I'm a Horse Monday (Hour 2) 7/15/24

Petros and Money have your word, number, song + talk with Eric Wynalda and How Was Your Weekend?

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In five to seventy ELA Sports LiveEverywhere on the iHeartRadio, I Big
Thinking. I mean Cronin joined usthe first hour. Eric Lenolda will check
in in the next segment. Bitof a mess down in Miami for the
Copo America Final. Between bit bitof a mess, just tens of millions
of dollars worth of damage. Presidentof Colombian Soccer and his son getting arrested
for attacking security and police Siaka.There was that many a barrier. I

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thought Colombia was all cleaned up,but it feels like they're still sucking on
the marching powder man. You gotsome duck work, you know, I
got to do some duct work nowout there in a hard rock stadium.
But more importantly, who will bethe next man to look that happens the
national team? Would that have happenedat so far? That's a good question.
I mean, that's the thing.It's like, is it just a
situation where if there's thousands of peoplethat decide to crash the gate, there's

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nothing you can do. That there'snothing you could do, Like when they
rush the field right at the endof a football game or something like that,
then you can do watch the hedge, don't trip it, hurt yourself.
Security. Yet that one woman's wouldeat eaten by that still in there,
Still she's decomposed now, but it'swildly unfortunately. It's uh, it
is interesting because what are you gonnado. There's one hundred and fifty officers

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for sixty thousand fans. Like I'mall for saying, hey, everybody in
Miami's an idiot. You're all idiots. I've been there. That play sucks,
you know, I'm into that.But if the Columbianos crashed the gate
at Bemo or the Collie or theRose Bowl or so fi, is there
anything you can do? Nothing,you can do that? And then the

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videos of the guy four thousand pencilsI pay, I mean that massive people
deciding to hell with these bs littleiron stanchions. Well, we're moving.
And then that's the other part aboutit, And it's like everybody's saying,
we got to cancel this event.They're like, no, we don't.
We got all our money. Wegot to play this event right now,

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it's my big puzza and I wanta half right now. All right,
well, let me figure this out. Give me an hour and a half.
Just sort this thing out. Here'sthe good news. We're gonna release
you from hard Rock Stadium into downtownMiami somewhere around midnight, all lubed up
on booze, full of vitriol andanger. If you're Columbia fans, well
at Leadia lost one nothing at leastit's about a forty minute drive from hard

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Rock, so you guys can beswerving into the lonely Florida evening Mike Gundhy
style. I must have done thata thousand times. Just bad luck.
Sure it is, you know,three four beers you don't get pulled out,
just bad luck. Kind of communistswhen you can't have two or three
beers in your car after working ahard, long day. You know what's
kind of communist. It's doing themath. And I was thinking about it,

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and I'm like, you know,maybe three four beers point one point
I just bad luck. You know, guys, moed not a lot of
people in still Water, especially afterdark, just bad luck. Now,
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all right, that read is over. Ont of the reminder to come see
us between three and six, setyour schedules, win your sew some great
prizes. The third stop of thePetro Some Money Summer Tour or twenty twenty
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Jean sim is gonna join us ona telephone, That's what they say,

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and maybe Eric Musselman in person,and not even maybe. Portal house
will be discussed. Locked in portals. We lived in a portal house for
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love. We talked about our rockand Bruise event in Elsagunda on Friday that
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a doctor's note, send it toyou by somebody La sports dot com.
Or you can stream the show onYouTube. Yeah, yeah, we're going
to YouTube it, which is alwaysvery exciting. All right, Matt,
let's talk, I mean his words. The word of the day. A
shout out to Jeff Tedford, whois stepping down at Presno State with Health

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Province he's had. This is thethird time he's had to step down for
a game or a while. Calinde Bor took over the first time he
stepped down. He's stepping down forgood now. And Tim Skipper is their
linebacker coach. He's going to becomethe interim coach this year. But Tedford's
a great guy and always been wonderfulto us. But today's word of the
day is fine Baum. Matt yourguy. I love Paul Finbaum. Yes,

