PMS 2.0 1354 - LIVE From Cary, NC at TST With Sheamus, Jozy Altidore, Pat Maroon, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Hello beautiful people and welcome to Beautiful Carey, North Carolina for TST 2025.

This program starts right now.

Conquest

is happening here in beautiful Carey, North Carolina.

And although it is a glorious sports complex, this Wakebed soccer park, and although the turnout is spectacular here for a soccer tournament where there will be $1 billion on the the line for the winning team.

It is hot as shit down here.

We're talking about humidity at about 110%.

We're talking about high 80s, low 90s.

We're talking about the beginning of summer in a beautiful way here with $1 million on the line.

My team, Concafa SC,

debuted a whole new squad this morning.

10 a.m.

We took on Bournemouth, led by Josie Altador, who will be joining us on this particular program today.

And we won 3-1.

Don't look look now.

Concafa SC is hunting the bag.

Conquer SC is back.

We got new stars.

We got new names.

Same attitudes, same grit.

And the arena boys are crushing.

That's Porch new edition.

Lays it off to regret.

Zach hits his first goal of CONCACAF.

Yeah, there you go.

I actually told him the starting seven for the first goal will win $500 each.

It wasn't until the second half.

Meet former all TST team last year.

Gets on the board early, hits a gritty, celebrates his life.

They were in Azerbaijan last week, representing the United States of America, and then in target score time, Mani Ledesma hits a game winner 25 seconds into target score time.

Don't want to act like I've been a good coach or a good motivator, but I talked to Mani right there going into TST target score time.

And I said, buddy, Let one Krak.

He scored against us last year when he was on Cincinnati.

It was electrifying.

We said we need him on our team.

We also got a guy named Drew Ruggles.

Ruggles has dreads that have been growing for 13 years.

Two years ago when he was on Newtown, had the assist for the million-dollar goal.

Last year he played on Nanny's team.

This year, he's playing for Concafa.

And in Porch, old buddy on the back right corner of this particular graphic behind Ruggles, he scored the million-dollar goal last year to win this entire thing.

So our team is stacked.

Our team is loaded.

And we're looking to win this.

A lot of great competition though.

Oh yeah.

A lot of great people.

Seamus is even here representing a German team.

He'll be stopping by this particular program.

We'll have Patty Maroon via FaceTime to talk about the NHL Stanley Cup finals, which are starting this evening.

We'll talk about all the sports happening around the world while standing in about 150-degree heat.

And we're lucky to do it.

It's not just me here.

One half of the hammer.

Don't go.

Cowboys, AP Tone is here.

Tone, welcome

to TST, pal.

It's awesome.

It feels like when we were young and we were at soccer tournaments when there was anywhere from ages four all the way up to 16 playing for like state championships and stuff like that, it's awesome out here.

The team is awesome.

The artist formerly known as Red Boots now wearing black boots also had a hell of a game.

The boys are loaded from like the guys that like everybody knows like Grella and Zat and all those guys like they

actually they were like hey you guys you arena boilers you guys do what you need to do up front.

We're just going to hold it down back here.

Well this team is going for it.

Yeah, we are.

We're trying to put a little pressure on and Tony Miola did some good coaching.

Yeah, sure.

Always.

And Tab Ramos, obviously, a guy who is a Mount Rushmore United States player.

I've done a lot of research and learned about him over the last like 48 hours after I found out he was going to be coaching on our team.

He's a dog.

His boy, Alex.

Oh, yeah.

Influencer in the soccer world.

And then obviously Coach Gumpy was doing his thing today.

Of course.

Chirped the ref one time.

I think the refs actually had a good first game.

Yeah, it felt like it.

No, the Bournemouth team started to get a little chippy because they started getting a little tired.

Sure.

Now, I did warn them that our team will fight you.

Oh, yeah.

Our team is not scared to fight you.

That is kind of our thing, actually.

So, Bournemouth backed off.

It was a great gentleman's game.

Handshake to them.

We move on undefeated.

Let's go to the toxic table at Boston Connor and at Kai Schmidt.

Con man, I see the chain.

Do you have the vibes of a soccer fan this week?

Yeah, yeah, I'm definitely one of the concave of crazies.

You know, it feels good to be able to sit up here, watch the game.

I'm glad you guys were on this field.

A lot of new names.

You know, you mentioned the back porch.

He's a great player.

Lime green boots, also known as Pacheco.

Also known as Waterbug.

He's a hell of a player.

He's all over the place.

And the boys try.

You know, Breck Shea, I think that's the biggest thing.

Breck Shea is giving it his all out there.

You mentioned Led Zema, which I definitely just screwed his name on.

Zeppelin.

Ledesma.

They call him Zeppelin.

Zeppelin is his nickname.

Zeppelin, he had a play down here.

Two seconds later, guys on the other side of the field breaking up a play.

So it is a team that is both skilled, both gives high energy, and they are young guys.

There are old guys, Brecht, and there are everybody in between.

Would like to see a little more from Grella.

Guy who's asking for 20K to play.

He's going out there and basically just cutting.

No, we're past that.

Remember, we're past that?

I don't know.

He's cutting grass with his cleats.

That's all I saw.

It's a long tournament.

We had a lot of subs.

We're playing a deep rotation this year.

We learned from Coach Carlos.

Last year, we were like Tibbs.

Not a lot of subbing.

We were very only playing a few guys.

Today, everybody was in.

Everybody was in, rotating because it's a lot of soccer left, which I know you're excited for, Ty Schmidt.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, it's great seeing the boys again.

You know, I know I'm not on the roster, but last year, you know, I feel like we really ingratiated with the entire team.

Like Tony mentioned, I almost had a heart attack up here when I saw Mario Alvarez come out, my favorite player, red boots.

He's not wearing red boots this year.

He's wearing black boots, but boy, did he look good.

And you're right.

I mean,

this is a who's who of soccer sensations when it comes to TST.

What a luxury to be able every seven you got out there.

Hey, they might be the best seven on the pitch.

You know, I mean, it's

you know, everyone's trying to win.

There's black boots right there.

And what a touch by black boots.

Oh, and what a touch by me.

Go meat.

Exactly.

So when, when that's just a little taste, when you can do that, you know, anytime you're out on the pitch, Conkeifa's going deep in this thing.

They are.

There's just no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

Yeah, I love everything that you're saying.

And, you know, I talked about the boys playing mini football over in Azerbaijan

last week.

It did not go well.

Oh, really?

Yeah, I guess the boys are coming off quite an ass beating.

Hungry.

Quite an ass beating in Azerbaijan.

I think there was a couple medical incidents that happened over there as well.

Oh, no.

We're talking about fresh out of a bad experience, ready to have a great one.

I appreciate the hell out of these Arena League boys and everybody else back for CONCAFA.

Let's go to a man who's a college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion, a Ryder Cup winner, and an avid soccer enthusiast.

Ladies and gentlemen, A.J.

Hawk is here.

Hawker, welcome back to Cary, North Carolina.

It's good to be here.

A little bit of a crowd has built here.

It's pretty wild, actually.

They're up on the hill, too, Foxy.

If you turn that thing left, it's got to be 1,000 degrees out there.

It has got to be 1,000 degrees up on this hill.

And, yeah,

we appreciate you guys.

Yeah, look at this crew.

A lot of these people are being forced to listen to us, too.

They got speakers going everywhere throughout the entire park.

We appreciate you bearing with us for the next couple hours as we enjoy the hell out of Carey, North Carolina.

Great to be back, though, Age.

This place is unbelievable.

It's so nice.

The people are cool.

And get back to gameplay.

Our second half goalie today, you can't punt it and you can't, what, drop kick it.

He did like a sidewinder kick and he almost scored a goal.

Yeah, New Rule.

Yeah, he punted it and tried to score.

He was getting around the rule somehow.

Immediately upon getting onto the field, Phil E, okay, who is an absolute dog?

I don't want to give anything away, but after the tournament, we'll talk about what Phil E is battling through right now.

Just know that he's not 100%.

But it doesn't matter because Phil E is going to be able to figure it out.

But yeah, I like he put a stamp on it.

As soon as he got the ball, I'm punting this thing the full length of the field.

New rule this year can't do that.

New rule can't do that.

He had to make it unbelievable.

Unbelievable.

Level straight throws down the sideline, too.

Yeah, Phil E's a powerhouse.

Phil E's former goalie of the year in the MASL.

Big Stonewall, too.

Got Stoner in the first half, big stop.

He also had a big time pass.

So the difference here, for those that are following along, Arena League boys play indoor, okay?

Five on five of the goalie.

Goalie has to be able to play with their feet because they are an added player.

So like goal smaller.

So goalie has to be able to stop shots, but goalie has to be able to play with their feet because how small the field is how many limited amount of people there are now that's why meet is wearing a penny right there because meet one of our players would go back and play goalie in targets four-time because it adds an offensive player to the field if they can stop balls as meet did last year good stoner is an outdoor goalie sure used to the big field not used to having to play with his feet i think this last year he's worked on his feet uh understanding what situation is stoner standing on his head and he's making big outlet passes feels like we got better all-around the pitch as drip fc FC fouls the shit out of somebody to start this entire thing.

Nine-year NFL vet Darius J.

Butler is here.

Let me Deebox.

Debux, this is your first time in a soccer tournament?

Yes, sir.

First time ever, and it's been electric.

And regardless of the sport, one thing, the first thing you look at is when the guys get off the bus.

And looking at your squad off the bus, you see a lot of big guys, physicality, big fellas, and they play well, man.

AJ was over here suggesting maybe some new rules, maybe a two-point play from the 50-yard line, give me a two-point goal.

Yeah, I think it's not a bad idea.

Yeah, that would be electric, but it's been electric so far, man.

Glad we started off with a win.

Looking forward to a deep run this year.

Yeah, there's a chance you can hit a deep ball, too, because the goalies are out playing with their feet.

I mean, their goalie was almost drafted all the way in the other half.

And if we were able to take advantage of that, it's four.

Hello, we're talking about Marshi, you know, with the MT pet sending that thing from coast to coast, which is what we really need in the entirety.

It's a beautiful tournament.

It's a beautiful city.

And it's...

A missed shot.

Can't do that against our team.

I'm telling you.

Can't do that.

I mean, you're going to get that out of the way.

The first half, though, of these games, I think everybody's kind of feeling it out.

Yep.

Like our team was even feeling it out.

Still much more crisp, though.

Your team.

Our team?

Definitely.

We had a preseason.

We had a preseason.

So we had three scrimmages on Monday.

As opposed to our first game in the tournament being our, hey, let's play for the first time together.

We did that on Monday.

And I heard the first game that we played on Monday, horrid.

Okay.

Heard absolutely horrid.

Boys had no idea what to do.

Second game, we got it together.

Third game, now we're playing ball.

So in the first half, we had to figure it out against another team.

We were sitting, I think we we dominated ball con uh control like 98 yeah i think it was like 18 minutes to two minutes we had the ball we just weren't able to crack we weren't able to get in and then in the second half we knew once we had it moving boys were gonna hunt any uh pucks on net talk in that situation so a lot of meat yelling i don't know if you hear me going yeah i mean that is me telling him rip one let's rip one

yeah we were trying to think about having one here you know a lot of that yeah exactly that's what we were yelling up here what it sounded like when you said it just like hey me maybe think about having one here maybe want to have one here you know anytime he's got the

ball can he hear you or no you think

a couple times I think he did yeah I think he knows anytime he's got possession he's kind of thinking about he might want to have one meat is a lot of the lads yeah having one is shoot boots if we yell boots boots boots boots that's like hey get the ball down look center there might be someone with their boots out

back door Connor's also really big on marking a guy now yeah yeah yeah good mark good mark mark one mark one

I heard Phil say that earlier and I thought oh that's pretty cool I like that.

Yeah, Mark is just playing getting somebody.

Yeah, yeah, good mark.

Good mark.

Is it man-to-man?

Is it like man-to-man sacked off or some type of zone?

We run some zone, inside-out zone.

Okay.

But also man-to-man, whenever they get, when they're running, you have to pick somebody up.

You have to mark somebody up.

Oh, you got marked.

Yeah, it's a big deal.

So it's a zone transition into man.

Like it.

You know, it's a

cover man.

Zone match.

Yeah.

It's like that.

We know that.

Let's talk about some of the other sports that are happening around us.

Tonight, the NHL Stanley Cup finals begin.

And congratulations to the Florida Panthers making it back and representing the Eastern Conference.

Yes!

We beat the shit out of the Connecticut!

Oh no!

Yes!

Yes!

Oh no!

Real quick, real quick.

Another great run by the Carolina Hurricanes.

Hey!

All the way to the bottom of the business.

Just won't be able to get over the hump, potentially.

That is a fear.

But you have to be able to lose in those big moments to be able to win in those big moments.

Carolina Hurricanes are on the up and up like they were last year, and the year before that.

Exactly.

And the year before that.

But they will.

They will continue to go.

And we respect the hell out of the Kaniaks, which there are certainly many of them here representing today, right down the road in Raleigh.

We're currently in Kerry.

I believe this is a triangle area of the two really smart schools.

Oh, okay.

Durham's down the road, which is Duke.

UNC is very, very close, obviously.

NC State, basically where we're at.

That is Wake Forest.

At Chapel Hill.

Oh, yeah, this is Wake Med.

Is Wake right around there too?

I assume Wake Forest is around here.

Yeah, I think Wake Forest is the one who opened up that little town we were in last night.

Oh, it's a very wonderful place.

There's a couple restaurants there you should probably steer clear from.

I wasn't sure if we were wanting to get into this.

I didn't know if the first night we were in town we should talk about it, but

we can wait.

I just want to make sure.

I did tell the best person in that entire restaurant line.

Without a doubt.

There was one hero that came into that restaurant and saved our life.

Yeah.

We just asked if you could take our group.

They decided to take our group.

sure they didn't tell the servers or the chefs no servers and the chefs were not happy that they took our group as late as they took our group very nice steakhouse worst experience i've ever had no questions asked what happened hard on it it wasn't like food like food wasn't great or food didn't come what are we talking about yeah co-operation it was just it's kind of why you went there yeah yeah we just wanted food and

this particular restaurant is known across the nation for being very good very good it fell away it fell on the shoulders of one one man yes it did it was one walk one guy committed the chef and everyone.

Bringing a big party in when they were probably about to close and they thought they were done.

Clocking out.

Everybody was clocking out of the restaurant.

They hate that guy.

And then somebody said,

no problem.

You could definitely serve you.

Nobody told them they were still working, though.

So, you know, water, 60, 70 minutes later.

Just water.

That's all we wanted.

Apps, don't even think about it.

We're out.

We're out.

We're out.

We don't have that.

Don't have that.

It's like a prominent place you went.

Like, I've heard of the place you

very much.

Oh, thanks.

So you served us the shrimp cocktail.

Yeah, I

it was beautiful

it was downtowntown it's a nice little top if you need to ask you'll never know anyways Florida Panthers beat the hell out of the Carolina hurricanes they go to the

they go to the stand of the cup finals to take on the Edmonton oilers here

big standing cup final tonight now obviously they're looking to go back to back this Florida Panthers team there's only been seven or eight teams I believe who have gone back to back.

