PMS 2.0 1355 - LIVE From Cary, NC at TST with Wayne Gretzky, Johnny Damon, Chris Paul & Clint Dempsey

Speaker 4 Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to the Wake Lake Soccer Club in beautiful Kerry, North Carolina, the host of TST and our program that starts right now.

Speaker 6 COCAF!

Speaker 4 SC is 2-0 at this TST.

Speaker 10 We have a team that is potentially going to win $1 million.

Speaker 12 We aren't the only squad that's hoping to win TST.

Speaker 15 There are an abundance of teams out here.

Speaker 12 I just got a jersey from the West Ham United team.

Speaker 17 Hell yeah.

Speaker 4 No hammers, they say.

Speaker 18 Dortmund was buying us beers last night.

Speaker 22 They charged Ty 60 bucks yesterday for those same beers we had last night.

Speaker 23 Seamus is obviously here.

Speaker 11 Johnny Damon is here.

Speaker 14 And the game that is going to be played behind us today,

Speaker 27 Hope Solos team is here.

Speaker 28 Solo FC will be taking on the Speedy Turtles as the women's TST kicks off today as the men's have their last game of the first round today.

Speaker 34 Now, elimination games begin tomorrow, and our CONCAFA team has punched our ticket.

Speaker 36 Tonight, though, we play Wrexham.

Speaker 38 We're trying to get a number one seed so that we can take on a bumass number three seed from another group as we can continue to move on in this electrifying TST.

Speaker 42 If you've never been, I would recommend you come.

Speaker 43 If you're not a soccer fan, this is a style of soccer I think you would enjoy.

Speaker 23 And if you are a soccer fan, there are legends walking all over the place around here.

Speaker 47 Nani's here, obviously.

Speaker 18 How about Ledesma, who's on our team?

Speaker 44 Jeff Cameron, Brecht Shea, you're talking about legends everywhere.

Speaker 54 Tony Miola is just strolling around.

Speaker 23 The soccer community is represented in a beautiful way, and Concafa is being very, very,

Speaker 39 very dominant.

Speaker 57 We got this guy right here, Sia.

Speaker 59 Absolute weapon.

Speaker 60 Absolute weapon. Filthy.

Speaker 20 He played for Cincinnati last year against us, and he was doing shit.

Speaker 61 Not that great of a team.

Speaker 20 That was Chad Johnson's team, do you remember?

Speaker 23 Not that great of a team, but he was a weapon.

Speaker 28 So we reached out and said, hey, bud, we'd we'd love for you to join our squad.

Speaker 23 He's got along with everybody. There's Derek Huffman.

Speaker 10 He's an Arena League boy.

Speaker 63 There is just an entire squad.

Speaker 23 We're tighter than ever.

Speaker 64 Here's Ruggles.

Speaker 26 He is a problem. Yeah.

Speaker 47 Ruggles is a problem.

Speaker 66 The porch run on the Stomner goal.

Speaker 29 Back porch, Chad Porch, absolutely incredible.

Speaker 28 He tried to give me a goal yesterday.

Speaker 67 I put it into the woods.

Speaker 47 200% on me.

Speaker 68 Not the worst, miss.

Speaker 19 There's Porch right there winning the game.

Speaker 12 Foss with the pass to me.

Speaker 20 Pass to Richie Costanzo.

Speaker 54 Kid I grew up playing soccer with as a high schooler.

Speaker 48 Back to me. Over to Foss.

Speaker 6 Wow.

Speaker 47 Good save.

Speaker 70 Good save. Great save.
Great save.

Speaker 15 Soon as I put that ball down the line right there, I think to myself, oh no, now I gotta run, which I did.

Speaker 73 Back to Foss.

Speaker 36 Mike Foss, senior vice president of ESPN, general manager of this CONCAFA team, a man who's put the entire squad together.

Speaker 61 He and I...

Speaker 19 Had an opportunity to create some magic with Richie Costanzo.

Speaker 12 It was not to be had.

Speaker 75 I would then blast a ball over the net so far just about 25 seconds later.

Speaker 45 And in about a minute and 15, I got to the point of exhaustion where I almost vomited out there and was a part of three or four.

Speaker 67 Here's Porch, maybe the best player in the whole tournament.

Speaker 1 Gone.

Speaker 19 Exit Stadium.

Speaker 47 Great boot.

Speaker 36 Place would have won bananas.

Speaker 61 It has been fun down here, but it's not just CONCAFA and TST that has been electrifying.

Speaker 12 The NHL Stanley Cup finals started last night.

Speaker 35 With that being said, we have Wayne Gretzky joining us in about 12 minutes or so on FaceTime.

Speaker 10 He is not in North Carolina.

Speaker 12 He was in Edmonton last night.

Speaker 40 The greatest hockey player of all time.

Speaker 24 The great one joins us.

Speaker 20 Last night, after the second period and the second intermission, he actually called exactly what Connor McDavid needed to do.

Speaker 64 He said this Florida Panthers defense is playing a Rick Talkett style.

Speaker 4 Connor needs to get the puck on his stick. He needs to go behind the net.

Speaker 14 Then he needs to find somebody.

Speaker 83 Third period, same exact thing happens.

Speaker 10 Then they go to overtime.

Speaker 19 McJesus does his thing.

Speaker 15 Dry saddle knocks home a winner.

Speaker 79 And the Oilers are up 1-0.

Speaker 38 We will go through all these highlights.

Speaker 37 we will chit-chat about this game.

Speaker 12 And whenever you talk about the Stanley Cup finals, you think of electricity.

Speaker 48 Last night, game one lived up to the hope, almost had a double overtime.

Speaker 60 Stanley Cup final, game one, in a rematch between two teams that are clearly the best in the NHL.

Speaker 86 We'll see what Wayne Gretzky has to say.

Speaker 28 And then tonight, the NBA Finals start in Oklahoma City with the Thunder being a nine and a half-point favorite over the great

Speaker 2 gritty

Speaker 7 tough

Speaker 28 Indiana Pacer team.

Speaker 84 Now, this graphic is filthy.

Speaker 56 Debone was in his bed, I believe, is what people would say.

Speaker 23 Whenever you talk about not utilizing the luxury cap, it's like the first time two teams in a final since 2004 haven't spent over what the salary cap is, haven't bought their team.

Speaker 28 These are two teams that have been built in similar fashion.

Speaker 12 Second time in NBA Finals history that both teams had 25 or fewer wins three years ago.

Speaker 25 These teams have built from the bottom, come all the way up to the top.

Speaker 20 They play together, and it should be electrifying, just like the NHL Finals.

Speaker 88 We're lucky to be talking about all of that.

Speaker 14 We'll have Johnny Damon on the show today.

Speaker 38 Obviously, his team, Drip FC, had a big win yesterday and last night.

Speaker 11 He texted me and told me the fans have got on his side.

Speaker 28 He said they're booing the refs, cheering for his team.

Speaker 89 I can't wait to chit-chat with baseball legend Johnny Damon, especially with the MLB viewership up as much as it is.

Speaker 37 We'll also be joined by Chris Paul.

Speaker 53 Chris Paul, obviously local dog from down here in North Carolina, Wake Forest Legend, which is right down the street, partial owner of TST.

Speaker 12 We'll ask him about the NBA Finals.

Speaker 20 And then we have Clint Dempsey, one of the greatest soccer players in the history of the United States, joining us in the second hour as well.

Speaker 38 He's launching a new podcast.

Speaker 8 Okay. Whoa.

Speaker 66 Don't want to give too much away. Okay.

Speaker 2 Good tease.

Speaker 39 Good tease.

Speaker 90 One half of the hammer.

Speaker 11 Cowboys, AP Tone is here.

Speaker 14 Tone, as you look at last night, did we expect an overtime game?

Speaker 93 Did we expect expect that many goals and when we're looking ahead to this evening what is the bet our pocketbooks need to be yearning for as solo fc in the speedy turtles start right behind us yeah when you look at last night at the line is and then as far as the book is concerned it was minus 120 uh for the oilers which is basically if you don't know betting is a coin flip for the game so you know as far as the game goes going to overtime not a huge surprise i think the the expectation for this series was to be a super close series as far as the goals were scored 3-3 at the the end of the OT.

Speaker 93 I believe the over-under was 6.5, so it was right on point there. So as far as the bookmakers go, it went exactly how they thought that was.
And then tonight, NBA Finals, 9.5 for the Thunder.

Speaker 93 It is an absolute huge spread as far as the NBA Finals is concerned. Thunder are minus 700 to win the series, but let's not forget.

Speaker 93 Pacers, they go into Cleveland game one of this year. Mott down 9.5.
It was same for the series, minus 700 against the Cavs, and they won game one. Obviously, one game two, won the series.

Speaker 93 So the Pacers are not, you know, they're not ashamed to be a minus nine and a half. They are not afraid to win down nine and a half.

Speaker 20 No, they're born being a nine and a half point underdog this year, especially with how they've been talked about or lack of conversation about them.

Speaker 28 I mean, anytime a poll comes out and says, hey, you're superstar, most overrated guy in the title.

Speaker 6 Tough.

Speaker 62 Anytime you're not put on national television, even it's the playoffs, they had them on True TV.

Speaker 67 They played iRobot over the Pacers and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the playoffs this year.

Speaker 55 That was the number one seed seed in the eastern conference cleveland cavaliers had to feel disrespected the indiana pacers are just sitting there going what about us what about us what about them they've become inevitable let me give you some stats here this is from himbo shout to himbo shout out no team has ever shot 55 from two and 40 from three in a single postseason entering the finals the pacers are at 56 percent from two 40 from three okay as an offensive juggernaut tyrese halliburton has scored 11 points in 135 career half court matchups with Lou Dort as his primary defender.

Speaker 81 That's not good.

Speaker 105 No, lose a player.

Speaker 55 The Dorture Chamber is what they call Lou Dort.

Speaker 13 And Q Rich, I believe, said he'll be fascinated to see who Dejaneau puts Lou Dort on.

Speaker 21 Will you go on Pascal or will you go on Tyrese?

Speaker 43 Because basically, whoever he decides to take out of the game, this is Revis Island.

Speaker 20 This is, see you later, you're done for the series.

Speaker 89 In the last 40 years, Tyrese Halliburton is the only player to do both in a single postseason.

Speaker 103 150 assists, five times more assists than turnovers.

Speaker 84 He has 156 assists, 31 turnovers.

Speaker 32 Wow, nobody's ever done it.

Speaker 106 We'll talk to Chris Paul about that here in a matter of moments.

Speaker 45 Turnovers this postseason, the Thunder have 188.

Speaker 28 Their opponents have 288. That minus 100 margin is already 21 more than any team ever in the history of a postseason.

Speaker 15 So you're talking about a dominant defense in this Oklahoma City Thunder, but they also take over on the offensive side.

Speaker 28 It should be a great game.

Speaker 55 Speaking of great games, Solo FC and the Speedy Turtles are getting after it behind us.

Speaker 84 Beautiful setup here.

Speaker 91 The Toxic Tables here at Boston Connor, at Ty Schmidt. Ty, I see the Tyrese Halliburton showed on.

Speaker 14 Is that an homage to what's going to come tonight or just public support?

Speaker 59 I think a little. Well, see,

Speaker 109 I don't know if Oklahoma City is going to choke, but you could say quite a bit of public support. You mentioned it.
I mean, they did this with the Knicks and Pacers series.

Speaker 109 Everyone picking the Knicks. Hey, there's no way the Pacers can win.
They did it with the Cavs series. And the Pacers just keep winning.

Speaker 109 And then, will and behold, we get to the finals and and it's the same thing.

Speaker 47 Hey, why are we even playing?

Speaker 109 You know, Oklahoma City is going to beat the hell out of these guys. They have no chance.
All their players need to play perfectly, have the game of their lives. So, the Pacers are battle-tested.

Speaker 109 They're ready to go. They understand.
They've been through this song and dance the last several rounds.

Speaker 110 So, yeah, I'm very excited for tonight.

Speaker 109 Coming off an unbelievable Stanley Cup finals game last night. Sports.

Speaker 112 Exactly.

Speaker 112 We're in it now, boys.

Speaker 26 TST happening.

Speaker 47 Exactly.

Speaker 109 We got Hope Solo in between the pipes behind us right now.

Speaker 39 Sports are happening in a big way.

Speaker 32 Let's go to college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, Ryder Cup winner, all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers, father of 10, AJ Hawk.

Speaker 4 Great to see you, AJ.

Speaker 12 As the people of North Carolina give you a resounding

Speaker 32 applause of approval, obviously.

Speaker 61 What have been your thoughts on what sports are doing right now?

Speaker 11 Tonight, do you think it's going to be a nine and a half point spread game?

Speaker 27 Last night, did you expect overtime?

Speaker 84 TST, did you expect it to be this electrifying?

Speaker 37 Where's A.J.

Speaker 78 Hawk's brain on sports drink?

Speaker 114 I'm at TST, so first off, TST, the Concafer boys are playing well. I don't see how anyone scores on them.
You guys are still, have not given up a goal yet this game. The defense is off the charts.

Speaker 114 The goalways are standing on their heads. But hockey last night, are you kidding me? From the jump, we had goals and then we had answers.
So me being somewhat of a casual hockey fan,

Speaker 65 I loved it.

Speaker 114 I was locked in all three quarters and overtime last night.

Speaker 115 Three periods. Three periods, yeah.

Speaker 65 Three quarters.

Speaker 21 It was actually four quarters.

Speaker 47 Oh, yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 It was four quarters.

Speaker 27 Joining us now is the man who played four quarters of hockey a lot.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 38 A A guy, nine-time MVP.

Speaker 28 I want to make sure I get these all right. Four-time Stanley Cup champion.

Speaker 45 A man who, at the time of his retirement, held 61 NHL records.

Speaker 118 Now he's on TV.

Speaker 75 He's not a hater.

Speaker 31 He's not jaded with the new group.

Speaker 56 Loves the sport. Loves the players.

Speaker 67 Loves the league.

Speaker 52 Ladies and gentlemen, the great one.

Speaker 2 Wayne Gretzky.

Speaker 2 How's everyone doing?

Speaker 74 Wayne all.

Speaker 92 It is an honor to have you on the show.

Speaker 5 Now, the people of North Carolina.

Speaker 120 I'm so happy to be on it today, and what a great sports day. You guys got it right.

Speaker 39 Okay, Wayne, I'm happy to hear that.

Speaker 20 I just want to let you know, though, that we are very thankful that you made time out of your life to join us.

Speaker 20 We're massive hockey fans, and the fact that you're taking time out of your life to chit-chat with us, we are grateful.

Speaker 121 Let's get to last night's game.

Speaker 10 You know, after the second period, you got on air, and we assume this has happened on plenty of occasions this year and last year when you're on television.

Speaker 4 But you say, hey, McDavid needs to to get the puck on his stick, needs to go around the net, then he needs to find somebody.

Speaker 36 This Rick Talkett defense has obviously been a little bit cagey.

Speaker 16 That's then next period he does that.

Speaker 36 Do you think that whenever you see McDavid play, you see a lot of yourself?

Speaker 23 Do you think whenever you watch McDavid play, do you think, like, man, this guy has the capability of taking over?

Speaker 23 What are your thoughts with Connor McDavid being the guy that everybody talks about could be the next great one?

Speaker 120 Wayno, yeah, I think where Pass could have been. There's no question he's the best player in hockey.
He's an unselfish young man. He loves playing in Edmonton.

Speaker 120 He loves being the captain of the Oilers. He wants desperately to win a Stanley Cup.
That's all he wants. That's what he cares about the most right now.
And

Speaker 120 good on him. He's just been great for our game.
He's been great for the city of Edmonton. And, you know, what a year.
He scored the winning goal at the Four Nations Cup in overtime.

Speaker 120 He sets up the goal last night by Dry Seidel.

Speaker 120 And let me tell you, I know it's a little bit difficult to see on TV, but live it was a physical hockey game you had to be a man to play in that game last night both teams played hearts out to Chuck's playing a little bit injured Reinhardt's playing a little bit injured but they still put everything on the line and listen it's hard to knock off the Stanley Cup champions it's one game it's four to seven I'm sure they're going to bounce back, but Edmonton has to keep home court advantage.

Speaker 120 That's a must for the Edmonton Oilers to win the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 89 Obviously, you played nine years, I think, eight years for the Edmonton Oilers at the beginning?

Speaker 115 Ten, sorry. Jeez.

Speaker 120 I had one year in the WHA where I started in Indianapolis, and we were drawing 3,000 people a game, so they sold me.

Speaker 67 Hey, we're thankful that you started your hockey career in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Speaker 125 We should put that on a statue for sure.

Speaker 22 Probably a statue of you there.

Speaker 88 But Edmonton, all anybody talks about is how great the fans are, how great the barn is up there.

Speaker 23 But obviously, no Canadian franchise has won the Stanley Cup in forever.

Speaker 120 Is this the team to do it and if so why do you think that is the case well this is the team to do it one i don't think florida's played a team that's as physical as edmonton the speed of edmonton matches carolina but edmonton's a little more physical and when you get to three championship series in a row you're physically beat up and right now i hope florida can rebound but they've put their guts on the line the last three years and it's hard to get to the Stanley Cup finals and they play hard and they're led by guys like tachuk and barkov and reinhardt i expect them to bounce back but listen edmonton feels it the city that's all anybody talks about i was beside the arena yesterday and at 12 o'clock noon a band started playing i thought i was on columbus street in manhattan for a labor day parade or something it's crazy i love it but the people love it I love the shots outside the arenas.

Speaker 57 Like, that feels like that happens in hockey more than any other sport.

Speaker 82 And it is the entire city shows up there.

Speaker 19 Let's talk about that Florida team before the boys have some questions for the great one.

Speaker 23 You mentioned all the leaders of that team, and obviously they make the trade for Marshi.

Speaker 36 And I know back in the day

Speaker 13 there used to be goons on teams.

Speaker 90 Okay, there used to be goons.

Speaker 28 There's always been some, you know, little, yeah, little protectors, but there's always been a little greasy things that have happened in hockey.

Speaker 76 Then goons come in there.

Speaker 28 How do you feel about the Florida Panthers culture being like, hey, we're going to hit you.

Speaker 23 There's going to be some shit.

Speaker 88 And you just know that that's happening.

Speaker 43 Do you think that is the right style?

Speaker 84 Obviously it is, but do you think that is sustainable?

Speaker 48 And do you think more teams are going to try to be like the Florida Panthers?

Speaker 120 Absolutely. We're copycat leagues, right? Football, basketball, baseball, hockey.
Yeah, absolutely. And I will tell you this.

Speaker 120 Last year, Florida was a little bit more physical in that series than Edmonton. Edmonton went out this year.
They got a little bit bigger. They're more physical than they were last year.

Speaker 120 And they got the key ingredient. They got number 97.
He can be the difference maker.

Speaker 120 but listen in the old days we had those protectors right now the tv is the protection for the players you used to be able to get guys behind the camera or behind the scenes and nobody would see it now there's so many camera angles the league protects the players now and that's how it's done i like it too and i like the fact that uh bentman came out and was like we just don't want this staged fighting we're okay with fighting we're not trying to get rid of what hockey is we just don't want this staged fighting so i think the game's evolving and obviously numbers are up last year the NHL viewership was bigger than it's ever been.

Speaker 63 I assume it's only going to continue because the superstars are playing so well.

Speaker 18 A.J. Hawk has a question for you, Wayne.

Speaker 19 Oh.

Speaker 114 Yeah, Wayne, did you, we see all these analytics and different things that teams have to where they can give you these shot charts on how Goalways can, whatever I guess they do well, whatever they stop, whatever they can't.

Speaker 114 When you played, did you have a book on Goalways? Did you have an idea going in on what this guy was going to do and how you were going to beat him?

Speaker 120 Yeah, I think everyone has that sort of feeling and belief that the more you study and the more you prepare, the better off you're going to be. But let me tell you this.
The game is so fast.

