From Premier League Drama To FCS Chaos: A Week Of Upsets, VAR Debates, And Blizzard Soccer

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SPEAKER_01 (00:00):
Is actually here.

SPEAKER_07 (00:36):
Wait, hold on.
Something's different.

SPEAKER_06 (00:38):
Something, something's not right.
Something is not right.
Something's not right.

SPEAKER_05 (00:44):
Mr.
Paducah, I do not appreciate theattitude from coming from you
guys.

SPEAKER_06 (00:49):
Well, no, no, it's not that.
Something's different about you,about something that's set up.
Did you get a haircut?

SPEAKER_05 (00:55):
I did.
I got a haircut.
You like it?

SPEAKER_06 (00:56):
That's what's different.
That's what's different.

SPEAKER_05 (00:58):
I think you appreciate that.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, uh also, your your facelooks thinner.
You look great.
Appreciate you, man.
It's it's the sweater.
Is that what it means?
I wear extra large sweaters nowto make me look skinnier.

SPEAKER_01 (01:11):
Well, no, your face looks really like chiseled.

SPEAKER_05 (01:15):
It's not, it really isn't.
You look great.
You look great, though.
I mean, don't worry.
Appreciate it's a salt andpepper look, you know.
Apparently, it's the ravisthing.
And by the way, welcomeeverybody to break even sports
talk.
I know I'm not usually the hosthere, but I really wanted to put
this out there.
We are also live, technically,on a vertical one.

(01:38):
This is a new feature.
It is on YouTube, right?
So, YouTube, as you guys alreadyknow, YouTube has vertical and
the regular um six by nine,well, whatever, sixteen by nine,
right?

But here's the thing (01:50):
here's the cool thing about the verticals.
The verticals now show on thereels, meaning there's more
views that way.
So just what we're trying thisout.
I like it.
I like it a lot.
We're it's only going to show inour faces, and I don't know why,
but like there it is.
How is that?
Is that better?
Yeah, I think so.

(02:10):
I want to just wanted to putthat out there.
This is pretty cool stuff, guys.
This is new stuff that we'retrying out here at the at Break
Even Sports, actually at the DHCaltogether, right?
Because we want to make surethat we got all the latest and
greatest, and wanted to makesure that we got everything for
you guys uh today.
So wanted to just put that outthere because I'm excited for
this new uh little cool feature.
I've been waiting for this.
This is something that's been inthe works, apparently by YouTube

(02:33):
for I don't know, for a fewmonths now.
And I've, you know, theyreleased it.
I was like, hell yeah, here wego, baby.
I'm excited for this.
So wanted to make sure that Igive you guys the little info.
So now that I'm done talking,Mr.
Producer, it's all yours, andMr.
Prospector, it's all yours.

SPEAKER_06 (02:52):
So uh welcome to today's episode of Breakeven
Sports, and we talk about uhsome of the sports that we do
not talk about on the DHC sportsshows on Tuesday and Thursday.
So we have uh soccer, we've gotFCS, maybe some Formula One,
maybe some hockey, maybe someNBA.
We guess we'll we'll see howthat goes.
So no see.
As usual, I am your host, theoften celebrated, sometimes

(03:15):
imitated, but never duplicatedproducer.
And I'm here I agree.

SPEAKER_05 (03:21):
That was pretty good.
That was pretty good, man.

SPEAKER_06 (03:22):
Tell me to practice that.
Like I kept on screwing up thewords.
At one point, I said nevercelebrate.
I'm like, well, that's kind ofthat's kind of drap.

SPEAKER_01 (03:30):
So I'm here with uh you're celebrated here, my man.

SPEAKER_06 (03:34):
I appreciate that.
So I'm here with Ed and Patrick.
Uh Donnie will be joining usonce he gets back from the early
bird special at the cafeteria.
So um, not sure where he's atright now.
I know he's got some problems,uh technical difficulties.

SPEAKER_01 (03:47):
Well, he was on location at Piccadilly, and uh
and apparently the Wi-Fi wasn'tvery good at Piccadilly, so he's
on his way back.

SPEAKER_05 (03:56):
Well, I mean, isn't that the the usual thing for uh
you know for like the old man,you know, to you know, technical
difficulties?

SPEAKER_01 (04:04):
Well, the apparently he he had a problem ext you know
you doubling his coupon atDenny's for the Grand Slam.
So he went to Piccadillyinstead.

SPEAKER_05 (04:13):
For some reason, I thought it was the McDonald's
free coffee.

SPEAKER_01 (04:16):
Well, that's that was this morning.
That's what's oh my bad.
I'm sorry, I apologize.
That's with his morning coffeeclub, you know, that that you
know small town southern USAalways has.
I got you, I got you.
Yeah, so we hope he'll be withus in a little bit, but you
know, we three young men here,we don't uh you know, we're not

(04:36):
of that age yet, you know, eventhough I'm still denying 40.
But uh, you know, who's keepingup with it?

SPEAKER_05 (04:43):
I appreciate you, man.
I appreciate you.

SPEAKER_06 (04:45):
Just say 39 plus one.

SPEAKER_05 (04:48):
Brother, he ain't 39 plus one.
He is yes, I am.
I am 39.
See, look, guys, we're on avertical on YouTube.
Man, we look good.

SPEAKER_06 (04:57):
I am curious how that's gonna look like with
five.

SPEAKER_05 (05:01):
Yeah, that's the only thing.
I'm sure it'll be like thelines, you know how it is.
Like we'll see.
Uh we'll we'll we'll we'll we'llnever know.
Hey, I like I like experimentingwith it.
Again, listen, I wanted to trythis out just because I think it
was it's a it's a cool littlefeature.
Uh I I don't know if how it'sgonna be with like five people.
We'll see.

(05:21):
Maybe it's smaller, maybe itisn't.
I don't know, but I think inorder for us to and I think this
is something that I've beenthinking about.
It's like, all right, so we wantto make sure that we're
spreading um the the the brandinto other like platforms, like
for example, twitch.
I'm waiting for TikTokeventually to be available on

(05:41):
the Mac, right?
So we can go ahead and and startdoing that live on TikTok,
right?
So we want to make sure thatwe're maximizing every single
channel available to us, and Ithink this is a way because
Reels is really if you read youknow, think about it, Reels has
been one of the most popular uhforms of just re you know,
getting as far as like socialmedia and things like that,

(06:05):
right?

SPEAKER_01 (06:06):
Yeah, well, and also when you search for things on
YouTube now, most of the thingsthat you get are in reels, and
they're not necessarily theYouTube videos.

SPEAKER_05 (06:13):
I mean, think about it.
ESPN now has their own sectionof Reels on their app.
Yeah, so and and they don't callit Reels, by the way.
They want to be they want to befancy, they want to call them
verticals.
I'm like, bro, come on now.
You got bigger problems thancalling something reels.

SPEAKER_06 (06:28):
You you gotta you gotta get your own name,
honestly, copyright, so it makessense.

SPEAKER_05 (06:32):
Absolutely, right, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 (06:34):
So I like what Phil said.
What about German shopping cartreturn championships?

SPEAKER_06 (06:40):
Um that looked legit.

SPEAKER_01 (06:44):
What about supermarket sweep?
Let's let's bring it back.

SPEAKER_06 (06:48):
I love that show.
So did I.

SPEAKER_05 (06:51):
By the way, I showed my wife last night the
professional pillow fighting onthe ocho.
She was like, This is not a realthing.
I'm like, oh no, no, aucontraire, my wife, it is very
real.
And I showed her and she waslike, What am I watching?

SPEAKER_06 (07:07):
Have you shown her competitive tag yet?

SPEAKER_05 (07:09):
I have man, I love the ocho.
I love the ocho.
There's got the weirdest things,you know, there, so it's
amazing.

SPEAKER_01 (07:17):
Is that where the slapping championship started?
Like the you know, the like theuh you know, the face slapping
competition?
Did this actually probablybecause that's one that I don't
recommend showing people thatbecause they might want to
actually compete.
It's like, no thanks.
Because that looks so painful.

SPEAKER_06 (07:35):
No, I just don't remember when ASPN2 showed uh
Magic the Gathering tournaments.

SPEAKER_05 (07:40):
Oh wow and Scrabble so it's like yeah, I think was
it last year or the year beforethey were showing uh air guitar
championship?

SPEAKER_01 (07:48):
Hey, they also showed the spelling bee, okay?
The scripts national spellingbee.

SPEAKER_05 (07:53):
Air guitar championship, bro.
I'm just like, hell yeah.
This is where it's at.

SPEAKER_01 (07:59):
I bet you Virgil would have been good at that.
Vir Virgil probably dominatedguitar hero.

SPEAKER_05 (08:04):
I think you I think he would have been good at air
guitar.

SPEAKER_01 (08:07):
Listen, I think he would have dominated guitar
hero.
It's like the rest of us arejust there, and yeah, like
Virgil absolutely dominating.
And let me tell you something,and you'll know what I'm talking
about.
Uh the the president of Virgilfan club, uh a certain uh Basset
Hound.
Um, she would agree that um oh,and then and then maybe another

(08:29):
another admirer might love thatright now.

SPEAKER_05 (08:33):
By the way, you look like you have like pads on your
hoodie.
Who me?
Yeah, you talking about this fora second.
It looked like there was pads,and I'm very jealous of that
hoodie.

SPEAKER_01 (08:46):
Oh well, it's it's getting its really first full
debut because it is cold as riphere in Georgia.

SPEAKER_05 (08:52):
Oh, same here, dude.

SPEAKER_01 (08:54):
Is it not?

SPEAKER_06 (08:54):
It is it is definitely uh is it cold in Gama
as well?
It is super cold in Bama rightnow.
Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (09:01):
Look what the cider dude show up.
Look at that.

SPEAKER_08 (09:06):
Look who decided to change uh the link with nope, no
one changed the link.

SPEAKER_06 (09:13):
I don't know changed the link.

SPEAKER_08 (09:14):
My my old link you said it would not be found
because of some Mars thing, anew thing with StreamYard.
Well, then why didn't they showup and you didn't there is a
Mars thing with with yeah, I Idon't it may not be that, but it
it wasn't my my normal link, itwas giving me a 404 error.
Oh I was Piccadilly.

SPEAKER_05 (09:39):
So and listen, I I I can understand that, but Donnie,
I just wanted you to know thatthis is why we're doing this.
If you look immediately to yourleft, I don't know if you can
see it, but there is a verticalone.
That's the Mars update.
The Mars update on StreamYard,by the way.
This is you know brought to youby StreamYard.
Is now we're able to show it onthe reels on YouTube,

(09:59):
especially.
That's really the main one whereyou can do now vertical
programming.

SPEAKER_08 (10:05):
Well, I also it and it may, I don't know.
Our our internet, one of ourinternet uh providers has been
down all afternoon.
The one that I normally normallyhave my hardwire uh connection
with.
So now I'm over Wi-Fi, so Idon't know.
Hope my hopefully I'm not gonnabe uh Patrick Spotty, but who
knows?
We'll see.

(10:25):
Well, you never know.

SPEAKER_01 (10:29):
I've been one of the most consistently reliable uh
connections in the last fewmonths.

SPEAKER_05 (10:33):
Let's not talk about reliability, guys.

SPEAKER_08 (10:35):
Let's not end the last few months.
It's it's always it's alwaysthat disclaimer statement at the
end in the last few months.

SPEAKER_06 (10:41):
Once he dropped the Walmart internet and got that
Kirklands internet from Costco,things have been like running so
much better.

SPEAKER_01 (10:47):
Absolutely.
Thank you.
I went, listen, thank you,Kirklands, okay?

SPEAKER_06 (10:54):
We do have to address something real quick
because um Patrick, you didn'tmention you didn't mention my
basset town.

unknown (11:00):
Yes.

SPEAKER_06 (11:00):
Of course, my bassettown is the mascot of my
uh fantasy team, and it did notgo well this week for me.
So um, you know, she asked me,was this game a must-win game?
And I said, absolutely not.
It's not a DHC game.
I'm glad you brought that up.
It's not a DHC game.
I gladly get beat by 103, maybe110 to 10 in that game.

(11:22):
They could put up a hundred upon us as long as we get the win
next two weeks after.

SPEAKER_05 (11:27):
Uh oh.
Why is it that two weeks after?

SPEAKER_06 (11:32):
Because I'm taking the Pat Narduzzi quote about
Pitt and Notre Dame and makingit you know, this game's not a
conference game for me.

SPEAKER_05 (11:41):
Gotcha.
By the way, I gotta call thisdude out.
That guy.

SPEAKER_04 (11:47):
You're gonna win.

SPEAKER_05 (11:51):
You have a 16% chance of winning.
Why?
Because you still got players uhplaying tonight, so I don't want
to hear it.

SPEAKER_01 (11:58):
Just one player, player, and that is a huge if
you have got like an 11 point.
Come on, please chill out.
You had an 11-point lead.
I don't even want to hear it.
You got exactly 11 points withJake.

SPEAKER_05 (12:16):
By the way, I found this hat.
This I don't know if you guysever heard legacy hats.
Yes, yes, man.
Holy moly, is this comfortable?
And I bought this hat justwithout it, but man, man, that
uh that balled that bald head'slooking good.
Freshly shaven, baby, freshlyshaven.

SPEAKER_01 (12:35):
Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_05 (12:37):
Yeah, man, these legacy caps, bro.

SPEAKER_01 (12:39):
Yeah, um, I have a couple of the legacy trucker
hats.
Um that they make them for a lotof um for a lot of college
teams.
A lot of the a lot of theCollegiate Woodbat.
Collegiate Woodbat, um, legacyathletic.
Um yeah, really good stuff.
And Donnie, I know I don't say Iknow I pick on you all the time,
but I love that hat.

(13:01):
It's a nice color on that hat.
Is that a is that like a ClemsonSan Francisco like
collaboration?
Did you get that straight fromDabo?

SPEAKER_08 (13:10):
Oh man, I thought I thought after that compliment
you were going to know what itactually was.

SPEAKER_01 (13:16):
Well, actually, I do know.
That's this that's City Connect,isn't it?

SPEAKER_08 (13:20):
No.

SPEAKER_01 (13:22):
Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_08 (13:24):
San Francisco Virgil It's appropriate to this show.

SPEAKER_01 (13:30):
Oh, is it like a cancer awareness?

SPEAKER_05 (13:33):
No, it's soccer related.
No.

SPEAKER_01 (13:39):
Huh.

SPEAKER_03 (13:40):
Thinking.

SPEAKER_05 (13:41):
Okay, so this what colors are those?
Because I can your your yoursignal is very blurry tonight.

SPEAKER_01 (13:46):
So it's purple and orange, right?

SPEAKER_05 (13:48):
No purple and yellow.

SPEAKER_06 (13:51):
I first thought it was like an LSU San Fran hat
kind of mix, but that wouldn'tmake sense.

SPEAKER_08 (13:57):
It's San Francisco.
You've got the color schemeright in what you're saying.

SPEAKER_01 (14:03):
Purple and yellow.
So it's another college team.
Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 (14:08):
Getting warmer.

SPEAKER_01 (14:09):
Yeah, but it's so it's got to be in the California
area.

SPEAKER_06 (14:14):
Um it's an ECU San Francisco hat on your own.

SPEAKER_05 (14:18):
It's not an ECU.

SPEAKER_01 (14:19):
I mean, it's not the University of San Francisco.

SPEAKER_05 (14:23):
No, because they're green and yellow.

SPEAKER_01 (14:25):
They're green and yellow, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (14:27):
It's not UCLA.

SPEAKER_06 (14:34):
Well, that just raises more questions.

SPEAKER_01 (14:36):
Is that the Gumbo Gators?

SPEAKER_05 (14:39):
No.
I seriously thought that wasgonna be uh the Gumbo Gators.

SPEAKER_01 (14:43):
Man, no.

SPEAKER_08 (14:44):
Um you got me stumped on this one.
Yeah, which team is that?
I thought I thought possiblyVirgil would come up with this
university.
My brother attended thisuniversity, Adrian.
Uh went.

SPEAKER_01 (14:55):
Adrian did, yeah.
Like the Adrian that I met.

SPEAKER_05 (15:00):
What movie?
What movie?
Well, well uh what is it?
St.
Mary's?

SPEAKER_08 (15:05):
Mrs.
Mayor could tell you.

SPEAKER_06 (15:08):
It's not St.
Mary's.
This is gonna bother me.
It is.
This is gonna bother me.
They're still trying to figureit out.
This is gonna be one of thosethings that gave me.
It's gonna take us two hours tofigure this out.

SPEAKER_08 (15:17):
I'm not gonna tell you, I'm gonna let you I'm gonna
let y'all figure it out.
Without telling no googling.

SPEAKER_05 (15:21):
Okay, don't I'm not googling.
I'm not googling.

SPEAKER_08 (15:25):
You just gotta think hard.

SPEAKER_01 (15:27):
It's all right in San Francisco.
That's not the NorwichNavigators, is it?

SPEAKER_06 (15:32):
No.
It's that I I'm thinking it's acollege.
Yeah, it's can I see that logoagain?

SPEAKER_01 (15:37):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (15:38):
On the back.

unknown (15:39):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (15:40):
Can you keep it up there for like five minutes
while your internet catches up?
It's an alligator of some sort.

SPEAKER_06 (15:48):
It's an alligator.
Oh man.
I've never seen Golden State.
Oh my god.
Hold on.
Donnie, is that San FranciscoState?

SPEAKER_08 (16:00):
Bingo.
Dang, I can flip that.
I knew when he said when he saidGolden State, I was gonna say
you're half right, but then youstarted to say something.
So I was like, state triggeredit.

SPEAKER_06 (16:10):
Yeah, when he said state, that triggered it.
And it's like, that's SanFrancisco State.
Why did I think that's a goodthing?

SPEAKER_01 (16:14):
San Francisco State Gators.
Listen, I I'm not even gonna uhthat's that's yeah, I didn't
know there was a San FranciscoState Gators.
I honestly didn't even know theywere a thing.

SPEAKER_08 (16:26):
This was an own field hat from back in the day.

SPEAKER_06 (16:29):
The only reason I knew about San Francisco Gators
is because I owned, and this isthe school's unrelated, but I
owned a UC Santa Cruz fightingbanana slug shirt at some point
in live.

SPEAKER_00 (16:43):
Oh yeah, I want one of their hats.
I want banana slugs, I want abanana slugs hat.

SPEAKER_06 (16:48):
I went down a rabbit hole about some of the other
California teams, and I rememberseeing San Francisco State
before, and I kind of blanked ontheir color scheme until you
said state.

SPEAKER_01 (16:59):
Is that one?
Yeah, is that like a 3930 typehat?
Or like a flex hat like that?

SPEAKER_05 (17:08):
Well, style, it's a um and your internet is his
internet is oh horrible today.
Listen, Patrick Larson, comewith your internet.

SPEAKER_06 (17:21):
Patrick, that's just gonna stick with you from live
from now on.

SPEAKER_01 (17:24):
It's okay.
I've fixed it, so it's all good.
And don't worry, I have so muchcrap on those two, it doesn't
matter.
Come get your internet, PatrickLarson.

SPEAKER_08 (17:33):
I will do this.
I'm gonna I'm gonna stop um I'mgonna stop the uh football game
up there.
I'm chewing up my bandwidth, andI don't have as much bandwidth.

SPEAKER_05 (17:44):
Is your son playing video games?

SPEAKER_08 (17:47):
Uh don't know.
He may or may not be.

SPEAKER_05 (17:50):
Nani.
I love that.
I love the fact that he scrollsin on purpose.

SPEAKER_08 (17:58):
Or I could do what I could I could I could give you a
little bit of ed from from lastweek.

SPEAKER_00 (18:04):
That's true.
That's true.
Well said.

SPEAKER_04 (18:08):
It's working good.
Stop it.
Don't don't jinx it.

SPEAKER_06 (18:12):
So uh speaking of um that making that noise on the
Monday show, uh, I was almostabout to tear into you two
tonight until, yes, both of you,for a take you made on the
breakfast takes, until youcorrected yourselves.

SPEAKER_05 (18:28):
Uh which one?

SPEAKER_06 (18:29):
Uh dissing you con saying that they were No, no,
no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_05 (18:33):
We're not dissing Yukon.

SPEAKER_06 (18:35):
I'm saying, but when you talked about Duke being
certainly sounded like it, itsounded like it at first, and
then you kind of said, Well,wait a minute, there's seven and
three.
So it's like, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_05 (18:43):
Yeah, there's seven and three.
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (18:48):
I called off the guns, I called off the called
off the the the head.

SPEAKER_01 (18:52):
Well, I guess it's like traditional who coaches
them, I don't know.

SPEAKER_08 (18:58):
No, I knew it was Jim Wall.
Traditional thought was like,okay, you think of Connecticut
as a as a basketball school, nota football school.
I mean, that's fair.
And that was that was why itjust seemed weird when you say
UConn beat Duke because it'slike they're not really normally
that good in football.

SPEAKER_05 (19:16):
They haven't been that good in football for quite
a while.
And I'll I gotta hand that toJim Mora.
He has done an absolutewonderful job at UConn.
He went there on purpose.
He wanted to, and we what wewere just talking about.
He is 64 years old.
He just wanted a cushy job, andhe's doing a really good job
turning that program around.
So I give him a ton of creditfor what he has been able to do.

