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Grab the point and run - Ep. 50
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A draw can sometimes feel like a win. Amidst a very tight playoff race, the Reign made a trip to the east coast to face Gotham FC. Harveyball proved effective against one of the league’s most stacked teams, earning them a much appreciated point on the road. We get into the defensive effort, the club's new jersey sponsorship, look at other NWSL results, and preview Seattle’s next match.
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Introduction and Episode Overview
00:00:22
Speaker
Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to episode 50. Five, zero! Of the Cooler Guild. I am Coop Cooper, and joined with me, as always, is my co-host, Van Crisp.
00:00:33
Speaker
Hello, hello! We're recording on Tuesday, 7th. 2025 on today's episode we get to go over a rain quote unquote chicago win um where we we we snatched a point out of new jersey and ran away with it as fast as we fucking could um and then we're also going to go over some of the nw soul results preview the reigns next match and kind of just uh take a look at where everything is kind of landing i i suppose for the playoffs um And talk about some pets.
00:01:04
Speaker
That's right. um But first, some housekeeping.
Podcast Network and Subscription Details
00:01:09
Speaker
The Cooler Guild is part of the Sound at Heart podcast network. You can either listen to us on our public feed or, if you're a Sound at Heart subscriber, on the private unified feed with the other podcasts on the network.
00:01:18
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If you'd like to become a subscriber, just visit our page at soundatheart.com forward slash the Cooler Guild. New subscribers get 10% off the normal rate and you'll help support everything we're doing. Wow. It's been 50 episodes.
00:01:29
Speaker
I know. knew? Who knew?
Coop's Poster Story and Van's Pet Care Tale
00:01:34
Speaker
uh i've got a drink y'all this is my first full can of the special beer i was really excited about from minus the bear oh so like that artwork yeah so do i it's kind of like one of their albums but yeah it's got like the little minus the bear you know but yeah whatever so but i actually had uh emailed them behind it
00:01:59
Speaker
I emailed ah Fort George yesterday, i think it was, and I was like, hey, is there any way i can get those posters from your little beer collabs with Minus the Bear? Because I think they'd be kind of cool to have. And everyone the shop, like store in person, has been like, I don't know where those are.
00:02:15
Speaker
and don't have any. And then they set the guy went and set a couple aside for me at the shop for free. so Never known unless you ask. I know. Well, my friend who works there told me to to email them.
00:02:26
Speaker
ah She was like, you should just email. And I was like, okay, sounds good. But yeah. So but did you get a beer? No, I don't have any. Okay. Well, I'll drink for both of us. Perfect. I've got my adult sippy cup.
00:02:37
Speaker
What do you, do you got anything to say to 50 episodes? No, I mean... We're rolling. Yeah. Yeah, I was hoping that this game would have been a little more exciting to talk about, but whatever. um Anything else you want to kind go on in your life you want to mention?
00:02:54
Speaker
I started a new puzzle. Sweet. Yeah. Now just been busy doing house stuff. I'm taking care of three cats and two horses right now for three weeks. Where'd your parents go?
00:03:05
Speaker
Uh, they're in Scotland right now. Oh. And then they're driving down through England. Cool. Yeah. Horse girl spreads her wings. God.
New Traditions and Match Performances
00:03:16
Speaker
They'll probably, she'll probably find a way to ride a horse somewhere up there. Well, I feel like if you're in Scotland and ye olde horses are around, why not?
00:03:26
Speaker
ah I don't have anything to discuss ah and i and other than I have my 10k coming up. but Nice. Yeah. I have, well, I do, ah my friend and well, a couple of friends and i have decided we're going to start doing um once a month a brunch.
00:03:44
Speaker
We've called it plunge brunch. Are you doing cold plunges? Yeah. Nice. Or find somewhere to go do a cold plunge. Sweet. And then go eat brunch after. Actually, that sounds great. I will mention i am going, i have made reservations at my buddy's property because he's doing that wellness retreat thing. Oh, yeah. And there's a cold plunge situation there.
00:04:02
Speaker
Nice. So, yeah. Yeah, we're probably going to, like, hop into the bay. Nice. Or a lake. I don't know. But, yeah, just something fun. Yeah. Once a month with your friends. Yeah.
00:04:13
Speaker
Cool. Well, exciting life over here. Moving on to the world's most exciting game. um The Reign played Gotham. yeah you They have an identity crisis ah still. new york New York, New Jersey, Gotham, FC, Football Club, Playnet Sports Illustrated, Stadium.
00:04:34
Speaker
is it it's probably Is it actually like... But it's Red Bull. Red Bull, New York Red Bulls, Rubina, Leipzig, Red Bull, I don't know. A lot going on there for the town, ah the area of New Jersey.
