S8E1: New Season, Same Goals

ON THE SHOW TONIGHT

• It’s been a summer of changes, both for the Sockers and the MASL, and we’ll review them all
• Eight teams? No Savage? What the heck happened? What came out of the MASL Owners meetings and why Chihuahua walked away, while other teams agreed to change
• Now, we’ve got a schedule…let’s see how the Sockers will line up over 24 matches against just seven other teams…
• And we’ll look ahead to set the stage for our coverage of the season to come…

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well, hello once again everybody, and welcome back to Soccers Overtime,
Season eight of Soccers Overtime. It's the season eight three
mare of your favorite show talking about the major arena
soccer league and of course your San Diego soccers.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Craig Elston here joined.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Once again by my my co host like cohort, a
co conspirator, to bring you the world of arena soccer
in San Diego. It's San Diego Puttel Football's Tony Sanchez.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
What's up, Tony? How are you?

Speaker 4 (03:16):
I mean, I'm very, very excited for this season eight
San Diego Soccer MASL Action.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
It's gonna be here closer and faster than we all think.
Not going to be more excited for another season up
in front Wave Arena. It's still new.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
It's still new to me. Oh well, hey, you know
it's kind of like when they change music formats and
they say the all new kick nine five points. It's like, well,
you guys have changed formats a year ago, is it's
still the the all new I always think you have
a year of that, so that front Wavering is just
awesome now. I mean it's still new, but it's not

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brand new.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
It's just the new Front Wavery.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
You can't say the brand new because you know it's
been there. They've changes, They added nets, change the color
of the turf. They did a lot of changes, a
lot of changes round Front Wave arena. And we're gonna
be back with you Season eight, Episode one, new season,
same goals. San Diego Soccers came up one win short

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last year, just one victory short of claiming their seventeenth championship,
their third MAASL Championship. They're going to be back at
it in a very different major arena soccer league for
twenty twenty five twenty six. We're glad to have you
along for the journey, whether you are watching us live
or whether you are checking us out a little bit

(04:38):
later on down the road. Either way, if you're watching
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I do intend to put these back on the audio feed.
Tony was gonna send me the feed So for anyone
listening on audio, Hello, welcome, We're yeah, we're back. Yeah,

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I'm back as a soccers employee. So I want to
make sure everything is fully fully staffed, so to speak. However,
there's still, you know, the aura of independence to this program.
It's the San Diego Puttal Football program made on behalf
of the San Diego Sockers and their fans with Tony
and I will be announcing games for you from Front
Wave Arena this year as the soccers look to take

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down the Chip on the show tonight. Well, it's been
a summer of change for the soccers for the MASL.
We'll review it all for the league eight teams, No Savage,
wait wait wait, no Savage, the three campion No no, no, okay, Well,

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what the heck happened? We know, we know, and we're
gonna let you know because if you don't, no, you
need to know what's going on with the MASL.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Because I'm sure there's a couple of narratives out there.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
We're gonna give you the straight scoop as to what happened,
why Chiwabo walk away, why other teams agreed to change
for strength in the future. We've got a schedule. Now
we're gonna go through it. I'm going to find out
how the Soccers line up over twenty four matches against
seven other teams, and we'll look ahead. We'll set the
stage for our coverage for the season to come right

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here on Soccers Overtime. Bobby Cressey, thank you for the
theme song for Soccers Overtime.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
This is the season debut.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
It is not the beginning of Tony and I's weekly schedule.
We will begin the weekly schedule when we get to
training camp when the team reports, which will be in
the month of November approaching. Of course, the season opener
home opener, which is Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving
at Front Wave Arena for the San Diego Soccers and

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the Empires Rankers.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
That's what's still to come.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
So there will be a couple three week gap between
episode one and episode two of Soccers Overtime. But once
we get going, we'll be going every week like we
do every season. We'll go every week from that point
until the season ends for San Diego and then we'll
do one more show, and usually that means we'll go
through the finals, you know, and a sneaking suspicion we'll

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go through the finals.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
This season.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well they better, they they better. Okay, So that's what's
coming up.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Let's start.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
If you missed it, Tony and I did three different
episodes of Soccer's Summertime. During the summertime, we introduced the
TST champions from the soccers, we introduced Chris Toath back
to the soccers family, and we also did the same
of course for Nick Pereira. You can check out those

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shows on the San Diego Punto Football feed on the
Soccer Overtime subfeed within San Diego Punto Football and see
what we had to say about all those Here the
interviews with Nick, with Chris, with our stars from Bumpy
Pitch that took home the bag from carry North Carolina.
So check all of that out. I kind of just did.

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But in brief review, here are the things that happened
the annual June TST seven v seven tournament in North Carolina.
First weekend of June saw Bumpy Pitch FC win with
four soccers on board. And there's the man who scored
the million dollar goal, Charlie Golaso. Charlie Gonzalez actually scored

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both goals all the goals for Bumpy Pitch and their
two to one win in the championship match. Charlie, along
with says our Sera, Mitchell Cardinist and Christian Gutierrez, wind
up taking down part of the prize pool from what
we heard on our show, for scoring the million dollar goal,
And it kind of does make sense. Charlie got the.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
Biggest piece of the pie.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
He got the big piece of chicken, and I, you know,
I think if you score the million dollar goal and
make everybody else forty to fifty grand, I think you
do deserve the big piece of chicken.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Tony yeah, absolutely, hopefully he took the biggest piece of
the trophy too, because absolute scenes after with the guys
and smashing that beautiful porcelain soccer ball that was particulously
put together.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
But I kind of dug it, and you know what,
I like it.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
You know when that winning mentality for players is always there, right,
Like you see players going over in different leagues and
still maintaining that fitness. But it's different to win something
and look, at the end of the day, it's it's
am I life changing money. In a short term, I
wouldn't mind a little forty thousand here and there, right,

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but no, it's a just really the efforts of these
guys and another just amning year where it's like, oh,
maybe the secret is to get a Sandyo soccer on
your team.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Through ruggles former champion.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Every year, literally every year, Someboddy Goby, Costa, Tavoyd Morgan ruggles.
Year after year TST somebody brings home the prize from
San Diego. They did it again this year. Congrats to
the TST boys. Love TST. It always is our kind
of thing. Right after the season's over, you know, there's

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a month everyone kind of cools off outdoors in full swing,
Baseball's in full swing, and all of a sudden there's
these six days of chaos out of North Carolina and
one you know that what do they call it? Target
score one target score goal after another.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
It's NBA season.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
I was thinking of elam ending, which is the NBA
version of that, but yeah, no, great stuff. Then the
summer continued and the San Diego Soccers made some major acquisitions.
I'd say had their busiest off season in years, and
an offseason that points to not only championship hopes for