Speaker 120 You can't tell me that guy knew exactly where he was shooting the puck because I couldn't shoot it exactly where I wanted to because the game's so fast.

Speaker 120 And listen, you know, I heard you guys talking in the beginning of the show. The game is better today.
These players, these athletes, they're better athletes. They're bigger.
The equipment's better.

Speaker 120 The ice that they play on is better. So our game is just getting better each and every year.
And you look at guys like Barkov and McDavid and Dreisail and Reinhardt.

Speaker 120 These guys are tremendous athletes. They're superstars.
I mean, they're great people. They sell the game.
They worry about our sport. They want to excel.
And listen, I live in Florida.

Speaker 120 What the Panthers have done, Vinnie Viola,

Speaker 120 Bilzito, their organization, Paul Maurice, what they've done for hockey in Florida has just been truly amazing.

Speaker 120 And on top of that, you look at Tampa Bay with John Cooper and his group winning Stanley Cups. Hockey is growing leaps and browns in Florida.
And that was our problem over the last 50 years.

Speaker 120 We were good in pockets, but now we're growing in Texas, California, Nevada, Florida. And our game is expanding.
And kids are going to games saying, you know what? I want to try to play this game.

Speaker 120 It looks like it's fun. And we're getting better athletes every year that are participating in playing hockey.

Speaker 43 Don't you think, too, the fact that you guys are still like an old school style league?

Speaker 86 Like we just talked about the fighting there.

Speaker 91 Very rarely 2025, unless it's UFC, boxing, or Slapfest, is anybody like, yeah, you should go fight somebody.

Speaker 101 But in hockey, it's like a part of the sport. It's like a self-government sport.

Speaker 75 I appreciate that.

Speaker 120 And I'll tell you one of the reasons why that's the case. We're the one sport that carries around a lethal weapon, a hockey stick.
And the last thing you want to do is hit somebody with your stick.

Speaker 120 So the natural thing is to drop your stick and drop your gloves, right? And so if we didn't have fighting, there'd be a lot more stick work.

Speaker 120 And I'm glad they're, listen, I always say to people, when they say to me, is fighting real real in hockey? I said, well, if it wasn't, I would have been in more fights. Trust me, it's real.

Speaker 120 And these guys are tough and they're hard-nosed. And listen,

Speaker 120 they just want to win championships. And you can't take silly penalties, though.
You know, you got to be smart when you do it.

Speaker 120 And consequently, if you're not, you know, you're going to penalize your hockey team.

Speaker 18 Hockey is such a humble culture.

Speaker 101 Very rarely do you hear any players speak out.

Speaker 23 Very rarely do you get to hear any interviews or personality.

Speaker 19 I think that's kind of growing now with the way you guys have been able to open folks up.

Speaker 89 You, Biz, the TNT crew, obviously, Spit and Chiclets is doing a great job.

Speaker 131 I think we're learning more about the players, but all the players are team-first guys, tough guys, and the sport is so hard.

Speaker 101 I think everybody has to respect the work ethic.

Speaker 40 I think it's hockey's only on the precipice of a massive, like, because I think there's a lot of football fans that'd be like, we like the way these guys operate.

Speaker 23 They just got to get exposed to the sport. You know what I mean, Wayne?

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 120 When I first went to LA, I said the more people that we can have have come and see the sport and realize the art of our sport, it's physical, it's fast, you got to skate, you got to be unselfish, you got to play hard, you got to take a hit, give a hit.

Speaker 120 And the more people we can get to view our sport, the faster and bigger it's going to grow. And that's what the league has done.
And so when I came in, I was so lucky. We had Brett Hall in St.

Speaker 120 Louis and Eiserman in Detroit, Mario Lemieux in Pittsburgh, Mark Messi in New York. Not only were they elite players and Hall of Famers, they knew what it took to sell the sport.

Speaker 120 They were great with the media, they were great with charities, great with kids, and they were unreal hockey players. So we've been lucky.

Speaker 120 We've been blessed that the people in our sport from Cordy Howe and Bobby Orr and Bobby Clark all the way down to now Crosby and Ovechkin, just two of the classiest sports athletes there are in the history of any sport.

Speaker 120 And so we're lucky we got good culture in our game.

Speaker 19 Yeah, let's talk about that culture a little bit more.

Speaker 88 And you just mentioned all the heroes of the past and obviously the future and who's going to carry it.

Speaker 14 You've never sounded jaded ever about the next generation.

Speaker 23 You've never been a GOAT in everybody's eyes that has kind of weaponized that against the younger generation.

Speaker 20 Why is that? Is that just how hockey is?

Speaker 63 Like you've shown up for Ovechkin.

Speaker 23 I think you said something about your dad told you, hey, when somebody breaks your record, you should be the first person at this. You were.
You went to two games.

Speaker 136 You've never said anything bad about anybody.

Speaker 24 Sidney Crosby comes in.

Speaker 23 They're saying, hey, this could be the next Wayne Gretzky.

Speaker 18 You never took that as a shot, seemingly always supported it.

Speaker 48 Now with Conor McDavid, the same thing.

Speaker 77 Why is that?

Speaker 55 And why do you think it's so hard for some goats to kind of have a similar mindset?

Speaker 120 I don't know. I can't speak for other guys, but I'm really being honest.
I think our athletes today are better in every sport. There's no question.

Speaker 120 Now, do I think Michael Jordan was the greatest basketball player ever lived? That's my opinion.

Speaker 120 I'm not a basketball guru, but that's just my opinion, right?

Speaker 120 Then you take Tiger Woods, you know, probably the best athlete we've ever seen in golf. So it's progression, right? And listen, these guys today, knowledge is such a great thing.

Speaker 120 Remember those old commercials, but I lost my knowledge.

Speaker 120 And we have so much more knowledge today just from physical fitness, nutrition, practice, coaching, the equipment, the equipment they wear today, the skates that they wear today.

Speaker 120 When we wore skates, they were leather. And if they got wet, they were five to ten pounds heavier.
It was just, it's not the same game. It's a better game today, simple as that.

Speaker 120 And so I'm happy for them. Everything I have in my life is because of the NHL NHL and hockey.
Why would I sit down and want to be critical of the game that made my life?

Speaker 120 I got to travel the world, meet some great people. It's the greatest sport in the world to me, and I love it.

Speaker 64 You're the greatest.

Speaker 64 You are the greatest.

Speaker 28 You guys had actual cement in your boots.

Speaker 119 Yeah, you had actual cement.

Speaker 119 No, no.

Speaker 120 We would play on a Sunday night in Chicago.

Speaker 120 6 a.m., we'd be at the airport for a flight to Detroit, play that night in Detroit, but our equipment would still be wet because the trainers couldn't really hang it.

Speaker 120 So you put your skates on at seven o'clock at night and they're about 10 pounds heavier.

Speaker 120 That's the way it was though.

Speaker 23 And you guys also, if I and I don't know you, I don't think I've heard any stories about you, but if I know the hockey culture well, in between that Chicago and Detroit game, we also have to hammer some vodkas and some beers.

Speaker 28 As well for team chemistry, it feels like that is a big thing in hockey.

Speaker 62 You guys are very much a hangout together group.

Speaker 120 Yeah, we're always together. I mean, especially when you're playing, you know, it's 20 guys and you go to dinner together.
The teams that do that are more successful.

Speaker 120 The teams that four guys go one place and three guys go another place, they're not a team. It's, you look at the Edmonton guys, they're always together.

Speaker 120 You look at the Florida group, they're together. Tampa Bay, those teams are year after year successful.
There's no secret to why it is.

Speaker 120 They'll go through a wall for each other, and you got to have that in our sport.

Speaker 87 Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 44 I think teams come together better around a keg than they do, Kale.

Speaker 28 But who knows if the next generation will continue that on?

Speaker 84 Got to have team chemistry. It's the biggest deal.

Speaker 15 Boston Bruins fan, who has quit on them.

Speaker 33 I want to let you know that. Connor has a question for you.

Speaker 85 That's not true.

Speaker 68 Congratulations to Marco Stern, new head coach for the Boston Bruins.

Speaker 69 And I mean,

Speaker 119 he's going to do a great job.

Speaker 68 Wayno already mentioned Bobby Oris, one of the building blocks of the NHL, so he gets it. Wayno, there's a clip, and you talked about, you know, kind of the growing, the growth of the game.

Speaker 68 And obviously, they did the 24 7 series on hbo before they followed a bunch of guys last year with amazon i believe i think if uh kind of the more layman fan were to be able to see hockey players like yourself go up against other superstars it might help we have a clip of you just dusting i believe sugar ray leonard uh pele might might have been out there in a track meet and i i think most people aren't really sure that hockey players are athletes and then they off there wayne right there holy shit wayne gress you might beat you same bolt in a hundred meter

Speaker 68 do you think how did this first of all happen and do you think most uh hockey players are fantastic athletes but people don't really think about that and they just think hockey and everything Sidney Crosby threw a football for a million dollars at big night at uh back in April for Pat and I feel like most people were blown away that a hockey player could even get their hands around a football

Speaker 120 well let me say this first of all it was a charity event for Bjorn Borg in 1982 and he asked me to to go and of course I was a huge Bjorn Borg fan and I said of course now there were six events

Speaker 120 the other five I came last let me tell you

Speaker 120 and I remember I said to my dad he was there with me I said I got to do well in the running because I grew up a runner I said I got to at least show that I'm somewhat of an athlete so I said okay And then I looked down and I saw Sugar A.

Speaker 120 Leonard and Pele and I'm like, oh my God, I'm in the wrong event here.

Speaker 120 I think I jumped before even that gun went off. I was going no matter what.
But it was a wonderful event. But let me tell you, most hockey Europeans are the Russians.

Speaker 120 But in North America, a lot of our kids that grow up playing box, lacrosse, soccer, baseball,

Speaker 120 and then they make hockey their priority at the age of 14, 15, 16. So there is a lot of great athletes who play in the National Hockey League.
Trust me, a lot of them.

Speaker 120 I see guys that go to batting practice and guys are hitting home runs, whether it's in Detroit or Anaheim. It's pretty remarkable.
And of course, we got so many guys that are good golfers.

Speaker 120 Everybody, every time I play golf, and my son-in-law is one of the greatest players ever in two major winners.

Speaker 120 And people go, what's wrong with you?

Speaker 69 How come you're not a good golfer?

Speaker 4 Do you suck at golf, Wayne?

Speaker 119 No way. Oh, I'm not very good.

Speaker 120 So I would tell you this.

Speaker 29 Compared to Dustin, hold on, though.

Speaker 4 Compared to Dustin or like compared to

Speaker 119 you.

Speaker 140 Compared to you, I'm bad.

Speaker 2 No, I'm ass, Wayne.

Speaker 119 I am a bad golfer, brother.

Speaker 120 So I always tell people, they go, what hand did you shoot in hockey? I said, left-handed and play golf right-handed. How come you play right-handed?

Speaker 120 I said, well, at 16, I went to buy a set of golf clubs. My dad said, you know, you should learn how to golf.
The hockey players have charity events and you don't want to embarrass yourself.

Speaker 120 So I went to buy a set of clubs. And the guy said, we only sell right-handed clubs.
They didn't sell left-handed clubs in those days in Canada.

Speaker 141 Oh, man.

Speaker 119 Thankfully, yeah.

Speaker 120 So I, so somebody said, well, why don't you switch? And I said, well, I got all these free clubs. I'm not switching over to left-handed stuff.

Speaker 120 so no no but it all changed when phil mickelson came along and mike weir i don't know if you saw this but mike weir when he won the masters he had a handwritten letter from jack nichola that he wrote to jack nichola and said i'm a left-handed kid i play left-handed should i stay left-handed or switch to right and jack nicholas wrote him back handwritten young man you stay left-handed if that's what you're comfortable with and he became the first canadian to win a major which was remarkable.

Speaker 18 Okay, so let's talk about that.

Speaker 89 You still golf righty?

Speaker 120 Yeah, and I'm still bad.

Speaker 42 Wayne, I think I know the problem.

Speaker 67 I think you're supposed to be looking this way.

Speaker 67 I think you're supposed to be looking this way, brother.

Speaker 96 Not even a putt, not even putting.

Speaker 57 Feels like that is.

Speaker 120 I tried putting left-handed for two years because Mike said to me, Wayne, try putting left-handed. Well, I got worse every day, so I said, I'm going back right-handed.

Speaker 18 Golf is so hard, dude.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God.

Speaker 119 You got to practice.

Speaker 120 Like any other sport, you got to practice. I don't practice.

Speaker 69 How do you expect to be good?

Speaker 120 People go deep. Are you competitive golf? Michael Jordan's so competitive.
I said, competitive? I know I'm no good, so why worry about it? If I hit a bad shot, hit a bad shot.

Speaker 14 Yeah, and then I'll pick it up.

Speaker 120 I'm going golfing with Darren Pang today here in Edmonton, so it'll be fun.

Speaker 75 Okay, you're going to go.

Speaker 38 I think you're going to go scratch today, Wayne.

Speaker 2 Real low. Yeah, I think you're going to go real low.

Speaker 120 Panger's about five foot six and 125 pounds, and he's.

Speaker 20 He's doing a lot of golfing, though, just like like we don't get to practice enough wayne we're working

Speaker 14 yeah we don't have time just be on the golf you should play lefty today

Speaker 120 i'm gonna try a few shots left-handed today if we could get that on camera we'd appreciate it because everything i know about sports i'll get biz to tape it and send it to you guys perfect perfect that feels because it feels like you should be a left uh Wayne, I don't even know, I don't want to say anything disparaging about you.

Speaker 120 I'm glad. This is my problem.
I'm reaching out for you, to you for golf tips.

Speaker 119 Bingo.

Speaker 100 Bingo.

Speaker 118 If I was Wayne Gretzky, though, though, I

Speaker 118 mean, I'm look, I'm fucking doing, aren't you doing this?

Speaker 67 Is this like your thing?

Speaker 29 This is literally.

Speaker 120 I played Pebble for five years with Jake Owen, myself, Jordan Speet, and Dustin. I had the greatest group.

Speaker 120 Jordan and Dustin, and Jake, so wonderful to me. But they draw the biggest crowd, those two guys.
There's 25,000 people on every hole. And I'm shaking like a leaf.

Speaker 120 And they're going, you didn't get nervous playing hockey. I said, I could play hockey in front of a million people.
I wouldn't even know they were there.

Speaker 120 But to play golf, you know how it is when you go to the first tee and everybody's in the clubhouse watching you? Yes. And you're like, oh, I don't want to hit a bad shot.

Speaker 120 Well, try to have 25,000 people down the fairways and you're hitting the ball.

Speaker 65 You're Wayneo!

Speaker 47 I'm telling you, Wayne, you're going to love me.

Speaker 120 I think I have a record for the most people hit in playing in Pro-Am tournaments. I played with President Ford one time in 1980.

Speaker 120 I was a kid, Palm Desert, and I was so nervous standing on the T, right?

Speaker 120 First shot i hit i sliced it into these trees and all of a sudden we heard a thud and i go what's that and president said that's one of my secret service guys usually i hit them

Speaker 62 ah that is amazing I love to hear that you love the game of golf and suck at it because I do too.

Speaker 35 If Wayne Gretzky sticks at it, that makes me feel a lot better about myself.

Speaker 120 My wife, Janet, is a great athlete. She's a better golfer than I am, and she's more committed to it.

Speaker 119 We play a lot.

Speaker 120 And yeah, yeah, she's she loves it, and she trust me, she's a better person.

Speaker 120 If you're playing partners, you would take her, not me.

Speaker 4 No, we're gonna have some beers with Wayne Gretzky.

Speaker 19 Yeah, we're not trying to win. I stink at golf.

Speaker 32 You gotta remember that.

Speaker 20 You just talked about how people say, Hey, are you competitive at golf?

Speaker 16 Michael Jordan's competitive at golf.

Speaker 44 You rattled off a couple others earlier.

Speaker 20 Tiger Woods.

Speaker 63 I assume we could put Phelps into that conversation in the sports world.

Speaker 4 Tom Brady, Peyton Manning.

Speaker 42 I don't know who.

Speaker 31 Do you guys have a group text?

Speaker 115 Because you guys are like rare errors.

Speaker 120 No, but Michael and i played in this charity event for tnt last year and we were both so nervous on the first hole you'd think we'd never been in any kind of a sporting event ever before we were so nervous so what do you guys like why do you think have you ever done any um it's gonna be a deep question way not coming straight off of you sucking a golf combo do you have you looked back and wondered why you were so much better than everybody else because i wasn't better i wasn't better than everyone else but i'll tell you what i did my preparation, and I had respect for every player I played with, and I had respect for every player I played against.

Speaker 120 And I have nothing but good thoughts. You know, the guys I played with, guys like Mark Messier and Paul Coffey and Luke Robotai,

Speaker 120 Brad Hall, incredible people. And then I played against guys like Brian Tracey and Dennis Potman who played physically hard, and they were hard to play against.

Speaker 120 But when it's all said and done, we're all here for the same reason.

Speaker 120 We love the game, and that's what it's all about right and you're here to try to win championships and practice is everything and i if i tell parents i get people come up to me and they'll say will you tell my son how many hours a day you used to practice at nine and ten and eleven and i would say listen i didn't practice that's what i loved doing i'd skate for eight hours because i loved it Bobby Orr, same thing.

Speaker 120 Gordy Howe, same thing. We didn't think we were practicing.
If you think that at the age of 10, you're going to have a long, miserable run of it, right?

Speaker 120 So I always say, listen, just go enjoy the sport. And the more you enjoy it, the more you

Speaker 120 want to get better, and the more you're going to want to love it. And that's the way I look at it.

Speaker 84 Yeah, because if you're considering a practice, it's almost like it's work.

Speaker 28 And if you're viewing it as work already as a child, as opposed to just something you want to spend your time doing, you're probably not going to sign up for it for the long level that you're going to need.

Speaker 120 Yeah, Mark Messi had one of the great quotes years ago. Somebody asked him, is there anything about hockey that you don't like?

Speaker 120 And he thought about it for a second and he goes, there's not one thing I don't like about it. I love being with the guys.
I love being on the bus with the guys. I loved hanging out with the guys.

Speaker 120 I love going to hard practices. I love going to great practices.
I loved it when we lost, had a tough loss and we were all together. There wasn't one thing that we didn't love about it, right?

Speaker 120 And that makes it special.

Speaker 27 Yeah, that's what it's about.

Speaker 2 That is what it's about.

Speaker 26 That's what it's about.

Speaker 120 My wife always says I say sorry wrong.

Speaker 5 So

Speaker 26 Ty has a question for you.

Speaker 106 Great one.

Speaker 109 Yeah, Wayne, speaking of, you know, golf and everything like that, there's been a lot of discussion lately, mostly from, you know, Biz, he kind of started it, about how a lot of these teams who are in states with no state income tax are going to have a massive advantage moving forward because not only are a lot of them warm weather and guys can go there and play golf and kind of enjoy themselves, but you're obviously not forfeiting a bunch of that money like, you know, some of the places in Canada or California or New York or wherever the case may be.

Speaker 109 Do you think a lot of those teams that that are in those situations are going to be inherently better or have an advantage moving forward over the next couple years?

Speaker 120 Well, let me say two things.

Speaker 120 Obviously, Florida and Tampa Bay is a unique situation, Dallas, Vegas.

Speaker 120 From a financial point of view, if that's what a player is thinking about, obviously. But if a player's thinking, you know what, I want to play in a hockey culture.

Speaker 120 Like playing and living in the city of Edmonton, I loved it. For 10 years I was here.
And the culture and the mindset of the people.

Speaker 120 So it's a different feeling when you leave the arena in Florida after a game or leave the arena in Tampa Bay, but you leave the arena in Edmonton, you know you've been in a hockey game and you know there's 1.5 million people who live here and 1.3 million have watched that game and the other 200,000, the only reason they didn't is because they were working.

Speaker 120 So, you know, it's what you want to do as a player, how you want to approach this.

