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Sunday, June 23: Game Time Paint The Wall
[music] Welcome back, sporting fans, to a special episode of the Paint the World podcast. I, as always, am your host, Steve, and I am joined this week, quite literally, in person. Yeah, by a man whose favorite ice cream flavor is honey mustard, but you all know him as Logan. Yeah, I mean, honey mustard is clearly the best flavor because you get that little, that little bitterness from the mustard. You get that sweet honey along with the creamy ice cream. Like, it's just what else would you possibly have an ice cream? I'm on board. I just think that you having the mustard seeds in there is weird because it's... Well, that's a texture thing. You want the crunchy. It makes it a good texture. Choco chips in there. No, exactly. Exactly, right, right, right, yeah. Well, as you can see, we're in person. We're in person. This time, it's how cool. Yeah. So this is going to look different, it's going to seem different, it's going to sound different, but we're still talking about a crappy soccer team that lost a game, so really nothing different. So if things go whack, I'm sorry, we tried our best. Yeah, just roll with it. Yeah, yeah. We are, of course, talking about our four to two loss to the galaxy. Not anything that we didn't expect to happen, we expected to lose. I don't know that we expected to lose how we lost. I mean, I think both of us predicted ties, didn't we? Yeah, we actually both had a two, two draw, so no points. Okay, we can skip that point later. No points, sterile. Yeah, up by one. Solid. I don't know, opening thoughts on this one? Yeah, I mean, it was, so I didn't get to watch it live because I had to drive here the next morning, so it was a bit of a drive. And so I was like, I only got to watch, when I got to watch the whole second half, I only got to watch a bit of the first half. Didn't miss anything. So I didn't like get a great perspective of it, but from what I watched and what I saw, it was really, it was a really strange way to lose the game. Like you said, I don't think anybody expects us to lose the game in that way. Credit where it's due, Peter's trying different stuff, Peter's doing something. We had some, you know, some fun subs that did some stuff. We had some different players coming in different places. We had Davis playing in the midfield for a while. We had Tommy playing over on the left wing. We had a free for playing over on the left wing. We saw a free for that. We haven't seen that in a minute and scored. He did, which, I mean, that surprised me. I mean, we got two pretty unexpected goal scores here, because we had a free for, and then Castellanos, who wasn't on my bingo card, that's for sure. But one thing I did, I didn't mention this after the Seattle game, but one thing I wanted to point out, I really think Peter has something for Castellanos. I really think Peter believes in Castellanos. Well, he's been playing really well, too, so, well, and immediately after the game, the first thing I saw Peter do, he came straight for Castellanos, and Castellanos, you know, down on the ground, and Peter went straight up to him and like, fist in his chest, like pointed at his heart. And like the way that it's like, I knew you had it in you kind of feeling, and I'm like, Peter see something in Castellanos, and I, I'm all for it because, you know, we've, we know our center back issues. Yeah, if like we can get a Castellanos that's actually decent, I'm happy with that. I'm all for this Castellanos, not the one we got last year, but he's clearly improved. Yeah, I would agree with that. I think he's looked a lot better, and yeah, he gets a goal here. They asked him about the goal after the game, and he said, it's training ground stuff. They do this every day in practice, which to me, I don't know. I mean, yeah, that is training ground stuff, but at the same time, that's like the first time we've ever seen it. So I'm like, okay, well, if you guys practice this every day, why do we not score more set peace goals? Yeah, yeah, exactly. It doesn't, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but no, no, um, I'll give you kind of a quick rundown of the first half. You said you didn't get to watch too much of it. You really didn't miss that much. Um, couple pregame notes, Bessong, Fanta, Castellanos, Shelton on our back line. I assumed it was to keep Davis as a midfield sub, because we only have three. Uh, Alanis playing for Shallowie. I put likely on right wing, though, that is where he started, but he did very quickly switch with Johnny, which was not a smart move. No, I agree, which I'll get to that in a minute. That's a whole separate thing I want to talk