(19:38):
And he bit a good beat a goodDuke team uh this weekend.
So kudos to them.
I'll I'll you know playoffs.
Playoffs.
Although now he needs to work ongetting stronger opponents, you
know, now that he's seven andthree, and to this year he's
proven that he can play, heneeds to up that competition.

SPEAKER_01 (20:00):
Well, and in the real words of Jim Moore Jr.,
college football playoff.
Playoff.

SPEAKER_06 (20:05):
Well, it's it's kind of hard to do that when you're
um I they probably want to gettheir conference situation fixed
first.

SPEAKER_05 (20:12):
The whole yeah, the whole conference is a hot mess.
But yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_06 (20:15):
Well, there's no conference for them, they're
they're independent.

SPEAKER_05 (20:17):
They're indie, right?
So that's all so they shouldeither.
I thought they were gonna jointhe Mac for at one point.
They were talking about joiningthe Mac.

SPEAKER_06 (20:24):
I thought that too, and maybe I got confused with
UMass.

SPEAKER_05 (20:29):
I could have been.
Although I'd rather have UConnthan UMass.

SPEAKER_01 (20:33):
Well, I was conference.
Listen, the the the only theonly thing that that's familiar
that you can confuse with UConnand UMass is they both have you
in their name.
Because one is a decent team andone is one is a mess.

SPEAKER_05 (20:48):
And one of them also, the other that one that's
a mess, uh, guess what?
No wins.
Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (20:55):
So I agree, Phil.
Bring back the big east.

SPEAKER_05 (20:58):
I'm with you there, man.
I 100% agree there.

SPEAKER_01 (21:02):
Were they still were they were UConn still in the big
east when Kevin Ollie was there?
Uh sorry.
Clear about growth.
Sorry.

SPEAKER_08 (21:11):
It's crazy to think that that Miami was in the Big
East before they joined the ACC.

SPEAKER_06 (21:18):
Virginia Tech was Virginia Tech.

SPEAKER_01 (21:22):
I mean, and thank goodness Cal finally got
together and made some sense andjoined the ACC when they're when
they're near the Pacific Ocean.
Exactly.
I mean, Stanford too.
I mean, you know, the ACC justthey just make sense.
They get it.

SPEAKER_05 (21:34):
That one never will make never make sense to be the
Stanford one.
Listen, it's no different.

SPEAKER_08 (21:40):
It's no different than UCLA and Southern Cal
joining the Big Ten.

SPEAKER_01 (21:45):
I agree, but I'm just saying it's just like it's
just weird.
That's not as far of a distanceas it is, like, I mean, as car
like the Big Ten is at leastisn't like pointing out the
other side of the country aswait a minute.

SPEAKER_06 (21:58):
Um, can you point out uh Piscataway, New Jersey on
a map for me, please?
The what can you point out uhNew Jersey on a map for me,
please?

SPEAKER_01 (22:08):
Nope.

SPEAKER_06 (22:10):
That is kind of far on the easter of the other side
of the uh United States.
Just saying.

SPEAKER_01 (22:16):
What we're talking about talking about Rutgers?

SPEAKER_06 (22:18):
Yeah, you're talking about Big Ten, now it's they're
closer.

SPEAKER_01 (22:22):
I'm talking about the conference name.

SPEAKER_06 (22:24):
Uh-huh.
I'm talking about the conferencename.
Semantics, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 (22:29):
Okay, are you on Dabo's payroll just like Donnie
is?
Is that is that what this isabout?

SPEAKER_06 (22:35):
No, I'm just I'm just a big thing.

SPEAKER_01 (22:37):
Because we know Dabo, we now we know Dabo pays
Donnie, he pays everybody.

SPEAKER_06 (22:42):
So I'm just a big fan of geography.
I just want to make sure Mr.

SPEAKER_05 (22:48):
Producer.
Yeah.
Is it true that Rob Acky hasbeen fired?

SPEAKER_06 (22:54):
Rob Akey?

SPEAKER_05 (22:55):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (22:56):
I have not heard about that.

SPEAKER_05 (23:08):
Look at him.
He's all this gobulated out.
He's like a what?
Well, I mean I asked who isthat?

SPEAKER_06 (23:15):
It's the interim head coach.

SPEAKER_05 (23:16):
It goes for Oregon State.

SPEAKER_06 (23:19):
I've never heard of a situation where an interim
coach got fired unless he didsomething to be fired.

SPEAKER_05 (23:26):
So I mean he did get he did lose to Sam Houston
State.

SPEAKER_06 (23:30):
I mean, that that's why I paused for a minute
because I'm like, he's nottalking about that run, Aki.
Okay, not not the one that thatjust dropping up interim.
So yeah, I think of a program.
Do you have to be?

SPEAKER_05 (23:43):
I think he is getting fired.
I don't know if this is likeconfirmed, but but he won the
Pac-12 championship.

SPEAKER_06 (23:52):
So does that not mean anything to that?

SPEAKER_01 (23:57):
Not when you lose to Sam Houston State.

SPEAKER_06 (23:59):
I mean, that's also true.

SPEAKER_05 (24:00):
You couldn't score a single touchdown or point
against Sam Houston State.
You can't be that bad, bro.

SPEAKER_01 (24:07):
Wasn't Sam Houston also winless?
Or just winless in theconference?
Winless in the conference, Ithink it was.

SPEAKER_05 (24:15):
Anyway, guys, I'm taking over.

SPEAKER_06 (24:20):
Yeah, that's Sam Houston from the other
Huntsville.
So um but before uh before wetalk about that, I was gonna
talk about how much I lovegeography.
And there's nothing I like more,then let's go over to the UK
first to talk about some PremierLeague games.

(24:42):
Because guys, I think we hadprobably the best game of the uh
season so far.
But the question is, which gameam I talking about?

SPEAKER_05 (24:57):
Interesting.
Now you got me intrigued now.

SPEAKER_06 (25:00):
Because there's two games that had uh two two draws.
One had late um late theatricsfor their goals and calling two
goals in stoppage time.
The other one was a gutsyperformance by a promoted team
that also got a goal in stoppagetime, and probably one of the
best.
Is that I don't know if it'scalled a scorpion kick or a it

(25:24):
wasn't a bicycle.
I don't know what that was.
No, it's it's like it's ascorpion kick.
Scorpion kick scold our scoredon a scorpion kick, which
shocked the crap out of me whenthat one went in.
So the two games I'm talkingabout first is Tottenham and
Manchester United.
And it's kind of funny aboutthat game.
I don't know if you watched itbecause it was the early game.

SPEAKER_05 (25:42):
Yeah.
Um I do have a weird stat.
We did draw though, so I was alittle upset about that.

SPEAKER_06 (25:48):
Oh, if you watched again, you wouldn't be upset
with that draw.

SPEAKER_01 (25:51):
True.
But isn't this the second timethat Richarlison has uh
celebrated like an um an injurytime goal only for that, you
know, like it's the winner, onlyfor it to not actually be the
winner?
I s I ought to send you thetweet that I saw about that, but
there's two separate instancesin different seasons, not this

(26:13):
season, but in different indifferent seasons where he's
done that.
And I'm like, Charleston, do younot learn?

SPEAKER_06 (26:20):
I mean, you can't you can't count the game out yet
at that point.
I mean, I know it was they Imean I hate both teams.

SPEAKER_01 (26:28):
Dude, chill out, bro.
What the hate with that team?
You know I can't standTottenham, but you also know I
can't stand Manchester United.
I wish you both would have lost,but that but that's not
possible.
Technically, we did.
We tied.
I was gonna say a draw was aboutas explosive.
You still got a point, neitherof you does neither team
deserves a point.

SPEAKER_05 (26:47):
Your team does not deserve any more wins for the
rest of the season.

SPEAKER_01 (26:50):
No, they don't.
I will be the first to say that.
Um, and then uh Mr.
Mr.
Three Week Palace fan downthere, but anyways, he is uh oh
he Monday Patrick is back, guys.
Monday's back, and you know it'sit's raw.
It's raw.

SPEAKER_08 (27:08):
Yeah, he's been traveling and he has Mondays
off.
He's been like saving up.

SPEAKER_01 (27:14):
Listen, I've been saving up, man.
He's been banking some rage.
He's been working on that onefor a minute.
I woke up this morning and youknow, was at the control center,
and I and I pushed the buttonsaying I chose violence.

SPEAKER_08 (27:26):
Yeah, he did.
He he's finally come out of thatfog from the uh the World Series
loss and and everything else,and it's just like I it's a
whole new day.

SPEAKER_01 (27:35):
Listen, and and you can thank Donnie for this after
sharing all of the rage fromBlue Jays fans from the game
seven loss because that was thatwas that was cruel but usual
from Donnie.

SPEAKER_05 (27:47):
Donnie just straight up went and stabbed you in the
back and twisted that night.
I just thought that was funny.

SPEAKER_06 (27:53):
And then don't forget, you maybe to you, and
don't forget he tried to do thesame thing to you on Sunday.
He sure did.
Don't don't think we well, don'tthink we got don't have receipts
on that.

SPEAKER_01 (28:03):
Uh listen, I'm gonna cash him in.

SPEAKER_05 (28:05):
Okay so so so wait, hold on a second.
So Donnie chose violence onSunday, yep, and then Patrick
now is choosing violence on aMonday.
You are where's the love, guys?
Where's the love?
Where is the love?

SPEAKER_06 (28:20):
Let's not clearly clearly Mr.

SPEAKER_01 (28:22):
Prophet was the one that kept the love together for
all of us, and then once he'sgone, it just it is a sad, it is
a sad day in this country whenwhen we're depending on
positivity to come from EricProphet.

SPEAKER_07 (28:35):
Listen, I'll say this.

SPEAKER_05 (28:36):
We really reached the new low.
I'll say this as a Tottenhamfan.
I we have been playing likeshit.
Our team has been playing likeshit for a while now.
So I'm kind of glad that at thevery least, it's against a good
team.
We got a tie, we we got a atleast a point out of this.
So I'm I'm happy that at leastwe got something out of it.

SPEAKER_01 (28:54):
I will thank you for not letting Manchester United
win.
I will say that to you.
Because last week, this week,yeah.
I can't take their supporterstalking about, oh, we're back,
and all oh, we're a great teamagain.
I'm like, no, you're not.
You should be like, oh, you'renot.
Yeah, you you drew againstForest, okay?

(29:15):
And I don't even care if it wasagainst the ginger mourinho
version of Forrest, okay?
Nothing wrong with gingers, bythe way, Donnie.
Before you try to say I'm tryingto, you know, go after gingers.
If you knew what I meant byginger mourinho, you'd know I
mean that as a company.

SPEAKER_08 (29:30):
Anyway, all right.
I I was I was ready.
I was I was locked and loaded.

SPEAKER_01 (29:35):
Listen, Sean Sean Dykes has done a fantastic job
at Forrest so far.
So you go back to your 975 proofwhiskey that you're drinking.
Um, can't wait for Ronda tosteal that from you again.
And um, you know, Virgil, nowthat I've gone off the rails,
I'm gonna turn it back over toyou.

SPEAKER_06 (29:53):
Oh, thanks.
Yeah, I was just gonna say justleave scorched earth pieces.

SPEAKER_08 (30:02):
All I'll say about what I'm drinking is I I I chose
this drink because of thesophistication that Ed has put
upon us with all this newfangled stuff today.
Break even sports is thesophisticated sports show.
And so I figured I'd go with asophisticated drink.

SPEAKER_05 (30:19):
Oh, that sounds delicious.
I wish I had some something tomix my uh my rum with, but I got
nothing to today.
I'm sorry.
Um, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_08 (30:29):
It's like just two cubes of ice and and straight
out the bottle.
And Patrick, you will appreciatethis that the mayor is drinking
the senator.

SPEAKER_00 (30:39):
The senator.

SPEAKER_08 (30:40):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (30:41):
I do appreciate that.

SPEAKER_08 (30:44):
This is a this is a thing single barrel, straight
raw whiskey.

SPEAKER_01 (30:49):
Yeah.
Rhonda, you you will get sweetPatrick, okay?
Because you deserve it.
Uh your husband does not.
Um and Ed does not.
Virgil might do.
Virgil might, other than hisgeography comment.
Um, you know.
What I do, I didn't do anything.

(31:10):
Oh, yes, you have.
Virgil's built up such goodwillwith me, though.
I mean, I I love some VirgilBrooks.
I really do.

SPEAKER_05 (31:19):
Thank you.
Virgil's all your show.
Jesus.

SPEAKER_06 (31:23):
Yeah.
Uh so the other two, two draw Iwon the top.

SPEAKER_08 (31:26):
All I was gonna say to finish just to finish, just
to finish, Virgil, real quick.
I was just gonna say this wasput in a barrel in 2014.
And was put in this bottle in2021.
Trent Krim from the I boughtthis at I bought this at the
tavern at the Rainbow Row inCharleston, which is the oldest
still active uh liquor store inAmerica.

SPEAKER_06 (31:49):
You interrupt me again on putting you in a barrel
in 2026.
How about that?

SPEAKER_01 (31:55):
Have you have you ever seen that video of the
backyard baseball where they hitit and they're like, nobody
cares?

SPEAKER_00 (32:02):
No, I have not seen that.
I'll have to send it to you.
It's it's fantastic.

SPEAKER_06 (32:06):
So some of the other results from this uh from this
Saturday, Slate again we'regonna go through first.
Everton beat Fulham 2-0, nothingreally there to talk about.
Good win for Everton.
West Ham beats uh Burnley 3-2.
That was actually a pretty fungame, too.
I thought Burnley was a wasgoing to steal uh a home away
win from that one, but thatdidn't happen.
But then the other game, which Ithought was probably the better

(32:26):
of the, probably the best gameof the week.
Um I'm I'm not gonna say theseason yet.
I know there's been some goodones, but Sunderland.

SPEAKER_01 (32:33):
Chelsea Wolves wasn't it?

SPEAKER_06 (32:35):
Oh, yeah, it's like yes, exactly.
Chelsea Wolves, that's what itwas.
Sunderland uh playing Arsenal,and man, Arsenal looked like
they were gonna be top of theyou know, consistent.
They get the second goal on theroad, and it looks pretty much
done.
Sunderland keeps on fighting,and then they get their goal in

(32:55):
the fourth minute of stoppagetime.
Uh probably one of the mostunexpected goals, I would say.
Out of the way, just away.
It was out of nowhere.
It's out of nowhere.
It was it wasn't against theplay, it wasn't against play
because they were definitelythreatening at the time, but it
happened in a flash.
So if you have a chance to goback and look at the Scorpion

(33:17):
Kick goal by uh I'm alwayspronounced this name, is it
Brabi?

SPEAKER_01 (33:22):
Robbie, I think is what it is.
But do you think that David Rayamade a mistake coming out the
way he did?
Uh or would you have gone afterthat too in a 50-50 like that?

SPEAKER_06 (33:36):
I feel like at that stage of the game, because they
were already down 2-1 at thatpoint.

SPEAKER_01 (33:41):
It was 2-1, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (33:42):
I think at that stage of the game, you kind of
have to go, you gotta kind ofput that risk in there for that.

SPEAKER_01 (33:49):
Because sometimes the three point to try to
preserve the three points.

SPEAKER_06 (33:52):
Try to preserve the three point the three points.
Um, especially at that point, Ithink it was already clear uh
Tottenham was threatening.
Yeah, but at the same time, youknow, that that's the part
that's why with challenges likethat.
They sometimes they work,sometimes they don't.
That's why it's called a 50-50.

(34:14):
But yeah, Sunderland showed um,Sunderland showed some fight for
sure.
And um I was kind of a little, Iwas a little of a doubter about
their place on the table,thinking it was just kind of
like beginners.
I'm not gonna say beginners'luck, but you know, just kind
of, you know, they're a freshnew team and all that,
everything's going to be like,but with a comeback like that,
especially against the top teamof the league by a few good

(34:37):
amount of points, um, yeah, Ithey're legit.
That that that's a that that's athat that result there, even
though it was a draw, thatresult there is what a good team
does when down late against asuperior on-paper team.

SPEAKER_01 (36:55):
The part with Sunderland that I'm so impressed
with is that they um it is thefact that they bought so many
new players that they haven'thad a chance to really bet in to
build that chemistry, but theybuilt they've seemed to have
built to chemistry so quicklybecause there are a lot of new
players that that Sunderlandbrought in in the close season.
And to be playing together likethey are already is a real

(37:19):
credit to the manager.
And I mean they produced reallygood away performances.
I mean, Chelsea's about uh youknow, at Stanford Bridge is
about as good of an awayperformance as I've seen any
team do in a while.
And they looked at they theylooked up for it from the first
minute.
Um, I think that they were alittle outclassed to start the

(37:41):
game by Arsenal, and Arsenalreally showed their class and
what they can do when they'rebeing deadly.
But um credit to them for justnot for not dropping the energy
levels and for for for workingtheir socks off until until
until full time because that'sthe so I think in the end, just

(38:02):
from their work rate, theyearned a point.
But it was a great performancefrom Sunderland.

SPEAKER_06 (38:08):
Yeah, definitely a well-deserved uh point for sure.
And also you make Arsenal droppoints, which I'm sure uh
Manchester I was delighted.
Oh yeah, I'm sure, andManchester City and Liverpool
are all probably also happyabout that, but we'll get to
their game soon.

SPEAKER_01 (38:23):
Yeah, inexplicably, somehow somehow Chelsea's in in
third.
I don't I can't justify that oreven figure out how in the world
that's possible, but Chelsea isin third place going going into
the international, going intolike the 1400th international
break of the season.

SPEAKER_06 (38:42):
And then the uh last game to talk about they didn't
get Chelsea.
Chelsea beat Wolves 3-0.
Yeah, did not get a red card.

SPEAKER_01 (38:50):
Listen, uh you'll you'll take progress where it
comes.
And um uh they made hard work ofit.
Uh you know, like the um throughmost of the first half, it
didn't look well, really throughthe first half, they they just
couldn't break through and scoreagainst wolves.

(39:11):
They completely dominatedwolves, but they just couldn't
put the ball in the back of thenet.
But um luckily they kind of tookcare of everything early in the
second half and got their gottheir first goal.
And um I thought Garnacho, Inever thought I'd say these
words, I thought Garnacho playedreally well, um you know,

(39:33):
getting two assists, and he hewas attacking the fullbacks like
like he's been asked to do.
And um yeah, he put it he putthe ball on a plate, and um uh
uh and then and then Estevalcoming on and uh changing the
game as well.
I mean it was a comfortable winin the end, but it was not as

(39:55):
comfortable as it maybe looks bythe score line.

SPEAKER_06 (39:58):
So um well, going off the stats itself, um the
disparity is pretty huge.
So I I would I kind of side wasprobably a lot more comfortable
because the shot total was 20 to3.

SPEAKER_01 (40:10):
Yeah and I think the problem is that Chelsea is so
wasteful up front, they do notit takes a lot for them to
convert chances.
They're not efficient with thechances that they get, but still
the youngest team in the league,and despite spending as much
money as they have, and there'sstill some somehow, thanks to a

(40:33):
very inconsistent leagueoverall, um they're they're in
they're in they're in the topthree at the moment.
So I'm even though we droppoints we shouldn't have, I'm
delighted with where we are atthe moment.

SPEAKER_06 (40:48):
While your team did well, and while your team got a
point, Ed.
There's another Saturday resultthat did happen that left some
of us heartbroken, crushed even.
Wow.
And we have to go to Bundesliga2 for that.
Oh god.
Because Kai.

SPEAKER_05 (41:09):
We really are getting into the little
nitty-gritty.

SPEAKER_01 (41:12):
That's where that's where a humongous football club
plays their football end.

SPEAKER_06 (41:17):
Well, this is this is the sad one because I watched
the entire game because it wasthe late game.
Kajuslaudern was hosting HerthaBerlin, and Hertha Berlin
continues their streak of fivestraight wins.
But what makes it hurt the mostis during this game they were
trying to get through theirdefense, and it took a while.

(41:43):
Looks like it was not gonnahappen.
Every time there was a shotcross in there, there was the uh
I forgot the guy's name, but hewas like a 35-year-old center
center defenseman, just hittingout every single time, had two
line clearances, and then in thestoppage time, the man who had
eight game, eight goals in eightgames, progen, scores the goal.

(42:06):
And we are I am going crazy inthe Brooks house.
We're watching, you know, I wasthinking it's gonna be great.
I went back and listened to thecrowd reaction, and then he was
called offsides.
Oh, that's heartbreaking.
What turned into a oh my god, wegot a point, let's just get it

(42:27):
out of there before it getsworse, turned into a crushing
defeat.
Now, defeats happen, losseshappen, but what made this one
worse was because what happenedin the table.
That means fourth place is openif Kaiser Slarden wins.

(42:51):
They would have gone up tofourth tied with Elversburg on
point on um points, but not goaldifferential, and they could not
do it.
So because of that, they aresitting back in seventh.

SPEAKER_05 (43:02):
Yikes.
From going from you would havebeen in fourth, but you went all
the way down to seventh orstayed in seventh.