00:04:49
Speaker
You got any overall, like what was your impressions of what happened or before the game? What did you think was going to happen? this is kind of like best case scenario oh ah absolutely uh as far as like current form yeah goes i mean it was always going to be really hard to keep gotham off the score sheet so the defense finally held up in a tough match like they were doing in the beginning of the season um with not allowing any goals it did take one extremely good save from claudia dickey
00:05:21
Speaker
Yeah. And then a couple other diving stops, but it really like they were really able to keep them from having a lot of quality chances, which is hard to do.
00:05:33
Speaker
Does it help that Esther only got to play one half? Yes. Do you know why she's on a minutes restriction? i don't know. is it just because there's because I know like national teams will tell you, put you on minutes restrictions before stuff.
00:05:47
Speaker
I didn't, I didn't, as my mom would say, I don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I mean, like. Yeah, so, yeah, Esther only played a half. Jace and Porchillo were also unavailable, which I really dread playing Porchillo anytime. Yep.
00:06:02
Speaker
So, i mean, we caught a little bit of a break, but certainly traveling all the way to the East Coast is never easy, um especially against this fucking team. This team is so damn stacked.
00:06:14
Speaker
Mm-hmm. And they played like it, too. I wouldn't say that they played poorly. No, i don't think they played poorly. I think that they were having a hard time really breaking down the rain defense.
00:06:25
Speaker
For sure. Especially in the wide areas. Let's get it into some notable stats before we kind of go into the positives and everything that happened specifically. um Claudia Dickey. Now tied with Hope Solo for most so most saves in a single season for the Reign.
00:06:39
Speaker
ah That's 81 saves, so she's definitely going to break that. And she's also now tied with Fallon Tulse-Joyce for most shutouts in club history with 13. Going to probably, hopefully break that this season.
00:06:51
Speaker
Great game from her. Yeah, great game. What do you just always find it so funny that like Claudia Dickey is the one who's like broken through despite your ah lack of what do you what do you want to call it confidence?
00:07:06
Speaker
I think it was a lack of confidence for sure. But I feel like it was justified. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I was never fully anti Dickey like you were. but but but you have to Okay, you have to understand.
00:07:20
Speaker
Everything was bad last season. What we saw last season. Yeah, everything was bad. Compared to what we're seeing now. Yeah, everything was bad. Everything was bad. Could she have not made certain mistakes last year? Absolutely.
00:07:32
Speaker
And to clean it up, but just with the difference between these two seasons, granted the team is better, but that growth is just unbelievably incredible.
00:07:43
Speaker
Yeah. More to come. I also hope we don't lose her. i don't see anything that hints that we would lose her, but I feel like we've kind of lost goalkeepers and not held on to them for super long in the past.
00:07:54
Speaker
She's signed through. yeah but that intrudes, you that kind of. Yeah, it doesn't matter at this point. But i yeah, I hope she's here to stay. I like, I i like her. I do too. Other notable stat we got.
00:08:05
Speaker
Sam Meza leads the league with 60 tackles one o I didn't realize he was leading the She's great. Yeah, ah pretty indispensable this match. Yeah.
00:08:17
Speaker
It's funny because I was looking at ah preview for next game and it was against Bay and I went and looked at like our show notes and stuff from that. And that game that we had against Bay last time, it was like our, I would say maybe one of our first episodes about MZA breaking through this season. um And it's it's that was many, many months ago and it's still holding true. So um feels good.
00:08:37
Speaker
Yeah, that consistency is, again, unbelievable. Yeah, it was a 0-0 draw, so I don't know how much that we we have to talk about this match, to be honest. um Obviously, there's positives.
00:08:49
Speaker
Yeah, there's negatives when you don't score. um But, yeah I just don't know. It's a no-no. don't want to bore you all. Yeah, and there wasn't any, like, real big chances missed.
00:09:01
Speaker
Not from the rain, at least. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe at the end it was getting a little close, but yeah, how was, you know, last ditch effort kind of stuff. Positives. ah We got a point and we got the hell out of there.
00:09:14
Speaker
I mean, truly,
Playoff Strategies and Team Development
00:09:16
Speaker
just when that end, I mean, i like, I think my last note on my show notes was breathe.
00:09:23
Speaker
like because that was really really fucking stressful the last like 15 or so minutes i feel like that's when you really saw the quality of gotham and just their relentless pressure yeah they were really knocking on the door um you know and that's historically kind of when the rain can break e mental lapse this would have been lost this would have been a loss last year it might even be lost by like three goals late last year
00:09:50
Speaker
yeah other collapse it could have definitely been an utter collapse it would have been two zero five minutes into the second half oh no but look at the growth we love right and when we talked about last episode how getting any points out of this game would be a victory for sure and yeah i just i'm happy with what happened and i'm glad to be done with that game but in talking about the positives i think that people call laura harvey a a terrorist for the kind of soccer that she's been playing
00:10:25
Speaker
look we're we're massively in the playoff in the playoff conversation yeah we're in the conversation to possibly host a playoff match does it suck to watch sometimes yes does it work yeah obviously i saw somebody somebody say that in any other league with stats like this they'd be calling for coach of the year which she has one to be fair yeah it's just there are other teams dominating in offensive ways because of their insanely stacked rosters yeah so put this team and then the nw cell that we have right now like what four years ago or something like that five years ago maybe and think they're definitely somewhere different in the standings um it's just there's been a lot of international uh acquisitions all across the league Yeah, the league grown. Yeah, which is great. Now, like we have a lot of teams that can, you know, just run up scores, which is fun.