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this year, but how the team is planning to transition
through the mid twenty twenties, which starts with the acquisition
of two of the greatest players in the MAASL and
in MASL history. Nick Perera thirty nine years old, you know,
eight years with Tacomamysell, all time assists leader, five hundred points,

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about to get five hundred points, you know, one of
the only points leaders, all time goals leaders, two time MVP,
and of course a former champion with the San Diego Soccers.
This is actually Nick's third tour of duty with San Diego.
As a rookie, he was with the soccers first championship
team in twenty ten. He came back from Milwaukee in

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the first couple of years of the reformed m ASL,
where the old mil and the PASL came together to
create the Major Arena Soccer League. And after that he
you know, he moved on, and he moved on through
Empire and to Tacoma and for years he's been a
thorn in our side, but also a friend every time

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he comes. He's the US men's soccer, men's beach soccer
national team captain and Nick being back. We saw it
during the Four Nations Cup, Tony, it's going to completely
change how the soccers approached the offensive game this year.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
Talk about a fish in water, but I think technically
a shark is a different sort of fish, because this
is a torpedo in water. Just so comfortable out there
already on front wave turf, and he looks so natural
already there because you know, he played against the soccers
for so many years and you know, you learn to

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disarm the opponent and just the ins and outs and
you see things from a different perspective. And having Nick
Perrera be one of the greatest of all time now
being able to do it here and from what I
heard too, like it's still new turf, so that ball
is a little slower and it plays perfectly into Pereira's
style to hold up play that big body and just
it's going to be something to behold and I just

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hope that, you know, it just ends up being the
the reason why, you know, soccers can move onto that
championship hurdle now, because it's a hurdle now, that's like
it's it's it's something that the soccers haven't been able
to attain that championship push. But hopefully that's part of
the reason why the soccers go back into glory.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, the track and field staff took down the hurdle
and replaced it with a speed bump.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
But we'll get to that a little bit later.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Is that hurdle too high for you guys? What if
it walked away right before? But say dinner at an
owner meeting, just for a chance we get We'll get
to that story. Nick Perrera is going to change things.
He's while he is thirty nine and he's approaching the
end of his career, he still has it. It's clear

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he still has all of it. You know, he can
still play at the national lever level on the beach
soccer team. Uh, and he can still play this game.
And I think the biggest thing, which we talked about before,
Nick has put all these points together. He's played with
a lot of good players in Tacoma. I think he's

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gonna play Tony with a lot of great players in
San Diego. And I don't believe that Nick has ever
had outside of maybe his first couple years as a
young player in m I SL Milwaukee, I don't think
he's had the talent around him that he's got here
in San Diego.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
The options where if you just give him the ball.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
He he's so unselfish, he's so aware, he's going to
find the right play, whether it's himself or any of
the dozen scoring options that the soccers present on the floor.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
I mean every time we saw him play, it always
was that that narrative of if only Nick had one player,
just one that spoke his language, or he can kind
of go off.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
And he made stars out of this, his his entire team,
regardless of who was on it.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
And now that you have an option to have so
many people be able to finish your plays or understand
what you're trying to do. Again, you mentioned during the
Four Nations Cup, how comfortable, how good he looked out there.
And it's these relationships that he has almost telepathically with
some of these players that have been around the league forever.

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He knows the tendencies, he knows where somebody should be
and for final and finally in his career, there's going
to be somebody at the end of that at the
end of most plays to construct uh and to finish
it so and he can finish himself man like this
is this is a gem and and an ambassador for
the game in every sense of the of the of

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the word ambassador for the indoor game too, And we.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Should probably just do this part in part with the
two sides as the soccer sign Nick Periver to a
one year free agent contract, their longtime target and their
longtime captain and still captain Craig Childs announced that this
would be his final season as a full time player
in m ASL. I think coaching is probably in his

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immediate future. But Craig has announced and said on his
feeds and you know publicly that he is going to
take a slightly different role this year, and it's going
to be much more specialized. Free kicks, power plays, corners,
set ups, you know, stuff like that, and that frees

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up the space for Nick to do what he wants
to do. And then you've got Pereira, You've got to
Void Morgan, and you've got Christian Gutierrez to run back
and defend for both of those guys, and you kind
of build the Frankenstein perfect forward.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah, and that's the thing too. Each one of these
individuals is worth their weight in gold. But to be
able to combine them and be able to understand and
it's that unselfish play that they all have that Hey,
let's go ahead and I'll get the assist.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Sure, I'll do the play.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
I know, I'll do the smart route, I'll do the
smart turn, I'll do the smart pass. I'll take a
foul even like I mean, he's nick himself. He's a
big body, so he's going to be a foul magnet.
But the thing is about him too, is he'll create
his own space, and you know, he doesn't need to
have any foul called on him because he'll still create something.

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But I'm okay with Craig just transitioning into that next
piece because he's the brain of it's He's already a
coach on the field whenever he touches the turf, so
whenever's on the floor.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
So I'm looking forward to seeing this new role.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
But also it's good because you kind of make a
phil's job a little easier, right, Like it's not like
you're having two players competing for that same role.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
No, everybody's knowing the role and assimilating him to that.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
For the team aspect, yeah, Egos could destroy the twenty
twenty five twenty six San Diego Soccers, but the fact
that the players are buying in from day one makes
you very very encouraged as to what this can be,
which brings you straight to the net, because the Soccers
signed Chris Toth, the five time MAASL Goalkeeper of the

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Year twice defending all time MAASL Saves leader. You know,
a player that just I think defines and is prototypical
of the twenty first century indoor goalkeeper. You know, his athleticism,
his ability with his feet, his ability to come.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Up and join the play if need be.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Chris Toth, we knew him when he was eighteen, you know,
as a kid coming out of Fusion and winning a
couple championships with Soccers and winning Goalkeeper of the Year
with Soccers and then moving on through Ontario, through Tacoma
and now back. Chris Toth, thirty five, you know, signs
a long term deal to stay in San Diego, and

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with that, Boris Pardo, who is still here, also announces
that this will be his final season going into his
age forty two season, that he will transition into becoming
the goalkeeping coach for this team and a member of
the coaching staff going forward. And of course, Boris, who
has more wins than Chris Toth as a lower goals

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against average than Chris Toath is a three time MASL
Goalkeeper of the Year. You've got, from accomplishment trophy case standpoint,
the greatest goalkeeping tandem in the history of the Major
Arena Soccer League in Chris Toth and Boris Parto. And
there's absolutely no discussion to be had otherwise. These two

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are the most decorated and the best. I mean, I
think the second best would have been part of one
Waltman last year, and now to have Toth and Parto,
it's just it's the ultimate eight goalkeepers of the year
between the two players.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah, it's almost a shame you can't play both of
them at the same time, right because you know both
of them aren't just as good in their own right.
And you know, we did see Boris towards that end
of the season, just have a couple of moments where
you're like, well, you know, he can play forever, like
he's gonna be unstoppable, Like it's still the Boris of old.
And you know it's a decision that you know, it

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pains a lot of a lot of players and maybe
admit to like, hey, maybe it's time to take a
different role.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
But it seems like with both Childs and Boris.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
They understand and they take that twenty thousand foot view
of like, you know what, this is what's best for
this program. And at the end of the day, they're
still gonna be able to play. You still can rely
on Boris Pardo to go ahead and give you a
performance if you need one. But at the same time,
you have Chris Toath ready to go with the same
kind of vibe, same sort of unstoppable will stop everything energy.

