not like Ben Shelton at all, But
you can understand just a white guy named Shelton.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I don't think Ben Shelton is white.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
What what do you mean he's not white?
Speaker 3 (39:33):
I'm pretty sure he's not white.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Ben Shelton's not white.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Yeah, hold on, Oh yeah he's mixed. Yeah, he's half white.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
So you just got nothing right.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Just anyway, So if if Trinity Rodman and her boyfriend
Blake Shelton says, hey, we have a baby together, I
think the NWSL comes through and allows allows babysitting and
childcare for players outside of the.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
So yeah, I mean there's a whole big, there's a
whole big, deep dive I want to do at some
point on maternity and motherhood and sports. And there's a
lot of there's a lot of red tape in both
the WNBA and the NWSL. I'd be curious to dig
into the PWHL's policies on all that too, because there's
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a lot of I think people that talk owners I
mean not owners, yes, owners, lawyers, agents who make negotiations,
who don't consider who don't consider the long term of
the players and all that. And there's a lot I
could get into in a lot of soapboxes I can
sit on, but I won't do that right now. Instead,
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I'd like to move just a little bit north of
the border. Well, I mean I'd like to move north
of the border regardless, because right now feels like a
safer place to be, but specifically specifically, Canada started their
own professional women's soccer league, debuted last week. So very
excited for our Canadian neighbors.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Up.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
I bet the I bet the Northern super League pays
for maternity leave for their players.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
I actually don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
No, they probably don't. I bet Canada just in general.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Pace probably Well. See here's the difference.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Canada has healthcare, so exactly, you don't really have that
same cost out of pocket as you do in the
United States to have a child.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
I'm gonna be honest, I don't know a lot about
the Super League. I know we talked about it a
couple of months ago that it was happening. What I'm
curious about is why it's starting.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Yeah, so I don't know a ton about it either.
I haven't done a full great you know, we're both
dig into it. But what I do know, and what
I can tell you is that Diana Matheson, who was
a Canadian soccer player and listened football, look at me
like British. So Diana Matheson was a Canadian soccer player
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and she decided she teamed up with Christine Sinclair, who
you should know because she is a Portland Thorn legend.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
She just retired last season.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
She is.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
It was time.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
You know Christine, you know, you don't know who Christine Sinclair.
She is the Canadian Abby wombach Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
I know Abby wombach Okay.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
So she is like, she's just a legend across the board.
She played at Portland anyway, So Christine Sinclair returns back
to Canada and I think that I'm gonna put words
in their mouth because I'm just gonna summarize this. But
they decide they want to grow the league in Canada.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
They all had to come.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
To the US to play because there was no league
in Canada, and they want to do what so many
NWSL players did back in twenty say twelve was when
NWSL started, twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, anyway, a lot of
players came back from playing over in Europe to the
NWL to start the league because they felt that it
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was really important to do so. Now in Canada, you've
seen a little bit of the same thing. Quinn, no
last name, just Quinn scored the first goal and they
played for I also know Seattle for a lot of
number of years, but goes back, there's other big stars.
So they scored the first ever Canadian Professional Professional league
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goal Vancouver hosting. When Vancouver hosted Calgary a penalty kick.
It was very exciting, crowd went wild. I think they
had something of like north of seventeen thousand fans on attendance.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
So like, Canada is ready.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
For women's soccer to be there, Like, I'm actually surprised
that it's taken this long. I had expected the NWSL
at some point to expand into Canada, just like.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
The MMB or the w well just now, just now.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
But what I'm saying, what the WNBA just did, it's
kind of what I expected the NWSL to do.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
For a long time.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
The NWSL had a contract, an agreement with Canada Soccer
and to help develop Canada soccer through the NWSL in
the same way that they developed US soccer, but that
got dropped, I want to say, in twenty twenty three.
So Canada was really kind of stuck looking for a
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place to develop their players and here comes Northern Super League,
which this.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Is going to work.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
Like do you think do you think this is going
to be exciting? People that you know that live in
Canada are They excited about this because ESPN did a
broadcast deal, which I think is important forty ESPN Plus right,
ESPN Plus to televise forty plus Northern Super League matches
in the USA, which I think is good for everyone.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
But I guess if you're a US.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
Fan and you're are be watching the NWSL, do you
then want to also add the Canadian Northern Super League
to your viewing pleasure.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
So I think it's going to end up becoming it's
sort of how the Canadian Football League is to the NFL,
where it's not necessarily within direct comparison. It's not necessarily
I think Canadian soccer fans will appreciate it for Canadian soccer,
and I also think it's going to provide space for
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college graduates to go and have a spot to play
if they don't.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
Make an NWSL roster.
Speaker 4 (45:36):
And now, I don't think anyone has said, hey, this
is going to be a developmental league for the NWSL,
but I think it will end up functioning as such
because I think that you know, kids are still going
to want to go to the NWSL draft when they
graduate from college. There's still going to be that push
to go overseas and play for one of these, you know,
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elite teams like Chelsea or Man United or Arsenal.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
You know that is going to remain. I don't know that.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
You know, the Halifax Tide is going to start to
rival that anytime soon. But what I do think it
does is it gives a lot more roster spots to
a lot more people who are deserving them.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
And we're going to talk about the USA Canada hockey
game in the World Hockey Championship in just a second.
But if this super league becomes a developmental league for
Canadians and it's designed to strengthen their national team, and
you know, the US is the bad bitch on the
block essentially, or at least has been for so long,
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has been for so long, we don't know if that's
the case right now.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
That is left to be.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
Said, is that also to strengthen the rivalry. Does that
strengthen the rivalry and the competitiveness between Team USA and
Team Canada.
Speaker 4 (46:55):
I mean, I think soccer is better when Canada and
the US are good. I think that when they're both
playing as dominant forces, it is it's just better for
the sport. I think it's better for the sport at
all levels. I think Canada Versus US is a healthy rivalry.
It's not a bitter rivalry, but it's a hard fought rivalry.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
Like it's a really I mean, just.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
Like hockey we're going to talk about, but it's you know,
I mean, they want to win. It does not matter
if it's a friendly, it doesn't matter if it's a
World Cup final.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
I mean, they have ever played in a World Cup final,
but they The history of the US has always been
very tense. Specifically in the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
They have played each other I don't know how exactly
how many times in quarterfinals or semi finals matches, and
the US typically gets the best of Canada. In twenty twenty,
the twenty twenty Olympics, in twenty twenty one in Tokyo,
Canada finally toppled the US in the semi final round
and they went on to win the gold and it was,
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you know, it was a very big deal for them.
It was a very big deal for Canada, for Canada
soccer fans. They came home, they had I mean there
were people lined up at the airport with posters and
I mean it was it was a very big deal
for them and as soon as they got home US,
I mean sorry, Canada Soccer ripped the.
Speaker 3 (48:16):
Funding out from underneath of them.
Speaker 4 (48:18):
And yeah, super And you know, they've been really battling
with the equal pay issues that the US was battling
with for you know, we saw Megan Rapino and Alex
Morgan and all of them on you know, in front
of courts and Today's Show and everywhere, you know, pleading
their case. Canada is trying to do that. You know,
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they're trying to They're trying to get what they deserve.
They're trying to get the funding they deserve. I mean,
they've really been struggling. Then this year this Olympics. I
don't know if you remember what happened at the Olympics,
but the.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
Little computer issue again, the light went out pick up.
Speaker 4 (48:56):
So at this Olympics, this past Olympics in Paris, Canada
got themselves.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
And a little bit of a pickle. I don't know
if you do you remember this story.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (49:08):
So Canada got caught spying on I want to say
what team was Australia.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
I want to say it was Australia.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
They were spying.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Yeah, they were flying a drone over their practice.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
That's they got busted, and they got busted and they
got trusted the Patriots. The Patriots, they pulled the boys
sport move for sure, you know, anything to win, and.