00:11:22
Speaker
But at the same time, it i don't know. I feel like you need a little bit more of balanced teams, if that makes sense. I think there needs to be similar investments from ownership groups.
00:11:34
Speaker
And this offseason is going to be extremely interesting. For sure. and You know, this has been a quote unquote rebuild year. Yeah. And so there's probably going to be some big moves in the offseason.
00:11:46
Speaker
Yeah. I don't know that. I mean, i don't ever see the Reign's identity changing, though, in regards to, like, doing what, say, the Spirit are doing or what Gotham are doing or what KC are doing. i get that's i just To me, that is not a blueprint the Reign will ever follow.
00:12:02
Speaker
No, and I don't think they should. nor do But what I'm saying is these teams that have these huge players... Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. If they can make money elsewhere, they're going to go. For sure.
00:12:13
Speaker
Yeah. It's not a great time to be in this country either. Nope. ah We're on the positives though. so
00:12:21
Speaker
That's like looming negative in the world right now. I know. I did but i did want to point out that we got a point and got out of there with also no shots on goal. Harvey Ball, baby. Harvey Ball.
00:12:31
Speaker
Would I have loved to win with no shots on goal? Absolutely. But, you know, Gotham's pretty good, so I'll be happy with what we got We can only piss off the stats nerds so much.
00:12:43
Speaker
yeah Yeah, know. I'm having to throw stats out the window these days, and I'm used to be a fucking stat nerd. and So here we are. What else you got for positives? I was really, um I mean, obviously the clean sheet.
00:12:54
Speaker
Yeah. Which you kind of mentioned. um But Sofia Huerta was on a tear against Mitch Purse. It was incredible to watch. It truly was. Literally just bullied her half the time. it She didn't want, like, I feel like everything that happened in the end to be so final against Gotham, she was like, never fucking again.
00:13:14
Speaker
yeah Right? Like, it just looks like a vengeance fucking defensive effort. Pretty much. um And I thought that Sam Meza did a really good job against Rose Lavelle in the midfield.
00:13:26
Speaker
She only had a couple chances, and I really think that was because... Sorry. Meow. Was that a real cat or was it me? Who knows?
00:13:38
Speaker
going to make a really bad joke. I don't think i need to know it. um But yeah, ah really limiting ah Roosevelt.
00:13:50
Speaker
Sam Meza was all over that. McCammon came in too and was ah did, it I think, a pretty good I think that there was a huge difference in the performance of the midfield in the second half when McCammon came on.
00:14:02
Speaker
Defensively, at least. Yeah, McCammon's great. I like her. I do too. And she's like big. yeah she like grew and then like hit the weight room and she was definitely taller than me even when she was like a child i mean she still is a child but she was definitely taller than me probably when she was 14. yeah and she's definitely way taller than me now so that feels really nice as an adult who else Who
Offensive Challenges and Strategies
00:14:25
Speaker
else did you want to shout out on the defense for this giant effort?
00:14:29
Speaker
I mean, always. i mean, everybody played really well. McLaren was good. corner great. Jordan Bug was clearing stuff out. like It seems like she got the message that Laura Harvey was sending earlier in the season when we kept getting scored on late, where Laura Harvey's like, put it put the ball out into Rose Ed.
00:14:47
Speaker
to be fair, though, there was like some moments where they were not clearing it well. Oh yeah, there was a couple. They were trying, but it was really fucking sketchy. Well, and then they're clearing the ball out just up the center of the field and it's like, back down the throat it goes. I'm like feeling nervous just thinking about what happened at the end with those clearances. know.
00:15:08
Speaker
in the box i mean it was utter chaos but they got out of there i also want to shout out dalene because she she fucking helped out weirdo a lot too oh yeah she was that she switched sides about and don't know 10 5 10 minutes into the match her and adamez did that she was i mean just her speed and ability to like her close down speed on defense is incredibly important Yeah.
00:15:30
Speaker
Especially when they're letting Gotham come straight at them. Yeah. To be able to have that second defender, the pressure cover, come in and help out is so important. And then we got we got our girl AMC back on.
00:15:42
Speaker
yeah how are you feeling about her? I mean, I think we've kind of been like, for how much she's been available, I feel like we're kind of like AMC apologists. I feel like we're apologists for a lot of players, to be honest.
00:15:54
Speaker
um But like, we really do like Annemarie and Kortjevic for some reason. For how little she's, I would say, gotten minutes, I feel like anytime we see her on one more, we're like, yes.