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So this is I mean you think of pairings in
in uh in sports, right, like in NET, having Toath
and pot Pardo insane, Like this is video game stuff.
The MASL video game right now is really fun in net.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah, no, it is.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
It's like the collection thing where you got the two
you know, Elite Rare. You're like, well, I got a
toe and a Pardo. Hang on Diamond Elite, Holy crab,
payta win? Right, Well, soccers, you're doing it. They've got
the best goalkeeping tandem available. That wasn't all they did.
If they did just that, it would have been enough.

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But the soccers also acquired Jesus but Checko, who we've
always seen on the other side of the pitch as
a real pest with Empire, But honestly, going to Baltimore
is where Jesu's broke out, had his best two way season.
Now he's back in the young prime of his career
on a three year contract. And I've never seen a

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midfield that has like no weakness all a players. But
that's pretty much what the soccers have going into twenty
twenty five, twenty six.

Speaker 4 (22:29):
Yeah, and I really think it answers this question, right,
like developing young talent, Like you have young talent. Some
of these players that said San Diego Sockers have and
you've gotten to know over the last couple of years,
are still very young. I mean especially in the indoor
sitting right, Gabi Costa is still very young, Bacheko, some more, Mendez.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
This these are this is the future of the San
Diego Soccers.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
And and yeah, looking at Juancho, looking at X however
that like, however these pieces fit into the San Diego Soccers.
There's clearly a pathway and infrastructure that's happening. And even
with the announcement, I don't know if it's on the
on the rundown, but just the unification of youth programs
and yes, right, Cardiff Soccers and rs F attack right exactly.

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There's there's a clear intentional movement happening with the soccers
that's really good to see, and it's being spearheaded by
some of the legends of the club. And you're getting
this new talent in and hopefully this is going to
be beneficial not just for the soccers but for the
league to be able to see this as a copy
paste model, like, yeah, maybe it is possible to go
ahead and links with local youth groups and this is

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what we're going to go ahead and have as our
uh antea, as our academy in a sense. So great
stuff and I'm looking forward to seeing Pat check again here.
It's a it's an abundance of riches. There's there's only
four quarters, guys.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah it is and and and it is hard for
a Xavier Snare Williams or a one Salazar to find
the floor for the big club. And yeah, it would
be great if the team had soccers too and had
the ability for those guys to stretch out and to
play a lot more soccers. Two will not be there
this year. That's a decision that was already made. So

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they're gonna find their times in practice, They're going to
find their times in rotation and otherwise they're going to
be putting in my hands for some pregame shenanigans and
halftime in postgame shenanigans, you know, as we try to
banana up our experience a little bit. But I think
when you add Pacheco to a group that already has

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Costa and Gonzales and Layo, and you know, the list
goes on, it's it's just an embarrassment of riches for
the San Diego soccers in midfield. They didn't stop there.
Here's another one of those midfielders, Sebastian Mendez. He signed
a contract extension over the course of the summer. Taylor Bond,

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who is I'd just call enforcer wherever you need him
to play, you know, he signed a contract extension. Ben
Raymond such a huge addition to the defensive corps. He
signed a contract extension over the course of the summer.
There's probably still a couple to be announced before the
season begins officially, but I'll just say, look, Louise Morales

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is still on this roster and he's a part.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Of this midfield. He's another one. He's another one that's a.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Part of this absolutely insane midfield and you can expect
to see him around for a time to come. So
there's just you know, you've got your core back. You
had a core signed, but now you bring in two
of the great players in the league. But players who
are San Diegans. Nick born and raised in San Diego,

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Chris born and raised in Fallbrook, still kept their families,
their lives here in San Diego all the years they've
been playing somewhere else. So it's not like, oh, boy,
well we have to integrate these two you know, I
don't know, tie you and you know, bon A Hennay
into the team or whatever. You know, It's not two

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guys who haven't been here. It's two guys who know
this organization inside out. Yeah, And I think that just
builds the best chemistry. And if there's something that the
soccers thrive upon, I think they they found it a
little bit. Is this last year is that philosophy, going
back to basics, going back to the soccer's way of
playing indoor soccer, And this is what you need is

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a is a impermeable locker room. The chemistry, the vibes,
as the kids say to be immaculate and I think
right now all the all the ingredients are to have
a successful season. Whatever exactly you know exactly what the
sande with soccers defined as successful season, which is a championship,
is very much in the cards with this squad.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
Seeing a soccer's news is on the banner.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
I'll just wrap up with a couple other notes of
soccer's news, and one for is for sure. Supporters culture
is coming back and it's coming to Front Wave Arena
for the first time. Los Brujos del Santentiocho who pretty
much had last year off as things transitioned from Pachanga

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Arena to Oceanside. This club and this club's ownership and
this club's management did not want that to happen, and
they have taken serious, substantive sacrificial steps like to create
supporter culture back at Front Waverena. It's been received incredibly

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well by the folks from the Chavos who have grown.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
Through from Tara SD and through this inaugural San Diego
FC season.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
So expect to see a supporters section that's real and
vibrant every game at Front Wave Arena. And if you're
interested in being a part of it, I would recommend
reaching out to the Chavos. You know, supporters and tickets
are going to be available with codenamed Brujos coming up

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here very shortly. Theoretically you could probably get them if
you called immediately, but I would say wait a week.
But still, it's all coming and it's all growing. And
also the organization is taking seriously, very seriously enhancing the
fan experience at Front Wave Arena, making it more interactive,

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making it more fun, making it more dense, more involved,
more reasons to be there at four o'clock for a
five o'clock game, or at three o'clock for a four
o'clock game, or at six o'clock for a seven o'clock game,
and more reasons to stick around afterwards as well. So
a lot of discussion, a lot of thoughts, a lot

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of energy being put in this direction to really enhance
the fan experience in multiple ways, both in match by
bringing that supporter energy and also around the match by
bringing a lot of energy, a lot more energy, a
lot more interactivity, and a lot more activity for our fans,
our supporters and our fans, and that I'm really excited