Speaker 3 (49:36):
That was what they did.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
Well, there, you ain't trying.
Speaker 4 (49:40):
So they got like some amount of points suspension. So
the way that the Olympic table works is you get
points for wins, you get points for draws, you get
no points for losses. So they immediately got deducted I
want to say, three points from the rest of the field.
So they had to win out like they were sick points.
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It was pretty much when it happened, it was like, well,
this is going to be impossible. Canada has to win
every group phase game. They are not going to be
able to get out of the group because.
Speaker 3 (50:09):
You can't lose, you can't drop a game.
Speaker 4 (50:11):
Canada went on to win every single game in order
to carry them through.
Speaker 3 (50:15):
They had no coach, they had been deducted points.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
And it's an amazing yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (50:20):
Mean they did no.
Speaker 4 (50:21):
They eventually lost, I'm pretty sure to the US I
don't remember.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
It sounds like something Google could do. Let miss it.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
It sounds like something Google could do. So while you
Google that. So it basically.
Speaker 4 (50:36):
Canada has been looking for the country has a really
big appetite for good soccer and they really do want
to see the sports succeed.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
And so I think.
Speaker 4 (50:48):
That the people in the country, you know, they're this
is this is the same country that has sold out
PWHL games over and over and over again. So women's
sports fans exist there and they was bottom line.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
Is the rivalry is strong. That's all you're saying.
Speaker 4 (51:09):
The rivalry is strong. The rivalry is strong. It's going
to remain strong. I mean, they're coming in July to
play July fourth weekend and in DC, and I'm sure
it's gonna garner a lot of attention, especially if these
tariffs keep up.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
So it's a good that's a good point. That's a
good point.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
Let's talk about tension.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
There's a ton of.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Yeah, speaking of tension. Speaking of tension.
Speaker 4 (51:32):
The Women's IIHF Women's World Championships.
Speaker 2 (51:37):
Yes, last week, Yes, team USC beat that ass baby.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
Over time, we had a twenty year old from Penn State,
Keomy mcmiller's new school.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
She scores the game winner, and I think what was
pretty lit was she had put a little sauce on.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
It sucked her stick into the crowd because she had
another teammate, another Penn State player did the same thing.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
She is your second gold medal with Team USA.
Speaker 4 (52:04):
Now, I asked our resident Canadian what the bigger rivalry
are we.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
Just gonna say resident Canadian like.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
So, yes, dear Sam okay, yeah, our our podcast second producer,
social media gen z.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
We'll call her our gen Z Canadian.
Speaker 3 (52:22):
Liaison, our gen Z liaison.
Speaker 4 (52:26):
So I asked her what is what's the bigger rivalry?
Is it US Canada soccer or is it US Canada hockey?
Speaker 3 (52:35):
And she said hockey.
Speaker 4 (52:37):
Now I have no proof of this, but her reasoning,
which does make sense, is that soccer is a global
sport and neither Canada or the US feel as if
they own it.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
However, hockey is a Canadian sport.
Speaker 4 (52:54):
It's a Canadian sport, but the Americans, United States, Americans
as if it belongs to them.
Speaker 3 (53:02):
You know, the.
Speaker 4 (53:03):
NHL is a massive entity in Canada, probably more so
in Canada than the US I would I would imagine,
But you know, it's heated rivalries in hockey, and so
I think anything that translates those rivalries is going to continue,
and you have NHL fans who are you know, Canucks
(53:23):
fans VERSUS Penguins fans. You know, it's the same group
of people that are rooting for US Canada hockey. And
I think that that's probably where you see a little bit.
Speaker 3 (53:32):
More of this rival why that rivalry is so strong.
Speaker 1 (53:38):
Yeah, it was super dope though, ot back and forth.
I think her name is how you pronounce it, Janek?
Speaker 3 (53:47):
Yeah, yeah, Tessa, Tessa, we'll call it Tessa.
Speaker 1 (53:50):
Test little Tessie. Tess. Anyway, steals the puck, goes.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
Behind the defense, taps in the winner, and they had
a little bit of a an injury scare with USA
star goalie who ended up getting just toppled. I don't know,
you should probably put it was like full on.
Speaker 1 (54:09):
I know it was an accident. It was a full
on ice tackle.
Speaker 3 (54:12):
Really it was.
Speaker 1 (54:14):
Oh, I would pull it up right now if I
was you.
Speaker 3 (54:17):
Is it full on?
Speaker 1 (54:18):
It is? It's a ball.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
There are like two little balls she's she snacks her.
It was like a car crash.
Speaker 3 (54:24):
I gotta look at this all right.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
Oh my goodness, I'm surprised she there wasn't some sort
of anyway. Gwenneth Phillips was the backup goalie and she
had to step in cold and she made seventeen saves.
Speaker 1 (54:36):
Oh ow, she ran into her full speed, like direct
into her. I've never seen that before in hockey, is.
Speaker 4 (54:45):
I mean, now, given, I don't know how you move
out of the way with that, like like for either
of them. You know she's going after the park, she
doesn't even see the girl looks up, she's there. You
can't stop on skates, you.
Speaker 2 (54:59):
Know, no, But it was like she didn't even try
to stop on skates. They thought it was a dirty play,
but I don't think it was a dirty play. I
don't really know enough to say there.
Speaker 4 (55:09):
Yeah, I don't either. There's there were a couple like
was this a dirty player? Was this not a dirty player?
I saw another one in uh softball over the week
LSU that was like.
Speaker 1 (55:20):
Oh yeah no she yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw the girl.
Speaker 2 (55:23):
By the way, I think if someone's in your bass
paths you you should be allowed to just straight run
over them, run over them. She should have the access
to the bass pass.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
That's what all I'm an advocate for.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
More.
Speaker 2 (55:34):
Wow, that was a cat, please hold I think that's
a good time to wrap it.
Speaker 4 (55:39):
I am a proponent for Like I think that we
should have more physicality in women's sports.
Speaker 1 (55:44):
Well at least that we shouldn't get all put our
panties in a bunch of botts.
Speaker 3 (55:48):
That's what I mean. Like, I think that, like you know.
Speaker 4 (55:50):
We hear it all the time, like let them play,
we let her shoot, let her shoot, And I think
that that's what we should do, let them play, let
her shoot.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
I had a great time with you today, knowast. I
don't know if you had a great time with me,
but I had a great time with anyway. Next episode,
we've got a blind react to an athlete, and our
gen Z expert's gonna be the one who supplies that
to us, so we're not gonna know what's coming there.
We're gonna have more information reaction, blind react. Uh, We're
(56:18):
gonna have some more info on some of these new
transfer portal pieces of info that's starting to roll out.
I don't actually know when the transfer portal completely closes.
Speaker 1 (56:29):
It's soon, that's all we know. It's soon.
Speaker 2 (56:31):
Definitely more NWSL news, just more more action. Hopefully Sarah's
in a better mood. What do you all think we'll try?
We'll try We're gonna get this girl a ring light.
In the meantime, thank you' all for listening, Thank you
all for rocking with us.
Speaker 1 (56:44):
Social clips will be out soon. Let her sho
Hey, welcome in. It's let her shoot.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Sarah's in a bad mood today, but she's gonna thug
it out. We're gonna talk about some shit first and foremost,
speaking of shit, we're gonna talk about Carson Beck's whack ass.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
All right, episode? What number are we on? This is three?
