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The Cooler Guild: Battle in the Bay brings home a point - Ep. 32
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Matchweek 6 is in the books. Reign brought home a point from San Jose after a somewhat disappointing result versus Bay FC. We get into the big missed opportunity, Sam Meza becoming a breakout player, and the rest of the team’s performance on the road.
Later on we cover some results from around the NWSL, including Portland’s potential future in Olympic diving, and then do a quick preview for the Reign’s next match.
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Transcript
Introduction & Hosts Intro
00:00:19
Speaker
Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to episode 32 of The Cooler Guild. I am Coop Cooper, and joined with me, as always, is my co-host, Van Crisp. Hello. We're recording on Sunday, April 27th, 2025. On today's episode, we'll be going over rain
Podcast Network Promotion
00:00:34
Speaker
Straw vs. Bay and wrapping the show up with a quick look around other results in the League um from the weekend but for some housekeeping we want to remind people that the cooler guild is part of the sounder heart podcast network you can either listen to us on our public feed or if you're a sounder heart subscriber on the private unified feed with the other podcasts on the network if you'd like to become a subscriber just visit our page at sounderheart.com forward slash the cooler guild new subscribers get 10 off the normal rate and you'll help support everything we're doing oh how was uh how was your weekend anything cool happen
00:01:02
Speaker
Not a lot. No. Some errands, did some other soccer work coming up on the USLW season, so making sure to get that paperwork again Yeah. always Always a grind. About you, you had a friend over?
00:01:15
Speaker
ah did have a friend over.
Thrift Store Find
00:01:16
Speaker
and We were doing an embroidery project and then we kind of ah bopped around downtown Astoria and looked at some shops um and I got a new really cool jacket.
00:01:27
Speaker
oh tell me about it. um It is a... I mean, I guess if you want to call vintage these days, but I got a, like, 90s Made in USA Levi's, like, Sherpa jean jacket.
00:01:40
Speaker
Oh, nice. Those are rad. Yeah, and it's Where'd you that? There's some, like... what do they call them? I don't go out to these places, but some sort of thrift store. And like, I just saw it in the middle of like all these pants. Cause I've been trying to like, look for some good quality like jeans. Cause all my jeans keep blowing out in the crotch as they tend to do.
00:02:00
Speaker
And I had heard that I get some like old Levi's cotton jeans, like 100% cotton jeans, and those will last you quite a while. And then this jacket was just sitting like next to them. And I was like, I'm going to try this on and just see.
00:02:11
Speaker
And it fit like a fucking glove. It fits so well. And the wash on it was like a little different. I would show you now. I was going to wear it, but I like washed had to wash the Sherpa. um But it it is a great jacket. The moment I put it on, my friend who was visiting was just like, you're getting that.
00:02:27
Speaker
Yeah. Was it expensive? Oh, I think it was 80 bucks. Yeah. Thrifting. That's expensive. ah I mean, I went and looked on like eBay and it seemed to be like right around the same price range. um And this is like a bo one of those bougier thrift stores.
00:02:41
Speaker
Yeah. you can You can definitely get some good deals on there. um But don't know. I went looked at the prices of like what basically what I got and it was sitting around the right the right price. I bought jeans. I haven't had jeans in like six months.
00:02:53
Speaker
I ordered a pair of jeans online for $20 from Dickies. I get 60% off. so I was like, did you buy jeans for babies? ah No, Dickies is in like this pro deal thing that I have.
00:03:07
Speaker
on it and so I got a pretty sick deal, so they're supposed to come tomorrow. nice so I'll have jeans for the first time in six months. That's great. yeah Jeans
Wardrobe Talk
00:03:15
Speaker
that fit. oh yeah I need to cycle my wardrobe out with that.
00:03:19
Speaker
yeah get a little tight on some some of my thighs from running and eating so buff oh yeah it truly though like i was uh this might be tmi but i was i've been running and i didn't realize like i think i'm getting caked up okay sure my pants are like not fitting around my butt anymore okay it's like not it's like a problem like My underwear's a little tighter.
00:03:43
Speaker
Well, that's like a different part of my waist, but like my butd is like my butt is like getting caked up. like Things are not fitting in the way they used to, and like my thighs are like getting huge too. But I'll be out of commission for several weeks soon, so I'll probably get back down.
00:03:58
Speaker
going lose all that muscle. Okay. Anyways.
00:04:04
Speaker
ah Well, ah we should get into the rain match. Speaking of caked up players, I'm just kidding. Who the fuck is caked up? Nobody. I don't know. I was trying to find a good segment or segue into the next segment. I was going to go into the match recap. Great. Do it.
Reign vs. Bay FC Match Analysis
00:04:21
Speaker
On Saturday, the rain traveled to San Jose to take on Bay FC. Tied in the standings, both teams went into the match hungry for points. The rain had the first big chance of the match when Jordan Heidemann was gifted a botched back pass from the Bay defense.
00:04:33
Speaker
This golden opportunity was ultimately sabotaged by Heidemann's... Breathe in.
00:04:41
Speaker
Oh, Lord. ah The rain had the first big chance of the match when Jordan Heidemann was gifted a botched back pass from the Bay defense. This golden opportunity was ultimately sabotaged by Heidemann's indecisiveness and great goalkeeping from Bay's Jordan Silkewitz.
00:04:55
Speaker
Bay quickly countered and Rachel Kudanaji converted on a breakaway. Five minutes into the second half, Jordan Heidema was able to kind of make up for her first half mishap. First half mishap when she scored a header goal off of a second chance corner kick from Sam Meza.
00:05:09
Speaker
The Reign were able to hold off a second half push from Bay and the game ended in a one to one tie. Disappointing, but i wish we had gotten more from that game. I really wish we got more from that game. Yeah, for sure.
00:05:21
Speaker
It is. Yeah. did the Did the performance really a lot for a lot more, though? I don't think so. Yeah, probably not. Probably not. I don't think we were as good as maybe we were hoping would be against a team that's this close to us in the standings.
00:05:38
Speaker
Yeah. And they're also like kind of finding their rhythm, too. So it's one of those things where we're kind of meeting each other at the same point in our seasons. Yeah, for sure.
00:05:49
Speaker
So, I mean, I'm glad we walked away with a point, but at the same time, it was... The run we've been on the last couple games, I felt like we we could have done more. Yeah, for sure. I want and want to start getting some some wins.