00:16:05
Speaker
and We might be in the minority with that. She's just a bulldog, man. Yeah. She can close out fucking games. And it's exactly like these minutes that she's getting closing out games and stuff, I think are going to be very valuable come playoffs if we make them.
00:16:19
Speaker
um You need people like that on your bench. Yeah. And somebody that's just quite solid. And that's what she gives you. ah if she's it And if she's embracing this role, good.
00:16:30
Speaker
Yeah. Do you need, would it be nice to get more out of her? Yeah. Yeah. I will say she's very good at drawing fouls too. yeah She knows the game. She knows how to like get players to kind of come towards her and and do things like that. So um yeah, I'm a big fan of hers.
00:16:45
Speaker
Maybe get a corner kick every once in a while. She just needs more minutes and she'll get back into that, I think. um Any other positives you want to touch on? Nope. I'm happy that we're done with this. Great. Negatives?
00:16:57
Speaker
I wish we could score a goal.
00:17:00
Speaker
wish we could get a shot on goal. Anything. You can't score a goal if you can't even get a fucking shot on goal. I guess you can, because you can get a penalty. Yeah. Or an own goal, which we, you know, again, I'm fine with.
00:17:12
Speaker
I would just be nice to be better. You got to have the ball in a dangerous area to get it out to get any of those things happen. yeah um And I wonder, it was interesting because in the beginning of the game, they were actually, the first about five minutes, had a solid start.
00:17:30
Speaker
They were getting the ball up into the final third, getting crosses in, obviously nothing came out of it. But then it was like, that ended and then it was like, oh, lock it down, not happening again.
00:17:41
Speaker
i don't, I think for this game specifically, that's a fine strategy though. but but but like Right, and I'm not mad about just an interesting It would be nice if it was different. yeah um And did I think we were going to score in this game? Probably not.
00:17:56
Speaker
But if we're going to win playoff matches, you gotta find a way to be dangerous. even Even on a any sort of like turn and play, you know and there's any sort of breakaway. How do you unleash Darlene up there?
00:18:11
Speaker
Yeah, that's something i was seeing with a lot of highlights ah from the weekend with with other teams who were like, you know, high up in the standings is is they're kind of, they're definitely more creative, I would say, in the box and just really hungry for goals in a way that I don't necessarily see players.
00:18:30
Speaker
team like setting themselves up for at least i don't know if it's just because i don't know i mean obviously these some of these players are just ridiculously fucking good that we're playing against but like and this is kind of the result of having younger players in our team is that we just haven't kind of honed honed that in yet but who's it me or is it a cat you're gonna hurry no i don't i don't hear the purring Do you want to add anything else into this?
00:18:58
Speaker
I wish that we would take shots from outside the box. If we're not going to be able to get creative in breaking through, try something.
Travel Challenges and Player Highlights
00:19:08
Speaker
I mean, was there a lot of moments for us even with the ball? her hands i mean i've seen this in the last couple matches yeah just like i mean dolly has been trying to rip them yeah i would like to see mezza rip them because i know she can there's like yeah we've got a few people that can definitely rip them but um don't know harvey ball harvey ball yeah
00:19:30
Speaker
Alright, post-match presser notes. I think the only thing I really wanted to because they were pretty short just because it's 0-0 draw again. ah She kind of touched on the travel length and having to go over three different time zones and five around five hours of flying.
00:19:44
Speaker
So she feels very satisfied with this result. It's not easy to do this travel. They're also playing Friday night coming up, so that's kind of annoying. But it's she just kind of talked about how it's never easy you traveling that much and then having to play a fucking team like Gotham. i know. Dickie talked about it which we had mentioned before. Literally, like, every single player on their team is insanely good. Like, their starting lineup, international, like, player quality, starting for whoever, whatever country they represent.
00:20:15
Speaker
It's fun to watch. It's scary to play against them. Yeah. When your team, like, would the rain have? It really is. But they were up for the challenge, so they were they were aggravating Gotham, and that was, a you know, fun to see. And the more frustrated they they get, the more desperate they get, and then that's not quality.
00:20:33
Speaker
Yeah. It's like Sweden. Like, but we were Sweden. Yeah. It wasn't that bad. wasn't that bad. No, not that Yeah. All right. I think it's time for Cooler Player of the Match.
00:20:44
Speaker
The Cooler Player of the Match is brought to you by the doctor's office, a great little 12-seat bar on Capitol Hill. The owner is a big fan of The Rain and is proud to be our very first sponsor. Who we giving it to? Sofia Huerta.
00:20:56
Speaker
It's two weeks in a row copying The Rain. But she also balled out, so... I mean, out of everyone on the field, I think she was the one that really stepped up this match. Yeah.
00:21:09
Speaker
And made a huge impact, even though it was defensive and there wasn't a lot that came out of it, which is the point. And to be able to contain Mitch Purse, who was frustrated to all hell.