about. Sure, sure. Early, Timmy showing Stephen Fry how to save a ball that's kicked directly at your feet. Yeah, by actually saving it. So that was nice. I like any time we can show Stephen Fry. Good for him. Um, a couple chances really thus far. It seemed like we were kind of decently creative, which honestly, that was the whole game really well until the third goal, right? But most of the game we seemed really creative and like we were doing stuff. I kind of liked, looked like it was going well. Right. Great, um, Castellanos look great. Uh, then they score. Uh, back to back saves by Tim Meelia. Great saves. Good saves. Yeah, I can't expect him to make the third one, especially when his defense is just watching like we are, how amazed they are that he's saving these. It's like nobody, nobody crashed on that goal at all. Right. None of the defense. Um, nobody. That was, that just, that goal was frustrating for a lot of reasons. And Tim was pissed as he should be. Right. You know, you make two saves like that back to back. You got to expect your defense can help you a little, but yeah, your defense has to be there for you. Yeah, nobody, nobody stepped on that. So that, that was annoying. Um, this is where I kind of put in Vargas really looked out of sorts when they switched to the left. Um, he keeps, he kept cutting the ball to his right preferred foot. Right. Which I understand because he's young and he's right footed. So he prefers it. But, um, I guess we can talk about it now because he does get subbed out of halftime. So before we get to the second half, I'm curious what you thought if you got to really get a good feel for how Vargas played. Slash didn't play and I think he was disappointing to what we said last week. Right. Agreed. I, I, you and I are both excited that he was going to get the start. Um, we saw the, the pre, the, that afternoon we saw him on the like, height photo or whatever. Um, and we're both excited for that. I mean, we, that was a really good opportunity for him to get some solid minutes and some solid contributions. But yeah, he just didn't look like himself. He, he wasn't. I don't think he was prepared enough for where and how he was going to be used in the game. And that just didn't work well enough for him. He, he, like you said, he, he just wanted to play back to that right foot. And he just doesn't, I think the, he's got the good first move. And he's got the good finish. He just needs to learn the in between. And that's the, I think that's the bit that's the heart, that's the heart is. I think the in between to a professional soccer player. Yeah. It's how do you get from, you know, the first move to putting the shot on goal. Yeah. Um, and he just doesn't quite have that yet. Or just don't and just recognize that that's not something you do. Right. Like, your thing is you're going to touch it around him and you're going to, you're going to outrun him. Or you're going to take a ball over the top and you're going to outrun him. Right. But we weren't doing that. We weren't playing it to him like that. We were playing it to him expecting it to be like how we would with shallowy out. Right. Or if Johnny's over there. Now, I understand the thought to switch them because Johnny's better on the right side than Vargas. He's better on both sides. But I think my, I would have switched back or had them switched back because it's like, okay, I'm going to switch you because Johnny's better over here than you are. Yeah. But then it became very evident that he's also better on the left side. So like, you might as well at least let Vargas play on his strong side. You have to take, let your veteran play in the uncomfortable position. Yeah. That's what you have to do. Exactly. And the fact, yeah, the fact that Peter had Johnny on his preferred side the whole time and was putting Vargas in the uncomfortable position, that wasn't ideal. Yeah. And honestly, for all I know, that may not be, that may not be Peter's call. I mean, it is and it isn't. But like, you know, when, in general, Johnny and Daniel switch all the time. Right. And like, that can't be all, that has to be stuff going on in the game. They switch, blah, blah, blah. Right. But it, in this case, it should have been Peter should have said, you guys need to switch back. Maybe he did and Johnny ignored him. Who knows? Yeah. And I think even that Johnny has to recognize that. Yeah. That's what I was going to say is like, if that's the case, Johnny has to also recognize this is going well. So, yeah. No, I agree with that a hundred percent. It was, it was not an ideal position to have him. Yeah. I think he'll get another shot at it. Should he? I don't know. Maybe, maybe he's better as that spark off the bench