Speaker 120 Look, do I want to go to where everything is hockey or do I want to go to a place where financially it might be a little bit better for me now the good news is Tampa Bay and Florida are great organizations and they have a chance to win every year so that's a business decision that a player has to make

Speaker 120 Wayno is Florida going to be the state of hockey forever oh absolutely it's growing leaps and bounds I'm so proud of people who Done such a great job the Tampa Bay organization Florida more and more kids are playing I see it I live there so I see it and it's just just going to grow leaps and bounds.

Speaker 120 I think it's going to get bigger every single year. And the thing is, now we're attracting great American athletes into our sport.

Speaker 120 We're the guys who used to say, I'm a baseball player or a football player. A lot of those great athletes at 10, 11, 12 now are going, you know, I really enjoy playing hockey.
This is great.

Speaker 62 Yeah, and I'm going to be a lefty on the ice, and then I'm going to golf righty.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 120 Yeah, you're by left-handed clubs now.

Speaker 102 Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 4 Hey, thank you so much for the time.

Speaker 119 And thank you for the time. I love you so.

Speaker 120 And thank you guys so much. And keep going.
I love the fact that you guys promote hockey. Like I said, everything I have in my life is because of hockey.

Speaker 120 So congratulations to you all and have a great day.

Speaker 15 Well, thank you so much for that, for being kind, being a professional, being the great one.

Speaker 14 But also, thank you for doing television as the GOAT.

Speaker 28 I think there's a chance that because you did that, now Michael Jordan's getting into TV.

Speaker 56 It's good to hear from the GOATs.

Speaker 37 Legit.

Speaker 120 I don't know if you saw it last night, but the guys were calling me GOAT. And right now we're calling Biz Gout because he's got Gout.

Speaker 100 You're the man.

Speaker 5 That's Wayne Gretzky.

Speaker 59 That's what it's about.

Speaker 2 That is what it's about.

Speaker 131 And I'm sorry to everybody else that does the hockey.

Speaker 143 If one panel has Wayne Gretzky on it, they're probably going to have a little bit of a head start.

Speaker 20 That's just like when Nick Sabin was at the College Game Day, it's like, sorry.

Speaker 89 to anybody else doing sorry doing anything else it's like nick sabin's words are going to matter and if you're good at it and if you're like humble and you enjoy the process of doing television and talk about your sport, you can give back to your sport in such a big way, which I think is what Wayne has done over the last two years being on TV.

Speaker 128 Having Wayne Gretzky promote the game is great for the game.

Speaker 28 You know, some of these goats stay away for whatever reason.

Speaker 34 They're jaded and I talk to him about hating the younger generation or not liking the current game or maybe people are getting compared to them so they get a little self-conscious on what they're about.

Speaker 57 It's like he doesn't seem to care at all and everybody has the same opinion about him.

Speaker 88 It's good for hockey.

Speaker 89 He's doing TV.

Speaker 144 It's unbelievable for hockey.

Speaker 114 You couldn't have a better ambassador for the game. I mean, the great one, the greatest of all time.
And the fact that he says the game is better now than it was when I played.

Speaker 114 The athletes are better. Like, yeah, what a.
Hopefully Michael Jordan becomes the Wayne Gretzky of Basketball Broadcasting.

Speaker 94 We're all of a sudden here.

Speaker 114 He gives us that perspective.

Speaker 18 I believe Solo FC is up two zip behind us.

Speaker 15 Hope Solo played the first half in goal.

Speaker 18 She pitched a shutout.

Speaker 102 Her team can run.

Speaker 19 Oh, yeah. I was watching.

Speaker 99 Yeah, good play.

Speaker 145 Her team can move.

Speaker 55 Yeah, Solo FC is a good squad.

Speaker 30 Austin Rise is here.

Speaker 131 I think they have a lot of really good players.

Speaker 89 The U.S.

Speaker 71 women's national team has a team. They have Carly Lloyd on their team.

Speaker 81 They won last year.

Speaker 64 Okay, yeah, they are very good.

Speaker 43 So I think there's a lot of good quality suka coming out of here at Carrie.

Speaker 58 There are some teams that are ass.

Speaker 117 Yeah, certainly. Some teams that are ass.

Speaker 106 That's going to happen.

Speaker 47 Played two of them so far. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 81 We made them look that way.

Speaker 143 We made them look that way.

Speaker 146 That's what I mean.

Speaker 28 Joining us now is a man who put a team together that is not as.

Speaker 71 No, no.

Speaker 57 They are great, just like this man was.

Speaker 35 I'm going to rattle off all of his things.

Speaker 60 Two-time World Series champion.

Speaker 91 First, on this particular sheet, says Boston Red Sox legend.

Speaker 149 Well, of course,

Speaker 28 but there are also people who say he is a New York Yankees legend.

Speaker 39 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 145 And also a Kansas City Royals legend.

Speaker 19 And also a Oakland A's legend.

Speaker 93 And also a Detroit Tigers legend.

Speaker 150 And also a

Speaker 2 band.

Speaker 83 Well, that too.

Speaker 28 Ladies and gentlemen, Johnny Damon.

Speaker 5 Yay!

Speaker 2 How are you guys doing?

Speaker 1 Fantastic to meet you here.

Speaker 68 How are you doing, Johnny? Fantastic.

Speaker 65 What's up?

Speaker 81 Great seeing you, my man, too, brother.

Speaker 125 Thank you for making this happen.

Speaker 17 Oh, thank you for making it happen.

Speaker 2 I got the headset, man.

Speaker 2 I know that.

Speaker 67 Oh, Drip F C.

Speaker 69 Oh.

Speaker 81 Yes, sir. Hey, I appreciate you, dude.

Speaker 6 Thank you, man.

Speaker 96 Sorry, Johnny.

Speaker 149 No World Series with the Yankees.

Speaker 6 I know.

Speaker 124 Hey, so they're back.

Speaker 125 You gotta put the mic down.

Speaker 70 It's on the left side.

Speaker 151 Oh, I got it. Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 116 I don't do this much. Here, Here,

Speaker 93 let me put this behind you.

Speaker 6 Look at this random

Speaker 68 professional.

Speaker 138 All right, you are a pro.

Speaker 6 No, I'm not.

Speaker 140 Not like you.

Speaker 124 Did you hear the little bickering that happened here?

Speaker 89 Because Boston Connor, obviously, a big Red Sox fan, calls you a Boston legend.

Speaker 15 Ty over there, massive New York Yankees fan, says New York Yankees legend.

Speaker 23 Just won a World Series with the New York Yankees.

Speaker 23 When you look back at your career, the fact that you're beloved on both sides of the biggest rivalry in the sport, what do you think that means or says about the sport and you as a player?

Speaker 116 Well, the great thing is I've been loved and hated everywhere. So

Speaker 116 I went about my business the right way.

Speaker 138 Played the game.

Speaker 116 Hustle. That's the only thing you can really control in baseball is hustle.
Like your best win can turn into a out. Your bats win can turn into a basis clearing double.
So

Speaker 116 you have to take the ups with the downs.

Speaker 116 I always did. I was always a fan favorite because I learned from Cal Ripken.
He signed an autolog for me when I was 10 years old at Tinker Field. So I understood the fan aspect of it.

Speaker 116 So I continue it to this day. A bunch of these people love me out here.

Speaker 47 Hell yeah.

Speaker 140 I'm part of Drip FC. Hell yeah.

Speaker 116 And my team is showing up. They're balling out.
And we had a great game last night. You know, unfortunately, things didn't go our way.

Speaker 107 Oh, you lost? Oh, no.

Speaker 65 What'd you do? No, of course.

Speaker 141 No, we didn't lose.

Speaker 116 We won.

Speaker 116 We won. Our team balled out.
Check out the replay.

Speaker 82 What do you guys now?

Speaker 83 What do you guys now?

Speaker 96 One and one?

Speaker 106 We have the replay, actually.

Speaker 131 We have the replay here.

Speaker 43 This is my first time seeing it.

Speaker 20 Drip FC.

Speaker 55 That's the replay from the first game.

Speaker 116 And they tore this down

Speaker 47 yesterday.

Speaker 87 Yeah, we appreciated them coming over here.

Speaker 125 Last night, we do not have the replay of last night. What happened?

Speaker 153 You guys got screwed?

Speaker 116 I want you to check it out.

Speaker 47 Please.

Speaker 16 You sent me a text.

Speaker 35 You sent me a positive text, so I thought you guys won.

Speaker 47 Oh, no.

Speaker 102 No.

Speaker 138 We won personally.

Speaker 116 Our team, we're a great team, and we're still in it.

Speaker 141 We're going to keep on rocking.

Speaker 149 We're going to keep on bringing our A game.

Speaker 102 A little controversy, maybe, with the Drink FC game last night.

Speaker 47 Take a look.

Speaker 89 Okay, we certainly will. I saw the clip you sent me of you playing some soccer, scoring a goal.

Speaker 52 Are you coaching the team, general manager of the team, owner of the team?

Speaker 98 What is the title you have?

Speaker 116 I sponsor the team with my drinkagame.com. We are a healthy alternative to what's out there.
No artificial

Speaker 140 anything.

Speaker 116 No forever chemicals.

Speaker 116 Yeah, so we are good.

Speaker 2 Hydration is good.

Speaker 138 Integrated rocket.

Speaker 116 Yeah, we got Gary Brecca. We got Tyler Adams.
Bo Jackson's been with the team for a while. So yeah, we're ready to rock and roll.

Speaker 89 Okay, you just brought up Bo Jackson.

Speaker 154 How closely do you pay attention to current baseball?

Speaker 116 I started to pay more attention because I have eight kids.

Speaker 2 Was that eight kids?

Speaker 114 I have four kids. Four kids.

Speaker 141 Okay, I heard 10 earlier.

Speaker 65 He does have 10 kids.

Speaker 27 They're all over the place.

Speaker 22 You have eight kids?

Speaker 116 Yeah, man. Irresistible, and I just have to be a gun, right?

Speaker 116 obviously okay so you've been paying attention more the mlb viewership is up 10 uh on both networks fox and espn feels like it's because the superstars are playing well is that what you agree with like baseball is good when it's superstars like you are playing well and the teams that everybody wants to see are playing well do you think that's why they're having success absolutely there is so much talent out there and everyone asked me who i root for and i i root for the back of the jersey like i'm always going to root for aaron judge i love the way durant plays for the red socks socks it reminds me of uh yup young gamma

Speaker 116 yeah yeah no kids there's so much talent out there and uh shohe

Speaker 6 wow fun right

Speaker 23 yeah it's fun to watch as an ex-baseball player what he's doing can you especially if he gets in and pitches this year which i guess there is a chance when he was starting his career with the angels and he was pitching and hitting we were talking about him as people that don't know baseball that well as like holy shit we got an alien here why is it so abnormal and what are your thoughts on shohe well because you do have to concentrate on something and Shohei hasn't pitched in a while.

Speaker 116 I think he could be very successful but stepping back to the mound after taking a year and a half off, it's tough. I think he can do it, but for how long? I mean Babe Ruth was the epitome of

Speaker 116 greatness and in our day we had the Brooks Keachnick with the Cubs who could do it, but They just didn't want to take away the best part of a player's game. It's kind of like Travis Hunter right now.

Speaker 116 What's he going to do?

Speaker 116 Shohei, it's the greatest hitter going right now with Aaron Judge. And why take that away from him? There's a lot of stress that goes on to being a pitcher.

Speaker 116 You give up a couple runs, and now you have to go hit. I think it's very tough.
We did it in the little league.

Speaker 49 He's doing it in the big leagues.

Speaker 91 Okay, so I appreciate you saying that. Ty Schmitz, our baseball aficionado.

Speaker 124 He's been basically saying the same thing, although it would be sweet to see Shohei do both.

Speaker 105 Go ahead, Ty.

Speaker 109 Yeah, actually, I wanted to ask you about the Savannah Bananas experience that you had. Yeah.

Speaker 109 Because, you know, like, as I won't say that I dislike it because I don't, but as someone who's like a die-hard baseball fan, like, I would much rather watch the Yankees, you know, than obviously, you know, what they do with the kids and everything and then 80,000 to 100,000 people going to the stadium to do it.

Speaker 109 But how cool was that experience as a whole? And are you surprised that

Speaker 109 they've had the kind of success that they had? Because, I mean, it is crazy. They're selling out football stadiums, and those guys can still play.

Speaker 109 It's not just like a Mickey Mouse, you know, hey, show up at the ballpark, and these guys are going to kick it around, Harlem Globe Trotters type thing. So, what did you think of the whole experience?

Speaker 116 I thought it was so amazing that I decided to go out three times. And I didn't go out last year.

Speaker 116 My last at-bat, I got a base hit. We won the inning.
We celebrated. The guys got me on the dugout.
We took our shirts off, and I forgot to shave my chest.

Speaker 116 But yeah, I kind of forget you can't step out of the

Speaker 116 but it was so fun. I'm so happy what they're doing because they can probably sell out the Oakland Coliseum more so than the A's did.

Speaker 138 Yeah, so it's

Speaker 116 I love it. It's fun.
It gets the kids into baseball. And when you see the game, it's fun.
I mean, Ken Griffey Jr. made the, with his smile, he made.

Speaker 68 Yeah.

Speaker 155 Every

Speaker 116 he was the kid and everybody loved it. I played the game.
I loved it, and I understood the ups and downs.

Speaker 126 And

Speaker 116 as I always mentioned, you got to bring it every single day. You got to bring your A game, and your best may not get it done sometimes.
So you have to keep plugging away.

Speaker 116 The pitcher, he's trying to make a living too. So he's trying to take it from you, and you're trying to get it.

Speaker 154 How many games do you guys play in a season?

Speaker 116 It's 162, but if you count spring training and the playoffs all the way to the World Series, it's about 210 games in about 235 days.

Speaker 105 Rock stars.

Speaker 100 Just living on the road.

Speaker 107 I don't know how you do it.

Speaker 121 I don't know how you stay focused.

Speaker 88 I don't know how you keep your body together. I don't know how you don't get incredibly lonely on the road.

Speaker 33 I don't know.

Speaker 35 The mental battle of MLB player is huge alongside the physical battle, obviously.

Speaker 154 And you're failing a lot.

Speaker 89 And there's a lot of droughts that come with that.

Speaker 35 And they have the mental toughness to stay positive.

Speaker 89 Wonderful. I think that's the most important thing that baseball players have.

Speaker 60 AJ has a question for you, Johnny.

Speaker 114 Yeah, John, I know you played for almost 20 years. I I just wonder in the clubhouse, how did that clubhouse change from, say, your first year in the bigs till your last year?

Speaker 114 I've talked to some guys that maybe played 15, 20 years, and they were just the drastic difference from when they first got into the majors till the end.

Speaker 114 Just how guys kind of carried themselves, took care of their body, all of that. How did that change for you?

Speaker 116 Oh, it changed drastically because I got called up from AA in 1995, never had a big league spring training.

Speaker 116 So I show up and the Royals release Vince Coleman, like one of my childhood heroes. And I'm like, I'm walking into this clubhouse and my childhood hero is leaving.

Speaker 116 So I never had an experience of the six weeks of spring training at the big league level. And then there's some growing pains.
You know, they love to do the

Speaker 116 righty, lefty. If a lefty's pitching, you might not be playing.
But I've always hit lefties well, so you kind of had to understand that.

Speaker 116 But I learned how to play winning baseball when I got traded to Oakland. Like, Kansas City was great.

Speaker 116 We had the best offense in the league for about three straight years, but we didn't have pitching at the time. I had Mike Sweeney, Jermaine Dye, Joe Randa.
I mean, we got after it. Carlos Beltron.

Speaker 116 And then

Speaker 116 I had too good of a Yissing Giambi and learned how to play winning baseball, learned how to have fun on and off the field, and we got after it. We won 102 games.

Speaker 116 Seattle won 116 that year, but we had Moe, Zito, Hudson.

Speaker 116 But at the end, I became like a father figure to a bunch of these guys because I'm hanging out with the parents after the game and not the players.

Speaker 116 When I joined Tampa, I was like, wow, this is a little strange. My wife and I were like, all the kids wanted to go back to the room and play their games, and we wanted to go relax, have a good time.

Speaker 81 Yeah, we started hanging out with the parents.

Speaker 81 I love that.

Speaker 57 And especially if you're an OG and does it the right way, which it sounds like you did.

Speaker 11 Did you drink urine?

Speaker 116 No, never drink urine.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's what he did. Sure.

Speaker 100 Yeah, no, never.

Speaker 47 That's what he did to stay in the mood.

Speaker 138 No, no, no.

Speaker 100 Do you know anyone that did?

Speaker 94 I never did that.

Speaker 94 That was Voices.

Speaker 116 There could be rumors, but no, never drink it.

Speaker 138 No, no, I.

Speaker 86 What about peeing on your hands, callous fruit?

Speaker 69 Callous. Sticky.

Speaker 149 Dude for callus.

Speaker 69 Sticks in hearts of stay.

Speaker 149 Was voiceless a loo the only one to do that in the league?

Speaker 17 Or was there a lot of guys peeing on their hands?

Speaker 96 I've never peed on your hands?

Speaker 49 Kevin?

Speaker 153 Is that something baseball does?

Speaker 96 Yeah, who peed on your hands?

Speaker 138 We know we talked about it.

Speaker 116 If anyone's going to do it, it's my wife.

Speaker 89 That's the right but we're we're not that way so you guys have so many of those like rituals and stuff because of how long the season is yeah and every movie we've seen about baseball there's some absurdly ridiculous routine that takes place or ritual that happens before games then we start learning about stuff that you guys are doing it's like hey the baseball guy is kind of freaky over there yeah the golden thong when you went into a slump um hell yeah we uh

Speaker 116 shared it in the clubhouse so slumps didn't last too long yeah hey listen let me give my ass cheek some uh floss here and then we'll get out of this quickly Tone has a question for you, John.

Speaker 93 Yeah, Johnny, these two were arguing, but like out in public, do more people come out to you about the Game 7 with the Red Sox or the 09 Yankees World Series run?

Speaker 116 Man, it's both. I mean,

Speaker 116 I was a love player.

Speaker 83 I'm a legend everywhere, bro.

Speaker 47 Well, I was a fan favorite everywhere.

Speaker 116 It kind of depends. So when I go to New York, yeah, I wear the New York ring.

Speaker 2 When I go to Boston, I go to Boston.

Speaker 116 Yeah, I don't want to get into any trouble.

Speaker 116 I want to go about my life, but I do do flash both rings at certain times, and it's a cool feeling because it's only Babe Ruth and I, who were starters, who won for both teams.

Speaker 116 So I'm in great company, and I'm, you know, the Yankees need to figure it out. But the Dodgers are the best team out there.
They're so deep.

Speaker 137 They're saying New York is the Mets town now.

Speaker 97 No.

Speaker 2 No, I'm children.

Speaker 138 No, not yet. No,

Speaker 47 it's early.

Speaker 116 It's early.

Speaker 15 No, they paid Juan Soto 750 million bucks.

Speaker 138 Oh, they can afford it.

Speaker 116 And they could give him a sweep. But

Speaker 116 the Yankees added like five or six players who made the team better. So I think they have a stronger run against the Dodgers this year.
But the Dodgers are so deep.

Speaker 116 And Kiki Hernandez, what a great baseball player he is. He can play every position,

Speaker 116 and he has fun playing the game.

Speaker 116 He became one of my favorites.

Speaker 116 I root for the back of the jersey, and he's doing great.

Speaker 78 Connor roots for the Red Sox.

Speaker 68 Yeah, no doubt about it. And Johnny, someone asked me earlier, like, is there bad blood between them because he was Yankees?

Speaker 115 I'm sure there was in the time.

Speaker 68 I think most people can agree.

Speaker 68 Any player who reversed the curse on that team is kind of good for life. So thank you for all that.
But big conversation in baseball this offseason so far.

Speaker 68 Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe kind of now being okay to go into the Hall of Fame. How do baseball players feel about those two guys? Pete Rose, I think Jeff Pazon said it.