00:06:02
Speaker
Even if they're close, I want it i would like ah you know to see these players' hard work rewarded with some some more points. Yeah, and there were opportunities. there i mean, it could have been if I had me scored that first chance.
00:06:14
Speaker
Well, she have the first chance, we wouldn't have i given up the goal, but... That too. also think that if she had had that chance after she had scored, she wouldn't have she wouldn't taken that extra touch.
00:06:26
Speaker
Yeah. A little more confidence. Yeah. She's just buried it. Yeah. And you could see after she scored just like the relief on her face and even on the bench. Yeah. you know, she's worked hard. She's maybe been the unsung hero of the team this season. Yeah. Yeah.
00:06:43
Speaker
So i that was what I asked for at the end of last episode, you know, Jordan Hyde and McGill involvement. So I was relieved for her, but ah yeah, there's just, things fell for us and we got lucky and but we just still couldn't take advantage
Lou Barnes' Milestone
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Speaker
it.
00:07:01
Speaker
yeah um we got so a general note to go over it's kind of a big deal i would say lou barnes uh became the first nwsl player with two 20 000 regular season minutes and all with one team so Pretty wild.
00:07:19
Speaker
um Congrats to her. And I think we're lucky that we get to have a player like that on the team. um No one else can literally claim that. Yeah, it's consistency and staying healthy and all that. So it's a big, big accomplishment.
00:07:35
Speaker
I don't know how many players can be able to do that. that Yeah, that longevity is just kind of unreal. Yeah. Kind rolls into the notable stats. Yeah. Which we have one for newly redeemed player, Claudia.
00:07:49
Speaker
Get the claws
Claudia Dickey's Achievements
00:07:50
Speaker
up. Claws up. 100 regular season saves for Claudia Dickey. Yeah. And she had some good ones. She's... Solid. She's been like, some of the saves she makes, it i think I put it in my ah match notes from watching, it like just looks like glue.
00:08:04
Speaker
Like the way she sometimes grabs balls. She just kind of like, it just feels like magnets to her hand, the way she just is able to, I don't know, if I'd be curious to see how big her hands are. um but I think for me, as someone that played the position for a long time, the saves that she makes look easy are not necessarily easy saves. ah She gets balls that are like very close down by her legs and doesn't let anything in really close.
00:08:31
Speaker
She gets those random near post shots that a lot of other goalkeepers are going to get scored on. So I think that it's a little, it might look, she might make it look easy, but some of those saves that she makes are not easy saves.
00:08:44
Speaker
Yeah. So good for a hundred regular season saves into it. ah Next notable stat we had
Reign's Diverse Scorers
00:08:50
Speaker
was ah six goal scores in 2025 for so, so far ah we're tied for third, most goal scores in the league. um is like Is this a good thing? Bad thing?
00:09:01
Speaker
Well, seeing as how we've only had Biendolo for what, three games now? Three and a half games? Yeah. I think it's fine. so'll They'll figure it out. Yeah. Do you think that's like, it's good to see a lot of people scoring. I would like to see consistent goal scorers. Like I want to see Maddie Darlene start racking them up.
00:09:19
Speaker
And she had a couple of early, early chances, but they just didn't amount to much. No, I think people are respecting her as a player already and they're watching film and they don't recognize how much of a threat she is. So that's going to be ah something mean she's going to have to work through and um figure it out.
00:09:36
Speaker
Yeah, it's another challenge for her. Yeah, she'll figure. I mean, I have no doubt that she'll be able to do it, though. Yeah, it's going to be fine. Yeah. And like you were talking about, the more we kind of get into this season, the more I see kind of the vision for next season.
00:09:52
Speaker
um That does not make me happy for this season necessarily. ah But at the same time, I see ah get it.
Sam Meza's Contributions
00:10:01
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. it's a self It's a very fun team and there's a lot of fun pieces that ah have me excited. But yeah, I think it's still coming to grips with reality and that like maybe at times we're being a little too greedy um about the reality of the situation and wanting certain results. but come They'll come eventually, but there's growing pains, as we've said before.
00:10:22
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, going into the positives from the match, I mean, finally got Haidema. Mm-hmm. Finally got a Haidema goal. I think Steve said in his Rite the Valkyries article, air Haidema.
00:10:33
Speaker
Yeah, we should be using that more. Well, like we said for the Portland game... She won, was it like six out of eight or something of her fifty fifty balls out of the air? Mm-hmm.
00:10:44
Speaker
So I think that that's just and like, you're tall. Maybe just like do tall people things, you know? Yeah, definitely. It's not overcomplicated at times. Yeah. So I'm i'm glad she was able to get on the end of one. But, you know, after ah followed that just absolute should have been a goal chance...
00:11:06
Speaker
I don't want to take anything away, though, from Jordan Silgovic. Like, that goalkeeping was incredible. To be able to cut that angle off and then track her and keep her feet as she takes that touch, that's incredible goalkeeping.
00:11:18
Speaker
Yeah. There's definitely a lot of keepers in the league who could not do that. Yeah. But also, you got to know as an attacking player that... You have motorcycle out there? Yep. You have to know as an an attacking player that you got to take advantage of the open goal when it's there before she comes out and takes that angle away.
00:11:38
Speaker
Yep. And that you're too close to take a touch. Yeah, that was frustrating. But, I mean, you could see the relief on her face after she scored the other goal. um Understandably so.
00:11:50
Speaker
I didn't realize I was so invested because I was literally crying. Yeah. yeah i literally felt it for her i was just like it happened
Claudia Dickey's Growth
00:12:02
Speaker
and she got she she gets a lot of criticism i think some of it's fair i think a lot of it is fair yeah but i do think there's a there's a lot more to her game that people don't necessarily give her her credit for uh and you and i talk about this a lot she's 23 yeah that's pretty that's pretty damn young she's a kid she's three years older
00:12:22
Speaker
Than Maddie Darlene. Yeah. Sure, she's she's been in a competitive league for longer, you know, played professionally longer, but I feel like there's just so much weight on her shoulders.
00:12:33
Speaker
There is, yeah. And to see her, like, score again after, you know, the last year of... us fans critics all being like well what's she doing she's not doing anything what's she doing it's it was just very much like a a bit of a redemption not a total redemption but we'll get we'll get to the we'll get to the how absolutely we maybe we'll go over it again how horrible that other thing was but we'll still keep keep it going with the positives yeah already you already got into this a bit but claudia dickey um coming up but coming up pretty big again ah your skepticism gone yet
00:13:11
Speaker
There's an inkling left.