00:21:22
Speaker
Yeah, she got yell card, getting mad at Darlene. She should have gotten one earlier, too. Probably, yeah. But... yeah so if you were at the i can't just for me when i thought about the match that was my gut yeah yeah makes sense i will say i was annoyed with the commentators not giving credit to her until like the second half they kept just being midge purse i mean obviously was fucking mike watts but like midge purse midge person and he big midge purse the ball but then he would like never credit fucking sofia weird to shutting her down until like late in the second half
00:21:52
Speaker
I was listening to the Q13 broadcast because Kellen Rowe was on it. and Sounds better. um We're getting yelled at. They had an issue in the very beginning of the broadcast where you heard both the Q13 broadcast oh and Mike Watts.
00:22:06
Speaker
Oh, no. A nightmare. but true nightmare. It was a literal nightmare. i brought in that i wrote in the Discord. I was like, somebody let me know when it's over, when they fix the audio, because I'm going watch this on mute. Oh, no.
00:22:17
Speaker
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Speaker
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00:23:32
Speaker
No, no. Okay, good. Now we're back on. All right. Since Van just disclosed to something very weird to me. um I mean, not weird. It's just human bodies. But sometimes there's abnor abnormalities.
00:23:48
Speaker
So we've had some, i don't know, interesting rain
Sponsorship and League Match Recaps
00:23:52
Speaker
news. We've got a jersey sponsor. ah Yeah, front of front of sponsor. Yeah, kind of cool. ah Truepanion.
00:24:01
Speaker
It's not taco time. it was never gonna be taco time i know but and while it was still blank i could hope no yeah so true panion van texted me about this and was like it's a pet insurance and i was like cool i think it's cool i don't know i think anytime there's more opportunities for like pets to be in pictures i'm on board Absolutely. ah It's a female run company, woman run company.
00:24:27
Speaker
In Seattle. In Seattle. Yeah. And it seems so far because people kept waiting for some sort of backlash or like, you know, bad comments about this company. Yeah. As we always do. And it just has not happened.
00:24:41
Speaker
so Seems okay. Seems alright. I think that the size of the graphic is decent size. It's just one word and there's ah it's their logo, but it's just a truepanion with like a little pet face in the U. Super clean, super simple.
00:24:59
Speaker
Yep. Little pet face in it too. Yeah. know. It's, you know, they don't not insure trans cats, so. They don't what? They don't not insure sh trans cats.
00:25:10
Speaker
Okay. Can't say that for the Sounders. What I'm saying. ah Yeah. So that's kind of cool No clue how much money we're getting for it. They didn't disclose that. but um I did read the Business Journal article on it. And the CEO of Drew Bannion was very alarmed when she saw the number they were asking.
00:25:31
Speaker
oh really and then like they talked about like the details of it whatnot and it was uh yeah they went with it so now that we have our animal friends do you think we're gonna have more like cats on the field or something but do you mean like cats on the field like i want some i want them to have adoptable pets being brought out is what i'm saying yeah i think susie mentioned something like that her like long time dream for them to walk out with adoptable pets that'd be sweet that's the last thing i want to bring up but i'm just waiting for it uh and it seems like we're gonna getting closer and closer and closer to it and it gets closer to my dream of meow with the match it's never gonna happen i want to bring my cat they're never allowing cats in that stadium
00:26:16
Speaker
You know how crazy that would be? They do it at minor league baseball stadiums. Yeah, minor league baseball. it's not a It's hardly a serious sport.
00:26:26
Speaker
All right. NWSL results. ah Did you watch any of these highlights? Games? I watched a couple of the games. I did not do highlights. So some of these, I'm going to be flying blind. Okay. ah Houston played Orlando 1-1 draw. Simone Charlie scored 85th minute.
00:26:42
Speaker
Love to see her score. That was the header goal, right? It's up for goal the week. Or assist the week. I should have done my homework on that one, but I didn't. I did. I saw this goal, but then I just watched a thousand other goals. It feels like afterwards because there was a bunch of braces over the weekend.
00:26:57
Speaker
And that was like the first goal I saw over the weekend. So I don't know. of I'm sorry, everyone. I'm again, we don't make much money. If I made more money, I might get
00:27:08
Speaker
uh that feels like an appropriate result though 1-1 houston orlando yeah i mean good for orlando to get a fucking point out of it right like they're just trying to avoid complete embarrassment this season in which i don't know if they've really gotten gotten out of that but that's not totally their fault um North Carolina played Louisville. Big game for Louisville. Big result for Louisville, I guess I should say. Brace for Emmers.
00:27:33
Speaker
ah The second goal from Louisville was like because there was a bad pass out of the back. Just like really, really fucking bad decision-making. Not more of that. yeah really bad decision making um and then the last goal for louisville bethany bolster got an assist yeah and it was like two minutes after her seven gone so that's cool i can root for that when did she sub on oh the 77th minute so she got a little bit more playing time this match yeah yeah she's building up did you watch the portland game no but i did see the goals Okay.