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I know, And I'm not usuallymuch to listen to other sports talk
shows and report back. Sometimes wedo if somebody gets in a fight or
something. But the SEC media dayis popping off. The big news was
that Nick Saban was refused entrance becausehe didn't have a credential, and then
they let him in. I betit was just a real fun little bit
of grab ass there. Ah,that's funny, right, coach, It

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was funny until he Adams Apple choppedthe poor guy. No, no,
but there was an incident with aSaban's credential. But Paul Finebaum, who
is a very popular Southern broadcaster,does the SEC all over ESPN. He
does have a credential, and inorder to endear himself to Oklahoma fans new

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to the conference, he got afterLincoln Riley. Pretty good here he is.
I think he's been a disaster.Let's go back three years, Oklahoma
and Texas joining at the SEC.It was announced at this moment in time.
What did Lincoln Riley do? Heran away. He did not want
to deal with the Southeastern Conference atOU. He took what he thought was

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an easier course, So he goesout to Southern Cal. He takes Kleb
William good first year, but sincethen everything has gone wrong. I thought
last year was one of the worstcoaching jobs I have ever seen. Quite
frankly, had I been the athleticdirector at Southern Cal, I would have
fired Lincoln Riley because he's yet theshow. After many years as a head
coach, he knows anything about defense, He's gone through defensive coordinators. He

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just simply couldn't handle it, andnow things are going to be five times
worse in the Big Ten. Ontop of that, a number of his
top players are bailing out. Thisis a guy who owned LA for about
a half a minute, and quitefrankly, next year at this time,
I think he'll more than likely bean assistant in the NFL. If he's

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that lucky, He's right. Thething he didn't mention is the ninety million
dollar check that they cut him acouple of years ago. Kind of hard
to come loose with that much.Left with a brand new ad and all
that. Probably no buyout in thesecond year of that contract. In the
third year, maybe there is nowHe's not wrong, He's not wrong at
all. It was a horrible year, remember Lincoln's second year, and the

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steep decline after the first was seenas unacceptable everywhere and especially if you think
about it. Matt went around thistime last year. The conversation that surrounded
USC was We're getting better. Weknow what we're doing, We're getting better
recruits. We brought him this bigd lineman named Bear Blah blah blah.

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We got this all figured out.Raining Heisman Trophy winner. Look at us.
Remember when he said, we willnever be this bad? I do,
okay, But were they going tofire him last year? No?
And if you were the ad fiedmomb you wouldn't be able to do it
then either, because the ninety milliondollars they paid for him and his staff
to get in there and for ClayHelton and his staff to go away.

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Let's go southern. I will saya big surprise Paul Finbaum with a backhanded
compliment for the Big ten there.You don't hear that a lot from finebam
well, a little bit of abackhanded compliment. He wants to attack the
whack. I mean, he wantsto make things hard on Lincoln. So
he had to call him a cowardfor not wanting to go into the sec
check that box, Hey, mistercoward right. He wanted to call him

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a loser for not being able tocoach defense. Check that box, which
is true. We'll see if Danand Lynn can do anything different as the
new defensive coordinator. And I doI think, because what is USC going
to do? I mean I'd beenasked over and over again, especially in
the last ten days, what kindof record I think they're going to have?
And the truth is, no onehas any idea what anything's going to

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be like this year in college football. Everybody is stepping very trepidaciously into the
pond because they don't know what thetemperature of the water is going to be.
They don't know what it's going tobe like to play at all these
places. All this familiarity is gone. Now is it any really different feeling
than playing football? You know inPurdue as opposed to playing a cal and

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all that different. Well, whenthe game starts, no, but no
one really knows what it's going tobe like. And A is us he
going to be better than five hundred? And if they are, how much
does Lincoln Riley want the task ofbuilding this thing up at a place that's
complicated and hard to have success?Right now? It seems maybe not.