SPEAKER_06 (43:09):
Stayed in seventh.
It's kind of a it was definitelya tough game.
Um, like I said, very defensivegame on her part.
They they got their goal.
Uh, I wouldn't say they parkedthe bus.
That's not really how they playbecause they were still
threatening on that side, butthey were able to just control a
lot of the a lot of the um a lotof the uh a lot of their box, a

(43:31):
lot of the shots just did notland.
So it was a back to reality gamefor Kaiser Slaughter, but you
know, we'll keep on going.

SPEAKER_05 (43:39):
That's rough.
I'll give you that.
That's actually that's actuallythat's that's rough.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (43:46):
And why why of all teams would you let Hertha
Berlin win?

SPEAKER_06 (43:51):
I don't know.
I'm getting tired of these smallclubs coming in here and
thinking they're they're hotstuff.

SPEAKER_01 (43:57):
I know these minnow clubs, I'm so sick of it.

SPEAKER_06 (44:00):
I know.
No, Hertha is like literally oneof the biggest clubs in Germany.
They are.

SPEAKER_01 (44:06):
My actual my actual real question is what in the
world are they doing inBundesliga 2?

SPEAKER_06 (44:11):
Uh financial problems.

SPEAKER_01 (44:13):
Well, I yeah, but I'm like, like teams like them
and Schalke should not be inBundesliga 2.
No, no.
But you're right, both teams, uhfinancial problems, uh, have
them there.
Hamburg financial problems.

SPEAKER_06 (44:27):
Um however, even after saying all this,
apparently I was not the worstGerman team that had the worst
result on Saturday.

SPEAKER_01 (44:40):
Would you say you were in good company?

SPEAKER_06 (44:43):
I think I was in very good company because
another Berlin team had a um hada pretty good game against the
uh superpowers of Bayern Munich.
And it took a Henry a Harry Kanestoppage goal to win to tie that
game.
Um now I will say this the LewisDiaz goal from Bayern.

(45:05):
If if you have not seen thatgoal, go go go watch it.
Filthy is a fantastic work forthat goal.
Filthy.

SPEAKER_08 (45:12):
That was yeah.
I mean, that was likeone-on-one.

unknown (45:17):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (45:18):
That was one-on-one, one-on-one.
That's what I was trying to say.
Because that was crazy how hehandled that.

SPEAKER_01 (45:25):
Yeah.
Donnie, I've I've I have animpromptu quiz for you.
Where did your beloved where didyour beloved Byron get Luis Diaz
from?
Latin America.
No, like what was his what washis club?
What was his club before thiswithout googling either of you?

SPEAKER_08 (45:45):
I can't, I I can't, I I cannot honestly tell you.

SPEAKER_05 (45:47):
You gotta give me some hints here.
You know that both of us are notas I mean neither of you need to
walk alone, okay?

SPEAKER_08 (45:54):
Um, okay, so we gotta hang on.
Yeah, we gotta hold hands here.

SPEAKER_01 (46:01):
Yes.
You know what?
This is worth it.
You know, you'll you becauseyou'll never walk alone.

SPEAKER_08 (46:09):
Um did he come from Chelsea?
Wanderers?
No, Arsenal.

SPEAKER_01 (46:16):
No, Virgil, please help them out.

SPEAKER_06 (46:18):
Liverpool.

SPEAKER_01 (46:19):
Yeah, yes, okay.
Liverpool.

SPEAKER_06 (46:22):
But to be fair, to be fair, when Patrick is asking
the question, I was thinking tomyself, he didn't come from
Chelsea.
Why is he framing it like that?
So now I know why.

SPEAKER_08 (46:30):
No, that's why I said that to begin with, because
I thought he was trying to teeone up that it came from him.

SPEAKER_01 (46:35):
No, no, I actually was legit.
I was only bringing it upbecause you know, with Liverpool
being as poor as they are, and Iguess we'll get to their game at
some point.
Oh, yeah.
Um, I won't go into all thatjust yet, but I'll just put it

this way (46:48):
Liverpool is missing Luis Diaz at the moment.

SPEAKER_05 (46:53):
Um, are we talking are we gonna talk about some La
Liga too?
I mean, because y'all are justtalking Bundesliga, you guys are
talking English Premier League,and y'all just disrespecting La
Liga.

SPEAKER_01 (47:02):
Apparently, you want to talk about Bolton Wanderers
because you said wanderers.
I didn't know if you weretalking about Wolverhampton or
Bolton.
So both of them.
Both of them?
Okay.
You like that?
I like that.
Well done.
Yeah, I like that, I like that,and you're looking good today.
You're looking good today, myman.

SPEAKER_05 (47:17):
Yeah, I appreciate it.
I'm going with the no with theno uh see there's no hate logos.

SPEAKER_01 (47:23):
There's no hay.
No, but um uh but yeah, thatLuis Dia.
Sorry to get us off track yetagain for the umpteenth time,
Virgil, but um, that was afilthy goal.
But with how with how well he'splaying for Byron Munich at the
moment, uh I think thatLiverpool is really missing him
because um with with thereplacements not and players

(47:46):
from last season not not reallyfilling what the hole that he
left, um it's uh Byron Munichgot a bargain with uh with
getting in Luis Diaz.
I think he's been outstanding.
And and Donnie knows thatbecause I mean he's been a
long-term Byron supporter, so heknows he knows just how
important these guys have been.

SPEAKER_06 (48:09):
And also in terms of the Liga, congratulations,
Donnie, on our letico Madridbeating Levante.

SPEAKER_05 (48:14):
It's been a long month.
I saw that one.
I saw that match.
That was actually a pretty goodmatch.

SPEAKER_01 (48:18):
Yeah, that was actually a match.
Yeah, it was.
What do you think about DiegoSimeoni there, uh Donnie?
Who?
That was so on point.
Who in the world are you talkingabout?
No, the the manager for AtleticoMadrid.

SPEAKER_08 (48:37):
Um what did you add?
It was cutting out, which is whyI kind of said that.

SPEAKER_01 (48:42):
Oh, no, I said what do you what are your thoughts on
Atletico Madrid's manager, DiegoSimeoni?

SPEAKER_08 (48:51):
He cut off a gun.
Um I don't have any thoughts.

SPEAKER_01 (48:55):
You don't have any thoughts?

SPEAKER_08 (48:56):
He's okay, he's good.

SPEAKER_01 (48:58):
What about Connor Gallagher?
That is a former Chelsea player,by the way.

SPEAKER_08 (49:04):
You're just trying to make me look bad.
You're you're choosing violencetonight.
I'm not.
I I don't I don't know thesenames like you yet.
I'm still learning.
No, by the way, you're notyou're a high you're a high
schooler asking a first gradequestions about high school
soccer.
No.
And that's where we're at rightnow.

SPEAKER_01 (49:22):
Well, then let me be fair.
Um, did you watch any of theAtletico Madrid game?
I I I wasn't I watched a part ofit.

SPEAKER_08 (49:31):
Uh yes, I watched some of the Atletico Madrid.

SPEAKER_01 (49:33):
What'd you think of the performan'd you think of the
performance?

SPEAKER_08 (49:41):
I don't know.
It's just kind of like eh.

SPEAKER_01 (49:44):
Okay.
I'm really not trying to showyou up.
I was just I was just curious.

SPEAKER_02 (49:50):
I think it's time for me to choose.

SPEAKER_01 (49:52):
I mostly watched I did not watch it, so that's why
I'm wondering.

SPEAKER_02 (49:57):
I think it's time for me to choose a game.

SPEAKER_08 (49:59):
I I didn't watch very much I did watch uh half of
the crystal game because I wasgone for part of the day uh on
Sunday.
Um I did watch all of uh theByron game, which I've which
this is what struck me becauseum how they pronounce union, or

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at least they probably pronounceit correctly.
I'm saying it wrong, but everyinterview is union.
They kept saying union, and Iwas like, did he say union?

SPEAKER_01 (50:30):
I was like, okay.
Yeah, well that's probably theGerman accent, right?
That's yeah, I I'm pretty sure.
I'm pretty sure it was you knowum, they do say that like that,
don't they?
Well, uh you have to understandmy German accent is horrific,
but um that that's how I believeone would say it.

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Um my uh my German friends wouldcringe hearing me try to say it
in their in their dialect, butyou know, that's that's okay.
Yeah, sometimes it's announced.
I just go ahead Donnie, I'msorry.
I did not I in all seriousness,I was not trying to show you up.

SPEAKER_05 (51:09):
Um, go ahead.
Tell him he was, he really was.
He was disrespecting you likethat.
Don't you dare take that fromhim, okay?
Now he's got me feeling reallybad.
Don't you dare disrespect himlike that.

SPEAKER_08 (51:23):
Listen, I'm still learning.
I'm still learning the names,I'm still learning a lot of the
terminology.
Umsides really gets me still.
Um I I I've learned more aboutit this weekend.
Yeah, because it was I was like,they call offsides.

SPEAKER_05 (51:37):
I'm like, if there's a little bit of it because of
their body ahead before theball.

SPEAKER_08 (51:44):
Did y'all see well y'all I don't y'all probably
weren't watching the match, butI think I think it was the
Bayern game or was it Crystal?
There was one of them theyshowed, I think it was Bayern,
they showed the um like thedigital.
I mean, it looked like freakingsomething from uh Churchill
Downs with the little red line.
Like yeah, they you couldn'thave put a piece of paper

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between there.
It's like like how did you seethat in real time to question
it?

SPEAKER_01 (52:11):
Uh so it's amazing to me with like virtual
assistant referee or VAR, yeah.
Um how it's supposed to besomething that's supposed to
help, you know, like more of apedaganalizer.
But yeah, but well, it does, andthere's but the but what people
don't understand, what peoplefail to realize is that there's

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still humans interpretingcorrect what what the what the
system is telling them.
And in fact, I think it's causedeven more errors than if you
didn't have it at all.
It's just now you still havehuman error that's involved in
the game.
It's just that now instead ofcelebrating a goal, whether it
should have been you knowcounted or not, you're sitting
there for five minutes whilethey're looking at it, and

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you're like, Am I allowed tocelebrate?

SPEAKER_08 (52:56):
Well, and you this is what it reminds me of, and
this is what I thought of when Isaw it happen.
I was like, Well, one, I waslike not understanding what
constituted offsides until Ikind of got that explanation.

SPEAKER_00 (53:09):
They don't know either they don't know either.

SPEAKER_08 (53:11):
Yeah, it's like, oh, it's unfair if we don't have one
of our guys between you and thegoal.
You have to let one of our guysbe closer to the goal than you,
or you're offsides.
Yeah, it's whatever, it's atechnicality thing.
Well, this is what I was gettingat.
Um, in relation to in relationto baseball, um, with the new um

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in this A system, this is wherewe're going with that, because
you could have a lace of abaseball clip the millimeter
edge of the strike zone and becalled a strike just the same.
And that's what's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01 (53:49):
Well, but I'm okay with that because at least
that's gonna be I'm saying, butthat's a quick thing that you
can do that's not gonna takefive minutes.
Like you know, you're gonna goto do this, right?
Send it up, you're not sittingthere waiting for it to be
looked at by the book.
I'm not gonna be upset about it.

SPEAKER_08 (54:08):
If that's the case, then that's what they should do
with soccer.
Is if there's an offsides andthey have that system in place,
and somebody says, I thinkthat's offside, they challenge
it or whatever it's called, andboom, they put up on the screen
like, yep, offsides, let's moveon.

SPEAKER_06 (54:25):
Well, the offsides go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 (54:27):
Go ahead, Virgil.

SPEAKER_06 (54:28):
You the offsides ones don't usually take forever
on the VARs.
It's whether there's not apenalty or not.
That's the ones that are the redcards, those are the ones that
take the time.

SPEAKER_07 (54:37):
Yep.

SPEAKER_06 (54:37):
Because the um the Manchester City Liverpool game,
the first goal, not yeah, thefirst goal was trying to figure
out if it was a penalty or not,and it took a while.

SPEAKER_05 (54:47):
Well, and also like that the offsides, it's very
quick.
They see the line, they see apart of it crossing the line.
That's it.
It's done it over with.
They move on pretty quickly whenit comes to the the offsides
part.

SPEAKER_01 (54:58):
Yeah, and I think yeah, I think if you're
comparing baseball and soccer,that uh the the baseball one is
more the most like the ABSsystem in terms of time.
I I think that the penalty thatthey checked for with VAR is a
lot more like the challenge callin baseball when we're looking
at, you know, was a call rightuh, you know, was someone out at

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second base uh or third base onan attempted You're looking at
the ball, yeah, the ball in theglove versus the foot on the bag
kind of thing.

SPEAKER_08 (55:26):
Right.

SPEAKER_01 (55:27):
Or did the did the person's foot come off the base
when they came in, or you know,did they keep the tag on?
Um and they use the same theyuse the same type of rule about
is it clear and obvious thatit's you know in order to
overturn it.
Right.
Um a lot of times with uh withpenalties too, it's the same
type of thing.
Is it's isn't a clear andobvious error on the field that

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would cause you to overturn acall on the field.
And so um and it takes like itcan take way too long, yeah,
determine that.
Honestly, I don't have a problemwith something else.

SPEAKER_08 (56:03):
No, go ahead, Ed.

SPEAKER_05 (56:05):
I was just gonna say, I really don't have a
problem with with the the way II you know, and again, this is
me, you know, crit critiquingthe English Premier League, but
like to me, like if it's offsideand offsides, you're like it's
gonna kiss my team a lot.
I'll say that.
So um, because it's like youknow, you and and you gotta also

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remember these players alreadyknow they know where they're at
in positioning when it comes tothe players.
So like by the time this alreadygets to them, they're gonna try
to get away with it, but theyknow okay, yeah, I was offside.
So that's why you don't see alot of a lot of fight back
because they knew already,because it's been ingrained in
their in their brain and secondnature to them since they were
kids.

SPEAKER_00 (56:46):
So yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (56:48):
Well, you can see some of them make a smirk
whenever something's calledagainst them that they they
thought they were gonna get awaywith it, and then they're like,
No, you didn't get away with it,and they're like, I'll say this,
and and then you guys I'm I'mI'm sure you guys will back me
off.

SPEAKER_05 (57:03):
There's too much faking in in uh professional
soccer with the injuries.
It really annoys the livingbejesus out of me.

SPEAKER_06 (57:10):
Oh, you're trying to see in other sports too now.

SPEAKER_05 (57:12):
Oh god, yeah.
In football, you're starting tosee that.

SPEAKER_01 (57:15):
Well, didn't we still didn't we see the first
fine a few weeks ago in the NFLfor like you know for faking?
For faking, like for fakeinjury, yeah.
And I'm like, I'm like, did uhdidn't know.
Did soccer just get itself intoCristiano Ronaldo just join the
NFL and I didn't realize it?

SPEAKER_05 (57:32):
It annoys the shit out of me.
It really does annoy the hellout of me.
Like, come on, man.
Like, dude, just get up.
It's it's a time delay tactic.

SPEAKER_06 (57:42):
I will say that um making the they call it
simulation now, a yellow cardoffense, really is it's has it
fixed it?
No, has it changed it where itpunishes people a lot uh easier?
Yes, yeah.
I forgot which game it was.
I think I was watching a uhDutch league game, maybe like a
year or two ago.

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A player got sent off because hewas he simulated on a second
yellow.
And so it's like usually I'venever you never see calls like
that where they're simulatingwhen they already have a yellow.
And Donnie, if you don't knowtwo two yellow cards, you're off
of the red afterwards.
Yeah, to have somebody off forsimulation.
It's like that's that's how youtry to curb that.

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You make that a penalty of thefact that we could even be sent
off.

SPEAKER_05 (58:26):
Let me ask you this for the two yellows, you get the
second one in the in the match,you are for the rest of the game
and then the full matchafterwards, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 (58:33):
Correct.

SPEAKER_05 (58:34):
That's what I thought.

SPEAKER_01 (58:35):
It's a one-game suspension.

SPEAKER_05 (58:36):
It's a full one-game suspension.

SPEAKER_01 (58:37):
You're like if you consider what they call a soft,
it's called a soft red.

SPEAKER_05 (58:41):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (58:42):
So um, because it's two, it's two forms of red.
But if there's a but but if it'sa straight red, like uh without
without a yellow card, it'sthree games.
That's not the yeah, threegames.

SPEAKER_02 (58:54):
Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_01 (58:54):
Uh but but we're you're but you're right, Ed.
Like it's it's you get sent offregardless if you get a two
yellows, then yellow, yeah.
But then as far as suspension,unless you appeal it, it's one
you're gonna the next game.
It's one game for two, it's onegame for two yellows, yep, and
it's it's three games for a fullred.
For a full red, unless there'sconsidered like extra violent

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conduct or there's somethinglike with striking an opponent
or something like that.
Sometimes disciplinary panelswill extend it further than that
if they feel like it's uh likeit's necessary.

SPEAKER_06 (59:28):
One of the things that I absolutely hate in
tournaments, though, uh that wewill talk about this because I'm
sure this will appear eventuallyin the World Cup or in the
Euros.
Uh accumulated yellow cards canalso get you suspended.

SPEAKER_05 (59:40):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (59:40):
I hate that.

SPEAKER_05 (59:41):
Depending on how many yellows you accumulate
during the World Cup.
Right.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (59:46):
I hate the I hate the accumulated yellows where
then and then after a certainround, they'll they'll expunge
them or they'll you know.

SPEAKER_06 (59:57):
I think the quarters are the semis, maybe.
But yeah, you could be you couldbe in a situation where you get
a yellow in like um in the thirdgroup stage game, your teammates
it to the quarters, but you'reyou can't play because you
already had a yellow beforehandin another game.

SPEAKER_01 (01:00:14):
Yeah, to me, it puts a stain on the competition to
me.

SPEAKER_05 (01:00:18):
Yeah, just follow the normal rules when it comes
to you know penalties likeyellow and and red.
Like just follow the normalrules.
Stop making shit up.
I'm waiting for that.
That's that's what that's whatannoys me.

SPEAKER_08 (01:00:30):
So well, another thing I learned in that game.
Go ahead.
One other thing I was gonna saythat I learned last night in
that game in extra time that uhwas funny to me and surprising,
but I get it.
When uh late in the uh game, oneof the players for um uh for

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Ottawa went off.
Like he was I think he wentatletico uh went off the off the
pitch there getting the ball andthen hurt and they drag they
dragged him back on so that theclock would keep going.
It wouldn't be uh that that wasjust the funniest thing to me.
And I guess super smart.

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That's one of those littlethings it's like because I
always like I didn't know likeif if one person's off the
pitch, then the clock stops.
That's where all your your yourstoppage time and all that comes
from, things like that.
And that guy's like, no, we wantthe clock to keep running, we
don't want added time, so let'sdrag his butt back onto the
pitch.
It's funny you asked him.

SPEAKER_05 (01:01:28):
Just in the snow, just dragged him out.
It's funny you ask you say thatbecause Darlin was we're
watching that game, and she waslike, Did they just drag on
them?
Like, yeah, it's it's they'redoing it on purpose.

SPEAKER_06 (01:01:38):
So we will get to that game for a minute, but
there's a few other PremierLeague things I want to talk
about real quick.

SPEAKER_05 (01:01:43):
Go for it.

SPEAKER_06 (01:01:43):
Because I am also we have to talk about probably the
biggest disappointment in theweek, and that is a team that I
have been championing uhprobably for the past few weeks.
Bournemouth laid an egg, lost 40 to Aston Villa, and man, I
they had a full, they had a Fullsquad too.
So I can't even blame like ayellow or red card in that one.
Uh, very disappointed in thatone.

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And then also uh Donnie CrystalPalace, nil-nil against
Brighton.
Not the worst result, but alsonot the best result.
You guys did not get DannyWellbecked, which has been
usually happening lately, butyou survived that.

SPEAKER_01 (01:02:18):
Uh no, that's only against Chelsea.

SPEAKER_08 (01:02:20):
I mean, it was it was a bad it was it was actually
a a really good match.
It just nobody could score.

SPEAKER_01 (01:02:30):
Sounds like Chelsea.

SPEAKER_08 (01:02:31):
I only saw the second half, so I didn't see the
first half, so I'm not sure howthat ran.
But the second half was like,man, this is a great match, and
so many I say so many, thereweren't a lot of shots on goal
that were were makeable, butthere it was so many
opportunities to have scoredthat uh they neither one of them
did.

SPEAKER_01 (01:02:49):
Virgil, I think you made a really good point about I
think that's a good example fromPalace.
You did it in our group chat.
Um I think that was a goodexample of um Crystal Palace's
European exploits.
Um that there's just fatiguethat comes into it after a
while.
When you're when you're playingThursday to Sunday, um was that
a Sunday or a Saturday?

(01:03:09):
That was a Sunday game, right?

SPEAKER_06 (01:03:10):
Sunday game, yes.