like I was talking about last week. Yeah. I don't know. I do think we'll get a minimum of two more times out of them because I think we'll see him Wednesday and I think we'll see him again Saturday. Yeah. After that, I think it's going to depend on when a child comes back, but we don't really have a bunch of great options. Right. We don't. He's looking better than Johnny's. So I guess I'll take that. Yeah. At least we got that. True. The only thing I could think. So Davis subbed in for Vargas second half. Maybe Davis starts and we start Tommy on the wing. Yeah. That could be what ends up happening. Yeah. Who knows? Yeah. I could see that. Davis did. And Peter was very complimentary of Jake this whole game. He came in and was a big spark. Yeah. Which led to Agata and Afrifa eventually being an additional spark, but I think that Peter's right. It all started with Jake. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. And I know you said you got to watch the whole second half. So you got a real feel for Davis. He was everywhere. Yeah. He was. It was truly impressive to see. Again, we've talked about his soccer IQ getting to see his soccer IQ going from position to position. And he bounced around a lot this game. Yeah. He did. And playing a position that like maybe natural to him, but he hasn't played it in a while in a competitive game. Well, except for me. He's done it a couple of times recently, but he's just done a lot. And we're really seeing how just smart he is at the game. He just knows how to be a player. Yeah. That's what you need. You just need a guy who can just, you can put him somewhere and he's just going to perform. Yeah. And that's what we got out of him. I mean, he didn't score anything, which is unfortunate, but I don't know. And then just kind of going through the rest of the second half. Let's see. Nobody steps to pick. Just drink. Yeah. The second goal. He just nobody steps to him. He just kind of dribbles around and eventually found a slot and shot and scored. Fanta's got beat because he's slow. Kestihana tried to recover, but he wasn't in the right spot anyway. So I did put in here. It didn't end up mattering. But hey, we led two to nothing in the 72nd minute last time we played them. So that didn't end up mattering. But you know, some wishful thinking there in the middle of the game. The commentators definitely mentioned it a time or two. Yeah, that's for sure. So, you know, eventually a God, it comes on for Polito. I put I'm sure because I put that before they announced it, but I was like, who else is he coming in for? Right. Which is good because Polito was basically dog water. Yeah. Polito is useless, which is a reoccurring theme. He's pretty much always been useless. So they did mention now eight games. Yeah, scoreless. Eight games scoreless. Yeah. Super glad we're paying him $5 million to not score goals. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. No goals for making nine million. Awesome. Yeah. A couple bad minutes there right after the subs. A couple almost goals by the galaxy. Um, a free foot coming on. Who do you come in for? He came in Tommy for no. I can't remember who he came in for. Oh, memo. I put right here. Oh, yeah, he came in for memo. Tommy, probably back to midfield, which is exactly what happened. Yep. Well, sort of they flip flop. Tommy did kind of play a bit. Winger as well. Yeah. Well, he played when he played winger. No, I can't remember. I probably put notes in here somewhere. But I think he played winger at first. And then he got flipped back when a freetha came in. Yeah, I don't remember. It doesn't really matter. Right. A freetha getting a goal. Great move from Tommy on the cross. Tommy committed himself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, nobody stepped up to Tommy and nobody stepped up to a free first. So, yeah, I'll take it. He celebrated appropriately by grabbing the ball and running back to midfield. Exactly as you should do. That I felt is when our momentum really changed. Agreed. And the momentum was clearly in our favor for a lot of the game, especially the second. Yeah. Yeah. And I really kind of started to get a little. I was like, I don't know why we all do this. This might literally be like, yeah, they go up or we went up to nothing and blew it. And I'm like, this might. Well, I definitely didn't feel that way. But that's because I knew the score. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, right. Yeah. You need to score. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was watching live. So in the moment, I was like, well, this could happen. I'm just saying it. It didn't. It would have been great. Yeah. And then I gotta give away a ball. I still don't know what he was doing. He took a pass. I think it was from Tommy. He tried to do a cheeky back heel to give him back to him. It just got stolen. Yep. And then the galaxy very quickly played a deep crossfield and downfield cross to Gabrielle Peck. Gorgeous ball. Just incredible. Yeah. It was such a good ball in. And then a perfect cross to Pencil who had just came in and was wide open, slots at home. Yeah. Three, three, one. Yeah. I don't know what a God it was doing though. I don't know. That's another prime example of what are you doing, which most of this game was him turning getting a shot, which again. I'm okay with him taking the shots because our other current striker doesn't even do that. Right. So I'm okay with a God of taking the shots, but every one of them has to be in the 40th row or directly the keeper. Those are the only two things. Yeah. He knows the one between. Yeah. You got to figure out, like, it's got to be yips at this point. Like it has to be because we saw last year he can score, but he's just not doing it. It's ridiculous. Yeah. I mean, right after that, a freefa had a really dangerous cross to a God who got a shot on, but it was directly the keeper. Right. So it's like, it's one of the other, man. Yeah. At least that was on target, I guess. But again, honestly, as frustrating as it is, I would take that over. Polito's running around doing nothing all day. Yeah, it's true. Anyway, he's just never, I mean, he's just not a striker. That's a problem. If you're not going to be a striker, then play a different position. Yeah. Don't be a nine and then not be the nine. Yeah. It's just, I don't know. I don't think he knows what to do. Yeah. I don't think he does either. I think, unfortunately, he just hasn't trained the lead in MLS. Well, he did it first. It's really, it's really since his injury. Yeah, that's fair. That he just, well, even that though, he won come back player of the year for the team. Did he win for MLS last year? Yeah, he did. Yeah, he did. Yeah. So that can't be it. They clearly had a good, had a good run there. It's just not translating this year. It's because he got his extension. He got it to your extension. And now he's like, I'm good. Yeah. I'm paid. No, I agree. I don't know. Any other notes that I want to talk? Oh, yeah. 80th minute LA keeper made a, made a save on a point blank shot from a gada. Might be one of the best saves I've ever seen. It was a pretty good save. That was, yeah, that was ridiculous. That was impressive. Yeah. I know the announcers, which they had their own problems, but they said it was probably the goal or a save of the year. Very likely could be. That's a, I don't know how he reacted that fast. He may not even know how he reacted fast, but that was a great save. Yeah. We got the free kick goal from Castellanos 3-2. It really kind of felt like we were still pushing. Yeah. Like maybe we could make this happen. But it was pretty obvious that our momentum had kind of switched back. Right. A free fast still a brilliant. They didn't have any answer for it. I will say, there was a lot like players. Jake Davis, Johnny Russell, being the two that I noticed that seemed to be really annoyed at a free at a lot of different times. Interesting. I don't know if you noticed, but I didn't notice that. A couple shots that he took a couple times when he didn't pass. He chose to try to take on the man instead of pass. Jake was heated after one when he took a shot and Jake was wide open, but he was like visibly like screaming and throwing his hands at the ground going like I was wide open. Weirdly enough, though, I kind of didn't really care because a free foe was so on it that it was like, you know, you feed the hot hand. He was the one that nobody had an answer for, so let him go. See what he can do. That's fair. You still got to be smart. I don't know. It was one of those where honestly what we've been doing up to this point wasn't working. So honestly, I don't even care if you're not doing the smart stuff. Let's do something. Yeah. So that's a good point. Maybe, maybe. I don't know. Mealy made another save on a pencil shot that was really impressive. Yeah. Didn't matter, though. Gabriel Peck continued to embarrass everyone. Slides one across to Miguel, who houses it, which brings me to something I want to show. I'm going to show you in person. Right. I'm going to put it right here so everybody else can see it. It's right there. Don't you see it? It's right there. I haven't even seen it yet. I figure out how to edit videos properly. Otherwise, I'm pointing at nothing right now, but I think I can figure it out. We might be looking really silly right now. You'll notice right here. I see that. I see that. Goal LA Galaxy 27 and