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Maybe he does end up as anNFL assistant at best next year. But
compared to this time last year,what a dramatically different conversation and situation surrounding
offenders? Offensive wonder Kid Miller Cott, Yeah, Mosses because the guy that
transfer from UNLV, from what Iunderstand, just took the nil to be

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a backup Jade and Mayava, Soit's mill to take that money. I'm
gonna stand over here, they saidto the I love the UNLV coach and
think he's destined for something a lotbetter the old Mazoo coach Burry otom related
to the old mid car job orBarry Oh. And I said to Barry
Oteam, I said, what happenedto your quarterback? Why would he leave

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you? Developed that guy? Youguys are picked to be at top of
the Mountain Westy. He goes hetook somebody to be a backup? What
do you want me to do?Good talk coach Barry ooh call it for
Tinas. I don't know geez.So we'll see. There's no money in
Vegas. You're right, nothing smallprice, So Lincoln Riley, according to

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Paul Fine, Mom should have beenfired last season. Coward loser, step
up in competition, correct assistant inthe NFL, if you're lucky, and
if you're here in the background,you can hear Colin Coward saying, well,
I like you. I think it'sso brilliant, and Joel Klatt saying
we were friends. Yeah, where'sit getting you now? And Nick Saban

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wasn't allowed to be to go inexcuse me? It is credential. Haha.
I just couldn't go go on.I got you though. Are you
a foreigner of some kind? I'mNick Saban played the piano with my wife
on a day mystery for the numberof his day. Number, number of
the day. Hey, say whatyou want and you take your shots.

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Talk about him shooting twenty three percent, looking very small when his defensive highlight
was being played. Bodying up thatdude, but the numbers speak. Be
put it in perspective. Victor Wembinanalast year, the vundkin that he is
and all of the hype surrounding him, pulled in three hundred and ten thousand

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viewers for his first Summer League gamethat was televised. That was right after
they slapped Britney Spears to the ground, or or right before that's America a
Manica. Yeah, three hundred andten thousand, and that was a lot
of viewers for a Summer League game. Bronnie James first Summer League game was

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able to pull in. I believehe was one for three from the four,
one for two from the free throwline, five hundred and thirty four
thousand viewers. I watched to seehow many times he misses nearly double.

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It felt like they covered the Itfelt almost like they covered the hoop COVID.
Yeah, five hundred and thirty fourthousand viewers. Uh. And then
you go to the Summer League overthe weekend and you had the number one
versus number two, Resa Che versusSar And then there were maybe five hundred
people at the Thomas and Mac onlyto see it sold out with Brownie versus

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the Rockets. But that happens everyyear. The Laker fans go out the
summer League, and they tend topack well, watch the team. After
watching him play a few games,it's almost like kind of like, be
interesting tonight seven thirty pm. Youwant to watch and see how bad he
is? I'm interested? Am Iwrong to say that? No? I
mean that's why I watch. Iwatch to see how baddy. Oh,
you're a bad guy, terrible guy. How could you? That's just he's

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a nineteen year old kid. Man. Well, I'm not trying to make
you trying to figure it out.I'm not trying to be a kid.
Well they should, but they're not. Instead, he's out there getting nuts
hung all over his neck, andI want to watch five hundred and thirty
four train wreck, thousand pairs ofnuts. Watch fail. It's all men,

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it's all men. It's all men. It's like the anyway, the
Bill Burbitt about the WNB. Whydo I have to watch? Why don't
you guys watch instead of watching theKardashians, you watch the WNBA. And
then he got a successful league womenfor women. But no, I've got
to watch the wn somehow. Thisis my responsibility. Tonight, Bronnie and

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his five hundred and thirty four thousandviewers for the Summer League will take on
the Celtics as he tries to salvagesomething something from the Summer League. I
would think it would even be more. Yeah, I guess it's just that's
how compelling it is to me towatch a guy miss shots and get hit
nuts hung all over him and gethis ankles broke and whatnot. I can
only watch the nuts for five minutesor so I find myself getting bored.