You're talking about a dynastic run here.

A run that will be talked about forever whenever you talk about the Stanley Cup.

When you go back to back on Lordo, obviously because they put everybody's name on there, you take up some real real estate on the Stanley Cup.

So whenever Howard or Harold,

hard-nose Harold,

when Howie is walking that Stanley Cup around the globe, to all the different events and places, you're going to see your team taking up a massive piece of that Stanley Cup.

Only the great teams, the teams that are considered the greatest of all time, have been able to go back to back.

Three straight finals, obviously.

Congratulations to the Florida Panthers for that.

Will they be able to go back to back?

We shall see.

Kachuck's a dog.

Yes.

Bob's a beast in the net.

Everything they stand for, we love.

Hockey loves.

Marshi will fight you still at this age.

That entire team will.

But they're taking on a guy who has Jesus Christ in his nickname.

Yes.

Yep.

Yep.

You're taking on Mick Jesus, this Connor McDavid guy.

He's faster than everybody else on the ice somehow, and it looks like he's playing against children whenever he has the puck on his stick.

It makes no sense.

He's so talented that the NHL actually asked him to put together the talent portion and the skill portion of the all-star game.

Hey, what do you do?

What do you think would be a good talent?

What do you think would be fun to work on?

That's what we'll do at the All-Star Game.

He's special.

Wow.

He is so incredible.

And he has carried this Edmonton Oilers team on his back for the last couple years.

Last year, they weren't able to get it done.

This year, can they?

That is the the storyline, and I think we got a good one going into the final.

It gives me huge, and obviously, we were following the team, so it's easier to speak on.

08-09, for years and years and years, the Red Wings were basically like the Florida Panthers, where they were absolutely dominant.

We had a young studded Sidney Crosby and Geno Malcolm who come in.

First time they play him in the cup.

Sid doesn't touch the trophy after the conference finals.

They lose the first cup to Detroit.

They make it all the way back the next year to face them again.

Touches the conference final cup that time, and then Sid and Geno and the boys.

Flower made a huge

save.

They get the cup in their second time.

But like the McDavid-Sid comparison, as far as going up against the Big Bad Wolf as the Panthers and being the best, most skilled player in the league, it kind of feels like that 08-09 situation.

Yeah, I'm not worried about it at all.

So you were worried about the Carolina Hurricanes there, Australia.

I saw you sweating.

It was not.

You were sweating.

At all.

The game that I was able to make it to, we beat there, I think, 6-2.

But

that's where they fall short.

But this is our third time in the final.

And the boys are ready.

The boys are ready to run it back.

Obviously, McDavid is, I won't call him McJesus.

McJesus was not.

Canadians.

Can't wait to rip Canada's heart out one more time.

I can't wait to get back around Lord Stanley, too.

I missed it when he came into the studio.

But we'll touch that thing again, Paul.

You mentioned Chucky.

It starts with our captain, Barkey.

Barky just won another.

What's the award?

He just won a Selkie?

Yeah, Selkie.

Just won a defensive forward.

Yeah, yep, he's an absolute dog.

Obviously, he added Marshi, he added Jonesy, so we added depth to the core guys that are there.

Never running back, man.

The good news is it'll be a great game tonight.

This will be phenomenal to watch.

This will be incredible entertainment, and they'll be physical as shit.

And Edmonton knows that that's going to happen as well.

Yeah, Bingo, you just wonder if they can, you know, kind of block out the rats of Florida.

Gumpy mentioned it throughout the entire series of Edmonton and Dallas.

It's coming down to Stu Skinner, baby.

If the Edmonton goalie, Stu Skinner, who was benched, came in in relief, now has turned it back on.

If he can continue to play well, then all of a sudden we might be talking about the Edmonton Oilers kind of going on a run here, fulfilling Conor McDavid's destiny for glory.

But, you know, Brad Marchan, a lot of pesticides, they added.

He was born to be a Florida Panthers, says Kickstock.

That has to hurt up there in Boston.

You guys just trade him out.

He's going to go win another Stanley Cup.

Let's go back to the truck.

Nikki Skates, you have some thoughts on tonight?

Yeah, Pat, you guys.

Whoa, what a setup.

Whoa.

How many buttons do you have?

Just slide them.

Yeah, you guys covered it pretty well, but I mean, obviously, the big story being with Jesus and Dreisitel, the dynamic duo at Edmonton, something that's being discussed on the internet.

And we've seen the perennial run here by Tampa Bay.

They go three years in a row, and now Florida's gone three years in a row.

Tampa Bay used a lot of tactics of putting guys on the long-term IR and stashing them into the playoffs.

Good move.

That is going to be addressed allegedly by the CBA negotiations, potentially, and some of the owners getting together in the offseason.

Something they're talking about now, and it's mostly led by upset Toronto fans like Paul Bissonette, is teams that have no state income tax.

Do they have an advantage in the league?

Yes.

Everyone's crying foul.

Yes, they do.

Have been able to do this.

Teams that are in Canada, do you have a tax massive disadvantage?

Yeah.

Yes.

Yes, You want to win a cup?

Change the tax.

Bit of.

That's

Biz saying, listen, Florida is able to just knock off 8% of the state income tax, 6%.

What's that all about?

Is that a new rule?

We just changed the income tax rule.

Is that like?

Yeah, it's been around a long time.

How about Tennessee?

Nashville.

Tennessee and Nashville.

There's a business way to do that.

Texas, too, right?

Then Texas.

Yeah, Texas.

Remember Washington?

Nevada.

You had Nevada.

Arizona, even though they just got rid of their team.

Don't you think Indiana needs to do that?

I agree.

I just got a text from Johnny Damon.

Oh, Johnny Damon?

Big fan of the show.

Yankee Legend.

He's sponsoring Drip FC.

Oh, let's go.

Johnny Man, I'm just saying hi.

I'm out here sponsoring my team, Drip FC.

We're on the field behind you.

Just wanted to say what's up.

Johnny Damon, where is he?

Huge fan of the program.

Does he have the large beard still?

No, he got rid of that.

Looks good to have it to him in the program.

He's 40 years ago.

Love you, Johnny.

Those of you who enjoyed the bananas, if you wanted to.

Where is he?

Johnny Damon, legend.

The guy's a legend.

The coach for Drip FC is wearing a full suit.

So someone dunked him.

Look at him.

I'm going to hit him out.

Straight across.

I love that.

Right at the suit.

Jeff Damon.

I'm just waving.

He's just waving.

He's a red sock.

It's a legend.

Look for a guy holding a baseball bat.

Yeah.

Speaking of, hold on now.

Let's talk about James.

Drinking a beer.

That's a good transition.

Shout out to U.S.

Baseball, dropping off some swag.

They are located, I believe, in Kerry, North Carolina.

Is that accurate?

Yeah, I believe so.

Okay, our U.S.

baseball team, we lost to Japan, right, in the Super Duper.

Hey, hey, hey.

Oh, yeah.

She missed.

Miss Earl Shaughnessy.

Hey, yeah, he's got the handheld, Nick.

Crossed, everybody.

Here you go.

Thank you, Sheamus.

We all be.

We all be.

I'm allergic.

Stay away.

Stay away.

Boom.

Save the bees.

Thank you, sir.

Boom.

Oh, thanks, B.

You want one?

Thanks, B.

Looks like a bad one.

Cheers, Seamus.

Seamus has SPF 250 on.

It's a smart decision.

Hey, use that.

You want to give a toast?

Jeremy, guys.

Prosts!

Prost!

What's that?

Cheers.

You're not going to give a toast at all or anything?

Salute.

I should.

Yeah, yeah.

Good apple juice.

Watch out for that camera, B.

But once again, I'm on the Pat McCabe show.

That's right.

An honor that it is with the greatest crew,

greatest crew you could ever have.

To a great tournament, to BBB winning it all.

Slotcha Lance Prost.

Let's go.

Yeah, to Concerva.

Concava.

What type of beer is this?

This is one of those super flavorful beers where the brewer says, I put my heart, my soul, and my entire backyard into this.

It's not bad at all.

It's going to have a lot of flavor.

It's kind of delightful.

It's a proper German beer, by the way.

It's a proper German beer.

It's got a little light.

And the Germans know how to drink beer.

Irish know how how to drink Guinness, but the Germans definitely know how heads drink beer.

Yeah, beer spines, right?

That's what they do.

That's it.

This is a delicious.

It is.

So you have a chair, extra chair there?

There, chair, right here.

Where are you going to?

Where are you going to sit?

No, no, no, right here.

You got a headset right there.

Oh, perfect.

This is kind of like a labatte with the cores light, kind of a perfect color.

It's delicious.

It's a good way of phrasing it.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

That went down real smooth.

I was supposed to maybe play in that second game tonight.

Why would I do that?

Drip FC.

Drip FC.

Oh, Damon's boys came to play.

We knew it.

Saw him off the bus.

Okay, welcome to the show, Seamus.

It is an honor to have you.

We appreciate you.

You're currently acting as the team representative of what's team?

Brusha Dortmund.

Who?

Brusha Dortmund.

Brusha and Dortmund.

Russia and Dortmund.

Barusha Dortmund.

BBB.

What's he saying?

BVB.

OI.

OI!

OI!

BVB!

OI!

OI!

Is it one of your favorite teams?

Well, because I'm a Liverpool fan my whole life,

during the pandemic when everything was shut down, there's some Liverpool fans here.

The Bundesliga was the only league that was on at the time.

So, with the club connection with Liverpool and Dortmund, and both teams embracing You'll Never Walk Alone, it was an easy pick for me.

So, I've had a great relationship with Dortmund over the last five, six years, so I'm proud to represent them here today.

Okay, so Dortmund actually came and gave us a bunch of food last year.

Yeah, they did.

I love the way their team operates.

Great fella.

What a looks like a big family business.

You know,

the people that realize what Dork is.

Oh, shit!

It's a goal!

Right?

That's what they call the nasty goals.

That was filthy.

Is that an answer?

Yeah, Goldzalo, they crossed one in head.

Colossal.

There it is.

Shit.

Goldzalo.

You're close.

Cross in.

Cross in header off the post and in it.

Do we have that?

I wonder if we'll be able to pull it up.

It was in the background while we were talking there.

That's wonderful news.

There it is.

Here's the replay.

Here it is.

Beautiful.

Bottom corner.

No chance for the goalkeeper.

Did you play?

Did you guys have you played yet, Dortmund?

No, I practiced with the team yesterday.

Good crack.

I was in goal.

I had a laugh.

But obviously, I'm not allowed playing the tournament from WB's perspective, so they don't want me getting hurt.

So I'm on the sideline Ging them up, you know, giving them a bit of motivation.

Have you guys played yet?

We played a game this morning, yeah.

How'd it go?

How'd it go?

I didn't go too good.

Oh, no.

Who'd you play?

Who'd you play?

What was the name of that team again?

They were good.

They looked out Freedom United.

United.

Freedom What was the final scorer?

3-2.

Oh, okay.

Not bad.

That's a good battle.

First half, we weren't great, but we settled down in the second.

It was 1-0 half-time to them, and we came back.

But with another game here, it's 6.45.

So, you know, I feel like the wheels are starting to turn now.

They'll be all right.

I feel they're going to do okay.

You have a lot of confidence in your team.

I do.

They're a great bunch of lads.

Honestly, great bunch of lads.

They're representing the crest.

19.09, that team was established.

So there's a lot of responsibility on their shoulders, but I think they're going to roll it out.

Okay, well, I don't think that's the case.

What's your team again?

Concava?

Concaquet for Concava.

Concaque.

Concafa.

That's who we are.

Better get familiar.

Do you have any other, apart from you guys, is there anyone else supporting that team?

Or what are you talking about?

Concafa?

Concafa, yeah.

We got the concafa crazies.

Look at this.

You got merchimo.

We got concafa mercham.

Yeah.

We got people saying

concava.

Look, we got a concafa scarf up there.

What's that?

Boom.

That don't worry about that.

They're all plants.

All of them are plants.

You paid them all, Patty.

I know you have.

To be clear, Zach, the kid who had the first goal for us, his mom made this tank top.

Sweet.

Ton Diggs got these from TST.

They're the ice things.

Yep.

And I don't have a single scarf in my possession.

So,

all contra, we're moving merch over here at Concaf.

You better hope, for Dortmund's sake, that we don't try to get into Bundesliga.

Because if I want to bring a team over to Bundesliga, we're going to be sprecking Deutschen all over the place.

Gutenthog, Guttenthag, Konkefa, Konkeifa.

Let's talk.

German's great, by the way.

I have to say.

Grazi.

Yeah.

What is thank you?

Donkers.

Donkishen.

Dunkishen.

Dunkishen.

Yeah, Dunkishen.

And then Dorier.

Dawah.

Exactly.

Yeah, you don't even know.

Yeah, exactly.

I'm speaking languages you don't know.

Listen, mate, I can barely speak English, so let's just leave it at that.

I agree with that.

The accent is something there's going to be a lot of people that are putting on the caption so they can understand what you're saying.

And rightly so.

I'm not embarrassed, but how long you agree.

It sounds awesome.

How long have you been with the WWE?

18 years now,

a year and a half developmental.

I'm coming up to my 16th year on June 30th this year.

Congratulations.

I appreciate it.

Let's talk about it.

Obviously, a lot of turnover, a lot of change in those 18 years in WWE.

Obviously, the internet was ablaze this week whenever we all found out that our truths contract was expiring soon and that he was not going to be with us falling forward from his own announcement.

Also, Carlito.

Carlito came out, and I I didn't think I saw that until a couple days later.

I love Carlito.

He's a bad apple.

Yeah, yeah.

Carlito's a bad apple.

But R-Truth and Carlito have been with the WWE for so damn long, been pillars of the WWE, have been so entertaining, have been beloved by the WWE universe for so long.

Obviously, there was a loud reaction to that in a negative way.

18 years you've been there.

There's been a lot of turnover.

And I think that's something that we come from the NFL world.

Okay, we'll have a friend that we're on Colts with, and we're eating lunch with him.

This guy's a professional football player.

He's made millions of dollars.

He's on the Indianapolis Colts.

I'm having lunch with him.

He goes to a meeting.

I go to a meeting.

I never see the guy again.

He got cut.

And in our world, like people move on.

You don't have a job forever.

It's like you do get cut.

You have to learn and just kind of do it.

In the WWE, it's kind of similar.

But I think people fall in love with the superstar so much, it's harder to move on from people.

What are your thoughts and perspective on the business as a whole?

And

do you know when it's time?

Like, do you think guys know when it's time?

Do you think it's always like what are your thoughts on it all?

Sometimes people don't know.

Look, you know, from a perspective of what we do, entertainment, like, it's been entertaining the fans.

And people, like, I'm sure in NFL, you know, fans to see that the player, like, interviews and everything, and they see what he does in the field.

But for our perspective, what we do, the fans get to know who that person is and they get to fall in love with the character and the personality.