SPEAKER_01 (01:03:11):
Yeah.
So when you're playing Thursdayto Sunday every week, and Oliver
Glasner's even talking aboutthis.
I mean, um, you're gonna have aDonnie, correct me if I'm wrong
on this.
You guys are gonna have likethree games in a span of five
days, I think, coming up.
Um uh it's like in three games.
I believe so.
Um because Oliver Glasner wasangry was was was railing about

(01:03:34):
that about a week ago, sayingthat that's you know, thinking
about player welfare and allthose other things that but uh w
one one retort I'd have to thatis they're not the first team
that's happened to.
I mean, it's I mean, you're youknow, it's happened to Chelsea,
it's happened to Arsenal, it'shappened uh well, probably not
Manchester United because theyget favoritism, but um, but but

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to other but to other teams it'shappened and it's it's a
grueling schedule when you're inEurope along with the with all
these other competitions,because uh in England you don't
get a holiday break like you doin the other European leagues,
they play straight through.

SPEAKER_06 (01:04:09):
So my counterpoint to that European leagues real
quick, sorry, Donnie.
Let me let me just get this outreal quick.
My counterpoint to that is teamslike Manchester, City, United uh
United, even though you hate tosay that, uh, Chelsea,
Tottenham, they are in Europeevery year, pretty much, year to

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year.
So they they have the team, theyalready know how to build a team
around that because you areguaranteed mostly European.
That's where I think CrystalPalace will struggle because
this is We're not ready forthat.
This is really new.
Non uh Forest is probablyanother example of that.
They're kind of in a hone messright now, but I mean they they

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had their game, and you know,Ginger Marino got Mourinho got
his win against Leeds 3-1.
Good match there.
So yeah, the the Europeanschedule is definitely going to
be an albatross on their net uhfor them for sure.

SPEAKER_05 (01:05:04):
So let me ask you this, then is that so what
you're saying is that these bigclubs, they have enough players
that they can swap out betweenmatches, unlike a Crystal
Palace, unlike Forest.
Like they can they're gonna besuffering because they're gonna
have to be playing their playersa lot more than Tottenham, you

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know, for example.

SPEAKER_01 (01:05:26):
Well, yeah, I mean, I mean, theoretically, yes, but
it really depends on does themanager trust those case.
Like, I mean, they're stillyoung players.
Like, are they gonna come in andbe able to repeat the
performance that the preferredstarting 11 will will have?

SPEAKER_05 (01:05:42):
I got you.

SPEAKER_01 (01:05:43):
I got you.
Um, but but yeah, I mean, theydo they they do have squads
built for a lot of competitions.
Like Tottenham's kind ofsomewhere in between.
Like, I think Tottenham's beentrying to build toward that.

SPEAKER_05 (01:05:55):
But it's got it's still they're still they're not
there yet.

SPEAKER_01 (01:05:59):
And it's what is whether the owners are willing
to spend, and also are youmeeting profit and
sustainability rules, PSR?
I think I think PSR rules havemade it a lot more difficult to
do that for any team becauseyou've got to, with what players
cost now, you've got to you'vegot to fall, you've got to fall
within PSR guidelines to be ableto do that.

(01:06:19):
And they don't take into accountwhether you're in Europe or not.
It's just that you know ifyou're in Europe, you have to
make the necessary investmentsto do that, but you've got to
find the right signings at theright price in which to do it,
and and you know, offloadplayers that you don't want.
Um which is hard because uh youknow, a lot of times guys will

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teams like Chelsea will sign abunch of players, but then they
then they can't offload them.
And they're part of yeah andCrystal Palace doesn't have like
the money to to to buy playerslike uh Chelsea or uh Manchester
City do um or Liverpool.
Don't even don't leave Liverpoolout of that.

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Like they didn't spend 450million.
But um yeah, it's uh you reallyfeel though.
Oh no, I mean Florian Verts,great signing.
Um but you know, we'll get intothat later.
But uh it's tough for teams likePalace.
So um uh really, really goodfirst 11.
I mean, as competitive as anyonein the league, but you hope you

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hope and knock on wood, you hopethat there's no injuries and
that um that they can keep upwith that pace because it's a
it's a it's a brutal schedulethat they play.
So um yeah.
Good luck to Palace.
They got they got the rightmanager for it, they got the
right manager for it.

SPEAKER_06 (01:07:41):
Yeah, so Donnie, I apologize for earlier.
What were you going to say?

SPEAKER_08 (01:07:45):
I no, I was just gonna uh reiterate what Patrick
was saying about the schedule.
I mean, we just just completed aSunday, Thursday or sat, excuse
me, a Saturday, Sunday, thirdSaturday, Thursday, Sunday.
We got another Saturday,Thursday, Sunday, but then
coming up uh you know like theweek of Christmas, we've got uh
the 20th, 21st, 23rd, and 28th.

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So you're gonna have a Sundaymatch and then a Tuesday match,
and then you know another Sundaymatch.
I mean, there's all these.
I mean, it it's like we'replaying three matches every
seven days into intomid-January.
And I don't know if every teamis like that.
It doesn't sound like it fromwhat you were just saying,
because not all of thisobviously is Premier League.

(01:08:28):
There's the other um other stuffin there as well, which is what
most of the many of the theweekday games are.
Um but like again that that weekof you know we got Leeds on the
21st, Arsenal on the 23rd, andthen Tottenham on the 28th.
That's that's a gauntlet of ofPremier League games in a week's

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time around.

SPEAKER_05 (01:08:49):
I'm hoping that we catch you on the right time.
I'm hoping that Tottenhamcatches you guys on the right
time and we are able to get awin out of there.

SPEAKER_01 (01:08:55):
That's the that's the problem, is that as far as
Premier League, everyone hasthat brutal killer holiday
schedule.
I mean, it's the right.
I forget the name and VirgilCorrect me if I'm wrong.
Yeah, I forget what they callit, but they call it like the uh
the like the the busy Christmasperiod, or you know, I don't
even know I don't remember whatthe official name of it.

SPEAKER_06 (01:09:16):
I thought they call it like the winter period or
something.

SPEAKER_01 (01:09:18):
Yeah, something, but you know, like where is like
your seeming very original.
Yeah, well, like well, myfriends have like a special
nickname for it, and I can'tremember what they call it, but
um um but uh you're the but likein France they're they're gonna
have uh France is gonna have abreak, Germany's gonna have a
break.
Um, but in England they justplay straight through.

SPEAKER_08 (01:09:41):
And it's well, and it looks like finally Crystal
will have a break after theJanuary.
So all the way through January7th is when they have this like
three games every seven days,yeah, and then they go to once a
week for like three or fourweeks.

SPEAKER_01 (01:09:55):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (01:09:56):
Well, like in we got 17th, 24th, 31st, 7th of
February.
So it's like Wednesday,Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday.

SPEAKER_01 (01:10:04):
Well, the conference league takes a break starting in
January, I think.
So um so a lot of what you'reseeing as far as the Thursday to
Sunday and everything is gonnabe like you're you're it's gonna
be you guys and the EuropaLeague teams and to a lesser
degree like the Champions Leagueteams.
The the Champions League teamsare usually Wednesday, Saturday.

(01:10:25):
So um well or Wednesday, Sunday,um, or Tuesday, Saturday,
Tuesday, Sunday.
Um it's yeah, it I mean, I thinkit's harder honestly to be in
the conference league or EuropaLeague than it is the Champions
League because you are so closeto the weekend.
Playing that one day, one to twoday difference makes is a is a

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big deal.
And it's to me it makes it muchmore brutal to try to try to
play your best team all thetime.

SPEAKER_05 (01:10:54):
And uh Polly, I am in my house.
I've just I changed the uh theuh studio round.
Polly, he's in the great room,okay.
No, I'm in my office.
Uh that's why the producerstarted, was like, it's
something different about you.
It's because I changed it up alittle bit uh today.
Uh but behind me, you can seethe collection of my some of my

(01:11:15):
collection of my Legos.

SPEAKER_01 (01:11:18):
So you see three PO.
Is this in the house or theoutbuilding?

SPEAKER_02 (01:11:22):
The outbuilding.

SPEAKER_05 (01:11:23):
Okay.

SPEAKER_01 (01:11:24):
Okay.
Um, so I mean, well, DonnieDonnie knows all about that.
He's got a few of those.
Um, you know.
You know, you're talking aboutvertical, build up.
Anyway, Virgil.

SPEAKER_06 (01:11:35):
Uh the other the other game of note to mention,
uh, speaking of building up,this team has not been able to
build up any away wins recently,and their hopeful streak is
continuing.
Newcastle loses 3-1 toBrentford.
That is another London trip forNewcastle where things just do
not work out for them.
Uh, early straight red card.

(01:11:57):
Um, I don't know if it was astraight red.
I think it was a let me see ifit was a straight red or not.

SPEAKER_05 (01:12:02):
I was just gonna look if there was like uh the
table of who's in the bottom ofthe table right now.

SPEAKER_06 (01:12:07):
It's not a straight red, it was a two uh two yellow
red on that.

SPEAKER_01 (01:12:12):
And then they just how early how early was that
second yellow that they got?

SPEAKER_06 (01:12:16):
73rd minute.

SPEAKER_01 (01:12:17):
73rd?

SPEAKER_06 (01:12:18):
Yeah, and who was it?
Uh it was Byrne, I think.

SPEAKER_01 (01:12:22):
Was it Van Byrne?

SPEAKER_06 (01:12:24):
Dan Byrne.

SPEAKER_01 (01:12:25):
Well Newcastle for having such a talented team,
even without Isak, but I meanthey've got a really good team.
They've been abysmal, like yousaid.
Oh, yeah, four team?
Yeah, but I mean they've beenabysmal away from St.
James's Park.
I mean, they have I mean, it'sunacceptable for them to be as
bad as they've been away, youknow, away from home.

(01:12:48):
I know you're not gonna winevery game, you know, like you
know, every away game.
I I get that.
But I mean they have beendreadful.
Um and Virgil, you made a goodpoint, like especially in in
especially in London.
Um I don't know what it is aboutthat trip.
Most people most most teams feargoing to Newcastle.
Well, Newcastle has to hope thatthey get as many points at home

(01:13:10):
as they can because how manypoints do they even have away?
They need to get some Tottenhamform.
Uh right.
No, that's the truth.

SPEAKER_06 (01:13:20):
You guys that'd be a good company.

SPEAKER_01 (01:13:22):
Yeah, you guys, you guys had the best away form in
the Premier League.
Yeah, but we suck it at home.
Which is inexplicable.

SPEAKER_05 (01:13:29):
I don't under I can't I don't get it either, so
don't ask.

SPEAKER_01 (01:13:32):
But but I mean you're doing the difficult part
getting Mac, you know, gettingso many points away from home
from you, yeah.
From home.

SPEAKER_05 (01:13:38):
Newcastle only has three points.
Oh, I'm looking at the tableright now.
It is not pretty.

SPEAKER_01 (01:13:44):
No, yeah.
Well, but I mean, even withlosing Esok, though, I mean,
they've got a good squad.

SPEAKER_06 (01:13:49):
I mean, if you've seen some of the Champions
League game, they look likeworld beaters.

SPEAKER_01 (01:13:53):
Well, I mean, Voltamata has hit the ground
running.
Um, which I mean, I didn't seeI'll be honest with you, I did
not see that coming.
I thought he was gonna need abetting in period, but he's he's
looked quite good.
Um, and then Gemaresh isGemaresh is probably one of the
most underrated midfielders inEngland.
Um Jesus, their culture forangel is atrocious.

(01:14:16):
Um and uh what's the guy's name?
The winger.
Um the one that they got fromEverton.

SPEAKER_06 (01:14:24):
Uh uh Shola Amiobi.

SPEAKER_01 (01:14:28):
Shola Amiobi like.
There we go.
Amiobi.
There we go.
Um, no, but Anthony Gordon.
Um yeah, really good.
Same, same player, right?
Same player.

SPEAKER_05 (01:14:42):
100% legit question.

SPEAKER_06 (01:14:44):
Go ahead.

SPEAKER_05 (01:14:46):
Donnie, you're uh out of this question.
The two of you, how much timedid you guys spend learning
these names, these teams?
I mean, it is I've been sittinghere for the past, I would say,
45 minutes.
I am absolutely lost at all ofthese names and all of these.

(01:15:06):
Um I'm like, I I'm trying tokeep up with you guys, but I
can't.

SPEAKER_06 (01:15:12):
It for me, it just starts because I've been
watching really following soccersince 2006.

SPEAKER_05 (01:15:19):
Is it because you're single, you have no time in your
life?

SPEAKER_06 (01:15:21):
Well, actually, because I was in Germany during
the World Cup, but you knowwhat, whatever.

SPEAKER_05 (01:15:25):
Okay, cool, cool.

SPEAKER_06 (01:15:27):
Yeah, no, I was in Germany during the world during
before they hosted the WorldCup, so I got to see a lot of
the festivities going aroundthat they had planned out.
Yeah, and um, you know, once Ikind of got hooked on that and
started following Americanplayers and then all the places
they were going to, like, Icould probably name the entire
Fulham roster from 2008 from allbecause of Clint Dempsey and

(01:15:49):
Eddie Johnson playing there.

SPEAKER_01 (01:15:51):
My god.
I was gonna say I can nameChelsea rosters, I cannot name
Fulham.

SPEAKER_08 (01:15:56):
I can't even tell you this year's Yankees roster.

SPEAKER_01 (01:15:58):
But that but dude.
I know you can.
Not the whole thing, but I can Ican name most of the Yankees
players because I I had to watchthem, I had to watch them so
much this year against the BlueJays.

SPEAKER_06 (01:16:10):
But but for me, what makes soccer what makes soccer
so interesting is there's justso much to follow.

SPEAKER_04 (01:16:18):
Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06 (01:16:19):
You can you can stay, and like for me, like I
like I've said with some of theleagues that we talk about, uh I
have a very surface levelknowledge of them, of a lot of
them.
I'd say probably the mostin-depth ones are probably
Bundesliga and maybe PremierLeague.
In Premier League, I'm stillkind of shady on because I don't
really have a team, like wesaid.
But you know, like every kindthink about how many countries

(01:16:42):
there are just in in almost allof them have a domestic league.

SPEAKER_05 (01:16:47):
Yep.

SPEAKER_06 (01:16:47):
Almost all of them have a cup tournament.
Just think about all the playersthat you would see from there,
all the all this, all the games.
And you know, it's justinteresting how many teams you
can run into before and just andjust kind of see.
I remember watching a um anAsian championship, uh,
Champions League game with uhPohang Steelers.
And I can't remember who the Ithink it was the Wara Red

(01:17:10):
Diamonds, maybe, and that was afine.
That's a good one.
And I remember there was therewas a there was a like a
40-year-old Brazilian guy by thename of Denielson that was
playing for Steelers at thetime, and the guy was it was fun
to watch, and stuff like that.

(01:17:30):
And I one it was just a rabbithole thing, and you get hooked
on it, and that's just whathappens.

SPEAKER_05 (01:17:36):
I'm just trying to figure out which you know La
Liga team I'm gonna follow so Ican start investing some time
and energy in this, and you guysare I made a wheel for that for
Donnie, and I don't know wherethat wheel is.
I mean you should look for itbecause I I think I might have a
team, but it's it's a not a goodteam, so I I might have two.

SPEAKER_01 (01:17:53):
I thought you had one.
Yeah, I thought you did.
I thought you had one.

SPEAKER_08 (01:17:57):
Yeah, you did I thought we did do that.
Um yeah, you did talk about it.

SPEAKER_01 (01:18:01):
It was either because that's that's where I
got Atletico uh Madrid.

SPEAKER_06 (01:18:07):
No, the the two teams that we've mentioned for
Ed that I think he's talkedabout before was Mallorca and
Villa Real.

SPEAKER_01 (01:18:13):
Yeah, that's what it was.
That's what it was.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (01:18:15):
I thought it was really Zaragoza.

SPEAKER_06 (01:18:20):
We did the wheel for Donnie because he couldn't name
three of the Liga teams at thetime.

SPEAKER_01 (01:18:24):
That is true, right?
Yeah, and I got a lot of people.
But he still got a he got hestill got one that was a
champion.
I'm like, God got it, Donnie.

SPEAKER_06 (01:18:35):
But no, but no, that that's that's just how kind of
starts.
Like, yeah, that's how it startsfor me.

SPEAKER_05 (01:18:42):
Well, that's awesome.
I mean, again, I think I muchrespect for you guys knowing all
of this because it it isabsolutely uh it's a lot, it
really is a lot, you know what Imean.
And the you guys know your shit,I'll say that.

SPEAKER_06 (01:18:56):
But it's funny that we talk oh no, Patrick.
Oh, before I go into segue, I'lllet you talk since you I think
the answer was I've talkedenough.

SPEAKER_01 (01:19:02):
I think I think you can go into the next segment.

SPEAKER_06 (01:19:04):
Okay, so as much as we talk about leagues that I
follow, we talked about, youknow, I watched the K League
before uh J League and all thatstuff.
Uh, there is one league that Ido not follow, and that is the
Premier League.
And um they had an interestingfinal going on, but see, I have
to step away real quick.

(01:19:25):
So Donnie and Ed, since you twowatched almost all this.
Uh, you two talk about theinsane game that was Athletical
Ottawa against Calvary FC.

SPEAKER_05 (01:19:35):
I'll say this because I was watching it last
night during dinner, and I waslike befuddled at what I was
what I was like, it was likeinsanity.
I'm like, like, am I watchingthis?
So I I I lit I told Daryl, I waslike, hold on a second, I gotta
text the guy's like, you guysgotta put this on, right?

(01:19:56):
Because the year before therewas no snow.
It was no snow on the ground, itwas like normal, everybody was
it was normal soccer, right?
A little chili, obviously, it'sCanada.
This year, it was full onblizzard, and this kid
Rodriguez, is it Rodriguez fromAtletico, Ottawa?
Yeah, holy yeah, Jesus.

(01:20:17):
Yep.
This kid is good.
He is really good.
That bicycle kick he had that hehit the top of the the goalpost
and then just bounced in.
It was absolutely oh, it was agorgeous in the middle of a
blizzard, mind you, right?
Because like you're trying tokick the ball, and the ball
would could only go maybe a footor two.

(01:20:37):
That was it.

SPEAKER_08 (01:20:40):
Yeah, I um I randomly came across this league
a few weeks ago on a Wednesdaynight and watched uh one of the
early uh playoff games betweenuh York and um oh, who was it?
It was York and the Wanderers,um, I believe.

(01:21:02):
And anyway, Patrick wants to saybecause I know he knows it.

SPEAKER_05 (01:21:06):
Bullshit.

SPEAKER_08 (01:21:08):
I don't.
And it it was it was I I textedVirgil and Virgil's like, that's
even hardcore for even for me.
Didn't say that.
And I was like, all right, I gotone.
Um I love that match.
I love it.
I love the energy of that match.
And after having watched what Iwhat little I have watched of uh
Premier League and Bundesligaand some of the other soccer, uh

(01:21:31):
this one was just it felt um itfelt more grassroots, I guess is
the best way to put it.
Um because it was a smallerstadium, but it was an insanely
crazy stadium.
So then I was like, okay, I I Ithink I caught some of the oh

(01:21:54):
shoot, what was it?
It was um I think it was the CalI caught some of the Calvary uh
because York and and the Wonderswas the one that went to penalty
kicks that I saw on the 22nd.
Then I caught some of theCalvary York uh game uh as well,
and then I was like, I had it onmy calendar or in my brain, not

(01:22:16):
on my calendar, to catch thisgame last night, and I and I
didn't put it on my calendar.
So I thankfully you texted aboutit, or I would have totally
missed it because as soon as youtexted about it, I was like,
wait a minute, where's that at?
Because I couldn't rememberwhere I'd watched it at.
And as soon as you told me and Isaw the snow, I was hooked.
I was like, I didn't watchanything else.

(01:22:37):
I just watched the rest of thatmatch, and it went on.
I mean, it was like an hour forthem to clear the pitch of the
snow and went extra time.

SPEAKER_05 (01:22:45):
I went to go get ice cream, came back.
I even got scared becausePatrick go, oh my god, that goal
was insane.
And I thought I was like, No, Imissed a game, I missed it.
And then I was like, What?

SPEAKER_08 (01:22:58):
He was late responding to the the the
bicycle kick.

SPEAKER_01 (01:23:02):
Yeah, he was.
Well, I was because I sawbecause I didn't tune in the the
minute that Ed said you neededto, I wasn't in a position, but
online, yeah, someone hadclipped it up and put it on and
put it on Twitter.
So then I saw it there and I waslike, that was insane.

SPEAKER_05 (01:23:19):
That was a gorgeous kick.
One of the best kicks I've seenin a long time in soccer.

SPEAKER_01 (01:23:24):
That is hard to execute without snow.

SPEAKER_05 (01:23:27):
Let alone, right, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 (01:23:29):
Let alone it.
Yeah, but to have that kind oftechnique in the in the heavy
snow that they were in um yeah,yeah, shows you the type of
skill that was it Rodriguez thatdid it, you said it was
Rodriguez.

SPEAKER_08 (01:23:41):
He got both yeah, he got both both goals.

SPEAKER_01 (01:23:44):
Yeah, so and like I said, I know nothing about the
Canadian Premier League, by theway.
I know absolutely nothing.

SPEAKER_05 (01:23:49):
I've I've followed it a little bit, but not a lot,
to be honest with you.