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But hey, more cuts to lebronin the crowd and people saying, isn't
this beautiful? Any good father woulddo this for his son? Exactly right.
You know, somebody pointed out somethingvery interesting to me the other day.
And maybe it's a different time andmaybe they're not comparable, but Michael
Jordan's son was like averaging thirty pointsa game in high school and led his
team to a state championship, andthen developed in college and played and I

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think what Central Florida, Central Florida. I don't know if he was All
League or anything, but he averagedlike fifteen points or something at Central Florida.
Michael Jordan owned a team, ownsa team and wouldn't have done that
s and didn't do that ass anddidn't No, did not just food for
thumb. This guy scores three pointsa game, and I got Ramona telling

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me how great he is and howany good father would do this. It
really is a travesty. We trulylive in an era where the media peas
in your face and tells you it'sraining, and everybody goes, Okay,
yeah, that's cool. We're allmaking good. We're all making money.
I need a little sprits, thankyou. My old spice is missing.
No good news is ESPN as thehome run derby tonight, so you'll get

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an NBA TV feed instead of theRamona saying how beautiful it is that a
father and son can show this momenttogether. Honestly, I just retire.
If I were that's embarrassing, Iwould agree, But I don't think anybody
has any shame anymore. For shame, the no shame. We haven't had
any shame for eighteen years. ButMatt, this has been a shameless show
from the beginning. We've never intendedto be anything else. We set the

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level. There's no moral high groundhere. Hell no, this is the
song of the day. Dog Daysis our song of the day from a
three piece indie rock band out ofChicago that like to call themselves dead Because
the Petrosen money shows back in thesaddle again on an Imo horse. Modello
meets you a lot on Monday,riding into the dog days of summer with

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Major League Baseball hitting the pause buttonfor the All Star Game, which means
that Great Sports Talk will have ahandful of full, full four hour radio
programs to help get you through theweek and manage this crazy schedule. We've
also got a full schedule of DodgerTalk featuring David Vasse that begins tonight at

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seven o'clock. Thank you for beinghere running. We got Eric Winalda coming
up next talk some soccer US men'snational team destruction, debacle mayhem in Miami
at Copa America and the euro theOlympics. Should we just cut everybody from
the current iteration of the US men'snational team and start over all of that

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from Eric win all the next That'sSow Some Money, AM and five Sebody
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Our summer tour stops. You.The people make the events what they are.

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First two have been fantastic. We'relooking for that third finalist for a
shot at eleven thousand dollars. Manjoining us right now. One of the
great friends of the Petros and MoneyShow. He's always been wonderful to us
and we've talked about all kinds ofcrazy stuff. Remember when his house burned,
Yes, and he came on theair and heartfelt message. He's just
been wonderful to us for may.Maybe that's not what I should have with

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he had that run with the amateurs. It's racking the pros like the final
when he was coaching come in hereas a co host, kicking ass.
One of the great US soccer playersof all time, and he's retired.
You hear him on the Serious xmFC Soccer channel putting it down and in
a time like this, we goteverybody acting like they know about soccer,

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and even some of the people onTV with their hot takes. The truth
is it's really, Eric Guinalda thatwe want to talk to the best of
the best on the Socout Toyota DealerCelebrity Hotline. It is the Dutchman of
all Flying Dutchman Eric Gnalda on thePetrosen Money Show on AMPI seventy l A
Sports. What's cracking, Eric?How are you? Oh? I'm great
man. Great to hear you,guys, I miss you. Where's the

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next deal? You said? Franklinand what else? Yeah, we would
love it. We would absolutely lovethat. Kicked in the balls by Ornaldo?
Huge contest. Let's do that.Yeah, I'm I would actually enjoy
that. There's a couple of peopleneed to kick it. Yeah, I
joined. I think money couldn't bethere. I show up, we do

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a little whiskey tasting. I leavemy my wallet there to save the day.
Yeah, that's what it was.That was a hell of a day.
There's no doubt. We were drinkingpickle juice all the way down Grand
Avenue. Our friend Eric Glenalda iswith us. Now before we get into
like the real x's and o's andstuff that, you know, I mean,
you've attended and understand international soccer eventsand played in these places all over

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the globe and coached and stuff foryears. What happened last night in Miami?
Is that a is that a USthing? Well? Did they screw
it up? If somebody decides todo that anywhere, does it just happen
like in a college football game atthe end when they rushed the field,
Like, what were we looking at? How big of a failure was that?
Is that going to happen again here? No? That was it was

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actually like all those people they actuallythought they were in South America. And
that's that's the way of those gameswork. Sometimes. I've been on the
field when you know something's going onand you find out later. Brazil,
Argentina, Uruguay. We had somecrazy stuff happened in Venezuela, Bolivia.
I mean I could go through andthrough and that's just that's, you know,