(29:15):
about that. So stay tuned, Okay, let's switch to MASL news.
That's probably what you were here for anyway. So the
MASL Member meetings, I don't know why they don't call
it the owners meetings anymore, but they called it the
MASL Member meetings took place in Kansas City about a

(29:37):
month ago, and during that there were, you know, multiple
days of the members meetings. But it turns out that
day one was really really important day because that day
the owners of the Major Arena Soccer League agreed that
they would impose new standards and restrictions on themselves, new

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restrictions on all member clubs, with the intention of raising
the floor of the Major Arena Soccer League. There's some
teams playing at a high level in the MAASL. There's
some teams playing at a very good level in the MAASL.
And there were some teams I can't even keep my
hand on the in the cameras shot playing down here

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playing in the Are you really a Division one team level? Uh?
There was a lot of inconsistency if you tuned in
to various venues of the MAASL in terms of what
you saw quality of feed, quality of broadcast, size of arena,
size of field, and these are things we've talked about,

(30:51):
honestly for years and years and begged the MAASL to
crack down and beg the MAASL to adopt stricter standards
and harder still. And I really wanted to put that
as kind of a preface, because obviously what happened after
the first day, which was been described to me by

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multiple sources, multiple different sources, not just people who were
there with a San Diego hat on, described to me
as a cordial meeting where every owner was in lockstep
and everything was cool and copaesetic. And then they went
to dinner that night, and all of the ownership and
all of the leadership of the league all going out

(31:35):
to dinner to keep the conversation alive, but to keep
the good vibes going. And Chihuaba's owner wasn't there, just
didn't didn't say like, hey, leaving gotta go, Hey, sorry
about it, or didn't say hey, I don't like what

(31:56):
you're doing.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
I'm mad and I want to stand up in Sam
mad about it. That didn't happen. Based on what evert.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
If my man JC wants to come on the show,
if any of the ownership of the Chihuahua wants to
come on the show. We'll bring you on the show, U.
You know, we'll find out what we'll get your side
of it. But from what I've been told multiple independent
non San Diego sources, that Chihuahua just left, didn't announce it,
just left. And then the league found out that Chihuahua

(32:28):
was leaving the m ASL when Chihuahua made a statement
on social media the next day, and when they posted
their statement, and you know, later on in interviews, they
you know, continued through to say that, you know what
you'd expect, that they felt blindsided by this and felt

(32:50):
it was unfair and it wasn't things that they had
agreed to when the league came in and the league
was happy to have him, and now felt like this
was probably punitive, and so Chihuahua left. And it's tough.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
It's tough.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
It's tough for your league's best team that's won three
straight championships to leave the league.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
It's not good. It's never good. You know what I'm saying,
It's never good.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
And while I can maybe create an argument how it
could be good over time, right away, Tony, it's never good.
Chuahua is gone, and whomever wins the league this year
will have to have to accept the credibility hit that
they didn't beat Chiuahua in order to do that.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
Yeah, I mean there's a lot of just seeing just
what the team itself means now to that community as well,
Like they have a community set in Mexico, and they've
built this team up to be, you know, a beacon
of what's the soccer sports should be across an entire nation.
And they have beat the league and every opponent in

(34:07):
the league that they are part of, and they did
it with the rules of engagement that they had. And
the fact that they're leaving and taking their ball and
not being in the league is just unfortunate for so
many reasons, beyond the fact that the best team in
the league is no longer part of the MISL like
that and itself, that headline is not good. There's no

(34:28):
addition by subtraction with that equation. Savage was incredibly fun
to watch. It's entertainment. And if there's one thing that
this league, you know, could you know, not necessarily afford
to lose, is some of its entertainment aspects.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Like look, I enjoyed the brand.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
Maybe not against the San Diego soccers that much, but
they were exciting to watch. You saw the development of players,
You saw a real team aspect. You saw a team
come in with discipline and and a team that kind
of had their own moxie about them because they were
battling against it against the soccers for years and then

(35:09):
they were able to be on a storyline basis. That's
what that's what we watch shows for the storyline of
a team like Chihuahua Savage and now that story is
no not going.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
To be part of this next season, and that's unfortunate,
it truly is.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Having said that, what are the standardized upgrades that the
m ASL is looking to bring to raise the floor.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
Well, here are some of the things.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Standardized field dimensions, as was said to me by a source.
You walk into an NHL arena, you know the size
of the rink. You walk into an NBA arena. One
team doesn't have a sixty foot court and the other
one has a ninety four foot court. They're all ninety

(35:57):
four by sixty. You know, like there's uniformity, and there
should be that expectation of uniformity in the sport of
arena soccer. So that's a good goal for the MAASL
to have. Here's another one, proper locker rooms and amenities.
You don't want to have one arena in the league

(36:18):
that doesn't have, for example, showers or lockers with locks
that you could protect your valuables, things such as that.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
No one wants that. That should be something that everyone
can agree.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Upon, that everyone should have the ability to shower after
the game, right, Like, okay, how about this. The league
wants to grow its profile. The league knows it has
a telligenic sport. But in order to have a league
that another streaming platform, another broadcast platform is going to

(36:58):
be willing to pay money for or even come to
a working agreement to cover.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
You need uniformity.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
You can't be like, well, we're only going to show
six of our twelve teams because the other six teams
the broadcast craps out half the time and other times
we're showing sixty people in the stands, etc.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Etc.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
There's no uniformity, there's no level standard. Okay, they want that,
that's important. In order to have that, you have to
have something behind the scenes. You have to have working
Wi Fi, not just for the arena. You have to
have dedicated Internet for the broadcast so that the broadcast

(37:43):
doesn't go offline because three hundred people decided to go
on Instagram at the same time in the arena or
decided to start streaming at the same time in the arena.
You just can't do that. Well, that's what the MAASL wants.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
How about.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
In the area that the players interact with some teams,
most teams have fiberglass boards, but some teams had plastic boards.
Most teams have flat boards. Some teams had boards that
were of a concave nature where some bounces would go
up and other bounces would go straight out and other

(38:22):
bounces would go down. Well, you don't want that. You
want uniformity in that within the league. And I think
a perfectly reasonable goal for a niche league like the
NASL is to have at least three thousand and thirty

(38:43):
five hundred capacity for all the arenas in the league.
Of course, that makes sense every one of those I
think any one of you in the audience, including in
the province of Chihuahba, would agree all of these are things.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
That the league should be working toward.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
And if they've agreed to those things that should be
reasonable to be adopted by all the members of the league. Well,
having been there myself, I can tell you that Chihuahua's
Corner Sport Arena literally doesn't take any of those boxes.