Episode three? Let her shoot?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
And you're in a different corner of the same room,
and I am yet in a different room once again.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Three episodes, three different rooms.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
And you've been in three different quarters of a four
sided room. So which one are you gonna be in
next week?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I've been in the same corner since last week.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Oh that's the same corner, yep, it looks different to me.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's your corner, the one that you did and you
were having episode episode one that has a little bit
more dimensional demensional.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Tiger's making an appearance in the bag.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I like him walking around.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
All right, he's just gonna he's the third member of
the pod.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I can't really see him.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
You can't really see him. He's just a big fluffy thing.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
No, it's not on camera for this.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Oh, he's right there.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I can't see him.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Would you bring in withy today?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I didn't bring her.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But I did see there's a dog in this workspace
that I'm in named Oyster.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Dog's name is Oyster.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Which is a wild, wild, fucking name. Especially if a
dog was named Oyster. What color do you think it
would be?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
White?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Oysters aren't white, but pearls are.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, but I asked what color? Oysters are not pearls.
If the dog's name was pearl, I would think it
was white. But this girl's color blind. I would have
thought at least gray oysters themselves in the can? Are
the dirty dirty gray dog's white oysters in a can?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, you don't have oysters in a can?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Okay, well they're fire anyway. This dog Oyster Pomerania.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
She's ten and that's my desk neighbor.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And I have a dog, Ma, And the woman's name
is Emma. By the way, here's a spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
The woman at the desk, her name is Emma. And
I said, wow, my name crazy enough. My name is Oyster.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
So we gonna say that.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
I just knew that was gonna be the punchline. Wait,
what color is the dog? I didn't get an answer.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
White?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Oh, so I was.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Right, Yeah, Emma's black and Oyster is white, and Oyster
is the de facto.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
This is where the this is.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Where the pressure of the moment gets very high. So
Oysters actually the workspace is like honorary symbol mascot when
you take your little orientation. Oyster is the photo of
like what the greeting of dogs. So Emma's kind of aggressive.
(02:34):
So if Emma hurts Oyster in any way, it's a wrap.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I'm kicked out.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Emma better be on her best behavior.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, yeah, good news is Emma is a bit. Oyster
is a beta dog, So I think they're good.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Oyster is a beta dog.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You know who's not a beta Hannah Cavender, Hannah Coven,
She's a boss bitch.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Did you see the video?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Okay, so hey guy, by the way, let's go back
and say this is the headlines part of the show.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Okay, I'll just clip it and.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You can double it. I mean, you can use it
here and there.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Okay, should I use your direction to Kai Trump?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Who is Trump? Is that a Trump or real Trump?
Or is it like a real Trump? Point?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
No, no, it's a real Trump if I remember correctly.
She plays golf with Tiger and Woods. Okay, she plays
golf with Tiger Woods.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And what Charlie in what capacity does she play?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
They all live in they all live in Jupiter, Okay,
so what relation.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I just need the relationship to to Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I'm pretty sure that she's his granddaughter granddaughter.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I think it's Junior's daughter.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
A ts no, No, that's no, because is DJ Trump.
It's I think Donald J. Trump is the junior? Is
he not like the president is the junior?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Okay, So Don Junior's daughter.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Don Junior's daughter is apparently friends with the Covenders had
a party, which I'm confused because I thought Kay Trump
was like seventeen.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Great point so much.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I'm gonna google this because because.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I was thinking it was like, what's that person's name
that does all the gossip and he's got like a
fake Nah.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
She's seventeen.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, she's seventeen.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Okay, So then that makes this video even more confusing.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Now Tiger is.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I can see his tail. What is that gossip guy name?
He's like A he's like A it's like anir. It's no,
it's like a. Uh. What was her name?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
She did that like thing with Nicole Richie Paris Hilton Perez.
Hilton thought that Kai Trump was like Kai Sinnett and
like a fake Trump. Like you know, if you had
a creator that was a gossip rag, call him in
and they're like, Oh, I'm Ky Trump. I'm gonna combining
these two super viral names. No, that's actually a person's name,
Kai Trump.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
It's a person's name, and she's so. She's seventeen and
for whatever reason, was hanging out with the convenders. I
did not I didn't look into it enough as to why.
So she posts a vlog on something YouTube. Maybe I
mean to be fair.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I just saw the clip of this on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
And Hayley and Hannah are talking to Kai about the
breakup with Miami quarterback Carson Carson Beck one of the
one of the punched out of his What is the
I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
He kicked out kicked his covery.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
He outkicked his coverage. But then there's like over punched,
punched up, punched up. He out kicked his coverage. All right,
we'll just we'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So he out kicked his coverage in nabbing Hannah and
then somehow fumbled the bag. YEP, I don't know what
you're doing. What you're looking at why you're doing it.
I don't know what it means.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Just let it go. It just is like looking into
my soul when you do that.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
So, I mean, apparently it's not just what did she say?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
And I broke up him?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And like all these cheating chicken out?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I know, I didn't break up with them because I
broke up with him because they're like.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Who what? Basically she said, I don't really care that
he was doing all that stuff on Snapchat and I
told him, like, you need to get your snapchat in order.
But really I broke up with him because he's a
piece of shit, really and no and has no friends,
No one likes him, No one likes.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Him, which is, you know, unsurprising.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Do you think she knew that was gonna go on
a vlog when she was saying it?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
There was literally really had the camera out and she's
talking into it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Like I'm talking to you right now, and I'm like, ooh,
this is on Comfy.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, I'm assuming that she would.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I mean, these kids know when cameras are pointed that, yeah,
things are going on the internet, like they say it
for effect on someone.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I love that this is happening to a guy that's
just a piece of shit, like like.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And now he's stuck at Miami.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Meanwhile, meanwhile her sister, could there be any difference between
twins when her sister, Haley Cavender just got engaged to
a Dallas cowboy tight end. And by the way, what
a trope. You don't have to marry athletes. If you're
a woman athlete, you don't have to also date. Why
(07:24):
don't you find yourself a nice guy at Intel?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You know, because where are they going to meet? Where
are they gonna meet?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
They meet in the student cafeteria, they meet in the well,
to be fair, they meet in the dms.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
They meet in the dms. Fine, come on, it goes
down in them. Why why do you have to date athletes?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Find somebody else. There's other influencers that don't use a ball.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That's what I have to say.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
So you have to say about that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
That's really all we I mean, this is just news.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
This is just like, this's just run through it.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
We got a couple other big headlines from today, mostly
in the realm of.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
We should probably let people try know that this was
the headlines part of the show.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Tell me about some of these transfer portal big. I mean,
there's some big names in the transfer portal that moved
around to shuffling around today.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, Jania Barker goes from UCLA to Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
She was at A and M, so she's moved around
a lot. We kind of knew the.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Writing was on the wall when Jania Barker wasn't really
messing around with Lauren Betts. They weren't in the lineup
at the same time. Lauren Betts comes back to play
with her sister Sienna, so she goes to the transfer portal.
You could kind of tell on the Sweet sixteen in
the Elite eight that she was probably out of there.
She goes to Tennessee, which I think is a great
fit for her. She's already been in the SEC before,
and she was the youngest player to ever make the
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preseason All SEC team before her sophomore.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Year, so that's her.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
London Jones now goes to USC She transfers from UCLA,
stays in LA. She sets the UCLA record for most
made threes in a season this year. I think that's
an interesting one, not a huge one, but the biggest
one probably.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Is the bucket getter herself.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
With some of the nastiest handles you've probably seen in
the women's game, and that's Kyomi mcmiller and Kimmy mcmiller
played for Rutgers. She's actually a DMV silver Spring kid,
grew up in New Jersey. She plays like she grew
up in New Jersey too, And so when she ended
up leaving Rutgers, well, first and foremost back this up.
So I don't know if you remember this, but Kyomi
(09:23):
mcmiller had to go on Instagram and say, Hey, Rutgers
is playing USC and Juju Watkins and I am not
gonna be able to play in this game. I've been
sat not I'm like suspended, and there wasn't it was suspended.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
There's not a lot of reasons why she was held
out of the game. So she interesting she ends up
not playing in that game.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Turns out she wanted the green light from Rutgers. Her
coach gave.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Her that green light. When she committed.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Her teammates got a little bit salty that she was
taking so many damn shots and they weren't a good team.