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kind of far for the course whenyou when you're when you're over there.
But we very seldom see something thatcrazy happened on the States in the
States. But the reason why ithappened this is not on US Soccer.
This is not on FIFA. Coumnable, which is the confederation that runs South
America, was in charge. Theythey wanted this deal. They they were

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in charge of not just just youknow, where the games would be played,
how much you know, the lion'sshare of money will be kicked back
to them. There was a lotof complaints about it, but they obviously
when they're when they're so busy tryingto make money, you forget about security.
And they totally dropped the ball here. It really scared me because you
know, I've been to an eventwhich I'll leave the name of it because

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it's not important and I don't evenneed to bring it up, but I
did as a spectator slash fan wentto the game with my kids, and
my kids were at the time probablylike twelve, ten and maybe seven,
and I got caught in the crossfireor something like that. And it scared
the hell out of me because youknow, all you're thinking about is just
just you know, in an unsafeenvironment like that, the kids. You

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know, we saw them passing thekids over the fence to make sure that
they were they were safe. Butthis is an epic failure. But I
would say this everybody that's starting toworry about the World Cup in twenty twenty
six one, it's it's an it'snot an excuse, but it is another
reminder of how important security is.But that won't happen on FIFA and or
US Soccer's watch, so don't worryabout that. That will never happen again.

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It was it was an isolated event. The wrong people were running this
thing, and obviously they dropped theball, so I'm glad everybody got other
safe. There was a couple ofpeople that unfortunately had to deal with the
police, but we had I meanover, I mean I think it's over.
Three or four thousand people got intothe stadium without a ticket, which
is insanity. So I'm glad it'sover and we can move on. Wouldn't

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have been that way had the USmade the final instead of Columbia versus Argue
Gene. Instead, they don't evenessentially advance into the elimination stage. But
the hell, and we've said it, Eric, you should freaking take this
thing over, because it seems likethey really need to get kicked in their
ass and someone needs to figure thisout and how to get this thing right.
And we've been saying how talented thisteam is forever, and yet it

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just doesn't seem like there's any saltin their ass or whatever. The problem
is, how much of it ison the manager who keeps getting sacked,
and how much of it is onthis group of players, this era of
players. Well, we've already kindof set that level, haven't we.
They've held the moniker the Golden Generationfor a while. Now. You got
all all of us who are sittingback here, who have played representative shirt

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and understand what it takes to bea really good team in these kind of
competitions. And I'm not going tocall him the Golden Generation. I'm calling
them the silver Spooners. They havebeen given everything and they have not delivered,
you know, to that idea thatthis is the best team we've ever
had, and they just give youan idea. I mean, over the
last four and a half five years, they haven't beaten anybody. Guys,

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they played Mexico a few times,but by the way, this is the
worst version of Mexico I've ever seen. They suck. So beating them is
not even not even a challenge,and it shouldn't be something that we celebrate.
Out of the top twenty five teamsthat we've only played I think six
or seven, but we haven't wonone game. So you know the rest

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of it. I was just onthe phone with Lales and he and he
has to be really careful because heworks for a network and he has to,
you know, make sure that hedoesn't say things that go too far
over the line. But we're justsitting there talking about it, and we're
like, well, who did webeat? Oh, that's right, we
beat Brazil, Argentina, Russia,Columbia are out on the soccer world Yeah,
and it's like it's like we're sittingback again. Everybody says, well,

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these guys are so much better thanyou were. You know what I
hate this is this is almost soundlike an arrogant jerk, but here's what
I hate. All the guys thatwork for MLS, the X players,
They go, oh, these kidsare so much better than we were.
And all I want to say is, you know, don't include me and
that they're better than you were.I don't know what you're talking about.
So it's it's where to peculiar timeright now. The team obviously is underperforming.