(39:27):
It had an ununiform field dimension, It did not have
proper locker rooms, there were no showers, there was no security,
there were no doors. There's no doors at Corner Sport
Arena for the athlete who had to walk directly through
the fans to get to their private area and to
get to their belongings.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
There was no working Wi Fi for broadcasts.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
That's why all the broadcasts you ever saw for a
big game out of Corner Sport Arena went down, except
for the Spanish fee. So those things are just The
boards were plastic and concave and leading to weird bounces.
The maximum capacity was somewhere around eleven hundred people if that.

(40:16):
So it's one thing to not fill one of those
or two of those, But if you can't fill any
of those, I mean that should be a problem for
the league, right, Tony.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
Yeah, and exactly that, because this is the way that
you want to go ahead and project, right, you're projecting
towards having over three thousand fans potentially in your league,
And in order to even do that or to consider that,
you have to have the facilities for it, and you
have to have at least.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
The intended to do that.

Speaker 4 (40:47):
And there's just nowhere to fit that amount of humanity
in corner sport arena and have the size requirements of
a field that's of a professional level in corners port arena.
And look, it's unfortunate that this is kind of what
the deciding factor is, but this is a reality, Like

(41:08):
this is business as well, like this is where the
trends are. And look, having to do a remote translated
English final a couple of years out of that from
the Californa Arena, was.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
Loki a miracle that it happened, Yeah, but I think
one day it was an actual miracle. Yeah, like legitimately
something descended from the heavens and just gave.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
An inn it before and it didn't work and then
it worked.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
Like but yeah, I mean, if you're trying to compete
to with these other leagues that are popping up globally,
you have to have some of these just standards, standards
and practices and this teams should be able to do that.
And look, I know that Savage is kind of saying

(41:59):
it in this of like, hey, they bought the space,
well find another space, find find space to go ahead
and do that. Like, uh, there's there's there's blame to
be held at the end of the day. But at
the at the very end of it, there's a team
that is not in the league because of requirements not fulfilled.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Correct, And I think this is really important.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
The league didn't say to chihuaba Hey you got to
do all this or else you're out of the league. Hey,
you got to do all this, or else you can't
xyz Canos to playoff Canos whatever. And the reason I
know this is because the Baltimore Blast are a thing
that exists, okay, and the Baltimore Blast play on a

(42:45):
deficient field at Towson's say qu Arena, unless they've changed
the corporate sponsor. But the I think they did change
because I think it's the tu Arena now the Towson Arena.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
So it's a basketball court.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
It's a college basketball court, and they've repurposed it for
indoor soccer for well over a decade now. But the
field is too small and the capacity isn't enough. It's
almost enough, but only if you keep this really small field.
Baltimore is still a member of the MASL in good standing.

(43:20):
They're going to play on the baby Baby field again
this year, but the reason is because they're grandfathered in,
because they've got this issue, and they have pledged to
work to fix it. So whether it's next year or
the year after, at some point in the near future,

(43:41):
Baltimore is either going to move to a different place
or they are going to renovate the place they have
so that it has a standardized field.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
One of those things is going to happen.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Baltimore has pledged it as a member in good standing
of the MASL, and Chihuahua could have done the same.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
They could have said, yes, we agree, we're.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Gonna work toward these understood and commonly shared goals. We
understand this is where the league needs to be.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
We're not there.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
We're gonna get there. We are kicking your ass on
the field. We're gonna kick your ass off the field.
We're gonna get to that spot.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
We accept it. Let's go.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Chihuahua ghosts that the Mexican team had an Irish goodbye
to the owner's meetings. Yeah, they disappeared and then they
gave a statement and that was designed to inflame. And
I respect Chihuahua's ownership, as you know. I went to

(44:50):
dinner with them, I talked to them. I believe in
them like I do. But this is the direction the
league has to go. And if Chihuahua just wants to
be a cheat code in our league to win, that's
not enough.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
I don't care how good you are.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
And that kind of brings me to the second half
of this, which is that Chihuahua was kind of a
cheat code in our league.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Yeah, the visa situation is not resolved. Chihuahua had access
to an entire player pool that no other teams in
the league had access to. The only top players in
Mexico who didn't play for Chiuaba were players like Ismail
Rojo that were contracted to.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
Us that we didn't let go.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Yo or an ed gre Gonzalez who decided to stick
around one year in Monterey for family reasons, etc. Other
than that, any good Mexican indoor soccer player could only
play for Chihuahua, couldn't play for any any of the
other eleven teams in the league last year, No Monterey.

(46:06):
How is that fair for anyone? How is that fair
for anyone? Because this brings me to the other big point, Tony,
and it might be a little more contentious.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
But if this league's goal is to grow.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Get bigger, get better, get recognized, get to the point
that visas aren't an issue, get to the point where
platforms want to show your broadcasts. You know, like I
look at the National Lacrosse League. The National Lacrosse League
is mostly Canadian. It's basically Canadian players that fly into

(46:45):
their markets including San Diego, that live in Saskatchewan and
Victoria and wherever else, fly into their markets on Thursdays,
play on Fridays and Saturdays, fly back to Canada.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
You know, there's teams in Canada, there's teams in Northern America.
There are a few teams outside of that.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
But the NLL has standards, The NLL has money, it
has uniform ownership. It can be on ESPN, it can
be on ESPN plus. You know, that's where the MASL
needs to be. They need to be at the level
of the National Lacrosse League in terms of investment, in

(47:30):
terms of money, in terms of what they're putting into
their product, but also in terms of the uniformity of
presentation that I can go as a Seals fan and
watch a game at Buffalo Rock. I can watch a
game at Saskatchewan Rush. I can watch a game at
Colorado Mammoth. I can watch a game at any of

(47:53):
these places, and I'm gonna get the same kind of
level broadcast. I'm gonna see the same kind of level turf,
the same kind of level competition, the same kind of
level crowd. And that's critically important to a league being
able to grow. And the thing that's really come to
me over time, or that I've thought of it was

(48:15):
stuck in my head over time. How how did Chihuahua
or Monterey How did those franchises help THEMASL grow? They existed,
There's no question they had fans, no question they had

(48:36):
organizations committed to win with great players, and they won
at a super high level. Monterey went undefeated, Chihuahua has
won three straight championships. But how did that help Milwaukee's
game get on a broadcast platform? How does that help

(48:56):
Utica sell a ticket? How does that help any other
member club in the MAASL grow? These teams are not
adding money to the league. The teams cannot be platformed
at the same level as the Ambush or the Strikers.