Speaker 68 You can't really tell the story of baseball without Pete Rose. Do players want him in the Hall of Fame?

Speaker 68 Is that how most of the players feel about guys who might have made some questionable decisions, or is the gambling kind of separate from the steroids era, would you say?

Speaker 116 Yeah, well, I think it's about time. I mean, it's been forever.
They had to wait for him to pass to figure this out.

Speaker 116 But I was with Shudas Joe Jackson the other day, DB Sweetie, down in Mexico, and we had a great time.

Speaker 116 But yeah, Shudas Joe, like the gambling incident, gambling is all over the sport right now and if you're going to let the fans

Speaker 116 gamble I mean we all played fantasy football we're not gambling on a team and if Pete Rose gambled on his team to win yeah I love my manager to say we're gonna we're gonna win I'm gonna make money we're gonna win but

Speaker 116 I mean

Speaker 116 Let bygones be bygones. I mean, there's so many things going on.
I mean, we had the Otani incident whereas

Speaker 69 if this guy

Speaker 116 just sweeping under the rug right now. I know there's a lot of bigger issues in our world that we need to take care of.

Speaker 116 And even the steroid issue. I was against it back in the day because I was a guy who was always accused of it because I was a beast.

Speaker 116 And now you're seeing these guys. Like, I hope to see Barry Bonds get into the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 116 He never got busted, you know?

Speaker 126 Yeah.

Speaker 70 His hat size, they say, is that we can see it.

Speaker 116 Well, when we get older, I mean, everything grows.

Speaker 47 Like our birth, everything grows.

Speaker 49 Everything, yeah, everything.

Speaker 100 Yeah,

Speaker 116 Barry Bonds was like the best player that, if you ask my era, who was the best, Barry Bonds' name is first on the list.

Speaker 138 Also, Roger Clements. Yeah, he never got busted.

Speaker 116 He had someone try to tell on him, but Roger Clemens,

Speaker 140 amazing. Hold on.

Speaker 19 I have a question for you.

Speaker 83 During that era, when it was happening, the summer of baseball or whatever.

Speaker 104 Summer of Slam.

Speaker 19 When Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire were doing their things.

Speaker 116 Safe baseball. What's that? Safe baseball.
I think so, too.

Speaker 12 Biggest ratings of all time.

Speaker 61 Biggest ratings of all time.

Speaker 89 We were all very interested.

Speaker 122 You were during that era.

Speaker 95 Now,

Speaker 88 the way I view it from outside looking in is that steroids was just very available.

Speaker 116 No. No, like I've never seen anyone take a nobody talked about it in a locker room.

Speaker 138 No.

Speaker 116 Well, especially me, because I wasn't part of it, but I don't know what they talk behind closed doors.

Speaker 47 Because like in the NFL locker room, nobody brings it up. Nobody talks about it.

Speaker 116 Yeah, no one talks about it in the big league.

Speaker 88 Back then, whenever that was all happening, it wasn't just like an open, like, hey, if you need some old

Speaker 106 baboon who's over here, he can help.

Speaker 87 It wasn't like that.

Speaker 33 It wasn't that lackadaisical.

Speaker 116 It was that lack of days ago.

Speaker 116 And it's grown men making decisions on their life. Let them decide what they want to do.

Speaker 107 Let them

Speaker 116 get better. I didn't...

Speaker 116 have to get better, but I found out towards the end of my career, the guys who were getting popped, they were getting four or five-year contracts because they cared so much about what they were doing so I'm like hey have at it do do what you want yeah but that felt good for you looking in the mirror being like

Speaker 23 these fuckers are using full pharmacies to keep up with me we're about to hit a hard out and uh I just want to say thank you so much for making time absolutely I think you also follow the show is what I've been told yes I do follow the show and

Speaker 116 that's everyone follow the game tonight. My guys at Drip FC, they're bringing their A game and

Speaker 115 we're here. Yeah, you guys got to win.

Speaker 47 We're going to battle.

Speaker 81 Yeah, especially after the loss last night.

Speaker 47 Yeah, yeah, check it out.

Speaker 81 Big L last night, Johnny.

Speaker 116 Yeah, I was a score. I don't consider it.
It was five to three, but our boys bowled out. Check out the

Speaker 153 teacher guys by two, husband.

Speaker 89 So I didn't, this wasn't a one?

Speaker 138 Yeah, check it out.

Speaker 115 We actually

Speaker 47 check it out.

Speaker 116 We had some goals taken away from us.

Speaker 138 We had a few things happening.

Speaker 60 Oh, they're against you.

Speaker 30 They're working against you.

Speaker 47 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 116 Yeah. I mean, we're facing a tough team, you know, and

Speaker 116 we're facing a

Speaker 116 bigger drink company right now.

Speaker 5 And

Speaker 116 we're doing our A-game, you know?

Speaker 65 So it's a good thing.

Speaker 42 All right, yes. We're going into a hard out.

Speaker 92 We'll be back in the next hour.

Speaker 23 Chris Paul will join us. Clint Dempsey will join us.

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Because let's be honest, if shoe shopping isn't fun, are you even doing it right? So go ahead, try something new. Try something different,

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Speaker 49 It's like playing pinball.

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Speaker 35 is obviously the team that we are here representing and the team that we are proud of and a team that is potentially going to win $1 million at this TST.

Speaker 56 Right now, Hope Solo's team is taking on the Speedy Turtles right behind us.

Speaker 11 They are currently up 3-0, but let's remember that no game can end without a walk-off goal happening in target score time.

Speaker 15 This is an electrifying style of soccer.

Speaker 159 We're lucky to be here.

Speaker 23 This Kerry, North Carolina, Wake Med Soccer Park is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen constructed.

Speaker 24 There's been some rain today.

Speaker 20 There's going to be some lightning later, but this grass will remain impeccable and the setup and the facilities are remarkable. Shout out to Carrie North Carolina.

Speaker 48 Shout out to the TST folks and shout out to Concafa Soccer Club potentially going on a run this year.

Speaker 14 The boys are buzzing. We're undefeated.

Speaker 24 We've got a game against Wrexham as you know that is Mr.

Speaker 15 Reynolds and McElhaney's team that there was an entire documentary about.

Speaker 84 This is not their professional team but I believe this is some ex-players from Wrexham that are here.

Speaker 54 They're good squad.

Speaker 14 They'll be our best challenge.

Speaker 84 That game is taking place at 530 Eastern this afternoon.

Speaker 15 Cannot wait to see how the boys respond after a great day one of TST.

Speaker 33 Now, I'm not alone up here.

Speaker 32 No, one half of the hammer.

Speaker 38 Don't Cowboys AP Tone is here.

Speaker 20 The Toxic Table is here at Ty Schmidt and at Boston Connor. Then there's a man who's a college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion, a Roderick Cup winner, and a father of 10.

Speaker 102 Ladies and gentlemen, AJ Hawker.

Speaker 18 Hawker, the legs look good, bud.

Speaker 45 You've been squatting every morning, huh?

Speaker 18 I like you showcasing the calves.

Speaker 28 There's some big-ass calves.

Speaker 114 No, not every morning, but I did see a grella in the weight room the other day. He's out there grinding away, getting ready for the squad for the

Speaker 114 stretch run you guys have coming up.

Speaker 147 Grella, a member of CONCAFA soccer club.

Speaker 90 At one time during the year, he was not on CONCAFA, was actually going to cancel all of CONCAFA.

Speaker 106 And then, you know, we got Ghrela back on the squad, back on the right path, and the boys are now buzzing.

Speaker 28 It's not just obviously TST, the NHL Stanley Cup finals.

Speaker 29 Solo FC has

Speaker 76 won the game.

Speaker 36 They've done it.

Speaker 23 Target score time.

Speaker 36 Solo FC dominating 4-0 win over the Speedy Turtles, who

Speaker 42 once speedy enough over

Speaker 28 Solo FC's team, they can run.

Speaker 57 You can watch, just like in hockey, you can see what team's faster and what teams.

Speaker 20 In TST, you can see what teams are faster, what teams can run more.

Speaker 13 Also, Solo FC, very deep, a lot of players on their bench.

Speaker 23 That's good news because there's a lot of subbing.

Speaker 43 This is an exhausting event as Hope Solo puts the golden scarf, golden fleece.

Speaker 55 on whoever hit the target score time.

Speaker 124 I had a chance to do that just yesterday.

Speaker 7 What an honor.

Speaker 73 It is an honor.

Speaker 71 NHL Stanley Cup finals started last night.

Speaker 23 Edmonton Oilers up 1-0 in the series and an overtime win in Edmonton over the Florida Panthers.

Speaker 101 We talked to Wayne Gretzky in the first hour.

Speaker 28 He chit-chatted about how he feels.

Speaker 88 It's probably going to go seven.

Speaker 15 Florida Panthers are going to answer, but maybe this is the year that a Canadian team wins the Stanley Cup for first time, long time.

Speaker 15 NBA finals start tonight in Oklahoma City as the Thunder, our nine and a half point favorites, as the Indiana Pacers flew over there two days ago in the middle of a tornado.

Speaker 20 Actually got rerouted, plane almost ran out of gas, had to stop in Tulsa, refuel, get back up in the sky, go over to Oklahoma City.

Speaker 27 Five, six hours of travel time, I do believe, with probably some Rocky climbs.

Speaker 47 I'd say Rocky Klims.

Speaker 2 I think the series in Tornado Allen.

Speaker 130 I believe Oklahoma is right in the middle of tornado time.

Speaker 82 Yes, it is.

Speaker 57 And T's and P's, everybody, Indiana also.

Speaker 2 Without a doubt.

Speaker 61 This is the shortest distance between two teams that are playing in the NBA Finals, Oklahoma City and Indianapolis represented in the finals.

Speaker 103 Two small markets, two fan bases that are yearning for a dub, and two fan bases that are going to be incredibly passionate.

Speaker 23 A great style of basketball is going to be on show, on display.

Speaker 28 That happens tonight.

Speaker 32 Let's talk a little bit about NFL football.

Speaker 88 There's been some news out of a training camp happening in Indianapolis.

Speaker 23 Colts quarterback, Anthony Richardson, has suffered a shoulder injury and will be out.

Speaker 82 for minicamp next week.

Speaker 19 Shane Steichen would also go on to say that the hopes are that he will be back for training camp.

Speaker 101 The hopes are that he's back for training camp in a couple months from now is obviously a little bit alarming, but he has had a shoulder injury in the past, got tackled, had surgery, missed the season, came back last year.

Speaker 23 Obviously, he's had numerous other injuries as well throughout his short NFL career thus far.

Speaker 61 Shoulder injury, not good.

Speaker 28 Hopefully, this isn't something that has been lingering, and hopefully, this is something he can get past because this year is a year where he can explode on the scene as a superstar in the NFL, live up to the number four overall pick hype that he was just a few years ago.

Speaker 80 Daniel Jones has been brought in to compete with him.

Speaker 55 Danny Dimes looking to make Indianapolis his forever home after everything that happened in New York.

Speaker 28 Obviously, an injury in minicamp and OTAs is not great, but at least we got Danny Dimes there.

Speaker 18 Supposed to be a competition.

Speaker 19 What does this mean to you, AJ, looking forward for the Colts?

Speaker 114 I mean, yeah, I believe that definitely is going to be a competition, but if you're Anthony Richardson, you want every single rep you can possibly get, whether it's OTAs, minicamp, and like you said, the fact that he said he will hopefully be available for training camp is what would worry me thinking all right we're what we're six eight weeks out of training camp six weeks most likely I want to make sure my quarterback is is a hundred percent going into camp Stephen Holder reported that Shane Steichen says Anthony Richardson aggravated his right AC joint which is the surgery that he had two years ago.

Speaker 97 Not great.

Speaker 155 No, not at all.

Speaker 2 Not great.

Speaker 93 Especially if you're, I mean, they're not hitting him, obviously. If you aggravated just throwing, that's definitely not good.

Speaker 91 C.J.

Speaker 68 Stroud also had some soreness in his right arm didn't throw it at OTAs we're all alarmed by that hopefully Anthony's able to get healthy hopefully they're able to have a full roster going in a training camp and a full competition what's that Connor well they don't and it sucks but if you're Danny Dimes this shouldn't be a competition anymore It should be, hey, these next two weeks, this is my team.

Speaker 68 And after that, they're never going to turn it back over to AR. That's just me personally.

Speaker 68 I assume Danny Dimes, if he wants this to be his forever home, which hopefully he does, he will just say, you know what, this competition's over.

Speaker 109 This is my team now.

Speaker 68 I'm not going to, you know, pitter-patter around while Anthony Richardson's getting better.

Speaker 68 I'm going to take advantage of the time and basically show everybody, hey, AR, that was a fun time, but it's Danny Dimes time in India, okay?

Speaker 66 Sorry.

Speaker 98 Leading the meeting rooms, obviously leading the hangouts, the throwing in the summer, everything like that.

Speaker 19 This does kind of open the door for Danny Dimes to potentially feel as if he is the starter, as opposed to in a competition not wanting to piss anybody off because there's going to be allegiances and alliances in the locker room.

Speaker 19 Battling through that is a part of having a quarterback competition, especially when you bring in a guy from outside, getting paid more than the rookie that was drafted number four overall.

Speaker 89 Interesting situation.

Speaker 61 Hate that he's hurt again, but this is kind of becoming Anthony Richardson's story in the NFL.

Speaker 131 Hopefully he's able to get healthy.

Speaker 28 Derek Carr spoke about his shoulder injury that has sidelined him for the rest of his life.

Speaker 107 This kind of came out of nowhere.

Speaker 39 It's kind of came out of nowhere.

Speaker 20 So last season happens.

Speaker 23 Derek Carr and the Saints obviously don't have a great year.

Speaker 142 But then the offseason horizons and it's like, okay, Derek Carr is going to be their quarterback.

Speaker 131 He got back into throwing.

Speaker 55 He had some shoulder

Speaker 62 soreness, I guess.

Speaker 89 Then he goes to the Saints.

Speaker 19 They start talking. What's the future?

Speaker 55 What's this?

Speaker 11 He retires. He's no longer their quarterback.

Speaker 35 Now we're getting more information.

Speaker 88 He basically said he would have needed surgery.

Speaker 23 If you would have got surgery, you would have been rehabbing all season.

Speaker 88 They would have had to pay him 20 million or whatever the amount of millions it is.

Speaker 19 He would have been doing nothing.

Speaker 20 So instead of that, he just retired.

Speaker 67 Babyface moved by Derek Carr.

Speaker 79 And also,

Speaker 20 how can you have that serious of a shoulder injury without knowing it for a while?

Speaker 35 That's seemingly what happened here for Derek Carr.

Speaker 60 Either he's incredibly tough and he's just like, ah, it just hurts a little bit, or this thing came up out of nowhere.

Speaker 121 I don't fully understand how we got here.

Speaker 114 I don't fully understand either.

Speaker 114 I would think after the season gets over, that's when you have your postseason, you know, they check, you get your MRIs and everything, and you're thinking, if I get this shoulder or whatever, I got an injury, let's get it fixed.

Speaker 47 Initial injury. Yeah, he hurt his

Speaker 68 hand or arm or wrist, and then they didn't realize that his shoulder was hurt at all all until his wrist completely healed after the season. Wrist heals, he goes to throw.

Speaker 68 Oh, shit, I hurt my shoulder as well.

Speaker 68 So they just had no idea that this guy had a bummed shoulder until he recovered from the initial wrist injury that he got from launching himself for a first down, which is comedy.

Speaker 121 Yeah, it is hilarious, especially in the time of the season and the expectations at that point of the season for what Derek Carr tried to do.

Speaker 35 Kelly Moe down there is the first-time head coach of the New Orleans Saints.

Speaker 62 They know it's going to take a while yeah they know it's going to take a while well

Speaker 30 but that's why everybody said why didn't they draft shador they need a starter that's fair they didn't really address it early

Speaker 15 shador sanders threw a touchdown at cleveland browns but he can't do that wow

Speaker 20 i wonder if i wonder if tyler shuck is throwing it he probably not i uh shador sanders looking comfortable spinning it touchdown cleveland bronze shador sanders will he be the quarterback in the fall

Speaker 153 We shall see.

Speaker 142 If he goes from fifth round to starter, with the amount of people that are on that roster, that'll be a great story.

Speaker 26 And he has definitely earned it.

Speaker 19 Good luck to Shador. Good luck to the Sanders family.

Speaker 53 I also like the fact that Coach Prime's coming out talking, going, you guys are lying about my bull.

Speaker 6 I don't like it.

Speaker 23 We shall see how it all works out.

Speaker 126 Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who's a two-time Olympic gold medalist, 12-time All-Star in the NBA, 11-time all-NBA, nine-time all-defense.

Speaker 27 He bops the wood.

Speaker 68 Yeah, yeah, he does.

Speaker 81 That guy bops the wood.

Speaker 113 Ladies and gentlemen, a member of the San Antonio Spurs, also selected to the NBA's

Speaker 84 75th anniversary team, Chris Ball.

Speaker 5 Yeah!

Speaker 2 What, no kitchen?

Speaker 6 How you doing?

Speaker 81 I do not know that stat.

Speaker 132 Nine time all defense.

Speaker 6 I did not know that stat.

Speaker 7 Most people don't.

Speaker 38 Legit.

Speaker 81 As I read it right there, I was like, oh, God.

Speaker 70 You probably should have had a couple more.

Speaker 60 Oh, it should have been 11.

Speaker 60 Should have been 10 probably should have a couple more maybe maybe like 11 or 12 I don't get to watch because they don't show it enough you're smacking the wood every time they're coming down

Speaker 2 doing all that

Speaker 32 why not we can't bop the wood a little bit I play offense too Okay, let's talk about you playing offense.

Speaker 28 You're a point guard.

Speaker 82 They put you together with Wemby down there.

Speaker 62 What was it like playing with him?

Speaker 26 Is he different than anybody that's ever played basketball?

Speaker 19 And what's your takeaway of the San Antonio Spurs going forward?

Speaker 111 Wemby is different. He's different being 7'4 ⁇ , able to move the way that he does, and he just loves the game.
He loves the hoop.

Speaker 111 I think the Spurs are going to be great. You have Harrison Barnes, who's a great vet.
They brought in DeAaron Fox, all of us. You know, I think it's just team wants to stay healthy.

Speaker 36 Allegedly, potential landing spot for a couple free agents.

Speaker 19 Allegedly, the San Antonio Spurs might be active in the market to get some other big-time names down there.

Speaker 19 Everybody obviously chasing the playoffs in the NBA Finals, which tip off tonight you're a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder yeah great years in

Speaker 19 that fan base we've allegedly been told best in all of NBA allegedly huh

Speaker 111 it's competitive to see that hat you got on go ahead yeah but it is just I'm just telling you what it's being alleged I've never experienced it myself I could see and on TV it looks amazing yeah what would a championship mean for that city and why is that team perfect for that city seemingly everything everything I'm sure there's the same things you would say about the Indiana fan base, about everybody just being, you know, hardworking.

Speaker 138 And if I played

Speaker 111 my rookie year in Oklahoma, my first two years in NBA, I played in Oklahoma because I got displaced with Hurricane Katrina.

Speaker 138 So I literally grew up there, right?

Speaker 111 My first two years in Oklahoma City. Then I had an opportunity to go back when I left Houston.
And the fans there are

Speaker 111 just genuine. They love their team, right? They love their team.

Speaker 137 They appreciate you if you played for them before, but when you come to play against them they're they're about their team let's talk about sga and his crew obviously an incredible he's six foot six i guess i i didn't know that i had no idea he was six foot six from watching him play because all the nba guys you know this

Speaker 13 are so abnormally tall so tall let alone wemby

Speaker 72 right well that's the thing that's when i see you

Speaker 105 You're a tall, actual human.

Speaker 49 Yeah.

Speaker 47 You know,

Speaker 51 walking amongst us.

Speaker 2 Tall guy. Yeah.