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The coach wasn't good enough. Idon't know if you guys remember this,
but during the World Cup I'm theone that said something along those lines
like our coach. I think he'snot ready for this moment. Uh.
He had he did a horrible jobat the World Cup. He picked the
wrong team, especially against the Netherlands, and we got bounced out of that
deal. So I think it's it'san interesting time for us because we're gonna

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we're gonna get a new coach andin the next couple of months here by
the way, the next couple ofmonths anywhere else, they hire the guy
immunity right right, just just butdon't even worry about a seatbelt you can
just hang out your hammock for thenext four months. That's just the way
we do things. I mean,the Federation has done this time and time
again when they when they we letour manager. Going ninety we had a

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guy named John Kowalskied you know heis no nobody does, but he was
our coach for a little while andwe beat Mexico, when we beat Canada.
But then they hired a new guy. So then we we get into
the ninety four phase. Bora whodid fairly well with our team, he
gets let go or he walks andSteve Sampson is our interim coach for over
a year. Guys, and theinterim coach is the guy that we won

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all these games with, right,so then they bring it, we bring
in and you know, we havethat scenario with Clinsman. He gets fired
in the middle of the cycle.They Bruce Strives to save the day.
We don't make the twenty eighteen WorldCup, so we hired the assistant Dave
Serrikin for over a year waiting tohire a coach, and then Greg Burholter
finally took the reins and then,as you all know, we did it

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again when after the World Cup itwas an investigation Mom and dad were sending
sex messages and it got crazy therefor a minute. But we had Anthony
Hudson and bj Callahan run the teamfor a couple of months and we got
our best performances. So it's like, it's such a bizarre scenario because everybody
puts so much of an onus on. Our real needs a big name and
its big coach, and at thebottom line is our players, when they

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are given the opportunity, it willrise to the occasion and they really don't
need much more than what money said, just a kick in the ass,
because right now they're just way toocomplacent. They were treating these like country
club trips where they can all comein and have a really expensive dinner and
split the bill and just hey,happy to see everybody. Again, that's
not how the national team works.The national team is probably the greatest honors

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you can ever have, and theseguys forgot that there's three hundred and some
million people that they are representing,not just themselves, and they didn't bring
it. We need somebody to comein there and say, I don't care
who you are, what your nameis, or what you think you are.
If you don't bring it, you'renot going to play. And they
haven't had that for a long time. Guys. What I saw the dude

(29:07):
with with Canada who's obviously an Americanguy, and said he was all pissed
off Mars. Yeah, he waslike, yeah, I'm not doing f
them, man, I'm here.They It sounded like it went really wrong
when they interviewed him the last timearound, to be the guy. Is
there is there a negative stigma attack? Is there kind of a negative correlation
with the US men's national team gig? Like, does anybody want to do

(29:29):
this? You know, that's agreat point money. I mean listen,
here's what's going on. And youknow, you guys, remember a couple
of years back, after we didn'tqualify, I threw my name in the
oh yeah, you know, andI tried to run for president. I
actually got a lot of votes anda lot of people that wanted change.
But at the end of the day, I was introduced to a very corrupt
system that was going to go withthe status quo. But that's the problem.

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You have non soccer people making massivesoccer decisions and the way that is
set up now after your Inclinson andgot let go because he want at the
range, he wanted to be outfull control. And at some point the
board members and you know, theinfluencers if you willed our president of you
was talking to vice president, someof the other people that work used to

(30:12):
work in Chicago. They all hadan opinion about it, and they bounced
Yurigan. And now it's a guynamed J. T. Batson, Matt
Crocker, Mike Ford, just agroup called Sportsology out in New York.
Cindy Cohne, Who's sorry, Imean, she really is not doing a
really good job as our president.What's your background? She was just a

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player so you know, I remember, you know, you're talking about that
interview with Jesse Marsh. You know, a lot of people don't know this.
He turned down a fifteen million dollargig in England because he was told
that he was going to be thenext coach, and he flew all the
way back to the States only tofind out that he had to sit in
a room with Cindy Cohne, ourpresident, and answer questions about what color

(30:57):
you like? And you know,and I went through that that those kind
of interview situations and they're absolutely ridiculousand embarrassing. So when you ask that
question about who's our next coach goingto be, you know, we have
to remember that there's not a lotof people that want to work for a
lousy company. It's not like yougo to a company and say, boy,