They were never gonna beat me one unless she went
off for like forty points game and average nineteen points
per game in her freshman season, and so then she's
she's a.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Bat of there.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
She only played six more games after that US holdout,
and then we're like, okay, well, where is Kiomi gonna go?
Is she gonna go to like LSU, she gonna go
to South Carolina?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
She gonna go to Texas?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Do you know one of the schools that normally people
who are that good go to. And it turns out
she's going to Penn State, which is to me quite
a surprise.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And now.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
She so I don't remember a lot about her recruitment,
but she was not a heavily recruited player, is that correct.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I don't think she was a five star No, I
mean she was. I think she was a player that
people were after. But the knock on her is kind
of what the knock on her still is, which is
she's not a winning player. She's kind of a selfish player.
She just wants to put buckets up. She's kind of
in the same category as Malaysia four Willy is in
(11:01):
terms of reputation. Just wants to go out there and
put on a show, which I can let's be honest,
I can respect it.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
So does this new spot, this landing spot for her
at Penn State. Does you think that fits in with
her wanting to be the star of the show. I mean,
because Penn State's not you.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Know, there's no there's no there're buns stars there.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, they're buns. And I think ged absolutely had to
do with that. She probably talked to the coach.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
She's like, all right, I want to stay in the
Big Ten, and I want to play Rutgers twice a
year and I want to cook them fools.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And they're like, hey, well we'll let you have the rock.
We'll do.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
What I will allow Caitlin Clark to do is shoot
a bajillion shots per game. Somebody put pointed this out
in my comments on Instagram, which I think is super fair.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Penn State a ton.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Of money in terms of their alumni base, so they
could probably pay Kiomi, you know, quite a bit of
money in order.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
For her to play there. So it's a I was surprised.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I don't think that's the right place for her to be,
but I don't really know what her priorities are either.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Malaysiah ful Wiley. You brought her up. There are some
updates on on where she might go.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, so that now there are reports that Malaysia Malaysia
Ful Wiley is sent to visit Kim Moulki and LSU.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
What do you think of that her infloge together.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, that's a that's a star studded team. That's a
that's a team that I'm not sure how many turnovers
are going to have for a game. How are they
gonna get the shots to everybody? But you're talking about
the number thirteenth overall recruit before going to South Carolina,
and I think Molchi is a great place for guards
to shine. Right, We're seeing that this has occurred. Doesn't
(12:46):
necessarily mean that's going to translate to the w But
in college.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
She's had a bunch of guards that have looked really,
really good.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
If LSU gets Sarah Williams, who is Wisconsin's who's been
visiting campus as well, and Flage, that would be they might.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Be the number one team coming into the next year.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
You'd put them over Yukon.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I mean, they'd be right up there. They'd be right
up there.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
The WNBA on a little bit of a hiatus now
for the next couple of weeks, I mean not totally.
We're still going to hear little bits and pieces coming
out of training camps, coming out of you know, press conferences,
intros to the teams. But our focus is really switching
now mainstream to soccer ANDWSL, which.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
The season started, you know, about a.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Month ago now and it's still early on in the season,
but the my Washington Spirit are already looking I mean,
they're looking burnt down, but they're also looking a little
bit tough.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
So I'm happy about that.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Phenix like the Phoenix rising.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
The phoenix rising from the ashes, like literally, that's what's
happening right now. The other day they announced Trinity Rodman
out indefinitely.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
That kind of crazy. That's kind of crazy though, because
it kind of left it felt and it felt you know.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
The thing that I thought was super interesting was the
way that it came out was like really very under
the radar. It came out on a Friday, on a
slow news day, and it was just like, oh yeah,
Trinity's not gonna play against Orlando and oh yeah. Like
the second tweet was like, also, she's out indefinitely, and
then like the third one was like, oh yeah, also
(14:24):
she's in She's in London right now at Ben Shelton's
Like tennese.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Was actually Munich, was actually in Munich, Okay. But her
doctor wasn't.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Like, I got it. So she's over the pond, She's
over the pond.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
She's over there.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, And so at first I was kind of like, oh,
this is kind of like a little like hiatus, almost
like when you say my neck, my back, my neck
and my back, and it's like you just really want
to support your man. And but it didn't really make
sense because they were playing the defending chance. But who knows, right,
And then it was like, oh, yeah, no, she's out indefinitely.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Right, And you know, I remember, I didn't even know
that she was out until I saw the picture of
her at Ben Shelton's game, and I went, there's a
there's a game today, and it's it's not in Germany.
I can tell you that it was in Orlando. So
I don't really understand what our starting forward is doing
sitting in a stadium in Munich watching By the way,
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By the way, a little bit of a theory. Did
you notice in that video she's got no braids. She
took her braids out, shook the pink braids out. Yeah,
I did, which I wonder if it was a little
bit like, was she trying to be like fly under
the radar, like no one because you see pink braids,
you're gonna know it's Trinity Rodman.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Definitely. I think anytime you're a celebrity.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Of that magnitude, you probably want to fly under the
radar if you haven't had messaging about what you're gonna
do with your injury. And I don't know if she
was saying that she was ready to announce that. That's
kind of interesting too.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
And I'm curious. I mean, we don't know, We have
no idea. Is this indefinite leave of absence?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Is it is it a week?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Will she be back training with the team, you know,
in two weeks from now? Or is this we're not
going to see her the rest of the Is this
a season ending injury? Now that we don't We've got
to fill this role in Washington, uh, for the rest
of the year, which is a long season at And
you know.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
What's really interesting too, is like you mentioned, she's the
starting forward, but she hasn't been starting. She's been coming
off the bench in every match that she's played in
so far this year, which I thought was precautionary, but
maybe her back was worse than we really thought it was.
She said in that friendly that they just played, the
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national team just played, that everything.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Was against Brazil.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Against Brazil, excuse me that essentially she's been fined for
a while now and that she's feeling good.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
It does make you wonder a little bit about like,
what's going I mean, what's going on in Washington here,
because they've had they have eleven players on the injured
list right now, which I mean elevin out of a
you know, a full NWSL roster is anywhere from twenty
two to twenty five players, So they have almost half
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the team out right now with injuries, which is astronomical.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
And to me, as someone who doesn't really follow the
NWSL as closely as you but follows other leagues, what
you can say when an entire team or there's a
bunch of players that go down with injury, You're like, well,
what's going on with this training staff exactly? And do
I feel confident if I'm Trinity Rodman, who, by the way,
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this isn't even more what I was thinking about until
just right now. Trinity Rodman, she's on an expiring yes,
so she's has the ability to go wherever she wants
to go after this season.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Mean theoretically we could never see her play for Washington again.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Correct, So if I'm true, right, and she's the future
face current face of the sport, and say, Trinity Rodman's
not feeling the Washington Spirits training staff and she just
decides to I don't know, kind of like Kawhi Leonard did.
So by the way, real side note, there's this guy
Kawhi Leonard in the NBM NBA and.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yeah, he's the one that has the funny laugh.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah he has a ha ha ha. I've heard that
that's the one.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
And so he had a thigh issue which turned into
like a knee issue which became very systemic, and the
team that he was playing for, the San Antonio Spurs,
he thought that they were not managing his injury well enough.
So he ended up getting his own training staff, which
kind of appears what is Trinity Rodman is doing? Like, Yo,
I don't really trust these mofos. I'm gonna go to
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London and see a specialist. And I think even Emma Hayes,
the US women's national team, was connected to this specialist,
at least what I've read there's very little information.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
No, that would I mean, that would make sense because
she spent the last of her career in Chelsea.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
So Chelsea, so Kawhi Leonard gets his own specialist, ends
up forcing his way out of San Antonio and going
somewhere else only because of the way that they handled
his injury. So if I'm a Washington Spirit fan and
I see that the Spirit are down eleven players and
the face of the sport is one of them out indefinitely,
she could spend the entirety of the season in London
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working on her back.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Which, by the way, is an much closer proximity to
some of the squads over there that are fighting for
her contract next year right now, like Arsenal and Manchester United.