Speaker 35 On a basketball court absolutely absurd i had no idea sga was six foot six can he talk about his development from whenever he got there to what he is now and is that the team you're picking i assume the oklahoma city thunder to win the nba finals i ain't picking nothing you know what i mean

Speaker 28 say it with your chest

Speaker 111 i'm gonna tell you straight up because um i mean i'm a fan of the game not even trying to BS you, but one of the assistant coaches for the Indiana Pacers was in my wedding.

Speaker 96 He's like my brother. Oh, I like that.

Speaker 59 I like that. General Pargo, who I love.

Speaker 111 That's my brother. You know what I mean?

Speaker 138 So I think it's going to be a hard, hard-fought series.

Speaker 111 Obviously, I definitely have ties to OKC with Shea, with Lou Dort, with the coaches, with Sam Presley, all those guys. But

Speaker 111 I'm going to definitely pull up to a game to see it.

Speaker 71 Can't wait to see you there.

Speaker 142 Can't wait to see the reaction.

Speaker 35 Let's talk about Tyrese Halliburton.

Speaker 124 I feel like he is an old school point guard.

Speaker 23 I feel like you probably feel the same way.

Speaker 89 I don't want to speak for you.

Speaker 19 Whenever they look at his stats, I feel like his points are always the first thing that people attack him for.

Speaker 124 He is the facilitator for that whole team, though, and he loves that position.

Speaker 51 Is that normal in the modern NBA?

Speaker 121 And how do you view Tyrese's game?

Speaker 111 Man, he just plays like with a spirit, with a joy. You know what I mean? And you can tell, anytime you see a point guard, you can tell how they are when you look at their teammates.
Right?

Speaker 111 So his teammates, they always know they're going to get the ball at the right time. He's going to make the right play.
So it's a fun way to play.

Speaker 111 But actually, my favorite player on their team to watch probably is Nimhart dude he get headbutted by Jalen Brunson well he's a two-way player you know what I mean he plays defense he takes that assignment night in and night out but also he'll he'll go get a bucket if you need him to Pascal Siakam also insane he can run that team runs how many I think Oklahoma City probably known for the same thing Is there teams that you guys know, like a Carlisle team, for instance, this team is going to run?

Speaker 35 And how do you prepare for that?

Speaker 111 It's tough, man. The Pacers are like that.
They play fast, right?

Speaker 111 And the thing is, any great team they want to figure out what their identity is and that's what the pacers figured out and that's what okay figured out okay so good shea's out there jalen williams out there but all of those guys they star in their role they defend and they have fun playing defense nine time all defensive selection should have been 11

Speaker 98 or 12 maybe maybe even 13.

Speaker 19 how many years you've been in the league Just finished 20.

Speaker 58 Jeez, man.

Speaker 125 Oh, yeah, definitely just 12.

Speaker 2 Those first seven years.

Speaker 107 AJ has a question for you.

Speaker 114 Yeah, so if you were coaching the Pacers, how do you beat this Oklahoma City team? We hear no matter how much the Pacers want to run, OKC can run. They can kind of do whatever you want.

Speaker 49 Whatever version you want to play.

Speaker 91 Yes, you're scouting report.

Speaker 30 You're a point guard.

Speaker 45 You're coach on the Pacific.

Speaker 114 So it does kind of seem like to take down OKC and beat them seems like it's a very, very difficult task right now. How would you go about attacking them, I guess?

Speaker 111 What's interesting is watching Indiana play in the playoffs, right?

Speaker 111 Even when they played against the Knicks, most people, if you talk hooped with them, they're like, man, look at the score of this game. Usually the playoffs are a lot slower, low-scoring games.

Speaker 111 I think it was tough for the Knicks to beat them because you looked at it, it still looked like a regular season game. So, I think that's a lot of credit to Indiana in continuing to pay at that pace.

Speaker 111 And that's hard to do, especially in the playoffs when

Speaker 111 everybody's trying to grind out each possession. Like, that's a mindset that you have to have: that make or miss, get the ball out, and we're going.

Speaker 6 I think it scored 130, yeah, that's great in a playoff in a playoff game.

Speaker 47 Time to watch, and

Speaker 39 if you score score on them, they don't care.

Speaker 89 Like, if you score on them, their entire bench, I was lucky to say that, push.

Speaker 121 Like, literally, as soon as that ball's in a bucket, that thing's coming back the other way.

Speaker 111 And if you can do that consistently all game long, it's like, where'd you out, Doug?

Speaker 141 Yeah, I feel like it would be.

Speaker 111 It can, but if there's a team that's built for, it's... Okay, see.

Speaker 91 Connor has a question for you, Chris.

Speaker 68 Yeah, Chris, a lot of conversation after this whole Dallas Mavericks thing getting the number one overall pick. Shaquille O'Neal came out with a story.

Speaker 68 You know, David Stern asked him if you want to play in the hot or the cold. He said hot, the magic, get the first pick.

Speaker 68 LeBron said some things about, you know, it's not as big of a coincidence that Cleveland got the first pick when I was there. Derek Rose with Chicago.

Speaker 68 Obviously, there was the situation where your trade, allegedly, when the owner owned

Speaker 68 or owned the Pelicans, Hornets, then... Allegedly.

Speaker 108 That wasn't alleged.

Speaker 47 That was an alleged. Yeah, yeah, you're right.
I just want to make sure.

Speaker 50 That happened.

Speaker 68 That did happen. David Stern said, no, we're not letting you go to L.A.
How do you feel about the fodder around the first pick?

Speaker 68 Because, you know, most people think, of course, the Mavericks trade Luca to L.A. What is, you know, what do the Mavericks get?

Speaker 68 They get Cooper Flag, who everyone's saying is worth $500 to a billion dollars by the time it's all said and done.

Speaker 47 What do you think about that?

Speaker 111 Just so you know, I'm just like everybody else, right? Like, I'm a fan.

Speaker 111 I was at home in L.A. and...

Speaker 111 I was watching the ping-pong balls like everybody. And then when I seen the Spurs,

Speaker 111 what, they popped into like the top four.

Speaker 2 Yeah, So we was going crazy.

Speaker 111 Guys in my team, group chat, we like, oh, oh,

Speaker 111 what's about to happen? And I'm in L.A. right now, and Cooper Flag has been out there.
I've been in the gym with him a couple times or whatnot. So he is as real as advertised.

Speaker 111 So for me,

Speaker 6 I don't know.

Speaker 111 I'd be like, damn, that is crazy.

Speaker 138 That is crazy.

Speaker 111 But just so you know, that Lakers situation, that's not allegedly.

Speaker 47 Okay.

Speaker 28 Yeah, so what?

Speaker 62 The team owned the Pelicans at the time, though, right?

Speaker 90 The league owned.

Speaker 6 The league owned, right?

Speaker 111 So our owner at the time, George Shin, I guess it fell on hard times and didn't have the money. And so he basically gave or sold the team back to the NBA, to the league.

Speaker 130 And they were running it at the time.

Speaker 61 And Stern said, we're not.

Speaker 98 Yeah, right.

Speaker 74 I had to go play with Carlos.

Speaker 47 You think I'm trading Chris Paul? Yeah, right.

Speaker 96 No way.

Speaker 111 What's interesting is it was right after the CBA negotiations.

Speaker 89 And you were a pretty big voice in that entire thing?

Speaker 111 I was on the executive committee at the time.

Speaker 35 Oh, nice. That's a good spot to be in the ownership box.

Speaker 47 It really screwed.

Speaker 71 If it's anything like the NFL.

Speaker 54 Are you an unrestricted free agent right now?

Speaker 123 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 95 I will be. And you're playing?

Speaker 111 That's my plan, is to play.

Speaker 55 Okay, so I know 20 years in, you look in phenomenal shape.

Speaker 121 You have a snack company that's like healthy snacks.

Speaker 58 Thanks for bringing them. Ice soup.
Yeah, thanks for bringing it.

Speaker 103 Last year we got a six.

Speaker 47 Oh, we got them right here. We got them right here.

Speaker 74 We're the pickled chips, man.

Speaker 69 Where are the snacks?

Speaker 2 Yo,

Speaker 111 they're having a conversation. Yeah, as they should.

Speaker 47 Snacks. Where are the snacks?

Speaker 70 Yeah, snacks. Do we have the snacks?

Speaker 60 There you go.

Speaker 62 Yeah.

Speaker 89 Anyways, you take care of your body.

Speaker 35 Body just temple. Well, obviously, you're all in.

Speaker 75 Absolutely.

Speaker 35 Have you thought about how many more years?

Speaker 89 Is there a conversation?

Speaker 39 Because everybody right now is doing the LeBron combo.

Speaker 32 It's like, well, how much longer can LeBron go? How much longer can LeBron?

Speaker 133 Hey, team.

Speaker 2 How you guys going?

Speaker 2 Hey, eat good. Thank you.

Speaker 6 We eat good out here.

Speaker 96 Thank you so much.

Speaker 87 The big deal ranch. Thank you, Fit Dill Ranch.

Speaker 2 Thank you. The big deal ranch.

Speaker 136 This is my go-to.

Speaker 98 Thank you.

Speaker 111 That's my favorite right there.

Speaker 74 You got to try that.

Speaker 104 This is good eating popcorn.

Speaker 113 It has

Speaker 78 surprisingly plant-based ingredients inside of it.

Speaker 89 No artificial flavors, no preservatives, no synthetic colors, and it's deliciously

Speaker 122 vegan. That's true.

Speaker 89 Okay, so this one is popped in coconut oil.

Speaker 70 Obviously, that's what you're supposed to do.

Speaker 47 Yeah, it's good for you.

Speaker 103 I like to cook my steaks in coconut or just get a little fish oils as well for the joints.

Speaker 23 Everything that Chris Paul is doing.

Speaker 83 Beef tilo.

Speaker 75 But everybody's talking about LeBron.

Speaker 98 How long is LeBron going to go? How long?

Speaker 15 For you, you, similar situation?

Speaker 19 What is the conversation you have?

Speaker 135 Like, is it with your family?

Speaker 23 Is it with your agent?

Speaker 89 Is it with yourself? Is it with trainer?

Speaker 20 How does it go about that decision and looking at the future?

Speaker 111 It's with my family more than anything. You know, I see you, Pat, and you got one.

Speaker 96 How many kids you have, man? One daughter, Michael.

Speaker 47 I have one daughter.

Speaker 111 I see you with your daughter all day.

Speaker 2 Thank you. She's beautiful.

Speaker 111 I know everybody has their own situations. I talked to my family about it.
My son just turned 16. My daughter's 12.
The past six seasons, I've lived without them. Right?

Speaker 111 So I go to San Antonio, Phoenix, Phoenix, Golden State.

Speaker 111 No, they were in Houston with me. Okay see, but I've been around a few teams, but I've been away from them for the last six years.
So

Speaker 47 it's a little different.

Speaker 60 That's the conversation?

Speaker 111 That's the conversation.

Speaker 35 You think body's good?

Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 20 You think body's good for this season, or do you think like I could still play, play for a while if I wanted to?

Speaker 116 Well, I don't think I want to play for a while while you know.

Speaker 111 I'm being honest with you. Like, I want to be dad.
You know what I mean? I still love to play. I was up in the gym at 6 a.m.

Speaker 124 this morning. How'd we shoot? Pretty good?

Speaker 111 I didn't shoot this morning. I worked out this morning.
But yesterday I was in the gym. Day before I was in the gym.
And it's crazy. My daughter actually hoops now.

Speaker 111 So before I flew out here, I was in the gym with her for 20 minutes. Like with kids, sometimes you just got to do short sessions.

Speaker 111 So I was in 20 minutes doing ball handling with her, and it was priceless. You don't get that time back.

Speaker 98 Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 153 And it seems to go faster as they get older from what I've been told.

Speaker 111 Yeah, but I want to hoop because I love to hoop, but at the same time, I do want to be that.

Speaker 81 You're kind of battling that.

Speaker 60 I mean, Boston's a good place to bring the family.

Speaker 47 That's really far.

Speaker 27 That's the furthest you could possibly.

Speaker 94 But I'm just saying, some of those other places, maybe not the best.

Speaker 68 Boston, the schools.

Speaker 65 Is that right?

Speaker 154 The high schools, the private schools.

Speaker 47 Yeah, that's what we've heard about Boston.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm telling you. I'm very welcoming, people.

Speaker 94 It's up and coming.

Speaker 83 It's up and coming.

Speaker 91 Ty has a question for you, Chris.

Speaker 109 I'm curious how the players in the NBA feel about it. We always talk about the NFL, like, going into a season, every single fan base is like, hey, we can win a Super Bowl this year.

Speaker 109 But guys who actually play, or people who are in the know, know there's probably only eight teams who are going to compete this year.

Speaker 109 We've seen that I think this is going to be the seventh or the eighth year in a row where a different champion is crowned.

Speaker 66 Does it feel like going into seasons

Speaker 109 with where the parody's at in the league, like more teams can actually compete and win a title?

Speaker 6 Yeah,

Speaker 111 I mean, I've been on all these different committees for years and know how they want parity in the league but the thing that you can't ever um

Speaker 111 calculate is injuries right injuries are everything yeah in any league yeah anthony richardson just hurt his shoulder in otas for the colts we're out of quarterback i'm daddy thanks for bringing it up just happened 10 minutes but but but those are the things you know the the injury to jason tatum right you know kyrie irving getting hurt when he did all these different guys you know what i mean what is y'all laughing at

Speaker 47 all i'm just hammering we're eating your popcorn we're getting pictured we are getting yelled at from it

Speaker 2 just came into our house we are getting yelled at

Speaker 2 the microphone

Speaker 2 hey this is good eaten this is good eat

Speaker 81 what you're going out here my bad how are you going out here uh i played last night oh i've seen it yeah okay you had a wide open shot excuse me the goalie was in perfect position

Speaker 23 the guy that goalie for their team was really good they went five but he was really

Speaker 47 good player. You had a wide open shot from the bottom.

Speaker 17 I think that was actually a new goalie that had to give up any.

Speaker 140 Put it in the woods.

Speaker 68 This is the one that really should have gone in.

Speaker 58 But look at that assist.

Speaker 47 I'm Chris Paul.

Speaker 5 What are you going to do?

Speaker 111 Get that out of here.

Speaker 27 Chris Paul with the assist.

Speaker 23 And then here's Porch might be the best player in the league. He actually won a tournament last year.

Speaker 6 That right there.

Speaker 1 You almost hurt yourself.

Speaker 47 No, not almost.

Speaker 96 Yeah, we're in the back spot.

Speaker 7 You see the power on the shot?

Speaker 147 I fell a couple times last night.

Speaker 91 I hadn't touched a soccer ball since last year's DST.

Speaker 83 I remember what you did last year.

Speaker 74 Thank you, Chris.

Speaker 65 Jeez.

Speaker 113 This is a great tournament.

Speaker 87 Hey, this is a great tournament.

Speaker 126 You're a part of it, right?

Speaker 47 Absolutely.

Speaker 116 We are so grateful for y'all being here.

Speaker 111 Seriously, man. Seriously.
It's something that I look forward to.

Speaker 111 I wish I was in the finals and couldn't be here, but listen, this is a great time.

Speaker 98 Are you going to play ever?

Speaker 129 Running your mouth a lot.

Speaker 96 Are you ever going to get on the field?

Speaker 105 Absolutely. Okay.
Absolutely.

Speaker 144 When you play for our team next year.

Speaker 2 Next year? Okay, fine.

Speaker 138 If I'm done playing, if I've retired, I will absolutely get out there with y'all.

Speaker 2 Okay, you're on.

Speaker 2 All right, don't get out there.

Speaker 96 I'll get out there with y'all.

Speaker 39 From what I know with the way you play and the way you operate, you're going to love our team. We are a hard-nosed team.

Speaker 47 Is that right?

Speaker 96 We're smacking the woods.

Speaker 98 Talk a lot of junk.

Speaker 37 Yeah, a lot of shit being talked out of our team.

Speaker 28 Tone has a question for you, Chris.

Speaker 93 Yeah, Chris, last week we played a clip of Joe Flacco. He was asked about mentoring Shader and Kenny Pickett and Dylan Gabriel, the younger quarterbacks on his team.

Speaker 93 And he basically said, if I answer this and say, yeah, I want to be a mentor, it means I don't want to start. Or if I say, no, I don't want to be a mentor, it makes me look like an asshole.

Speaker 93 He basically said, If these guys don't pay attention to what I'm doing and realize that I've been in the league for 15, 16 years, whatever it is, like that's that's kind of on them.

Speaker 93 How does the NBA treat that? Like, now that you're a veteran, the Spurs obviously had the last two rookie of the years.

Speaker 93 Like, do you feel like you have to be a mentor, or is it on them to kind of follow you and watch kind of what you do?

Speaker 111 I think it's a combination of both, but you got to be who you are, right? And I've genuinely always just, I'm not a hoarder of information, right?

Speaker 111 So, I'm I'm gonna share what I know what I see to to all the guys that's been my teammates but I say this all the time guys only gonna respect what you're saying if you can hoop yeah right and in this new generation they don't care about what you did they want to know what you can do now and so from the different teams that I've went to when I went to San Antonio this past summer The first time I went to go hoop with the guys, I don't know why I remember this, I think it was because it was around my daughter's birthday.

Speaker 111 It was August 12th through the 16th. It was a mini camp.
And I treated that almost like the finals because your first impression is everything.

Speaker 111 So I made sure that when I came to the gym that I was in tip-top shape and when we hoop,

Speaker 111 I was going to get to it. Because once they see that, now they'll listen to you.

Speaker 111 And the mentorship kind of happens.

Speaker 121 Okay, so let's talk about Usain being in tip-top shape.

Speaker 142 and showing up like that was the finals.

Speaker 151 Luca just came out on the Mind the Game podcast and said that when he got to LA,

Speaker 127 I seen this guy do something never seen before.

Speaker 89 He said he was there 10 hours before the game. He said, I was getting there and he was already finished with his workout.

Speaker 131 Feels like I've heard that story a couple different times.

Speaker 142 And is your generation like kind of the last generation that was those types of dudes? Do younger generation guys pick it up from you guys?

Speaker 62 Like, how do you think that kind of works?

Speaker 146 And you obviously know LeBron very well.

Speaker 4 Has he always been that way?

Speaker 124 And what is your shit?

Speaker 60 I assume you're a very diligent worker as well.

Speaker 72 You didn't put up any shots today i actually

Speaker 111 i put up some shots today i think i my jumper got better today sure chris yeah um i don't know actually when you get older you actually like work out more right so it takes longer yeah i mean we have shoot around at 10 o'clock this past season 7 7 30 a.m every single day myself and harrison barnes is at the gym every single day right it's just It's part of your routine, right?

Speaker 130 Do you drink your own urine?

Speaker 96 I don't know. That's what he he did.
Hell no. That's what he did.

Speaker 107 That's what they did. You get better.

Speaker 110 Have not.

Speaker 65 Who told you that? He just did this.

Speaker 114 He just did this with Johnny, Johnny Damon.

Speaker 47 It's a whole thing.

Speaker 47 I've heard of that before.

Speaker 112 Bingo, yeah, right here.

Speaker 96 To each his own.

Speaker 50 Oh, no. I don't, no judgment if you don't.
No, no, respect.

Speaker 47 My pee is so hot.

Speaker 100 I'm not drinking it.

Speaker 2 I know.

Speaker 32 You put it in the fridge. Yeah,

Speaker 50 I would never cost a couple of times.

Speaker 149 I never seen that.

Speaker 124 I would have not tried it. So, what do you do?

Speaker 124 What do you do?

Speaker 15 You do acupuncture and all that?

Speaker 35 Do you have like a full?

Speaker 111 Yeah, I do sauna, cold tub, massage,

Speaker 111 diet, all this different type of stuff, man. But the biggest thing I tell, try to tell people, you got like, keep moving, right?

Speaker 47 More than anything, keep moving.

Speaker 147 Yeah, that's why you saw what you saw yesterday.