SPEAKER_01 (01:23:52):
Um Donnie has watched however many games you
watch, Donnie.
That's how much more CanadianPremier League you watched than
I have.
Two and a half and you watch twoand a half more games, other
than the little bit of thisCanadian you know, snowstorm
that I watched.

SPEAKER_05 (01:24:09):
I'll say this.
I it's very comparable to USL.
That is, I would put I will putthe Canadian Soccer League it's
uh not willingness, it's justthat since we've been doing the
show, I like I've been I've kindof stayed in my comfort zone of
watching things I always watch.

SPEAKER_01 (01:24:26):
No, no, no, absolutely.
But what you guys have done agood job of is um Donnie Donnie,
especially kind of like gettingto these different leagues, and
then I agree, you Ed, going inand showing us like the Ocho
stuff and all these things.
I mean, I have an ESPNsubscription now because of you
guys, and so now I'm watchingall this stuff.
So thanks for spending even moreof my money than you.

SPEAKER_08 (01:24:48):
Well, the thing is, when I when I came across that
Wednesday game, thank you, Ed.

SPEAKER_01 (01:24:53):
Yeah, so yeah, what so Joe, just so you know, yes,
it is a good looking hoodie, andI love it.
You know who's responsible forme buying this?
Ed Rivera.
It's his Instagram content.
Thank you, rising creator.
And don't worry, Donnie spentplenty of my money too.
He sent he sends me stuff.

SPEAKER_08 (01:25:11):
Y'all spent plenty of mine.
It goes around.

SPEAKER_05 (01:25:14):
We all we all think exactly, we have.
But I'll say this it is and thenand then you know, I I'm not
it's gonna take me a while toreally get it to the same level
or at least a comparable levelof knowledge when it comes to I
do know the rules, I'm gettingbetter with the rules and all
that, like the off-size andthings like that, right?
There's certain things that I'mstill a little confused about,

(01:25:35):
like set pieces and things likethat, but it's gonna take some
time for me to get used to it.
But every morning, everySaturday morning, without
without fail.
It goes on to either on ESPN oron CBS sports, because there's
there's at least one match thatI'm watching.
Yeah, and usually it's on onESPN because I'm watching La
Liga more now, trying to figureout which team I kind of want to

(01:25:58):
follow.
So it's it's that's where we'reat right now.

SPEAKER_01 (01:26:01):
To be fair to you, uh the players don't even know
how to how to figure out setpieces because you because you
know they don't they certainlydon't know how to defend them.
Um but uh um anyways, Donnie, Iinterrupted you earlier.
I'm sorry, what were you gonnasay?

SPEAKER_08 (01:26:16):
Oh, I was just gonna say the only reason I even came
across this league was becauseRhonda went to dinner with a
friend of ours um from highschool.
Um and so she was out, and Ijust I was sitting at home by
myself, fixing something to eat,and I just clicked onto YouTube
TV and I went down to sports tosee what was on, and it was a
Wednesday night, late October.

(01:26:37):
There's nothing on at Wednesdaynight.
It was before I think much ofthe uh college football that uh
has midweek games had evenstarted.
And I was like, what is this?
Canadian Premier League?
Okay, well let me check it out.
And I was just hooked on thatgame, and it was like just
discovered this on a whim.
And now it's like, okay, I'mgonna be following this league

(01:27:00):
going into next season and uhand see what happens.

SPEAKER_01 (01:27:05):
Donnie, we need to get we need to get you some like
throwback games and let you seea two like a cold, a cold, wet
Tuesday rainy night in Stokeplaying playing Tony Pulisball.
That's what we need.
That's what we need.
We want him to enjoy smoker, nothate.
No, what we want to see is we weyou know, you know, it's in

(01:27:25):
vogue now to do the long throw,right?
Yes.
Tony Tony Pulisball was theoriginator of making the long
throw in vogue.
Right.
Rory Delight.

SPEAKER_08 (01:27:36):
Um we've talked about movies before.
Have you guys ever seen themovie Victory?

SPEAKER_01 (01:27:43):
No, but I've seen a really horrible movie called
Gold.

SPEAKER_05 (01:27:48):
I've seen uh Linda like that come.

SPEAKER_01 (01:27:50):
Yeah, has anyone seen Gold?

SPEAKER_08 (01:27:54):
If you get a chance, I don't even know where you can
find it.
If you get a chance, look up themovie Victory.
It has um Pele in it, it hasSylvester Stallone in it, it has
uh, I believe Donald Sutherlandmaybe in it.
There's a few others.
It's a uh like a World War I ortwo, I think it's World War II

(01:28:16):
um camp, prison prison camp,where the prisoners play against
um one of the premier Germanteams.

SPEAKER_01 (01:28:26):
And Michael Cain's in it.

SPEAKER_08 (01:28:28):
It's just one Michael Cain's in it, yes.
He's played as the coach, Ibelieve, of the prisoner team.

SPEAKER_01 (01:28:34):
Donnie's been one of the things, yeah, because he
plays I have to go and rent itin order to watch it.
Thanks, Donnie.

SPEAKER_08 (01:28:40):
If if if you get a chance, watch it just because
you like soccer, and it's awell-done movie.
I mean, it's a good war movie.
It's like one of those greatlittle sneaky good uh 80s war
movies, but the soccer in it youguys will probably find
interesting too.

SPEAKER_01 (01:28:58):
I I learned something new.
I didn't even I I was thinking,in what world did Pele and
Sylvester Stallone ever meet,much less be in a movie
together?
But I've been I've been humbledyet again.
Like I am, like I am most weeks.

SPEAKER_06 (01:29:12):
I was gonna say a diversity cosmos game, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 (01:29:15):
Uh yeah, I mean it could it has to be a New York
Cosmos thing.
Yeah, because you know that'sthe only team that he played in
the US.
Okay.
Well, does does uh SylvestraStallone say I'll be Senta back?

SPEAKER_05 (01:29:31):
That's I know that's Schwarzenegger.
That's Wolsteneger, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 (01:29:34):
I know I know it is, but it's it's the most I could
do, you know.
Had to work with what I had.

SPEAKER_08 (01:29:40):
That's as that's as bad as your German accent, I
guess.

SPEAKER_01 (01:29:44):
Ooh.

SPEAKER_05 (01:29:45):
Yeah, well.

SPEAKER_06 (01:29:47):
I'm gonna be honest with you guys, there's no way to
segue out of that.
So let's talk about XS.

SPEAKER_05 (01:29:51):
Let's do that.
Let's do that.

SPEAKER_06 (01:29:53):
Now, before we begin, um I think it's time for
me to gloat a little bit.

SPEAKER_05 (01:29:59):
Okay.

SPEAKER_06 (01:30:00):
Because there was a end during picks on Thursday, uh
there were a few controversialpicks that were made.
Um, some of them hit, some ofthem did not.
But one of my FCS picks drew alot of ire from a few people on
the panel, and that was SouthDakota beating South Dakota
State.

SPEAKER_05 (01:30:20):
You're right.
You're right.

SPEAKER_06 (01:30:23):
Now the only person that picked this, Donnie, I have
to give you credit.
You piggybacked off me after Imade my case.
But the I was very, very, verysure about this one, mostly
because of how much of aregression South Dakota State
has been having.

SPEAKER_05 (01:30:42):
I should have listened to you.
I should have listened.

SPEAKER_08 (01:30:46):
Did I pick it?
Did I pick it and disgust youand then you picked it so I
stayed with it, or or did youpick it first?

SPEAKER_06 (01:30:54):
I picked it first.
I I picked it first because andI have to go back and watch the
video because I'm probably wrongon this.
I think I picked it firstbecause I was I was one of those
things like if I feel like I'msure about it, I will I will
jump before everybody else.
And then you said it, and thenI'm like, damn it, I must I'm
gonna be wrong then.

SPEAKER_08 (01:31:11):
Uh yeah, I think that you're right.
I believe that is the game thatbecause yeah, I think there was
one that you did that on becausethere was a couple, one or two
that I picked, and then you'relike, oh, I was gonna pick that
now.
Should I change?

SPEAKER_05 (01:31:23):
I'll say this.
It was very close though.

SPEAKER_06 (01:31:26):
Oh, it was.
I mean, I I didn't think it wasgonna be a blowout by any
method.
It was definitely close.

SPEAKER_05 (01:31:31):
Well, been disappointed it's not the cota
state, man.
I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_01 (01:31:35):
It's Ed, you talked about what you start to learn in
soccer, right?
Well, I'm in the same boat whenit comes like to FCS.
Oh, I got you.
So why did I pick South DakotaState?
Because I'll be honest, I lovewell, yeah, but um also because
I love their uh I love theirteam name.
Yeah, so do I.
Yeah, like like how can I notpick a team called the

(01:31:55):
Jackrabbits?

SPEAKER_05 (01:31:56):
I mean that's a good name.

SPEAKER_01 (01:31:58):
I mean that's Like if I ever have to pick a UC
Santa Cruz game, I'm gonna pickUC Santa Cruz no matter how bad
they are, because I like thebanana slugs.

SPEAKER_05 (01:32:07):
Okay, that's a good name, too.
Also, by the way, South Dakotadoes have a really good name,
you know, the coyotes, right?
And then they they're they go bythe Yotes.
But I like the Yotes, that's agood one.
I like the Yotes.

SPEAKER_01 (01:32:21):
I I'm I'm I'm with you on that, but it's the
Jackrabbits.
I mean, come on.
It's like so Donnie, I know thatyou're a lot more educated on
that than I am, but thatliterally is how I made my pick.
Just like when I picked Lamar, Ipicked it because it was like
the first, it was someone'sfirst name that I know.

SPEAKER_08 (01:32:38):
So see, you you you sound like you sound like
somebody's wife making up aMarch Madness bracket and
picking teams with animal namesand things like that.

SPEAKER_01 (01:32:47):
100%.
And I also picked Lamar becausethere's like a Lamar County in
Georgia next to my next to whereI grew up.
So uh for the record represent.

SPEAKER_06 (01:32:56):
Lamar for me was quite flip.

SPEAKER_08 (01:33:00):
I see, I thought you went with Lamar because of uh
Revenge of the Nerds is one ofyour favorite movies.

SPEAKER_01 (01:33:05):
I've never seen Revenge of the Nerds.

SPEAKER_06 (01:33:07):
I have though, and I am very upset I did not make
that connection.

SPEAKER_01 (01:33:11):
Wow, that's good, Donnie.

SPEAKER_06 (01:33:13):
Very good connection.

SPEAKER_01 (01:33:14):
I've never seen Revenge of the Nerds.
You should see in it.
I don't watch I I I've I've seenmaybe a handful of 80s movies.
Um ever.

SPEAKER_05 (01:33:22):
Please tell me Elise Police Academy.
No.

SPEAKER_06 (01:33:25):
I will I will describe it as I will describe
it like I do with any other 80scomedy.
It really holds up except forthat one part that does not hold
up at all.

SPEAKER_01 (01:33:35):
True story.
It was major was major was majorleague in the 80s, or was that
90s?
80s 80s.
So I've seen Major League, I'veseen Planes, Trains, and
Automobiles.

SPEAKER_07 (01:33:47):
Okay.

SPEAKER_01 (01:33:49):
Um you've never seen Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?
How about Bull Durham?
I feel like I have seen BullDurham, it's just been years
since I've seen it.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (01:34:02):
Thanksgiving homework is you need to see that
movie before Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_01 (01:34:06):
What Bull Durham?

SPEAKER_08 (01:34:08):
No, which one he needs to see planes, trains, and
automobiles before Thanksgiving.
Oh, 100%.
Thanksgiving movie.

SPEAKER_01 (01:34:14):
Yeah, do I need to do I need to drive to Huntsville
to make sure you see it?
No, I will I will watch it.
He's like, no, whatever you do,please do not come to
Huntsville.

SPEAKER_05 (01:34:24):
Like when it comes to baseball movies, you don't
watch them until you know likeFebruary.
That's when you start watchingprepping yourself, getting
yourself ready for baseballfields.

SPEAKER_01 (01:34:32):
I I need to watch Bull Durham again because I feel
like I've seen it in parts.

SPEAKER_05 (01:34:37):
Oh yeah.
Okay, so that's an 80s movie.

SPEAKER_01 (01:34:40):
Yeah, I I have Field of Dreams.
Um I've seen a lot of thebaseball movies.

SPEAKER_05 (01:34:47):
By the way, speaking of Field of Dream uh Bull
Durham, the city of Durham hasactually approved for a they're
gonna start um remodeling thatfield.
Oh, oh really nice d bap as a asa historic site.
Nice, nice.
So DBAP.

(01:35:08):
Yep.
We'll see whether Sandlot Leagueis gonna be playing next year,
but we'll see.
Have you seen the Sandlot?
Of course.

SPEAKER_01 (01:35:16):
Yeah.
I even showed it to my daughter,dude.
Which one's favorite movie isThe Sandlot?

SPEAKER_06 (01:35:21):
Listen, we've already kind of blown over that.
So like let's not let's notstart.

SPEAKER_05 (01:35:26):
Let's not let's not yeah, let's not revisit that
thing.

SPEAKER_06 (01:35:28):
Let's not start that plot again.

SPEAKER_01 (01:35:30):
Are we not are we not reliving that legendary uh
you know episode of uh breakeven sports about the movies?
No, no, we're not doing thatbecause we still got a lot of
football to talk about.
I was gonna say, becauseeveryone was gonna say like that
was the episode where we said,and next week Patrick's gonna
talk about the rappers, andyeah, we're not doing that right
now.
Patrick never talked about that.
I feel like we've turned intolike an ESPN show where 99% of

(01:35:52):
what we talk about is football,and then there's like the one
percent.

SPEAKER_05 (01:35:56):
Well, there's football, and then there's
football.

SPEAKER_01 (01:35:59):
Well, let me ask you this before we move on like ESPN
programming.
Get up and for sake, say don'tdon't you think that 99% of what
they talk about in their threehours is football, and then
there's like like the 0.5percent is like the betting
scandal for baseball or anythingelse, and this is including
outside of the NFL season.

SPEAKER_05 (01:36:20):
No, I I I stopped watching ESPN, you know.
I don't watch either of them,yeah.
I don't watch uh get up, I don'twatch any of that just for the
simple fact that like if I'mgonna get my my football fix,
I'm gonna go to net NFL network.
That's what I'm gonna do.
Well, like it's they don't talkabout baseball, they don't talk,
they barely talk aboutbasketball, they don't talk
about hockey, right?
They don't talk about FCS, theydon't talk about they don't talk

(01:36:42):
about the N uh NCAA football,but that's about it.
And I'm just it's gettingannoying.

SPEAKER_01 (01:36:47):
Well, get up on Mondays, it's it's the same
formula every week.
So the the the first hour isfootball, nothing but football.
The second hour is themrepeating what they did in the
first hour, literally almostline for line, so that people
who didn't get up for the firsthour can catch whatever they did
they missed in the first hour inthe second hour.

(01:37:07):
And then in the third hour, youmight get like you know, two
lines about oh, there was thishumongous story about a betting
scandal that we wanted to makesure we at least mention to you.
But that's why we're here.

SPEAKER_05 (01:37:18):
Us.
That's what us.

SPEAKER_01 (01:37:20):
I'm just saying, like, that's the formula.
And I'm like, I could repeat youknow the main points of that
program today because theyrepeated it four times.
Virgil, Virgil wants to saysomething so bad.

SPEAKER_06 (01:37:33):
I'm sorry, but when you're talking about the betting
scandal, I was waiting to say, Iwas waiting for you to say,
we'll talk about this bandingbanding uh betting scandal, but
how does it affect football?
Find out in this next hour.

SPEAKER_01 (01:37:46):
Probably.
I and you know what?
I probably missed that partbecause I'm sure Mike Greenberg
said that and I just missed it.
Or or they're talking about thebetting scandal, and then they
say, here's the ESPN Bet powerhour for the you know for
tonight's game between Green Bayand Philly.
Um, it's available all day untilone hour before the game.
They literally mentioned thebetting scandal, and then they

(01:38:07):
mentioned ESPN Bet.
And I was like, I'm notsurprised.
That's shameless.

SPEAKER_05 (01:38:13):
No, I'm not surprised.
Anyways, moving on.
Yeah, I'm done.

SPEAKER_06 (01:38:17):
All right, so back to uh football that they do not
talk about.
Let's talk about some of the FCSscores because there was
actually another upset thathappened that um I made a note
of it and I kind of forgot aboutit.

SPEAKER_05 (01:38:29):
Chattanooga Fermin.

SPEAKER_06 (01:38:31):
No, not that one.
New Hampshire beat Monmouth atMonmouth.
Ooh, I saw that.
I did not, I this one kind ofwent over the right uh under
under the radar for me.
I did not realize this happeneduntil Sunday.

SPEAKER_05 (01:38:46):
Yeah, I'm disappointed in another game.
I should have known better.

SPEAKER_06 (01:38:51):
Which game are you disappointed in?
Well, he took a flyer on Tiles.

SPEAKER_05 (01:38:58):
I did, I did.

SPEAKER_06 (01:38:58):
I did talk about let's talk about more soccer.

SPEAKER_05 (01:39:03):
Yeah, I took a flyer on that one, and you know, it
flopped.
A Philadelphia flyer.

unknown (01:39:11):
No.

SPEAKER_08 (01:39:12):
The one that the one that got me, the the upset that
got me was the DavidsonPresbyterian.
I really didn't see that coming.
I mean, Davidson hasn't beenhorrible all year, but they
haven't been good either.
Well they were well, they wereone and eight, they're two and
eight now.
Um yeah, for them to to to beatPresbyterian.

(01:39:32):
I know that that was at home forthem, but still that's
Presbyterian just uh I don'tknow.
They just they've been rollinguntil this game.
They just I don't know if it wasjust if they're I don't know if
they're looking ahead.
I didn't look to see if theyplay next week.
But they didn't they had 69yards passing.
Um they had a lot of yardsrushing, but it didn't amount to

(01:39:54):
much of anything.
How many yards are 269?
Okay, nice.

SPEAKER_06 (01:40:01):
Good number.
Yeah, the the the Presbyterianone I kind of have to do another
one.

SPEAKER_08 (01:40:05):
Mundy Patrick, man.

SPEAKER_06 (01:40:08):
Uh let's say some of the other games.
Um, and also we will talk aboutNo, I'm sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_08 (01:40:15):
Sorry.
I was about to do that.

SPEAKER_06 (01:40:16):
We will definitely talk about some of the games
next week because there are twoSEC teams that are probably
regretting scheduling who theyschedule.
And if you want to play at homeand look at the schedule and see
who I'm talking about, one'ssuper obvious, one's kind of a
stretch, but still possible.
So um other scores to talkabout.

(01:40:37):
I kind of want to talk about theMIAC for a minute.

SPEAKER_04 (01:40:39):
Okay.

SPEAKER_06 (01:40:40):
Because we have an interesting situation going on
in the MIAC, as you can imagine.
So we have focused on DelawareState before.
So here's the thing, and um,I'll go ahead and pull behind
the curtain.
We will be picking um once thesegames soon.
South Carolina State andDelaware State are tied right

(01:41:02):
now at 3-0.
North Carolina Central are 2-1right now.
South Carolina State plays NorthDakota, North Dakota, North
Carolina Central this week.

SPEAKER_05 (01:41:12):
Ooh, that's gonna be a good one.

SPEAKER_06 (01:41:13):
If Central wins that game, that gives Delaware, um
that gives Delaware Stateoutright at 4-1, and then gives
um Central and South SouthCarolina State three and one.
The following week, SouthCarolina State plays Delaware
State.

SPEAKER_05 (01:41:33):
Wow.
Three-way tie at the top.

SPEAKER_06 (01:41:36):
So with that happening and NCCU winning their
game, we could be possiblylooking at a three-way tail at
the top of the MIAC.

SPEAKER_05 (01:41:43):
Oh, I cannot win for this.

SPEAKER_06 (01:41:45):
I know as much as I enjoy watching FCS, um, I am not
knowledgeable on Miactiebreakers, believe it or not.
I'd have to probably look up andsee how this works.

SPEAKER_01 (01:41:54):
I'm almost surprised by that.

SPEAKER_06 (01:41:56):
Well, swag tiebreakers are a lot of this
work.
No, me no, I I I I have toadmit, I do not know the Miyak
tiebreaking situation, so I willhave to.

SPEAKER_01 (01:42:04):
Listen, I know I know that I know that you have
the rule book on your bedsidetable, okay?

SPEAKER_06 (01:42:11):
Uh you know, you caught me.
I haven't read it yet.

SPEAKER_08 (01:42:15):
I mean, Ed's got two good games in his backyard uh
this week, actually.
Monmouth at North Carolina ANTon Saturday.

SPEAKER_05 (01:42:25):
So I know that's a good remote, but just so you
know, for Miac footballtiebreaker system, for a
two-team or multiple team tie,if the tight teams play each
other, head-to-head competitionwill be used to determine the
representative.
For multiple ties, thehead-to-head record versus all
teams tied will be used to breakthe tie.

SPEAKER_06 (01:42:47):
Okay, so in this situation, everybody's one and
one.