And if she's got a doctor in London that she
really trusts to take care of her back, I mean,
it's gonna be hard for her to say, no, I'm
gonna go back to Washington. If I were Michelle Kang,
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I would be on the phone with that doctor right now.
I'd be getting his visa paperwork lined up to bring
him and his entire family to the States so that
Trinity Rodman can have whatever doctor she wants agreed.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think she's too important for you to let her go.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You can't, I mean you can't.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I mean I know that stats wise, you know the
there are forwards better with better stats than her.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
There are faster, there are more accurate there or whatever.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
But Trinity Rodman right now is the face that would
be like allowing Pagebeckers to just walk out of the WNBA.
She's too important. She's too important to putting people in
the stadium. I mean, I know she's not selling out
arenas like Caitlin Clark or Pagebackers, but she's selling jerseys.
She is garnering interest. There are people who are watching,
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who are coming to games for her. Pagebackers went to
a Spirit game to watch Trinity Rodman play crazy. I mean,
you can't allow her to walk out?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
No, And I thinks what's fascinating just kind of spinning
it forward? Is at least the one thing that I
will say is a positive if you're a player like hers,
is when you know that the team's holding you down,
why you're gone.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
It's not all on her?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Right, So those Spirit snapped the Orlando's twenty two game
win streak and they're now second in the Power ranking.
So that's just an encouraging loss. One loss, just an
encouraging sign for a team that is without their starting
forward who's out in definitely and down eleven players in total.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
And it's not just her that's out.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
I mean, you have you have Kroy Bethune, who's been
out I mean, I want to say for over a
year now, if even that, I mean it might. I
mean they keep saying she's coming back, but we've yet
to see her actually play. So Lacy Santos, who has
I mean, she has been a really clutch goal scorer
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for Washington since they got her. And hal hirsch Felts
out too, which is she's not a goal scorer, but
she is. I mean, she's scored important goals at important moments,
but she is a solid piece of the defense that
they're They're just depleted kind of all over the field
right now, and so they're making really some really interesting
moves I think to keep them alive and keep them
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second in the power rankings right now, which is kind
of a miracle. But they signed this girl. I love
this story. So in order to make up for this,
these consistent losses, I mean, now they're not down eleven
players every single week, but they are consistently down. I
think they have five out on season ending injuries, and
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then they have you know, like Trinity and Croy that
are just indefinite that we don't really have an end
date on. So they brought in a lot of you know,
recent signings, including this Nigerian player, and she has probably
one of the best names that I've ever heard in sport.
Her name is Gift Monday. It's the best best name.
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I read that and I went, is this her? Is
this her actual name? Is this not a real name?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
By the way, by the way, by the way, because
we already know what time it is with our girl,
our girl from Kentucky, Georgia amore in the deal with
Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I don't know if you remember the name of Russell
Westbrook's brand.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Do you remember it. It's called Honor the Gift. Oh
my god, Oh my god. Could you imagine Gift Monday
with the.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Gift the Gift?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Come on, bro, Yeah, that would be great. So so
Gift Monday signs end of March. She gets signed from
Liga F which is the Spanish and I will butcher
the name of the team if I try.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
To say it.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Uh, can I get a can I get a spell
check from the in house research or.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
A TEF Grenadia tan refa like that, we're gonna go.
So she's basically I think she's from Is that like
a Granada team?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
No, No, that's that's in Liga F. Is that she's
she's Nigerian.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah, she's Nigerian, but Granada is in Spain.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Oh I'm sorry, Yes, I understand the question.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I thought you were asking if she was from Granada
and I was like, no, she's from Nigeria.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, we got that straight. I got that.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I just want to know whether she was playing in Granada.
My nephew was teaching English in Granada.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So I had a little vested steak. I actually had
real quick.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I had an Arabian b issue in Granada where I
had bedbugs.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Never forget, had to move out.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I did not care for my one time that I
went to Spain.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You didn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I worked.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, that's what I mean by not doing anything.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Okay, well I still worked the whole time.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
How would you know if you liked the environment, if
you didn't enjoy anything other than work.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Fair enough, we'll move on. Give money to move on,
fucking be gives funny about her.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
So she so she gets signed. She gets signed end
of March, March twenty fifth. I want to say she
shows up first practice like April eighth, and then plays
one game.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
She comes in like in the seventieth minute.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
What's that April third? She arrived on April third.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
April third, thank you, I wrote that down and I
even can't read my own note. So she arrives on
April third, then gets her She came on as a
sub April eleventh. She gets limited playing time, just a
few couple minutes, just to get her. What you want
to pat on the back because you.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Read the note that I put in correctly.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Okay, little golf clip, go ahead, little golf.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Club for you. By the way, we need to get
rid of the golf clap clapping and golf.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
To be like and we need to get rid of
getting the hole. What do you mean get in the hole?
Are you a fucking idiot? It cannot get in the
whole five hundred yards away? Are you fucking stupid? Are
you fucking like slow? What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
That's the that's the frat boys.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Fucking sird you fucking squands, get out of here.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
That's the stoolies.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, like, you guys are so lame, there really are.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So anyway, Gift Monday.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
So she gets she gets there on April third, she
makes her first minutes on April eleventh, and then this
past week, first start, sixtieth minute, gets her first end
USL goal. It's the only goal of the game, snapping
Orlando's twenty two game win streak. They're no longer undefeated.
We will we love so which is you know, there's
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been sort of this like kind of budding rivalry between
the two teams lately. Which is you know, I'd like
to say that's me because I started as a as
a Pride fan. What Yeah, that's why I don't know,
because I switched allegiances.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
So so therefore.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
The fact that you became an Orlando Pride fan with
DMV roots is blasphemy.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Well, because I didn't live in the DMV.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
You had it and then it came away. Yes see,
I camera just lose you.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
So it's because when I moved to Orlando, there was
no NWSL, that didn't exist, So I didn't never lived
in DC with the NWSL until twenty twenty two got
it twenty fourteen to twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I lived in Orlando.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Watched them play, well, we both watched them play in
some sort of commissioner's exhibition game to start the season.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I don't really know what that's about.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I know it doesn't really count, but anyway, it looked
like it counted.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Yeah, and they it was a rematch of the last
year's championship, which was Spirit versus Orlando. And you know,
they got the best of the Pride got the best
of the Spirit in the first matchup last year in
the championship, vice versa in this one, they felt like
they were approving their point. So now it's sort of
like two to one Washington.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Yes, I have a random question as a non Floridian.
Is Orlando pro LGBTQ? Is that a little like is
that like a little safe space for the LGBTQ community
or No?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Let me take you on a little history lesson. So,
I don't know if you remember this. You probably probably do,
I'm assuming, but do you remember the Pulse night club attack? Yes,
so that was right in the heart of Orlando. Orlando
is very It's Disney. It's a lot of college students
that live there for Disney who come and work internships.
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It's a lot of which you know, typically, Yeah, you
have a.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Lot of people from a lot of different backgrounds.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
With that, I would say Orlando is kind of a
safe place, but I would say that there's not a
lot of like homegrown lesbians there.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
After the Polse shooting, I.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Would say that it became a safe place for the
gay community in Orlando because it became so like everyone
sort of just put like a shield around the gay
community there because it was like a no one messes
with our community type of thing, and that includes the
gay community. So now since twenty sixteen, since Donald Trump,
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I don't know, it's a little bit different down there.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
You know. That's why I don't live there anymore.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Okay, So my ignorant ass is just wondering why Orlando
thought they should get the name Pride.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
If anything, it should need a Portland Pride.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
So Portland's a big LGBT Washington Pride, big like gay community.