Barry. Yep. Miguel Barry. That's who scored the fourth goal. Yeah. Except for, as you guys will also notice, he scored his goal in the 92nd minute. That's impressive. Not the 82nd minute. That's impressive. The 82nd minute was when Castiano scored. The only reason I caught this is because I happen to be looking at the scoreboard. I rewound and took the screenshot. This is on the Castiano's goal. When Castiano scored, they put this up and it said Goal LA Galaxy M Barry. And I was like, I caught it when they put it. That's strange. The only reason that I remembered it is because I saw it and was like, wait a minute. Steve's going conspiracy theory. Yeah. I'm like, so this game was predetermined because they somehow, no, I'm kidding. The other thing that I wanted to look up because I was not 100% sure. Yeah. So Miguel Barry got subbed on after that goal. He wasn't on the field when that goal was scored. So that just kind of furthers my conspiracy theory. And I'm like, how did they have this? I mean, I know they just type it like when they do it. It's like an overlay thing. You just type it whenever it happens. I get that. And my guess it, he did get subbed on in the 82nd minute. So maybe they were already typing. Yeah. The substitution pop up with his name. But I just find it weird that in the 82nd minute, he scored, except for he didn't. It was Castiano's. He wasn't even in the game. But then 10 minutes later, he really does score. So that's, you know, that's wild. Conspiracy. Yeah. We'll let you believe whatever you all want. But it gave me a little bit of happiness in this game. Hey, whatever works for you. So one other thing I did want to point out. Good. Cause I don't want to. That's the end of the game. Pretty much. Yeah. One thing I did want to point out, I think the moments when we looked the most dangerous was when the song. Was pushing when he was. I think the song is really starting to learn the system. Far better than Tim Leibold has. Yeah. He has made some really good runs, some really good passes. He's been filling the slot in really well. And I'm pretty happy with what we saw from him. Yeah. I also had a note that he's made a couple runs a few times. He really has looked overall pretty good. I will say, he's one of the ones that was standing there watching Tim Mealy and make back to back saves at the meeting. True. True. And I don't remember which one. I can't find the note on it. There was one other goal that could potentially be his fault. Sure. Cause they're not playing. So still mistakes. That happens. But as far as the attack goes, I agree that has been kind of nice. Same with Kai. I would say the exact same thing about Kyrie. Yeah. On the attack, he's been great. He was also the primary one watching Mealy and make this saves. So he has made some mistakes on defense. He gets a little more of a pass from me because he's not a right back. Right. Yeah. That's fair. But then also, he doesn't get a pass because we've had so much problem with Kyrie in the past. I don't know where to go with that. Yeah. It is what it is. But I also really liked having Davis come in at midfield. Yeah. So I'm like, Kyrie does a good enough job at right back that if we can have Davis at midfield, if we need it. That's true. I don't know. At this point, it's just like, what do we do at the transfer window? Yeah. We just have to wait for that. Yeah. You got to get something in the transfer window, which I did see a rumor today. 23 year old Australian midfielder is who we're looking at. Okay. It's been rumored to be coming here. I watched his highlights. Pretty impressive. He's listed as a defensive midfielder. I don't remember his name. I'm sorry. You guys have probably seen it. I'm not going to spend 10 minutes trying to find it. But he's Australian. I remember that. And he's 23. Okay. He's listed as a defensive midfielder, but he really plays like an attacking midfielder. And he's really been. He's had like nine goals last year, I think. Yeah. I don't remember, but he's young. That's what I thought was nice. He's young. He's fast. He's fairly big for 23. Yeah. So cool. That could be a good one, but it can't be the only one. Right. Because. Yeah. We need a lot of help. Grease. Oh, right. Grease. Sorry. All right. That's all I got for this game. Okay. Oh, I guess we have MVPs, don't we? Yeah. Well, do you want to go first? Sure. Mike goes to Jake Davis. Okay. Yeah. It's fair. Mine goes to a free for sure. Honorable mentioned Tim Melia. Because honestly, he had six saves. Yeah. None of the four goals were his fault. Right. He made two point blank, amazing saves on the first goal. So honestly, Tim Melia had a great game. Yeah. No, I'm all for that. That game could have been eight to two