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I really want to work for theseguys. They're clueless. You actually
want to be able to be apart of something that you can believe in.
And if you're a big coach rightnow and you sit with these people
and you go through their process,you can't wait to get in your car
and get the hell out of therebecause you're like, man, these people
don't know what they're doing, andthat's factual. That's not me having an

(31:40):
opinion about the federation. They literallydon't know what to do they so they
sit on their hands for all thistime. It's why we had to wait
for a year to get Greg.We waited six more months just to get
them again, because they don't knowwhat they're doing. I mean, even
even with the women's team, theysaid, well, who we're going to
hire, who we're going to hire. They had a woman named Emma Hayes

(32:01):
who was the coach of Chelsea,and they hired about six months before she
could take the job, and shefinally after she left Chelsea was able to
join the team. I'm actually impressedwith her because I think she's she understands
delegating energies to people are who arespecialists that that might make our team better.

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But I'm not sold on the ideathat they're going to make a good
decision. And it's it's been arough watch for our fans because our fans
know we have a good team.We just got to have somebody in that
position that's going to help get thebest out of them. I don't think
it should be very hard, butthey've certainly complicated this deal more than they
should have. Eric, we loveyou and we sure appreciate the perspective.

(32:44):
I think it helps all Americans andwonder if soccer's not bread and our bones.
Fine, but why can't we justWhere am I going again? Where
am I going to? El?Else? Friday three to six corner?
Remaina Franklin, We'll see you there, all right, all right, I'll
be the guy in the back throwingfruit at you. Let's you yeah,

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oh man, we love you,love you back. You know, soccer
might not be bred in our bones, but it's the American way to throw
money in a problem, and weshould be able to fix it. Hundreds
of millions of people in this nation, and yet we can't feel the eleven
guys. I mean, the truthis, Look, you get nine kids

(33:29):
from Spain or any El Salvador tobe Trinidad and Tobago. Well you put
them on a pitch or whatever theycall it, the field. They know
how to move as one. Youput nine of our kids on a field
and they all run in the samedirection in front of a cell phone camera
and just start grabbing their colos andboots. It's country club lifestyle over there

(33:51):
suck, he's the best. We'reall that coming up next. How is
your weekend? Petris some money onm FI seventy at a sports Pam and
everybody, welcome back. It's petchof somebody on AM five seventy la Sports.
I'm a horse Monday. Fully funcibleemployee, ad him with his big
hat, doing a great job,although he's got some ear infections. Is

(34:13):
that right? Yeah? I thinkhe said some health troubles. Yeah,
and then a fully functional employee yeah, verdigo, No, oh, that's
too big. That's all I know. It could be the alleviate pressure,
could be Ronnie Fossio. Tim Katesis off this week, but still has
his hands all over the show.He posted a picture of the beach on

(34:36):
his private Instagram feed, Private beachparty. Yeah, but it is still
Monday. I'm gonna do what Ido. The weekend is mine. How
was your weekend? Matt? Ialmost went straight to Ronnie. I don't
know what's wrong right Well, theboss is in there chopping it up with

(34:57):
Adam and Ronnie right now, sowe may I don't know what's going on
this out until they're ready to go. You've worried about into it. Yeah,
I love plugging, Sunset pizza andpasta, Mom and Pop Little Hole
in the Wall there. Went thereon Friday night with mister and Missus Good
Doctor h Saturday surf for a couplehours. Went to see Lucky Jack at
the Seal Beach Fish Fry for anhour. That's a band. That's a

(35:20):
band, that's a local Seal BeachBandokie not no, but Tommy was there,
who is like a bookie took theWhen I say like a book he
is. And then over to thePiazza's for the Mox, Preston's rock band
that she's in to play with alot of Osha kids. It was great.
Squatchy was a great punk rock kindof Minute Men kind of vibe first,

(35:45):
then Preston's band that she's in,the Mox, and then t I
eighty five really good female front atindie rock, and then the Tornadics which
just kind of kick ass hardcore thrash. Was super impressed with all the kids
putting that lineup together. And Sundaythe PBJ Trio played the Fish Fry and
it was great, best show Ihave seen them play. A really good