There's other places that should have pride other than fucking Orlando.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yeah, it's Allion's Pride.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
How about we do a trade. The Portland Thorn trade
their name to the Orlando Pride and so now it's
the Orlando Thorn and it's the Portland Pride.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
It's because most of the teams are named kind of
to coincide with the men's professional team, because apparently we
can't have women without men.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
So what's the But it's Magic, Orlando Magic.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
That's that's the basketball team.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Oh got it? The what's the MLS team? Obviously not
important enough for us.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
It is, Well, it's that it's Orlando City Soccer. It's
hold on, I have to go back to it. So
Orlando City Soccer. I don't to be fair, I don't
know why their mascot isn't a a lion, but I'm
assuming that in some capacity, and they think that it's
like the Lion's Pride. So it's the Orlando Pride. The
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women's team is somehow like under the watch of the
men's team.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I don't really undertre the no.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I mean it's a valid thing.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
I think that I have more issue with it because
it's so linked to the men's team. Like, but to
be fair, so is the Portland team.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Well timber Timber is is a plant.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
It's wood, right, It's just like it's cut down trees
and thorns are just on plants.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
You don't have to cut them, they're just on them.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Is it the city of Roses, Yes, Portland, the City
of Roses. Oh well then that's why, Yes, because it's
every rose has its thorn.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah. So it has really nothing to do with the timbers.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Okay, well that's fair.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
But regardless, I don't think that they're gonna be able
to give a name.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Away, all right, So that's just my I mean, you can.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Think about it, but I wouldn't say.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Speaking of giving things away.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Giving things away, speaking of Trinity Rodman and going to
the UK to play.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Another reason she might go.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Is the money, because unless, unless something really changes, it's
gonna be a while before the NWSL is giving out
the salaries that arguably they the players deserve. So and indubitably,
Lindsay Heaps a la Haran because I will still always
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in my head refer to her as Lindsay Horan.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
It's just, you know, it's been too long calling her that.
Every time I see Heaps, I'm like who.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
So anyway, she said in a press conference or to
reporters earlier this week that the reason this camera, the
reason that so many players top of my head, Naomi Germa,
Emily Fox, Jenna night Swanger.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Did you say Naomi Germa?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I did?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Did you say Naomi Grima?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I said Naim did?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I not? You did? But did you did? I? Somebody did?
Somebody mention Naomi Gurma.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Oh you're just excited because you heard Naomi Gurma's name.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, Batty so battie.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Naomi Gurma, Emily Fox and who's also a battie.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I mean, listen, the batties.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
They get, the baddies are getting their bread.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
The batties are going. The patties are getting their bread
in the UK. So in Britain, Batty's getting their bread
in Britain. Yeah, I mean, that's that's what it boils
down to. And you know, I think there's a lot
of validity within that statement that you can get paid
more in the UK, So why not go there? I mean,
the NWUSL salary cap right now is only three point
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five million dollars a year for each team.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Did I tell you I don't believe in a salary cap.
I don't believe in it. Fair enough, I don't believe
in I don't I think.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I think, especially when you're talking about trying to build
out the sport, and you've got people who.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Have a lot of money that think very high.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Of their ability to create profitability in a growing sport,
like Michelle Kang is doing with the Washington Spirit. If
you opened it up and said, Michelle Kang, you can
pay Trinity Robmin even if it was like one player
on your roster, unlimited salaries, just one. And if you
said that to her sheet, then you wouldn't have Naomi
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Grima moving to Chelsea. You wouldn't have Emily Fox and
Jen and I Swang are going over to Arsenal.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
So that's crazy to me.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
So the fact that you have a salary cap at
three and a half million dollars for an entire team
for a twenty twenty six players, and one of them
is getting half a million dollars a year, and that's
under getting underpaid. We got real problems here with the NWSL.
If we really want to grow it, you got to
open it up and allow them to give these girls
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their bread.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Well, you've got probably half the team making minimum wage.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
That yeah, I think I think I saw one of
the Washington Spirits players serve and Ben's Chili at the
Ben's Chili Bowl.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
You really hate Ben's Chili Bowl.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
I'm just saying that's what I thought.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
You really have to cause Ben's Chili bowl drama wherever
you go.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I just thought I saw it.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Okay, Well, I don't think you did.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
But I think the point stands that forty eight thousand
dollars a year, which is the indeed wage is crazy,
which is minimum wage of sport of of NWSL players
is not livable, not in this economy. It's forty eight
thousand dollars a year is not a livable wage.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
They're gonna have to live like uh, like teenagers are
living probably living four to an apartment and Sharon rent
and you're a pro soccer player and you could go
over to the UK and make a couple million dollars,
it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Well, look at where these teams are La San Francisco, Chicago, DC, Boston,
New York. You can't afford life in any of those
cities making forty eight thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
That's just not reasonable. I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Do you know what happened with Angel City last year
with the salary cap?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Oh, I think I heard they would. They were penalized
for going over to So.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
They got a two hundred thousand dollars fine, their GM
got suspended, their president got suspended. All of this because
they went fifty thousand dollars over the salary cap. And
the reason they went fifty thousand dollars over the salary
cap was because, I mean, now, given they were doing
some shady things, and the shady things weren't.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
They were shady.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
They were shady to the lead.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Okay, it was not shady to the players in my opinion.
So what happened was they signed these like side little
contracts away from the salary cap, away from what the
team was responsible for, and to pay childcare for five
or at least they know. Nothing has really ever been
(36:00):
made public, but Sid LaRue posted about something, Sarah Gordon
posted about something. Both of them have kids, both of
them play for the Angel City. They've both kind of
hinted towards what happened, and it sounds like that the
team paid for like flights, transportation, childcare on away games,
and all of that.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
That shouldn't go towards the salary cap.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
By the way, No, but the NWSL's argument is it's
included in the salary cap, and I think that teams
get like and I could be totally wrong on this,
but I want to say it's something like five thousand
dollars a player towards, like is what they're allotted essentially
five thousand dollars a player for childcare, which anyone who's
(36:44):
ever tried to raise a child would tell you that
five thousand dollars a year cannot pay for childcare.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
And did I tell you my national athletes?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Did I tell you?
Speaker 2 (36:54):
My mom asked me the other day, I didn't if
I wanted to freeze my eggs, and I said, in
this economy, I can't afford to freeze my eggs, let alone.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Pay for the kid if I ever have to have
the kid.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
When it's five thousand dollars a month for childcare, let
alone five thousand dollars for an entire season for these players, yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
I mean, it's it's they don't some of them have
multiple kids. I mean, and not to mention like it
shouldn't be about that. It should be about that you're
providing a living wage for people who work for your.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Brand, a brand that and by that I mean.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Angel City, who I think was evaluated at like two
hundred and eighty million dollars last year. So you're telling
me that a company, an organization that is evaluated over
I mean at least over two hundred and fifty million
dollars cannot pay for one of their.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Players to have childcare is valuated valuate. Okay, sorry, Trandy
Rodman is to have a baby soon.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Because here's the thing. Remember when Kaitlyn Clark came into
the league. I don't know if you remember this, but
before Kaitlyn Clark came into the league, the New York
Liberty wanted to have chartered flights for all their players.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Oh yes, And then the.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
League came down and they fined the New York Liberty
a bunch of money. I think it was five million
dollars or something, and they threatened to take draft picks away.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
It was huge. It was a big deal. And then
the Aces wanted to do it.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
I think the owner of the Aces or the owner
of the Liberty said hey, we'll just pay for everyone
to get on chartered flights.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
And they said nope.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
The league was like, Nope, can't do that. That's not
part of the collective bargaining agreement. And then a couple
of years later, Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Comes into the league and she's like.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Hey, you know, obviously face the sport transcendent talent. And
she's like, hey, you know when I was at Iowa,
we flew chartered flights, so this is kind of wild.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
And then the next day and then the next day
they all had chartered flights.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
So if Trinity Rodman has a baby and she's like
me and Blake Shelton can't take our baby on.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
That not her boyfriend's name. What's his name, Ben Shelton.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Ben Shelton.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
She's not dating Blake Shelton.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Blake Shelton's the country.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
That would be a story if Trinity Rodman made some grand.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Debut with Blake Shelton. I think the world would have
a lot of plass.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Listen, listen. I was on a roll. Okay, you were.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
I'm sorry. I just couldn't let that love that.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
I love that. That was a big error.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Blake Shelton is not like Ben Shelton at all, But
you can understand just a white guy named Shelton.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I don't think Ben Shelton is white.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
What what do you mean he's not white?