Like, for truth, example, like, he's one of the most beloved because he's one of the most entertaining.

I had my first dark match against him when I came up in 07, I think think 08, I joined in 07, 08, I came up with the road for dark, and Ortrude had just come back after he was with the company, went to TNA, came back again, so we had a dark match together

on the road, and like from then we bonded, you know, like it's that fellow walking in the dressing room and it's just laugh.

He's got a contagious laugh that would just like light up the room.

But you don't, there's no way of knowing, man.

You just got to go out there and do what you can.

Sometimes you can't tell when that time is.

A lot of guys come back though.

That's the wrestling business.

even more so now with how many opportunities there are elsewhere and it feels like it's only growing i mean let alone like triple a getting bought up by wwe and tko that partnership what they're gonna do the amount of money probably gonna be invested into there t and a seemingly all the way back obviously aew still rolling they broke a record of some sort there's so many opportunities but there's always a road back to wwe it feels not the end it's not the end so many people so many guys and girls have left and come back it's not the end like it's a bit of sometimes it's a bit of a break and there's no no way Truth's not going to come back at some stage.

I'm sure you'll see him again.

He's definitely a Hall of Fame.

He's definitely a pillar, yeah.

And same with Carlito.

Carlito was gone for a while.

He came back, you know.

And it's not the end.

If you truly want to find your way back, you'll find your way back.

It's not the end for anybody.

So many talented people at the WWE.

Yeah, it's crazy.

And so many young talent coming up as well.

I just did a workout with Abafemi from NXT, NXT World Heavyweight Champion.

I was down in the performance centre.

So it just dropped today on Celtic Warrior Workouts.

Want to check it out?

Million subscribers, Seamus.

big time.

But he was behind the neck, shoulder pressing, standing and shoulder pressing nearly 300 pounds.

And he was using his traps.

As you know, when you do squats, you put that kind of pad on the bar.

He was using his traps as that pad.

Just finding out.

Unbelievable, man.

You put the pad on the bar when you squat?

I don't, but I'm just saying.

Some people would, but I'm just saying

extra like that.

Some people don't like that.

AJ has a question for you, Seamus.

Seamus, you say, what, almost 18 and a half years of ever with the WWE?

Coming up in 18 years.

Do you ever go back and watch some of your old stuff from when you first got in and say, like, wow, I've really come a long way?

I try not to watch my old stuff.

I'm sure you were awesome back then, though.

I'm sure we wouldn't.

I'm sure you were awesome back then, but like, how much, what is it like now going into the ring compared to what it was like when you were younger?

I feel when I first started in WWE, I was just so nervous and just so self-conscious of myself.

And just like, I wasn't really in the moment.

I wasn't really enjoying it.

I just wanted to make sure I got through it without messing up, without making any mistakes.

And now at the point where I just love going out there, I just feel the crowd.

you know he's there in commentary banging it out you can hear him all over the bleeding place so you guys can't hear me I always hear you

can hear you over I can hear you over 20,000 people in that crowd Patty okay I didn't know that

I'm gonna remember that yeah I'm gonna lock that in come on

Patty it's fine fella

you'll hear me you'll hear me I'll make sure but um but you know I just enjoy I you know feel the crowd in the moment I'm more in the moment than I've ever been and that's what it's about and letting the crowd in and I feel that's why I'm having the best matches in my entire career.

And that's why I love going out there.

I love putting on banger after banger.

After banger, after banger, after banger, after banger, after banger, after banger, after banger, after banger, after banger.

Did you drive a bus?

Did you drive a bus really?

No.

I thought it was the.

No.

That's a good Uber, like everybody else.

Banger, banger.

Yeah.

It was not the banger bus.

It's a nice Uber.

No, remember, remember, remember the Banger Brothers, the thing back in the day?

Me and Tara.

You got a banger bro.

You look at that other guy.

You're not going to talk about it.

Yeah, you got to get it.

The Banger Brothers?

Yeah, yeah.

I got shut down real fast, by the way.

Yeah, yeah.

That's not the one I remember.

What are you talking about?

What?

The different.

You are a

part of the other team, aren't you?

No, no, no.

I'm thinking about a different bang.

Speaking about

a banger brothers, the banger bro.

Speaking about bitty.

Speaking about Biddy in the moment, we are out here.

You've been around the world.

Obviously, been a superstar for a long, long time.

How's Carrie been treating you so far?

Do you have any, I guess, suggestions for us for dinner tonight?

We ended up in Bahama Breeze last night.

Okay, we saw that on the way here.

Yeah, yeah.

Instead of boats going by the hotel, it was just cars and trucks and stuff.

That's just a good thing.

My wife was really impressed with it.

I can tell you where not to go.

There's a lot of restaurants out here.

There is.

I mean, we only got in yesterday, but late yesterday, staying at the same place.

But, you know, like Carolina is great, man.

I just, I love this place.

It feels very close to being in Ireland.

So many trees, so many greenery.

Everyone's super friendly.

Except for this heat, dude.

This heat's killing me.

Ty has a question for you, Sheamus.

Yeah, Sheamus, I am curious.

You're obviously absolutely jacked.

Pat mentioned, you know, the Celtic Warrior workouts are up over a million subs right now.

How does your body feel?

And how much different is it when you get in the ring now than maybe it was 16 years ago when you were a you know spring chicken?

I don't think it was ever a spring chicken Ty, but

um no I actually feel right now.

I think I'm in the best shape I've ever been in.

I'm I'm using this.

My wife got me, Isabella got me on this app called Ladder App.

I've been using, and I have this guy called Corey Perkins, awesome trainer.

And I feel now like I'm lifting six days a week.

I'm eating really well, a kind of carnivore animal diet, except for this, obviously, but you're loud on special days like this.

But I feel now like I've just so set my way to train.

And when I first started, I wasn't as self-conscious or I wasn't as strict, regimented on what I was doing.

But now I feel like I'm definitely dialed in and I'm really liking it.

You said Ladder App?

Yeah, Ladder App, too.

It was Corey Perkins.

Corey Perkins, awesome trainer, but I want to give you a shot.

So he's on your app?

He's on your app?

Yeah, he is, yeah.

Hold on, hold on.

I need to learn more about that.

Oh, yeah, sure.

So the ladder app.

Yeah.

You just take your phone downstairs into the gym, open it up, and Corey's leading you through a workout.

Yeah, you pick whoever, the trainer you kind of most like resonate with.

You pick the trainer, and Corey is the one.

You remember when I came back?

Teleton for lifting?

It's basically that, yeah.

And every day is a new set.

Like, you can do six days, minimum of three days.

It's awesome.

But it's changed my life right already.

You saw those pictures of me, burger after burger.

You remember that stuff?

They were calling you fat, Seamus.

They were calling me fat.

And rightly so, you know,

I was, listen, listen, I'm telling you,

there was creases going on everywhere.

There shouldn't have been creases.

You know what I'm saying?

But I'm dialed in now.

And it's, if you want to go.

Oh, by the way, when are you going to get on Celtic Warrior Workouts?

We should all do one together as a character.

Huh?

I'm a fat sloss, dude.

I can't do anything.

No, thanks.

Connor, you're just so negative all the time, lately.

What's wrong?

What are you doing right now?

You're just there, man.

You get pad on.

You should get pad on.

Okay, I came to earn your round to talk to you on your laptop.

No, no, Shane.

It's some business.

Big league, me when I came on here, you all before the show.

It's not you saying

that.

Try to give him a beard.

He's complaining, got spoiled.

I got finished the beard.

It's not my father wearing blue shorts.

Is it?

Come on.

Where'd you get them anyway?

What are you wearing that for?

North Carolina.

We're in Carolina.

You're the Liverpool fan wearing black and gold.

Yeah, but you never walk alone, man.

You know the yellow wall.

Bill Belichick, you know, his name's on my bicep.

What do you want?

True.

Yeah, it's right there.

What do you want me to do?

You got to respect the team, dude.

Potter Donald Trump.

That's not true from Boston, right?

Yeah, but I don't really have a college team.

Maybe.

Boston College, no.

Notre Dame,

with Iris College for you.

Notre Dame's up there.

You could always.

Georgia Tech, your school week.

You're having a go with me.

Yeah, well, I mean, you live and die with Liverpool, but you also live and die with the WWE, as we all do.

They moved WrestleMania back to Vegas.

Are you pumped about that, or do you kind of wish you were going back to New Orleans?

We were in New Orleans for the Super Bowl, where they were saying it was going to be.

Great city.

Don't know if it's fully equipped to have what Vegas had just because of the spectacle that WrestleMania is.

What do you think

of New Orleans is?

Incredible.

That's amazing.

Yeah, we were down there.

You guys did one.

We went to one.

That was Bourbon Street.

That was one of like the top five weekends of my life.

At WrestleMania, what, 32?

Was it 33 or something?

Was it?

I don't even remember.

I don't remember.

Now, I don't know if I guess at this point, yeah, it probably was.

2018, I think.

Okay.

2018.

Okay.

It was awesome.

It was incredible.

You'll never see Bourbon Street like that any other time of the year.

That's an insane, insane place.

You weren't able to be there, Seamus, because you were famous at that time in WWE.

I was able to just walk around down there.

It was incredible.

Every bar was playing entrance music, other people's music, theme music.

And then there were matches happening in the middle of Bourbon Street.

Somebody was dressed up like, let's say, Hulkster Brother.

Yeah.

And then Macho, obviously, somebody dressed up as Macho shows up.

And then obviously, because it's WrestleMania New Orleans, somebody's dressed like a ref.

They just meet in the middle.

Crowd makes a ring.

Crowd makes a ring.

We're going off the ropes in the middle of this thing.

One, two, three.

And then the bar hits Macho man's music i mean in the middle of barbarian also

hogan put macho over yes that's that's that's yeah it's barbaric it's new all that's the fake hogan put macho over yeah yeah come on we all know that's crazy uh but yeah it was awesome down i fully agree with it but you know love macho it was awesome are you excited to get back to vegas though i felt like vegas was the perfect vegas was incredible vegas is great you know look i'll come out i won't come out during the daytime obviously for a lot of reasons but uh it obviously was a huge hit there this year um that movement it's out of my it's above my pay grade, but you know, either way, it was a success.

So, they're obviously going to go back again because it was such a huge hit.

Do you do you operate like a vampire?

Pretty much, yeah.

I'm literally on my second can of sunscreen right now.

I could see it radiating from your eye.

Basically, about 20 minutes, five minutes before I came on the show, I couldn't see anything.

I was just like,

but the beer, you know.

The beer was like you were, like you were in Dublin, remember?

It's like that the whole time.

Great time.

People grabbing Pat's hand, just walking him around.

Where are we going?

Great show.

You're going to come over this year.

I'm coming this year.

No, you missed a great time.

Did you miss a great time?

One of the greatest cracks of my life.

That buddy was awesome, though.

And you've had some great cracks.

We've had some great cracks.

I think we should go to double.

Hey, Sheamus has been on the record of saying that that was a good night, though.

You had a good time, too.

It wasn't just us having a great time.

I was just warming up and the night was over.

It was mental.

Well, your buddy had it.

I mean, some of the best fashion I've ever seen.

One of the coolest outfits of all time.

I actually looked into some stuff post that night because of how cool your buddy is.

Speaking of outfits, you've gifted AJ something.

He has thrown it in the trash.

I didn't know you were actually coaching the Door Russia, whatever.

You're talking about it.

Bruce and Bruce Bruce.

I'm just

a garment.

I'm sorry to everyone over there.

Buddy Lush.

AJ, all you got to say is BVB.

There you go.

BVB.

I would have worn the full jeans, vest, dress, but it was 150 degrees down here.

Have you worn that once?

No, because I'm waiting for a big special.

Like, maybe I'm trash.

Oh, no, I know exactly what it's saying.

I'll send a picture to you.

It's in Goodwill right now.

It's on the rock in Goodwill.

It's going to case, waiting for a big moment to show him.

Seamus, you were the only one to pick the right answer on college game day.

That's right.

I forget what the pick was.

Georgia Tech.

Over Florida State, yeah.

Notre Dame and

Notre State.

And Notre Dame in the national championship.

Yeah, that was so close.

I mean, obviously they got to the national championships, but unlucky.

Still had it.

Not exactly unlucky, but you know.

Unlucky.

I'm going to go with Unlucky AJ.

That's

only guy that had a team in this year.

I don't know if anybody was beating,

bro.

No, it was a great game.

I don't know if it was unlucky.

I think it was just.

They're a machine, my game out of the machine.

All the jungle.

They're a machine.

Well,

are we going back this year again?

Yeah, game stinks this year.

What is it?

Kansas State, Iowa State.

I think it's a football game or an NFL game we're going to do.

NFL game, yeah.

Is it Green Bay against

Minnesota?

Is that it?

No, it's not.

Minnesota or Pittsburgh.

Minnesota.

Pittsburgh or Minnesota Pittsburgh, right?

All right.

I'm actually.

What's wrong?

In Germany, Foxy gave me a piece of information.

I'm sorry, in Ireland, I mean,

he said there's a SmackDown in Ireland the night before the college football game.

Or the Big 12 deal, I believe.

Oh,

because it's Iowa State, I think, playing.

Exactly the state is.

Iowa State, K-State.

I don't know if we're going.

It's not big enough.

I don't know if we're going.

I don't have no idea.

A lot of decisions have to be made there.

I am not, you're not going to take the brunt of that way, or not at all.

Yep, I am not the one.

Uh, we will move that along, but if we'll definitely end up at the NFL game over, uh, there for sure.

I will say, though, as uh, I spoke to the Titans as well.

They're the, I know there's a lot of teams have claimed UK and Ireland as their territory overseas, but Titans are the only one that have claimed Ireland, I believe.

So I think I might be going over it.

No, no, no.

Steelers are both in and out, man.

One foot in, one foot out.

One foot in Ireland.

The Steelers had representation in Ireland for like four or five years or whatever.

Did they?

Ambassador Irish?

Yeah, the Rooney.

He's the ambassador to Ireland.

This guy was trying to make.

What are you?

What are you even talking about?

I'm talking about the Titans picking up.

Rooney was at the game day in Dublin.

So in luck.

He was at the game day.

Quay is a die-hard Steelers.

I didn't see anybody telling the Titans.

No, no, no, no.

The Titans don't claim shit.

They're grasping for straws.

Don't believe anything the Tennessee Titans say.

What the hell?

They probably claimed China.

Patriots.

The Patriots claim Germany, technically, but you go back through the history, we've had German players.

Yeah, what German players have you had?

Sebastian Volmer.

One of the greatest of all time.

Was he American chairman?

Was he German chairman?

Straight out of Germany.

Was he German?

He's German.

Some people aren't European enough over here.

Gee.

He's straight off the U-boat, brother.

He's not some fake German.

He came over from Germany, similar to.

I don't know if he came from World War II.

No, No, but he and M.

Lieutenant

over.

I don't know.

Some of the players on the Patriots these days look like they were in World War I.

They moved so slow.

That's why Fray came in.