00:13:14
Speaker
But i yeah, I think I was talking to some soccer people last year about, about Claudia Dickey. People that know her, people that trained her, things like that.
00:13:25
Speaker
And they were like, oh, you just don't see it. You just don't see it. You don't get it yet. And I'm all, I don't know. I see what's happening now. so What do you want me to do? Sit and wait while my team loses? Yeah.
00:13:36
Speaker
But I i texted. i texted one of them during the game and I was just like, I got to say, you were right. Yeah. Had to finally give ah give her her. Admit that we were maybe a little wrong. think was wrong i think that i was i was reactive to the current situation sure sure sure and if we had been able to get somebody else in that could have solidified a couple of those games for us last year yeah we would have been in a better spot i guess my my i think i read this stat that like the last game where we got the shutout um against portland we were like we hadn't had a clean sheet for like 13 matches or something like that yeah it's like something that needs to be looked at
00:14:14
Speaker
I just feel like, and I know there's a lot of fluky goals in this league, like for sure. There's a lot of weird stuff that happens. There's a lot of chaos. ah But I do think that at some point for me to feel comfortable with any team going into the playoffs, so your defense comes first.
00:14:30
Speaker
And I think that, I don't know what Laura Harvey's goal and vision is for the defense, but like my favorite team's already set up where like the aim is always a shutout. Always.
00:14:40
Speaker
Like, you know. Yeah, you can't lose if you don't get scored on. Exactly. And I just would like to see that at least. get Granted, the goal that we gave up was just a ridiculous, so precise shot.
00:14:53
Speaker
But I would like to start making that a trend in some capacity. Well, I think, too, we have to realize that as far as like the Claudia Dickey conversation goes, is the goals that we've given up this season have not been any of her fault. They haven't been errors like she maybe did before. Right. yeah So I think within this conversation, and there's other issues surrounding, you know, top of the box marking or setting up, um you know, when you're in your offensive third.
00:15:22
Speaker
But Dickie, I have full confidence in her. i'm at the point I'm at the point where she's got to prove me wrong now. I think I don't know that we'll be seeing our backup like we thought we might.
00:15:33
Speaker
Yeah. No, but I think and and the person I was talking to about it said that that's a big reason why she's playing so well is because she finally has like a counterpart behind her that's gunning for her position.
00:15:48
Speaker
So she has to step up. She has to do this. yeah i mean we're like a broken record on this um but it's just every single week she seems to be proving proving us wrong on what our thoughts were from last season so i just think into it i'm i'm yeah that's all i wanted i wanted her to be good i wanted her to be better so i'm i'm stoked i mean i put it in the positives i i am here for the next week and and i want to see her keep doing really well yeah she's a real test coming up too so oh yeah Big one.
00:16:19
Speaker
Yeah. ah The last positive I wanted to kind of highlight um Sam Meza. And I love that. i don't you said you didn't get time to watch the post match presser, but um they were talking about like it was Lou Barnes and Meza and just like how much stamina she has.
00:16:38
Speaker
And on the broadcast, I think they were also talking about like her engine just does not quit, which is funny because I'm pretty sure like you said the exact same thing the week before. I called her an energizer bunny. Yeah. um Well, I mean, what a revelation.
00:16:50
Speaker
um She's kicking ass, like absolutely kicking ass at a time that was starting to get worried with their injuries that we were having and like the aging midfield ah with the people that we were relying on at times um for her to fill in this role and and do it as well as she's doing is a pleasant surprise.
00:17:11
Speaker
um And kind of maybe what I thought we would see from her last season, but It didn't work for many whatever reasons. It didn't work out last year with her, but her loan worked. Everything else kind of went exactly how it needed to for her to have the season that she's having so far.
00:17:26
Speaker
And this is just the beginning. i i am i am fully on board the Mezzatrain. hurt Her assist on that goal... Whipped in.
00:17:38
Speaker
phenomena i mean To me, reminded me of Pino stuff. Yeah, 100%. It was beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. And we've got so many attacking threats that we can get on the end of those things.
00:17:49
Speaker
What I'm picturing, though, is we've got Meza coming up and... maybe where to when she comes back will be whipping in crosses from both sides and gotta you know spread that with to really make it extra threatening but that has me feeling a little ah little giddy it's the future is bright Yep. Not Messiah Bright, but...
00:18:15
Speaker
Weird poll, but okay. Well, they didn't did you not remember that when the Reign were like... They like posted like the future's Bray and they were like teasing their new signing. Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:18:25
Speaker
We were like, is Messiah Bright? It was like, no, we're just signing other young people. I don't know the person who made the graphic understood that that was teasing in a way that didn't make any fucking sense. Yeah.
00:18:37
Speaker
but um was that the future was that the bug and uh was that the bug signing it might have been it might i don't remember who it might have been darlene i don't remember but there was like younger players
Missed Opportunities Discussion
00:18:50
Speaker
yeah and uh everyone did think that we were they thought it was going to be a person with the last name bright a very very good player with last name bright and it was not could have been really but yeah could have yeah ah Yeah, anyways, I think I was very frustrated with the results. So I think it's I don't want to highlight too much.
00:19:12
Speaker
I think there's a lot of maybe not a lot of negatives, but we should get into the negatives. Yeah, not to be massive downers, but there are some. I mean, we touched on it, but the Jordan Haidema one on one with the goalkeeper.
00:19:24
Speaker
situation that happened, it's it's not going to, I said this on my Blue Sky post, it's not going to haunt me, but it's going to bother me for a really long time. Not because of the myths so much.
00:19:35
Speaker
I mean, that was pretty inexcusable, in my opinion, on the way that Heidema handled that. But the part that made me really upset was that how that that whole sequence of her missing led to that bagel.
00:19:48
Speaker
But at the same time, the precision, as I said, on that goal from Kundinanji, ridiculous. Yeah, absolutely ridiculous. I mean, there's nothing that you could have done about that.