Speaker 3 (39:33):
I'm pretty sure he's not white.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Ben Shelton's not white.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Yeah, hold on, Oh yeah he's mixed. Yeah, he's half white.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
So you just got nothing right.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Just anyway, So if if Trinity Rodman and her boyfriend
Blake Shelton says, hey, we have a baby together, I
think the NWSL comes through and allows allows babysitting and
childcare for players outside of the.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
So yeah, I mean there's a whole big, there's a
whole big, deep dive I want to do at some
point on maternity and motherhood and sports. And there's a
lot of there's a lot of red tape in both
the WNBA and the NWSL. I'd be curious to dig
into the PWHL's policies on all that too, because there's
(40:20):
a lot of I think people that talk owners I
mean not owners, yes, owners, lawyers, agents who make negotiations,
who don't consider who don't consider the long term of
the players and all that. And there's a lot I
could get into in a lot of soapboxes I can
sit on, but I won't do that right now. Instead,
(40:43):
I'd like to move just a little bit north of
the border. Well, I mean I'd like to move north
of the border regardless, because right now feels like a
safer place to be, but specifically specifically, Canada started their
own professional women's soccer league, debuted last week. So very
excited for our Canadian neighbors.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Up.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
I bet the I bet the Northern super League pays
for maternity leave for their players.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
I actually don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
No, they probably don't. I bet Canada just in general.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Pace probably Well. See here's the difference.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Canada has healthcare, so exactly, you don't really have that
same cost out of pocket as you do in the
United States to have a child.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
I'm gonna be honest, I don't know a lot about
the Super League. I know we talked about it a
couple of months ago that it was happening. What I'm
curious about is why it's starting.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Yeah, so I don't know a ton about it either.
I haven't done a full great you know, we're both
dig into it. But what I do know, and what
I can tell you is that Diana Matheson, who was
a Canadian soccer player and listened football, look at me
like British. So Diana Matheson was a Canadian soccer player
(42:01):
and she decided she teamed up with Christine Sinclair, who
you should know because she is a Portland Thorn legend.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
She just retired last season.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
She is.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
It was time.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
You know Christine, you know, you don't know who Christine Sinclair.
She is the Canadian Abby wombach Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
I know Abby wombach Okay.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
So she is like, she's just a legend across the board.
She played at Portland anyway, So Christine Sinclair returns back
to Canada and I think that I'm gonna put words
in their mouth because I'm just gonna summarize this. But
they decide they want to grow the league in Canada.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
They all had to come.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
To the US to play because there was no league
in Canada, and they want to do what so many
NWSL players did back in twenty say twelve was when
NWSL started, twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, anyway, a lot of
players came back from playing over in Europe to the
NWL to start the league because they felt that it
(43:03):
was really important to do so. Now in Canada, you've
seen a little bit of the same thing. Quinn, no
last name, just Quinn scored the first goal and they
played for I also know Seattle for a lot of
number of years, but goes back, there's other big stars.
So they scored the first ever Canadian Professional Professional league
(43:27):
goal Vancouver hosting. When Vancouver hosted Calgary a penalty kick.
It was very exciting, crowd went wild. I think they
had something of like north of seventeen thousand fans on attendance.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
So like, Canada is ready.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
For women's soccer to be there, Like, I'm actually surprised
that it's taken this long. I had expected the NWSL
at some point to expand into Canada, just like.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
The MMB or the w well just now, just now.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
But what I'm saying, what the WNBA just did, it's
kind of what I expected the NWSL to do.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
For a long time.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
The NWSL had a contract, an agreement with Canada Soccer
and to help develop Canada soccer through the NWSL in
the same way that they developed US soccer, but that
got dropped, I want to say, in twenty twenty three.
So Canada was really kind of stuck looking for a
(44:26):
place to develop their players and here comes Northern Super League,
which this.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Is going to work.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
Like do you think do you think this is going
to be exciting? People that you know that live in
Canada are They excited about this because ESPN did a
broadcast deal, which I think is important forty ESPN Plus right,
ESPN Plus to televise forty plus Northern Super League matches
in the USA, which I think is good for everyone.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
But I guess if you're a US.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
Fan and you're are be watching the NWSL, do you
then want to also add the Canadian Northern Super League
to your viewing pleasure.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
So I think it's going to end up becoming it's
sort of how the Canadian Football League is to the NFL,
where it's not necessarily within direct comparison. It's not necessarily
I think Canadian soccer fans will appreciate it for Canadian soccer,
and I also think it's going to provide space for
(45:31):
college graduates to go and have a spot to play
if they don't.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
Make an NWSL roster.
Speaker 4 (45:36):
And now, I don't think anyone has said, hey, this
is going to be a developmental league for the NWSL,
but I think it will end up functioning as such
because I think that you know, kids are still going
to want to go to the NWSL draft when they
graduate from college. There's still going to be that push
to go overseas and play for one of these, you know,
(45:56):
elite teams like Chelsea or Man United or Arsenal.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
You know that is going to remain. I don't know that.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
You know, the Halifax Tide is going to start to
rival that anytime soon. But what I do think it
does is it gives a lot more roster spots to
a lot more people who are deserving them.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
And we're going to talk about the USA Canada hockey
game in the World Hockey Championship in just a second.
But if this super league becomes a developmental league for
Canadians and it's designed to strengthen their national team, and
you know, the US is the bad bitch on the
block essentially, or at least has been for so long,
(46:39):
has been for so long, we don't know if that's
the case right now.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
That is left to be.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
Said, is that also to strengthen the rivalry. Does that
strengthen the rivalry and the competitiveness between Team USA and
Team Canada.
Speaker 4 (46:55):
I mean, I think soccer is better when Canada and
the US are good. I think that when they're both
playing as dominant forces, it is it's just better for
the sport. I think it's better for the sport at
all levels. I think Canada Versus US is a healthy rivalry.
It's not a bitter rivalry, but it's a hard fought rivalry.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
Like it's a really I mean, just.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
Like hockey we're going to talk about, but it's you know,
I mean, they want to win. It does not matter
if it's a friendly, it doesn't matter if it's a
World Cup final.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
I mean, they have ever played in a World Cup final,
but they The history of the US has always been
very tense. Specifically in the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
They have played each other I don't know how exactly
how many times in quarterfinals or semi finals matches, and
the US typically gets the best of Canada. In twenty twenty,
the twenty twenty Olympics, in twenty twenty one in Tokyo,
Canada finally toppled the US in the semi final round
and they went on to win the gold and it was,
(47:55):
you know, it was a very big deal for them.
It was a very big deal for Canada, for Canada
soccer fans. They came home, they had I mean there
were people lined up at the airport with posters and
I mean it was it was a very big deal
for them and as soon as they got home US,
I mean sorry, Canada Soccer ripped the.
Speaker 3 (48:16):
Funding out from underneath of them.
Speaker 4 (48:18):
And yeah, super And you know, they've been really battling
with the equal pay issues that the US was battling
with for you know, we saw Megan Rapino and Alex
Morgan and all of them on you know, in front
of courts and Today's Show and everywhere, you know, pleading
their case. Canada is trying to do that. You know,
(48:41):
they're trying to They're trying to get what they deserve.