All right, keep those guys up.

Seamus, brother, we appreciate you.

Thank you for stopping by.

Thank you, fella.

We appreciate you.

Thank you, brother.

I appreciate it.

Anything we didn't hit that we need to talk about?

No, it's great, man.

Councillor Gloria workouts.

Got the channel over, got BVB over, got WEO.

It's great.

Everything's good.

You're over.

Ladies and gentlemen, are you going to finish your beer?

Make sure you drink more beers.

There was more.

There's two more there.

Who wants the next one?

I'm gonna finish.

What do I look like?

It's good.

Yeah, why don't you swing that other one down?

I mean, are we having a crack right now?

No, I think we're having a crack now.

We're having a bit of a crack right now.

There you go, bro.

Now's the crack.

Cheers, Lots.

Cheers to the people sitting on the hill, hot as hell.

Frost.

Frost.

Cheers.

Slanter Seamus.

Gourmila Mahagot.

What?

Wait, what did you say?

Grandma, what?

Gouramila Mahagot.

You should know that.

You're from Boston.

You got marbles in your mouth?

What was that?

No, I know what it is.

I'm telling everybody else.

You just got to go.

Thank you very much in Irish and Gaelic.

Say it again, say it again.

Our native language.

Say it again.

Goromila Mahogats.

Who?

Goramila Mahogots.

Hell yeah, Seamus.

Me and Seamus said it at the same time.

We screwed it up.

Now, you

stepped over me trying to get a piece of information.

I was trying to learn what the actual name was.

Goromilaga.

Yeah, Gormilavic.

No, it's not an Avic.

It's an Irish thing, and it's not a Serbian thing.

What score this game?

Do we know what's going on?

3-1 Drip FC.

That's Johnny Damon's squad.

Johnny Damon's squad.

And he's in net right now.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is an absolute honor to be joined by a man who is coaching Dortmouth.

Bournemouth.

That's on me.

Dortmouth.

Yeah, it's on the mind.

Bournemouth.

They are currently completely defeated after a loss to CONKEFA this morning.

But he is not a man who's defeated.

No, no, no.

He made his pro debut in 2006 as a 16-year-old.

One of the longest-tenured United States of America soccer players of all time and an astute businessman.

I believe he's a minority owner of the Buffalo Bills.

Wow.

Ladies and gentlemen, Josie Altator.

Yeah, Josie.

Jose!

Hello, baby, Jose.

Josie!

Jose!

How's it going, man?

How are you?

How you doing?

Good to see you, buddy.

The soccer dap roll.

Yeah, good.

Love it every time.

You got a full one, yeah.

Do you realize that?

We got a soccer full one.

Sorry about it.

Do you realize soccer players normally only do this part?

It's kind of like golfers.

It's not a full dap.

True, golfers do the same thing.

We're trying to adjust to the community.

The community.

We're trying We're trying to be some culture vultures around here and make sure we get the proper depths.

It's just one clean ha,

and then you let go.

Release.

Yeah, which kind of stinks, but definitely.

It's like Stuart Sink, like a golfer.

To be clear, though, he clearly...

Yeah, apparently, Debut, you also got a full death?

Debut got a full one.

How do they pay attention?

It's been a fun morning.

Yeah, they look like soccer players over there, which is why you gave them soccer dash.

Brandon and Brandon.

Let's talk about this morning.

You thought your team was going to be good or no?

What do you mean?

Our team is good.

I didn't think we could.

I know, I know, that's what I'm saying.

It's our first time out here, and you know, it'll take us some getting used to.

But, you know, big shout out to Bill Foley, to Michael B.

Jordan, all of Bournemouth for entering a team and putting the effort they've put in.

Listen, this is our record.

This is a record year for Bournemouth right now.

All right.

Most points ever in a season.

The team here that's playing is, you know, the 2015 team that got Bournemouth promoted to the Premier League.

So it's a special event.

event, and

I know they're happy to be out here.

Okay, I'm pumped to hear all that information.

The 2015 team's playing.

A lot of people played.

Did you guys do any practice beforehand?

Did you guys play this?

They did, you know, but look, they're not full-time players anymore, but they wanted to come out here, represent the brand, represent themselves.

And I thought they did a great job.

I thought so too, by the way.

It's not easy, you know, you know that.

So

our guys have obviously played in this tournament before.

Our guys had three practice games on Monday.

Exactly.

Like, I think we learned what TST is last year.

We came in cold last year, and the reggae rovers beat the hell out of us game one.

We had no idea what we were doing.

I felt like watching your team, they were figuring out the game as the game was going on.

Exactly.

And that's a lot of what this is, right?

You know that well.

So I'm proud of how we performed the first game.

We got another big one later tonight, and I know the guys will be up for it.

How do you feel about maybe you playing?

You don't play anybody?

I wish.

You know, I actually injured myself.

I was with my family on a Disney cruise, man.

Oh, hell yeah.

Were you going to play in this?

I was thinking about it, yeah.

I would have loved to.

I would have put you to the sword out there.

I would not have got on the field.

I would not have gotten on the field.

I thought you were on the field.

What happened?

Well, last year I was.

I ripped my hip flexor.

I felt like that's good.

That's it.

That's good last year.

You know why that happened?

Why?

Because you weren't training at so agility.

Yeah, this is.

Let's talk about you being a business person.

And this is for you, by the way.

Okay.

This is, I want to give you this.

I got two gifts for you.

Thank you.

This is Bourne Miff's

official U.S.

Jersey tour shirt.

Michael B inspired.

So take a look at that.

Smokestack inspired.

You know what I mean?

We got this for you with the last name on the back.

We got to take care of our people.

You know what I'm saying?

We got that.

And then I have this for you.

This is where you should have trained.

That's why you got injured.

I know, I know.

You need to be at Sogility.

It is down the road from you.

There's no excuse.

We will host you.

We'd love to have you.

Okay.

So this is for you to

come down, train with us, and we'll fix that hip flexor.

Okay, so let's talk about that.

You own Shagility.

Yes.

Okay, I assume you own part of Bournemouth.

I assume there's other things.

And then you're also a minority owner of the Buffalo Bills.

Brand new.

I think there's some other companies that you're like potential investor in.

When did you decide that you're going to be an investor?

And is this all from soccer money?

Legit.

We're trying to figure it out.

Is he pocket watching?

That's crazy.

I've never seen him.

No, no.

When you're curious, he's kind of crushing it.

Come on, man.

I know, but the Buffalo Bills, though,

that is an unbelievable.

When we saw your name get dropped in here, I'm like, Josie Althador is an owner of an NFL team?

Because you're young.

You know, you're young.

And it's like, how?

That's unbelievable.

And then you start looking at all the other shit that you're invested in it's like you're a good businessman josie how long has it been like that and what has always been the plan no first of all i appreciate that um and for me it started with my dad so my dad uh he actually worked at fedex 30 years but you know he always instilled in me the idea of you know owning something right and you know we started in real estate in boca so started with a small real estate company there that my dad started and showed me the business from a young age.

And, you know, ever since that, he's instilled to me the value of that.

And, you know, I kind of took took it and ran with it and it's been one of my biggest passions for sure i love watching athletes dominate in the business world because the suits they think we're dumb you know that josie i love big slow no they do

you need to realize that that they do you need to realize that they do we've heard them on the record and off the record say things about athletes and stuff so remember that whenever you're in there working i respect it and i appreciate you doing that the only thing i'll say is is like you know Now not playing, you have to understand what it's like for them, right?

They put 25, 30 years into their field, went to school.

So I think, you know, as athletes, we got to be a little bit humble when we're transitioning, you know, take that athlete hat off and kind of relearn how to make an effect on society.

And that's part of business.

But keep the athlete work ethic.

Exactly.

Yeah, yeah.

That'll kind of...

That's synonymous to me in the business world.

You know, that discipline.

It's important.

Agreed.

Okay, let's talk about some discipline.

Let's do it.

Is our U.S.

Ven's national team ever going to win?

No, this is unbelievable.

Look, USA hat.

USA hat.

Thanks, man.

USA hat.

I watch you on TBO say.

Thank you you for your service to the United States of America.

I appreciate it.

It was always cool to watch you out there.

And you played 110 caps for Team USA, is what Wikipedia said.

Felt like I saw you a thousand times.

Every time I watched, you were playing.

So I respect the shit out of that.

But with this team, obviously we've got a new coach, Coach Paunch.

Yeah, Pete Paunch.

And every time Paunch leaves his club, that club goes on to win great things.

A lot of people say he maybe built that club to have success, but you're saying when he leaves, they win.

Three different teams.

Nonetheless, I feel like we've had a lot of good players.

I feel like we have done our job of hyping up the United States of America.

Without a doubt.

We firmly believe we're winning the World Cup whenever we play in it.

We firmly believe we're winning the Concafa whenever we're playing in the Concafa.

Gold Cup.

The Cold Cup, the Caribou, the Carabao.

If America was playing in TST, I'd be pulling for them against Concafa, even though I love Concafa.

And maybe some of the Conquefa boys need to be on Team USA.

And maybe everything would kind of change.

Backport.

But why do you think Team USA is where it is?

Because Because I grew up playing soccer.

I remember there was like a project 2012 or 2012.

There's a project 40.

Project 40.

Yeah, there was all these things.

So I grew up hearing about all these things.

And the future of U.S.

soccer is going to be great.

But we've never really got to.

Why do you think that is the case?

And do you think we're closer than ever?

Or what do you think?

You know, I think we have to approach it in a sensible way.

Look, I think...

As the United States, it's natural.

We want to win.

We want to be the best at everything.

But I think we have to understand our league domestically is 30 years old, right?

Like, you look at the age of of the Premier League, the NFL.

So soccer in this country is a little bit behind the eight ball.

But what we're seeing at events like this, right, young kids, it's starting to really resonate.

And I think we're starting to improve across the board.

And with things like Sogility, with different things popping up where we're trying to get kids involved and keep them in the game, I think that side is important.

And so I get the frustration, but it's a work in progress.

And I believe in those boys.

I know them all well.

And I know they're doing what they need to do to be ready for next year.

How about Ponch?

Do you believe in Ponch?

Yes, they are.

And I believe in Pochitino.

Look, you know, I credit the Federation.

They took, you know, kind of,

you know, they tried something different right before the World Cup.

They were really putting all their chips on the table.

And I think you have to commend that.

And I think Pochitino needs our support.

We got to get behind him.

And again, it's going to be a celebration, man.

The World Cup in the United States hopefully has

effects for years to come.

Yeah, I hope we win it.

Are we going to at least make this a pool play?

Knockout round.

Knockout round.

I mean, historically, we've done pretty well.

I mean, obviously, 18 wasn't great, but like looking at other World Cups, 2014, 18, or not 18, sorry, 22, the guys had a good showing in Qatar.

So, I anticipate a lot of the same, even more.

The support will be important from all of you.

You know, making sure you get out there and watch and support the team.

And, you know, it'll be cool to celebrate soccer first.

Yeah, exactly.

You don't want to just show up for nothing.

I mean, you can't do that again.

Josie, we're getting beat by...

Puerto Rico by three goals.

I don't think that's ever happened, though.

That's ever happened.

I'm still watching it.

Puerto Rico.

I think it was Guam actually.

That didn't happen.

You hear about Gio Reyna.

Why isn't Gio Reyna playing?

He's one of the best players.

Yeah, there's a lot of drama always around the U.S.

national team.

It seems like that's been that way forever, but I think that's soccer as a whole.

Which turns out here,

you got some guys rolling around out here, even at TST.

There's always the drama.

A lot of Concafa players were.

Oh, come on.

What?

Sorry.

They're Bournemouth players.

I'm just saying.

You got the stage set up.

You know, they really, I don't know.

It was tough for us.

The Bournemouth players, the Bournemouth players, were starting to hack us a little bit in the second half.

Yeah, they were starting to take it a little bit more seriously.

Yeah, but I don't think you guys knew what you signed up for with our team, though.

Our team would have fought every one of your guys.

No questions asked.

I'm telling you, they would have got banned from this tournament.

That's our type of guys.

No, trust me, I know Brecht and I know a lot of your guys well, but

you know, Brecht, Brett certainly would have elbow somebody in the face, for sure, which is awesome.

They weren't here to be violent.

The Arena League boys are, though.

Yeah, but I think it was good.

I think, you you know, our guys really enjoyed it.

You know, it's a new experience for them.

And I thought after the game, you saw even the Concava guys coming over, giving tips and tricks.

So that's what it's all about, too.

The Arena League guys have such an advantage.

Big time.

This is like their thing.

Exactly.

So, Brady.

Is this your first one at a time?

This is my first time physically being here.

Yeah, man.

This is crazy.

It's beautiful to see all the people coming out, just hanging out.

I love the setup.

It's really cool.

I'm excited for you to learn about the...

I think you'll be much, I think you'll be, not that you're more invested or could be more invested this year.

I'm saying, whenever you think about this and take this in for the next year, I'm excited to see what you think about it.

Yes, because the Arena League boys.

Yeah.

They are this whole place.

Yes.

Every single game winner from previous tournaments, every big play, arena dudes.

These arena dudes run it.

And then if you can get the outdoor big field guys in there with them, it's like that's what we learned from Konca.

Yeah, last year your team was built for outdoor soccer, but this year it's built for this style.

Arena League.

Yeah.

This is Arena League.

Yeah, it's awesome.

It's a beautiful sport.

No, it's great.

And, you know, it's funny you say that.

Like, that's what we need more events like this, highlighting different players at different levels of the game, you know?

So,

Kings League going on.

Is that what it's called?

Kings League?

Yeah, there's, yeah, that's another small side league.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's a bunch of these like small side.

I think it's big time streaming over in Europe right now.

I think it's a soccer awesome.

Josie, you've given your life to soccer, and we appreciate the hell out of you.

Appreciate you for

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Okay, fuck!

It's happening in beautiful fashion.

There's a soccer tournament happening here in Kerry, North Carolina.

If you've never been to Kerry, North Carolina, I'm not sure what exactly you would come for other than a tournament of some sort for your kids.

Whenever you get here, just know that this place is beautiful.

The most pristine grass that I have ever seen in any complex in the history.

It's set up beautifully.

They're hospitable as hell here.

The only thing you got to worry about is the fact that it is 250 degrees down here.

We haven't had a chance to have the cute as Marty Smith coach.

The barbecue.

We will certainly dive into that.

Went to a steakhouse last night.

It was the worst service we've ever had in our entire life.

But we won't hold that against the local people.

No.

We will hold that against the person that confirmed our reservation

that didn't tell the rest of the restaurant that we were coming.

And the rest of the restaurant thought they were done working for the night.

And then they were told, no, no, no, actually, most work you've had all day is coming right down the pike.

So we will not judge anybody around here for the horrendous experience.

Two thumbs down.

I wish I had two more hands so I could give that place four thumbs.

I wish.

But with that being said, beautiful town.

Cannot wait to explore a little bit more today.

And the CONCAFA Soccer Club is currently undefeated in TST.

3-1 win this morning over Bournemouth, which was led by, thank you.