00:20:01
Speaker
from a goalkeeper's perspective at least yeah it's just and heidema had other chances i think that i read that she this is her it tied this this game she took six shots and that tied her single game record in the regular season for shots taken which is kind of funny because i think people were like oh she's moving into more of a playmaking role and not like focusing so much on taking shots and i'm like no she's still doing that yeah it's it's just about the quality of the shots being able to get in behind and we're not really yeah seeing that i i mean i put in the discord right after that happened i said ah that height of my chance is going to haunt us all i fear like i guess said i don't think it's gonna haunt me i said it before she scored i said it before she scored yeah i think it was after kudanaji's goal but yeah i just
00:20:49
Speaker
But like I said, I don't think she misses that if she scored first. I don't know. But it's it's positive. I mean, you're getting numbers out of her. Yeah, it's ah i mean, it's a positive van and a negative, right?
00:21:02
Speaker
ah It was funny because I think I'm lobbying scorchers like Noah and Ari are you going back and forth on like the XG conversation. And Noah was landing on like, well, if you don't score these chances, then like, what's the point? Yeah.
00:21:15
Speaker
Like your your XG can be low. So like, and you can still score one. Like that's all I care about at the end of the day That's, and it's true. That's all I care about the end of day. I'm not talking about XG. I'm just talking in the, in the case of the missed huge opportunity.
00:21:29
Speaker
Yeah. I think that that's something that, Will she'll look back on and be able to figure it out. So for her, she was able to and this you could go into the positive conversation with this.
00:21:41
Speaker
She was able to brush it off and score after that after a massive what you could call fuck up. Yeah. So if it happens again, sure, we can have a conversation. But I think at this point she messed up.
00:21:54
Speaker
She came back, scored a goal. Fine. I'll take it for now. I'm a little concerned about our corner situation.
00:22:03
Speaker
yeah After not having a corner at all in the Portland game, to having 10 corners this game, with other than like the ball came back out, Meza was able to get it and then swing it back in and hide him scored, there's no actual like conversions from corners.
00:22:18
Speaker
No, and Curry had a pretty... She had a really good shot, actually. and That was a really good save um from the goalkeeper for Bay. That was just another pop-out from a corner. well Exactly. Exactly. She was in the right place and was ready to take that shot, but it wasn't from the corner. And mean you have 10 corners. I mean, I had texted you my match notes so like for the second half.
00:22:38
Speaker
I said they had a, I never watched the the musical, but i I said they had 525,600 corner kicks because they just kept coming and we weren't doing anything with them. It was so frustrating to see. You never watched Rent? No, i don't like musicals. I don't either, but I watched Rent.
00:22:54
Speaker
Yep, didn't watch it. I just figured you would because it's gay. wow Anyway, ah yeah, there was a bunch. And they got to figure out how to convert.
00:23:05
Speaker
yeah But that kind of leads me into like the next thing. We're more dangerous on corners when Adama is taking them. Yeah. Where is she? Yeah, I don't know what's going on there. after After Harvey was having that whole conversation in the postgame presser after the Portland game that she's an impact sub and all these things.
00:23:22
Speaker
And then to not see her for any meaningful minutes. and um in a game we're In a game where we... could have very much used an extra goal yeah i don't know maybe it was because bay was landed on us i would say in the second half late especially there were some really good chances from them so maybe that was part of the thinking from her because she brought on olo um for the late sub and um we held on i mean there was a point there was that chance like right at the end uh where the goal like the shot flies across and thank god nobody was there my stomach just dropped and And was like, oh, God, this is it.
00:23:59
Speaker
Yeah, so maybe Harvey was on to something, not bringing her on for that match. But, i mean, had we brought her on earlier, then maybe we would have been up a goal. It could have been a little bit. We could have been sitting, you know, a little bit deeper.
00:24:12
Speaker
I don't know. I'm not a genius coach, though. so That's why we have a podcast and not coaching this team.
00:24:20
Speaker
I, I think another thing that I want to talk about, and I didn't add it in the positives, but it did change the game when Emily Mason came on. So i'm I'm wondering if that's something that we could put into the mix for the next game or when there's a viable chance to like get her in, you know?
00:24:37
Speaker
Yeah, I think that goes into um the question that we got last episode about like, do you think Laura Harvey said on her like starting 11? And I think games like this definitely remind us that no, we aren't all figured out for sure. Yeah, there's there's some changes that need to be made.
00:24:55
Speaker
was also wondering, I was trying to find this thing that I posted. I was wondering about moving AMC to the middle. um I don't know if you've... Thought about that? i am definitely interested in what you're throwing down. i am especially interested in what you're throwing down if and when where to joins again.
00:25:14
Speaker
um and with the different options that we could have on that right side. um Yeah, I don't know. I would be curious to see if how like what type of position she's played ah for other teams. And maybe we should go watch some highlights and dive into maybe other places she's kind of found success. I just feel like she's such a physical player.
00:25:38
Speaker
She's really good at keeping the ball and distributing the ball. G didn't do a whole lot this game. She has really great games. She does. She was on. She was involved in the goal, too. Sure.
00:25:48
Speaker
But as far as like solidifying that like top third possession, i don't know. Consistency. Yeah. Consistency is maybe an issue. and I'd like to see you maybe if that was the thing.
00:25:59
Speaker
Yeah. But i yeah, I would like to know what's going on with the Dom is because we everyone knows she makes a difference. So where is she? Can she play more? Yeah. um And we had so much possession.
00:26:10
Speaker
I think that's kind of like my thing with like, oh, what what if you put AMC in the middle? Like we have possession, but it's all just kind of playing the ball back and forth and like through and then back. It's not really progressive, threatening possession.
00:26:23
Speaker
Yeah, which is like what Bay wanted them to do. Yep. it They played into Bay's hands. Yep, they played exactly into the game plan because they sat at that low block and weren't letting that through pass in.
00:26:35
Speaker
So how do you, if players are going to, if if teams are going to do that against you because you know that you have two really fast forwards in Adames and, not Adames, Jesus, ah and Biandolo and Darlene, then how do you change and work around that to get through?
00:26:53
Speaker
Yeah. Because we went we had majority the possession, but we still went into halftime down a goal. So didn't do much for us. No. And they're very aware of it. um And the presser, they talked about it. And exactly like we're like, we didn't know how to deal with that very well in the first half. What else did Harvey say in the presser? Yeah.
00:27:14
Speaker
She was disappointed in the result. And the fact that she was disappointed in the result, we've never beaten Bay. we haven't i mean, they haven't been around for very long, but we've never beaten them. And um the fact that she was disappointed and walking away with only a point on the road, she was like, that's progress.