Speaker 151 I don't move a lot.

Speaker 47 I move.

Speaker 124 Will you work out forever, you think?

Speaker 127 You think you'll be a guy that wakes up every morning, works out forever? Yes.

Speaker 23 You won't get like super lazy when you retire?

Speaker 111 No,

Speaker 111 there's a level of vanity that goes to it, too. I'm outside a little bit too much.

Speaker 100 You know what I mean?

Speaker 111 I go too many places.

Speaker 111 And you know what? You former athletes, right?

Speaker 111 Former athletes, when you meet other former athletes, right, and you see them and they don't look like they did, as soon as they walk away, what y'all say?

Speaker 47 I'll be like, fast.

Speaker 51 Connor has to kind of let himself go.

Speaker 68 Yeah, Chris, another thing I feel as though it came up last year a little bit was kind of the changing of how the NBA is getting more physical. And how awesome it is.

Speaker 68 And now this year, the conversation throughout the playoffs, especially with Brunson and SGA, has been kind of the free throw artist type of it. You've been all NBA defense nine times.

Speaker 68 When you're playing someone who you know kind of flops, if you will, when you get a little physical with them, how do you kind of get over that?

Speaker 68 Because we saw Jada McDaniels at one point say, like, all right, screw it.

Speaker 83 Like, I'm just going to push him as hard as I can to the ground.

Speaker 68 I know SGA's your guy, and you guys have a great relationship, but that style of basketball as an old school player does that bother you at all when you when you see it happening just because of how different it is and how the old school guys look at you know the free throw artist as like yeah see this is why they want to be able to play in the 90s and all that the game has changed right and fortunately I've played long enough to be able to see it change somebody was showing a I saw a playoff game on Instagram the other day from back when I first came in the league and the final scores were in the 70s and the 80s.

Speaker 115 Like the game changes, right?

Speaker 111 And so,

Speaker 111 guys are stronger, maybe faster, or whatnot, learn new moves and all this stuff. So, I think you just got to study and know what they like to do.

Speaker 111 Like, I play against Shea too, and I know that he's going to try to hit me with that forearm or whatnot, right? But the same thing with Nimhart.

Speaker 138 Y'all ever seen Nimhart when he drive and he hit guys with that shoulder?

Speaker 111 There's a physicality of the game, but there's an awareness that you got to guard and you got to be ready for that, right?

Speaker 111 So, it's tough, and this is why this is the best players in the world, night in and night out, trying to figure out how to curate points.

Speaker 125 You got to change the game. You can't let the game change you.

Speaker 47 Ain't that right, Chris? Look at you. Barr.

Speaker 2 I didn't make it up.

Speaker 47 That's been said before.

Speaker 53 Shrek.

Speaker 143 Definitely. We actually have

Speaker 150 a graphic for you to see, Chris, just so you could see what it could potentially look like next year.

Speaker 5 Wow!

Speaker 47 Another potential signing with Messi.

Speaker 94 Messi was up here.

Speaker 149 Lou Messiess.

Speaker 112 Lou Messi, not Lionel.

Speaker 100 Lou.

Speaker 137 We're trying to get him to play for the United United States of America, too, because he's lived in Miami for a while now.

Speaker 121 We think that should be fair.

Speaker 147 But Lou Messi, a potential signing, there's a chance he gets a billion offer from Saudi, I guess.

Speaker 47 Oh, have you heard about that?

Speaker 95 I ain't heard about that.

Speaker 23 No, there's been a lot of conversation, a lot of soccer chatter.

Speaker 155 You know, I've been around it for the last couple of days.

Speaker 2 Yeah, him and.

Speaker 129 And Lou Messi's, Lionel Messi's contract is coming top.

Speaker 129 What's that? What's he got?

Speaker 2 I don't know what that was all about.

Speaker 96 Yeah, I think there's.

Speaker 47 Late entry, Row rumble.

Speaker 112 Oh, no, someone's

Speaker 96 been a

Speaker 140 player laying down here

Speaker 13 from the say word FC team for the last few minutes.

Speaker 125 Oh, shit. I'd say like

Speaker 23 10 minutes, I think there has been a group of people standing over there.

Speaker 96 Did not know that there was a player down in that group, but there has been a player down, seemingly got injured

Speaker 39 during warm-ups.

Speaker 68 Seems to be sitting up.

Speaker 6 Passed out.

Speaker 115 Passed down. What's that?

Speaker 115 Passed out.

Speaker 92 A coach, we're getting word that a coach passed out on the field there during warm-ups for say word fc

Speaker 39 it's been yeah definitely it has been a uh he didn't move we did see him move though right zeke if we had to he's up right now yeah

Speaker 23 all right all right so we have uh there was a while though he was just down yeah uh like while you were giving a great answer It was a great answer.

Speaker 136 I didn't listen to any of it, but the tone you were speaking seemed to be a good answer.

Speaker 2 I was looking at this.

Speaker 112 You are sick.

Speaker 47 Yeah, but

Speaker 96 I saw him move, Chris. I saw him move.

Speaker 47 Good answer.

Speaker 2 Oh, he's not moving around.

Speaker 69 There we go.

Speaker 72 That's scary stuff.

Speaker 134 You never know.

Speaker 92 You literally never know what it could be.

Speaker 47 Happy he's okay.

Speaker 89 So you could potentially be on Concave for next year.

Speaker 142 Good luck to you and all your decision-making that you have to do.

Speaker 111 Man, I appreciate y'all.

Speaker 89 And you would like to make a prediction for the finals.

Speaker 60 We appreciate you doing that.

Speaker 47 Who are you predicting?

Speaker 23 Me, Pacers in six.

Speaker 47 You think so?

Speaker 104 Pacers in six.

Speaker 6 Okay.

Speaker 107 AJ? AJ?

Speaker 105 Pacers in six, bro.

Speaker 129 Yeah. Connor?

Speaker 68 Thunder and five.

Speaker 58 Disgusting.

Speaker 138 Ty? Pacers in seven.

Speaker 145 Love that. Ty? Sam.

Speaker 111 Chris? Do y'all contractually have to say that?

Speaker 94 I said, what are you talking about? I said thunder.

Speaker 47 No, he said pacers. I don't know.

Speaker 93 Do we want our food to get spinning?

Speaker 2 And thunder and five.

Speaker 91 He said thunder and five.

Speaker 150 Quick series, he said, actually.

Speaker 103 Your prediction, Chris, followed by.

Speaker 58 It's going to be a good series.

Speaker 107 Seven games.

Speaker 6 You think?

Speaker 81 That's what you just said. Good series.

Speaker 138 I said it's going to be a good series.

Speaker 70 Six games, he says.

Speaker 89 Great series would be seven. Got it.

Speaker 15 Anything else? Who has more talent?

Speaker 111 You know what's funny, honestly, and I'll tell you this. It's cool for guys to get a predictions and all that stuff like that.

Speaker 138 I always say this, I play.

Speaker 47 Like, I still play.

Speaker 89 Isn't it so stupid, the predictions thing?

Speaker 35 How are you supposed to know?

Speaker 110 No, it ain't even that.

Speaker 111 It's just that the way that I'm built and orchestrated, it's hard for me to to fool with you after I've seen you say that you think somebody else is gonna win that's that's that's you actually have no idea what's gonna happen first of all we don't when we make predictions people care so much if you were to give a prediction right there

Speaker 142 Chris Paul hates the pacers oh yeah it would have been immediately uh last thing here before we let you go and we appreciate your time Adam Silver talked about a team USA versus team world concept that they're gonna do for the all-star game I believe he's on Fox on yeah I believe he was on breakfast ball breakfast ball morning ball

Speaker 23 He said on there that this is something they've been thinking about.

Speaker 135 Obviously, a lot of players are interested in this. Do you think this will heighten the all-star game?

Speaker 32 Because Pro Bowl has a problem too.

Speaker 70 We want to flag football.

Speaker 23 The NHL figured out with Four Nations.

Speaker 89 I think Adam Silver is seeing that and saying, hey, there's a chance we can maybe capitalize on this.

Speaker 35 Do you think guys will care if Team World was to beat the Team USA's ass?

Speaker 128 Do you think that'll matter?

Speaker 111 I got a lot of thoughts and stuff on the all-star game stuff. You know, that was news to me when I seen that, too.

Speaker 147 What are your thoughts on the all-star game?

Speaker 111 I mean, it needs some shaping and some fixing. Hopefully this does it.
What they tried last year wasn't it.

Speaker 6 You know what I mean? I'd say.

Speaker 92 That was on the same weekend as Four Nations too with Hawking.

Speaker 111 No, a few years ago when it was in, you know, a few years ago when it was in Chicago, I don't know if that was 2020, 2021, whatnot, we took the model from the TBT.

Speaker 111 And that was the first all-star game with the target score.

Speaker 149 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 111 That was the first time we did an all-star game with that target score.

Speaker 35 I believe in basketball, it's called Elam Elam Ending.

Speaker 111 Elam Ending. Elam Ending.

Speaker 2 Exactly.

Speaker 47 I believe is the name of it.

Speaker 74 It's great.

Speaker 47 There's always a walk-off.

Speaker 111 Exactly.

Speaker 47 So we did it in the All-Star game, the Chicago All-Star game.

Speaker 16 Should that do that for USA World?

Speaker 55 Should have target score time.

Speaker 68 Absolutely. The worry I know is just like anytime it's an all-star game, like Luca and Jokic make a point to just basically dick around.
Like, will guys actually

Speaker 68 try still?

Speaker 50 I mean, it's not just them to you.

Speaker 111 First and foremost,

Speaker 111 you just got to make sure that the guys,

Speaker 111 you know, really want to compete or whatnot. You got to have them play for something.
You know, being at the Union for years, well, we took the money up, right?

Speaker 111 We took the money up to a certain number, right? So now the number might have to go up again.

Speaker 138 Yeah, it does.

Speaker 18 Get in there and negotiate it.

Speaker 111 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 107 That's for you to do.

Speaker 138 No, no, no. Fort Nations.

Speaker 68 The kids was just a trophy, and guys were out for the entire season.

Speaker 47 Right.

Speaker 68 Like Matthew Kachuck and Charlie McAvoy both got hurt for the entire season.

Speaker 68 The last thing they did in the regular season for hockey play for their country and then they were out until the playoffs they cared Chris yeah like

Speaker 111 that's why people are like hey they're comparing to four nations baseball doesn't do what's his name anymore though do they like the winning team no no no no

Speaker 35 series yeah they got rid of that all right Chris we'll assume you'll figure it out we appreciate you doing that good luck in your free agency journey good luck in your basketball journey good luck in your family journey and good luck next year when you're playing for Colton Cafo okay we need a goal out of you okay if there's a wide open shot we need you to put that in

Speaker 111 I got to ask Muger to them, is that in the bylaws?

Speaker 47 If I can play on the team, the bylaws look good to me, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 133 Chris Paul.

Speaker 111 Appreciate y'all, man.

Speaker 2 Thank you.

Speaker 69 Appreciate you, man. Give it back.
Give it back.

Speaker 47 Appreciate y'all. Appreciate it.
Absolutely.

Speaker 90 Hey, come to Boston.

Speaker 68 It'd be fun.

Speaker 47 Seriously.

Speaker 96 Why not?

Speaker 23 Hey, where are you thinking about going?

Speaker 146 Anywhere?

Speaker 19 We said Spurs last year and then he went.

Speaker 43 We're still live. We're still live.

Speaker 146 Are you going anywhere?

Speaker 49 Where are you thinking about playing?

Speaker 99 Yeah, you do. That was bullshit.

Speaker 50 That's a lie.

Speaker 77 That feels like bullshit.

Speaker 14 Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now, he'll be on Concave for next year.

Speaker 87 Unless he plays again.

Speaker 68 Yeah, I mean, if he can cut it, let's be real. There's a lot of good talent on Concaf.

Speaker 23 Yeah, there is. There was actually some talent from last year's team that acknowledged that there was a lot better talent this year and say, you know what?

Speaker 106 You can have my minutes.

Speaker 32 There's a lot better team here for Concave.

Speaker 97 That's a good team.

Speaker 23 Maybe Chris Paul will be joining us.

Speaker 54 Our team would be great.

Speaker 102 A guaranteed dub.

Speaker 23 If this next person that's joining us would join our team.

Speaker 33 He was a pro soccer player, obviously, for 141 caps.

Speaker 47 Wow.

Speaker 89 For the United States of America.

Speaker 15 He's a 2016 MLS Cup champ with the Sounders, which they talk about as.

Speaker 109 Yeah, a lot of people say that's one of the best professional sports teams of all time.

Speaker 23 He's tied with Landon Donovan for the most international goals at 57.

Speaker 117 We need him, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 42 A man who is launching a brand new podcast with the Men and Blazers media network called The Deuce.

Speaker 102 Ladies and gentlemen, Clint Devs.

Speaker 2 Yay!

Speaker 2 Clint!

Speaker 123 What's up? How's it going, Mr. Concafa?

Speaker 87 Concafa, have some respect, Clint.

Speaker 2 Jesus,

Speaker 11 we appreciate you joining us, man.

Speaker 23 And obviously, we hope you'll get down here to TST in the future.

Speaker 159 It is a beautiful celebration of the sport that you were so damn great at for so long.

Speaker 23 Let's talk about you moving into the media world a little bit more here with the Deuce with the Men and Blazers Media Network.

Speaker 21 When can we expect it?

Speaker 23 What's it going to be?

Speaker 37 And congratulations.

Speaker 133 This is awesome news for everybody.

Speaker 123 I appreciate it, man. Starting on the 7th, you know, I'm happy to be joining Men and Blazers in the platform they've created and Raj, the energy he brings to the game and yeah, covering the U.S.

Speaker 123 as they have these friendlies going to the Gold Cup.

Speaker 123 It's kind of a stressful time as we build towards the World Cup with the performance we've had in the past.

Speaker 123 But yeah, I mean it's a platform where you can just kind of keep it real and shoot people straight and hopefully people tune in and watch it.

Speaker 19 You're one of the greatest United States soccer players of all time.

Speaker 18 You'll be in the Mount Rushmore conversation as Chris Paul just hucked some chips across the stage.

Speaker 58 Sorry about that.

Speaker 27 Shout out to Chris Paul.

Speaker 19 Good pass, though.

Speaker 18 Still got it.

Speaker 133 Still got it. Still got it.
That was a good pass there.

Speaker 4 You're one of the greatest United States soccer players of all time.

Speaker 61 I grew up dreaming of being on the United States soccer team.

Speaker 28 You've won the Gold Cup three times.

Speaker 43 You've had a lot of success.

Speaker 101 Our U.S.

Speaker 19 soccer team, our men's team, has not had a lot of success.

Speaker 159 This was supposed to be the generation in the era that was going to be great, too.

Speaker 15 What are your thoughts on the state of U.S.

Speaker 43 soccer?

Speaker 122 And can we win this damn thing? We would like to win it all.

Speaker 85 We would like us to win it all.

Speaker 47 Is that ever possible or how long do you think?

Speaker 123 I mean, I think it's possible, but hey, you got to look at the scenario we're in. I mean, we're last Copa America.
I think we're the first host country to never get out of the group.

Speaker 123 So that was a failure. And then you have CONCACAP Nations League semifinals where we lost to Panama and then we also lost to Canada in the third, fourth place game.

Speaker 123 And then for me, this kind of makes Gold Cup important again. I mean, back when I was playing, there was a few Gold Cups where if you want it, you got to go to Confederations Cup.

Speaker 123 But for me, this is such a huge tournament. It's because to get this fan base back on board and get people, you know, believing again in this U.S.
team and what they can do.

Speaker 123 Because you're never going to have moments like this or opportunities like this to have to play in a World Cup

Speaker 123 in your own country. You know what I mean? You saw what happened with 94, how it brought

Speaker 123 about the Professional League of MLS. So it's a big opportunity.
If we don't take advantage of it, man,

Speaker 123 it would be one of the biggest failures of all time.

Speaker 122 Why would it be?

Speaker 101 Would it be because of the players?

Speaker 122 Would it be because of the system?

Speaker 13 Would it be because of the selection process?

Speaker 57 Like, what do you think is the thing that has held us back?

Speaker 123 Man, that's a great question. I think there's a few things.
I think since COVID, you have a situation where you have the same teams just playing each other too often.

Speaker 123 You have CONCACAF, Nations League, got Gold Cup, you got World Cup qualifying, and you're just playing the same teams over and over.

Speaker 123 I think it'd be better if you kind of mixed it up where you had Gold Cup, then it was Nations League, was the next year, then another year would be like a Copa America.

Speaker 123 And then it makes it a little bit more prestigious not to have it back to back to back all the time. And also it gives you opportunities to play against other countries and in their countries.

Speaker 123 I think that only helps you to get better. It gets people more excited about playing in those type of games.

Speaker 123 I think by playing, you know, each of the same teams over and over and over, it kind of loses the hype. And maybe it makes people not to want to get called in or come in.

Speaker 123 But for me, it was always representing my country. I always dreamed about playing for my country, playing in World Cup as a kid.
That's what I pray to God at night for. So like,

Speaker 123 anytime there was a tournament, if I could walk, man, you know, I was going to be there.

Speaker 89 Yeah, you're a dog.

Speaker 146 I feel like we need more of you nowadays.

Speaker 137 Hopefully, we'll be able to get that under Coach Paunch, who I assume one of the boys is going to ask about.

Speaker 139 You talk about, you know,

Speaker 23 too many of similar opponents and maybe people losing interest. I think there's a lot of interest in the MLS right now, maybe more so than ever.

Speaker 23 I remember when Beckham was brought in, given a percentage of the league and a future team, and I forget how many millions he was making like every two days. It was a massive ordeal.

Speaker 23 It was supposed to swing the MLS into superstardom.

Speaker 106 Kind of happened.

Speaker 15 Obviously, Beckham sold places out, but with Messi coming over, every stadium was sold out. The Apple deal obviously was a big one for the league.

Speaker 159 Who knows what the future looks like in either of those?

Speaker 43 You're a former MLS Cup champ.

Speaker 45 Do you like where the MLS is?

Speaker 19 You've obviously played around the world.

Speaker 25 Is it good enough?

Speaker 56 Should we talk shit for the MLS more

Speaker 92 for it being a good league?

Speaker 15 Or what are your thoughts on the home domestic league here?

Speaker 123 I would say yes and no. I would say yes.
It's bigger than it's ever been. Players are making more money than they've made in the past.

Speaker 123 It's something that's being covered more often. You talk about Messi and what he's able to do

Speaker 123 in terms of bringing mainstream America to watching soccer here. Because in the past, it seemed like it was every four years when a World Cup happens that soccer would kind of move the needle.

Speaker 123 And where Messi coming to enter Miami, he is the needle. He moves that every season that he's around and the popularity that gets to it.

Speaker 123 The only thing that maybe I worry about a little bit is like the young American that's developing and whether or not we're finding these creative players that are able to take risks, take people on,

Speaker 123 and be into the attack, or is it going to more South American type players?

Speaker 123 Back in the in the day, it just seemed like more there was more young guys that were attacking players that were American that were making the all-star.

Speaker 123 And I'm just not really seeing that much lately.

Speaker 23 You think we've lost our pizzazz?

Speaker 102 Used to take dudes on.

Speaker 99 Quick feet. Quick feet.

Speaker 141 We want to

Speaker 2 go.

Speaker 65 Lost our pizza.

Speaker 123 Yeah, I think I'd like to see more of it, man. I like to see people being creative and taking people on.
If you don't have someone to pass to, like, trying to create something, make something happen.

Speaker 123 I think too many times people play safe, they play back, they play sideways just to keep the ball.

Speaker 2 And there's just certain times.

Speaker 123 Hey, you need to pull the trigger. You need to get the ball to Pat McIntyre to get that cross into Grella.

Speaker 47 Hey, come on.

Speaker 100 Amen, Clay.

Speaker 49 Amen.

Speaker 64 Hey, we need to have one here.