That's spattering applause.

That's spattering applause for people.

Oh, oh, oh, Congress.

Yeah, it's a catchy tune.

We got a great team.

I'm not 100% sure if I'll be able to be here for the entirety of this tournament.

Sure.

That is still a conversation.

Money in the banks on Saturday night in Los Angeles.

I've been invited to a place that I think is like a must-go type situation.

I think it's a must-go situation.

So I'll figure that out.

John Cena, you can't see me over my left shoulder.

for the brand over my right.

And the boys are here.

One half of the hammer.

God.

Cowboys, AP Tone is here.

Tone, tonight, the NHL Stanley Cup finals.

Drop the puck.

What should we be looking for?

And what are you betting on?

So the Oilers are currently minus 120 to win tonight.

They've been minus 125 all week long.

Fun fact, they are also minus 120, minus 125 to win the whole series.

So same odds game one as it is the entire series.

You have the defending, reigning Stanley Cup champions and the Florida Panthers going against Connor McDavid, who is universally known as the most skilled, talented, probably best player in the NHL right now.

It's going to be an excuse for the maybe in history.

For sure.

It could be.

Has to win a special player player.

Maybe most

of the time.

Maybe most skilled.

History.

Maybe the most skilled player in the history of hockey.

But he's not better, obviously not better than Wayno or Sid or Mario.

Stoner.

I agree.

Has to win a cup.

Has to win multiple cups.

But whenever they talk about just like skill, just pure speech.

Speed, speed, speed, edge speed.

He's also not scared to be physical a little bit.

He is like, he's the guy.

For the nhl this is a home run that they got the best player in the world playing in the stanley cup finals again taking on the stanley cup champion matthew kachuk led florida panthers matthew kachuk obviously wins over all of the united states of america during the four four nations

instead of the all-star games where he just fights all of canada immediately after them booing our national anthem that was a massive success he's already the champ they send down marshand who is beloved or hated depending upon what city you are from.

He goes down there.

Big market, feels like.

Big marketing opportunities, it feels like, with Connor McGee's on the big stage.

Let's go to the toxic table at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt.

Con man, obviously the Bruins used to be good at hockey.

Used to understand what it was like to play at this time of year, just like us Pittsburgh Penguins fans.

It's a wonderful thing.

But the seven series, though, how does that play into this entire game?

I got to go seven.

And, you know, the B's haven't been as terrible as the Penguins for a long time.

This is my first.

That's not the question.

Okay, yeah, no, no, no, I just want to clarify.

This is the Bruins' first season kind of fading into irrelevance, but that's going to be much quicker than the Penguins.

Seven games.

Is there a question?

I think it's pretty clear this is going seven games.

Both the Panthers are so good.

The way they play is incredible.

The way the Oilers play, you mentioned McDavid, you know, Dry Seitel, who's amazing.

Hyman, Nugent Hopkins, they have so many studs all over.

Amanda Kane, Nick Nurse.

Yeah, Nick Nurse played Darnell Nurse basketball, but but Darnell Nurse, you get it.

They have so many dudes across the board, and so do the Panthers.

I think that's why this is even better than last year.

You know, bigger names, more

people on both teams.

I think Seth Jones, six or seven guys from the Panthers didn't play

last year.

There's a similar amount as there are on the Oilers who are kind of new to this type of series.

But I personally, I'm leaning Oilers.

It feels like it's McDavids year.

It feels like the Panthers, as awesome as they are.

Maybe it's not meant to be a back-to-back situation.

Maybe you should take off that hat.

Maybe you should take off that hat with the American flag on it since you're picking the Oilers.

Oh, no, this has nothing to do with.

I mean, wait, is your captain American or Finnish?

He's Finnish.

You probably don't even know.

He's Finnish.

He's Finnish.

I mean, look at the French.

Barkin' Finnish.

Yeah, yeah.

I thought he was from Jersey.

I thought Barkin was Russian.

No, no, no.

His name isn't actually Ed Barkini.

It's Barkong.

was that me

he thought he was from Jersey it's not it's not like you know the T-Wolves called Mark Dago no it's not it's not something like that's not his name

Ty has finished his second beer to that baby Ty

Connor actually said earlier today he said hey if we need to talk about the thunder coach you could actually he likes to actually go by Mark Dago I love that but

I didn't say that I didn't say

Kerry North Carolina you can yell at from the mountains yeah he might be my coach if I had to get it.

No.

It's also not Mark Day,

we start venturing down from that northeast.

We settle in Myrtle Beach.

We settle in all these Carolinas down to Florida.

I don't think so.

I've been looking around.

I don't think so.

They're wonderful, right?

I mean, it makes sense why Ruth Chris sucked last night.

Oh, shit, we weren't saving the name.

It makes sense why the restaurant sucked last night because

there weren't any Italians per se.

But

it is kind of a different type of money.

He wasn't Italian?

Red?

No, no, Red Baker?

No.

No, he wasn't.

He actually used to work for La Feiner runs.

We're with Chris on Tuesday nights.

We'll see if it continues.

Hopefully.

Live, not with us at dinner last night.

College football national champion, Super Bowl winner, father of 10, A.J.

Hawk.

AJ, you missed the doozy last night.

Should we run it back tonight after the 630 game, you think?

I don't know if we'll ever go to that place again.

Bats and batteries and socks maybe

no we're not rioting

um with that being said aj your brother-in-law has won the stanley cup before you've been a part of the entire so

oh no drip fc

4-2

man Letting them back in.

Anytime you can squeeze one past Santucci, you know you're doing something right.

Are we in target score time yet?

Is that a knee on the table?

Target No.

Corner.

Is that a bad knee?

Is that the bad?

We are in target score, yes.

Oh, shit.

Nothing worse.

These pints are pretty good, boys.

They are delicious.

Did you guys all drink?

How about we get one?

I second one, yeah.

It'd be a shame if we got any more.

Trip FC is in control of the ball.

Whoever gets to

five goals will win this particular game.

Currently, 4-2, the team that has the ball right now.

The other team that has Corona on their back, Club America, Club America, has the ability to come back and win this if they were able to get the five goals before Drip FC.

Ivanovich is always going to shoot it.

That guy has a quad tattoo that is electrifying, that he was showcasing in warm-ups, the man that just missed that shot right there.

Now, if Club America scores three goals, they'll win this game.

All Drip FC has to do is score one.

Goalie's out.

Kipping one over Silver.

Santouch got caught out kitting a hot dog.

Tucci!

Club America!

Holy shit!

From their own end!

Come on, Santouchi!

All of a sudden, target score time is 4-3.

Here's the replay.

From his own end, he says, give me that.

Santouch

can't reach

Four to three.

Target score time.

Yeah.

Should have been two points.

All Club America needs now is two more goals.

Shoot it, Tooch.

Drip FC only needs one.

They're taking a player off here, I believe.

We are three minutes into target score time, so now they will sub one player off from each team.

It was seven on seven.

Now.

It's five on five, I was told.

We missed an entire three minutes.

Can you call a timeout in soccer?

No.

I think we do have a timeout.

Okay.

I think we do.

Okay.

In 11 on 11, I believe.

No.

Santouch with the ball in the back.

This is what we were talking about earlier.

Goalie needs to be able to play his feet.

Soccer Dave up front.

He's an influencer.

Great soccer player.

Fun to watch.

Right there with the ball.

Pivoting.

Go.

Oh, that thing bent down.

What is that?

It was a deflection.

It was a deflection.

What does he do?

Like, trick shot videos?

Yeah, he does like cool stuff.

Big shot, Brad?

Huh?

No, he's not Brad Johnson.

Big shot, Brad.

Drip FC with a corner.

So is that what Drip FC is?

A lot of intranet guys?

Is he like the one

who spotted Johnny Damon yet?

I don't know.

I wonder.

Guy with the thigh tap, probably some sort of Ivanovich.

I don't know if that was out.

I'm literally sitting right down the line, too.

Should have asked why.

Well, does the full ball have to go out or just football?

We talked to the rest before the game.

You told them they weren't doing any good.

No, I told them they're going to do a good job.

I'll tell them.

They had good boots on.

23 here.

23 that is

playing front left for

just got an angle to take a shot.

Yeah, but Santouch can't get on position again.

Currently five on five.

Oh, Tooch.

The team in blue needs two goals.

The team in white, that's Santouch.

Oh, Tooch.

Tooch had a lot of space and opportunity.

They might have let him do that because he is a goalie.

We heard you, AJ.

I know.

Now, this team in blue here, Club America, they need to score two goals to win this game.

Target score time, it is currently four to three.

Drip FC.

Johnny Damon

owns Drip FC.

Yes, that Johnny Damon, who is very much known for.

Yeah, absolute legend with the Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Royals, and most notably the New York Yankees.

Not true.

Not true.

Most notably, the Boston Red Sox.

He reversed the curse in 2004 after being down.

Johnny Damon is a legend in Boston.

What did he do with that game, Connor?

He had a grand slam and then another ding-dong later on in the game.

Love Johnny Damon forever.

And they get a ding-dong here in Target score time.

That's all they need.

They might get a ding-dong.

I don't know if they're going to be able to get it done with Oluva.

Yeah, I mean, it's tough to beat Satin Touch when he's got some defenders in front, and it's just everyone knows it, you know.

I wonder if the Club America team, who has scored two goals now in this Target score time, are all Arena League boys.

Yeah, something I'm noticing with both these teams pat and maybe you can speak to this their benches are not big enough they do not have enough players club america looks like they have 12 guys game one here obviously not that big of a threat game two game three not having a deep bench will bite you directly in the ass all the play oh equal to

save what a save by

specs

huge I think he got hit.

There's big time save by Specs down there for Club America.

I mean, he ate that one in the face, I do believe.

Yeah.

Broken nose, broken jaw, maybe.

He doesn't care.

Nope.

That's why they call it.

Boom.

What a save.

That saved the game.

Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now as target score time continues.

I did not know.

I actually forgot that he was watching us do all of this while wasting his life.

Ladies and gentlemen, three times Stanley Cup champion.

St.

Louis.

Kid Patty Maruk.

Yeah, Patty.

Hey, sorry we wasted your time, lads.

So sorry about that.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

We can't hear you.

You want to talk about wasting time?

We did that, bud.

Rig.

Hello.

There you are.

How are you?

Yeah.

Thanks for wasting my time.

All right.

It's a good soccer tournament down here, Patty Maroon.

Maybe we'll have you on the team next year to add a little physicality.

You'd fit in well with our group, especially because you have that chompy and pedigree.

Let's talk about that.

Obviously, tonight, the NHL Stanley Cup finals

puck drops.

Connor McDavid needs to win this for his legacy.

I hate that we even have that conversation.

But Connor McDavid is clearly the best player on earth right now, how everybody should talk.

And winning a cup is just something that has to happen alongside of that.

Or the Florida Panthers looking to become like the eighth dynastic run saying they went back to back.

What's the bigger talking point?

What matters more?

Who's motivated more, you think, Big Rig?

Oh, I think, yeah, I mean, with Connor, yeah, this will put a stamp on his legacy and itself.

I think we all all talk about how great Connor McDavid is, and he's probably the best player in the world and probably will go down as the best player we ever see to ever step foot.

You know, obviously I'm not taking away Wayne Gretzky, but obviously Wayne's

an elite player.

But generational, you know, right now, Connor McDavid will probably go down as one of the best players to play.

And I think this will, if he needs to win a Stanley Cup, yes, I think it will stamp his legacy even, you know, higher.

But there's times where, you know, Connor's probably going to have this opportunity multiple times right but I think if he wins this yes this will stamp his legacy right right to where he needs to go but we're talking about Florida Panthers though a team that's getting in the way with that and they're gonna be you know trying to be the next team to go back to back they went they went back to three standing cups in a row and they're trying to win two in a row right now so they're in the way right now a good team that's pretty healthy right now and it's going to be a hard task for Connor and the guys.

Isn't it crazy to just think about the greatness that's happening?

Kachuk said on our show, I think, or maybe somebody else's, I forget.

He said, we're clearly the two best teams in hockey.

Clearly.

He was like, everybody kind of knows that we're the two best.

Patty, Patty,

we don't know.

Big crowd reaction.

I don't know.

I think there was a big foul, Patty.

I think there was a big foul.

Here's a replay.

Oh, pushing it back.

Oh, is that a penalty?

It's absolute bushling.

Looks like a flop.

I think he's got a penalty to win this.

Wait a minute, Patty Baroon.

No red card.

Don't be calling for each other.

Patty, don't be doing this.

Oh, we got a penalty, Patty Maroon.

Wow.

All right, do you think he scores or do you think the goalie saves it, Pat Maroon?

He scores.

Okay, that would win it.

Yep.

For Drip FC.

Number 10 for Drip FC.

Is that Leo Messi?

Is that Lou?

Yeah.

What do you do?

You pick a side?

Right or left or what?

I would go.

I always go as hard as I possibly can, right half of net.

Okay.

But he's probably going to go precise.

Good save.

Good save.

Have America stays alive.

What a save by specs down there.

That was a very pully.

Is he guessed?

Big tight.

Big nice.

You gotta guess.

Goalie tries to read.

Okay.

Because you can kind of read somebody's approach.

You can kind of do that.

The goalie, obviously, I think he was a reacting goalie.

Some people react, some people guess.

So I think

Schooter was hoping for a guesser.

He was a reactor.

Got his ass.

You get it?

It wasn't the best shot.

What's that?

It wasn't the best shot.

I had a chance.

He was hoping that he guessed the other way, I think.

I think he was hoping to get the best.

I know the police big soccer club.

Top bin.

Yeah, you watch soccer all the time?

Who's your team?

No, I don't.

I knew what you say is hockey.

All right, well, your prediction game is 0 for 1 here.

You said he'd score the goal.

He said, uh-uh.

When you talk about Connor McDavid, you just said something there.

He's probably the best player ever.

Is it like, do all hockey people talk about that?

Like, just how absurd he is on the ice?

Because I think for the NHL great news that he's on prime time and the Stanley Cup final to watch looks like he's going a different speed is that what it is or what is it about him yeah I mean I think it's hockey IQ he thinks the game faster than a lot of people think the game he's one step faster than you know the normal average NHL player and there's a lot of guys like that the Kucheroffs and the Pennins the Crosby's

I mean there's a list of guys that go down dry sidel that just have that hockey IQ that think one step faster than a normal normal NHL hockey player.

But his quickness and the way he can turn on a dime, the way he can do things,

you know, his edge work, you know, he's so dynamic.

Look at how dynamic that is.

And I think his first two steps, three steps, he kind of fools a lot of defenders.

He puts pucks in a lot of different areas in their feet and their triangle and their stick where it makes it very difficult to defend.

So,

you know,

he's one of the best and generational.

I can't wait to watch him tonight.

And also, Club America has tied it up in target score time.

It was 4-1 going into target score time.

Now, we are at 4-4.

It's the first one to five.

Remember, the way these games end down here, Patty Maroon, is it's always a walk-off.

Whatever the leading team has, you add one goal.