easily. Yeah. Okay. Okay. MVP. Take a pick. Polito. Yeah. Polito. Agata, I guess, to be different. Sure. Agata actually played well and had sparks. He just kept missing. So maybe that was not fair. I had Kyrie mentioned too, but the more we talk about it, I don't know if that one's fair either. Yeah. I guess I just got to go with Polito. Yeah. Yeah. It has to be. Just. Yeah. No. Thanks. Yeah. Is it too late to trade him? Can we do that? Can you trade an MLS? I guess it is. You just don't really hear about it that often. Right. I don't know. Oh, I did see yesterday. Maybe it was this morning. Houston signed a number 10. Oh, good. So good for them. At least one team got a number 10 window when they needed it. Yeah. Good for them. I'm excited. Let's talk about the good soccer team in Kansas City. Let's do that, please. There's no banners. I'm sorry. It's current corner time. Yeah. We're talking about Kansas City current. This one was interesting when I looked. Mm-hmm. And I didn't get to watch this one. So I looked on Sports Center and it was one to nothing at halftime. And I was like one to nothing Chicago at halftime. And I was like, great. Yeah. And then I looked what felt like 14 seconds later. And it was two to one. Yeah. And I was like, Oh, okay. Um, so we managed to score two team. We'll get to another one. Bia get the goal in her game back. Of course she does. Of course. Um, two to Chicago does get a 90th minute goal to tie it. Yeah. So we do get a draw. However, still undefeated. Yep. Um, so that's really what matters. Yeah. Still undefeated. Still have not been beaten table update here real quick. We are still in first tied on points with Orlando, but we are still plus four in goal differential. So they are still undefeated as well. Yeah. They are also still undefeated. Yeah. And when is that game with us? It's got his right before the Olympics soon, isn't it? It's got to be in a few weeks. Oh, I clicked results. Hold on fixtures. That's three games. Three games. Yeah. We've got Portland thorns on Sunday next Friday. We've got Houston Dash. Uh huh. And then the Saturday after that July 6th, we play Orlando Pride. Yep. Wow. Yeah. That one's on ION. That needs to be on CBS. Yeah. We need to get flexed or put on something. Put it on something. We need to see that camera. I don't want to watch North Carolina courage. I don't want to watch that. Nobody does. Um, yeah. All right. Well, that's current corner. Take the badge away and never put it there. Um, all right. Your turn might take us for only. Let's do this. Sorry. It's fun. It is where it is. Um, okay. Hang on. We're going to get there. This is the right stuff. I have no idea. They're going to sign the phone as much trickier than I thought it would be. Yeah, that's fair. We can just do a table update if you want. It's okay. I'm here. All right. So opening up the weekend. We had Chicago beating Toronto four to one beating the pants off of them. L E. S E continuing their mighty impressive run beating Orlando three to one. We had Charlotte's we can buy against DC United one. No, we had Philadelphia losing to Miami. Let me be clear here losing to a messy list Miami, which also let me be clear here. They scored down to men to win the game two to one. Stupid. Yeah. And it wasn't messy. No, that's scored. Yeah. That's why I started with messy list. Miami. Oh, well, you pay attention. Yeah. That's fair. This is my water time. Okay. Spoiler. We're not doing good bad and ugly. But that's my ugly, just in case anybody wants to know. We got a revolution continuing their little winning run. They're one three games in a row being Vancouver three to two. We need his competition. We're going to win. San Jose continuing to lose. San Jose's run away with gold with wooden spoon. I wouldn't say running away with it. Well, that's true. We're fighting him for it. Yeah. There are only three points behind us. San Jose losing to Cincinnati four to two and then closing out. We had Seattle rebounding getting went on my win in Minnesota to know. Nice. Yeah. All right. Well, like he just mentioned we're not doing good bad and ugly. I did have a good that I want to mention. My good was MJ Melendez hitting a grand slam on a 12 pitch at bat. Yeah. Put the Royals up five to sure. Sure. And gave me something to actually be happy about go because this happened during the galaxy. Nice. So I was watching Royals. And sporting 12 pitch at bat where I multiple times like every Royals fan was like, Oh, great. It's MJ. Yeah. And he hits a grand slam to put us up. There you go. Yeah. He doesn't hit the ball very often, but when he does, it's meaningful. Yeah. Yeah. So that was my good. And I'm going to throw that in there because there's other Royals fans that