Speaker 99 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Think about having one.

Speaker 90 Why not have one? Find the boots.

Speaker 113 Find the boots.

Speaker 32 Rip one.

Speaker 81 A lot of the boys are getting baptized in soccer here.

Speaker 70 Getting baptized in soccer here.

Speaker 32 There's a 14-year-old from Philadelphia.

Speaker 68 Cavin Sullivan.

Speaker 55 Cavin Sullivan. Have you heard about this dude?

Speaker 144 Have you talked to this guy?

Speaker 56 They're already shipping him out of the country.

Speaker 54 It's like, what are we doing?

Speaker 29 Why don't we let this guy play?

Speaker 122 Why don't we, isn't that like the type of player that we should be, you know, trying to make a great like it?

Speaker 75 I don't know.

Speaker 23 How do you feel about the treatment of South?

Speaker 123 I mean, I think wherever you're going to play is the most important thing.

Speaker 123 Wherever you're going to go and get the best function and get the best opportunity to get games, if you're not getting in games, then what's the point if you're sitting on the bench?

Speaker 123 So I think there's a way that you just got to make the right decisions on the teams you go to. Are they playing the style of play that you like to play? Are they allowing you to express yourself?

Speaker 123 Or are they trying to change your game? I mean, it's all, it's kind of like picking a college. You know what I mean? You got to figure out what's going to be the right fit for you.

Speaker 123 And hopefully he makes the right decision. But I think there's a balance.
You can have players that are going to Europe being young and competing competing at the best clubs.

Speaker 123 But at the same time, there's some people that got to go to the MLS route first. And I was one of those guys.

Speaker 123 I paved my way in MLS, broke into the national team, and then through doing well in World Cups, it got me to go to Europe and play in the Premier League.

Speaker 55 One of the first ever out of the United States of America.

Speaker 135 Obviously, Tim Howard had quite a run in the Premier League.

Speaker 26 You as well, Clint Dempsey.

Speaker 28 Us young lads looked up to you.

Speaker 15 Tone has a question for you.

Speaker 93 Yeah, Clint, that's kind of what my question was around. It feels like the lure, the prestige of the Premier League and playing over in Europe is like the

Speaker 93 young U.S. stars are going over there and just sitting on the bench.
It feels like Christian at this point is really the only one who's going over there and getting meaningful minutes.

Speaker 93 Like, do you think the U.S. team would fare better if the U.S.
talent stayed home more and just got more playing time and kind of were more of a cohesive unit?

Speaker 123 I think it's a mix, right? You need people that are staying home, getting those regular minutes for their club.

Speaker 123 But we've got Anthony Robertson, Tyler Adams, and Christian and Western McKinney who are doing well in Europe. But it's also picking the right teams, picking the right leagues.

Speaker 123 You know, I like what Holland has there in terms of playing for like an IAX or a PSB.

Speaker 123 It's a place that you can kind of go there and develop, or if you're able to go to Portugal and play with like FC Porzo or Ben Fica, you know, teams like this that have a history of producing young talented players.

Speaker 123 I mean, getting the opportunity, like, and Dortmund as well in the Bundesliga, where you've seen Christian kind of come through CEO,

Speaker 123 who looked real bright, but, you know, picked up some injuries. But I think you've got to have a mix.

Speaker 83 i'm eating chips right now

Speaker 28 so i apologize for being disrespectful but clint we need you down here at tst will you play for our team next year hey you never know man hey have mike grey hit me up do you still got it you play it all

Speaker 123 I play a little bit with my kids, but I mean, I could go out there and maybe put, you know, do a little something, be a super sub.

Speaker 2 You never know.

Speaker 39 Welcome to the team, Clint. Yeah,

Speaker 68 Mike Krela, hit him up. Yeah, he's going to take his.

Speaker 2 Talk a K-Pub. Let's go.

Speaker 87 Yeah, there it is.

Speaker 42 Okay, you nailed it. You're the man.

Speaker 33 ladies and gentlemen one of the greatest of all time the host of the deuce from the men and blazers media network and next year a member of oh

Speaker 2 ladies and gentlemen clintempsey

Speaker 35 thank you clint rapper as well yeah chess player very talented he was a dog all the field as he was

Speaker 68 he was and he was he wanted to try people he made it cool he made it fun to watch team you'll say yeah then his raps weren't like corny.

Speaker 47 No.

Speaker 23 Like, oh no, Clint Dempsey has come out with a song.

Speaker 125 I was very scared as a massive Clint Dempsey fan.

Speaker 88 I was like, we don't need to be doing that.

Speaker 23 Then he listened to it.

Speaker 58 It's like, oh, Clint Dempsey's got bars, actually.

Speaker 109 Name's right in the song.

Speaker 108 It was a tread on this guy.

Speaker 23 It was great for the soccer world.

Speaker 23 I'm happy he's getting back into the media world. Him talking about it, just like Wayne talking about it, is good for the sport.

Speaker 15 With the World Cup coming around, the Gonkayphapod, Clint Dempsey with the deuce, feels like soccer's kind of back in it, AJ.

Speaker 47 The U.S.

Speaker 114 has to do well at this World Cup. I mean, like Quentin said, every four years, the World Cup comes up, and it does kind of soccer does move the needle.

Speaker 114 These people become household names.

Speaker 114 Do we have those guys right now?

Speaker 96 Pulisic?

Speaker 2 Are we counting on them? We're playing in the Gold Cup.

Speaker 50 I know the U.S. is never.

Speaker 100 Are we counting on them?

Speaker 30 Who are our marquee dudes for the U.S.

Speaker 110 that we're focusing on?

Speaker 68 Our marquee dudes are focused on Skavant Sullivan. Look, we talked to some former team USA members yesterday, and I'll tell you what.
I'm punting on the World Cup next year.

Speaker 68 Word on the street is these boys are already tired. We were pretty worried about their mentality going into it.
And sure, they got all the skill in the world.

Speaker 68 But I'm not going to quote verbatim what they said, but look, you got a guy who's coaching the team who doesn't really want to be there.

Speaker 115 What?

Speaker 68 You got players.

Speaker 96 He wants to be there.

Speaker 68 You got players that aren't the best in the country that don't want to play on the team.

Speaker 90 What?

Speaker 68 We're calling the guy Captain America.

Speaker 118 Has Christian Pulisic ever even been a freaking captain of a team?

Speaker 68 I don't know because I don't know shit about soccer. But what I do know is the vibes aren't high on this.

Speaker 129 I disagree. We're finding our team.

Speaker 100 It's a little late today.

Speaker 50 The World Cup's right around the corner.

Speaker 149 Thank you.

Speaker 64 Have you been doing your part? No.

Speaker 66 No.

Speaker 6 What's on our hats?

Speaker 93 USA baseball. The flag.

Speaker 106 You guys haven't done your part at all.

Speaker 17 I'll tell you what, if I think Paunch does.

Speaker 2 You need boots.

Speaker 51 Find the boots.

Speaker 93 Paunch does care, but if he doesn't, I saw a coach down in a lobby hotel this morning watching tape and trying to get better.

Speaker 32 That's a real cool thing. You're talking about Coach Miola and Coach Todd Ramos?

Speaker 96 Yeah.

Speaker 68 Todd Ramos.

Speaker 81 Wow.

Speaker 71 So, Todd Ramos, just real quick, I think he was the first ever draft pick of the MLS.

Speaker 61 He's a top two United States soccer player of all time.

Speaker 23 He's been coached in multiple places.

Speaker 55 Him and Tony Miola, best friends, and he's our assistant coach for Conquefa.

Speaker 68 Coached in the World Cup for Team USA when they went on that run and beat Algeria in all the time.

Speaker 97 Just so him coming and doing Conquefa. So I've thanked him like 10 different times.

Speaker 145 So cool.

Speaker 106 Thank you for doing this.

Speaker 126 Like, legitimately.

Speaker 85 And also invested.

Speaker 55 And he has learned our players. They're watching film.

Speaker 19 They're trying to figure out seven on seven.

Speaker 35 It's a big opportunity.

Speaker 58 I think it's good for the sport here. Yeah.

Speaker 80 Like it's big.

Speaker 23 Here's Tony Miola and Tab Ramos watching film this morning in the lobby of the hotel.

Speaker 117 Obviously, they had a meeting, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed.

Speaker 136 Let's go ahead, 7 a.m., Tab, you and me will watch film of the team.

Speaker 23 Who's our guys? Who's not our guys?

Speaker 106 You think they watched My Minute and a Half last night?

Speaker 2 Yeah, no doubt about it.

Speaker 65 We were eating breakfast right now.

Speaker 68 That's when they were just enjoying it going.

Speaker 2 What a son of a boy.

Speaker 93 When I sat with them for a second, they were watching the Bournemouth film. I don't think they had made it to last night's game yet.

Speaker 23 Did not love the way we started in the Bournemouth.

Speaker 55 0-0, KGFA, very dominant.

Speaker 142 We got to start taking more guys on.

Speaker 129 With that being said, it's been raining for like the last hour.

Speaker 23 There's just people posted up out here.

Speaker 70 We appreciate you guys.

Speaker 23 It's beautiful down here in Kerry, North Carolina.

Speaker 20 Let's go back to the truck.

Speaker 33 Bubba Gampino is back there.

Speaker 23 Gumpy is one of the assistant coaches

Speaker 95 for Concafa SC.

Speaker 15 Gumpy, how do you feel about the tournament and how the team's doing?

Speaker 93 The squad is unbelievable this year.

Speaker 152 We are just on a different level from start to finish. Last night, I mean, Chad Porch, everybody's getting involved.
Everybody's getting touched. It's been an absolute joy to watch these boys.

Speaker 82 Yeah, it is good.

Speaker 19 I don't like that our assistant coach is gassing the boys up as much.

Speaker 113 Tony Miola will come in and bury him.

Speaker 93 I heard he was pissed at the start of the game last year.

Speaker 33 He was not happy about our warm-ups yesterday.

Speaker 104 So we had five balls for warm-ups.

Speaker 23 Four of them got blasted into the woods.

Speaker 133 So we had one ball for warm-ups for our entire team. So there's a lot of standing around, dicking around.

Speaker 96 Yeah.

Speaker 58 I also did not love what I was watching from the team in Warming.

Speaker 68 That's when you went and got ready. Like, oh, I guess they're going to need me because he's going to be a little bit more.

Speaker 47 I'm going to go put my boots on.

Speaker 32 I'm going to go put my boots on.

Speaker 23 Tony Miola says, I don't like anything that I just saw.

Speaker 90 Here's the starting lineup.

Speaker 64 Figure it out.

Speaker 2 Walks off. Love that.

Speaker 24 He had like his moment.

Speaker 87 And the boys did figure it out.

Speaker 110 Yeah, they answered the call.

Speaker 68 5-0.

Speaker 71 3-0 lead at halftime, 5-0 total.

Speaker 55 And me and Foss blew two goals.

Speaker 85 So that thing should have been seven.

Speaker 68 I don't know about you and Foss, but I do know what you're saying.

Speaker 68 A lot lot of meat left on the bone.

Speaker 141 Oh, shit.

Speaker 126 Reggae Rovers just had a

Speaker 75 highlight real goal.

Speaker 47 Oh, they're back.

Speaker 126 The reggae rovers are now up 3-0.

Speaker 56 This was

Speaker 2 filthy.

Speaker 146 I don't know if we have the...

Speaker 23 Here it is. Replay.
Watch him.

Speaker 70 Ah, gets the pass outside.

Speaker 113 One-on-one with the goalie.

Speaker 122 What are you going to do with it?

Speaker 69 And

Speaker 47 Christ!

Speaker 50 God, that was cheap.

Speaker 149 That's a reggae rovers.

Speaker 108 You want to talk about teams who just know how to put boot on ball?

Speaker 2 Or

Speaker 2 the ball. Into the back of the deck now.

Speaker 78 We'll be off tomorrow.

Speaker 43 This is our last show of the week.

Speaker 19 We'll be back Monday live with a fool-over reaction of everything.

Speaker 96 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 71 Including tonight's NBA Finals starting with the Pacers traveling to Oklahoma City as nine and a half point dogs.

Speaker 23 Last night, Oilers-Panthers dropped puck for the NHL Finals.

Speaker 102 Let's do a full game highlight of that because people need to understand that last night's game was electrifying from beginning all the way to the end.

Speaker 154 Let's go one minute into the game.

Speaker 45 Kappanen gets it the dry sidel.

Speaker 2 Golaso.

Speaker 65 One zip at home.

Speaker 25 Edmonton's upside down.

Speaker 79 Will they be able to hold on to that lead for a long time?

Speaker 96 Will they be able to ride the momentum of all of Edmonton? Uh-uh.

Speaker 46 Ten minutes later, Florida Panthers, Sam Bennett puts one home.

Speaker 11 Carter Verhege and Kachuck with the assist 1-1 game.

Speaker 147 All of a sudden, we have a tie.

Speaker 7 Puck.

Speaker 143 All of a sudden, what happens later in the first?

Speaker 32 Two minutes later, Florida Panthers go on a run.

Speaker 46 Another goal. 2-1.

Speaker 15 Brad Marchan within a filthy pass from Nate Schmidt.

Speaker 112 Top drawer.

Speaker 33 2-1. Florida Panthers.

Speaker 139 Now, what will happen? Will Edmonton answer?

Speaker 73 Uh-uh.

Speaker 51 Bennett.

Speaker 23 Puts the Panthers up 3-1 with his second goal.

Speaker 133 Another filthy saucer pass.

Speaker 38 He goes mid-net.

Speaker 52 3-1.

Speaker 15 Is this over?

Speaker 139 The Florida Panthers are going to go on a a run.

Speaker 6 Clap bomb

Speaker 46 from Albertson.

Speaker 19 Listen, this seemed like one that Bob should have stopped, but this thing was going 175 miles an hour.

Speaker 47 Yeah. Bit of a screen.
Yeah.

Speaker 96 Clap bomb in there.

Speaker 104 Albertson goal.

Speaker 26 Then let's go to Eckholm who ties it up.

Speaker 33 3-3 right after Wayne Gretzky says Connor needs to go behind the net and find somebody who does this, that.

Speaker 80 It goes to overtime.

Speaker 28 Think it's going to maybe go to double overtime because how long the damn game was.

Speaker 15 Dry sidel snapshot from Connor McDavid, who has two assists on the night.

Speaker 88 Edmonton takes the lead.

Speaker 148 They are up 1-0 in a probable seven-game Stanley Cup Final Series.

Speaker 71 All right, we have our game at 5.30 here today.

Speaker 23 Then I am off to a place that I've been invited to go to that I don't think you're even allowed to say no to, but I'm certainly honored to get to.

Speaker 15 I'll be posting about it on my social medias at Pat McAfee Show.

Speaker 81 From all the boys here, from everybody in the back, from the crowd that's been hanging out in the rain, from everybody here in Kerry, North Carolina, Thank you so much for hanging out with us.

Speaker 88 Have the greatest weekend of all time.

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Speaker 98 All right, dad, that's good.

Speaker 6 All right, well, well done.

Speaker 153 Well done. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 32 What's up, man?

Speaker 104 What's that?

Speaker 18 Shout out, reggae rovers.

Speaker 74 Who?

Speaker 76 Reggie Rovers. I can't hear you in the glass.
What you say?

Speaker 47 I don't know.

Speaker 50 Gonna take the ear.

Speaker 49 Six-something reggae rovers.

Speaker 47 Shout out, Reggae Rovers.

Speaker 124 Hey, thank you, man. Good game.

Speaker 108 Okay. Was he not listening?

Speaker 99 Hey, he just walks on the field.

Speaker 33 I love that, guys. Moxie.

Speaker 32 Love his threat.

Speaker 75 First half, 3-0, Reggae Rovers.

Speaker 65 Over.

Speaker 115 Say word FC.

Speaker 68 Over FC last game, I think.

Speaker 47 Oh, maybe. Say word?

Speaker 111 Looks like a good team.

Speaker 105 I think it's their last game.

Speaker 114 Can you go two and one and still not advance?

Speaker 96 No.

Speaker 114 No. So if you win two out of three, you're going.

Speaker 145 I think so, yeah.

Speaker 68 You're moving on.

Speaker 114 But you could go one and two

Speaker 47 if you do lose by a little bit of a game.

Speaker 142 I think they take top three.

Speaker 83 Plus three gold differential.

Speaker 35 They take top three from a couple of the groups.

Speaker 57 Like we're in group F. They called it the

Speaker 105 group of death. And turns out that the only death that was happening was from us to others.
Yes.

Speaker 110 Group of fun.

Speaker 58 But Wrexham also 2-0.

Speaker 20 So I think, like, it depends on what your record is.

Speaker 35 They'll take top three from groups.

Speaker 2 How many in a group?

Speaker 53 Four.

Speaker 75 Oh, that's it. Okay.

Speaker 71 But not every group gets all top three.

Speaker 124 So if you're a one seed, though, you get shitty

Speaker 135 third place team from other groups.

Speaker 42 So really want to win your group.

Speaker 23 So like tonight against Wrexham is a very important game.

Speaker 106 Yeah.

Speaker 125 Because in knockout round, you would like to play a team that is not as good as somebody else.

Speaker 136 Because once you get to elimination

Speaker 144 rounds,

Speaker 77 it's target score time the entire game.

Speaker 47 You're in trouble.

Speaker 39 It's not actually, but it feels that way.

Speaker 47 I got you. So that'll be Saturday starts.

Speaker 107 Friday starts sudden death.

Speaker 130 Yes. Got it.
One game per day.

Speaker 97 Friday, knockout run. Saturday, knockout run.

Speaker 61 Sunday, knockout run.

Speaker 125 Championship on Monday.

Speaker 112 Oh, wow.

Speaker 61 So you could potentially be in Kerry, North Carolina, but for three weeks.

Speaker 50 Coach Gove's got a fight Tuesday morning.

Speaker 103 6:10 a.m.

Speaker 113 Tuesday morning. He's planning on pulling an all-nighter if the boys win, as he should.

Speaker 23 Not 100% sure I'll be able to be here, especially with the invite that I received like last week, hearing that we're going to be down in this part of the country.

Speaker 19 Also, Money in the Bank on Saturday in Los Angeles, which is going to be electrified.

Speaker 57 Hell yeah, we got some WWE fans around here.

Speaker 148 Four letters, one word.

Speaker 5 Ah, ah.

Speaker 40 Okay, there's a lot of eaters here.

Speaker 19 I respect that standing in the rain.

Speaker 86 Money in the Bank is on Saturday.

Speaker 137 Then Monday Night Raw is in Phoenix on Monday.

Speaker 96 Oh, okay.

Speaker 60 So there's a lot of things happening in my particular life before the championship, but the Concafel boys are locked in.

Speaker 125 They understand that they can win at all ages. They know.

Speaker 160 I saw the Indianapolis Outlaw early this morning in the lobby.

Speaker 47 Saunner.

Speaker 68 Yeah, I saw him too, killing it.

Speaker 136 He's got an infant.

Speaker 2 Grella was going to play golf this morning, he said.

Speaker 58 Grella's playing golf?

Speaker 39 Yeah, he's going to hit some balls.

Speaker 98 He's hit some balls.

Speaker 78 He's a great golfer.

Speaker 43 And whatever cools the mind, whatever frees your spirit to play your best ball, especially at 5:30 against Wrexham with McElhaney and Reynolds boys.

Speaker 58 Yeah. We got to play well.
We got to show up tonight.

Speaker 109 We saw, you know, Cap,

Speaker 109 the old firm, Zat was eating breakfast with Black Boots and Waterbug. So obviously, everyone is Black Boots.

Speaker 35 Is Mario Alvarez?

Speaker 33 He's an Arena League boy.

Speaker 27 Waterbug is Pacheco, also.

Speaker 96 Arena League guy.

Speaker 68 We also told Tony and Coach Ramos, hey, first two games were fun. I think we figured out the 11 we need right going forward.

Speaker 71 Seven on seven.