(49:18):
These teams have way more ability to be platformed than
Monterey or Chihuahua did. There's a talent suck that occurs,
but simultaneously there's no reinvestment back into the product of
the Major Arena Soccer League. And that's why, when all
is said and done, is a guy who's been a
part of this since two thousand and nine and really

(49:40):
really cares like I'm okay with an eight team MASL
because Chihuahua was the best team on the pitch that
did nothing off the pitch, and their fans in Chihuahua
weren't bring a TV deal to MASL, weren't bringing new

(50:03):
ticket revenues to any other side. They were just winning
and essentially siphoning off, you know, from the league. And furthermore,
the Texas teams that were drawing, you know, in Outlaws case,
one hundred fans or eighty fans to their games to

(50:24):
go out and lose and be bad. Harrisburg committed ownership,
but nobody was coming. The team's been bad forever and
when like three and twenty one or whatever, Like, how
does it help your league to have teams that have
no fans, drab arenas, empty stands, bad commentary, bad broadcasts.

(50:46):
You know, just how does that help?

Speaker 3 (50:48):
How are we better at twelve with a.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Team that just wins the championship and adds nothing to
it and three teams that do nothing but lose and
lower the standards of the MASL. I feel like, if
you all commit and agree, here's our goals, here's our standards,
here's the level we're getting to, We're all going to

(51:12):
be here. I'd rather be there with eight than to
be here here and down here with twelve.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
And this is only going to get bigger with the
World Cup coming to the United States, right, There's going
to be an interest in this sport. And if all
of these issues that sometimes as fans, as followers of
this league plan about these visa issues, these issues of broadcast,
like you're saying, like, in order to get and fix

(51:41):
those things, there has to be a buy in from
everybody in the league.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
You can't have one.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
Team just say eh, maybe not, because it has to
be a uniform decision. And Chihuahua just wasn't willing to
make that sacrifice and make that investment in the league.
They want to invest in themselves and get themselves comfortable.
That's all fine and dandy. But if you want to
go ahead and make the big bucks, if you want
to make dollars over vessels, then you need to go

(52:10):
ahead and invest a little bit more. And in this
day and age, had it been in two thousand and four,
and had been in the early two thousands, and internet
was what it was, and it's slow and style up
even in Mexico. Like okay, I understand, like it's expensive
to go ahead and put such a production up, but
we live in an era where that shouldn't be a

(52:30):
matter of question. Like internet speeds down there are just
as fast as they are up here. So you know,
if we're nit picky about it, like Savage just chose
to just again take their ball and go home. But
in the grand scheme of things, ma ASL is going
into that direction of growth, and they want to go
ahead and have the ability to have big eyes, big names,

(52:52):
big big, big, big ambitions, and everybody has to be
on board with that. And I have to agree where
maybe the competition aspect does lose a little bit. But
if the growth is there and these eight teams grow
and they get themselves in a position where then Chihuahua
is like, all right, we'll invest and match it. Maybe

(53:12):
there's a time where Chihuaha was welcome back and they
have you know, the arena set in a couple of years,
and now we can go ahead and have these talks
and negotiations about hey, bringing it, bringing them back. But
until then there's there's there's no point in bringing dead
weight investment wise.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
Yeah, I'd really like to see personally, I'd really like
to see those clubs in Mexico reinvest in LMFR and
Liga Mexicano Football Rapido, create a vibrant competitive league, create
the league amyekis of indoors in Mexico, and then we
could play a Concacaffe thing, you know, we could do something.

(53:52):
If you want to kick our asses and come across
in an international competition, great, but it's just it's not
fair and.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
If there's no.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
If there's an economic disparity to go with a competitive disparity,
there just is it doesn't make sense. And it was lovely,
it was ambitious, It was idealistic to say, oh we
could be Sonora and Monterey, and we could be Chihuahua.
You know, maybe we could be Guadalajara. What about Tijuana?
Could we be a Mexican and American league? Could we

(54:24):
be a bi national league? Well, if one teams, if
one set of teams are playing at one set of
standards and another set of teams are playing at a
completely different set of standards, and there's one player group
available to these teams and there's a completely different player
group available to these other teams, there's no consistency, there's
no standardization, and so there's just gonna be chaos year

(54:48):
after year after years.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
So I just.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
I just trust me when you're just out there. I'm
an empathetic individual. I know that many of you are
thinking that I am spewing soccer bullshit right now because
Chihuahua knocked our asses out of the playoffs three years
in a row, beat US, kept us from the title,
and now they're gone, and I'm saying it might be good. Yeah,

(55:15):
obviously it's good for US. I understand why you might
want to might not want to accept a it's good
for the league message from US or from me. Okay,
I accept that, but I still think it's true. I
still think it's true. And here's the rest of it. Okay, Harrisburg.

(55:37):
Harrisburg is moving to the Hershey Arena, where the Hershey
Bears play. The Hershey Bears are one of the AHL's
most storied, decorated franchises for decades, one of the best,
most winning, most supported teams, the Hershey Bears. They've won
so many AHL championships. They're like a dream franchise. Well,

(56:00):
now the Heat will get to play in Hershey. And
Hershey and Harrisburg, by the way, if you don't know,
are like ten minutes apart. They're right next to each other.
When we went to Harrisburg in twenty thirteen, Coach Kintara
and I went to Hersheytown the day of the day
that we had off, you know, to go check it out.
So they're right next to each other. The point is

(56:21):
they're not going to be in a place that smells
like horse whatever next year like they've been the last
few years. They're not going to be in the adjunct
arena in Harrisburg. They're gonna be in Hershey in a
real hockey arena, a real place, nice, good, not the
newest one, but it's good, it's real, it's nice. Now

(56:44):
we go to Sacramento Cordova, this expansion franchise has paid
their dues, they're in and they're building their own arena.
Sacramento will come into the MASL for not this season,
not next season, but three years from now, twenty twenty
seven to twenty eight. They're going to be an expansion team,

(57:05):
and like San Diego, they're going to be an expansion
team that owns and controls their own arena. Texas is
reorganizing those two teams that honestly, we're both a gigantic
friggin mess.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
You know, gigantic mess. I should just say no more.
So I will say no more.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
They're reorganizing under new ownership with a chance of one
or both returning either next season or the season after.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
But why keep going?

Speaker 2 (57:36):
Why just leave a zombie team, a barely semi pro
team to be in your pro league, to get their
asses whipped for you to drive to their pointless facility
with lumpy turf and seven fans like, why that's bad,
that's bad for the league.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
And the last one?

Speaker 2 (57:58):
Tony Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City hosted the m ASL combine
last weekend, they're moving into M two. They've got aggressive
ownership that's got TST ties. They've got a new arena,
whether it's a year or two years out Oklahoma City. See,
these are the types of franchises to me that can

(58:19):
invest in the league, that can create standardization. I'd rather
have Oklahoma City and Sacramento than Chihuahua and Monterey. And
that sucks because Chihuaha and Monterey are going to be
way better on the field than these other two teams.
But that doesn't make you a better league, man, It
just doesn't.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
Yeah, And it's a smart business decision to do right.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
Again, if you want to have the better standards and
experiences as fans of the sport, then these are necessary cuts.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
And these are necessary decisions. And they didn't have to
be cuts.