That is now the target score.

Whoever gets there first wins.

Club America was down three.

Now they're tied.

All they need is one goal.

It's three on three in Kerry, North Carolina.

They have have a field player with a pinnion.

He is acting as the goalie.

Let's go ahead and get an extra couple feet on the ball.

Soccer Dave is in for his team when it's three on three.

He must be a great player.

Back to the goalie.

They would try to pick apart.

There's a new rule that you can't hold it for eight seconds anymore.

Oh, that's a great play.

People used to sit with the ball for eight seconds.

It was very boring, just waiting for the other team to attack.

It was kind of a standstill.

Soccer Dave went for the win.

Dave specs with another massive save.

Patty Maroon, it's getting into the game.

Is this a new league?

What's going on here?

Is this a new league?

What's going on?

It's a once-a-year tournament called TST.

It's called the Soccer Tournament.

You remember TBT, the basketball one?

Yeah, the basketball, yeah.

They do it for soccer.

It's called TST.

And it's like three times bigger than the basketball one with fans, teams, everything.

Million dollars on the line.

It's a huge ordeal.

Shock, you're not playing.

Well, my team won this morning, Patty.

Oh.

Kong Keifa is our name, which is a playoff.

You put an extra million in for the boys to win or no?

I am paying the boys.

Drip FC

scores in target score time after an epic clash with Club America.

Oh, they're coming over.

Drip FC, the boys.

I like Drip FC.

I hope we see you in the finals, bro.

Come on, man.

That was awesome.

Wow.

What a win for Drip FC.

Patty Maroon.

Pretty electrified.

Don't you think?

That was electric.

We always had a commander stadium situation.

They were just rocking on that glass.

You can't be doing that.

Hey, great work, whoever put this ESPN folks, production folks in.

Yeah, well done.

Put the stage through.

Well done.

That could have been bad.

Big time.

Don't pull on that.

I know now who actually is getting sick.

I know I am.

I was watching as it was taking place.

AJ has a question for you, Patty.

What a winner for Drip FC and Johnny Damon.

Yeah, Johnny Damon is definitely happy.

But Patty, when you talk about Conor McDavid, I'm thinking with hockey, you play football and basketball here.

When you have a generational talent, a lot of people say, hey, just don't let this guy beat you.

We need to force someone else to beat us.

Can you do that with Conor David?

McDavid, are you able to find a way?

Easy.

This guy just came off.

I mean, I almost saw a guy die here.

This thing a second.

Can you take Connor McDavid away and force the other guys to beat you?

Yeah, I mean, you can.

Are you asking, like, can you win without Connor McDavid?

Try to cut out there.

Well, yeah,

we've got a lot of moving parts going on.

I'm saying, can you focus on him and say, double him, do whatever it takes to actually take Conor McDavid away?

Is that possible in hockey with a guy as good as he is?

I mean, it's possible, yeah.

You can have a guy that can shut him down, and, you know, it's not like basketball.

It's like one-on-one or football.

There's a lot of one-on-one matches where you can shut him down.

But yeah, they'll have their matchups where it's probably Barkoff's line against Conor McDavid's line.

And you kind of have to just shadow him in the neutral zone.

You'll probably have someone shadow him, but it's going to be hard to contain him as much as possible.

It's not like fastball or football where you have your one-on-one matches, and you can contain a little bit better that way.

But I think you have your matchups with your D pairing, the top two D that are going against them, and then the top three forwards that are going to match up against him, too.

So they just try to do a good job of limiting time and space, being hard on him,

physicality on him.

You know, try not to get that

space where he can create his offense on his own so i think it's all time and space limited but i think that's why you know hockey's great because it's if you beat one guy it's the next man up to kind of defend and help out that way in that direction so you got to beat all five guys so i mean we all know florida panthers are a good defending team they're physic they're physical so it's going to be hard for them but uh you know he always finds ways the best players finds ways to uh kind of get out of that is there like a scouting report on each guy on how to beat them like i know goalies we have that i know goalies we're breaking them down and it's fun to watch now that I learned that you guys do that, watching the first period shots all going to one side of the net.

Like everybody's peppering high glove side.

It's like obviously the message was, hey, this guy's glove is susceptible.

Is there a story or a book on guys too?

Like, hey, this guy doesn't like maybe whenever we chop the shit close to his hands.

Doesn't like little fists.

Is there like that type of conversation when you guys are breaking down film?

Or how does it go?

Yeah, it's mostly in the playoffs.

Some coaches, I had had a coach Todd McCollin, he'll have a sheet before every game.

You look at it their lineup and their tendencies, what they bring,

what they're good at, what they're not so good at, things that can, you know, get underneath their skin.

And I know during the playoffs, every coach does this.

You have like a book sheet, and then you know, they're kind of analyzing each player, and they have all their tendencies and what they're good at, what they're not so good at.

You know, how can you drive them a little bit nuts?

You know, guys, you want to stay away.

You know, these are the guys that like the kind of bullshit in between whistles so stay away from that you know they have a lot of things uh they kind of cue on it mostly it's attended to goalies i would say in the playoffs because you're trying to get to the goalie usually the goalies you can say their best player that that's their guy you know bobrosky is obviously a stud so how can we get to bob um but you know yeah but there's a booklet of sheets where you know there's there's guys that have all their tendencies and what they're good at and you just try to focus on maybe one or two of those throughout the course of a series.

What do you think the book was on you when other people are reading about you?

Big, this guy's big, big,

big, slow

can beat him with speed.

Although we rarely beat him with speed, yeah, he can beat you high.

Debon has a question for you, Pat.

Yeah, you just talked about Bob, and obviously, you know, defense wins, championship.

Who do you give the goalie edge to when it comes to Bob and Skinner in the other net?

To me, I think Bob has the edge.

I think he's a guy that's obviously been there the last two years.

He's won one.

You know, I'm still waiting for Skinner to make those.

You know, he's been playing great.

Ever since Picard got hurt, he kind of stepped in and kind of had those ropes where he, you know, he had to step up and play his game.

And they rely on Skinner a lot.

But the upper hand right now, I'm giving it to Bob until Skinner, you know, shows me, you know, maybe games one and two, he's here to perform.

And I think he went through that transition last year of, you know, letting in some kind of soft bulls.

And when you win a Stanley Cup, you need defense.

You need your goaltender.

You know, you rely on them so much.

So I'm going to give it to Bob right now, but we'll talk after game one.

We'll see how it goes.

Connor has a question for you, Patty.

Yeah, Patty, you got brought up in the first hour.

What's the deal with the new CBA?

Because we know for the Lightning teams you played for, for some of these Panthers teams, for the Golden Knights,

kind of cheated.

I'm not going to lie.

But the whole entire, oh, this guy's hurt, this guy's hurt, this guy's hurt.

Let's stay under the cap.

Boom, playoffs.

Let's bring back Kucheroff.

Let's bring back Stone.

Let's bring back some of the greatest players in the league,

even though they're technically over the cap.

What is this situation and how much will this actually change the NHL playoffs?

Because it does feel as though this kind of

sneaking of the rule, kind of taking advantage of the rule, has dramatically dramatically helped some of these teams go and get the cup.

Patriots.

Yeah, I mean, listen, the CBA is going to talk about it.

They're going to touch on it.

The GMs are going to touch on it.

The owners are.

But listen, guys are hurt.

Guys are hurt.

If you have cap space, I think you should utilize it, in my opinion.

I think you're not really cheating the system because your guys are really hurt.

Like, I know everyone's talking about the Kucheroff effect.

you know he was hurt you know the whole season and all of a sudden he comes back for game one of the playoffs well he was hurt and we could could talk about kachuck right now um you know he was hurt he got hurt in uh four nations and then you know they have space for seth jones and um

and uh brad marchand and and sturm and so i mean listen i think they're they're probably going to touch on it probably people are pretty aggravated by it the owners or the teams that don't make it that far that don't have enough cat space or don't have injuries that run into that situation.

But it's certainly something to talk about.

But hey, listen, if a guy's hurt or guys hurt, if you can make your team better by adding more pieces underneath the cap, and I know you're going to be over the cap once the playoff hits, but they only say, hey, you got to hit the cap before, you know, before the end of the season.

So if you can do that and add pieces to the puzzle, I'm all for it.

I don't think you could get rid of it.

I think you make your teams a lot better by doing that.

Yeah, how come the Pittsburgh Penguins aren't doing it?

How come the teams that aren't good aren't doing it?

What's the deal?

Too healthy.

Well, because they're not in the playoffs.

Oh, geez.

Oh, and they haven't been for a while.

Tell them, David Rick.

Yeah, Kyle Dubis is going to turn around.

Don't you worry about Dubis.

I have a question for you, Pat.

Big Rigging, a lot of other sports, when it comes to generational talents, we talk about, hey, when they win their first title, you know, it's kind of like, you know, taking the top off the bucket or whatever.

If Connor McDavid is to win this Stanley Cup, do you think there's a chance that the Oilers kind of go on a run here?

They're in a position like the Panthers are right now where they're in the finals every year.

They're winning cups or at least, you know, like he could have a real generational run.

Or is that different in hockey than it is in every other sport because it's so difficult to win a Stanley Cup?

No, I think you're totally right there.

I think the window is so small in hockey, right?

If you have a window that's still open and you can keep going after it and keep trying to go win cups, keep going after it.

Once the window closes, then you're seeing it with like, you know, the obviously obviously we can go back to the penguins you know the window was open for so many years winning championships going back in the finals you know they went back to back

but i think if they win they're gonna keep that window open and keep adding pieces to you know keep trying to win more stanley cups as you can and look at florida right now they're they're doing the same thing you know they don't want their window to close because once it closes then you're kind of in that rebuild phrase right and um you know to me if you have the two best players in the world connor and leon you got to keep that window open as much as possible because those two can really draw you in and bring you back to the Stanley Cup just on those two alone.

So I hope they win.

I hope Edmonton Williams kind of relieved that pressure from Connor and Leon.

They can now kind of settle in, win their cup, and then hopefully go on a deep run, continue to keep winning here because with those two guys in the game, it's much better and it's bigger for us.

I got a question for you.

We know that the Panthers are pests or rats.

Obviously, the Oilers know they are pests and rats.

But is there a way, like, obviously the Oilers know that, but is there a chance that the Panthers can still get under their skin?

And going into a series like that when you know the other team is going to try to get under your skin the entire time?

What do you do?

I mean, the Florida Panthers are a greasy hockey team.

They are a greasy hockey team.

Super greasy.

Oh, yeah.

They're fun to watch, and they're...

They're a pain to play against.

They're always in your face.

But I think Eventon's got those guys.

I think for Edmonton, they just got to stay away from the kind of bullshit that goes on with the Florida Panthers.

They're going to be doing stuff behind the whistle.

They're going to be doing stuff behind the play.

They're going to be rubbing in your face after every whistle.

They're going to be trying to get you underneath your skin as much as possible.

So I think with Edmonton, they have those guys, but with Edmonton, they just got to stay within structure and just play their game and

stay out of the nonsense that Florida is going to bring.

Because Florida is a better hockey team when you engage back with them.

So if you're engaging back, they're a better hockey team.

Those guys feed off that stuff.

The Marshawns and

Sammy and the Chuck and

Eckblad, all these guys, they kind of just feed off this energy of like getting back in your face.

And they just laugh in your face and they continue to do it.

So I think for Ebenton, just stay in your lane, stay out of the stuff, and just play your game because you're so talented and so deep right now.

But they have guys that go back at them.

So it will be interesting to see how they handle the situation.

I'd like to see a physical fight start tonight.

Seven-game series, the NHL Stanley Cup finals.

A man who has won that three times just so happened to be in a row for two different teams.

Ladies and gentlemen, the man, Patty Maroon.

Thank you, Patty.

Is this a new league?

Fair question.

Fair question.

Yeah, if you've never seen it before, you would assume, like, hey, that game behind us was electrical.

All-time classic.

That's what the bonus time

score.

Target time.

Sorry, yeah, target score is all about.

You're literally waiting all day for

target.

Target score.

Yeah, that's what we're trying to get to.

Now, that was last year's plan.

I don't know about this year because we have a much more talented team this year.

Much more ball-dominated.

But that's why you play great during the actual game because they were up 4-1.

So you have a little wiggle room.

And then when you get down to three guys.

So, like, last year's plan was just keep it tight for target score time.

Just get to target score time,

and then we'll have arena league boys take it over.

You know, like, if we're losing, let's just get, we're down 2-0, I think, in one of the games.

Yeah.

And we get get the target score time, we come back, win 3-2 because we got the arena boys.

That is arena soccer right there at the end.

So like our arena squad being out there, it is the time.

And Miola.

First of all, Miola looks so good.

That's unbelievable.

Yeah, like

much, much better this year.

Also,

he had a heart attack.

Yeah, exactly.

So it's awesome to see.

Sometimes people, well, I mean, I'm not sure.

Some people, not all of them.

Some people, especially when you come from an Irish family, they'll have a heart attack and they'll say, hey, I'm ready for number two.

Other times, some some people will, you know, actually get better.

It's cool.

Miola has.

Has he drawn up plays?

Because he told us last night, yeah, that he has kind of been in his back.

Was going to name a play after Gumpy.

Has he done that yet?

I haven't heard the Gumpy play call yet, but he is on the dryer race.

We're drawing a lot of this.

I actually have a video of the pregame speech from Tony Miola back in the village, back in the AAA.

Saw you post gums.

Gump gave a speech this morning after breakfast.

The last speech before we left from the hotel was on Gump.

Wow.

Tony Miola walked over to him about four seconds before he had to speak.

He said, hey, you want to say something?

And walked away.

And then Tony Miola said, ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, Coach Gump.

Coach Gump.

He was ready.

Coach Gump.

Coach Gump was ready.

He's given that speech to Liverpool.

Oh, yeah.

I think a few different times.

Let's go to the truck, actually.

Gumpy, how'd you feel giving that speech this morning?

You absolutely nailed it, pal.

I mean, I just remember how we started last year, and I just knew we had to come out of the gates fast.

And I just wanted to remind the boys that we had to have game one, and that's what we did.

And it was on Gumpy to announce who's captain of this team.

Wow, Gump, did he pick?

Gump, that was a big deal, I feel like.

Exactly.

That was Coach Miola actually came over and was like, can you let everybody know that Zach's captain?

That's a smart play by Tony Miola, actually.

Yeah.

Anybody's pissed about this.

Remember, Gumpy.

Some bad blood from Breck.

Yeah, I feel like Breck Shades.

Breck is a Copton, but he was not the Copton last year.

Remember, Jeff Comron.

I mean, he was.

He was Captain of America.

We have a lot of Coptons on the team, but Zach Knight is seven foot tall.

Yeah, he's a beast.

Big lad.

And he played 160 minutes straight last year.

Ran a guy over, actually.

When he was out here in game one, he was in the Premier League for 10-plus years.

And he got fouled

today, and because he's so big, they didn't call the foul.

Yeah.

He clutched himself at his knees.

The guy went for a cross body on Zach.