Speaker 68 Of course, but we can knock some guys out. You know,

Speaker 50 it's an 11-man rotation now.

Speaker 23 Well, it's like tonight, I think we need to make sure Ledesma's healthy.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no doubt about it.

Speaker 74 He's a little

Speaker 23 hammy yesterday.

Speaker 40 He said it was a cramp, had a little general soreness.

Speaker 153 That's always scary.

Speaker 2 He'll play.

Speaker 99 He'll play.

Speaker 96 He doesn't need to play that much, though.

Speaker 106 He's unbelievable.

Speaker 47 So

Speaker 33 porch, unbelievable.

Speaker 154 Yes. Meat, still unbelievable.

Speaker 96 Drugs.

Speaker 112 Ruggles, awesome.

Speaker 58 Yeah.

Speaker 58 He was going to fight a guy.

Speaker 68 Yeah, he was talking a lot of junk.

Speaker 43 Justin Miram.

Speaker 115 Here's Ruggles.

Speaker 68 Give me that. Absolute firecracker.

Speaker 106 Absolutely.

Speaker 113 And then it does the nice little heel-toe.

Speaker 43 Oh, I forget what this was.

Speaker 70 Remember, this had a run. This dance had a run.
Victor for a moment.

Speaker 93 Miram's the provider of happiness.

Speaker 147 I don't think that's a salsa. I believe that's a.

Speaker 93 What's that?

Speaker 93 Is Miram the provider of happiness?

Speaker 135 Miram is a dog.

Speaker 147 I got a chance to hang out with him for a couple hours last night.

Speaker 150 He is hilarious. He also started a war

Speaker 70 about 15 seconds after Brech Shea got fouled by somebody and then a guy stood over Brech Shea.

Speaker 23 Miram felt obligated to toe poke a ball into the guy's balls.

Speaker 89 It was like 15, 20 seconds late.

Speaker 49 It was right in front of me. I watched it.
I shot him.

Speaker 58 Great shot, too.

Speaker 23 And then that started a fight.

Speaker 143 Breck Shea obviously goes in there.

Speaker 81 That's what our Concafa boys are about.

Speaker 47 Absolutely.

Speaker 23 When you want to talk about fit in the culture, too, Justin Miram has really fit the Concafer culture.

Speaker 135 He really more than maybe anybody in the history of CONCAFA.

Speaker 97 To a T.

Speaker 115 Yeah, he's in there. H

Speaker 68 in another T.

Speaker 153 What's that?

Speaker 68 Team culture.

Speaker 126 Yeah.

Speaker 121 Team high culture.

Speaker 77 Exactly. That is our thing.

Speaker 133 He was outed by a couple people, I think, a few different times for what his profession is off the pitch.

Speaker 23 At the end of the day. When it's legal.

Speaker 2 And he's awesome.

Speaker 143 All right. Let's get out of here.

Speaker 142 Let's let these people get out of the rain.

Speaker 19 Let's prepare for an incredible weekend.

Speaker 87 Where I'm headed,

Speaker 90 I don't know how many people get invited to go do it.

Speaker 110 I don't think.

Speaker 110 I don't think

Speaker 35 I don't think it's really a thing.

Speaker 68 Say word FC.

Speaker 22 It's pretty insane to think about.

Speaker 70 This morning I woke up like thinking, this is the first time where I'm like, okay, tonight I'm headed to this place.

Speaker 47 Yeah, this is tomorrow.

Speaker 62 That I don't think a lot of people really get to go to.

Speaker 61 And I was like, what should my mindset be?

Speaker 146 Going in there open-minded.

Speaker 2 Pumpkin to follow.

Speaker 68 Like, pumped to see what you're supposed to do.

Speaker 47 Do you bring a special fit for it?

Speaker 23 No, so every time I ask what I'm supposed to wear, because I I don't want to be an asshole, they've said just wear whatever you wear.

Speaker 90 I'm like, do you know what I wear?

Speaker 146 I'm like, I don't think you know what I wear. They're going to give you something to wear.

Speaker 160 That's what that means.

Speaker 68 They'll definitely give you some stuff.

Speaker 105 You think so?

Speaker 68 They definitely will. But I don't know if it'll be at the beginning or the end.

Speaker 19 All I got to say is, urah, my friend.

Speaker 23 Bingo. And it is an honor.

Speaker 86 AJ, thank you for traveling down here.

Speaker 61 Final thoughts on Kerry North Carolina and TST.

Speaker 116 Well, I mean,

Speaker 160 it's clear that you guys have the top squad, the Concafer boys.

Speaker 114 How do you get every score on these guys? Honestly, I told you this morning, with Zach back here and all the boys, you can't even have a shot at them.

Speaker 160 You guys have pitched two shutouts already.

Speaker 95 Nah, we gave up a goal in a future.

Speaker 58 That's the first game.

Speaker 99 Yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 68 It didn't even matter.

Speaker 93 Doesn't matter. Actually, it was an extra time.
That shouldn't have been extra time.

Speaker 138 It was in the 42nd minute.

Speaker 110 Yeah, what are we playing?

Speaker 93 Phil Smith was absolute shite.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we are the biggest team out here by far.

Speaker 58 By far.

Speaker 70 No questions asked. It's part of our culture.

Speaker 146 You know, you got to get in where you fit in.

Speaker 136 The way you fit in here is you got to be big.

Speaker 35 We've got some small guys, Picheco, a little smaller.

Speaker 50 But he'll get rolling. He fights, though.

Speaker 95 Yeah, we got a lot of elbows.

Speaker 47 Gordo.

Speaker 98 Gordo will fight as well.

Speaker 68 Gordo laid someone out yesterday.

Speaker 40 Yeah, Gordo will cross-body check.

Speaker 114 There's so much, like, you guys knock so many people down, it doesn't always get called.

Speaker 47 You don't really know what you're allowed to do.

Speaker 58 You're like shoulder. You're like soccer.

Speaker 47 I did see the ref do this, shoulder. So I can just shoulder.

Speaker 145 I can run as fast as I can and blast you with my shoulder.

Speaker 74 As long as you're near the ball.

Speaker 114 But

Speaker 114 I just can't extend my forearm.

Speaker 22 Yeah, it's a push. You got to go shoulder to shoulder.

Speaker 2 Just like basketball.

Speaker 115 Oh, okay.

Speaker 107 This is great.

Speaker 139 If you're running next, somebody balls there, you can shoulder.

Speaker 30 Okay. If you go to leverage and lift, probably a penalty.

Speaker 144 I can keep my little chicken wing tucked in and

Speaker 65 Okay, I love it.

Speaker 18 Now there's a chance they will flop and they will call it.

Speaker 114 Okay, okay, so it's similar to lacrosse. Like if I blast somebody on lacrosse, at least sixth grade that I watch, if the kid falls, it's going to be a penalty.

Speaker 105 If he doesn't fall, I'm good.

Speaker 47 Yeah, kind of.

Speaker 91 But these refs will pass up on some dives.

Speaker 58 They will. Okay.

Speaker 32 And then people will get pissed because they won't pass up on other dives.

Speaker 8 Unbelievable dives.

Speaker 103 All we're looking for is consistency. Yeah.

Speaker 121 That's all we're looking for here.

Speaker 104 It sounds like Johnny Damon thinks the refs really screwed it down.

Speaker 126 It is coming.

Speaker 149 to one score loss.

Speaker 105 I thought it was a one-square loss, man. It is porn.

Speaker 47 We had to look at it. All right.

Speaker 121 Boys, your thoughts on soccer, toxic table?

Speaker 109 Yeah, I mean, I said it the first day we were here. It shocked me.
Kind of took me back a little bit that Red Boots didn't have his red boots on.

Speaker 109 And then I saw the way Mario Alvarez was playing out here with the black boots.

Speaker 109 You know, hey, listen, I wish. We could stick around through Monday.
That's just not feasible. Not something I'm going to be able to do.

Speaker 109 But I'll be locked in and making sure that the boys bring the the title home. I know they will.
I know Coach has been up there.

Speaker 47 On the SPN.

Speaker 109 Yeah, on the SPN. I know Coach has been up late, late night, drawing up set pieces, drawing up different plays, you know, making sure that our rotation is locked and loaded.

Speaker 109 So, I mean, it's a joy every time we come down here, and it does seem like this thing has gotten much bigger than it even was last year. Like,

Speaker 109 this is a great tournament.

Speaker 68 Yeah, exponentially better.

Speaker 68 That's my big takeaway.

Speaker 89 Do you think it's just strictly where we're staying this year?

Speaker 50 That is a massive part of it.

Speaker 149 I think that's a massive part of it.

Speaker 68 I think also the set being built, massive part of it.

Speaker 68 Not thinking about what breaking down the set right after this, what that would entail, a massive part of it.

Speaker 68 But I think as a whole, you can kind of tell the logistics of the entire thing and the amount of craze and buzz around it.

Speaker 68 Last year, I heard that a couple people from the area were going to come check it out.

Speaker 68 Turns out when they did check it out on the Friday, Saturday night, a lot of people, they're expecting to come back tomorrow with all their friends, a lot of people.

Speaker 68 So it's not just like us who are kind of a part of it. It feels as though the town, rally, carry have kind of taken it on as their own as well, except for the one restaurant.

Speaker 68 But it feels like they have kind of taken it on as their own.

Speaker 133 We got a call from that restaurant. Yes, we did.

Speaker 47 Thank you for the call.

Speaker 110 What's done is done.

Speaker 87 No, thank you for the horrendous experience.

Speaker 68 Bingo. But it's fantastic.
I'm also glad that we understood. what the game is.
Coming into it last year, we had no idea.

Speaker 68 I mean, shit, the team was kind of compiled with with a bunch of, you know, big field players. Now we kind of understand what the game is.
We're not learning the rules. It's a wonderful tournament.

Speaker 68 Not being,

Speaker 68 you know, not exaggerating here. This week has been a thousand times better than last week.

Speaker 110 I just have to.

Speaker 68 Last year. Last year, excuse me.
I just have to hammer that home as well.

Speaker 47 And the guests.

Speaker 39 We had Wayne Gretzky on the tournament.

Speaker 44 Wayne Gretzky, Johnny Damon.

Speaker 113 Chris, watching every team has gotten better, I think, too.

Speaker 68 It's also nice not seeing JJ Watt.

Speaker 58 I miss JJ this year.

Speaker 47 I think he saw him last week. I think that's why.

Speaker 58 Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 19 Tone, your thoughts on this?

Speaker 103 This is your first time, right?

Speaker 93 Yeah, but yes, didn't come last year in case lightning struck. I was back in the Thunderdome.

Speaker 101 You were going to host that show yourself. Yep.

Speaker 93 Didn't want to do that.

Speaker 93 It's kind of nostalgic. Like you, I grew up playing 150 soccer games a year ago in a soccer tournament.

Speaker 22 Shout out Beadling, by the way.

Speaker 93 I don't know if you brought that or someone gave that to you.

Speaker 105 Boss got it for me.

Speaker 47 Boss got it for you.

Speaker 93 But just like how well run there's...

Speaker 66 What is there?

Speaker 93 There's 20 fields here, at least, and there's a thousand games a day. How well run it is and how much everyone cares and like everyone's got sponsors and stuff like that.

Speaker 47 It's a really cool event.

Speaker 93 Very, very excited to come back every year.

Speaker 6 Close there.

Speaker 109 Well, you got the wet pitch.

Speaker 68 Doesn't remind you of being young.

Speaker 107 Yeah.

Speaker 32 So I watched it two years ago when Ruggles in Newtown won it.

Speaker 15 I was watching the finals.

Speaker 27 Ruggles actually, as a little boy, gets tossed up in the sky in the middle of this rainstorm.

Speaker 127 I appreciate that happening in the background there.

Speaker 28 I watched as Ruggles won a million dollars, and I saw like a bunch of names that I grew up playing soccer with every little boys getting tossed in the backup.

Speaker 15 I think you just did the background shot

Speaker 129 of tone in them.

Speaker 35 And he's down. He's a heavier child.

Speaker 27 He looks to be a little bit older than normal.

Speaker 73 I don't know if that guy's lats are dying off or whatever.

Speaker 77 And he's back up.

Speaker 81 And he's back up.

Speaker 39 The boy's back up.

Speaker 47 The boys back up.

Speaker 59 Is that kid?

Speaker 32 What's up, brother? No, that's not kid.

Speaker 58 Kid Rock?

Speaker 107 You think Kid Rock's like?

Speaker 68 No, we met. We met a guy last year, or a kid, who.

Speaker 69 Oh,

Speaker 127 good for that, lad.

Speaker 88 Good for the guy that lifted him up.

Speaker 23 His had great energy over there, too, by the way.

Speaker 71 I think he was at Big Night Out.

Speaker 47 That's the only way he could have that hoodie.

Speaker 67 Appreciate you coming through.

Speaker 88 All of you, thank you for representing.

Speaker 26 Would like to make an early announcement.

Speaker 91 After this show ends,

Speaker 35 we will take a couple photos.

Speaker 133 Couple.

Speaker 97 Cannot be standing out here for 20 years. Can't be getting soaked.

Speaker 89 Okay, so let's have an organized, let's have a good idea of what's going to happen here.

Speaker 40 Let's take some photos.

Speaker 33 Let's have a good time.

Speaker 103 Let's make sure we're not.

Speaker 153 Did you see what happened yesterday?

Speaker 65 Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 83 Brother, it was.

Speaker 145 You got screwed.

Speaker 47 It was awesome to meet everybody.

Speaker 124 But people had no idea who I was.

Speaker 28 Just saw people coming.

Speaker 13 There was just a thousand people.

Speaker 144 I don't know who you are, is what they were saying to my face. That's always.

Speaker 121 But when you sign this, it's like, sure, it got nowhere to be.

Speaker 86 Got it.

Speaker 83 So, with that being said, need to meet this group over here.

Speaker 22 Need to meet this group over here.

Speaker 15 Need to meet this group up here.

Speaker 32 The lads up on the hill, I appreciate you so much.

Speaker 112 If we could set up a

Speaker 13 setup, like almost like a buffet line, if we could set up like an up the

Speaker 13 cover, if we could figure out how to get a cover, it's still on the stairs.

Speaker 105 It is right one walk up the stairs,

Speaker 39 up the steps, bingo, and then I head left, and then we go, yeah, okay.

Speaker 138 I I don't know.

Speaker 116 It looks like lightning's coming in.

Speaker 47 This is insane.

Speaker 5 Oh, no.

Speaker 24 It's not. For the safety of everybody.

Speaker 96 Let's go.

Speaker 136 Let's go, Mountaineers. Guy's got a West Virginia flag up there.

Speaker 91 I appreciate the hell out of him.

Speaker 23 He wanted me to start a war this morning.

Speaker 136 He wanted me to say a lot of things on camera and jump on things on camera.

Speaker 22 I appreciate where his head is at.

Speaker 147 To the TST people, I'd like to say thank you for the hospitality, TST people.

Speaker 93 It's not lying. That's lightning, man.

Speaker 131 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 35 To everybody in the truck, great work back there, boys. Favorite workers.

Speaker 19 To the entire ESPN production crew that set all this up, we can't thank you enough for showing up early in Carrie, making this go off without a hitch, two place, figuring it out.

Speaker 23 We'll also be live at the finals, game three and game four, outside Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Speaker 15 Come join us if you can.

Speaker 23 If not, what a beautiful backdrop downtown.

Speaker 71 They will all be setting it up, so thank you to them.

Speaker 36 Thank you to Scott on the jib out of Louisiana.

Speaker 68 Scott out of Louisiana on the jib.

Speaker 75 He's a weapon, as are his his jibs. Yeah.

Speaker 24 He's literally jib mounting, jib mountain.

Speaker 92 He's got a couple of the jibs that need a home, he says.

Speaker 96 Yeah. Wow.

Speaker 11 He literally just walks around with least three of them things on him.

Speaker 57 Okay. He's got all the jibs, all the magic he could possibly need.

Speaker 28 He's from Louisiana. He does eat gator.

Speaker 96 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 69 He does gator.

Speaker 87 He does gator.

Speaker 92 Have we had gator other than those gator nuggets?

Speaker 109 No, just had the gator nuggets. Have not had any gator sent to the office.

Speaker 90 We need to go down to a Scott Gator hunt down there with potentially Governor Jeff Langer down there.

Speaker 74 What's that?

Speaker 68 I like one of them governor jeff langer gator hunts more than one of them scott gator hunters what but i think scott scott would also say i mean look i ain't no governor

Speaker 47 i'm just a normal gator hunter oh you're a corporate i'm not a corporate gator hunter i'm a i'm a premiere gator hunter and i think that's what gg does thank you

Speaker 84 yeah it's pouring out there i'm trying to figure out if we just go longer and wait for this to slow down before we go out there be very selfish of us to do that uh or if we just go ahead and grit and bear this thing and figure out out an X.

Speaker 23 So I think what we're going to do is we're going to head up that stairs right there.

Speaker 58 We're going to head up that stairs.

Speaker 83 So I think if we could get along the no, everybody's going to slip on the hill.

Speaker 109 After that, that might be something that we just have to deal with.

Speaker 17 Yeah. Hold on to the pool.
Sometimes things happen. Look, what do you

Speaker 68 no matter what,

Speaker 83 something's going to happen.

Speaker 47 Somebody's going to be pissed.

Speaker 109 Yeah, we're at a soccer tournament. I assume most of these people have boots on.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 47 could you jump over the fence?

Speaker 145 That guy's got a

Speaker 62 what's the state?

Speaker 137 Indiana, Alabama Jones hat on right there.

Speaker 23 It looks like he's got it figured out.

Speaker 77 That's a good play right there.

Speaker 77 Tip of the cap to you, sir.

Speaker 47 Thumbs up. All right, let's get the hell out of here.

Speaker 136 Have a great three-day weekend.

Speaker 58 I'm going to go experience something that

Speaker 36 I don't know how many humans get to experience, to be honest with you.

Speaker 35 I will document it all.

Speaker 39 I will be on my

Speaker 89 Instagram and X throughout it.

Speaker 117 I don't know if I should, though.

Speaker 62 It feels like when they gave me permission to do that, that felt wrong as well.

Speaker 65 Well, read the room.

Speaker 114 They gave you permission, though.

Speaker 68 Because you also just want to experience it.

Speaker 117 Yeah, I want to be in there. Yeah.

Speaker 68 You need to focus on.

Speaker 82 There is a

Speaker 65 pretty

Speaker 61 heavy non-vitamin law, I guess, where I'm headed.

Speaker 126 Yeah. I could imagine.

Speaker 74 Yeah.

Speaker 88 Yeah, I think you'll understand when I get there tomorrow.

Speaker 92 They've given me a heads up, though.

Speaker 153 Like, hey, just keep it right outside the perimeter.

Speaker 126 That's where we're going to head.

Speaker 32 The perimeter. Dig a hole.

Speaker 62 Don't be giving too many.

Speaker 47 Don't be giving too many.

Speaker 160 I could have said something else, but I didn't.

Speaker 124 What would you have said?

Speaker 47 Start rhymes with.

Speaker 114 Nope. Nope.
Starts with a B.

Speaker 88 All right, we're going to get out of here.

Speaker 14 Thank you all so much for allowing us to be a part of your lives.

Speaker 35 Have a great three-day weekend.

Speaker 88 Concafa plays at 5:30.

Speaker 14 Then, if they got an elimination game tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, or the following along.

Speaker 24 Money in the Bank is Saturday.

Speaker 63 The NBA play or finals start tonight.

Speaker 19 The NHL Stanley Cup finals continue.

Speaker 23 It should be a great weekend of sports.

Speaker 83 We're lucky to start to do this.

Speaker 14 Be a friend, tell a friend something nice.

Speaker 20 It might change your life.

Speaker 159 We're in this thing together.

Speaker 20 Shout out to Carrie, North Carolina.

Speaker 51 Team on me.

Speaker 42 Team on three.

Speaker 38 One, two, three.

Speaker 116 Goodbye.