Speaker 4 (58:53):
Again, like you mentioned, you laid it out right like
there was a pathway or say it chu Waha to stay,
and clearly other T teams are taking the cues. These
are opportunities now that different cities are jumping on it
and are seeing like, Okay, this is an opportunity to go.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
Ahead and invest in this league.

Speaker 4 (59:10):
And this is where this league really is finally looking
around into what's happening elsewhere in the world, seeing tst
seeing King's Cup, seeing all these different things that are
really catching the eye of the soccer world, and not
just indoor soccer outdoor soccer, Like it's bringing in, bringing
in new fans. I love the supporters of the m

(59:32):
A SL I love everybody who's so invested in in
and offseason and really want to know everything. But at
the end of the day, a sport lives on through
creating new young fans, and these other leagues have found
something with that ma ASL wants to go ahead and
get to that direction more eyes.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
The play speaks for itself. The players are stars.

Speaker 4 (59:57):
This is something that's necessary to move forward and hopefully
like it's a more polished product. Yeah, less teams, but
if these teams are more polished it looks better, then
that's gonna be better for business for everybody, not just
the teams, but players, the people who go over and
support their teams, the fans, fan experience, just the competition. Again,

(01:00:21):
players will feel better playing if they know that their
cell phone isn't gonna get selen or have a chance
to get you know, taken. These are real things, right,
like We always commend the players and just how professional
they are and how sometimes you know in the off
season they're they're just regular people too, but they're regular,
supernatural soccer people, and they also deserve to get that

(01:00:43):
respect and be put on a pedestal of this is
a real league. So that way VISUS can get approved.
This is that way the government can say, wow, that's
a great league.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
I love I may sell.

Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
You know what, We're gonna go ahead and have these
work visas settled. This is a real professional league. Got
to take those steps. Sometimes you've got to reorganize. Sometimes
you got to.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
Take a strategic retreat in order to make a stronger advance,
because otherwise, if you just keep advancing, you just thin
yourself out and then you just fall apart. And I
think this is I think this is an important move
for MASL. I think Chihuahua did them a favor, to
be perfectly honest, walking out. I think they did them
a favor because MASL was going to work very hard

(01:01:28):
to try and keep that great franchise in the league,
and they were going to hurt themselves in order to
do it. And now you stand at a solid eight
and you have a chance to get to a solid twelve,
and then you could get to a solid fourteen and
you can continue.

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
To grow and go forward with that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Let's switch to our last subject for tonight, which is
the schedule. The schedule came out a little bit earlier
this week. The league made a big deal about they
used an a company to help make the schedule, and
they said that other like big pro leagues are using
it and.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Cool whatever. Cool.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
It's just a computer program, bro, It's a computer program.
Like why do we all get sucked into this AI wormhole? Like,
I don't care that you Majrix. If you hand wrote
it and it was good, I'd be excited.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
Yeah, yeah it was.

Speaker 4 (01:02:27):
You told me, oh, there's this dude that's just amazing
logistics and figured it all out.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
Like I want to talk to that guy. That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
But you know, cool on you, m asl you want
to trumpet your your AI partnership.

Speaker 3 (01:02:41):
I think it's bullshit. But that's just me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
I think all the AI is bullshit. That's not a
negative on you, it's on all of AI. Okay, just
call it a computer program and just give me a schedule,
you know. Okay, Soccers have a schedule. Soccers have a schedule.
It looks like it was made by AI. Are you're

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gonna be at home then on the road.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
Here's your home schedule. You just showed it. But let's
go month by month. There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Home opener, season opener, November twenty eighth, Empire Strikers, then
Milwaukee Wave in town, December seventh, head up to Empire
for December twelfth, Christmas break, come back after Christmas to
Koma Stars the day before New Year's That is three home,

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one away. That is your November December schedule. Okay, light, progressive, normal.
We always know there's much more games after the New
Year than there are before. Let's go to January. How
many home games do we get? Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
Oh man, that's a lot of yellow away.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
Oh make sure to get your tickets for January third,
when the soccer's host Empire, because.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
You ain't gonna see your team again till February. Wow.
Or follow them? Yeah, come on, let's get some away
fans like this, just like the Lakers with their Grammys
road trip? Is is Frontwave hosting the Grammys? What happened?
Look at this? Look at this?

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
Look at this January schedule, This is game's six seven eight.

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
For the San Diego Soucker.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
So they'll be Ford home, went away to start off,
and then at Tacoma is a Sunday after a Saturday
night at home.

Speaker 3 (01:04:47):
Jeez, let's play play travel play there's Acoma.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
Then how about an East coast road trip at Baltimore
at Utica day game afternoon game. Whoa, Okay, but you
like two in a weekend, you like that? Then the
next weekend go to Milwaukee. Okay, one off trip, but

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go to Milwaukee cool, couldn't fit a Saint Louis match
in there, Okay? And then the next weekend, how about
drive up to Empire, fly to Maryland.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
And that's just one off with Baltimore one more time.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
This is.

Speaker 4 (01:05:36):
Impractical, almost congratulations on all those air miles, dude. Roughly speaking,
I mean, in the month of January, it's gonna look
something to the effect of.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
Pull this up.

Speaker 4 (01:06:01):
Let's see San Diego, Tacoma, Utica, Ontario, then Baltimore.

Speaker 3 (01:06:06):
That's roughly let's say, well, you said it for walking,
for walking, well.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Johnny Apples here.

Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
Alright, even driving. But that's just a visual of what
the soccer like in a month. Jeez, how are they
supposed to stay fit on airplanes?

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
Like I like the one hundred and thirty seven hour
drive to as well. Yeah, watch party January, there's no
question about it. Shortest nights of the year, our shortest
days of the year, longest nights, and a lot of
watch parties. That's January. So at the eleven match mark,
the soccers will have spent seven of their twelve road games.

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That's it's wild, It's pretty wild. Let's continue on. Obviously,
February and March are going to be a lot better.
Here we go for home two away in the month
of February, Tacoma Stars Utica City comes to town.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
Then you go to Kansas Oh look at this.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Go to Kansas City, play a Saturday afternoon game, Fly
play the next day at four o'clock Pacific, hosting Empire
on February fifteenth, So Valentine's Day away, sorry, girlfriends, And

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the next day you're playing at home.

Speaker 3 (01:07:38):
That's brutal.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
But then you've got a Tacoma away February twenty first
home February twenty seventh. No big deal, no big deal
there things calm down. That back to back is just disgusting.
That's the second we've seen brutal. Yeah, it's absolutely gross,
but things are balancing out now they're equal home in

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a row, home and away. Going into March. Let's take
a look at the March schedule, and we see we
see Kansas City mostly, we just get we just see
Kansas City.