00:27:29
Speaker
It was like last year, would maybe have have just been expected yeah like... that would have been like a good thing. Like you would have definitely taken a point, but no, they, they want more. They know they could have gotten more had they made a little bit better decision-making and had a little, they were a little cleaner with some of the chances that they had.
00:27:45
Speaker
Um, so I just, thought that was kind of the main thing I took away from it. I just hope that doesn't become a theme for this season. No. Cause it could quickly become a theme. i mean, it's been a theme a couple games this year, just as last year, the theme was, Oh, we're just missing a little bit of quality.
00:28:00
Speaker
this year pts dave when you say that i know this year it's like oh we could have gotten more out of that game yeah but again i think that's one of those things where like the progress is in the the ability to know that your team is capable of that Last year, we were not capable of that.
00:28:18
Speaker
Yeah, not only that, but having games where you prove maybe they can like we're not going to be able to do that every every single week and you know kind of work through those kinks every single week. But if we're doing it half the time or three quarters of the time, that's pretty good for for a team with this many new people kind of working together yeah for the first time in like a very meaningful way.
00:28:40
Speaker
So there's Harvey and then Sam Meza and Lou Barnes are on for the players. Yeah. Yeah. Again, i think the main thing I got out of that was ah Lou Barnes hyping up Semesa and saying that she's literally killing it. She is, though.
00:28:56
Speaker
Yeah. I also love that they've been bringing on these veteran players next to these younger players and these pressers so that They ask them questions to the veterans and just kind of get their thoughts on ah how these young players are kind of fitting into the team and how they're performing on the field.
00:29:12
Speaker
um Because they have been performing very, very well. So it's like, I don't know, it's like a it's a fun little dynamic thing to watch. And also, it's just funny because we've been following this team for so long. Right. So we're seeing like it's weird seeing like Lou Barnes, this era of Lou Barnes, for for how long we've known her and watched her being able to like comment on the new generation while they're like on the same field together yeah it's fun it's it's really cool and i think that that adds a lot of value to her position on the team um
00:29:44
Speaker
Whether or not, you know, she's able to produce a lot on the field. i think that like her presence and just her experience and everything else that goes with a player like her, which we've, the league's never seen, is invaluable to the team. Yeah.
00:30:01
Speaker
Yeah. And that's like go goes into like the club culture as well. Like the she wouldn't still be with she wouldn't be with one team for this long if the club culture wasn't at like a very, very enjoyable level. Yeah.
00:30:13
Speaker
Why don't we lean into that more? I mean, I think they do. Yeah, we do. But we're not like we're better than you because our players want to stay. Maybe we should start saying that. I don't know. I don't want to be like arrogant, cocky and annoying because that's like Portland's gig. Yeah.
00:30:27
Speaker
I just like that's we're just like a little more humble. And I think I think the thing is, is we need to win a championship before we can kind of be that that that kind of arrogant because you saw that with the Sounders, too. I feel like kind of just like we're a little scared to talk shit until they finally won.
00:30:43
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, Lou's got a ton of success, right? Like we won three shields. So it's not like we'd never won anything. It's but I do think that that that one everyone knows it's hanging over us. For sure.
00:30:54
Speaker
It is. But i it's like, and I hate to make this analogy, but it's like Caitlin Clark leaving college basketball without winning a championship. yeah Does that not mean she wasn't the best three point shooter in college basketball ever?
00:31:09
Speaker
well she was the best three-point shooter shooter yes but that's maybe where it does end because some people were maybe like oh she's the best college player i'm like i'm not saying that but then like people were trying to like discredit it because it's like oh she didn't win a championship sure she's the championship but the team though and and this is a caitlin clark podcast let's What I'm saying is that like as as an individual player, yeah right, your team's inability to win a championship is not always on you.
00:31:38
Speaker
No. Especially when you're there for 100 years. 5,000, 2,500, 600, whatever years. five thousand twenty five hundred six hundred whatever you've seen it on me 525 600 sorry yeah yeah this is this is this is like what i mean i'm going off on a tangent i just i just i just think if you have good club culture you don't need to brag about it people just know yeah but do they the ones who are there do the people that matter no yeah i just like humbling like really terrible people so that's fair all right Anyway. ah
00:32:09
Speaker
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00:32:29
Speaker
We had a discussion about this, as we always do every game. We want to get on the same page. That's, I think, the point is to try to... One one player only gets it. Only one. And last year, we sometimes didn't pick a player because there wasn't a player to ah But yeah, this second time this season, Sam Meza.
00:32:49
Speaker
She could have had a three P if we would have been really bold last week. I know I want, I, I was feeling it, but you know, I, yeah, she, she's, I don't have enough good things to say about her. Incredible.
00:33:00
Speaker
Please do the same thing next week. You're on track to be the cooler player of the season. So don't screw it up for yourself. Yeah. You're, you're doing a amazing.
00:33:11
Speaker
so I hope someone, hope someone tells her about this. Mostly that part. Yeah. I'll clip it and just like DM her on Instagram.
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00:36:10
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All right. We got a few community questions to go over. Steve Vaughn. Is a vat we so it Vote. God damn it. Steve Vote. It's like voting. Yeah. Vote. Okay. We scored a goal coming out of halftime instead of giving one up ourselves.
Reign's Performance Progress
00:36:25
Speaker
Progress? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. We had a shutout last game, so that was also progress. I mean, the game before last, but yeah. I think the... We didn't... Yeah, we didn't give up a goal, and that was like a big thing.
00:36:37
Speaker
Last game, is after we scored, we didn't give up a goal quickly after or within the like beginning of the second half. So, yeah, it's a good thing that we were able to score and then not give up another one. But the goal we gave up...
00:36:49
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know if that's that's progress because to me that kind of felt like a restart situation and Bay capitalized on it. Absolutely. Yeah, which is kind of funny because it was literally like 1v1 situation.
00:37:01
Speaker
And so I don't know why so many players were out of position. They didn't. I don't feel like anyone was ready. I think everyone was still like confused on why Haidama fucked up so bad. yeah yeah i could see that but like seriously you're not gonna let this go got it it's i guess it's not gonna haunt me but it's gonna bother me for a while i'm bothered i think it's progress because ah we're not having the same trend that we did last season so there's some progress there but it's not it was a shitty trend so the fact that we're not like leaning into it at all great
00:37:35
Speaker
Yeah. ah Next one from Steve is Lauren Barnes has started the last three games and reached 20k minutes played. ah She looked shaky in her first outing, but it seemed more classic Lou in the past two games. Do you think the position is hers to lose at this point? or would you like to see more competition and rotation?