are listening. And it was literally my only happiness that. Yeah, that's valid. That's valid. There we go. All right. Let's preview next week because we have two games. Well, this week, actually, I guess it is. It is this week. Wednesday, we play at home against Salt Lake. Yeah. Salt Lake's first in the West. Yeah. This is going to be rough. I know I saw a Rongo. Their leading scorer has more goals than our all of our forwards combined. That sounds right. So that's disappointing. Although I did hear an interesting stat, just a segue just a little bit. I don't remember where I found this. I'm not going to look for it, but we are tied for ninth in the league. It's 28, 28 goals. It's a pride for ninth. Okay. So as weirdly enough, as much as you wouldn't guess this is scoring goals, not our problem. It doesn't feel that way. That is not, I know it doesn't feel that way at all. It feels very painful. We are second to last or maybe tied for last now. I don't remember exactly in goals given up. Okay. So that is our problem. Our problem is not scoring goals. You're scoring the ninth most goals in the league. Yeah. That's not our problem, as much as it feels like it, because we talk about it all the time. Because even when I heard this, I was like, "That can't be true." We literally talk all the time about how our finishing is garbage. Yeah. Well, apparently, it's not. Now, that is to one of your favorite stats. Our expected goals was like 20.7, something like that for the season, and we have 28 goals. So we are still outperforming that stat, which is not sustainable. Well, apparently, maybe it is sustainable. But when we give up 30-some goals or whatever you've given up, this doesn't matter. Yeah, for sure. But I just wanted to throw that in there that interestingly enough, despite what I would guess, a problem statistically is not scoring goals. I don't believe them. I believe them, but I think the problem is not scoring goals. It's scoring goals in the right opportunities. That's fair. In the right moments. Yeah. We have a lot of games where we score multiple goals, but they only score one. Right. And then with they score more than one, we're just out. Yeah. That sounds by right. That's been our problem. Yeah. Anyway, sorry, RSL. RSL. What are you thinking? It's going to be bad. Yeah, I think so. It's going to be real bad. Yeah. We're going to lose 4 to 1. I think it's going to be rough. I am not entirely convinced that you aren't changing that because I predicted your 3 to 1, but you did say it was locked in, so I'll give it to you. Okay. I also don't think it's going to be great. I'm going 2 to 1. I don't think it's going to be that bad. Okay. Maybe that's just wishful thinking. I don't know. I think we'll be lucky to score a goal, honestly. Again, we've had a scrumptious couple times. I will never bet against us to, yeah, against us to not score a goal. That's right. Who cares? I will always say we're going to score because I've been right every time. Yeah. So that's why the only reason why I think you score one. I think since it's at home, maybe we can hold them to two. So I'm going to one RSL. Okay. Fair enough. The 22nd, things get easier for us. Do they? No. Okay. We have to play. Defending champs? Defending champs. Did they just went? Okay. Yeah. Defending champs Columbus in Columbus. Yeah. Yeah. Yay. They're sixth in the east, so they're not quite as good as they were last year, but still. How do you think this one goes? I mean, it's going to be a little bit better because they're not quite as good as RSL. They're still going to get against beat off us. I don't know. Three to one, I guess. Yeah. I just don't. I don't even like, at this point, I just don't even know. That's fair. I agree with that also. I'm going three to Columbus. So the ultimate like salt in the wounds, though, is the weekends that I will be in Salt Lake watching a game is the weekend. We're finally playing an East Coast game. Yeah. That I can't enjoy. Yeah. Can't enjoy that earlier. So thanks for that, everybody. Yeah. Who are you watching against RSL? I don't remember. Galaxy. Yeah. Oh, good. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if Poo should be back. Poo should be back. Yeah. Well, should be. We'll see if we get him. I guess we'll see. Yep. All right. Well, that's all I got. Yeah. Anything else? No. Cool. It's a short one. All right, guys. We'll get everybody out of here. We are again. I want to remind everybody. We are now streaming on Fire Up Network. Yep. Yeah. Love it. Get it on Amazon Store, Roku, Apples, and all that good stuff. All of our links are below because I don't want to type them all out anymore. Check us out there. 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