SPEAKER_08 (01:42:56):
Sounds like they're going down to level three or
four.

SPEAKER_05 (01:42:59):
If a tie still exists, if a tie still exists,
then the following shall beused.
A six points will be awarded fora win against a non-conference
division one FPS team.
Four points will be awarded to awin for a win against a
non-conference division one FCSteam.

(01:43:19):
Four points will be subtractedfor a loss against a Division I
opponent.
And then D, um, the team withthe highest point total shall
receive the birth to thecelebration bowl.

SPEAKER_06 (01:43:38):
Wow.
If this happens, this is gonnabe fun.

SPEAKER_05 (01:43:40):
Listen, listen, it gets better.
If a tie still exists, then thefollowing shall be used.
The team with the highest SagariSag uh Sagarin Sagarin uh
ranking will win the tiebreaker.
And then B, here we go.
You ready?

(01:44:01):
A coin tossed by thecommissioner will be the last
tool used to break a tie.

SPEAKER_06 (01:44:07):
This is amazing.

SPEAKER_01 (01:44:09):
Please tell me it gets to that.
But by the way, by the way,chaos.
Listen, all of this for all thiswork to get to the celebration
bowl.

SPEAKER_06 (01:44:20):
Like all this work to get to the celebrated
celebration bowl is big moneyfor HBCU school.
So I mean, like it is, it is.

SPEAKER_01 (01:44:26):
It is.
I'm not knocking it.
I'm just like I know, I knowit's still no.
I mean, you know, I meancelebrate good times come on.

SPEAKER_06 (01:44:37):
But right now, the projected um the projected bowl
is gonna be a Hornet bowl withDelaware State against Alabama
State.

SPEAKER_00 (01:44:47):
I love this.

SPEAKER_05 (01:44:48):
I cannot wait to start picking some some bowl
games, guys.
I cannot wait.
I just want you to guys to know.
I cannot wait.
Oh no.

SPEAKER_06 (01:44:55):
Oh, yeah.
The bowl preview for the bowl uhcelebration for the picks are
gonna be fun because we're notwaiting.

SPEAKER_01 (01:45:04):
Is it really gonna be as good as this uh Packers
Eagles game is?
Oh my god, it's horrible.
You know, I mean, you know, bythe way, uh the whole week
they're like, this is gonna bethe game of the week, and I'm
like, uh bet it's not.

SPEAKER_05 (01:45:18):
We'll talk about through Samarco.
There's been some crazysurprises on these uh games.

SPEAKER_06 (01:45:23):
Guys, you say it's horrible, but this was if this
was two SEC teams, this would bea defensive master class for
watching.

SPEAKER_05 (01:45:29):
Oh, they will certainly spin it that way for
sure.

SPEAKER_01 (01:45:32):
Yeah, well, I mean, you know, what what do we all
what do you call it in thePremier League whenever you have
whenever it's an overlydefensive battle, Virgil?

SPEAKER_06 (01:45:41):
Uh I usually call it a bus game.

SPEAKER_01 (01:45:43):
Well, yeah, park the bus, right?
Yeah, yeah.
So um, by the way, um Virgil,correct me if I'm wrong.
That's did Jose Mourinhooriginate that or was that used
far before he used it?

SPEAKER_06 (01:45:58):
The first time that I've heard the term, it was
attached to some of the Italiannational teams because of their
counter-attack strategy.

SPEAKER_01 (01:46:06):
Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_06 (01:46:07):
But the term park the bus may have actually come
from Mourinho.

SPEAKER_01 (01:46:12):
Yeah.
So um, Ed and Donnie, for youredification, that um when Josie
Mourinho joined Chelsea in like2005, I think is what it was,
um, he he he he played a verydefensive game and he would you
know like Chelsea's successrelied on defense, essentially,
um, and counterattacks.

(01:46:34):
So everyone would always accusehim of parking the bus.
So he just of like being overlydefensive.
So he said, so he would just hehe he kind of bought into that
and he said, Yeah, all we didtoday is I parked a bus, and
essentially that's you know howwe got our wins.
And so it became okay.

SPEAKER_06 (01:46:50):
So I actually looked this up.

SPEAKER_01 (01:46:53):
So did I.

SPEAKER_06 (01:46:54):
Uh Mourinho.
Go ahead, Donnie.

SPEAKER_05 (01:47:04):
Keep it going, Virgil.
Keep it going, Virgil.
So my internet's out.

SPEAKER_06 (01:47:08):
So Mourinho did coin the term park the bus.
However, it was about anotherteam that he was playing that he
was upset he got a nil-nil drawagainst.

SPEAKER_01 (01:47:18):
Was it was it against Liverpool by any chance
and Ralph?

SPEAKER_06 (01:47:20):
Not Liverpool, no.
Do you want to take anotherguess at the team?

SPEAKER_01 (01:47:25):
Was it Bolton and Sam Allardyce?

SPEAKER_06 (01:47:28):
Nope.
It's Tottenham.
Which I was pretty sure at thattime was Redknap.

SPEAKER_01 (01:47:35):
No, that would have been Martin Yole.

SPEAKER_06 (01:47:37):
Oh, Martin Yol?
Okay, got my ears off, sorry.

SPEAKER_01 (01:47:39):
I I'm sure that because I don't know that I
don't know the Marine.
Well, maybe second StendhamMourinho, he was there when
Redknap was there.
His first one, it would havebeen Martin Yole or Juan de
Ramos.
Um Martin Yole would have been2006, 2007.
Isn't that right, Ed?
In that wouldn't that be Yole?

SPEAKER_06 (01:48:02):
You got me out on that one, buddy.
Um so Santini was actually themanager um June to November, and
then Yol took over afterNovember.

SPEAKER_01 (01:48:11):
Wait, is is that Jacques Santini?
Jacques Santini.
Okay.
Okay.

SPEAKER_05 (01:48:16):
Again, uh your you guys' knowledge is insane.

SPEAKER_01 (01:48:20):
Sorry about that, Ed.
I I didn't even realize Santiniwas the Tottenham manager.

SPEAKER_06 (01:48:24):
Uh I looked that one up, Ed.
I didn't I didn't know that oneon the top of my head.

SPEAKER_01 (01:48:27):
Yeah.
Well, I had no idea Santini wasever the Tottenham manager.
Um, so because like I said, Istart like you, Virgil, I
started following the PremierLeague in like 2006 when I was
in England.
So um I didn't really follow ittoo much before that.
It was like September 2006.

SPEAKER_08 (01:48:44):
You went to England?

SPEAKER_01 (01:48:46):
You what?

SPEAKER_08 (01:48:48):
You went to England?
When did you go to England?

SPEAKER_01 (01:48:51):
Is this the is this the equivalent of when uh when
um we asked Eric if he's the ifhe's the season ticket holder
for the wind surge?

SPEAKER_08 (01:49:01):
No, I I mean you know I knew Paul had been to
Japan.
I didn't know you'd been toEngland.

SPEAKER_05 (01:49:10):
I'll give you that one.

SPEAKER_01 (01:49:12):
I'll give you that one, Dottie.
Listen, so other things Ithought.
I'm gonna tip my cap to you onthat one.
That was excellent.

unknown (01:49:19):
Oh man.

SPEAKER_08 (01:49:20):
Anyway.
Oh, I I just want to say to Philreal quick, uh, I saw that uh
when he he said something aboutthe ties of the rock, paper,
scissors.
Um I I just want to give him alittle crap because I can't
believe I can't believe that uhthat that Furman scheduled such
a weak opponent the week beforeplaying Clemson.

(01:49:41):
I mean they got VMI, which is acupcake before they play
Clemson.

SPEAKER_05 (01:49:45):
What's up with I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_01 (01:49:49):
Oh no.
That was shameless coming from aClemson fan.

SPEAKER_06 (01:49:52):
That is absolutely shameless.

SPEAKER_01 (01:49:54):
Wow.
You you guys do nothing butschedule cupcakes.
You face LSU at the end of theyear.

SPEAKER_08 (01:50:01):
So now you're calling oh Phil, that's you you
heard that, Phil.
Patrick called you guys acupcake.
Just just so you know thatPatrick said that, Phil, not me.
Well, at least I support ourtroops, okay?
Oh, oh God.
2-0.
That's 2-0 on you right there,Patrick.
2-0 on you right there, back toback.
What's 2-0?

SPEAKER_06 (01:50:22):
I have clearly lost control of this show.
Yes, you have.

SPEAKER_01 (01:50:25):
Listen, listen, I bragged I died to brace.
I don't know what you're talkingabout.
You got to continue.

SPEAKER_06 (01:50:32):
I'm trying to.

SPEAKER_08 (01:50:33):
I guess I got I got you on the England and I got you
on that.

SPEAKER_06 (01:50:38):
Okay, I'm gonna start muting people.
I'll stop.
All right.
So let's talk about some of theother games here.
Yeah, we almost had anotherwinless team win their first
game.
Almost.
Almost.
Mercyhurst beat Sam St.
Francis by one point.
They made it interesting, atleast.

(01:50:59):
Made it interesting to say atleast, but you know, 1615 can't
do anything about that.

SPEAKER_01 (01:51:03):
Ron and can I just say something?
Anything I say to Donnie doesnot go toward you, Rhonda.
Rhonda, you're the best.
Just want to make sure she knowsthat.

SPEAKER_05 (01:51:12):
Hey, uh uh, at least Murray state we knew that he
they weren't gonna be in it atall.

SPEAKER_06 (01:51:16):
Hey, that was probably their best bet, though.
That was their probably theirlast shot.

SPEAKER_05 (01:51:20):
That was their last shot of actually winning a game,
and I don't think they'rewinning one uh like for the rest
of the year.
That was that's it for them,Murray.
Because they got North Dakota,and North Dakota's pissed off
that they had a really goodclose game against North Dakota
State, even though they lost,and then they got Indiana State.
Oh man, they're done.

SPEAKER_06 (01:51:38):
Where's in the is that at Indiana State or is that
at Murray State?

SPEAKER_01 (01:51:41):
At Indiana State.

SPEAKER_06 (01:51:42):
Okay, yeah, they're not winning that one.

SPEAKER_01 (01:51:44):
Listen, if Murray State couldn't beat Georgia
State, that's their season'sdone.
They've well when they when theylost to Georgia State, their
season was officially through.

SPEAKER_04 (01:51:53):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (01:51:54):
Uh another game that was interesting, although they
did not win, a near upsetalmost.
Uh Norfolk State almost goes inthe Durham and beats NC Central.
They only lost 31-28.

SPEAKER_05 (01:52:04):
I saw that, yeah.
So that I was a little nervousabout that one.

SPEAKER_06 (01:52:09):
Yeah, uh, North Dakota State uh beats North
Dakota.
Uh very good game out of NorthDakota, in my opinion.
I thought they really had themthere, but they find a way in
the end, as always.

SPEAKER_05 (01:52:18):
Watch out for North Dakota, though, when it comes to
the playoffs.
Man, I'm telling you, that teamis, you know, they could they
could they could make some noisehere.
They get the right bracket, youknow.

SPEAKER_06 (01:52:27):
Yeah, I agree.
Always look, you know, NorthDakota does good unless you pick
them to beat South Dakota, man,then they just don't show up.

SPEAKER_05 (01:52:34):
True story.

SPEAKER_06 (01:52:36):
But a team that does show up, and one that I was
really nervous for in thebeginning because they had to
come back for a while,youngstown states beats Southern
Illinois.

SPEAKER_05 (01:52:46):
I was sweating bullets there.

SPEAKER_06 (01:52:49):
That was probably I wasn't sweating bullets on that
game, but I was sweating bulletson the next game because uh I I
want you guys to explainsomething to me.
How do you throw seventouchdowns and still lose a
game?

SPEAKER_04 (01:53:04):
Are we talking about Western Carolina?

SPEAKER_06 (01:53:06):
We can talk about Western Carolina.
How do you throw seventouchdowns and lose it?
Patrick, are you okay?

SPEAKER_01 (01:53:16):
I'm resisting the urge to say something else.

SPEAKER_06 (01:53:18):
Uh hold on.

SPEAKER_01 (01:53:20):
I was gonna say you could ask Clemson.
Oh wow.

SPEAKER_06 (01:53:27):
Oh gosh, guys, why I just restored order.
Why are we doing this?

SPEAKER_08 (01:53:32):
I don't know that we've thrown seven touchdowns in
a game this year.

SPEAKER_01 (01:53:35):
So we're actually more talking about when you lost
46-45, but oh well, okay.

SPEAKER_05 (01:53:43):
Touche.
Damn, Don, are you gonna takethat from him?
What am I gonna do?
How dare he do something likethat?

SPEAKER_06 (01:53:55):
But once again, my mercy of errors prevail.
Um, I watched a good bit of thisone and I was I was already
ready to, you know, start theshow all dejected because having
you know my FCS team lose and myBundesliga 2 team lose, and you
know, just add it just piles on.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:54:15):
It does, it really does.

SPEAKER_06 (01:54:17):
But they found a way, and um, they get a um they
get an interesting game nextweek.
I'll be curious what the linefor that game is, but we'll talk
about that when we get there.

SPEAKER_05 (01:54:27):
Shout out to uh there's a couple of good games
though.
Like uh uh Eastern Washingtonmade it uh made it a close one
against Montana.

SPEAKER_06 (01:54:35):
Yes, but did you see how that game ended?

SPEAKER_05 (01:54:37):
I did not.
Oh yeah, that was I sent thevideo to this one.

SPEAKER_06 (01:54:43):
Eastern Washington is on the let's say they're two
or three yards, they're insidethe five, and they're driving
the ball down there.
Well, they have to spike theball, and eastern Washington's
quarterback fumbles the spike,and Montana picks it up to win
the game.

SPEAKER_03 (01:54:58):
Oh I did see that.
That's heartbreaking.

SPEAKER_06 (01:55:03):
Absolutely, that is a terrible way to lose a game if
you're Eastern Washington.
It is a hilarious way to lose agame if you're a neutral R
Montana.
Wow, Montana's like exactlyyeah, the the to say that they
don't they bullet thing is anunderstatement.

SPEAKER_01 (01:55:21):
Golly, it's a grizzly way to win.
Patrick, no, no, no, no, ohmerchant 250 grand in NIL money
as paid off.

SPEAKER_06 (01:55:37):
Um Purview AM wins 48 to 5 against Alabama AM.
I just want to say that scoredfive points, so let's move on
from there.

SPEAKER_01 (01:55:48):
Uh is that against you.
Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_06 (01:55:54):
Yeah, that was not that was gonna be a blood
battle.

SPEAKER_01 (01:55:56):
The same Prairie View that let me down the week
before?
Yeah, that same one.

SPEAKER_06 (01:56:00):
That same one, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (01:56:01):
Should have beaten Alabama State.

SPEAKER_06 (01:56:03):
Uh Merrimack loses to New Haven.
I think New Haven is new toDivision I or FCS this year, so
I'll always like to point outeveryone.
Patrick, West Georgia beats UNAat Florence.
So good win there.

SPEAKER_05 (01:56:21):
Go Wolves.
Austin P, baby.

SPEAKER_06 (01:56:25):
I'm a little surprised by that score line.

SPEAKER_05 (01:56:27):
So am I.

SPEAKER_08 (01:56:30):
I saw somebody in the grocery store wearing an
Austin P hoodie today.
Coming home from work.

SPEAKER_05 (01:56:37):
If they don't go there, it's random.
It's still a cool logo.
That's what it is.

SPEAKER_01 (01:56:41):
Listen, I've seen a few of these uh FCS teams ever
since we started talking aboutthem.
What was the one that I textedyou about, Virgil, that I said I
saw?

SPEAKER_06 (01:56:51):
Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_01 (01:56:55):
We were talking about it.
I'll have to go back and look,but um, it was one of these uh
FCS teams that we were talkingabout, and I was like, how in
the world am I seeing this?
Like I would have not known likebefore we started doing this
show, like what that was, andthen I was able to say, Hey, I
like your shirt.

SPEAKER_06 (01:57:13):
I feel like it was it was one of the Ohio Valley
teams, but it's not right now.

SPEAKER_01 (01:57:19):
It was something like that.

SPEAKER_06 (01:57:22):
Uh other games we have uh Lamar beat Southeast
Louisiana 14 to 12.
So Lamar has the um Lamar hasthe sole possession of the
Southland, but their battle'snot over yet because another
team is coming to play againstLamar, Stephen F.
Austin, and we're gonna bepicking that one too.

SPEAKER_08 (01:57:43):
It's all in the wrist.

SPEAKER_01 (01:57:47):
Polly, that's not the Lamar we're talking about.

SPEAKER_05 (01:57:51):
Oh, I'm I'm sure he knows.
Hey, how about that Idaho Statethough, against Kyle Poly?

SPEAKER_06 (01:58:00):
Yeah, Idaho State's been kind of down this year, so
they both have been down.
The UT Rio Grande beatingnickels.

SPEAKER_05 (01:58:09):
I saw that.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (01:58:11):
After what McCutcheon was talking about
with um UT Rio Grande, I've beenwell, I've been wanting to watch
them a lot more.
And man, that's that's a that'sa great environment.

SPEAKER_05 (01:58:22):
Okay, all right.
Uh how about uh the cowards?
I I think I think oh yeah.
How about those cowards winningagainst Idaho?

SPEAKER_04 (01:58:35):
We don't need to talk about that game.
Gotcha.
Okay.

SPEAKER_01 (01:58:39):
Listen, that's not the mountain time zone.

SPEAKER_08 (01:58:40):
That didn't I think we I think we need to get uh
Paul Caputo on something here.
We need to send him over toNala, Northern Colorado, and get
him to change it to Bears with aZ.

SPEAKER_05 (01:58:53):
Just so he can have something to root for.
The Bears.

SPEAKER_06 (01:59:00):
But we're talking about this week, guys.
I haven't gone through the fullslate of games yet, but there's
quite a few games to talk about,and the first one starts Friday.
So as I already mentioned, SouthCarolina State against North
Carolina Central.

SPEAKER_05 (01:59:17):
Oh my god, again, that's gonna be good.

SPEAKER_06 (01:59:20):
To say that this has this this has celebration bowl
implications, pretty much, andit's a 5 30 p.m.

SPEAKER_05 (01:59:25):
on ESPN too.

SPEAKER_06 (01:59:27):
I have no idea why it's that early.

SPEAKER_08 (01:59:30):
That's what I said.
That's an early Friday rightthere.
I mean, you're barely off work.

SPEAKER_06 (01:59:34):
Is North Carolina State playing on one Friday
night by any chance?

SPEAKER_01 (01:59:38):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:59:39):
Donnie, I'm not off work.
It's in Durham, unless unlessit's uh unless Duke is playing.
Let me take a long time.

SPEAKER_08 (01:59:53):
I wouldn't think so.
Let's see here.
Hang on, I was gonna I'm gonnaflip the ACC schedule real quick
here, I'll tell you.

SPEAKER_05 (02:00:00):
Duke doesn't play on Friday.

SPEAKER_08 (02:00:02):
Clemson's at Louisville is the only ACC game
on uh Friday.

SPEAKER_06 (02:00:06):
Right.
So I don't know why they'replaying that early.
There's probably a reason thatwe're not aware of.

SPEAKER_01 (02:00:13):
It's not like a homecoming game or anything, is
it?

SPEAKER_06 (02:00:18):
Oh.
Oh, okay.
Ed, we have a problem.

SPEAKER_05 (02:00:25):
Why?

SPEAKER_06 (02:00:25):
Because there is a game that's happening tomorrow
that we were not able to pick.
That I feel like I feel likewe've I feel like we've robbed
America of us being able to pickthis game.

SPEAKER_05 (02:00:37):
I know, I saw it.

SPEAKER_06 (02:00:39):
I'm so upset.

SPEAKER_05 (02:00:40):
I saw it, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (02:00:41):
For those who are wondering, the battle of the
wagon wheel.

SPEAKER_05 (02:00:45):
It is a it is tomorrow.

SPEAKER_06 (02:00:47):
Akron is tomorrow, and we can't pick it because I
did not think to look that farahead.

SPEAKER_05 (02:00:52):
I got Kent State all the way, though, so I don't
care.
Even though they let me downlast week, I got Kent State.
You've been with winning on theKent State on the wagon wheel,
so we're gonna stick with uhKent State Golden Flashes to win
the wagon wheel.
Wagon wheel is coming back toKent.
Yep, it's coming back.

SPEAKER_08 (02:01:07):
Well, we can pick it tonight, and you can text Eric.

SPEAKER_06 (02:01:15):
Let me do that real quick.

SPEAKER_05 (02:01:19):
Not everybody picked Kent, guys, because that I said
this last week.
As soon as we all picked KentState, I said, Fuck.
I literally said that on theshow.

SPEAKER_08 (02:01:30):
I'll take Akron at home.
Because I'll take Akron at home.
Does that make you feel better?

SPEAKER_05 (02:01:38):
Do it for the content, okay?
Hashtag for the content here,okay?
Because I got screwed out ofthat one.
Who got a safety?
Is that a safety?
Oh no, they they didn't have it.

SPEAKER_08 (02:01:52):
Alright, I'll take Akron at home.