00:37:53
Speaker
I think it's hers if she wants it. But i think she's smart enough to know when she's not the best player to be on the pitch at that time. I also think it's unrealistic to expect someone of her.
00:38:03
Speaker
She doesn't have the speed she used to. This is not a secret. And there are some very, very threatening players in this league. And depending on who we're playing that maybe we need to rotate.
00:38:14
Speaker
um But I don't know that. but I mean, other than bug, like McLernan's not that fast. So I don't know. It's not like you're subbing it out for like two super speedy back, you center backs or anything. Yeah, I think it goes more for the leadership aspect yeah and a positioning aspect, like to help other people around her.
00:38:34
Speaker
um But i think that like, I just know that she cares so much about the club and about the team that I don't doubt that she would be like, yeah, Laura, like you should play, you know, you should play Shay or you should play Emily or you should play somebody else because it's going to be a better matchup. but Yeah, absolutely. um And she's been more effective like when playing on the outside.
00:38:57
Speaker
So I don't think that the McLaren and bug situation is going to change. No, don't think so either. ah We got another. This was kind of an interesting question. I feel like when say Mongolian barbecue has something, it's usually something I don't think about um in a good way.
00:39:14
Speaker
Mongolian BBQ asks, for general chat after the rain, or like just general chat after the rain chat, um with NWSL talking expansion of the both the league and adding a second division or whatever they're calling it, and the USL Women's League, there's been discussion of is the player pool deep enough, but has there been any discussion of is the officiating pool deep enough?
00:39:36
Speaker
I mean, say... No, I was like, I watched the Portland game. No, the answer is no. But also, um, it's about how the referees are governed.
00:39:47
Speaker
So like USLW, which is like the Ballard team, my Olympia FC Olympia team, you know, the local league, that's not we don't have pro referees. They're not from the pro referee organization.
00:40:00
Speaker
hmm. ah don't know where the Super League is getting their referees. It's probably pro, but pro referees are not great. We see it in MLS every day. We see it in NWSL.
00:40:12
Speaker
So no, I don't think anybody's ready for that on the refereeing side. and And I think that there's like probably even a bigger discussion to be had about that. do you I mean, he didn't ask about the player pool, but he did kind of and like say that people are questioning it. Do you think there's a big enough player pool? Absolutely.
00:40:28
Speaker
Yeah. um If the money's there, there's players. Yes. Yeah. That's the thing is they need to get paid some sort of wage that seems livable. what's What that is in this country is a little up in the air. but I mean, you saw it with Unrivaled. I just saw their numbers came out today.
00:40:44
Speaker
They almost broke even in their first season. That's great. And their like average player pay was like 200 grand. Damn. So they were able to make it work. Yeah.
00:40:54
Speaker
We need some innovation. I would say we need a little bit of ah some business savvy people behind the scenes who really care about the sport. And well, it's about sponsorship and it's about yeah what money you're bringing in. Yeah.
00:41:06
Speaker
There's an opportunity here for money to be made for sure. And there's a lot of things that go into that. i wish I wish we could get... I think professional women's indoor soccer would be a massive hit.
00:41:20
Speaker
Yeah, it would be. I mean, when we had Tacoma Stars. Tacoma Stars so fun. Those games were incredible. They're so fun. And there's so much, like, pomp and circumstance that goes with that, like, with the indoor leagues, where they could turn the lights out, or they can, like... They play music while the game's going on. They've got a whole thing, like, players will... three mascots. Yeah, players will pop...
00:41:40
Speaker
but Yeah, Perry the penalty peanut. Well, and then there's the star and then there was the... What was the other one? I can't remember, it but... There's like a lion or something. They're so fun.
00:41:51
Speaker
They were so fun. And I think that's kind of like as as shitty as it sounds. I think that like something small or like really... ah really achievable and like available to like communities would be like a really fun thing.
00:42:05
Speaker
But if we're talking, you know, outdoor soccer and like the expansion of pro women's teams, I mean,
NWSL Recap
00:42:12
Speaker
the players are definitely there. You just have to compensate them properly. that's pretty much all we got for community questions this week. um Thanks to Steve in Mongolian BBQ.
00:42:20
Speaker
Appreciate it. Thanks, guys. We've got to go over quickly the other results in NWSL. There was a weird Tuesday night game to kind of make up for that CONCACAF tournament that they've got going on.
00:42:33
Speaker
So Portland played New Jersey, new new whatever they want to be in. They're in New Jersey. Gotham. Gotham. yeah gotham they portland put put down a show ah against uh gotham and won four to one and uh kind of kind of put gotham on fraud watch but to me it was kind of just like a midweek game cross-country situation it was a weird one they were both on like two days of rest or something two or three days of rest yeah yeah it's kind of hard to say well gotham was absolute dog shit but like and and that portland was so good i wouldn't say that was the case there were some weird goals in that game so very odd goals and as you'll see by portland's uh tonight result um and then orlando this was a big game orlando angel city it was crazy i really thought angel city was gonna pull it out but orlando flopped back ended up winning the game in extra time three to two fine by me because angel city's competing with us more than our orlando
00:43:32
Speaker
Yeah. ah he's Houston pulled out a win against Utah. Good for you. Houston took advantage of Utah's sucking ass. um Then Gotham came back for the weekend game, won against the Spirit, who had a pretty good showing last week. They won 3-0 over Washington. Nester is back at it again with another brace. One of them was a penalty. She you can't stop scoring. She's insane.
00:43:55
Speaker
Yeah, good luck to any team that has to play them and play her anytime soon because she's going to get one on you. Yeah, Spirit just didn't have their same oomph that they did in last weekend's game. Yeah, they've got a lot going on. Yeah, they have a ton going on. Did you watch the Courage game?
00:44:11
Speaker
I did not. i Like I said, I had someone in town visiting, so were kind of out and about. Well, luckily for you, Fraud Watch is back on. I was so mad I missed that. North Carolina.
00:44:23
Speaker
coming in in po the pot was on the back burner for fraud watch it's on the front burner again it's on the front burner guys no it's on the front burner we got a rolling boil you're just setting us up for for um ah for success next weekend oh fuck uh yeah it's on the middle burner It's on the ah the keep warm burner. Yeah, North Carolina, ah bottom of the bottom of the batch here. ah Absolutely just taking out Kansas City three to two.