00:28:03
Speaker
Portland played Bay. Portland won that two to one. don't know. Maybe that's a good thing. i don't know if it's a bad thing or a good thing. I'm not really sure how I feel about it. Olivia Moultrie got a brace. ah Both goals were near post. I know how you feel about those. So I wanted to make sure I brought that up.
00:28:18
Speaker
Yeah. uh yeah these were ah both a bit interesting yeah bae was up one zero this is why i said it maybe it was a good thing because it's kind of like demoralizes bae before we play them maybe i'm not totally against that does it demoralize them or does it make them like feel the need to like get a result I don't know.
00:28:41
Speaker
Knowing what I know about them from what I pulled up for our preview, I think it's demoralizing. All right. In a way that, like, I don't know. I feel like it'll, like, scare them next time. Like, oh, God, it could happen again.
00:28:54
Speaker
They went 0-0 against Gotham. Scary. There was a few other things I wanted to point out for this match.
00:29:02
Speaker
Oh, God. yeah well okay i should say the other two things first there was a possible handball i thought it totally was a handball i gotta be honest i really did think it was a handball there was a handball late that they didn't take to review for some reason or something like that um against portland so like they probably should have had like a late penalty vr didn't take a look out of it like her hand was near her body but like her hand was out from her body like she was pulling her arm in but her arm was out yeah portland but obviously you know it's portland they don't yeah all that shit on them um and then mackenzie arnold did want to shut this out she got a very crucial save in the first half it was saw the highlight of that it was good it's up for save of the week uh i guess that's what happens when your fans your own fans boo you what the fuck portland that's for us to do
00:29:50
Speaker
you can't do that to your own players that's so yes that's so shitty it is really terrible you don't do that to your own players i'm sorry you just don't i can do it but i'm like i'm a hater yeah to be honest i'm cheering mckenzie arnold so i'm not even booing her
00:30:09
Speaker
ah christina sinclair da
00:30:14
Speaker
I even had to look this up after I saw the plaque. The plaque read Christina Sinclair on her retirement plaque.
00:30:25
Speaker
And I had to like go look it. was like, do I just not know her government name? No, it is Christine Sinclair. And they wrote fucking Christina. That's how much your club respects you. Yeah, it was a retirement match for christ Christine Sinclair.
00:30:41
Speaker
They also did it the same night that the Sounders were playing Portland in Seattle. So you're not going to get, you know, a lot. I saw a lot of people giving away tickets this game just because they were coming up to Seattle for that game.
00:30:55
Speaker
Which they did have pretty good seat. like I saw it like they had definitely had more butts in seats than like a lot of other teams did um from what I can see from the TV at least. um But do you think they chose that game because they were like, we'll probably win this because we're really bad this year. And if we have a chance to win a game, it'll probably be this one.
00:31:13
Speaker
baby Just a theory. um Anyways, congratulations to k christina and Christina Sinclair on your retirement. um his Next game up is Washington Spirit versus San Diego. the Spirit won that.
00:31:28
Speaker
There are so many braces this weekend. um One, two, three, This game like, real boring at the start. yeah there was no goals until the second half right yeah no goals until what the last two goals were in the very fucking end of the game yeah um yeah four braces this weekend that's crazy kawasi got one uh her second goal her so stupid is so stupid it was so sick uh yeah just like across outside the box across the box just dipping it into the back corner like come on It was a, it was a Schross.
00:32:04
Speaker
It was a Schross, but like... Timing of it Doesn't matter. Timing of it is huge. won the game. Yeah. Last, last play the game or whatever, but yeah. I did have this in my notes though.
00:32:16
Speaker
After her first goal. Yeah. They said it was GIF Monday. Yeah, I put that in my, yeah. It was pretty fucking bad. I don't know who was on the call.
00:32:26
Speaker
No, I don't know who the other other woman was, but it was... Yeah, I mean, I'm just like... I just feel like that's a microaggression. but i i don't like it. No. It also sucks. I mean, yeah it sucks.
00:32:39
Speaker
It sucks. It ruined the call. Like, you go watch and it's like, GIF Monday GIF Monday, whatever. I'm just like, well, she didn't score in this game, so...
00:32:50
Speaker
Yeah, and both goals were for Washington were really good. um None of them, Kaitlin Sheridan tried her best. She made a really good save. She really did. In the first half, she made a really good save. but Yeah, I don't know what ah San Diego's plans are, but and know we've kind of had mixed feelings on Sheridan at times, but think she's better than the San Diego team is right now.
00:33:15
Speaker
Oh yeah. At least as well as they're performing. They have some like some good players. Yeah that's why I'm confused and why they they've just kind of stumbled really badly at this end part of the season.