That's so absurd.

And just didn't even care.

Unbelievable strength.

I didn't even think about the refs working again.

The refs were good.

The refs were good.

Let's not complain about the refs.

Gumpy got two yellow cards last year yelling at the refs.

That's right.

Say it early.

He might get two more.

We were a pretty docile bunch, I feel like, this game.

You mean when you control the possession like that, there's not really a whole lot to bitch by.

Yeah, you're just waiting for a goal.

Exactly.

Great pre-game speech.

Let's talk about some things that have happened around the NFL.

Travis Hunter has his first massive NFL highlight.

Comes from OTAs.

He's playing DB, and I'll tell you what, I believe they say it's called In a Guy's Pocket.

D.

Bucks, did you see this video?

What are your thoughts?

Oh, yeah.

I asked

Rap Sheet yesterday.

Hey, any updates from Travis Hunter?

And I've had eyes, boots on the ground down there.

He's just been phenomenal.

Obviously, he's playing both sides to the ball, but this right here, a lot of people bitching, oh, it wasn't a catch, wasn't this?

The ball is even a conversation with that play going up, high-pointing it, leaning, locate, and then finishing and making a play on the ball.

He is just a phenomenal athlete.

I can't wait to see this kid on Sundays doing his things on both sides of the football.

They say he has the juice all the time.

They say vibes lifted when Travis Hunter comes in the room.

And that's also a piece of the scouting.

It's like, hey, this guy's a really good player.

He's a generational talent.

He can play on both sides.

His cardiovascular is better than everybody else seemingly in the NFL.

What's he like as a human?

Ah, shit.

Now we can deal with it.

Like even if he wasn't the person he is, they would deal with it because of the amount of of football talent that he has.

But add on the fact that he's considered the perfect teammate, the perfect football guy,

just always bought in, and his vibes are always immaculate.

It's like, what a home run for Jacksonville.

And that's why Stoner down there gave the speech that he gave.

And you said you talked to people boots on the ground down there.

They're giving reports like every day.

It's something where he is doing something absurd, right?

Yeah, guys watching practice.

We've all been around those guys.

I'm sure Seawool was kind of like this.

It's just like the ball just finds them.

And they're never out out of Tyran Matthews, another player that kind of comes to mind.

Just absolute ball magnets.

Spatial awareness, always aware who's around you, what's going on around you.

So, like I said, I can't wait to see how he fits into number one, the offense on the other side of Brian Thomas Jr., and then his defense.

Getting the offense extra possessions by creating turnovers.

Nothing impacts the game more than creating turnovers and setting your offense up to be successful.

And like in the entire draft combine process, everything, Travis Hunter basically talked about his number one wide receiver, number one cornerback.

And right now, the trendy pick feels like in the offseason for the team to turn it around is the New England Patriots.

It feels as though that has kind of been.

Congrats on the new deal with Will Campbell.

Yeah, Will Campbell signs his contract for.

Fully guaranteed for $43.66 million, number four overall pick.

Love that.

Massive contract.

Yeah, love that.

You assume Travis Hunter is going to get 50 guaranteed if he's doing stuff like this and he's playing both sides of the ball.

The Jags, I feel like the team that have been kind of, you know, better in recent years, that have had a couple bad seasons.

But then you add.

He's Trevor Lawrence, a guy.

Exactly.

He's Trevor Lawrence a guy.

But you had Brian Thomas Jr.

last year, who widely regarded as one of the best receivers, if not the best rookie receiver.

If you think Travis Hunter is going to be the number one of this class, both corner and wide receiver, all of a sudden the Jags add a number one corner, add another wide receiver with Brian Thomas.

And then you look at what's happening in Houston with C.J.

Stroud.

The AFC South is kind of wild.

Let's talk about what's going on in Houston.

There's reports coming out of the Houston Texans OTAs that C.J.

Stroud has been limited.

CJ Stroud is not thrown.

And then Coach D'Amico Ryans actually addressed it and said there's some soreness that they're being precaution.

Yeah, if you could lower the...

D'Amico Ryans, there's no concerns with CJ.

It's just general soreness.

We're taking extra precautions with him, but he'll be good to go.

No concerns on my end there.

Says Ian Report.

third-year quarterback, stud quarterback, OTAs, has done everything right, can spin it.

Shoulder.

They're saying no concerns for soreness during OTAs.

I like seeing that.

Looks like he put his arm, his hand over his shoulders.

So if there was a massive shoulder injury, I don't think he would be doing all that.

The soreness is interesting with the time of year that it is.

It's June.

Was this too hard of workouts?

Is this an injury that's lingering from last year that he didn't know was as serious?

Like the Derek Carr situation that happened just a few months ago down in New Orleans?

What are your thoughts on this, Deborah?

Hopefully, it's a big nothing burger here in early June.

But

because we were conversing before the show, me and AJ specifically talking about the quarterback who kind of been around it.

You were around Peyton.

And the one thing we know about franchise quarterbacks, they like to get all their reps.

You know, regardless of when it is, mini camp, OTAs, training camp, they like to get those reps if they're in the building, which most of them are.

So this is concerning to me early june is the young quarterback uh definitely too early to be taking g days so uh definitely concerning but hopefully once we get into the season once again he's a phenomenal talent so hopefully we see him taking every snap uh next season it's a big uh big nothing burger once we get to the big dance yeah it can be it definitely most likely is is nothing you would think but the time of year is what kind of would scare me like the only time i've ever seen a quarterback not maybe not throw as much or have not even an off day but come out and just say okay he's not going to do seven on in team today but just individual Is if, say, you had three straight days of practices and you threw a bunch of balls and you have a certain limit, but a young guy in June not throwing, yeah, I'd be worried a little bit.

Especially because we've heard nothing about any of it.

I'll tell you, whenever I saw Andrew Luck throwing at the beginning of that one training camp, when he

was like, Holy pops, right?

He can't throw a football right now.

Oh, shit.

That is not.

That's not a guy, remember?

That's not an NFL quarterback right there.

Those are some floaters that are happening right there.

That's whenever, like, everybody kind of found out about it, I think, on our team.

I wonder how the Houston Texans are with this soreness.

Have they known?

Have they expected this?

Has CJ expected this?

Is this something he's been dealing with?

We hope not.

Good luck, CJ.

Good luck, CJ.

Micah Parsons, he's tweeting about minicamp.

He said, I'm a beater.

I never missed one.

Ooh.

Yeah, so what?

Going into my fourth year.

Never missed one of these.

Okay, Mike.

Call Mandatory.

I'll be there.

I haven't missed a mini camp in four years.

Even though the contract is not done, I have teammates and a playbook.

I'm preparing as if I will be on the field the first week of camp.

But it's in the owner's hands.

I'm ready to win Super Bowl.

Sounds like they're in the middle of negotiating.

Sounds like Michael Parsons knows what the right thing is, which is to be around his teammates, to set an example of being there for a mandatory minicamp, knowing that he's going to be a staple or a pillar of the Dallas Cowboys for a long time.

It's good for the rookies.

It's good for the entire team to see one of their guys present at a mandatory minicamp as opposed to any drama or missing.

Maybe some guy might want to ask him about his routine.

Maybe you want to just get used used to kind of how everything is under shoddy in the building.

There's a lot of upside.

The downside is you lose leverage in negotiation, is what people say.

Because if you hold out, you take a stand, you're really not happy about what's going on.

Him being there, I don't think slows anything down.

Jerry Jones have been very open about paying him.

It's in the owner's hand, says Micah.

We assume it's going to get done.

Jerry's going to pay him, right?

Jerry, I mean, Jerry drafted him.

Micah is a foundational piece, a franchise dude, a guy that moves and runs and rushes the pass through like not really anyone else on the planet can do.

So, yeah, I think Jerry's gonna pay him.

I don't know when that might be.

Remember when Zeke didn't go to camp and he was down in Cabo working out and everything, and then all of a sudden, bam, he gets a gigantic deal.

I don't know if Mike is gonna have to do that, but Jerry will get him paid.

Even the CD Lamb situation last year,

yeah, that you know.

So, whatever, for whatever reason, this is how Jerry does his business.

But to your point, he ends up paying these guys, and they do a great job, obviously, in the draft, you know, finding these guys in the pre-draft process, paying them at the point.

So, he will be a guy.

Miles Garrett, obviously, he set that gap and kind of think between him and what was that, Danil Hunter and Crosby.

So, I think Parsons will be very close to Miles Garrett when he actually does get paid because he is a guy who is a pillar, who you build your defenses around, you know, top three pass rusher since pretty much the day he stepped into the NFL.

Yeah, it's going to get done.

I mean, Jerry has in the recent past, he's waited until almost like right before the season to pay these guys.

But if you're a Cowboys fan, you know, like they're not letting Michael Parsons go anywhere.

You just can't.

I mean,

he is their defense right now.

And if Jerry recognizes that, so we'll see.

I mean, is he going to end up having to maybe give him a little bit more than he would had he paid him a couple months ago?

Probably, but that's kind of been the Cowboys

M.O.

with their big-time stars over the last few years.

Maybe Jerry likes this.

Because we're talking about it.

The drama.

No.

And Michael's going to talk about it.

Maybe he just waits all this time because he likes hearing people talk about the cow.

Well, with that being said, you bringing up the Jerry drafted him.

It's like, yeah, there's 100% chance he gets paid.

He knows that.

I'm just going to come to Mandatory Minicamp.

We know this is going to get done.

Micah Parsons is going to be on primetime 13 times a year for the next 10 years of his career.

And that's Jerry Jones football, baby.

That is how it goes.

Let's talk about maybe some Pittsburgh Steeler football.

Have you heard D-Butt?

I have not.

Have you heard AJ?

Nope.

Connor?

I don't think so.

Ty?

I don't think so, no.

I know Diggs has.

Jonu Smith.

Whoa.

Trade conversations with the Pittsburgh Steelers has happened and started up back again, potentially, says Adam Schefter.

Back in it, the Steelers.

Renewed conversations today with Dolphins tight end.

Jonu Smith, who is seeking a new contract.

The trade between the Steelers and Dolphins is still alive per source.

One person.

Told Adam Schefter that.

Tone, I haven't heard you be as excited as I think you should be for a John U.

Smith type caliber caliber player coming to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Yeah, it is back on, which is exciting because yesterday morning, Schefter said it was off.

The Talks have died.

It's not going to happen.

Yesterday afternoon,

the Talks are back on.

I think I'd be more excited if I thought it was real at all.

There's a lot of

thoughts in Pittsburgh through the Pittsburgh media now that this is just Drew Rosenhaus trying to

kick up some interest so that the Dolphins will pay John Eu Smith because he deserves it.

He's an incredible player.

Would I love John Eu Smith to be a Steeler?

Yes.

Do I think it's going to happen?

No, they just paid Pat Firemuth.

Darnell Washington came into camp 15 pounds down.

They said he looks amazing.

Now yesterday their third tight end, Donald Parnham, did tear his Achilles.

So that news, the Shepherds news, kind of aligned with that.

So

there may have been some legitimacy there.

But no, it just doesn't

make sense for either team.

You've got...

the Dolphins guy who was their best player last year

and then the Steelers who already paid a tight end, have two tight ends.

Now

I know that Artie loves tight ends, but it just

doesn't feel real, so I'm not excited.

Okay, so you think it's a business play by Rosenhaus, who has done billions,

billions of dollars in negotiations over the past?

Yeah, it feels so good.

I think there's a chance, but Schefter's reporting it twice now.

Yes, he is.

So Schefter's not just putting out fake stuff.

I mean, Schefter has to be legit.

Correct.

So maybe there is a little bit of a dabble in a conversation if the Dolphins aren't able to get it done, Johnny would like to get out of here.

Or maybe the Steelers are saying, hey, is there actual availability here?

We'll see if the Dolphins make the play.

The Dolphins pay everybody, don't they, Gumpy?

Don't the Dolphins pay everybody?

We like paying guys that actually don't play for us either, so we'll get rid of our best player.

It's just this is a.

No, nobody said you guys are doing that.

No.

We're still paying the TV.

Hey, hell, Gumpy.

Jalen Yellow.

Gumpy, Sneaky Fox 97, and La Mexicana Express.

playing right here behind us.

Big foul.

Ref has dug it in the pocket.

He's good.

I thought that guy got shot in both legs with a shotgun.

Well, he pulled the yellow.

He pulled the yellow.

Yeah, that was a card.

That's a hack.

A yellow card.

Oh, yellow.

You do it one more time, mister.

You're on two games.

Is there a carryover in yellows in this tournament?

I think you're allowed to get 14 of them.

Okay, nice.

Cover your dong here.

Good number.

We could get a deflection off of our face four dongs here.

Probably a miss of the net if I did get it.

Oh, fake.

Oh,

oh, what a play.

Oh!

That was nice.

Hey, they drew that up.

That's Sneaky Fox 97.

Obviously, they drew up the set piece there.

Run over the ball, little distraction, pass it down to the goal line, pass it across.

Everybody whiffs.

Clean up.

Goal.

Cheeky touch.

That is.

Usually, that's Andy Reid with the play call.

That is beautiful.

Is Ponch on the sideline for them?

Ponter was actually pissed earlier that a team was running a set play this early in in the tournament.

You got to save those things for later.

Sneaky Fox is just that.

It's a bold move, though.

You know, like when Concave FC runs into them in the finals, we know their plays.

You're going to know the set piece they're rolling.

Well, it doesn't matter if you know the plays.

You got to execute, is what they say in football whenever people know everybody's plays.

You know, you talk about things that don't make sense, like Johnny Smith maybe getting traded in the Pittsburgh Steelers, even though, hey, it would be cool if it happened.

Great.

How about a punter squatting over 700 pounds?

You know, there's conversations about punters lifting, and they'll be doing bench, and they'll be like, well, what do you need your arms for?

They'll be doing like

upper body, and they'll be like, oh, that's not LP.

What's that dude kick a ball?

Squatting, I think, is a good thing to be able to be great at if you're a punter or a kicker.

And Ethan Evans of the Los Angeles Rams, squatting over 700 pounds.

What?

In OTAs, 705.

This man's Instagram is just a series of posts showcasing him in a weight room.

You're talking about a Jim Rat that happens to be a punter who had 55%

of his punts inside the 20 last year.

I think it was the highest, one of the highest in the NFL.

You're talking about an absolute beast on the field of punting and an absolute warrior in the weight room, AJ.

705 pound squat, not with one of those soft bars either.

He's putting that thing on his spine, taking it down to the ground and bringing it back up to the lower.

I mean, taking it to the lower.

You're right.

I've been paying close attention to make sure he doesn't have that little pad on on the bar.

Which, if you want to, that's okay.

I understand everybody's built differently, different situations.

But for a punter, for any player to do this is unbelievable.

Yeah, for a punter, yeah, I love it.

I don't think you're letting a lot of people do 700 pounds in the NFL.

No, I don't know.

That's what a lot of people don't talk about.

Like college, I was very lucky to have Coach Mike Barwis as my strength coach at West Virginia University.

Yes.

He is a beast.