00:44:50
Speaker
They came back from behind to on that. Right. So this is kind of, I guess, where I'm at with Casey is like, yeah, they can score goals, but they kind of just shut off at times. Yeah. Which is something that happened last year.
00:45:02
Speaker
And I think it can happen at times. And that's kind of where I just think that teams can't take advantage of it. Yeah. there there's a reason they didn't win the championship last year chicago still terrible uh they put a listen to save a listener yeah ah yeah they lost to san diego three to zero she needs to go take a few shots of malort after all these games i'll do one with her uh and then tonight oh today the only game on today only game on today was portland louisville and we were bevianna's like save us please um one of two women coaches in the league let's female power girl power god don't ever say that again oh i did the peace sign too for you
00:45:47
Speaker
Yeah, so this this was kind of a shit show. This was a shit show of a game. ah Boring FC, maybe we should call them diving FC. Yeah, Portland. Diet. Portland, yeah. The Olympic diving team.
00:45:58
Speaker
Jesus Christ. ah Olivia Moultrie. i mean, we we noticed it in the game against us. But she really does like feel any contact is going down. There was a question. So there was a questionable penalty um that Louisville got called for on Moultrie.
00:46:13
Speaker
It was it was just like what shoulder to shoulder, maybe, maybe she felt like someone brushed against her and she just fucking went down and then they reviewed it. I don't know why they gave it to them. I guess it was one of those things where like if they didn't call, they're definitely not giving you a penalty.
00:46:25
Speaker
But I still don't even think it was a penalty. And I think you they the referees need to hold her accountable and card her for these flops. It's getting out of hand. it is because it happened again later in the game and they didn't give it to her um and then there was an actual penalty when you're dragging your feet when both of your feet and your body is falling forward before there's any contact it's a dive like get out of here with that and and as as much shit as i talk about with portland like this is a huge actually a huge issue yeah because it's happening a lot i mean it to me it it feels like they're they're trying to compensate for how they aren't good yeah
00:47:02
Speaker
I mean, there's definitely like you said last time, there's definitely like a way to make this part of your game. But that's just if you're pushing through and you're like taking a touch and like somebody hits you, but like you're not going to get to the ball. Sure. Yeah. And you're getting contact and you're falling. But this is like literally just going into something already falling down because you think you're going to get the call. It's incredibly frustrating. You think you're perfect and your mom sells essential oils. So you're great.
00:47:28
Speaker
Yeah. but like get out of here with this like don't then the next thing we know she's gonna start like rolling around five times after she gets tackled quote unquote yeah i mean i made it i made a joke she's gonna feel the brush of someone's ponytail oh man it was annoying but uh it was so annoying yeah uh portland went up one zero louisville came back and ended up three one then louisville was up first weren't they me double check i thought portland scored first I caught the game when Louisville scored. don't know. was looking at it Fobmob. Oh, no, no. Yeah. Louisville scored first. DeMello scored. Oh, that's right.
00:48:02
Speaker
The second goal for Louisville was... Ooh. Don't know what we're doing in that back line still, Portland. Don't know. Just, like, don't there is play out of the back when you can't play with your feet. There's...
00:48:15
Speaker
There was also like two players from Louisville right there. mean, one of them was closer than to the other, but they were like pressuring them. Yeah. And she just saw like the Portland defense, like Arnold was starting. and So Arnold passed it to her defender to the left of her.
00:48:29
Speaker
And pressure is coming from Louisville from a player right there, like right in the six yard box, basically. And she passes it. She's trying to, I don't know what she was trying to do She's trying to pass it back to Arnold. I'm not sure across the face of goal.
00:48:42
Speaker
It was like watching America's Funniest Videos. Yeah, it was definitely a mistake. ah And they capitalized, which good for them. Yeah. But there was three minutes of added time, right?
00:48:53
Speaker
So Louisville was up three to two going into added time. There's three minutes added time. There's a Louisville player that went down or like early or like maybe even before exercise started. So probably like a minute or so that they had to make up. So would have gone to like 90 plus four.
00:49:09
Speaker
But Boring FC was like really pushing. Yeah. Yeah, they weren't so boring this game. No, um but we were into like the sixth minute.
00:49:20
Speaker
Why wasn't the game already called? Yeah, it's not like they were wasting that much time other than that one extra minute, which we may have made up four. they let them keep pressing on, pressing on, pressing on. And then I think it was Emma Sears, the Louisville player. ah and Emma Sears? think Emma. um Just like went in for a tackle and stepped on the player's foot in the box.
00:49:40
Speaker
Yeah, which is kind of funny because they I would say Louisville kind of got away with one on one of their goals because they definitely stepped on someone's ankle and they reviewed it in VAR ah for a possible foul. And I saw it and I was like, that's definitely a foul.
00:49:52
Speaker
um And they didn't call it. But so it kind of evened out. I don't know that. Yeah, I don't know. It kind of felt fair to me. I was a little upset that obviously Portland didn't lose. But given all the weird calls and the fouls, the diving is what pisses me off, though. There were, well, and there were 40. Oh my God. 40 fouls called this match. 40 fouls, no cards to players. Red card for the assistant coach of Louisville.
00:50:17
Speaker
And then a yellow card to Rob Gale. God, please red card that man out of my life. No, keep him on the team. but buts like yeah Yeah, it was it was a bit of a bit of a weird one out of control. um But then Jesse Fleming went in the postgame and was like just bitching about it, which is like just rich. You were.
00:50:40
Speaker
They were so lucky to get a point. Like, why are you complaining? It's just rich coming from diving FC, you know? Yeah. Anyway, they tied. Bev was, you could see Bev was so pissed about it too. oh yeah. She was, like she was like, all like her her like other assistants, like trying to like hold her back from going, giving, you know, give one to the ref, which I wish she would have.
00:51:00
Speaker
i could read her lips several times in the reverse. Yeah. There was cursing happening. She's a smart coach. I mean, she's found ways to get one up on Laura, you know, even with the less years of experience in coaching. and she's ah She's a smart coach and savvy, and she definitely knew that that game was not called well. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think it was called well, but I don't i don't think that a team who was allotted late penalty after the game should have already been like whistled done has should sit there and complain. They should be fucking happy. And all those fans were booing and stuff. Like, come on, guys, you you got fucking lucky. Well, they have nothing better to do. They live in Portland.