SPEAKER_06 (02:01:55):
Okay, I'll test the prophet, so let's see if he
actually answers in time.

SPEAKER_05 (02:01:59):
Or is he or if he if he even cares?

SPEAKER_06 (02:02:03):
He's gonna say, why are you texting me so late?
This is weird.
So Donnie, you picked Akron.

SPEAKER_08 (02:02:14):
We're interrupting his uh Packers game.

SPEAKER_06 (02:02:17):
Well, he picked the Eagles, so now you know who he's
really caring about.

SPEAKER_08 (02:02:20):
Absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 (02:02:21):
Okay.
I it's Kent State.
I am going Kent State.

SPEAKER_05 (02:02:26):
We're gonna give Patrick Akron.
You're probably gonna pick Kent.

SPEAKER_08 (02:02:32):
Oh.
This is probably why the othergame.
Oh, wait a minute.
Never mind.
Nothing.
Never mind.
Blah, brain fart.

SPEAKER_06 (02:02:42):
Oh well.
Did you find something?

SPEAKER_08 (02:02:44):
There's another game on though tomorrow night.
Ohio Western Michigan looks likea pretty good matchup.

SPEAKER_05 (02:02:51):
So the Broncos against Ohio, the Bobcats.
Oh, Ohio's a much better team.
Bobcats are that's a good team.
And the Bobcats.
I cannot just tell you how happyI am that to have Mac back on on
uh on Tuesdays, you know, someaction Tuesday night.

(02:03:14):
Oh, so happy for that.

SPEAKER_08 (02:03:16):
I mean, there's some good Wednesday games, too.
You got Buffalo CentralMichigan, you got Toledo in
Miami of Ohio.

SPEAKER_05 (02:03:23):
Oh yeah.
Don't look at that northernIllinois, Massachusetts.

SPEAKER_08 (02:03:26):
I don't even know why that's on TV, right?

SPEAKER_05 (02:03:31):
They're all on uh Buffalo is on CBS Sports
Network, ESPN2 has Toledo, ESPNUhas a Northern Illinois game.
I mean, Kent State is on ESPNU,and then Ohio is uh on ESPN 2
again.
Maction, baby.
So Maxin.
Playing in the middle of theweek.
TV that's amazing.

SPEAKER_08 (02:03:50):
Thursday nights you got Troy Old Dominion.
Dang, there's some good games onthis week.
Every night.

SPEAKER_06 (02:03:57):
Prophet has made his pick.

SPEAKER_08 (02:03:58):
Kent.

SPEAKER_06 (02:03:59):
Akron.

SPEAKER_05 (02:04:00):
Akron, good for him.
Good for him.
Okay, Donna, you can go back topicking Kent now.

SPEAKER_08 (02:04:05):
No, I'll take Akron.

SPEAKER_06 (02:04:08):
Okay, so we'll wait for Patrick to return for his
pick.
As we do that, we'll go oversome of these other games here.
Uh let's see.
So we're talking about SouthCarolina State against North
Carolina Central.

SPEAKER_03 (02:04:19):
Correct.

SPEAKER_06 (02:04:20):
Definitely looking forward to that one just because
of the, like I said, of whatthat means for uh Miak
standings.

SPEAKER_05 (02:04:27):
There's some some serious rep you know
ramifications of that this game.
Absolutely.
Imagine North Carolina Centralwinning.

SPEAKER_06 (02:04:38):
Yeah, if North Carolina Central wins, that's
going to make that that's that'sthe only way the tiebreaker, the
three-way tie could happen.
North Carolina Central has towin that game.

SPEAKER_05 (02:04:48):
I know that all of us are looking so forward
looking for this uh this uh tie.
So Morgan State.
Wait, Norfolk State might have ashot at winning against Morgan
State.
Maybe.

SPEAKER_06 (02:05:07):
Uh I don't know.
They did look good againstDelaware State, kind of until
then.

unknown (02:05:13):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (02:05:14):
So I'm not I'm not sold on that game.
Uh going down some of the list,you know, we got East Tennessee
State, uh, Western Carolina.
Western Carolina's a team I'mkind of keeping an eye on to
see.
I haven't seen any playoffbubble projections yet, but I'm
wondering if Western Carolina isgoing to be on there or not.
Uh Davidson Merritt is notreally good.

(02:05:37):
It's another pioneer of a game.
A good 6-6-3 Pioneer Leaguematchup between Drake and
Gaiden.

SPEAKER_05 (02:05:42):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (02:05:47):
St.
Francis has a chance to wintheir game again against Long
Island University.
We'll see how that goes.

SPEAKER_05 (02:05:52):
Hey, Harvard is 8-0, buddy.

SPEAKER_08 (02:05:55):
I think I mean St.
Francis has they got Long Islandthis week and they've got uh
Stone Hill next week.
So actually have a chance ofgetting a win out of one of
those two.

SPEAKER_06 (02:06:05):
Well, we're not gonna pick a Harvard game yet
until um the Yale game becauseYale is right behind them at
four at four and one in theconference.

SPEAKER_05 (02:06:16):
So we're not gonna pick, we're not gonna and Yale
is gonna get us a bad Princetonteam, so it's gonna be.

SPEAKER_06 (02:06:24):
Yeah, I think Harvard will have that one
pretty much taken care of.

SPEAKER_03 (02:06:27):
Yep, yep, yep, yep.

SPEAKER_06 (02:06:30):
Oh shoot, just lost mine.
See, you had you had me lookingup Harvard's schedule that I
lost.

SPEAKER_05 (02:06:37):
So thanks for that.
Oh my god, dude.
Here's a game for you.
South Dakota, Southern Illinois.

SPEAKER_06 (02:06:45):
Yeah, that was that was one that may be on our list.
Patrick.
Yes, sir.
We have added a game to picks.

SPEAKER_01 (02:06:51):
Uh oh.

SPEAKER_06 (02:06:52):
Due to an oversight on my part because I did not
realize this game was onTuesday.
Battle of the wagon wheel.
Kent State.

SPEAKER_01 (02:06:59):
Akron Kent State.

SPEAKER_06 (02:07:00):
Akron Kent State.
Who do you have?

SPEAKER_01 (02:07:03):
Kent State.

SPEAKER_06 (02:07:04):
All right.

SPEAKER_05 (02:07:05):
I'm a matter, baby.
Let's go.
Go, Kent, baby.

SPEAKER_01 (02:07:08):
I was gonna say, you don't think I'm gonna I'm gonna
pick against my guy Ed, do you?
I don't care if Akron is athome.

SPEAKER_05 (02:07:13):
Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 (02:07:14):
This is the golden flashes, baby.
We're taking the wagon wheelback.

SPEAKER_05 (02:07:17):
By the way, did you see the kits that they came up
with for this week for thatgame?

SPEAKER_01 (02:07:22):
And an X Factor in that game.

SPEAKER_05 (02:07:23):
Oh no, I haven't seen it.

SPEAKER_01 (02:07:25):
Check it out.
Look it up.
Kent State's brand new coach.
Reminds me a lot of like the waythe players are, you know, the
players at no name backed MarcusFreeman.
Yep.
So what?
What?

SPEAKER_05 (02:07:40):
What a catch.
In the Packers game?
Devante Smith.
Holy Jesus.
Was it as the Indiana catch?
Touchdown, baby.
Eric is not happy right now.
I can tell you that.

SPEAKER_06 (02:08:00):
He picked he picked the Eagles.
Like, don't forget this.

SPEAKER_05 (02:08:03):
He picked the Eagles, but you know he's a
Packers fan.
He is not happy right now.
Terrible.
No.

SPEAKER_01 (02:08:09):
Sorry.
Let me make sure I do this.

SPEAKER_05 (02:08:11):
Good.

SPEAKER_01 (02:08:14):
Why are you not covering him?
Why are you not covering him?

SPEAKER_08 (02:08:17):
Were Eric's not happy?
We all win.

SPEAKER_01 (02:08:21):
That's terrible.

SPEAKER_05 (02:08:23):
Oh my god, he almost threw that from the 50 yard.

SPEAKER_01 (02:08:27):
We already have Jeff Half, we can't allow that to
happen.
That's terrible.

SPEAKER_05 (02:08:33):
I didn't know this dude got that arm strength like
that.
Ha damn.
Talking about Jalen?
Yeah.
Jalen, Jalen's got an arm.

SPEAKER_01 (02:08:41):
Dude, he threw that from almost a 50 yard.
Yep.
Anyways.
Well, it's nice to see thatthere was at least a little bit
of action in that game.

SPEAKER_05 (02:08:50):
I know, right?

SPEAKER_01 (02:08:51):
Goodness.

SPEAKER_05 (02:08:52):
Hey, are we picking uh are we gonna is it on the
list VMI Furman?
For us to pick, or it's justjust uh we're just gonna bypass
that one.

SPEAKER_06 (02:09:01):
You want a spread game of that one?
Like no, I do not.

SPEAKER_04 (02:09:04):
I don't care for that one.

SPEAKER_06 (02:09:05):
So no offense to Phyllis Furman because I mean we
have Furman has been showcasedbefore, but I mean like VMI's
one and nine.

SPEAKER_01 (02:09:14):
What is Furman's record actually?

SPEAKER_06 (02:09:17):
Uh five and five, I believe.

SPEAKER_01 (02:09:18):
Okay.
So Coach Hendricks has doesn'thave a losing record yet.
Okay.

SPEAKER_06 (02:09:23):
No.
But here are some.
I now I did tease two um FCSversus FPS games and wondering
if uh the SCE SEC school isprobably regretting scheduling
these games or not.
The first one in question,undefeated Tennessee Tech goes
to Lexington, Kentucky, notSouth Carolina, to play four and

(02:09:46):
five Kentucky.

SPEAKER_05 (02:09:51):
Listen.
They better be careful.

SPEAKER_06 (02:09:56):
I usually avoid um games like these for picks, but
I need to see what the spread isgonna be.

SPEAKER_05 (02:10:04):
There's no spread yet?

SPEAKER_06 (02:10:05):
No, I can't find a spread for this one yet.
Usually I'll find them outprobably Tuesday or Wednesday.

SPEAKER_05 (02:10:10):
Okay.
It's only Monday, so yeah,you're right.

unknown (02:10:12):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (02:10:15):
So we'll we'll have to keep an eye on that one.

SPEAKER_05 (02:10:17):
What about the next one?

SPEAKER_06 (02:10:19):
Uh let me see how far down it is before I get
there.

SPEAKER_05 (02:10:22):
What was the first one?

SPEAKER_08 (02:10:23):
I don't see another.
I don't.

SPEAKER_06 (02:10:27):
Oh, okay.
I'm sorry.
The other one I'm thinking ofnext week.
No, I'm I'm I'm a week off.
The one I'm thinking of.

SPEAKER_08 (02:10:33):
Okay, I was about to say I didn't see another SEC.
Okay.

SPEAKER_06 (02:10:36):
No, the the other SEC one I'm thinking of is going
to be next week.

SPEAKER_01 (02:10:41):
What was what was the what was the first one you
said though, Virgil?

SPEAKER_06 (02:10:44):
Tennessee tech against Kentucky.

SPEAKER_01 (02:10:47):
Okay.

SPEAKER_06 (02:10:47):
Okay.
Undefeated Tennessee Techagainst Kentucky.

SPEAKER_01 (02:10:52):
Although Kentucky's coming off a huge win against
Florida.
Yeah, who will pick that one?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, is this another chance foryou to gloat again?

SPEAKER_06 (02:11:02):
I don't get it often.
I can't do it in fantasy.
So, I mean, I gotta I gottagloat somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 (02:11:07):
Don't worry, I can't either.

SPEAKER_06 (02:11:09):
No, you are three points behind.
What are you talking about?
I don't want to fucking hear it.

SPEAKER_01 (02:11:14):
No, I'm about to win.
You act like you act like Jacusis gonna get three minutes.

SPEAKER_04 (02:11:18):
Just ten fucking minutes left in the game.
Of course you're gonna win.

SPEAKER_01 (02:11:21):
No, I'm not.
No, I'm not.
He's not gonna get it.

SPEAKER_04 (02:11:26):
Just ten fucking minutes.
There's ten fucking minutes.
That's that's three catches forten more.

SPEAKER_06 (02:11:32):
Patrick, you need to have more fiber in your diet
because you're full of shit.

SPEAKER_05 (02:11:39):
Can't nobody believe you.

SPEAKER_06 (02:11:43):
Moving on.
Okay, going back.
Um, see, I lost my point again.
Sanford, we have not talkedabout Sanford firing their coach
yet.

SPEAKER_05 (02:11:55):
Didn't I send you guys that?
I did I think I sent it.
Somebody sent it.
I don't know.
Someone did.
And and they fire their headcoach, and then they're going
play against Austin P.

SPEAKER_06 (02:12:09):
Yeah, not not not a good, not a good um start for
for the interim on that one.

SPEAKER_05 (02:12:16):
I I know that you're nobody cares about this one, but
I care because they're mybackyard.
But there's two Carolina teamsthat are going against each
other in the FCS.
That's Elon and Campbell.

SPEAKER_06 (02:12:27):
I would brought that one up if I was curious if you
were Elon.
Where is Elon?
Is that near Burlington?

SPEAKER_05 (02:12:33):
Yeah, that's it's it's very close.
So I uh I'm very intrigued bythis one.
Um, Campbell has looked good inthe last couple of weeks.
It's just I mean, last week theymade a close, it's just they
couldn't close it out.
Uh, so I'm very intrigued to seehow this one pans out.

(02:12:54):
Uh there's a I'm I'm hopingCampbell pulls it up, man.
I'm I'm hoping for Campbell.
And there's uh there's somepoints right there for your boy.

SPEAKER_06 (02:13:04):
I I will I'm keeping track of that game.
We don't need to worry aboutthat.

SPEAKER_05 (02:13:07):
Okay, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Appreciate that.
Appreciate that.
Thank you.
Yeah, not gonna happen.

SPEAKER_06 (02:13:12):
Because um, I don't think Romeo Dobson is gonna
score uh 10 touchdowns in thenext nine minutes.
So I'm my game's pretty muchover.

SPEAKER_01 (02:13:20):
So that game is over too.

SPEAKER_06 (02:13:21):
So no, oh my god, no, it's not, Patrick.

SPEAKER_05 (02:13:24):
Oh Jesus, what a tackle.

SPEAKER_06 (02:13:27):
Presbyterian.
Now, Presbyterian actually has agame that I'm looking actually
forward to seeing.
Um eight and two Presbyterian at7-3 St.
Thomas, Minnesota.
Uh both uh one's four and two inPioneer, the one's five and two.
That's gonna be a fun game atO'Shaughnessy Stadium in uh St.
Paul.

SPEAKER_05 (02:13:45):
Is this the uh St.
Paul, uh, Minnesota, the onethat spent a gazillion dollars
for their new um facility?

SPEAKER_06 (02:13:54):
Um, I don't think it was gazillion dollars.
Uh they are the one that jumpedfrom division three to division
one because no one from divisionthree wanted to play them
anymore.

SPEAKER_05 (02:14:04):
Why did they jump from three to all the way to
FCS?
Why couldn't they just go to D2?

SPEAKER_06 (02:14:10):
I don't remember the reason they gave for that.
So I have to go back and look atthat one up.
Uh let me see, where were someof the other ones here?
Florida AM is playing AlabamaAM.
Uh I just wanted to say thatone, just give Alabama credit.
How are we feeling about thisgame, knowing what's happened

(02:14:32):
recently?
Illinois state going to SouthDakota State.

SPEAKER_01 (02:14:37):
That's gonna be a good game.
It is gonna be a good game.

SPEAKER_06 (02:14:41):
It is gonna be a good game, but I'm intrigued.
I'm I I want to see what theline is here because I think
when it comes to when it comesto offenses, Illinois State may
have, may have, I know they havea better quarterback in
Rittenhouse, but Illinois Statemay edge South Dakota State on
this as the better team, like onpaper is what it looks like.

(02:15:05):
So we'll see how that one goes.

SPEAKER_05 (02:15:08):
It's gonna be good because it's in Southern
Illinois.
I'm intrigued for this one.
I am.

SPEAKER_08 (02:15:16):
I was looking at outside of one game.
Outside of one game, IllinoisState has scored over 30 points
in all of their wins, andthey've scored 30 points in
well, one of their losses, butone of their losses was to
Oklahoma to start the season,too.
So yeah, I'm I'm with you onthat.

(02:15:37):
Their offense, I think, is alittle stronger than South
Dakota's states.

SPEAKER_06 (02:15:43):
Uh Chattanooga child goes down to Macon to play
against Mercer, which is funnybecause Mercer, uh Chattanooga
Mercer was actually the um firstgame I saw last year when Mercer
played against Chattanooga andbeat them.
So this is where it all startedbetween these two teams.

SPEAKER_05 (02:16:05):
This is where it all started with the FCS.

SPEAKER_06 (02:16:07):
Well, not the FCS.
I was following like SWACbeforehand, but I mean, as for
like that was my first uh SOCONgame for sure.
So I guess getting out of that,uh getting out of that, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (02:16:20):
Um I mean you take the record out of it, it could
be a good pretty good gamedespite the difference in their
records.

SPEAKER_06 (02:16:29):
Like I said, Chattanooga's got the talent.
They just have not, they've justhad a lot of mistakes this year.
They just are really been down.
That's that that's a team that'skind of I'm surprised by their
record.
Usually they're more competitivein the um in the SOCON, and
they're usually more competitivefor like pushing for a playoff
spot.

(02:16:50):
This is just hasn't been theyear for that.
All right.
Uh more than Iowa travels toNorth Dakota State.
I don't expect anything there.

SPEAKER_05 (02:17:00):
Guys, all I'm gonna say is can I just say this?
All right, we're following FCSfootball this year.
Next year, we gotta add anotherone.
We gotta add some division two.
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (02:17:14):
So division two is kind of hard to track sometimes
because so many.
There's so many, and it's allregional based.

SPEAKER_05 (02:17:21):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (02:17:22):
So it's kind of and division three is kind of the
same.
So it's I I don't try to nottalk about them.
It's just that I have to put ina lot more research into it
compared to FCS.

SPEAKER_05 (02:17:33):
Also, can we just talk about we gotta do a uh a
bracket for uh these logos forFCS, division two, division
three, because there's so manycool ones.
I mean, for example, FerrisEstate is one of my favorite
logos.

SPEAKER_01 (02:17:48):
Fair State's good.
I like Fair State.

SPEAKER_06 (02:17:53):
Yeah, I have nothing wrong with the Ferris State one,
but I'm afraid that the winneris gonna be Youngstown State
because I'm gonna pull theirpenguin logo and not the Y.

SPEAKER_05 (02:18:01):
Oh, would you have to pull the penguin logo?

SPEAKER_06 (02:18:04):
Like, that's gonna win.

SPEAKER_05 (02:18:05):
Yeah, oh god, I love that logo.
My the wife would be very happy.
That's that's her school rightthere.
So those logos are fire.

SPEAKER_01 (02:18:16):
I mean, sorry, those helmets.
Those helmets are fire.

SPEAKER_05 (02:18:18):
Those those penguin helmets, god, yeah.
She doesn't care about thosethings.

SPEAKER_01 (02:18:23):
I do, you know.
So listen, uh, not that I havean an office of any sort, but I
would love to I would love tohave that that type of helmet in
uh like to to display somewhere,or like a mini version of it.
They should they should reallydo mini helmets of like some of
the some of these schools thathave really for the like the for

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FCS and all them too.

SPEAKER_06 (02:18:51):
Uh probably not nationally.

SPEAKER_01 (02:18:54):
Well shoot, let me know if they have one of those
Youngstown State ones.
I might I might have to pull aDonnie and get and you know and
get it.

SPEAKER_06 (02:19:02):
Green Bay score.

SPEAKER_05 (02:19:06):
Oh my god.
You know how much that minihelmet is on eBay?
$70?
$75.
I believe it.
I believe it.

SPEAKER_06 (02:19:17):
Oh my god.
Okay, I can, I can, I can, wecan we can call this.
I can go ahead and do this.

SPEAKER_05 (02:19:25):
Breaking news.
Oh god, breaking news.
We got breaking news, guys.

SPEAKER_06 (02:19:33):
I I've seen enough.

SPEAKER_04 (02:19:34):
Congratulations on Red Iron Greats for beating Dead
Hat in fantasy after the I toldyou, I told you, I told you.

SPEAKER_01 (02:19:46):
I well, uh considering I just horrific.
Of like, I didn't even playJameson Williams this week.

SPEAKER_05 (02:19:52):
I'm like, I played Jarrett Wilson.
I told you.
There it is.
110 to 102.
You can definitely call thatbecause he scored a touchdown.

SPEAKER_06 (02:20:03):
I'm calling that.
Unless if Josh Jacob fumblesfour times between now and which
he could.
No, he's not going to.
He's gonna probably touch itagain after this.

SPEAKER_05 (02:20:12):
No, I I've been trying to tell him all fucking
week.
That's why I said shut up.
I love you, shut up.

SPEAKER_01 (02:20:20):
I've been doing it just to get a rise out of you,
and it's been great.