He is going to work your hard.

You're going to be lifting a lot.

You're going to be running a lot.

And I think there's a lot of development that happens in college.

You see guys gain like 50, 60 pounds of muscle over like a three, four year period when you're put on protein, you're put on a diet, you're put on a workout plan, you're put on a schedule, you're put on a vision basically of what your body can be.

And then you go in there and, I mean, you get your ass kicked in these gyms.

It's the worst workouts, hardest workouts of all time.

I think everybody would agree with that.

But it obviously showcases in the development of your body.

Then when you get to the NFL, it's not really more about developing your body.

It's about like, how do we make your body the best?

How do we save it to be on Sunday?

And you like kind of taper off.

I don't know how many people are squatting 700 pounds in the NFL.

I don't think they're letting you do it.

I don't think Ethan Evans said feed me

all of it.

And that's why punters are both different, D-Bucks.

That's impressive.

I've never seen that, especially from a punter in the NFL weight room.

To your point, now, going to college, to your point, those strength and conditioning programs, strength and conditioning coaches, I think those are probably the most important people in the building when you bring in these 17, 18-year-old kids and kind of turn them to grown-ass man.

I put on 24 pounds in college working, eating, doing all that shit.

Shout out Coach Martin, rest in peace.

But those are very, very important people.

But to see this, and to your point, first thing we're looking for now, 2025, what type of bar is he using?

And then as an athlete, what kind of depth is he getting when he's doing this squat?

So, yeah, getting that depth, getting it up, that is very, very impressive.

Steve Weatherford, obviously a man that wouldn't be scared to do this.

Share chance.

So jocked, Steve Weatherford.

He's like a bodybuilder, honestly.

How big and ripped he is.

And he has been for like 20 years straight.

Yeah.

Just always ripped up.

He wasn't the cover of muscle and fitness, I believe, at one point.

Yeah, he did the Van Dam split.

Oh, hell.

He also had six punts inside the 20, I think, in the Super Bowl.

Yeah, pretty good.

Which is like a Super Bowl rack.

I think like four of them are inside the 10.

Nice.

Absolutely job.

We love that.

Yes, we do.

Yes, we do.

As we are live from Kerry, North Carolina, Sneaky Fox 97.

Oh, I like that little energy, a little juice here from the crowd.

Very easily accessible to to come watch anything here.

It's very well put together.

The TST people deserve a lot of praise.

Yeah.

I mean, they do a great job.

It's a perfect place to do everything to.

And I don't think they're like making money.

Oh, stand over top of a guy when he's down.

I think they're investing completely in the tournament.

It's awesome.

Like they want it to be very well run.

I mean, it's grown big time year over year, hasn't it?

Yes, I think it has.

And also, the way

the hotels, the housing, the restaurants, the way everything is set up.

Perfect.

The stadiums are super nice.

Like, it is nice in here.

Of course, the field and everything, but where you can sit and stuff like that.

I don't think you're allowed to kick a goal kick within the box.

I mean,

we got a penalty for it almost in the first game, a warning.

They're letting them do it.

I mean, what rules are rules, though?

No, neither one of these teams is probably going to win the tournament, so I think we're just kind of letting them run.

You want to talk about rules real quick?

Let's talk about a pitcher having a team that doesn't play by the rules.

If you're a great pitcher, and you damn near shut out the other team and you pitch the whole fucking game, you deserve to win.

That's the rules.

Yeah, those are the rules.

That's what baseball is founded upon.

The rules have been broken multiple times here for Paul Steins.

Ty, what the hell is going on here?

How does this happen?

We've talked about this ad nauseum, okay?

This guy is a generational talent.

And for whatever reason, the Pirates this offseason, when you look at kind of the makeup of their division, they had an unbelievable pitching staff.

If they would have went out and just spent a little bit of money on offense, just a little bit.

Just somebody that can hit?

Exactly.

Just a couple people.

How many people do you need that can actually hit?

Two people, three people?

Well, that's the thing.

They're an MLB baseball.

They have one.

So everyone can hit, but you need a guy who really can hit, who can drive runners in when people are on base.

Like, they just, and now I haven't looked recently.

Digs might be able to speak to this a little bit, you know, better, but like maybe a month and a half ago, you looked at the Pirates opening, their roster, their starting nine.

They had like seven guys batting at like 205 or below, which is just like it's Bush League.

That's not Major League Baseball.

So you've got a guy like Paul Skeens who goes out and throws eight innings, gives up three hits, one run.

Like, you win that game 99 times out of 100 or 95 times out of 100.

98 now.

Yeah, exactly.

And this has happened to him multiple times, several times this year.

He's like the first pitcher since, you know, like the 1900s or whenever it's

1901 to have it happen twice in a season.

So it's like.

That's a long time ago.

Exactly.

So, like, what more can this guy do?

This guy can't do anything else.

1901?

That is so long ago.

They have like four pitchers in the top 25 of the ERA.

So it's, yeah, I mean, it's really all about the bats.

They have guys that can hit cutch hits, O'Neil Cruz hits, Randall Sutton, but they never...

It's never all at the same time.

Like, I think they lead the league and runners left in scoring position, which you cannot do in baseball.

It's sad because it's basically just, you know, another year wasted of his career.

A lot of people talking about why are we talking about baseball?

mlb viewership up 10 yeah that is across all platforms how about that every network it's on fox espn i assume whatever digital stuff they're doing it's up shohe otani megastar playing well aaron judge megastar playing well paul skeens megastar

playing well and losing

so it doesn't really count first sell you to win 20 or lose 25 games good for baseball though yeah legit i think it's a great sport whenever your stars play well and whenever you deliver a product that is watchable you can have success.

If your stars don't play well, nobody cares.

Like a lot of people say, Why do you only talk about this guy or this guy?

It's this guy.

It's like, well, that's the only people that really matter.

And if they're playing well, everybody will watch the whole damn league.

Baseball's that way.

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We'll be back tomorrow.

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All right, good little salute there as we're now.

We're just on digital, YouTube, ESPN Plus, Disney Plus, TikTok Live, probably unless they banned us, which seemingly happens every other day.

We get kicked off of there.

But the baseball stars playing well is a big deal.

That's the most important part of the entire thing.

Because if you have nobodies playing great, it's great.

And those nobodies become stars, I agree.

But the people that are your current superstars, if they are playing well, people will be more interested.

And Aaron Judge and Chohe are holding it the fuck down for baseball.

Yeah, absolutely.

And you have teams in massive markets.

You know, obviously, we had Yankees, Dodgers in the World Series last year.

They're two of the best teams in baseball this year.

You have a team like the Cubs, who has a rabid fan base, not just in the Midwest, but everywhere.

Like, they're unbelievable.

But yeah, it comes down to that.

You have two generational talents, an Aaron Judge and Shohei Otani, and they're both having, you know, career years up to this point.

And then even, you know, a guy like Jack Caglione, who we talked with Jeff Passon about, like, that kind of next star that's coming up, who can take a team like the Royals, who is in a small market, who is good, but, you know, like, they're really not getting the national spotlight.

But when you get a guy like that and you put him in the same conversation as a guy like a Judge or an Otani, like, it's great for baseball.

So they're in a good spot.

Judge Otani or

Bo Jackson.

This Jack Cagle Cagleon.

Cagleon.

Caglion.

Cagleon.

Yep.

Jackie Cagleon.

See?

From Florida.

He's first rolls player since Bo Jackson.

To debut in the same year you get drafted.

I mean, you talk about being in the same conversation as Aaron Judge Shohei, you're in a conversation with Bo Jackson as well.

That's good for baseball.

Hopefully, he lives up to the hype.

Once again, Starr has to play well.

I assume he will.

Yeah, absolutely.

And this is super rare.

It is in baseball.

You know, you see it with pitchers a little bit more because those guys can kind of dictate the game.

And like a guy like Skeens, if you're throwing 100-plus miles an hour, like you're probably ready to go to the majors and pitch against Major League hitting, and then you'll kind of just figure it out over the course of a season or, you know, something like that.

They talk about hit it and how it's like the jump from being a great college hitter to even going to the minor leagues where you have all these guys who, whether they're hurt and they're down for a double-A team or a triple A team, like the jump in competition is just so extreme.

And you look at his numbers, what he's done in AA and triple A.

He's dominated every jump up that he's been at.

So yeah, we'll see if he can do it with the big league club.

And I think most people assume that

he's not going to get sent back down right away.

He's going to be here to stay, which is huge.

Just had some hot beer over here.

Nothing Nothing better.

That was tough.

That's tough.

A couple things better.

Finished mine.

It was piping off.

Oh, my God.

I was yommitting him.

Talking about Jack Kagley.

I think he's going to do great things for baseball.

I think baseball is going to continue to do great things.

I think my favorite thing that we have not talked about yet is

the fact that

Saquon Barkley

was strapped up to wires.

Are we doing a moment of silence?

Yes.

Oh, we're happy.

Is a moment of silence?

I don't know.

I see people sitting down.

It's real quiet.

Just have halftime.

Okay.

No moment of silence.

Can't be too careful.

I didn't think.

Yeah, yeah, we didn't.

Wiener, whistle, or whatever.

Good job.

Like to be in our skin and we're just trying to pay on respect.

We were ready.

ready.

We were ready.

It was uncomfortably quiet.

Wasn't it?

And it came after an announcement.

I couldn't have it.

Yeah, I couldn't.

These two guys are standing with a head of their chest, too.

So was I.

Yeah, me too.

Took a hat off, took tail off.

Saquon Barkley, though, was shooting for the Madden cover, and they had him wired up.

He was like he was a stunt action movie star, jumping up over an actor who ran under him no less than 50 to 60 times.

Him getting used to coming back down to earth was obviously something but saquan barkley getting recognized for this filthy disgusting so creative innovative and dumbass play is a beautiful thing debuff yeah i like that he even tried it we need more of that yeah this move kind of captured everybody whether you were a fan of football or not

you never see and saquan barkley he's a he's a special special talent had the mvp caliber year all the way to the Super Bowl run.

But everybody will remember this moment.

LeBron, when he came on, he pointed out the point that he had on his shoes, his cleats that we didn't even know at the time.

So, just a phenomenal moment.

And I love that it made it to the cover of Madden.

Now it's truly an iconic moment that everyone will always remember.

Now, the moment that when I first saw this video, I saw a lot of people thought he wasn't strapped up.

I was like, oh my God, this guy's hops.

He's levitating a lot of people.

But

I'm interested in how many times he had to actually jump up and land at 200 photo shoots.

Yeah, they might have had it the first or second time, but we need to do it for two to three more hours, four more hours.

Run these hours.

Was this the actual defender?

Yeah, yeah, it was him.

Yep.

Do a showdown for that?

Yeah, I bet they paid him pretty well.

Okay.

I would have said no, and then they throw you a number and say no.

Was it actually him?

I don't know.

No.

No, it wasn't.

No, yeah.

Okay.

All right.

Because I think AJ did not know.

Okay, good.

Yeah, I don't know.

I believe a Jacks helmet on him.

Oh, yeah.

Just black helmet.

Yep.

During minicamp, we saw Travis Hunter catching those balls.

So if you go to Madden cover to get jumped over, you're probably getting cut.

That's just my assumption.

I don't know.

That's the point.

Maybe not.

It was just my assumption.

Yeah, PA should have.

All right, let's get the hell out of here.

We got a game at 6.30 Concafa SC.

We take on

Real Athletico, Atletico, Miami, Athletico, Florida, or something like that.

Athletico.

Nailed it.

6.30 on ESPNU and ESPN Plus.

ESPNU?

And ESPN Plus?

Plus.

You're on the U?

I didn't know it was was on the U.

You guys are on the U tonight.

That's right.

Oh,

had a couple beers here in the afternoon.

Maybe we should wrap up tonight.

Maybe put the boots going up.

Maybe I have a couple more.

You're in the boots out?

Swig loop?

No, I got a lower body and an upper body.

We all know that.

Yeah.

And I got a lung brain thing going on.

Sure.

Very serious.

Yeah, my lungs blow up, but my brains think I'm tired.

Teas and peas.

So I can't run far enough.

Was it tough?

I know you do have an upper and a lower and a lung brain thing.

Was it tough standing over there?

No.

No, not at all.

No, it was pretty good.

How about Jack Cameron?

Did it seem like he was.

I think we had a good time.

I genuinely think we had a good time.

Because we were trying to figure out, because we had the possession for so long, it was like legitimate conversation about how do we break it.

Start having hockey combos

or basketball conversations.

Need somebody to drive, drag somebody out, and then bang, we take advantage of them.

So that's what we were trying to figure it out.

And so this crew over here really looks good.

Boys?

They're doing a lot.

Boys, you look good.

I don't think that's the way to get to him.

Where are they at?

Foxy, they were on the camera.

Not down there.

They're tight about behind.

Yeah, he's tightening out behind.

They're on the camera.

Oh, they're gone.

You bullied them out.

Yep.

Foxy bullied him out.

There they are.

There they are.

There's the boys.

Boys, good pipes.

You've been working on the arms.

Is that a Robo?

Yeah.

Concafa shirt cut that.

Robo would dummy those two.

Moving merch.

6:30 Real Athletic goal.

Cannot wait to see the boys in our second camp.

We are currently undefeated.

Will that continue?

I think so.

A lot of people asking if I'm going to play.

I don't know why I should take any minutes away from anybody on our team.

With that being said, I'll be ready.

Always.

Just in case.

I need to see Foss put one in the net.

Yes.

Foss got on the field, ran hard, fouled somebody.

Great defensive play.

Mops went out of bounds.

Foss played hard.

He played confident too, which I like.

Physical.

He was physical.

Looks great.

Boom.

If If Fosso's in a scoring position, Black Boots will find him.

He always does.

That's what Mario does.

Yeah.

That's a Mario does.

Look at Fosso with his zoom in.

Looks strapped.

Need to put one in there.

Just be on the field when Led Zeppelin's out there.

And he'll make it right.

It's not his name.

Many.

Sure.

Legezma.

Led Zuma.

Yeah, but Tossi Zeppelin.

Led Zeppelin, Joey Flatt, Robert Page.

Sneaky Fox taking on La Mexicana Express right now.

I assume you can find this on YouTube.

Yes.

TST's YouTube.

We'll continue to follow along.

We're going to watch all these games.

Have a good time here in Cary because it is beautiful here.

We'll be back here tomorrow.

I think Johnny Damon is going to be on the show tomorrow.

That's crazy.

Yes.

You know who else is on the show tomorrow?

Who?

Wayne Gretzky.

Shut up.

What?

The great one?

Wayne Gretzky.

Wayne Gretzky's on the show tomorrow.

If they existed, he would have beat the shit out of the Kanyaks, too.

Yes.

Well said, Tony.

There's no reason for that.

You know who else is on the show tomorrow?

Who?

We're doing a lot of soccer talk.

Clint Dempsey.

Wow.

Clint Dempsey, Waynell, Johnny Damon.

We're going to have a great day here from Carrie, and hopefully, Concafa is undefeated at 2-0.

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