Speaker 3 (01:08:13):
Okay, just have a satellite soccers camp out there. It's
gonna so.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
Okay, March fifth, away at Empire, no big deal. Come home,
take on Baltimore Blast on a Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
Great.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
Next week, fly to Kansas City, play Kansas City. Both
teams fly the next morning.

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
To same day play at front Wave Arena. That game
is going to be a poop show, ye guaranteed, but
that's what the league presents. Then you get a home
match against Saint Louis. Only time we play Saint Louis
just snuck out of the way randomly, there's the one
Saint Louis match. And then let's just go ahead and

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do that comics thing again. Let's let's play away and
home in the same weekend, this time a day in between.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
Thank god.

Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
But let's do a home and away with Kansas City,
and I certainly hope we don't face each other in
the first round of the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (01:09:20):
Oh oh gosh, that breeds just disdain for the opponent,
like just not even disdained, just like you again, Like
it's like, you know, seriously, during COVID, a lot of
married couples have to spend time together and be like,
oh my god, and that's the person you love now
a competitor and seeing Kansas City over and over again,

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like that's just how indiscipline happens, sloppy play, and you know, hopefully,
you know, the crowds in Kansas City will keep it
interesting because I know San Diego will, right, guys, because
we won't be tired by that time of casey and
at that point potential cards. Imagine just you get a
red card, but in game two and then game three

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is just bench versus bench, and then another one and
then a playoffs against Kansas City.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
Can we play Kansas City that many times without Shane
Butler being the head ref for one of the matches?
I mean, the twenty cards I'll never forget the rest
of my life. I'll never forget the twenty cards in
one match. So yeah, it's look, it's not ideal looks
to me like it was made my a.

Speaker 3 (01:10:30):
I am just saying.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
But in the end, it's it's mostly a balanced schedule.
It's just weird in the way it's like Empire early
Kansas City late. There's so much Kansas City late. However,
at least those are two of the three or four
best teams in the league. So I don't think anyone's

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ever going to be mad watching San Diego play Kansas City.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
But matches made the point will be in the same
Southwest flight bro at least it's as signed seating.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Now, like I'm really against Southwest going to assigned seating,
but I think in this particular case, I'm all in
favor so that we don't just have fisticuffs, you know
in the thirty fourth row.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
Yeah, it's the unfortunate clerical error that lists mix them in.
It's going to the other seaton. See what happens. Well,
there's your schedule.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
The promotional schedule will be announced a little bit later
this week on Thursday. At that same time, single match
tickets will go on sale. As I told you, supporter
section is going to be a real thing this year.
Get excited for that. And with that, we've gotten to
the end of the menu for Soccer's Overtime Season eight,
episode one. As we mentioned early in the show, we

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will not be on next week. We're going to wait
until the teams get into camp in November, and then
Tony and I will begin the every week schedule that
will Once we start it, it'll be said and forget it.
But it's gonna be Tuesdays. It's gonna be six o'clock.
It's gonna be right here San Diego punto football on YouTube,

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live shows, live interactivity, live guests, live players, live coaches,
m ASL news, all of it all coming your way.

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
Tony. It's great to be back.

Speaker 4 (01:12:27):
It feels like, uh feels like we're home and snuggling
up to it, and I'm excited for it again. I'm
ready to see these players get out there and show
us what they do best, and it's their talents. I'm
tired of seeing all of the Sandy soccers across social
media doing great stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:12:42):
For there's just these mercenary just society.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
Yeah nods wins a tournament every weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
I swear to.

Speaker 4 (01:12:48):
God, yeah, Like, let's go ahead and have the soccers
uh start started up. And I really hope to see
a lot of people out there, and hey, I think
they also Soccers found a new fan base and notion
side that I to know was there. So hopefully that
keeps growing too. And we see a lot of families
coming out and a lot of the locals up in
Ocean Side too, so North County his representing is showing up.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
So now it'sign for the rest of San Diego to
join them up there as well.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
We just got to keep the momentum going. It's the
greatest San Diego soccer year ever. Let soap it ends
with silverware for SDFC, for San Diego Wave FC and
for the San Diego Soccers. Trust me when I tell
you it's championship or bust in twenty twenty five, twenty
twenty six. And that's it for this episode of Soccers

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over time, Tony, tell everybody how they can support yourself,
Chieva and Abe and everything you guys should.

Speaker 3 (01:13:40):
Doing at San Diego Punto Football. Absolutely you said it,
San Diego Punto Football.

Speaker 4 (01:13:44):
That is where we have everything soccer in San Diego, SDFC,
San Diego Wave, San Diego Soccer's privileged to be able
to help out with the soccer's name.

Speaker 3 (01:13:56):
On San Diego Punta Football. It's awesome. Check it out
San Diego Punta Football, Craig.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
Well for myself with this show coming back, that means
I'm mosting four podcasts now, which is totally cool. The
latest edition of padres Hotub, myself, Chris Reid and Raefy
Canter had Kevin Ace from the San Diego Union Tribune
on incredible hour conversation. A lot of people are saying
the greatest PhD episode they've ever heard, so check it out.

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You can find that if you're a patron, you can
follow us patreon dot com, slash padres hotub and get
everything early, but that's on the free feed as well.
Tony and I Saturday night, despite having both worked and
watched the Wave Match, got together for our Chromaniacs postgame
show for SDFC beating down Portland Timbers four nil and

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of course Vancouver losing. So follow us at the Chromaniacs
on Instagram. Find the Chromaniacs podcast. Everywhere you find this show,
including on YouTube. You can find Chromaniacs subscribe to it.
For myself, Tony and Alex will be back with episode
twenty of our sh show on Thursday. Once we know
Tomorrow Night who SDFC will play on Sunday in the

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opening round of the playoffs. And Crossing Streams is my
television streaming review podcast. Myself and Chris Reed will be
recording a new episode this week, finishing off task. But
any great shows that are happening, you can find our
reviews and our podcasts there. So Soccer's Overtime, Crossing Streams,

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Padre sat Chromaniacs. I don't know if I'm going to
get to do PA for another WAVE match. They're going
to have to win in Kansas City or get some
upsets in the playoffs for that to happen, but wouldn't
be mad if it did.

Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
And that's it for us tonight. Thanks to all of
you for being here. We really appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
We do this for the fans of the San Diego
Soccers and Arena Soccer. We wouldn't do it if you
guys didn't want it, So we're happy to be back
for season eight of Soccer's Overtime. For Tony Sanchez, I'm
Craig Elston. We'll talk to you in a few weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:16:03):
Until then, Coast Sockers