SPEAKER_08 (02:20:24):
So I tell you what, I've Ed, you got me scrolling
down through Division IIstandings just looking at
conference or like team names.

SPEAKER_04 (02:20:34):
You're welcome.

SPEAKER_08 (02:20:35):
There's some yeah.
There's there's a bull weevils.

SPEAKER_01 (02:20:40):
Yeah, there is.

SPEAKER_08 (02:20:43):
There's uh there's a peacocks.
There's uh that is Upper IowaPeacocks.

SPEAKER_06 (02:20:54):
Oh, I didn't know it was a second peacock thing.

SPEAKER_08 (02:20:56):
There's a couple of others down here.
There's the Tiffin Dragons.
Um yeah, there is uh oh shoot,where was it?
Hang on, I gotta get back downhere.
There's a couple of cool onesdown here.
There's the javelins.
Javelinas, excuse me.
Javelinas.

SPEAKER_05 (02:21:14):
No, javelinas.

SPEAKER_08 (02:21:16):
There is uh like the Orient?
Okay, like the Ichabods, TexasAM, Kingsville Avalinas.
Uh yeah, you've got the uh theWashburn Ichabods, Central
Missouri Mules.

SPEAKER_01 (02:21:36):
Uh what about the Vodasta State University
Blazers, man?
That's championship city to you.
Yeah, it is.
Dusty Bonner, my man.
Dusty Bonner.

SPEAKER_08 (02:21:46):
Oh, this is this is this is a Patrick.
This is a Patrick one right upin Pace Setters.

SPEAKER_01 (02:21:56):
Yeah.
Pace University?

SPEAKER_06 (02:22:00):
You have to have college Jimmy's.
You haven't gone to my favoriteone yet.

SPEAKER_08 (02:22:06):
The uh University of Mary Marauders.

SPEAKER_05 (02:22:11):
Keep going.

SPEAKER_08 (02:22:13):
All right, I'm still going down here.
Let's see.
There's a couple others downhere.
There's so many animals that arejust blah blah blah blah blah.
There's the Scots, there's theVulcans.
Um Vulcans isn't a bad one.
The ore diggers.
Excuse me.

SPEAKER_01 (02:22:32):
Yeah, can you repeat that one?

SPEAKER_08 (02:22:35):
Or diggers.

unknown (02:22:37):
Okay.

SPEAKER_08 (02:22:38):
Colorado School of Mines.

SPEAKER_04 (02:22:44):
Oh my god.

SPEAKER_08 (02:22:47):
Tell me what you come again.

SPEAKER_01 (02:22:50):
Can you say it one more time?
I really didn't catch that.

SPEAKER_08 (02:22:52):
I thought maybe my internet was I thought my
internet was cutting out.
Okay, you're you're messing withme.
I get it.

SPEAKER_01 (02:22:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, well, uh no.
I mean, I really didn'tunderstand.

SPEAKER_08 (02:23:01):
I'm at the bottom of the list.
What did I what did I miss?

SPEAKER_01 (02:23:04):
What was that?
What was that one?

SPEAKER_06 (02:23:07):
Uh my two favorite from um Division II, Arkansas
Tech Wonder Boys.

SPEAKER_08 (02:23:14):
Okay.

SPEAKER_06 (02:23:14):
Wow.
And the Where are they at?

SPEAKER_08 (02:23:17):
What I didn't see that.

SPEAKER_06 (02:23:20):
They should be there.
And then the Colorado I don'tknow what conference they are.
And then the Colorado StatePleebo uh Thunder Wolves.

SPEAKER_05 (02:23:29):
Yeah, I I've seen that the Thunder Wolves, yeah,
yeah.
Johnny, what was Montana Tech?

SPEAKER_00 (02:23:33):
I think I did see Thunder Wolves.

SPEAKER_08 (02:23:37):
Montana Tech?

SPEAKER_00 (02:23:39):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (02:23:41):
I don't know.
Did I say Montana Tech?

SPEAKER_01 (02:23:45):
I thought you did.
I don't know.
I could be wrong.

SPEAKER_05 (02:23:49):
I don't know.
You bad that ESPN, like when youyou they got the teens and
everything, but they don't haveyou cannot click on any of those
names.
No.

SPEAKER_08 (02:23:58):
Right.

SPEAKER_01 (02:23:59):
Yeah.
I mean, he didn't even mentionColumbus State University.
My uh my alma mater.

SPEAKER_05 (02:24:05):
Isn't that a uh uh uh two-year school?

SPEAKER_01 (02:24:08):
No, it's a four-year school, but the C stands for
quality.
Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_05 (02:24:12):
Do you know that's a Columbus State in uh Columbus,
Ohio, which is an actual well isthat a community is that a
two-year.

SPEAKER_01 (02:24:20):
No, I said this is a four-year one, but RC stands for
quality, okay?

SPEAKER_05 (02:24:23):
It is, is actual uh is a two-year.
Well, RC stands for quality,like I said.

SPEAKER_01 (02:24:29):
So Carnegie Mellon, the Terriers.

SPEAKER_06 (02:24:31):
Yeah, only uh my school only has Division II
basketball, no football.

SPEAKER_01 (02:24:35):
Yeah, I was gonna say I don't think Columbus State
has football either.

SPEAKER_06 (02:24:38):
They've been trying, but they also had division one
hockey for a while, but that oneaway is that way.
Who did UAH?

SPEAKER_01 (02:24:46):
Ooh.

SPEAKER_05 (02:24:48):
That's not we don't know University of Alabama
Huntsville?

SPEAKER_01 (02:24:53):
Yeah.
No, no, is that where Roman didRoman Reigns go to University of
Alabama Huntsville?
Is that where he goes?
Ooh.

SPEAKER_06 (02:24:59):
No, no, no, no.
He went to Georgia Tech.
You know, yes, you did.
Yeah, you didn't Lake ErieStorm.

SPEAKER_05 (02:25:05):
That's I that's a young uh I know that one.

SPEAKER_08 (02:25:10):
Did you you said Wonder Boys, right?
Yes, is that what you said?

SPEAKER_06 (02:25:14):
Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (02:25:16):
Yeah, yeah.
Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, yeah, great AmericanConference.

SPEAKER_01 (02:25:22):
Okay.

SPEAKER_08 (02:25:23):
Brother, what about central Missouri?
I don't remember seeing MontanaTech or okay.

SPEAKER_01 (02:25:28):
Well, I could have been wrong.
I'm sorry.
I probably just I probably justhad it, you know, in my mind.

SPEAKER_06 (02:25:38):
So oh, and I I do have some bad news for picks for
this week.

SPEAKER_01 (02:25:42):
Oh, tell us, Wade Barrett.

SPEAKER_06 (02:25:44):
Uh we are thank you.
I I I like that compliment.
We are gonna have to pick a gamewith the cowards in it.
Because the cowards are going toBozeman, Montana.
I told you that game was I Itold you that game.
I know.

(02:26:04):
And um, I guess under protest wewill have to pick this one.

SPEAKER_05 (02:26:09):
I got you.
But by the way, I just want tomention the uh the central
Missouri, uh, they're known asthe mules.

SPEAKER_00 (02:26:16):
He said that one.

SPEAKER_05 (02:26:17):
Yeah, the mules.
Great name.

SPEAKER_08 (02:26:20):
Slippery rot the rock.
That's that's that's pretty badto me.
Slippery rot the rock.

SPEAKER_01 (02:26:26):
No, I I know I like that.

SPEAKER_05 (02:26:31):
Minnesota State Moorhead Dragons.
God, what a good names inDivision 2.

SPEAKER_01 (02:26:37):
A lot of dragons.
Like uh I like I um I like thelumberjacks of Humboldt State.

SPEAKER_05 (02:26:47):
Because Tiffin is another dragon, Tiffin
University.

SPEAKER_01 (02:26:50):
And um and I have Virgil to thank for this because
he did this for me out of hiskindness, uh kindness of his
heart of a few weeks ago.
But um can we please talk aboutthe Delta State statesman?

SPEAKER_06 (02:27:03):
See, I like Delta State because they only have the
not only do they have thestatesman, they have also the
best unofficial nickname and thefighting okra.

SPEAKER_01 (02:27:10):
Uh yeah, 100%.
I love the fighting okra.

SPEAKER_08 (02:27:14):
Yeah, and and I I've been ever since Johnny Boland
got that that hat.
I want to I want a fighting okrahat.

SPEAKER_01 (02:27:20):
Yeah, I was clamoring to get to pick a Delta
State game, and Virgil, Virgilkindly allowed that to happen a
few weeks ago.
And I just want to go on recordpublicly saying thank you, um,
Virgil, for that.

SPEAKER_06 (02:27:32):
I mean, I took a loss in the end because I picked
against them, but you know, ithappens.

SPEAKER_01 (02:27:36):
Uh listen, uh I knew I had to pick Delta State, even
if it was against, you know, umlike uh what's that?
What what's the uh is MountainUnion Division III?

SPEAKER_06 (02:27:48):
Three.
Three yeah, the Purple Knights.

SPEAKER_01 (02:27:51):
Are they still perennial champions in D3?
I mean not recently, yeah.
Because it seemed like for awhile it was just kind of like
uh um a formality that MountainUnion would just win the title
every year.

SPEAKER_06 (02:28:03):
It's kind of been jumping around a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 (02:28:06):
Um the integrity of the competition.
Let's see.
Um, I like the Red Foxes atMarist, and of course, Coastal
Carolina, the Chanticleers.
I didn't realize CoastalCarolina, are they D2 in
football?

SPEAKER_06 (02:28:23):
No, they're FPS.

SPEAKER_05 (02:28:25):
Yeah, they're D1.

SPEAKER_01 (02:28:26):
Yeah, they're in the Sunbelt conference, right?
Yeah.
They're a D1.
Yeah, because I was gonna sayGeorgia State lost to them this
weekend.
So uh, you know, I you know, I'magain I'm used to a lot of
losses, and I was like, surelythey're not D2.

SPEAKER_08 (02:28:44):
Look at now I'm all intrigued about the uh the
there's not a lot of goodDivision III names though.

SPEAKER_05 (02:28:57):
I am looking at their top 25.
Mountain Union is number two.

SPEAKER_06 (02:29:03):
Who's number one?
Is it Portland?

SPEAKER_05 (02:29:05):
North Central.

SPEAKER_06 (02:29:06):
North Central, okay.

SPEAKER_05 (02:29:07):
That's North Central.
Yeah, so number one is NorthCentral, number two, Mount
Union, number three, JohnsHopkins.
Oh.
Um number four, University ofWisconsin River Falls.
Then you got Bethel, WartWartburg, Christopher Newport,
St.
John's, John Carroll University.

(02:29:29):
That's a really good school.
Uh University of Wisconsin,Plattville, Salisbury, another
University of Wisconsin,Whitewater, Hart and Simmons,
University ofWisconsin-Lacrosse.
Hey, respect UW lacrosse.

SPEAKER_01 (02:29:47):
That's where my that's where my parents went.
The Powell.

SPEAKER_06 (02:29:50):
Patrick picked them to beat Whitewater when we
picked that game.

SPEAKER_01 (02:29:54):
I sure did.
Yeah, but my mom went there.

SPEAKER_05 (02:29:59):
I'm gonna finish up Hope, Barry, Wheaton.
Um, then you got Central,Cortland, Randolph Macon,
Trinity, Texas, Suske,Susquehanna, Susquehanna,
Susquehanna, Susquehanna,Wabash, and then Franklin and
Marshall are your top 25.

SPEAKER_06 (02:30:18):
So if we're talking about Division Three, um one of
my favorite uh teams, teamnames, it's the Knox College
Prairie Flyer.

SPEAKER_05 (02:30:28):
Prairie Flyer?

SPEAKER_06 (02:30:30):
Fire.

SPEAKER_05 (02:30:30):
Fire.

SPEAKER_01 (02:30:32):
Oh by the way, in D2, how do we not talk about the
Edinburgh Fighting Scots?

SPEAKER_06 (02:30:40):
Well, Donnie mentioned Scots, and then like
we kind of went away from that.

SPEAKER_01 (02:30:43):
I guess it's Edinburgh Fighting Scots.
There's several Scots and uhlisten, if that how were they
inspired by the Florida FightingDonnies?

SPEAKER_06 (02:30:55):
Well, the Florida Fighting Donnies were definitely
not inspired.

SPEAKER_01 (02:30:58):
Yeah, we're gonna talk about that tomorrow.

SPEAKER_06 (02:31:00):
We will.

SPEAKER_01 (02:31:01):
Donnie, I'm gonna need for you to fit tell me
what's going on in Jacksonville,man.

SPEAKER_06 (02:31:05):
And Carolina.

SPEAKER_08 (02:31:06):
I will I will have an update.

SPEAKER_01 (02:31:09):
Okay, well, uh, because uh I need to know what
your boy what what your boyTrevor Lawrence.
Oof.

SPEAKER_08 (02:31:19):
Everybody's entitled to a bad day now and then.
A bad day?

SPEAKER_05 (02:31:22):
How about a bad year?

SPEAKER_01 (02:31:25):
A bad couple years.
I was just about to say, andwhere does every now and then
come in?
Right.

SPEAKER_06 (02:31:31):
I mean, to be fair, his defining moment this year is
when he fell down.

SPEAKER_01 (02:31:37):
True story.
Yeah, not up, but fell down.
And you know what his otherdefining moment is like like
flicking off his coach, Leo,Liam Cohen.

SPEAKER_06 (02:31:46):
Oh, and I guess I could be his nose on national
television.

SPEAKER_01 (02:31:49):
Oh, well, that too.

SPEAKER_06 (02:31:53):
I love it.

SPEAKER_01 (02:31:56):
I'm never coming back to this show ever again.

SPEAKER_06 (02:31:59):
Well that's it for FCS.
Um as you can tell I have a verygood handle of today's show.
We have not gone on any tangentswhatsoever.

SPEAKER_01 (02:32:05):
None.

SPEAKER_00 (02:32:06):
But are there you stay right on the screen?

SPEAKER_01 (02:32:09):
This is a very professional, first rate show.

SPEAKER_06 (02:32:13):
But are there any uh we got any F1 topics to talk
about?
Any hockey you want to talkabout?

SPEAKER_05 (02:32:19):
Uh no, that's not me.
The uh verse happened, you know,I'll say this.
He started in the uh all the wayin the hell in the back and came
in and you know, came into thirdplace.
Uh Norris, I got number one.
So Piastri struggling there.
Um, but at the very least, youknow, he's got some points, but
yeah, it's uh Piastri is uh it'sgoing backwards instead of

(02:32:39):
forwards, which is not a goodthing in F1.
And that was your Formula Onereport.

SPEAKER_01 (02:32:47):
Well, and hockey-wise, um, I just want to
say shout out to the AnaheimDucks for leading the Pacific
Division.
Um they've gotten off to they'vegotten off to a flyer.
Um you know, now um they'vehonestly they've played really
well, and uh Joel Quinnville umhas really done a great job with

(02:33:09):
that with this young team.
Uh Dostal looks great in goal.
Uh Leo Carlson is really comingtogether and uh you know playing
like the number two pick that hethat that he was and Seneca and
um uh Gautier.
Um they they beat they beat theybeat Vegas last night, so that
should tell you something.
Sorry, Winnipeg the other, andthen they beat the Vegas the

(02:33:31):
other night.
So they're beating teams thatthey used to get trounced by as
late as last season.
So it's been a really really funstart as a Ducks fan and um you
know excited to see if they cankeep it going.

SPEAKER_08 (02:33:45):
I feel like we talked this morning about the
Carolina Hurricanes uh uhfour-game win streak this past
week as well.
Um they've moved up to uh secondplace in the Metropolitan behind
New Jersey.
Um so they're doing pretty good.
My Florida Panthers, not so hotthis year, 77 right now.

(02:34:07):
So good.
Dragon the bottom of theAtlantic.
Keep losing.

SPEAKER_01 (02:34:13):
Is Marshand in the right headspace because of
what's happened to himpersonally?
Or do you think that because Ifeel like he's had one emotional
after the other because he heyou know he had obviously the
friend that that friend that helost, and then um and then he
came back and then he went toBoston and they did that video
tribute, and he was just he wasa mess during that.

SPEAKER_05 (02:34:32):
Marshond may be a good person, but he's a shitty
asshole on the on the ice, and Ican't fucking stand up.

SPEAKER_08 (02:34:40):
It it hasn't just been him.
It's not all on him.
So no, I was just wrong.
They're up right now, they're upone-nothing on the golden
knights right now, but we'llsee.

SPEAKER_01 (02:34:51):
Vegas Golden Knights.
Yeah.
Who who have been goodthemselves, the Vegas Golden
Knights.

SPEAKER_08 (02:34:58):
Um, yeah, they're they're right behind uh right
behind the um ducks in uh yourdivision.

SPEAKER_01 (02:35:07):
Yeah, the and the crazy thing is the ducks have
played like three games lessthan some of those teams, and
they're still they're still atthe top.
So good.
I'm not saying well, I meanthat's like your second team,
isn't it, Ed?
It is.
Yeah, I mean uh listen, I'm notused to this recently.
Like it's been it's beenhorrible to watch.

SPEAKER_05 (02:35:27):
I I again I go back to early Disney movies where the
ducks with me, so that's when Ireally started following hockey
with with the I know Virgilstarted following them because
of the flying V, but um becausethat's such a legit actual good,
you know, not legal, I mean verylegal, you know, play.

SPEAKER_01 (02:35:49):
Well, yeah, I mean Virgil, I know you way to go,
Virgil.
Um, anyways, um, yeah, so uh soyeah.
Um that that's my NH that's myNHL update.
And um uh it's been a fun startto the season.
And by the way, as always, uh Idon't care about Gary Bettman.
He's an awful commissioner.

SPEAKER_06 (02:36:11):
And there's that no complaints here about that.
All right.
Well, this is this concludestonight's episode of one more
thing.

SPEAKER_01 (02:36:20):
Can we talk about NWSL really quickly?
Atlanta's getting an NWSL team.

SPEAKER_06 (02:36:26):
Oh, when did that break?
I didn't know about that.

SPEAKER_01 (02:36:29):
Um a new um Rank uh it's a new record.
I think it was what 150 millionN.
Is that right?

SPEAKER_05 (02:36:37):
Oh, way too much.
I thought it was 105, 150.
I can't remember the numbers.

SPEAKER_01 (02:36:41):
It was a record, it was a record to to bring a team
to the NWSL.
And uh the 14th team, the NWSLis gonna be in Atlanta.
I think starting play in 2028,if I'm not mistaken.
So I look forward to supportingthem and I look forward to going
to some of those games because Ilove 165.
Was it 165?

(02:37:01):
Okay.
Well, I love women's football.
Um, I I think that uh it's fun,it's gonna be fun to see some of
the some of the best players inthe world uh come and play in
Atlanta.
Um maybe not Jesus.

SPEAKER_05 (02:37:16):
You what 17th NWSL franchise.

SPEAKER_01 (02:37:20):
17th, okay.
Yeah, well, either way, like umthere's some really good players
still in the NWSL, even thoughthe women's super league is
taking you know, like is slowlybut surely taking away players
for NWSL.
But to just have a team field inAtlanta now is going to be
exciting.
So I'm looking forward to thatfor not only for me, but also

(02:37:40):
for for young girls and newwomen that you know that that
that like watching them andother and other guys that like
to watch women's football aswell.
So Virgil's like I didn'trealize there was one in North.

SPEAKER_06 (02:37:55):
I'm just so back listening.

SPEAKER_01 (02:37:58):
Virgil's like, why'd you bring that up?
I could care less.
No, that's what the point of theshow is.
Yeah, but I was excited about itbecause it's um as many teams as
there were in NWSL, I was kindof shocked.
I've been always shocked thatthere hasn't been a team in
Atlanta.
Um, considering in the previousiterations of women's leagues in
the you know in the country, theum Atlanta always had a team.

SPEAKER_06 (02:38:21):
So there's a little surprising thing about that.

SPEAKER_01 (02:38:23):
Well, I mean, and there's been some some really
good US national team playersthat have actually played in
Atlanta, despite those leaguesnot lasting a long time.
Like Brianna Scurry played forthe Atlanta Beat.
Um yeah, there were a few reallygood ones.
So um, but Brianna Scurry wasone uh former US women's
national team keeper that uh itwas really cool.

(02:38:45):
I never made it to a gamebecause they lasted like two
seasons, but um I woulddefinitely make sure I make it
in the first season for this newone.

SPEAKER_06 (02:38:53):
Very nice.

SPEAKER_01 (02:38:54):
Yep, because you got you gotta support the teams when
they're local, right?
I gotta be like you guys andmaking sure I get out and
support those teams.

SPEAKER_06 (02:39:02):
Absolutely, absolutely.
Everybody supports your localteams for sure.

SPEAKER_00 (02:39:06):
Yep.

SPEAKER_06 (02:39:08):
All right.
Well, that concludes tonight'sepisode of Breaking of Sports.
Join us tomorrow to go on to DACSports Show talking about NFL
and college and a um adoubleheader of Gotlebatch.
So you're ready for that.
Will he win both games?
Or we'll find out.
But until then, stay tuned, andwe'll see you guys tomorrow.

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