00:51:37
Speaker
Oh, oh, yeah. Anyway, we got a game next. Next. Actually coming up. yeah it's on friday um unclear if i'll be on the show or not because i got some stuff going on i'll see how i'm feeling um but yeah rain's playing uh one of the best teams ever that i've never ever doubted before so i don't you know if the rain don't win it it's not a big deal uh but they're playing kc current um friday may 2nd 7 30 lumen field the vlatko battle The Vlopka-Laura battle.
00:52:09
Speaker
Definitely a little nervous. That game's going to be on NWCEL+, so go find that on your computer. Or was it Roku? Yeah. I think they have it on Roku and Apple TV, if you have like the Apple TV device.
00:52:23
Speaker
Okay. That game's at Lumenfield. So you think that will give us a better chance? I think so. I think the team's like starting to feel at home at home. Yeah. So I think that's good.
00:52:33
Speaker
um And the fact that they're just like not very traveling very far. Yeah. Coming back from San Jose. So they're they're back already. They're chilling, getting into training. So I think it's a good setup to play like this really, really successful team. And Lauren Ozwatko. So that's a whole thing. But i I worry that KC coming off of a loss to the worst team in the league is just going to be like out for blood. So ah things we want to see.
00:53:02
Speaker
i think I put this in there because it's we're playing KC specifically, but they're going to score two plus goals. That's what I want to see. I'd like to see a shutout on the other end. i like say shut yeah i don't think we're getting a result, though, like at all. If we don't score at least two.
00:53:17
Speaker
Well, I guess we'll see if you're if you're going for the shutout, then who fucking cares what happens? I think that like we when we played Orlando, we were like, please just don't get embarrassed. ah And we went into that game and realized, oh, we could have won.
00:53:29
Speaker
Yeah. So I would say again, like, don't get embarrassed, but also maybe like play to your potential. Yeah. That's why I didn't put don't get embarrassed because I was like, I don't think they're going to get embarrassed. No, but I would like to see the team like have success in the game plan that they execute in whatever form that is. so I had a question for you. Do you think they're going try to push Darlene back?
00:53:51
Speaker
I've been wondering about that since we like that five back that we played for two games was actually pretty successful. Yeah, I think specifically for KC, that's why I was like, do you think they're going to try that again? i hope they do. Because she seems to have more success when she's got a little bit more room to work with as far as like being able to kind of take over that side.
00:54:13
Speaker
So yeah, I think that she's getting to learn the game in this league and Laura's getting to learn like the things that she's been successful with. So I hope that that...
00:54:25
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partnership allows them to like figure out okay well like we're going to play kc we're probably gonna need to hold back a little bit right yeah we're gonna need a high press but also have the ability to not get kudanji'd right away yeah and in this case chowing good yeah but yeah there's they'll probably mix it up i wouldn't be surprised if they put out the same um same kind of uh setup as they did with orlando um i think that's pretty much all we got for soccer stuff uh do you got any shout outs for the week um i'd like to shout out my friend jonathan who gave me a cable so i could hook my microphone up today and also shout out to my friend rob who owns triceratops brewing did he pay you for that i'm gonna bleep it out if he didn't he gave me this beer for free okay well all right do need to put that the paid no he's a nice guy it's uh it's it's there's triceratops at it's in tumwater it's where i had van janeer's birthday party got it oh that's right it's his version of um uh what is it called uh yingling you ever drink that on the east coast i don't go to the east coast you're the east coast all the time me yeah you're boston and you're like i've never been to boston and i've been to new york once in high school weren't you where where was the rat hole
00:55:38
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that's chicago that's east coast that is midwest that's east coast no everyone is going to laugh at you for saying that is east coast that is midwest it's east of here okay it's east of here yes but i went east yes but i was not east coast east coast is implies there is a coastal line i guess i would say east side I don't know. It feels east to me. Okay.
00:56:05
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It is east, but it's not east coast. All right. Fair. Yeah. No, the rat hole. Yeah. good old row I saw the rat hole before it was gone. RIP rat hole. You got any shout outs? Uh, shout out to the Liverpool men's team wrapping up the premier league title today.
00:56:19
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Fun to see. Also unexpected for the coach to do in his first season. with Unexpected? No, that's not unexpected at all. Your power five team. look at the players you have that's unexpected no one had them winning it yes they did did you look at the betting odds at the beginning of the season they were not good they were great they were not that good lindsey sent them to me at the beginning of the season yes they were oh man no because i'm just saying okay you can make yourself feel like an underdog all you want but i'm not saying they're an underdog but like for ah a coach to do that in the first season is is incredible
00:56:54
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He's not like, like they don't spend amounts, like giant amounts of money either. It's not like Pep Guardiola fucking showing up for Man City. Okay. Like, I don't know what's going on there. Oh God. Nightmare. And United too.
00:57:05
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What are they? 13th place? Yeah, they're bad. think Tottenham's sitting up 14th maybe. Shout out Wolves for not losing. Surviving. Six times a row. No, they're on the up. Oh, I know they are. That's saying. But they didn't. They were a little close to the line for a little bit. Now they're so close to the line. They're not great.
00:57:22
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yeah but They're not the worst. Yay! No, no. Oh, yeah. And then shout out to Lindsay Rand's team. okay Not doing well. Yeah. Oh, well.
00:57:34
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Oh, well. Oh, well. Yeah. Kind of feeling sad for Werther. I'm feeling very sad for Werther, especially because she didn't get to play this game. ah But yeah. And they lost. They lost Arsenal. Yeah. So Arsenal are through to the Champions League final, and they will be playing against Barcelona.
00:57:50
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Kind of excited Emily Fox. Absolutely obliterated. Yeah. Emily Fox. I'm really happy for her and this timeline for her. Yep. uh yeah my other shout out would just be for my really cool jacket um i'm ready to debut that whenever i can uh although it's i gotta can't wait for my jeans to come in all right think that's pretty much going to do it for us thanks again to our sponsors the doctor's office and hacks and ferments you can go follow us on blue sky and instagram at cooler guild pod can send us an email we love to receive an email at thecoolerguild at gmail.com or you can visit us on our main website sounderheart.com forward slash the cooler guild
00:58:25
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00:58:51
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Yeah. That'll be fine. Uh, till next time I'm, uh, Coop Cooper. I'm Van Crisp. Stay cool. Y'all stay cool. Y'all.
00:59:15
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and oh no it was so violent the touch of a woman get out of here god Jesus
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jesus