00:33:27
Speaker
Yeah and they brought in that new fancy coach. yeah that's weird. he kind of tried to run Arsenal into the ground, too, so... And now they're mad that Jill Ellis left.
00:33:38
Speaker
Weird. um Chicago, back, back, back again. Back on their shit. We got two Chicago wins this weekend. One was us, and one was Chicago.
00:33:50
Speaker
Chicago! They got a 2-2 draw against Utah. ah Two late goals, and I put in the notes to get a quote-unquote Chicago win trademark. It's trademarked officially, I don't know how you found that craft TM. I don't know how to do that.
00:34:05
Speaker
It's because it's a real trademark. That's why. It's not a joke. um There's another reason. Our trademark application. Yeah, definitely. Chicago win. I'm sure that's going to definitely go through the shoot trademark route.
00:34:21
Speaker
uh we gotta meena tanaka had a brace didn't matter um ultimately because it was two legals for chicago which is as classic as it gets for chicago in i don't hate i don't hate it um Did you watch any of the Angel City KC highlights from yesterday?
00:34:40
Speaker
Yes, it was. i watched this game. It was, ah you are correct um in the that the stats and the game at times felt like Harvey Ball.
00:34:51
Speaker
Trademark. TM, yeah.
00:34:54
Speaker
For Yeah, what what was going on there? I think that there might be a little bit of a a lag for them. Do you think they're just like holding off? Do you think like clinching so eat like early is like gonna hurt them?
00:35:10
Speaker
It might. yeah it could. It could definitely could. Yeah, it was, I don't know what's going on with Casey. I mean, obviously they won. Michelle Cooper came in and- Angel City sucks, to be fair. Angel City does suck.
00:35:21
Speaker
But yeah, it was, it was fine. I expected more from Casey, absolutely. But they got out of it with three points, so whatever. and It doesn't matter either. They've already fucking won everything for the regular
Upcoming Matches and Strategic Decisions
00:35:33
Speaker
season far. Angel City's just so bad. Yeah, their attendance didn't look good either.
00:35:38
Speaker
I know the number was like close to 10,000, but like those seats were fucking empty. People aren't going to games. I think they're getting tickets and saying, i'm an Angel City season ticket holder and they don't go to the fucking games.
00:35:50
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. It's weird. That's like why sometimes I'm not mad that they keep everyone on that one side at Lumen. yeah it concentrates the fans it works with the architecture of the building yeah to make them sound louder yeah and so i think it works as if you disperse them everywhere it's just gonna feel empty yeah um i think that's all we got for the nwcel things are heating up we'll uh check back in next week and see where everything kind of lands it's just too close to really go into it anymore
00:36:24
Speaker
Reigns next match is going to be against Bay FC Friday, October 10th, 7.30pm at Lumen Field. It'll be on Fox 13+, NWSL+, Paramount+,++++++. plus plus plus plus Bay is winless in their last 12 matches. Let's make it a lucky 13. Yeah.
00:36:44
Speaker
yeah Unfortunately, the Reign have never beaten Bay. It's a good time to fix that. The last time we played Bay, it was a 1-1 draw. Hyde was scored in that one. That was a Sam Meza assist on that, too. What do you want to see?
00:36:59
Speaker
What are you hoping to get out of this? Goals. rules Goals, goals, goals. Goals, goals, goals. Clean sheet? Huh? Clean sheet? Clean sheet and goals. Yeah, I mean, well, we won every game, but... Innovation here with the ideas.
00:37:13
Speaker
You know, now that they're past the Gotham hurdle, and the next three matches are going to be against opponents that are below Gotham in the table.
00:37:25
Speaker
So I think that to have a decent chance at a good placement for playoffs, they have to win out. Yeah.
00:37:36
Speaker
They can clinch this weekend. i don't I think there's a couple things that need to happen. and think one they need to win. i think her North Carolina needs to lose or draw. I'm not totally sure exactly the formula, but I think it's one of these things where like just win your fucking game.
00:37:53
Speaker
Yeah, they have to they they have to take care of that. Yeah. And then you can start kind of strategizing about how to get results from here out in a way that's like going to be beneficial for them in the postseason with players. And i don't know, you will... like because obviously they they need to keep pushing they need to win as many games as they fucking can but i also recognize that like the postseason is not going to be easy and there might be reason to rest some players at least so yeah i mean but the same time you don't want to be in eighth place
00:38:29
Speaker
No, but I think that they can just save a little, like 20 minutes less for some players, maybe. ah just don't think we have that luxury. We might not. I guess what I'm hoping for is that, and I know the B and Dolo injury seems to be worse than we thought, maybe. I'm not really sure. Or they're just taking their time to make sure it's not going to have any long longer term issues than it already is.
00:38:53
Speaker
um But like in a perfect world, getting a few more minutes for Biendolo in some manner, ah maybe in the last game, just kind of getting her back into things and maybe getting some more minutes for me official and rotating out some other players.