(36:07):
Friday until Friday when they play ourPMS summer tour stop. But shout out
to Derek and Kevin, two ofthe many PMS fans. They came by
to say hello and and mentioned howmuch they appreciate the show. So thanks
to those two and everybody else thatJimmy was another one. I remember him

(36:27):
also to Shannon and Craig. Shannonfrom Gary and Shannon and her husband Craig
came out as well. Great party. So I thought you was that,
you know with the weekend news.I thought, oh, yeah, I
think she was just down there inOrange County. It couldn't make the track.
I mean I heard Hoffman, that'sAim, and I was like,
where's Shannon. It's hard to getpast the curtain. Let political dude,

(36:54):
Adam, How is your weekend there? Good weekend, guys. Friday was
doing some clips and dip lives afterthe Clippers Summer League game where Jordan Miller
had thirty six points. So,you know, I guess if we bag
on guys who are really bad inthe Summer League, we can also praise
guys and they do play. Yeah. Uh. Saturday was watching the news

(37:15):
Sunday back to the Clippers game twoof their Summer League they got another victory
and Jordan Miller had twenty one points. Kobe Brown, Cam Christy Max,
Christie's brothers on the Clippers. Now, yeah, who has a stroke that
looks similar shooting stroke to Michael PorterJunior or Devin Booker. So people were
kind of excited about that. Putsome more highlights that follow out of me

(37:36):
on X for that. Later thatnight was on with Bernie Fratto on Fox
Sports Radio talking Clippers, a littlebit of Brownie. He was in for
Ben maw. Now I'm here,Ronnie. It's a hell of a weekend
there. I'm pretty good. Yeah, a lot of work. I really
did not do anything at all.I stayed home, stayed around the pool,

(37:57):
Ransom Errands. I did take thehighlight of my weekend was I did
take my car to the car washhere on Magnolia the hand car wash.
Waited about forty five minutes for anice detailed car wash. That was definitely
the highlight of my weekend. Didn'treally do anything again, safe for sitting
by the pool and sipping on someSuDS. Go. That was it.

(38:17):
That was it? Mode especially Ohyeah, absolutely, what about you petros
Well Friday weekend, Friday night,I went to the Red Onion and on
the top of the hill the redh and uh oh, I went to
get coffee. I went to yoga, of course, and all that.

(38:37):
I went to get coffee on Saturdayfor my wife. Ask no, no,
he was not and it's not worthasking because he's not there. But
at the coffee place, I worea Pietros Petros coffee's's one that always
makes me smile. Reminds me ofmiddle school. And I laughed and she

(38:59):
was like, did I get thatwrong? On so star? I said,
no, I appreciate the Petros petI like it. Oh, Fletcher
had a baseball game. I toowent to the car wash, but because
a jack Aranda tree just ejaculated,just full book cocky all over my car,
I had to decorator. Yeah,I had to go to the car

(39:20):
watch and he was like, sorry, he's going to be two hundred dollars.
We have got to scrap the sap. Well. Yeah, I had
to get it. They had toput it through twice and detail it because
you know, I have to displayit at the thing. And it's like
the longer you leave the sap onit damages the paint. I mean,
I went on and tried to scrapeit off, and it took me like
ten minutes to do like a footof the hood, and I was like
and then the roof was like that, and I was like, f that,

(39:43):
buddy. So I took it tothe car. I had to.
It's Jack Aranda, just Aranda.There was like five of them on my
street. They just blow loads.It is awful. So yeah, all

(40:04):
right, we'll be back with moregreat sports talk. Yeah, hit the
car, great sports talk. Somepeople I knew went to see The Rolling
st Are you doing the Bachelorette Report? Yes? Oh? Next? Next?
Uh? Yes, some people Iwent to see. Yeah, I
got a text start you at theStones. I was like, I didn't
know the stones were in town.You better mention it. You know the
stones are in town? And Ihear no one mentioned it a show.

(40:25):
I'm watching t I eighty five rightnow. It's pretty sweet when the stones
are in town. I want youguys to mention it. That's right.
He still got it. And byseventy LA sports, you know, I
mean we got to be all overthis. Ba's the report. Next Top
story of the day text Oso's FunFacts, Quick Hits, Dead and Alive,

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