They're trying to get the funding they deserve. I mean,
they've really been struggling. Then this year this Olympics. I
don't know if you remember what happened at the Olympics,
but the.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
Little computer issue again, the light went out pick up.
Speaker 4 (48:56):
So at this Olympics, this past Olympics in Paris, Canada
got themselves.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
And a little bit of a pickle. I don't know
if you do you remember this story.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (49:08):
So Canada got caught spying on I want to say
what team was Australia.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
I want to say it was Australia.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
They were spying.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Yeah, they were flying a drone over their practice.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
That's they got busted, and they got busted and they
got trusted the Patriots. The Patriots, they pulled the boys
sport move for sure, you know, anything to win, and.
Speaker 3 (49:36):
That was what they did.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
Well, there, you ain't trying.
Speaker 4 (49:40):
So they got like some amount of points suspension. So
the way that the Olympic table works is you get
points for wins, you get points for draws, you get
no points for losses. So they immediately got deducted I
want to say, three points from the rest of the field.
So they had to win out like they were sick points.
(50:00):
It was pretty much when it happened, it was like, well,
this is going to be impossible. Canada has to win
every group phase game. They are not going to be
able to get out of the group because.
Speaker 3 (50:09):
You can't lose, you can't drop a game.
Speaker 4 (50:11):
Canada went on to win every single game in order
to carry them through.
Speaker 3 (50:15):
They had no coach, they had been deducted points.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
And it's an amazing yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (50:20):
Mean they did no.
Speaker 4 (50:21):
They eventually lost, I'm pretty sure to the US I
don't remember.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
It sounds like something Google could do. Let miss it.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
It sounds like something Google could do. So while you
Google that. So it basically.
Speaker 4 (50:36):
Canada has been looking for the country has a really
big appetite for good soccer and they really do want
to see the sports succeed.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
And so I think.
Speaker 4 (50:48):
That the people in the country, you know, they're this
is this is the same country that has sold out
PWHL games over and over and over again. So women's
sports fans exist there and they was bottom line.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
Is the rivalry is strong. That's all you're saying.
Speaker 4 (51:09):
The rivalry is strong. The rivalry is strong. It's going
to remain strong. I mean, they're coming in July to
play July fourth weekend and in DC, and I'm sure
it's gonna garner a lot of attention, especially if these
tariffs keep up.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
So it's a good that's a good point. That's a
good point.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
Let's talk about tension.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
There's a ton of.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Yeah, speaking of tension. Speaking of tension.
Speaker 4 (51:32):
The Women's IIHF Women's World Championships.
Speaker 2 (51:37):
Yes, last week, Yes, team USC beat that ass baby.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
Over time, we had a twenty year old from Penn State,
Keomy mcmiller's new school.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
She scores the game winner, and I think what was
pretty lit was she had put a little sauce on.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
It sucked her stick into the crowd because she had
another teammate, another Penn State player did the same thing.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
She is your second gold medal with Team USA.
Speaker 4 (52:04):
Now, I asked our resident Canadian what the bigger rivalry
are we.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
Just gonna say resident Canadian like.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
So, yes, dear Sam okay, yeah, our our podcast second producer,
social media gen z.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
We'll call her our gen Z Canadian.
Speaker 3 (52:22):
Liaison, our gen Z liaison.
Speaker 4 (52:26):
So I asked her what is what's the bigger rivalry?
Is it US Canada soccer or is it US Canada hockey?
Speaker 3 (52:35):
And she said hockey.
Speaker 4 (52:37):
Now I have no proof of this, but her reasoning,
which does make sense, is that soccer is a global
sport and neither Canada or the US feel as if
they own it.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
However, hockey is a Canadian sport.
Speaker 4 (52:54):
It's a Canadian sport, but the Americans, United States, Americans
as if it belongs to them.
Speaker 3 (53:02):
You know, the.
Speaker 4 (53:03):
NHL is a massive entity in Canada, probably more so
in Canada than the US I would I would imagine,
But you know, it's heated rivalries in hockey, and so
I think anything that translates those rivalries is going to continue,
and you have NHL fans who are you know, Canucks
(53:23):
fans VERSUS Penguins fans. You know, it's the same group
of people that are rooting for US Canada hockey. And
I think that that's probably where you see a little bit.
Speaker 3 (53:32):
More of this rival why that rivalry is so strong.
Speaker 1 (53:38):
Yeah, it was super dope though, ot back and forth.
I think her name is how you pronounce it, Janek?
Speaker 3 (53:47):
Yeah, yeah, Tessa, Tessa, we'll call it Tessa.
Speaker 1 (53:50):
Test little Tessie. Tess. Anyway, steals the puck, goes.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
Behind the defense, taps in the winner, and they had
a little bit of a an injury scare with USA
star goalie who ended up getting just toppled. I don't know,
you should probably put it was like full on.
Speaker 1 (54:09):
I know it was an accident. It was a full
on ice tackle.
Speaker 3 (54:12):
Really it was.
Speaker 1 (54:14):
Oh, I would pull it up right now if I
was you.
Speaker 3 (54:17):
Is it full on?
Speaker 1 (54:18):
It is? It's a ball.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
There are like two little balls she's she snacks her.
It was like a car crash.
Speaker 3 (54:24):
I gotta look at this all right.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
Oh my goodness, I'm surprised she there wasn't some sort
of anyway. Gwenneth Phillips was the backup goalie and she
had to step in cold and she made seventeen saves.
Speaker 1 (54:36):
Oh ow, she ran into her full speed, like direct
into her. I've never seen that before in hockey, is.
Speaker 4 (54:45):
I mean, now, given, I don't know how you move
out of the way with that, like like for either
of them. You know she's going after the park, she
doesn't even see the girl looks up, she's there. You
can't stop on skates, you.
Speaker 2 (54:59):
Know, no, But it was like she didn't even try
to stop on skates. They thought it was a dirty play,
but I don't think it was a dirty play. I
don't really know enough to say there.
Speaker 4 (55:09):
Yeah, I don't either. There's there were a couple like
was this a dirty player? Was this not a dirty player?
I saw another one in uh softball over the week
LSU that was like.
Speaker 1 (55:20):
Oh yeah no she yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw the girl.
Speaker 2 (55:23):
By the way, I think if someone's in your bass
paths you you should be allowed to just straight run
over them, run over them. She should have the access
to the bass pass.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
That's what all I'm an advocate for.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
More.
Speaker 2 (55:34):
Wow, that was a cat, please hold I think that's
a good time to wrap it.
Speaker 4 (55:39):
I am a proponent for Like I think that we
should have more physicality in women's sports.
Speaker 1 (55:44):
Well at least that we shouldn't get all put our
panties in a bunch of botts.
Speaker 3 (55:48):
That's what I mean. Like, I think that, like you know.
Speaker 4 (55:50):
We hear it all the time, like let them play,
we let her shoot, let her shoot, And I think
that that's what we should do, let them play, let
her shoot.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
I had a great time with you today, knowast. I
don't know if you had a great time with me,
but I had a great time with anyway. Next episode,
we've got a blind react to an athlete, and our
gen Z expert's gonna be the one who supplies that
to us, so we're not gonna know what's coming there.
We're gonna have more information reaction, blind react. Uh, We're
(56:18):
gonna have some more info on some of these new
transfer portal pieces of info that's starting to roll out.
I don't actually know when the transfer portal completely closes.
Speaker 1 (56:29):
It's soon, that's all we know. It's soon.
Speaker 2 (56:31):
Definitely more NWSL news, just more more action. Hopefully Sarah's
in a better mood. What do you all think we'll try?
We'll try We're gonna get this girl a ring light.
In the meantime, thank you' all for listening, Thank you
all for rocking with us.
Speaker 1 (56:44):
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