00:39:07
Speaker
Our midfield's a little tight. I'm wondering if we will see Ryan Brown on the roster. Ooh, good shout. Yeah. um Maybe in the last two matches of the regular season, maybe this one.
00:39:22
Speaker
um But from everything I've read and seen from people posting at practices, like she's pretty much in full training. That's what I'm hoping for. She's gonna need some minutes. I don't want to just throw like say someone gets hurt and we're in the postseason and then we just throw her in for her first minutes, right?
00:39:38
Speaker
That's a bad idea no but if you you know, you give yourself a cushion with a you know a couple goals and you're playing well Mm-hmm get her in the last 10 minutes of the game then she'll end up playing 19 cuz end up you saw but ah Yeah, I wonder how close she is to the roster I mean, that position's just, like, tough, right? Because we've got our starters, which used to be her role. um that would be That'll be one of the things that I'm watching, is what the injury report looks like.
00:40:09
Speaker
That usually comes out on Bay before the game. Did you watch the highlights or the game? the e the he didn't watch the the Portland Bay game, did you? but Yeah, I just watched. I just saw the goals.
00:40:21
Speaker
Bay's pretty... They're not good, obviously, since they haven't won. They have threats. Yeah. Yeah. They were getting some, they were getting some, I mean, Portland's defense also sucks ass. So, like, the chances that maybe Bay should have buried, it was, like, more embarrassing because they got through Portland's defense and didn't finish them. But, yeah, it wasn't like they didn't have opportunities.
00:40:44
Speaker
think they got lucky. Like, Portland got lucky that Bay isn't a better team at the moment, but... Every time i watch Portland play, i wish that we could replay that game.
00:40:58
Speaker
That away game. Yeah. Well, that game was, if you remember, the hottest day ever. Oh, God, it was so fucking hot. And players had burned feet, so, you know.
00:41:10
Speaker
and We were shoved in front of a bathroom. Maybe if our players were also the devil. Like, there's...
00:41:19
Speaker
Well, Huerta's on a run, so. Listen, I've been playing D&D and there's lot demons and devils, all Just wondering. Maybe that'll be the Reign's next preseason activity.
00:41:32
Speaker
Going to hell? No, playing d and d Oh, that would be, yeah, that makes more sense. All right.
Personal Anecdotes and Episode Conclusion
00:41:40
Speaker
um I think that's pretty much going to do it for this episode. Episode 50. It's in the books or it's going to be in the books after I finish editing and hopefully the audio turns out okay.
00:41:49
Speaker
We have some things in the works to hopefully try and resolve our issues that we've been having. but We're getting there. We're getting there. We'll see. We're not there yet, but we're working on it. Any shout outs for the week? I did. i can't think of it right now.
00:42:01
Speaker
you have any small business shutouts? No. Okay. I don't know. i did i' It's not a small business, but I went to WinCo for the first time.
00:42:11
Speaker
the first time yeah i've never been to winco it's a great place the the only one we have down here well there's two but they're like both 35 minutes away from me okay it's not worth that far of a drive but it is great i don't know i was up golfing um saturday morning in hawks prairie and uh and then i was like i got some time to kill before my haircut and i was like oh i'll check out the costco up here because i never up here because it's like full of like jblm people Mm-hmm.
00:42:40
Speaker
So it's always just a clusterfuck up there. So I went to the Hawkspray Costco and then I was like, oh my god, the Winco is here. I've never been to Winco. What a gem of a grocery store. Yeah, it's awesome.
00:42:51
Speaker
I spent $12 and I got so much stuff. Yeah, I miss going there. It's a great place. used to go to the one in Renton growing up. um and It was always such a joy to go there.
00:43:02
Speaker
and so Maybe so i when I was a child and I would steal candy. and the bulk section and just eat it just like one not like a lot but um and then where was the other one i went out to the one that was like it's not the peel up one was when i lived in like lake taps area but i'd go out there and that one was like always not busy and it was the great part was they were open like late as i think they were maybe 24 hours at that time interesting so like i would go grocery shopping with you know who
00:43:34
Speaker
uh like we'd go like one in the morning or like midnight or something like that it was like great no one there it's awesome and it's a great grocery store um well now that we've sponsored winco apparently just i it was such a like a thing for me like people always tell me how you should go and i'm like oh it's it is worth how much people talk about it i do think it actually lives up to what people say about it so yeah it was great yeah Cool.
00:44:00
Speaker
Well, shout out to the guy who sent my posters aside. What was his name? I have an email. Kyle, Bill, Will. That was close. It was Will.
00:44:12
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00:44:24
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00:44:47
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00:45:00
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00:45:12
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00:45:32
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00:45:46
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00:46:10
Speaker
mean, I'm looking kind of yoked. Do you see this? Your sleeves are just tight. Whatever.
00:46:20
Speaker
See that? Yeah. it's like It's not bad. That's yoked. That's yoked right there. That's not yoked. Neither of us are yoked, let's be clear.